Unix Job Trends in the Midlands

Unix
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring Unix skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 263 211 200
Rank change year-on-year -52 -11 -20
Permanent jobs citing Unix 20 20 81
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.13% 0.35% 0.82%
As % of the Operating Systems category 2.60% 2.79% 6.84%
Number of salaries quoted 16 13 22
10th Percentile £27,750 £42,810 £47,500
25th Percentile £28,125 £56,500 £47,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,500 £70,000 £56,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.14% +25.00% +1.82%
75th Percentile £74,985 £77,500 £73,733
90th Percentile £75,531 - £107,500
England median annual salary £65,576 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.92% +4.17% -7.69%

All Operating Systems
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 Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 768 716 1,184
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 4.87% 12.67% 12.03%
Number of salaries quoted 556 559 580
10th Percentile £27,750 £26,250 £26,750
25th Percentile £30,500 £29,250 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £36,925 £40,750
Median % change year-on-year +15.10% -9.39% -9.44%
75th Percentile £50,313 £51,125 £55,000
90th Percentile £64,375 £73,750 £68,825
England median annual salary £45,000 £41,428 £50,000
% change year-on-year +8.62% -17.15% -4.76%

Unix
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Unix job vacancy trend in the Midlands

Unix
Salary Trend in the Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Unix.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Unix

Unix
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Unix in the Midlands over the 6 months to 27 September 2026.

Salary histogram for Unix in the Midlands

Unix
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Unix within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 27 September 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
West Midlands -38 17 £62,500 -16.67% 21
East Midlands -40 3 £61,500 +6.03% 6
Unix
England

Unix
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the 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 2 (10.00%) Documentum
Business Applications
1 4 (20.00%) Line 50
Cloud Services
1 13 (65.00%) AWS
2 10 (50.00%) Azure
3 4 (20.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 4 (20.00%) GCP
4 2 (10.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 2 (10.00%) Azure Monitor
4 2 (10.00%) dbt
4 2 (10.00%) SaaS
4 2 (10.00%) Stackdriver
5 1 (5.00%) Azure AKS
5 1 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (5.00%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 4 (20.00%) Network Security
1 4 (20.00%) VoIP
2 2 (10.00%) Firewall
2 2 (10.00%) TCP/IP
2 2 (10.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (20.00%) FileMaker
1 4 (20.00%) SQL Server
2 3 (15.00%) MongoDB
3 2 (10.00%) Relational Database
4 1 (5.00%) Oracle Database
4 1 (5.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (15.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (5.00%) GitLab
General
1 9 (45.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (20.00%) Public Sector
3 3 (15.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (10.00%) Finance
4 2 (10.00%) Legal
5 1 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (35.00%) Senior
2 5 (25.00%) IT Support
3 4 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 4 (20.00%) IT Support Technician
3 4 (20.00%) IT Technician
3 4 (20.00%) Senior DevOps
3 4 (20.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
3 4 (20.00%) Support Technician
4 3 (15.00%) Platform Engineer
5 2 (10.00%) Administrator
5 2 (10.00%) Cloud Engineer
5 2 (10.00%) DBA
5 2 (10.00%) Developer
5 2 (10.00%) Documentum Developer
5 2 (10.00%) Python Engineer
5 2 (10.00%) Site Engineer
5 2 (10.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Applications Support
6 1 (5.00%) Graduate
6 1 (5.00%) IT Graduate
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (40.00%) Terraform
2 4 (20.00%) CSS
2 4 (20.00%) HTML
3 2 (10.00%) ARM Templates
3 2 (10.00%) REST
4 1 (5.00%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.00%) Public Cloud
2 2 (10.00%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (10.00%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 20 (100.00%) Linux
2 14 (70.00%) Windows
3 4 (20.00%) Mac OS
4 2 (10.00%) Solaris
4 2 (10.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (65.00%) CI/CD
2 11 (55.00%) DevOps
3 10 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
4 9 (45.00%) Agile
5 7 (35.00%) Continuous Integration
5 7 (35.00%) Scrum
6 6 (30.00%) Coaching
6 6 (30.00%) Continuous Improvement
6 6 (30.00%) Mentoring
7 5 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis
7 5 (25.00%) Task Automation
8 4 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
8 4 (20.00%) ITSM
8 4 (20.00%) Network Management
8 4 (20.00%) Open Source
8 4 (20.00%) Service Management
8 4 (20.00%) Test Automation
9 3 (15.00%) Computer Science
9 3 (15.00%) Product Management
9 3 (15.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 8 (40.00%) Python
2 4 (20.00%) PHP
3 3 (15.00%) Java
3 3 (15.00%) SQL
4 2 (10.00%) Bash
4 2 (10.00%) PowerShell
4 2 (10.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 7 (35.00%) SC Cleared
1 7 (35.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (15.00%) Degree
3 2 (10.00%) AWS Certification
3 2 (10.00%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 2 (10.00%) Azure Certification
3 2 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (20.00%) ISO 14001
1 4 (20.00%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 3 (15.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (15.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (5.00%) Argo
Vendors
1 5 (25.00%) Oracle
2 4 (20.00%) Adobe
2 4 (20.00%) Apple
2 4 (20.00%) Google
2 4 (20.00%) Sage
3 3 (15.00%) Microsoft
3 3 (15.00%) Pega
3 3 (15.00%) Workday
4 2 (10.00%) OpenText
4 2 (10.00%) Sybase