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 10 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 187 156 197
Rank change year-on-year -31 +41 -14
Permanent jobs citing Unix 15 20 29
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 0.18% 0.58% 0.45%
As % of the Operating Systems category 3.92% 3.33% 4.15%
Number of salaries quoted 11 17 10
10th Percentile - £45,930 £64,394
25th Percentile £27,750 £52,500 £102,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,306 £67,626 £105,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.48% -35.59% +90.91%
75th Percentile £74,986 £77,500 £109,375
90th Percentile £76,075 - £115,000
England median annual salary £69,306 £69,384 £62,783
% change year-on-year -0.11% +10.51% -6.99%

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 383 600 698
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 4.50% 17.44% 10.78%
Number of salaries quoted 292 461 468
10th Percentile £28,550 £26,375 £25,248
25th Percentile £32,625 £30,750 £28,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,000 £36,925 £38,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.45% -2.83% -15.56%
75th Percentile £55,563 £52,500 £57,500
90th Percentile £68,750 £73,750 £69,875
England median annual salary £45,000 £41,500 £48,000
% change year-on-year +8.43% -13.54% -8.57%

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 10 August 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 10 August 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
Birmingham -30 9 £69,308 +26.01% 5
Herefordshire - 4 £28,500 -
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 2 (13.33%) Documentum
Business Applications
1 4 (26.67%) Line 50
Cloud Services
1 11 (73.33%) AWS
2 8 (53.33%) Azure
3 2 (13.33%) AWS CloudFormation
3 2 (13.33%) dbt
3 2 (13.33%) GCP
4 1 (6.67%) Azure AKS
4 1 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (6.67%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 4 (26.67%) Network Security
1 4 (26.67%) VoIP
2 2 (13.33%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (26.67%) FileMaker
2 2 (13.33%) SQL Server
3 1 (6.67%) MongoDB
3 1 (6.67%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (20.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (6.67%) GitLab
General
1 8 (53.33%) Social Skills
2 4 (26.67%) Public Sector
3 3 (20.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 6 (40.00%) Senior
2 4 (26.67%) DevOps Engineer
2 4 (26.67%) IT Support
2 4 (26.67%) IT Support Technician
2 4 (26.67%) IT Technician
2 4 (26.67%) Senior DevOps
2 4 (26.67%) Senior DevOps Engineer
2 4 (26.67%) Support Technician
3 3 (20.00%) Platform Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) Developer
4 2 (13.33%) Documentum Developer
4 2 (13.33%) Python Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) Site Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (26.67%) CSS
1 4 (26.67%) HTML
2 2 (13.33%) REST
3 1 (6.67%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 3 (20.00%) Public Cloud
2 2 (13.33%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (13.33%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 15 (100.00%) Linux
2 10 (66.67%) Windows
3 4 (26.67%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (73.33%) CI/CD
2 9 (60.00%) DevOps
2 9 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
3 7 (46.67%) Agile
3 7 (46.67%) Continuous Integration
3 7 (46.67%) Scrum
4 6 (40.00%) Coaching
4 6 (40.00%) Mentoring
5 5 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
6 4 (26.67%) ITSM
6 4 (26.67%) Network Management
6 4 (26.67%) Open Source
6 4 (26.67%) Service Management
6 4 (26.67%) Test Automation
7 3 (20.00%) Case Management
7 3 (20.00%) Continuous Delivery
7 3 (20.00%) Continuous Deployment
7 3 (20.00%) Product Management
7 3 (20.00%) Root Cause Analysis
7 3 (20.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 6 (40.00%) Python
2 4 (26.67%) PHP
3 3 (20.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 5 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 5 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (26.67%) ISO 14001
1 4 (26.67%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 3 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (40.00%) Terraform
2 3 (20.00%) Kubernetes
3 1 (6.67%) Argo
Vendors
1 4 (26.67%) Adobe
1 4 (26.67%) Apple
1 4 (26.67%) Sage
2 3 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (20.00%) Pega
2 3 (20.00%) Workday
3 2 (13.33%) Google
3 2 (13.33%) OpenText
3 2 (13.33%) Oracle