Unix Jobs in the West Midlands

Unix
England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands with a requirement for Unix skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Unix over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 203 197 175
Rank change year-on-year -6 -22 -54
Permanent jobs citing Unix 45 77 114
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.62% 1.14% 1.58%
As % of the Operating Systems category 5.23% 9.19% 9.45%
Number of salaries quoted 36 53 59
10th Percentile £43,375 £45,100 £36,200
25th Percentile - £46,250 £41,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% +18.18% -8.33%
75th Percentile £81,109 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £76,250 £73,340
England median annual salary £60,000 £70,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -14.29% +12.00% -

All Operating Systems
West Midlands

Unix is in the Operating Systems category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands with a requirement for operating system skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 861 838 1,206
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 11.91% 12.46% 16.69%
Number of salaries quoted 737 578 880
10th Percentile £25,000 £25,000 £25,500
25th Percentile £27,500 £31,063 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +5.88% -
75th Percentile £53,750 £57,500 £57,500
90th Percentile £63,000 £70,000 £71,250
England median annual salary £45,000 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -14.29% - +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 27 April 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 27 April 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 -8 22 £83,577 +51.96% 2
Worcestershire -5 14 £50,000 -9.09% 2
Staffordshire -12 3 £50,000 -
Warwickshire +42 2 £50,000 -28.57%
Coventry +34 2 £62,500 +0.81%
Shropshire 0 1 £72,500 +22.88%
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 10 (22.22%) nginx
2 6 (13.33%) Tomcat
3 4 (8.89%) Apache
3 4 (8.89%) IIS
4 3 (6.67%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (4.44%) JBoss
5 2 (4.44%) SharePoint
5 2 (4.44%) WebLogic
Business Applications
1 8 (17.78%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 13 (28.89%) Azure
2 12 (26.67%) AWS
3 11 (24.44%) GCP
4 7 (15.56%) Microsoft 365
5 6 (13.33%) IaaS
5 6 (13.33%) PaaS
5 6 (13.33%) SaaS
6 5 (11.11%) Entra ID
7 3 (6.67%) GitHub
8 2 (4.44%) Cloud Computing
9 1 (2.22%) Alation
9 1 (2.22%) Amazon EC2
9 1 (2.22%) Collibra
9 1 (2.22%) OpenShift
9 1 (2.22%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 13 (28.89%) Firewall
2 3 (6.67%) SAN
3 2 (4.44%) LAN
3 2 (4.44%) PBX
3 2 (4.44%) WAN
3 2 (4.44%) Wireless
4 1 (2.22%) DHCP
4 1 (2.22%) DNS
4 1 (2.22%) HTTP
4 1 (2.22%) Internet
4 1 (2.22%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (31.11%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (22.22%) MySQL
3 8 (17.78%) Oracle Database
4 6 (13.33%) SQL Server
5 4 (8.89%) Oracle Database 12c
6 3 (6.67%) InterSystems Cache
7 1 (2.22%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (2.22%) Ataccama
7 1 (2.22%) Couchbase
7 1 (2.22%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (2.22%) MongoDB
7 1 (2.22%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 11 (24.44%) Git
2 10 (22.22%) GNU Toolchain
2 10 (22.22%) Subversion
3 3 (6.67%) IBM UrbanCode
3 3 (6.67%) Jenkins
General
1 17 (37.78%) Finance
2 14 (31.11%) Social Skills
3 12 (26.67%) Local Government
4 8 (17.78%) Police
4 8 (17.78%) Public Sector
5 6 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (11.11%) Back Office
7 3 (6.67%) Banking
7 3 (6.67%) Electronics
7 3 (6.67%) Games
7 3 (6.67%) Retail
8 2 (4.44%) Fire and Rescue
9 1 (2.22%) Financial Institution
9 1 (2.22%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 10 (22.22%) Developer
1 10 (22.22%) Linux Developer
2 7 (15.56%) Architect
3 6 (13.33%) Cloud Architect
3 6 (13.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 6 (13.33%) Senior
4 5 (11.11%) IT Engineer
4 5 (11.11%) Software Engineer
5 4 (8.89%) Administrator
5 4 (8.89%) Applications Support
5 4 (8.89%) DBA
5 4 (8.89%) Infrastructure Services Engineer
5 4 (8.89%) Oracle DBA
5 4 (8.89%) PostgreSQL DBA
6 3 (6.67%) Senior Systems Engineer
6 3 (6.67%) Systems Engineer
6 3 (6.67%) Technical Engineer
7 2 (4.44%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (4.44%) Trainer
7 2 (4.44%) Unix Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (22.22%) Node.js
1 10 (22.22%) POSIX
2 8 (17.78%) Middleware
3 7 (15.56%) Web Services
4 4 (8.89%) React
5 3 (6.67%) AngularJS
5 3 (6.67%) jQuery
6 1 (2.22%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 11 (24.44%) Linux Command Line
2 10 (22.22%) Embedded Systems
3 7 (15.56%) Cloud Native
4 4 (8.89%) Driving Licence
4 4 (8.89%) Public Cloud
4 4 (8.89%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (6.67%) Clustering
5 3 (6.67%) Data Centre
6 2 (4.44%) Management Information System
7 1 (2.22%) Genomics
7 1 (2.22%) Mobile Games
Operating Systems
1 33 (73.33%) Linux
2 22 (48.89%) Windows
3 10 (22.22%) Solaris
4 8 (17.78%) Windows Server
5 6 (13.33%) Ubuntu
6 4 (8.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (28.89%) Agile
1 13 (28.89%) Server Management
2 10 (22.22%) Open Source
3 9 (20.00%) ITIL
4 7 (15.56%) DevSecOps
4 7 (15.56%) Scrum
5 6 (13.33%) Architectural Patterns
5 6 (13.33%) Cloud Security
5 6 (13.33%) Customer Service
5 6 (13.33%) Cybersecurity
5 6 (13.33%) Identity Access Management
5 6 (13.33%) Information Security
5 6 (13.33%) Kanban
5 6 (13.33%) Problem Management
5 6 (13.33%) Scaled Agile Framework
5 6 (13.33%) Storage Management
6 5 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 5 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
6 5 (11.11%) Software Engineering
7 4 (8.89%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 10 (22.22%) Bash
1 10 (22.22%) C
1 10 (22.22%) C++
2 9 (20.00%) SQL
3 7 (15.56%) Python
4 5 (11.11%) Java
4 5 (11.11%) Shell Script
5 3 (6.67%) TypeScript
6 1 (2.22%) JavaScript
6 1 (2.22%) Perl
6 1 (2.22%) R
Qualifications
1 10 (22.22%) Security Cleared
2 8 (17.78%) Degree
3 7 (15.56%) Azure Certification
4 6 (13.33%) AWS Certification
4 6 (13.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 4 (8.89%) Oracle Certification
6 3 (6.67%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 3 (6.67%) MCSA
6 3 (6.67%) MCSE
6 3 (6.67%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (6.67%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 2 (4.44%) A+ Certification
7 2 (4.44%) DV Cleared
7 2 (4.44%) Network+ Certification
7 2 (4.44%) SC Cleared
8 1 (2.22%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (17.78%) Accessibility
2 2 (4.44%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (4.44%) NIST
3 1 (2.22%) QA
System Software
1 9 (20.00%) Active Directory
2 7 (15.56%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (11.11%) Docker
4 4 (8.89%) Hyper-V
5 1 (2.22%) Squid
Systems Management
1 4 (8.89%) SCCM
2 3 (6.67%) Failover Clustering
2 3 (6.67%) SCOM
3 2 (4.44%) Ansible
3 2 (4.44%) Kubernetes
4 1 (2.22%) FortiGate
4 1 (2.22%) ITRS Geneos
4 1 (2.22%) Terraform
Vendors
1 13 (28.89%) Microsoft
2 8 (17.78%) NEC
2 8 (17.78%) Oracle
3 7 (15.56%) VMware
4 4 (8.89%) IBM
5 3 (6.67%) Cisco
5 3 (6.67%) Google
5 3 (6.67%) InterSystems
6 1 (2.22%) Databricks
6 1 (2.22%) Huawei
6 1 (2.22%) Informatica
6 1 (2.22%) New Relic