The first table below looks at the demand for UNIX skills in IT jobs advertised for the Cheltenham region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited UNIX over the 3 months to 21 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 Cheltenham region.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
UNIX
Rank 30 7 7
Rank change year-on-year
-23 0
Permanent jobs citing UNIX 10 85 38
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cheltenham 4.651% 21.36% 15.83%
As % of the Operating Systems category 20.41% 55.92% 53.52%
Number of salaries quoted 8 45 31
Average salary £42,500 £45,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-5.55% +12.50%
90% offered a salary of more than £37,500 £34,000 £33,500
10% offered a salary of more than £46,500 £52,500 £52,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
All Operating Systems
Cheltenham
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
49 152 71
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cheltenham 22.79% 38.19% 29.58%
Number of salaries quoted 46 103 60
Average salary £42,500 £42,500 £36,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +16.43%
90% offered a salary of more than £32,500 £32,500 £26,550
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
UNIX
Gloucestershire

UNIX
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cheltenham 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 Cheltenham region.

Cheltenham UNIX Salary Trend

UNIX
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing UNIX across the Cheltenham region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

Cheltenham UNIX Salary Histogram

UNIX
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cheltenham 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 29 (85.29%) Linux
1 29 (85.29%) Security Cleared
2 27 (79.41%) Shell Script
3 26 (76.47%) DV Cleared
4 23 (67.65%) Perl
4 23 (67.65%) DHCP
4 23 (67.65%) DNS
5 18 (52.94%) Solaris
6 14 (41.18%) Clustering
6 14 (41.18%) HPUX
7 13 (38.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 7 (20.59%) SQL
8 7 (20.59%) HP
9 6 (17.65%) Java
10 5 (14.71%) C
10 5 (14.71%) VB
10 5 (14.71%) Oracle
10 5 (14.71%) Citrix
11 4 (11.76%) Oracle RAC
11 4 (11.76%) Oracle 11g
11 4 (11.76%) User Acceptance Testing
11 4 (11.76%) Military
11 4 (11.76%) Data Guard
11 4 (11.76%) Capacity Planning
11 4 (11.76%) Oracle RMAN
11 4 (11.76%) Speech Recognition
11 4 (11.76%) Software Engineering
11 4 (11.76%) ISEB
11 4 (11.76%) Red Hat
11 4 (11.76%) OLTP

UNIX
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cheltenham 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 2 (5.882%) LAMP
2 1 (2.941%) ODBC
Application Platforms
1 2 (5.882%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (5.882%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 23 (67.65%) DHCP
1 23 (67.65%) DNS
2 3 (8.824%) TCP/IP
3 2 (5.882%) Firewall
4 1 (2.941%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (11.76%) Oracle 11g
1 4 (11.76%) OLTP
1 4 (11.76%) Oracle 10g
1 4 (11.76%) Oracle Reports
1 4 (11.76%) Oracle 9i
2 2 (5.882%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (2.941%) TestDirector
1 1 (2.941%) LoadRunner
1 1 (2.941%) Rational Functional Tester
General
1 4 (11.76%) Military
2 2 (5.882%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 18 (52.94%) Linux Engineer
1 18 (52.94%) UNIX Engineer
2 9 (26.47%) Consultant
3 5 (14.71%) UNIX Consultant
3 5 (14.71%) Linux Consultant
4 4 (11.76%) DBA
4 4 (11.76%) Technical Consultant
4 4 (11.76%) Administrator
4 4 (11.76%) Oracle DBA
5 1 (2.941%) Tester
5 1 (2.941%) Systems Tester
5 1 (2.941%) HPUX Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 14 (41.18%) Clustering
2 4 (11.76%) Speech Recognition
3 1 (2.941%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 29 (85.29%) Linux
2 18 (52.94%) Solaris
3 14 (41.18%) HPUX
4 13 (38.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (8.824%) Windows
6 1 (2.941%) Windows XP
6 1 (2.941%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (11.76%) User Acceptance Testing
1 4 (11.76%) Capacity Planning
1 4 (11.76%) Software Engineering
1 4 (11.76%) Root Cause Analysis
2 2 (5.882%) Service Management
2 2 (5.882%) Project Management
3 1 (2.941%) ITIL
3 1 (2.941%) Service Delivery
3 1 (2.941%) Test Scripting
3 1 (2.941%) Software Deployment
Programming Languages
1 27 (79.41%) Shell Script
2 23 (67.65%) Perl
3 7 (20.59%) SQL
4 6 (17.65%) Java
5 5 (14.71%) C
5 5 (14.71%) VB
6 4 (11.76%) PL/SQL
6 4 (11.76%) C#
6 4 (11.76%) C++
6 4 (11.76%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 29 (85.29%) Security Cleared
2 26 (76.47%) DV Cleared
3 4 (11.76%) ISEB
4 3 (8.824%) Degree
System Software
1 4 (11.76%) Oracle RAC
1 4 (11.76%) Oracle RMAN
2 2 (5.882%) Active Directory
3 1 (2.941%) NFS
3 1 (2.941%) Microsoft App-V
3 1 (2.941%) Citrix Presentation Server
Systems Management
1 4 (11.76%) Data Guard
2 1 (2.941%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 7 (20.59%) HP
2 5 (14.71%) Oracle
2 5 (14.71%) Citrix
3 4 (11.76%) Red Hat
4 3 (8.824%) Microsoft
5 2 (5.882%) Cisco
6 1 (2.941%) Altiris
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