Unix Job Trends in Leicestershire

Unix
East Midlands > Leicestershire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Leicestershire requiring Unix skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 47 68 -
Rank change year-on-year +21 - -
Permanent jobs citing Unix 3 5 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Leicestershire 0.71% 0.72% -
As % of the Operating Systems category 8.57% 3.62% -
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £35,000 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 - -
75th Percentile £45,000 - -
90th Percentile - - -
East Midlands median annual salary £49,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -10.91% -4.35% -4.17%

All Operating Systems
Leicestershire

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 Leicestershire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 35 138 72
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leicestershire 8.29% 19.77% 17.31%
Number of salaries quoted 30 49 69
10th Percentile £23,875 £25,000 £25,750
25th Percentile £27,750 £30,500 £31,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £34,000 £48,628
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -30.08% +30.86%
75th Percentile £46,875 £55,000 £57,500
90th Percentile £47,500 £60,250 £62,500
East Midlands median annual salary £33,500 £40,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -16.25% -15.79% +2.70%

Unix
Job Vacancy Trend in Leicestershire

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

Unix job vacancy trend in Leicestershire

Unix
Salary Trend in Leicestershire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Leicestershire citing Unix.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Leicestershire citing Unix

Unix
Job Locations in Leicestershire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Unix within the Leicestershire region over the 6 months to 24 October 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
Leicester - 2 £40,000 - 1
Unix
East Midlands

Unix
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leicestershire 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 1 (33.33%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon EKS
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon ELB
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon S3
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Delta Lake
1 1 (33.33%) DynamoDB
1 1 (33.33%) Metadata
1 1 (33.33%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) MLflow
General
1 3 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (66.67%) Documentation Skills
2 2 (66.67%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) ERP Support
1 2 (66.67%) IT Support
2 1 (33.33%) Machine Learning Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Operations Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Keras
1 1 (33.33%) Lambda Expressions
1 1 (33.33%) Metaflow
1 1 (33.33%) NumPy
1 1 (33.33%) Pandas
1 1 (33.33%) PySpark
1 1 (33.33%) PyTorch
1 1 (33.33%) scikit-learn
1 1 (33.33%) TensorFlow
1 1 (33.33%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Analytical Mindset
1 2 (66.67%) Management Information System
1 2 (66.67%) Onboarding
2 1 (33.33%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Linux
1 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%) AI
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
2 1 (33.33%) Data Science
2 1 (33.33%) Deployment Automation
2 1 (33.33%) Information Security
2 1 (33.33%) Machine Learning
2 1 (33.33%) Metadata Management
2 1 (33.33%) MLOps
2 1 (33.33%) OO
2 1 (33.33%) OOP
2 1 (33.33%) OWASP
2 1 (33.33%) Time Management
2 1 (33.33%) Unit Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Python
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Kubeflow
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) Databricks