The first table below looks at the demand for UNIX skills in IT jobs advertised for the Dunstable region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited UNIX over the 3 months to 22 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 Operating Systems category for the Dunstable region.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
UNIX
Rank 13 6 4
Rank change year-on-year
-7 -2
Permanent jobs citing UNIX 18 10 4
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Dunstable 15.65% 29.41% 16.00%
As % of the Operating Systems category 51.43% 66.67% 66.67%
Number of salaries quoted 14 9 4
Average salary £52,250 £47,500 £42,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+10.00% +11.76%
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
All Operating Systems
Dunstable
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
35 15 6
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Dunstable 30.43% 44.12% 24.00%
Number of salaries quoted 30 14 6
Average salary £36,834 £53,500 £24,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-31.15% +118.36%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,000 £33,000 £22,500
10% offered a salary of more than £54,500 £42,500 £57,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
UNIX
Bedfordshire

UNIX
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Dunstable 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 Dunstable region.

Dunstable UNIX Salary Trend

UNIX
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing UNIX across the Dunstable region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

Dunstable UNIX Salary Histogram

UNIX
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Dunstable 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 18 (75.00%) Solaris
2 17 (70.83%) Finance
3 14 (58.33%) Oracle
4 12 (50.00%) Linux
4 12 (50.00%) Cisco
5 11 (45.83%) TCP/IP
6 10 (41.67%) HP
7 9 (37.50%) ITIL
8 8 (33.33%) MS Excel
8 8 (33.33%) Red Hat
9 7 (29.17%) Oracle RAC
10 6 (25.00%) SSH
10 6 (25.00%) Korn
10 6 (25.00%) Bash shell
10 6 (25.00%) Shell Script
10 6 (25.00%) DNS
10 6 (25.00%) LDAP
11 5 (20.83%) PRINCE2
11 5 (20.83%) Java
11 5 (20.83%) SSL
11 5 (20.83%) SLA
11 5 (20.83%) Microsoft
11 5 (20.83%) CCNP
11 5 (20.83%) CCDA
11 5 (20.83%) Cisco Certification
11 5 (20.83%) Juniper
11 5 (20.83%) Change Control
11 5 (20.83%) Oracle 11g
12 4 (16.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 4 (16.67%) Oracle Application Server

UNIX
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Dunstable 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 2 (8.333%) Middleware
1 2 (8.333%) Hibernate
1 2 (8.333%) JSP
1 2 (8.333%) Struts
1 2 (8.333%) XML
1 2 (8.333%) XSL
1 2 (8.333%) XSLT
1 2 (8.333%) Java EE
1 2 (8.333%) Spring
1 2 (8.333%) JSF
2 1 (4.167%) J2EE
Application Platforms
1 4 (16.67%) Oracle Application Server
2 3 (12.50%) WebLogic
3 1 (4.167%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 8 (33.33%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 11 (45.83%) TCP/IP
2 6 (25.00%) SSH
2 6 (25.00%) DNS
2 6 (25.00%) LDAP
3 5 (20.83%) SSL
4 4 (16.67%) Cisco Nexus
4 4 (16.67%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (20.83%) Oracle 11g
2 3 (12.50%) Oracle 8/8i
2 3 (12.50%) Oracle 10g
3 2 (8.333%) Oracle OWB
3 2 (8.333%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (4.167%) SQL Server 2005
4 1 (4.167%) SQL Server 2008
4 1 (4.167%) SQL Server
4 1 (4.167%) OLTP
4 1 (4.167%) SQLPlus
General
1 17 (70.83%) Finance
2 2 (8.333%) Banking
Job Titles
1 8 (33.33%) UNIX Engineer
2 6 (25.00%) UNIX Support
2 6 (25.00%) Architect
2 6 (25.00%) Support Engineer
3 5 (20.83%) Administrator
3 5 (20.83%) Oracle DBA
3 5 (20.83%) DBA
3 5 (20.83%) Build Engineer
4 4 (16.67%) Network Architect
5 3 (12.50%) Applications Support
6 2 (8.333%) Solutions Architect
6 2 (8.333%) Support Analyst
6 2 (8.333%) Analyst
6 2 (8.333%) Applications Support Analyst
6 2 (8.333%) Trainee Support Analyst
6 2 (8.333%) Senior UNIX Engineer
6 2 (8.333%) Trainee Analyst
6 2 (8.333%) Trainee
7 1 (4.167%) Solaris Administrator
7 1 (4.167%) UNIX Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.333%) SWIFT
2 1 (4.167%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 18 (75.00%) Solaris
2 12 (50.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (37.50%) ITIL
2 5 (20.83%) PRINCE2
2 5 (20.83%) Change Control
3 4 (16.67%) Capacity Planning
3 4 (16.67%) Configuration Management
4 2 (8.333%) Business Intelligence
4 2 (8.333%) User Acceptance Testing
5 1 (4.167%) Product Management
5 1 (4.167%) Network Management
5 1 (4.167%) E-business
5 1 (4.167%) Project Management
5 1 (4.167%) PRINCE
Programming Languages
1 6 (25.00%) Korn
1 6 (25.00%) Bash shell
1 6 (25.00%) Shell Script
2 5 (20.83%) Java
3 4 (16.67%) C-shell
3 4 (16.67%) AWK
3 4 (16.67%) Perl
3 4 (16.67%) SQL
4 3 (12.50%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (20.83%) CCNP
1 5 (20.83%) CCDA
1 5 (20.83%) Cisco Certification
2 4 (16.67%) CCNA
3 1 (4.167%) Security Cleared
3 1 (4.167%) CCIE
3 1 (4.167%) CCDP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (20.83%) SLA
2 4 (16.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 7 (29.17%) Oracle RAC
2 4 (16.67%) Oracle RMAN
3 2 (8.333%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
3 2 (8.333%) VMware ESX
3 2 (8.333%) vSphere
3 2 (8.333%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 4 (16.67%) Data Guard
1 4 (16.67%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 2 (8.333%) Tivoli
3 1 (4.167%) OpenView
Vendors
1 14 (58.33%) Oracle
2 12 (50.00%) Cisco
3 10 (41.67%) HP
4 8 (33.33%) Red Hat
5 5 (20.83%) Microsoft
5 5 (20.83%) Juniper
6 4 (16.67%) F5
6 4 (16.67%) VMware
6 4 (16.67%) Sun
7 3 (12.50%) EMC
8 2 (8.333%) BEA