Unix Job Trends in Wales

Unix
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Wales requiring Unix skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 83 35 81
Rank change year-on-year -48 +46 +16
Permanent jobs citing Unix 8 26 30
As % of all permanent jobs in Wales 0.47% 4.86% 1.62%
As % of the Operating Systems category 9.09% 41.27% 12.15%
Number of salaries quoted 5 26 4
10th Percentile - £46,486 £37,617
25th Percentile - £51,250 £39,669
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £76,250 £42,904
Median % change year-on-year -14.75% +77.72% -26.12%
75th Percentile - £78,750 £49,749
90th Percentile £73,274 - £53,798
UK median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +3.85% +8.33% -13.60%

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 88 63 247
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 5.16% 11.78% 13.35%
Number of salaries quoted 65 58 194
10th Percentile £25,000 £28,262 £24,825
25th Percentile £28,500 £37,253 £28,290
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £50,000 £40,500
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +23.46% +15.71%
75th Percentile £47,500 £76,250 £52,500
90th Percentile £67,500 £78,750 £60,125
UK median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year - - -14.29%

Unix
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

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

Unix job vacancy trend in Wales

Unix
Salary Trend in Wales

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing Unix.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing Unix

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 21 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
South Wales -20 8 £65,000 -3.88%
Unix
UK

Unix
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Wales 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 4 (50.00%) AWS
1 4 (50.00%) PaaS
2 3 (37.50%) Amazon S3
2 3 (37.50%) IaaS
2 3 (37.50%) SaaS
3 1 (12.50%) Amazon ECR
3 1 (12.50%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (12.50%) Amazon ElastiCache
3 1 (12.50%) Amazon OpenSearch
3 1 (12.50%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (12.50%) AWS CodeBuild
3 1 (12.50%) Azure
3 1 (12.50%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (12.50%) dbt
3 1 (12.50%) GCP
3 1 (12.50%) Pulumi
3 1 (12.50%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 4 (50.00%) BGP
1 4 (50.00%) DHCP
1 4 (50.00%) DNS
1 4 (50.00%) MPLS
1 4 (50.00%) VPN
1 4 (50.00%) WAN
2 3 (37.50%) Firewall
3 1 (12.50%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (37.50%) MongoDB
2 1 (12.50%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (12.50%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (12.50%) Redis
Development Applications
1 3 (37.50%) Git
General
1 4 (50.00%) Finance
1 4 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 3 (37.50%) Organisational Skills
2 3 (37.50%) Social Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 7 (87.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 5 (62.50%) Senior
3 4 (50.00%) Infrastructure Services Engineer
3 4 (50.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (37.50%) Node.js
2 1 (12.50%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 4 (50.00%) Linux Command Line
1 4 (50.00%) PKI
2 3 (37.50%) Management Information System
2 3 (37.50%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 8 (100.00%) Linux
2 4 (50.00%) Windows
2 4 (50.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (87.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 5 (62.50%) Task Automation
3 4 (50.00%) Change Advisory Board
3 4 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 4 (50.00%) Computer Science
3 4 (50.00%) Containerisation
3 4 (50.00%) Continuous Delivery
3 4 (50.00%) DevOps
3 4 (50.00%) Incident Response
3 4 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 4 (50.00%) ITIL
3 4 (50.00%) Observability
3 4 (50.00%) Open Source
3 4 (50.00%) SIEM
4 3 (37.50%) Identity Access Management
4 3 (37.50%) Information Security
4 3 (37.50%) Mathematics
4 3 (37.50%) Mentoring
4 3 (37.50%) Problem Management
4 3 (37.50%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 4 (50.00%) Java
1 4 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 4 (50.00%) Python
2 3 (37.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 8 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 4 (50.00%) Degree
2 4 (50.00%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 4 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 4 (50.00%) Docker
1 4 (50.00%) VMware ESXi
1 4 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 4 (50.00%) VMware NSX
1 4 (50.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (50.00%) Ansible
1 4 (50.00%) Terraform
1 4 (50.00%) vCenter Server
2 1 (12.50%) AWS Copilot
Vendors
1 4 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 4 (50.00%) Splunk
1 4 (50.00%) VMware
2 1 (12.50%) Google