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 29 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 174 147 199
Rank change year-on-year -27 +52 -69
Permanent jobs citing Unix 39 10 82
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.50% 0.38% 0.87%
As % of the Operating Systems category 6.71% 2.29% 5.21%
Number of salaries quoted 23 5 58
10th Percentile £39,500 £51,354 £27,500
25th Percentile £51,750 £53,384 £40,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £71,991 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.77% +37.13% -0.19%
75th Percentile £77,500 £82,751 £61,438
90th Percentile £78,750 - £68,750
England median annual salary £69,310 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +6.63% +8.33% -13.60%

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 581 436 1,575
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 7.52% 16.45% 16.79%
Number of salaries quoted 381 285 1,256
10th Percentile £27,375 £28,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £33,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £44,551 £40,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.38% -15.79% +5.56%
75th Percentile £62,500 £52,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £68,750 £78,125
England median annual salary £45,000 £44,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year +2.27% -2.22% -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 29 May 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 29 May 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 -1 17 £75,000 -4.83% 2
Devon -17 10 - - 1
Gloucestershire -26 5 £67,500 +12.50% 1
Somerset -26 2 £30,500 -43.85% 1
Wiltshire - 2 £43,750 - 2
Dorset - 2 - -
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:

Applications
1 10 (25.64%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 13 (33.33%) AWS
2 10 (25.64%) GitHub
3 5 (12.82%) Azure
3 5 (12.82%) GCP
4 3 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (5.13%) BlazeMeter
6 1 (2.56%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 10 (25.64%) 5G
1 10 (25.64%) SD-WAN
1 10 (25.64%) WAN
2 2 (5.13%) Firewall
2 2 (5.13%) TCP/IP
3 1 (2.56%) Broadband
3 1 (2.56%) RS-232
3 1 (2.56%) RS-485
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.56%) NoSQL
1 1 (2.56%) RDBMS
1 1 (2.56%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 16 (41.03%) Git
2 10 (25.64%) LabVIEW
3 5 (12.82%) Jenkins
4 3 (7.69%) GitLab
5 2 (5.13%) Cucumber
5 2 (5.13%) Cypress.io
5 2 (5.13%) Eclipse
5 2 (5.13%) Gradle
5 2 (5.13%) JMeter
5 2 (5.13%) Maven
5 2 (5.13%) Selenium
5 2 (5.13%) Subversion
6 1 (2.56%) Jaeger
General
1 13 (33.33%) Finance
2 12 (30.77%) Analytical Skills
2 12 (30.77%) Electronics
3 8 (20.51%) Presentation Skills
4 3 (7.69%) Social Skills
5 2 (5.13%) Retail
6 1 (2.56%) Aerospace
6 1 (2.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 11 (28.21%) Test Engineer
2 10 (25.64%) Product Engineer
2 10 (25.64%) Product Test Engineer
2 10 (25.64%) Verification Engineer
3 7 (17.95%) Linux Engineer
4 5 (12.82%) Engineering Manager
5 4 (10.26%) Automation Tester
5 4 (10.26%) Tester
5 4 (10.26%) Unix Engineer
5 4 (10.26%) Unix Linux Engineer
6 3 (7.69%) Infrastructure Manager
7 2 (5.13%) Electronics Engineer
7 2 (5.13%) Java Developer
7 2 (5.13%) Junior
7 2 (5.13%) Junior Developer
7 2 (5.13%) Junior Java Developer
7 2 (5.13%) Linux Administrator
7 2 (5.13%) Linux Systems Administrator
7 2 (5.13%) Unix Administrator
7 2 (5.13%) Unix Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (25.64%) pytest
2 4 (10.26%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (5.13%) J2EE
3 2 (5.13%) React
3 2 (5.13%) RESTful
3 2 (5.13%) Struts
3 2 (5.13%) Web Services
4 1 (2.56%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 10 (25.64%) Self-Driving Car
2 9 (23.08%) Self-Motivation
3 5 (12.82%) Cloud Native
4 2 (5.13%) Analogue Electronics
4 2 (5.13%) Embedded Systems
5 1 (2.56%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 24 (61.54%) Linux
2 10 (25.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 10 (25.64%) Windows
3 2 (5.13%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (38.46%) DevOps
1 15 (38.46%) Problem-Solving
1 15 (38.46%) Test Automation
2 13 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 12 (30.77%) Kalman Filter
4 11 (28.21%) Test Scripting
4 11 (28.21%) Validation
5 10 (25.64%) B2B
5 10 (25.64%) Test Assurance
6 9 (23.08%) Continuous Improvement
7 8 (20.51%) Physics
7 8 (20.51%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 8 (20.51%) System Testing
7 8 (20.51%) Technical Leadership
7 8 (20.51%) Verification and Validation
8 6 (15.38%) Roadmaps
9 5 (12.82%) Observability
9 5 (12.82%) SDLC
10 4 (10.26%) Performance Management
10 4 (10.26%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 20 (51.28%) Python
2 12 (30.77%) MATLAB
3 6 (15.38%) Bash
4 5 (12.82%) Java
5 4 (10.26%) C++
6 3 (7.69%) JavaScript
7 2 (5.13%) Groovy
7 2 (5.13%) Perl
7 2 (5.13%) Shell Script
7 2 (5.13%) SQL
8 1 (2.56%) C
8 1 (2.56%) Go
Qualifications
1 14 (35.90%) Degree
2 12 (30.77%) HND
3 9 (23.08%) Security Cleared
4 7 (17.95%) SC Cleared
5 2 (5.13%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (2.56%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (7.69%) QA
2 1 (2.56%) DO-178B
System Software
1 7 (17.95%) Docker
2 1 (2.56%) Firmware
2 1 (2.56%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 13 (33.33%) Terraform
2 12 (30.77%) Puppet
3 6 (15.38%) Kubernetes
4 5 (12.82%) Ansible
5 4 (10.26%) Prometheus
6 3 (7.69%) Grafana
7 2 (5.13%) Kibana
7 2 (5.13%) logstash
8 1 (2.56%) Argo
8 1 (2.56%) Kustomize
8 1 (2.56%) Podman
Vendors
1 10 (25.64%) Red Hat
2 2 (5.13%) VMware
3 1 (2.56%) Google
3 1 (2.56%) Mirantis