Unix Jobs in the Thames Valley

Unix
South East > Thames Valley

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

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 160 157 149
Rank change year-on-year -3 -8 +49
Permanent jobs citing Unix 18 96 116
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.59% 1.42% 1.89%
As % of the Operating Systems category 4.34% 9.29% 9.98%
Number of salaries quoted 18 52 37
10th Percentile £40,000 £34,750 £27,875
25th Percentile £40,240 £39,500 £34,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,000 £46,897 £43,250
Median % change year-on-year +10.88% +8.43% -17.62%
75th Percentile £62,883 £61,000 £55,000
90th Percentile £75,750 £63,750 £80,000
South East median annual salary £42,000 £51,750 £52,500
% change year-on-year -18.84% -1.43% -7.98%

All Operating Systems
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 415 1,033 1,162
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 13.65% 15.31% 18.96%
Number of salaries quoted 297 891 709
10th Percentile £27,500 £26,250 £24,500
25th Percentile £34,000 £34,000 £29,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £42,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% - -15.00%
75th Percentile £55,000 £57,500 £60,250
90th Percentile £62,500 £67,500 £77,500
South East median annual salary £42,500 £42,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year - - -10.53%

Unix
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing Unix as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Unix in the Thames Valley

Unix
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Salary trend for Unix in the Thames Valley

Unix
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing Unix in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Unix in the Thames Valley

Unix
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Unix within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 1 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
Berkshire +9 15 £52,000 +8.33% 14
Oxfordshire +18 2 £90,000 +102.72% 7
Buckinghamshire +39 1 £62,500 +28.21% 3
Unix
South East

Unix
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 (5.56%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 2 (11.11%) AWS
2 1 (5.56%) Amazon SageMaker
2 1 (5.56%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.56%) DHCP
1 1 (5.56%) DNS
1 1 (5.56%) iSCSI
1 1 (5.56%) TCP/IP
1 1 (5.56%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.11%) Metadata
1 2 (11.11%) RDBMS
1 2 (11.11%) Relational Database
2 1 (5.56%) DynamoDB
2 1 (5.56%) MySQL
2 1 (5.56%) NoSQL
2 1 (5.56%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (5.56%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 2 (11.11%) Jenkins
2 1 (5.56%) JIRA
2 1 (5.56%) SoapUI
General
1 8 (44.44%) Social Skills
2 3 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (11.11%) Automotive
3 2 (11.11%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (5.56%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 8 (44.44%) Software Engineer
2 6 (33.33%) Senior
3 4 (22.22%) Senior Software Engineer
4 3 (16.67%) Mathematical Modeller
4 3 (16.67%) Statistical Modeller
5 2 (11.11%) Developer
5 2 (11.11%) Linux Engineer
5 2 (11.11%) Network Engineer
5 2 (11.11%) Scientific Software Developer
5 2 (11.11%) Senior Developer
5 2 (11.11%) Senior Software Developer
5 2 (11.11%) Software Developer
6 1 (5.56%) Machine Learning Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) QA Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.56%) GStreamer
1 1 (5.56%) Laravel
1 1 (5.56%) React
Miscellaneous
1 9 (50.00%) Algorithms
2 5 (27.78%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (11.11%) Acoustics
3 2 (11.11%) Cloud Native
3 2 (11.11%) Data Centre
3 2 (11.11%) Embedded Systems
3 2 (11.11%) Robotics
3 2 (11.11%) Self-Driving Car
4 1 (5.56%) IoT
4 1 (5.56%) Mobile App
4 1 (5.56%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 18 (100.00%) Linux
2 2 (11.11%) Embedded Linux
2 2 (11.11%) Mac OS
3 1 (5.56%) Ubuntu
3 1 (5.56%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (72.22%) Computer Science
2 11 (61.11%) Mathematics
2 11 (61.11%) Physics
2 11 (61.11%) Software Engineering
3 10 (55.56%) Software Testing
4 8 (44.44%) Open Source
4 8 (44.44%) Parallel Programming
4 8 (44.44%) Performance Analysis
4 8 (44.44%) SDLC
5 4 (22.22%) Statistical Modelling
6 3 (16.67%) Experimental Design
6 3 (16.67%) Mathematical Modelling
6 3 (16.67%) Statistics
7 2 (11.11%) Collaborative Working
7 2 (11.11%) Containerisation
7 2 (11.11%) Network Design
7 2 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
7 2 (11.11%) Project Delivery
7 2 (11.11%) Project Management
7 2 (11.11%) Web Application Development
Programming Languages
1 14 (77.78%) C++
1 14 (77.78%) Python
2 10 (55.56%) Bash
2 10 (55.56%) C
2 10 (55.56%) Fortran
3 3 (16.67%) MATLAB
4 2 (11.11%) SQL
5 1 (5.56%) Java
5 1 (5.56%) PowerShell
5 1 (5.56%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 13 (72.22%) Degree
2 10 (55.56%) Master's Degree
2 10 (55.56%) PhD
3 9 (50.00%) DV Cleared
3 9 (50.00%) Security Cleared
4 8 (44.44%) SC Cleared
5 3 (16.67%) Numerate Degree
6 1 (5.56%) VCAP
6 1 (5.56%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.56%) QA
System Software
1 1 (5.56%) Docker
1 1 (5.56%) NFS
1 1 (5.56%) vCloud
1 1 (5.56%) Virtual Machines
1 1 (5.56%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (5.56%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (5.56%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (11.11%) Kubernetes
2 1 (5.56%) PowerCLI
2 1 (5.56%) vCenter Server
2 1 (5.56%) vRealize
Vendors
1 1 (5.56%) NVIDIA
1 1 (5.56%) VMware