Unix Jobs in the North West

Unix
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 227 187 185
Rank change year-on-year -40 -2 -35
Permanent jobs citing Unix 70 104 163
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 0.62% 1.42% 1.66%
As % of the Operating Systems category 5.56% 9.18% 9.52%
Number of salaries quoted 40 48 98
10th Percentile - £39,900 £34,997
25th Percentile £42,238 £51,313 £43,015
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £59,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +1.69% +12.38%
75th Percentile £60,000 £72,500 £73,675
90th Percentile £67,968 - £76,323
England median annual salary £60,000 £69,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -13.04% +6.15% +4.00%

All Operating Systems
North West

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 North West with a requirement for operating system skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 1,258 1,133 1,713
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 11.22% 15.50% 17.40%
Number of salaries quoted 902 732 1,071
10th Percentile £25,500 £25,000 £23,000
25th Percentile £30,126 £32,500 £27,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £47,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.26% +10.59% -5.56%
75th Percentile £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
90th Percentile £70,000 £72,500 £72,500
England median annual salary £45,000 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -14.29% - +5.00%

Unix
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing Unix as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for Unix in the North West

Unix
Salary Trend in the North West

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Unix in the North West.

Salary trend for Unix in the North West

Unix
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Unix in the North West over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Unix in the North West

Unix
Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Unix within the North West region over the 6 months to 9 June 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
Manchester -25 41 £52,500 -19.23% 4
Cheshire -12 16 £55,000 +22.22% 3
Lancashire -10 11 £44,274 -16.46% 1
Merseyside -10 2 - -
Unix
England

Unix
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 8 (11.43%) Apache
1 8 (11.43%) IIS
1 8 (11.43%) Tomcat
2 1 (1.43%) OpenStack
Business Applications
1 15 (21.43%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 22 (31.43%) AWS
2 17 (24.29%) IaaS
3 9 (12.86%) Serverless
4 7 (10.00%) Azure
5 3 (4.29%) GCP
5 3 (4.29%) SaaS
6 2 (2.86%) Amazon SQS
6 2 (2.86%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (2.86%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (1.43%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.71%) Network Security
2 2 (2.86%) Firewall
2 2 (2.86%) Internet
2 2 (2.86%) SAN
3 1 (1.43%) InfiniBand
3 1 (1.43%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (31.43%) SQL Server
2 16 (22.86%) MySQL
3 15 (21.43%) Oracle Database
4 10 (14.29%) Data Warehouse
5 9 (12.86%) NoSQL
5 9 (12.86%) PostgreSQL
6 7 (10.00%) Oracle Database 12c
7 4 (5.71%) Relational Database
8 2 (2.86%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 9 (12.86%) JIRA
General
1 25 (35.71%) Finance
2 23 (32.86%) Public Sector
3 15 (21.43%) Local Government
3 15 (21.43%) Police
3 15 (21.43%) Social Skills
4 11 (15.71%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (10.00%) Back Office
6 3 (4.29%) Law
7 2 (2.86%) Games
8 1 (1.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.43%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 17 (24.29%) Developer
1 17 (24.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 11 (15.71%) Senior
2 11 (15.71%) Software Developer
3 10 (14.29%) Software Engineer
4 9 (12.86%) Administrator
4 9 (12.86%) DBA
4 9 (12.86%) Oracle DBA
5 8 (11.43%) Applications Support
5 8 (11.43%) Developer/Software Engineer
6 7 (10.00%) Linux Engineer
6 7 (10.00%) PostgreSQL DBA
6 7 (10.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 7 (10.00%) Unix Engineer
6 7 (10.00%) Unix Linux Engineer
7 4 (5.71%) Analyst
7 4 (5.71%) Business Developer
7 4 (5.71%) Systems Developer
8 3 (4.29%) Consultant
8 3 (4.29%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (17.14%) Node.js
2 9 (12.86%) Web Services
3 6 (8.57%) CSS
4 5 (7.14%) jQuery
5 3 (4.29%) HTML
5 3 (4.29%) XML
6 2 (2.86%) J2EE
6 2 (2.86%) JMS
6 2 (2.86%) Kohana
6 2 (2.86%) RESTful
6 2 (2.86%) SOAP
6 2 (2.86%) Spring
6 2 (2.86%) Struts
7 1 (1.43%) Ruby on Rails
Miscellaneous
1 25 (35.71%) Public Cloud
2 13 (18.57%) Self-Motivation
3 11 (15.71%) Data Centre
4 10 (14.29%) Management Information System
5 7 (10.00%) Driving Licence
6 3 (4.29%) Cyber Threat
7 2 (2.86%) Cyber Defence
8 1 (1.43%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 41 (58.57%) Linux
2 33 (47.14%) Windows
3 15 (21.43%) Solaris
4 2 (2.86%) VMS
5 1 (1.43%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (38.57%) Mentoring
2 25 (35.71%) ITIL
3 22 (31.43%) Change Management
4 21 (30.00%) Coaching
5 17 (24.29%) Architecture Roadmap
5 17 (24.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 17 (24.29%) Roadmaps
6 15 (21.43%) Cybersecurity
7 13 (18.57%) Full Stack Development
8 12 (17.14%) Agile
9 10 (14.29%) CI/CD
9 10 (14.29%) Dashboard Development
10 9 (12.86%) Problem Management
10 9 (12.86%) Risk Register
10 9 (12.86%) Server Management
11 8 (11.43%) Customer Service
11 8 (11.43%) Data Security
11 8 (11.43%) Network Architecture
11 8 (11.43%) Task Automation
12 7 (10.00%) Infrastructure Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 16 (22.86%) Python
2 14 (20.00%) PowerShell
3 11 (15.71%) Java
4 10 (14.29%) Ruby
5 9 (12.86%) Perl
6 8 (11.43%) Shell Script
7 6 (8.57%) SQL
8 5 (7.14%) Bash
9 3 (4.29%) JavaScript
9 3 (4.29%) PHP
10 1 (1.43%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 31 (44.29%) Security Cleared
2 21 (30.00%) Degree
3 13 (18.57%) SC Cleared
4 8 (11.43%) AWS Certification
5 7 (10.00%) DV Cleared
5 7 (10.00%) Oracle Certification
6 2 (2.86%) CompTIA Security+
6 2 (2.86%) CREST Certified
6 2 (2.86%) Master's Degree
7 1 (1.43%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (21.43%) Accessibility
2 2 (2.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (2.86%) NIST
2 2 (2.86%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.43%) SLA
System Software
1 10 (14.29%) Docker
2 5 (7.14%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (4.29%) Active Directory
3 3 (4.29%) Hyper-V
4 1 (1.43%) Lustre
4 1 (1.43%) Slurm Workload Manager
4 1 (1.43%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 10 (14.29%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.86%) SCCM
2 2 (2.86%) WSUS
3 1 (1.43%) HP Fortify
3 1 (1.43%) Icinga
3 1 (1.43%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 22 (31.43%) Oracle
2 15 (21.43%) NEC
3 13 (18.57%) Microsoft
4 11 (15.71%) Dynatrace
5 10 (14.29%) Splunk
6 9 (12.86%) Facebook
7 8 (11.43%) BMC
8 7 (10.00%) Red Hat
8 7 (10.00%) VMware
9 5 (7.14%) Apple
10 4 (5.71%) IBM
11 1 (1.43%) NVIDIA
11 1 (1.43%) Twitter