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 15 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
15 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 302 179 220
Rank change year-on-year -123 +41 +3
Permanent jobs citing Unix 333 822 1,334
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.99% 2.02% 1.91%
As % of the Operating Systems category 7.18% 13.05% 10.69%
Number of salaries quoted 203 465 726
10th Percentile £40,813 £43,750 £39,182
25th Percentile £46,872 £55,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,351 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.54% +0.54% +8.33%
75th Percentile £88,750 £87,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £118,000 £97,500 £88,676
UK median annual salary £60,000 £69,447 £62,500
% change year-on-year -13.60% +11.12% +4.17%

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 4,636 6,297 12,482
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 13.74% 15.47% 17.85%
Number of salaries quoted 3,585 4,601 7,444
10th Percentile £30,550 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £39,000 £41,250 £40,853
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £67,500 £75,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £82,500 £93,750 £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 15 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 30 (9.01%) Apache
1 30 (9.01%) Tomcat
2 26 (7.81%) IIS
3 13 (3.90%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (0.90%) GlassFish
4 3 (0.90%) JBoss
5 2 (0.60%) Oracle Service Bus
5 2 (0.60%) Oracle Workflow
5 2 (0.60%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.60%) WebLogic
6 1 (0.30%) Apache Pulsar
6 1 (0.30%) Confluence
6 1 (0.30%) nginx
6 1 (0.30%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.30%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (0.30%) WordPress
Applications
1 8 (2.40%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (2.10%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.90%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.60%) CATIA
4 2 (0.60%) NASTRAN
Business Applications
1 24 (7.21%) NEC Housing
2 13 (3.90%) Unit4 Business World
3 2 (0.60%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (0.60%) Oracle EBS R12
3 2 (0.60%) Remedy ITSM
3 2 (0.60%) Teamcenter
4 1 (0.30%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 94 (28.23%) Azure
2 90 (27.03%) AWS
3 33 (9.91%) IaaS
4 28 (8.41%) SaaS
5 18 (5.41%) Microsoft 365
6 14 (4.20%) Cloud Computing
6 14 (4.20%) GCP
7 13 (3.90%) Power Platform
8 11 (3.30%) Serverless
9 9 (2.70%) Amazon S3
10 7 (2.10%) Amazon EC2
11 6 (1.80%) Entra ID
11 6 (1.80%) Rubrik
12 5 (1.50%) AWS CloudFormation
12 5 (1.50%) Azure Machine Learning
12 5 (1.50%) GitHub
12 5 (1.50%) OCI
12 5 (1.50%) PaaS
12 5 (1.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 4 (1.20%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 30 (9.01%) Firewall
2 16 (4.80%) SAN
3 15 (4.50%) Network Security
4 13 (3.90%) DNS
5 12 (3.60%) VLAN
6 11 (3.30%) VPN
7 10 (3.00%) DHCP
8 8 (2.40%) TCP/IP
9 6 (1.80%) Internet
10 5 (1.50%) Wireless
11 4 (1.20%) PBX
12 3 (0.90%) LAN
12 3 (0.90%) Reverse Proxy
12 3 (0.90%) SMTP
12 3 (0.90%) VoIP
12 3 (0.90%) Wi-Fi
13 2 (0.60%) Asterisk PBX
13 2 (0.60%) HTTP
13 2 (0.60%) NAS
13 2 (0.60%) Wireless Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (13.21%) Oracle Database
2 43 (12.91%) SQL Server
3 35 (10.51%) MySQL
4 24 (7.21%) Relational Database
5 23 (6.91%) NoSQL
6 20 (6.01%) MongoDB
7 18 (5.41%) Data Warehouse
8 17 (5.11%) RDBMS
9 13 (3.90%) DB2
9 13 (3.90%) PostgreSQL
9 13 (3.90%) Power BI
10 11 (3.30%) Tableau
11 5 (1.50%) Amazon RDS
11 5 (1.50%) InfluxDB
11 5 (1.50%) Oracle Reports
12 3 (0.90%) Elasticsearch
12 3 (0.90%) Ingres
12 3 (0.90%) InterSystems Cache
12 3 (0.90%) Metadata
12 3 (0.90%) Oracle Database 12c
Development Applications
1 13 (3.90%) JIRA
2 12 (3.60%) Git
3 11 (3.30%) Jenkins
4 6 (1.80%) Snyk
5 5 (1.50%) DTrace
5 5 (1.50%) GDB
5 5 (1.50%) JMeter
6 4 (1.20%) IBM UrbanCode
6 4 (1.20%) Postman
6 4 (1.20%) SoapUI
7 3 (0.90%) Maven
8 2 (0.60%) Burp Suite
8 2 (0.60%) JUnit
8 2 (0.60%) Metasploit
8 2 (0.60%) Oracle Forms
8 2 (0.60%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.30%) Eclipse
9 1 (0.30%) IntelliJ
9 1 (0.30%) Subversion
9 1 (0.30%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 134 (40.24%) Finance
2 111 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 55 (16.52%) Public Sector
4 40 (12.01%) Banking
5 30 (9.01%) Analytical Skills
6 26 (7.81%) Local Government
6 26 (7.81%) Police
7 16 (4.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 14 (4.20%) Front Office
8 14 (4.20%) Military
9 13 (3.90%) Games
10 12 (3.60%) Law
11 11 (3.30%) Back Office
12 8 (2.40%) Financial Institution
13 7 (2.10%) Retail
13 7 (2.10%) Telecoms
14 4 (1.20%) Welsh Language
15 3 (0.90%) Electronics
15 3 (0.90%) Legal
16 2 (0.60%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 59 (17.72%) Senior
2 45 (13.51%) Analyst
3 44 (13.21%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 43 (12.91%) Applications Support
5 30 (9.01%) Developer
6 27 (8.11%) Support Analyst
7 24 (7.21%) Software Engineer
8 20 (6.01%) DBA
9 19 (5.71%) Oracle DBA
10 18 (5.41%) Lead
11 16 (4.80%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
11 16 (4.80%) Threat Intelligence Analyst
12 15 (4.50%) Architect
12 15 (4.50%) Data Engineer
12 15 (4.50%) Security Engineer
13 14 (4.20%) IT Manager
13 14 (4.20%) Software Developer
14 13 (3.90%) Audit Manager
14 13 (3.90%) IT Audit Manager
15 12 (3.60%) MySQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (8.11%) Web Services
2 15 (4.50%) Node.js
3 14 (4.20%) Kafka
4 9 (2.70%) XML
5 8 (2.40%) FIX Protocol
5 8 (2.40%) Middleware
5 8 (2.40%) React
6 5 (1.50%) .NET
6 5 (1.50%) AngularJS
6 5 (1.50%) SOAP
7 4 (1.20%) LDAP
7 4 (1.20%) OAuth
7 4 (1.20%) OAuth2
7 4 (1.20%) RESTful
7 4 (1.20%) SAML
8 3 (0.90%) Elastic Stack
8 3 (0.90%) jQuery
8 3 (0.90%) Spring
9 2 (0.60%) JPA
9 2 (0.60%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 58 (17.42%) Public Cloud
2 33 (9.91%) Data Centre
3 27 (8.11%) Management Information System
4 26 (7.81%) Self-Motivation
5 11 (3.30%) Cyber Threat
5 11 (3.30%) Replication
6 10 (3.00%) Cloud Native
6 10 (3.00%) Linux Command Line
7 9 (2.70%) Onboarding
8 8 (2.40%) Cyberattack
8 8 (2.40%) Data Fabric
9 7 (2.10%) Algorithms
10 6 (1.80%) Greenfield Project
11 5 (1.50%) Client/Server
12 4 (1.20%) Clustering
12 4 (1.20%) Cyber Kill Chain
12 4 (1.20%) Cyber Security Posture
12 4 (1.20%) Hedge funds
13 3 (0.90%) Security Posture
13 3 (0.90%) VAX
Operating Systems
1 231 (69.37%) Linux
2 212 (63.66%) Windows
3 53 (15.92%) Solaris
4 51 (15.32%) Windows Server
5 23 (6.91%) CentOS
6 21 (6.31%) AIX
7 20 (6.01%) Ubuntu
8 16 (4.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 14 (4.20%) Mac OS X
10 13 (3.90%) VMS
11 12 (3.60%) zOS
12 7 (2.10%) Windows 10
13 4 (1.20%) Windows Server 2016
14 3 (0.90%) CoreOS
14 3 (0.90%) Debian
14 3 (0.90%) Windows 7
14 3 (0.90%) Windows Server 2008
15 2 (0.60%) Kali Linux
15 2 (0.60%) Mac OS
15 2 (0.60%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (20.72%) Change Management
1 69 (20.72%) ITIL
2 57 (17.12%) Mentoring
3 54 (16.22%) Actionable Insight
3 54 (16.22%) DevOps
4 47 (14.11%) Agile
4 47 (14.11%) Cybersecurity
4 47 (14.11%) Incident Management
4 47 (14.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 43 (12.91%) Problem-Solving
6 41 (12.31%) Incident Response
7 39 (11.71%) Coaching
7 39 (11.71%) Roadmaps
8 37 (11.11%) Service Delivery
9 33 (9.91%) Disaster Recovery
10 28 (8.41%) Architecture Roadmap
10 28 (8.41%) Data Security
10 28 (8.41%) Server Management
10 28 (8.41%) Task Automation
11 27 (8.11%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 90 (27.03%) SQL
2 81 (24.32%) Python
3 49 (14.71%) PowerShell
4 43 (12.91%) Shell Script
5 33 (9.91%) Java
6 29 (8.71%) Bash
7 16 (4.80%) C++
8 14 (4.20%) JavaScript
8 14 (4.20%) Ruby
9 13 (3.90%) C
10 9 (2.70%) Perl
11 8 (2.40%) PHP
12 7 (2.10%) Fortran
13 6 (1.80%) PL/SQL
13 6 (1.80%) TypeScript
14 5 (1.50%) C#
14 5 (1.50%) OCaml
14 5 (1.50%) SystemTap
14 5 (1.50%) T-SQL
15 4 (1.20%) Go
Qualifications
1 124 (37.24%) Degree
2 75 (22.52%) Security Cleared
3 40 (12.01%) SC Cleared
4 19 (5.71%) CISM
4 19 (5.71%) CISSP
5 15 (4.50%) GCIH
6 14 (4.20%) GCIA
6 14 (4.20%) GREM
7 13 (3.90%) CISA
8 12 (3.60%) AWS Certification
9 11 (3.30%) Computer Science Degree
10 10 (3.00%) Master's Degree
11 7 (2.10%) Microsoft Certification
11 7 (2.10%) PhD
12 6 (1.80%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 5 (1.50%) Cisco Certification
14 4 (1.20%) CCNA
14 4 (1.20%) GIAC
14 4 (1.20%) ISTQB
14 4 (1.20%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (8.41%) Accessibility
2 16 (4.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 13 (3.90%) ITGC
3 13 (3.90%) PMO
4 11 (3.30%) NIST
5 5 (1.50%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 5 (1.50%) SLA
6 3 (0.90%) QA
7 2 (0.60%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (0.60%) JSP 440
7 2 (0.60%) NIST 800
7 2 (0.60%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.60%) SEPA
System Software
1 39 (11.71%) VMware Infrastructure
2 29 (8.71%) Docker
3 22 (6.61%) Virtual Machines
4 21 (6.31%) Active Directory
5 19 (5.71%) Hyper-V
6 9 (2.70%) Firmware
7 6 (1.80%) DFS Replication
8 3 (0.90%) KVM
8 3 (0.90%) XenApp
9 2 (0.60%) Kamailio
9 2 (0.60%) Oracle RAC
9 2 (0.60%) vSphere
10 1 (0.30%) Lustre
10 1 (0.30%) OpenSIPS
10 1 (0.30%) Postfix
10 1 (0.30%) Shibboleth
10 1 (0.30%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 1 (0.30%) vCloud
10 1 (0.30%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 35 (10.51%) Kubernetes
2 25 (7.51%) Ansible
3 22 (6.61%) Terraform
4 20 (6.01%) SCCM
5 14 (4.20%) WSUS
6 13 (3.90%) Puppet
7 8 (2.40%) Grafana
8 7 (2.10%) NetBackup
9 6 (1.80%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 6 (1.80%) Nessus
9 6 (1.80%) Nexpose
9 6 (1.80%) vRealize Orchestrator
10 5 (1.50%) Progress Chef
10 5 (1.50%) Single Sign-On
11 4 (1.20%) Nagios
12 3 (0.90%) EMC VPLEX
12 3 (0.90%) Nmap
12 3 (0.90%) Oracle Statspack
12 3 (0.90%) SCOM
13 2 (0.60%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 111 (33.33%) Oracle
2 92 (27.63%) Microsoft
3 67 (20.12%) VMware
4 25 (7.51%) IBM
4 25 (7.51%) Red Hat
5 24 (7.21%) NEC
6 23 (6.91%) Splunk
7 19 (5.71%) Dynatrace
8 18 (5.41%) Dell
9 14 (4.20%) SAP
10 13 (3.90%) BMC
10 13 (3.90%) Sage
11 12 (3.60%) Apple
11 12 (3.60%) Veeam
12 11 (3.30%) Qualys
13 10 (3.00%) Citrix
14 8 (2.40%) Algorithmics
14 8 (2.40%) Cisco
14 8 (2.40%) ION Trading
15 7 (2.10%) Google