The first table below looks at the demand for UNIX skills in IT jobs advertised for the Belfast region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited UNIX over the 3 months to 17 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 Belfast region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
UNIX
Rank 14 19 8
Rank change year-on-year
+5 -11
Permanent jobs citing UNIX 32 21 32
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Belfast 13.01% 10.14% 17.88%
As % of the Operating Systems category 41.03% 35.59% 48.48%
Number of salaries quoted 15 8 16
Average salary £41,000 £50,000 £29,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-18.00% +69.49%
90% offered a salary of more than £29,100 £32,200 £28,500
10% offered a salary of more than £51,000 £65,000 £42,750
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
All Operating Systems
Belfast
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
78 59 66
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Belfast 31.71% 28.50% 36.87%
Number of salaries quoted 44 37 36
Average salary £35,000 £32,500 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+7.69% -7.14%
90% offered a salary of more than £28,500 £15,500 £29,500
10% offered a salary of more than £47,500 £45,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
UNIX
County Antrim

UNIX
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Belfast 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 Belfast region.

Belfast UNIX Salary Trend

UNIX
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing UNIX across the Belfast region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Belfast UNIX Salary Histogram

UNIX
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Belfast 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 52 (60.47%) Java
2 51 (59.30%) Linux
3 37 (43.02%) C
4 35 (40.70%) SQL
5 25 (29.07%) C++
5 25 (29.07%) Degree
5 25 (29.07%) QA
6 20 (23.26%) Tomcat
7 17 (19.77%) Finance
8 16 (18.60%) Software Engineering
9 15 (17.44%) Agile Software Development
9 15 (17.44%) Computer Science
10 14 (16.28%) Open Source
10 14 (16.28%) Telecoms
10 14 (16.28%) Oracle
11 13 (15.12%) J2EE
11 13 (15.12%) WebLogic
12 12 (13.95%) MVC
12 12 (13.95%) Windows
12 12 (13.95%) Electronic Trading
12 12 (13.95%) Spring
13 11 (12.79%) Derivative
13 11 (12.79%) Selenium
14 10 (11.63%) Spring MVC
14 10 (11.63%) Integration Testing
14 10 (11.63%) Web Services
14 10 (11.63%) Data Modelling
15 9 (10.47%) Servlets
15 9 (10.47%) PostgreSQL
16 8 (9.302%) XML

UNIX
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Belfast 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 13 (15.12%) J2EE
2 12 (13.95%) Spring
3 10 (11.63%) Spring MVC
3 10 (11.63%) Web Services
4 9 (10.47%) Servlets
5 8 (9.302%) XML
6 7 (8.140%) Middleware
6 7 (8.140%) JSON
7 6 (6.977%) XMPP
8 4 (4.651%) jQuery
9 3 (3.488%) JSP
9 3 (3.488%) .NET
10 2 (2.326%) HTML
10 2 (2.326%) CSS
10 2 (2.326%) Hibernate
10 2 (2.326%) JMS
10 2 (2.326%) Ajax
10 2 (2.326%) WebSphere
11 1 (1.163%) Ruby on Rails
11 1 (1.163%) WCF
Application Platforms
1 20 (23.26%) Tomcat
2 13 (15.12%) WebLogic
3 8 (9.302%) Apache
Communications & Networking
1 7 (8.140%) TCP/IP
2 5 (5.814%) Firewall
3 4 (4.651%) Cisco PIX
3 4 (4.651%) Cisco ASA
3 4 (4.651%) NetScreen
4 2 (2.326%) SAN
4 2 (2.326%) Broadband
5 1 (1.163%) HTTP
5 1 (1.163%) VPN
5 1 (1.163%) DNS
5 1 (1.163%) Wireless
5 1 (1.163%) IPsec
5 1 (1.163%) VLAN
5 1 (1.163%) Intranet
5 1 (1.163%) Wireless Security
5 1 (1.163%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (10.47%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (5.814%) SQL Server
3 4 (4.651%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (4.651%) RDBMS
4 3 (3.488%) Oracle 10g
4 3 (3.488%) Oracle 8/8i
4 3 (3.488%) SQL Server 2008
4 3 (3.488%) Oracle 11g
5 1 (1.163%) KDB
5 1 (1.163%) CouchDB
5 1 (1.163%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.163%) Redis
Development Applications
1 11 (12.79%) Selenium
2 2 (2.326%) Maven
2 2 (2.326%) ClearCase
2 2 (2.326%) Git (software)
3 1 (1.163%) Build Forge
3 1 (1.163%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.163%) QuickTest Pro
3 1 (1.163%) ClearQuest
3 1 (1.163%) Ant
3 1 (1.163%) JUnit
3 1 (1.163%) Visual Studio
3 1 (1.163%) JIRA
3 1 (1.163%) WATIR
3 1 (1.163%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 17 (19.77%) Finance
2 14 (16.28%) Telecoms
3 4 (4.651%) Banking
4 2 (2.326%) Marketing
5 1 (1.163%) Retail
5 1 (1.163%) Financial Institution
5 1 (1.163%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 18 (20.93%) Developer
2 13 (15.12%) Tester
3 12 (13.95%) Applications Support
4 10 (11.63%) Automated Tester
5 7 (8.140%) Java Developer
5 7 (8.140%) Software Engineer
6 6 (6.977%) C++ Developer
7 5 (5.814%) Security Engineer
8 4 (4.651%) Senior Java Developer
8 4 (4.651%) ETL Developer
8 4 (4.651%) Principal Engineer
8 4 (4.651%) Informatica Developer
8 4 (4.651%) Server Engineer
8 4 (4.651%) Senior Developer
9 3 (3.488%) Software Architect
9 3 (3.488%) DBA
9 3 (3.488%) Oracle DBA
9 3 (3.488%) Junior
9 3 (3.488%) Architect
9 3 (3.488%) SQL DBA
Miscellaneous
1 15 (17.44%) Computer Science
2 14 (16.28%) Open Source
3 11 (12.79%) Derivative
4 7 (8.140%) Video on Demand
5 3 (3.488%) Equities
5 3 (3.488%) Field-Programmable Gate Array
6 2 (2.326%) IPTV
6 2 (2.326%) Client/Server
6 2 (2.326%) Firmware
6 2 (2.326%) DTV
7 1 (1.163%) CLARiiON
7 1 (1.163%) STB
7 1 (1.163%) SaaS
7 1 (1.163%) Hedge funds
7 1 (1.163%) New Media
7 1 (1.163%) Mobile App
7 1 (1.163%) Life Science
7 1 (1.163%) Credit Risk
7 1 (1.163%) Symmetrix DMX
Operating Systems
1 51 (59.30%) Linux
2 12 (13.95%) Windows
3 1 (1.163%) AIX
3 1 (1.163%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (18.60%) Software Engineering
2 15 (17.44%) Agile Software Development
3 12 (13.95%) MVC
3 12 (13.95%) Electronic Trading
4 10 (11.63%) Data Modelling
4 10 (11.63%) Integration Testing
5 8 (9.302%) OO
6 4 (4.651%) ETL
6 4 (4.651%) Business Intelligence
6 4 (4.651%) Dimensional Modelling
6 4 (4.651%) Multithreading
6 4 (4.651%) Capacity Planning
7 3 (3.488%) Test Management
7 3 (3.488%) Software Testing
8 2 (2.326%) SOA
8 2 (2.326%) Continuous Integration
8 2 (2.326%) E-Commerce
8 2 (2.326%) ITIL
8 2 (2.326%) Change Management
8 2 (2.326%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 52 (60.47%) Java
2 37 (43.02%) C
3 35 (40.70%) SQL
4 25 (29.07%) C++
5 7 (8.140%) Perl
6 5 (5.814%) T-SQL
6 5 (5.814%) Ruby
7 4 (4.651%) Python
7 4 (4.651%) PL/SQL
8 3 (3.488%) C#
8 3 (3.488%) JavaScript
8 3 (3.488%) Shell Script
9 2 (2.326%) Bash shell
9 2 (2.326%) PHP
Qualifications
1 25 (29.07%) Degree
2 5 (5.814%) CISSP
2 5 (5.814%) Cisco Certification
2 5 (5.814%) CCSA
3 4 (4.651%) CCSP
4 3 (3.488%) OCP
4 3 (3.488%) Oracle Certification
4 3 (3.488%) JNCIA
5 2 (2.326%) CCSE
6 1 (1.163%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (29.07%) QA
2 1 (1.163%) HL7
System Software
1 3 (3.488%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (1.163%) SRDF
2 1 (1.163%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (3.488%) Data Guard
2 1 (1.163%) YUM
2 1 (1.163%) Puppet
2 1 (1.163%) NetBackup
2 1 (1.163%) BladeLogic
Vendors
1 14 (16.28%) Oracle
2 6 (6.977%) Sybase
2 6 (6.977%) Cisco
3 5 (5.814%) Juniper
3 5 (5.814%) Blue Coat
3 5 (5.814%) CheckPoint
3 5 (5.814%) UC4
4 4 (4.651%) Ab Initio
4 4 (4.651%) Actuate
4 4 (4.651%) Informatica
4 4 (4.651%) Business Objects
5 2 (2.326%) Microsoft
6 1 (1.163%) EMC
6 1 (1.163%) IBM
6 1 (1.163%) JBoss
6 1 (1.163%) NetApp
6 1 (1.163%) StorageTek
6 1 (1.163%) Veritas
6 1 (1.163%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.163%) Apple
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