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Which roles ask for Unix at tech companies · 33 roles · 90 days to Oct 8, 2026

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33 roles counted that list Unix, one per company, title and level; 71 postings in the window.

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In short

Unix: listed in 33 roles at tech companies whose requirements we read, in the 90 days to Oct 8, 2026. It was required in 29 and preferred in 4. The largest group is software engineer roles: 11 of 33. Each role counts once, however many job boards post it.

Required
29 of 33
Of the roles that list Unix
Preferred
4 of 33
Of the roles that list Unix
Largest group
11 of 33
Software engineer

Roles that ask for Unix

Roles listing Unix, by title family. Where the role has a page, the count is also out of that role's roles whose requirements we read.

RoleRolesOf the role's roles we read
Software engineer1111 of 1,041
QA engineer55 of 79
Platform engineer44 of 88
DevOps engineer33 of 71
Security engineer33 of 211
Site reliability engineer33 of 99
Data analyst11 of 82
Data scientist11 of 217
Forward deployed engineer11 of 86
Machine learning engineer11 of 164

Companies that ask for it most

Asked alongside

Out of the 33 Unix roles whose requirements we read: the other skills they ask for. Too few to show shares, so we show counts.

Required
SkillRoles asking
Linux
29 of 33
Python
24 of 33
Shell Scripting
14 of 33
AWS
11 of 33
SQL
11 of 33
CI/CD
8 of 33
Docker
8 of 33
Git
7 of 33
Go
7 of 33
Networking
7 of 33
Preferred
SkillRoles asking
Observability
7 of 33
Docker
6 of 33
CI/CD
5 of 33
Kubernetes
5 of 33
Agile
4 of 33
Distributed Systems
4 of 33
Grafana
4 of 33
Prometheus
4 of 33
Infrastructure as Code
3 of 33
Monitoring
3 of 33

Experience

Of the 18 roles that state years

Each line counts roles asking for at least that many years, so the lines overlap.

1+ year
18 of 18
2+ years
16 of 18
3+ years
13 of 18
5+ years
9 of 18
8+ years
1 of 18
10+ years
0 of 18

Degree

Of the 22 roles we could read for it

Required
5 of 22
Required, or experience instead
10 of 22
Preferred
2 of 22
Not mentioned
5 of 22

Pay and remote work

Of the 33 roles we could read for it. Pay these roles state, not what the skill pays.

Roles stating pay
9 of 33
Remote roles
18 of 33

How we count: 33 roles from 25 employers in the 90 days to Oct 8, 2026, each role counted once however many boards post it. Skills are counted out of the roles whose requirements we read. Roles are not filtered by country. Methodology