Unix Jobs in the Thames Valley

Unix
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 149 150 197
Rank change year-on-year +1 +47 -84
Permanent jobs citing Unix 96 117 87
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 1.42% 1.91% 1.25%
As % of the Operating Systems category 9.32% 10.07% 5.14%
Number of salaries quoted 52 37 53
10th Percentile £34,750 £27,875 £28,250
25th Percentile £39,500 £34,875 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,897 £43,250 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.43% -17.62% +5.00%
75th Percentile £61,000 £55,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £63,750 £80,000 £77,500
South East median annual salary £51,750 £52,500 £57,050
% change year-on-year -1.43% -7.98% +26.78%

All Operating Systems
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley with a requirement for operating system skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 1,030 1,162 1,691
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 15.29% 18.95% 24.28%
Number of salaries quoted 888 709 1,028
10th Percentile £26,250 £24,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £34,000 £29,000 £32,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £42,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - -15.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £57,500 £60,250 £68,750
90th Percentile £67,500 £77,500 £82,500
South East median annual salary £42,500 £42,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year - -10.53% -

Unix
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing Unix as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Unix in the Thames Valley

Unix
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Salary trend for Unix in the Thames Valley

Unix
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing Unix in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Unix in the Thames Valley

Unix
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Unix within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 29 April 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
Berkshire -6 62 £48,000 +10.98% 5
Oxfordshire +39 26 £44,397 +1.57% 4
Buckinghamshire -28 8 £48,750 -18.75% 2
Unix
South East

Unix
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 37 (38.54%) WebLogic
2 15 (15.63%) Oracle Service Bus
3 1 (1.04%) Oracle Spatial
3 1 (1.04%) WordPress
Applications
1 17 (17.71%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (15.63%) Microsoft Office
2 15 (15.63%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 16 (16.67%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 2 (2.08%) Datadog
2 1 (1.04%) Azure
2 1 (1.04%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (1.04%) Azure Functions
2 1 (1.04%) Power Platform
2 1 (1.04%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.13%) SNMP
2 2 (2.08%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.04%) Firewall
3 1 (1.04%) FTP
3 1 (1.04%) HTTP
3 1 (1.04%) Internet
3 1 (1.04%) Network Security
3 1 (1.04%) RNC
3 1 (1.04%) SGSN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (22.92%) Elasticsearch
2 17 (17.71%) Oracle Database
3 16 (16.67%) Oracle Database 11g
4 15 (15.63%) Oracle Database 10g
4 15 (15.63%) VLDB
5 2 (2.08%) MySQL
6 1 (1.04%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (1.04%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (1.04%) GIS
6 1 (1.04%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (1.04%) Power BI
6 1 (1.04%) RDBMS
6 1 (1.04%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.04%) Spatial Data
6 1 (1.04%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (1.04%) Git
General
1 38 (39.58%) Analytical Skills
2 32 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 22 (22.92%) Police
4 3 (3.13%) Finance
4 3 (3.13%) Telecoms
5 2 (2.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.04%) Games
Job Titles
1 42 (43.75%) Applications Support
2 41 (42.71%) Analyst
3 40 (41.67%) Applications Support Analyst
3 40 (41.67%) Support Analyst
4 34 (35.42%) Senior
5 22 (22.92%) Senior Analyst
5 22 (22.92%) Senior Applications Support
5 22 (22.92%) Senior Applications Support Analyst
5 22 (22.92%) Senior Support Analyst
6 15 (15.63%) Oracle Analyst
6 15 (15.63%) Oracle Support Analyst
6 15 (15.63%) SQL Analyst
6 15 (15.63%) SQL Support Analyst
7 11 (11.46%) Physicist
8 7 (7.29%) Research Engineer
8 7 (7.29%) Research Software Engineer
8 7 (7.29%) Software Engineer
9 6 (6.25%) Junior
9 6 (6.25%) Senior Software Engineer
10 5 (5.21%) Unix Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (22.92%) J2EE
1 22 (22.92%) Java EE
1 22 (22.92%) Spring
2 20 (20.83%) OpenMP
3 14 (14.58%) OpenACC
4 2 (2.08%) EDI
5 1 (1.04%) OpenLayers
5 1 (1.04%) Regular Expression
5 1 (1.04%) Vue
5 1 (1.04%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 32 (33.33%) Algorithms
2 20 (20.83%) CUDA
3 7 (7.29%) Self-Motivation
4 5 (5.21%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (2.08%) Grid Computing
6 1 (1.04%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.04%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.04%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 59 (61.46%) Linux
2 15 (15.63%) Solaris
3 8 (8.33%) Windows
4 2 (2.08%) Mac OS
4 2 (2.08%) Windows 10
4 2 (2.08%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.04%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (40.63%) Actionable Insight
1 39 (40.63%) Incident Management
2 35 (36.46%) Problem-Solving
3 32 (33.33%) Mathematics
3 32 (33.33%) Physics
4 30 (31.25%) Computer Science
5 29 (30.21%) ITIL
6 24 (25.00%) Containerisation
6 24 (25.00%) Service Management
7 23 (23.96%) Impact Assessments
8 22 (22.92%) Enterprise Architecture
8 22 (22.92%) Enterprise Search
8 22 (22.92%) Information Management
9 21 (21.88%) Parallel Programming
10 18 (18.75%) Capacity Planning
11 17 (17.71%) ITSM
11 17 (17.71%) Performance Tuning
12 16 (16.67%) Artificial Intelligence
13 15 (15.63%) Performance Monitoring
14 14 (14.58%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 35 (36.46%) Python
2 32 (33.33%) Fortran
3 30 (31.25%) C
4 26 (27.08%) C++
5 25 (26.04%) Shell Script
5 25 (26.04%) SQL
6 23 (23.96%) Java
7 15 (15.63%) PL/SQL
8 13 (13.54%) Bash
9 6 (6.25%) Perl
10 5 (5.21%) C#
11 4 (4.17%) COBOL
12 1 (1.04%) Groovy
12 1 (1.04%) JavaScript
12 1 (1.04%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 58 (60.42%) Security Cleared
2 54 (56.25%) Degree
3 39 (40.63%) SC Cleared
4 32 (33.33%) PhD
5 27 (28.13%) Master's Degree
6 8 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (2.08%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (2.08%) DBS Check
7 2 (2.08%) HNC
7 2 (2.08%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (38.54%) SLA
2 1 (1.04%) GDPR
System Software
1 16 (16.67%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (1.04%) Docker
Systems Management
1 22 (22.92%) OpenSSO
1 22 (22.92%) Single Sign-On
2 16 (16.67%) Oracle RMAN
3 15 (15.63%) Data Guard
4 2 (2.08%) Nagios
4 2 (2.08%) Netcool
4 2 (2.08%) ZABBIX
5 1 (1.04%) Ansible
5 1 (1.04%) SCCM
5 1 (1.04%) WSUS
Vendors
1 42 (43.75%) Oracle
2 38 (39.58%) Remedy
3 20 (20.83%) Microsoft
4 17 (17.71%) Sun
5 2 (2.08%) BigPanda
5 2 (2.08%) Dell
5 2 (2.08%) Dynatrace
5 2 (2.08%) IBM
5 2 (2.08%) LogicMonitor
5 2 (2.08%) New Relic
5 2 (2.08%) ScienceLogic
5 2 (2.08%) SolarWinds
5 2 (2.08%) Splunk
6 1 (1.04%) Ab Initio
6 1 (1.04%) BMC
6 1 (1.04%) Ericsson
6 1 (1.04%) Informatica
6 1 (1.04%) Nokia
6 1 (1.04%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.04%) VMware