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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 80 110 103
Rank change year-on-year +30 -7 +20
Permanent jobs citing Unix 3 19 36
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bristol 0.27% 0.78% 2.12%
As % of the Operating Systems category 3.23% 6.19% 15.45%
Number of salaries quoted 2 9 19
10th Percentile - - £45,600
25th Percentile £74,870 £51,250 £51,300
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £78,810 £65,000 £59,000
Median % change year-on-year +21.25% +10.17% -12.40%
75th Percentile £82,751 £82,500 £81,403
90th Percentile - - £84,056
South West median annual salary £78,810 £65,000 £56,000
% change year-on-year +21.25% +16.07% -2.61%

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 93 307 233
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bristol 8.40% 12.56% 13.75%
Number of salaries quoted 72 224 195
10th Percentile £30,750 £28,500 £27,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £31,938 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,250 £52,500 £50,238
Median % change year-on-year -11.90% +4.50% -4.31%
75th Percentile £58,750 £74,164 £66,924
90th Percentile £77,250 £87,500 £78,750
South West median annual salary £37,000 £45,000 £49,000
% change year-on-year -17.78% -8.16% -2.00%

Unix
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

Job postings citing Unix as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Bristol.

Job vacancy trend for Unix 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
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bristol 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Apigee
1 2 (66.67%) GCP
1 2 (66.67%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) NoSQL
2 1 (33.33%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Git
1 2 (66.67%) Jenkins
1 2 (66.67%) JUnit
1 2 (66.67%) Maven
1 2 (66.67%) SonarQube
1 2 (66.67%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 2 (66.67%) Banking
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Senior
1 2 (66.67%) Senior Software Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Software Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Integration Specialist
2 1 (33.33%) webMethods Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) Hibernate
1 2 (66.67%) RESTful
1 2 (66.67%) Spring
1 2 (66.67%) Spring Boot
2 1 (33.33%) REST
2 1 (33.33%) SOAP
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
1 2 (66.67%) DevOps
1 2 (66.67%) Event-Driven
1 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (66.67%) Microservices
1 2 (66.67%) OO
1 2 (66.67%) Software Engineering
1 2 (66.67%) Static Application Security Testing
1 2 (66.67%) TDD
1 2 (66.67%) Test Automation
1 2 (66.67%) Translating Business Requirements
2 1 (33.33%) Change Management
2 1 (33.33%) Matrix Management
2 1 (33.33%) Matrix Organization
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
2 2 (66.67%) Go
2 2 (66.67%) Java
2 2 (66.67%) JavaScript
2 2 (66.67%) Python
3 1 (33.33%) PL/SQL
3 1 (33.33%) Shell Script
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Istio
1 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes
1 2 (66.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle
1 1 (33.33%) Software AG
1 1 (33.33%) webMethods