Hybrid/Remote Unix Job Trends

Unix
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for remote or hybrid work requiring Unix skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 362 284 302
Rank change year-on-year -78 +18 -134
Permanent jobs citing Unix 100 141 211
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.44% 0.85% 0.86%
As % of the Operating Systems category 6.47% 6.81% 6.68%
Number of salaries quoted 84 95 113
10th Percentile £45,795 £26,250 £41,998
25th Percentile £60,563 £47,618 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,403 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.28% - +7.69%
75th Percentile £74,987 £82,500 £91,991
90th Percentile £76,075 £83,750 £119,000
UK median annual salary £69,305 £69,384 £61,754
% change year-on-year -0.11% +12.35% -7.48%

All Operating Systems
Work from Home

Unix falls under the Operating Systems category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring operating system skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 1,546 2,069 3,158
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 6.78% 12.46% 12.83%
Number of salaries quoted 1,201 1,203 2,270
10th Percentile £28,500 £27,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,750 £33,250 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £48,750 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% -2.50% -13.04%
75th Percentile £72,500 £68,875 £67,968
90th Percentile £87,500 £81,250 £85,000
UK median annual salary £45,000 £42,000 £48,922
% change year-on-year +7.14% -14.15% -6.82%

Unix
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Unix and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Unix job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Unix
Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Unix.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Unix

Unix
Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Unix over the 6 months to 17 August 2026.

Unix salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Unix
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (1.00%) Confluence
1 1 (1.00%) Documentum
Applications
1 3 (3.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (3.00%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (3.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (1.00%) Oracle Assets
1 1 (1.00%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (1.00%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
1 1 (1.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 58 (58.00%) AWS
2 38 (38.00%) Azure
3 19 (19.00%) Azure AKS
4 18 (18.00%) GCP
5 14 (14.00%) Azure DevOps
5 14 (14.00%) Azure Service Bus
6 13 (13.00%) AWS CloudFormation
6 13 (13.00%) dbt
7 5 (5.00%) Amazon EKS
7 5 (5.00%) GitHub
8 4 (4.00%) Apigee
8 4 (4.00%) Datadog
8 4 (4.00%) GitHub Actions
8 4 (4.00%) Kong
8 4 (4.00%) OpenShift
9 3 (3.00%) Power Platform
10 1 (1.00%) AWS Control Tower
10 1 (1.00%) BrowserStack
10 1 (1.00%) IaaS
10 1 (1.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 19 (19.00%) TCP/IP
2 8 (8.00%) DNS
3 5 (5.00%) DHCP
3 5 (5.00%) Firewall
4 4 (4.00%) BGP
4 4 (4.00%) Cisco ASA
4 4 (4.00%) MPLS
4 4 (4.00%) SSH
4 4 (4.00%) VPN
4 4 (4.00%) WAN
5 3 (3.00%) Ethernet
6 1 (1.00%) DSL
6 1 (1.00%) Network Security
6 1 (1.00%) RS-232
6 1 (1.00%) RS-485
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (17.00%) MongoDB
2 14 (14.00%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (5.00%) Oracle Database
4 3 (3.00%) Power BI
4 3 (3.00%) Tableau
5 2 (2.00%) SQL Server
6 1 (1.00%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 18 (18.00%) GitLab
2 4 (4.00%) Jenkins
3 3 (3.00%) Rational DOORS
4 2 (2.00%) Git
5 1 (1.00%) JIRA
5 1 (1.00%) Selenium
General
1 47 (47.00%) Public Sector
2 41 (41.00%) Social Skills
3 19 (19.00%) Finance
4 10 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (8.00%) Banking
5 8 (8.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 7 (7.00%) Aerospace
7 6 (6.00%) Legal
7 6 (6.00%) Welsh Language
8 4 (4.00%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (4.00%) Telecoms
9 3 (3.00%) Aviation
9 3 (3.00%) Avionics
9 3 (3.00%) Back Office
9 3 (3.00%) Investment Banking
9 3 (3.00%) Military
10 2 (2.00%) Electronics
10 2 (2.00%) Front Office
10 2 (2.00%) Japanese Language
11 1 (1.00%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 58 (58.00%) Senior
2 38 (38.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 28 (28.00%) Senior DevOps
3 28 (28.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 13 (13.00%) Python Engineer
4 13 (13.00%) Site Engineer
4 13 (13.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 12 (12.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 10 (10.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 9 (9.00%) Linux Engineer
8 6 (6.00%) Unix Engineer
8 6 (6.00%) Unix Linux Engineer
9 5 (5.00%) Junior
9 5 (5.00%) Junior DevOps
9 5 (5.00%) Junior DevOps Engineer
9 5 (5.00%) Software Engineer
9 5 (5.00%) WebOps Engineer
10 4 (4.00%) Consultant
10 4 (4.00%) Network Engineer
10 4 (4.00%) Senior Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (15.00%) Node.js
2 8 (8.00%) YAML
3 5 (5.00%) REST
4 4 (4.00%) Jinja
4 4 (4.00%) JSON
4 4 (4.00%) XML
4 4 (4.00%) YANG
5 1 (1.00%) FIX Protocol
5 1 (1.00%) Oracle Fusion
5 1 (1.00%) Oracle GoldenGate
5 1 (1.00%) Playwright
5 1 (1.00%) POSIX
Miscellaneous
1 14 (14.00%) Distributed Systems
2 6 (6.00%) Management Information System
3 5 (5.00%) Embedded Systems
3 5 (5.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 5 (5.00%) Public Cloud
3 5 (5.00%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (4.00%) Linux Command Line
4 4 (4.00%) PKI
5 3 (3.00%) Hedge funds
5 3 (3.00%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (3.00%) Robotics
6 2 (2.00%) Analogue Electronics
7 1 (1.00%) Data Centre
7 1 (1.00%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 91 (91.00%) Linux
2 43 (43.00%) Windows
3 10 (10.00%) Windows Server
4 4 (4.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (4.00%) Ubuntu
5 2 (2.00%) Solaris
6 1 (1.00%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (58.00%) DevOps
2 53 (53.00%) Mentoring
3 48 (48.00%) Coaching
4 47 (47.00%) CI/CD
5 38 (38.00%) Agile
6 32 (32.00%) Continuous Improvement
6 32 (32.00%) Test Automation
7 29 (29.00%) Continuous Integration
8 28 (28.00%) Scrum
9 27 (27.00%) Software Engineering
10 23 (23.00%) Infrastructure as Code
11 18 (18.00%) Collaborative Engineering
11 18 (18.00%) Microservices
11 18 (18.00%) Problem-Solving
12 16 (16.00%) Containerisation
13 15 (15.00%) Task Automation
14 14 (14.00%) Collaborative Culture
14 14 (14.00%) Incident Response
15 13 (13.00%) Clean Code
15 13 (13.00%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 41 (41.00%) Python
2 24 (24.00%) Java
3 11 (11.00%) SQL
4 8 (8.00%) JavaScript
5 6 (6.00%) Bash
5 6 (6.00%) C++
6 5 (5.00%) PowerShell
6 5 (5.00%) Shell Script
7 4 (4.00%) C
7 4 (4.00%) Rust
8 3 (3.00%) Ada
8 3 (3.00%) Ada 95
8 3 (3.00%) C#
8 3 (3.00%) VB
8 3 (3.00%) VBA
8 3 (3.00%) VBScript
9 2 (2.00%) MATLAB
10 1 (1.00%) Korn
10 1 (1.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 34 (34.00%) Security Cleared
2 33 (33.00%) SC Cleared
3 13 (13.00%) Degree
4 8 (8.00%) DV Cleared
5 5 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (2.00%) CISA
6 2 (2.00%) HND
7 1 (1.00%) CISSP
7 1 (1.00%) GCFA
7 1 (1.00%) GCIH
7 1 (1.00%) Linux+ Certification
7 1 (1.00%) OSCP
7 1 (1.00%) RHCE
7 1 (1.00%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.00%) Accessibility
1 3 (3.00%) MIL-STD-1553
2 2 (2.00%) ITGC
3 1 (1.00%) DO-178B
3 1 (1.00%) ISAE 3402
System Software
1 9 (9.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (6.00%) Docker
3 5 (5.00%) Active Directory
4 4 (4.00%) VMware ESXi
4 4 (4.00%) VMware NSX
4 4 (4.00%) vSphere
5 1 (1.00%) Firmware
5 1 (1.00%) GPFS
5 1 (1.00%) Hyper-V
5 1 (1.00%) KVM
5 1 (1.00%) Lustre
5 1 (1.00%) Oracle RAC
5 1 (1.00%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 28 (28.00%) Terraform
2 14 (14.00%) Argo
3 7 (7.00%) Ansible
4 4 (4.00%) Grafana
4 4 (4.00%) Prometheus
4 4 (4.00%) vCenter Server
5 3 (3.00%) Check_MK
5 3 (3.00%) SCCM
6 1 (1.00%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
6 1 (1.00%) Oracle RMAN
6 1 (1.00%) Packer
6 1 (1.00%) Podman
6 1 (1.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 14 (14.00%) Microsoft
2 13 (13.00%) Google
3 12 (12.00%) Oracle
3 12 (12.00%) Pega
3 12 (12.00%) VMware
4 9 (9.00%) Red Hat
5 5 (5.00%) ServiceNow
6 4 (4.00%) Cisco
6 4 (4.00%) F5
6 4 (4.00%) Juniper
6 4 (4.00%) New Relic
6 4 (4.00%) Palo Alto
6 4 (4.00%) Splunk
6 4 (4.00%) YouTube
7 3 (3.00%) Adobe
7 3 (3.00%) IBM
7 3 (3.00%) Snow
8 2 (2.00%) SAP
9 1 (1.00%) ArcSight
9 1 (1.00%) HP