The first table below looks at the demand for UNIX skills in IT jobs advertised for the Cheshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited UNIX over the 3 months to 19 June 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 Cheshire region.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
UNIX
Rank 24 25 34
Rank change year-on-year
+1 +9
Permanent jobs citing UNIX 168 172 105
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cheshire 9.130% 7.956% 6.028%
As % of the Operating Systems category 30.32% 27.52% 20.43%
Number of salaries quoted 138 142 88
Average salary £42,500 £40,000 £45,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.25% -11.11%
90% offered a salary of more than £29,500 £31,150 £32,200
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £67,250 £62,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
All Operating Systems
Cheshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
554 625 514
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cheshire 30.11% 28.91% 29.51%
Number of salaries quoted 460 560 444
Average salary £37,000 £37,500 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-1.33% +7.14%
90% offered a salary of more than £22,500 £24,000 £23,000
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £60,000 £48,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
UNIX
North West

UNIX
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cheshire 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 Cheshire region.

Cheshire UNIX Salary Trend

UNIX
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing UNIX across the Cheshire region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

Cheshire 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 Cheshire region over the 3 months to 19 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
Knutsford +1 30 £42,500 -5.55% 1
Crewe +13 27 £47,500 +15.85% 3
Macclesfield +4 27 £34,000 -20.93%
Chester -3 26 £39,500 +5.33% 2
Warrington +18 11 £42,500 +21.42%
Northwich +5 2 £35,000 -
Runcorn -2 1 £23,980 -63.10%
UNIX
North West

UNIX
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Cheshire 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.

1 265 (68.83%) Linux
2 152 (39.48%) Finance
3 127 (32.99%) Java
4 100 (25.97%) AIX
5 80 (20.78%) SQL
6 78 (20.26%) Red Hat
7 77 (20.00%) Oracle
8 73 (18.96%) Windows
9 72 (18.70%) PHP
10 70 (18.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 62 (16.10%) Shell Script
12 59 (15.32%) Solaris
13 56 (14.55%) C
14 53 (13.77%) XML
15 52 (13.51%) TCP/IP
15 52 (13.51%) Middleware
16 51 (13.25%) HP
16 51 (13.25%) Web Services
16 51 (13.25%) .NET
17 50 (12.99%) Banking
18 49 (12.73%) WebSphere
18 49 (12.73%) IBM
19 43 (11.17%) Problem Management
20 41 (10.65%) ITIL
21 38 (9.870%) Stakeholder Management
22 36 (9.351%) Telecoms
23 35 (9.091%) Ab Initio
23 35 (9.091%) Perl
24 34 (8.831%) ASP.NET
24 34 (8.831%) Microsoft

UNIX
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Cheshire 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 53 (13.77%) XML
2 52 (13.51%) Middleware
3 51 (13.25%) Web Services
3 51 (13.25%) .NET
4 49 (12.73%) WebSphere
5 34 (8.831%) ASP.NET
6 32 (8.312%) Spring
7 29 (7.532%) HTML
8 26 (6.753%) SOAP
9 25 (6.494%) HTML5
10 24 (6.234%) WebSphere MQ
11 18 (4.675%) CSS
12 14 (3.636%) Hibernate
13 13 (3.377%) JMS
13 13 (3.377%) jQuery
13 13 (3.377%) Ajax
14 12 (3.117%) JSP
14 12 (3.117%) J2EE
15 11 (2.857%) JDBC
15 11 (2.857%) XSLT
Application Platforms
1 20 (5.195%) Apache
2 16 (4.156%) Tomcat
3 10 (2.597%) WebLogic
3 10 (2.597%) MS Exchange
4 8 (2.078%) SharePoint
5 7 (1.818%) SharePoint 2010
5 7 (1.818%) Lync
6 6 (1.558%) Jetty
6 6 (1.558%) WebLogic Portal
7 5 (1.299%) Magento
8 4 (1.039%) Exchange Server 2010
8 4 (1.039%) SAS
9 3 (0.779%) Drupal
10 2 (0.519%) WebSphere Application Server
10 2 (0.519%) IIS
10 2 (0.519%) CICS
10 2 (0.519%) Oracle Workflow
11 1 (0.260%) IBM HTTP Server
11 1 (0.260%) Oracle HTTP Server
11 1 (0.260%) Exchange Server 2007
Applications
1 13 (3.377%) MS Excel
2 7 (1.818%) MS Office
3 5 (1.299%) MS Visio
4 4 (1.039%) MS PowerPoint
5 3 (0.779%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 12 (3.117%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.519%) Oracle CRM
3 1 (0.260%) Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 52 (13.51%) TCP/IP
2 30 (7.792%) HTTP
3 25 (6.494%) SAN
4 14 (3.636%) Internet
5 12 (3.117%) LDAP
6 10 (2.597%) IMAP
6 10 (2.597%) SSL
7 7 (1.818%) SMTP
7 7 (1.818%) FTP
8 6 (1.558%) SMS
8 6 (1.558%) Firewall
9 5 (1.299%) WAN
9 5 (1.299%) Unified Communications
10 4 (1.039%) DNS
10 4 (1.039%) LAN
11 3 (0.779%) Ethernet
11 3 (0.779%) VoIP
11 3 (0.779%) VPN
11 3 (0.779%) NAS
12 2 (0.519%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (8.312%) SQL Server
2 21 (5.455%) Oracle 10g
3 17 (4.416%) DB2
4 16 (4.156%) RDBMS
5 14 (3.636%) Oracle 11g
6 12 (3.117%) Oracle Discoverer
6 12 (3.117%) MySQL
6 12 (3.117%) Essbase
7 9 (2.338%) SQL Server 2005
8 6 (1.558%) Oracle 8/8i
8 6 (1.558%) Data Warehouse
9 5 (1.299%) SQL Server 2000
10 4 (1.039%) NonStop SQL
10 4 (1.039%) Big Data
11 3 (0.779%) DataStage
11 3 (0.779%) Oracle Reports
11 3 (0.779%) Oracle 9i
12 2 (0.519%) SQL Server 2012
12 2 (0.519%) SQL Server 2008
12 2 (0.519%) MS Access
Development Applications
1 24 (6.234%) JUnit
2 19 (4.935%) Subversion
3 17 (4.416%) Visual Studio
4 13 (3.377%) Maven
5 12 (3.117%) Ant
6 10 (2.597%) LoadRunner
7 6 (1.558%) JIRA
7 6 (1.558%) Log4j
8 4 (1.039%) Hudson
8 4 (1.039%) Oracle Forms
8 4 (1.039%) ChangeMan
8 4 (1.039%) Jenkins
9 3 (0.779%) ProC
10 2 (0.519%) Team Foundation Server
11 1 (0.260%) ClearCase
11 1 (0.260%) Eclipse
11 1 (0.260%) Oracle APEX
11 1 (0.260%) PHPUnit
General
1 152 (39.48%) Finance
2 50 (12.99%) Banking
3 36 (9.351%) Telecoms
4 21 (5.455%) Retail
5 18 (4.675%) Financial Institution
6 7 (1.818%) Retail Banking
7 5 (1.299%) Legal
8 4 (1.039%) Corporate Banking
8 4 (1.039%) Private Banking
8 4 (1.039%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.260%) Games
9 1 (0.260%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 111 (28.83%) Developer
2 70 (18.18%) Administrator
3 54 (14.03%) Analyst
4 47 (12.21%) Systems Administrator
5 43 (11.17%) Linux Administrator
6 40 (10.39%) Linux Systems Administrator
7 38 (9.870%) Applications Support
8 27 (7.013%) Team Leader
8 27 (7.013%) Support Engineer
9 26 (6.753%) Ab Initio Developer
10 25 (6.494%) Support Analyst
11 24 (6.234%) Infrastructure Analyst
12 23 (5.974%) Java Developer
13 22 (5.714%) UNIX Administrator
14 19 (4.935%) UNIX Systems Administrator
15 17 (4.416%) Architect
15 17 (4.416%) DBA
15 17 (4.416%) UNIX Team Leader
16 16 (4.156%) Progress Developer
17 15 (3.896%) Infrastructure Manager
Miscellaneous
1 26 (6.753%) Replication
2 25 (6.494%) Fixed Income
3 24 (6.234%) Clustering
4 22 (5.714%) Mainframe
5 17 (4.416%) Computer Science
6 10 (2.597%) Management Information System
7 9 (2.338%) Handset
7 9 (2.338%) Online Banking
8 8 (2.078%) IBM Mainframe
9 6 (1.558%) Tandem
10 5 (1.299%) Mobile App
10 5 (1.299%) PMI
10 5 (1.299%) Cryptography
11 4 (1.039%) Open Source
11 4 (1.039%) Client/Server
11 4 (1.039%) AS400
12 3 (0.779%) PKI
13 2 (0.519%) SWIFT
13 2 (0.519%) iSeries
13 2 (0.519%) IVR
Operating Systems
1 265 (68.83%) Linux
2 100 (25.97%) AIX
3 73 (18.96%) Windows
4 70 (18.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 59 (15.32%) Solaris
6 25 (6.494%) HPUX
7 9 (2.338%) Windows Server 2008
8 8 (2.078%) VMS
9 6 (1.558%) Ubuntu
9 6 (1.558%) CentOS
9 6 (1.558%) Windows Server 2003
9 6 (1.558%) Fedora
10 4 (1.039%) OpenVMS
10 4 (1.039%) zOS
11 3 (0.779%) Apple iOS
12 2 (0.519%) Mac OS
12 2 (0.519%) Android
12 2 (0.519%) Windows NT
12 2 (0.519%) Windows CE
12 2 (0.519%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (11.17%) Problem Management
2 41 (10.65%) ITIL
3 38 (9.870%) Stakeholder Management
4 34 (8.831%) Multithreading
5 29 (7.532%) Risk Management
6 28 (7.273%) Configuration Management
6 28 (7.273%) High Availability
7 27 (7.013%) Web Development
7 27 (7.013%) Project Management
7 27 (7.013%) ETL
8 25 (6.494%) Agile Software Development
8 25 (6.494%) Parallel Processing
8 25 (6.494%) Service Delivery
9 24 (6.234%) Incident Management
10 21 (5.455%) Performance Management
11 20 (5.195%) Requirements Management
12 17 (4.416%) MVC
12 17 (4.416%) Scrum
12 17 (4.416%) Business Intelligence
12 17 (4.416%) E-Commerce
Programming Languages
1 127 (32.99%) Java
2 80 (20.78%) SQL
3 72 (18.70%) PHP
4 62 (16.10%) Shell Script
5 56 (14.55%) C
6 35 (9.091%) Perl
7 31 (8.052%) PL/SQL
8 29 (7.532%) JavaScript
8 29 (7.532%) C++
9 25 (6.494%) Python
9 25 (6.494%) C#
10 22 (5.714%) Golang
11 10 (2.597%) JCL
12 8 (2.078%) Ruby
13 7 (1.818%) COBOL
13 7 (1.818%) Bash shell
14 5 (1.299%) VB.NET
15 3 (0.779%) Objective-C
15 3 (0.779%) PHP5
15 3 (0.779%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 34 (8.831%) Degree
2 13 (3.377%) Security Cleared
3 12 (3.117%) SC Cleared
4 5 (1.299%) PMI Certification
5 3 (0.779%) Sun Certification
5 3 (0.779%) ITIL Certification
6 2 (0.519%) OCP
6 2 (0.519%) Oracle Certification
6 2 (0.519%) PhD
7 1 (0.260%) CCNA
7 1 (0.260%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.260%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.260%) EMC Certification
7 1 (0.260%) HND
7 1 (0.260%) MCSA
7 1 (0.260%) MCITP
7 1 (0.260%) MCTS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (3.377%) SLA
2 10 (2.597%) QA
3 3 (0.779%) Data Quality
System Software
1 14 (3.636%) Oracle RMAN
2 8 (2.078%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.299%) Veritas Volume Manager
4 4 (1.039%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (1.039%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
5 2 (0.519%) Oracle RAC
5 2 (0.519%) VMware ESX
6 1 (0.260%) NFS
6 1 (0.260%) PowerHA
6 1 (0.260%) Sendmail
6 1 (0.260%) EMC RecoverPoint
Systems Management
1 14 (3.636%) Data Guard
2 12 (3.117%) Tivoli
3 4 (1.039%) CA Endevor
3 4 (1.039%) Tivoli Monitoring
4 3 (0.779%) Tivoli Storage Manager
5 2 (0.519%) EMC NetWorker
6 1 (0.260%) NetBackup
6 1 (0.260%) Backup Exec
Vendors
1 78 (20.26%) Red Hat
2 77 (20.00%) Oracle
3 51 (13.25%) HP
4 49 (12.73%) IBM
5 35 (9.091%) Ab Initio
6 34 (8.831%) Microsoft
7 22 (5.714%) Google
8 13 (3.377%) Siebel
9 12 (3.117%) Fujitsu
9 12 (3.117%) Citrix
9 12 (3.117%) Hyperion
10 9 (2.338%) Informatica
10 9 (2.338%) Sun
10 9 (2.338%) JBoss
11 8 (2.078%) TIBCO
12 6 (1.558%) Zend
12 6 (1.558%) Business Objects
12 6 (1.558%) EMC
12 6 (1.558%) Cognos
12 6 (1.558%) Vitria
Crewe, North West
Being established for over 25years internationally and one of main players in their market space this is a fantastic opportunity for someone who wants to progress their career...
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Salary: £38000 - £47000 per annum
Posted: 12 June 2013
Cheshire
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Salary: Unspecified Excellent package reflective of the seniority of the role
Posted: 17 June 2013
Crewe, North West
Senior Java Development Analyst - £40,000 - £47,000 (depending on experience)Crewe A very well established compamy listed on the London Stock Exchange and a scecialist market maker...
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Salary: £40000 - £47000 per annum
Posted: 29 May 2013
Chester, Cheshire
Spring Technology are working for an amazing client who are looking for a Web Developer to join a well established and thriving business in Chester. This company has...
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Salary: £27000.00 - £37000.00 per annum
Posted: 14 June 2013
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Salary: £40000 - £55000 per annum
Posted: 3 June 2013
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Salary: £40000.00 - £47000.00 per annum + Excellent benefits
Posted: 12 June 2013
Cheshire
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Salary: £40000.00 - £47000.00 per annum + Excellent benefits
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Salary: From £35,000 to £50,000 per annum excellent holidays and benefits
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greywood
Salary: £45000 per annum + Bens
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