Unix Jobs in the West Midlands

Unix
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 198 189 159
Rank change year-on-year -9 -30 -11
Permanent jobs citing Unix 31 37 178
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.44% 0.73% 2.04%
As % of the Operating Systems category 3.95% 5.62% 13.04%
Number of salaries quoted 14 34 63
10th Percentile £44,750 £31,250 £32,097
25th Percentile £52,235 £50,063 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £105,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +90.91% - +7.32%
75th Percentile £107,500 £67,500 £66,250
90th Percentile £113,500 £72,100 £71,500
England median annual salary £62,783 £66,125 £65,000
% change year-on-year -5.05% +1.73% +4.00%

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 784 658 1,365
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 11.21% 12.96% 15.64%
Number of salaries quoted 550 523 905
10th Percentile £25,249 £25,783 £25,750
25th Percentile £28,550 £31,250 £33,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £38,000 £45,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.56% - +5.88%
75th Percentile £56,250 £59,000 £57,500
90th Percentile £68,750 £70,000 £68,750
England median annual salary £47,500 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.52% - +5.00%

Unix
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Unix as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Unix in the West Midlands

Unix
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Unix in the West Midlands.

Salary trend for Unix in the West Midlands

Unix
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Unix in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

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 26 July 2024. 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 -2 26 £105,000 +90.91% 7
Worcestershire -19 4 £47,500 -13.64%
Warwickshire +12 1 - - 2
Unix
England

Unix
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

Application Platforms
1 8 (25.81%) Apache
1 8 (25.81%) IIS
1 8 (25.81%) Tomcat
2 2 (6.45%) nginx
3 1 (3.23%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 15 (48.39%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 12 (38.71%) AWS
2 11 (35.48%) Azure
3 9 (29.03%) GCP
4 8 (25.81%) IaaS
4 8 (25.81%) PaaS
4 8 (25.81%) SaaS
5 2 (6.45%) Entra ID
5 2 (6.45%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (3.23%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (3.23%) Cloud Run
6 1 (3.23%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.45%) Firewall
1 2 (6.45%) PBX
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (54.84%) Oracle Database
2 10 (32.26%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (22.58%) Oracle Database 12c
3 7 (22.58%) SQL Server
4 2 (6.45%) MySQL
5 1 (3.23%) DynamoDB
5 1 (3.23%) MariaDB
5 1 (3.23%) MongoDB
5 1 (3.23%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (9.68%) Git
2 2 (6.45%) GitLab
2 2 (6.45%) GNU Toolchain
2 2 (6.45%) Subversion
3 1 (3.23%) JIRA
General
1 19 (61.29%) Finance
2 16 (51.61%) Public Sector
3 15 (48.39%) Local Government
3 15 (48.39%) Police
4 10 (32.26%) Social Skills
5 7 (22.58%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (22.58%) Back Office
6 2 (6.45%) Electronics
7 1 (3.23%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 8 (25.81%) Applications Support
1 8 (25.81%) Architect
1 8 (25.81%) Cloud Architect
2 7 (22.58%) Administrator
2 7 (22.58%) DBA
2 7 (22.58%) Oracle DBA
2 7 (22.58%) PostgreSQL DBA
3 3 (9.68%) Developer
4 2 (6.45%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (6.45%) IT Engineer
4 2 (6.45%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (6.45%) Linux Developer
4 2 (6.45%) Software Engineer
5 1 (3.23%) DevOps Engineer
5 1 (3.23%) Full Stack Developer
5 1 (3.23%) Full Stack Python Developer
5 1 (3.23%) Python Developer
5 1 (3.23%) React Developer
5 1 (3.23%) Senior
5 1 (3.23%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (25.81%) Middleware
1 8 (25.81%) Web Services
2 2 (6.45%) Node.js
2 2 (6.45%) POSIX
3 1 (3.23%) AngularJS
3 1 (3.23%) Django
3 1 (3.23%) FastAPI
3 1 (3.23%) Flask
3 1 (3.23%) React
3 1 (3.23%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 8 (25.81%) Cloud Native
1 8 (25.81%) Public Cloud
1 8 (25.81%) Self-Motivation
2 7 (22.58%) Driving Licence
3 2 (6.45%) Chip and PIN
3 2 (6.45%) Embedded Systems
3 2 (6.45%) Linux Command Line
3 2 (6.45%) Management Information System
4 1 (3.23%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 22 (70.97%) Linux
2 20 (64.52%) Windows
3 16 (51.61%) Solaris
4 8 (25.81%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (51.61%) Server Management
2 10 (32.26%) Agile
3 9 (29.03%) Customer Service
3 9 (29.03%) Scrum
4 8 (25.81%) Architectural Patterns
4 8 (25.81%) Cloud Security
4 8 (25.81%) Cybersecurity
4 8 (25.81%) Data Security
4 8 (25.81%) DevSecOps
4 8 (25.81%) Identity Access Management
4 8 (25.81%) Information Security
4 8 (25.81%) Kanban
4 8 (25.81%) Network Architecture
4 8 (25.81%) Scaled Agile Framework
4 8 (25.81%) Storage Management
4 8 (25.81%) Task Automation
5 7 (22.58%) ITIL
5 7 (22.58%) Performance Tuning
5 7 (22.58%) Problem Management
6 4 (12.90%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 9 (29.03%) Shell Script
2 5 (16.13%) SQL
3 2 (6.45%) Bash
3 2 (6.45%) C
3 2 (6.45%) C++
4 1 (3.23%) JavaScript
4 1 (3.23%) Python
4 1 (3.23%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 15 (48.39%) Security Cleared
2 9 (29.03%) Degree
3 8 (25.81%) AWS Certification
3 8 (25.81%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 8 (25.81%) Azure Certification
4 7 (22.58%) Oracle Certification
5 1 (3.23%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (48.39%) Accessibility
System Software
1 2 (6.45%) Active Directory
1 2 (6.45%) Hyper-V
1 2 (6.45%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (3.23%) Grafana
1 1 (3.23%) Prometheus
1 1 (3.23%) Terraform
Vendors
1 17 (54.84%) Oracle
2 15 (48.39%) NEC
3 10 (32.26%) Microsoft
4 2 (6.45%) VeriFone
4 2 (6.45%) VMware