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 15 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 180 206 191
Rank change year-on-year +26 -15 -13
Permanent jobs citing Unix 17 47 69
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.39% 0.64% 1.09%
As % of the Operating Systems category 2.57% 5.51% 8.90%
Number of salaries quoted 14 34 45
10th Percentile £52,500 £43,025 £45,800
25th Percentile £53,750 - £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £50,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -23.08% +18.18%
75th Percentile £65,000 £91,934 £70,000
90th Percentile - £107,500 £77,900
England median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% -10.71% +12.00%

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 662 853 775
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 15.37% 11.58% 12.24%
Number of salaries quoted 386 726 550
10th Percentile £26,375 £24,723 £25,450
25th Percentile £31,250 £27,500 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £36,925 £37,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.53% -16.67% +4.65%
75th Percentile £51,250 £55,000 £57,500
90th Percentile £62,500 £65,603 £70,000
England median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - -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 15 May 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 15 May 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 +27 14 £60,000 -28.21% 8
Shropshire +17 2 - - 9
Warwickshire - 1 £53,500 - 3
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:

Business Applications
1 6 (35.29%) Oracle EBS
2 4 (23.53%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 3 (17.65%) AWS
1 3 (17.65%) Pulumi
2 1 (5.88%) Amazon ECR
2 1 (5.88%) Amazon ECS
2 1 (5.88%) Amazon ElastiCache
2 1 (5.88%) Amazon OpenSearch
2 1 (5.88%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (5.88%) AWS CodeBuild
2 1 (5.88%) Azure
2 1 (5.88%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (5.88%) dbt
2 1 (5.88%) GCP
2 1 (5.88%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 2 (11.76%) Broadband
2 1 (5.88%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (41.18%) DB2
2 6 (35.29%) Oracle Database
2 6 (35.29%) Oracle Exadata
3 5 (29.41%) Oracle Reports
4 4 (23.53%) MaxDB
4 4 (23.53%) SAP HANA
5 2 (11.76%) NoSQL
5 2 (11.76%) RDBMS
5 2 (11.76%) Relational Database
6 1 (5.88%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (5.88%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (5.88%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (5.88%) Redis
Development Applications
1 2 (11.76%) Jaeger
2 1 (5.88%) Git
2 1 (5.88%) JIRA
General
1 7 (41.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 5 (29.41%) Social Skills
3 4 (23.53%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (11.76%) Advertising
5 1 (5.88%) Automotive
5 1 (5.88%) Finance
Job Titles
1 6 (35.29%) DBA
1 6 (35.29%) Oracle DBA
2 4 (23.53%) Consultant
2 4 (23.53%) Oracle Applications DBA
2 4 (23.53%) SAP Basis Consultant
2 4 (23.53%) SAP Basis Support
2 4 (23.53%) SAP Consultant
2 4 (23.53%) SAP Support
2 4 (23.53%) SAP Support Consultant
2 4 (23.53%) Support Consultant
3 2 (11.76%) Administrator
3 2 (11.76%) Developer
3 2 (11.76%) Lead
3 2 (11.76%) Senior
3 2 (11.76%) Site Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Team Leader
4 1 (5.88%) Full-Stack Developer
4 1 (5.88%) Java Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (35.29%) Middleware
1 6 (35.29%) Oracle Fusion
1 6 (35.29%) Oracle GoldenGate
2 4 (23.53%) SAP Basis
3 2 (11.76%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (11.76%) OpenTelemetry
4 1 (5.88%) Django
4 1 (5.88%) HTML
4 1 (5.88%) Laravel
4 1 (5.88%) REST
4 1 (5.88%) RESTful
4 1 (5.88%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.76%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (5.88%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 10 (58.82%) Windows
2 9 (52.94%) Linux
3 4 (23.53%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (41.18%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (35.29%) Performance Tuning
3 5 (29.41%) Data Management
3 5 (29.41%) Database Tuning
4 4 (23.53%) Analytics
4 4 (23.53%) Business Analytics
4 4 (23.53%) Business Continuity
4 4 (23.53%) Business Intelligence
4 4 (23.53%) Collaborative Working
4 4 (23.53%) CRM
4 4 (23.53%) Data Privacy
4 4 (23.53%) ERP
4 4 (23.53%) Project Delivery
4 4 (23.53%) Project Management
4 4 (23.53%) SAP Security
5 3 (17.65%) Agile
5 3 (17.65%) Configuration Management
5 3 (17.65%) Continuous Integration
5 3 (17.65%) DevOps
5 3 (17.65%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 11 (64.71%) SQL
2 9 (52.94%) Java
3 6 (35.29%) PL/SQL
3 6 (35.29%) Shell Script
4 4 (23.53%) ABAP
5 3 (17.65%) JavaScript
5 3 (17.65%) Python
6 2 (11.76%) Bash
6 2 (11.76%) Go
7 1 (5.88%) PHP
Qualifications
1 5 (29.41%) OCA
1 5 (29.41%) OCP
1 5 (29.41%) Oracle Certification
1 5 (29.41%) Security Cleared
2 2 (11.76%) AWS Certification
3 1 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (5.88%) Degree
3 1 (5.88%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (29.41%) Accessibility
System Software
1 3 (17.65%) Docker
2 1 (5.88%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (5.88%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 6 (35.29%) Oracle RMAN
2 3 (17.65%) Terraform
3 2 (11.76%) Ansible
3 2 (11.76%) Argo
3 2 (11.76%) Kubernetes
3 2 (11.76%) Kustomize
3 2 (11.76%) Prometheus
4 1 (5.88%) AWS Copilot
Vendors
1 10 (58.82%) Oracle
2 4 (23.53%) SAP
3 3 (17.65%) Google
3 3 (17.65%) Sybase