Unix Jobs in the South East

Unix
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 230 252 227
Rank change year-on-year +22 -25 -31
Permanent jobs citing Unix 83 135 157
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 0.82% 0.75% 1.23%
As % of the Operating Systems category 6.25% 4.69% 6.28%
Number of salaries quoted 49 74 83
10th Percentile £25,892 £35,000 £35,150
25th Percentile £27,500 £39,500 £37,789
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £51,750 £52,000
Median % change year-on-year -27.54% -0.48% -9.57%
75th Percentile £47,500 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £70,000 £73,750 £79,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +8.33% -11.11% +3.85%

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 1,328 2,878 2,500
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 13.19% 16.03% 19.65%
Number of salaries quoted 993 2,240 1,773
10th Percentile £26,575 £26,000 £25,750
25th Percentile £31,250 £31,500 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £45,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% - -3.23%
75th Percentile £51,500 £58,750 £60,250
90th Percentile £69,000 £72,500 £77,500
England median annual salary £42,500 £45,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -5.56% -14.29% -

Unix
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Unix as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Unix in the South East

Unix
Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Unix in the South East.

Salary trend for Unix in the South East

Unix
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Unix in the South East over the 6 months to 6 July 2025.

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 6 July 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
Surrey +76 33 £37,500 -37.50% 7
Thames Valley -34 19 £47,855 +3.37% 12
Berkshire -25 11 £52,000 +8.33% 6
Hampshire +87 10 £25,640 -49.23% 2
West Sussex +34 10 £27,500 -49.85% 2
Middlesex -12 8 - - 3
Oxfordshire +34 7 £41,500 -2.35% 4
Kent - 3 - -
Buckinghamshire +17 1 £62,500 +25.00% 2
Unix
England

Unix
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 7 (8.43%) SharePoint
2 6 (7.23%) Apache Spark
3 5 (6.02%) Apache
4 4 (4.82%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (1.20%) GemFire
5 1 (1.20%) OpenStack
Applications
1 5 (6.02%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 38 (45.78%) AWS
2 25 (30.12%) Pulumi
3 5 (6.02%) Azure
4 4 (4.82%) Entra ID
4 4 (4.82%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (4.82%) OpenShift
5 2 (2.41%) Amazon EKS
5 2 (2.41%) Amazon ELB
5 2 (2.41%) Amazon S3
5 2 (2.41%) SaaS
6 1 (1.20%) Amazon SageMaker
Communications & Networking
1 25 (30.12%) Broadband
2 4 (4.82%) Firewall
2 4 (4.82%) SAN
2 4 (4.82%) SSL
3 1 (1.20%) DHCP
3 1 (1.20%) DNS
3 1 (1.20%) iSCSI
3 1 (1.20%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.20%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (37.35%) NoSQL
2 28 (33.73%) RDBMS
2 28 (33.73%) Relational Database
3 7 (8.43%) SQL Server
4 6 (7.23%) Delta Lake
4 6 (7.23%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (4.82%) Apache Hudi
5 4 (4.82%) Apache Iceberg
5 4 (4.82%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (4.82%) Hadoop
5 4 (4.82%) Metadata
6 3 (3.61%) DynamoDB
7 2 (2.41%) Big Data
7 2 (2.41%) Spark SQL
8 1 (1.20%) InterSystems Cache
8 1 (1.20%) MongoDB
8 1 (1.20%) MySQL
8 1 (1.20%) Oracle Database
8 1 (1.20%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (1.20%) Redis
Development Applications
1 25 (30.12%) Jaeger
2 4 (4.82%) Bitbucket
3 2 (2.41%) Jenkins
3 2 (2.41%) JIRA
3 2 (2.41%) MLflow
4 1 (1.20%) SoapUI
General
1 39 (46.99%) Social Skills
2 25 (30.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 8 (9.64%) Finance
3 8 (9.64%) Front Office
4 6 (7.23%) Billing
4 6 (7.23%) Telecoms
5 5 (6.02%) Law
6 4 (4.82%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (2.41%) Automotive
7 2 (2.41%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.20%) Aerospace
8 1 (1.20%) Games
8 1 (1.20%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 27 (32.53%) Lead
2 25 (30.12%) Team Leader
3 13 (15.66%) Analyst
3 13 (15.66%) Support Analyst
4 9 (10.84%) IT Support
5 6 (7.23%) Technical Support
6 5 (6.02%) IT Support Specialist
6 5 (6.02%) Senior
6 5 (6.02%) Support Specialist
7 4 (4.82%) Data Engineer
7 4 (4.82%) Developer
7 4 (4.82%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 4 (4.82%) Infrastructure Support
7 4 (4.82%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
7 4 (4.82%) IT Engineer
7 4 (4.82%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
7 4 (4.82%) IT Support Engineer
7 4 (4.82%) Linux Support
7 4 (4.82%) Software Engineer
7 4 (4.82%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (30.12%) Elastic Stack
1 25 (30.12%) OpenTelemetry
2 6 (7.23%) PySpark
3 5 (6.02%) Kafka
4 4 (4.82%) PyArrow
5 2 (2.41%) Keras
5 2 (2.41%) Lambda Expressions
5 2 (2.41%) Metaflow
5 2 (2.41%) NumPy
5 2 (2.41%) Pandas
5 2 (2.41%) PyTorch
5 2 (2.41%) scikit-learn
5 2 (2.41%) TensorFlow
5 2 (2.41%) YAML
6 1 (1.20%) GStreamer
6 1 (1.20%) Laravel
6 1 (1.20%) RabbitMQ
6 1 (1.20%) React
6 1 (1.20%) RESTful
6 1 (1.20%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 6 (7.23%) Algorithms
2 5 (6.02%) Self-Motivation
3 4 (4.82%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (2.41%) Acoustics
4 2 (2.41%) Cloud Native
4 2 (2.41%) Data Centre
4 2 (2.41%) Embedded Systems
4 2 (2.41%) Robotics
4 2 (2.41%) Self-Driving Car
5 1 (1.20%) Credit Derivative
5 1 (1.20%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.20%) Derivative
5 1 (1.20%) Equities
5 1 (1.20%) Fixed Income
5 1 (1.20%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (1.20%) IoT
5 1 (1.20%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.20%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 56 (67.47%) Linux
2 6 (7.23%) Mac OS
3 5 (6.02%) Windows
4 4 (4.82%) Apple iOS
4 4 (4.82%) Windows Server
5 3 (3.61%) CentOS
5 3 (3.61%) Solaris
6 2 (2.41%) Embedded Linux
7 1 (1.20%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (36.14%) Agile
2 29 (34.94%) Containerisation
2 29 (34.94%) Task Automation
3 27 (32.53%) DevOps
4 26 (31.33%) Continuous Integration
5 25 (30.12%) Budget Control
5 25 (30.12%) Cost Optimisation
5 25 (30.12%) GitOps
5 25 (30.12%) High Availability
5 25 (30.12%) Infrastructure as Code
5 25 (30.12%) Mentoring
5 25 (30.12%) Performance Optimisation
5 25 (30.12%) Product Management
5 25 (30.12%) Resource Management
5 25 (30.12%) Roadmaps
6 17 (20.48%) Problem-Solving
7 13 (15.66%) Cybersecurity
8 12 (14.46%) Physics
9 9 (10.84%) Computer Science
9 9 (10.84%) Server Migrations
Programming Languages
1 42 (50.60%) Python
2 34 (40.96%) Bash
3 31 (37.35%) SQL
4 27 (32.53%) Java
5 26 (31.33%) Go
6 25 (30.12%) JavaScript
7 10 (12.05%) C++
8 7 (8.43%) C#
9 6 (7.23%) C
9 6 (7.23%) Fortran
9 6 (7.23%) Perl
10 3 (3.61%) MATLAB
10 3 (3.61%) Shell Script
11 1 (1.20%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 25 (30.12%) AWS Certification
2 10 (12.05%) Degree
3 6 (7.23%) Master's Degree
3 6 (7.23%) PhD
4 5 (6.02%) DV Cleared
4 5 (6.02%) Security Cleared
5 4 (4.82%) SC Cleared
6 3 (3.61%) Numerate Degree
6 3 (3.61%) RHCE
7 1 (1.20%) VCAP
7 1 (1.20%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.02%) Accessibility
2 4 (4.82%) Cyber Essentials
2 4 (4.82%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 4 (4.82%) Data Quality
2 4 (4.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.20%) QA
System Software
1 29 (34.94%) Docker
2 8 (9.64%) Active Directory
3 5 (6.02%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (4.82%) HDFS
4 4 (4.82%) Hyper-V
5 1 (1.20%) NFS
5 1 (1.20%) vCloud
5 1 (1.20%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (1.20%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (1.20%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 34 (40.96%) Kubernetes
2 27 (32.53%) Terraform
3 25 (30.12%) Ansible
3 25 (30.12%) Argo
3 25 (30.12%) Kustomize
3 25 (30.12%) Prometheus
4 4 (4.82%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (4.82%) SCCM
5 2 (2.41%) Kubeflow
6 1 (1.20%) PowerCLI
6 1 (1.20%) vCenter Server
6 1 (1.20%) vRealize
Vendors
1 25 (30.12%) Google
2 16 (19.28%) Microsoft
3 10 (12.05%) Oracle
4 7 (8.43%) Red Hat
5 5 (6.02%) VMware
6 4 (4.82%) Apple
6 4 (4.82%) Sophos
7 2 (2.41%) Databricks
8 1 (1.20%) IBM
8 1 (1.20%) NVIDIA
8 1 (1.20%) Solace
8 1 (1.20%) TIBCO