Unix Jobs in the Midlands

Unix
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Midlands requiring Unix skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Unix over the 6 months leading up to 1 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 222 274 170
Rank change year-on-year +52 -104 +3
Permanent jobs citing Unix 37 60 140
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.55% 0.43% 1.69%
As % of the Operating Systems category 4.20% 3.39% 11.55%
Number of salaries quoted 25 38 53
10th Percentile £49,130 £46,900 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £47,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £50,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +30.00% -13.04% +4.55%
75th Percentile £77,500 £74,248 £67,500
90th Percentile - £107,500 £72,400
England median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +8.33% -11.11% +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 882 1,772 1,212
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 13.03% 12.71% 14.67%
Number of salaries quoted 657 1,304 805
10th Percentile £26,250 £24,500 £25,000
25th Percentile £29,750 £27,500 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £36,925 £39,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.32% -13.33% -
75th Percentile £50,150 £52,500 £58,750
90th Percentile £68,750 £61,250 £67,500
England median annual salary £42,500 £45,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -5.56% -14.29% -

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

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Unix in the Midlands.

Salary trend for Unix in the Midlands

Unix
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Unix in the Midlands over the 6 months to 1 July 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 1 July 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 +59 29 £65,000 -0.71% 42
East Midlands +29 8 £64,000 +28.00% 27
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 (18.92%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.70%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (2.70%) JBoss
2 1 (2.70%) SAS
2 1 (2.70%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 4 (10.81%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (8.11%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 19 (51.35%) AWS
2 8 (21.62%) Azure
3 6 (16.22%) Amazon EKS
3 6 (16.22%) Amazon ELB
3 6 (16.22%) Amazon S3
4 5 (13.51%) Pulumi
5 2 (5.41%) Cloud Computing
5 2 (5.41%) GCP
6 1 (2.70%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (2.70%) Amazon ECR
6 1 (2.70%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (2.70%) Amazon ElastiCache
6 1 (2.70%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (2.70%) AWS CodeBuild
6 1 (2.70%) dbt
6 1 (2.70%) GitHub
6 1 (2.70%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (2.70%) OpenShift
6 1 (2.70%) Power Platform
6 1 (2.70%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 4 (10.81%) Broadband
2 2 (5.41%) Firewall
2 2 (5.41%) TCP/IP
3 1 (2.70%) DHCP
3 1 (2.70%) DNS
3 1 (2.70%) PuTTY
3 1 (2.70%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (18.92%) DB2
1 7 (18.92%) Metadata
1 7 (18.92%) Spark SQL
2 6 (16.22%) Delta Lake
2 6 (16.22%) DynamoDB
2 6 (16.22%) RDBMS
2 6 (16.22%) Relational Database
3 5 (13.51%) NoSQL
3 5 (13.51%) Oracle Database
4 4 (10.81%) MaxDB
4 4 (10.81%) Oracle Exadata
4 4 (10.81%) Oracle Reports
4 4 (10.81%) SAP HANA
5 2 (5.41%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (5.41%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (5.41%) SQL Server
6 1 (2.70%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (2.70%) HBase
6 1 (2.70%) Impala
6 1 (2.70%) Redis
Development Applications
1 6 (16.22%) MLflow
2 4 (10.81%) Jaeger
3 3 (8.11%) Git
3 3 (8.11%) JIRA
4 1 (2.70%) Gradle
4 1 (2.70%) Jenkins
4 1 (2.70%) JUnit
4 1 (2.70%) Maven
4 1 (2.70%) Oracle APEX
4 1 (2.70%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 18 (48.65%) Social Skills
2 9 (24.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 3 (8.11%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (8.11%) Finance
4 2 (5.41%) Advertising
5 1 (2.70%) Automotive
5 1 (2.70%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (16.22%) Machine Learning Engineer
1 6 (16.22%) Operations Engineer
2 5 (13.51%) Senior
3 4 (10.81%) Consultant
3 4 (10.81%) DBA
3 4 (10.81%) Developer
3 4 (10.81%) Lead
3 4 (10.81%) Oracle DBA
3 4 (10.81%) SAP Basis Consultant
3 4 (10.81%) SAP Basis Support
3 4 (10.81%) SAP Consultant
3 4 (10.81%) SAP Support
3 4 (10.81%) SAP Support Consultant
3 4 (10.81%) Support Consultant
3 4 (10.81%) Team Leader
4 3 (8.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (8.11%) Java Developer
4 3 (8.11%) Java Engineer
4 3 (8.11%) Oracle Applications DBA
5 2 (5.41%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (18.92%) PySpark
2 6 (16.22%) Keras
2 6 (16.22%) Lambda Expressions
2 6 (16.22%) Metaflow
2 6 (16.22%) NumPy
2 6 (16.22%) Pandas
2 6 (16.22%) PyTorch
2 6 (16.22%) scikit-learn
2 6 (16.22%) TensorFlow
2 6 (16.22%) YAML
3 4 (10.81%) Elastic Stack
3 4 (10.81%) Middleware
3 4 (10.81%) OpenTelemetry
3 4 (10.81%) Oracle Fusion
3 4 (10.81%) Oracle GoldenGate
3 4 (10.81%) SAP Basis
4 2 (5.41%) REST
5 1 (2.70%) Kafka
5 1 (2.70%) Laravel
5 1 (2.70%) Regular Expression
Miscellaneous
1 6 (16.22%) Linux Command Line
2 5 (13.51%) Onboarding
2 5 (13.51%) Product Ownership
3 1 (2.70%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (2.70%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (2.70%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 15 (40.54%) Windows
2 12 (32.43%) Linux
3 5 (13.51%) AIX
4 1 (2.70%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (27.03%) Containerisation
2 9 (24.32%) Roadmaps
3 8 (21.62%) Problem-Solving
4 7 (18.92%) Agile
4 7 (18.92%) Artificial Intelligence
4 7 (18.92%) CI/CD
4 7 (18.92%) Data Science
4 7 (18.92%) Machine Learning
4 7 (18.92%) OO
4 7 (18.92%) OOP
4 7 (18.92%) Unit Testing
4 7 (18.92%) Visualisation
5 6 (16.22%) Deployment Automation
5 6 (16.22%) Information Security
5 6 (16.22%) Mentoring
5 6 (16.22%) Metadata Management
5 6 (16.22%) MLOps
5 6 (16.22%) OWASP
5 6 (16.22%) Time Management
6 5 (13.51%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 18 (48.65%) SQL
2 16 (43.24%) Java
3 12 (32.43%) Python
4 5 (13.51%) Bash
4 5 (13.51%) JavaScript
4 5 (13.51%) Shell Script
5 4 (10.81%) ABAP
5 4 (10.81%) Go
5 4 (10.81%) PL/SQL
6 1 (2.70%) PHP
6 1 (2.70%) PowerShell
6 1 (2.70%) PROC SQL
6 1 (2.70%) R
Qualifications
1 5 (13.51%) AWS Certification
1 5 (13.51%) Security Cleared
2 4 (10.81%) OCA
2 4 (10.81%) OCP
2 4 (10.81%) Oracle Certification
3 2 (5.41%) Degree
4 1 (2.70%) Azure Certification
4 1 (2.70%) CESG Certified Professional
4 1 (2.70%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.70%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (2.70%) Network+ Certification
4 1 (2.70%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (8.11%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.70%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (2.70%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.70%) NIST
2 1 (2.70%) QA
System Software
1 14 (37.84%) Docker
2 6 (16.22%) Active Directory
3 1 (2.70%) Apache Flume
3 1 (2.70%) Embedded Firmware
3 1 (2.70%) Firmware
3 1 (2.70%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 11 (29.73%) Terraform
2 10 (27.03%) Kubernetes
3 6 (16.22%) Kubeflow
4 4 (10.81%) Ansible
4 4 (10.81%) Argo
4 4 (10.81%) Kustomize
4 4 (10.81%) Oracle RMAN
4 4 (10.81%) Prometheus
5 1 (2.70%) AWS Copilot
5 1 (2.70%) FortiGate
5 1 (2.70%) Kibana
5 1 (2.70%) logstash
5 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (2.70%) Oozie
Vendors
1 11 (29.73%) Oracle
2 7 (18.92%) Databricks
3 5 (13.51%) CyberArk
3 5 (13.51%) Google
3 5 (13.51%) SAP
4 3 (8.11%) Microsoft
4 3 (8.11%) Sybase
5 1 (2.70%) Cisco
5 1 (2.70%) Fortinet
5 1 (2.70%) Informatica
5 1 (2.70%) MicroStrategy