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The first part of the 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 16 March 2010 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Operating Systems category for the City of London region.

 UNIX
Location
3 months to
16 Mar 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank1487
Rank change year-on-year
Down-6Down-1
Matching permanent IT job ads136412613183
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the City of London12.02 %15.22 %17.01 %
As % of the Operating Systems category50.88 %50.46 %55.91 %
Salaries quoted113410202533
Average salary£57,500£57,500£57,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-+0.870 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£37,500£35,000£37,500
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£82,500£75,000£85,000
UK excluding London average salary£40,000£37,500£36,500
% change year-on-year
+6.660 %+2.730 %
City of London IT Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryAll Operating Systems
City of London
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
268124995693
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the City of London23.62 %30.16 %30.43 %
Salaries quoted234220884589
Average salary£50,000£50,000£50,000
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£28,000£28,000£29,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£75,000£70,000£77,500
UK excluding London average salary£33,500£32,500£32,500
% change year-on-year
+3.070 %-
UNIX LondonUNIX
London

UNIX
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 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 Demand Trend

UNIX
Salary Trend

The 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

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing UNIX across the City of London region over the 3 months to 16 March 2010.

City of London UNIX Salary Histogram

UNIX
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 16 March 2010, 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.

11293 (51.05 %)Finance
2990 (39.08 %)Linux
3889 (35.10 %)C++
4851 (33.60 %)SQL
5777 (30.68 %)Windows
6740 (29.21 %)Java
7701 (27.67 %)Banking
8548 (21.63 %)Oracle
9461 (18.20 %)Perl
10439 (17.33 %)Front Office
11435 (17.17 %)Solaris
12402 (15.87 %)Investment Banking
13371 (14.65 %)Sybase
14365 (14.41 %)Shell Script
15357 (14.09 %)Derivative
16330 (13.03 %)Equities
17299 (11.80 %)OO
18275 (10.86 %)Fixed Income
19259 (10.23 %)Degree
20258 (10.19 %)Multithreading
20258 (10.19 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
21240 (9.475 %)C
22226 (8.922 %)SQL Server
22226 (8.922 %)STL
23222 (8.764 %)TCP/IP
24178 (7.027 %)C#
25175 (6.909 %)XML
26171 (6.751 %)OOD
27167 (6.593 %)Algorithmic Trading
28159 (6.277 %)Python

UNIX
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 16 March 2010, 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.

City of London IT Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
1226 (8.922 %)STL
2175 (6.909 %)XML
3158 (6.238 %).NET
4131 (5.172 %)FIX Protocol
5124 (4.895 %)J2EE
6112 (4.422 %)Boost C++ Libraries
7100 (3.948 %)Spring
893 (3.672 %)HTML
973 (2.882 %)Middleware
1062 (2.448 %)Hibernate
1154 (2.132 %)Web Services
1249 (1.934 %)WebSphere
1347 (1.856 %)CSS
1444 (1.737 %)JMS
1533 (1.303 %)Oracle Coherence
1631 (1.224 %)J2SE
1729 (1.145 %)CORBA
1828 (1.105 %)Swing
1828 (1.105 %)AJAX
1927 (1.066 %)ASP
City of London IT Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
1106 (4.185 %)Apache
270 (2.764 %)WebLogic
364 (2.527 %)Tomcat
444 (1.737 %)MQSeries
539 (1.540 %)IIS
630 (1.184 %)WebSphere MQ
729 (1.145 %)Rendezvous
823 (0.908 %)CMS
920 (0.790 %)MS Exchange
1019 (0.750 %)AquaLogic Service Bus
1117 (0.671 %)Drupal
1216 (0.632 %)ESB
1315 (0.592 %)ColdFusion
1412 (0.474 %)Apache Solr
156 (0.237 %)WebSphere Application Server
156 (0.237 %)Oracle Workflow
165 (0.197 %)SharePoint
165 (0.197 %)Exchange Server 2003
165 (0.197 %)WebSphere Message Broker
165 (0.197 %)WebSphere Process Server
City of London IT Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
135 (1.382 %)MS Excel
216 (0.632 %)MATLAB
39 (0.355 %)Photoshop
48 (0.316 %)MS Office
56 (0.237 %)Spreadsheet
65 (0.197 %)MS Visio
74 (0.158 %)Adobe Illustrator
82 (0.079 %)Stata
91 (0.039 %)SPSS
91 (0.039 %)MS Project
91 (0.039 %)MS PowerPoint
City of London IT Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
166 (2.606 %)RMDS
220 (0.790 %)Oracle EBS
312 (0.474 %)ION MarketView
49 (0.355 %)Temenos T24
58 (0.316 %)Capstone
58 (0.316 %)Global One
67 (0.276 %)Sophis RISQUE
75 (0.197 %)Oracle BPM
75 (0.197 %)ADP Wilco Gloss
75 (0.197 %)assyst
75 (0.197 %)Loan IQ
75 (0.197 %)Summit
84 (0.158 %)Oracle Financials
93 (0.118 %)Oracle EBS R12
93 (0.118 %)Beauchamp
93 (0.118 %)Brady Trinity
102 (0.079 %)Kondor+
102 (0.079 %)Singl.eView
102 (0.079 %)Oracle Applications
102 (0.079 %)Bloomberg TOMS
City of London IT Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
1222 (8.764 %)TCP/IP
2103 (4.066 %)DNS
383 (3.277 %)SAN
482 (3.237 %)VPN
581 (3.198 %)LAN
680 (3.158 %)WAN
753 (2.092 %)Internet
842 (1.658 %)Firewall
940 (1.579 %)LDAP
1030 (1.184 %)VoIP
1030 (1.184 %)SMTP
1127 (1.066 %)Network Security
1223 (0.908 %)SSH
1320 (0.790 %)FTP
1416 (0.632 %)VLAN
1515 (0.592 %)NAS
1614 (0.553 %)OSPF
1713 (0.513 %)SSL
1812 (0.474 %)BGP
199 (0.355 %)HTTP
City of London IT Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
1226 (8.922 %)SQL Server
2109 (4.303 %)MySQL
368 (2.685 %)RDBMS
461 (2.408 %)Oracle 8/8i
560 (2.369 %)ETL
657 (2.250 %)Oracle 10g
755 (2.171 %)DB2
851 (2.013 %)Datawarehouse
942 (1.658 %)KDB
1035 (1.382 %)Oracle 9i
1133 (1.303 %)TOAD
1230 (1.184 %)BusinessObjects
1327 (1.066 %)Oracle Reports
1421 (0.829 %)Reference Data
1519 (0.750 %)SQL Server Integration Services
1618 (0.711 %)SQL Server 2005
1717 (0.671 %)DTS
1717 (0.671 %)Oracle 11g
1816 (0.632 %)Crystal Reports
1915 (0.592 %)DataStage
City of London IT Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
141 (1.619 %)Subversion
239 (1.540 %)QuickTest Pro
333 (1.303 %)Maven
431 (1.224 %)JUnit
527 (1.066 %)ClearCase
624 (0.947 %)Ant
720 (0.790 %)Oracle Forms
819 (0.750 %)Dreamweaver
916 (0.632 %)PVCS
1012 (0.474 %)TestDirector
1111 (0.434 %)LoadRunner
1210 (0.395 %)WinRunner
139 (0.355 %)Bugzilla
148 (0.316 %)PROIV
157 (0.276 %)Team Foundation Server
166 (0.237 %)JIRA
166 (0.237 %)Selenium
166 (0.237 %)Eclipse
175 (0.197 %)CruiseControl
184 (0.158 %)Visual Studio
City of London IT Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
11293 (51.05 %)Finance
2701 (27.67 %)Banking
3439 (17.33 %)Front Office
4402 (15.87 %)Investment Banking
5149 (5.882 %)Education
698 (3.869 %)Back Office
773 (2.882 %)Pensions
865 (2.566 %)Financial Institution
865 (2.566 %)Games
957 (2.250 %)Health
1054 (2.132 %)Telecoms
1142 (1.658 %)Government
1223 (0.908 %)Retail
1316 (0.632 %)Publishing
149 (0.355 %)Electric
149 (0.355 %)Online Games
149 (0.355 %)Animation
157 (0.276 %)Billing
166 (0.237 %)Multimedia
175 (0.197 %)Mobile Games
City of London IT Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
11010 (39.87 %)Developer
2509 (20.09 %)Analyst
3437 (17.25 %)C++ Developer
4268 (10.58 %)Support Analyst
5251 (9.909 %)Java Developer
6196 (7.738 %)Applications Support
7184 (7.264 %)Senior Developer
8160 (6.317 %)Administrator
9103 (4.066 %)Systems Administrator
1096 (3.790 %)Applications Support Analyst
1193 (3.672 %)Senior C++ Developer
1286 (3.395 %)Software Developer
1385 (3.356 %)Programmer
1483 (3.277 %)Software Engineer
1578 (3.079 %)Architect
1578 (3.079 %)Consultant
1661 (2.408 %)DBA
1759 (2.329 %)Senior Analyst
1759 (2.329 %)Team Leader
1854 (2.132 %)Analyst Programmer
City of London IT Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
1357 (14.09 %)Derivative
2330 (13.03 %)Equities
3275 (10.86 %)Fixed Income
4258 (10.19 %)Multithreading
4258 (10.19 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
5157 (6.198 %)Client/Server
688 (3.474 %)Computer Science
756 (2.211 %)Spread Betting
854 (2.132 %)Mathematics
952 (2.053 %)Equity Derivative
1050 (1.974 %)Credit Derivative
1146 (1.816 %)Blackberry
1245 (1.777 %)Management Information System
1332 (1.263 %)Open Source
1430 (1.184 %)Interest Rate Derivative
1529 (1.145 %)Grid Computing
1621 (0.829 %)Credit Risk
1717 (0.671 %)Replication
1717 (0.671 %)Statistics
1814 (0.553 %)VAX
City of London IT Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
1990 (39.08 %)Linux
2777 (30.68 %)Windows
3435 (17.17 %)Solaris
4102 (4.027 %)Windows XP
575 (2.961 %)Red Hat Linux
672 (2.842 %)AIX
761 (2.408 %)VMS
852 (2.053 %)Windows 2000
947 (1.856 %)Windows NT
1046 (1.816 %)Windows Server 2003
1126 (1.026 %)Windows Vista
1225 (0.987 %)HPUX
1321 (0.829 %)CentOS
1415 (0.592 %)OpenVMS
158 (0.316 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
158 (0.316 %)zOS
167 (0.276 %)Windows 7
167 (0.276 %)FreeBSD
167 (0.276 %)Windows Server 2008
167 (0.276 %)Ubuntu
City of London IT Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
1299 (11.80 %)OO
2171 (6.751 %)OOD
3167 (6.593 %)Algorithmic Trading
4121 (4.777 %)Electronic Trading
5120 (4.737 %)Risk Management
6109 (4.303 %)Agile Software Development
7105 (4.145 %)Project Management
8103 (4.066 %)E-Commerce
978 (3.079 %)ITIL
1057 (2.250 %)Software Engineering
1153 (2.092 %)User Acceptance Testing
1248 (1.895 %)Migration
1347 (1.856 %)SOA
1446 (1.816 %)OOP
1539 (1.540 %)Web Development
1638 (1.500 %)Release Management
1737 (1.461 %)Scrum
1737 (1.461 %)Business Analysis
1834 (1.342 %)OOA/OOD
1834 (1.342 %)Code Coverage
City of London IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
1889 (35.10 %)C++
2851 (33.60 %)SQL
3740 (29.21 %)Java
4461 (18.20 %)Perl
5365 (14.41 %)Shell Script
6240 (9.475 %)C
7178 (7.027 %)C#
8159 (6.277 %)Python
9124 (4.895 %)PL/SQL
1098 (3.869 %)PHP
1197 (3.829 %)JavaScript
1268 (2.685 %)Bash shell
1364 (2.527 %)Korn
1453 (2.092 %)VBA
1551 (2.013 %)VB
1643 (1.698 %)Ruby
1742 (1.658 %)Tcl
1839 (1.540 %)T-SQL
1933 (1.303 %)Jython
2021 (0.829 %)VBScript
City of London IT Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
1259 (10.23 %)Degree
231 (1.224 %)PhD
314 (0.553 %)Cisco Certification
410 (0.395 %)Security Cleared
410 (0.395 %)CCNA
410 (0.395 %)Microsoft Certification
58 (0.316 %)MCSE
58 (0.316 %)ITIL Certification
58 (0.316 %)IBM Certification
66 (0.237 %)PMI Certification
66 (0.237 %)RHCE
66 (0.237 %)CCNP
75 (0.197 %)PMP
75 (0.197 %)CISSP
75 (0.197 %)ISEB
75 (0.197 %)PRINCE2 Certification
75 (0.197 %)JNCIA
75 (0.197 %)JNCIS
84 (0.158 %)OCP
84 (0.158 %)Oracle Certification
City of London IT Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
1116 (4.580 %)QA
223 (0.908 %)SLA
39 (0.355 %)MiFID
City of London IT Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
132 (1.263 %)Active Directory
223 (0.908 %)NFS
321 (0.829 %)Oracle RMAN
418 (0.711 %)Oracle RAC
513 (0.513 %)Sendmail
612 (0.474 %)VMware Infrastructure
78 (0.316 %)Veritas Volume Manager
87 (0.276 %)ISA Server
96 (0.237 %)Tivoli Workload Scheduler
105 (0.197 %)Veritas Cluster Server
114 (0.158 %)Xen
114 (0.158 %)VMware ESX
114 (0.158 %)Samba
123 (0.118 %)SRDF
123 (0.118 %)MSMQ
123 (0.118 %)OpenLDAP
123 (0.118 %)Postfix
131 (0.039 %)VMware Workstation
131 (0.039 %)NDS
City of London IT Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
119 (0.750 %)Tivoli
119 (0.750 %)AutoSys
216 (0.632 %)Data Guard
216 (0.632 %)CONTROL-M
312 (0.474 %)NetBackup
312 (0.474 %)Backup Exec
411 (0.434 %)HP Quality Center
411 (0.434 %)Tivoli Monitoring
57 (0.276 %)SCCM
64 (0.158 %)Ganglia
64 (0.158 %)Nagios
73 (0.118 %)BMC PATROL
73 (0.118 %)Tivoli Storage Manager
73 (0.118 %)Legato
73 (0.118 %)Cacti
73 (0.118 %)EMC NetWorker
73 (0.118 %)BMC Performance Manager
82 (0.079 %)OVSD
82 (0.079 %)Systems Management Server (SMS)
82 (0.079 %)OpenView
City of London IT Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
1548 (21.63 %)Oracle
2371 (14.65 %)Sybase
3157 (6.198 %)Microsoft
4105 (4.145 %)Reuters
5101 (3.987 %)Bloomberg
697 (3.829 %)TIBCO
789 (3.514 %)Sun
887 (3.435 %)Cisco
981 (3.198 %)Red Hat
1077 (3.040 %)IBM
1151 (2.013 %)HP
1239 (1.540 %)Citrix
1338 (1.500 %)VMware
1435 (1.382 %)Fidessa
1531 (1.224 %)Syntegra
1630 (1.184 %)Business Objects
1729 (1.145 %)Murex
1828 (1.105 %)JBoss
1927 (1.066 %)Veritas
2023 (0.908 %)EMC