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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 214 211 170
Rank change year-on-year -3 -41 -12
Permanent jobs citing Unix 21 75 64
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.37% 0.74% 1.13%
As % of the Operating Systems category 2.81% 6.17% 7.15%
Number of salaries quoted 14 23 48
10th Percentile £43,590 £47,500 £32,125
25th Percentile £56,500 £49,625 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £57,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +22.81% +3.64% +4.76%
75th Percentile £77,500 £74,572 £68,750
90th Percentile - £107,500 £70,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +8.33% -7.69% +4.00%

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 748 1,216 895
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 13.34% 12.07% 15.87%
Number of salaries quoted 582 644 729
10th Percentile £26,250 £26,250 £25,750
25th Percentile £29,250 £31,250 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £36,713 £40,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.22% -11.11% -
75th Percentile £48,688 £55,000 £58,750
90th Percentile £72,725 £68,525 £68,750
England median annual salary £41,500 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -17.00% -4.76% -

Unix
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Unix 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 18 September 2025.

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 18 September 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
West Midlands +11 14 £75,000 -14.29% 16
East Midlands +14 7 £58,000 +10.48% 11
Unix
England

Unix
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 7 (33.33%) Apache Spark
2 2 (9.52%) JBoss
2 2 (9.52%) Tomcat
3 1 (4.76%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (4.76%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 15 (71.43%) AWS
2 7 (33.33%) Azure
3 6 (28.57%) Amazon EKS
3 6 (28.57%) Amazon ELB
3 6 (28.57%) Amazon S3
4 2 (9.52%) OpenShift
5 1 (4.76%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (4.76%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (4.76%) GCP
5 1 (4.76%) GitHub
5 1 (4.76%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (4.76%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (9.52%) Firewall
2 1 (4.76%) DHCP
2 1 (4.76%) DNS
2 1 (4.76%) PuTTY
2 1 (4.76%) TCP/IP
2 1 (4.76%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (33.33%) Metadata
1 7 (33.33%) Spark SQL
2 6 (28.57%) Delta Lake
2 6 (28.57%) DynamoDB
3 2 (9.52%) RDBMS
3 2 (9.52%) Relational Database
3 2 (9.52%) SQL Server
4 1 (4.76%) Apache Hive
4 1 (4.76%) BusinessObjects
4 1 (4.76%) Hadoop
4 1 (4.76%) HBase
4 1 (4.76%) Neo4j
4 1 (4.76%) NoSQL
4 1 (4.76%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (4.76%) QlikView
4 1 (4.76%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 1 (4.76%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (4.76%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (4.76%) SQLite
4 1 (4.76%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 6 (28.57%) MLflow
2 3 (14.29%) Git
2 3 (14.29%) JIRA
3 2 (9.52%) Gradle
3 2 (9.52%) Jenkins
3 2 (9.52%) JUnit
3 2 (9.52%) Maven
3 2 (9.52%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (4.76%) Oracle APEX
General
1 13 (61.90%) Social Skills
2 3 (14.29%) Finance
3 1 (4.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (4.76%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (28.57%) Machine Learning Engineer
1 6 (28.57%) Operations Engineer
2 3 (14.29%) Developer
2 3 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (14.29%) Java Developer
2 3 (14.29%) Senior
3 2 (9.52%) Java Engineer
3 2 (9.52%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (4.76%) Analyst
4 1 (4.76%) Business Systems Analyst
4 1 (4.76%) Data Engineer
4 1 (4.76%) Database Engineer
4 1 (4.76%) Network Engineer
4 1 (4.76%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (4.76%) Senior Analyst
4 1 (4.76%) Senior Business Systems Analyst
4 1 (4.76%) Senior Database Engineer
4 1 (4.76%) Senior Systems Analyst
4 1 (4.76%) Systems Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (33.33%) PySpark
2 6 (28.57%) Keras
2 6 (28.57%) Lambda Expressions
2 6 (28.57%) Metaflow
2 6 (28.57%) NumPy
2 6 (28.57%) Pandas
2 6 (28.57%) PyTorch
2 6 (28.57%) scikit-learn
2 6 (28.57%) TensorFlow
2 6 (28.57%) YAML
3 2 (9.52%) REST
3 2 (9.52%) SOAP
3 2 (9.52%) Spring
3 2 (9.52%) Spring Boot
3 2 (9.52%) Spring Cloud
3 2 (9.52%) Spring MVC
4 1 (4.76%) Apache NiFi
4 1 (4.76%) Plotly
4 1 (4.76%) Regular Expression
4 1 (4.76%) Shiny
Miscellaneous
1 6 (28.57%) Linux Command Line
2 5 (23.81%) Onboarding
2 5 (23.81%) Product Ownership
3 1 (4.76%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 7 (33.33%) Windows
2 4 (19.05%) Linux
3 1 (4.76%) AIX
3 1 (4.76%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (38.10%) OOP
2 7 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence
2 7 (33.33%) Data Science
2 7 (33.33%) Machine Learning
2 7 (33.33%) Unit Testing
2 7 (33.33%) Visualisation
3 6 (28.57%) CI/CD
3 6 (28.57%) Containerisation
3 6 (28.57%) Deployment Automation
3 6 (28.57%) Information Security
3 6 (28.57%) Metadata Management
3 6 (28.57%) MLOps
3 6 (28.57%) OO
3 6 (28.57%) OWASP
3 6 (28.57%) Time Management
4 5 (23.81%) Roadmaps
4 5 (23.81%) Translating Business Requirements
5 3 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 2 (9.52%) Mentoring
6 2 (9.52%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 9 (42.86%) SQL
2 7 (33.33%) Python
3 6 (28.57%) Java
4 2 (9.52%) Shell Script
5 1 (4.76%) Bash
5 1 (4.76%) PowerShell
5 1 (4.76%) PROC SQL
5 1 (4.76%) R
Qualifications
1 1 (4.76%) AWS Certification
1 1 (4.76%) Azure Certification
1 1 (4.76%) CESG Certified Professional
1 1 (4.76%) Degree
1 1 (4.76%) ITIL Certification
1 1 (4.76%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.76%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (4.76%) Data Quality
1 1 (4.76%) NIST
1 1 (4.76%) QA
System Software
1 9 (42.86%) Docker
2 6 (28.57%) Active Directory
3 1 (4.76%) Apache Flume
3 1 (4.76%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 6 (28.57%) Kubeflow
1 6 (28.57%) Kubernetes
1 6 (28.57%) Terraform
2 1 (4.76%) FortiGate
2 1 (4.76%) Kibana
2 1 (4.76%) logstash
2 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (4.76%) Oozie
Vendors
1 7 (33.33%) Databricks
2 5 (23.81%) CyberArk
3 4 (19.05%) Oracle
4 3 (14.29%) Microsoft
5 1 (4.76%) Cisco
5 1 (4.76%) Fortinet
5 1 (4.76%) Informatica
5 1 (4.76%) MicroStrategy
5 1 (4.76%) SAP