Berkshire Unix Jobs

This section looks at the demand for Unix skills within the Berkshire region with a comparison to our Operating Systems category. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Unix over the last 3 months to 9 May 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Abingdon Aldershot Altrincham Amersham Andover Aylesbury Banbury Barking Barnsley Basildon Basingstoke Bath Batley Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkhamsted Berkshire Bexley Bexleyheath Bicester Birkenhead Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Blackburn Blackpool Bolton Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Braintree Brentford Brentwood Bridgend Brighton Bristol Buckingham Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Channel Islands Cheadle Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chichester Chippenham City of London Clapham Colchester Corby Cornwall County Antrim County Londonderry Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cwmbran Daventry Deeside Derby Derbyshire Devon Diss Docklands, London Doncaster Dorchester Dorking Dorset Dundee Dunfermline Dunstable Durham Ealing East Anglia East Lothian East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastbourne Eastleigh Edinburgh Egham Elland England Epsom Essex Exeter Falkirk Fareham Farnborough Faversham Feltham Fife Flintshire Folkestone Gateshead Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Gosport Gourock Greenford Guildford Gwent Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Harrow Havant Hayes Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hinckley Home Counties Horsham Hounslow Huddersfield Hull Huntingdon Ilford Inverclyde Ipswich Isle of Man Kent Kettering Kingston Upon Thames Knaresborough Knutsford Lanarkshire Lancashire Lancaster Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Letchworth Lincolnshire Linlithgow Liverpool Livingston London Lothian Loughborough Lowestoft Luton Lytham St Annes M4 Corridor Maidenhead Maidstone Malmesbury Manchester Marlow Melksham Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Monmouth Morecambe Musselburgh Nantwich Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Newton-le-Willows Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northumberland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oldham Osterley Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Peterborough Petersfield Plymouth Pontefract Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Redhill Reigate Rickmansworth Ripon Rochdale Romford Rotherham Rugby Runcorn Sale Salford Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South Croydon South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans St Helens St Neots Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stamford Stansted Stevenage Stirling Stockport Stranraer Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surbiton Surrey Swanley Swansea Swindon Taunton Telford Tewkesbury Thame Thames Valley Tilbury Torfaen Torquay Trowbridge Tunbridge Wells Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Walsall Warminster Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wellingborough Welwyn Garden City Wembley West Bromwich West Lothian West Malling West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Weston-super-Mare Weybridge Whyteleafe Wigan Wilmslow Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Winsford Woking Wokingham Worcester Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 9 May 2008	Same period last year
Rank	11	13
Rank change on same period last year	+2
Matching permanent IT job ads	1286	1355
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.627 %	0.606 %
As % of the category below	41.63 %	40.51 %
Salaries quoted	1057	1008
Average minimum salary	£38,126	£39,038
Average salary	£41,655	£42,379
% change on same period last year	-1.70 %
Average maximum salary	£45,185	£45,721
UK excluding London average salary	£38,998	£38,098
% change on same period last year	+2.36 %
Operating Systems Berkshire
Matching permanent IT job ads	3089	3345
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	1.506 %	1.495 %
Salaries quoted	2625	2651
Average minimum salary	£35,198	£35,578
Average salary	£38,266	£38,662
% change on same period last year	-1.02 %
Average maximum salary	£41,334	£41,746
UK excluding London average salary	£34,732	£34,919
% change on same period last year	-0.53 %
Unix South East

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total starting in 2004 of permanent IT jobs ads citing Unix across the Berkshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Operating Systems category.

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Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs ads citing Unix across the Berkshire region.

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Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Unix across the Berkshire region over the past 3 months.

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Job Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Unix within the Berkshire region over the past 3 months.

Rank	Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Permanent IT Job Ads	Average Salary Last 3 Months	Average Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year
1	Reading	-1	319	£41,095	+1.60 %
2	Slough	+23	177	£39,340	+6.99 %
3	Bracknell	+2	129	£39,136	+1.29 %
4	Maidenhead	+21	81	£47,099	+9.56 %
5	Newbury	-4	28	£47,567	+15.72 %
6	Windsor	-7	24	£55,179	+9.04 %
7	Wokingham	-13	6	£45,000	+21.62 %
8	Hungerford	-	1	£26,000	-

Unix South East

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

Over the past 6 months permanent IT jobs across the Berkshire region citing Unix also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing Unix.

1 1017 (39.82 %) Oracle 2 883 (34.57 %) SQL 3 873 (34.18 %) Windows 4 850 (33.28 %) Linux 5 687 (26.90 %) Solaris 6 603 (23.61 %) Java 7 425 (16.64 %) C 8 393 (15.39 %) Perl 9 329 (12.88 %) SQL Server 10 321 (12.57 %) C++ 11 312 (12.22 %) Internet 12 310 (12.14 %) PL/SQL 13 307 (12.02 %) Finance 14 292 (11.43 %) Shell Script 15 282 (11.04 %) Telecoms

16 266 (10.42 %) Apache 16 266 (10.42 %) TCP/IP 17 264 (10.34 %) AIX 18 237 (9.280 %) Red Hat 19 233 (9.123 %) J2EE 20 228 (8.927 %) HPUX 21 220 (8.614 %) HTML 22 214 (8.379 %) Sun 23 209 (8.183 %) Windows NT 24 207 (8.105 %) Oracle 10g 25 204 (7.987 %) SAN 26 202 (7.909 %) Microsoft 27 196 (7.674 %) XML 28 185 (7.244 %) Firewall 29 169 (6.617 %) Oracle 9i

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

Over the past 6 months permanent IT jobs across the Berkshire region citing Unix also mentioned the following skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing Unix. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 233 (9.123 %) J2EE 2 220 (8.614 %) HTML 3 196 (7.674 %) XML 4 121 (4.738 %) JSP 5 106 (4.150 %) WebSphere 6 88 (3.446 %) .NET 7 83 (3.250 %) Servlets 8 76 (2.976 %) SOAP 9 59 (2.310 %) WAP 10 52 (2.036 %) ASP 11 45 (1.762 %) WebServices 12 44 (1.723 %) Swing 13 34 (1.331 %) WML 13 34 (1.331 %) Middleware 14 31 (1.214 %) AWT 15 30 (1.175 %) JDBC 16 25 (0.979 %) CGI 16 25 (0.979 %) SAP Basis 17 24 (0.940 %) Hibernate 18 23 (0.901 %) CSS	Application Platforms 1 266 (10.42 %) Apache 2 127 (4.973 %) WebLogic 3 105 (4.111 %) IIS 4 95 (3.720 %) Tomcat 5 64 (2.506 %) SAS 6 56 (2.193 %) JBoss 7 49 (1.919 %) MS Exchange 8 33 (1.292 %) Oracle Application Server 9 31 (1.214 %) WebSphere Application Server 10 25 (0.979 %) MQSeries 11 23 (0.901 %) SharePoint 12 18 (0.705 %) Oracle Workflow 12 18 (0.705 %) Oracle 10gAS 13 16 (0.626 %) WebLogic Portal 13 16 (0.626 %) CMS 14 15 (0.587 %) LiveLink 14 15 (0.587 %) Exchange Server 2003 15 12 (0.470 %) NetWeaver 16 9 (0.352 %) Oracle 9iAS 17 8 (0.313 %) Exchange Server 2000
Applications 1 102 (3.994 %) MS Excel 2 69 (2.702 %) MS Office 3 23 (0.901 %) MS Visio 4 12 (0.470 %) SPSS 4 12 (0.470 %) RoboHelp 4 12 (0.470 %) Paint Shop Pro 5 5 (0.196 %) FrameMaker 6 3 (0.117 %) MS PowerPoint 7 2 (0.078 %) MS Project 7 2 (0.078 %) Acrobat 8 1 (0.039 %) XMetaL	Business Applications 1 97 (3.798 %) Oracle Applications 2 25 (0.979 %) Oracle EBS 3 22 (0.861 %) Oracle 11i 4 19 (0.744 %) Oracle BRM 5 15 (0.587 %) Navision 6 13 (0.509 %) Movex 6 13 (0.509 %) SAP Retail 7 3 (0.117 %) Applix TM1 7 3 (0.117 %) Cognos Business Intelligence 7 3 (0.117 %) Oracle HRMS 8 2 (0.078 %) Oracle Financials 8 2 (0.078 %) Singl.eView 8 2 (0.078 %) SAP HR 8 2 (0.078 %) Great Plains 8 2 (0.078 %) Unica Affinium 9 1 (0.039 %) Line 500 9 1 (0.039 %) Oracle iRecruitment 9 1 (0.039 %) GoldMine 9 1 (0.039 %) BusinessWorks
Communications & Networking 1 312 (12.22 %) Internet 2 266 (10.42 %) TCP/IP 3 204 (7.987 %) SAN 4 185 (7.244 %) Firewall 5 87 (3.406 %) DNS 6 74 (2.897 %) UMTS 7 66 (2.584 %) LAN 8 57 (2.232 %) VoIP 9 55 (2.153 %) SMTP 10 52 (2.036 %) Network Security 11 51 (1.997 %) WAN 12 50 (1.958 %) DHCP 13 48 (1.879 %) VPN 14 41 (1.605 %) FTP 15 40 (1.566 %) SS7 16 39 (1.527 %) SSL 17 37 (1.449 %) GSM 18 35 (1.370 %) HTTPS 19 30 (1.175 %) LDAP 20 28 (1.096 %) SMS	Database & Business Intelligence 1 329 (12.88 %) SQL Server 2 207 (8.105 %) Oracle 10g 3 169 (6.617 %) Oracle 9i 4 152 (5.951 %) RDBMS 5 113 (4.424 %) MySQL 6 91 (3.563 %) BusinessObjects 7 86 (3.367 %) DB2 8 79 (3.093 %) Oracle Reports 9 76 (2.976 %) Datawarehouse 10 75 (2.937 %) Oracle 8/8i 11 49 (1.919 %) TOAD 12 43 (1.684 %) Informix 13 32 (1.253 %) ETL 14 29 (1.135 %) Data Mining 15 26 (1.018 %) InterSystems Cache 16 19 (0.744 %) Oracle Discoverer 16 19 (0.744 %) Crystal Reports 17 18 (0.705 %) SQL Server 2000 18 15 (0.587 %) Oracle 11g 19 14 (0.548 %) OLAP
Development Applications 1 111 (4.346 %) ProC 2 108 (4.229 %) Oracle Forms 3 28 (1.096 %) ClearCase 4 26 (1.018 %) TestDirector 4 26 (1.018 %) ClearQuest 5 23 (0.901 %) PVCS 6 21 (0.822 %) Eclipse 7 19 (0.744 %) JUnit 8 18 (0.705 %) Ant 9 15 (0.587 %) WebSphere Studio Application Developer 10 14 (0.548 %) Visual Studio 11 13 (0.509 %) Oracle APEX 11 13 (0.509 %) RequisitePro 12 12 (0.470 %) Rational Rose 13 10 (0.392 %) Subversion 14 9 (0.352 %) PowerBuilder 15 6 (0.235 %) WinRunner 16 5 (0.196 %) JDeveloper 16 5 (0.196 %) VSS/SourceSafe 17 3 (0.117 %) ERwin	General 1 307 (12.02 %) Finance 2 282 (11.04 %) Telecoms 3 106 (4.150 %) Retail 4 88 (3.446 %) Health 5 86 (3.367 %) Pensions 6 82 (3.211 %) Marketing 7 70 (2.741 %) Billing 8 47 (1.840 %) Education 9 45 (1.762 %) Banking 10 43 (1.684 %) Financial Institution 11 31 (1.214 %) Government 12 30 (1.175 %) Insurance 13 21 (0.822 %) Auditing 14 19 (0.744 %) Online Banking 14 19 (0.744 %) Legal 15 18 (0.705 %) Back Office 16 12 (0.470 %) Electric 17 9 (0.352 %) Manufacturing 18 8 (0.313 %) Pharmaceutical 19 7 (0.274 %) Automotive
Job Titles 1 426 (16.68 %) Developer 2 334 (13.08 %) Analyst 3 249 (9.749 %) Support Engineer 4 206 (8.066 %) Consultant 5 169 (6.617 %) Applications Support 6 167 (6.539 %) Technical Support 7 151 (5.912 %) Architect 8 142 (5.560 %) Support Analyst 9 126 (4.933 %) Administrator 9 126 (4.933 %) UNIX Support 10 108 (4.229 %) Team Leader 11 107 (4.190 %) Technical Engineer 11 107 (4.190 %) Oracle Developer 12 104 (4.072 %) DBA 12 104 (4.072 %) UNIX Engineer 13 93 (3.641 %) Technical Support Engineer 14 90 (3.524 %) Java Developer 15 88 (3.446 %) Software Engineer 16 83 (3.250 %) C++ Developer 17 82 (3.211 %) Technical Consultant	Miscellaneous 1 75 (2.937 %) Clustering 2 62 (2.428 %) French Language 3 61 (2.388 %) German Language 4 56 (2.193 %) Client/Server 5 49 (1.919 %) Computer Science 6 31 (1.214 %) PMI 7 30 (1.175 %) IPTV 8 25 (0.979 %) Mainframe 9 21 (0.822 %) Spanish Language 10 19 (0.744 %) Fat Client 10 19 (0.744 %) Thin Client 10 19 (0.744 %) VAX 11 17 (0.666 %) Italian Language 12 13 (0.509 %) Management Information System 13 11 (0.431 %) HACMP 14 10 (0.392 %) IVR 15 9 (0.352 %) MPEG 15 9 (0.352 %) Handset 16 8 (0.313 %) Cryptography 16 8 (0.313 %) SecurID
Operating Systems 1 873 (34.18 %) Windows 2 850 (33.28 %) Linux 3 687 (26.90 %) Solaris 4 264 (10.34 %) AIX 5 228 (8.927 %) HPUX 6 209 (8.183 %) Windows NT 7 88 (3.446 %) Windows 2000 8 84 (3.289 %) SUSE 9 55 (2.153 %) Windows XP 10 48 (1.879 %) Windows Server 2003 11 33 (1.292 %) VMS 12 24 (0.940 %) Debian 13 11 (0.431 %) Ubuntu 13 11 (0.431 %) OpenVMS 14 10 (0.392 %) Fedora 15 7 (0.274 %) Tru64 15 7 (0.274 %) FreeBSD 16 4 (0.157 %) NetWare 17 3 (0.117 %) MVS 18 2 (0.078 %) Mac OS X	Processes & Methodologies 1 137 (5.364 %) OO 2 128 (5.012 %) ITIL 3 105 (4.111 %) Business Intelligence 4 94 (3.681 %) Configuration Management 5 92 (3.602 %) Change Management 6 90 (3.524 %) CRM 7 68 (2.662 %) Project Management 8 61 (2.388 %) Requirements Analysis 9 57 (2.232 %) Release Management 10 50 (1.958 %) PRINCE2 11 49 (1.919 %) UML 12 48 (1.879 %) Software Engineering 13 45 (1.762 %) Workflow 14 42 (1.644 %) Service Delivery 15 41 (1.605 %) Web Development 16 37 (1.449 %) OOD 17 34 (1.331 %) RAD 17 34 (1.331 %) Data Modelling 18 32 (1.253 %) SSADM 18 32 (1.253 %) Migration
Programming Languages 1 883 (34.57 %) SQL 2 603 (23.61 %) Java 3 425 (16.64 %) C 4 393 (15.39 %) Perl 5 321 (12.57 %) C++ 6 310 (12.14 %) PL/SQL 7 292 (11.43 %) Shell Script 8 140 (5.482 %) JavaScript 9 102 (3.994 %) PHP 10 100 (3.915 %) VB 11 82 (3.211 %) Python 12 47 (1.840 %) C# 13 38 (1.488 %) AWK 14 37 (1.449 %) Korn 15 23 (0.901 %) VB.NET 16 21 (0.822 %) Delphi 17 18 (0.705 %) Transact-SQL 17 18 (0.705 %) MUMPS 18 17 (0.666 %) VC++ 18 17 (0.666 %) VBScript	Qualifications 1 137 (5.364 %) Degree 2 61 (2.388 %) Cisco Certification 2 61 (2.388 %) Microsoft Certification 3 56 (2.193 %) MCSE 4 38 (1.488 %) Oracle Certification 5 37 (1.449 %) OCP 6 35 (1.370 %) CCNP 7 33 (1.292 %) CCNA 8 31 (1.214 %) ISEB 9 20 (0.783 %) PMP 9 20 (0.783 %) PMI Certification 10 17 (0.666 %) MCP 11 16 (0.626 %) CCIP 11 16 (0.626 %) CISSP 11 16 (0.626 %) PRINCE2 Certification 11 16 (0.626 %) ITIL Certification 12 15 (0.587 %) HND 13 14 (0.548 %) RHCE 14 13 (0.509 %) MCSA 15 11 (0.431 %) CCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 86 (3.367 %) QA 2 66 (2.584 %) SLA 3 31 (1.214 %) Sarbanes-Oxley 4 18 (0.705 %) ISO8583 5 15 (0.587 %) ISO27001 5 15 (0.587 %) COBIT 6 13 (0.509 %) ISO9000 7 3 (0.117 %) JSP 440	System Software 1 112 (4.385 %) Oracle RAC 2 88 (3.446 %) Active Directory 3 62 (2.428 %) NetBackup 4 33 (1.292 %) NFS 5 25 (0.979 %) Oracle RMAN 6 11 (0.431 %) ISA Server 7 6 (0.235 %) Backup Exec 8 3 (0.117 %) Squid 8 3 (0.117 %) NDS 9 2 (0.078 %) Samba 10 1 (0.039 %) ProxySG 10 1 (0.039 %) Nmap 10 1 (0.039 %) WebInspect 10 1 (0.039 %) AquaLogic 10 1 (0.039 %) Citrix Presentation Server 10 1 (0.039 %) VMware Server
Systems Management 1 55 (2.153 %) Tivoli 2 51 (1.997 %) EMC NetWorker 3 39 (1.527 %) OpenView 4 31 (1.214 %) Legato 5 24 (0.940 %) Netcool 6 23 (0.901 %) Tivoli Storage Manager 7 19 (0.744 %) Netcool/Proviso 8 15 (0.587 %) CiscoWorks 9 13 (0.509 %) Unicenter 10 9 (0.352 %) BMC PATROL 11 8 (0.313 %) MAILsweeper 12 7 (0.274 %) Netcool/Webtop 12 7 (0.274 %) Netcool/OMNIbus 13 4 (0.157 %) ServiceCenter 13 4 (0.157 %) Oracle Enterprise Manager 13 4 (0.157 %) MOM 13 4 (0.157 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 14 3 (0.117 %) BMC Performance Manager 14 3 (0.117 %) OVPM 15 2 (0.078 %) HP Data Protector	Vendors 1 1017 (39.82 %) Oracle 2 237 (9.280 %) Red Hat 3 214 (8.379 %) Sun 4 202 (7.909 %) Microsoft 5 155 (6.069 %) HP 6 137 (5.364 %) Cisco 7 119 (4.659 %) Sybase 8 118 (4.620 %) VERITAS 9 108 (4.229 %) SAP 10 106 (4.150 %) IBM 11 97 (3.798 %) EMC 12 91 (3.563 %) Business Objects 13 84 (3.289 %) Siebel 14 52 (2.036 %) CheckPoint 15 48 (1.879 %) BEA 16 44 (1.723 %) TIBCO 17 43 (1.684 %) Cognos 18 40 (1.566 %) Citrix 19 34 (1.331 %) Nortel 20 31 (1.214 %) CA