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 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 219 194 187
Rank change year-on-year -25 -7 -53
Permanent jobs citing Unix 72 98 161
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 0.72% 1.27% 1.69%
As % of the Operating Systems category 6.04% 8.54% 9.54%
Number of salaries quoted 44 43 96
10th Percentile - £41,500 £34,990
25th Percentile £42,238 £48,500 £40,853
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £58,250
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +3.00% +10.95%
75th Percentile £67,968 £72,500 £73,675
90th Percentile £82,548 - -
England median annual salary £60,000 £70,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -14.29% +12.00% -

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 1,192 1,147 1,687
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 11.95% 14.84% 17.73%
Number of salaries quoted 886 762 1,072
10th Percentile £25,250 £25,000 £23,000
25th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £27,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.88% -5.56%
75th Percentile £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
90th Percentile £70,000 £72,500 £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 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 20 May 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 20 May 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 -6 44 £55,000 -15.38% 5
Cheshire +1 15 £55,000 +22.22% 3
Lancashire -8 11 £44,274 -16.46% 1
Merseyside -8 2 - - 1
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 (11.11%) Apache
1 8 (11.11%) IIS
1 8 (11.11%) Tomcat
2 3 (4.17%) Captiva
2 3 (4.17%) FileNet
2 3 (4.17%) WebSphere
3 1 (1.39%) OpenStack
Business Applications
1 15 (20.83%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 26 (36.11%) AWS
2 21 (29.17%) IaaS
3 14 (19.44%) Azure
4 11 (15.28%) GCP
5 8 (11.11%) Serverless
6 7 (9.72%) SaaS
7 4 (5.56%) PaaS
8 3 (4.17%) GitHub
9 2 (2.78%) Amazon SQS
9 2 (2.78%) Dynamics 365
9 2 (2.78%) Microsoft 365
10 1 (1.39%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.56%) Network Security
2 2 (2.78%) Firewall
2 2 (2.78%) Internet
2 2 (2.78%) SAN
3 1 (1.39%) InfiniBand
3 1 (1.39%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (29.17%) SQL Server
2 16 (22.22%) MySQL
3 15 (20.83%) Oracle Database
4 14 (19.44%) Data Warehouse
5 12 (16.67%) NoSQL
6 9 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
7 7 (9.72%) Oracle Database 12c
8 4 (5.56%) Data Lake
8 4 (5.56%) Relational Database
9 2 (2.78%) RDBMS
10 1 (1.39%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 11 (15.28%) JIRA
2 3 (4.17%) Oracle Forms
3 1 (1.39%) GitLab
General
1 32 (44.44%) Finance
2 23 (31.94%) Public Sector
3 16 (22.22%) Social Skills
4 15 (20.83%) Local Government
4 15 (20.83%) Police
5 11 (15.28%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (9.72%) Back Office
6 7 (9.72%) Banking
7 3 (4.17%) Law
8 2 (2.78%) Games
9 1 (1.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.39%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 17 (23.61%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 16 (22.22%) Developer
3 13 (18.06%) Software Engineer
4 11 (15.28%) Senior
4 11 (15.28%) Software Developer
5 9 (12.50%) Administrator
5 9 (12.50%) DBA
5 9 (12.50%) Oracle DBA
6 8 (11.11%) Applications Support
6 8 (11.11%) Developer/Software Engineer
7 7 (9.72%) PostgreSQL DBA
7 7 (9.72%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 4 (5.56%) Analyst
8 4 (5.56%) Architect
8 4 (5.56%) Enterprise Architect
9 3 (4.17%) Business Developer
9 3 (4.17%) Consultant
9 3 (4.17%) Product Consultant
9 3 (4.17%) Systems Developer
9 3 (4.17%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (15.28%) Node.js
2 9 (12.50%) Web Services
3 6 (8.33%) CSS
4 5 (6.94%) jQuery
5 4 (5.56%) OpenID
6 3 (4.17%) HTML
6 3 (4.17%) XML
7 2 (2.78%) J2EE
7 2 (2.78%) JMS
7 2 (2.78%) Kohana
7 2 (2.78%) RESTful
7 2 (2.78%) SOAP
7 2 (2.78%) Spring
7 2 (2.78%) Struts
8 1 (1.39%) Ruby on Rails
Miscellaneous
1 25 (34.72%) Public Cloud
2 13 (18.06%) Self-Motivation
3 11 (15.28%) Data Centre
4 10 (13.89%) Management Information System
5 7 (9.72%) Driving Licence
6 4 (5.56%) Blockchain
6 4 (5.56%) Mainframe
7 3 (4.17%) DataPower
7 3 (4.17%) Private Cloud
8 2 (2.78%) Cyber Defence
8 2 (2.78%) Cyber Threat
9 1 (1.39%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 39 (54.17%) Linux
2 33 (45.83%) Windows
3 10 (13.89%) Solaris
4 2 (2.78%) VMS
5 1 (1.39%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (37.50%) Mentoring
2 25 (34.72%) Change Management
2 25 (34.72%) ITIL
3 24 (33.33%) Coaching
4 21 (29.17%) Roadmaps
5 18 (25.00%) Agile
5 18 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
6 17 (23.61%) Architecture Roadmap
6 17 (23.61%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 12 (16.67%) Customer Service
7 12 (16.67%) Full Stack Development
8 10 (13.89%) CI/CD
8 10 (13.89%) Dashboard Development
9 9 (12.50%) Problem Management
9 9 (12.50%) Server Management
9 9 (12.50%) Task Automation
10 8 (11.11%) Data Security
10 8 (11.11%) Network Architecture
10 8 (11.11%) Risk Register
11 7 (9.72%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 15 (20.83%) Python
2 14 (19.44%) Java
3 13 (18.06%) PowerShell
4 9 (12.50%) Ruby
4 9 (12.50%) Shell Script
4 9 (12.50%) SQL
5 8 (11.11%) Perl
6 5 (6.94%) Bash
7 3 (4.17%) JavaScript
7 3 (4.17%) PHP
8 1 (1.39%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 26 (36.11%) Security Cleared
2 21 (29.17%) Degree
3 8 (11.11%) AWS Certification
3 8 (11.11%) SC Cleared
4 7 (9.72%) Oracle Certification
5 2 (2.78%) CompTIA Security+
5 2 (2.78%) CREST Certified
5 2 (2.78%) DV Cleared
5 2 (2.78%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.39%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (20.83%) Accessibility
2 3 (4.17%) GDPR
3 2 (2.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (2.78%) NIST
3 2 (2.78%) PCI DSS
4 1 (1.39%) SLA
System Software
1 10 (13.89%) Docker
2 5 (6.94%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (4.17%) Active Directory
3 3 (4.17%) Hyper-V
4 1 (1.39%) Lustre
4 1 (1.39%) Slurm Workload Manager
4 1 (1.39%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 10 (13.89%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.78%) SCCM
2 2 (2.78%) WSUS
3 1 (1.39%) Grafana
3 1 (1.39%) Icinga
3 1 (1.39%) Prometheus
3 1 (1.39%) Proxmox
3 1 (1.39%) Terraform
Vendors
1 25 (34.72%) Oracle
2 15 (20.83%) NEC
3 13 (18.06%) Microsoft
4 11 (15.28%) Dynatrace
5 10 (13.89%) Splunk
6 8 (11.11%) BMC
6 8 (11.11%) Facebook
7 7 (9.72%) IBM
7 7 (9.72%) VMware
8 5 (6.94%) Apple
9 3 (4.17%) Kofax
9 3 (4.17%) Pega
9 3 (4.17%) SAP
9 3 (4.17%) ServiceNow
10 2 (2.78%) Red Hat
11 1 (1.39%) Google
11 1 (1.39%) NVIDIA