Unix Engineer Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Unix Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Unix Engineer salary for remote or hybrid work is £71,991 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 390 587 650
Rank change year-on-year +197 +63 +186
Permanent jobs requiring a Unix Engineer 7 5 23
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.047% 0.015% 0.054%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.052% 0.015% 0.056%
Number of salaries quoted 7 5 2
10th Percentile £54,750 - -
25th Percentile £63,173 £48,750 £72,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,991 £52,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +37.13% -30.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £73,886 £56,250 £77,500
90th Percentile - - -
UK median annual salary £71,991 £52,500 £62,000
% change year-on-year +37.13% -15.32% +24.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies with WFH or hybrid options. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 13,554 32,482 41,080
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.64% 95.99% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 9,860 24,960 29,208
10th Percentile £30,000 £33,000 £36,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £42,500 £47,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £56,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -10.40% +4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £92,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £52,777 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.95% -12.04% -

Unix Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options which featured Unix Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Unix Engineer trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Unix Engineer
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Unix Engineer.

Unix Engineer salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Unix Engineer
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Unix Engineer over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Unix Engineer salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Unix Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, 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 jobs with hybrid or remote work options featuring Unix Engineer in the job title.

1 7 (100.00%) Unix
1 7 (100.00%) AIX
1 7 (100.00%) Linux
1 7 (100.00%) Service Delivery
1 7 (100.00%) Windows Server
2 5 (71.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 5 (71.43%) Technical Leadership
2 5 (71.43%) Infrastructure as Code
2 5 (71.43%) Social Skills
2 5 (71.43%) Platform Engineering
2 5 (71.43%) Finance
2 5 (71.43%) Banking
2 5 (71.43%) General Ledger
2 5 (71.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 5 (71.43%) PaaS
2 5 (71.43%) SAP Data Services
2 5 (71.43%) SAP HANA
2 5 (71.43%) IaaS
2 5 (71.43%) Infrastructure Management
2 5 (71.43%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
2 5 (71.43%) Oracle Forms
2 5 (71.43%) Tomcat
2 5 (71.43%) IBM
2 5 (71.43%) BusinessObjects
2 5 (71.43%) SAP BW
2 5 (71.43%) NetWeaver
2 5 (71.43%) Tivoli Storage Manager
2 5 (71.43%) C
2 5 (71.43%) Java
2 5 (71.43%) Oracle

Unix Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 5 (71.43%) NetWeaver
1 5 (71.43%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 5 (71.43%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
Cloud Services
1 5 (71.43%) IaaS
1 5 (71.43%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (71.43%) BusinessObjects
1 5 (71.43%) SAP BW
1 5 (71.43%) SAP Data Services
1 5 (71.43%) SAP HANA
1 5 (71.43%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (71.43%) Oracle Forms
General
1 5 (71.43%) Banking
1 5 (71.43%) Finance
1 5 (71.43%) General Ledger
1 5 (71.43%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (71.43%) Web Services
Operating Systems
1 7 (100.00%) AIX
1 7 (100.00%) Linux
1 7 (100.00%) Unix
1 7 (100.00%) Windows Server
2 5 (71.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (28.57%) Solaris
3 2 (28.57%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Service Delivery
2 5 (71.43%) Infrastructure as Code
2 5 (71.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 5 (71.43%) Infrastructure Management
2 5 (71.43%) Platform Engineering
2 5 (71.43%) Technical Leadership
3 2 (28.57%) Customer Experience
3 2 (28.57%) Customer Service
3 2 (28.57%) Data Analysis
3 2 (28.57%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 5 (71.43%) C
1 5 (71.43%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) Degree
1 2 (28.57%) DV Cleared
1 2 (28.57%) SC Cleared
1 2 (28.57%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 5 (71.43%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 5 (71.43%) IBM
1 5 (71.43%) Oracle
1 5 (71.43%) SAP