Senior Unix Technical Specialist Jobs

Senior Unix Technical Specialist
UK

The median Senior Unix Technical Specialist salary in the UK is £65,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 6 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 687 762 959
Rank change year-on-year +75 +197 +257
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Unix Technical Specialist 3 152 6
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.006% 0.15% 0.006%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.006% 0.16% 0.006%
Number of salaries quoted 3 15 5
10th Percentile £54,044 - -
25th Percentile £57,215 £31,250 £45,077
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £32,500 £46,581
Median % change year-on-year +100.00% -30.23% -25.47%
75th Percentile £67,500 £88,750 £52,500
90th Percentile - £122,500 £54,000
UK excluding London median annual salary - £32,500 £46,581
% change year-on-year - -30.23% -25.47%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 48,283 93,229 94,684
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.44% 94.63% 91.53%
Number of salaries quoted 27,442 66,845 59,589
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,000 £38,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £90,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,000 £50,000 £53,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% -5.66% +6.00%

Senior Unix Technical Specialist
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Senior Unix Technical Specialist in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Senior Unix Technical Specialist in the UK

Senior Unix Technical Specialist
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Senior Unix Technical Specialist.

Salary trend for Senior Unix Technical Specialist in the UK

Senior Unix Technical Specialist
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Unix Technical Specialist over the 6 months to 6 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Senior Unix Technical Specialist in the UK

Senior Unix Technical Specialist
Top 3 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Unix Technical Specialist within the UK over the 6 months to 6 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
England +27 3 £65,000 +100.00% 7
London +26 3 £65,000 -43.48% 5
Work from Home +26 1 £51,930 -54.84% 1

Senior Unix Technical Specialist Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 6 May 2025, Senior Unix Technical Specialist job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads featuring Senior Unix Technical Specialist in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (66.67%) Design Patterns
2 2 (66.67%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (66.67%) Angular 2
2 2 (66.67%) Critical Thinking
2 2 (66.67%) Azure Service Bus
2 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 2 (66.67%) Event-Driven
2 2 (66.67%) Azure Monitor
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) Distributed Computing
2 2 (66.67%) Time Management
2 2 (66.67%) OAuth
2 2 (66.67%) Git
2 2 (66.67%) Domain-Driven Design
2 2 (66.67%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 2 (66.67%) AngularJS
2 2 (66.67%) ServiceStack
2 2 (66.67%) ASP.NET Web API
2 2 (66.67%) Docker
2 2 (66.67%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Microservices
2 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes
2 2 (66.67%) Mobile Development
2 2 (66.67%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) .NET Core
2 2 (66.67%) Creative Thinking
2 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (66.67%) AWS
2 2 (66.67%) Confluence

Senior Unix Technical Specialist Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 2 (66.67%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (66.67%) AWS
2 2 (66.67%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Azure Monitor
2 2 (66.67%) Azure Service Bus
3 1 (33.33%) Entra ID
3 1 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Git
1 2 (66.67%) JIRA
General
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) .NET
1 2 (66.67%) .NET Core
1 2 (66.67%) .NET Framework
1 2 (66.67%) Angular 2
1 2 (66.67%) AngularJS
1 2 (66.67%) ASP.NET Web API
1 2 (66.67%) CSS
1 2 (66.67%) CSS3
1 2 (66.67%) Elastic Stack
1 2 (66.67%) Entity Framework
1 2 (66.67%) HTML
1 2 (66.67%) HTML5
1 2 (66.67%) JSON
1 2 (66.67%) OAuth
1 2 (66.67%) OpenID
1 2 (66.67%) RabbitMQ
1 2 (66.67%) REST
1 2 (66.67%) ServiceStack
1 2 (66.67%) XML
2 1 (33.33%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Distributed Computing
2 1 (33.33%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Agile
1 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
1 2 (66.67%) Creative Thinking
1 2 (66.67%) Critical Thinking
1 2 (66.67%) Design Patterns
1 2 (66.67%) DevOps
1 2 (66.67%) Domain-Driven Design
1 2 (66.67%) Event-Driven
1 2 (66.67%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 2 (66.67%) Microservices
1 2 (66.67%) Mobile Development
1 2 (66.67%) OO
1 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (66.67%) Scrum
1 2 (66.67%) TDD
1 2 (66.67%) Time Management
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (33.33%) Project Delivery
2 1 (33.33%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) C#
1 2 (66.67%) Delphi
1 2 (66.67%) SQL
2 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Docker
2 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
2 1 (33.33%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes
1 2 (66.67%) MIIS
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (33.33%) SCCM
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Atlassian
1 2 (66.67%) Google
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) Zscaler