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

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 300 193 200
Rank change year-on-year -107 +7 -24
Permanent jobs citing Unix 995 1,807 3,575
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.92% 1.94% 2.08%
As % of the Operating Systems category 6.95% 11.88% 11.19%
Number of salaries quoted 510 928 1,587
10th Percentile £35,520 £40,883 £37,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £52,500 £48,091
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,228 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.74% +3.85% +8.33%
75th Percentile £78,438 £89,852 £83,750
90th Percentile £96,250 £108,750 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £57,325 £52,500
% change year-on-year -12.78% +9.19% +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 14,310 15,215 31,955
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.20% 16.34% 18.59%
Number of salaries quoted 10,728 10,332 16,389
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 £91,250 £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 9 June 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 9 June 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 -136 715 £60,000 -13.04% 187
UK excluding London -97 697 £50,000 -12.78% 110
Work from Home -127 325 £65,000 - 89
London -107 270 £80,000 -0.37% 88
Scotland -25 191 £42,000 -30.00% 11
South East -14 138 £52,500 - 34
North of England -94 128 £50,000 -15.25% 13
South West -71 80 £52,500 -0.38% 18
Midlands -99 74 £50,000 -16.67% 16
North West -40 70 £52,500 -12.50% 7
Wales +10 52 £45,000 -22.51% 4
West Midlands -12 45 £56,000 -8.20% 12
Yorkshire -55 36 £35,000 -42.79% 6
East Midlands -96 29 £50,000 -16.67% 4
North East -10 22 £47,137 +12.90%
East of England -77 20 £50,000 -16.67% 14
Northern Ireland -10 14 £90,000 +77.34% 3

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 94 (9.45%) Apache Spark
2 70 (7.04%) WebLogic
3 43 (4.32%) Oracle Service Bus
4 41 (4.12%) Tomcat
5 38 (3.82%) Apache
6 34 (3.42%) Microsoft Exchange
7 29 (2.91%) IIS
8 17 (1.71%) nginx
9 16 (1.61%) Confluence
10 11 (1.11%) Apache Airflow
11 10 (1.01%) SharePoint
12 9 (0.90%) JBoss
12 9 (0.90%) WebSphere
13 4 (0.40%) Captiva
13 4 (0.40%) FileNet
14 3 (0.30%) GlassFish
15 2 (0.20%) OpenStack
15 2 (0.20%) Oracle Workflow
15 2 (0.20%) WildFly
15 2 (0.20%) WordPress
Applications
1 73 (7.34%) Microsoft Office
2 57 (5.73%) Microsoft Excel
3 44 (4.42%) MS Visio
4 5 (0.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.20%) CATIA
5 2 (0.20%) NASTRAN
Business Applications
1 49 (4.92%) NEC Housing
2 44 (4.42%) Remedy ITSM
3 18 (1.81%) Fidessa
4 17 (1.71%) Unit4 Business World
5 6 (0.60%) Oracle Cash Management
5 6 (0.60%) Temenos T24
6 2 (0.20%) Oracle EBS
6 2 (0.20%) Oracle EBS R12
6 2 (0.20%) Teamcenter
7 1 (0.10%) Oracle Applications
7 1 (0.10%) SAP CRM
7 1 (0.10%) SAP GRC
7 1 (0.10%) SAP MDG
7 1 (0.10%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 292 (29.35%) AWS
2 164 (16.48%) Azure
3 49 (4.92%) SaaS
4 48 (4.82%) IaaS
5 43 (4.32%) GCP
6 26 (2.61%) Microsoft 365
7 24 (2.41%) Power Platform
8 21 (2.11%) GitHub
9 19 (1.91%) PaaS
10 18 (1.81%) Amazon EKS
11 16 (1.61%) Cloud Computing
11 16 (1.61%) Serverless
12 15 (1.51%) OpenShift
13 9 (0.90%) Amazon S3
14 8 (0.80%) Azure Data Factory
14 8 (0.80%) Entra ID
15 6 (0.60%) Azure Machine Learning
15 6 (0.60%) Dynamics 365
15 6 (0.60%) Google Docs
15 6 (0.60%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 75 (7.54%) Firewall
2 67 (6.73%) DNS
3 57 (5.73%) TCP/IP
4 47 (4.72%) DHCP
5 36 (3.62%) VPN
6 27 (2.71%) SNMP
7 25 (2.51%) HTTP
8 23 (2.31%) SAN
9 21 (2.11%) LAN
10 20 (2.01%) WAN
11 19 (1.91%) BGP
11 19 (1.91%) MPLS
12 18 (1.81%) FIX Connectivity
13 17 (1.71%) Internet
13 17 (1.71%) Network Security
13 17 (1.71%) SSH
14 15 (1.51%) SSL
15 12 (1.21%) SMTP
15 12 (1.21%) VLAN
16 11 (1.11%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 134 (13.47%) NoSQL
2 121 (12.16%) Oracle Database
3 111 (11.16%) SQL Server
4 91 (9.15%) Apache Hive
4 91 (9.15%) HBase
5 72 (7.24%) MySQL
6 62 (6.23%) Hadoop
7 56 (5.63%) PostgreSQL
8 48 (4.82%) Relational Database
9 45 (4.52%) Oracle Database 11g
10 43 (4.32%) Oracle Database 10g
10 43 (4.32%) VLDB
11 33 (3.32%) Big Data
11 33 (3.32%) MongoDB
12 32 (3.22%) Elasticsearch
13 28 (2.81%) Data Warehouse
14 26 (2.61%) Oracle Database 12c
15 24 (2.41%) Power BI
16 20 (2.01%) RDBMS
17 19 (1.91%) DB2
Development Applications
1 133 (13.37%) Git
2 116 (11.66%) Jenkins
3 81 (8.14%) Bitbucket Server
4 77 (7.74%) JIRA
5 34 (3.42%) GitLab
6 14 (1.41%) Eclipse
7 12 (1.21%) Subversion
8 11 (1.11%) CircleCI
9 9 (0.90%) GNU Toolchain
10 8 (0.80%) LabVIEW
11 7 (0.70%) Bitbucket
11 7 (0.70%) Oracle Forms
12 6 (0.60%) Appium
12 6 (0.60%) RStudio
12 6 (0.60%) Snyk
12 6 (0.60%) UI Automator
13 5 (0.50%) DTrace
13 5 (0.50%) GDB
13 5 (0.50%) JUnit
13 5 (0.50%) Postman
General
1 383 (38.49%) Finance
2 219 (22.01%) Social Skills
3 172 (17.29%) Analytical Skills
4 171 (17.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 152 (15.28%) Law
6 106 (10.65%) Legal
7 98 (9.85%) Banking
8 94 (9.45%) Public Sector
9 72 (7.24%) Police
10 52 (5.23%) Local Government
11 42 (4.22%) Back Office
12 27 (2.71%) Front Office
13 22 (2.21%) Telecoms
14 19 (1.91%) Presentation Skills
15 18 (1.81%) Marketing
16 15 (1.51%) Military
17 14 (1.41%) Games
17 14 (1.41%) Retail
18 13 (1.31%) Investment Banking
19 12 (1.21%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 182 (18.29%) Software Engineer
2 167 (16.78%) Analyst
3 163 (16.38%) Applications Support
4 161 (16.18%) Developer
5 155 (15.58%) Senior
6 123 (12.36%) Support Analyst
7 105 (10.55%) Applications Support Analyst
8 70 (7.04%) AWS Engineer
9 67 (6.73%) AWS Software Engineer
10 59 (5.93%) Developer/Software Engineer
11 57 (5.73%) Administrator
11 57 (5.73%) Database Engineer
12 53 (5.33%) Data Engineer
13 51 (5.13%) Database Developer
14 47 (4.72%) Python Engineer
14 47 (4.72%) SQL Analyst
15 46 (4.62%) DBA
15 46 (4.62%) SQL Support Analyst
16 44 (4.42%) Oracle DBA
16 44 (4.42%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (6.13%) Spring
2 56 (5.63%) REST
3 53 (5.33%) Web Services
4 51 (5.13%) XML
5 36 (3.62%) SOAP
6 33 (3.32%) Node.js
7 32 (3.22%) J2EE
8 30 (3.02%) FIX Protocol
9 29 (2.91%) HTML
10 28 (2.81%) React
11 27 (2.71%) Java EE
12 24 (2.41%) CSS
13 23 (2.31%) AngularJS
14 22 (2.21%) Kafka
15 20 (2.01%) OpenMP
16 19 (1.91%) Middleware
17 18 (1.81%) JPA
17 18 (1.81%) JSON
18 16 (1.61%) .NET
19 14 (1.41%) JDBC
Miscellaneous
1 149 (14.97%) Algorithms
2 74 (7.44%) Self-Motivation
3 63 (6.33%) Public Cloud
4 50 (5.03%) Data Centre
5 48 (4.82%) Linux Command Line
6 43 (4.32%) Management Information System
7 28 (2.81%) CUDA
8 23 (2.31%) Cloud Native
9 22 (2.21%) Driving Licence
10 19 (1.91%) Onboarding
11 18 (1.81%) Eurex
12 16 (1.61%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 13 (1.31%) CMDB
13 13 (1.31%) Embedded Systems
13 13 (1.31%) Replication
14 12 (1.21%) Client/Server
15 11 (1.11%) Cyber Threat
15 11 (1.11%) Hybrid Cloud
16 10 (1.01%) Clustering
16 10 (1.01%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 636 (63.92%) Linux
2 394 (39.60%) Windows
3 148 (14.87%) Solaris
4 78 (7.84%) Windows Server
5 63 (6.33%) CentOS
6 42 (4.22%) Ubuntu
7 36 (3.62%) AIX
8 34 (3.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 18 (1.81%) Mac OS
10 14 (1.41%) VMS
10 14 (1.41%) Windows 10
11 13 (1.31%) CoreOS
11 13 (1.31%) Mac OS X
12 12 (1.21%) zOS
13 9 (0.90%) Windows Server 2019
14 7 (0.70%) Windows Server 2016
15 4 (0.40%) Windows Server 2008
15 4 (0.40%) Windows XP
16 3 (0.30%) Debian
16 3 (0.30%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 261 (26.23%) Agile
2 200 (20.10%) Artificial Intelligence
3 197 (19.80%) Software Engineering
4 180 (18.09%) ITIL
5 178 (17.89%) CI/CD
6 175 (17.59%) Problem-Solving
7 159 (15.98%) SDLC
8 150 (15.08%) Continuous Improvement
9 148 (14.87%) Open Source
10 134 (13.47%) Machine Learning
11 133 (13.37%) Test Automation
12 125 (12.56%) Incident Management
13 123 (12.36%) DevOps
14 120 (12.06%) TDD
15 118 (11.86%) Actionable Insight
16 117 (11.76%) Risk Management
17 115 (11.56%) Operational Stability
18 112 (11.26%) Community of Practice
19 105 (10.55%) Visualisation
20 102 (10.25%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 397 (39.90%) SQL
2 380 (38.19%) Python
3 233 (23.42%) Java
4 136 (13.67%) PL/SQL
5 116 (11.66%) Shell Script
6 110 (11.06%) Bash
7 105 (10.55%) PowerShell
8 88 (8.84%) C
9 84 (8.44%) C++
10 66 (6.63%) Perl
11 65 (6.53%) JavaScript
12 45 (4.52%) Fortran
13 42 (4.22%) Ruby
14 17 (1.71%) C#
15 13 (1.31%) PHP
16 11 (1.11%) Rust
17 9 (0.90%) TypeScript
18 8 (0.80%) MATLAB
18 8 (0.80%) R
19 7 (0.70%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 268 (26.93%) Degree
2 231 (23.22%) Security Cleared
3 142 (14.27%) SC Cleared
4 44 (4.42%) Master's Degree
4 44 (4.42%) PhD
5 37 (3.72%) Computer Science Degree
6 29 (2.91%) DV Cleared
7 27 (2.71%) AWS Certification
8 22 (2.21%) Oracle Certification
9 20 (2.01%) CISSP
10 18 (1.81%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 18 (1.81%) GCIA
10 18 (1.81%) GCIH
11 17 (1.71%) Azure Certification
11 17 (1.71%) CISA
11 17 (1.71%) CISM
12 14 (1.41%) Cisco Certification
13 13 (1.31%) CCNA
13 13 (1.31%) GREM
14 11 (1.11%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 96 (9.65%) SLA
2 57 (5.73%) Accessibility
3 18 (1.81%) NIST
4 17 (1.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 17 (1.71%) ITGC
4 17 (1.71%) PMO
5 14 (1.41%) QA
6 7 (0.70%) Data Quality
7 6 (0.60%) GDPR
8 5 (0.50%) COBIT
8 5 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
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 (0.10%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.10%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 91 (9.15%) HDFS
2 62 (6.23%) VMware Infrastructure
3 55 (5.53%) Docker
4 45 (4.52%) Oracle RAC
5 41 (4.12%) Active Directory
6 33 (3.32%) Hyper-V
7 24 (2.41%) Virtual Machines
8 17 (1.71%) Firmware
9 9 (0.90%) VMware ESXi
10 8 (0.80%) Embedded Firmware
11 5 (0.50%) DFS Replication
12 4 (0.40%) KVM
12 4 (0.40%) LXC
12 4 (0.40%) Squid
12 4 (0.40%) VirtualBox
12 4 (0.40%) vSphere
13 3 (0.30%) XenApp
13 3 (0.30%) XenDesktop
14 2 (0.20%) Kamailio
15 1 (0.10%) PowerHA
Systems Management
1 115 (11.56%) Terraform
2 62 (6.23%) Ansible
2 62 (6.23%) Kubernetes
3 45 (4.52%) Data Guard
3 45 (4.52%) Oracle RMAN
4 38 (3.82%) Puppet
5 34 (3.42%) Single Sign-On
6 33 (3.32%) SCCM
7 25 (2.51%) OpenSSO
8 22 (2.21%) Grafana
9 16 (1.61%) Progress Chef
10 14 (1.41%) Prometheus
10 14 (1.41%) WSUS
11 13 (1.31%) WMI
12 9 (0.90%) NetBackup
13 8 (0.80%) Nessus
14 7 (0.70%) Microsoft Intune
14 7 (0.70%) Nagios
15 6 (0.60%) ITRS Geneos
15 6 (0.60%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 319 (32.06%) Oracle
2 166 (16.68%) Microsoft
3 118 (11.86%) Databricks
4 105 (10.55%) VMware
5 83 (8.34%) Red Hat
6 82 (8.24%) Informatica
7 78 (7.84%) Remedy
8 61 (6.13%) Cloudera
9 59 (5.93%) Splunk
10 50 (5.03%) Sun
11 49 (4.92%) NEC
12 40 (4.02%) IBM
13 38 (3.82%) Cisco
14 26 (2.61%) Google
14 26 (2.61%) ION Trading
15 25 (2.51%) Dynatrace
16 23 (2.31%) Qualys
17 22 (2.21%) SAP
18 21 (2.11%) Citrix
19 20 (2.01%) Dell