Unix Jobs with Work from Home Options

Unix
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent remote or hybrid work requiring Unix skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Unix over the 6 months leading up to 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 312 169 217
Rank change year-on-year -143 +48 +11
Permanent jobs citing Unix 238 684 1,520
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.85% 2.08% 1.94%
As % of the Operating Systems category 6.47% 13.58% 10.94%
Number of salaries quoted 126 396 801
10th Percentile £40,404 £42,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £49,100 £52,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% - +10.17%
75th Percentile £91,991 £80,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £120,000 £94,375 £87,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -8.40% +4.80% +4.17%

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 3,681 5,038 13,892
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 13.18% 15.35% 17.69%
Number of salaries quoted 2,659 3,865 7,674
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £30,538
25th Percentile £39,000 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £67,500 £75,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £92,500 £87,500
UK median annual salary £47,500 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.52% - +5.00%

Unix
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Unix as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Unix trend for jobs with a WFH option

Unix
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Unix.

Unix salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Unix
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Unix over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

Unix salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Unix
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 31 (13.03%) Apache
1 31 (13.03%) Tomcat
2 29 (12.18%) IIS
3 5 (2.10%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (1.26%) GlassFish
4 3 (1.26%) JBoss
4 3 (1.26%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.42%) Apache Pulsar
5 1 (0.42%) Confluence
5 1 (0.42%) IBM Domino
5 1 (0.42%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (0.42%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.42%) WordPress
Applications
1 5 (2.10%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.68%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.42%) CATIA
3 1 (0.42%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.42%) NASTRAN
Business Applications
1 27 (11.34%) NEC Housing
2 17 (7.14%) Unit4 Business World
3 1 (0.42%) Teamcenter
3 1 (0.42%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 65 (27.31%) Azure
2 57 (23.95%) AWS
3 17 (7.14%) IaaS
4 13 (5.46%) SaaS
5 11 (4.62%) Cloud Computing
5 11 (4.62%) Microsoft 365
5 11 (4.62%) Serverless
6 10 (4.20%) GCP
7 9 (3.78%) Power Platform
8 6 (2.52%) Amazon S3
8 6 (2.52%) Azure Machine Learning
8 6 (2.52%) PaaS
9 4 (1.68%) Amazon EC2
9 4 (1.68%) Azure Sentinel
9 4 (1.68%) Entra ID
10 3 (1.26%) AWS Lambda
10 3 (1.26%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 3 (1.26%) Azure DevOps
10 3 (1.26%) OpenShift
11 2 (0.84%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 12 (5.04%) Firewall
2 6 (2.52%) DNS
2 6 (2.52%) SAN
3 5 (2.10%) PBX
4 4 (1.68%) VLAN
5 3 (1.26%) Asterisk PBX
5 3 (1.26%) DHCP
5 3 (1.26%) HTTP
5 3 (1.26%) Reverse Proxy
5 3 (1.26%) RTP
5 3 (1.26%) SMTP
5 3 (1.26%) VoIP
5 3 (1.26%) VPN
5 3 (1.26%) Wi-Fi
6 2 (0.84%) Internet
6 2 (0.84%) Network Security
6 2 (0.84%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.42%) tcpdump
7 1 (0.42%) Wireless
7 1 (0.42%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (17.65%) Oracle Database
2 39 (16.39%) SQL Server
3 30 (12.61%) MySQL
4 22 (9.24%) NoSQL
5 19 (7.98%) DB2
5 19 (7.98%) MongoDB
5 19 (7.98%) Relational Database
6 17 (7.14%) RDBMS
7 13 (5.46%) PostgreSQL
8 9 (3.78%) Power BI
9 8 (3.36%) Tableau
10 4 (1.68%) InfluxDB
11 3 (1.26%) Azure SQL Database
11 3 (1.26%) Ingres
11 3 (1.26%) Oracle Database 12c
11 3 (1.26%) Oracle Reports
12 2 (0.84%) Data Lake
12 2 (0.84%) Data Warehouse
12 2 (0.84%) DynamoDB
12 2 (0.84%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 14 (5.88%) JIRA
2 9 (3.78%) Jenkins
3 7 (2.94%) Git
4 5 (2.10%) JMeter
5 4 (1.68%) Postman
5 4 (1.68%) SoapUI
6 3 (1.26%) TeamCity
7 2 (0.84%) DTrace
7 2 (0.84%) GDB
7 2 (0.84%) GitLab
8 1 (0.42%) Ant
8 1 (0.42%) Eclipse
8 1 (0.42%) IntelliJ
8 1 (0.42%) Maven
8 1 (0.42%) Mercurial
8 1 (0.42%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.42%) Team Foundation Server
8 1 (0.42%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 108 (45.38%) Finance
2 77 (32.35%) Social Skills
3 57 (23.95%) Public Sector
4 32 (13.45%) Banking
5 27 (11.34%) Local Government
5 27 (11.34%) Police
6 21 (8.82%) Analytical Skills
7 16 (6.72%) Front Office
8 12 (5.04%) Back Office
9 9 (3.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 8 (3.36%) Financial Institution
11 5 (2.10%) Military
12 4 (1.68%) Law
12 4 (1.68%) Welsh Language
13 3 (1.26%) Legal
13 3 (1.26%) Telecoms
14 2 (0.84%) Dutch Language
14 2 (0.84%) Games
14 2 (0.84%) German Language
14 2 (0.84%) International Banking
Job Titles
1 51 (21.43%) Senior
2 47 (19.75%) Applications Support
3 22 (9.24%) Analyst
3 22 (9.24%) Software Engineer
4 21 (8.82%) Developer
5 19 (7.98%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 18 (7.56%) DBA
7 17 (7.14%) Audit Manager
7 17 (7.14%) IT Audit Manager
7 17 (7.14%) IT Manager
8 16 (6.72%) Oracle DBA
8 16 (6.72%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 16 (6.72%) Support Analyst
9 15 (6.30%) Security Engineer
10 14 (5.88%) Lead
10 14 (5.88%) Software Developer
11 13 (5.46%) Assistant IT Manager
11 13 (5.46%) IT Assistant
12 12 (5.04%) Data Engineer
12 12 (5.04%) MySQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (11.34%) Web Services
2 16 (6.72%) Node.js
3 13 (5.46%) Kafka
4 9 (3.78%) .NET
4 9 (3.78%) Middleware
5 8 (3.36%) FIX Protocol
6 7 (2.94%) XML
7 6 (2.52%) OAuth
8 5 (2.10%) SOAP
9 4 (1.68%) OAuth2
9 4 (1.68%) React
10 3 (1.26%) Elastic Stack
10 3 (1.26%) HTML
10 3 (1.26%) LDAP
10 3 (1.26%) REST
10 3 (1.26%) SAML
11 2 (0.84%) ASP.NET
11 2 (0.84%) CSS
11 2 (0.84%) gRPC
11 2 (0.84%) Ruby on Rails
Miscellaneous
1 44 (18.49%) Public Cloud
2 11 (4.62%) Replication
3 10 (4.20%) Cyber Threat
3 10 (4.20%) Management Information System
3 10 (4.20%) Onboarding
4 9 (3.78%) Linux Command Line
5 8 (3.36%) Cyberattack
5 8 (3.36%) Data Fabric
6 7 (2.94%) Algorithms
7 6 (2.52%) Data Centre
7 6 (2.52%) Greenfield Project
8 5 (2.10%) Hedge funds
8 5 (2.10%) Self-Motivation
9 4 (1.68%) Client/Server
9 4 (1.68%) Cloud Native
9 4 (1.68%) Cyber Kill Chain
9 4 (1.68%) Cyber Security Posture
10 3 (1.26%) Derivative
10 3 (1.26%) Equity Derivative
10 3 (1.26%) VAX
Operating Systems
1 189 (79.41%) Linux
2 137 (57.56%) Windows
3 51 (21.43%) Solaris
4 28 (11.76%) Windows Server
5 16 (6.72%) CentOS
5 16 (6.72%) Ubuntu
6 12 (5.04%) AIX
6 12 (5.04%) zOS
7 6 (2.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 6 (2.52%) Windows 10
8 5 (2.10%) Mac OS X
9 4 (1.68%) Windows Server 2016
10 3 (1.26%) Windows 7
10 3 (1.26%) Windows Server 2008
11 1 (0.42%) HPUX
11 1 (0.42%) Mac OS
11 1 (0.42%) NetWare
11 1 (0.42%) SUSE
11 1 (0.42%) VMS
11 1 (0.42%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (15.97%) Change Management
2 36 (15.13%) Agile
3 34 (14.29%) DevOps
3 34 (14.29%) ITIL
4 33 (13.87%) Incident Management
5 32 (13.45%) Task Automation
6 31 (13.03%) Data Security
7 30 (12.61%) Server Management
7 30 (12.61%) Service Delivery
8 28 (11.76%) Actionable Insight
8 28 (11.76%) Incident Response
9 27 (11.34%) Artificial Intelligence
9 27 (11.34%) Mentoring
9 27 (11.34%) Network Architecture
10 26 (10.92%) Disaster Recovery
11 25 (10.50%) Problem-Solving
12 23 (9.66%) Analytics
12 23 (9.66%) Problem Management
12 23 (9.66%) Project Management
13 21 (8.82%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 80 (33.61%) SQL
2 64 (26.89%) Python
3 41 (17.23%) Shell Script
4 39 (16.39%) PowerShell
5 26 (10.92%) Java
6 18 (7.56%) C++
7 17 (7.14%) Bash
8 14 (5.88%) Ruby
9 12 (5.04%) JavaScript
10 11 (4.62%) C
10 11 (4.62%) Perl
11 5 (2.10%) Fortran
12 4 (1.68%) PHP
12 4 (1.68%) T-SQL
13 3 (1.26%) Groovy
14 2 (0.84%) C#
14 2 (0.84%) Elixir
14 2 (0.84%) OCaml
14 2 (0.84%) SystemTap
15 1 (0.42%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 98 (41.18%) Degree
2 54 (22.69%) Security Cleared
3 20 (8.40%) SC Cleared
4 17 (7.14%) CISA
5 9 (3.78%) CISM
5 9 (3.78%) CISSP
5 9 (3.78%) Master's Degree
6 8 (3.36%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (2.52%) AWS Certification
8 5 (2.10%) GCIA
8 5 (2.10%) GCIH
8 5 (2.10%) GREM
8 5 (2.10%) PhD
9 4 (1.68%) GIAC
9 4 (1.68%) ISTQB
10 3 (1.26%) HND
10 3 (1.26%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (0.84%) ITIL Certification
11 2 (0.84%) MCSE
11 2 (0.84%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (13.03%) Accessibility
2 17 (7.14%) ITGC
2 17 (7.14%) PMO
3 13 (5.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 7 (2.94%) NIST
5 5 (2.10%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 3 (1.26%) SLA
7 2 (0.84%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.84%) QA
System Software
1 20 (8.40%) Docker
2 18 (7.56%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (4.62%) Active Directory
4 10 (4.20%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (2.52%) Firmware
5 6 (2.52%) Hyper-V
6 3 (1.26%) Kamailio
6 3 (1.26%) XenApp
7 2 (0.84%) vSphere
8 1 (0.42%) Lustre
8 1 (0.42%) PowerHA
8 1 (0.42%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.42%) vCloud
8 1 (0.42%) Veritas Cluster Server
8 1 (0.42%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 27 (11.34%) Kubernetes
2 15 (6.30%) Ansible
3 14 (5.88%) Terraform
4 8 (3.36%) Grafana
5 6 (2.52%) Nagios
6 5 (2.10%) NetBackup
6 5 (2.10%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (1.26%) EMC VPLEX
7 3 (1.26%) Oracle Statspack
7 3 (1.26%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.84%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.42%) Kibana
9 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.42%) nmon
9 1 (0.42%) OpenNMS
9 1 (0.42%) Proxmox
9 1 (0.42%) Puppet
9 1 (0.42%) SCOrch
9 1 (0.42%) vCenter Server
9 1 (0.42%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 104 (43.70%) Oracle
2 74 (31.09%) Microsoft
3 40 (16.81%) VMware
4 27 (11.34%) NEC
5 17 (7.14%) Red Hat
5 17 (7.14%) Sage
5 17 (7.14%) SAP
6 15 (6.30%) IBM
7 11 (4.62%) BMC
8 8 (3.36%) Dell
8 8 (3.36%) Murex
9 7 (2.94%) ServiceNow
10 6 (2.52%) Facebook
10 6 (2.52%) Sybase
11 5 (2.10%) Qualys
11 5 (2.10%) SolarWinds
12 4 (1.68%) Cisco
12 4 (1.68%) Citrix
12 4 (1.68%) EMC
12 4 (1.68%) Veeam