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

6 months to
2 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 166 162 160
Rank change year-on-year -4 -2 +25
Permanent jobs citing Unix 8 21 84
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 0.14% 0.62% 1.22%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.98% 5.05% 8.87%
Number of salaries quoted 5 20 50
10th Percentile - £39,975 £34,750
25th Percentile £61,250 £40,000 £39,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £52,000 £46,293
Median % change year-on-year +20.19% +12.33% +1.74%
75th Percentile £63,750 £61,149 £61,000
90th Percentile £66,300 £70,250 £64,750
South East median annual salary £62,500 £41,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +50.60% -20.95% -

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 404 416 947
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 7.14% 12.25% 13.71%
Number of salaries quoted 333 303 822
10th Percentile £29,100 £25,750 £26,250
25th Percentile £33,250 £32,500 £34,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £42,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -1.18% -
75th Percentile £67,500 £50,500 £57,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £63,500 £68,500
South East median annual salary £45,000 £40,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year +12.50% -11.11% +3.20%

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
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 2 June 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
Berkshire +12 7 £62,500 +20.19% 5
Buckinghamshire -10 1 £67,000 +7.20%
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:

Cloud Services
1 6 (75.00%) AWS
2 5 (62.50%) Apigee
2 5 (62.50%) Azure
2 5 (62.50%) Kong
2 5 (62.50%) OpenShift
3 1 (12.50%) Amazon SageMaker
Communications & Networking
1 5 (62.50%) Cisco ASA
1 5 (62.50%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) DynamoDB
1 1 (12.50%) NoSQL
1 1 (12.50%) Oracle Database
1 1 (12.50%) Oracle Database 11g
1 1 (12.50%) Oracle Database 12c
1 1 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (12.50%) SQL Server
1 1 (12.50%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 5 (62.50%) GitLab
2 1 (12.50%) Jenkins
General
1 5 (62.50%) Analytical Skills
1 5 (62.50%) Social Skills
1 5 (62.50%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Automation Engineer
1 5 (62.50%) Automation Specialist
1 5 (62.50%) Network Engineer
1 5 (62.50%) Network Specialist
1 5 (62.50%) Telecoms Engineer
1 5 (62.50%) Telecoms Specialist
2 2 (25.00%) DBA
3 1 (12.50%) DV Cleared DBA
3 1 (12.50%) Machine Learning Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Oracle DBA
3 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared DBA
3 1 (12.50%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (62.50%) Jinja
1 5 (62.50%) JSON
1 5 (62.50%) REST
1 5 (62.50%) XML
1 5 (62.50%) YAML
1 5 (62.50%) YANG
2 1 (12.50%) GStreamer
2 1 (12.50%) Laravel
2 1 (12.50%) Oracle GoldenGate
2 1 (12.50%) React
Miscellaneous
1 5 (62.50%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (12.50%) Algorithms
2 1 (12.50%) Cloud Native
2 1 (12.50%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 6 (75.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) CI/CD
1 6 (75.00%) Containerisation
2 5 (62.50%) API Management
2 5 (62.50%) DevOps
2 5 (62.50%) Infrastructure as Code
2 5 (62.50%) Microservices
2 5 (62.50%) Secrets Management
2 5 (62.50%) Task Automation
2 5 (62.50%) Webhook
3 2 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (12.50%) Actionable Insight
4 1 (12.50%) Analytics
4 1 (12.50%) Computer Vision
4 1 (12.50%) Data Science
4 1 (12.50%) Data Visualisation
4 1 (12.50%) Innovative Thinking
4 1 (12.50%) Machine Learning
4 1 (12.50%) Network Optimisation
4 1 (12.50%) Performance Tuning
4 1 (12.50%) Statistical Modelling
Programming Languages
1 6 (75.00%) Python
2 5 (62.50%) JavaScript
3 2 (25.00%) Shell Script
4 1 (12.50%) C++
4 1 (12.50%) Korn
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) DV Cleared
1 2 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (12.50%) Degree
2 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Docker
1 1 (12.50%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 2 (25.00%) Oracle RMAN
2 1 (12.50%) Kubernetes
2 1 (12.50%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 5 (62.50%) Cisco
1 5 (62.50%) F5
1 5 (62.50%) Juniper
1 5 (62.50%) Palo Alto
1 5 (62.50%) Red Hat
2 2 (25.00%) Oracle
3 1 (12.50%) NVIDIA