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 7 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 231 228 226
Rank change year-on-year -3 -2 -48
Permanent jobs citing Unix 45 58 100
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.41% 0.68% 0.82%
As % of the Operating Systems category 4.96% 4.26% 4.67%
Number of salaries quoted 39 24 71
10th Percentile £37,450 £37,025 £40,750
25th Percentile £41,393 £40,000 £45,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,000 £52,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.54% -13.33% +17.70%
75th Percentile £59,500 £55,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £59,743 £62,025 £75,000
England median annual salary £58,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.33% - -9.43%

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 908 1,361 2,143
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 8.21% 15.95% 17.55%
Number of salaries quoted 760 813 1,894
10th Percentile £27,250 £28,000 £25,750
25th Percentile £31,000 £36,250 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,010 £50,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.98% +17.65% -5.56%
75th Percentile £58,750 £65,000 £57,500
90th Percentile £70,000 £78,750 £70,175
England median annual salary £45,000 £52,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -13.46% +9.47% -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
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Unix in the South East over the 6 months to 7 February 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 7 February 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 +30 29 £58,000 +5.45%
Thames Valley +1 11 £51,975 -0.05% 6
Berkshire -7 6 £44,765 +6.58% 3
Buckinghamshire +8 5 £62,750 +0.40%
Surrey +4 5 £45,000 - 5
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 25 (55.56%) Microsoft Exchange
2 24 (53.33%) Exchange Server 2003
3 1 (2.22%) Anypoint
3 1 (2.22%) IIS
Applications
1 4 (8.89%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (2.22%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 5 (11.11%) AWS
2 3 (6.67%) Amazon EC2
2 3 (6.67%) Azure
2 3 (6.67%) GCP
2 3 (6.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 2 (4.44%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (2.22%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (2.22%) Boomi
4 1 (2.22%) IaaS
4 1 (2.22%) iPaaS
4 1 (2.22%) Power Automate
4 1 (2.22%) SaaS
4 1 (2.22%) Sauce Labs
4 1 (2.22%) Workato
Communications & Networking
1 23 (51.11%) DHCP
1 23 (51.11%) DNS
2 2 (4.44%) SMTP
2 2 (4.44%) X.400
2 2 (4.44%) X.500
3 1 (2.22%) Cisco ASA
3 1 (2.22%) Firewall
3 1 (2.22%) NAS
3 1 (2.22%) NetScaler
3 1 (2.22%) PBX
3 1 (2.22%) SAN
3 1 (2.22%) TCP/IP
3 1 (2.22%) VLAN
3 1 (2.22%) VoIP
3 1 (2.22%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (62.22%) Oracle Database
2 25 (55.56%) Oracle Database 10g
3 2 (4.44%) BigQuery
3 2 (4.44%) Relational Database
4 1 (2.22%) MySQL
4 1 (2.22%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (2.22%) Android Studio
1 1 (2.22%) Browser DevTools
1 1 (2.22%) Eclipse
1 1 (2.22%) Git
1 1 (2.22%) GitLab
1 1 (2.22%) Jenkins
1 1 (2.22%) Xcode
General
1 5 (11.11%) Social Skills
2 3 (6.67%) Telecoms
3 2 (4.44%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.22%) Advertising
4 1 (2.22%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (2.22%) Law
4 1 (2.22%) Legal
Job Titles
1 23 (51.11%) 3rd Line Support
1 23 (51.11%) Systems Support
2 4 (8.89%) Analyst
2 4 (8.89%) Pensions Analyst
2 4 (8.89%) Software Engineer
2 4 (8.89%) Support Engineer
3 3 (6.67%) 2nd Line Support
3 3 (6.67%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 3 (6.67%) Junior
4 2 (4.44%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
4 2 (4.44%) Architect
4 2 (4.44%) Data Architect
4 2 (4.44%) Senior
4 2 (4.44%) Senior Software Engineer
4 2 (4.44%) Systems Engineer
4 2 (4.44%) Systems Support Engineer
4 2 (4.44%) Technical Support
5 1 (2.22%) Automation Engineer
5 1 (2.22%) Graduate Technical Support
5 1 (2.22%) Platform Integration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (6.67%) Middleware
2 1 (2.22%) .NET
2 1 (2.22%) Ajax
2 1 (2.22%) AngularJS
2 1 (2.22%) ASP.NET
2 1 (2.22%) CSS
2 1 (2.22%) GraphQL
2 1 (2.22%) JSON
2 1 (2.22%) React
2 1 (2.22%) REST
2 1 (2.22%) RESTful
2 1 (2.22%) SOAP
2 1 (2.22%) Web Services
2 1 (2.22%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (8.89%) Algorithms
1 4 (8.89%) Linux Command Line
1 4 (8.89%) Virtual Team
2 2 (4.44%) Replication
3 1 (2.22%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (2.22%) Data Centre
3 1 (2.22%) Enterprise Storage
3 1 (2.22%) Low-Code
3 1 (2.22%) Mobile App
3 1 (2.22%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 27 (60.00%) Windows
2 25 (55.56%) HPUX
2 25 (55.56%) Solaris
3 24 (53.33%) Windows Server 2003
4 22 (48.89%) Windows 7
4 22 (48.89%) Windows Server 2008
5 11 (24.44%) Linux
6 3 (6.67%) AIX
7 1 (2.22%) Android
7 1 (2.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (2.22%) Ubuntu
7 1 (2.22%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (57.78%) Incident Management
2 7 (15.56%) Computer Science
3 5 (11.11%) Mathematics
3 5 (11.11%) Open Source
4 4 (8.89%) Change Management
4 4 (8.89%) Continuous Improvement
4 4 (8.89%) High Availability
4 4 (8.89%) Knowledge Transfer
4 4 (8.89%) Parallel Programming
4 4 (8.89%) Performance Analysis
4 4 (8.89%) Physics
4 4 (8.89%) Proactive Monitoring
4 4 (8.89%) SDLC
4 4 (8.89%) Software Engineering
4 4 (8.89%) Software Testing
4 4 (8.89%) Test Automation
5 3 (6.67%) ITIL
5 3 (6.67%) ITSM
5 3 (6.67%) Problem Management
5 3 (6.67%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 26 (57.78%) PowerShell
2 23 (51.11%) Perl
3 14 (31.11%) Python
4 11 (24.44%) SQL
5 6 (13.33%) Bash
6 4 (8.89%) C
6 4 (8.89%) C++
6 4 (8.89%) Fortran
7 2 (4.44%) C#
7 2 (4.44%) Java
7 2 (4.44%) JavaScript
8 1 (2.22%) MATLAB
8 1 (2.22%) Shell Script
8 1 (2.22%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 31 (68.89%) Security Cleared
2 28 (62.22%) SC Cleared
3 24 (53.33%) DV Cleared
4 7 (15.56%) Degree
5 4 (8.89%) Master's Degree
5 4 (8.89%) PhD
6 1 (2.22%) Azure Certification
6 1 (2.22%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (2.22%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (2.22%) Numerate Degree
6 1 (2.22%) TOGAF Certification
6 1 (2.22%) VERITAS Certified Professional (VCP)
6 1 (2.22%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (51.11%) SLA
2 3 (6.67%) GDPR
System Software
1 25 (55.56%) Active Directory
2 2 (4.44%) Docker
2 2 (4.44%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (2.22%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 3 (6.67%) Netcool
2 2 (4.44%) Kubernetes
3 1 (2.22%) AirWatch
3 1 (2.22%) Ansible
3 1 (2.22%) Grafana
3 1 (2.22%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (2.22%) Prometheus
3 1 (2.22%) SCCM
3 1 (2.22%) SCOM
3 1 (2.22%) Terraform
Vendors
1 30 (66.67%) Oracle
2 26 (57.78%) Microsoft
3 25 (55.56%) VMware
4 4 (8.89%) HP
4 4 (8.89%) IBM
4 4 (8.89%) ServiceNow
4 4 (8.89%) SolarWinds
5 3 (6.67%) Red Hat
5 3 (6.67%) Snow
6 2 (4.44%) Google
7 1 (2.22%) Citrix
7 1 (2.22%) Commvault
7 1 (2.22%) Dell
7 1 (2.22%) Fortinet
7 1 (2.22%) Infor
7 1 (2.22%) Juniper
7 1 (2.22%) Mitel
7 1 (2.22%) Software AG
7 1 (2.22%) TIBCO
7 1 (2.22%) Veeam