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

6 months to
10 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 196 136 181
Rank change year-on-year -60 +45 -59
Permanent jobs citing Unix 47 33 47
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.45% 0.92% 0.69%
As % of the Operating Systems category 6.23% 6.41% 4.25%
Number of salaries quoted 22 1 24
10th Percentile £30,250 - £37,375
25th Percentile £32,375 £46,250 £49,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,750 £52,500 £66,250
Median % change year-on-year +40.48% -20.75% +18.30%
75th Percentile £78,750 £58,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £84,375 - £90,000
England median annual salary £69,305 £70,000 £59,125
% change year-on-year -0.99% +18.39% -9.04%

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 754 515 1,106
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 7.17% 14.39% 16.25%
Number of salaries quoted 459 300 693
10th Percentile £29,000 £27,000 £10,258
25th Percentile £31,250 £30,500 £30,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £37,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +35.14% -17.78% -8.16%
75th Percentile £67,500 £50,250 £60,000
90th Percentile £78,975 £71,375 £77,500
England median annual salary £45,000 £41,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +9.76% -18.00% -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 10 October 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 10 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
Gloucestershire -46 19 £82,500 +57.14% 2
Bristol -31 11 £75,000 - 3
Somerset -16 9 £30,500 - 4
Devon -27 5 £44,905 - 3
Wiltshire -43 2 £43,750 - 3
Dorset - 1 - - 3
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 4 (8.51%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 20 (42.55%) AWS
2 14 (29.79%) Azure
2 14 (29.79%) GCP
3 7 (14.89%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (8.51%) GitHub
5 1 (2.13%) BlazeMeter
Communications & Networking
1 4 (8.51%) 5G
1 4 (8.51%) Firewall
1 4 (8.51%) SD-WAN
1 4 (8.51%) WAN
2 3 (6.38%) Ethernet
3 2 (4.26%) TCP/IP
4 1 (2.13%) RS-232
4 1 (2.13%) RS-485
Development Applications
1 14 (29.79%) Git
2 8 (17.02%) Jenkins
3 7 (14.89%) Eclipse
3 7 (14.89%) GitLab
3 7 (14.89%) Subversion
4 4 (8.51%) LabVIEW
5 3 (6.38%) Rational DOORS
6 1 (2.13%) Cucumber
6 1 (2.13%) Cypress.io
6 1 (2.13%) Gradle
6 1 (2.13%) JMeter
6 1 (2.13%) Maven
6 1 (2.13%) Selenium
General
1 20 (42.55%) Finance
2 9 (19.15%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (14.89%) Retail
4 6 (12.77%) Electronics
5 4 (8.51%) Aerospace
6 3 (6.38%) Aviation
6 3 (6.38%) Avionics
6 3 (6.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (6.38%) Military
6 3 (6.38%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (21.28%) Administrator
1 10 (21.28%) Systems Administrator
2 7 (14.89%) Test Engineer
3 6 (12.77%) Developer
3 6 (12.77%) Java Developer
3 6 (12.77%) Junior
3 6 (12.77%) Junior Developer
3 6 (12.77%) Junior Java Developer
4 5 (10.64%) Automation Tester
4 5 (10.64%) Engineering Manager
4 5 (10.64%) Software Engineer
4 5 (10.64%) Tester
5 4 (8.51%) Electronics Engineer
5 4 (8.51%) Electronics Test Engineer
5 4 (8.51%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 4 (8.51%) Product Engineer
5 4 (8.51%) Product Test Engineer
5 4 (8.51%) Verification Engineer
6 3 (6.38%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
6 3 (6.38%) Infrastructure Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (38.30%) Terraform
2 7 (14.89%) Elastic Stack
2 7 (14.89%) Jakarta EE
2 7 (14.89%) RESTful
2 7 (14.89%) Struts
2 7 (14.89%) Web Services
3 6 (12.77%) React
4 4 (8.51%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 5 (10.64%) Cloud Native
1 5 (10.64%) Embedded Systems
2 4 (8.51%) Self-Driving Car
3 3 (6.38%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (6.38%) Robotics
4 2 (4.26%) Analogue Electronics
5 1 (2.13%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (2.13%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 29 (61.70%) Linux
2 9 (19.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (8.51%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (42.55%) DevOps
2 18 (38.30%) CI/CD
2 18 (38.30%) Continuous Improvement
3 12 (25.53%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 12 (25.53%) Test Automation
4 11 (23.40%) SDLC
4 11 (23.40%) Software Engineering
4 11 (23.40%) Technical Leadership
5 10 (21.28%) Problem-Solving
6 9 (19.15%) Infrastructure as Code
7 8 (17.02%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 8 (17.02%) Regression Testing
8 7 (14.89%) Collaborative Culture
8 7 (14.89%) Full-Stack Development
8 7 (14.89%) Test Scripting
8 7 (14.89%) Validation
9 6 (12.77%) Computer Science
9 6 (12.77%) Kalman Filter
9 6 (12.77%) Requirements Gathering
10 5 (10.64%) AI
Programming Languages
1 20 (42.55%) Python
2 12 (25.53%) C++
3 11 (23.40%) Java
4 7 (14.89%) Bash
4 7 (14.89%) JavaScript
4 7 (14.89%) Perl
5 6 (12.77%) MATLAB
6 4 (8.51%) C
6 4 (8.51%) Shell Script
7 3 (6.38%) Ada
7 3 (6.38%) Ada 95
7 3 (6.38%) C#
7 3 (6.38%) Rust
8 1 (2.13%) Groovy
8 1 (2.13%) SQL
Qualifications
1 23 (48.94%) Security Cleared
2 19 (40.43%) SC Cleared
3 15 (31.91%) DV Cleared
4 12 (25.53%) Degree
5 6 (12.77%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (12.77%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (8.51%) QA
2 3 (6.38%) Accessibility
2 3 (6.38%) MIL-STD-1553
3 1 (2.13%) DO-178B
System Software
1 14 (29.79%) Docker
2 1 (2.13%) Firmware
2 1 (2.13%) GPFS
2 1 (2.13%) Lustre
2 1 (2.13%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 16 (34.04%) Puppet
2 14 (29.79%) Kubernetes
3 9 (19.15%) Ansible
4 7 (14.89%) Grafana
4 7 (14.89%) Prometheus
5 1 (2.13%) Kibana
5 1 (2.13%) logstash
Vendors
1 9 (19.15%) Red Hat
2 1 (2.13%) HP
2 1 (2.13%) Microsoft