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 10 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 236 197 276
Rank change year-on-year -39 +79 -84
Permanent jobs citing Unix 38 62 92
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.32% 0.86% 0.65%
As % of the Operating Systems category 3.84% 5.51% 3.71%
Number of salaries quoted 34 32 59
10th Percentile £40,000 £31,250 £40,600
25th Percentile £52,546 £35,750 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,000 £47,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +23.40% -21.67% +17.70%
75th Percentile £59,500 £55,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £61,090 £63,175 £75,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £63,750 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.96% +6.25% -13.60%

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 990 1,126 2,477
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 8.23% 15.67% 17.52%
Number of salaries quoted 826 779 2,163
10th Percentile £27,750 £27,500 £25,750
25th Percentile £31,000 £34,750 £31,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £47,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% +11.76% -1.73%
75th Percentile £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
90th Percentile £70,000 £77,500 £70,000
England median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £46,958
% change year-on-year -10.00% +6.48% -10.56%

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 10 March 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 10 March 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 +4 25 £58,000 +5.45% 1
Thames Valley -6 9 £57,500 +10.58% 12
Berkshire -19 6 £56,430 +34.36% 11
Surrey -15 4 £45,000 +38.46%
Buckinghamshire -1 3 £62,250 -0.40% 1
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 24 (63.16%) Microsoft Exchange
2 23 (60.53%) Exchange Server 2003
3 1 (2.63%) Anypoint
3 1 (2.63%) IIS
Applications
1 4 (10.53%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (2.63%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 6 (15.79%) AWS
1 6 (15.79%) Azure
2 3 (7.89%) Apigee
2 3 (7.89%) Kong
2 3 (7.89%) OpenShift
3 2 (5.26%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (2.63%) Amazon SageMaker
4 1 (2.63%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (2.63%) Boomi
4 1 (2.63%) GCP
4 1 (2.63%) IaaS
4 1 (2.63%) iPaaS
4 1 (2.63%) Power Automate
4 1 (2.63%) Workato
Communications & Networking
1 23 (60.53%) DHCP
1 23 (60.53%) DNS
2 4 (10.53%) Cisco ASA
2 4 (10.53%) Firewall
3 1 (2.63%) NAS
3 1 (2.63%) NetScaler
3 1 (2.63%) PBX
3 1 (2.63%) SAN
3 1 (2.63%) SMTP
3 1 (2.63%) TCP/IP
3 1 (2.63%) VLAN
3 1 (2.63%) VoIP
3 1 (2.63%) VPN
3 1 (2.63%) X.400
3 1 (2.63%) X.500
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (63.16%) Oracle Database
1 24 (63.16%) Oracle Database 10g
2 1 (2.63%) DynamoDB
2 1 (2.63%) NoSQL
2 1 (2.63%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (2.63%) Relational Database
2 1 (2.63%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.63%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 4 (10.53%) GitLab
2 2 (5.26%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.63%) Git
General
1 6 (15.79%) Social Skills
2 4 (10.53%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (10.53%) Telecoms
3 1 (2.63%) Advertising
3 1 (2.63%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (2.63%) Law
3 1 (2.63%) Legal
Job Titles
1 23 (60.53%) 3rd Line Support
1 23 (60.53%) Systems Support
2 4 (10.53%) Analyst
2 4 (10.53%) Automation Engineer
2 4 (10.53%) Pensions Analyst
3 3 (7.89%) Automation Specialist
3 3 (7.89%) Network Engineer
3 3 (7.89%) Network Specialist
3 3 (7.89%) Support Engineer
3 3 (7.89%) Telecoms Engineer
3 3 (7.89%) Telecoms Specialist
4 2 (5.26%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 2 (5.26%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
4 2 (5.26%) Senior
4 2 (5.26%) Senior Software Engineer
4 2 (5.26%) Software Engineer
4 2 (5.26%) Systems Engineer
4 2 (5.26%) Systems Support Engineer
5 1 (2.63%) Developer
5 1 (2.63%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (10.53%) JSON
1 4 (10.53%) REST
1 4 (10.53%) XML
2 3 (7.89%) Jinja
2 3 (7.89%) YAML
2 3 (7.89%) YANG
3 1 (2.63%) .NET
3 1 (2.63%) ASP.NET
3 1 (2.63%) GStreamer
3 1 (2.63%) Laravel
3 1 (2.63%) React
3 1 (2.63%) RESTful
3 1 (2.63%) SOAP
3 1 (2.63%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 4 (10.53%) Linux Command Line
1 4 (10.53%) Virtual Team
2 3 (7.89%) Algorithms
2 3 (7.89%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (2.63%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (2.63%) Cloud Native
3 1 (2.63%) Data Centre
3 1 (2.63%) Enterprise Storage
3 1 (2.63%) IoT
3 1 (2.63%) Low-Code
3 1 (2.63%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 25 (65.79%) Windows
2 24 (63.16%) HPUX
2 24 (63.16%) Solaris
3 23 (60.53%) Windows Server 2003
4 22 (57.89%) Windows 7
4 22 (57.89%) Windows Server 2008
5 10 (26.32%) Linux
6 1 (2.63%) Ubuntu
6 1 (2.63%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (65.79%) Incident Management
2 5 (13.16%) CI/CD
2 5 (13.16%) Containerisation
3 4 (10.53%) Computer Science
3 4 (10.53%) DevOps
3 4 (10.53%) Infrastructure as Code
3 4 (10.53%) Test Automation
4 3 (7.89%) API Management
4 3 (7.89%) Knowledge Transfer
4 3 (7.89%) Microservices
4 3 (7.89%) Open Source
4 3 (7.89%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (7.89%) Secrets Management
4 3 (7.89%) Task Automation
4 3 (7.89%) Webhook
5 2 (5.26%) Parallel Programming
5 2 (5.26%) Performance Analysis
5 2 (5.26%) Problem Management
5 2 (5.26%) SDLC
5 2 (5.26%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 23 (60.53%) PowerShell
2 22 (57.89%) Perl
3 12 (31.58%) Python
4 6 (15.79%) SQL
5 4 (10.53%) Bash
5 4 (10.53%) JavaScript
6 3 (7.89%) C++
7 2 (5.26%) C
7 2 (5.26%) C#
7 2 (5.26%) Fortran
7 2 (5.26%) Shell Script
8 1 (2.63%) Java
8 1 (2.63%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 25 (65.79%) Security Cleared
2 24 (63.16%) SC Cleared
3 23 (60.53%) DV Cleared
4 4 (10.53%) Degree
5 2 (5.26%) Master's Degree
5 2 (5.26%) PhD
6 1 (2.63%) Azure Certification
6 1 (2.63%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (2.63%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (2.63%) TOGAF Certification
6 1 (2.63%) VERITAS Certified Professional (VCP)
6 1 (2.63%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (60.53%) SLA
2 1 (2.63%) GDPR
System Software
1 24 (63.16%) Active Directory
2 3 (7.89%) Docker
3 1 (2.63%) Hyper-V
3 1 (2.63%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (7.89%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.63%) AirWatch
2 1 (2.63%) Ansible
2 1 (2.63%) Grafana
2 1 (2.63%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (2.63%) Prometheus
2 1 (2.63%) SCCM
2 1 (2.63%) SCOM
2 1 (2.63%) Terraform
Vendors
1 25 (65.79%) Oracle
2 24 (63.16%) Microsoft
2 24 (63.16%) VMware
3 5 (13.16%) Red Hat
4 4 (10.53%) Cisco
4 4 (10.53%) HP
4 4 (10.53%) Juniper
4 4 (10.53%) Palo Alto
5 3 (7.89%) F5
6 1 (2.63%) Citrix
6 1 (2.63%) Dell
6 1 (2.63%) IBM
6 1 (2.63%) IFS
6 1 (2.63%) Jitterbit
6 1 (2.63%) MuleSoft
6 1 (2.63%) NVIDIA
6 1 (2.63%) SAP
6 1 (2.63%) SnapLogic
6 1 (2.63%) Talend
6 1 (2.63%) Workday