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 7 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 238 240 183
Rank change year-on-year +2 -57 0
Permanent jobs citing Unix 21 75 158
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.29% 0.64% 1.67%
As % of the Operating Systems category 2.04% 4.69% 12.19%
Number of salaries quoted 15 60 64
10th Percentile £52,500 £45,375 £45,725
25th Percentile £55,000 £47,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £50,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -23.08% +18.18%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,625 £70,000
90th Percentile £68,000 £93,491 £76,250
England median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +8.33% -14.29% +12.00%

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 1,027 1,599 1,296
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 14.37% 13.64% 13.68%
Number of salaries quoted 602 1,319 860
10th Percentile £26,250 £24,500 £25,000
25th Percentile £29,250 £26,750 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £36,925 £40,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% -11.11% +5.88%
75th Percentile £48,563 £52,500 £57,500
90th Percentile £62,500 £61,250 £67,500
England median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - -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 7 May 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 7 May 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 +19 20 £60,000 +20.00% 11
East Midlands +18 1 £70,000 +40.00% 5
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:

Business Applications
1 6 (28.57%) Oracle EBS
2 4 (19.05%) NEC Housing
2 4 (19.05%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 1 (4.76%) Amazon ECR
1 1 (4.76%) Amazon ECS
1 1 (4.76%) Amazon ElastiCache
1 1 (4.76%) Amazon OpenSearch
1 1 (4.76%) AWS
1 1 (4.76%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (4.76%) AWS CodeBuild
1 1 (4.76%) Azure
1 1 (4.76%) Cloud Computing
1 1 (4.76%) dbt
1 1 (4.76%) GCP
1 1 (4.76%) Pulumi
1 1 (4.76%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.76%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (33.33%) DB2
1 7 (33.33%) Oracle Database
2 6 (28.57%) Oracle Exadata
3 5 (23.81%) Oracle Reports
4 4 (19.05%) MaxDB
4 4 (19.05%) SAP HANA
5 1 (4.76%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (4.76%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (4.76%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (4.76%) RDBMS
5 1 (4.76%) Redis
5 1 (4.76%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (4.76%) Git
1 1 (4.76%) JIRA
1 1 (4.76%) Oracle APEX
General
1 7 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 6 (28.57%) Finance
3 5 (23.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 4 (19.05%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (19.05%) Local Government
4 4 (19.05%) Police
4 4 (19.05%) Public Sector
4 4 (19.05%) Social Housing
5 2 (9.52%) Advertising
6 1 (4.76%) Automotive
6 1 (4.76%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (38.10%) Consultant
2 6 (28.57%) DBA
2 6 (28.57%) Oracle DBA
3 4 (19.05%) Implementation Consultant
3 4 (19.05%) Oracle Applications DBA
3 4 (19.05%) SAP Basis Consultant
3 4 (19.05%) SAP Basis Support
3 4 (19.05%) SAP Consultant
3 4 (19.05%) SAP Support
3 4 (19.05%) SAP Support Consultant
3 4 (19.05%) Support Consultant
4 3 (14.29%) Senior
5 2 (9.52%) Administrator
5 2 (9.52%) Developer
5 2 (9.52%) Site Engineer
5 2 (9.52%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) Full-Stack Developer
6 1 (4.76%) Java Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
6 1 (4.76%) Technology Risk Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (28.57%) Middleware
1 6 (28.57%) Oracle Fusion
1 6 (28.57%) Oracle GoldenGate
2 4 (19.05%) SAP Basis
3 1 (4.76%) Django
3 1 (4.76%) HTML
3 1 (4.76%) Laravel
3 1 (4.76%) REST
3 1 (4.76%) RESTful
3 1 (4.76%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 4 (19.05%) Housing Association
2 2 (9.52%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (4.76%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 10 (47.62%) Windows
2 8 (38.10%) Linux
3 5 (23.81%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (28.57%) Performance Tuning
3 5 (23.81%) Data Management
3 5 (23.81%) Database Tuning
4 4 (19.05%) Analytics
4 4 (19.05%) Business Analytics
4 4 (19.05%) Business Continuity
4 4 (19.05%) Business Intelligence
4 4 (19.05%) Collaborative Working
4 4 (19.05%) CRM
4 4 (19.05%) Data Privacy
4 4 (19.05%) ERP
4 4 (19.05%) Housing Management
4 4 (19.05%) Project Delivery
4 4 (19.05%) Project Management
4 4 (19.05%) SAP Security
5 3 (14.29%) Configuration Management
6 2 (9.52%) Change Management
6 2 (9.52%) Data Analysis
6 2 (9.52%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 17 (80.95%) SQL
2 7 (33.33%) Java
3 6 (28.57%) PL/SQL
3 6 (28.57%) Shell Script
4 4 (19.05%) ABAP
5 1 (4.76%) JavaScript
5 1 (4.76%) PHP
5 1 (4.76%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (23.81%) OCA
1 5 (23.81%) OCP
1 5 (23.81%) Oracle Certification
1 5 (23.81%) Security Cleared
2 4 (19.05%) DBS Check
3 2 (9.52%) Degree
4 1 (4.76%) CISA
4 1 (4.76%) CISSP
4 1 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (4.76%) CRISC
4 1 (4.76%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
4 1 (4.76%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (42.86%) Accessibility
2 1 (4.76%) COBIT
2 1 (4.76%) COSO
2 1 (4.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (4.76%) ITGC
2 1 (4.76%) NIST
2 1 (4.76%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 1 (4.76%) Docker
1 1 (4.76%) Embedded Firmware
1 1 (4.76%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 6 (28.57%) Oracle RMAN
2 1 (4.76%) AWS Copilot
2 1 (4.76%) Terraform
Vendors
1 12 (57.14%) Oracle
2 4 (19.05%) NEC
2 4 (19.05%) SAP
3 3 (14.29%) Sybase
4 1 (4.76%) Google