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 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 195 136 152
Rank change year-on-year -59 +16 +51
Permanent jobs citing Unix 68 132 210
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 0.77% 2.12% 2.30%
As % of the Operating Systems category 4.55% 10.81% 11.84%
Number of salaries quoted 36 73 115
10th Percentile £33,000 £42,850 £32,000
25th Percentile £39,438 £51,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £56,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% -2.61% +27.78%
75th Percentile £68,750 £66,750 £73,675
90th Percentile £82,500 £78,700 £80,000
England median annual salary £62,783 £66,125 £65,000
% change year-on-year -5.05% +1.73% +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 1,494 1,221 1,774
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 16.99% 19.62% 19.39%
Number of salaries quoted 1,086 791 1,146
10th Percentile £27,250 £27,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £33,000 £35,000 £33,256
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £47,600 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.21% -4.80% +17.65%
75th Percentile £60,000 £63,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £73,750 £78,750
England median annual salary £47,500 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.52% - +5.00%

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 26 July 2024.

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 26 July 2024. 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 -4 24 £39,500 -25.05% 2
Wiltshire -3 15 £50,000 - 1
Bristol -39 15 £59,500 -2.86% 2
Gloucestershire -4 13 £51,250 -13.95% 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 3 (4.41%) Apache
1 3 (4.41%) Confluence
1 3 (4.41%) GlassFish
1 3 (4.41%) JBoss
1 3 (4.41%) Microsoft Exchange
1 3 (4.41%) Tomcat
Applications
1 16 (23.53%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (4.41%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 13 (19.12%) Azure
1 13 (19.12%) GitHub
2 8 (11.76%) AWS
3 6 (8.82%) Azure Data Factory
3 6 (8.82%) Power Platform
4 4 (5.88%) GCP
4 4 (5.88%) IaaS
5 3 (4.41%) Cloud Computing
5 3 (4.41%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (4.41%) OpenShift
6 1 (1.47%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 10 (14.71%) HTTP
2 9 (13.24%) DNS
2 9 (13.24%) TCP/IP
3 8 (11.76%) Internet
3 8 (11.76%) SMTP
4 5 (7.35%) WAN
5 4 (5.88%) 5G
5 4 (5.88%) SD-WAN
6 3 (4.41%) Asterisk PBX
6 3 (4.41%) PBX
6 3 (4.41%) Reverse Proxy
6 3 (4.41%) RTP
6 3 (4.41%) SAN
6 3 (4.41%) VoIP
7 2 (2.94%) Network Security
8 1 (1.47%) DHCP
8 1 (1.47%) Firewall
8 1 (1.47%) Intrusion Detection
8 1 (1.47%) LAN
8 1 (1.47%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (8.82%) Data Lake
1 6 (8.82%) Power BI
1 6 (8.82%) SQL Server
2 4 (5.88%) MySQL
3 3 (4.41%) Oracle Database
3 3 (4.41%) Oracle Database 12c
3 3 (4.41%) Oracle Reports
4 2 (2.94%) RDBMS
4 2 (2.94%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 16 (23.53%) Git
2 13 (19.12%) LabVIEW
3 8 (11.76%) Jenkins
4 6 (8.82%) RStudio
5 4 (5.88%) JIRA
General
1 30 (44.12%) Analytical Skills
2 22 (32.35%) Presentation Skills
3 19 (27.94%) Social Skills
4 5 (7.35%) Electronics
4 5 (7.35%) Telecoms
5 2 (2.94%) Finance
5 2 (2.94%) Games
5 2 (2.94%) Legal
5 2 (2.94%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.47%) Law
6 1 (1.47%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.47%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 13 (19.12%) Product Engineer
1 13 (19.12%) Product Test Engineer
1 13 (19.12%) Test Engineer
1 13 (19.12%) Verification Engineer
2 10 (14.71%) Administrator
3 9 (13.24%) Systems Administrator
4 8 (11.76%) Developer
4 8 (11.76%) Embedded Developer
4 8 (11.76%) Firmware Developer
4 8 (11.76%) Python Engineer
5 7 (10.29%) Lead
6 6 (8.82%) Data Engineer
6 6 (8.82%) Lead Data Engineer
6 6 (8.82%) Linux Engineer
6 6 (8.82%) Platform Engineer
6 6 (8.82%) Support Engineer
6 6 (8.82%) Unix Administrator
6 6 (8.82%) Unix Engineer
6 6 (8.82%) Unix Linux Engineer
6 6 (8.82%) Unix Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (19.12%) pytest
2 3 (4.41%) LDAP
2 3 (4.41%) SAML
3 2 (2.94%) .NET
3 2 (2.94%) gRPC
3 2 (2.94%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 20 (29.41%) Self-Motivation
2 9 (13.24%) Management Information System
3 8 (11.76%) CUDA
3 8 (11.76%) GNSS
3 8 (11.76%) Tandem
4 6 (8.82%) Data Centre
5 5 (7.35%) Analytical Mindset
5 5 (7.35%) Linux Command Line
6 4 (5.88%) Client/Server
7 3 (4.41%) VAX
8 1 (1.47%) CSOC
8 1 (1.47%) Cyber Threat
8 1 (1.47%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 49 (72.06%) Linux
2 31 (45.59%) Windows
3 9 (13.24%) Solaris
4 6 (8.82%) CentOS
5 5 (7.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (5.88%) Windows Server
6 4 (5.88%) Windows Server 2016
7 3 (4.41%) AIX
7 3 (4.41%) CoreOS
7 3 (4.41%) Ubuntu
7 3 (4.41%) Windows 10
7 3 (4.41%) Windows 7
7 3 (4.41%) Windows Server 2008
8 1 (1.47%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (54.41%) Problem-Solving
2 23 (33.82%) Computer Science
3 21 (30.88%) Test Automation
4 20 (29.41%) B2B
5 13 (19.12%) Kalman Filter
6 12 (17.65%) Containerisation
7 11 (16.18%) Open Source
8 10 (14.71%) Software Engineering
8 10 (14.71%) Technical Leadership
9 9 (13.24%) Analytics
9 9 (13.24%) IT Strategy
10 8 (11.76%) Software Architecture
11 7 (10.29%) Customer Service
11 7 (10.29%) Fintech
12 6 (8.82%) Culture Change
12 6 (8.82%) Data Pipeline
12 6 (8.82%) Platform Engineering
12 6 (8.82%) Regulatory Compliance
12 6 (8.82%) Runbook
12 6 (8.82%) Server Management
Programming Languages
1 29 (42.65%) Python
2 14 (20.59%) C++
3 13 (19.12%) MATLAB
3 13 (19.12%) SQL
4 11 (16.18%) C
5 6 (8.82%) Java
5 6 (8.82%) R
6 5 (7.35%) Perl
6 5 (7.35%) PowerShell
7 4 (5.88%) Bash
7 4 (5.88%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 39 (57.35%) Degree
2 16 (23.53%) Security Cleared
3 15 (22.06%) Computer Science Degree
4 12 (17.65%) HND
5 11 (16.18%) DV Cleared
5 11 (16.18%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (8.82%) Data Quality
2 4 (5.88%) SLA
3 1 (1.47%) QA
System Software
1 8 (11.76%) Embedded Firmware
1 8 (11.76%) Firmware
2 5 (7.35%) Active Directory
2 5 (7.35%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (5.88%) Lustre
3 4 (5.88%) Slurm Workload Manager
4 3 (4.41%) Kamailio
4 3 (4.41%) XenApp
5 2 (2.94%) Hyper-V
6 1 (1.47%) Docker
6 1 (1.47%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (1.47%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (7.35%) Ansible
2 3 (4.41%) EMC VPLEX
2 3 (4.41%) Nagios
2 3 (4.41%) Oracle Statspack
2 3 (4.41%) Puppet
2 3 (4.41%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (2.94%) Kubernetes
4 1 (1.47%) CSIRT
4 1 (1.47%) McAfee ePO
4 1 (1.47%) Opsgenie
4 1 (1.47%) Rancher
4 1 (1.47%) Red Hat Satellite
4 1 (1.47%) SCOM
4 1 (1.47%) SCVMM
4 1 (1.47%) Terraform
4 1 (1.47%) Tivoli Identity Manager
Vendors
1 14 (20.59%) Red Hat
2 6 (8.82%) Alteryx
2 6 (8.82%) Citrix
2 6 (8.82%) Databricks
2 6 (8.82%) Microsoft
2 6 (8.82%) VMware
3 5 (7.35%) Oracle
4 4 (5.88%) AppDynamics
5 3 (4.41%) Centreon
5 3 (4.41%) Cisco
5 3 (4.41%) Dialogic
5 3 (4.41%) EMC
5 3 (4.41%) New Relic
5 3 (4.41%) NGA Human Resources
5 3 (4.41%) Northgate
5 3 (4.41%) Ribbon
5 3 (4.41%) SolarWinds
5 3 (4.41%) Sybase
5 3 (4.41%) Veeam
6 1 (1.47%) CyberArk