Unix Jobs in the UK excluding London

Unix
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Unix skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Unix over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 267 194 218
Rank change year-on-year -73 +24 -19
Permanent jobs citing Unix 734 1,123 1,224
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.05% 1.82% 1.73%
As % of the Operating Systems category 6.94% 11.01% 8.32%
Number of salaries quoted 358 453 642
10th Percentile £33,000 £34,875 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,000 £43,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £51,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +7.84% +7.37%
75th Percentile £68,750 £70,000 £65,313
90th Percentile £84,784 £80,000 £73,675
UK median annual salary £60,000 £70,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -14.29% +12.00% +1.63%

All Operating Systems
UK excluding London

Unix is in the Operating Systems category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for operating system skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 10,579 10,198 14,717
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.10% 16.50% 20.85%
Number of salaries quoted 8,222 6,430 9,397
10th Percentile £25,250 £25,500 £25,000
25th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £45,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% - -
75th Percentile £57,500 £60,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £68,750 £73,750 £72,500
UK median annual salary £45,000 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -14.29% - +5.00%

Unix
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Unix as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Unix in the UK excluding London

Unix
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Unix in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Unix in the UK excluding London

Unix
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Unix in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Unix in the UK excluding London

Unix
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Unix within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. 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
Scotland -23 207 £42,101 -35.23% 9
North of England -59 140 £55,000 +3.77% 12
South East -32 127 £52,500 - 30
South West -48 93 £52,500 +5.00% 19
Midlands -51 77 £50,000 -23.08% 14
North West -5 69 £55,000 -1.79% 5
Wales +32 58 £48,498 -16.48% 3
Yorkshire -25 50 £70,576 +15.36% 7
West Midlands -6 45 £50,000 -23.08% 7
East Midlands -49 32 £50,000 -23.08% 7
North East -4 21 £44,274 +14.26%
Northern Ireland +16 17 £77,500 +55.00% 2
East of England -74 15 £38,750 -35.42% 24
Unix
UK

Unix
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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
1 102 (13.90%) Apache Spark
2 77 (10.49%) WebLogic
3 45 (6.13%) Oracle Service Bus
4 27 (3.68%) WebSphere
5 23 (3.13%) Tomcat
6 22 (3.00%) Captiva
6 22 (3.00%) FileNet
7 16 (2.18%) Apache Airflow
8 14 (1.91%) Apache
9 12 (1.63%) Confluence
9 12 (1.63%) Microsoft Exchange
9 12 (1.63%) SharePoint
10 10 (1.36%) nginx
11 8 (1.09%) IIS
12 5 (0.68%) JBoss
13 3 (0.41%) GlassFish
14 2 (0.27%) OpenStack
14 2 (0.27%) Oracle Workflow
15 1 (0.14%) NetWeaver
15 1 (0.14%) WordPress
Applications
1 74 (10.08%) Microsoft Office
2 54 (7.36%) Microsoft Excel
3 45 (6.13%) MS Visio
4 4 (0.54%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.27%) CATIA
5 2 (0.27%) NASTRAN
Business Applications
1 46 (6.27%) Remedy ITSM
2 16 (2.18%) NEC Housing
3 13 (1.77%) Unit4 Business World
4 4 (0.54%) Oracle EBS
4 4 (0.54%) Oracle EBS R12
5 2 (0.27%) Demantra
5 2 (0.27%) Oracle ASCP
5 2 (0.27%) Teamcenter
6 1 (0.14%) Oracle Applications
6 1 (0.14%) SAP CRM
6 1 (0.14%) SAP GRC
6 1 (0.14%) SAP MDG
6 1 (0.14%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 248 (33.79%) AWS
2 142 (19.35%) Azure
3 67 (9.13%) GCP
4 58 (7.90%) SaaS
5 56 (7.63%) IaaS
6 33 (4.50%) GitHub
7 27 (3.68%) Microsoft 365
7 27 (3.68%) PaaS
8 23 (3.13%) Amazon EKS
9 17 (2.32%) OpenShift
10 13 (1.77%) Power Platform
11 12 (1.63%) Serverless
12 8 (1.09%) Azure Data Factory
13 7 (0.95%) Cloud Computing
13 7 (0.95%) Entra ID
14 6 (0.82%) Amazon EC2
14 6 (0.82%) Dynamics 365
15 5 (0.68%) OCI
16 4 (0.54%) Amazon ECS
16 4 (0.54%) Google Docs
Communications & Networking
1 47 (6.40%) Firewall
2 37 (5.04%) TCP/IP
3 23 (3.13%) DNS
4 22 (3.00%) Internet
5 16 (2.18%) SNMP
6 13 (1.77%) Network Security
6 13 (1.77%) SSH
6 13 (1.77%) VLAN
6 13 (1.77%) VPN
7 12 (1.63%) DHCP
7 12 (1.63%) HTTP
8 11 (1.50%) SAN
9 8 (1.09%) WAN
10 7 (0.95%) SMTP
11 6 (0.82%) Wireless
12 5 (0.68%) 5G
12 5 (0.68%) LAN
12 5 (0.68%) SD-WAN
13 4 (0.54%) SSL
13 4 (0.54%) Wireless Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 119 (16.21%) NoSQL
2 102 (13.90%) Apache Hive
2 102 (13.90%) HBase
3 77 (10.49%) Oracle Database
4 72 (9.81%) Hadoop
5 64 (8.72%) MySQL
6 47 (6.40%) Oracle Database 11g
7 46 (6.27%) Oracle Database 10g
7 46 (6.27%) SQL Server
8 45 (6.13%) VLDB
9 37 (5.04%) Big Data
9 37 (5.04%) Data Warehouse
9 37 (5.04%) Relational Database
10 33 (4.50%) Elasticsearch
11 30 (4.09%) PostgreSQL
12 25 (3.41%) Data Lake
13 14 (1.91%) DB2
13 14 (1.91%) RDBMS
14 13 (1.77%) Power BI
15 12 (1.63%) Oracle Database 12c
Development Applications
1 129 (17.57%) Git
2 111 (15.12%) Jenkins
3 86 (11.72%) Bitbucket Server
4 59 (8.04%) JIRA
5 24 (3.27%) Oracle Forms
6 16 (2.18%) GitLab
7 13 (1.77%) Eclipse
7 13 (1.77%) LabVIEW
8 11 (1.50%) CircleCI
9 10 (1.36%) GNU Toolchain
9 10 (1.36%) Subversion
10 8 (1.09%) IBM UrbanCode
11 6 (0.82%) Appium
11 6 (0.82%) RStudio
11 6 (0.82%) UI Automator
12 5 (0.68%) Bitbucket
13 4 (0.54%) Burp Suite
13 4 (0.54%) Metasploit
14 3 (0.41%) Oracle APEX
15 2 (0.27%) Maven
General
1 270 (36.78%) Finance
2 163 (22.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 152 (20.71%) Law
4 147 (20.03%) Social Skills
5 135 (18.39%) Analytical Skills
6 108 (14.71%) Legal
7 54 (7.36%) Banking
8 48 (6.54%) Public Sector
9 40 (5.45%) Police
10 24 (3.27%) Presentation Skills
11 22 (3.00%) Marketing
12 21 (2.86%) Local Government
13 16 (2.18%) Military
14 15 (2.04%) Retail
15 13 (1.77%) Games
16 9 (1.23%) Back Office
17 8 (1.09%) Telecoms
18 6 (0.82%) Automotive
19 5 (0.68%) Aerospace
19 5 (0.68%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 189 (25.75%) Software Engineer
2 132 (17.98%) Analyst
3 117 (15.94%) Developer
4 112 (15.26%) Senior
5 105 (14.31%) Support Analyst
6 102 (13.90%) Applications Support
7 87 (11.85%) Applications Support Analyst
8 69 (9.40%) AWS Engineer
9 67 (9.13%) AWS Software Engineer
10 64 (8.72%) Developer/Software Engineer
11 60 (8.17%) Database Engineer
12 56 (7.63%) Database Developer
13 48 (6.54%) SQL Analyst
13 48 (6.54%) SQL Support Analyst
14 45 (6.13%) Oracle Analyst
14 45 (6.13%) Oracle Support Analyst
15 43 (5.86%) Python Engineer
16 41 (5.59%) Java Engineer
16 41 (5.59%) Java Software Engineer
17 38 (5.18%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 62 (8.45%) Spring
2 32 (4.36%) J2EE
2 32 (4.36%) REST
3 29 (3.95%) Java EE
4 28 (3.81%) Node.js
5 25 (3.41%) React
5 25 (3.41%) Web Services
6 22 (3.00%) OpenMP
7 21 (2.86%) JPA
8 20 (2.72%) XML
9 19 (2.59%) CSS
9 19 (2.59%) OpenID
10 17 (2.32%) AngularJS
11 16 (2.18%) HTML
11 16 (2.18%) OpenACC
12 15 (2.04%) SOAP
13 13 (1.77%) Ajax
13 13 (1.77%) JDBC
13 13 (1.77%) ODBC
13 13 (1.77%) XHTML
Miscellaneous
1 141 (19.21%) Algorithms
2 57 (7.77%) Self-Motivation
3 41 (5.59%) Data Centre
3 41 (5.59%) Public Cloud
4 33 (4.50%) Management Information System
5 29 (3.95%) CUDA
6 28 (3.81%) Linux Command Line
7 24 (3.27%) Mainframe
7 24 (3.27%) Private Cloud
8 22 (3.00%) DataPower
9 19 (2.59%) Blockchain
9 19 (2.59%) Cloud Native
10 16 (2.18%) Embedded Systems
11 13 (1.77%) CMDB
12 12 (1.63%) GNSS
13 11 (1.50%) Mobile App
14 9 (1.23%) Legacy Systems
14 9 (1.23%) Product Ownership
15 8 (1.09%) Driving Licence
15 8 (1.09%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 388 (52.86%) Linux
2 256 (34.88%) Windows
3 80 (10.90%) Solaris
4 53 (7.22%) Windows Server
5 22 (3.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 21 (2.86%) AIX
7 19 (2.59%) CentOS
7 19 (2.59%) CoreOS
8 18 (2.45%) Mac OS
9 15 (2.04%) Ubuntu
10 14 (1.91%) Mac OS X
11 10 (1.36%) VMS
11 10 (1.36%) Windows 10
12 6 (0.82%) Debian
13 5 (0.68%) Windows Server 2019
13 5 (0.68%) zOS
14 4 (0.54%) Kali Linux
14 4 (0.54%) Windows Server 2016
15 3 (0.41%) Windows 7
15 3 (0.41%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 243 (33.11%) Agile
2 207 (28.20%) Artificial Intelligence
3 196 (26.70%) Software Engineering
4 153 (20.84%) CI/CD
5 145 (19.75%) Machine Learning
6 141 (19.21%) SDLC
7 138 (18.80%) Problem-Solving
8 136 (18.53%) ITIL
8 136 (18.53%) Open Source
9 125 (17.03%) Operational Stability
10 122 (16.62%) Test Automation
11 121 (16.49%) Actionable Insight
12 117 (15.94%) Risk Management
13 115 (15.67%) Incident Management
14 113 (15.40%) Continuous Improvement
15 111 (15.12%) Community of Practice
16 109 (14.85%) Visualisation
17 101 (13.76%) Microservices
18 99 (13.49%) TDD
19 94 (12.81%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 309 (42.10%) SQL
2 264 (35.97%) Python
3 223 (30.38%) Java
4 140 (19.07%) PL/SQL
5 83 (11.31%) Shell Script
6 68 (9.26%) Bash
7 61 (8.31%) C
8 55 (7.49%) C++
9 51 (6.95%) PowerShell
10 34 (4.63%) Fortran
11 31 (4.22%) Perl
12 25 (3.41%) JavaScript
13 14 (1.91%) Ruby
14 13 (1.77%) MATLAB
15 12 (1.63%) C#
16 9 (1.23%) PHP
17 7 (0.95%) R
17 7 (0.95%) TypeScript
18 5 (0.68%) COBOL
19 4 (0.54%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 219 (29.84%) Degree
2 162 (22.07%) Security Cleared
3 118 (16.08%) SC Cleared
4 34 (4.63%) PhD
5 33 (4.50%) Master's Degree
6 32 (4.36%) Computer Science Degree
7 20 (2.72%) AWS Certification
8 16 (2.18%) HND
9 15 (2.04%) CISSP
9 15 (2.04%) DV Cleared
10 14 (1.91%) CISM
10 14 (1.91%) GCIA
10 14 (1.91%) GCIH
10 14 (1.91%) GREM
11 13 (1.77%) Azure Certification
11 13 (1.77%) CISA
12 12 (1.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 10 (1.36%) Oracle Certification
14 8 (1.09%) Microsoft Certification
15 6 (0.82%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 83 (11.31%) SLA
2 23 (3.13%) GDPR
3 17 (2.32%) Accessibility
4 13 (1.77%) ITGC
4 13 (1.77%) PMO
5 12 (1.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 8 (1.09%) QA
7 6 (0.82%) Data Quality
8 4 (0.54%) NIST
9 2 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (0.27%) DO-178B
9 2 (0.27%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.14%) SEPA
System Software
1 102 (13.90%) HDFS
2 50 (6.81%) Oracle RAC
3 36 (4.90%) VMware Infrastructure
4 34 (4.63%) Docker
5 32 (4.36%) Hyper-V
6 30 (4.09%) Active Directory
7 18 (2.45%) Virtual Machines
8 15 (2.04%) Firmware
9 7 (0.95%) Embedded Firmware
10 6 (0.82%) VMware ESXi
11 4 (0.54%) KVM
12 3 (0.41%) VirtualBox
12 3 (0.41%) XenApp
13 2 (0.27%) Shibboleth
14 1 (0.14%) Kamailio
14 1 (0.14%) Lustre
14 1 (0.14%) Slurm Workload Manager
14 1 (0.14%) Squid
14 1 (0.14%) Virtual Desktop
14 1 (0.14%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 98 (13.35%) Terraform
2 48 (6.54%) Data Guard
2 48 (6.54%) Oracle RMAN
3 32 (4.36%) Ansible
3 32 (4.36%) Single Sign-On
4 29 (3.95%) Kubernetes
4 29 (3.95%) OpenSSO
5 22 (3.00%) Puppet
6 17 (2.32%) SCCM
7 13 (1.77%) WMI
8 12 (1.63%) WSUS
9 9 (1.23%) Grafana
9 9 (1.23%) Progress Chef
10 7 (0.95%) Microsoft Intune
11 6 (0.82%) ITRS Geneos
12 5 (0.68%) CA Endevor
12 5 (0.68%) Nagios
12 5 (0.68%) Opsgenie
13 4 (0.54%) Nmap
14 3 (0.41%) SCOM
Vendors
1 225 (30.65%) Oracle
2 129 (17.57%) Databricks
3 92 (12.53%) Microsoft
4 88 (11.99%) Informatica
5 81 (11.04%) Remedy
6 72 (9.81%) Cloudera
7 57 (7.77%) VMware
8 47 (6.40%) Sun
9 45 (6.13%) Splunk
10 36 (4.90%) IBM
10 36 (4.90%) SAP
11 32 (4.36%) Red Hat
12 25 (3.41%) Dynatrace
12 25 (3.41%) ServiceNow
13 22 (3.00%) Kofax
13 22 (3.00%) Pega
14 20 (2.72%) Dell
15 17 (2.32%) Google
16 16 (2.18%) NEC
17 15 (2.04%) AppDynamics