Unix Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Unix
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Unix skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 161 150 176
Rank change year-on-year -11 +26 -71
Permanent jobs citing Unix 10 18 58
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 0.22% 0.61% 1.02%
As % of the Operating Systems category 2.95% 4.08% 6.35%
Number of salaries quoted 6 16 29
10th Percentile £38,572 £35,750 £40,600
25th Percentile £52,145 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,965 £52,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.55% +9.47% +9.83%
75th Percentile £63,125 £59,438 £63,750
90th Percentile £65,875 £81,250 £73,750
South East median annual salary £58,000 £52,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +11.54% -13.33% +18.84%

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 339 441 913
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 7.44% 14.98% 16.09%
Number of salaries quoted 270 290 803
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,000 £26,000
25th Percentile £31,000 £36,250 £34,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £36,000 £47,500 £42,796
Median % change year-on-year -24.21% +10.99% +6.99%
75th Percentile £50,000 £60,000 £57,500
90th Percentile £68,750 £65,225 £65,000
South East median annual salary £42,500 £50,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year -15.00% +17.65% -1.73%

Unix
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Unix relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Unix job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

Unix
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Unix.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Unix

Unix
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing Unix in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 4 March 2026.

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 4 March 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
Buckinghamshire +4 5 £62,250 -0.40% 3
Berkshire -18 5 £56,430 +34.36% 11
Unix
South East

Unix
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (10.00%) Anypoint
Business Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 5 (50.00%) AWS
2 4 (40.00%) Azure
3 3 (30.00%) GCP
4 2 (20.00%) Apigee
4 2 (20.00%) Kong
4 2 (20.00%) OpenShift
5 1 (10.00%) Amazon SageMaker
5 1 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (10.00%) Boomi
5 1 (10.00%) iPaaS
5 1 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (10.00%) Power Automate
5 1 (10.00%) Workato
Communications & Networking
1 2 (20.00%) Cisco ASA
1 2 (20.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) BigQuery
2 1 (10.00%) DynamoDB
2 1 (10.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (10.00%) Relational Database
2 1 (10.00%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 3 (30.00%) GitLab
2 2 (20.00%) Jenkins
3 1 (10.00%) Git
General
1 4 (40.00%) Social Skills
1 4 (40.00%) Telecoms
2 2 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Law
3 1 (10.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 3 (30.00%) Automation Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Architect
2 2 (20.00%) Automation Specialist
2 2 (20.00%) Data Architect
2 2 (20.00%) Network Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Network Specialist
2 2 (20.00%) Senior
2 2 (20.00%) Senior Software Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Software Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Telecoms Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Telecoms Specialist
3 1 (10.00%) Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Graduate
3 1 (10.00%) Graduate Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Graduate Technical Support
3 1 (10.00%) Integration Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Machine Learning Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Platform Integration Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (30.00%) JSON
1 3 (30.00%) REST
1 3 (30.00%) XML
2 2 (20.00%) Jinja
2 2 (20.00%) YAML
2 2 (20.00%) YANG
3 1 (10.00%) .NET
3 1 (10.00%) ASP.NET
3 1 (10.00%) GStreamer
3 1 (10.00%) Laravel
3 1 (10.00%) React
3 1 (10.00%) RESTful
3 1 (10.00%) SOAP
3 1 (10.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Algorithms
2 2 (20.00%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (10.00%) Cloud Native
3 1 (10.00%) IoT
3 1 (10.00%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 8 (80.00%) Linux
2 1 (10.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (40.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (40.00%) Computer Science
1 4 (40.00%) Containerisation
2 3 (30.00%) Analytics
2 3 (30.00%) DevOps
2 3 (30.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (30.00%) Open Source
2 3 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (20.00%) API Management
3 2 (20.00%) Data Governance
3 2 (20.00%) Data Ingestion
3 2 (20.00%) Microservices
3 2 (20.00%) Parallel Programming
3 2 (20.00%) Performance Analysis
3 2 (20.00%) Regulatory Compliance
3 2 (20.00%) Revenue Assurance
3 2 (20.00%) Secrets Management
3 2 (20.00%) Task Automation
3 2 (20.00%) Technical Leadership
3 2 (20.00%) Webhook
Programming Languages
1 9 (90.00%) Python
2 4 (40.00%) SQL
3 3 (30.00%) Bash
3 3 (30.00%) C++
3 3 (30.00%) JavaScript
4 2 (20.00%) C
4 2 (20.00%) C#
4 2 (20.00%) Fortran
4 2 (20.00%) Shell Script
5 1 (10.00%) Java
5 1 (10.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (40.00%) Degree
2 2 (20.00%) Master's Degree
2 2 (20.00%) PhD
2 2 (20.00%) Security Cleared
3 1 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (30.00%) GDPR
System Software
1 3 (30.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (30.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (10.00%) Ansible
2 1 (10.00%) Grafana
2 1 (10.00%) Prometheus
2 1 (10.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (30.00%) Red Hat
2 2 (20.00%) Cisco
2 2 (20.00%) F5
2 2 (20.00%) Google
2 2 (20.00%) Juniper
2 2 (20.00%) Palo Alto
3 1 (10.00%) Dell
3 1 (10.00%) Epicor
3 1 (10.00%) IBM
3 1 (10.00%) IFS
3 1 (10.00%) Infor
3 1 (10.00%) Informatica
3 1 (10.00%) Jitterbit
3 1 (10.00%) MuleSoft
3 1 (10.00%) NVIDIA
3 1 (10.00%) SnapLogic
3 1 (10.00%) Software AG
3 1 (10.00%) Talend
3 1 (10.00%) TIBCO
3 1 (10.00%) Workday