Unix Jobs in the UK excluding London

Unix
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 355 266 198
Rank change year-on-year -89 -68 +27
Permanent jobs citing Unix 210 732 1,111
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.57% 1.04% 1.81%
As % of the Operating Systems category 4.57% 6.89% 10.91%
Number of salaries quoted 149 358 444
10th Percentile £31,250 £33,000 £34,875
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £52,500 £56,000
Median % change year-on-year +19.05% -6.25% +9.80%
75th Percentile £78,750 £68,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £93,778 £84,784 £80,000
UK median annual salary £69,384 £60,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +15.64% -14.29% +12.00%

All Operating Systems
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 4,597 10,623 10,187
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 12.48% 15.11% 16.59%
Number of salaries quoted 3,001 8,261 6,405
10th Percentile £26,250 £25,500 £25,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,000 £42,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.18% -5.56% -
75th Percentile £57,500 £57,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £72,250 £68,750 £73,750
UK median annual salary £47,500 £45,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +5.56% -14.29% -

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 1 May 2025.

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 1 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
North of England +7 56 £69,384 +26.15% 36
South East +29 48 £42,000 -18.84% 65
North West +3 39 £68,505 +24.55% 19
Scotland -6 29 £66,250 +57.36% 29
Wales +17 27 £75,000 +54.65% 1
Midlands +29 23 £60,000 +20.00% 12
West Midlands +28 22 £60,000 +20.00% 8
South West +28 15 £71,991 +37.13% 14
Yorkshire +39 12 £85,253 +20.80% 12
East of England +49 7 £27,500 -29.03% 23
North East +34 5 £69,384 +56.71% 5
Northern Ireland +23 5 £90,000 +16.13% 6
East Midlands +19 1 £70,000 +40.00% 4
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 18 (8.57%) Apache
2 12 (5.71%) Microsoft Exchange
3 11 (5.24%) Apache Airflow
4 10 (4.76%) Apache Spark
5 9 (4.29%) Tomcat
6 7 (3.33%) IIS
7 5 (2.38%) NetWeaver
8 4 (1.90%) GemFire
9 3 (1.43%) SharePoint
10 2 (0.95%) WebSphere
11 1 (0.48%) Confluence
11 1 (0.48%) OpenStack
11 1 (0.48%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 9 (4.29%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 18 (8.57%) NEC Housing
2 6 (2.86%) Oracle EBS
3 5 (2.38%) Oracle Applications
3 5 (2.38%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 2 (0.95%) SAP Oil and Gas
5 1 (0.48%) Fidessa
5 1 (0.48%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 66 (31.43%) Azure
2 41 (19.52%) AWS
3 27 (12.86%) GCP
4 18 (8.57%) Microsoft 365
5 15 (7.14%) GitHub
6 11 (5.24%) Apigee
6 11 (5.24%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 10 (4.76%) Cloud Computing
8 9 (4.29%) OpenShift
9 8 (3.81%) Amazon ECR
9 8 (3.81%) Amazon ECS
9 8 (3.81%) Amazon ElastiCache
9 8 (3.81%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 8 (3.81%) AWS CloudFormation
9 8 (3.81%) AWS CodeBuild
9 8 (3.81%) dbt
9 8 (3.81%) Pulumi
10 7 (3.33%) IaaS
10 7 (3.33%) PaaS
11 6 (2.86%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 25 (11.90%) TCP/IP
2 22 (10.48%) Network Security
3 18 (8.57%) DNS
4 17 (8.10%) Firewall
5 14 (6.67%) DHCP
5 14 (6.67%) SSL
6 11 (5.24%) LAN
7 10 (4.76%) Modbus
7 10 (4.76%) MQTT
8 9 (4.29%) VLAN
9 8 (3.81%) WAN
10 7 (3.33%) DMARC
10 7 (3.33%) HTTP
10 7 (3.33%) IPv4
10 7 (3.33%) VPN
11 4 (1.90%) 5G
11 4 (1.90%) FTP
11 4 (1.90%) SD-WAN
12 3 (1.43%) DKIM
12 3 (1.43%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
2 29 (13.81%) NoSQL
3 24 (11.43%) RDBMS
3 24 (11.43%) Relational Database
4 12 (5.71%) Redis
4 12 (5.71%) SQL Server
5 11 (5.24%) Amazon RDS
6 9 (4.29%) Apache Hudi
6 9 (4.29%) Apache Iceberg
6 9 (4.29%) Data Warehouse
6 9 (4.29%) Delta Lake
6 9 (4.29%) Hadoop
6 9 (4.29%) Oracle Database
6 9 (4.29%) SAP HANA
7 8 (3.81%) DB2
7 8 (3.81%) Elasticsearch
7 8 (3.81%) Oracle Reports
8 6 (2.86%) Oracle Exadata
9 5 (2.38%) MongoDB
9 5 (2.38%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 24 (11.43%) Jenkins
2 22 (10.48%) Git
3 12 (5.71%) JUnit
4 11 (5.24%) Maven
4 11 (5.24%) SonarQube
4 11 (5.24%) Sonatype Nexus
5 9 (4.29%) Bitbucket
6 8 (3.81%) Oracle Forms
7 5 (2.38%) IBM UrbanCode
7 5 (2.38%) JIRA
8 4 (1.90%) JMeter
8 4 (1.90%) LabVIEW
8 4 (1.90%) Spinnaker
9 1 (0.48%) GitLab
9 1 (0.48%) Oracle APEX
9 1 (0.48%) SoapUI
9 1 (0.48%) Subversion
General
1 82 (39.05%) Social Skills
2 63 (30.00%) Finance
3 35 (16.67%) Banking
4 33 (15.71%) Analytical Skills
5 23 (10.95%) Public Sector
6 19 (9.05%) Local Government
6 19 (9.05%) Police
7 18 (8.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 18 (8.57%) Social Housing
8 14 (6.67%) Law
9 10 (4.76%) Presentation Skills
9 10 (4.76%) Retail
10 7 (3.33%) Telecoms
11 6 (2.86%) Billing
12 5 (2.38%) Electronics
12 5 (2.38%) Front Office
12 5 (2.38%) General Ledger
12 5 (2.38%) Influencing Skills
13 4 (1.90%) Documentation Skills
13 4 (1.90%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 49 (23.33%) Senior
2 38 (18.10%) Software Engineer
3 26 (12.38%) Lead
4 23 (10.95%) Developer
5 22 (10.48%) Consultant
6 18 (8.57%) Implementation Consultant
6 18 (8.57%) Senior Software Engineer
7 14 (6.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 13 (6.19%) Analyst
8 13 (6.19%) Data Engineer
9 11 (5.24%) Lead Software Engineer
9 11 (5.24%) Team Leader
10 10 (4.76%) Unix Engineer
11 9 (4.29%) Administrator
11 9 (4.29%) IT Support
11 9 (4.29%) Test Engineer
12 8 (3.81%) Lead Developer
12 8 (3.81%) Senior Developer
12 8 (3.81%) Software Team Leader
12 8 (3.81%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (10.00%) .NET
2 15 (7.14%) Kafka
3 14 (6.67%) Middleware
3 14 (6.67%) Spring
4 12 (5.71%) RESTful
4 12 (5.71%) Spring Boot
5 11 (5.24%) Hibernate
5 11 (5.24%) XML
6 10 (4.76%) HTML
6 10 (4.76%) SOAP
7 9 (4.29%) PyArrow
7 9 (4.29%) PySpark
8 8 (3.81%) Django
9 7 (3.33%) REST
10 6 (2.86%) Oracle Fusion
10 6 (2.86%) Oracle GoldenGate
11 5 (2.38%) CSS
11 5 (2.38%) JSON
11 5 (2.38%) Web Services
11 5 (2.38%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 19 (9.05%) IoT
2 18 (8.57%) Housing Association
3 15 (7.14%) Algorithms
4 13 (6.19%) Self-Motivation
5 10 (4.76%) Device Driver
6 7 (3.33%) Data Centre
6 7 (3.33%) Distributed Systems
6 7 (3.33%) Linux Command Line
7 6 (2.86%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 6 (2.86%) Self-Driving Car
8 5 (2.38%) Data Structures
8 5 (2.38%) Mainframe
8 5 (2.38%) Public Cloud
9 4 (1.90%) Clustering
9 4 (1.90%) Derivative
9 4 (1.90%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (1.90%) Equities
9 4 (1.90%) Greenfield Project
9 4 (1.90%) Management Information System
10 3 (1.43%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 146 (69.52%) Linux
2 74 (35.24%) Windows
3 20 (9.52%) Windows Server
4 17 (8.10%) AIX
5 10 (4.76%) Solaris
6 9 (4.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 8 (3.81%) zOS
8 4 (1.90%) Windows Server 2008
8 4 (1.90%) Windows Server 2019
9 3 (1.43%) Mac OS
9 3 (1.43%) VMS
10 2 (0.95%) CentOS
10 2 (0.95%) CoreOS
10 2 (0.95%) Embedded Linux
10 2 (0.95%) Oracle Linux
11 1 (0.48%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 52 (24.76%) CI/CD
3 51 (24.29%) Software Engineering
4 48 (22.86%) DevOps
5 46 (21.90%) Agile
6 28 (13.33%) Mentoring
7 24 (11.43%) Technical Leadership
8 21 (10.00%) Collaborative Working
8 21 (10.00%) Computer Science
8 21 (10.00%) Roadmaps
8 21 (10.00%) SDLC
9 20 (9.52%) Customer Service
9 20 (9.52%) Full-Stack Development
9 20 (9.52%) Infrastructure as Code
9 20 (9.52%) Open Source
10 19 (9.05%) Microservices
11 18 (8.57%) Housing Management
11 18 (8.57%) Product Strategy
11 18 (8.57%) TDD
11 18 (8.57%) Technical Debt
Programming Languages
1 113 (53.81%) SQL
2 64 (30.48%) Python
3 47 (22.38%) Java
4 33 (15.71%) C
5 30 (14.29%) C++
6 28 (13.33%) Bash
6 28 (13.33%) PowerShell
7 27 (12.86%) JavaScript
8 19 (9.05%) Shell Script
9 17 (8.10%) C#
10 13 (6.19%) Perl
11 11 (5.24%) Go
12 10 (4.76%) Fortran
13 7 (3.33%) MATLAB
13 7 (3.33%) PHP
13 7 (3.33%) PL/SQL
14 5 (2.38%) JCL
14 5 (2.38%) VBA
15 4 (1.90%) ABAP
15 4 (1.90%) Jython
Qualifications
1 34 (16.19%) Degree
2 28 (13.33%) Security Cleared
3 22 (10.48%) SC Cleared
4 18 (8.57%) DBS Check
5 15 (7.14%) DV Cleared
6 10 (4.76%) Master's Degree
6 10 (4.76%) PhD
7 5 (2.38%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (2.38%) OCA
7 5 (2.38%) OCP
7 5 (2.38%) Oracle Certification
8 4 (1.90%) HND
9 3 (1.43%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (1.43%) Numerate Degree
10 2 (0.95%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.95%) PMI Certification
10 2 (0.95%) PMP
11 1 (0.48%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 1 (0.48%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
11 1 (0.48%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (17.14%) Accessibility
2 11 (5.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 9 (4.29%) Data Quality
4 7 (3.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 7 (3.33%) QA
5 2 (0.95%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (0.95%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 2 (0.95%) GDPR
5 2 (0.95%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.95%) SLA
6 1 (0.48%) COBIT
6 1 (0.48%) COSO
6 1 (0.48%) ITGC
6 1 (0.48%) NIST
6 1 (0.48%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 28 (13.33%) Docker
2 20 (9.52%) Active Directory
3 13 (6.19%) Hyper-V
4 11 (5.24%) Firmware
5 10 (4.76%) HDFS
6 6 (2.86%) VMware Infrastructure
7 3 (1.43%) vSphere
8 2 (0.95%) KVM
8 2 (0.95%) Postfix
8 2 (0.95%) Sendmail
8 2 (0.95%) Virtual Machines
9 1 (0.48%) Embedded Firmware
9 1 (0.48%) LXC
9 1 (0.48%) NFS
9 1 (0.48%) Samba
9 1 (0.48%) vCloud
9 1 (0.48%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 30 (14.29%) Kubernetes
2 26 (12.38%) Terraform
3 11 (5.24%) Istio
4 8 (3.81%) AWS Copilot
4 8 (3.81%) Microsoft Intune
5 7 (3.33%) CA Endevor
6 6 (2.86%) Grafana
6 6 (2.86%) Oracle RMAN
7 5 (2.38%) Ansible
7 5 (2.38%) Tivoli Storage Manager
8 4 (1.90%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.95%) Nagios
9 2 (0.95%) Nessus
9 2 (0.95%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.95%) Puppet
9 2 (0.95%) SCCM
10 1 (0.48%) PowerCLI
10 1 (0.48%) vCenter Server
10 1 (0.48%) vRealize
Vendors
1 35 (16.67%) Oracle
2 18 (8.57%) NEC
3 16 (7.62%) Microsoft
4 15 (7.14%) Red Hat
5 13 (6.19%) VMware
6 12 (5.71%) SAP
7 10 (4.76%) IBM
8 9 (4.29%) Google
8 9 (4.29%) Veeam
9 4 (1.90%) Dynatrace
9 4 (1.90%) Solace
9 4 (1.90%) Sybase
9 4 (1.90%) TIBCO
10 3 (1.43%) Apple
10 3 (1.43%) Splunk
11 2 (0.95%) Informatica
11 2 (0.95%) Nimble Storage
11 2 (0.95%) SolarWinds
11 2 (0.95%) Tenable
11 2 (0.95%) Zscaler