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 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 291 183 217
Rank change year-on-year -108 +34 +3
Permanent jobs citing Unix 335 810 1,369
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.99% 2.00% 1.92%
As % of the Operating Systems category 7.25% 12.93% 10.74%
Number of salaries quoted 201 471 735
10th Percentile £40,808 £43,750 £39,618
25th Percentile £46,250 £53,500 £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 £88,750 £87,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £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 4,623 6,263 12,747
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 13.67% 15.43% 17.89%
Number of salaries quoted 3,569 4,591 7,508
10th Percentile £30,200 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £38,750 £41,250 £40,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.36% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £66,250 £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 20 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 93 (27.76%) Azure
2 87 (25.97%) 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 12 (3.58%) 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%) NAS
11 2 (0.60%) RTP
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 22 (6.57%) NoSQL
6 19 (5.67%) MongoDB
7 18 (5.37%) Data Warehouse
8 17 (5.07%) RDBMS
9 13 (3.88%) DB2
10 12 (3.58%) Power BI
11 11 (3.28%) PostgreSQL
12 10 (2.99%) Tableau
13 5 (1.49%) Amazon RDS
13 5 (1.49%) InfluxDB
13 5 (1.49%) Oracle Reports
14 3 (0.90%) Azure SQL Database
14 3 (0.90%) Elasticsearch
14 3 (0.90%) MariaDB
14 3 (0.90%) Metadata
14 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%) Burp Suite
7 2 (0.60%) JUnit
7 2 (0.60%) Metasploit
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%) Subversion
General
1 139 (41.49%) Finance
2 111 (33.13%) Social Skills
3 58 (17.31%) Public Sector
4 42 (12.54%) Banking
5 30 (8.96%) Analytical Skills
6 29 (8.66%) Local Government
6 29 (8.66%) Police
7 16 (4.78%) Front Office
7 16 (4.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 14 (4.18%) Military
9 13 (3.88%) Games
10 12 (3.58%) Back Office
10 12 (3.58%) Law
11 8 (2.39%) Financial Institution
12 7 (2.09%) Retail
12 7 (2.09%) Telecoms
13 4 (1.19%) Welsh Language
14 3 (0.90%) Electronics
14 3 (0.90%) Legal
15 2 (0.60%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 59 (17.61%) Senior
2 48 (14.33%) 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%) Security Engineer
13 14 (4.18%) Data 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%) MySQL DBA
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%) JPA
9 2 (0.60%) Oracle ADF
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
6 10 (2.99%) Onboarding
7 8 (2.39%) Cyberattack
7 8 (2.39%) Data Fabric
8 6 (1.79%) Algorithms
8 6 (1.79%) Greenfield Project
9 5 (1.49%) Client/Server
9 5 (1.49%) Hedge funds
10 4 (1.19%) Clustering
10 4 (1.19%) Cyber Kill Chain
10 4 (1.19%) Cyber Security Posture
11 3 (0.90%) Security Posture
11 3 (0.90%) VAX
Operating Systems
1 233 (69.55%) 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 71 (21.19%) 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 80 (23.88%) 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 34 (10.15%) 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%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 113 (33.73%) 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
14 8 (2.39%) Murex