The first table below looks at the demand for AWK skills in IT jobs advertised for the City of London region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited AWK over the 3 months to 23 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 Programming Languages category for the City of London region.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
AWK
Rank 313 310 299
Rank change year-on-year
-3 -11
Permanent jobs citing AWK 7 18 28
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the City of London 0.060% 0.138% 0.179%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.113% 0.258% 0.330%
Number of salaries quoted 7 15 27
Average salary £50,000 £42,500 £52,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+17.64% -19.04%
UK excluding London average salary £45,000 £38,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
+16.88% +10.00%
All Programming Languages
City of London
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
6219 6964 8495
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the City of London 53.62% 53.30% 54.37%
Number of salaries quoted 5503 6516 7632
Average salary £52,500 £52,500 £55,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- -4.54%
90% offered a salary of more than £35,000 £35,000 £35,000
10% offered a salary of more than £75,000 £85,000 £80,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
AWK
London

AWK
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing AWK across the City of London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.

City of London AWK Jobs Demand Trend

AWK
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing AWK across the City of London region.

City of London AWK Salary Trend

AWK
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the City of London region citing AWK 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 AWK.

1 20 (83.33%) Perl
2 18 (75.00%) sed
3 17 (70.83%) Python
4 16 (66.67%) Bash shell
5 15 (62.50%) MySQL
5 15 (62.50%) Linux
6 12 (50.00%) PHP
7 11 (45.83%) DNS
7 11 (45.83%) Nagios
7 11 (45.83%) Puppet
8 10 (41.67%) Cacti
8 10 (41.67%) Ruby
8 10 (41.67%) Configuration Management
9 9 (37.50%) FreeBSD
9 9 (37.50%) Streaming Media
9 9 (37.50%) Load Balancing
9 9 (37.50%) Release Management
9 9 (37.50%) Zenoss
9 9 (37.50%) Change Control
9 9 (37.50%) Root Cause Analysis
10 7 (29.17%) Solaris
10 7 (29.17%) SQL
10 7 (29.17%) Oracle
10 7 (29.17%) UNIX
11 6 (25.00%) SMTP
11 6 (25.00%) HTTP
11 6 (25.00%) Cisco
11 6 (25.00%) Degree
12 5 (20.83%) Open Source
12 5 (20.83%) PostgreSQL

AWK
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the City of London region citing AWK 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 AWK. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 4 (16.67%) LAMP
2 2 (8.333%) Middleware
2 2 (8.333%) Regular Expression
3 1 (4.167%) JMS
3 1 (4.167%) J2EE
3 1 (4.167%) ASP
3 1 (4.167%) JMX
Application Platforms
1 3 (12.50%) WebLogic
2 1 (4.167%) Apache
2 1 (4.167%) Tomcat
Communications & Networking
1 11 (45.83%) DNS
2 6 (25.00%) SMTP
2 6 (25.00%) HTTP
3 5 (20.83%) SAN
4 4 (16.67%) OSPF
4 4 (16.67%) BGP
4 4 (16.67%) FTP
4 4 (16.67%) SMS
5 2 (8.333%) IPv4
5 2 (8.333%) IPv6
5 2 (8.333%) VPN
5 2 (8.333%) VoIP
5 2 (8.333%) LDAP
5 2 (8.333%) DHCP
5 2 (8.333%) Ethernet
5 2 (8.333%) SSL
5 2 (8.333%) SSH
5 2 (8.333%) Wireless
5 2 (8.333%) IPsec
5 2 (8.333%) tcpdump
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (62.50%) MySQL
2 5 (20.83%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (16.67%) ObjectStore
3 4 (16.67%) NoSQL
4 3 (12.50%) SQL Server
5 2 (8.333%) VLDB
5 2 (8.333%) OLTP
6 1 (4.167%) DB2
Development Applications
1 2 (8.333%) Subversion
1 2 (8.333%) Git (software)
General
1 3 (12.50%) Finance
2 2 (8.333%) Banking
3 1 (4.167%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 13 (54.17%) Administrator
2 11 (45.83%) Systems Administrator
3 9 (37.50%) Senior Systems Administrator
4 7 (29.17%) Linux Systems Administrator
4 7 (29.17%) Linux Administrator
5 5 (20.83%) Senior Linux Administrator
5 5 (20.83%) Senior Linux Systems Administrator
6 3 (12.50%) Applications Support
6 3 (12.50%) UNIX Administrator
7 2 (8.333%) UNIX Support
7 2 (8.333%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (8.333%) Storage Systems Administrator
8 1 (4.167%) 2nd Line Support
8 1 (4.167%) Applications Support Analyst
8 1 (4.167%) UNIX Systems Administrator
8 1 (4.167%) Solaris Administrator
8 1 (4.167%) Linux Engineer
8 1 (4.167%) Solaris Systems Administrator
8 1 (4.167%) Analyst
8 1 (4.167%) Systems Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 9 (37.50%) Streaming Media
2 5 (20.83%) Open Source
3 4 (16.67%) Social Network
3 4 (16.67%) Computer Science
4 3 (12.50%) Clustering
5 2 (8.333%) Digital Media
6 1 (4.167%) CMDB
6 1 (4.167%) SaaS
6 1 (4.167%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (4.167%) Grid Computing
Operating Systems
1 15 (62.50%) Linux
2 9 (37.50%) FreeBSD
3 7 (29.17%) Solaris
3 7 (29.17%) UNIX
4 4 (16.67%) Debian
5 3 (12.50%) SUSE
6 2 (8.333%) HPUX
7 1 (4.167%) Windows 7
7 1 (4.167%) Windows Server 2008
7 1 (4.167%) CentOS
7 1 (4.167%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (4.167%) Fedora
7 1 (4.167%) Gentoo
7 1 (4.167%) Windows
7 1 (4.167%) AIX
7 1 (4.167%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (41.67%) Configuration Management
2 9 (37.50%) Load Balancing
2 9 (37.50%) Release Management
2 9 (37.50%) Change Control
2 9 (37.50%) Root Cause Analysis
3 3 (12.50%) Change Management
4 2 (8.333%) Benchmarking
4 2 (8.333%) Business Continuity
4 2 (8.333%) Disaster Recovery
4 2 (8.333%) Network Management
4 2 (8.333%) Capacity Planning
5 1 (4.167%) Risk Analysis
5 1 (4.167%) Asset Management
5 1 (4.167%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 20 (83.33%) Perl
2 18 (75.00%) sed
3 17 (70.83%) Python
4 16 (66.67%) Bash shell
5 12 (50.00%) PHP
6 10 (41.67%) Ruby
7 7 (29.17%) SQL
8 4 (16.67%) Korn
9 3 (12.50%) Bourne shell
10 2 (8.333%) Shell Script
11 1 (4.167%) C-shell
11 1 (4.167%) Java
Qualifications
1 6 (25.00%) Degree
2 3 (12.50%) SC Cleared
2 3 (12.50%) CTC Cleared
2 3 (12.50%) Security Cleared
3 2 (8.333%) Sun Certification
4 1 (4.167%) RHCE
System Software
1 3 (12.50%) Veritas Volume Manager
1 3 (12.50%) Samba
2 2 (8.333%) NFS
2 2 (8.333%) Veritas File System
2 2 (8.333%) Xen
3 1 (4.167%) Veritas Cluster Server
3 1 (4.167%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 11 (45.83%) Nagios
1 11 (45.83%) Puppet
2 10 (41.67%) Cacti
3 9 (37.50%) Zenoss
4 2 (8.333%) NetBackup
5 1 (4.167%) Red Hat Spacewalk
5 1 (4.167%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 7 (29.17%) Oracle
2 6 (25.00%) Cisco
3 4 (16.67%) Juniper
4 3 (12.50%) BEA
4 3 (12.50%) Veritas
4 3 (12.50%) Red Hat
4 3 (12.50%) Sun
5 2 (8.333%) Microsoft
5 2 (8.333%) HP
6 1 (4.167%) F5
6 1 (4.167%) Fujitsu
6 1 (4.167%) ION Trading
6 1 (4.167%) Patsystems
6 1 (4.167%) GL TRADE
6 1 (4.167%) JBoss
6 1 (4.167%) Reuters
6 1 (4.167%) Bloomberg
6 1 (4.167%) NYFIX
6 1 (4.167%) EasyScreen
6 1 (4.167%) EccoWare