The first table below looks at the demand for the UNIX Administrator role 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 UNIX Administrator in their job title 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 Job Titles advertised for the City of London region.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
UNIX Administrator
Rank 304 297 278
Rank change year-on-year
-7 -19
Permanent jobs requiring a UNIX Administrator 16 31 49
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the City of London 0.138% 0.237% 0.314%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.149% 0.255% 0.335%
Number of salaries quoted 15 29 45
Average salary £57,500 £54,000 £52,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.48% +2.85%
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £39,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year
+2.56% -8.23%
All Job Titles
City of London
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
10773 12165 14632
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the City of London 92.88% 93.10% 93.66%
Number of salaries quoted 9280 11060 13186
Average salary £52,500 £52,500 £55,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- -4.54%
90% offered a salary of more than £32,500 £32,500 £32,500
10% offered a salary of more than £75,000 £85,000 £80,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
UNIX Administrator
London

UNIX Administrator
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London 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 City of London region.

City of London UNIX Administrator Salary Trend

UNIX Administrator
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing UNIX Administrator across the City of London region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

City of London UNIX Administrator Salary Histogram

UNIX Administrator
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the City of London 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 35 (100.00%) UNIX
2 30 (85.71%) Linux
3 28 (80.00%) Solaris
4 20 (57.14%) Red Hat
5 14 (40.00%) Shell Script
5 14 (40.00%) VMware
6 13 (37.14%) Perl
6 13 (37.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 12 (34.29%) Sun
8 11 (31.43%) Finance
8 11 (31.43%) Banking
9 10 (28.57%) SAN
10 9 (25.71%) Veritas
11 8 (22.86%) VMware Infrastructure
11 8 (22.86%) Veritas Volume Manager
11 8 (22.86%) RHCE
11 8 (22.86%) Java
12 7 (20.00%) Bash shell
13 6 (17.14%) Tomcat
13 6 (17.14%) SUSE
14 5 (14.29%) MS Excel
14 5 (14.29%) Oracle
14 5 (14.29%) PHP
14 5 (14.29%) Capacity Planning
14 5 (14.29%) Investment Banking
14 5 (14.29%) Korn
15 4 (11.43%) Problem Management
15 4 (11.43%) SQL
15 4 (11.43%) VBScript
15 4 (11.43%) JBoss

UNIX Administrator
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the City of London 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 4 (11.43%) XML
2 3 (8.571%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 6 (17.14%) Tomcat
2 4 (11.43%) Apache
3 1 (2.857%) Amazon AWS
Applications
1 5 (14.29%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (2.857%) RMDS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (28.57%) SAN
2 4 (11.43%) TCP/IP
3 2 (5.714%) tcpdump
3 2 (5.714%) SSH
3 2 (5.714%) Wireshark
3 2 (5.714%) iSCSI
3 2 (5.714%) DNS
3 2 (5.714%) FTP
4 1 (2.857%) Internet
4 1 (2.857%) Firewall
4 1 (2.857%) LDAP
4 1 (2.857%) LAN
4 1 (2.857%) WAN
4 1 (2.857%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.714%) SQL Server
1 2 (5.714%) VLDB
1 2 (5.714%) OLTP
2 1 (2.857%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 2 (5.714%) Subversion
General
1 11 (31.43%) Finance
1 11 (31.43%) Banking
2 5 (14.29%) Investment Banking
3 2 (5.714%) Multimedia
3 2 (5.714%) Marketing
4 1 (2.857%) Financial Institution
4 1 (2.857%) Advertising
Miscellaneous
1 3 (8.571%) CLARiiON
1 3 (8.571%) Open Source
2 2 (5.714%) SWIFT
2 2 (5.714%) Clustering
2 2 (5.714%) Mobile Banking
3 1 (2.857%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.857%) New Media
3 1 (2.857%) Computer Science
3 1 (2.857%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 35 (100.00%) UNIX
2 30 (85.71%) Linux
3 28 (80.00%) Solaris
4 13 (37.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (17.14%) SUSE
6 4 (11.43%) CentOS
7 3 (8.571%) Windows
8 2 (5.714%) Ubuntu
8 2 (5.714%) Apple iOS
8 2 (5.714%) Android
8 2 (5.714%) AIX
8 2 (5.714%) HPUX
9 1 (2.857%) Debian
9 1 (2.857%) Windows XP
9 1 (2.857%) Windows Server 2008
9 1 (2.857%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (14.29%) Capacity Planning
2 4 (11.43%) Problem Management
2 4 (11.43%) Disaster Recovery
3 3 (8.571%) Load Balancing
4 2 (5.714%) Investment Management
4 2 (5.714%) Performance Management
4 2 (5.714%) ITIL
4 2 (5.714%) Business Continuity
4 2 (5.714%) Benchmarking
4 2 (5.714%) Configuration Management
5 1 (2.857%) Cyber Security
5 1 (2.857%) Information Security
5 1 (2.857%) RDF
5 1 (2.857%) Risk Analysis
5 1 (2.857%) Continuous Improvement
5 1 (2.857%) Root Cause Analysis
5 1 (2.857%) Incident Management
5 1 (2.857%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 14 (40.00%) Shell Script
2 13 (37.14%) Perl
3 8 (22.86%) Java
4 7 (20.00%) Bash shell
5 5 (14.29%) PHP
5 5 (14.29%) Korn
6 4 (11.43%) SQL
6 4 (11.43%) VBScript
6 4 (11.43%) Bourne shell
7 3 (8.571%) AWK
8 2 (5.714%) Ruby
9 1 (2.857%) sed
9 1 (2.857%) VB
Qualifications
1 8 (22.86%) RHCE
2 2 (5.714%) RHCT
2 2 (5.714%) Degree
2 2 (5.714%) Sun Certification
2 2 (5.714%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.857%) SLA
1 1 (2.857%) QA
System Software
1 8 (22.86%) VMware Infrastructure
1 8 (22.86%) Veritas Volume Manager
2 3 (8.571%) VMware ESX
2 3 (8.571%) Veritas Cluster Server
2 3 (8.571%) vSphere
3 2 (5.714%) Veritas File System
3 2 (5.714%) Postfix
4 1 (2.857%) Samba
4 1 (2.857%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 2 (5.714%) Tivoli Storage Manager
1 2 (5.714%) Puppet
1 2 (5.714%) NetBackup
1 2 (5.714%) Red Hat Spacewalk
2 1 (2.857%) Zenoss
2 1 (2.857%) Splunk
2 1 (2.857%) CFEngine
2 1 (2.857%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 20 (57.14%) Red Hat
2 14 (40.00%) VMware
3 12 (34.29%) Sun
4 9 (25.71%) Veritas
5 5 (14.29%) Oracle
6 4 (11.43%) JBoss
6 4 (11.43%) EMC
7 3 (8.571%) HP
8 2 (5.714%) Brocade
8 2 (5.714%) NetApp
9 1 (2.857%) Joyent
9 1 (2.857%) Rackspace
9 1 (2.857%) Reuters
9 1 (2.857%) Bloomberg
9 1 (2.857%) Juniper
9 1 (2.857%) Cisco
9 1 (2.857%) Microsoft
9 1 (2.857%) Kalahari
9 1 (2.857%) SolarWinds
9 1 (2.857%) Fujitsu