Unix Job Trends in the South West

Unix
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South West requiring Unix skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 129 183 121
Rank change year-on-year +54 -62 -9
Permanent jobs citing Unix 38 40 108
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 1.04% 0.63% 2.32%
As % of the Operating Systems category 6.97% 3.79% 11.13%
Number of salaries quoted 4 20 81
10th Percentile £48,125 £44,125 £46,250
25th Percentile £50,938 £51,250 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,250 £73,750 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -23.73% +28.26% +1.73%
75th Percentile £59,063 £82,500 £66,750
90th Percentile £59,625 £90,000 £78,750
England median annual salary £62,500 £59,563 £64,500
% change year-on-year +4.93% -7.66% +3.20%

All Operating Systems
South West

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 the South West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 545 1,055 970
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 14.85% 16.69% 20.82%
Number of salaries quoted 319 664 770
10th Percentile £27,000 £10,258 £27,750
25th Percentile £30,500 £30,000 £32,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £43,000 £49,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.79% -12.24% +3.16%
75th Percentile £53,951 £60,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £73,000 £77,500 £75,000
England median annual salary £41,526 £50,000 £51,869
% change year-on-year -16.95% -3.60% -1.20%

Unix
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Unix job vacancy trend in the South West

Unix
Salary Trend in the South West

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Unix.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Unix

Unix
Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Unix within the South West region over the 6 months to 24 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
Wiltshire +48 25 - -
Devon +3 6 - - 1
Bristol +19 4 £57,500 -3.36% 3
Gloucestershire +31 2 £52,500 -34.38% 8
Somerset - 1 - - 1
Unix
England

Unix
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (7.89%) Tomcat
1 3 (7.89%) WebLogic
1 3 (7.89%) WebLogic Portal
2 1 (2.63%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 3 (7.89%) Oracle EBS
1 3 (7.89%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 4 (10.53%) GitHub
2 3 (7.89%) AWS
2 3 (7.89%) OCI
3 1 (2.63%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (2.63%) Amazon ELB
3 1 (2.63%) Amazon S3
3 1 (2.63%) OpenShift
3 1 (2.63%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.63%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (10.53%) Oracle Database
2 3 (7.89%) Oracle Discoverer
2 3 (7.89%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (2.63%) Delta Lake
3 1 (2.63%) DynamoDB
3 1 (2.63%) Metadata
3 1 (2.63%) NoSQL
3 1 (2.63%) RDBMS
3 1 (2.63%) Relational Database
3 1 (2.63%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 7 (18.42%) Git
2 4 (10.53%) LabVIEW
3 3 (7.89%) Oracle APEX
3 3 (7.89%) Oracle Forms
4 1 (2.63%) Jaeger
4 1 (2.63%) MLflow
General
1 27 (71.05%) Finance
2 2 (5.26%) Electronics
2 2 (5.26%) Law
2 2 (5.26%) Manufacturing
2 2 (5.26%) Marketing
2 2 (5.26%) Public Sector
2 2 (5.26%) Telecoms
3 1 (2.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (2.63%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 29 (76.32%) Administrator
2 25 (65.79%) Systems Administrator
3 6 (15.79%) Senior
4 4 (10.53%) Product Engineer
4 4 (10.53%) Product Test Engineer
4 4 (10.53%) Senior Test Engineer
4 4 (10.53%) Senior Verification Engineer
4 4 (10.53%) Test Engineer
4 4 (10.53%) Verification Engineer
5 3 (7.89%) Developer
5 3 (7.89%) Oracle Developer
6 2 (5.26%) Automation Engineer
6 2 (5.26%) Senior Automation Engineer
7 1 (2.63%) Integration Specialist
7 1 (2.63%) Machine Learning Engineer
7 1 (2.63%) Operations Engineer
7 1 (2.63%) Team Leader
7 1 (2.63%) Unix Administrator
7 1 (2.63%) Unix Linux Systems Administrator
7 1 (2.63%) Unix Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (10.53%) pytest
2 3 (7.89%) ModSecurity
2 3 (7.89%) Oracle ADF
2 3 (7.89%) WebCenter
3 1 (2.63%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (2.63%) Keras
3 1 (2.63%) Lambda Expressions
3 1 (2.63%) Metaflow
3 1 (2.63%) NumPy
3 1 (2.63%) OpenTelemetry
3 1 (2.63%) Pandas
3 1 (2.63%) PySpark
3 1 (2.63%) PyTorch
3 1 (2.63%) REST
3 1 (2.63%) scikit-learn
3 1 (2.63%) SOAP
3 1 (2.63%) TensorFlow
3 1 (2.63%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 25 (65.79%) e-Learning
2 4 (10.53%) GNSS
2 4 (10.53%) Linux Command Line
2 4 (10.53%) Satnav
3 2 (5.26%) Life Science
3 2 (5.26%) Omics
3 2 (5.26%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 31 (81.58%) Linux
2 7 (18.42%) Windows
3 1 (2.63%) CentOS
3 1 (2.63%) CoreOS
3 1 (2.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (68.42%) High Availability
2 25 (65.79%) Innovative Thinking
3 6 (15.79%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (10.53%) Agile
4 4 (10.53%) B2B
4 4 (10.53%) Kalman Filter
4 4 (10.53%) Test Automation
4 4 (10.53%) Time Management
5 3 (7.89%) Business Intelligence
5 3 (7.89%) Data Science
5 3 (7.89%) Identity Access Management
5 3 (7.89%) Visualisation
6 2 (5.26%) Biology
6 2 (5.26%) Computational Biology
6 2 (5.26%) Containerisation
6 2 (5.26%) DevOps
6 2 (5.26%) Digital Innovation
6 2 (5.26%) Digital Marketing
6 2 (5.26%) Experimental Design
6 2 (5.26%) Programme Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (23.68%) Python
2 5 (13.16%) SQL
3 4 (10.53%) JavaScript
3 4 (10.53%) MATLAB
3 4 (10.53%) PL/SQL
4 2 (5.26%) Bash
4 2 (5.26%) R
5 1 (2.63%) Go
5 1 (2.63%) Java
5 1 (2.63%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 29 (76.32%) DV Cleared
1 29 (76.32%) SC Cleared
1 29 (76.32%) Security Cleared
2 25 (65.79%) CCNA
2 25 (65.79%) CCNP
2 25 (65.79%) Cisco Certification
3 6 (15.79%) Degree
4 4 (10.53%) HND
5 2 (5.26%) Master's Degree
5 2 (5.26%) PhD
6 1 (2.63%) AWS Certification
System Software
1 4 (10.53%) Docker
2 3 (7.89%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (7.89%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 2 (5.26%) Ansible
2 2 (5.26%) Kubernetes
2 2 (5.26%) Terraform
3 1 (2.63%) Argo
3 1 (2.63%) Kubeflow
3 1 (2.63%) Kustomize
3 1 (2.63%) Prometheus
3 1 (2.63%) Puppet
Vendors
1 25 (65.79%) Cisco
2 4 (10.53%) Oracle
3 3 (7.89%) IFS
4 2 (5.26%) SAP
5 1 (2.63%) Databricks
5 1 (2.63%) Google
5 1 (2.63%) Red Hat
5 1 (2.63%) Software AG
5 1 (2.63%) webMethods