Unix Job Trends in the East Midlands

Unix
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring Unix skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 144 110 141
Rank change year-on-year -34 +31 -12
Permanent jobs citing Unix 3 2 27
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands 0.091% 0.12% 0.78%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.29% 0.74% 4.70%
Number of salaries quoted 2 1 22
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £35,000 £55,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £57,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -29.82% +14.00% -23.08%
75th Percentile £45,000 £58,500 £62,188
90th Percentile - - £68,625
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -13.60%

All Operating Systems
East Midlands

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 East Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 233 271 575
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 7.05% 16.69% 16.55%
Number of salaries quoted 199 146 496
10th Percentile £25,750 £25,000 £23,500
25th Percentile £26,688 £26,250 £25,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,500 £32,500 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year - -18.75% -11.11%
75th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £52,500
90th Percentile £57,500 £62,250 £61,250
England median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £46,854
% change year-on-year -10.00% +6.72% -10.75%

Unix
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Unix relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Unix job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

Unix
Salary Trend in the East Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Unix.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Unix

Unix
Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Unix within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 12 March 2026. 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
Leicestershire - 2 £40,000 -
Derbyshire - 1 - - 1
Unix
England

Unix
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) NoSQL
1 1 (33.33%) RDBMS
1 1 (33.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Jaeger
General
1 2 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (66.67%) Documentation Skills
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) ERP Support
1 2 (66.67%) IT Support
2 1 (33.33%) Lead
2 1 (33.33%) Lead DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (33.33%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Analytical Mindset
1 2 (66.67%) Management Information System
1 2 (66.67%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
2 2 (66.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (66.67%) Customer Experience
1 2 (66.67%) Customer Service
1 2 (66.67%) ERP
1 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Agile
2 1 (33.33%) Budget Control
2 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (33.33%) Cost Optimisation
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) GitOps
2 1 (33.33%) High Availability
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
2 1 (33.33%) Performance Optimisation
2 1 (33.33%) Product Management
2 1 (33.33%) Resource Management
2 1 (33.33%) Roadmaps
2 1 (33.33%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Bash
1 1 (33.33%) Go
1 1 (33.33%) Java
1 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
1 1 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) AWS Certification
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Ansible
1 1 (33.33%) Argo
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
1 1 (33.33%) Kustomize
1 1 (33.33%) Prometheus
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) Google