Unix Engineer Jobs in England

Unix Engineer
UK > England

The median Unix Engineer salary in England is £52,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 844 880 1156
Rank change year-on-year +36 +276 -320
Permanent jobs requiring a Unix Engineer 21 21 33
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.023% 0.025% 0.023%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.024% 0.027% 0.024%
Number of salaries quoted 16 12 26
10th Percentile £48,750 £52,500 £46,625
25th Percentile £50,000 £55,875 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £70,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +40.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £56,250 £83,000 £68,438
90th Percentile £56,875 £95,000 £80,625
UK median annual salary £52,500 £70,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -25.00% +40.00% -15.97%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 86,182 76,808 135,607
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.72% 91.28% 96.02%
Number of salaries quoted 63,611 49,955 75,079
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,331 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.98% +0.55% +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,082 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Unix Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Unix Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Unix Engineer in England

Unix Engineer
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Unix Engineer in England.

Salary trend for Unix Engineer in England

Unix Engineer
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Unix Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 1 June 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North of England +42 10 £52,500 - 5
South West -26 8 £52,500 -7.89% 1
North East - 6 £50,000 -
North West -1 4 £52,500 - 4
London +109 1 - -
East of England -2 1 £52,500 +5.00% 3
Midlands -16 1 £56,000 -18.84%
West Midlands -17 1 £56,000 -18.84%
Unix Engineer
UK

Unix Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 1 June 2024, 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 job ads across the England region featuring Unix Engineer in the job title.

1 21 (100.00%) Unix
2 20 (95.24%) Linux
3 15 (71.43%) Red Hat
4 12 (57.14%) Security Cleared
5 9 (42.86%) Solaris
5 9 (42.86%) SC Cleared
5 9 (42.86%) DV Cleared
6 5 (23.81%) ITIL
6 5 (23.81%) Ansible
7 4 (19.05%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (19.05%) CoreOS
7 4 (19.05%) Time Management
7 4 (19.05%) OpenShift
7 4 (19.05%) CentOS
7 4 (19.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (19.05%) Git
7 4 (19.05%) AWS
7 4 (19.05%) Bash
7 4 (19.05%) Puppet
7 4 (19.05%) Linux Command Line
7 4 (19.05%) Python
8 3 (14.29%) IBM
9 2 (9.52%) Microsoft
9 2 (9.52%) AIX
9 2 (9.52%) Public Sector
9 2 (9.52%) Microsoft 365
10 1 (4.76%) Kubernetes
10 1 (4.76%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (4.76%) Red Hat Satellite
10 1 (4.76%) Hyper-V

Unix Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 1 (4.76%) JBoss
1 1 (4.76%) Tomcat
1 1 (4.76%) WebLogic
Cloud Services
1 4 (19.05%) AWS
1 4 (19.05%) OpenShift
2 2 (9.52%) Microsoft 365
Development Applications
1 4 (19.05%) Git
General
1 4 (19.05%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (9.52%) Public Sector
3 1 (4.76%) Finance
3 1 (4.76%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.76%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 4 (19.05%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 21 (100.00%) Unix
2 20 (95.24%) Linux
3 9 (42.86%) Solaris
4 4 (19.05%) CentOS
4 4 (19.05%) CoreOS
4 4 (19.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (9.52%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (23.81%) ITIL
2 4 (19.05%) Time Management
3 1 (4.76%) Agile
3 1 (4.76%) Change Management
3 1 (4.76%) Feasibility Study
3 1 (4.76%) Problem Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (19.05%) Bash
1 4 (19.05%) Python
2 1 (4.76%) Java
2 1 (4.76%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 12 (57.14%) Security Cleared
2 9 (42.86%) DV Cleared
2 9 (42.86%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 1 (4.76%) Hyper-V
1 1 (4.76%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (4.76%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (23.81%) Ansible
2 4 (19.05%) Puppet
3 1 (4.76%) Kubernetes
3 1 (4.76%) Rancher
3 1 (4.76%) Red Hat Satellite
3 1 (4.76%) SCOM
3 1 (4.76%) Tivoli Identity Manager
Vendors
1 15 (71.43%) Red Hat
2 3 (14.29%) IBM
3 2 (9.52%) Microsoft
4 1 (4.76%) Dell
4 1 (4.76%) HP
4 1 (4.76%) VMware