Unix Jobs in England

Unix
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England with 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 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 342 206 189
Rank change year-on-year -136 -17 -18
Permanent jobs citing Unix 715 1,487 3,146
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.76% 1.80% 2.19%
As % of the Operating Systems category 5.57% 10.96% 11.60%
Number of salaries quoted 465 813 1,432
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,371 £37,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £52,500 £48,091
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £69,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +6.15% +4.00%
75th Percentile £78,750 £89,852 £85,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £112,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £58,228 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -13.74% +3.85% +8.33%

All Operating Systems
England

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 advertised in England with a requirement for operating system skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 12,836 13,565 27,117
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 13.63% 16.41% 18.86%
Number of salaries quoted 9,829 9,413 14,860
10th Percentile £25,852 £27,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £35,000 £35,246
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% - +5.00%
75th Percentile £62,500 £71,250 £71,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £92,500 £87,500
UK median annual salary £45,000 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -14.29% - +5.00%

Unix
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Unix as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Unix in England

Unix
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Unix in England

Unix
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Unix in England over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Unix in England

Unix
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 within the England region over the 6 months to 9 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
London -107 270 £80,000 -0.37% 90
South East -14 138 £52,500 - 34
North of England -94 128 £50,000 -15.25% 13
South West -71 80 £52,500 -0.38% 18
Midlands -99 74 £50,000 -16.67% 16
North West -40 70 £52,500 -12.50% 7
West Midlands -12 45 £56,000 -8.20% 12
Yorkshire -55 36 £35,000 -42.79% 6
East Midlands -96 29 £50,000 -16.67% 4
North East -10 22 £47,137 +12.90%
East of England -77 20 £50,000 -16.67% 14
Unix
UK

Unix
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 36 (5.03%) WebLogic
2 35 (4.90%) Apache
3 34 (4.76%) Microsoft Exchange
4 33 (4.62%) Tomcat
5 26 (3.64%) IIS
6 17 (2.38%) nginx
7 16 (2.24%) Confluence
8 13 (1.82%) Oracle Service Bus
9 10 (1.40%) SharePoint
10 9 (1.26%) JBoss
11 3 (0.42%) Apache Spark
11 3 (0.42%) GlassFish
12 2 (0.28%) OpenStack
12 2 (0.28%) Oracle Workflow
12 2 (0.28%) WordPress
13 1 (0.14%) IBM Domino
13 1 (0.14%) Mule
13 1 (0.14%) NetWeaver
13 1 (0.14%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 1 (0.14%) Oracle Spatial
Applications
1 37 (5.17%) Microsoft Office
2 23 (3.22%) Microsoft Excel
3 14 (1.96%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.28%) CATIA
4 2 (0.28%) NASTRAN
5 1 (0.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 45 (6.29%) NEC Housing
2 18 (2.52%) Fidessa
3 14 (1.96%) Remedy ITSM
4 6 (0.84%) Oracle Cash Management
4 6 (0.84%) Temenos T24
4 6 (0.84%) Unit4 Business World
5 2 (0.28%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.28%) Oracle EBS R12
5 2 (0.28%) Teamcenter
6 1 (0.14%) Oracle Applications
6 1 (0.14%) SAP CRM
6 1 (0.14%) SAP GRC
6 1 (0.14%) SAP MDG
6 1 (0.14%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 152 (21.26%) AWS
2 125 (17.48%) Azure
3 43 (6.01%) IaaS
4 32 (4.48%) GCP
5 30 (4.20%) SaaS
6 23 (3.22%) Power Platform
7 18 (2.52%) Microsoft 365
8 15 (2.10%) GitHub
9 14 (1.96%) OpenShift
9 14 (1.96%) PaaS
10 12 (1.68%) Serverless
11 8 (1.12%) Azure Data Factory
11 8 (1.12%) Entra ID
12 6 (0.84%) Amazon S3
12 6 (0.84%) Dynamics 365
13 5 (0.70%) AWS Direct Connect
13 5 (0.70%) Azure ExpressRoute
13 5 (0.70%) Cloud Computing
13 5 (0.70%) Rubrik
14 4 (0.56%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 68 (9.51%) Firewall
2 66 (9.23%) DNS
3 56 (7.83%) TCP/IP
4 46 (6.43%) DHCP
5 35 (4.90%) VPN
6 27 (3.78%) SNMP
7 25 (3.50%) HTTP
8 21 (2.94%) LAN
9 20 (2.80%) SAN
9 20 (2.80%) WAN
10 19 (2.66%) BGP
10 19 (2.66%) MPLS
11 18 (2.52%) FIX Connectivity
12 17 (2.38%) SSH
13 15 (2.10%) Internet
13 15 (2.10%) SSL
14 12 (1.68%) Network Security
14 12 (1.68%) SMTP
14 12 (1.68%) VLAN
15 11 (1.54%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 106 (14.83%) SQL Server
2 83 (11.61%) Oracle Database
3 61 (8.53%) MySQL
4 52 (7.27%) PostgreSQL
5 41 (5.73%) NoSQL
6 39 (5.45%) Relational Database
7 28 (3.92%) MongoDB
8 27 (3.78%) Elasticsearch
9 26 (3.64%) Data Warehouse
10 25 (3.50%) Oracle Database 12c
11 23 (3.22%) Power BI
12 15 (2.10%) Oracle Database 11g
13 13 (1.82%) Oracle Database 10g
13 13 (1.82%) VLDB
14 11 (1.54%) RDBMS
14 11 (1.54%) Tableau
15 9 (1.26%) Data Lake
16 8 (1.12%) DB2
17 7 (0.98%) MariaDB
18 6 (0.84%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 67 (9.37%) JIRA
2 51 (7.13%) Git
3 23 (3.22%) GitLab
4 18 (2.52%) Jenkins
5 14 (1.96%) Eclipse
6 12 (1.68%) Subversion
7 9 (1.26%) GNU Toolchain
8 8 (1.12%) LabVIEW
9 6 (0.84%) Appium
9 6 (0.84%) RStudio
9 6 (0.84%) Snyk
9 6 (0.84%) UI Automator
10 5 (0.70%) DTrace
10 5 (0.70%) GDB
10 5 (0.70%) JUnit
11 4 (0.56%) IBM UrbanCode
12 3 (0.42%) Cucumber
12 3 (0.42%) Maven
12 3 (0.42%) Oracle Forms
12 3 (0.42%) TeamCity
General
1 225 (31.47%) Finance
2 173 (24.20%) Social Skills
3 128 (17.90%) Analytical Skills
4 93 (13.01%) Banking
5 77 (10.77%) Public Sector
6 68 (9.51%) Police
7 47 (6.57%) Local Government
8 41 (5.73%) Back Office
9 27 (3.78%) Front Office
10 22 (3.08%) Telecoms
11 18 (2.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 18 (2.52%) Law
11 18 (2.52%) Presentation Skills
12 13 (1.82%) Investment Banking
13 12 (1.68%) Financial Institution
13 12 (1.68%) Retail
14 9 (1.26%) Games
15 6 (0.84%) Automotive
16 5 (0.70%) Electronics
17 2 (0.28%) Legal
Job Titles
1 132 (18.46%) Senior
2 121 (16.92%) Applications Support
3 114 (15.94%) Analyst
4 90 (12.59%) Developer
5 75 (10.49%) Support Analyst
6 71 (9.93%) Applications Support Analyst
7 56 (7.83%) Administrator
8 52 (7.27%) Software Engineer
9 40 (5.59%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 40 (5.59%) Linux Engineer
10 39 (5.45%) Support Engineer
11 34 (4.76%) DBA
12 33 (4.62%) Oracle DBA
12 33 (4.62%) Senior Analyst
13 30 (4.20%) Architect
14 29 (4.06%) Lead
15 27 (3.78%) Unix Engineer
16 26 (3.64%) Senior Applications Support
16 26 (3.64%) Senior Software Engineer
17 25 (3.50%) Senior Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (6.99%) Web Services
2 47 (6.57%) XML
3 44 (6.15%) REST
4 31 (4.34%) Spring
5 30 (4.20%) FIX Protocol
5 30 (4.20%) SOAP
6 28 (3.92%) HTML
6 28 (3.92%) J2EE
7 27 (3.78%) Node.js
8 23 (3.22%) CSS
9 21 (2.94%) AngularJS
9 21 (2.94%) Java EE
10 20 (2.80%) OpenMP
11 19 (2.66%) Middleware
12 18 (2.52%) JSON
13 17 (2.38%) Kafka
14 16 (2.24%) .NET
14 16 (2.24%) React
15 14 (1.96%) JDBC
15 14 (1.96%) OpenACC
Miscellaneous
1 60 (8.39%) Public Cloud
2 59 (8.25%) Self-Motivation
3 48 (6.71%) Algorithms
4 46 (6.43%) Linux Command Line
5 40 (5.59%) Data Centre
6 36 (5.03%) Management Information System
7 28 (3.92%) CUDA
8 21 (2.94%) Driving Licence
9 18 (2.52%) Eurex
9 18 (2.52%) Onboarding
10 16 (2.24%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 13 (1.82%) CMDB
12 12 (1.68%) Cloud Native
12 12 (1.68%) Replication
13 11 (1.54%) Client/Server
13 11 (1.54%) Cyber Threat
13 11 (1.54%) Embedded Systems
13 11 (1.54%) Hybrid Cloud
14 10 (1.40%) Clustering
14 10 (1.40%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 522 (73.01%) Linux
2 329 (46.01%) Windows
3 104 (14.55%) Solaris
4 67 (9.37%) Windows Server
5 63 (8.81%) CentOS
6 42 (5.87%) Ubuntu
7 32 (4.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 26 (3.64%) AIX
9 18 (2.52%) Mac OS
10 13 (1.82%) CoreOS
10 13 (1.82%) Windows 10
11 12 (1.68%) zOS
12 9 (1.26%) VMS
12 9 (1.26%) Windows Server 2019
13 7 (0.98%) Windows Server 2016
14 4 (0.56%) Windows Server 2008
14 4 (0.56%) Windows XP
15 3 (0.42%) Debian
15 3 (0.42%) Windows 7
16 2 (0.28%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 160 (22.38%) ITIL
2 137 (19.16%) Problem-Solving
3 102 (14.27%) Agile
4 92 (12.87%) Computer Science
5 86 (12.03%) DevOps
6 71 (9.93%) Mentoring
7 70 (9.79%) Change Management
8 69 (9.65%) Incident Management
9 62 (8.67%) Software Engineering
10 60 (8.39%) Containerisation
11 58 (8.11%) Cybersecurity
12 53 (7.41%) Roadmaps
13 51 (7.13%) Open Source
14 50 (6.99%) Actionable Insight
15 49 (6.85%) Performance Tuning
16 48 (6.71%) Mathematics
17 46 (6.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 46 (6.43%) Physics
18 45 (6.29%) CI/CD
18 45 (6.29%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 239 (33.43%) Python
2 212 (29.65%) SQL
3 116 (16.22%) Java
4 101 (14.13%) Bash
5 98 (13.71%) PowerShell
6 89 (12.45%) Shell Script
7 86 (12.03%) C
8 83 (11.61%) C++
9 63 (8.81%) Perl
10 57 (7.97%) JavaScript
11 45 (6.29%) Fortran
12 31 (4.34%) Ruby
13 24 (3.36%) PL/SQL
14 15 (2.10%) C#
15 11 (1.54%) Rust
16 9 (1.26%) PHP
16 9 (1.26%) TypeScript
17 8 (1.12%) MATLAB
17 8 (1.12%) R
18 6 (0.84%) Go
Qualifications
1 194 (27.13%) Degree
2 177 (24.76%) Security Cleared
3 92 (12.87%) SC Cleared
4 44 (6.15%) Master's Degree
4 44 (6.15%) PhD
5 32 (4.48%) Computer Science Degree
6 29 (4.06%) DV Cleared
7 24 (3.36%) AWS Certification
8 21 (2.94%) Oracle Certification
9 15 (2.10%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 14 (1.96%) Azure Certification
11 13 (1.82%) Cisco Certification
12 12 (1.68%) CCNA
13 9 (1.26%) ITIL Certification
14 8 (1.12%) HND
15 7 (0.98%) CISSP
16 6 (0.84%) CISA
17 5 (0.70%) GCIA
17 5 (0.70%) GCIH
17 5 (0.70%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 61 (8.53%) SLA
2 48 (6.71%) Accessibility
3 16 (2.24%) NIST
4 13 (1.82%) QA
5 9 (1.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 7 (0.98%) Data Quality
7 6 (0.84%) ITGC
7 6 (0.84%) PMO
8 5 (0.70%) COBIT
8 5 (0.70%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 2 (0.28%) GDPR
9 2 (0.28%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.28%) SEPA
10 1 (0.14%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.14%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 47 (6.57%) VMware Infrastructure
2 40 (5.59%) Docker
3 39 (5.45%) Active Directory
4 32 (4.48%) Hyper-V
5 16 (2.24%) Virtual Machines
6 14 (1.96%) Oracle RAC
7 9 (1.26%) Firmware
7 9 (1.26%) VMware ESXi
8 8 (1.12%) Embedded Firmware
9 5 (0.70%) DFS Replication
10 4 (0.56%) KVM
10 4 (0.56%) LXC
10 4 (0.56%) Squid
10 4 (0.56%) VirtualBox
10 4 (0.56%) vSphere
11 3 (0.42%) XenApp
11 3 (0.42%) XenDesktop
12 2 (0.28%) Kamailio
13 1 (0.14%) Postfix
13 1 (0.14%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 51 (7.13%) Ansible
2 48 (6.71%) Kubernetes
3 36 (5.03%) Puppet
4 30 (4.20%) Single Sign-On
5 27 (3.78%) SCCM
6 23 (3.22%) Terraform
7 21 (2.94%) OpenSSO
8 14 (1.96%) Data Guard
8 14 (1.96%) Oracle RMAN
8 14 (1.96%) Progress Chef
8 14 (1.96%) Prometheus
9 13 (1.82%) WMI
10 12 (1.68%) Grafana
11 9 (1.26%) NetBackup
11 9 (1.26%) WSUS
12 8 (1.12%) Nessus
13 7 (0.98%) Nagios
14 6 (0.84%) Microsoft Intune
14 6 (0.84%) Nexpose
14 6 (0.84%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 212 (29.65%) Oracle
2 138 (19.30%) Microsoft
3 80 (11.19%) VMware
4 73 (10.21%) Red Hat
5 49 (6.85%) Splunk
6 45 (6.29%) NEC
7 42 (5.87%) Remedy
8 36 (5.03%) IBM
9 35 (4.90%) Cisco
10 26 (3.64%) ION Trading
11 23 (3.22%) Qualys
12 22 (3.08%) Dynatrace
13 21 (2.94%) Citrix
14 20 (2.80%) Sun
15 19 (2.66%) Bloomberg
15 19 (2.66%) Google
16 18 (2.52%) CQG
16 18 (2.52%) Patsystems
16 18 (2.52%) Reuters
16 18 (2.52%) Trayport