Unix Job Trends in the West Midlands

Unix
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring Unix skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 150 145 150
Rank change year-on-year -5 +5 -6
Permanent jobs citing Unix 20 68 38
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 0.60% 1.26% 1.09%
As % of the Operating Systems category 5.65% 9.88% 6.69%
Number of salaries quoted 15 15 37
10th Percentile £44,370 £41,250 £38,121
25th Percentile £62,500 £48,125 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £65,000 £55,500
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% +17.12% +16.84%
75th Percentile £78,145 £74,144 £68,750
90th Percentile £82,441 £99,000 £70,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £64,500
% change year-on-year - -6.98% -0.77%

All Operating Systems
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 354 688 568
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 10.64% 12.76% 16.26%
Number of salaries quoted 287 272 491
10th Percentile £26,500 £29,500 £26,000
25th Percentile £30,750 £32,500 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £47,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.79% +5.56% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,625 £57,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £73,625 £69,550
England median annual salary £42,000 £50,000 £50,985
% change year-on-year -16.00% -1.93% -2.89%

Unix
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Unix job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

Unix
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Unix.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Unix

Unix
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Unix in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 1 November 2025.

Salary histogram for Unix in the West Midlands

Unix
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Unix within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 November 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
Birmingham -22 9 £73,801 +9.52% 5
Coventry +9 7 £75,000 -
Shropshire - 2 £70,000 -
Wolverhampton - 1 £90,000 -
Unix
England

Unix
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 3 (15.00%) Apache Spark
2 2 (10.00%) WebLogic
3 1 (5.00%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (5.00%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 12 (60.00%) AWS
2 10 (50.00%) Azure
3 4 (20.00%) GCP
4 2 (10.00%) Amazon ECR
4 2 (10.00%) Amazon ECS
4 2 (10.00%) Amazon EKS
4 2 (10.00%) Amazon ELB
4 2 (10.00%) Amazon S3
4 2 (10.00%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (10.00%) dbt
4 2 (10.00%) Pulumi
5 1 (5.00%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (5.00%) Amazon ElastiCache
5 1 (5.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
5 1 (5.00%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (5.00%) GitHub
5 1 (5.00%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (5.00%) PaaS
5 1 (5.00%) Power Platform
5 1 (5.00%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 3 (15.00%) TCP/IP
2 2 (10.00%) Firewall
3 1 (5.00%) DHCP
3 1 (5.00%) DNS
3 1 (5.00%) PuTTY
3 1 (5.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (15.00%) Amazon RDS
1 3 (15.00%) Metadata
1 3 (15.00%) PostgreSQL
1 3 (15.00%) Spark SQL
2 2 (10.00%) Delta Lake
2 2 (10.00%) DynamoDB
2 2 (10.00%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (10.00%) MySQL
2 2 (10.00%) Redis
2 2 (10.00%) SQL Server
3 1 (5.00%) Big Data
3 1 (5.00%) BigQuery
3 1 (5.00%) BusinessObjects
3 1 (5.00%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (5.00%) Impala
3 1 (5.00%) Neo4j
3 1 (5.00%) Oracle Database
3 1 (5.00%) Qlik Sense
3 1 (5.00%) RDBMS
3 1 (5.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (10.00%) MLflow
2 1 (5.00%) Git
2 1 (5.00%) JIRA
General
1 10 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (15.00%) Finance
3 2 (10.00%) Banking
4 1 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (5.00%) Corporate Banking
4 1 (5.00%) Financial Institution
4 1 (5.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (5.00%) Investment Banking
4 1 (5.00%) Private Banking
4 1 (5.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (20.00%) Senior
2 3 (15.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) Java Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) Lead
3 2 (10.00%) Machine Learning Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) Operations Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Data Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Database Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Java Developer
4 1 (5.00%) Lead DevOps
4 1 (5.00%) Linux Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Senior Database Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Senior Platform Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Site Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Unix Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Unix Linux Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (15.00%) PySpark
2 2 (10.00%) Django
2 2 (10.00%) Keras
2 2 (10.00%) Lambda Expressions
2 2 (10.00%) Metaflow
2 2 (10.00%) Middleware
2 2 (10.00%) NumPy
2 2 (10.00%) Pandas
2 2 (10.00%) PyTorch
2 2 (10.00%) scikit-learn
2 2 (10.00%) TensorFlow
2 2 (10.00%) YAML
3 1 (5.00%) Apache NiFi
3 1 (5.00%) Kafka
3 1 (5.00%) Plotly
3 1 (5.00%) Regular Expression
3 1 (5.00%) Shiny
Miscellaneous
1 5 (25.00%) Onboarding
1 5 (25.00%) Product Ownership
2 3 (15.00%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (5.00%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (5.00%) Driving Licence
3 1 (5.00%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 7 (35.00%) Windows
2 6 (30.00%) Linux
3 1 (5.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (25.00%) Roadmaps
1 5 (25.00%) Translating Business Requirements
2 4 (20.00%) CI/CD
2 4 (20.00%) Observability
2 4 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (15.00%) AI
3 3 (15.00%) Coaching
3 3 (15.00%) Data Science
3 3 (15.00%) DevOps
3 3 (15.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 3 (15.00%) Machine Learning
3 3 (15.00%) Mentoring
3 3 (15.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 3 (15.00%) Unit Testing
3 3 (15.00%) Visualisation
4 2 (10.00%) Agile
4 2 (10.00%) Information Security
4 2 (10.00%) Metadata Management
4 2 (10.00%) OOP
4 2 (10.00%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (30.00%) Java
1 6 (30.00%) Python
2 4 (20.00%) SQL
3 1 (5.00%) Bash
3 1 (5.00%) PowerShell
3 1 (5.00%) PROC SQL
3 1 (5.00%) R
3 1 (5.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (15.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (10.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (5.00%) AWS Certification
3 1 (5.00%) Azure Certification
3 1 (5.00%) CESG Certified Professional
3 1 (5.00%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (5.00%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (5.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (5.00%) NIST
1 1 (5.00%) QA
1 1 (5.00%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (35.00%) Docker
2 6 (30.00%) Active Directory
3 1 (5.00%) Apache Flume
3 1 (5.00%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 4 (20.00%) Terraform
2 2 (10.00%) Kubeflow
2 2 (10.00%) Kubernetes
3 1 (5.00%) AWS Copilot
3 1 (5.00%) FortiGate
3 1 (5.00%) Grafana
3 1 (5.00%) Kibana
3 1 (5.00%) logstash
3 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (5.00%) Oozie
Vendors
1 5 (25.00%) CyberArk
2 3 (15.00%) Databricks
2 3 (15.00%) Google
2 3 (15.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (10.00%) Oracle
4 1 (5.00%) Cisco
4 1 (5.00%) Dynatrace
4 1 (5.00%) Fortinet
4 1 (5.00%) Informatica
4 1 (5.00%) MicroStrategy
4 1 (5.00%) New Relic
4 1 (5.00%) SAP
4 1 (5.00%) Splunk