Unix Job Trends in Bristol

Unix
South West > Bristol

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Bristol requiring Unix skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 105 83 125
Rank change year-on-year -22 +42 -41
Permanent jobs citing Unix 13 2 14
As % of all permanent jobs in Bristol 0.45% 0.18% 0.54%
As % of the Operating Systems category 7.65% 2.15% 4.46%
Number of salaries quoted 13 2 8
10th Percentile £60,000 - -
25th Percentile £66,250 £74,870 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £78,810 £59,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.83% +32.45% -11.85%
75th Percentile £78,750 £82,751 £82,500
90th Percentile - - -
South West median annual salary £66,250 £78,810 £67,500
% change year-on-year -15.94% +16.76% +20.54%

All Operating Systems
Bristol

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 Bristol.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 170 93 314
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bristol 5.86% 8.40% 12.18%
Number of salaries quoted 133 73 253
10th Percentile £33,325 £32,298 £28,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £36,250 £33,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £47,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +21.05% -9.52% +1.94%
75th Percentile £75,000 £61,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £78,500 £87,500
South West median annual salary £47,500 £37,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +28.38% -22.11% -

Unix
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Unix relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Bristol.

Unix job vacancy trend in Bristol

Unix
Salary Trend in Bristol

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing Unix.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing Unix

Unix
Salary Histogram in Bristol

Salary distribution for jobs citing Unix in Bristol over the 6 months to 24 August 2026.

Salary histogram for Unix in Bristol

Unix
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bristol 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:

Cloud Services
1 6 (46.15%) AWS
2 1 (7.69%) Azure
2 1 (7.69%) GCP
Development Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Eclipse
1 1 (7.69%) Git
1 1 (7.69%) Subversion
General
1 10 (76.92%) Finance
2 1 (7.69%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (38.46%) Engineering Manager
2 3 (23.08%) Infrastructure Manager
3 2 (15.38%) Linux Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Linux Systems Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (69.23%) Terraform
2 1 (7.69%) Jakarta EE
2 1 (7.69%) RESTful
2 1 (7.69%) Struts
2 1 (7.69%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 5 (38.46%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 12 (92.31%) Linux
2 9 (69.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (69.23%) DevOps
2 8 (61.54%) CI/CD
2 8 (61.54%) Technical Leadership
3 5 (38.46%) Observability
3 5 (38.46%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 4 (30.77%) Continuous Improvement
4 4 (30.77%) Operational Stability
4 4 (30.77%) Performance Management
4 4 (30.77%) Roadmaps
4 4 (30.77%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 3 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
6 1 (7.69%) Full-Stack Development
6 1 (7.69%) Regression Testing
6 1 (7.69%) Release Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (7.69%) C++
1 1 (7.69%) Java
1 1 (7.69%) JavaScript
1 1 (7.69%) Perl
1 1 (7.69%) Python
System Software
1 1 (7.69%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (69.23%) Puppet
2 1 (7.69%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 9 (69.23%) Red Hat