The first table below looks at the demand for UNIX skills in IT jobs advertised for the Bedfordshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited UNIX over the 3 months to 24 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Operating Systems category for the Bedfordshire region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
UNIX
Rank 57 38 49
Rank change year-on-year
-19 +11
Permanent jobs citing UNIX 37 42 30
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bedfordshire 3.398% 4.416% 3.417%
As % of the Operating Systems category 13.07% 18.18% 18.75%
Number of salaries quoted 30 40 29
Average salary £50,000 £45,000 £42,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+11.11% +5.88%
90% offered a salary of more than £33,000 £37,500 £32,500
10% offered a salary of more than £67,000 £55,000 £51,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £39,000
% change year-on-year
- +2.56%
All Operating Systems
Bedfordshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
283 231 160
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bedfordshire 25.99% 24.29% 18.22%
Number of salaries quoted 256 206 154
Average salary £40,000 £41,000 £41,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-2.43% -
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £26,500 £26,500
10% offered a salary of more than £54,500 £53,000 £56,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
UNIX
East of England

UNIX
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing UNIX across the Bedfordshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Operating Systems category.

Bedfordshire UNIX Jobs Demand Trend

UNIX
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing UNIX across the Bedfordshire region.

Bedfordshire UNIX Salary Trend

UNIX
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing UNIX across the Bedfordshire region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Bedfordshire UNIX Salary Histogram

UNIX
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing UNIX within the Bedfordshire region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Dunstable -8 17 £50,000 +5.26%
Luton -7 12 £50,000 +11.11%
Bedford -12 1 £32,000 -20.00%
UNIX
East of England

UNIX
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Bedfordshire region citing UNIX also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited UNIX.

1 35 (50.72%) Oracle
2 34 (49.28%) Linux
3 33 (47.83%) Solaris
4 30 (43.48%) TCP/IP
5 22 (31.88%) Finance
6 20 (28.99%) HP
7 17 (24.64%) MS Excel
8 16 (23.19%) Shell Script
9 15 (21.74%) Windows
10 14 (20.29%) ITIL
10 14 (20.29%) SQL
10 14 (20.29%) SLA
11 13 (18.84%) Cisco
11 13 (18.84%) Microsoft
11 13 (18.84%) DNS
11 13 (18.84%) Red Hat
11 13 (18.84%) Oracle 11g
12 12 (17.39%) Data Guard
12 12 (17.39%) Bash shell
12 12 (17.39%) Oracle RMAN
13 11 (15.94%) SAN
13 11 (15.94%) C-shell
13 11 (15.94%) Degree
14 10 (14.49%) Oracle RAC
14 10 (14.49%) Banking
14 10 (14.49%) NFS
15 8 (11.59%) Java
15 8 (11.59%) Oracle 8/8i
15 8 (11.59%) Firewall
16 7 (10.14%) LDAP

UNIX
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Bedfordshire region citing UNIX also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited UNIX. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 5 (7.246%) XML
2 3 (4.348%) ASP
2 3 (4.348%) HTML
3 2 (2.899%) Java EE
3 2 (2.899%) Spring
3 2 (2.899%) JSF
3 2 (2.899%) XSL
3 2 (2.899%) XSLT
3 2 (2.899%) JSP
3 2 (2.899%) Struts
3 2 (2.899%) Web Services
3 2 (2.899%) Hibernate
3 2 (2.899%) Middleware
4 1 (1.449%) J2EE
Application Platforms
1 6 (8.696%) Oracle Application Server
2 4 (5.797%) WebLogic
3 1 (1.449%) IIS
3 1 (1.449%) Apache
3 1 (1.449%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.449%) MS Exchange
3 1 (1.449%) Amazon AWS
3 1 (1.449%) Exchange Server 2003
3 1 (1.449%) SharePoint Server
3 1 (1.449%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 17 (24.64%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.449%) Dynamics GP
Communications & Networking
1 30 (43.48%) TCP/IP
2 13 (18.84%) DNS
3 11 (15.94%) SAN
4 8 (11.59%) Firewall
5 7 (10.14%) LDAP
5 7 (10.14%) SSH
6 6 (8.696%) SSL
7 5 (7.246%) IPv6
7 5 (7.246%) VLAN
7 5 (7.246%) NAS
8 4 (5.797%) Cisco Nexus
9 3 (4.348%) MPLS
9 3 (4.348%) LAN
9 3 (4.348%) WAN
9 3 (4.348%) IP Telephony
9 3 (4.348%) BIG-IP
10 2 (2.899%) DHCP
11 1 (1.449%) Frame Relay
11 1 (1.449%) ISDN
11 1 (1.449%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (18.84%) Oracle 11g
2 8 (11.59%) Oracle 8/8i
3 5 (7.246%) SQL Server
4 3 (4.348%) Oracle 10g
5 2 (2.899%) Oracle Reports
5 2 (2.899%) Oracle OWB
6 1 (1.449%) SQLPlus
6 1 (1.449%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (1.449%) OLTP
6 1 (1.449%) SQL Server 2005
6 1 (1.449%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 2 (2.899%) PROIV
General
1 22 (31.88%) Finance
2 10 (14.49%) Banking
3 5 (7.246%) Electronics
4 1 (1.449%) Retail
Job Titles
1 15 (21.74%) Administrator
2 13 (18.84%) Oracle DBA
2 13 (18.84%) DBA
3 12 (17.39%) UNIX Engineer
3 12 (17.39%) Support Engineer
4 10 (14.49%) UNIX Support
5 9 (13.04%) Build Engineer
6 8 (11.59%) Applications Support
7 7 (10.14%) Architect
7 7 (10.14%) Analyst
8 6 (8.696%) Server Engineer
8 6 (8.696%) Support Analyst
8 6 (8.696%) Applications Support Analyst
9 5 (7.246%) Test Engineer
9 5 (7.246%) UNIX Administrator
9 5 (7.246%) Hardware Engineer
9 5 (7.246%) Systems Administrator
9 5 (7.246%) Wintel Engineer
9 5 (7.246%) QA Engineer
9 5 (7.246%) 3rd Line Server Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (7.246%) Computer Science
1 5 (7.246%) Field-Programmable Gate Array
2 3 (4.348%) Management Information System
2 3 (4.348%) PMI
2 3 (4.348%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (2.899%) SWIFT
4 1 (1.449%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 34 (49.28%) Linux
2 33 (47.83%) Solaris
3 15 (21.74%) Windows
4 3 (4.348%) Windows Server 2003
4 3 (4.348%) AIX
4 3 (4.348%) Windows Server 2008
5 1 (1.449%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (20.29%) ITIL
2 7 (10.14%) Capacity Planning
3 6 (8.696%) PRINCE2
4 5 (7.246%) Disaster Recovery
4 5 (7.246%) Configuration Management
4 5 (7.246%) Project Management
4 5 (7.246%) Test Scripting
4 5 (7.246%) System Testing
4 5 (7.246%) Agile Software Development
4 5 (7.246%) Change Control
5 4 (5.797%) PRINCE
6 3 (4.348%) Project Planning
7 2 (2.899%) User Acceptance Testing
7 2 (2.899%) Business Intelligence
7 2 (2.899%) ETL
7 2 (2.899%) Service Delivery
8 1 (1.449%) E-business
8 1 (1.449%) Data Security
8 1 (1.449%) Security Management
8 1 (1.449%) Risk Assessment
Programming Languages
1 16 (23.19%) Shell Script
2 14 (20.29%) SQL
3 12 (17.39%) Bash shell
4 11 (15.94%) C-shell
5 8 (11.59%) Java
6 7 (10.14%) Korn
7 6 (8.696%) Perl
8 5 (7.246%) AWK
8 5 (7.246%) PL/SQL
8 5 (7.246%) C
9 3 (4.348%) JavaScript
9 3 (4.348%) VB
10 1 (1.449%) Python
10 1 (1.449%) Bourne shell
Qualifications
1 11 (15.94%) Degree
2 5 (7.246%) CCNP
2 5 (7.246%) CCDA
2 5 (7.246%) Cisco Certification
2 5 (7.246%) OCP
2 5 (7.246%) Oracle Certification
2 5 (7.246%) RHCE
3 4 (5.797%) Microsoft Certification
3 4 (5.797%) CCNA
3 4 (5.797%) MCSE
4 3 (4.348%) PMP
4 3 (4.348%) PMI Certification
5 1 (1.449%) CCDP
5 1 (1.449%) CCIE
5 1 (1.449%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 1 (1.449%) VCP4
5 1 (1.449%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (20.29%) SLA
2 5 (7.246%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 5 (7.246%) QA
3 1 (1.449%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 12 (17.39%) Oracle RMAN
2 10 (14.49%) Oracle RAC
2 10 (14.49%) NFS
3 5 (7.246%) Samba
4 3 (4.348%) VMware ESX
4 3 (4.348%) Hyper-V
4 3 (4.348%) vSphere
5 2 (2.899%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
6 1 (1.449%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 12 (17.39%) Data Guard
2 5 (7.246%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 2 (2.899%) Tivoli
4 1 (1.449%) BMC PATROL
4 1 (1.449%) NetBackup
4 1 (1.449%) OpenView
4 1 (1.449%) WSUS
4 1 (1.449%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
Vendors
1 35 (50.72%) Oracle
2 20 (28.99%) HP
3 13 (18.84%) Cisco
3 13 (18.84%) Microsoft
3 13 (18.84%) Red Hat
4 7 (10.14%) F5
5 6 (8.696%) VMware
6 5 (7.246%) Juniper
6 5 (7.246%) Sun
6 5 (7.246%) Citrix
7 4 (5.797%) EMC
8 3 (4.348%) Informatica
8 3 (4.348%) CheckPoint
9 2 (2.899%) BEA
10 1 (1.449%) Symantec
10 1 (1.449%) BMC
10 1 (1.449%) SolarWinds
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