The first table below looks at the demand for UNIX 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 UNIX over the 3 months to 20 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 City of London region.

Location
3 months to
20 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
UNIX
Rank 21 19 15
Rank change year-on-year
-2 -4
Permanent jobs citing UNIX 1045 1179 1903
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the City of London 8.579% 9.099% 12.03%
As % of the Operating Systems category 31.58% 35.86% 46.59%
Number of salaries quoted 937 1091 1666
Average salary £55,000 £55,000 £62,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- -12.00%
90% offered a salary of more than £37,000 £35,000 £40,000
10% offered a salary of more than £77,500 £80,000 £85,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
All Operating Systems
City of London
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
3309 3288 4085
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the City of London 27.17% 25.37% 25.81%
Number of salaries quoted 2925 3049 3624
Average salary £50,000 £47,500 £52,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+5.26% -9.52%
90% offered a salary of more than £32,500 £30,000 £28,000
10% offered a salary of more than £72,500 £80,000 £72,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
UNIX
London

UNIX
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London 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 City of London region.

City of London UNIX Salary Trend

UNIX
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing UNIX across the City of London region over the 3 months to 20 June 2013.

City of London UNIX Salary Histogram

UNIX
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT jobs across the City of London 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.

1 821 (46.94%) Linux
2 805 (46.03%) SQL
3 744 (42.54%) Finance
4 672 (38.42%) Java
5 592 (33.85%) Oracle
6 509 (29.10%) Banking
7 439 (25.10%) Windows
8 300 (17.15%) Investment Banking
9 287 (16.41%) Perl
10 275 (15.72%) C++
11 265 (15.15%) Degree
12 234 (13.38%) Front Office
13 222 (12.69%) Shell Script
14 205 (11.72%) XML
15 203 (11.61%) Solaris
16 201 (11.49%) Agile Software Development
17 189 (10.81%) Spring
18 186 (10.63%) SQL Server
19 184 (10.52%) Sybase
20 183 (10.46%) Multithreading
21 178 (10.18%) Python
22 177 (10.12%) JavaScript
23 174 (9.949%) C#
24 172 (9.834%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
25 169 (9.663%) OO
26 166 (9.491%) PL/SQL
27 152 (8.691%) ITIL
28 150 (8.576%) Derivative
29 149 (8.519%) HTML
30 147 (8.405%) MySQL

UNIX
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT jobs across the City of London 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
1 205 (11.72%) XML
2 189 (10.81%) Spring
3 149 (8.519%) HTML
4 130 (7.433%) Hibernate
5 125 (7.147%) J2EE
6 106 (6.061%) .NET
6 106 (6.061%) CSS
7 92 (5.260%) jQuery
8 90 (5.146%) FIX Protocol
9 74 (4.231%) WebSphere
10 73 (4.174%) Middleware
11 70 (4.002%) Web Services
12 69 (3.945%) HTML5
13 62 (3.545%) JMS
14 61 (3.488%) Ajax
15 44 (2.516%) SOAP
15 44 (2.516%) CSS3
16 41 (2.344%) XSLT
17 39 (2.230%) STL
18 37 (2.115%) WinForms
Application Platforms
1 88 (5.031%) Apache
2 85 (4.860%) WebLogic
3 79 (4.517%) Tomcat
4 43 (2.459%) MQSeries
5 33 (1.887%) Oracle Coherence
6 31 (1.772%) IIS
7 29 (1.658%) SharePoint
8 27 (1.544%) MS Exchange
9 24 (1.372%) CMS
10 18 (1.029%) Apache Solr
10 18 (1.029%) ESB
11 16 (0.915%) SAS
12 15 (0.858%) Exchange Server 2010
12 15 (0.858%) WebSphere Application Server
12 15 (0.858%) Exchange Server 2007
13 14 (0.800%) Lync
14 12 (0.686%) WebSphere Message Broker
14 12 (0.686%) Confluence
15 9 (0.515%) ColdFusion
15 9 (0.515%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
Applications
1 82 (4.688%) MS Excel
2 42 (2.401%) MS Office
3 32 (1.830%) Photoshop
4 6 (0.343%) MS Visio
5 5 (0.286%) MS PowerPoint
6 4 (0.229%) Adobe Illustrator
7 3 (0.172%) Stata
8 2 (0.114%) InfoPath
8 2 (0.114%) MS Project
9 1 (0.057%) Mingle
9 1 (0.057%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 32 (1.830%) Oracle EBS
2 26 (1.487%) Oracle EBS R12
2 26 (1.487%) Oracle 11i
3 18 (1.029%) Oracle Applications
4 8 (0.457%) Oracle ERP
4 8 (0.457%) ION MarketView
5 6 (0.343%) Murex MxG2000
6 5 (0.286%) Siebel Analytics
7 4 (0.229%) RMDS
7 4 (0.229%) HFM
7 4 (0.229%) SAP Business One
7 4 (0.229%) Oracle Financials
8 3 (0.172%) Bloomberg TOMS
8 3 (0.172%) Remedy AR System
9 2 (0.114%) LatentZero
9 2 (0.114%) SimCorp Dimension
9 2 (0.114%) Cognos Business Intelligence
10 1 (0.057%) FINCAD Analytics
10 1 (0.057%) 3000 Xtra
10 1 (0.057%) Aligne
Communications & Networking
1 116 (6.632%) TCP/IP
2 113 (6.461%) HTTP
3 85 (4.860%) Internet
4 83 (4.746%) SAN
5 63 (3.602%) DNS
6 53 (3.030%) LDAP
7 51 (2.916%) Firewall
8 38 (2.173%) LAN
9 35 (2.001%) VPN
10 30 (1.715%) WAN
11 29 (1.658%) NAS
12 28 (1.601%) DHCP
13 20 (1.144%) Network Security
14 15 (0.858%) BGP
15 14 (0.800%) VLAN
15 14 (0.800%) FTP
16 13 (0.743%) SSL
16 13 (0.743%) OSPF
16 13 (0.743%) SSH
16 13 (0.743%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 186 (10.63%) SQL Server
2 147 (8.405%) MySQL
3 81 (4.631%) Oracle 10g
4 72 (4.117%) Oracle 11g
5 67 (3.831%) RDBMS
6 58 (3.316%) DB2
7 52 (2.973%) Oracle 8/8i
8 39 (2.230%) Oracle 9i
9 38 (2.173%) Data Warehouse
10 37 (2.115%) Oracle Reports
11 23 (1.315%) SQL Server 2008
12 19 (1.086%) SQLPlus
13 16 (0.915%) Oracle BI EE
14 15 (0.858%) PostgreSQL
15 14 (0.800%) SQL Server 2005
16 13 (0.743%) Oracle ODI
16 13 (0.743%) Oracle OWB
17 12 (0.686%) Big Data
18 11 (0.629%) Hadoop
18 11 (0.629%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 130 (7.433%) Subversion
2 122 (6.975%) Maven
3 76 (4.345%) JUnit
4 65 (3.716%) Git (software)
5 58 (3.316%) Ant
6 55 (3.145%) Eclipse
7 49 (2.802%) JIRA
8 44 (2.516%) Selenium
9 33 (1.887%) TeamCity
10 30 (1.715%) QuickTest Pro
11 26 (1.487%) WebDriver
12 21 (1.201%) PowerBuilder
13 19 (1.086%) LoadRunner
13 19 (1.086%) jMock
14 16 (0.915%) NUnit
15 15 (0.858%) Jenkins
15 15 (0.858%) ClearCase
15 15 (0.858%) Rational Robot
15 15 (0.858%) WebLOAD
16 14 (0.800%) TestComplete
General
1 744 (42.54%) Finance
2 509 (29.10%) Banking
3 300 (17.15%) Investment Banking
4 234 (13.38%) Front Office
5 65 (3.716%) Telecoms
6 54 (3.087%) Financial Institution
7 51 (2.916%) Legal
8 50 (2.859%) Retail
9 42 (2.401%) Advertising
10 41 (2.344%) Back Office
11 39 (2.230%) Games
12 16 (0.915%) Billing
12 16 (0.915%) Multimedia
13 13 (0.743%) Law
13 13 (0.743%) International Banking
14 8 (0.457%) Russian Language
15 7 (0.400%) Marketing
16 5 (0.286%) Music Industry
16 5 (0.286%) General Ledger
17 4 (0.229%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 591 (33.79%) Developer
2 287 (16.41%) Analyst
3 228 (13.04%) Applications Support
4 197 (11.26%) Java Developer
5 192 (10.98%) Support Analyst
6 94 (5.374%) C++ Developer
7 85 (4.860%) Applications Support Analyst
8 82 (4.688%) Senior Developer
9 75 (4.288%) Administrator
10 66 (3.774%) Architect
11 64 (3.659%) C# Developer
11 64 (3.659%) DBA
12 62 (3.545%) Systems Administrator
13 54 (3.087%) Support Engineer
14 51 (2.916%) Oracle DBA
15 44 (2.516%) Consultant
16 38 (2.173%) Programmer
16 38 (2.173%) Tester
16 38 (2.173%) Junior
17 36 (2.058%) Technical Support
Miscellaneous
1 172 (9.834%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 150 (8.576%) Derivative
3 141 (8.062%) Equities
4 122 (6.975%) Computer Science
5 118 (6.747%) Fixed Income
6 47 (2.687%) Open Source
7 42 (2.401%) Hedge funds
8 40 (2.287%) Grid Computing
9 34 (1.944%) SaaS
9 34 (1.944%) Clustering
9 34 (1.944%) Interest Rate Derivative
10 32 (1.830%) Equity Derivative
11 30 (1.715%) Management Information System
12 26 (1.487%) Blackberry
13 25 (1.429%) Enterprise Software
14 24 (1.372%) Mathematics
15 23 (1.315%) N-Tier
15 23 (1.315%) Mainframe
16 20 (1.144%) CMDB
17 19 (1.086%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 821 (46.94%) Linux
2 439 (25.10%) Windows
3 203 (11.61%) Solaris
4 111 (6.346%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 52 (2.973%) Apple iOS
6 51 (2.916%) Windows Server 2008
7 47 (2.687%) Android
8 40 (2.287%) Windows Server 2003
9 33 (1.887%) HPUX
10 26 (1.487%) AIX
11 24 (1.372%) Ubuntu
12 22 (1.258%) Windows 7
13 18 (1.029%) CentOS
14 13 (0.743%) VMS
14 13 (0.743%) Fedora
15 11 (0.629%) SUSE
16 10 (0.572%) Windows XP
16 10 (0.572%) Windows Server 2012
16 10 (0.572%) Oracle Linux
17 9 (0.515%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 201 (11.49%) Agile Software Development
2 183 (10.46%) Multithreading
3 169 (9.663%) OO
4 152 (8.691%) ITIL
5 107 (6.118%) TDD
6 87 (4.974%) E-Commerce
7 85 (4.860%) Risk Management
8 82 (4.688%) Scrum
9 78 (4.460%) MVC
10 73 (4.174%) Unit Testing
10 73 (4.174%) Configuration Management
11 65 (3.716%) Data Management
12 61 (3.488%) Problem Management
13 56 (3.202%) Electronic Trading
14 54 (3.087%) Service Delivery
14 54 (3.087%) Service Management
15 53 (3.030%) Workflow
15 53 (3.030%) SOA
15 53 (3.030%) Asset Management
16 50 (2.859%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 805 (46.03%) SQL
2 672 (38.42%) Java
3 287 (16.41%) Perl
4 275 (15.72%) C++
5 222 (12.69%) Shell Script
6 178 (10.18%) Python
7 177 (10.12%) JavaScript
8 174 (9.949%) C#
9 166 (9.491%) PL/SQL
10 96 (5.489%) PHP
11 93 (5.317%) Bash shell
12 82 (4.688%) C
13 59 (3.373%) Ruby
14 31 (1.772%) Objective-C
15 30 (1.715%) Korn
16 27 (1.544%) VBA
17 22 (1.258%) Scala
18 18 (1.029%) VBScript
19 16 (0.915%) VB
19 16 (0.915%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 265 (15.15%) Degree
2 35 (2.001%) Microsoft Certification
3 32 (1.830%) MCSE
4 23 (1.315%) ISEB
5 20 (1.144%) CISSP
6 19 (1.086%) RHCE
6 19 (1.086%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 16 (0.915%) ISTQB
7 16 (0.915%) ITIL Certification
8 15 (0.858%) MCP
8 15 (0.858%) Cisco Certification
9 13 (0.743%) CCA
9 13 (0.743%) Security Cleared
10 11 (0.629%) SC Cleared
11 10 (0.572%) GIAC
11 10 (0.572%) Oracle Certification
12 9 (0.515%) Microsoft Certified Master
12 9 (0.515%) CCNA
12 9 (0.515%) OCP
12 9 (0.515%) MCITP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 79 (4.517%) QA
2 33 (1.887%) SLA
3 13 (0.743%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 10 (0.572%) ISO 9001
5 8 (0.457%) Data Quality
6 5 (0.286%) PCI DSS
7 3 (0.172%) HL7
8 2 (0.114%) COBIT
8 2 (0.114%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.057%) ISO/IEC 17799
9 1 (0.057%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 71 (4.059%) VMware Infrastructure
2 66 (3.774%) Active Directory
3 40 (2.287%) Oracle RAC
4 26 (1.487%) Oracle RMAN
5 22 (1.258%) VMware ESX
6 21 (1.201%) vSphere
7 18 (1.029%) Hyper-V
8 12 (0.686%) NFS
9 8 (0.457%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
9 8 (0.457%) Veritas Volume Manager
10 5 (0.286%) VMFS
11 4 (0.229%) Xen
11 4 (0.229%) Apache ZooKeeper
11 4 (0.229%) XenApp
11 4 (0.229%) XenServer
11 4 (0.229%) Veritas Cluster Server
12 2 (0.114%) Nmap
12 2 (0.114%) VMware Server
12 2 (0.114%) Samba
12 2 (0.114%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 62 (3.545%) Puppet
2 34 (1.944%) Nagios
3 32 (1.830%) Data Guard
4 27 (1.544%) Tivoli
5 18 (1.029%) HP Quality Center
6 17 (0.972%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 15 (0.858%) Red Hat Satellite
8 12 (0.686%) SCCM
9 11 (0.629%) ZABBIX
9 11 (0.629%) Vagrant
9 11 (0.629%) BMC PATROL
10 10 (0.572%) HP Data Protector
10 10 (0.572%) OpenView
11 9 (0.515%) YUM
11 9 (0.515%) ARCserve
12 8 (0.457%) EMC NetWorker
12 8 (0.457%) NetBackup
12 8 (0.457%) Tivoli Storage Manager
12 8 (0.457%) Splunk
13 7 (0.400%) Control-M
Vendors
1 592 (33.85%) Oracle
2 184 (10.52%) Sybase
3 143 (8.176%) Microsoft
4 130 (7.433%) Red Hat
5 120 (6.861%) VMware
6 78 (4.460%) HP
7 76 (4.345%) JBoss
8 69 (3.945%) Sun
9 61 (3.488%) Cisco
10 52 (2.973%) Veritas
11 49 (2.802%) IBM
11 49 (2.802%) Google
12 48 (2.744%) EMC
12 48 (2.744%) TIBCO
13 39 (2.230%) Murex
14 35 (2.001%) Informatica
15 33 (1.887%) Twitter
16 32 (1.830%) Facebook
17 31 (1.772%) Adobe
18 27 (1.544%) Bloomberg
City, London
Required skills *You have an understanding of Unix & Linux, Windows, SQL (Sybase/Oracle) *Knowledge of Java, C++, Scripting, Tibco, Fix messaging and Network are a plus... *Understanding of...
Aston Carter
Salary: £45000 - £60000 per annum + Package and bonus
Posted: 17 June 2013
City, London
Essential Technical Skills required: - Linux/Unix - Scripting (Perl/Shell) - Oracle - PL/SQL Application Support Analyst - Equities - Linux/Unix - PL/SQL - Oracle - Scripting - Investment Bank - London - Perm McGregor Boyall...
McGregor Boyall
Salary: £75000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 14 June 2013
City, London
Banking - Production Support, Unix & Linux, Windows, SQL... Skills: You have an understanding of Unix & Linux, Windows, SQL (Sybase/Oracle) Knowledge of Java, C++, Scripting, Tibco, Fix messaging and...
Cititec
Salary: £45000 - £55000 per annum
Posted: 17 June 2013
City, London
Resolve FIX Protocol issues... Knowledge of UNIX - Solaris/Linux. Knowledge of Oracle and SQL Server. Basic understanding of Java applications. Experience of FIX protocol, FIX Connectivity, SWIFT or...
Anderson Cole Recruitment Ltd
Salary: From £45,000 to £60,000 per annum Bonus and benefits package
Posted: 13 June 2013
City of London
Application Development and Support for Propriety Trading House in London City - Assets, Java, Perl, Python C++ and C#... Perl. C++ C# SQL Server. Oracle. Sybase. Windows. UNIX. Linux.
harringtonstarr
Salary: £70000 - £110000 per annum + Bonus and benefits and Training
Posted: 12 June 2013
City, London
Harrington Starr
Salary: £45000 - £55000 per annum
Posted: 14 June 2013
City of London
harringtonstarr
Salary: £45000 - £55000 per annum
Posted: 14 June 2013
City of London
Hays Specialist Recruitment
Salary: £35000.00 - £60000.00 per annum
Posted: 14 June 2013
City of London
Huxley Associates
Salary: £50000 - £60000 per annum + bonuses+benefits
Posted: 13 June 2013
City of London
Huxley Associates
Salary: £1 per annum + Excellent Bonus and Benefits
Posted: 12 June 2013
City, London
Harrington Starr
Salary: £45000 - £55000 per annum + Bonus and Benefits
Posted: 18 June 2013
City of London
harringtonstarr
Salary: £45000 - £55000 per annum + Bonus and Benefits
Posted: 18 June 2013
City, London
Just IT Recruitment
Salary: £50000 - £52000 per annum
Posted: 18 June 2013
City, London
Aston Carter
Salary: £50000 - £65000 per annum + bonus + shares
Posted: 15 June 2013
City of London
Huxley Associates
Salary: £50000 - £70000 per annum
Posted: 10 June 2013
City of London
Huxley Associates
Salary: £45000 - £56000 per annum + Excellent Bonus and Benefit
Posted: 13 June 2013
City, London
Client Server
Salary: £85k to £110k + bonus + benefits
Posted: 18 June 2013
City, London
McGregor Boyall
Salary: £50000 - £55000 per annum + Benefits and Bonuses
Posted: 14 June 2013
City of London
Huxley Associates
Salary: £1 per annum + Excellent Bonus and Benefits
Posted: 19 June 2013
City, London
Client Server
Salary: £60k to £70k + 25 days holiday + benefits
Posted: 17 June 2013
City, London
McGregor Boyall
Salary: £55000 - £60000 per annum + Benefits and Bonus
Posted: 13 June 2013
City of London
harringtonstarr
Salary: £45000 - £70000 per annum + Benefits + Bonus
Posted: 15 June 2013
City of London
Real Staffing
Posted: 29 May 2013
City of London
Huxley Associates
Salary: £40000 - £550000 per annum + Excellent Bonus and Benefits
Posted: 23 May 2013
City, London
Oscar Associates (UK) Ltd
Salary: £18000 - £22000 per annum
Posted: 14 June 2013