Unix
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 27 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 297 194 197
Rank change year-on-year -103 +3 -21
Permanent jobs citing Unix 1,005 1,883 3,478
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.98% 1.92% 2.09%
As % of the Operating Systems category 7.20% 11.94% 11.11%
Number of salaries quoted 520 959 1,576
10th Percentile £36,217 £40,937 £36,250
25th Percentile £43,750 £52,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,228 £67,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -12.25% +8.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £80,000 £89,852 £82,500
90th Percentile £96,375 £108,750 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +10.53%

All Operating Systems
UK

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 requirement for operating system skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 13,953 15,776 31,292
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.66% 16.11% 18.84%
Number of salaries quoted 10,706 10,606 16,511
10th Percentile £26,000 £27,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £35,000 £35,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% - +5.00%
75th Percentile £62,500 £71,250 £71,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £92,000 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -5.56% - -

Unix
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Unix as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Unix in the UK

Unix
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Unix.

Salary trend for Unix in the UK

Unix
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Unix over the 6 months to 27 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Unix in the UK

Unix
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Unix within the UK over the 6 months to 27 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
England -126 713 £60,000 -14.29% 260
UK excluding London -79 707 £50,000 -9.09% 184
Work from Home -122 338 £65,000 - 105
London -86 267 £80,000 -0.37% 154
Scotland -25 198 £42,000 -30.00% 18
South East -7 133 £52,500 - 97
North of England -79 129 £52,500 -3.67% 16
South West -69 84 £52,500 -0.19% 13
Midlands -88 77 £50,000 -23.08% 10
North West -20 70 £55,000 -8.33% 7
Wales +11 53 £42,904 -26.12% 4
West Midlands -9 49 £50,000 -23.08% 6
Yorkshire -59 37 £47,500 -19.49% 9
East Midlands -88 28 £50,000 -18.37% 4
North East +1 22 £47,137 +25.70%
East of England -72 18 £50,000 -16.67% 25
Northern Ireland +1 15 £90,000 +77.34% 4

Unix
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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
1 105 (10.45%) Apache Spark
2 72 (7.16%) WebLogic
3 44 (4.38%) Oracle Service Bus
4 41 (4.08%) Tomcat
5 39 (3.88%) Apache
6 34 (3.38%) Microsoft Exchange
7 29 (2.89%) IIS
8 18 (1.79%) nginx
9 17 (1.69%) Apache Airflow
10 16 (1.59%) Confluence
11 13 (1.29%) SharePoint
11 13 (1.29%) WebSphere
12 9 (0.90%) JBoss
13 8 (0.80%) Captiva
13 8 (0.80%) FileNet
14 3 (0.30%) GlassFish
15 2 (0.20%) OpenStack
15 2 (0.20%) Oracle Workflow
15 2 (0.20%) WordPress
16 1 (0.100%) Oracle Spatial
Applications
1 76 (7.56%) Microsoft Office
2 57 (5.67%) Microsoft Excel
3 45 (4.48%) MS Visio
4 5 (0.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.20%) CATIA
5 2 (0.20%) NASTRAN
Business Applications
1 49 (4.88%) NEC Housing
2 45 (4.48%) Remedy ITSM
3 17 (1.69%) Fidessa
3 17 (1.69%) Unit4 Business World
4 6 (0.60%) Temenos T24
5 5 (0.50%) Oracle Cash Management
6 2 (0.20%) Adaptiv
6 2 (0.20%) Oracle EBS
6 2 (0.20%) Oracle EBS R12
6 2 (0.20%) Teamcenter
7 1 (0.100%) Oracle Applications
7 1 (0.100%) SAP CRM
7 1 (0.100%) SAP GRC
7 1 (0.100%) SAP MDG
7 1 (0.100%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 310 (30.85%) AWS
2 176 (17.51%) Azure
3 58 (5.77%) SaaS
4 54 (5.37%) IaaS
5 52 (5.17%) GCP
6 30 (2.99%) Microsoft 365
7 25 (2.49%) GitHub
7 25 (2.49%) PaaS
7 25 (2.49%) Power Platform
8 24 (2.39%) Amazon EKS
9 18 (1.79%) Cloud Computing
10 16 (1.59%) OpenShift
11 15 (1.49%) Serverless
12 13 (1.29%) Amazon S3
13 9 (0.90%) Entra ID
14 8 (0.80%) Amazon EC2
14 8 (0.80%) Azure Data Factory
15 7 (0.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 6 (0.60%) AWS CloudFormation
16 6 (0.60%) Azure Machine Learning
Communications & Networking
1 80 (7.96%) Firewall
2 64 (6.37%) DNS
3 60 (5.97%) TCP/IP
4 46 (4.58%) DHCP
5 37 (3.68%) VPN
6 27 (2.69%) SNMP
7 24 (2.39%) HTTP
8 22 (2.19%) Internet
8 22 (2.19%) SAN
9 21 (2.09%) LAN
10 20 (1.99%) WAN
11 19 (1.89%) BGP
11 19 (1.89%) MPLS
12 18 (1.79%) Network Security
13 17 (1.69%) FIX Connectivity
13 17 (1.69%) SSH
14 13 (1.29%) SSL
14 13 (1.29%) VLAN
15 12 (1.19%) SMTP
16 11 (1.09%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 145 (14.43%) NoSQL
2 118 (11.74%) Oracle Database
3 108 (10.75%) SQL Server
4 102 (10.15%) Apache Hive
4 102 (10.15%) HBase
5 77 (7.66%) MySQL
6 73 (7.26%) Hadoop
7 58 (5.77%) PostgreSQL
8 51 (5.07%) Relational Database
9 46 (4.58%) Oracle Database 11g
10 44 (4.38%) Oracle Database 10g
10 44 (4.38%) VLDB
11 38 (3.78%) Big Data
12 34 (3.38%) Data Warehouse
12 34 (3.38%) MongoDB
13 33 (3.28%) Elasticsearch
14 26 (2.59%) Oracle Database 12c
15 25 (2.49%) Power BI
16 20 (1.99%) RDBMS
17 18 (1.79%) DB2
Development Applications
1 139 (13.83%) Git
2 123 (12.24%) Jenkins
3 86 (8.56%) Bitbucket Server
4 81 (8.06%) JIRA
5 35 (3.48%) GitLab
6 14 (1.39%) Eclipse
7 13 (1.29%) Subversion
8 11 (1.09%) CircleCI
9 10 (1.00%) GNU Toolchain
9 10 (1.00%) Oracle Forms
10 9 (0.90%) LabVIEW
11 7 (0.70%) Bitbucket
11 7 (0.70%) Postman
11 7 (0.70%) Snyk
12 6 (0.60%) Appium
12 6 (0.60%) RStudio
12 6 (0.60%) UI Automator
13 5 (0.50%) GDB
13 5 (0.50%) JMeter
13 5 (0.50%) JUnit
General
1 405 (40.30%) Finance
2 227 (22.59%) Social Skills
3 182 (18.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 168 (16.72%) Analytical Skills
5 163 (16.22%) Law
6 111 (11.04%) Legal
7 107 (10.65%) Banking
8 94 (9.35%) Public Sector
9 73 (7.26%) Police
10 54 (5.37%) Local Government
11 40 (3.98%) Back Office
12 26 (2.59%) Front Office
13 23 (2.29%) Marketing
13 23 (2.29%) Telecoms
14 20 (1.99%) Presentation Skills
15 16 (1.59%) Military
16 13 (1.29%) Financial Institution
16 13 (1.29%) Games
17 12 (1.19%) Investment Banking
18 11 (1.09%) Retail
Job Titles
1 187 (18.61%) Software Engineer
2 169 (16.82%) Analyst
3 164 (16.32%) Applications Support
4 163 (16.22%) Developer
5 154 (15.32%) Senior
6 129 (12.84%) Support Analyst
7 108 (10.75%) Applications Support Analyst
8 70 (6.97%) AWS Engineer
9 67 (6.67%) AWS Software Engineer
10 64 (6.37%) Developer/Software Engineer
11 62 (6.17%) Database Engineer
12 58 (5.77%) Administrator
13 56 (5.57%) Database Developer
14 54 (5.37%) Data Engineer
14 54 (5.37%) Python Engineer
15 47 (4.68%) SQL Analyst
15 47 (4.68%) SQL Support Analyst
16 46 (4.58%) DBA
16 46 (4.58%) Infrastructure Engineer
17 44 (4.38%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (6.57%) Spring
2 60 (5.97%) REST
3 52 (5.17%) Web Services
4 50 (4.98%) XML
5 34 (3.38%) SOAP
6 33 (3.28%) J2EE
6 33 (3.28%) Node.js
6 33 (3.28%) React
7 29 (2.89%) HTML
8 28 (2.79%) FIX Protocol
9 26 (2.59%) Java EE
10 24 (2.39%) CSS
10 24 (2.39%) JPA
11 21 (2.09%) Kafka
12 20 (1.99%) AngularJS
12 20 (1.99%) OpenMP
13 18 (1.79%) JSON
13 18 (1.79%) Middleware
14 14 (1.39%) OpenACC
15 13 (1.29%) JDBC
Miscellaneous
1 148 (14.73%) Algorithms
2 75 (7.46%) Self-Motivation
3 63 (6.27%) Public Cloud
4 51 (5.07%) Data Centre
5 50 (4.98%) Management Information System
6 40 (3.98%) Linux Command Line
7 28 (2.79%) CUDA
8 23 (2.29%) Cloud Native
9 22 (2.19%) Driving Licence
10 17 (1.69%) Eurex
10 17 (1.69%) Onboarding
11 16 (1.59%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 15 (1.49%) Embedded Systems
13 13 (1.29%) CMDB
13 13 (1.29%) Replication
14 12 (1.19%) Enterprise Software
14 12 (1.19%) Private Cloud
15 11 (1.09%) Cyber Threat
15 11 (1.09%) Hybrid Cloud
16 10 (1.00%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 623 (61.99%) Linux
2 403 (40.10%) Windows
3 143 (14.23%) Solaris
4 81 (8.06%) Windows Server
5 63 (6.27%) CentOS
6 46 (4.58%) Ubuntu
7 33 (3.28%) AIX
7 33 (3.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 19 (1.89%) Mac OS
9 14 (1.39%) Mac OS X
9 14 (1.39%) VMS
9 14 (1.39%) Windows 10
10 13 (1.29%) CoreOS
11 12 (1.19%) zOS
12 9 (0.90%) Windows Server 2019
13 7 (0.70%) Debian
13 7 (0.70%) Windows Server 2016
14 4 (0.40%) Windows Server 2008
15 3 (0.30%) Android
15 3 (0.30%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 281 (27.96%) Agile
2 215 (21.39%) Artificial Intelligence
3 201 (20.00%) Software Engineering
4 189 (18.81%) CI/CD
5 186 (18.51%) ITIL
6 170 (16.92%) Problem-Solving
7 163 (16.22%) SDLC
8 154 (15.32%) Open Source
9 151 (15.02%) Continuous Improvement
10 150 (14.93%) Machine Learning
11 138 (13.73%) Test Automation
12 130 (12.94%) DevOps
13 129 (12.84%) Incident Management
14 128 (12.74%) Risk Management
15 125 (12.44%) Operational Stability
15 125 (12.44%) TDD
16 121 (12.04%) Actionable Insight
17 117 (11.64%) Community of Practice
18 110 (10.95%) Visualisation
19 102 (10.15%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 405 (40.30%) SQL
2 378 (37.61%) Python
3 246 (24.48%) Java
4 140 (13.93%) PL/SQL
5 119 (11.84%) Shell Script
6 109 (10.85%) Bash
7 103 (10.25%) PowerShell
8 83 (8.26%) C
9 75 (7.46%) C++
10 63 (6.27%) JavaScript
11 60 (5.97%) Perl
12 39 (3.88%) Fortran
12 39 (3.88%) Ruby
13 20 (1.99%) C#
14 13 (1.29%) PHP
15 9 (0.90%) MATLAB
15 9 (0.90%) Rust
16 7 (0.70%) Go
16 7 (0.70%) R
16 7 (0.70%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 268 (26.67%) Degree
2 220 (21.89%) Security Cleared
3 138 (13.73%) SC Cleared
4 39 (3.88%) Computer Science Degree
4 39 (3.88%) Master's Degree
4 39 (3.88%) PhD
5 27 (2.69%) AWS Certification
6 23 (2.29%) DV Cleared
7 22 (2.19%) CISSP
7 22 (2.19%) Oracle Certification
8 19 (1.89%) CISM
9 18 (1.79%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 18 (1.79%) GCIH
10 17 (1.69%) Azure Certification
10 17 (1.69%) CISA
10 17 (1.69%) GCIA
11 16 (1.59%) Cisco Certification
12 14 (1.39%) GREM
13 13 (1.29%) CCNA
14 12 (1.19%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 101 (10.05%) SLA
2 57 (5.67%) Accessibility
3 17 (1.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 17 (1.69%) ITGC
3 17 (1.69%) NIST
3 17 (1.69%) PMO
4 13 (1.29%) QA
5 10 (1.00%) GDPR
6 8 (0.80%) Data Quality
7 5 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 3 (0.30%) COBIT
8 3 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (0.20%) DO-178B
9 2 (0.20%) JSP 440
9 2 (0.20%) NIST 800
9 2 (0.20%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.20%) SEPA
10 1 (0.100%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 102 (10.15%) HDFS
2 68 (6.77%) VMware Infrastructure
3 57 (5.67%) Docker
4 46 (4.58%) Active Directory
4 46 (4.58%) Oracle RAC
5 35 (3.48%) Hyper-V
6 25 (2.49%) Virtual Machines
7 17 (1.69%) Firmware
8 9 (0.90%) VMware ESXi
9 8 (0.80%) Embedded Firmware
10 5 (0.50%) DFS Replication
11 4 (0.40%) KVM
11 4 (0.40%) vSphere
12 3 (0.30%) VirtualBox
12 3 (0.30%) XenApp
12 3 (0.30%) XenDesktop
13 2 (0.20%) Kamailio
13 2 (0.20%) LXC
13 2 (0.20%) Shibboleth
13 2 (0.20%) Squid
Systems Management
1 122 (12.14%) Terraform
2 65 (6.47%) Kubernetes
3 61 (6.07%) Ansible
4 45 (4.48%) Data Guard
4 45 (4.48%) Oracle RMAN
5 37 (3.68%) Puppet
5 37 (3.68%) SCCM
6 34 (3.38%) Single Sign-On
7 26 (2.59%) OpenSSO
8 23 (2.29%) Grafana
9 18 (1.79%) Progress Chef
10 14 (1.39%) WSUS
11 13 (1.29%) Prometheus
11 13 (1.29%) WMI
12 10 (1.00%) Nessus
13 9 (0.90%) NetBackup
14 8 (0.80%) Microsoft Intune
15 7 (0.70%) Nexpose
16 6 (0.60%) ITRS Geneos
16 6 (0.60%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 315 (31.34%) Oracle
2 168 (16.72%) Microsoft
3 129 (12.84%) Databricks
4 108 (10.75%) VMware
5 87 (8.66%) Informatica
6 82 (8.16%) Remedy
7 74 (7.36%) Red Hat
8 72 (7.16%) Cloudera
9 57 (5.67%) Splunk
10 49 (4.88%) NEC
10 49 (4.88%) Sun
11 42 (4.18%) IBM
12 37 (3.68%) Cisco
13 27 (2.69%) Google
14 26 (2.59%) SAP
15 25 (2.49%) Dynatrace
15 25 (2.49%) ION Trading
15 25 (2.49%) Qualys
16 21 (2.09%) Citrix
16 21 (2.09%) Dell