Unix Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Unix
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Unix skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 465 355 271
Rank change year-on-year -110 -84 -39
Permanent jobs citing Unix 116 190 668
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.18% 0.66% 0.97%
As % of the Operating Systems category 3.11% 4.00% 6.52%
Number of salaries quoted 73 148 347
10th Percentile £30,200 £30,125 £33,000
25th Percentile £51,000 £41,250 £41,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £62,500 £51,000
Median % change year-on-year - +22.55% -11.03%
75th Percentile £74,987 £78,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £93,778 £82,548
UK median annual salary £67,500 £67,626 £60,000
% change year-on-year -0.19% +12.71% -13.95%

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 3,735 4,748 10,252
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 5.71% 16.52% 14.91%
Number of salaries quoted 2,806 3,027 8,166
10th Percentile £27,000 £26,250 £25,500
25th Percentile £30,500 £31,250 £30,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £41,095 £40,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.74% -5.88% -5.56%
75th Percentile £60,000 £57,500 £57,500
90th Percentile £73,750 £71,250 £68,750
UK median annual salary £45,000 £46,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -2.17% +2.22% -14.29%

Unix
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Unix relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Unix job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Unix
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Unix.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Unix

Unix
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Unix in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 12 May 2026.

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 12 May 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
North of England -43 32 £61,250 -11.72% 20
South West -30 31 £70,000 -2.77% 7
East of England -8 17 £61,500 +123.64% 7
North West -15 15 £60,000 -12.41% 12
Yorkshire -54 11 £69,310 -15.51% 6
South East -48 10 £62,500 +48.81% 34
Midlands -38 9 £28,500 -52.50% 11
Wales -43 8 £65,000 -14.75%
West Midlands -33 7 £28,500 -52.50% 8
North East -34 6 £69,310 -0.11% 2
Northern Ireland -34 5 £40,000 -55.56% 1
Scotland -25 4 - - 4
East Midlands -30 2 £61,500 -12.14% 3
Unix
UK

Unix
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 4 (3.45%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.86%) Confluence
2 1 (0.86%) SharePoint
Applications
1 8 (6.90%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.86%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (3.45%) Line 50
Cloud Services
1 43 (37.07%) AWS
2 28 (24.14%) Azure
3 18 (15.52%) Azure DevOps
4 14 (12.07%) Azure AKS
4 14 (12.07%) Azure Service Bus
5 8 (6.90%) GCP
5 8 (6.90%) GitHub
5 8 (6.90%) SaaS
6 7 (6.03%) Amazon S3
6 7 (6.03%) PaaS
7 6 (5.17%) Pulumi
8 5 (4.31%) Apigee
8 5 (4.31%) Kong
8 5 (4.31%) OpenShift
9 4 (3.45%) Amazon ECS
9 4 (3.45%) Amazon ElastiCache
9 4 (3.45%) AWS CodeBuild
9 4 (3.45%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (3.45%) AWS Step Functions
9 4 (3.45%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 12 (10.34%) WAN
2 10 (8.62%) Firewall
3 8 (6.90%) 5G
3 8 (6.90%) SD-WAN
4 5 (4.31%) Cisco ASA
5 4 (3.45%) BGP
5 4 (3.45%) DHCP
5 4 (3.45%) DNS
5 4 (3.45%) MPLS
5 4 (3.45%) Network Security
5 4 (3.45%) TCP/IP
5 4 (3.45%) VoIP
5 4 (3.45%) VPN
6 2 (1.72%) Broadband
7 1 (0.86%) ATM
7 1 (0.86%) Bluetooth
7 1 (0.86%) LTE
7 1 (0.86%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (0.86%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (20.69%) PostgreSQL
2 21 (18.10%) MongoDB
3 8 (6.90%) Amazon RDS
4 6 (5.17%) SQL Server
5 4 (3.45%) Amazon Redshift
5 4 (3.45%) Elasticsearch
5 4 (3.45%) FileMaker
5 4 (3.45%) Redis
5 4 (3.45%) Relational Database
5 4 (3.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 3 (2.59%) NoSQL
7 2 (1.72%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.86%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.86%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 23 (19.83%) GitLab
2 20 (17.24%) Git
3 8 (6.90%) LabVIEW
4 7 (6.03%) Jenkins
5 2 (1.72%) Cucumber
5 2 (1.72%) Cypress.io
5 2 (1.72%) Gradle
5 2 (1.72%) Jaeger
5 2 (1.72%) JIRA
5 2 (1.72%) JMeter
5 2 (1.72%) Maven
5 2 (1.72%) Selenium
6 1 (0.86%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.86%) Zephyr
General
1 29 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 21 (18.10%) Public Sector
3 20 (17.24%) Finance
4 19 (16.38%) Analytical Skills
5 16 (13.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 9 (7.76%) Electronics
7 8 (6.90%) Presentation Skills
8 5 (4.31%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (4.31%) German Language
8 5 (4.31%) Telecoms
9 3 (2.59%) Aerospace
9 3 (2.59%) Back Office
9 3 (2.59%) Manufacturing
9 3 (2.59%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.86%) Banking
10 1 (0.86%) Legal
10 1 (0.86%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 22 (18.97%) Senior
2 16 (13.79%) Linux Engineer
3 14 (12.07%) DevOps Engineer
3 14 (12.07%) Senior DevOps
3 14 (12.07%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 11 (9.48%) Unix Engineer
4 11 (9.48%) Unix Linux Engineer
5 10 (8.62%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 9 (7.76%) Test Engineer
7 8 (6.90%) IT Support
7 8 (6.90%) Product Engineer
7 8 (6.90%) Product Test Engineer
7 8 (6.90%) Verification Engineer
8 6 (5.17%) Automation Engineer
9 5 (4.31%) Automation Specialist
9 5 (4.31%) Infrastructure Manager
9 5 (4.31%) Network Specialist
9 5 (4.31%) Platform Engineer
9 5 (4.31%) Telecoms Engineer
9 5 (4.31%) Telecoms Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (15.52%) JSON
1 18 (15.52%) Node.js
1 18 (15.52%) XML
2 17 (14.66%) HTML
3 13 (11.21%) Regular Expression
4 9 (7.76%) REST
5 8 (6.90%) pytest
6 5 (4.31%) Elastic Stack
6 5 (4.31%) Jinja
6 5 (4.31%) YAML
6 5 (4.31%) YANG
7 4 (3.45%) CSS
7 4 (3.45%) Django
7 4 (3.45%) FIX Protocol
7 4 (3.45%) SOAP
8 2 (1.72%) OpenTelemetry
8 2 (1.72%) React
9 1 (0.86%) .NET
9 1 (0.86%) ASP.NET
9 1 (0.86%) Oracle GoldenGate
Miscellaneous
1 21 (18.10%) Linux Command Line
2 13 (11.21%) Onboarding
2 13 (11.21%) Self-Motivation
3 8 (6.90%) Self-Driving Car
4 4 (3.45%) Analytical Mindset
4 4 (3.45%) Cloud Native
4 4 (3.45%) Driving Licence
4 4 (3.45%) Management Information System
4 4 (3.45%) PKI
5 3 (2.59%) NHS
5 3 (2.59%) Replication
6 2 (1.72%) Algorithms
6 2 (1.72%) Data Centre
6 2 (1.72%) IoT
6 2 (1.72%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.86%) Device Driver
7 1 (0.86%) Embedded Systems
7 1 (0.86%) NB-IoT
7 1 (0.86%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 89 (76.72%) Linux
2 43 (37.07%) Windows
3 10 (8.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 7 (6.03%) Windows Server
5 6 (5.17%) Solaris
6 4 (3.45%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.86%) Embedded Linux
7 1 (0.86%) FreeRTOS
7 1 (0.86%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (38.79%) CI/CD
2 38 (32.76%) DevOps
3 31 (26.72%) Problem-Solving
3 31 (26.72%) Test Automation
4 23 (19.83%) Continuous Integration
5 22 (18.97%) Agile
6 21 (18.10%) Mentoring
7 20 (17.24%) Infrastructure as Code
8 19 (16.38%) Microservices
9 17 (14.66%) Containerisation
10 16 (13.79%) Coaching
10 16 (13.79%) Scrum
11 15 (12.93%) AI
11 15 (12.93%) Task Automation
12 14 (12.07%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 13 (11.21%) Data Analysis
13 13 (11.21%) ITIL
13 13 (11.21%) LLM
14 12 (10.34%) Computer Science
14 12 (10.34%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 50 (43.10%) Python
2 25 (21.55%) Java
3 16 (13.79%) SQL
4 11 (9.48%) Bash
5 9 (7.76%) Shell Script
6 8 (6.90%) MATLAB
7 7 (6.03%) JavaScript
8 4 (3.45%) PHP
8 4 (3.45%) PowerShell
9 3 (2.59%) Go
10 2 (1.72%) Groovy
11 1 (0.86%) C
11 1 (0.86%) C#
11 1 (0.86%) C++
11 1 (0.86%) Embedded C
11 1 (0.86%) Korn
11 1 (0.86%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.86%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 34 (29.31%) Degree
2 29 (25.00%) Security Cleared
3 25 (21.55%) SC Cleared
4 10 (8.62%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (6.90%) HND
6 6 (5.17%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.72%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.86%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.86%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.86%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (6.03%) QA
2 4 (3.45%) Data Quality
2 4 (3.45%) ISO 14001
2 4 (3.45%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 18 (15.52%) Docker
2 6 (5.17%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (3.45%) Active Directory
3 4 (3.45%) VMware ESXi
3 4 (3.45%) VMware NSX
3 4 (3.45%) vSphere
4 1 (0.86%) Embedded Firmware
4 1 (0.86%) Firmware
4 1 (0.86%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 35 (30.17%) Terraform
2 16 (13.79%) Ansible
2 16 (13.79%) Argo
3 9 (7.76%) Puppet
4 7 (6.03%) Kubernetes
5 6 (5.17%) Prometheus
6 4 (3.45%) AWS Copilot
6 4 (3.45%) Control-M
6 4 (3.45%) Grafana
6 4 (3.45%) Podman
6 4 (3.45%) vCenter Server
7 3 (2.59%) Check_MK
8 2 (1.72%) Kibana
8 2 (1.72%) Kustomize
8 2 (1.72%) logstash
9 1 (0.86%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 1 (0.86%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 16 (13.79%) Red Hat
2 12 (10.34%) VMware
3 7 (6.03%) Splunk
4 6 (5.17%) Google
4 6 (5.17%) Oracle
5 5 (4.31%) Cisco
5 5 (4.31%) F5
5 5 (4.31%) Juniper
5 5 (4.31%) Palo Alto
6 4 (3.45%) Adobe
6 4 (3.45%) Apple
6 4 (3.45%) Informatica
6 4 (3.45%) Microsoft
6 4 (3.45%) Mirantis
6 4 (3.45%) Sage
7 2 (1.72%) BMC
7 2 (1.72%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.86%) NVIDIA
8 1 (0.86%) Sybase
8 1 (0.86%) Thales