Unix Jobs in Berkshire

Unix
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Berkshire 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 9 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 105 105 110
Rank change year-on-year 0 +5 +31
Permanent jobs citing Unix 15 61 77
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Berkshire 0.93% 1.98% 2.46%
As % of the Operating Systems category 8.24% 12.40% 13.97%
Number of salaries quoted 15 18 28
10th Percentile £40,000 £34,750 £30,413
25th Percentile £40,120 £35,938 £34,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,000 £48,000 £43,250
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% +10.98% -17.62%
75th Percentile £56,141 £61,000 £56,438
90th Percentile £63,113 - £80,000
South East median annual salary £42,000 £51,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -17.65% -2.86% -8.70%

All Operating Systems
Berkshire

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 Berkshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 182 492 551
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Berkshire 11.34% 16.01% 17.64%
Number of salaries quoted 146 406 330
10th Percentile £27,500 £27,500 £24,000
25th Percentile £34,000 £34,500 £29,281
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,000 £48,425
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +3.25% -11.95%
75th Percentile £50,000 £60,025 £75,000
90th Percentile £61,250 £71,000 £85,000
South East median annual salary £41,500 £42,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year -2.35% - -10.53%

Unix
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Unix in Berkshire

Unix
Salary Trend in Berkshire

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

Salary trend for Unix in Berkshire

Unix
Salary Histogram in Berkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Unix in Berkshire over the 6 months to 9 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Unix in Berkshire

Unix
Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Unix within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 9 May 2025. 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
Reading -6 4 £60,283 +25.59% 9
Unix
South East

Unix
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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 1 (6.67%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 1 (6.67%) AWS
1 1 (6.67%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.67%) DHCP
1 1 (6.67%) DNS
1 1 (6.67%) iSCSI
1 1 (6.67%) TCP/IP
1 1 (6.67%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (13.33%) Metadata
1 2 (13.33%) RDBMS
1 2 (13.33%) Relational Database
2 1 (6.67%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Jenkins
1 1 (6.67%) JIRA
1 1 (6.67%) SoapUI
General
1 6 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (13.33%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (6.67%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 8 (53.33%) Software Engineer
2 6 (40.00%) Senior
3 4 (26.67%) Senior Software Engineer
4 3 (20.00%) Mathematical Modeller
4 3 (20.00%) Statistical Modeller
5 2 (13.33%) Developer
5 2 (13.33%) Scientific Software Developer
5 2 (13.33%) Senior Developer
5 2 (13.33%) Senior Software Developer
5 2 (13.33%) Software Developer
6 1 (6.67%) QA Engineer
6 1 (6.67%) VMware Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 8 (53.33%) Algorithms
2 5 (33.33%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (13.33%) Acoustics
3 2 (13.33%) Data Centre
4 1 (6.67%) Cloud Native
4 1 (6.67%) Mobile App
4 1 (6.67%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 15 (100.00%) Linux
2 2 (13.33%) Mac OS
3 1 (6.67%) Ubuntu
3 1 (6.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (86.67%) Computer Science
2 11 (73.33%) Mathematics
2 11 (73.33%) Physics
3 10 (66.67%) Software Engineering
3 10 (66.67%) Software Testing
4 8 (53.33%) Open Source
4 8 (53.33%) Parallel Programming
4 8 (53.33%) Performance Analysis
4 8 (53.33%) SDLC
5 3 (20.00%) Experimental Design
5 3 (20.00%) Mathematical Modelling
5 3 (20.00%) Statistical Modelling
5 3 (20.00%) Statistics
6 2 (13.33%) Collaborative Working
6 2 (13.33%) Project Delivery
6 2 (13.33%) Project Management
6 2 (13.33%) Web Application Development
7 1 (6.67%) Containerisation
7 1 (6.67%) Edge Virtualization
7 1 (6.67%) Knowledge Transfer
Programming Languages
1 13 (86.67%) C++
1 13 (86.67%) Python
2 10 (66.67%) Bash
2 10 (66.67%) C
2 10 (66.67%) Fortran
3 3 (20.00%) MATLAB
4 2 (13.33%) SQL
5 1 (6.67%) Java
5 1 (6.67%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 13 (86.67%) Degree
2 10 (66.67%) Master's Degree
2 10 (66.67%) PhD
3 9 (60.00%) DV Cleared
3 9 (60.00%) Security Cleared
4 8 (53.33%) SC Cleared
5 3 (20.00%) Numerate Degree
6 1 (6.67%) VCAP
6 1 (6.67%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.67%) QA
System Software
1 1 (6.67%) NFS
1 1 (6.67%) vCloud
1 1 (6.67%) Virtual Machines
1 1 (6.67%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (6.67%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (6.67%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (6.67%) Kubernetes
1 1 (6.67%) PowerCLI
1 1 (6.67%) vCenter Server
1 1 (6.67%) vRealize
Vendors
1 1 (6.67%) VMware