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 12 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 203 157 159
Rank change year-on-year -46 +2 0
Permanent jobs citing Unix 13 79 75
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.17% 1.24% 1.31%
As % of the Operating Systems category 2.54% 7.50% 8.92%
Number of salaries quoted 7 19 63
10th Percentile £35,000 £43,750 £41,400
25th Percentile £45,750 £49,625 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,801 £57,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +29.48% +3.64% +10.00%
75th Percentile £78,790 £71,250 £68,750
90th Percentile £81,224 £74,144 £76,000
England median annual salary £58,000 £59,563 £67,500
% change year-on-year -2.62% -11.76% +3.85%

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 511 1,054 841
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 6.59% 16.53% 14.70%
Number of salaries quoted 405 385 747
10th Percentile £25,750 £26,900 £25,750
25th Percentile £27,694 £31,250 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £34,011 £42,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -19.97% -5.56% -
75th Percentile £46,250 £57,500 £56,875
90th Percentile £63,400 £72,500 £67,500
England median annual salary £44,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% - -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 12 January 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 12 January 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 -33 9 £74,401 +24.00% 17
East Midlands -17 4 £40,000 -27.27% 13
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 (15.38%) WebLogic
2 1 (7.69%) JBoss
2 1 (7.69%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (15.38%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (15.38%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 5 (38.46%) AWS
2 3 (23.08%) Azure
2 3 (23.08%) GCP
2 3 (23.08%) Pulumi
3 2 (15.38%) Amazon ECR
3 2 (15.38%) Amazon ECS
3 2 (15.38%) AWS CloudFormation
3 2 (15.38%) dbt
4 1 (7.69%) Amazon ElastiCache
4 1 (7.69%) Amazon OpenSearch
4 1 (7.69%) OpenShift
4 1 (7.69%) PaaS
4 1 (7.69%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 2 (15.38%) TCP/IP
2 1 (7.69%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (15.38%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (15.38%) Elasticsearch
1 2 (15.38%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (15.38%) Redis
2 1 (7.69%) MySQL
2 1 (7.69%) NoSQL
2 1 (7.69%) Oracle Database
2 1 (7.69%) RDBMS
2 1 (7.69%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Git
1 1 (7.69%) Gradle
1 1 (7.69%) Jaeger
1 1 (7.69%) Jenkins
1 1 (7.69%) JIRA
1 1 (7.69%) JUnit
1 1 (7.69%) Maven
1 1 (7.69%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 5 (38.46%) Finance
2 4 (30.77%) Social Skills
3 3 (23.08%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (15.38%) Banking
4 2 (15.38%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (7.69%) Corporate Banking
5 1 (7.69%) Financial Institution
5 1 (7.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (7.69%) Investment Banking
5 1 (7.69%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 4 (30.77%) Linux Engineer
1 4 (30.77%) Unix Engineer
1 4 (30.77%) Unix Linux Engineer
2 3 (23.08%) Lead
3 2 (15.38%) ERP Support
3 2 (15.38%) IT Support
3 2 (15.38%) Lead DevOps
3 2 (15.38%) Senior
4 1 (7.69%) DBA
4 1 (7.69%) Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Java Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Oracle DBA
4 1 (7.69%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Senior Platform Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Site Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (15.38%) Django
1 2 (15.38%) Middleware
2 1 (7.69%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (7.69%) OpenTelemetry
2 1 (7.69%) REST
2 1 (7.69%) SOAP
2 1 (7.69%) Spring
2 1 (7.69%) Spring Boot
2 1 (7.69%) Spring Cloud
2 1 (7.69%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) Analytical Mindset
1 2 (15.38%) Management Information System
1 2 (15.38%) Onboarding
2 1 (7.69%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (7.69%) Enterprise Cloud
2 1 (7.69%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 12 (92.31%) Linux
2 2 (15.38%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (30.77%) Continuous Improvement
1 4 (30.77%) DevOps
1 4 (30.77%) Observability
1 4 (30.77%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (23.08%) Clean Code
2 3 (23.08%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (23.08%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 2 (15.38%) Agile
3 2 (15.38%) CI/CD
3 2 (15.38%) Customer Experience
3 2 (15.38%) Customer Service
3 2 (15.38%) ERP
3 2 (15.38%) Mentoring
3 2 (15.38%) Service-Level Objective
4 1 (7.69%) API Development
4 1 (7.69%) Application Performance Monitoring
4 1 (7.69%) Coaching
4 1 (7.69%) Infrastructure Monitoring
4 1 (7.69%) Microservices
4 1 (7.69%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 4 (30.77%) Java
1 4 (30.77%) Python
2 2 (15.38%) Shell Script
3 1 (7.69%) Bash
3 1 (7.69%) Go
3 1 (7.69%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 6 (46.15%) Security Cleared
2 2 (15.38%) SC Cleared
3 1 (7.69%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.69%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (23.08%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (23.08%) Terraform
2 1 (7.69%) Ansible
2 1 (7.69%) Argo
2 1 (7.69%) AWS Copilot
2 1 (7.69%) Grafana
2 1 (7.69%) Kubernetes
2 1 (7.69%) Kustomize
2 1 (7.69%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 4 (30.77%) Google
2 2 (15.38%) Microsoft
2 2 (15.38%) Oracle
3 1 (7.69%) Dynatrace
3 1 (7.69%) New Relic
3 1 (7.69%) Splunk