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 25 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 174 152 212
Rank change year-on-year -22 +60 -67
Permanent jobs citing Unix 42 7 81
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.53% 0.24% 0.79%
As % of the Operating Systems category 6.70% 1.44% 4.92%
Number of salaries quoted 24 3 53
10th Percentile £30,250 £54,974 £27,500
25th Percentile £36,625 £62,435 £37,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,750 £78,810 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -12.76% +50.11% -0.38%
75th Percentile £77,500 £82,751 £63,750
90th Percentile £78,750 - £68,750
England median annual salary £69,308 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +6.63% +8.33% -11.11%

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 627 485 1,648
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 7.92% 16.78% 16.02%
Number of salaries quoted 404 309 1,279
10th Percentile £27,750 £28,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £37,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -21.05% -
75th Percentile £62,813 £52,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £70,000 £76,500
England median annual salary £45,000 £42,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year +5.88% -5.56% -14.29%

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
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Unix in the South West over the 6 months to 25 June 2026.

Salary histogram for Unix in the South West

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 25 June 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
Bristol -12 14 £75,000 -4.83% 1
Devon -23 9 £44,905 -
Gloucestershire -25 9 £67,500 +12.50% 4
Somerset - 6 £30,500 -
Wiltshire -17 2 £43,750 -
Dorset - 2 - -
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:

Applications
1 8 (19.05%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 17 (40.48%) AWS
2 10 (23.81%) Azure
2 10 (23.81%) GCP
3 8 (19.05%) GitHub
4 4 (9.52%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (4.76%) BlazeMeter
Communications & Networking
1 8 (19.05%) 5G
1 8 (19.05%) SD-WAN
1 8 (19.05%) WAN
2 2 (4.76%) Firewall
2 2 (4.76%) TCP/IP
3 1 (2.38%) RS-232
3 1 (2.38%) RS-485
Development Applications
1 18 (42.86%) Git
2 8 (19.05%) LabVIEW
3 6 (14.29%) Eclipse
3 6 (14.29%) Jenkins
3 6 (14.29%) Subversion
4 4 (9.52%) GitLab
5 2 (4.76%) Cucumber
5 2 (4.76%) Cypress.io
5 2 (4.76%) Gradle
5 2 (4.76%) JMeter
5 2 (4.76%) Maven
5 2 (4.76%) Selenium
General
1 14 (33.33%) Finance
2 12 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (23.81%) Electronics
4 6 (14.29%) Retail
5 4 (9.52%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (4.76%) Social Skills
7 1 (2.38%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 10 (23.81%) Test Engineer
2 8 (19.05%) Product Engineer
2 8 (19.05%) Product Test Engineer
2 8 (19.05%) Verification Engineer
3 6 (14.29%) Developer
3 6 (14.29%) Java Developer
3 6 (14.29%) Junior
3 6 (14.29%) Junior Developer
3 6 (14.29%) Junior Java Developer
4 5 (11.90%) Administrator
4 5 (11.90%) Engineering Manager
4 5 (11.90%) Systems Administrator
5 4 (9.52%) Automation Tester
5 4 (9.52%) Electronics Engineer
5 4 (9.52%) Electronics Test Engineer
5 4 (9.52%) Linux Engineer
5 4 (9.52%) Tester
6 3 (7.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 3 (7.14%) Infrastructure Manager
7 2 (4.76%) Unix Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (19.05%) pytest
2 6 (14.29%) J2EE
2 6 (14.29%) React
2 6 (14.29%) RESTful
2 6 (14.29%) Struts
2 6 (14.29%) Web Services
3 4 (9.52%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 8 (19.05%) Self-Driving Car
2 5 (11.90%) Cloud Native
2 5 (11.90%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (4.76%) Analogue Electronics
3 2 (4.76%) Embedded Systems
4 1 (2.38%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 25 (59.52%) Linux
2 9 (21.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 8 (19.05%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (35.71%) DevOps
2 14 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 14 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 14 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 14 (33.33%) Test Automation
3 10 (23.81%) Kalman Filter
4 9 (21.43%) SDLC
4 9 (21.43%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 9 (21.43%) Technical Leadership
5 8 (19.05%) B2B
5 8 (19.05%) Regression Testing
5 8 (19.05%) Software Engineering
5 8 (19.05%) Test Assurance
5 8 (19.05%) Test Scripting
5 8 (19.05%) Validation
6 6 (14.29%) Computer Science
6 6 (14.29%) Full-Stack Development
6 6 (14.29%) Requirements Gathering
7 5 (11.90%) Observability
7 5 (11.90%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 20 (47.62%) Python
2 10 (23.81%) MATLAB
3 8 (19.05%) C++
3 8 (19.05%) Java
4 6 (14.29%) JavaScript
4 6 (14.29%) Perl
5 4 (9.52%) Bash
6 2 (4.76%) Groovy
6 2 (4.76%) Shell Script
6 2 (4.76%) SQL
7 1 (2.38%) C
Qualifications
1 16 (38.10%) Degree
2 11 (26.19%) Security Cleared
3 10 (23.81%) HND
4 9 (21.43%) SC Cleared
5 6 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (9.52%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (9.52%) QA
2 1 (2.38%) DO-178B
System Software
1 10 (23.81%) Docker
2 1 (2.38%) Firmware
2 1 (2.38%) GPFS
2 1 (2.38%) Lustre
2 1 (2.38%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 13 (30.95%) Puppet
1 13 (30.95%) Terraform
2 10 (23.81%) Kubernetes
3 4 (9.52%) Ansible
3 4 (9.52%) Grafana
3 4 (9.52%) Prometheus
4 2 (4.76%) Kibana
4 2 (4.76%) logstash
Vendors
1 9 (21.43%) Red Hat
2 1 (2.38%) HP
2 1 (2.38%) Microsoft