Unix Jobs in the South West

Unix
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South West requiring Unix skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Unix over the 6 months leading up to 4 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 167 200 150
Rank change year-on-year +33 -50 +20
Permanent jobs citing Unix 12 80 121
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 0.31% 0.77% 1.88%
As % of the Operating Systems category 2.30% 4.66% 9.77%
Number of salaries quoted 3 48 60
10th Percentile £54,974 £27,500 £36,600
25th Percentile £62,435 £37,063 £49,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £78,810 £52,500 £52,700
Median % change year-on-year +50.11% -0.38% -8.35%
75th Percentile £82,751 £67,813 £66,750
90th Percentile - £73,500 £78,750
England median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +8.33% -11.11% +3.85%

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 521 1,715 1,239
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 13.60% 16.49% 19.22%
Number of salaries quoted 337 1,261 767
10th Percentile £28,750 £27,500 £27,000
25th Percentile £31,750 £33,000 £33,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £47,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.79% - -5.00%
75th Percentile £52,500 £60,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £70,000 £77,500 £73,750
England median annual salary £42,500 £45,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -5.56% -14.29% -

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

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Unix in the South West.

Salary trend for Unix in the South West

Unix
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Unix in the South West over the 6 months to 4 July 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 4 July 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
Devon +10 4 - - 5
Bristol +48 3 £78,810 +48.00% 11
Gloucestershire +45 3 £60,000 +14.29% 12
Wiltshire +21 2 - - 10
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 (8.33%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 8 (66.67%) AWS
2 6 (50.00%) Pulumi
3 2 (16.67%) Amazon S3
3 2 (16.67%) Apigee
3 2 (16.67%) GCP
3 2 (16.67%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 1 (8.33%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (8.33%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (8.33%) Amazon ELB
4 1 (8.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 6 (50.00%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (66.67%) NoSQL
2 6 (50.00%) RDBMS
2 6 (50.00%) Relational Database
3 1 (8.33%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (8.33%) Delta Lake
3 1 (8.33%) DynamoDB
3 1 (8.33%) Metadata
3 1 (8.33%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 6 (50.00%) Jaeger
2 2 (16.67%) Git
2 2 (16.67%) Jenkins
2 2 (16.67%) JUnit
2 2 (16.67%) Maven
2 2 (16.67%) SonarQube
2 2 (16.67%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (8.33%) MLflow
General
1 6 (50.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 5 (41.67%) Finance
3 2 (16.67%) Banking
3 2 (16.67%) Social Skills
4 1 (8.33%) Electronics
4 1 (8.33%) Manufacturing
4 1 (8.33%) Marketing
4 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
4 1 (8.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (50.00%) Lead
1 6 (50.00%) Team Leader
2 3 (25.00%) Administrator
3 2 (16.67%) Senior
3 2 (16.67%) Senior Software Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Software Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Systems Administrator
4 1 (8.33%) AWS Administrator
4 1 (8.33%) Machine Learning Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Operations Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (50.00%) Elastic Stack
1 6 (50.00%) OpenTelemetry
2 2 (16.67%) Hibernate
2 2 (16.67%) RESTful
2 2 (16.67%) Spring
2 2 (16.67%) Spring Boot
3 1 (8.33%) Keras
3 1 (8.33%) Lambda Expressions
3 1 (8.33%) Metaflow
3 1 (8.33%) NumPy
3 1 (8.33%) Pandas
3 1 (8.33%) PySpark
3 1 (8.33%) PyTorch
3 1 (8.33%) scikit-learn
3 1 (8.33%) TensorFlow
3 1 (8.33%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) e-Learning
2 1 (8.33%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 11 (91.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (75.00%) DevOps
1 9 (75.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 8 (66.67%) High Availability
3 7 (58.33%) Containerisation
4 6 (50.00%) Agile
4 6 (50.00%) Budget Control
4 6 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
4 6 (50.00%) Cost Optimisation
4 6 (50.00%) GitOps
4 6 (50.00%) Mentoring
4 6 (50.00%) Performance Optimisation
4 6 (50.00%) Product Management
4 6 (50.00%) Resource Management
4 6 (50.00%) Roadmaps
4 6 (50.00%) Task Automation
5 3 (25.00%) CI/CD
5 3 (25.00%) OO
6 2 (16.67%) Event-Driven
6 2 (16.67%) Microservices
6 2 (16.67%) Static Application Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 9 (75.00%) Python
2 8 (66.67%) Go
2 8 (66.67%) Java
2 8 (66.67%) JavaScript
3 6 (50.00%) Bash
4 3 (25.00%) SQL
5 1 (8.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 7 (58.33%) AWS Certification
2 3 (25.00%) DV Cleared
2 3 (25.00%) Security Cleared
3 2 (16.67%) CCNA
3 2 (16.67%) CCNP
3 2 (16.67%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (16.67%) SC Cleared
4 1 (8.33%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
System Software
1 9 (75.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (75.00%) Kubernetes
1 9 (75.00%) Terraform
2 6 (50.00%) Ansible
2 6 (50.00%) Argo
2 6 (50.00%) Kustomize
2 6 (50.00%) Prometheus
3 2 (16.67%) Istio
4 1 (8.33%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 6 (50.00%) Google
2 2 (16.67%) Cisco
3 1 (8.33%) Databricks
3 1 (8.33%) SAP