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 6 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 126 138 98
Rank change year-on-year +12 -40 +33
Permanent jobs citing Unix 8 18 22
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands 0.37% 0.52% 1.40%
As % of the Operating Systems category 3.24% 4.46% 6.94%
Number of salaries quoted 4 6 11
10th Percentile - £50,250 £47,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.91% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £59,500 £58,250 £68,750
90th Percentile - £64,250 £81,250
England median annual salary £58,000 £59,125 £64,500
% change year-on-year -1.90% -8.33% -0.77%

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 247 404 317
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 11.42% 11.74% 20.11%
Number of salaries quoted 193 195 234
10th Percentile £24,750 £26,250 £25,150
25th Percentile £26,250 £29,875 £28,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,500 £40,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -18.75% -15.79% -
75th Percentile £42,500 £52,500 £58,938
90th Percentile £56,250 £60,000 £63,750
England median annual salary £42,000 £50,000 £50,238
% change year-on-year -16.00% -0.47% -4.31%

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
Salary Histogram in the East Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Unix in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 6 November 2025.

Salary histogram for Unix in the East Midlands

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 6 November 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
Northamptonshire +29 3 £58,000 +5.45% 3
Leicestershire +22 3 £40,000 -
Lincolnshire -7 1 - -
Derbyshire - 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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (50.00%) Apache Spark
2 2 (25.00%) JBoss
2 2 (25.00%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 6 (75.00%) AWS
2 4 (50.00%) Amazon EKS
2 4 (50.00%) Amazon ELB
2 4 (50.00%) Amazon S3
3 2 (25.00%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (50.00%) Delta Lake
1 4 (50.00%) DynamoDB
1 4 (50.00%) Metadata
1 4 (50.00%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 4 (50.00%) MLflow
2 2 (25.00%) Git
2 2 (25.00%) Gradle
2 2 (25.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (25.00%) JIRA
2 2 (25.00%) JUnit
2 2 (25.00%) Maven
2 2 (25.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 6 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (50.00%) Finance
3 2 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (25.00%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Machine Learning Engineer
1 4 (50.00%) Operations Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Developer
2 2 (25.00%) ERP Support
2 2 (25.00%) IT Support
2 2 (25.00%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (50.00%) Keras
1 4 (50.00%) Lambda Expressions
1 4 (50.00%) Metaflow
1 4 (50.00%) NumPy
1 4 (50.00%) Pandas
1 4 (50.00%) PySpark
1 4 (50.00%) PyTorch
1 4 (50.00%) scikit-learn
1 4 (50.00%) TensorFlow
1 4 (50.00%) YAML
2 2 (25.00%) REST
2 2 (25.00%) SOAP
2 2 (25.00%) Spring
2 2 (25.00%) Spring Boot
2 2 (25.00%) Spring Cloud
2 2 (25.00%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 4 (50.00%) Linux Command Line
2 2 (25.00%) Analytical Mindset
2 2 (25.00%) Management Information System
2 2 (25.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 4 (50.00%) Linux
2 2 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) OOP
2 4 (50.00%) AI
2 4 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 4 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 4 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 4 (50.00%) Data Science
2 4 (50.00%) Deployment Automation
2 4 (50.00%) Information Security
2 4 (50.00%) Machine Learning
2 4 (50.00%) Metadata Management
2 4 (50.00%) MLOps
2 4 (50.00%) OO
2 4 (50.00%) OWASP
2 4 (50.00%) Time Management
2 4 (50.00%) Unit Testing
2 4 (50.00%) Visualisation
3 2 (25.00%) Clean Code
3 2 (25.00%) Customer Experience
3 2 (25.00%) Customer Service
3 2 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 4 (50.00%) Python
1 4 (50.00%) SQL
2 2 (25.00%) Java
2 2 (25.00%) Shell Script
System Software
1 4 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (50.00%) Kubeflow
1 4 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 4 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (50.00%) Databricks
2 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (25.00%) Oracle