The first table below looks at the demand for UNIX skills in IT jobs advertised for the Chester region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited UNIX over the 3 months to 18 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 Chester region.

Location
3 months to
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
UNIX
Rank 21 17 53
Rank change year-on-year
-4 +36
Permanent jobs citing UNIX 28 20 5
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Chester 9.150% 12.05% 1.736%
As % of the Operating Systems category 40.00% 37.04% 10.00%
Number of salaries quoted 8 17 3
Average salary £39,500 £37,500 £44,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+5.33% -14.77%
90% offered a salary of more than £28,544 £30,000 £34,000
10% offered a salary of more than £46,500 £42,200 £65,800
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
All Operating Systems
Chester
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
70 54 50
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Chester 22.88% 32.53% 17.36%
Number of salaries quoted 31 48 47
Average salary £35,750 £32,500 £27,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+10.00% +20.37%
90% offered a salary of more than £23,980 £23,500 £16,500
10% offered a salary of more than £41,000 £34,000 £37,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
UNIX
Cheshire

UNIX
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Chester 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 Chester region.

Chester UNIX Salary Trend

UNIX
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing UNIX across the Chester region over the 3 months to 18 June 2013.

Chester UNIX Salary Histogram

UNIX
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT jobs across the Chester 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 42 (58.33%) Web Services
2 29 (40.28%) Ab Initio
3 27 (37.50%) Linux
4 26 (36.11%) ETL
5 24 (33.33%) XML
6 22 (30.56%) Shell Script
7 21 (29.17%) Finance
8 19 (26.39%) C#
8 19 (26.39%) .NET
8 19 (26.39%) Requirements Management
9 18 (25.00%) Microsoft
10 17 (23.61%) Business Intelligence
11 16 (22.22%) SOAP
11 16 (22.22%) Visual Studio
12 13 (18.06%) ASP.NET
12 13 (18.06%) Windows
13 11 (15.28%) HTTP
14 10 (13.89%) IBM
14 10 (13.89%) Financial Institution
14 10 (13.89%) Middleware
15 9 (12.50%) Risk Management
15 9 (12.50%) E-Commerce
15 9 (12.50%) AIX
16 8 (11.11%) Tivoli
16 8 (11.11%) Agile Software Development
17 7 (9.722%) Scrum
17 7 (9.722%) JCL
17 7 (9.722%) ITIL
18 6 (8.333%) OO
18 6 (8.333%) MS Office

UNIX
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT jobs across the Chester 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 42 (58.33%) Web Services
2 24 (33.33%) XML
3 19 (26.39%) .NET
4 16 (22.22%) SOAP
5 13 (18.06%) ASP.NET
6 10 (13.89%) Middleware
7 4 (5.556%) ISPF
7 4 (5.556%) COM
7 4 (5.556%) CSS
7 4 (5.556%) HTML
8 2 (2.778%) .NET Framework
8 2 (2.778%) WCF
8 2 (2.778%) jQuery
8 2 (2.778%) ASP.NET MVC
8 2 (2.778%) HTML5
8 2 (2.778%) LAMP
8 2 (2.778%) Spring
8 2 (2.778%) Ajax
8 2 (2.778%) CSS3
9 1 (1.389%) Hibernate
Application Platforms
1 4 (5.556%) SAS
2 2 (2.778%) Apache
3 1 (1.389%) Tomcat
3 1 (1.389%) MS Exchange
3 1 (1.389%) IIS
Applications
1 6 (8.333%) MS Office
1 6 (8.333%) MS Excel
2 4 (5.556%) MS Visio
3 3 (4.167%) MS PowerPoint
4 2 (2.778%) Photoshop
Communications & Networking
1 11 (15.28%) HTTP
2 2 (2.778%) SAN
2 2 (2.778%) Firewall
2 2 (2.778%) NAS
2 2 (2.778%) Unified Communications
3 1 (1.389%) IMAP
3 1 (1.389%) Internet
3 1 (1.389%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.389%) DNS
3 1 (1.389%) LDAP
3 1 (1.389%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (8.333%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (5.556%) DB2
2 4 (5.556%) Big Data
3 3 (4.167%) Oracle 8/8i
3 3 (4.167%) SQL Server
3 3 (4.167%) DataStage
4 2 (2.778%) SQL Server 2005
4 2 (2.778%) MySQL
4 2 (2.778%) SQL Server 2008
5 1 (1.389%) Base SAS
5 1 (1.389%) Data Mart
Development Applications
1 16 (22.22%) Visual Studio
2 4 (5.556%) ChangeMan
General
1 21 (29.17%) Finance
2 10 (13.89%) Financial Institution
3 5 (6.944%) Banking
3 5 (6.944%) Retail
4 4 (5.556%) Investment Banking
4 4 (5.556%) Retail Banking
4 4 (5.556%) Private Banking
5 1 (1.389%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 47 (65.28%) Developer
2 26 (36.11%) Ab Initio Developer
3 10 (13.89%) C# Developer
4 7 (9.722%) Administrator
5 6 (8.333%) Analyst
6 5 (6.944%) .NET Developer
6 5 (6.944%) UNIX Administrator
7 4 (5.556%) Incident Analyst
7 4 (5.556%) Automation Specialist
7 4 (5.556%) Management Consultant
7 4 (5.556%) Web Developer
7 4 (5.556%) Consultant
8 3 (4.167%) Systems Administrator
9 2 (2.778%) Senior Developer
9 2 (2.778%) Support Analyst
9 2 (2.778%) UNIX Systems Administrator
9 2 (2.778%) Software Developer
9 2 (2.778%) Architect
9 2 (2.778%) PHP MySQL Developer
9 2 (2.778%) Domain Architect
Miscellaneous
1 4 (5.556%) Online Banking
2 3 (4.167%) IBM Mainframe
2 3 (4.167%) Mainframe
3 2 (2.778%) Device Driver
4 1 (1.389%) Clustering
4 1 (1.389%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.389%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 27 (37.50%) Linux
2 13 (18.06%) Windows
3 9 (12.50%) AIX
4 5 (6.944%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (5.556%) Solaris
6 2 (2.778%) CentOS
6 2 (2.778%) Fedora
6 2 (2.778%) Windows CE
7 1 (1.389%) Tru64
7 1 (1.389%) Debian
7 1 (1.389%) Ubuntu
7 1 (1.389%) Windows Server 2008
7 1 (1.389%) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (36.11%) ETL
2 19 (26.39%) Requirements Management
3 17 (23.61%) Business Intelligence
4 9 (12.50%) E-Commerce
4 9 (12.50%) Risk Management
5 8 (11.11%) Agile Software Development
6 7 (9.722%) Scrum
6 7 (9.722%) ITIL
7 6 (8.333%) OO
8 5 (6.944%) OOP
8 5 (6.944%) Project Management
9 4 (5.556%) MVC
9 4 (5.556%) SOA
9 4 (5.556%) Asset Management
9 4 (5.556%) Incident Management
9 4 (5.556%) Wealth Management
9 4 (5.556%) Investment Management
9 4 (5.556%) Kanban
10 3 (4.167%) RUP
10 3 (4.167%) DSDM
Programming Languages
1 22 (30.56%) Shell Script
2 19 (26.39%) C#
3 7 (9.722%) JCL
4 4 (5.556%) JavaScript
4 4 (5.556%) Perl
4 4 (5.556%) PHP
5 3 (4.167%) SQL
5 3 (4.167%) COBOL
5 3 (4.167%) Java
6 2 (2.778%) PowerShell
7 1 (1.389%) Bash shell
7 1 (1.389%) C
7 1 (1.389%) VBScript
7 1 (1.389%) Korn
7 1 (1.389%) SAS Macro
Qualifications
1 2 (2.778%) Degree
2 1 (1.389%) HND
2 1 (1.389%) MCSA
2 1 (1.389%) CCNA
2 1 (1.389%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (1.389%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (1.389%) MCTS
2 1 (1.389%) MCITP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.389%) QA
System Software
1 4 (5.556%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
2 2 (2.778%) VMware ESX
2 2 (2.778%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.389%) PowerHA
Systems Management
1 8 (11.11%) Tivoli
2 4 (5.556%) Tivoli Monitoring
2 4 (5.556%) CA Endevor
Vendors
1 29 (40.28%) Ab Initio
2 18 (25.00%) Microsoft
3 10 (13.89%) IBM
4 6 (8.333%) Red Hat
5 5 (6.944%) Oracle
6 4 (5.556%) HP
7 3 (4.167%) EMC
7 3 (4.167%) Sun
7 3 (4.167%) Siebel
7 3 (4.167%) VMware
7 3 (4.167%) Teradata
8 2 (2.778%) Adobe
9 1 (1.389%) TIBCO
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