Unix Jobs in the UK excluding London

Unix
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 272 195 223
Rank change year-on-year -77 +28 -29
Permanent jobs citing Unix 717 1,080 1,256
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.00% 1.83% 1.73%
As % of the Operating Systems category 6.79% 11.05% 8.36%
Number of salaries quoted 342 418 667
10th Percentile £33,000 £34,875 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,500 £43,174 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,000 £57,413 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.17% +9.36% +10.53%
75th Percentile £67,968 £70,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £82,548 £80,000 £73,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £69,447 £62,500
% change year-on-year -13.60% +11.12% +4.17%

All Operating Systems
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London with a requirement for operating system skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 10,563 9,771 15,019
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 14.75% 16.52% 20.69%
Number of salaries quoted 8,147 6,137 9,380
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 £60,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £68,750 £73,750 £73,250
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 20 May 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 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
Scotland -25 201 £42,000 -30.00% 18
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% 13
Midlands -82 78 £50,000 -23.08% 9
North West -25 72 £55,000 -8.33% 9
Wales +17 53 £42,904 -26.12% 4
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
Northern Ireland +8 15 £90,000 +77.34% 4
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
1 102 (14.23%) Apache Spark
2 72 (10.04%) WebLogic
3 44 (6.14%) Oracle Service Bus
4 26 (3.63%) Tomcat
5 22 (3.07%) Apache
5 22 (3.07%) WebSphere
6 17 (2.37%) Captiva
6 17 (2.37%) FileNet
7 16 (2.23%) Apache Airflow
7 16 (2.23%) IIS
8 12 (1.67%) Microsoft Exchange
8 12 (1.67%) SharePoint
9 10 (1.39%) nginx
10 8 (1.12%) Confluence
11 4 (0.56%) JBoss
12 3 (0.42%) GlassFish
13 2 (0.28%) OpenStack
13 2 (0.28%) Oracle Workflow
14 1 (0.14%) Oracle Spatial
14 1 (0.14%) SAP Portal
Applications
1 70 (9.76%) Microsoft Office
2 53 (7.39%) Microsoft Excel
3 44 (6.14%) MS Visio
4 4 (0.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.28%) CATIA
5 2 (0.28%) NASTRAN
Business Applications
1 45 (6.28%) Remedy ITSM
2 30 (4.18%) NEC Housing
3 11 (1.53%) Unit4 Business World
4 2 (0.28%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (0.28%) Oracle EBS R12
4 2 (0.28%) 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
1 239 (33.33%) AWS
2 122 (17.02%) Azure
3 55 (7.67%) GCP
3 55 (7.67%) SaaS
4 53 (7.39%) IaaS
5 28 (3.91%) GitHub
6 27 (3.77%) Microsoft 365
7 24 (3.35%) PaaS
8 23 (3.21%) Amazon EKS
9 16 (2.23%) OpenShift
10 11 (1.53%) Serverless
11 9 (1.26%) Power Platform
12 8 (1.12%) Azure Data Factory
13 7 (0.98%) Cloud Computing
14 6 (0.84%) Dynamics 365
14 6 (0.84%) Entra ID
15 5 (0.70%) Amazon EC2
16 4 (0.56%) Google Docs
16 4 (0.56%) OCI
17 3 (0.42%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 44 (6.14%) Firewall
2 31 (4.32%) TCP/IP
3 20 (2.79%) DNS
3 20 (2.79%) Internet
4 16 (2.23%) SNMP
5 14 (1.95%) Network Security
6 13 (1.81%) SSH
6 13 (1.81%) VLAN
6 13 (1.81%) VPN
7 12 (1.67%) DHCP
7 12 (1.67%) HTTP
8 10 (1.39%) SAN
9 8 (1.12%) SMTP
10 5 (0.70%) LAN
10 5 (0.70%) WAN
11 4 (0.56%) PBX
11 4 (0.56%) Wireless
12 3 (0.42%) Reverse Proxy
13 2 (0.28%) 5G
13 2 (0.28%) Cisco IOS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 113 (15.76%) NoSQL
2 102 (14.23%) Apache Hive
2 102 (14.23%) HBase
3 88 (12.27%) Oracle Database
4 72 (10.04%) Hadoop
5 59 (8.23%) MySQL
6 47 (6.56%) SQL Server
7 46 (6.42%) Oracle Database 11g
8 44 (6.14%) Oracle Database 10g
8 44 (6.14%) VLDB
9 37 (5.16%) Big Data
10 36 (5.02%) Relational Database
11 34 (4.74%) Data Warehouse
12 33 (4.60%) PostgreSQL
13 27 (3.77%) Elasticsearch
14 21 (2.93%) Data Lake
15 18 (2.51%) Oracle Database 12c
16 14 (1.95%) RDBMS
17 12 (1.67%) DB2
18 9 (1.26%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 125 (17.43%) Git
2 112 (15.62%) Jenkins
3 86 (11.99%) Bitbucket Server
4 51 (7.11%) JIRA
5 20 (2.79%) GitLab
6 19 (2.65%) Oracle Forms
7 13 (1.81%) Eclipse
8 11 (1.53%) CircleCI
9 10 (1.39%) GNU Toolchain
9 10 (1.39%) LabVIEW
9 10 (1.39%) Subversion
10 6 (0.84%) Appium
10 6 (0.84%) RStudio
10 6 (0.84%) UI Automator
11 5 (0.70%) Bitbucket
12 3 (0.42%) IBM UrbanCode
12 3 (0.42%) Oracle APEX
13 2 (0.28%) Burp Suite
13 2 (0.28%) Metasploit
13 2 (0.28%) VectorCAST
General
1 258 (35.98%) Finance
2 163 (22.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 153 (21.34%) Law
4 145 (20.22%) Social Skills
5 130 (18.13%) Analytical Skills
6 108 (15.06%) Legal
7 65 (9.07%) Public Sector
8 54 (7.53%) Police
9 36 (5.02%) Banking
10 35 (4.88%) Local Government
11 22 (3.07%) Marketing
12 21 (2.93%) Presentation Skills
13 16 (2.23%) Military
14 15 (2.09%) Back Office
15 11 (1.53%) Games
15 11 (1.53%) Retail
16 10 (1.39%) Telecoms
17 6 (0.84%) Automotive
18 3 (0.42%) Electronics
19 2 (0.28%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 182 (25.38%) Software Engineer
2 125 (17.43%) Analyst
3 115 (16.04%) Developer
4 107 (14.92%) Senior
5 104 (14.50%) Applications Support
6 99 (13.81%) Support Analyst
7 81 (11.30%) Applications Support Analyst
8 69 (9.62%) AWS Engineer
9 67 (9.34%) AWS Software Engineer
10 64 (8.93%) Developer/Software Engineer
11 60 (8.37%) Database Engineer
12 56 (7.81%) Database Developer
13 47 (6.56%) SQL Analyst
13 47 (6.56%) SQL Support Analyst
14 44 (6.14%) Oracle Analyst
14 44 (6.14%) Oracle Support Analyst
15 42 (5.86%) Administrator
15 42 (5.86%) Python Engineer
16 41 (5.72%) Java Engineer
16 41 (5.72%) Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (8.23%) Spring
2 33 (4.60%) Web Services
3 32 (4.46%) REST
4 29 (4.04%) J2EE
5 27 (3.77%) Node.js
6 26 (3.63%) Java EE
7 24 (3.35%) React
8 21 (2.93%) JPA
9 20 (2.79%) OpenMP
9 20 (2.79%) XML
10 19 (2.65%) CSS
11 16 (2.23%) AngularJS
11 16 (2.23%) HTML
12 15 (2.09%) OpenID
12 15 (2.09%) SOAP
13 14 (1.95%) OpenACC
14 13 (1.81%) Ajax
14 13 (1.81%) JDBC
14 13 (1.81%) ODBC
14 13 (1.81%) XHTML
Miscellaneous
1 139 (19.39%) Algorithms
2 61 (8.51%) Self-Motivation
3 45 (6.28%) Public Cloud
4 39 (5.44%) Data Centre
5 33 (4.60%) Management Information System
6 28 (3.91%) CUDA
7 26 (3.63%) Linux Command Line
8 19 (2.65%) Private Cloud
9 18 (2.51%) Cloud Native
10 17 (2.37%) DataPower
11 15 (2.09%) Blockchain
11 15 (2.09%) Mainframe
12 14 (1.95%) Driving Licence
12 14 (1.95%) Embedded Systems
13 13 (1.81%) CMDB
14 10 (1.39%) GNSS
15 9 (1.26%) Legacy Systems
15 9 (1.26%) Mobile App
15 9 (1.26%) Product Ownership
15 9 (1.26%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 386 (53.84%) Linux
2 253 (35.29%) Windows
3 93 (12.97%) Solaris
4 51 (7.11%) Windows Server
5 21 (2.93%) AIX
6 20 (2.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 18 (2.51%) CentOS
8 17 (2.37%) Mac OS
8 17 (2.37%) Ubuntu
9 14 (1.95%) Mac OS X
10 13 (1.81%) CoreOS
11 10 (1.39%) VMS
11 10 (1.39%) Windows 10
12 7 (0.98%) Windows Server 2019
13 6 (0.84%) Windows Server 2016
14 5 (0.70%) Debian
15 4 (0.56%) Windows Server 2008
16 3 (0.42%) Windows 7
17 2 (0.28%) Android
17 2 (0.28%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 229 (31.94%) Agile
2 201 (28.03%) Artificial Intelligence
3 189 (26.36%) Software Engineering
4 156 (21.76%) CI/CD
5 142 (19.80%) SDLC
6 141 (19.67%) Machine Learning
7 138 (19.25%) ITIL
8 135 (18.83%) Open Source
9 133 (18.55%) Problem-Solving
10 125 (17.43%) Operational Stability
11 120 (16.74%) Test Automation
12 117 (16.32%) Actionable Insight
12 117 (16.32%) Continuous Improvement
12 117 (16.32%) Risk Management
13 115 (16.04%) Community of Practice
14 111 (15.48%) Incident Management
15 107 (14.92%) Visualisation
16 99 (13.81%) TDD
17 96 (13.39%) Microservices
18 90 (12.55%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 296 (41.28%) SQL
2 254 (35.43%) Python
3 213 (29.71%) Java
4 138 (19.25%) PL/SQL
5 87 (12.13%) Shell Script
6 65 (9.07%) Bash
7 63 (8.79%) C
8 54 (7.53%) C++
9 51 (7.11%) PowerShell
10 32 (4.46%) Fortran
11 29 (4.04%) Perl
12 23 (3.21%) JavaScript
13 13 (1.81%) Ruby
14 10 (1.39%) C#
14 10 (1.39%) MATLAB
15 9 (1.26%) PHP
16 7 (0.98%) R
17 5 (0.70%) COBOL
18 4 (0.56%) T-SQL
18 4 (0.56%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 216 (30.13%) Degree
2 177 (24.69%) Security Cleared
3 121 (16.88%) SC Cleared
4 32 (4.46%) PhD
5 31 (4.32%) Master's Degree
6 30 (4.18%) Computer Science Degree
7 21 (2.93%) AWS Certification
8 19 (2.65%) DV Cleared
9 15 (2.09%) CISSP
9 15 (2.09%) Oracle Certification
10 14 (1.95%) CISM
10 14 (1.95%) GCIA
10 14 (1.95%) GCIH
10 14 (1.95%) GREM
11 13 (1.81%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 13 (1.81%) Azure Certification
11 13 (1.81%) HND
12 11 (1.53%) CISA
13 7 (0.98%) Microsoft Certification
14 6 (0.84%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 79 (11.02%) SLA
2 31 (4.32%) Accessibility
3 18 (2.51%) GDPR
4 11 (1.53%) ITGC
4 11 (1.53%) PMO
5 10 (1.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 8 (1.12%) QA
7 6 (0.84%) Data Quality
8 4 (0.56%) NIST
9 2 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (0.28%) DO-178B
9 2 (0.28%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.14%) SEPA
System Software
1 102 (14.23%) HDFS
2 47 (6.56%) Oracle RAC
3 38 (5.30%) VMware Infrastructure
4 33 (4.60%) Hyper-V
5 31 (4.32%) Active Directory
6 27 (3.77%) Docker
7 18 (2.51%) Virtual Machines
8 16 (2.23%) Firmware
9 8 (1.12%) Embedded Firmware
9 8 (1.12%) VMware ESXi
10 4 (0.56%) KVM
11 3 (0.42%) VirtualBox
11 3 (0.42%) XenApp
12 2 (0.28%) Kamailio
12 2 (0.28%) Shibboleth
12 2 (0.28%) vSphere
13 1 (0.14%) Lustre
13 1 (0.14%) Slurm Workload Manager
13 1 (0.14%) Virtual Desktop
13 1 (0.14%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 100 (13.95%) Terraform
2 46 (6.42%) Data Guard
2 46 (6.42%) Oracle RMAN
3 31 (4.32%) Ansible
4 29 (4.04%) Single Sign-On
5 26 (3.63%) OpenSSO
6 25 (3.49%) Kubernetes
7 21 (2.93%) Puppet
8 17 (2.37%) SCCM
9 13 (1.81%) WMI
10 12 (1.67%) Grafana
10 12 (1.67%) WSUS
11 9 (1.26%) Progress Chef
12 7 (0.98%) Microsoft Intune
13 6 (0.84%) ITRS Geneos
13 6 (0.84%) Prometheus
14 5 (0.70%) Nagios
14 5 (0.70%) Opsgenie
15 4 (0.56%) SCOM
16 3 (0.42%) Oracle Statspack
Vendors
1 224 (31.24%) Oracle
2 128 (17.85%) Databricks
3 97 (13.53%) Microsoft
4 87 (12.13%) Informatica
5 77 (10.74%) Remedy
6 72 (10.04%) Cloudera
7 59 (8.23%) VMware
8 46 (6.42%) Sun
9 45 (6.28%) Splunk
10 36 (5.02%) Red Hat
11 31 (4.32%) IBM
12 30 (4.18%) NEC
13 29 (4.04%) SAP
14 25 (3.49%) Dynatrace
15 20 (2.79%) Dell
16 19 (2.65%) ServiceNow
17 17 (2.37%) Kofax
17 17 (2.37%) Pega
18 15 (2.09%) AppDynamics
19 14 (1.95%) BMC