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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 301 178 225
Rank change year-on-year -123 +47 +2
Permanent jobs citing Unix 335 794 1,435
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.96% 2.06% 1.93%
As % of the Operating Systems category 7.20% 13.37% 10.83%
Number of salaries quoted 198 474 743
10th Percentile £40,825 £43,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £47,495 £52,500 £47,869
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,250 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.92% - +10.17%
75th Percentile £90,000 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £97,500 £87,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £67,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -11.11% +8.00% +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 4,651 5,940 13,255
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 13.39% 15.44% 17.84%
Number of salaries quoted 3,547 4,381 7,456
10th Percentile £30,500 £30,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £39,000 £41,250 £40,963
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.45% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £66,250 £75,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £83,000 £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 1 June 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 34 (10.15%) Tomcat
2 33 (9.85%) Apache
3 29 (8.66%) IIS
4 12 (3.58%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (0.90%) GlassFish
5 3 (0.90%) JBoss
6 2 (0.60%) Oracle Service Bus
6 2 (0.60%) Oracle Workflow
6 2 (0.60%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.60%) WebLogic
7 1 (0.30%) Apache Pulsar
7 1 (0.30%) Confluence
7 1 (0.30%) IBM Domino
7 1 (0.30%) nginx
7 1 (0.30%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.30%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.30%) WordPress
Applications
1 8 (2.39%) Microsoft Excel
1 8 (2.39%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.90%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.60%) CATIA
3 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 29 (8.66%) SaaS
5 15 (4.48%) GCP
5 15 (4.48%) Microsoft 365
6 14 (4.18%) Cloud Computing
7 13 (3.88%) Power Platform
8 11 (3.28%) Serverless
9 8 (2.39%) Amazon S3
10 6 (1.79%) Amazon EC2
10 6 (1.79%) Azure Machine Learning
11 5 (1.49%) Entra ID
11 5 (1.49%) GitHub
11 5 (1.49%) OCI
11 5 (1.49%) PaaS
11 5 (1.49%) Rubrik
12 4 (1.19%) AWS CloudFormation
12 4 (1.19%) Azure Sentinel
12 4 (1.19%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 26 (7.76%) Firewall
2 14 (4.18%) Network Security
3 13 (3.88%) SAN
4 12 (3.58%) DNS
4 12 (3.58%) VLAN
5 11 (3.28%) VPN
6 9 (2.69%) DHCP
7 5 (1.49%) TCP/IP
8 4 (1.19%) PBX
9 3 (0.90%) Internet
9 3 (0.90%) Reverse Proxy
9 3 (0.90%) SMTP
9 3 (0.90%) Wi-Fi
9 3 (0.90%) Wireless
10 2 (0.60%) Asterisk PBX
10 2 (0.60%) HTTP
10 2 (0.60%) LAN
10 2 (0.60%) RTP
10 2 (0.60%) VoIP
11 1 (0.30%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (14.93%) Oracle Database
2 45 (13.43%) SQL Server
3 32 (9.55%) MySQL
4 25 (7.46%) NoSQL
5 23 (6.87%) Relational Database
6 20 (5.97%) MongoDB
7 19 (5.67%) Data Warehouse
8 17 (5.07%) RDBMS
9 14 (4.18%) DB2
10 13 (3.88%) Power BI
11 12 (3.58%) PostgreSQL
12 11 (3.28%) Tableau
13 5 (1.49%) InfluxDB
13 5 (1.49%) Oracle Reports
14 4 (1.19%) Amazon RDS
15 3 (0.90%) Azure SQL Database
15 3 (0.90%) Elasticsearch
15 3 (0.90%) Ingres
15 3 (0.90%) MariaDB
15 3 (0.90%) Oracle Database 12c
Development Applications
1 13 (3.88%) 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%) JUnit
7 2 (0.60%) Oracle Forms
8 1 (0.30%) Ant
8 1 (0.30%) Eclipse
8 1 (0.30%) IntelliJ
8 1 (0.30%) Metasploit
8 1 (0.30%) Subversion
8 1 (0.30%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 140 (41.79%) Finance
2 110 (32.84%) Social Skills
3 58 (17.31%) Public Sector
4 42 (12.54%) Banking
5 30 (8.96%) Analytical Skills
6 29 (8.66%) Police
7 28 (8.36%) Local Government
8 17 (5.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 16 (4.78%) Front Office
10 14 (4.18%) Military
11 13 (3.88%) Games
12 12 (3.58%) Back Office
13 11 (3.28%) Law
14 8 (2.39%) Financial Institution
15 6 (1.79%) Retail
15 6 (1.79%) Telecoms
16 4 (1.19%) Welsh Language
17 3 (0.90%) Electronics
17 3 (0.90%) Legal
18 2 (0.60%) International Banking
Job Titles
1 59 (17.61%) Senior
2 49 (14.63%) Applications Support
3 45 (13.43%) Analyst
4 42 (12.54%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 30 (8.96%) Developer
6 28 (8.36%) Support Analyst
7 25 (7.46%) Software Engineer
8 21 (6.27%) DBA
9 19 (5.67%) Oracle DBA
10 17 (5.07%) 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
12 15 (4.48%) Software Developer
13 13 (3.88%) Audit Manager
13 13 (3.88%) IT Audit Manager
13 13 (3.88%) IT Manager
14 12 (3.58%) MySQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (8.96%) Web Services
2 16 (4.78%) Node.js
3 14 (4.18%) Kafka
4 10 (2.99%) XML
5 9 (2.69%) Middleware
5 9 (2.69%) React
6 8 (2.39%) FIX Protocol
7 7 (2.09%) .NET
8 5 (1.49%) AngularJS
8 5 (1.49%) SOAP
9 4 (1.19%) OAuth
9 4 (1.19%) OAuth2
9 4 (1.19%) RESTful
10 3 (0.90%) Elastic Stack
10 3 (0.90%) HTML
10 3 (0.90%) jQuery
10 3 (0.90%) LDAP
10 3 (0.90%) Redux
10 3 (0.90%) SAML
10 3 (0.90%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 61 (18.21%) Public Cloud
2 31 (9.25%) Data Centre
3 29 (8.66%) Management Information System
4 25 (7.46%) Self-Motivation
5 10 (2.99%) Cloud Native
5 10 (2.99%) Cyber Threat
5 10 (2.99%) Linux Command Line
5 10 (2.99%) Onboarding
5 10 (2.99%) Replication
6 8 (2.39%) Cyberattack
6 8 (2.39%) Data Fabric
7 6 (1.79%) Algorithms
7 6 (1.79%) Greenfield Project
8 5 (1.49%) Client/Server
8 5 (1.49%) Hedge funds
9 4 (1.19%) Clustering
9 4 (1.19%) Cyber Kill Chain
9 4 (1.19%) Cyber Security Posture
10 3 (0.90%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 3 (0.90%) VAX
Operating Systems
1 237 (70.75%) Linux
2 212 (63.28%) Windows
3 57 (17.01%) Solaris
4 49 (14.63%) Windows Server
5 22 (6.57%) CentOS
6 21 (6.27%) AIX
7 19 (5.67%) 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%) Mac OS
15 2 (0.60%) Oracle Linux
16 1 (0.30%) HPUX
16 1 (0.30%) NetWare
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (20.60%) ITIL
2 68 (20.30%) Change Management
3 57 (17.01%) Mentoring
4 56 (16.72%) DevOps
5 54 (16.12%) Actionable Insight
6 47 (14.03%) Cybersecurity
6 47 (14.03%) Incident Management
7 45 (13.43%) Agile
7 45 (13.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 41 (12.24%) Problem-Solving
9 39 (11.64%) Coaching
9 39 (11.64%) Roadmaps
10 38 (11.34%) Incident Response
10 38 (11.34%) Service Delivery
11 34 (10.15%) Disaster Recovery
12 31 (9.25%) Data Security
12 31 (9.25%) Task Automation
13 30 (8.96%) Server Management
14 29 (8.66%) Artificial Intelligence
15 28 (8.36%) Architecture Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 96 (28.66%) SQL
2 81 (24.18%) Python
3 50 (14.93%) PowerShell
4 44 (13.13%) Shell Script
5 35 (10.45%) Java
6 27 (8.06%) Bash
7 16 (4.78%) Ruby
8 15 (4.48%) C++
9 14 (4.18%) JavaScript
10 13 (3.88%) C
11 10 (2.99%) Perl
12 7 (2.09%) PHP
13 6 (1.79%) Fortran
13 6 (1.79%) PL/SQL
14 5 (1.49%) OCaml
14 5 (1.49%) SystemTap
14 5 (1.49%) T-SQL
14 5 (1.49%) TypeScript
15 4 (1.19%) C#
16 3 (0.90%) Go
Qualifications
1 124 (37.01%) Degree
2 80 (23.88%) Security Cleared
3 42 (12.54%) SC Cleared
4 18 (5.37%) CISM
4 18 (5.37%) CISSP
5 14 (4.18%) GCIA
5 14 (4.18%) GCIH
5 14 (4.18%) GREM
6 13 (3.88%) CISA
7 12 (3.58%) AWS Certification
7 12 (3.58%) Computer Science Degree
8 10 (2.99%) Master's Degree
9 6 (1.79%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 6 (1.79%) Microsoft Certification
9 6 (1.79%) PhD
10 5 (1.49%) CCNA
10 5 (1.49%) Cisco Certification
11 4 (1.19%) Azure Certification
11 4 (1.19%) GIAC
11 4 (1.19%) ISTQB
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 10 (2.99%) 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%) JSP 440
7 2 (0.60%) NIST 800
7 2 (0.60%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.60%) SEPA
8 1 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 36 (10.75%) VMware Infrastructure
2 30 (8.96%) Docker
3 22 (6.57%) Virtual Machines
4 19 (5.67%) Active Directory
5 18 (5.37%) 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%) Postfix
10 1 (0.30%) PowerHA
10 1 (0.30%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 1 (0.30%) vCloud
10 1 (0.30%) Veritas Cluster Server
10 1 (0.30%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 37 (11.04%) Kubernetes
2 24 (7.16%) Ansible
3 20 (5.97%) Terraform
4 19 (5.67%) SCCM
5 14 (4.18%) WSUS
6 12 (3.58%) Puppet
7 8 (2.39%) Grafana
7 8 (2.39%) NetBackup
8 6 (1.79%) Nessus
8 6 (1.79%) Nexpose
9 5 (1.49%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 5 (1.49%) Nagios
9 5 (1.49%) Single Sign-On
9 5 (1.49%) vRealize Orchestrator
10 4 (1.19%) Progress Chef
11 3 (0.90%) EMC VPLEX
11 3 (0.90%) Oracle Statspack
12 2 (0.60%) Data Guard
12 2 (0.60%) Prometheus
12 2 (0.60%) SCOM
Vendors
1 118 (35.22%) Oracle
2 95 (28.36%) Microsoft
3 64 (19.10%) 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 17 (5.07%) 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
13 10 (2.99%) Veeam
14 9 (2.69%) Citrix
15 8 (2.39%) Algorithmics
15 8 (2.39%) Cisco
15 8 (2.39%) ION Trading
15 8 (2.39%) Murex