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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 135 184 128
Rank change year-on-year +49 -56 +9
Permanent jobs citing Unix 31 58 106
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 0.89% 0.77% 2.23%
As % of the Operating Systems category 6.09% 4.75% 10.74%
Number of salaries quoted 3 29 76
10th Percentile £51,974 £33,000 £44,625
25th Percentile £60,560 £40,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £78,810 £65,000 £56,000
Median % change year-on-year +21.25% +16.07% -2.61%
75th Percentile £82,751 £82,500 £66,750
90th Percentile - £90,000 £75,625
England median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +8.33% -7.69% +4.00%

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 509 1,221 987
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 14.55% 16.30% 20.75%
Number of salaries quoted 299 791 770
10th Percentile £28,100 £24,323 £27,500
25th Percentile £30,750 £30,875 £33,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,000 £45,000 £49,000
Median % change year-on-year -17.78% -8.16% +0.51%
75th Percentile £50,250 £60,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £73,000 £77,500 £75,000
England median annual salary £41,500 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -17.00% -4.76% -

Unix
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Job postings citing Unix as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for Unix 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 20 September 2025.

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 20 September 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 23 - - 3
Bristol +26 3 £78,810 +21.25% 1
Gloucestershire +30 2 £52,500 -22.22% 6
Devon -1 2 - - 1
Somerset - 1 - - 1
Unix
England

Unix
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (3.23%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 3 (9.68%) AWS
2 2 (6.45%) Apigee
2 2 (6.45%) GCP
2 2 (6.45%) Google Kubernetes Engine
3 1 (3.23%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (3.23%) Amazon ELB
3 1 (3.23%) Amazon S3
3 1 (3.23%) OpenShift
3 1 (3.23%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.23%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (9.68%) NoSQL
2 1 (3.23%) Delta Lake
2 1 (3.23%) DynamoDB
2 1 (3.23%) Metadata
2 1 (3.23%) Oracle Database
2 1 (3.23%) RDBMS
2 1 (3.23%) Relational Database
2 1 (3.23%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 5 (16.13%) Git
2 2 (6.45%) Jenkins
2 2 (6.45%) JUnit
2 2 (6.45%) Maven
2 2 (6.45%) SonarQube
2 2 (6.45%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (3.23%) Jaeger
3 1 (3.23%) MLflow
General
1 25 (80.65%) Finance
2 2 (6.45%) Banking
2 2 (6.45%) Law
3 1 (3.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (3.23%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 24 (77.42%) Administrator
2 23 (74.19%) Systems Administrator
3 4 (12.90%) Senior
4 2 (6.45%) Automation Engineer
4 2 (6.45%) Senior Automation Engineer
4 2 (6.45%) Senior Software Engineer
4 2 (6.45%) Software Engineer
5 1 (3.23%) Integration Specialist
5 1 (3.23%) Lead
5 1 (3.23%) Linux Administrator
5 1 (3.23%) Linux Systems Administrator
5 1 (3.23%) Machine Learning Engineer
5 1 (3.23%) Operations Engineer
5 1 (3.23%) Team Leader
5 1 (3.23%) Unix Administrator
5 1 (3.23%) Unix Linux Systems Administrator
5 1 (3.23%) Unix Systems Administrator
5 1 (3.23%) webMethods Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (6.45%) Hibernate
1 2 (6.45%) RESTful
1 2 (6.45%) Spring
1 2 (6.45%) Spring Boot
2 1 (3.23%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (3.23%) Keras
2 1 (3.23%) Lambda Expressions
2 1 (3.23%) Metaflow
2 1 (3.23%) NumPy
2 1 (3.23%) OpenTelemetry
2 1 (3.23%) Pandas
2 1 (3.23%) PySpark
2 1 (3.23%) PyTorch
2 1 (3.23%) REST
2 1 (3.23%) scikit-learn
2 1 (3.23%) SOAP
2 1 (3.23%) TensorFlow
2 1 (3.23%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 23 (74.19%) e-Learning
2 4 (12.90%) Linux Command Line
3 2 (6.45%) Life Science
3 2 (6.45%) Omics
3 2 (6.45%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 28 (90.32%) Linux
2 1 (3.23%) CentOS
2 1 (3.23%) CoreOS
2 1 (3.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (77.42%) High Availability
2 23 (74.19%) Innovative Thinking
3 4 (12.90%) DevOps
3 4 (12.90%) Time Management
4 3 (9.68%) CI/CD
4 3 (9.68%) Data Science
4 3 (9.68%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (9.68%) OO
4 3 (9.68%) Visualisation
5 2 (6.45%) Computational Biology
5 2 (6.45%) Containerisation
5 2 (6.45%) Data Analysis
5 2 (6.45%) Event-Driven
5 2 (6.45%) Experimental Design
5 2 (6.45%) Microservices
5 2 (6.45%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (6.45%) Static Application Security Testing
5 2 (6.45%) TDD
5 2 (6.45%) Test Automation
5 2 (6.45%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 7 (22.58%) Python
2 4 (12.90%) SQL
3 3 (9.68%) Go
3 3 (9.68%) Java
3 3 (9.68%) JavaScript
4 2 (6.45%) Bash
4 2 (6.45%) R
5 1 (3.23%) PL/SQL
5 1 (3.23%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 24 (77.42%) DV Cleared
1 24 (77.42%) SC Cleared
1 24 (77.42%) Security Cleared
2 23 (74.19%) CCNA
2 23 (74.19%) CCNP
2 23 (74.19%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (6.45%) Degree
3 2 (6.45%) Master's Degree
3 2 (6.45%) PhD
4 1 (3.23%) AWS Certification
System Software
1 6 (19.35%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (12.90%) Kubernetes
1 4 (12.90%) Terraform
2 2 (6.45%) Ansible
2 2 (6.45%) Istio
3 1 (3.23%) Argo
3 1 (3.23%) Kubeflow
3 1 (3.23%) Kustomize
3 1 (3.23%) Prometheus
3 1 (3.23%) Puppet
Vendors
1 23 (74.19%) Cisco
2 1 (3.23%) Databricks
2 1 (3.23%) Google
2 1 (3.23%) Oracle
2 1 (3.23%) Red Hat
2 1 (3.23%) Software AG
2 1 (3.23%) webMethods