Unix Jobs in Northern Ireland

Unix
UK > Northern Ireland

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Northern Ireland requiring Unix skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Unix over the 6 months leading up to 18 February 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Feb 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 35 43 73
Rank change year-on-year +8 +30 -4
Permanent jobs citing Unix 10 28 21
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 2.97% 4.86% 2.69%
As % of the Operating Systems category 19.61% 39.44% 11.86%
Number of salaries quoted 10 10 18
10th Percentile £64,471 £45,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £85,000 £49,500 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £65,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +38.46% +30.00% -18.37%
75th Percentile £95,000 £81,563 £53,625
90th Percentile - £91,000 £72,250
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% -7.69% +4.00%

All Operating Systems
Northern Ireland

Unix falls under the Operating Systems category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring operating system skills in Northern Ireland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 51 71 177
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 15.13% 12.33% 22.69%
Number of salaries quoted 23 37 109
10th Percentile - £32,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £39,000 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +15.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £95,000 £77,500 £65,000
90th Percentile - £97,000 £70,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +10.53% -9.52% +0.96%

Unix
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

Job postings citing Unix as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland.

Job vacancy trend for Unix in Northern Ireland

Unix
Salary Trend in Northern Ireland

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Unix in Northern Ireland.

Salary trend for Unix in Northern Ireland

Unix
Salary Histogram in Northern Ireland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Unix in Northern Ireland over the 6 months to 18 February 2025.

Salary histogram for Unix in Northern Ireland

Unix
Job Locations in Northern Ireland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Unix within the Northern Ireland region over the 6 months to 18 February 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
County Antrim +9 10 £90,000 +38.46% 4
Unix
UK

Unix
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Northern Ireland by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 2 (20.00%) Amazon ECR
1 2 (20.00%) Amazon ECS
1 2 (20.00%) Amazon ElastiCache
1 2 (20.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
1 2 (20.00%) AWS
1 2 (20.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 2 (20.00%) AWS CodeBuild
1 2 (20.00%) Azure
1 2 (20.00%) Cloud Computing
1 2 (20.00%) dbt
1 2 (20.00%) GCP
1 2 (20.00%) PaaS
1 2 (20.00%) Pulumi
2 1 (10.00%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 2 (20.00%) Internet
1 2 (20.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (20.00%) Elasticsearch
1 2 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (20.00%) Redis
General
1 8 (80.00%) Banking
1 8 (80.00%) Finance
2 2 (20.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 8 (80.00%) C++ Software Engineer
1 8 (80.00%) Software Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Developer
2 1 (10.00%) Platform Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Python Developer
2 1 (10.00%) Senior
2 1 (10.00%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (20.00%) Django
1 2 (20.00%) OAuth
1 2 (20.00%) OAuth2
1 2 (20.00%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (80.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 8 (80.00%) Greenfield Project
2 2 (20.00%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (10.00%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 10 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (80.00%) Fintech
1 8 (80.00%) Low Latency
1 8 (80.00%) Multithreaded Programming
1 8 (80.00%) Multithreading
1 8 (80.00%) Software Engineering
2 2 (20.00%) Application Performance Monitoring
2 2 (20.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (20.00%) Clean Code
2 2 (20.00%) Containerisation
2 2 (20.00%) Continuous Delivery
2 2 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
2 2 (20.00%) DevOps
2 2 (20.00%) Open Source
2 2 (20.00%) Performance Monitoring
2 2 (20.00%) Platform Engineering
2 2 (20.00%) Prototyping
3 1 (10.00%) Observability
3 1 (10.00%) Roadmaps
3 1 (10.00%) Service-Level Objective
3 1 (10.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 8 (80.00%) C++
2 2 (20.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (20.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (20.00%) AWS Copilot
1 2 (20.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (20.00%) Google