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 24 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 290 200 192
Rank change year-on-year -90 -8 -6
Permanent jobs citing Unix 988 2,009 3,294
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.01% 1.90% 2.14%
As % of the Operating Systems category 6.99% 11.93% 11.36%
Number of salaries quoted 545 1,060 1,599
10th Percentile £36,250 £41,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £43,750 £52,500 £47,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £70,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +12.00% +2.46%
75th Percentile £82,548 £89,852 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,064 £112,500 £98,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £51,250
% change year-on-year -4.55% +7.32% +7.89%

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 14,127 16,835 29,006
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 14.42% 15.95% 18.84%
Number of salaries quoted 10,964 11,378 16,793
10th Percentile £25,759 £27,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £35,000 £35,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% - +5.00%
75th Percentile £62,500 £71,250 £71,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £92,500 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -5.56% - -

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 24 April 2024.

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 24 April 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
UK excluding London -69 717 £52,500 -4.55% 125
England -132 677 £60,000 -14.29% 221
Work from Home -135 320 £62,783 -6.99% 80
London -90 239 £80,000 -0.37% 110
Scotland -11 207 £42,101 -32.64% 10
North of England -55 132 £55,000 +3.77% 16
South East -56 125 £58,000 +10.48% 32
South West -69 93 £52,500 +5.00% 20
Midlands -59 69 £50,000 -23.08% 17
North West -16 61 £55,000 -1.79% 8
Wales +31 58 £48,498 -16.48% 4
Yorkshire -23 50 £70,576 +16.48% 8
West Midlands -7 38 £50,000 -23.08% 8
East Midlands -44 31 £50,000 -23.08% 9
North East +2 21 £44,274 +18.06%
Northern Ireland +12 18 £71,250 +42.50% 3
East of England -62 15 £38,750 -35.42% 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
1 104 (10.53%) Apache Spark
2 77 (7.79%) WebLogic
3 45 (4.55%) Oracle Service Bus
4 34 (3.44%) Microsoft Exchange
5 33 (3.34%) WebSphere
6 28 (2.83%) Captiva
6 28 (2.83%) FileNet
7 20 (2.02%) SharePoint
8 18 (1.82%) Confluence
8 18 (1.82%) nginx
8 18 (1.82%) Tomcat
9 16 (1.62%) Apache Airflow
10 11 (1.11%) Apache
11 10 (1.01%) JBoss
12 3 (0.30%) GlassFish
12 3 (0.30%) WordPress
13 2 (0.20%) OpenStack
13 2 (0.20%) Oracle Workflow
14 1 (0.10%) IIS
14 1 (0.10%) Oracle Spatial
Applications
1 80 (8.10%) Microsoft Office
2 54 (5.47%) Microsoft Excel
3 45 (4.55%) MS Visio
4 5 (0.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.20%) CATIA
5 2 (0.20%) NASTRAN
Business Applications
1 46 (4.66%) Remedy ITSM
2 20 (2.02%) Unit4 Business World
3 16 (1.62%) Fidessa
4 8 (0.81%) Adaptiv
5 6 (0.61%) Temenos T24
6 4 (0.40%) Oracle EBS
6 4 (0.40%) Oracle EBS R12
7 3 (0.30%) Oracle Cash Management
8 2 (0.20%) Demantra
8 2 (0.20%) Oracle ASCP
8 2 (0.20%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 2 (0.20%) SAP S/4HANA
8 2 (0.20%) Teamcenter
9 1 (0.10%) ION Anvil
9 1 (0.10%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 316 (31.98%) AWS
2 219 (22.17%) Azure
3 83 (8.40%) GCP
4 68 (6.88%) SaaS
5 63 (6.38%) IaaS
6 45 (4.55%) GitHub
7 34 (3.44%) PaaS
8 31 (3.14%) Microsoft 365
9 27 (2.73%) Power Platform
10 24 (2.43%) Amazon EKS
11 18 (1.82%) Cloud Computing
12 16 (1.62%) OpenShift
12 16 (1.62%) Serverless
13 14 (1.42%) Amazon S3
14 10 (1.01%) Entra ID
15 9 (0.91%) Amazon EC2
16 8 (0.81%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 8 (0.81%) Azure Data Factory
16 8 (0.81%) Azure DevOps
17 7 (0.71%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 79 (8.00%) Firewall
2 63 (6.38%) DNS
2 63 (6.38%) TCP/IP
3 44 (4.45%) DHCP
4 36 (3.64%) VPN
5 26 (2.63%) SNMP
6 25 (2.53%) Internet
7 24 (2.43%) SAN
8 23 (2.33%) HTTP
9 19 (1.92%) BGP
9 19 (1.92%) MPLS
9 19 (1.92%) WAN
10 17 (1.72%) Network Security
11 16 (1.62%) FIX Connectivity
11 16 (1.62%) SSH
12 15 (1.52%) LAN
13 14 (1.42%) SSL
14 13 (1.32%) VLAN
15 11 (1.11%) Ethernet VPN
15 11 (1.11%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 151 (15.28%) NoSQL
2 102 (10.32%) Apache Hive
2 102 (10.32%) HBase
3 85 (8.60%) SQL Server
4 84 (8.50%) MySQL
5 72 (7.29%) Hadoop
6 70 (7.09%) Oracle Database
7 52 (5.26%) Relational Database
8 47 (4.76%) Oracle Database 11g
9 46 (4.66%) Oracle Database 10g
10 45 (4.55%) VLDB
11 42 (4.25%) Data Warehouse
12 39 (3.95%) Elasticsearch
13 37 (3.74%) Big Data
13 37 (3.74%) PostgreSQL
14 33 (3.34%) MongoDB
15 27 (2.73%) Data Lake
15 27 (2.73%) Power BI
16 20 (2.02%) DB2
16 20 (2.02%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 142 (14.37%) Git
2 122 (12.35%) Jenkins
3 100 (10.12%) JIRA
4 86 (8.70%) Bitbucket Server
5 30 (3.04%) Oracle Forms
6 28 (2.83%) GitLab
7 14 (1.42%) Eclipse
7 14 (1.42%) LabVIEW
8 13 (1.32%) Subversion
9 11 (1.11%) CircleCI
9 11 (1.11%) IBM UrbanCode
10 10 (1.01%) GNU Toolchain
11 8 (0.81%) Postman
12 7 (0.71%) Bitbucket
12 7 (0.71%) Snyk
13 6 (0.61%) Appium
13 6 (0.61%) RStudio
13 6 (0.61%) UI Automator
14 5 (0.51%) DTrace
14 5 (0.51%) GDB
General
1 405 (40.99%) Finance
2 214 (21.66%) Social Skills
3 181 (18.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 161 (16.30%) Law
5 158 (15.99%) Analytical Skills
6 145 (14.68%) Banking
7 110 (11.13%) Legal
8 41 (4.15%) Public Sector
9 25 (2.53%) Presentation Skills
10 24 (2.43%) Police
10 24 (2.43%) Telecoms
11 23 (2.33%) Marketing
12 20 (2.02%) Financial Institution
12 20 (2.02%) Front Office
12 20 (2.02%) Retail
13 16 (1.62%) Military
14 15 (1.52%) Games
15 14 (1.42%) Back Office
16 12 (1.21%) Investment Banking
17 8 (0.81%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 200 (20.24%) Software Engineer
2 174 (17.61%) Analyst
3 164 (16.60%) Developer
4 150 (15.18%) Senior
5 138 (13.97%) Applications Support
6 132 (13.36%) Support Analyst
7 110 (11.13%) Applications Support Analyst
8 70 (7.09%) AWS Engineer
9 67 (6.78%) AWS Software Engineer
10 64 (6.48%) Developer/Software Engineer
11 62 (6.28%) Database Engineer
12 56 (5.67%) Database Developer
13 53 (5.36%) Python Engineer
14 51 (5.16%) Architect
14 51 (5.16%) Data Engineer
15 48 (4.86%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 48 (4.86%) SQL Analyst
15 48 (4.86%) SQL Support Analyst
16 47 (4.76%) Support Engineer
17 45 (4.55%) Oracle Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 67 (6.78%) Spring
2 58 (5.87%) REST
3 47 (4.76%) XML
4 35 (3.54%) J2EE
5 33 (3.34%) SOAP
6 32 (3.24%) Node.js
6 32 (3.24%) React
7 29 (2.94%) Java EE
8 27 (2.73%) HTML
9 26 (2.63%) FIX Protocol
10 24 (2.43%) Web Services
11 23 (2.33%) JPA
12 22 (2.23%) CSS
12 22 (2.23%) OpenMP
13 21 (2.13%) Kafka
14 20 (2.02%) AngularJS
14 20 (2.02%) OpenID
15 17 (1.72%) Middleware
16 16 (1.62%) OpenACC
17 15 (1.52%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 140 (14.17%) Algorithms
2 58 (5.87%) Data Centre
2 58 (5.87%) Self-Motivation
3 46 (4.66%) Management Information System
4 40 (4.05%) Public Cloud
5 39 (3.95%) Linux Command Line
6 32 (3.24%) Private Cloud
7 29 (2.94%) CUDA
8 28 (2.83%) DataPower
9 26 (2.63%) Mainframe
10 23 (2.33%) Cloud Native
11 20 (2.02%) Blockchain
12 17 (1.72%) Embedded Systems
12 17 (1.72%) Eurex
12 17 (1.72%) Replication
13 13 (1.32%) CMDB
13 13 (1.32%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 13 (1.32%) GNSS
13 13 (1.32%) Onboarding
14 11 (1.11%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 593 (60.02%) Linux
2 380 (38.46%) Windows
3 104 (10.53%) Solaris
4 81 (8.20%) Windows Server
5 61 (6.17%) CentOS
6 44 (4.45%) Ubuntu
7 31 (3.14%) AIX
8 29 (2.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 20 (2.02%) CoreOS
9 20 (2.02%) Mac OS
10 19 (1.92%) zOS
11 16 (1.62%) VMS
12 14 (1.42%) Mac OS X
13 13 (1.32%) Windows 10
14 9 (0.91%) Debian
15 6 (0.61%) Windows Server 2019
16 5 (0.51%) Windows 7
16 5 (0.51%) Windows Server 2008
17 4 (0.40%) Kali Linux
17 4 (0.40%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 315 (31.88%) Agile
2 225 (22.77%) Artificial Intelligence
3 218 (22.06%) Software Engineering
4 186 (18.83%) CI/CD
5 174 (17.61%) Problem-Solving
6 163 (16.50%) ITIL
7 157 (15.89%) DevOps
7 157 (15.89%) Machine Learning
8 153 (15.49%) SDLC
9 148 (14.98%) Open Source
10 143 (14.47%) Continuous Improvement
11 140 (14.17%) Test Automation
12 136 (13.77%) Incident Management
13 125 (12.65%) Actionable Insight
13 125 (12.65%) Operational Stability
14 123 (12.45%) Risk Management
15 119 (12.04%) TDD
16 118 (11.94%) Change Management
17 113 (11.44%) Microservices
18 112 (11.34%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 424 (42.91%) SQL
2 370 (37.45%) Python
3 257 (26.01%) Java
4 143 (14.47%) PL/SQL
5 101 (10.22%) Bash
6 99 (10.02%) PowerShell
7 91 (9.21%) Shell Script
8 73 (7.39%) C
9 69 (6.98%) C++
10 64 (6.48%) JavaScript
11 56 (5.67%) Perl
12 37 (3.74%) Ruby
13 33 (3.34%) Fortran
14 27 (2.73%) C#
15 16 (1.62%) PHP
16 14 (1.42%) MATLAB
17 9 (0.91%) Go
17 9 (0.91%) TypeScript
18 7 (0.71%) R
18 7 (0.71%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 249 (25.20%) Degree
2 153 (15.49%) Security Cleared
3 126 (12.75%) SC Cleared
4 40 (4.05%) Computer Science Degree
5 34 (3.44%) Master's Degree
6 33 (3.34%) PhD
7 25 (2.53%) AWS Certification
8 22 (2.23%) CISA
8 22 (2.23%) CISSP
9 19 (1.92%) CISM
10 17 (1.72%) HND
11 16 (1.62%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 15 (1.52%) Azure Certification
12 15 (1.52%) Cisco Certification
12 15 (1.52%) DV Cleared
12 15 (1.52%) GCIH
13 14 (1.42%) GCIA
13 14 (1.42%) GREM
14 12 (1.21%) CCNA
15 10 (1.01%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 110 (11.13%) SLA
2 30 (3.04%) GDPR
3 20 (2.02%) ITGC
3 20 (2.02%) PMO
4 18 (1.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 11 (1.11%) NIST
5 11 (1.11%) QA
6 8 (0.81%) Data Quality
7 7 (0.71%) Accessibility
8 4 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials
8 4 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 2 (0.20%) DO-178B
9 2 (0.20%) ISAE 3402
9 2 (0.20%) JSP 440
9 2 (0.20%) NIST 800
9 2 (0.20%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.20%) SEPA
10 1 (0.10%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 102 (10.32%) HDFS
2 67 (6.78%) VMware Infrastructure
3 65 (6.58%) Docker
4 54 (5.47%) Active Directory
5 50 (5.06%) Oracle RAC
6 37 (3.74%) Hyper-V
7 23 (2.33%) Virtual Machines
8 15 (1.52%) Firmware
9 7 (0.71%) Embedded Firmware
10 6 (0.61%) DFS Replication
10 6 (0.61%) VMware ESXi
11 4 (0.40%) KVM
12 3 (0.30%) OpenSIPS
12 3 (0.30%) VirtualBox
12 3 (0.30%) XenApp
13 2 (0.20%) Shibboleth
13 2 (0.20%) vSphere
14 1 (0.10%) Kamailio
14 1 (0.10%) Postfix
14 1 (0.10%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 118 (11.94%) Terraform
2 66 (6.68%) Kubernetes
3 56 (5.67%) Ansible
4 48 (4.86%) Data Guard
4 48 (4.86%) Oracle RMAN
5 37 (3.74%) Puppet
5 37 (3.74%) SCCM
6 36 (3.64%) Single Sign-On
7 29 (2.94%) OpenSSO
8 20 (2.02%) Progress Chef
9 17 (1.72%) Grafana
10 14 (1.42%) WSUS
11 13 (1.32%) WMI
12 11 (1.11%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
13 9 (0.91%) Nessus
13 9 (0.91%) NetBackup
14 8 (0.81%) Control-M
14 8 (0.81%) Microsoft Intune
14 8 (0.81%) SafeCom
15 7 (0.71%) CA Endevor
Vendors
1 295 (29.86%) Oracle
2 135 (13.66%) Microsoft
3 130 (13.16%) Databricks
4 101 (10.22%) VMware
5 88 (8.91%) Informatica
6 87 (8.81%) Remedy
7 72 (7.29%) Cloudera
8 60 (6.07%) IBM
9 58 (5.87%) Red Hat
10 55 (5.57%) Splunk
11 51 (5.16%) SAP
12 49 (4.96%) Sun
13 34 (3.44%) Cisco
14 33 (3.34%) Google
14 33 (3.34%) ServiceNow
15 28 (2.83%) Kofax
15 28 (2.83%) Pega
16 25 (2.53%) Dynatrace
16 25 (2.53%) ION Trading
17 24 (2.43%) Qualys