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

6 months to
19 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 304 178 223
Rank change year-on-year -126 +45 +1
Permanent jobs citing Unix 335 811 1,348
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.99% 2.00% 1.91%
As % of the Operating Systems category 7.23% 12.94% 10.72%
Number of salaries quoted 201 472 726
10th Percentile £40,808 £43,750 £39,182
25th Percentile £46,250 £53,000 £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 £90,000 £87,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £120,000 £97,500 £87,500
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 4,633 6,268 12,580
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 13.69% 15.45% 17.84%
Number of salaries quoted 3,577 4,598 7,436
10th Percentile £30,500 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £39,000 £41,250 £40,475
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.45% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £67,000 £75,000 £73,675
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 19 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 33 (9.85%) Apache
1 33 (9.85%) Tomcat
2 29 (8.66%) IIS
3 12 (3.58%) 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 (2.39%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (2.09%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.90%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.60%) CATIA
4 2 (0.60%) NASTRAN
Business Applications
1 27 (8.06%) NEC Housing
2 13 (3.88%) 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 (28.06%) Azure
2 88 (26.27%) AWS
3 33 (9.85%) IaaS
4 28 (8.36%) SaaS
5 18 (5.37%) Microsoft 365
6 14 (4.18%) Cloud Computing
6 14 (4.18%) GCP
7 13 (3.88%) Power Platform
8 11 (3.28%) Serverless
9 9 (2.69%) Amazon S3
10 7 (2.09%) Amazon EC2
11 6 (1.79%) Entra ID
12 5 (1.49%) AWS CloudFormation
12 5 (1.49%) Azure Machine Learning
12 5 (1.49%) GitHub
12 5 (1.49%) OCI
12 5 (1.49%) PaaS
12 5 (1.49%) Rubrik
12 5 (1.49%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 4 (1.19%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 30 (8.96%) Firewall
2 15 (4.48%) Network Security
2 15 (4.48%) SAN
3 12 (3.58%) DNS
3 12 (3.58%) VLAN
4 11 (3.28%) VPN
5 9 (2.69%) DHCP
6 8 (2.39%) TCP/IP
7 6 (1.79%) Internet
8 5 (1.49%) Wireless
9 4 (1.19%) PBX
10 3 (0.90%) LAN
10 3 (0.90%) Reverse Proxy
10 3 (0.90%) SMTP
10 3 (0.90%) VoIP
10 3 (0.90%) Wi-Fi
11 2 (0.60%) Asterisk PBX
11 2 (0.60%) HTTP
11 2 (0.60%) NAS
11 2 (0.60%) Wireless Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (14.03%) Oracle Database
2 43 (12.84%) SQL Server
3 34 (10.15%) MySQL
4 24 (7.16%) Relational Database
5 23 (6.87%) NoSQL
6 20 (5.97%) MongoDB
7 18 (5.37%) Data Warehouse
8 17 (5.07%) RDBMS
9 13 (3.88%) DB2
9 13 (3.88%) Power BI
10 12 (3.58%) PostgreSQL
11 11 (3.28%) Tableau
12 5 (1.49%) Amazon RDS
12 5 (1.49%) InfluxDB
12 5 (1.49%) Oracle Reports
13 3 (0.90%) Elasticsearch
13 3 (0.90%) Ingres
13 3 (0.90%) InterSystems Cache
13 3 (0.90%) MariaDB
13 3 (0.90%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 12 (3.58%) JIRA
2 11 (3.28%) Git
2 11 (3.28%) Jenkins
3 6 (1.79%) Snyk
4 5 (1.49%) DTrace
4 5 (1.49%) GDB
4 5 (1.49%) JMeter
5 4 (1.19%) IBM UrbanCode
5 4 (1.19%) Postman
5 4 (1.19%) SoapUI
6 3 (0.90%) Maven
6 3 (0.90%) TeamCity
7 2 (0.60%) Burp Suite
7 2 (0.60%) JUnit
7 2 (0.60%) Metasploit
7 2 (0.60%) Oracle Forms
8 1 (0.30%) GitLab
8 1 (0.30%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.30%) Team Foundation Server
8 1 (0.30%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 139 (41.49%) Finance
2 111 (33.13%) Social Skills
3 58 (17.31%) Public Sector
4 41 (12.24%) Banking
5 30 (8.96%) Analytical Skills
6 29 (8.66%) Local Government
6 29 (8.66%) Police
7 16 (4.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 15 (4.48%) Front Office
9 14 (4.18%) Military
10 13 (3.88%) Games
11 12 (3.58%) Law
12 11 (3.28%) Back Office
13 8 (2.39%) Financial Institution
14 7 (2.09%) Retail
14 7 (2.09%) Telecoms
15 4 (1.19%) Welsh Language
16 3 (0.90%) Electronics
16 3 (0.90%) Legal
17 2 (0.60%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 59 (17.61%) Senior
2 47 (14.03%) Applications Support
3 46 (13.73%) Analyst
4 43 (12.84%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 30 (8.96%) Developer
6 28 (8.36%) Support Analyst
7 23 (6.87%) Software Engineer
8 20 (5.97%) DBA
9 19 (5.67%) Oracle DBA
10 18 (5.37%) Lead
11 16 (4.78%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
11 16 (4.78%) Threat Intelligence Analyst
12 15 (4.48%) Architect
12 15 (4.48%) Data Engineer
12 15 (4.48%) Security Engineer
13 14 (4.18%) Software Developer
14 13 (3.88%) Audit Manager
14 13 (3.88%) IT Audit Manager
14 13 (3.88%) IT Manager
15 12 (3.58%) Applications Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (8.96%) Web Services
2 15 (4.48%) Node.js
3 14 (4.18%) Kafka
4 10 (2.99%) XML
5 8 (2.39%) FIX Protocol
5 8 (2.39%) Middleware
5 8 (2.39%) React
6 5 (1.49%) .NET
6 5 (1.49%) AngularJS
6 5 (1.49%) SOAP
7 4 (1.19%) LDAP
7 4 (1.19%) OAuth
7 4 (1.19%) OAuth2
7 4 (1.19%) RESTful
7 4 (1.19%) SAML
8 3 (0.90%) Elastic Stack
8 3 (0.90%) jQuery
8 3 (0.90%) Spring
9 2 (0.60%) Redux
9 2 (0.60%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 61 (18.21%) Public Cloud
2 33 (9.85%) Data Centre
3 28 (8.36%) Management Information System
4 25 (7.46%) Self-Motivation
5 11 (3.28%) Cyber Threat
5 11 (3.28%) Replication
6 10 (2.99%) Cloud Native
6 10 (2.99%) Linux Command Line
7 9 (2.69%) Onboarding
8 8 (2.39%) Cyberattack
8 8 (2.39%) Data Fabric
9 6 (1.79%) Algorithms
9 6 (1.79%) Greenfield Project
10 5 (1.49%) Client/Server
10 5 (1.49%) Hedge funds
11 4 (1.19%) Clustering
11 4 (1.19%) Cyber Kill Chain
11 4 (1.19%) Cyber Security Posture
12 3 (0.90%) Security Posture
12 3 (0.90%) VAX
Operating Systems
1 234 (69.85%) Linux
2 216 (64.48%) Windows
3 56 (16.72%) Solaris
4 50 (14.93%) Windows Server
5 22 (6.57%) CentOS
6 21 (6.27%) AIX
7 20 (5.97%) Ubuntu
8 15 (4.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 14 (4.18%) Mac OS X
10 13 (3.88%) VMS
11 12 (3.58%) zOS
12 7 (2.09%) Windows 10
13 4 (1.19%) Windows Server 2016
14 3 (0.90%) CoreOS
14 3 (0.90%) Windows 7
14 3 (0.90%) Windows Server 2008
15 2 (0.60%) Debian
15 2 (0.60%) Kali Linux
15 2 (0.60%) Mac OS
15 2 (0.60%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (20.90%) ITIL
2 69 (20.60%) Change Management
3 57 (17.01%) Mentoring
4 54 (16.12%) Actionable Insight
4 54 (16.12%) DevOps
5 48 (14.33%) Cybersecurity
6 47 (14.03%) Incident Management
7 46 (13.73%) Agile
7 46 (13.73%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 43 (12.84%) Problem-Solving
9 41 (12.24%) Incident Response
10 39 (11.64%) Coaching
10 39 (11.64%) Roadmaps
11 37 (11.04%) Service Delivery
12 33 (9.85%) Disaster Recovery
13 31 (9.25%) Data Security
13 31 (9.25%) Server Management
13 31 (9.25%) Task Automation
14 28 (8.36%) Architecture Roadmap
15 27 (8.06%) Network Architecture
Programming Languages
1 93 (27.76%) SQL
2 81 (24.18%) Python
3 49 (14.63%) PowerShell
4 46 (13.73%) Shell Script
5 33 (9.85%) Java
6 29 (8.66%) Bash
7 15 (4.48%) C++
8 14 (4.18%) Ruby
9 13 (3.88%) C
9 13 (3.88%) JavaScript
10 9 (2.69%) Perl
11 8 (2.39%) PHP
12 6 (1.79%) Fortran
12 6 (1.79%) PL/SQL
13 5 (1.49%) C#
13 5 (1.49%) OCaml
13 5 (1.49%) SystemTap
13 5 (1.49%) T-SQL
13 5 (1.49%) TypeScript
14 3 (0.90%) Go
Qualifications
1 127 (37.91%) Degree
2 79 (23.58%) Security Cleared
3 41 (12.24%) SC Cleared
4 19 (5.67%) CISM
4 19 (5.67%) CISSP
5 15 (4.48%) GCIH
6 14 (4.18%) GCIA
6 14 (4.18%) GREM
7 13 (3.88%) CISA
8 12 (3.58%) AWS Certification
8 12 (3.58%) Computer Science Degree
9 10 (2.99%) Master's Degree
10 7 (2.09%) Microsoft Certification
11 6 (1.79%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 6 (1.79%) PhD
12 5 (1.49%) Cisco Certification
13 4 (1.19%) CCNA
13 4 (1.19%) GIAC
13 4 (1.19%) MCSE
13 4 (1.19%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (9.25%) Accessibility
2 16 (4.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 13 (3.88%) ITGC
3 13 (3.88%) PMO
4 11 (3.28%) NIST
5 5 (1.49%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 5 (1.49%) 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 38 (11.34%) VMware Infrastructure
2 28 (8.36%) Docker
3 22 (6.57%) Virtual Machines
4 20 (5.97%) Active Directory
5 19 (5.67%) Hyper-V
6 9 (2.69%) Firmware
7 5 (1.49%) 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 (10.45%) Kubernetes
2 24 (7.16%) Ansible
3 21 (6.27%) Terraform
4 20 (5.97%) SCCM
5 14 (4.18%) WSUS
6 12 (3.58%) Puppet
7 8 (2.39%) Grafana
8 7 (2.09%) NetBackup
9 6 (1.79%) Nessus
9 6 (1.79%) Nexpose
10 5 (1.49%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 5 (1.49%) Progress Chef
10 5 (1.49%) Single Sign-On
10 5 (1.49%) vRealize Orchestrator
11 4 (1.19%) 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
1 114 (34.03%) Oracle
2 94 (28.06%) Microsoft
3 66 (19.70%) VMware
4 27 (8.06%) NEC
5 25 (7.46%) IBM
6 24 (7.16%) Red Hat
7 23 (6.87%) Splunk
8 19 (5.67%) Dynatrace
9 18 (5.37%) Dell
10 13 (3.88%) BMC
10 13 (3.88%) Sage
10 13 (3.88%) SAP
11 12 (3.58%) Apple
12 11 (3.28%) Qualys
12 11 (3.28%) Veeam
13 9 (2.69%) Citrix
14 8 (2.39%) Algorithmics
14 8 (2.39%) Cisco
14 8 (2.39%) ION Trading
15 7 (2.09%) Murex