Unix Job Trends in the South East

Unix
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Unix skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 267 205 278
Rank change year-on-year -62 +73 -62
Permanent jobs citing Unix 23 51 106
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.16% 0.74% 0.66%
As % of the Operating Systems category 2.28% 4.78% 3.75%
Number of salaries quoted 19 36 76
10th Percentile £49,000 £26,250 £35,260
25th Percentile £56,500 £30,313 £41,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,000 £42,000 £58,000
Median % change year-on-year +38.10% -27.59% +10.48%
75th Percentile £61,625 £52,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £63,750 £64,375 £75,000
England median annual salary £64,750 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -0.38% +8.33% -14.29%

All Operating Systems
South East

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 the South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 1,009 1,068 2,827
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 7.08% 15.47% 17.47%
Number of salaries quoted 846 801 2,346
10th Percentile £28,000 £27,000 £25,750
25th Percentile £31,250 £31,500 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £42,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% - -
75th Percentile £65,000 £58,750 £58,250
90th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £70,000
England median annual salary £45,000 £47,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% -14.29%

Unix
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Unix job vacancy trend in the South East

Unix
Salary Trend in the South East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Unix.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Unix

Unix
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Unix in the South East over the 6 months to 23 April 2026.

Salary histogram for Unix in the South East

Unix
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Unix within the South East region over the 6 months to 23 April 2026. 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
Hampshire -12 13 £58,000 +28.89%
Thames Valley -17 9 £62,500 +20.19% 11
Berkshire -3 7 £62,500 +20.19% 3
Buckinghamshire -22 2 £67,000 +7.20%
Surrey -39 1 £45,000 +38.46% 3
Unix
England

Unix
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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:

Application Platforms
1 12 (52.17%) Exchange Server 2003
1 12 (52.17%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 7 (30.43%) AWS
2 6 (26.09%) Azure
3 5 (21.74%) Apigee
3 5 (21.74%) Kong
3 5 (21.74%) OpenShift
4 1 (4.35%) Amazon SageMaker
4 1 (4.35%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (4.35%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 11 (47.83%) DHCP
1 11 (47.83%) DNS
2 5 (21.74%) Cisco ASA
2 5 (21.74%) Firewall
3 1 (4.35%) SMTP
3 1 (4.35%) X.400
3 1 (4.35%) X.500
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (56.52%) Oracle Database
1 13 (56.52%) Oracle Database 10g
2 1 (4.35%) DynamoDB
2 1 (4.35%) NoSQL
2 1 (4.35%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (4.35%) SQL Server
2 1 (4.35%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 6 (26.09%) GitLab
2 2 (8.70%) Jenkins
3 1 (4.35%) Git
General
1 6 (26.09%) Social Skills
2 5 (21.74%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (21.74%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 13 (56.52%) 3rd Line Support
2 12 (52.17%) Systems Support
3 6 (26.09%) Automation Engineer
4 5 (21.74%) Automation Specialist
4 5 (21.74%) Network Engineer
4 5 (21.74%) Network Specialist
4 5 (21.74%) Telecoms Engineer
4 5 (21.74%) Telecoms Specialist
5 3 (13.04%) Support Engineer
6 2 (8.70%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 2 (8.70%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
7 1 (4.35%) DBA
7 1 (4.35%) Graduate Technical Support
7 1 (4.35%) Machine Learning Engineer
7 1 (4.35%) Pensions Analyst
7 1 (4.35%) SC Cleared DBA
7 1 (4.35%) Solaris Engineer
7 1 (4.35%) Solaris Support Engineer
7 1 (4.35%) Systems Engineer
7 1 (4.35%) Technical Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (21.74%) Jinja
1 5 (21.74%) JSON
1 5 (21.74%) REST
1 5 (21.74%) XML
1 5 (21.74%) YAML
1 5 (21.74%) YANG
2 1 (4.35%) .NET
2 1 (4.35%) ASP.NET
2 1 (4.35%) GStreamer
2 1 (4.35%) Laravel
2 1 (4.35%) Oracle GoldenGate
2 1 (4.35%) React
Miscellaneous
1 5 (21.74%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (4.35%) Algorithms
2 1 (4.35%) Cloud Native
2 1 (4.35%) IoT
2 1 (4.35%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (4.35%) Replication
2 1 (4.35%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 13 (56.52%) HPUX
1 13 (56.52%) Solaris
1 13 (56.52%) Windows
2 12 (52.17%) Windows Server 2003
3 11 (47.83%) Windows 7
3 11 (47.83%) Windows Server 2008
4 8 (34.78%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (56.52%) Incident Management
2 7 (30.43%) CI/CD
3 6 (26.09%) Containerisation
3 6 (26.09%) DevOps
3 6 (26.09%) Infrastructure as Code
4 5 (21.74%) API Management
4 5 (21.74%) Microservices
4 5 (21.74%) Secrets Management
4 5 (21.74%) Task Automation
4 5 (21.74%) Webhook
5 3 (13.04%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (8.70%) Computer Science
6 2 (8.70%) ITIL
6 2 (8.70%) Knowledge Transfer
7 1 (4.35%) AI
7 1 (4.35%) Cloud Security
7 1 (4.35%) Configuration Management
7 1 (4.35%) Continuous Integration
7 1 (4.35%) Problem Management
7 1 (4.35%) Release Management
Programming Languages
1 11 (47.83%) Perl
1 11 (47.83%) PowerShell
2 8 (34.78%) Python
3 5 (21.74%) JavaScript
4 2 (8.70%) Shell Script
4 2 (8.70%) SQL
5 1 (4.35%) Bash
5 1 (4.35%) C#
5 1 (4.35%) C++
5 1 (4.35%) Korn
5 1 (4.35%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 14 (60.87%) Security Cleared
2 13 (56.52%) DV Cleared
2 13 (56.52%) SC Cleared
3 3 (13.04%) Degree
4 1 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (52.17%) SLA
System Software
1 12 (52.17%) Active Directory
2 2 (8.70%) Docker
3 1 (4.35%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 2 (8.70%) Kubernetes
2 1 (4.35%) Ansible
2 1 (4.35%) Grafana
2 1 (4.35%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 1 (4.35%) Oracle RMAN
2 1 (4.35%) Prometheus
2 1 (4.35%) Terraform
Vendors
1 14 (60.87%) Oracle
2 12 (52.17%) Microsoft
2 12 (52.17%) VMware
3 6 (26.09%) Red Hat
4 5 (21.74%) Cisco
4 5 (21.74%) F5
4 5 (21.74%) Juniper
4 5 (21.74%) Palo Alto
5 1 (4.35%) HP
5 1 (4.35%) NVIDIA