Unix Jobs in the Thames Valley

Unix
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Unix skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Unix over the 6 months leading up to 14 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 151 166 216
Rank change year-on-year +15 +50 -86
Permanent jobs citing Unix 100 82 74
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 1.35% 1.47% 0.98%
As % of the Operating Systems category 10.36% 7.88% 4.26%
Number of salaries quoted 48 29 34
10th Percentile £34,750 £34,875 £41,250
25th Percentile £39,280 £36,250 £44,389
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,293 £46,500 £58,750
Median % change year-on-year -0.45% -20.85% +23.68%
75th Percentile £61,000 £80,000 £69,880
90th Percentile £63,750 £83,500 £75,250
South East median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year - -12.50% +26.32%

All Operating Systems
Thames Valley

Unix falls under the Operating Systems category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring operating system skills in the Thames Valley.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 965 1,041 1,738
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 13.03% 18.69% 22.98%
Number of salaries quoted 803 663 992
10th Percentile £26,250 £24,600 £26,989
25th Percentile £34,875 £30,500 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £42,500 £50,845
Median % change year-on-year - -16.41% -7.56%
75th Percentile £57,500 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £65,000 £80,000 £84,875
South East median annual salary £45,000 £43,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year +3.45% -8.42% -

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 14 June 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 14 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
Berkshire +4 70 £48,000 +4.35% 10
Oxfordshire +11 23 £42,500 -2.77% 7
Buckinghamshire -8 7 £47,500 -38.71% 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 32 (32.00%) WebLogic
2 12 (12.00%) Oracle Service Bus
3 1 (1.00%) Oracle Spatial
Applications
1 14 (14.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (12.00%) Microsoft Office
2 12 (12.00%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 13 (13.00%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 2 (2.00%) Datadog
2 1 (1.00%) Azure
2 1 (1.00%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (1.00%) Azure Functions
2 1 (1.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (1.00%) SaaS
2 1 (1.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.00%) SNMP
2 2 (2.00%) Ethernet
2 2 (2.00%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.00%) Firewall
3 1 (1.00%) FTP
3 1 (1.00%) HTTP
3 1 (1.00%) Internet
3 1 (1.00%) Network Security
3 1 (1.00%) RNC
3 1 (1.00%) SGSN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (20.00%) Elasticsearch
2 13 (13.00%) Oracle Database
2 13 (13.00%) Oracle Database 11g
3 12 (12.00%) Oracle Database 10g
3 12 (12.00%) VLDB
4 1 (1.00%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (1.00%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (1.00%) GIS
4 1 (1.00%) MySQL
4 1 (1.00%) Power BI
4 1 (1.00%) RDBMS
4 1 (1.00%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.00%) Spatial Data
4 1 (1.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (1.00%) JIRA
General
1 33 (33.00%) Analytical Skills
2 30 (30.00%) Social Skills
3 20 (20.00%) Police
4 3 (3.00%) Telecoms
5 2 (2.00%) Advertising
5 2 (2.00%) Aerospace
5 2 (2.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.00%) Finance
6 1 (1.00%) Games
Job Titles
1 40 (40.00%) Senior
2 35 (35.00%) Analyst
2 35 (35.00%) Applications Support
3 33 (33.00%) Applications Support Analyst
3 33 (33.00%) Support Analyst
4 20 (20.00%) Senior Analyst
4 20 (20.00%) Senior Applications Support
4 20 (20.00%) Senior Applications Support Analyst
4 20 (20.00%) Senior Support Analyst
5 19 (19.00%) Software Engineer
6 13 (13.00%) Senior Software Engineer
7 12 (12.00%) Oracle Analyst
7 12 (12.00%) Oracle Support Analyst
7 12 (12.00%) SQL Analyst
7 12 (12.00%) SQL Support Analyst
8 11 (11.00%) Physicist
9 7 (7.00%) Research Engineer
9 7 (7.00%) Research Software Engineer
10 5 (5.00%) Junior
10 5 (5.00%) Unix Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (20.00%) J2EE
1 20 (20.00%) Java EE
1 20 (20.00%) Spring
2 17 (17.00%) OpenMP
3 11 (11.00%) OpenACC
4 2 (2.00%) EDI
4 2 (2.00%) Yocto
5 1 (1.00%) OpenLayers
5 1 (1.00%) Regular Expression
5 1 (1.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 42 (42.00%) Algorithms
2 17 (17.00%) CUDA
3 7 (7.00%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (3.00%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (3.00%) Grid Computing
5 2 (2.00%) ARM Cortex
5 2 (2.00%) CAN bus
5 2 (2.00%) Raspberry Pi
6 1 (1.00%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (1.00%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.00%) NHS
6 1 (1.00%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.00%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 65 (65.00%) Linux
2 12 (12.00%) Solaris
3 8 (8.00%) Windows
4 2 (2.00%) FreeRTOS
4 2 (2.00%) Mac OS
4 2 (2.00%) Windows 10
4 2 (2.00%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.00%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (42.00%) Mathematics
1 42 (42.00%) Physics
2 38 (38.00%) Computer Science
3 34 (34.00%) Actionable Insight
3 34 (34.00%) Incident Management
4 33 (33.00%) Problem-Solving
5 30 (30.00%) Parallel Programming
6 27 (27.00%) Software Testing
7 26 (26.00%) ITIL
8 22 (22.00%) Containerisation
8 22 (22.00%) Service Management
9 21 (21.00%) Impact Assessments
10 20 (20.00%) Enterprise Architecture
10 20 (20.00%) Enterprise Search
10 20 (20.00%) Information Management
10 20 (20.00%) Software Engineering
11 19 (19.00%) Open Source
11 19 (19.00%) Performance Analysis
11 19 (19.00%) SDLC
12 15 (15.00%) Capacity Planning
Programming Languages
1 45 (45.00%) Python
2 42 (42.00%) Fortran
3 40 (40.00%) C
4 35 (35.00%) C++
5 25 (25.00%) Bash
6 22 (22.00%) Shell Script
7 21 (21.00%) Java
8 20 (20.00%) SQL
9 12 (12.00%) PL/SQL
10 6 (6.00%) Perl
11 3 (3.00%) C#
11 3 (3.00%) COBOL
12 2 (2.00%) Embedded C
12 2 (2.00%) Embedded C++
13 1 (1.00%) Groovy
13 1 (1.00%) Julia
13 1 (1.00%) PowerShell
13 1 (1.00%) R
13 1 (1.00%) Rust
Qualifications
1 67 (67.00%) Security Cleared
2 59 (59.00%) Degree
3 41 (41.00%) PhD
4 35 (35.00%) Master's Degree
5 34 (34.00%) SC Cleared
6 8 (8.00%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (3.00%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (3.00%) DBS Check
8 2 (2.00%) HNC
8 2 (2.00%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (32.00%) SLA
2 1 (1.00%) GDPR
System Software
1 12 (12.00%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 20 (20.00%) OpenSSO
1 20 (20.00%) Single Sign-On
2 12 (12.00%) Data Guard
2 12 (12.00%) Oracle RMAN
3 2 (2.00%) Nagios
3 2 (2.00%) Netcool
3 2 (2.00%) ZABBIX
4 1 (1.00%) SCCM
4 1 (1.00%) WSUS
Vendors
1 36 (36.00%) Oracle
2 33 (33.00%) Remedy
3 32 (32.00%) Microsoft
4 15 (15.00%) Sun
5 2 (2.00%) BigPanda
5 2 (2.00%) Dell
5 2 (2.00%) Dynatrace
5 2 (2.00%) IBM
5 2 (2.00%) LogicMonitor
5 2 (2.00%) New Relic
5 2 (2.00%) ScienceLogic
5 2 (2.00%) SolarWinds
5 2 (2.00%) Splunk
6 1 (1.00%) Ab Initio
6 1 (1.00%) Apple
6 1 (1.00%) BMC
6 1 (1.00%) Ericsson
6 1 (1.00%) Informatica
6 1 (1.00%) Nokia
6 1 (1.00%) VMware