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

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 334 211 184
Rank change year-on-year -123 -27 -11
Permanent jobs citing Unix 712 1,599 3,022
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.82% 1.81% 2.21%
As % of the Operating Systems category 5.70% 11.18% 11.50%
Number of salaries quoted 473 858 1,424
10th Percentile £37,550 £40,844 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £53,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £70,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +12.00% -
75th Percentile £82,500 £90,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,064 £112,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £69,447 £62,500
% change year-on-year -13.60% +11.12% +4.17%

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 12,482 14,305 26,270
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 14.43% 16.17% 19.18%
Number of salaries quoted 9,828 9,827 15,002
10th Percentile £25,759 £26,750 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £35,000 £35,233
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% - +5.00%
75th Percentile £62,500 £72,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £95,000 £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 20 May 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 20 May 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 -97 259 £80,000 -0.37% 122
North of England -75 138 £55,000 -1.79% 17
South East -10 127 £51,750 -1.43% 49
South West -61 89 £52,500 -0.19% 14
Midlands -82 78 £50,000 -23.08% 9
North West -25 72 £55,000 -8.33% 9
West Midlands -3 49 £50,000 -23.08% 3
Yorkshire -41 44 £57,500 -4.17% 8
East Midlands -83 29 £50,000 -18.37% 6
North East 0 22 £47,137 +25.70%
East of England -74 16 £40,000 -33.33% 26
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 38 (5.34%) WebLogic
2 34 (4.78%) Apache
3 33 (4.63%) Microsoft Exchange
4 32 (4.49%) Tomcat
5 26 (3.65%) IIS
6 18 (2.53%) nginx
7 15 (2.11%) Confluence
8 14 (1.97%) Oracle Service Bus
8 14 (1.97%) SharePoint
9 13 (1.83%) Captiva
9 13 (1.83%) FileNet
9 13 (1.83%) WebSphere
10 9 (1.26%) JBoss
11 3 (0.42%) GlassFish
11 3 (0.42%) WordPress
12 2 (0.28%) Apache Spark
12 2 (0.28%) OpenStack
12 2 (0.28%) Oracle Workflow
13 1 (0.14%) Apache Pulsar
13 1 (0.14%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 40 (5.62%) Microsoft Office
2 21 (2.95%) Microsoft Excel
3 15 (2.11%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.28%) CATIA
4 2 (0.28%) NASTRAN
5 1 (0.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 45 (6.32%) NEC Housing
2 16 (2.25%) Fidessa
3 15 (2.11%) Remedy ITSM
4 6 (0.84%) Temenos T24
4 6 (0.84%) Unit4 Business World
5 4 (0.56%) Oracle Cash Management
6 2 (0.28%) Adaptiv
6 2 (0.28%) Oracle EBS
6 2 (0.28%) Oracle EBS R12
6 2 (0.28%) Teamcenter
7 1 (0.14%) Oracle Applications
7 1 (0.14%) SAP CRM
7 1 (0.14%) SAP GRC
7 1 (0.14%) SAP MDG
7 1 (0.14%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 163 (22.89%) AWS
2 152 (21.35%) Azure
3 56 (7.87%) GCP
4 54 (7.58%) IaaS
5 44 (6.18%) SaaS
6 28 (3.93%) GitHub
7 25 (3.51%) PaaS
8 23 (3.23%) Microsoft 365
8 23 (3.23%) Power Platform
9 15 (2.11%) OpenShift
10 11 (1.54%) Serverless
11 10 (1.40%) Entra ID
12 9 (1.26%) Amazon S3
13 8 (1.12%) Azure Data Factory
14 7 (0.98%) Cloud Computing
15 6 (0.84%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 6 (0.84%) Dynamics 365
16 5 (0.70%) AWS Direct Connect
16 5 (0.70%) Azure ExpressRoute
16 5 (0.70%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 71 (9.97%) Firewall
2 61 (8.57%) DNS
3 58 (8.15%) TCP/IP
4 44 (6.18%) DHCP
5 36 (5.06%) VPN
6 27 (3.79%) SNMP
7 24 (3.37%) HTTP
8 21 (2.95%) Internet
9 19 (2.67%) BGP
9 19 (2.67%) LAN
9 19 (2.67%) MPLS
9 19 (2.67%) SAN
9 19 (2.67%) WAN
10 16 (2.25%) FIX Connectivity
10 16 (2.25%) SSH
11 13 (1.83%) Network Security
11 13 (1.83%) VLAN
12 12 (1.69%) SMTP
12 12 (1.69%) SSL
13 11 (1.54%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 100 (14.04%) SQL Server
2 80 (11.24%) Oracle Database
3 66 (9.27%) MySQL
4 53 (7.44%) PostgreSQL
5 51 (7.16%) NoSQL
6 40 (5.62%) Relational Database
7 36 (5.06%) Data Warehouse
8 28 (3.93%) Elasticsearch
8 28 (3.93%) MongoDB
9 25 (3.51%) Oracle Database 12c
10 23 (3.23%) Power BI
11 20 (2.81%) Data Lake
12 16 (2.25%) Oracle Database 11g
13 14 (1.97%) Oracle Database 10g
13 14 (1.97%) VLDB
14 11 (1.54%) RDBMS
15 10 (1.40%) Tableau
16 7 (0.98%) DB2
16 7 (0.98%) MariaDB
17 6 (0.84%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 80 (11.24%) JIRA
2 53 (7.44%) Git
3 24 (3.37%) GitLab
4 20 (2.81%) Jenkins
5 15 (2.11%) Oracle Forms
6 14 (1.97%) Eclipse
7 13 (1.83%) Subversion
8 10 (1.40%) GNU Toolchain
8 10 (1.40%) LabVIEW
9 7 (0.98%) Snyk
10 6 (0.84%) Appium
10 6 (0.84%) RStudio
10 6 (0.84%) UI Automator
11 5 (0.70%) DTrace
11 5 (0.70%) GDB
12 4 (0.56%) IBM UrbanCode
12 4 (0.56%) JUnit
12 4 (0.56%) Postman
13 3 (0.42%) Maven
13 3 (0.42%) Oracle APEX
General
1 246 (34.55%) Finance
2 179 (25.14%) Social Skills
3 126 (17.70%) Analytical Skills
4 113 (15.87%) Banking
5 77 (10.81%) Public Sector
6 69 (9.69%) Police
7 49 (6.88%) Local Government
8 38 (5.34%) Back Office
9 25 (3.51%) Front Office
10 24 (3.37%) Telecoms
11 21 (2.95%) Presentation Skills
12 18 (2.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 18 (2.53%) Law
13 13 (1.83%) Financial Institution
14 11 (1.54%) Retail
15 10 (1.40%) Investment Banking
16 8 (1.12%) Games
17 6 (0.84%) Automotive
18 5 (0.70%) Electronics
19 2 (0.28%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 126 (17.70%) Senior
2 121 (16.99%) Applications Support
3 113 (15.87%) Analyst
4 90 (12.64%) Developer
5 80 (11.24%) Support Analyst
6 73 (10.25%) Applications Support Analyst
7 56 (7.87%) Administrator
8 50 (7.02%) Software Engineer
9 42 (5.90%) Architect
9 42 (5.90%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 38 (5.34%) Support Engineer
11 34 (4.78%) Senior Analyst
12 33 (4.63%) DBA
12 33 (4.63%) Oracle DBA
13 31 (4.35%) Lead
14 28 (3.93%) Linux Engineer
15 27 (3.79%) Senior Applications Support
15 27 (3.79%) Systems Administrator
16 26 (3.65%) Senior Support Analyst
17 25 (3.51%) Senior Applications Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (6.74%) Web Services
2 44 (6.18%) XML
3 42 (5.90%) REST
4 31 (4.35%) Spring
5 29 (4.07%) SOAP
6 28 (3.93%) J2EE
7 27 (3.79%) HTML
8 26 (3.65%) FIX Protocol
8 26 (3.65%) Node.js
9 22 (3.09%) CSS
9 22 (3.09%) Java EE
10 20 (2.81%) AngularJS
10 20 (2.81%) OpenMP
11 17 (2.39%) Middleware
12 16 (2.25%) JSON
13 15 (2.11%) Kafka
14 14 (1.97%) OpenACC
14 14 (1.97%) React
15 13 (1.83%) Ajax
15 13 (1.83%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 61 (8.57%) Self-Motivation
2 60 (8.43%) Public Cloud
3 42 (5.90%) Data Centre
4 39 (5.48%) Linux Command Line
5 36 (5.06%) Management Information System
6 33 (4.63%) Algorithms
7 28 (3.93%) CUDA
8 21 (2.95%) Driving Licence
9 17 (2.39%) Private Cloud
10 16 (2.25%) Eurex
10 16 (2.25%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 15 (2.11%) Onboarding
12 13 (1.83%) Blockchain
12 13 (1.83%) CMDB
12 13 (1.83%) DataPower
12 13 (1.83%) Embedded Systems
13 12 (1.69%) Mainframe
13 12 (1.69%) Replication
14 11 (1.54%) Cloud Native
14 11 (1.54%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 499 (70.08%) Linux
2 332 (46.63%) Windows
3 89 (12.50%) Solaris
4 70 (9.83%) Windows Server
5 62 (8.71%) CentOS
6 43 (6.04%) Ubuntu
7 29 (4.07%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 22 (3.09%) AIX
9 19 (2.67%) Mac OS
10 13 (1.83%) CoreOS
10 13 (1.83%) Windows 10
11 12 (1.69%) zOS
12 9 (1.26%) VMS
12 9 (1.26%) Windows Server 2019
13 7 (0.98%) Windows Server 2016
14 6 (0.84%) Debian
15 4 (0.56%) Windows Server 2008
16 3 (0.42%) Android
16 3 (0.42%) Windows 7
17 2 (0.28%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 164 (23.03%) ITIL
2 136 (19.10%) Problem-Solving
3 126 (17.70%) Agile
4 100 (14.04%) DevOps
5 84 (11.80%) Change Management
6 81 (11.38%) Computer Science
7 72 (10.11%) Incident Management
8 71 (9.97%) Mentoring
9 66 (9.27%) Roadmaps
10 65 (9.13%) Cybersecurity
11 62 (8.71%) Containerisation
12 61 (8.57%) Software Engineering
13 52 (7.30%) Actionable Insight
13 52 (7.30%) Coaching
14 50 (7.02%) Performance Tuning
15 49 (6.88%) Artificial Intelligence
15 49 (6.88%) Customer Service
15 49 (6.88%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 46 (6.46%) Test Automation
17 44 (6.18%) Problem Management
Programming Languages
1 218 (30.62%) Python
2 214 (30.06%) SQL
3 126 (17.70%) Java
4 94 (13.20%) PowerShell
5 91 (12.78%) Bash
6 87 (12.22%) Shell Script
7 74 (10.39%) C
8 71 (9.97%) C++
9 56 (7.87%) Perl
10 54 (7.58%) JavaScript
11 32 (4.49%) Fortran
12 27 (3.79%) Ruby
13 24 (3.37%) PL/SQL
14 18 (2.53%) C#
15 10 (1.40%) MATLAB
15 10 (1.40%) PHP
16 9 (1.26%) Rust
17 7 (0.98%) Go
17 7 (0.98%) R
18 6 (0.84%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 192 (26.97%) Degree
2 154 (21.63%) Security Cleared
3 83 (11.66%) SC Cleared
4 34 (4.78%) Computer Science Degree
5 32 (4.49%) Master's Degree
5 32 (4.49%) PhD
6 23 (3.23%) AWS Certification
7 22 (3.09%) Oracle Certification
8 19 (2.67%) DV Cleared
9 14 (1.97%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 14 (1.97%) Cisco Certification
10 13 (1.83%) Azure Certification
11 11 (1.54%) CCNA
12 10 (1.40%) HND
13 9 (1.26%) ITIL Certification
14 8 (1.12%) CISSP
15 6 (0.84%) CISA
15 6 (0.84%) MCSE
15 6 (0.84%) Microsoft Certification
15 6 (0.84%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 66 (9.27%) SLA
2 47 (6.60%) Accessibility
3 15 (2.11%) GDPR
4 13 (1.83%) NIST
5 10 (1.40%) QA
6 9 (1.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 7 (0.98%) Data Quality
8 6 (0.84%) ITGC
8 6 (0.84%) PMO
9 5 (0.70%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 3 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.28%) COBIT
11 2 (0.28%) PCI DSS
11 2 (0.28%) SEPA
12 1 (0.14%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 51 (7.16%) VMware Infrastructure
2 44 (6.18%) Active Directory
3 43 (6.04%) Docker
4 34 (4.78%) Hyper-V
5 16 (2.25%) Oracle RAC
5 16 (2.25%) Virtual Machines
6 9 (1.26%) Firmware
6 9 (1.26%) VMware ESXi
7 8 (1.12%) Embedded Firmware
8 5 (0.70%) DFS Replication
9 4 (0.56%) KVM
9 4 (0.56%) vSphere
10 3 (0.42%) VirtualBox
10 3 (0.42%) XenApp
10 3 (0.42%) XenDesktop
11 2 (0.28%) Kamailio
11 2 (0.28%) Shibboleth
12 1 (0.14%) OpenAM
12 1 (0.14%) OpenSIPS
12 1 (0.14%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 50 (7.02%) Kubernetes
2 48 (6.74%) Ansible
3 35 (4.92%) Puppet
4 32 (4.49%) SCCM
5 30 (4.21%) Single Sign-On
6 25 (3.51%) Terraform
7 22 (3.09%) OpenSSO
8 17 (2.39%) Progress Chef
9 15 (2.11%) Data Guard
9 15 (2.11%) Oracle RMAN
10 13 (1.83%) Grafana
10 13 (1.83%) WMI
11 12 (1.69%) Prometheus
12 10 (1.40%) Nessus
13 9 (1.26%) WSUS
14 8 (1.12%) NetBackup
15 7 (0.98%) Microsoft Intune
15 7 (0.98%) Nexpose
16 6 (0.84%) Nagios
16 6 (0.84%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 213 (29.92%) Oracle
2 131 (18.40%) Microsoft
3 79 (11.10%) VMware
4 57 (8.01%) Red Hat
5 47 (6.60%) Remedy
6 46 (6.46%) IBM
6 46 (6.46%) Splunk
7 45 (6.32%) NEC
8 33 (4.63%) Cisco
9 25 (3.51%) Qualys
10 24 (3.37%) ION Trading
11 22 (3.09%) Dynatrace
12 21 (2.95%) Citrix
12 21 (2.95%) ServiceNow
13 20 (2.81%) SAP
14 19 (2.67%) Google
15 18 (2.53%) Sun
16 16 (2.25%) Bloomberg
16 16 (2.25%) Reuters
16 16 (2.25%) Trayport