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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 32 55 64
Rank change year-on-year +23 +9 +7
Permanent jobs citing Unix 5 17 34
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 1.74% 2.46% 3.92%
As % of the Operating Systems category 15.63% 19.54% 17.26%
Number of salaries quoted 3 7 23
10th Percentile - £50,900 £37,500
25th Percentile £85,000 £54,375 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £77,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.13% +55.00% -13.04%
75th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £85,625
90th Percentile - - £88,750
UK median annual salary £69,384 £60,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +15.64% -14.29% +12.00%

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 32 87 197
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 11.11% 12.57% 22.70%
Number of salaries quoted 10 45 99
10th Percentile £44,325 £28,000 £28,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £32,750 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £41,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +28.05% -18.00% +23.46%
75th Percentile £84,688 £77,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £71,500
UK median annual salary £47,500 £45,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +5.56% -14.29% -

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
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 1 May 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 +28 5 £90,000 +16.13% 6
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (20.00%) Apache
1 1 (20.00%) Apache Spark
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Apache Hive
1 1 (20.00%) Big Data
1 1 (20.00%) HBase
1 1 (20.00%) Impala
1 1 (20.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Git
1 1 (20.00%) JIRA
General
1 5 (100.00%) Finance
2 3 (60.00%) Banking
3 1 (20.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (20.00%) Law
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) C++ Software Engineer
1 3 (60.00%) Software Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Apache Spark Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Big Data Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Java Developer
2 1 (20.00%) QA Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) QA Test Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior
2 1 (20.00%) Senior QA Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Test Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) Apache Avro
1 1 (20.00%) JSON
1 1 (20.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 4 (80.00%) Greenfield Project
2 3 (60.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 4 (80.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Low Latency
1 4 (80.00%) Multithreading
2 3 (60.00%) Fintech
2 3 (60.00%) Multithreaded Programming
2 3 (60.00%) Software Engineering
3 1 (20.00%) Agile
3 1 (20.00%) Analytical Modelling
3 1 (20.00%) BDD
3 1 (20.00%) Code Quality
3 1 (20.00%) Functional Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Mentoring
3 1 (20.00%) Regression Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Scenario Testing
3 1 (20.00%) SOA
3 1 (20.00%) Storyboarding
3 1 (20.00%) Test Automation
3 1 (20.00%) Test Management
3 1 (20.00%) Test Scripting
3 1 (20.00%) Use Case
3 1 (20.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) C++
2 2 (40.00%) Shell Script
2 2 (40.00%) SQL
3 1 (20.00%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) QA
1 1 (20.00%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) HDFS
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle