Unix Jobs in the UK excluding London

Unix
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Unix skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Unix over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 285 194 220
Rank change year-on-year -91 +26 -30
Permanent jobs citing Unix 691 1,027 1,315
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.86% 1.86% 1.72%
As % of the Operating Systems category 6.27% 10.97% 8.66%
Number of salaries quoted 315 403 670
10th Percentile £32,500 £34,875 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,833 £43,723 £40,889
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +9.52% +10.53%
75th Percentile £63,750 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £77,500
UK median annual salary £58,000 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -14.07% +3.85% +8.33%

All Operating Systems
UK excluding London

Unix falls under the Operating Systems category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring operating system skills in the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 11,018 9,360 15,191
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 13.75% 16.94% 19.89%
Number of salaries quoted 8,240 5,927 9,227
10th Percentile £25,500 £25,500 £25,000
25th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £45,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% - -
75th Percentile £57,500 £60,052 £60,000
90th Percentile £68,750 £73,750 £73,750
UK median annual salary £45,000 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -14.29% - +5.00%

Unix
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Unix as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Unix in the UK excluding London

Unix
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Unix in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Unix in the UK excluding London

Unix
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Unix in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Unix in the UK excluding London

Unix
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Unix within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 12 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
Scotland -29 185 £42,000 -30.00% 11
South East -32 133 £52,500 - 36
North of England -99 131 £50,000 -15.97% 13
South West -79 79 £52,500 -0.38% 18
Midlands -101 75 £50,000 -16.67% 15
North West -53 72 £52,500 -12.50% 6
Wales +10 52 £45,000 -22.51% 5
West Midlands -12 45 £56,000 -8.20% 11
Yorkshire -49 37 £35,000 -42.79% 6
East Midlands -93 30 £50,000 -14.89% 4
East of England -74 23 £51,500 -14.17% 15
North East -12 22 £47,137 +12.90% 1
Northern Ireland -9 13 £90,000 +77.34% 3
Unix
UK

Unix
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 86 (12.45%) Apache Spark
2 68 (9.84%) WebLogic
3 42 (6.08%) Oracle Service Bus
4 27 (3.91%) Tomcat
5 21 (3.04%) Apache
6 16 (2.32%) IIS
7 11 (1.59%) Microsoft Exchange
8 10 (1.45%) SharePoint
9 9 (1.30%) nginx
9 9 (1.30%) WebSphere
10 8 (1.16%) Confluence
11 7 (1.01%) Apache Airflow
12 4 (0.58%) Captiva
12 4 (0.58%) FileNet
12 4 (0.58%) JBoss
13 3 (0.43%) GlassFish
14 2 (0.29%) OpenStack
14 2 (0.29%) Oracle Workflow
14 2 (0.29%) WildFly
15 1 (0.14%) IBM Domino
Applications
1 65 (9.41%) Microsoft Office
2 51 (7.38%) Microsoft Excel
3 42 (6.08%) MS Visio
4 4 (0.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.29%) CATIA
5 2 (0.29%) NASTRAN
Business Applications
1 43 (6.22%) Remedy ITSM
2 30 (4.34%) NEC Housing
3 11 (1.59%) Unit4 Business World
4 2 (0.29%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (0.29%) Oracle EBS R12
4 2 (0.29%) Teamcenter
5 1 (0.14%) Oracle Applications
5 1 (0.14%) SAP CRM
5 1 (0.14%) SAP GRC
5 1 (0.14%) SAP MDG
5 1 (0.14%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 208 (30.10%) AWS
2 94 (13.60%) Azure
3 41 (5.93%) SaaS
4 39 (5.64%) IaaS
5 30 (4.34%) GCP
6 22 (3.18%) Microsoft 365
7 15 (2.17%) GitHub
8 14 (2.03%) Amazon EKS
9 13 (1.88%) OpenShift
10 12 (1.74%) Serverless
11 10 (1.45%) PaaS
12 9 (1.30%) Power Platform
13 8 (1.16%) Azure Data Factory
14 6 (0.87%) Dynamics 365
15 5 (0.72%) Amazon EC2
15 5 (0.72%) Cloud Computing
16 4 (0.58%) Entra ID
16 4 (0.58%) Google Docs
16 4 (0.58%) OCI
17 3 (0.43%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 39 (5.64%) Firewall
2 29 (4.20%) TCP/IP
3 20 (2.89%) DNS
4 16 (2.32%) SNMP
5 15 (2.17%) Internet
6 14 (2.03%) Network Security
7 13 (1.88%) HTTP
7 13 (1.88%) SSH
8 12 (1.74%) DHCP
8 12 (1.74%) VLAN
8 12 (1.74%) VPN
9 8 (1.16%) SAN
9 8 (1.16%) SMTP
10 4 (0.58%) PBX
11 3 (0.43%) Reverse Proxy
12 2 (0.29%) Asterisk PBX
12 2 (0.29%) Ethernet
12 2 (0.29%) IPv4
12 2 (0.29%) LAN
12 2 (0.29%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 93 (13.46%) NoSQL
2 90 (13.02%) Oracle Database
3 86 (12.45%) Apache Hive
3 86 (12.45%) HBase
4 56 (8.10%) Hadoop
4 56 (8.10%) MySQL
5 49 (7.09%) SQL Server
6 44 (6.37%) Oracle Database 11g
7 42 (6.08%) Oracle Database 10g
7 42 (6.08%) VLDB
8 36 (5.21%) Relational Database
9 32 (4.63%) PostgreSQL
10 30 (4.34%) Big Data
11 25 (3.62%) Elasticsearch
12 20 (2.89%) Data Warehouse
13 18 (2.60%) Oracle Database 12c
14 14 (2.03%) RDBMS
15 13 (1.88%) DB2
16 9 (1.30%) Power BI
17 8 (1.16%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 114 (16.50%) Git
2 105 (15.20%) Jenkins
3 79 (11.43%) Bitbucket Server
4 40 (5.79%) JIRA
5 19 (2.75%) GitLab
6 13 (1.88%) Eclipse
7 11 (1.59%) CircleCI
8 9 (1.30%) GNU Toolchain
8 9 (1.30%) Subversion
9 8 (1.16%) LabVIEW
10 7 (1.01%) Oracle Forms
11 6 (0.87%) Appium
11 6 (0.87%) RStudio
11 6 (0.87%) UI Automator
12 5 (0.72%) Bitbucket
13 3 (0.43%) IBM UrbanCode
13 3 (0.43%) Oracle APEX
14 2 (0.29%) Maven
14 2 (0.29%) VectorCAST
15 1 (0.14%) Gradle
General
1 211 (30.54%) Finance
2 147 (21.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 137 (19.83%) Law
4 136 (19.68%) Social Skills
5 128 (18.52%) Analytical Skills
6 100 (14.47%) Legal
7 65 (9.41%) Public Sector
8 52 (7.53%) Police
9 33 (4.78%) Local Government
10 19 (2.75%) Presentation Skills
11 15 (2.17%) Back Office
11 15 (2.17%) Marketing
11 15 (2.17%) Military
12 13 (1.88%) Retail
13 12 (1.74%) Games
14 9 (1.30%) Telecoms
15 8 (1.16%) Banking
16 6 (0.87%) Automotive
17 3 (0.43%) Electronics
17 3 (0.43%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 169 (24.46%) Software Engineer
2 118 (17.08%) Analyst
3 112 (16.21%) Senior
4 110 (15.92%) Developer
5 96 (13.89%) Applications Support
6 90 (13.02%) Support Analyst
7 73 (10.56%) Applications Support Analyst
8 69 (9.99%) AWS Engineer
9 67 (9.70%) AWS Software Engineer
10 57 (8.25%) Developer/Software Engineer
11 53 (7.67%) Database Engineer
12 49 (7.09%) Database Developer
13 46 (6.66%) SQL Analyst
14 45 (6.51%) SQL Support Analyst
15 42 (6.08%) Oracle Analyst
15 42 (6.08%) Oracle Support Analyst
16 40 (5.79%) Administrator
17 38 (5.50%) AWS Developer
17 38 (5.50%) Linux Engineer
18 37 (5.35%) AWS Database Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (7.24%) Spring
2 33 (4.78%) Web Services
3 28 (4.05%) Node.js
4 27 (3.91%) J2EE
5 26 (3.76%) Java EE
6 25 (3.62%) REST
7 20 (2.89%) CSS
7 20 (2.89%) XML
8 18 (2.60%) AngularJS
9 17 (2.46%) HTML
9 17 (2.46%) OpenMP
9 17 (2.46%) SOAP
10 16 (2.32%) React
11 13 (1.88%) Ajax
11 13 (1.88%) JDBC
11 13 (1.88%) ODBC
11 13 (1.88%) XHTML
12 12 (1.74%) JPA
13 11 (1.59%) OpenACC
14 10 (1.45%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 142 (20.55%) Algorithms
2 59 (8.54%) Self-Motivation
3 45 (6.51%) Public Cloud
4 37 (5.35%) Data Centre
5 33 (4.78%) Linux Command Line
6 27 (3.91%) Management Information System
7 25 (3.62%) CUDA
8 19 (2.75%) Cloud Native
9 14 (2.03%) Driving Licence
10 13 (1.88%) CMDB
11 12 (1.74%) Embedded Systems
12 9 (1.30%) Product Ownership
12 9 (1.30%) Tandem
13 8 (1.16%) GNSS
13 8 (1.16%) Mobile App
14 6 (0.87%) Client/Server
14 6 (0.87%) Smartphone
15 5 (0.72%) Clustering
15 5 (0.72%) Private Cloud
15 5 (0.72%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 397 (57.45%) Linux
2 244 (35.31%) Windows
3 107 (15.48%) Solaris
4 48 (6.95%) Windows Server
5 21 (3.04%) AIX
6 17 (2.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 16 (2.32%) CentOS
7 16 (2.32%) Mac OS
8 15 (2.17%) Ubuntu
9 13 (1.88%) Mac OS X
10 11 (1.59%) CoreOS
11 10 (1.45%) VMS
11 10 (1.45%) Windows 10
12 7 (1.01%) Windows Server 2019
13 6 (0.87%) Windows Server 2016
14 4 (0.58%) Windows Server 2008
15 3 (0.43%) Windows 7
16 2 (0.29%) Debian
16 2 (0.29%) FreeRTOS
16 2 (0.29%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 187 (27.06%) Agile
2 176 (25.47%) Software Engineering
3 170 (24.60%) Artificial Intelligence
4 140 (20.26%) CI/CD
4 140 (20.26%) SDLC
5 136 (19.68%) Open Source
6 133 (19.25%) Problem-Solving
7 129 (18.67%) ITIL
8 112 (16.21%) Actionable Insight
9 111 (16.06%) Continuous Improvement
9 111 (16.06%) Machine Learning
9 111 (16.06%) Test Automation
10 109 (15.77%) Operational Stability
11 108 (15.63%) Community of Practice
12 104 (15.05%) Incident Management
13 99 (14.33%) Risk Management
13 99 (14.33%) Visualisation
14 93 (13.46%) TDD
15 86 (12.45%) Mentoring
16 79 (11.43%) Batch Processing
Programming Languages
1 269 (38.93%) SQL
2 252 (36.47%) Python
3 187 (27.06%) Java
4 131 (18.96%) PL/SQL
5 80 (11.58%) Shell Script
6 72 (10.42%) C
7 69 (9.99%) Bash
8 65 (9.41%) C++
9 50 (7.24%) PowerShell
10 42 (6.08%) Fortran
11 32 (4.63%) Perl
12 23 (3.33%) JavaScript
13 15 (2.17%) Ruby
14 9 (1.30%) PHP
15 8 (1.16%) MATLAB
15 8 (1.16%) R
16 7 (1.01%) C#
17 4 (0.58%) COBOL
17 4 (0.58%) T-SQL
17 4 (0.58%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 216 (31.26%) Degree
2 201 (29.09%) Security Cleared
3 130 (18.81%) SC Cleared
4 41 (5.93%) PhD
5 39 (5.64%) Master's Degree
6 32 (4.63%) DV Cleared
7 30 (4.34%) Computer Science Degree
8 22 (3.18%) AWS Certification
9 14 (2.03%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 14 (2.03%) Azure Certification
9 14 (2.03%) CISSP
9 14 (2.03%) Oracle Certification
10 13 (1.88%) CISM
10 13 (1.88%) GCIA
10 13 (1.88%) GCIH
10 13 (1.88%) GREM
11 11 (1.59%) CISA
11 11 (1.59%) HND
12 6 (0.87%) ITIL Certification
13 5 (0.72%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 75 (10.85%) SLA
2 31 (4.49%) Accessibility
3 11 (1.59%) ITGC
3 11 (1.59%) PMO
4 10 (1.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 8 (1.16%) QA
6 6 (0.87%) Data Quality
7 5 (0.72%) GDPR
8 2 (0.29%) DO-178B
8 2 (0.29%) NIST
8 2 (0.29%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.14%) SEPA
System Software
1 86 (12.45%) HDFS
2 44 (6.37%) Oracle RAC
3 36 (5.21%) VMware Infrastructure
4 32 (4.63%) Hyper-V
5 28 (4.05%) Active Directory
6 26 (3.76%) Docker
7 17 (2.46%) Virtual Machines
8 16 (2.32%) Firmware
9 9 (1.30%) VMware ESXi
10 8 (1.16%) Embedded Firmware
11 4 (0.58%) KVM
12 3 (0.43%) VirtualBox
12 3 (0.43%) XenApp
13 2 (0.29%) Kamailio
13 2 (0.29%) vSphere
14 1 (0.14%) PowerHA
14 1 (0.14%) Slurm Workload Manager
14 1 (0.14%) Veritas Cluster Server
14 1 (0.14%) Virtual Desktop
14 1 (0.14%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 94 (13.60%) Terraform
2 45 (6.51%) Data Guard
2 45 (6.51%) Oracle RMAN
3 29 (4.20%) Ansible
4 27 (3.91%) Single Sign-On
5 26 (3.76%) Kubernetes
6 24 (3.47%) OpenSSO
7 19 (2.75%) Puppet
8 14 (2.03%) SCCM
9 13 (1.88%) WMI
10 12 (1.74%) WSUS
11 11 (1.59%) Grafana
12 6 (0.87%) ITRS Geneos
12 6 (0.87%) Microsoft Intune
12 6 (0.87%) Nagios
13 5 (0.72%) Opsgenie
13 5 (0.72%) Progress Chef
13 5 (0.72%) Prometheus
14 3 (0.43%) EMC VPLEX
14 3 (0.43%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 218 (31.55%) Oracle
2 112 (16.21%) Databricks
3 104 (15.05%) Microsoft
4 80 (11.58%) Informatica
5 73 (10.56%) Remedy
6 57 (8.25%) VMware
7 56 (8.10%) Cloudera
8 50 (7.24%) Red Hat
9 46 (6.66%) Sun
10 45 (6.51%) Splunk
11 30 (4.34%) NEC
12 25 (3.62%) Dynatrace
13 20 (2.89%) Dell
14 19 (2.75%) IBM
15 16 (2.32%) SAP
16 15 (2.17%) AppDynamics
17 14 (2.03%) BMC
18 13 (1.88%) Apple
18 13 (1.88%) Citrix
19 11 (1.59%) Sage