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

6 months to
30 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 255 207 245
Rank change year-on-year -48 +38 -27
Permanent jobs citing Unix 9 22 76
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.068% 0.45% 0.60%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.44% 2.54% 4.63%
Number of salaries quoted 7 20 57
10th Percentile - £52,175 £45,000
25th Percentile £27,750 £56,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £28,500 £63,750 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -55.29% +27.50% -23.08%
75th Percentile £62,250 £70,406 £68,750
90th Percentile £67,345 £77,500 £107,500
England median annual salary £69,310 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +6.63% +8.33% -13.60%

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 627 867 1,641
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 4.73% 17.55% 12.98%
Number of salaries quoted 486 583 1,333
10th Percentile £26,375 £26,250 £24,500
25th Percentile £29,000 £29,250 £27,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £36,925 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.56% -7.69% -11.11%
75th Percentile £48,750 £48,750 £52,500
90th Percentile £64,750 £62,500 £62,250
England median annual salary £45,000 £44,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year +1.12% -1.11% -14.29%

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 May 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 30 May 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 -48 6 £28,500 -54.40% 3
East Midlands -19 3 £61,500 -12.14% 1
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:

Business Applications
1 4 (44.44%) Line 50
Cloud Services
1 2 (22.22%) AWS
1 2 (22.22%) SaaS
2 1 (11.11%) Azure
2 1 (11.11%) Azure AKS
2 1 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (11.11%) Azure Service Bus
2 1 (11.11%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 4 (44.44%) Network Security
1 4 (44.44%) VoIP
2 1 (11.11%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (44.44%) FileMaker
2 3 (33.33%) MongoDB
2 3 (33.33%) Relational Database
3 2 (22.22%) SQL Server
4 1 (11.11%) NoSQL
4 1 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (11.11%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) GitLab
1 1 (11.11%) Jaeger
General
1 4 (44.44%) Social Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Finance
2 2 (22.22%) Legal
3 1 (11.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) IT Support
1 4 (44.44%) IT Support Technician
1 4 (44.44%) IT Technician
1 4 (44.44%) Support Technician
2 2 (22.22%) Administrator
2 2 (22.22%) DBA
3 1 (11.11%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Lead
3 1 (11.11%) Lead DevOps
3 1 (11.11%) Linux Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Senior
3 1 (11.11%) Senior DevOps
3 1 (11.11%) Senior DevOps Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Team Leader
3 1 (11.11%) Unix Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Unix Linux Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (44.44%) CSS
1 4 (44.44%) HTML
2 1 (11.11%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (11.11%) Node.js
2 1 (11.11%) OpenTelemetry
Operating Systems
1 9 (100.00%) Linux
2 7 (77.78%) Windows
3 4 (44.44%) Mac OS
4 2 (22.22%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (44.44%) ITSM
1 4 (44.44%) Network Management
1 4 (44.44%) Open Source
1 4 (44.44%) Problem-Solving
1 4 (44.44%) Service Management
2 3 (33.33%) High Availability
3 2 (22.22%) Agile
3 2 (22.22%) Computer Science
3 2 (22.22%) Continuous Integration
3 2 (22.22%) Data Loss Prevention
3 2 (22.22%) Database Tuning
3 2 (22.22%) DevOps
3 2 (22.22%) Mentoring
3 2 (22.22%) Performance Tuning
3 2 (22.22%) Process Improvement
3 2 (22.22%) Root Cause Analysis
4 1 (11.11%) Budget Control
4 1 (11.11%) Product Management
4 1 (11.11%) Task Automation
4 1 (11.11%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 5 (55.56%) Python
2 4 (44.44%) PHP
3 2 (22.22%) Java
3 2 (22.22%) Shell Script
3 2 (22.22%) SQL
4 1 (11.11%) Bash
4 1 (11.11%) Go
4 1 (11.11%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 3 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 2 (22.22%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (22.22%) Degree
2 2 (22.22%) SC Cleared
3 1 (11.11%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (44.44%) ISO 14001
1 4 (44.44%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (22.22%) Argo
1 2 (22.22%) Terraform
2 1 (11.11%) Ansible
2 1 (11.11%) Kubernetes
2 1 (11.11%) Kustomize
2 1 (11.11%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 4 (44.44%) Adobe
1 4 (44.44%) Apple
1 4 (44.44%) Sage
2 2 (22.22%) Oracle
2 2 (22.22%) Sybase
3 1 (11.11%) Google