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 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 163 224 200
Rank change year-on-year +61 -24 -40
Permanent jobs citing Unix 29 36 39
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.70% 0.43% 0.71%
As % of the Operating Systems category 4.89% 3.79% 5.53%
Number of salaries quoted 23 19 36
10th Percentile £49,090 £43,900 £36,875
25th Percentile £52,500 £50,000 £51,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £57,750
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +21.21% +5.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £107,500 £70,000
90th Percentile - £111,000 £76,250
England median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +8.33% -11.11% +3.85%

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 593 949 705
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 14.33% 11.39% 12.82%
Number of salaries quoted 442 691 541
10th Percentile £26,375 £24,696 £25,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £27,625 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £36,925 £37,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.53% -16.67% -
75th Percentile £53,688 £55,500 £58,750
90th Percentile £73,750 £67,500 £70,000
England median annual salary £42,500 £45,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -5.56% -14.29% -

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 6 July 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 6 July 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 +32 16 £60,000 -42.86% 3
Coventry - 7 £75,000 - 1
Shropshire +15 4 £70,000 -3.45% 1
Warwickshire +18 1 £53,500 - 3
Wolverhampton - 1 £90,000 -
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 3 (10.34%) Apache Spark
2 1 (3.45%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (3.45%) SAS
Business Applications
1 4 (13.79%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (10.34%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 12 (41.38%) AWS
2 8 (27.59%) Azure
3 3 (10.34%) Pulumi
4 2 (6.90%) Amazon EKS
4 2 (6.90%) Amazon ELB
4 2 (6.90%) Amazon S3
4 2 (6.90%) Cloud Computing
4 2 (6.90%) GCP
5 1 (3.45%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (3.45%) Amazon ECR
5 1 (3.45%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (3.45%) Amazon ElastiCache
5 1 (3.45%) Amazon OpenSearch
5 1 (3.45%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (3.45%) AWS CodeBuild
5 1 (3.45%) dbt
5 1 (3.45%) GitHub
5 1 (3.45%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (3.45%) Power Platform
5 1 (3.45%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.90%) Broadband
1 2 (6.90%) Firewall
1 2 (6.90%) TCP/IP
2 1 (3.45%) DHCP
2 1 (3.45%) DNS
2 1 (3.45%) PuTTY
2 1 (3.45%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (24.14%) DB2
2 4 (13.79%) MaxDB
2 4 (13.79%) Oracle Database
2 4 (13.79%) Oracle Exadata
2 4 (13.79%) Oracle Reports
2 4 (13.79%) SAP HANA
3 3 (10.34%) Metadata
3 3 (10.34%) NoSQL
3 3 (10.34%) RDBMS
3 3 (10.34%) Relational Database
3 3 (10.34%) Spark SQL
4 2 (6.90%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (6.90%) Delta Lake
4 2 (6.90%) DynamoDB
4 2 (6.90%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (6.90%) SQL Server
5 1 (3.45%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (3.45%) HBase
5 1 (3.45%) Redis
5 1 (3.45%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (6.90%) Git
1 2 (6.90%) Jaeger
1 2 (6.90%) JIRA
1 2 (6.90%) MLflow
General
1 13 (44.83%) Social Skills
2 7 (24.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 3 (10.34%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (6.90%) Advertising
4 2 (6.90%) Finance
5 1 (3.45%) Automotive
5 1 (3.45%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (13.79%) Consultant
1 4 (13.79%) DBA
1 4 (13.79%) Oracle DBA
1 4 (13.79%) SAP Basis Consultant
1 4 (13.79%) SAP Basis Support
1 4 (13.79%) SAP Consultant
1 4 (13.79%) SAP Support
1 4 (13.79%) SAP Support Consultant
1 4 (13.79%) Senior
1 4 (13.79%) Support Consultant
2 3 (10.34%) Developer
2 3 (10.34%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (10.34%) Java Engineer
2 3 (10.34%) Oracle Applications DBA
3 2 (6.90%) Java Developer
3 2 (6.90%) Lead
3 2 (6.90%) Operations Engineer
3 2 (6.90%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (6.90%) Site Engineer
3 2 (6.90%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (13.79%) Middleware
1 4 (13.79%) Oracle Fusion
1 4 (13.79%) Oracle GoldenGate
1 4 (13.79%) SAP Basis
2 3 (10.34%) PySpark
3 2 (6.90%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (6.90%) Keras
3 2 (6.90%) Lambda Expressions
3 2 (6.90%) Metaflow
3 2 (6.90%) NumPy
3 2 (6.90%) OpenTelemetry
3 2 (6.90%) Pandas
3 2 (6.90%) PyTorch
3 2 (6.90%) scikit-learn
3 2 (6.90%) TensorFlow
3 2 (6.90%) YAML
4 1 (3.45%) Django
4 1 (3.45%) HTML
4 1 (3.45%) REST
4 1 (3.45%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 5 (17.24%) Onboarding
1 5 (17.24%) Product Ownership
2 2 (6.90%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (3.45%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (3.45%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (3.45%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 15 (51.72%) Windows
2 8 (27.59%) Linux
3 4 (13.79%) AIX
4 1 (3.45%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (27.59%) Problem-Solving
2 7 (24.14%) Roadmaps
3 5 (17.24%) Business Intelligence
3 5 (17.24%) Translating Business Requirements
4 4 (13.79%) Agile
4 4 (13.79%) Analytics
4 4 (13.79%) Business Analytics
4 4 (13.79%) Collaborative Working
4 4 (13.79%) Containerisation
4 4 (13.79%) CRM
4 4 (13.79%) Data Privacy
4 4 (13.79%) ERP
4 4 (13.79%) Mentoring
4 4 (13.79%) Performance Tuning
4 4 (13.79%) Project Delivery
4 4 (13.79%) Project Management
4 4 (13.79%) SAP Security
5 3 (10.34%) Data Science
5 3 (10.34%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 3 (10.34%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 13 (44.83%) Java
1 13 (44.83%) SQL
2 6 (20.69%) Python
3 4 (13.79%) ABAP
3 4 (13.79%) PL/SQL
3 4 (13.79%) Shell Script
4 3 (10.34%) Bash
4 3 (10.34%) JavaScript
5 2 (6.90%) Go
6 1 (3.45%) PHP
6 1 (3.45%) PowerShell
6 1 (3.45%) PROC SQL
6 1 (3.45%) R
Qualifications
1 5 (17.24%) Security Cleared
2 4 (13.79%) OCA
2 4 (13.79%) OCP
2 4 (13.79%) Oracle Certification
3 3 (10.34%) AWS Certification
4 1 (3.45%) Azure Certification
4 1 (3.45%) CESG Certified Professional
4 1 (3.45%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (3.45%) Degree
4 1 (3.45%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (3.45%) Network+ Certification
4 1 (3.45%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.34%) Accessibility
2 1 (3.45%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (3.45%) Data Quality
2 1 (3.45%) NIST
2 1 (3.45%) QA
System Software
1 8 (27.59%) Docker
2 6 (20.69%) Active Directory
3 1 (3.45%) Apache Flume
3 1 (3.45%) Embedded Firmware
3 1 (3.45%) Firmware
3 1 (3.45%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 5 (17.24%) Terraform
2 4 (13.79%) Kubernetes
2 4 (13.79%) Oracle RMAN
3 2 (6.90%) Ansible
3 2 (6.90%) Argo
3 2 (6.90%) Kubeflow
3 2 (6.90%) Kustomize
3 2 (6.90%) Prometheus
4 1 (3.45%) AWS Copilot
4 1 (3.45%) FortiGate
4 1 (3.45%) Kibana
4 1 (3.45%) logstash
4 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (3.45%) Oozie
Vendors
1 9 (31.03%) Oracle
2 5 (17.24%) CyberArk
2 5 (17.24%) SAP
3 3 (10.34%) Databricks
3 3 (10.34%) Google
3 3 (10.34%) Microsoft
3 3 (10.34%) Sybase
4 1 (3.45%) Cisco
4 1 (3.45%) Fortinet
4 1 (3.45%) Informatica
4 1 (3.45%) MicroStrategy