Unix Job Trends in Gloucestershire

Unix
South West > Gloucestershire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Gloucestershire requiring Unix skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 55 82 69
Rank change year-on-year +27 -13 +11
Permanent jobs citing Unix 2 8 31
As % of all permanent jobs in Gloucestershire 0.40% 0.82% 3.41%
As % of the Operating Systems category 2.15% 3.88% 12.02%
Number of salaries quoted 1 7 20
10th Percentile - £44,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £54,375 £50,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £80,000 £59,556
Median % change year-on-year -34.38% +34.33% +8.28%
75th Percentile £58,750 £82,500 £61,123
90th Percentile - - £72,433
South West median annual salary £57,500 £67,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -14.81% +17.39% -

All Operating Systems
Gloucestershire

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 Gloucestershire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 93 206 258
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 18.38% 21.00% 28.38%
Number of salaries quoted 57 88 158
10th Percentile £35,022 £31,000 £28,350
25th Percentile £36,250 £38,750 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £51,250 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.32% +2.50% -9.09%
75th Percentile £80,000 £60,000 £67,188
90th Percentile £87,250 £81,800 £77,725
South West median annual salary £37,000 £43,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -13.95% -9.47% -

Unix
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Unix job vacancy trend in Gloucestershire

Unix
Salary Trend in Gloucestershire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Gloucestershire citing Unix.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Gloucestershire citing Unix

Unix
Job Locations in Gloucestershire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Unix within the Gloucestershire region over the 6 months to 19 October 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
Cheltenham +28 1 £52,500 -10.64% 2
Berkeley - 1 - -
Unix
South West

Unix
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Gloucestershire 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 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) OpenShift
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Git
General
1 1 (50.00%) Law
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Administrator
1 1 (50.00%) Automation Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Linux Administrator
1 1 (50.00%) Linux Systems Administrator
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Automation Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Unix Administrator
1 1 (50.00%) Unix Linux Systems Administrator
1 1 (50.00%) Unix Systems Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (50.00%) Life Science
2 1 (50.00%) Omics
2 1 (50.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) CentOS
1 1 (50.00%) CoreOS
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Time Management
2 1 (50.00%) Bioinformatics
2 1 (50.00%) Biology
2 1 (50.00%) Computational Biology
2 1 (50.00%) Data Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Data Science
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Digital Innovation
2 1 (50.00%) Experimental Design
2 1 (50.00%) ITIL
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Statistics
2 1 (50.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) Bash
2 1 (50.00%) R
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
1 1 (50.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Master's Degree
1 1 (50.00%) PhD
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Ansible
1 1 (50.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Red Hat