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 17 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

	6 months to 17 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	105	53	81
Rank change year-on-year	-52	+28	-11
Permanent jobs citing Unix	19	2	8
As % of all permanent jobs in Gloucestershire	0.74%	0.39%	0.81%
As % of the Operating Systems category	6.91%	2.20%	3.86%
Number of salaries quoted	2	1	7
10^th Percentile	-	-	£44,500
25^th Percentile	£78,750	£46,250	£54,375
Median annual salary (50^th Percentile)	£82,500	£52,500	£80,000
Median % change year-on-year	+57.14%	-34.38%	+34.33%
75^th Percentile	£86,250	£58,750	£82,500
90^th Percentile	-	-	-
South West median annual salary	£73,750	£55,000	£73,750
% change year-on-year	+34.09%	-25.42%	+28.26%

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.

	6 months to 17 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills	275	91	207
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Gloucestershire	10.71%	17.74%	21.06%
Number of salaries quoted	143	54	89
10^th Percentile	£30,250	£34,636	£31,000
25^th Percentile	£35,625	£36,250	£40,000
Median annual salary (50^th Percentile)	£60,000	£55,000	£52,500
Median % change year-on-year	+9.09%	+4.76%	+5.00%
75^th Percentile	£75,000	£78,750	£60,000
90^th Percentile	£85,000	£82,625	£81,700
South West median annual salary	£50,000	£37,000	£43,491
% change year-on-year	+35.14%	-14.92%	-8.44%

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 Salary Trend in Gloucestershire

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 17 October 2026. 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
Gloucester	-	16	-	-
Cheltenham	-41	3	£82,500	+57.14%	2
Unix South West

Unix Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Gloucestershire

For the 6 months to 17 October 2026, job vacancies citing Unix also mentioned the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Gloucestershire region with a requirement for Unix.

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Security Cleared	94.7%	18
2	SC Cleared	78.9%	15
3	DV Cleared	63.2%	12
4	CI/CD	47.4%	9
4	Linux	47.4%	9
6	Ansible	42.1%	8
6	DevOps	42.1%	8
6	Infrastructure as Code	42.1%	8
6	Terraform	42.1%	8
10	Python	36.8%	7
10	Test Automation	36.8%	7
12	AWS	31.6%	6
12	Azure	31.6%	6
12	Azure DevOps	31.6%	6
12	Bash	31.6%	6
12	Docker	31.6%	6
12	Elastic Stack	31.6%	6
12	GCP	31.6%	6
12	GitLab	31.6%	6
12	Grafana	31.6%	6
12	Infrastructure Engineering	31.6%	6
12	Jenkins	31.6%	6
12	Kubernetes	31.6%	6
12	Prometheus	31.6%	6
12	Puppet	31.6%	6
12	Site Reliability Engineering	31.6%	6
12	Test Scripting	31.6%	6
12	Validation	31.6%	6
29	Collaborative Culture	26.3%	5
29	Continuous Improvement	26.3%	5

Unix Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Gloucestershire by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Operating Systems

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Linux	47.4%	9