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 26 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 309 239 267
Rank change year-on-year -70 +28 -37
Permanent jobs citing Unix 10 50 94
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.062% 0.58% 0.63%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.82% 3.79% 3.96%
Number of salaries quoted 5 42 50
10th Percentile - £24,639 £34,750
25th Percentile £61,250 £27,500 £39,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £37,500 £48,000
Median % change year-on-year +66.67% -21.88% -9.23%
75th Percentile £63,750 £46,948 £61,000
90th Percentile £66,300 £64,528 £65,875
England median annual salary £69,306 £69,384 £62,783
% change year-on-year -0.11% +10.51% -4.15%

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 1,221 1,318 2,371
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 7.57% 15.25% 15.92%
Number of salaries quoted 1,052 1,030 1,806
10th Percentile £28,000 £26,750 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £33,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £40,000 £46,500
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -13.98% +3.33%
75th Percentile £65,000 £50,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £70,000 £73,125
England median annual salary £45,000 £42,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +7.14% -11.58% -9.52%

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
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 26 July 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
Thames Valley +4 9 £62,500 +42.99% 5
Berkshire +16 8 £62,500 +12.48% 1
Surrey -35 1 - -
Buckinghamshire - 1 £67,000 - 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 1 (10.00%) Oracle Workflow
Business Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Siebel CRM
Cloud Services
1 6 (60.00%) AWS
2 5 (50.00%) Apigee
2 5 (50.00%) Azure
2 5 (50.00%) Kong
2 5 (50.00%) OpenShift
3 1 (10.00%) Amazon SageMaker
3 1 (10.00%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 5 (50.00%) Cisco ASA
1 5 (50.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) Oracle Database
1 2 (20.00%) Oracle Database 11g
1 2 (20.00%) Oracle Database 12c
2 1 (10.00%) DynamoDB
2 1 (10.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (10.00%) Siebel EIM
2 1 (10.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (10.00%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 5 (50.00%) GitLab
2 1 (10.00%) Jenkins
General
1 6 (60.00%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (50.00%) Telecoms
3 1 (10.00%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) Automation Engineer
1 5 (50.00%) Automation Specialist
1 5 (50.00%) Network Engineer
1 5 (50.00%) Network Specialist
1 5 (50.00%) Telecoms Engineer
1 5 (50.00%) Telecoms Specialist
2 3 (30.00%) DBA
3 2 (20.00%) DV Cleared DBA
4 1 (10.00%) Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Machine Learning Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Oracle DBA
4 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared DBA
4 1 (10.00%) Senior
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Siebel Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Siebel Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (50.00%) Jinja
1 5 (50.00%) JSON
1 5 (50.00%) REST
1 5 (50.00%) XML
1 5 (50.00%) YAML
1 5 (50.00%) YANG
2 1 (10.00%) GStreamer
2 1 (10.00%) Laravel
2 1 (10.00%) Middleware
2 1 (10.00%) Oracle GoldenGate
2 1 (10.00%) React
Miscellaneous
1 5 (50.00%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (10.00%) Algorithms
2 1 (10.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (10.00%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (10.00%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 7 (70.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) CI/CD
1 6 (60.00%) Containerisation
2 5 (50.00%) API Management
2 5 (50.00%) DevOps
2 5 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 5 (50.00%) Microservices
2 5 (50.00%) Secrets Management
2 5 (50.00%) Task Automation
2 5 (50.00%) Webhook
3 3 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (20.00%) Database Security
4 2 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
5 1 (10.00%) Analytics
5 1 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 1 (10.00%) Continuous Integration
5 1 (10.00%) Data Visualisation
5 1 (10.00%) Machine Learning
5 1 (10.00%) Release Management
5 1 (10.00%) Statistical Modelling
5 1 (10.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 6 (60.00%) Python
2 5 (50.00%) JavaScript
3 2 (20.00%) Shell Script
4 1 (10.00%) C++
4 1 (10.00%) Korn
4 1 (10.00%) PL/SQL
4 1 (10.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (30.00%) DV Cleared
3 2 (20.00%) SC Cleared
4 1 (10.00%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) Docker
1 1 (10.00%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 3 (30.00%) Oracle RMAN
2 1 (10.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (10.00%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 5 (50.00%) Cisco
1 5 (50.00%) F5
1 5 (50.00%) Juniper
1 5 (50.00%) Palo Alto
1 5 (50.00%) Red Hat
2 4 (40.00%) Oracle
3 1 (10.00%) NVIDIA
3 1 (10.00%) Siebel