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 30 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 192 185 172
Rank change year-on-year -7 -13 -15
Permanent jobs citing Unix 28 85 61
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.51% 0.96% 1.17%
As % of the Operating Systems category 4.65% 7.60% 6.79%
Number of salaries quoted 19 21 47
10th Percentile £39,000 £45,000 £39,000
25th Percentile £52,775 £51,250 £50,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,801 £57,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +29.48% -0.87% +15.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £74,144 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,007 £75,000 £70,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £64,500
% change year-on-year - -6.98% -0.77%

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 602 1,119 898
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 10.88% 12.60% 17.30%
Number of salaries quoted 485 485 735
10th Percentile £25,750 £27,500 £25,750
25th Percentile £29,000 £31,250 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £42,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.76% -5.56% -
75th Percentile £53,750 £57,500 £58,750
90th Percentile £73,750 £72,500 £68,250
England median annual salary £42,000 £50,000 £51,500
% change year-on-year -16.00% -2.91% -1.90%

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 30 October 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 30 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
West Midlands -1 20 £75,000 +15.38% 8
East Midlands -1 8 £49,000 -10.91% 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 7 (25.00%) Apache Spark
2 2 (7.14%) JBoss
2 2 (7.14%) Tomcat
2 2 (7.14%) WebLogic
3 1 (3.57%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (3.57%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (7.14%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (7.14%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 18 (64.29%) AWS
2 10 (35.71%) Azure
3 6 (21.43%) Amazon EKS
3 6 (21.43%) Amazon ELB
3 6 (21.43%) Amazon S3
4 4 (14.29%) GCP
5 2 (7.14%) Amazon ECR
5 2 (7.14%) Amazon ECS
5 2 (7.14%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (7.14%) dbt
5 2 (7.14%) OpenShift
5 2 (7.14%) Pulumi
6 1 (3.57%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (3.57%) Amazon ElastiCache
6 1 (3.57%) Amazon OpenSearch
6 1 (3.57%) GitHub
6 1 (3.57%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (3.57%) PaaS
6 1 (3.57%) Power Platform
6 1 (3.57%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 3 (10.71%) TCP/IP
2 2 (7.14%) Firewall
3 1 (3.57%) DHCP
3 1 (3.57%) DNS
3 1 (3.57%) PuTTY
3 1 (3.57%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (25.00%) Metadata
1 7 (25.00%) Spark SQL
2 6 (21.43%) Delta Lake
2 6 (21.43%) DynamoDB
3 3 (10.71%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (10.71%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (7.14%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (7.14%) MySQL
4 2 (7.14%) Redis
4 2 (7.14%) SQL Server
5 1 (3.57%) Apache Hive
5 1 (3.57%) Big Data
5 1 (3.57%) Hadoop
5 1 (3.57%) HBase
5 1 (3.57%) Neo4j
5 1 (3.57%) NoSQL
5 1 (3.57%) QlikView
5 1 (3.57%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 1 (3.57%) SQLite
5 1 (3.57%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 6 (21.43%) MLflow
2 3 (10.71%) Git
2 3 (10.71%) JIRA
3 2 (7.14%) Gradle
3 2 (7.14%) Jenkins
3 2 (7.14%) JUnit
3 2 (7.14%) Maven
3 2 (7.14%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 16 (57.14%) Social Skills
2 7 (25.00%) Finance
3 3 (10.71%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (7.14%) Banking
4 2 (7.14%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (3.57%) Corporate Banking
5 1 (3.57%) Financial Institution
5 1 (3.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (3.57%) Investment Banking
5 1 (3.57%) Private Banking
5 1 (3.57%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (21.43%) Machine Learning Engineer
1 6 (21.43%) Operations Engineer
2 4 (14.29%) Senior
3 3 (10.71%) Developer
3 3 (10.71%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (10.71%) Java Developer
4 2 (7.14%) ERP Support
4 2 (7.14%) IT Support
4 2 (7.14%) Java Engineer
4 2 (7.14%) Lead
4 2 (7.14%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (3.57%) Data Engineer
5 1 (3.57%) Lead DevOps
5 1 (3.57%) Linux Engineer
5 1 (3.57%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (3.57%) Platform Engineer
5 1 (3.57%) Senior Platform Engineer
5 1 (3.57%) Site Engineer
5 1 (3.57%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 1 (3.57%) Unix Linux Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (25.00%) PySpark
2 6 (21.43%) Keras
2 6 (21.43%) Lambda Expressions
2 6 (21.43%) Metaflow
2 6 (21.43%) NumPy
2 6 (21.43%) Pandas
2 6 (21.43%) PyTorch
2 6 (21.43%) scikit-learn
2 6 (21.43%) TensorFlow
2 6 (21.43%) YAML
3 2 (7.14%) Django
3 2 (7.14%) Middleware
3 2 (7.14%) REST
3 2 (7.14%) SOAP
3 2 (7.14%) Spring
3 2 (7.14%) Spring Boot
3 2 (7.14%) Spring Cloud
3 2 (7.14%) Spring MVC
4 1 (3.57%) Apache NiFi
4 1 (3.57%) Shiny
Miscellaneous
1 7 (25.00%) Linux Command Line
1 7 (25.00%) Onboarding
2 5 (17.86%) Product Ownership
3 2 (7.14%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (7.14%) Management Information System
4 1 (3.57%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (3.57%) Driving Licence
4 1 (3.57%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 10 (35.71%) Linux
2 9 (32.14%) Windows
3 1 (3.57%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (28.57%) CI/CD
1 8 (28.57%) OOP
2 7 (25.00%) AI
2 7 (25.00%) Data Science
2 7 (25.00%) Machine Learning
2 7 (25.00%) Unit Testing
2 7 (25.00%) Visualisation
3 6 (21.43%) Containerisation
3 6 (21.43%) Deployment Automation
3 6 (21.43%) Information Security
3 6 (21.43%) Metadata Management
3 6 (21.43%) MLOps
3 6 (21.43%) OO
3 6 (21.43%) OWASP
3 6 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (21.43%) Time Management
4 5 (17.86%) Continuous Improvement
4 5 (17.86%) Roadmaps
4 5 (17.86%) Translating Business Requirements
5 4 (14.29%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 10 (35.71%) Python
2 8 (28.57%) Java
2 8 (28.57%) SQL
3 3 (10.71%) Shell Script
4 1 (3.57%) Bash
4 1 (3.57%) PowerShell
4 1 (3.57%) PROC SQL
4 1 (3.57%) R
Qualifications
1 3 (10.71%) Security Cleared
2 2 (7.14%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.57%) AWS Certification
3 1 (3.57%) Azure Certification
3 1 (3.57%) CESG Certified Professional
3 1 (3.57%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (3.57%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.57%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (3.57%) Data Quality
1 1 (3.57%) NIST
1 1 (3.57%) QA
1 1 (3.57%) SLA
System Software
1 11 (39.29%) Docker
2 6 (21.43%) Active Directory
3 1 (3.57%) Apache Flume
3 1 (3.57%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 8 (28.57%) Terraform
2 6 (21.43%) Kubeflow
2 6 (21.43%) Kubernetes
3 1 (3.57%) AWS Copilot
3 1 (3.57%) FortiGate
3 1 (3.57%) Grafana
3 1 (3.57%) Kibana
3 1 (3.57%) logstash
3 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (3.57%) Oozie
Vendors
1 7 (25.00%) Databricks
2 5 (17.86%) CyberArk
2 5 (17.86%) Microsoft
3 4 (14.29%) Oracle
4 3 (10.71%) Google
5 1 (3.57%) Cisco
5 1 (3.57%) Dynatrace
5 1 (3.57%) Fortinet
5 1 (3.57%) Informatica
5 1 (3.57%) MicroStrategy
5 1 (3.57%) New Relic
5 1 (3.57%) SAP
5 1 (3.57%) Splunk