Unix Jobs with Work from Home Options

Unix
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for Unix skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Unix over the 6 months to 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 302 179 220
Rank change year-on-year -123 +41 +7
Permanent jobs citing Unix 327 850 1,255
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.97% 2.00% 1.85%
As % of the Operating Systems category 6.94% 12.93% 10.46%
Number of salaries quoted 206 487 707
10th Percentile £40,820 £45,000 £38,765
25th Percentile £47,500 £55,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,891 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.35% +3.85% +7.00%
75th Percentile £83,438 £87,500 £81,875
90th Percentile £108,750 £97,500 £90,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £69,447 £62,500
% change year-on-year -13.60% +11.12% +1.63%

All Operating Systems
Work from Home

Unix is in the Operating Systems category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for operating system skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 4,715 6,576 12,001
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 13.94% 15.47% 17.65%
Number of salaries quoted 3,670 4,829 7,452
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,500 £30,500
25th Percentile £38,750 £41,250 £40,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £67,375 £75,000 £73,063
90th Percentile £82,500 £92,500 £87,500
UK median annual salary £45,000 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -14.29% - +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 3 May 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 22 (6.73%) Tomcat
2 20 (6.12%) Apache
3 15 (4.59%) IIS
4 14 (4.28%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (0.92%) Confluence
5 3 (0.92%) GlassFish
5 3 (0.92%) JBoss
5 3 (0.92%) Oracle Service Bus
5 3 (0.92%) WebLogic
6 2 (0.61%) Oracle Workflow
6 2 (0.61%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.31%) Apache Pulsar
7 1 (0.31%) nginx
7 1 (0.31%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.31%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.31%) WordPress
Applications
1 8 (2.45%) Microsoft Excel
1 8 (2.45%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.92%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.61%) CATIA
3 2 (0.61%) NASTRAN
Business Applications
1 14 (4.28%) NEC Housing
1 14 (4.28%) Unit4 Business World
2 3 (0.92%) Remedy ITSM
3 2 (0.61%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (0.61%) Oracle EBS R12
3 2 (0.61%) Teamcenter
4 1 (0.31%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 94 (28.75%) Azure
2 90 (27.52%) AWS
3 32 (9.79%) IaaS
4 28 (8.56%) SaaS
5 18 (5.50%) Microsoft 365
6 16 (4.89%) GCP
7 14 (4.28%) Cloud Computing
7 14 (4.28%) Power Platform
8 12 (3.67%) Serverless
9 9 (2.75%) Amazon S3
10 7 (2.14%) Amazon EC2
11 6 (1.83%) Entra ID
11 6 (1.83%) Rubrik
12 5 (1.53%) AWS CloudFormation
12 5 (1.53%) Azure Machine Learning
12 5 (1.53%) GitHub
12 5 (1.53%) OCI
12 5 (1.53%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 4 (1.22%) OpenShift
13 4 (1.22%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 31 (9.48%) Firewall
2 19 (5.81%) SAN
3 15 (4.59%) Network Security
4 14 (4.28%) DNS
5 12 (3.67%) VLAN
6 11 (3.36%) TCP/IP
6 11 (3.36%) VPN
7 9 (2.75%) DHCP
8 7 (2.14%) Internet
9 6 (1.83%) Wireless
10 4 (1.22%) NAS
10 4 (1.22%) PBX
11 3 (0.92%) LAN
11 3 (0.92%) Reverse Proxy
11 3 (0.92%) SMTP
11 3 (0.92%) VoIP
11 3 (0.92%) Wi-Fi
11 3 (0.92%) Wireless Security
12 2 (0.61%) HTTP
12 2 (0.61%) RTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (13.15%) SQL Server
2 37 (11.31%) MySQL
3 32 (9.79%) Oracle Database
4 24 (7.34%) Relational Database
5 22 (6.73%) NoSQL
6 19 (5.81%) MongoDB
7 18 (5.50%) Data Warehouse
8 17 (5.20%) RDBMS
9 14 (4.28%) DB2
9 14 (4.28%) Power BI
10 13 (3.98%) PostgreSQL
11 10 (3.06%) Tableau
12 5 (1.53%) Amazon RDS
12 5 (1.53%) InfluxDB
12 5 (1.53%) Oracle Reports
13 4 (1.22%) Elasticsearch
14 3 (0.92%) Ingres
14 3 (0.92%) InterSystems Cache
14 3 (0.92%) Metadata
14 3 (0.92%) Oracle Database 12c
Development Applications
1 14 (4.28%) JIRA
2 12 (3.67%) Git
3 11 (3.36%) Jenkins
4 6 (1.83%) Snyk
5 5 (1.53%) DTrace
5 5 (1.53%) GDB
5 5 (1.53%) JMeter
6 4 (1.22%) IBM UrbanCode
6 4 (1.22%) Postman
6 4 (1.22%) SoapUI
7 3 (0.92%) Burp Suite
7 3 (0.92%) Maven
7 3 (0.92%) Metasploit
8 2 (0.61%) CMake
8 2 (0.61%) JUnit
8 2 (0.61%) Oracle Forms
8 2 (0.61%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.31%) Ant
9 1 (0.31%) Eclipse
9 1 (0.31%) IntelliJ
General
1 125 (38.23%) Finance
2 110 (33.64%) Social Skills
3 46 (14.07%) Public Sector
4 41 (12.54%) Banking
5 33 (10.09%) Analytical Skills
6 17 (5.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 16 (4.89%) Local Government
7 16 (4.89%) Police
8 14 (4.28%) Military
9 13 (3.98%) Front Office
9 13 (3.98%) Games
10 11 (3.36%) Law
11 9 (2.75%) Back Office
12 8 (2.45%) Financial Institution
12 8 (2.45%) Retail
13 7 (2.14%) Telecoms
14 4 (1.22%) Welsh Language
15 3 (0.92%) Electronics
15 3 (0.92%) Presentation Skills
16 2 (0.61%) Legal
Job Titles
1 59 (18.04%) Senior
2 46 (14.07%) Analyst
3 44 (13.46%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 32 (9.79%) Applications Support
5 31 (9.48%) Developer
6 28 (8.56%) Support Analyst
7 24 (7.34%) Software Engineer
8 20 (6.12%) DBA
9 19 (5.81%) Oracle DBA
10 18 (5.50%) Lead
11 16 (4.89%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
11 16 (4.89%) Threat Intelligence Analyst
12 15 (4.59%) Architect
12 15 (4.59%) IT Manager
12 15 (4.59%) Security Engineer
13 14 (4.28%) Audit Manager
13 14 (4.28%) Data Engineer
13 14 (4.28%) IT Audit Manager
13 14 (4.28%) Software Developer
14 12 (3.67%) Vulnerability Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (5.20%) Web Services
2 15 (4.59%) Node.js
3 14 (4.28%) Kafka
4 9 (2.75%) XML
5 8 (2.45%) FIX Protocol
5 8 (2.45%) Middleware
5 8 (2.45%) React
6 5 (1.53%) AngularJS
6 5 (1.53%) SOAP
7 4 (1.22%) .NET
7 4 (1.22%) LDAP
7 4 (1.22%) OAuth
7 4 (1.22%) OAuth2
7 4 (1.22%) RESTful
7 4 (1.22%) SAML
8 3 (0.92%) Elastic Stack
8 3 (0.92%) jQuery
8 3 (0.92%) Spring
9 2 (0.61%) Redux
9 2 (0.61%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 50 (15.29%) Public Cloud
2 36 (11.01%) Data Centre
3 26 (7.95%) Management Information System
3 26 (7.95%) Self-Motivation
4 13 (3.98%) Replication
5 11 (3.36%) Cloud Native
5 11 (3.36%) Cyber Threat
6 9 (2.75%) Algorithms
6 9 (2.75%) Linux Command Line
7 8 (2.45%) Cyberattack
7 8 (2.45%) Data Fabric
7 8 (2.45%) Onboarding
8 6 (1.83%) Greenfield Project
9 5 (1.53%) Client/Server
10 4 (1.22%) Clustering
10 4 (1.22%) Cyber Kill Chain
10 4 (1.22%) Cyber Security Posture
10 4 (1.22%) Hedge funds
11 3 (0.92%) Embedded Systems
11 3 (0.92%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 222 (67.89%) Linux
2 203 (62.08%) Windows
3 52 (15.90%) Windows Server
4 44 (13.46%) Solaris
5 23 (7.03%) CentOS
6 21 (6.42%) AIX
7 20 (6.12%) Ubuntu
8 16 (4.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 14 (4.28%) Mac OS X
10 13 (3.98%) VMS
11 12 (3.67%) zOS
12 6 (1.83%) Windows 10
13 3 (0.92%) CoreOS
13 3 (0.92%) Debian
13 3 (0.92%) Kali Linux
13 3 (0.92%) Mac OS
13 3 (0.92%) Windows 7
13 3 (0.92%) Windows Server 2008
13 3 (0.92%) Windows Server 2016
14 2 (0.61%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (21.71%) Change Management
2 69 (21.10%) ITIL
3 59 (18.04%) Mentoring
4 56 (17.13%) DevOps
5 55 (16.82%) Actionable Insight
6 50 (15.29%) Agile
7 47 (14.37%) Cybersecurity
7 47 (14.37%) Incident Management
7 47 (14.37%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 46 (14.07%) Problem-Solving
9 42 (12.84%) Incident Response
10 39 (11.93%) Coaching
10 39 (11.93%) Roadmaps
11 37 (11.31%) Service Delivery
12 33 (10.09%) Disaster Recovery
13 28 (8.56%) Architecture Roadmap
13 28 (8.56%) Open Source
13 28 (8.56%) Software Engineering
14 26 (7.95%) Customer Service
14 26 (7.95%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 87 (26.61%) SQL
2 83 (25.38%) Python
3 47 (14.37%) PowerShell
4 33 (10.09%) Java
4 33 (10.09%) Shell Script
5 29 (8.87%) Bash
6 17 (5.20%) C++
7 14 (4.28%) JavaScript
7 14 (4.28%) Ruby
8 13 (3.98%) C
9 9 (2.75%) Perl
10 8 (2.45%) Fortran
10 8 (2.45%) PHP
11 7 (2.14%) PL/SQL
11 7 (2.14%) TypeScript
12 6 (1.83%) C#
13 5 (1.53%) Go
13 5 (1.53%) OCaml
13 5 (1.53%) SystemTap
13 5 (1.53%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 118 (36.09%) Degree
2 65 (19.88%) Security Cleared
3 40 (12.23%) SC Cleared
4 19 (5.81%) CISM
4 19 (5.81%) CISSP
5 15 (4.59%) GCIH
6 14 (4.28%) CISA
6 14 (4.28%) GCIA
6 14 (4.28%) GREM
7 12 (3.67%) AWS Certification
7 12 (3.67%) Computer Science Degree
8 11 (3.36%) Master's Degree
9 8 (2.45%) PhD
10 7 (2.14%) Microsoft Certification
11 6 (1.83%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 5 (1.53%) Cisco Certification
12 5 (1.53%) CREST Certified
13 4 (1.22%) CCNA
13 4 (1.22%) GIAC
13 4 (1.22%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (5.50%) Accessibility
2 16 (4.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 14 (4.28%) ITGC
3 14 (4.28%) PMO
4 10 (3.06%) NIST
5 6 (1.83%) SLA
6 4 (1.22%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 3 (0.92%) QA
8 2 (0.61%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (0.61%) JSP 440
8 2 (0.61%) NIST 800
8 2 (0.61%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.61%) SEPA
System Software
1 41 (12.54%) VMware Infrastructure
2 30 (9.17%) Docker
3 22 (6.73%) Virtual Machines
4 21 (6.42%) Active Directory
4 21 (6.42%) Hyper-V
5 8 (2.45%) Firmware
6 6 (1.83%) DFS Replication
7 3 (0.92%) KVM
7 3 (0.92%) Oracle RAC
7 3 (0.92%) XenApp
8 2 (0.61%) Kamailio
9 1 (0.31%) Lustre
9 1 (0.31%) OpenSIPS
9 1 (0.31%) Postfix
9 1 (0.31%) Shibboleth
9 1 (0.31%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 1 (0.31%) vCloud
9 1 (0.31%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 34 (10.40%) Kubernetes
2 25 (7.65%) Ansible
3 23 (7.03%) Terraform
4 21 (6.42%) SCCM
5 14 (4.28%) WSUS
6 13 (3.98%) Puppet
7 8 (2.45%) Grafana
8 6 (1.83%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 6 (1.83%) Nessus
8 6 (1.83%) NetBackup
8 6 (1.83%) Nexpose
8 6 (1.83%) vRealize Orchestrator
9 5 (1.53%) Progress Chef
10 4 (1.22%) Nagios
10 4 (1.22%) Nmap
10 4 (1.22%) Single Sign-On
11 3 (0.92%) EMC VPLEX
11 3 (0.92%) Failover Clustering
11 3 (0.92%) Oracle RMAN
11 3 (0.92%) SCOM
Vendors
1 99 (30.28%) Oracle
2 81 (24.77%) Microsoft
3 69 (21.10%) VMware
4 25 (7.65%) IBM
4 25 (7.65%) Red Hat
5 23 (7.03%) Splunk
6 20 (6.12%) Dell
7 19 (5.81%) Dynatrace
8 15 (4.59%) SAP
9 14 (4.28%) NEC
9 14 (4.28%) Sage
9 14 (4.28%) Veeam
10 13 (3.98%) BMC
11 12 (3.67%) Apple
12 11 (3.36%) Qualys
13 10 (3.06%) Citrix
14 8 (2.45%) Algorithmics
14 8 (2.45%) Cisco
14 8 (2.45%) ION Trading
15 7 (2.14%) Google