Unix Jobs in Reading

Unix
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Reading 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 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 61 58 70
Rank change year-on-year -3 +12 +46
Permanent jobs citing Unix 4 61 68
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Reading 0.79% 3.57% 4.18%
As % of the Operating Systems category 4.76% 19.61% 20.99%
Number of salaries quoted 4 18 28
10th Percentile - £34,750 £30,413
25th Percentile £50,848 £35,938 £34,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,283 £48,000 £43,250
Median % change year-on-year +25.59% +10.98% -11.28%
75th Percentile £65,625 £61,000 £53,188
90th Percentile £66,750 - £80,000
Berkshire median annual salary £52,000 £48,000 £43,250
% change year-on-year +8.33% +10.98% -17.62%

All Operating Systems
Reading

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 Reading.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 84 311 324
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Reading 16.54% 18.20% 19.94%
Number of salaries quoted 63 235 175
10th Percentile £34,000 £26,000 £23,700
25th Percentile £36,250 £34,000 £31,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - -16.67%
75th Percentile £48,125 £59,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £60,226 £75,000 £85,000
Berkshire median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £48,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% +4.17% -12.73%

Unix
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

Job postings citing Unix as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Reading.

Job vacancy trend for Unix in Reading

Unix
Salary Trend in Reading

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

Salary trend for Unix in Reading

Unix
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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 1 (25.00%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) AWS
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) DHCP
1 1 (25.00%) DNS
1 1 (25.00%) iSCSI
1 1 (25.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (25.00%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Metadata
1 2 (50.00%) RDBMS
1 2 (50.00%) Relational Database
2 1 (25.00%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (25.00%) JIRA
1 1 (25.00%) SoapUI
General
1 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (50.00%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (25.00%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Developer
1 2 (50.00%) Scientific Software Developer
1 2 (50.00%) Senior
1 2 (50.00%) Senior Developer
1 2 (50.00%) Senior Software Developer
1 2 (50.00%) Software Developer
2 1 (25.00%) QA Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) VMware Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Acoustics
1 2 (50.00%) Data Centre
1 2 (50.00%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (25.00%) Mobile App
2 1 (25.00%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Linux
2 2 (50.00%) Mac OS
3 1 (25.00%) Ubuntu
3 1 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Collaborative Working
1 2 (50.00%) Computer Science
1 2 (50.00%) Project Delivery
1 2 (50.00%) Project Management
1 2 (50.00%) Software Engineering
1 2 (50.00%) Software Testing
1 2 (50.00%) Web Application Development
2 1 (25.00%) API Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Change Control
2 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (25.00%) Edge Virtualization
2 1 (25.00%) Incident Response
2 1 (25.00%) ITIL
2 1 (25.00%) Knowledge Transfer
2 1 (25.00%) Manual Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (25.00%) Service Delivery
2 1 (25.00%) Service Management
2 1 (25.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Bash
1 2 (50.00%) C
1 2 (50.00%) C++
1 2 (50.00%) Fortran
1 2 (50.00%) Python
1 2 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (25.00%) Java
2 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) Degree
1 2 (50.00%) Master's Degree
1 2 (50.00%) PhD
2 1 (25.00%) DV Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) VCAP
2 1 (25.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) NFS
1 1 (25.00%) vCloud
1 1 (25.00%) Virtual Machines
1 1 (25.00%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (25.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (25.00%) PowerCLI
1 1 (25.00%) vCenter Server
1 1 (25.00%) vRealize
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) VMware