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 18 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 131 162 120
Rank change year-on-year +31 -42 -24
Permanent jobs citing Unix 46 36 103
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.93% 0.80% 2.48%
As % of the Operating Systems category 8.21% 4.12% 11.26%
Number of salaries quoted 9 18 70
10th Percentile £49,250 £48,244 £42,963
25th Percentile £51,000 £70,097 £51,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £75,996 £59,556
Median % change year-on-year -27.63% +27.60% +10.80%
75th Percentile £60,000 £82,500 £71,512
90th Percentile £68,750 £90,000 £84,844
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -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 560 873 915
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 11.35% 19.45% 22.00%
Number of salaries quoted 326 561 735
10th Percentile £26,750 £10,258 £28,290
25th Percentile £30,750 £28,500 £33,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,000 £40,000 £49,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.50% -18.37% +4.26%
75th Percentile £55,000 £57,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £79,500
England median annual salary £43,085 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -13.83% - -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 18 December 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 18 December 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 +35 25 - -
Devon +5 8 - - 2
Bristol +3 7 £55,000 -23.60% 3
Gloucestershire +23 5 £67,500 -15.63% 3
Somerset -9 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
2 1 (2.17%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 3 (6.52%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (6.52%) Oracle EBS
1 3 (6.52%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 7 (15.22%) GitHub
2 3 (6.52%) OCI
3 2 (4.35%) AWS
4 1 (2.17%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (2.17%) Amazon ELB
4 1 (2.17%) Amazon S3
4 1 (2.17%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 3 (6.52%) 5G
1 3 (6.52%) SD-WAN
1 3 (6.52%) WAN
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%) Delta Lake
3 1 (2.17%) DynamoDB
3 1 (2.17%) Metadata
3 1 (2.17%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 10 (21.74%) Git
2 7 (15.22%) LabVIEW
3 3 (6.52%) Oracle APEX
3 3 (6.52%) Oracle Forms
4 1 (2.17%) MLflow
General
1 27 (58.70%) Finance
2 5 (10.87%) Electronics
3 3 (6.52%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (6.52%) Presentation Skills
4 2 (4.35%) Law
4 2 (4.35%) Manufacturing
4 2 (4.35%) Marketing
4 2 (4.35%) Public Sector
4 2 (4.35%) Social Skills
4 2 (4.35%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 32 (69.57%) Administrator
2 28 (60.87%) Systems Administrator
3 7 (15.22%) Product Engineer
3 7 (15.22%) Product Test Engineer
3 7 (15.22%) Test Engineer
3 7 (15.22%) Verification Engineer
4 6 (13.04%) 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
6 3 (6.52%) Developer
6 3 (6.52%) Linux Engineer
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 2 (4.35%) Automation Engineer
7 2 (4.35%) Senior Automation Engineer
7 2 (4.35%) Unix Linux Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (15.22%) pytest
2 3 (6.52%) ModSecurity
2 3 (6.52%) Oracle ADF
2 3 (6.52%) WebCenter
3 1 (2.17%) Keras
3 1 (2.17%) Lambda Expressions
3 1 (2.17%) Metaflow
3 1 (2.17%) NumPy
3 1 (2.17%) Pandas
3 1 (2.17%) PySpark
3 1 (2.17%) PyTorch
3 1 (2.17%) REST
3 1 (2.17%) scikit-learn
3 1 (2.17%) SOAP
3 1 (2.17%) TensorFlow
3 1 (2.17%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 25 (54.35%) e-Learning
2 4 (8.70%) GNSS
2 4 (8.70%) Linux Command Line
2 4 (8.70%) Satnav
3 3 (6.52%) Self-Driving Car
3 3 (6.52%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (4.35%) Life Science
4 2 (4.35%) Omics
4 2 (4.35%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 36 (78.26%) Linux
2 10 (21.74%) 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 25 (54.35%) High Availability
1 25 (54.35%) Innovative Thinking
2 10 (21.74%) Problem-Solving
3 7 (15.22%) B2B
3 7 (15.22%) Kalman Filter
3 7 (15.22%) Test Automation
4 6 (13.04%) Time Management
5 3 (6.52%) Agile
5 3 (6.52%) Business Intelligence
5 3 (6.52%) Data Science
5 3 (6.52%) Identity Access Management
5 3 (6.52%) ITIL
5 3 (6.52%) Physics
5 3 (6.52%) System Testing
5 3 (6.52%) Test Assurance
5 3 (6.52%) Test Scripting
5 3 (6.52%) Validation
5 3 (6.52%) Verification and Validation
5 3 (6.52%) Visualisation
6 2 (4.35%) Customer Service
Programming Languages
1 13 (28.26%) Python
2 7 (15.22%) MATLAB
3 5 (10.87%) SQL
4 4 (8.70%) PL/SQL
5 3 (6.52%) Bash
5 3 (6.52%) JavaScript
6 2 (4.35%) R
7 1 (2.17%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 33 (71.74%) SC Cleared
1 33 (71.74%) Security Cleared
2 30 (65.22%) DV Cleared
3 25 (54.35%) CCNA
3 25 (54.35%) CCNP
3 25 (54.35%) Cisco Certification
4 9 (19.57%) Degree
5 7 (15.22%) HND
6 2 (4.35%) Master's Degree
6 2 (4.35%) PhD
System Software
1 4 (8.70%) Docker
2 3 (6.52%) Active Directory
3 1 (2.17%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (6.52%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 2 (4.35%) Ansible
3 1 (2.17%) Kubeflow
3 1 (2.17%) Kubernetes
3 1 (2.17%) Podman
3 1 (2.17%) Puppet
3 1 (2.17%) Terraform
Vendors
1 25 (54.35%) 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%) Databricks
5 1 (2.17%) Mirantis
5 1 (2.17%) Software AG
5 1 (2.17%) webMethods