Unix Job Trends in Sheffield

Unix
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Sheffield requiring Unix skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 59 38 76
Rank change year-on-year -21 +38 +23
Permanent jobs citing Unix 4 2 8
As % of all permanent jobs in Sheffield 0.59% 0.70% 0.75%
As % of the Operating Systems category 10.26% 4.55% 5.63%
Number of salaries quoted 4 0 2
10th Percentile - - £30,625
25th Percentile £63,633 - £31,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,310 - £36,250
Median % change year-on-year - - -44.23%
75th Percentile £74,987 - £44,063
90th Percentile - - £46,875
South Yorkshire median annual salary £69,310 - £36,250
% change year-on-year - - -18.25%

All Operating Systems
Sheffield

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 Sheffield.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 39 44 142
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Sheffield 5.74% 15.33% 13.38%
Number of salaries quoted 34 33 110
10th Percentile £26,500 £29,000 £25,250
25th Percentile £34,000 £30,625 £29,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £32,500 £38,000
Median % change year-on-year +23.08% -14.47% +12.59%
75th Percentile £44,273 £50,000 £50,625
90th Percentile £73,308 £70,000 £60,000
South Yorkshire median annual salary £40,000 £32,500 £38,500
% change year-on-year +23.08% -15.58% +10.00%

Unix
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Unix relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Sheffield.

Unix job vacancy trend in Sheffield

Unix
Salary Trend in Sheffield

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Sheffield citing Unix.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Sheffield citing Unix

Unix
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Sheffield by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) AWS
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
1 4 (100.00%) Azure AKS
1 4 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 4 (100.00%) Azure Service Bus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (100.00%) MongoDB
1 4 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (100.00%) GitLab
General
1 4 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 4 (100.00%) Senior
1 4 (100.00%) Senior DevOps
1 4 (100.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (100.00%) Node.js
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Linux
1 4 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Agile
1 4 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (100.00%) Coaching
1 4 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
1 4 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 4 (100.00%) Microservices
1 4 (100.00%) Scrum
1 4 (100.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Java
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) Argo
1 4 (100.00%) Terraform