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 5 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 161 157 160
Rank change year-on-year -4 +3 +1
Permanent jobs citing Unix 9 18 78
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 0.16% 0.58% 1.20%
As % of the Operating Systems category 2.36% 4.32% 7.93%
Number of salaries quoted 6 18 52
10th Percentile £43,125 £40,000 £34,750
25th Percentile £61,250 £40,240 £39,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £52,000 £46,897
Median % change year-on-year +20.19% +10.88% +8.43%
75th Percentile £63,750 £62,883 £61,000
90th Percentile £65,875 £75,750 £63,750
South East median annual salary £62,500 £42,000 £51,750
% change year-on-year +48.81% -18.84% -1.43%

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 381 417 984
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 6.73% 13.40% 15.16%
Number of salaries quoted 296 300 875
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,375 £34,000 £34,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.88% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £55,000 £57,500
90th Percentile £72,500 £62,500 £68,100
South East median annual salary £45,000 £41,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year +8.43% -2.35% -

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 5 May 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 5 May 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 -7 7 £62,500 +20.19% 3
Buckinghamshire -14 2 £67,000 +7.20% 1
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 7 (77.78%) AWS
2 6 (66.67%) Azure
3 5 (55.56%) Apigee
3 5 (55.56%) Kong
3 5 (55.56%) OpenShift
4 1 (11.11%) Amazon SageMaker
4 1 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (11.11%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 5 (55.56%) Cisco ASA
1 5 (55.56%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) DynamoDB
1 1 (11.11%) NoSQL
1 1 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (11.11%) SQL Server
1 1 (11.11%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 6 (66.67%) GitLab
2 2 (22.22%) Jenkins
3 1 (11.11%) Git
General
1 6 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 5 (55.56%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (55.56%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (66.67%) Automation Engineer
2 5 (55.56%) Automation Specialist
2 5 (55.56%) Network Engineer
2 5 (55.56%) Network Specialist
2 5 (55.56%) Telecoms Engineer
2 5 (55.56%) Telecoms Specialist
3 1 (11.11%) DBA
3 1 (11.11%) Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Graduate
3 1 (11.11%) Graduate Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Graduate Technical Support
3 1 (11.11%) Machine Learning Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Oracle DBA
3 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared DBA
3 1 (11.11%) Support Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Technical Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (55.56%) Jinja
1 5 (55.56%) JSON
1 5 (55.56%) REST
1 5 (55.56%) XML
1 5 (55.56%) YAML
1 5 (55.56%) YANG
2 1 (11.11%) .NET
2 1 (11.11%) ASP.NET
2 1 (11.11%) GStreamer
2 1 (11.11%) Laravel
2 1 (11.11%) Oracle GoldenGate
2 1 (11.11%) React
Miscellaneous
1 5 (55.56%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (11.11%) Algorithms
2 1 (11.11%) Cloud Native
2 1 (11.11%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 8 (88.89%) Linux
2 1 (11.11%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (77.78%) CI/CD
2 6 (66.67%) Containerisation
2 6 (66.67%) DevOps
2 6 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
3 5 (55.56%) API Management
3 5 (55.56%) Microservices
3 5 (55.56%) Secrets Management
3 5 (55.56%) Task Automation
3 5 (55.56%) Webhook
4 3 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (22.22%) Computer Science
6 1 (11.11%) AI
6 1 (11.11%) Analytics
6 1 (11.11%) Configuration Management
6 1 (11.11%) Continuous Integration
6 1 (11.11%) Data Visualisation
6 1 (11.11%) Machine Learning
6 1 (11.11%) Release Management
6 1 (11.11%) Statistical Modelling
6 1 (11.11%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 7 (77.78%) Python
2 5 (55.56%) JavaScript
3 2 (22.22%) Shell Script
4 1 (11.11%) Bash
4 1 (11.11%) C#
4 1 (11.11%) C++
4 1 (11.11%) Korn
4 1 (11.11%) SQL
4 1 (11.11%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (33.33%) Degree
2 1 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (11.11%) DV Cleared
2 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared
2 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (22.22%) Docker
2 1 (11.11%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 2 (22.22%) Kubernetes
2 1 (11.11%) Ansible
2 1 (11.11%) Grafana
2 1 (11.11%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 1 (11.11%) Oracle RMAN
2 1 (11.11%) Prometheus
2 1 (11.11%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (66.67%) Red Hat
2 5 (55.56%) Cisco
2 5 (55.56%) F5
2 5 (55.56%) Juniper
2 5 (55.56%) Palo Alto
3 1 (11.11%) NVIDIA
3 1 (11.11%) Oracle