The first table below looks at the demand for the UNIX Administrator role in IT jobs advertised for the Cheshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited UNIX Administrator in their job title 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 Job Titles advertised for the Cheshire region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
UNIX Administrator
Rank 120 - 116
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Permanent jobs requiring a UNIX Administrator 3 0 3
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cheshire 0.167% - 0.182%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.174% - 0.193%
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 3
Average salary £37,500 - £37,500
90% offered a salary of more than £35,500 - £35,500
10% offered a salary of more than £39,500 - £41,100
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £39,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year
+2.56% -8.23%
All Job Titles
Cheshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
1725 1916 1556
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cheshire 95.89% 95.42% 94.25%
Number of salaries quoted 1371 1684 1327
Average salary £35,000 £35,000 £35,000
90% offered a salary of more than £23,100 £23,000 £22,500
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
UNIX Administrator
North West

UNIX Administrator
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing UNIX Administrator across the Cheshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Cheshire UNIX Administrator Jobs Demand Trend

UNIX Administrator
Salary Trend

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

Cheshire UNIX Administrator Salary Trend

UNIX Administrator
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing UNIX Administrator within the Cheshire 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
Chester - 3 £37,500 -
UNIX Administrator
North West

UNIX Administrator
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cheshire region that cited UNIX Administrator in their job title 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 with UNIX Administrator in their job title.

1 26 (100.00%) UNIX
1 26 (100.00%) AIX
2 20 (76.92%) Finance
3 18 (69.23%) Linux
4 17 (65.38%) Red Hat
4 17 (65.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 13 (50.00%) IBM
6 12 (46.15%) HP
6 12 (46.15%) Problem Management
7 11 (42.31%) Clustering
7 11 (42.31%) SAN
7 11 (42.31%) Configuration Management
8 10 (38.46%) Replication
8 10 (38.46%) Change Management
8 10 (38.46%) High Availability
9 9 (34.62%) WebSphere
9 9 (34.62%) WebSphere MQ
9 9 (34.62%) C
9 9 (34.62%) Perl
9 9 (34.62%) PHP
10 3 (11.54%) Solaris
10 3 (11.54%) Windows
10 3 (11.54%) EMC
10 3 (11.54%) Sun
10 3 (11.54%) Shell Script
10 3 (11.54%) Service Delivery
11 2 (7.692%) CentOS
11 2 (7.692%) NAS
11 2 (7.692%) Network Management
11 2 (7.692%) Fedora

UNIX Administrator
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cheshire region that cited UNIX Administrator in their job title 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 with UNIX Administrator in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 9 (34.62%) WebSphere
Application Platforms
1 9 (34.62%) WebSphere MQ
Applications
1 1 (3.846%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 11 (42.31%) SAN
2 2 (7.692%) NAS
2 2 (7.692%) HTTP
3 1 (3.846%) DNS
General
1 20 (76.92%) Finance
2 2 (7.692%) Financial Institution
Miscellaneous
1 11 (42.31%) Clustering
2 10 (38.46%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 26 (100.00%) UNIX
1 26 (100.00%) AIX
2 18 (69.23%) Linux
3 17 (65.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (11.54%) Solaris
4 3 (11.54%) Windows
5 2 (7.692%) CentOS
5 2 (7.692%) Fedora
6 1 (3.846%) Mac OS X
6 1 (3.846%) Debian
6 1 (3.846%) Tru64
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (46.15%) Problem Management
2 11 (42.31%) Configuration Management
3 10 (38.46%) Change Management
3 10 (38.46%) High Availability
4 3 (11.54%) Service Delivery
5 2 (7.692%) Network Management
5 2 (7.692%) Risk Management
5 2 (7.692%) Migration
6 1 (3.846%) ITIL
6 1 (3.846%) Service Management
6 1 (3.846%) Project Management
6 1 (3.846%) Change Control
Programming Languages
1 9 (34.62%) C
1 9 (34.62%) Perl
1 9 (34.62%) PHP
2 3 (11.54%) Shell Script
3 1 (3.846%) VBScript
3 1 (3.846%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (3.846%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.846%) QA
System Software
1 1 (3.846%) VMware ESX
1 1 (3.846%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (3.846%) PowerHA
Vendors
1 17 (65.38%) Red Hat
2 13 (50.00%) IBM
3 12 (46.15%) HP
4 3 (11.54%) EMC
4 3 (11.54%) Sun
5 1 (3.846%) VMware