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

6 months to
12 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 194 161 212
Rank change year-on-year -33 +51 -17
Permanent jobs citing Unix 7 15 47
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 0.083% 0.47% 0.64%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.98% 2.33% 5.50%
Number of salaries quoted 5 14 34
10th Percentile - £52,500 £43,025
25th Percentile £27,750 £53,750 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £28,500 £60,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -52.50% +20.00% -23.08%
75th Percentile £29,250 £65,000 £88,013
90th Percentile £56,692 - £107,500
England median annual salary £69,310 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +6.63% +8.33% -14.29%

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 353 643 855
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 4.20% 20.13% 11.59%
Number of salaries quoted 270 388 728
10th Percentile £26,375 £26,375 £24,734
25th Percentile £29,250 £31,250 £27,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £39,000 £36,925 £37,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.62% -1.53% -16.67%
75th Percentile £49,132 £51,313 £55,000
90th Percentile £65,000 £62,500 £65,000
England median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year - - -14.29%

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 12 May 2026.

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 12 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
Herefordshire - 4 £28,500 -
Birmingham -25 1 £69,310 +15.52% 1
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:

Business Applications
1 4 (57.14%) Line 50
Cloud Services
1 1 (14.29%) AWS
1 1 (14.29%) Azure
1 1 (14.29%) Azure AKS
1 1 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (14.29%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 4 (57.14%) Network Security
1 4 (57.14%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (57.14%) FileMaker
2 1 (14.29%) MongoDB
2 1 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) GitLab
General
1 4 (57.14%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) IT Support
1 4 (57.14%) IT Support Technician
1 4 (57.14%) IT Technician
1 4 (57.14%) Support Technician
2 2 (28.57%) Linux Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Unix Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Unix Linux Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Senior
3 1 (14.29%) Senior DevOps
3 1 (14.29%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (57.14%) CSS
1 4 (57.14%) HTML
2 1 (14.29%) Node.js
Operating Systems
1 7 (100.00%) Linux
2 5 (71.43%) Windows
3 4 (57.14%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) ITSM
1 4 (57.14%) Network Management
1 4 (57.14%) Open Source
1 4 (57.14%) Problem-Solving
1 4 (57.14%) Service Management
2 1 (14.29%) Agile
2 1 (14.29%) CI/CD
2 1 (14.29%) Coaching
2 1 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (14.29%) DevOps
2 1 (14.29%) Mentoring
2 1 (14.29%) Microservices
2 1 (14.29%) Scrum
2 1 (14.29%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 4 (57.14%) PHP
1 4 (57.14%) Python
2 1 (14.29%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (57.14%) ISO 14001
1 4 (57.14%) ISO 9001
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Argo
1 1 (14.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) Adobe
1 4 (57.14%) Apple
1 4 (57.14%) Sage