East of England Unix Jobs

This section looks at the demand for Unix skills within the East of England region with a comparison to our Operating Systems category. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Unix over the last 3 months to 13 May 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Abingdon Aldershot Altrincham Amersham Andover Aylesbury Banbury Barking Barnsley Basildon Basingstoke Bath Batley Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkhamsted Berkshire Bexley Bexleyheath Bicester Birkenhead Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Blackburn Blackpool Bolton Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Braintree Brentford Brentwood Bridgend Brighton Bristol Buckingham Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Channel Islands Cheadle Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chichester Chippenham City of London Clapham Colchester Corby Cornwall County Antrim County Londonderry Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cwmbran 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 Eastbourne Eastleigh Edinburgh Egham Elland England Epsom Essex Exeter Falkirk Fareham Farnborough Faversham Feltham Fife Flintshire Folkestone Gateshead Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Gosport Gourock Greenford Guildford Gwent Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Harrow Havant Hayes Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hinckley Home Counties Horsham Hounslow Huddersfield Hull Hungerford Huntingdon Ilford Inverclyde Ipswich Isle of Man Kent Kettering Kingston Upon Thames Knaresborough Knutsford Lanarkshire Lancashire Lancaster Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Letchworth Lincolnshire Linlithgow Liverpool Livingston London Lothian Loughborough Lowestoft Luton Lytham St Annes M4 Corridor Maidenhead Maidstone Malmesbury Manchester Market Harborough Marlow Melksham Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Morecambe Musselburgh Nantwich Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Newton-le-Willows Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northumberland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oldham Osterley Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Perth and Kinross Peterborough Petersfield Plymouth Pontefract Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Redhill Reigate Rickmansworth Ripon Rochdale Romford Rugby Runcorn Sale Salford Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South Croydon South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans St Helens St Neots Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stamford Stansted Stevenage Stirling Stockport Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surbiton Surrey Swanley Swansea Swindon Taunton Tayside Telford Tewkesbury Thames Valley Torfaen Torquay Trowbridge Tunbridge Wells Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Walsall Warminster Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wellingborough Welwyn Garden City Wembley West Bromwich West Dunbartonshire West Lothian West Malling West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Weston-super-Mare Weybridge Whyteleafe Wigan Wilmslow Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Winsford Woking Wokingham Worcester Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 13 May 2008	Same period last year
Rank	17	12
Rank change on same period last year	-5
Matching permanent IT job ads	1143	1490
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.559 %	0.640 %
As % of the category below	33.45 %	42.25 %
Salaries quoted	966	1206
Average minimum salary	£36,279	£35,299
Average salary	£39,199	£38,241
% change on same period last year	+2.50 %
Average maximum salary	£42,120	£41,183
UK excluding London average salary	£38,912	£38,161
% change on same period last year	+1.96 %
Operating Systems East of England
Matching permanent IT job ads	3417	3527
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	1.672 %	1.515 %
Salaries quoted	2864	2876
Average minimum salary	£32,326	£32,714
Average salary	£35,073	£35,281
% change on same period last year	-0.58 %
Average maximum salary	£37,820	£37,848
UK excluding London average salary	£34,684	£34,941
% change on same period last year	-0.73 %
Unix England

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total starting in 2004 of permanent IT jobs ads citing Unix across the East of England 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 ads citing Unix across the East of England region.

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Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Unix across the East of England region over the past 3 months.

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Job Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Unix within the East of England region over the past 3 months.

Rank	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
1	Cambridgeshire	-7	425	£35,448	-1.26 %
2	Hertfordshire	-5	415	£40,156	-0.57 %
3	Essex	+8	141	£43,875	+1.68 %
4	Suffolk	-9	85	£46,806	+28.41 %
5	Bedfordshire	-8	72	£38,185	+1.82 %
6	Norfolk	-7	12	£35,083	+7.37 %
7	East Anglia	-13	8	£71,250	+89.32 %

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

Over the past 6 months permanent IT jobs across the East of England region citing Unix also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing Unix.

1 892 (38.95 %) Oracle 2 838 (36.59 %) Linux 3 833 (36.38 %) Windows 4 606 (26.46 %) SQL 5 515 (22.49 %) Java 6 456 (19.91 %) Solaris 7 399 (17.42 %) C++ 8 375 (16.38 %) C 9 368 (16.07 %) Degree 10 310 (13.54 %) Telecoms 11 293 (12.79 %) Perl 12 278 (12.14 %) SQL Server 13 267 (11.66 %) AIX 14 263 (11.48 %) J2EE 15 245 (10.70 %) Finance

16 238 (10.39 %) TCP/IP 17 233 (10.17 %) SAN 18 195 (8.515 %) Microsoft 19 187 (8.166 %) IBM 20 171 (7.467 %) PL/SQL 21 170 (7.424 %) DB2 22 159 (6.943 %) MySQL 23 157 (6.856 %) Shell Script 24 152 (6.638 %) ITIL 25 147 (6.419 %) Sun 26 142 (6.201 %) OO 27 141 (6.157 %) UML 28 140 (6.114 %) Retail 29 136 (5.939 %) Cisco 30 133 (5.808 %) Apache

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

Over the past 6 months permanent IT jobs across the East of England region citing Unix also mentioned the following skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing Unix. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 263 (11.48 %) J2EE 2 132 (5.764 %) HTML 3 121 (5.284 %) XML 4 114 (4.978 %) WebSphere 5 83 (3.624 %) .NET 6 77 (3.362 %) Middleware 7 55 (2.402 %) JSP 8 47 (2.052 %) Struts 9 45 (1.965 %) EJB 10 40 (1.747 %) CSS 11 34 (1.485 %) WebServices 11 34 (1.485 %) CORBA 12 24 (1.048 %) Servlets 13 21 (0.917 %) STL 14 18 (0.786 %) SOAP 14 18 (0.786 %) AJAX 15 16 (0.699 %) JDBC 16 14 (0.611 %) Java RMI 17 13 (0.568 %) CGI 17 13 (0.568 %) ASP.NET	Application Platforms 1 133 (5.808 %) Apache 2 104 (4.541 %) Tomcat 3 102 (4.454 %) WebLogic 4 88 (3.843 %) JBoss 5 66 (2.882 %) MS Exchange 6 48 (2.096 %) Exchange Server 2003 7 42 (1.834 %) IIS 8 36 (1.572 %) MQSeries 9 34 (1.485 %) WebSphere Application Server 10 33 (1.441 %) IBM HTTP Server 11 20 (0.873 %) Oracle Application Server 11 20 (0.873 %) Exchange Server 2000 12 16 (0.699 %) Oracle 10gAS 13 15 (0.655 %) Smallworld 14 13 (0.568 %) Lotus Notes 15 12 (0.524 %) Oracle 9iAS 16 8 (0.349 %) iPlanet 16 8 (0.349 %) WebLogic Portal 17 7 (0.306 %) SAS 18 6 (0.262 %) BizTalk Server
Applications 1 103 (4.498 %) MS Excel 2 56 (2.445 %) MS Office 3 24 (1.048 %) MS Visio 4 12 (0.524 %) CA Clarity 5 10 (0.437 %) MATLAB 6 8 (0.349 %) MS Project 7 5 (0.218 %) FrameMaker 7 5 (0.218 %) MS PowerPoint	Business Applications 1 16 (0.699 %) Oracle 11i 2 12 (0.524 %) Oracle Applications 3 11 (0.480 %) Oracle EBS 4 8 (0.349 %) Oracle ERP 5 5 (0.218 %) Teamcenter 6 3 (0.131 %) MFGPRO 6 3 (0.131 %) Oracle Financials 7 2 (0.087 %) BASE24 7 2 (0.087 %) SAP R/3 8 1 (0.044 %) Remedy AR System
Communications & Networking 1 238 (10.39 %) TCP/IP 2 233 (10.17 %) SAN 3 115 (5.022 %) Internet 4 106 (4.629 %) Firewall 5 91 (3.974 %) LAN 6 81 (3.537 %) WAN 7 74 (3.231 %) HTTP 8 73 (3.188 %) GSM 9 72 (3.144 %) DNS 10 67 (2.926 %) Wireless 11 66 (2.882 %) VoIP 12 64 (2.795 %) INAP 13 54 (2.358 %) VPN 13 54 (2.358 %) SMTP 14 40 (1.747 %) SSL 15 36 (1.572 %) 2G 15 36 (1.572 %) SS7 16 35 (1.528 %) SNMP 17 34 (1.485 %) H.323 18 32 (1.397 %) Intranet	Database & Business Intelligence 1 278 (12.14 %) SQL Server 2 170 (7.424 %) DB2 3 159 (6.943 %) MySQL 4 109 (4.760 %) Oracle 9i 5 107 (4.672 %) Oracle 10g 6 103 (4.498 %) RDBMS 7 93 (4.061 %) Oracle Reports 8 58 (2.533 %) Oracle 8/8i 9 28 (1.223 %) TOAD 10 23 (1.004 %) Oracle Discoverer 11 21 (0.917 %) SQL Server 2000 12 15 (0.655 %) GIS 12 15 (0.655 %) MS Access 13 13 (0.568 %) Datawarehouse 13 13 (0.568 %) SQL Server 7 14 12 (0.524 %) SQL Server 2005 14 12 (0.524 %) Crystal Reports 14 12 (0.524 %) ETL 15 11 (0.480 %) BusinessObjects 16 8 (0.349 %) SQLPlus
Development Applications 1 79 (3.450 %) Oracle Forms 2 41 (1.790 %) JUnit 3 40 (1.747 %) ProC 4 36 (1.572 %) TestDirector 5 29 (1.266 %) JDeveloper 5 29 (1.266 %) WinRunner 6 23 (1.004 %) PVCS 6 23 (1.004 %) Eclipse 7 22 (0.961 %) Ant 8 14 (0.611 %) Rational Rose 9 13 (0.568 %) LoadRunner 10 10 (0.437 %) QuickTest Pro 11 9 (0.393 %) Oracle Developer 2000 11 9 (0.393 %) InstallShield 12 7 (0.306 %) ClearCase 13 6 (0.262 %) TeamTrack 14 5 (0.218 %) Subversion 14 5 (0.218 %) QARun 14 5 (0.218 %) Rational Robot 15 4 (0.175 %) WebSphere Studio Application Developer	General 1 310 (13.54 %) Telecoms 2 245 (10.70 %) Finance 3 140 (6.114 %) Retail 4 101 (4.410 %) Health 5 98 (4.279 %) Pensions 6 65 (2.838 %) Insurance 7 49 (2.140 %) Education 8 44 (1.921 %) Electronics 9 43 (1.878 %) Banking 10 40 (1.747 %) Multimedia 11 35 (1.528 %) Government 11 35 (1.528 %) Back Office 12 29 (1.266 %) Games 13 22 (0.961 %) Manufacturing 14 17 (0.742 %) Automotive 14 17 (0.742 %) Billing 15 14 (0.611 %) Auditing 16 11 (0.480 %) Pharmaceutical 17 10 (0.437 %) Financial Institution 18 9 (0.393 %) Publishing
Job Titles 1 391 (17.07 %) Developer 2 282 (12.31 %) Analyst 2 282 (12.31 %) Administrator 3 200 (8.734 %) Software Engineer 4 195 (8.515 %) Systems Administrator 5 132 (5.764 %) Support Engineer 6 130 (5.677 %) Support Analyst 7 124 (5.415 %) Architect 8 119 (5.197 %) DBA 9 114 (4.978 %) C++ Developer 10 108 (4.716 %) Java Developer 11 106 (4.629 %) UNIX Administrator 12 101 (4.410 %) Consultant 13 97 (4.236 %) Technical Support 14 94 (4.105 %) Applications Support 15 91 (3.974 %) UNIX Systems Administrator 16 86 (3.755 %) Oracle DBA 17 85 (3.712 %) Team Leader 18 77 (3.362 %) Software Developer 19 69 (3.013 %) Technical Engineer	Miscellaneous 1 121 (5.284 %) Computer Science 2 85 (3.712 %) Client/Server 3 51 (2.227 %) Mainframe 4 41 (1.790 %) Device Driver 5 38 (1.659 %) AS400 6 34 (1.485 %) Clustering 7 25 (1.092 %) Firmware 8 23 (1.004 %) Mathematics 9 22 (0.961 %) Replication 10 21 (0.917 %) VHDL 10 21 (0.917 %) Verilog 11 20 (0.873 %) Field-Programmable Gate Array 12 19 (0.830 %) IPTV 12 19 (0.830 %) Multithreading 13 15 (0.655 %) French Language 14 13 (0.568 %) DTV 15 11 (0.480 %) N-Tier 15 11 (0.480 %) Data Protection Act 16 10 (0.437 %) HACMP 16 10 (0.437 %) Asset Management
Operating Systems 1 838 (36.59 %) Linux 2 833 (36.38 %) Windows 3 456 (19.91 %) Solaris 4 267 (11.66 %) AIX 5 86 (3.755 %) HPUX 6 65 (2.838 %) Windows Server 2003 7 53 (2.314 %) Windows 2000 8 52 (2.271 %) Windows NT 9 41 (1.790 %) Windows XP 10 36 (1.572 %) SUSE 11 32 (1.397 %) VxWorks 12 25 (1.092 %) VMS 13 22 (0.961 %) OS/400 14 16 (0.699 %) FreeBSD 15 15 (0.655 %) zOS 16 11 (0.480 %) OpenVMS 17 6 (0.262 %) Windows Mobile 18 5 (0.218 %) Fedora 19 4 (0.175 %) Ubuntu 19 4 (0.175 %) Embedded Linux	Processes & Methodologies 1 152 (6.638 %) ITIL 2 142 (6.201 %) OO 3 141 (6.157 %) UML 4 110 (4.803 %) E-Commerce 5 81 (3.537 %) Service Delivery 6 74 (3.231 %) Disaster Recovery 7 69 (3.013 %) Project Management 8 58 (2.533 %) Software Testing 9 57 (2.489 %) Requirements Analysis 10 51 (2.227 %) Change Management 11 48 (2.096 %) Software Engineering 12 43 (1.878 %) Automated Testing 13 37 (1.616 %) Unit Testing 14 36 (1.572 %) Technical Architecture 15 35 (1.528 %) Test Scripting 16 34 (1.485 %) Configuration Management 17 31 (1.354 %) Service Management 18 30 (1.310 %) OOD 19 27 (1.179 %) ERP 19 27 (1.179 %) Agile Software Development
Programming Languages 1 606 (26.46 %) SQL 2 515 (22.49 %) Java 3 399 (17.42 %) C++ 4 375 (16.38 %) C 5 293 (12.79 %) Perl 6 171 (7.467 %) PL/SQL 7 157 (6.856 %) Shell Script 8 108 (4.716 %) Python 9 95 (4.148 %) C# 10 92 (4.017 %) JavaScript 11 58 (2.533 %) PHP 12 25 (1.092 %) VB 13 23 (1.004 %) Assembly Language 14 22 (0.961 %) VC++ 15 19 (0.830 %) Embedded C 16 15 (0.655 %) Magik 17 14 (0.611 %) Korn 18 10 (0.437 %) AWK 19 9 (0.393 %) Ruby 20 8 (0.349 %) VBScript	Qualifications 1 368 (16.07 %) Degree 2 52 (2.271 %) ISEB 3 48 (2.096 %) Microsoft Certification 4 32 (1.397 %) MCP 5 31 (1.354 %) MCSE 6 27 (1.179 %) Cisco Certification 7 15 (0.655 %) Oracle Certification 8 13 (0.568 %) MCDST 9 12 (0.524 %) ITIL Certification 9 12 (0.524 %) MCSA 9 12 (0.524 %) CCNA 10 11 (0.480 %) HND 10 11 (0.480 %) OCP 11 10 (0.437 %) RHCE 12 8 (0.349 %) CCNP 13 5 (0.218 %) PhD 13 5 (0.218 %) PMP 13 5 (0.218 %) PMI Certification 13 5 (0.218 %) VMware Certified Professional (VCP) 14 4 (0.175 %) CCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 117 (5.109 %) SLA 2 73 (3.188 %) QA 3 16 (0.699 %) ISO27001 4 15 (0.655 %) ISO9000 5 12 (0.524 %) COBIT 6 9 (0.393 %) Sarbanes-Oxley 7 3 (0.131 %) TickIT 8 2 (0.087 %) BS7799	System Software 1 96 (4.192 %) Active Directory 2 34 (1.485 %) Oracle RAC 3 30 (1.310 %) Oracle RMAN 4 14 (0.611 %) NetBackup 5 13 (0.568 %) NFS 6 5 (0.218 %) Tivoli Workload Scheduler 6 5 (0.218 %) Terminal Server 7 4 (0.175 %) ISA Server 7 4 (0.175 %) Microsoft Virtual Server 8 3 (0.131 %) VMware ESX 9 2 (0.087 %) Samba 9 2 (0.087 %) Terminal Services 9 2 (0.087 %) VMware Server 10 1 (0.044 %) Citrix Presentation Server 10 1 (0.044 %) MetaFrame
Systems Management 1 47 (2.052 %) Tivoli 2 28 (1.223 %) Tivoli Storage Manager 3 16 (0.699 %) OpenView 4 15 (0.655 %) SCOM 5 13 (0.568 %) Oracle Enterprise Manager 6 11 (0.480 %) Legato 7 10 (0.437 %) EMC NetWorker 8 8 (0.349 %) Unicenter 8 8 (0.349 %) BMC PATROL 9 5 (0.218 %) CONTROL-M 10 4 (0.175 %) Netcool 11 3 (0.131 %) Netcool/OMNIbus 11 3 (0.131 %) AutoSys 11 3 (0.131 %) EMC TimeFinder 11 3 (0.131 %) Nagios 12 2 (0.087 %) OVSD 12 2 (0.087 %) CiscoWorks 12 2 (0.087 %) MOM 12 2 (0.087 %) Tivoli Monitoring 12 2 (0.087 %) ServiceCenter	Vendors 1 892 (38.95 %) Oracle 2 195 (8.515 %) Microsoft 3 187 (8.166 %) IBM 4 147 (6.419 %) Sun 5 136 (5.939 %) Cisco 6 110 (4.803 %) HP 7 88 (3.843 %) Red Hat 8 78 (3.406 %) Sybase 9 67 (2.926 %) EMC 10 57 (2.489 %) Citrix 11 54 (2.358 %) Brocade 12 51 (2.227 %) VERITAS 13 48 (2.096 %) Intel 14 31 (1.354 %) VMware 15 26 (1.135 %) SAP 16 23 (1.004 %) BEA 17 22 (0.961 %) CheckPoint 18 17 (0.742 %) Lotus 19 13 (0.568 %) BMC 20 11 (0.480 %) Business Objects