Unix Job Trends in West London

Unix
London > West London

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

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 51 56 39
Rank change year-on-year +5 -17 +41
Permanent jobs citing Unix 3 2 3
As % of all permanent jobs in West London 0.57% 0.52% 0.88%
As % of the Operating Systems category 10.34% 2.70% 3.66%
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - - £62,500
Median % change year-on-year - - +4.17%
75th Percentile - - £64,375
90th Percentile - - £64,750
London median annual salary £75,000 £69,308 £78,566
% change year-on-year +8.21% -11.78% -1.79%

All Operating Systems
West 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 West London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 29 74 82
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West London 5.48% 19.17% 23.98%
Number of salaries quoted 23 56 73
10th Percentile £31,000 £31,484 £28,500
25th Percentile £32,750 £43,250 £30,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £50,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% +11.11% -8.16%
75th Percentile £62,500 - £57,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £69,000 £69,500
London median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +3.85% +4.00% -3.85%

Unix
Job Vacancy Trend in West London

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

Unix job vacancy trend in West London

Unix
Salary Trend in West London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West London citing Unix.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West London citing Unix

Unix
Job Locations in West London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Unix within the West London region over the 6 months to 12 January 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
Wembley - 1 - - 4
Ealing - 1 - - 3
Hammersmith - 1 - -
Unix
London

Unix
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
1 3 (100.00%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) NoSQL
1 3 (100.00%) RDBMS
1 3 (100.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) Jaeger
General
1 3 (100.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Lead
2 2 (66.67%) Cloud Engineer
2 2 (66.67%) Lead Cloud Engineer
3 1 (33.33%) CloudOps Engineer
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Team Leader
3 1 (33.33%) Lead CloudOps Engineer
3 1 (33.33%) Operations Engineer
3 1 (33.33%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) Elastic Stack
1 3 (100.00%) OpenTelemetry
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) Budget Control
1 3 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 3 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 3 (100.00%) Cost Optimisation
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) GitOps
1 3 (100.00%) High Availability
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 3 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 3 (100.00%) Performance Optimisation
1 3 (100.00%) Product Management
1 3 (100.00%) Resource Management
1 3 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 3 (100.00%) Task Automation
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Operations
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Bash
1 3 (100.00%) Go
1 3 (100.00%) Java
1 3 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 3 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) AWS Certification
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Ansible
1 3 (100.00%) Argo
1 3 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (100.00%) Kustomize
1 3 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 3 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Google