The first table below looks at the demand for AWK skills in IT jobs advertised for the England region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited AWK over the 3 months to 20 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 Programming Languages category for the England region.

Location
3 months to
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
AWK
Rank 752 730 689
Rank change year-on-year
-22 -41
Permanent jobs citing AWK 92 140 159
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in England 0.092% 0.123% 0.138%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.172% 0.226% 0.259%
Number of salaries quoted 74 115 116
Average salary £50,000 £40,000 £44,125
Average salary % change year-on-year
+25.00% -9.34%
90% offered a salary of more than £37,150 £27,500 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £60,000 £67,500
UK excluding London average salary £45,000 £38,000 £35,000
% change year-on-year
+18.42% +8.57%
All Programming Languages
England
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
53636 61848 61359
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in England 53.41% 54.39% 53.24%
Number of salaries quoted 46605 54780 53411
Average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £27,795 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £65,000 £70,000 £65,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
AWK
UK

AWK
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing AWK across the England region as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.

England AWK Jobs Demand Trend

AWK
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing AWK across the England region.

England AWK Salary Trend

AWK
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing AWK across the England region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013.

England AWK Salary Histogram

AWK
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing AWK within the England region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
London +27 51 £55,000 +22.22%
South East +28 22 £47,500 +17.28%
Yorkshire +12 14 £45,000 +12.50%
East of England -17 3 £50,000 +25.00%
North West -1 1 £40,000 +1.26%
East Midlands - 1 £37,500 -
AWK
UK

AWK
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the England region citing AWK 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 AWK.

1 177 (82.33%) Linux
2 158 (73.49%) Perl
3 153 (71.16%) sed
4 120 (55.81%) Shell Script
5 115 (53.49%) Bash shell
6 110 (51.16%) UNIX
7 100 (46.51%) Oracle
8 94 (43.72%) SQL
9 81 (37.67%) Python
10 63 (29.30%) Puppet
11 60 (27.91%) Solaris
12 59 (27.44%) Red Hat
13 56 (26.05%) Apache
13 56 (26.05%) Open Source
14 54 (25.12%) Java
15 51 (23.72%) MySQL
16 48 (22.33%) XML
17 45 (20.93%) SAN
17 45 (20.93%) Nagios
17 45 (20.93%) Clustering
18 44 (20.47%) PHP
19 43 (20.00%) Configuration Management
20 38 (17.67%) Finance
21 37 (17.21%) Ruby
22 35 (16.28%) Tomcat
23 34 (15.81%) JBoss
23 34 (15.81%) Sun
23 34 (15.81%) Disaster Recovery
23 34 (15.81%) Degree
24 33 (15.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux

AWK
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the England region citing AWK 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 AWK. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 48 (22.33%) XML
2 17 (7.907%) J2EE
3 16 (7.442%) HTML5
4 15 (6.977%) Middleware
5 13 (6.047%) JDBC
5 13 (6.047%) WebSphere
6 12 (5.581%) jQuery
6 12 (5.581%) CSS
7 10 (4.651%) LAMP
8 9 (4.186%) Web Services
8 9 (4.186%) HTML
9 6 (2.791%) X-Windows
9 6 (2.791%) XSD
9 6 (2.791%) XHTML
9 6 (2.791%) CSS3
9 6 (2.791%) Lucene
9 6 (2.791%) Ajax
9 6 (2.791%) JSON
10 5 (2.326%) POSIX
10 5 (2.326%) Silverlight
Application Platforms
1 56 (26.05%) Apache
2 35 (16.28%) Tomcat
3 20 (9.302%) WebLogic
4 10 (4.651%) Liferay
5 8 (3.721%) Oracle Application Server
6 5 (2.326%) ATG Dynamo
7 4 (1.860%) Drupal
7 4 (1.860%) Amazon AWS
7 4 (1.860%) CMS
7 4 (1.860%) MS Exchange
8 3 (1.395%) Exchange Server 2007
9 1 (0.465%) TIBCO EMS
9 1 (0.465%) Apache Solr
9 1 (0.465%) WebLogic Portal
9 1 (0.465%) WebSphere Application Server
9 1 (0.465%) IIS
Applications
1 12 (5.581%) MS Excel
2 2 (0.930%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 4 (1.860%) Oracle 11i
2 1 (0.465%) BusinessWorks
2 1 (0.465%) Temenos Globus
Communications & Networking
1 45 (20.93%) SAN
2 33 (15.35%) DNS
3 29 (13.49%) TCP/IP
4 27 (12.56%) HTTP
5 22 (10.23%) SMTP
6 20 (9.302%) NAS
7 19 (8.837%) SSL
8 18 (8.372%) SNMP
9 17 (7.907%) tcpdump
10 16 (7.442%) iSCSI
11 13 (6.047%) TELNET
11 13 (6.047%) Firewall
11 13 (6.047%) LDAP
12 12 (5.581%) Broadband
12 12 (5.581%) DHCP
12 12 (5.581%) Internet
13 6 (2.791%) Fibre Channel
14 5 (2.326%) OSPF
14 5 (2.326%) BGP
14 5 (2.326%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (23.72%) MySQL
2 31 (14.42%) NoSQL
3 28 (13.02%) SQL Server
4 23 (10.70%) Big Data
5 20 (9.302%) PostgreSQL
6 18 (8.372%) Hadoop
7 17 (7.907%) MongoDB
7 17 (7.907%) Apache Cassandra
7 17 (7.907%) Redis
8 14 (6.512%) Oracle 11g
8 14 (6.512%) OLTP
9 11 (5.116%) DB2
10 10 (4.651%) VLDB
11 9 (4.186%) Oracle 10g
12 5 (2.326%) ObjectStore
12 5 (2.326%) Oracle Reports
12 5 (2.326%) Oracle 9i
13 4 (1.860%) Crystal Reports
13 4 (1.860%) SQLPlus
14 3 (1.395%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 18 (8.372%) Subversion
2 17 (7.907%) Jenkins
3 14 (6.512%) Git (software)
4 10 (4.651%) Hudson
5 8 (3.721%) Ant
6 7 (3.256%) Maven
7 6 (2.791%) JIRA
8 5 (2.326%) Team Foundation Server
9 3 (1.395%) Oracle APEX
General
1 38 (17.67%) Finance
2 16 (7.442%) Banking
3 10 (4.651%) Marketing
4 6 (2.791%) Manufacturing
4 6 (2.791%) Electronics
5 4 (1.860%) Automotive
5 4 (1.860%) Publishing
6 3 (1.395%) Telecoms
7 2 (0.930%) Billing
8 1 (0.465%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.465%) Back Office
8 1 (0.465%) Games
8 1 (0.465%) Retail
8 1 (0.465%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 91 (42.33%) Administrator
2 61 (28.37%) Systems Administrator
3 49 (22.79%) Linux Administrator
4 43 (20.00%) Linux Systems Administrator
5 26 (12.09%) Analyst
6 22 (10.23%) Applications Support
7 21 (9.767%) UNIX Administrator
8 20 (9.302%) Support Analyst
8 20 (9.302%) Senior Systems Administrator
9 19 (8.837%) Senior Linux Administrator
10 17 (7.907%) Applications Support Analyst
11 15 (6.977%) Senior Linux Systems Administrator
12 12 (5.581%) Release Engineer
12 12 (5.581%) Software Engineer
12 12 (5.581%) Developer
12 12 (5.581%) Configuration Engineer
13 11 (5.116%) Architect
14 10 (4.651%) DBA
15 9 (4.186%) Technical Architect
15 9 (4.186%) Oracle DBA
Miscellaneous
1 56 (26.05%) Open Source
2 45 (20.93%) Clustering
3 14 (6.512%) Cryptography
3 14 (6.512%) SaaS
4 13 (6.047%) Computer Science
5 12 (5.581%) Client/Server
5 12 (5.581%) Management Information System
6 10 (4.651%) Mathematics
6 10 (4.651%) Streaming Media
7 8 (3.721%) CLARiiON
7 8 (3.721%) Symmetrix
7 8 (3.721%) HACMP
7 8 (3.721%) Celerra
7 8 (3.721%) Enterprise Software
8 6 (2.791%) Digital Media
9 5 (2.326%) Grid Computing
10 4 (1.860%) Mainframe
10 4 (1.860%) VHDL
10 4 (1.860%) Verilog
10 4 (1.860%) Social Network
Operating Systems
1 177 (82.33%) Linux
2 110 (51.16%) UNIX
3 60 (27.91%) Solaris
4 33 (15.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 31 (14.42%) Windows
6 26 (12.09%) Debian
7 25 (11.63%) CentOS
8 23 (10.70%) Ubuntu
9 14 (6.512%) AIX
9 14 (6.512%) HPUX
10 11 (5.116%) FreeBSD
11 9 (4.186%) Mac OS X
11 9 (4.186%) Windows Server 2003
12 8 (3.721%) SUSE
13 7 (3.256%) OpenBSD
14 5 (2.326%) Windows Server 2008
15 4 (1.860%) VMS
15 4 (1.860%) Apple iOS
16 1 (0.465%) Windows 7
16 1 (0.465%) Gentoo
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (20.00%) Configuration Management
2 34 (15.81%) Disaster Recovery
3 26 (12.09%) Load Balancing
4 21 (9.767%) Problem Management
5 18 (8.372%) ITIL
6 17 (7.907%) Capacity Planning
7 14 (6.512%) Root Cause Analysis
7 14 (6.512%) Release Management
8 13 (6.047%) Memory Management
8 13 (6.047%) Software Engineering
9 12 (5.581%) Business Continuity
9 12 (5.581%) Agile Software Development
9 12 (5.581%) Benchmarking
9 12 (5.581%) Continuous Integration
10 11 (5.116%) E-Commerce
11 10 (4.651%) UML
11 10 (4.651%) Service Management
11 10 (4.651%) RUP
11 10 (4.651%) Information Security
11 10 (4.651%) Change Control
Programming Languages
1 158 (73.49%) Perl
2 153 (71.16%) sed
3 120 (55.81%) Shell Script
4 115 (53.49%) Bash shell
5 94 (43.72%) SQL
6 81 (37.67%) Python
7 54 (25.12%) Java
8 44 (20.47%) PHP
9 37 (17.21%) Ruby
10 30 (13.95%) C++
11 29 (13.49%) Korn
12 26 (12.09%) C
13 20 (9.302%) Bourne shell
14 14 (6.512%) JavaScript
15 11 (5.116%) C#
16 7 (3.256%) PL/SQL
16 7 (3.256%) C-shell
16 7 (3.256%) Jython
17 6 (2.791%) VBScript
17 6 (2.791%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 34 (15.81%) Degree
2 14 (6.512%) SC Cleared
2 14 (6.512%) Security Cleared
3 10 (4.651%) DV Cleared
4 7 (3.256%) Sun Certification
5 6 (2.791%) RHCE
6 3 (1.395%) CTC Cleared
7 2 (0.930%) CCNA
7 2 (0.930%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (9.767%) QA
2 9 (4.186%) SLA
3 7 (3.256%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 20 (9.302%) VMware Infrastructure
2 15 (6.977%) Nmap
3 13 (6.047%) Veritas Volume Manager
4 12 (5.581%) Veritas File System
4 12 (5.581%) NFS
5 11 (5.116%) Oracle RMAN
5 11 (5.116%) Postfix
6 10 (4.651%) Squid
6 10 (4.651%) vSphere
7 9 (4.186%) VMware ESX
8 7 (3.256%) Samba
9 5 (2.326%) Oracle RAC
9 5 (2.326%) Veritas Cluster Server
9 5 (2.326%) StorNext
10 4 (1.860%) Active Directory
11 2 (0.930%) Xen
12 1 (0.465%) VMware Server
12 1 (0.465%) SRDF
12 1 (0.465%) Hyper-V
12 1 (0.465%) Xsan
Systems Management
1 63 (29.30%) Puppet
2 45 (20.93%) Nagios
3 23 (10.70%) Cacti
4 20 (9.302%) NetBackup
5 17 (7.907%) CFEngine
6 11 (5.116%) Zenoss
7 10 (4.651%) Data Guard
8 7 (3.256%) BMC PATROL
9 6 (2.791%) SCOM
9 6 (2.791%) Munin
9 6 (2.791%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 6 (2.791%) Tivoli
9 6 (2.791%) HP SIM
9 6 (2.791%) Red Hat Spacewalk
10 5 (2.326%) Veritas Storage Foundation
11 4 (1.860%) Cobbler
11 4 (1.860%) YUM
Vendors
1 100 (46.51%) Oracle
2 59 (27.44%) Red Hat
3 34 (15.81%) JBoss
3 34 (15.81%) Sun
4 32 (14.88%) VMware
5 31 (14.42%) Veritas
6 24 (11.16%) EMC
7 23 (10.70%) IBM
8 18 (8.372%) Vertica
9 17 (7.907%) HP
10 13 (6.047%) Perforce
11 11 (5.116%) NetApp
12 10 (4.651%) SAP
13 9 (4.186%) Symantec
14 8 (3.721%) CommVault
14 8 (3.721%) Cisco
14 8 (3.721%) Brocade
15 7 (3.256%) Microsoft
15 7 (3.256%) BMC
16 5 (2.326%) ATG
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