Unix Job Trends in South Wales

Unix
Wales > South Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in South Wales requiring Unix skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 54 60 39
Rank change year-on-year +6 -21 +50
Permanent jobs citing Unix 9 6 31
As % of all permanent jobs in South Wales 1.16% 0.95% 5.04%
As % of the Operating Systems category 17.65% 9.38% 36.05%
Number of salaries quoted 9 6 10
10th Percentile - - £57,805
25th Percentile £50,250 £43,449 £60,200
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £58,307 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year +11.48% -17.38% +41.15%
75th Percentile £78,790 £74,144 £72,433
90th Percentile - - -
Wales median annual salary £65,000 £48,302 £70,576
% change year-on-year +34.57% -31.56% +41.15%

All Operating Systems
South Wales

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 South Wales.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 51 64 86
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South Wales 6.59% 10.16% 13.98%
Number of salaries quoted 26 32 54
10th Percentile £29,250 - £30,338
25th Percentile £35,438 £23,750 £36,900
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,750 £36,250 £43,006
Median % change year-on-year +31.72% -15.71% -4.43%
75th Percentile £68,750 £53,938 £67,500
90th Percentile £79,395 £73,230 £72,433
Wales median annual salary £47,750 £46,472 £41,598
% change year-on-year +2.75% +11.72% -7.56%

Unix
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

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

Unix job vacancy trend in South Wales

Unix
Salary Trend in South Wales

Salary distribution trend for jobs in South Wales citing Unix.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in South Wales citing Unix

Unix
Salary Histogram in South Wales

Salary distribution for jobs citing Unix in South Wales over the 6 months to 13 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Unix in South Wales

Unix
Job Locations in South Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Unix within the South Wales region over the 6 months to 13 January 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
Torfaen - 5 £50,500 -
Cardiff +9 3 £73,801 +26.57% 4
Newport - 1 £70,000 - 2
Unix
Wales

Unix
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Wales 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 9 (100.00%) Azure
2 3 (33.33%) Amazon ECR
2 3 (33.33%) Amazon ECS
2 3 (33.33%) AWS
2 3 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
2 3 (33.33%) dbt
2 3 (33.33%) GCP
2 3 (33.33%) Pulumi
3 2 (22.22%) Amazon ElastiCache
3 2 (22.22%) Amazon OpenSearch
3 2 (22.22%) PaaS
3 2 (22.22%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 7 (77.78%) TCP/IP
2 4 (44.44%) Modbus
2 4 (44.44%) MQTT
2 4 (44.44%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (44.44%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (33.33%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (33.33%) Elasticsearch
2 3 (33.33%) Redis
3 1 (11.11%) Relational Database
General
1 2 (22.22%) Social Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) Firmware Engineer
2 3 (33.33%) Senior
3 2 (22.22%) Platform Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) Senior Platform Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Delivery Manager
4 1 (11.11%) Lead
4 1 (11.11%) Lead Software Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Service Delivery Manager
4 1 (11.11%) Service Manager
4 1 (11.11%) Site Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Software Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Technical Delivery Manager
4 1 (11.11%) Technical Manager
4 1 (11.11%) Technical Service Delivery Manager
4 1 (11.11%) Technical Services Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (33.33%) Django
2 1 (11.11%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 5 (55.56%) IoT
2 4 (44.44%) Device Driver
3 2 (22.22%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (11.11%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (11.11%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 9 (100.00%) Linux
2 6 (66.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (55.56%) Software Engineering
1 5 (55.56%) Technical Debt
2 4 (44.44%) API Development
2 4 (44.44%) CI/CD
2 4 (44.44%) Computer Architecture
2 4 (44.44%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (44.44%) Product Strategy
3 3 (33.33%) Clean Code
3 3 (33.33%) DevOps
3 3 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (33.33%) Observability
3 3 (33.33%) Service-Level Objective
3 3 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 2 (22.22%) Migration
4 2 (22.22%) Open Source
4 2 (22.22%) Platform Engineering
4 2 (22.22%) Prototyping
5 1 (11.11%) Agile
5 1 (11.11%) Problem Management
5 1 (11.11%) Software Architecture
Programming Languages
1 4 (44.44%) C
1 4 (44.44%) C++
2 3 (33.33%) Python
3 1 (11.11%) C#
Qualifications
1 3 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 3 (33.33%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 4 (44.44%) Firmware
2 3 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (33.33%) Terraform
2 2 (22.22%) AWS Copilot
Vendors
1 3 (33.33%) Google
2 1 (11.11%) VMware