Unix
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 10 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 186 188 203
Rank change year-on-year +2 +15 -43
Permanent jobs citing Unix 987 2,532 2,438
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.89% 2.07% 1.92%
As % of the Operating Systems category 10.90% 12.46% 11.00%
Number of salaries quoted 589 1,340 1,481
10th Percentile £42,874 £36,953 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £46,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,481
Median % change year-on-year - +7.47% +0.80%
75th Percentile £84,056 £85,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £97,290 £105,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +20.00% -4.76% +5.00%

All Operating Systems
UK

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 with a requirement for operating system skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 9,056 20,329 22,159
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.32% 16.63% 17.44%
Number of salaries quoted 7,010 13,652 16,244
10th Percentile £27,500 £27,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £34,500 £36,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -
75th Percentile £68,750 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £92,500 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £45,000

Unix
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Unix as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Unix in the UK

Unix
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Unix in the UK

Unix
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Unix over the 6 months to 10 December 2023.

Salary histogram for Unix in the UK

Unix
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Unix within the UK over the 6 months to 10 December 2023. 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 -23 759 £65,000 - 268
UK excluding London -1 656 £60,000 +20.00% 183
Work from Home +43 501 £65,000 +4.00% 176
London -10 279 £79,632 -0.46% 129
North of England +52 161 £70,576 +53.43% 26
South East -5 122 £53,630 +7.26% 66
South West -22 114 £59,556 +8.28% 14
Scotland +15 102 £75,000 +25.00% 19
North West +86 84 £65,000 +30.00% 12
Wales +69 72 £70,576 +41.15% 5
Yorkshire +30 72 £77,651 +55.30% 13
Midlands -2 68 £55,500 +15.63% 21
West Midlands +5 40 £55,500 +16.84% 11
East Midlands +37 28 £53,750 -10.42% 10
Northern Ireland +24 18 £65,000 +44.44% 12
North East +11 5 £65,000 +62.50% 1
East of England -25 4 £41,250 -25.00% 26

Unix
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 93 (9.42%) WebLogic
2 72 (7.29%) Confluence
3 45 (4.56%) WebSphere
4 34 (3.44%) SharePoint
5 25 (2.53%) IIS
6 24 (2.43%) Captiva
6 24 (2.43%) FileNet
6 24 (2.43%) Tomcat
7 19 (1.93%) WebSphere Application Server
8 16 (1.62%) Apache
8 16 (1.62%) Apache Spark
9 10 (1.01%) Oracle Service Bus
10 8 (0.81%) Apache Airflow
11 6 (0.61%) MS Exchange
11 6 (0.61%) OpenStack
12 5 (0.51%) JBoss
13 4 (0.41%) Oracle Workflow
14 3 (0.30%) nginx
15 2 (0.20%) Cloud Foundry
16 1 (0.10%) Apache Solr
Applications
1 26 (2.63%) Microsoft Office
2 15 (1.52%) Microsoft Excel
3 12 (1.22%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.30%) OrCAD
5 1 (0.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.10%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 13 (1.32%) Adaptiv
2 11 (1.11%) Fidessa
3 10 (1.01%) Remedy ITSM
4 5 (0.51%) Demantra
4 5 (0.51%) Oracle ASCP
4 5 (0.51%) Oracle EBS
4 5 (0.51%) Oracle EBS R12
4 5 (0.51%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 5 (0.51%) Unit4 Business World
5 3 (0.30%) SAP S/4HANA
6 2 (0.20%) ION Anvil
6 2 (0.20%) Salerio
7 1 (0.10%) PlanetPress Connect
Cloud Services
1 272 (27.56%) Azure
2 260 (26.34%) AWS
3 193 (19.55%) GCP
4 120 (12.16%) SaaS
5 113 (11.45%) PaaS
6 110 (11.14%) IaaS
7 52 (5.27%) OpenShift
8 40 (4.05%) Cloud Computing
9 35 (3.55%) AWS CloudFormation
10 34 (3.44%) GitHub
11 28 (2.84%) Amazon ECS
11 28 (2.84%) Power Platform
12 27 (2.74%) Serverless
13 26 (2.63%) AWS Lambda
14 25 (2.53%) Microsoft 365
15 23 (2.33%) dbt
16 21 (2.13%) Amazon EKS
17 18 (1.82%) Amazon EC2
18 16 (1.62%) Pulumi
19 14 (1.42%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 97 (9.83%) WAN
2 88 (8.92%) TCP/IP
3 86 (8.71%) LAN
4 83 (8.41%) Firewall
5 77 (7.80%) Intrusion Detection
6 50 (5.07%) DNS
7 28 (2.84%) Network Security
8 25 (2.53%) VPN
9 21 (2.13%) DHCP
9 21 (2.13%) SAN
10 20 (2.03%) Internet
11 13 (1.32%) IPv4
11 13 (1.32%) SSL
12 12 (1.22%) 5G
12 12 (1.22%) AMQP
12 12 (1.22%) FIX Connectivity
12 12 (1.22%) HTTP
12 12 (1.22%) OSPF
12 12 (1.22%) SD-WAN
13 11 (1.11%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 133 (13.48%) NoSQL
2 118 (11.96%) Data Warehouse
3 109 (11.04%) Elasticsearch
4 106 (10.74%) Data Lake
5 104 (10.54%) SQL Server
6 79 (8.00%) MySQL
7 56 (5.67%) Oracle Database
8 54 (5.47%) Relational Database
9 52 (5.27%) PostgreSQL
10 30 (3.04%) MongoDB
10 30 (3.04%) RDBMS
11 28 (2.84%) Power BI
12 26 (2.63%) Oracle Database 11g
13 25 (2.53%) Oracle Database 10g
14 24 (2.43%) Redis
15 19 (1.93%) Hadoop
16 17 (1.72%) Big Data
17 16 (1.62%) Apache Hive
17 16 (1.62%) Oracle Reports
18 15 (1.52%) Data Mart
Development Applications
1 123 (12.46%) JIRA
2 94 (9.52%) Jenkins
3 85 (8.61%) Git
4 48 (4.86%) GitLab
5 38 (3.85%) Maven
6 37 (3.75%) Oracle Forms
7 33 (3.34%) Sonatype Nexus
8 24 (2.43%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 23 (2.33%) JUnit
10 22 (2.23%) Artifactory
10 22 (2.23%) Cucumber
11 19 (1.93%) Liquibase
12 15 (1.52%) LoadRunner
12 15 (1.52%) Oracle APEX
12 15 (1.52%) Postman
13 13 (1.32%) REST Assured
14 12 (1.22%) ClearCase
14 12 (1.22%) IBM UrbanCode
14 12 (1.22%) JMeter
14 12 (1.22%) Selenium
General
1 364 (36.88%) Finance
2 288 (29.18%) Social Skills
3 229 (23.20%) Banking
4 180 (18.24%) Analytical Skills
5 99 (10.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 86 (8.71%) Games
7 84 (8.51%) Retail
8 44 (4.46%) Marketing
9 26 (2.63%) Presentation Skills
10 21 (2.13%) Financial Institution
10 21 (2.13%) Telecoms
11 20 (2.03%) Investment Banking
12 18 (1.82%) Aerospace
13 17 (1.72%) Influencing Skills
14 16 (1.62%) Law
15 13 (1.32%) Public Sector
16 10 (1.01%) Retail Finance
17 9 (0.91%) Front Office
17 9 (0.91%) Legal
18 8 (0.81%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 218 (22.09%) Senior
2 206 (20.87%) Analyst
3 144 (14.59%) Support Analyst
4 138 (13.98%) Applications Support
5 130 (13.17%) Applications Support Analyst
6 120 (12.16%) Architect
7 102 (10.33%) Enterprise Architect
8 82 (8.31%) DevOps Engineer
9 76 (7.70%) Senior Analyst
10 71 (7.19%) Developer
11 68 (6.89%) Security Manager
12 66 (6.69%) Senior Manager
13 60 (6.08%) Business Manager
13 60 (6.08%) Senior Business Manager
14 59 (5.98%) Administrator
14 59 (5.98%) Senior Applications Support
14 59 (5.98%) Senior Applications Support Analyst
14 59 (5.98%) Senior Support Analyst
14 59 (5.98%) Software Engineer
15 52 (5.27%) DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 110 (11.14%) OpenID
2 101 (10.23%) Spring
3 93 (9.42%) Kafka
4 79 (8.00%) Java EE
5 77 (7.80%) J2EE
6 60 (6.08%) REST
7 51 (5.17%) .NET
8 47 (4.76%) Web Services
9 41 (4.15%) JWT
10 33 (3.34%) JSON
11 28 (2.84%) Django
12 25 (2.53%) FIX Protocol
12 25 (2.53%) XML
13 23 (2.33%) OpenAPI
14 22 (2.23%) Middleware
15 21 (2.13%) LDAP
16 19 (1.93%) RabbitMQ
17 18 (1.82%) SAML
18 17 (1.72%) Spring Boot
19 15 (1.52%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 112 (11.35%) Mainframe
2 103 (10.44%) Blockchain
3 78 (7.90%) Public Cloud
4 66 (6.69%) Cloud Native
5 63 (6.38%) Security Operations Centre
6 42 (4.26%) Private Cloud
7 39 (3.95%) Data Centre
8 38 (3.85%) Management Information System
9 27 (2.74%) Self-Motivation
10 25 (2.53%) DataPower
10 25 (2.53%) Distributed Systems
11 24 (2.43%) Algorithms
12 19 (1.93%) Onboarding
13 17 (1.72%) Linux Command Line
14 14 (1.42%) Clustering
15 13 (1.32%) Credit Risk
15 13 (1.32%) Eurex
16 12 (1.22%) GNSS
17 11 (1.11%) Hedge funds
18 10 (1.01%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 544 (55.12%) Linux
2 344 (34.85%) Windows
3 71 (7.19%) Windows Server
4 62 (6.28%) Solaris
5 59 (5.98%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 38 (3.85%) Ubuntu
7 32 (3.24%) CentOS
8 26 (2.63%) AIX
9 24 (2.43%) Android
10 11 (1.11%) CoreOS
10 11 (1.11%) Fedora
10 11 (1.11%) HPUX
11 9 (0.91%) Debian
11 9 (0.91%) Mac OS
12 7 (0.71%) zOS
13 6 (0.61%) Windows Server 2012
14 4 (0.41%) Windows Server 2016
14 4 (0.41%) Windows Server 2019
15 3 (0.30%) Kali Linux
15 3 (0.30%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 321 (32.52%) Agile
2 266 (26.95%) DevOps
3 228 (23.10%) Cybersecurity
4 203 (20.57%) Incident Management
5 198 (20.06%) Problem-Solving
6 179 (18.14%) Artificial Intelligence
7 171 (17.33%) Enterprise Architecture
8 155 (15.70%) Service Management
9 153 (15.50%) Containerisation
10 152 (15.40%) CI/CD
11 150 (15.20%) Customer Service
12 148 (14.99%) ITIL
12 148 (14.99%) Microservices
13 142 (14.39%) Actionable Insight
14 138 (13.98%) Impact Assessments
15 120 (12.16%) Machine Learning
16 114 (11.55%) Software Engineering
17 112 (11.35%) Roadmaps
18 111 (11.25%) Thought Leadership
19 102 (10.33%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 288 (29.18%) Python
2 271 (27.46%) Java
3 250 (25.33%) SQL
4 133 (13.48%) Bash
5 130 (13.17%) PowerShell
6 126 (12.77%) Shell Script
7 60 (6.08%) PL/SQL
8 52 (5.27%) C#
9 46 (4.66%) Perl
10 40 (4.05%) C++
11 39 (3.95%) JavaScript
12 32 (3.24%) C
13 22 (2.23%) Ruby
14 16 (1.62%) Groovy
15 14 (1.42%) PHP
16 13 (1.32%) Go
17 12 (1.22%) Fortran
17 12 (1.22%) Tcl
18 8 (0.81%) MATLAB
19 6 (0.61%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 245 (24.82%) Security Cleared
2 201 (20.36%) SC Cleared
3 139 (14.08%) Degree
4 71 (7.19%) CISSP
5 65 (6.59%) CISM
6 60 (6.08%) SSCP
7 29 (2.94%) Computer Science Degree
8 24 (2.43%) Cisco Certification
9 22 (2.23%) DV Cleared
10 21 (2.13%) ITIL Certification
11 17 (1.72%) Master's Degree
12 16 (1.62%) CCNA
13 13 (1.32%) GIAC
14 11 (1.11%) PhD
15 10 (1.01%) RHCE
16 8 (0.81%) AWS Certification
16 8 (0.81%) CISA
16 8 (0.81%) HND
16 8 (0.81%) MCSE
16 8 (0.81%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 122 (12.36%) SLA
2 87 (8.81%) GDPR
3 74 (7.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 48 (4.86%) QA
5 18 (1.82%) PMO
6 11 (1.11%) NIST
7 7 (0.71%) Cyber Essentials
8 6 (0.61%) Data Quality
9 5 (0.51%) ITGC
10 3 (0.30%) ISAE 3402
10 3 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 3 (0.30%) PCI DSS
11 1 (0.10%) Accessibility
11 1 (0.10%) NIST 800
System Software
1 105 (10.64%) Docker
2 72 (7.29%) Active Directory
3 58 (5.88%) VMware Infrastructure
4 22 (2.23%) Oracle RAC
5 19 (1.93%) Virtual Machines
6 14 (1.42%) Hyper-V
7 13 (1.32%) HDFS
8 9 (0.91%) OpenSIPS
9 6 (0.61%) vSphere
10 4 (0.41%) DFS Replication
10 4 (0.41%) VMware ESXi
11 3 (0.30%) Apache ZooKeeper
11 3 (0.30%) Citrix Hypervisor
11 3 (0.30%) KVM
11 3 (0.30%) LXC
11 3 (0.30%) Shibboleth
12 2 (0.20%) GPFS
12 2 (0.20%) NFS
12 2 (0.20%) Postfix
12 2 (0.20%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 160 (16.21%) Kubernetes
2 110 (11.14%) Ansible
3 100 (10.13%) Terraform
4 85 (8.61%) Single Sign-On
5 77 (7.80%) OpenSSO
6 70 (7.09%) Puppet
7 22 (2.23%) AirWatch
8 21 (2.13%) Data Guard
9 19 (1.93%) Oracle RMAN
9 19 (1.93%) SCCM
10 17 (1.72%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 17 (1.72%) Progress Chef
11 14 (1.42%) Control-M
12 13 (1.32%) SafeCom
13 12 (1.22%) Nagios
13 12 (1.22%) Red Hat Satellite
13 12 (1.22%) Tivoli
14 11 (1.11%) Grafana
15 10 (1.01%) HP Quality Center
15 10 (1.01%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 288 (29.18%) Oracle
2 127 (12.87%) VMware
3 100 (10.13%) Microsoft
4 95 (9.63%) Red Hat
5 71 (7.19%) Remedy
6 53 (5.37%) Google
6 53 (5.37%) ServiceNow
7 37 (3.75%) SAP
8 36 (3.65%) Splunk
9 34 (3.44%) Atlassian
10 32 (3.24%) IBM
11 28 (2.84%) Veritas
12 24 (2.43%) HP
12 24 (2.43%) Kofax
12 24 (2.43%) Pega
13 22 (2.23%) Citrix
14 20 (2.03%) Sun
15 19 (1.93%) CyberArk
15 19 (1.93%) TOWER Software
16 17 (1.72%) Symantec