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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 155 166 163
Rank change year-on-year +11 -3 -28
Permanent jobs citing Unix 14 49 40
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.43% 0.81% 1.03%
As % of the Operating Systems category 3.05% 7.22% 6.90%
Number of salaries quoted 11 10 37
10th Percentile £41,250 £55,625 £31,250
25th Percentile £55,775 £60,321 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £87,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +59.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £107,500 £68,750
90th Percentile - £115,000 £70,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +8.33% -7.69% +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 459 679 580
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 14.10% 11.20% 14.96%
Number of salaries quoted 362 343 495
10th Percentile £26,375 £25,750 £26,000
25th Percentile £29,250 £31,250 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £36,925 £42,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.12% -5.56% -
75th Percentile £53,688 £57,500 £58,750
90th Percentile £73,750 £72,500 £70,000
England median annual salary £41,500 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -17.00% -4.76% -

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

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 19 September 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 19 September 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
Coventry +14 7 £75,000 - 2
Birmingham -8 4 £42,500 -51.43% 5
Shropshire - 2 £70,000 - 2
Wolverhampton - 1 £90,000 - 1
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 (21.43%) Apache Spark
2 1 (7.14%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (7.14%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 9 (64.29%) AWS
2 7 (50.00%) Azure
3 2 (14.29%) Amazon EKS
3 2 (14.29%) Amazon ELB
3 2 (14.29%) Amazon S3
4 1 (7.14%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (7.14%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (7.14%) GCP
4 1 (7.14%) GitHub
4 1 (7.14%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (7.14%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (14.29%) Firewall
2 1 (7.14%) DHCP
2 1 (7.14%) DNS
2 1 (7.14%) PuTTY
2 1 (7.14%) TCP/IP
2 1 (7.14%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (21.43%) Metadata
1 3 (21.43%) Spark SQL
2 2 (14.29%) Delta Lake
2 2 (14.29%) DynamoDB
2 2 (14.29%) SQL Server
3 1 (7.14%) Apache Hive
3 1 (7.14%) BusinessObjects
3 1 (7.14%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (7.14%) Hadoop
3 1 (7.14%) HBase
3 1 (7.14%) Neo4j
3 1 (7.14%) NoSQL
3 1 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (7.14%) QlikView
3 1 (7.14%) RDBMS
3 1 (7.14%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 1 (7.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (7.14%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (7.14%) SQLite
3 1 (7.14%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (14.29%) MLflow
2 1 (7.14%) Git
2 1 (7.14%) JIRA
General
1 8 (57.14%) Social Skills
2 1 (7.14%) Finance
2 1 (7.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (7.14%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (21.43%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) Java Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) Machine Learning Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) Operations Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) Senior
2 2 (14.29%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Data Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Database Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Developer
3 1 (7.14%) Java Developer
3 1 (7.14%) Network Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Senior Database Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (21.43%) PySpark
2 2 (14.29%) Keras
2 2 (14.29%) Lambda Expressions
2 2 (14.29%) Metaflow
2 2 (14.29%) NumPy
2 2 (14.29%) Pandas
2 2 (14.29%) PyTorch
2 2 (14.29%) scikit-learn
2 2 (14.29%) TensorFlow
2 2 (14.29%) YAML
3 1 (7.14%) Apache NiFi
3 1 (7.14%) Kafka
3 1 (7.14%) Plotly
3 1 (7.14%) Regular Expression
3 1 (7.14%) Shiny
Miscellaneous
1 5 (35.71%) Onboarding
1 5 (35.71%) Product Ownership
2 2 (14.29%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (7.14%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 7 (50.00%) Windows
2 1 (7.14%) Linux
2 1 (7.14%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (35.71%) Roadmaps
1 5 (35.71%) Translating Business Requirements
2 3 (21.43%) Artificial Intelligence
2 3 (21.43%) Data Science
2 3 (21.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 3 (21.43%) Machine Learning
2 3 (21.43%) Unit Testing
2 3 (21.43%) Visualisation
3 2 (14.29%) CI/CD
3 2 (14.29%) Coaching
3 2 (14.29%) Containerisation
3 2 (14.29%) Information Security
3 2 (14.29%) Mentoring
3 2 (14.29%) Metadata Management
3 2 (14.29%) MLOps
3 2 (14.29%) OO
3 2 (14.29%) OOP
3 2 (14.29%) OWASP
3 2 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (14.29%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (28.57%) Java
1 4 (28.57%) SQL
2 3 (21.43%) Python
3 1 (7.14%) Bash
3 1 (7.14%) PowerShell
3 1 (7.14%) PROC SQL
3 1 (7.14%) R
Qualifications
1 1 (7.14%) AWS Certification
1 1 (7.14%) Azure Certification
1 1 (7.14%) CESG Certified Professional
1 1 (7.14%) ITIL Certification
1 1 (7.14%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.14%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (7.14%) Data Quality
1 1 (7.14%) NIST
1 1 (7.14%) QA
System Software
1 6 (42.86%) Active Directory
2 5 (35.71%) Docker
3 1 (7.14%) Apache Flume
3 1 (7.14%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 2 (14.29%) Kubeflow
1 2 (14.29%) Kubernetes
1 2 (14.29%) Terraform
2 1 (7.14%) FortiGate
2 1 (7.14%) Kibana
2 1 (7.14%) logstash
2 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (7.14%) Oozie
Vendors
1 5 (35.71%) CyberArk
2 3 (21.43%) Databricks
2 3 (21.43%) Microsoft
3 1 (7.14%) Cisco
3 1 (7.14%) Fortinet
3 1 (7.14%) Informatica
3 1 (7.14%) MicroStrategy
3 1 (7.14%) Oracle
3 1 (7.14%) SAP