East Midlands UNIX Jobs

This section looks at the demand for UNIX skills within the East Midlands region with a comparison to our Operating Systems category. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT job ads that have cited UNIX over the 3 months to 18 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Abingdon Alderley Edge Aldershot Alfreton Altrincham Andover Aylesbury Banbury Barnsley Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkhamsted Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Blackburn Blackpool Bolton Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brentwood Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cannock Canterbury Cardiff Carlisle Chatham Cheadle Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chippenham City of London Clapham Clevedon Corby Cornwall County Antrim County Londonderry Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Cwmbran Daresbury Daventry Deeside Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorchester Dorking Dorset Dumfries and Galloway Dundee Dunfermline Dunstable Durham Ealing East Anglia East Lothian East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Egham Elland England Epsom Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Farnham Faversham Feltham Fife Flintshire Folkestone Gateshead Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Goole Gourock Great Yarmouth Greenford Guildford Gwent Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harrogate Harrow Havant Hayes Haywards Heath Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertford Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hinckley Home Counties Hounslow Hove Huddersfield Hull Hungerford Huntingdon Inverclyde Ipswich Isle of Man Isle of Wight Keighley Kent Kingston Upon Thames Knaresborough Knutsford Lancashire Lancaster Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Letchworth Lichfield Lincolnshire Linlithgow Liverpool Livingston London Loughborough Luton M4 Corridor Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Market Harborough Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Nantwich Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Newton-le-Willows Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northumberland Northwood Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oldham Ormskirk Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Perth and Kinross Peterborough Petersfield Plymouth Pontefract Poole Portsmouth Potters Bar Preston Reading Redhill Reigate Renfrewshire Rickmansworth Ripon Rochdale Romford Rotherham Royston Rugby Runcorn Salford Salisbury Sandwich Scarborough Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Skelmersdale Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South Croydon South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southport St Albans St Helens Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stansted Stevenage Stirling Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Surbiton Surrey Swansea Swindon Telford Tewkesbury Thames Valley Torfaen Torquay Trowbridge Tunbridge Wells Tyne and Wear Tyneside UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Wallingford Walsall Warminster Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wellingborough Wells Welwyn Garden City West Drayton West Lothian West Malling West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wetherby Weybridge Whyteleafe Wilmslow Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Worthing Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 18 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	14	21
Rank change on same period last year	+7
Matching permanent IT job ads	449	384
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.234 %	0.158 %
As % of the category below	33.04 %	27.85 %
Salaries quoted	367	320
Average minimum salary	£33,572	£31,912
Average salary	£36,773	£34,461
% change on same period last year	+6.70 %
Average maximum salary	£39,974	£37,011
UK excluding London average salary	£38,419	£38,392
% change on same period last year	+0.07 %
Operating Systems East Midlands
Matching permanent IT job ads	1359	1379
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.710 %	0.569 %
Salaries quoted	1150	1148
Average minimum salary	£29,473	£28,149
Average salary	£31,613	£29,972
% change on same period last year	+5.47 %
Average maximum salary	£33,754	£31,795
UK excluding London average salary	£34,462	£34,987
% change on same period last year	-1.50 %
UNIX England

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing UNIX across the East Midlands region as a proportion of the total demand within the Operating Systems category.

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Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing UNIX across the East Midlands region.

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Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing UNIX across the East Midlands region over the 3 months to 18 July 2008.

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Job Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT job ads citing UNIX within the East Midlands region over the 3 months to 18 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Permanent IT Job Ads	Average Salary Last 3 Months	Average Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year
Nottinghamshire	+11	175	£37,428	+11.07 %
Northamptonshire	+3	114	£37,425	+9.99 %
Leicestershire	+10	91	£34,077	+2.40 %
Derbyshire	+1	43	£30,800	-6.00 %
Lincolnshire	-10	5	£50,700	+26.75 %

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 July 2008, IT jobs across the East Midlands 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.

1 441 (40.46 %) Oracle 2 420 (38.53 %) SQL 3 305 (27.98 %) Windows 4 288 (26.42 %) Linux 5 233 (21.38 %) Microsoft 6 218 (20.00 %) SQL Server 7 216 (19.82 %) AIX 8 159 (14.59 %) Finance 9 154 (14.13 %) Solaris 10 142 (13.03 %) IBM 11 135 (12.39 %) Java 12 134 (12.29 %) Oracle 10g 13 125 (11.47 %) PL/SQL 14 101 (9.266 %) HPUX 15 100 (9.174 %) Shell Script

16 98 (8.991 %) HP 17 95 (8.716 %) J2EE 17 95 (8.716 %) Windows NT 18 93 (8.532 %) .NET 19 88 (8.073 %) Sun 20 84 (7.706 %) XML 21 82 (7.523 %) Oracle 8/8i 22 81 (7.431 %) SAN 23 76 (6.972 %) Pensions 24 75 (6.881 %) Oracle 9i 24 75 (6.881 %) TCP/IP 24 75 (6.881 %) ITIL 24 75 (6.881 %) Oracle Reports 25 73 (6.697 %) Oracle RAC 26 71 (6.514 %) Clustering

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 July 2008, IT jobs across the East Midlands 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 95 (8.716 %) J2EE 2 93 (8.532 %) .NET 3 84 (7.706 %) XML 4 68 (6.239 %) WebSphere 5 59 (5.413 %) HTML 6 49 (4.495 %) SOAP 7 47 (4.312 %) JSP 8 44 (4.037 %) Apache Axis 9 43 (3.945 %) JSF 9 43 (3.945 %) JDBC 10 34 (3.119 %) Middleware 11 30 (2.752 %) ASP.NET 12 27 (2.477 %) EJB 13 17 (1.560 %) Swing 13 17 (1.560 %) J2SE 14 15 (1.376 %) SAP Basis 15 14 (1.284 %) ASP 16 13 (1.193 %) WebServices 17 10 (0.917 %) Struts 17 10 (0.917 %) ActiveX	Application Platforms 1 58 (5.321 %) MS Exchange 2 55 (5.046 %) JBoss 2 55 (5.046 %) Tomcat 3 32 (2.936 %) WebSphere Application Server 4 31 (2.844 %) SAS 5 22 (2.018 %) Exchange Server 2003 6 18 (1.651 %) Apache 7 17 (1.560 %) MQSeries 8 10 (0.917 %) WebSphere MQ 9 9 (0.826 %) Oracle 10gAS 9 9 (0.826 %) Oracle 9iAS 10 8 (0.734 %) CICS 10 8 (0.734 %) WebLogic 11 7 (0.642 %) MTS 12 6 (0.550 %) IIS 12 6 (0.550 %) Lotus Notes 13 4 (0.367 %) BizTalk Server 13 4 (0.367 %) Exchange Server 2000 14 3 (0.275 %) CMS 14 3 (0.275 %) Exstream Dialogue
Applications 1 67 (6.147 %) MS Excel 2 35 (3.211 %) MS Office 3 1 (0.092 %) MS Visio	Business Applications 1 21 (1.927 %) Oracle 11i 2 8 (0.734 %) Oracle ERP 3 7 (0.642 %) Oracle EBS 4 4 (0.367 %) Oracle Applications 5 3 (0.275 %) Cognos Business Intelligence 6 1 (0.092 %) Line 500 6 1 (0.092 %) MAXIMO 6 1 (0.092 %) Infinys 6 1 (0.092 %) SAP EBP 6 1 (0.092 %) JDE EnterpriseOne 6 1 (0.092 %) JDE OneWorld
Communications & Networking 1 81 (7.431 %) SAN 2 75 (6.881 %) TCP/IP 3 60 (5.505 %) LAN 4 57 (5.229 %) WAN 5 51 (4.679 %) Internet 6 25 (2.294 %) VoIP 7 20 (1.835 %) DNS 8 15 (1.376 %) Intranet 8 15 (1.376 %) Firewall 9 13 (1.193 %) ISDN 10 9 (0.826 %) VPN 11 7 (0.642 %) SSH 12 6 (0.550 %) ADSL 13 5 (0.459 %) Wireless 13 5 (0.459 %) Network Security 14 3 (0.275 %) Intrusion Detection 14 3 (0.275 %) Cisco PIX 14 3 (0.275 %) DHCP 14 3 (0.275 %) HTTP 14 3 (0.275 %) OSPF	Database & Business Intelligence 1 218 (20.00 %) SQL Server 2 134 (12.29 %) Oracle 10g 3 82 (7.523 %) Oracle 8/8i 4 75 (6.881 %) Oracle 9i 4 75 (6.881 %) Oracle Reports 5 59 (5.413 %) SQL Server 7 6 44 (4.037 %) Informix 7 35 (3.211 %) DB2 8 34 (3.119 %) SQL Server 2005 9 31 (2.844 %) BusinessObjects 10 30 (2.752 %) SQL Server 2000 11 24 (2.202 %) Oracle Discoverer 12 22 (2.018 %) MySQL 13 21 (1.927 %) DTS 14 20 (1.835 %) TOAD 15 19 (1.743 %) SQL Server Integration Services 16 18 (1.651 %) RDBMS 17 16 (1.468 %) Datawarehouse 18 15 (1.376 %) SQLPlus 18 15 (1.376 %) UniData
Development Applications 1 61 (5.596 %) Oracle Forms 2 19 (1.743 %) Oracle Designer/2000 3 15 (1.376 %) TestDirector 4 9 (0.826 %) Eclipse 5 6 (0.550 %) Visual Studio 6 5 (0.459 %) ProC 6 5 (0.459 %) VisiBroker 7 3 (0.275 %) CruiseControl 8 2 (0.183 %) Subversion 8 2 (0.183 %) ERwin 9 1 (0.092 %) Rational Robot 9 1 (0.092 %) InterDev 9 1 (0.092 %) Synon 9 1 (0.092 %) JUnit	General 1 159 (14.59 %) Finance 2 76 (6.972 %) Pensions 3 56 (5.138 %) Banking 4 50 (4.587 %) Health 5 36 (3.303 %) Marketing 6 35 (3.211 %) Retail 7 23 (2.110 %) Telecoms 8 9 (0.826 %) Billing 8 9 (0.826 %) Manufacturing 8 9 (0.826 %) Auditing 9 6 (0.550 %) Insurance 9 6 (0.550 %) Publishing 10 4 (0.367 %) Government 10 4 (0.367 %) Education 10 4 (0.367 %) Automotive 11 3 (0.275 %) Back Office 12 2 (0.183 %) Construction 12 2 (0.183 %) General Ledger 12 2 (0.183 %) FMCG 12 2 (0.183 %) Retail Banking
Job Titles 1 233 (21.38 %) Developer 2 196 (17.98 %) Analyst 3 151 (13.85 %) DBA 4 135 (12.39 %) Administrator 5 125 (11.47 %) Consultant 6 107 (9.817 %) Support Analyst 7 104 (9.541 %) Oracle DBA 8 57 (5.229 %) UNIX Administrator 9 54 (4.954 %) Java Developer 9 54 (4.954 %) Programmer 10 48 (4.404 %) Technical Support 11 41 (3.761 %) Oracle Developer 12 39 (3.578 %) Analyst Programmer 13 38 (3.486 %) Support Engineer 13 38 (3.486 %) Systems Administrator 14 34 (3.119 %) Senior DBA 15 32 (2.936 %) Software Developer 15 32 (2.936 %) 2nd Line Support 16 31 (2.844 %) UNIX Support 17 29 (2.661 %) Architect	Miscellaneous 1 71 (6.514 %) Clustering 2 65 (5.963 %) Mainframe 3 30 (2.752 %) HACMP 4 22 (2.018 %) Client/Server 5 15 (1.376 %) AS400 6 14 (1.284 %) IBM Mainframe 7 13 (1.193 %) German Language 8 12 (1.101 %) Italian Language 9 11 (1.009 %) Spanish Language 10 7 (0.642 %) Data Extraction 10 7 (0.642 %) Tandem 11 6 (0.550 %) VSAM 11 6 (0.550 %) Replication 12 5 (0.459 %) SCADA 12 5 (0.459 %) French Language 13 4 (0.367 %) Statistics 14 3 (0.275 %) Economics 14 3 (0.275 %) CLARiiON 14 3 (0.275 %) N-Tier 15 2 (0.183 %) EMV
Operating Systems 1 305 (27.98 %) Windows 2 288 (26.42 %) Linux 3 216 (19.82 %) AIX 4 154 (14.13 %) Solaris 5 101 (9.266 %) HPUX 6 95 (8.716 %) Windows NT 7 34 (3.119 %) Windows XP 8 11 (1.009 %) Windows 2000 9 10 (0.917 %) Windows Server 2003 10 9 (0.826 %) SUSE 10 9 (0.826 %) FreeBSD 11 7 (0.642 %) zOS 12 4 (0.367 %) IRIX 13 1 (0.092 %) Tru64 13 1 (0.092 %) Debian 13 1 (0.092 %) Fedora 13 1 (0.092 %) OS/400	Processes & Methodologies 1 75 (6.881 %) ITIL 2 58 (5.321 %) E-Commerce 3 51 (4.679 %) UML 4 43 (3.945 %) OOA/OOD 5 42 (3.853 %) Business Intelligence 6 40 (3.670 %) Stakeholder Management 7 36 (3.303 %) Project Management 8 33 (3.028 %) Service Delivery 9 24 (2.202 %) Disaster Recovery 10 21 (1.927 %) E-Procurement 10 21 (1.927 %) Service Management 11 19 (1.743 %) Security Cleared 12 18 (1.651 %) Business Analysis 12 18 (1.651 %) PRINCE2 12 18 (1.651 %) ERP 13 17 (1.560 %) OO 13 17 (1.560 %) Security Management 14 14 (1.284 %) TOGAF 14 14 (1.284 %) SOA 14 14 (1.284 %) EAI
Programming Languages 1 420 (38.53 %) SQL 2 135 (12.39 %) Java 3 125 (11.47 %) PL/SQL 4 100 (9.174 %) Shell Script 5 57 (5.229 %) JavaScript 6 50 (4.587 %) VB 6 50 (4.587 %) VB.NET 7 43 (3.945 %) C 8 39 (3.578 %) C# 9 23 (2.110 %) Perl 10 22 (2.018 %) C++ 10 22 (2.018 %) COBOL 11 19 (1.743 %) VB6 12 14 (1.284 %) Korn 12 14 (1.284 %) MUMPS 13 9 (0.826 %) PHP 14 7 (0.642 %) DHTML 15 6 (0.550 %) Transact-SQL 15 6 (0.550 %) JCL 16 5 (0.459 %) Progress 4GL	Qualifications 1 60 (5.505 %) Degree 2 50 (4.587 %) Microsoft Certification 3 43 (3.945 %) MCSE 4 39 (3.578 %) Oracle Certification 5 23 (2.110 %) MCP 6 20 (1.835 %) Sun Certification 7 16 (1.468 %) MCSA 8 15 (1.376 %) Cisco Certification 9 13 (1.193 %) CCNA 10 11 (1.009 %) CISA 11 9 (0.826 %) OCA 12 8 (0.734 %) OCP 13 7 (0.642 %) HNC 14 5 (0.459 %) CCNP 14 5 (0.459 %) PMP 14 5 (0.459 %) PMI Certification 14 5 (0.459 %) QiCA 15 4 (0.367 %) ISEB 16 3 (0.275 %) PRINCE2 Certification 17 2 (0.183 %) Citrix Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 33 (3.028 %) SLA 2 20 (1.835 %) QA	System Software 1 73 (6.697 %) Oracle RAC 2 66 (6.055 %) Active Directory 3 52 (4.771 %) Oracle RMAN 4 44 (4.037 %) NetBackup 5 24 (2.202 %) Terminal Services 5 24 (2.202 %) VMware Infrastructure 6 19 (1.743 %) Terminal Server 7 4 (0.367 %) VMware ESX 8 1 (0.092 %) Backup Exec 8 1 (0.092 %) NFS
Systems Management 1 35 (3.211 %) Tivoli 2 33 (3.028 %) Tivoli Storage Manager 3 9 (0.826 %) HP Data Protector 4 4 (0.367 %) AllFusion Endevor 5 3 (0.275 %) Oracle Enterprise Manager 6 1 (0.092 %) OpenView 6 1 (0.092 %) Legato 6 1 (0.092 %) Foglight 6 1 (0.092 %) EMC NetWorker	Vendors 1 441 (40.46 %) Oracle 2 233 (21.38 %) Microsoft 3 142 (13.03 %) IBM 4 98 (8.991 %) HP 5 88 (8.073 %) Sun 6 69 (6.330 %) VERITAS 7 40 (3.670 %) VMware 8 31 (2.844 %) Cisco 8 31 (2.844 %) Business Objects 9 27 (2.477 %) Citrix 10 26 (2.385 %) NetApp 10 26 (2.385 %) SAP 11 12 (1.101 %) Juniper 11 12 (1.101 %) Ab Initio 12 10 (0.917 %) Red Hat 13 9 (0.826 %) Teradata 14 8 (0.734 %) SurfControl 15 7 (0.642 %) Brocade 15 7 (0.642 %) Dell 15 7 (0.642 %) Cognos