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

6 months to
17 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 138 163 135
Rank change year-on-year +25 -28 -30
Permanent jobs citing Unix 46 28 92
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.89% 0.68% 1.81%
As % of the Operating Systems category 8.57% 3.45% 9.51%
Number of salaries quoted 11 12 62
10th Percentile £50,000 £54,545 £41,575
25th Percentile £51,750 £68,822 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £71,991 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -20.13% +25.20% +15.00%
75th Percentile £68,750 £90,000 £66,750
90th Percentile £70,000 - £91,146
England median annual salary £58,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.33% -7.69% -

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 537 811 967
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 10.38% 19.63% 19.05%
Number of salaries quoted 299 494 777
10th Percentile £26,500 £10,258 £28,000
25th Percentile £30,750 £28,500 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £40,000 £49,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% -18.37% +8.89%
75th Percentile £57,500 £53,750 £62,500
90th Percentile £75,250 £74,666 £77,715
England median annual salary £44,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% - -4.76%

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 17 January 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 17 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
Wiltshire - 19 - - 1
Devon +6 11 - - 4
Bristol +6 9 £56,250 -21.87% 2
Gloucestershire - 5 £67,500 - 2
Somerset -11 1 - - 1
Cornwall - 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 (6.52%) Tomcat
1 3 (6.52%) WebLogic
1 3 (6.52%) WebLogic Portal
Applications
1 7 (15.22%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (6.52%) Oracle EBS
1 3 (6.52%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 11 (23.91%) GitHub
2 3 (6.52%) AWS
2 3 (6.52%) OCI
3 1 (2.17%) Azure
3 1 (2.17%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (2.17%) GCP
3 1 (2.17%) OpenShift
3 1 (2.17%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 7 (15.22%) 5G
1 7 (15.22%) SD-WAN
1 7 (15.22%) WAN
2 1 (2.17%) Broadband
2 1 (2.17%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (8.70%) Oracle Database
2 3 (6.52%) Oracle Discoverer
2 3 (6.52%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (2.17%) NoSQL
3 1 (2.17%) RDBMS
3 1 (2.17%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 13 (28.26%) Git
2 11 (23.91%) LabVIEW
3 3 (6.52%) Oracle APEX
3 3 (6.52%) Oracle Forms
4 1 (2.17%) GitLab
4 1 (2.17%) Jaeger
4 1 (2.17%) Jenkins
General
1 22 (47.83%) Finance
2 9 (19.57%) Electronics
3 7 (15.22%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (15.22%) Presentation Skills
4 2 (4.35%) Manufacturing
4 2 (4.35%) Marketing
4 2 (4.35%) Public Sector
4 2 (4.35%) Telecoms
5 1 (2.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (2.17%) Law
5 1 (2.17%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 26 (56.52%) Administrator
2 22 (47.83%) Systems Administrator
3 11 (23.91%) Product Engineer
3 11 (23.91%) Product Test Engineer
3 11 (23.91%) Test Engineer
3 11 (23.91%) Verification Engineer
4 5 (10.87%) Linux Engineer
4 5 (10.87%) Senior
5 4 (8.70%) Linux Administrator
5 4 (8.70%) Linux Systems Administrator
5 4 (8.70%) Senior Test Engineer
5 4 (8.70%) Senior Verification Engineer
5 4 (8.70%) Unix Engineer
5 4 (8.70%) Unix Linux Engineer
6 3 (6.52%) Developer
6 3 (6.52%) Oracle Developer
6 3 (6.52%) Unix Administrator
6 3 (6.52%) Unix Linux Systems Administrator
6 3 (6.52%) Unix Systems Administrator
7 1 (2.17%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (23.91%) pytest
2 3 (6.52%) ModSecurity
2 3 (6.52%) Oracle ADF
2 3 (6.52%) WebCenter
3 2 (4.35%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (2.17%) OpenTelemetry
4 1 (2.17%) REST
4 1 (2.17%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 19 (41.30%) e-Learning
2 7 (15.22%) Self-Driving Car
2 7 (15.22%) Self-Motivation
3 4 (8.70%) GNSS
3 4 (8.70%) Satnav
4 2 (4.35%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (2.17%) Life Science
5 1 (2.17%) Omics
5 1 (2.17%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 34 (73.91%) Linux
2 14 (30.43%) Windows
3 2 (4.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (4.35%) Solaris
4 1 (2.17%) CentOS
4 1 (2.17%) CoreOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (43.48%) High Availability
2 19 (41.30%) Innovative Thinking
3 13 (28.26%) Problem-Solving
4 12 (26.09%) Test Automation
5 11 (23.91%) B2B
5 11 (23.91%) Kalman Filter
6 8 (17.39%) Test Scripting
6 8 (17.39%) Validation
7 7 (15.22%) Physics
7 7 (15.22%) System Testing
7 7 (15.22%) Test Assurance
7 7 (15.22%) Verification and Validation
8 4 (8.70%) Agile
8 4 (8.70%) Time Management
9 3 (6.52%) Business Intelligence
9 3 (6.52%) DevOps
9 3 (6.52%) Identity Access Management
9 3 (6.52%) ITIL
10 2 (4.35%) Digital Marketing
10 2 (4.35%) Programme Management
Programming Languages
1 17 (36.96%) Python
2 11 (23.91%) MATLAB
3 5 (10.87%) Bash
4 4 (8.70%) JavaScript
4 4 (8.70%) PL/SQL
4 4 (8.70%) SQL
5 2 (4.35%) Shell Script
6 1 (2.17%) Go
6 1 (2.17%) Java
6 1 (2.17%) R
Qualifications
1 30 (65.22%) Security Cleared
2 29 (63.04%) SC Cleared
3 24 (52.17%) DV Cleared
4 19 (41.30%) CCNA
4 19 (41.30%) CCNP
4 19 (41.30%) Cisco Certification
5 12 (26.09%) Degree
6 11 (23.91%) HND
7 1 (2.17%) AWS Certification
7 1 (2.17%) Master's Degree
7 1 (2.17%) PhD
System Software
1 4 (8.70%) Docker
2 3 (6.52%) Active Directory
3 1 (2.17%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (8.70%) Ansible
2 3 (6.52%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 2 (4.35%) Kubernetes
3 2 (4.35%) Prometheus
3 2 (4.35%) Puppet
3 2 (4.35%) Terraform
4 1 (2.17%) Argo
4 1 (2.17%) Grafana
4 1 (2.17%) Kustomize
4 1 (2.17%) Podman
Vendors
1 19 (41.30%) Cisco
2 4 (8.70%) Oracle
3 3 (6.52%) IFS
4 2 (4.35%) Red Hat
4 2 (4.35%) SAP
4 2 (4.35%) VMware
5 1 (2.17%) Google
5 1 (2.17%) Mirantis
5 1 (2.17%) Software AG
5 1 (2.17%) webMethods