Unix Engineer
UK

The median Unix Engineer salary in the UK is £52,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 882 933 1185
Rank change year-on-year +51 +252 -356
Permanent jobs requiring a Unix Engineer 12 48 37
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.012% 0.048% 0.023%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.013% 0.052% 0.024%
Number of salaries quoted 7 10 33
10th Percentile - £51,500 £45,750
25th Percentile £48,750 £53,625 £47,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £65,250 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -19.54% +30.50% -16.67%
75th Percentile £56,875 £77,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £58,700 £80,600 £75,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £59,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -11.02% +18.00% -13.04%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes 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 93,899 92,293 151,422
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.62% 91.47% 96.10%
Number of salaries quoted 67,283 58,235 84,441
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,521
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £80,627 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%

Unix Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Unix Engineer in the UK

Unix Engineer
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Unix Engineer.

Salary trend for Unix Engineer in the UK

Unix Engineer
Top 9 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Unix Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 11 May 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
England +61 12 £52,500 -19.54% 6
UK excluding London -29 11 £52,500 -11.02% 7
North of England - 6 £50,000 - 2
North East - 6 £50,000 -
Work from Home +62 5 £52,500 -30.00%
South West -33 4 £52,500 -7.89% 2
London +125 1 - -
West Midlands +3 1 £56,000 -18.25%
Midlands -15 1 £56,000 -18.25%

Unix Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 11 May 2024, Unix Engineer 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 Unix Engineer in the job title.

1 12 (100.00%) Unix
2 11 (91.67%) Linux
3 6 (50.00%) Red Hat
4 4 (33.33%) Python
4 4 (33.33%) Time Management
4 4 (33.33%) CentOS
4 4 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (33.33%) Git
4 4 (33.33%) AWS
4 4 (33.33%) Bash
4 4 (33.33%) Puppet
4 4 (33.33%) OpenShift
4 4 (33.33%) Ansible
4 4 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (33.33%) CoreOS
4 4 (33.33%) Linux Command Line
4 4 (33.33%) ITIL
5 3 (25.00%) Security Cleared
6 2 (16.67%) IBM
6 2 (16.67%) Microsoft
6 2 (16.67%) AIX
6 2 (16.67%) Public Sector
6 2 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (8.33%) Feasibility Study
7 1 (8.33%) Social Skills
7 1 (8.33%) Problem Management
7 1 (8.33%) Java
7 1 (8.33%) WebLogic
7 1 (8.33%) JBoss
7 1 (8.33%) Tomcat

Unix Engineer 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 1 (8.33%) JBoss
1 1 (8.33%) Tomcat
1 1 (8.33%) WebLogic
Cloud Services
1 4 (33.33%) AWS
1 4 (33.33%) OpenShift
2 2 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
Development Applications
1 4 (33.33%) Git
General
1 4 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (16.67%) Public Sector
3 1 (8.33%) Finance
3 1 (8.33%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (8.33%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 4 (33.33%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 12 (100.00%) Unix
2 11 (91.67%) Linux
3 4 (33.33%) CentOS
3 4 (33.33%) CoreOS
3 4 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (16.67%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (33.33%) ITIL
1 4 (33.33%) Time Management
2 1 (8.33%) Feasibility Study
2 1 (8.33%) Problem Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (33.33%) Bash
1 4 (33.33%) Python
2 1 (8.33%) Java
2 1 (8.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 4 (33.33%) Ansible
1 4 (33.33%) Puppet
Vendors
1 6 (50.00%) Red Hat
2 2 (16.67%) IBM
2 2 (16.67%) Microsoft