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 16 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 223 272 251
Rank change year-on-year +49 -21 -50
Permanent jobs citing Unix 75 126 158
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 0.79% 0.75% 1.10%
As % of the Operating Systems category 6.10% 4.46% 5.77%
Number of salaries quoted 39 79 80
10th Percentile £26,250 £35,000 £30,750
25th Percentile £27,500 £39,750 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,000 £51,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -17.65% -2.86% -8.70%
75th Percentile £52,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £64,000 £75,000 £83,750
England median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +8.33% -14.29% +12.00%

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 1,229 2,827 2,736
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 12.88% 16.86% 19.12%
Number of salaries quoted 904 2,260 1,901
10th Percentile £27,000 £26,000 £25,688
25th Percentile £31,500 £31,250 £30,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £42,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% - -10.53%
75th Percentile £55,000 £58,750 £60,000
90th Percentile £70,000 £71,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - -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 16 May 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 16 May 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 +68 26 £34,750 -42.08% 7
Thames Valley -13 18 £52,000 +12.33% 19
Berkshire -9 15 £52,000 +8.33% 12
Middlesex -11 12 - - 1
West Sussex +46 10 £27,500 -
Hampshire +69 6 £25,640 -49.23% 8
Kent - 3 - - 1
Oxfordshire +12 2 £90,000 +102.72% 9
Buckinghamshire +31 1 £62,500 +31.58% 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 8 (10.67%) Apache
2 7 (9.33%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (9.33%) Apache Spark
3 2 (2.67%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.33%) GemFire
4 1 (1.33%) OpenStack
Applications
1 3 (4.00%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.33%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 36 (48.00%) AWS
2 25 (33.33%) Pulumi
3 7 (9.33%) OpenShift
4 2 (2.67%) SaaS
5 1 (1.33%) Amazon SageMaker
5 1 (1.33%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 25 (33.33%) Broadband
2 4 (5.33%) SSL
3 1 (1.33%) DHCP
3 1 (1.33%) DNS
3 1 (1.33%) FIX Connectivity
3 1 (1.33%) iSCSI
3 1 (1.33%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.33%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (45.33%) NoSQL
2 28 (37.33%) RDBMS
2 28 (37.33%) Relational Database
3 7 (9.33%) Apache Hudi
3 7 (9.33%) Apache Iceberg
3 7 (9.33%) Data Warehouse
3 7 (9.33%) Delta Lake
3 7 (9.33%) Hadoop
3 7 (9.33%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (2.67%) Big Data
4 2 (2.67%) Metadata
4 2 (2.67%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.33%) Apache Ignite
5 1 (1.33%) DynamoDB
5 1 (1.33%) InterSystems Cache
5 1 (1.33%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.33%) MySQL
5 1 (1.33%) Oracle Database
5 1 (1.33%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (1.33%) Redis
Development Applications
1 25 (33.33%) Jaeger
2 7 (9.33%) Bitbucket
3 3 (4.00%) Jenkins
4 2 (2.67%) JIRA
5 1 (1.33%) SoapUI
General
1 27 (36.00%) Social Skills
2 25 (33.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 9 (12.00%) Law
4 6 (8.00%) Billing
4 6 (8.00%) Telecoms
5 5 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (5.33%) Finance
6 4 (5.33%) Front Office
7 2 (2.67%) Automotive
7 2 (2.67%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.33%) Aerospace
8 1 (1.33%) Banking
8 1 (1.33%) Health Technology
8 1 (1.33%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 29 (38.67%) Lead
2 25 (33.33%) Team Leader
3 8 (10.67%) Analyst
3 8 (10.67%) Software Engineer
3 8 (10.67%) Support Analyst
4 7 (9.33%) Data Engineer
4 7 (9.33%) Senior
5 6 (8.00%) Technical Support
6 5 (6.67%) IT Support
6 5 (6.67%) IT Support Specialist
6 5 (6.67%) Python Data Engineer
6 5 (6.67%) Python Engineer
6 5 (6.67%) Support Specialist
7 4 (5.33%) Lead Data Engineer
7 4 (5.33%) Linux Support
7 4 (5.33%) Senior Software Engineer
8 3 (4.00%) Developer
8 3 (4.00%) Mathematical Modeller
8 3 (4.00%) Statistical Modeller
9 2 (2.67%) Scientific Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (33.33%) Elastic Stack
1 25 (33.33%) OpenTelemetry
2 8 (10.67%) Kafka
3 7 (9.33%) PyArrow
3 7 (9.33%) PySpark
4 2 (2.67%) RESTful
5 1 (1.33%) FIX Protocol
5 1 (1.33%) GStreamer
5 1 (1.33%) Laravel
5 1 (1.33%) Middleware
5 1 (1.33%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (1.33%) React
5 1 (1.33%) Spring
5 1 (1.33%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (13.33%) Algorithms
2 5 (6.67%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (2.67%) Acoustics
3 2 (2.67%) Cloud Native
3 2 (2.67%) Data Centre
3 2 (2.67%) Embedded Systems
3 2 (2.67%) Equities
3 2 (2.67%) Linux Command Line
3 2 (2.67%) Robotics
3 2 (2.67%) Self-Driving Car
4 1 (1.33%) Credit Derivative
4 1 (1.33%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.33%) Derivative
4 1 (1.33%) Equity Derivative
4 1 (1.33%) Fixed Income
4 1 (1.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (1.33%) IoT
4 1 (1.33%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.33%) NHS
4 1 (1.33%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 52 (69.33%) Linux
2 2 (2.67%) Embedded Linux
2 2 (2.67%) Mac OS
3 1 (1.33%) Ubuntu
3 1 (1.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (38.67%) Task Automation
2 27 (36.00%) Containerisation
3 26 (34.67%) Agile
3 26 (34.67%) Continuous Integration
3 26 (34.67%) DevOps
4 25 (33.33%) Budget Control
4 25 (33.33%) Cost Optimisation
4 25 (33.33%) GitOps
4 25 (33.33%) High Availability
4 25 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
4 25 (33.33%) Mentoring
4 25 (33.33%) Performance Optimisation
4 25 (33.33%) Product Management
4 25 (33.33%) Resource Management
4 25 (33.33%) Roadmaps
5 14 (18.67%) Computer Science
5 14 (18.67%) Physics
5 14 (18.67%) Problem-Solving
6 11 (14.67%) Mathematics
6 11 (14.67%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 46 (61.33%) Python
2 37 (49.33%) Bash
3 29 (38.67%) SQL
4 28 (37.33%) Java
5 26 (34.67%) Go
6 25 (33.33%) JavaScript
7 14 (18.67%) C++
8 10 (13.33%) C
8 10 (13.33%) Fortran
9 6 (8.00%) Perl
10 4 (5.33%) Shell Script
11 3 (4.00%) MATLAB
12 2 (2.67%) C#
13 1 (1.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 25 (33.33%) AWS Certification
2 16 (21.33%) Degree
3 10 (13.33%) Master's Degree
3 10 (13.33%) PhD
3 10 (13.33%) Security Cleared
4 9 (12.00%) DV Cleared
4 9 (12.00%) SC Cleared
5 3 (4.00%) Numerate Degree
6 1 (1.33%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.33%) VCAP
6 1 (1.33%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (12.00%) Accessibility
2 7 (9.33%) Data Quality
3 2 (2.67%) QA
System Software
1 27 (36.00%) Docker
2 7 (9.33%) HDFS
3 4 (5.33%) Active Directory
4 1 (1.33%) NFS
4 1 (1.33%) vCloud
4 1 (1.33%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (1.33%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (1.33%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.33%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 35 (46.67%) Kubernetes
2 25 (33.33%) Ansible
2 25 (33.33%) Argo
2 25 (33.33%) Kustomize
2 25 (33.33%) Prometheus
2 25 (33.33%) Terraform
3 1 (1.33%) PowerCLI
3 1 (1.33%) vCenter Server
3 1 (1.33%) vRealize
Vendors
1 25 (33.33%) Google
2 7 (9.33%) Red Hat
3 5 (6.67%) Microsoft
3 5 (6.67%) Oracle
4 1 (1.33%) Bloomberg
4 1 (1.33%) IBM
4 1 (1.33%) NVIDIA
4 1 (1.33%) NYFIX
4 1 (1.33%) Solace
4 1 (1.33%) Sun
4 1 (1.33%) TIBCO
4 1 (1.33%) VMware