Unix Jobs in Wales

Unix
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Wales 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 51 68 97
Rank change year-on-year +17 +29 +25
Permanent jobs citing Unix 27 58 36
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 2.81% 2.87% 2.16%
As % of the Operating Systems category 42.86% 19.80% 19.78%
Number of salaries quoted 27 6 4
10th Percentile £46,392 £38,529 £49,497
25th Percentile £47,500 £41,231 £51,743
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £48,498 £58,071
Median % change year-on-year +54.65% -16.48% +45.18%
75th Percentile £78,750 £68,449 £67,588
90th Percentile - £72,433 £67,700
UK median annual salary £69,384 £60,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +15.64% -14.29% +12.00%

All Operating Systems
Wales

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 Wales.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 63 293 182
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 6.55% 14.49% 10.90%
Number of salaries quoted 60 202 77
10th Percentile £29,421 £24,775 £25,000
25th Percentile £37,418 £28,468 £28,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,104 £40,500 £35,000
Median % change year-on-year +21.24% +15.71% -22.22%
75th Percentile £73,750 £52,500 £48,000
90th Percentile £78,750 £62,500 £58,750
UK median annual salary £47,500 £45,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +5.56% -14.29% -

Unix
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for Unix in Wales

Unix
Salary Trend in Wales

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

Salary trend for Unix in Wales

Unix
Salary Histogram in Wales

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

Salary histogram for Unix in Wales

Unix
Job Locations in Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Unix within the Wales 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
West Wales +15 4 £50,124 +16.83%
South Wales -12 1 £67,626 +10.35% 1
Unix
UK

Unix
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wales 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:

Cloud Services
1 27 (100.00%) Azure
2 9 (33.33%) AWS
3 1 (3.70%) Amazon ECR
3 1 (3.70%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (3.70%) Amazon ElastiCache
3 1 (3.70%) Amazon OpenSearch
3 1 (3.70%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (3.70%) AWS CodeBuild
3 1 (3.70%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (3.70%) dbt
3 1 (3.70%) GCP
3 1 (3.70%) Pulumi
3 1 (3.70%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 22 (81.48%) Network Security
2 11 (40.74%) TCP/IP
3 10 (37.04%) Modbus
3 10 (37.04%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (62.96%) PostgreSQL
2 16 (59.26%) RDBMS
2 16 (59.26%) Relational Database
3 1 (3.70%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (3.70%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (3.70%) Redis
Development Applications
1 4 (14.81%) Git
1 4 (14.81%) JMeter
General
1 23 (85.19%) Social Skills
2 4 (14.81%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (14.81%) Documentation Skills
2 4 (14.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 4 (14.81%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 17 (62.96%) Lead
2 12 (44.44%) Developer
2 12 (44.44%) Software Engineer
3 11 (40.74%) Lead Software Engineer
4 8 (29.63%) Lead Developer
4 8 (29.63%) Software Team Leader
4 8 (29.63%) Team Leader
5 6 (22.22%) Firmware Developer
6 4 (14.81%) Performance Engineer
6 4 (14.81%) Performance Test Engineer
6 4 (14.81%) Senior
6 4 (14.81%) Software Developer
6 4 (14.81%) Test Engineer
7 3 (11.11%) Senior Software Engineer
8 2 (7.41%) Developer/Software Engineer
8 2 (7.41%) Lead Software Developer
8 2 (7.41%) Senior Developer
8 2 (7.41%) Senior Software Developer
9 1 (3.70%) Site Engineer
9 1 (3.70%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (77.78%) .NET
2 4 (14.81%) Symfony
3 1 (3.70%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 18 (66.67%) IoT
2 10 (37.04%) Device Driver
3 1 (3.70%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (3.70%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 27 (100.00%) Linux
2 22 (81.48%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (96.30%) Agile
2 22 (81.48%) Problem-Solving
3 18 (66.67%) Mentoring
3 18 (66.67%) Product Strategy
3 18 (66.67%) Software Engineering
3 18 (66.67%) Technical Debt
3 18 (66.67%) Technical Leadership
4 16 (59.26%) Full-Stack Development
4 16 (59.26%) Web Development
5 13 (48.15%) CI/CD
6 10 (37.04%) API Development
6 10 (37.04%) Computer Architecture
7 5 (18.52%) DevOps
7 5 (18.52%) Infrastructure Monitoring
7 5 (18.52%) Open Source
8 4 (14.81%) Collaborative Culture
8 4 (14.81%) Collaborative Working
8 4 (14.81%) Customer Service
8 4 (14.81%) Data Extraction
8 4 (14.81%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 20 (74.07%) SQL
2 17 (62.96%) C#
3 10 (37.04%) C
3 10 (37.04%) C++
4 4 (14.81%) Groovy
4 4 (14.81%) JavaScript
4 4 (14.81%) PHP
5 1 (3.70%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (3.70%) SC Cleared
1 1 (3.70%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (14.81%) QA
System Software
1 10 (37.04%) Firmware
2 1 (3.70%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (14.81%) Grafana
2 1 (3.70%) AWS Copilot
2 1 (3.70%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (3.70%) Google