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 16 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 164 206 149
Rank change year-on-year +42 -57 +37
Permanent jobs citing Unix 19 87 126
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 0.53% 0.94% 1.88%
As % of the Operating Systems category 3.89% 5.33% 10.06%
Number of salaries quoted 7 59 44
10th Percentile £52,030 £27,500 £32,300
25th Percentile £61,740 £40,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,991 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +37.13% - +5.00%
75th Percentile £78,318 £66,250 £70,625
90th Percentile £82,751 £82,500 £78,750
England median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +8.33% -14.29% +12.00%

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 489 1,633 1,253
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 13.64% 17.64% 18.70%
Number of salaries quoted 331 1,236 727
10th Percentile £28,500 £27,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,750 £33,750 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £47,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.79% +5.56% -5.26%
75th Percentile £52,500 £60,918 £62,331
90th Percentile £69,500 £80,000 £73,750
England median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - -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 16 May 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 16 May 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
Bristol +43 8 £71,991 -4.86% 3
Devon +8 7 - - 3
Gloucestershire +44 3 £60,000 +14.29% 3
Somerset - 1 £54,321 -
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 (15.79%) NetWeaver
1 3 (15.79%) Tomcat
2 2 (10.53%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (5.26%) IIS
Applications
1 4 (21.05%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (15.79%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
2 1 (5.26%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 7 (36.84%) AWS
2 6 (31.58%) Pulumi
3 4 (21.05%) GitHub
4 3 (15.79%) IaaS
4 3 (15.79%) PaaS
5 2 (10.53%) Apigee
5 2 (10.53%) Azure
5 2 (10.53%) Cloud Computing
5 2 (10.53%) GCP
5 2 (10.53%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 2 (10.53%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (5.26%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (5.26%) Amazon S3
6 1 (5.26%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 6 (31.58%) Broadband
2 4 (21.05%) 5G
2 4 (21.05%) SD-WAN
2 4 (21.05%) WAN
3 3 (15.79%) DHCP
3 3 (15.79%) DNS
4 1 (5.26%) Firewall
4 1 (5.26%) IPsec
4 1 (5.26%) SSH
4 1 (5.26%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (42.11%) NoSQL
2 6 (31.58%) RDBMS
2 6 (31.58%) Relational Database
3 3 (15.79%) BusinessObjects
3 3 (15.79%) SAP BW
3 3 (15.79%) SAP Data Services
3 3 (15.79%) SAP HANA
3 3 (15.79%) SQL Server
4 1 (5.26%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (5.26%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 6 (31.58%) Git
1 6 (31.58%) Jaeger
2 4 (21.05%) LabVIEW
3 3 (15.79%) Oracle Forms
4 2 (10.53%) Jenkins
4 2 (10.53%) JUnit
4 2 (10.53%) Maven
4 2 (10.53%) SonarQube
4 2 (10.53%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 6 (31.58%) Analytical Skills
1 6 (31.58%) Finance
1 6 (31.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 6 (31.58%) Social Skills
2 5 (26.32%) Banking
2 5 (26.32%) Electronics
3 4 (21.05%) Presentation Skills
4 3 (15.79%) General Ledger
5 1 (5.26%) Fire and Rescue
5 1 (5.26%) Local Government
5 1 (5.26%) Manufacturing
5 1 (5.26%) Marketing
5 1 (5.26%) Police
5 1 (5.26%) Public Sector
5 1 (5.26%) Retail
5 1 (5.26%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (31.58%) Lead
1 6 (31.58%) Team Leader
2 4 (21.05%) Electronics Engineer
2 4 (21.05%) Electronics Test Engineer
2 4 (21.05%) Product Engineer
2 4 (21.05%) Product Test Engineer
2 4 (21.05%) Test Engineer
2 4 (21.05%) Verification Engineer
3 3 (15.79%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (15.79%) Unix Engineer
3 3 (15.79%) Unix Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) Administrator
4 2 (10.53%) Senior
4 2 (10.53%) Senior Software Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) Software Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) Systems Manager
5 1 (5.26%) AWS Administrator
5 1 (5.26%) DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (31.58%) Elastic Stack
1 6 (31.58%) OpenTelemetry
2 4 (21.05%) pytest
3 3 (15.79%) Web Services
4 2 (10.53%) Hibernate
4 2 (10.53%) RESTful
4 2 (10.53%) Spring
4 2 (10.53%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 4 (21.05%) Self-Driving Car
1 4 (21.05%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (10.53%) Cyber Threat
2 2 (10.53%) Data Centre
2 2 (10.53%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 15 (78.95%) Linux
2 7 (36.84%) Windows
3 6 (31.58%) Windows Server
4 3 (15.79%) AIX
4 3 (15.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (5.26%) Mac OS
5 1 (5.26%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (63.16%) Infrastructure as Code
2 9 (47.37%) DevOps
3 8 (42.11%) Cost Optimisation
3 8 (42.11%) Problem-Solving
4 7 (36.84%) Containerisation
5 6 (31.58%) Agile
5 6 (31.58%) Budget Control
5 6 (31.58%) Continuous Integration
5 6 (31.58%) GitOps
5 6 (31.58%) High Availability
5 6 (31.58%) Kalman Filter
5 6 (31.58%) Mentoring
5 6 (31.58%) Performance Optimisation
5 6 (31.58%) Product Management
5 6 (31.58%) Resource Management
5 6 (31.58%) Roadmaps
5 6 (31.58%) Task Automation
5 6 (31.58%) Test Automation
6 4 (21.05%) B2B
6 4 (21.05%) Physics
Programming Languages
1 14 (73.68%) Python
2 11 (57.89%) Java
3 9 (47.37%) Bash
4 8 (42.11%) Go
4 8 (42.11%) JavaScript
5 4 (21.05%) MATLAB
6 3 (15.79%) C
6 3 (15.79%) SQL
7 2 (10.53%) PowerShell
8 1 (5.26%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 7 (36.84%) AWS Certification
2 6 (31.58%) Degree
3 4 (21.05%) HND
4 2 (10.53%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (10.53%) PMI Certification
4 2 (10.53%) PMP
5 1 (5.26%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
5 1 (5.26%) DV Cleared
5 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (5.26%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.53%) Cyber Essentials
1 2 (10.53%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 2 (10.53%) GDPR
1 2 (10.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (10.53%) PCI DSS
1 2 (10.53%) SLA
System Software
1 9 (47.37%) Docker
2 3 (15.79%) Active Directory
3 2 (10.53%) Hyper-V
3 2 (10.53%) vSphere
4 1 (5.26%) LXC
4 1 (5.26%) Samba
Systems Management
1 8 (42.11%) Kubernetes
1 8 (42.11%) Terraform
2 6 (31.58%) Ansible
2 6 (31.58%) Argo
2 6 (31.58%) Kustomize
2 6 (31.58%) Prometheus
3 3 (15.79%) Tivoli Storage Manager
4 2 (10.53%) Istio
Vendors
1 6 (31.58%) Google
2 4 (21.05%) Oracle
2 4 (21.05%) SAP
3 3 (15.79%) IBM
4 2 (10.53%) Nimble Storage
4 2 (10.53%) SolarWinds
4 2 (10.53%) Splunk
4 2 (10.53%) Veeam
4 2 (10.53%) Zscaler
5 1 (5.26%) Microsoft