Unix Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 247 302 176
Rank change year-on-year +55 -126 +43
Permanent jobs citing Unix 159 332 851
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 1.06% 0.98% 1.99%
As % of the Operating Systems category 8.64% 7.02% 12.88%
Number of salaries quoted 117 210 488
10th Percentile £41,596 £40,830 £45,000
25th Percentile £52,000 £47,495 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,384 £62,783 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.51% -6.99% +3.85%
75th Percentile £82,751 £80,938 £87,813
90th Percentile £93,778 £100,750 £97,500
UK median annual salary £69,384 £60,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +15.64% -14.29% +12.00%

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 1,841 4,727 6,605
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 12.31% 13.97% 15.45%
Number of salaries quoted 1,396 3,678 4,843
10th Percentile £29,000 £30,000 £30,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £38,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £66,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £92,500
UK median annual salary £47,500 £45,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +5.56% -14.29% -

Unix
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Unix as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Unix trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Unix
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options 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 remote working options citing Unix over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

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 15 (9.43%) Apache
2 12 (7.55%) Apache Spark
3 9 (5.66%) Apache Airflow
3 9 (5.66%) Tomcat
4 7 (4.40%) IIS
5 6 (3.77%) Confluence
6 5 (3.14%) NetWeaver
7 3 (1.89%) GemFire
8 2 (1.26%) Microsoft Exchange
8 2 (1.26%) WebSphere
9 1 (0.63%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 12 (7.55%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (4.40%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (3.14%) Oracle Applications
1 5 (3.14%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
2 4 (2.52%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (1.89%) Remedy ITSM
4 2 (1.26%) SAP Oil and Gas
5 1 (0.63%) Fidessa
5 1 (0.63%) ION Anvil
5 1 (0.63%) ION MarketView
5 1 (0.63%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 45 (28.30%) Azure
2 35 (22.01%) AWS
3 32 (20.13%) GCP
4 15 (9.43%) Cloud Computing
5 14 (8.81%) AWS CloudFormation
6 13 (8.18%) Apigee
6 13 (8.18%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 11 (6.92%) Amazon ECR
7 11 (6.92%) Amazon ECS
7 11 (6.92%) Amazon ElastiCache
7 11 (6.92%) Amazon OpenSearch
7 11 (6.92%) AWS CodeBuild
7 11 (6.92%) dbt
7 11 (6.92%) GitHub
7 11 (6.92%) Pulumi
8 10 (6.29%) Sentry
9 9 (5.66%) OpenShift
10 7 (4.40%) IaaS
10 7 (4.40%) PaaS
11 6 (3.77%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 27 (16.98%) TCP/IP
2 10 (6.29%) DNS
2 10 (6.29%) Firewall
2 10 (6.29%) HTTP
3 8 (5.03%) WAN
4 6 (3.77%) Internet
4 6 (3.77%) SMTP
4 6 (3.77%) SSL
5 4 (2.52%) 5G
5 4 (2.52%) DMARC
5 4 (2.52%) LAN
5 4 (2.52%) Network Security
5 4 (2.52%) SD-WAN
5 4 (2.52%) VPN
6 3 (1.89%) HTTPS
6 3 (1.89%) SAN
6 3 (1.89%) SSH
6 3 (1.89%) Unified Communications
7 2 (1.26%) FTP
8 1 (0.63%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (16.98%) NoSQL
2 25 (15.72%) PostgreSQL
3 23 (14.47%) SQL Server
4 18 (11.32%) Relational Database
5 17 (10.69%) Redis
6 12 (7.55%) Amazon RDS
6 12 (7.55%) Elasticsearch
7 11 (6.92%) Hadoop
8 10 (6.29%) RDBMS
9 9 (5.66%) Apache Hudi
9 9 (5.66%) Apache Iceberg
9 9 (5.66%) Data Warehouse
9 9 (5.66%) Delta Lake
9 9 (5.66%) Oracle Database
10 8 (5.03%) Oracle Reports
11 7 (4.40%) MongoDB
12 5 (3.14%) Big Data
12 5 (3.14%) BusinessObjects
12 5 (3.14%) SAP Data Services
12 5 (3.14%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 30 (18.87%) Git
2 29 (18.24%) Jenkins
3 15 (9.43%) JUnit
3 15 (9.43%) Maven
3 15 (9.43%) SonarQube
4 13 (8.18%) Sonatype Nexus
5 10 (6.29%) Bitbucket
6 9 (5.66%) JIRA
7 8 (5.03%) Oracle Forms
8 7 (4.40%) Subversion
9 5 (3.14%) IBM UrbanCode
10 4 (2.52%) JMeter
10 4 (2.52%) Spinnaker
11 3 (1.89%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 2 (1.26%) Mockito
12 2 (1.26%) Postman
12 2 (1.26%) REST Assured
12 2 (1.26%) SoapUI
12 2 (1.26%) Xcode
12 2 (1.26%) XCTest
General
1 69 (43.40%) Finance
2 60 (37.74%) Social Skills
3 54 (33.96%) Banking
4 34 (21.38%) Analytical Skills
5 25 (15.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 16 (10.06%) Presentation Skills
7 14 (8.81%) Law
8 10 (6.29%) Back Office
9 9 (5.66%) Front Office
9 9 (5.66%) Investment Banking
10 5 (3.14%) General Ledger
10 5 (3.14%) Public Sector
11 4 (2.52%) Czech Language
11 4 (2.52%) Documentation Skills
11 4 (2.52%) Influencing Skills
11 4 (2.52%) Organisational Skills
12 3 (1.89%) Legal
12 3 (1.89%) Manufacturing
12 3 (1.89%) Retail
13 2 (1.26%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 58 (36.48%) Senior
2 24 (15.09%) Software Engineer
3 20 (12.58%) Analyst
4 16 (10.06%) Senior Software Engineer
5 14 (8.81%) Data Engineer
6 13 (8.18%) Support Analyst
7 12 (7.55%) Developer
8 10 (6.29%) Administrator
9 9 (5.66%) DevOps Engineer
9 9 (5.66%) Site Engineer
9 9 (5.66%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 9 (5.66%) SQL Analyst
9 9 (5.66%) SQL Support Analyst
9 9 (5.66%) Unix Support
10 8 (5.03%) Applications Support
10 8 (5.03%) Banking Analyst
10 8 (5.03%) Python Engineer
11 7 (4.40%) Python Data Engineer
11 7 (4.40%) Software Developer
11 7 (4.40%) Unix Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (10.06%) Kafka
1 16 (10.06%) Spring
2 15 (9.43%) Hibernate
2 15 (9.43%) Spring Boot
3 12 (7.55%) HTML
4 11 (6.92%) Django
4 11 (6.92%) RESTful
4 11 (6.92%) XML
5 10 (6.29%) SOAP
6 9 (5.66%) PyArrow
6 9 (5.66%) PySpark
7 8 (5.03%) .NET
7 8 (5.03%) REST
7 8 (5.03%) Web Services
8 7 (4.40%) CSS
8 7 (4.40%) FIX Protocol
8 7 (4.40%) Middleware
9 5 (3.14%) JSON
9 5 (3.14%) XSLT
10 4 (2.52%) Symfony
Miscellaneous
1 17 (10.69%) Algorithms
1 17 (10.69%) Self-Motivation
2 12 (7.55%) Management Information System
3 11 (6.92%) Distributed Systems
4 8 (5.03%) Clustering
4 8 (5.03%) Derivative
5 6 (3.77%) Equities
5 6 (3.77%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 6 (3.77%) Mainframe
6 5 (3.14%) Data Centre
6 5 (3.14%) Equity Derivative
6 5 (3.14%) Public Cloud
6 5 (3.14%) Replication
6 5 (3.14%) Tandem
7 4 (2.52%) Data Structures
7 4 (2.52%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (2.52%) FPGA
7 4 (2.52%) Onboarding
7 4 (2.52%) Self-Driving Car
7 4 (2.52%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 142 (89.31%) Linux
2 43 (27.04%) Windows
3 13 (8.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 10 (6.29%) AIX
5 8 (5.03%) Windows Server
6 6 (3.77%) Solaris
7 3 (1.89%) CentOS
7 3 (1.89%) Mac OS
8 2 (1.26%) CoreOS
8 2 (1.26%) Oracle Linux
8 2 (1.26%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (36.48%) DevOps
2 48 (30.19%) Problem-Solving
3 39 (24.53%) CI/CD
4 30 (18.87%) Software Engineering
5 27 (16.98%) Open Source
6 24 (15.09%) Infrastructure as Code
7 22 (13.84%) Agile
8 20 (12.58%) Disaster Recovery
8 20 (12.58%) TDD
9 19 (11.95%) Computer Science
9 19 (11.95%) Microservices
10 18 (11.32%) Test Automation
11 17 (10.69%) SDLC
12 16 (10.06%) Collaborative Working
12 16 (10.06%) ITIL
12 16 (10.06%) Observability
13 15 (9.43%) Change Management
13 15 (9.43%) Mathematics
14 14 (8.81%) OO
14 14 (8.81%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 89 (55.97%) SQL
2 86 (54.09%) Python
3 43 (27.04%) Java
4 35 (22.01%) JavaScript
5 31 (19.50%) Bash
6 26 (16.35%) C
7 23 (14.47%) C++
8 18 (11.32%) Shell Script
9 16 (10.06%) PowerShell
10 14 (8.81%) Go
11 11 (6.92%) T-SQL
12 10 (6.29%) Fortran
13 8 (5.03%) Perl
14 6 (3.77%) Groovy
14 6 (3.77%) PHP
15 5 (3.14%) JCL
15 5 (3.14%) PL/SQL
16 4 (2.52%) Jython
16 4 (2.52%) VBA
17 3 (1.89%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 29 (18.24%) Security Cleared
2 27 (16.98%) Degree
3 26 (16.35%) SC Cleared
4 11 (6.92%) DV Cleared
5 10 (6.29%) Master's Degree
5 10 (6.29%) PhD
6 6 (3.77%) AWS Certification
7 4 (2.52%) OCA
7 4 (2.52%) OCP
7 4 (2.52%) Oracle Certification
8 3 (1.89%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 3 (1.89%) ITIL Certification
8 3 (1.89%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (1.89%) Numerate Degree
9 2 (1.26%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.63%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
10 1 (0.63%) Computer Science Degree
10 1 (0.63%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (10.69%) Accessibility
2 9 (5.66%) Data Quality
3 7 (4.40%) SLA
4 6 (3.77%) QA
5 5 (3.14%) FINRA
5 5 (3.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 4 (2.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.63%) GDPR
System Software
1 35 (22.01%) Docker
2 10 (6.29%) HDFS
3 8 (5.03%) Active Directory
4 6 (3.77%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (2.52%) Embedded Firmware
5 4 (2.52%) Firmware
5 4 (2.52%) Veritas Cluster Server
6 2 (1.26%) KVM
6 2 (1.26%) Postfix
6 2 (1.26%) Sendmail
7 1 (0.63%) LXC
7 1 (0.63%) Samba
Systems Management
1 33 (20.75%) Terraform
2 32 (20.13%) Kubernetes
3 19 (11.95%) Ansible
4 13 (8.18%) Istio
5 11 (6.92%) AWS Copilot
6 10 (6.29%) Grafana
7 7 (4.40%) CA Endevor
8 5 (3.14%) Progress Chef
8 5 (3.14%) Puppet
8 5 (3.14%) Single Sign-On
8 5 (3.14%) Tivoli Storage Manager
9 4 (2.52%) Microsoft Intune
9 4 (2.52%) Oracle RMAN
10 3 (1.89%) Prometheus
11 2 (1.26%) Nagios
11 2 (1.26%) Nessus
11 2 (1.26%) SCCM
12 1 (0.63%) Control-M
12 1 (0.63%) FortiGate
12 1 (0.63%) logstash
Vendors
1 42 (26.42%) Oracle
2 22 (13.84%) Red Hat
3 14 (8.81%) VMware
4 12 (7.55%) Microsoft
5 11 (6.92%) Google
6 9 (5.66%) IBM
7 8 (5.03%) SAP
8 6 (3.77%) Dynatrace
8 6 (3.77%) Symantec
9 4 (2.52%) Veritas
10 3 (1.89%) Cisco
10 3 (1.89%) EMC
10 3 (1.89%) Remedy
10 3 (1.89%) SaltStack
10 3 (1.89%) Solace
10 3 (1.89%) Sophis
10 3 (1.89%) Splunk
10 3 (1.89%) TIBCO
11 2 (1.26%) AppDynamics
11 2 (1.26%) CA Agile Central