Permanent IT Jobs Contract IT Jobs

The table below looks at the demand for AWK skills within the England region with a comparison to our Programming Languages category. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited AWK over the 3 months to 21 November 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

LinkAWK
Location
3 months to
21 Nov 2008
Same period last year
Rank771835
Rank change on same period last yearUp+64
Matching permanent IT job ads74121
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled0.048 %0.054 %
As % of the category below0.107 %0.124 %
Salaries quoted5497
Average minimum salary£40,083£39,165
Average salary£44,194£42,723
% change on same period last year+3.44 %
Average maximum salary£48,306£46,282
UK excluding London average salary£44,857£38,549
% change on same period last year+16.36 %
England IT Job Market, Programming LanguagesProgramming Languages
England
Matching permanent IT job ads6933597753
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled44.73 %43.76 %
Salaries quoted6015080591
Average minimum salary£37,367£38,271
Average salary£41,047£42,112
% change on same period last year-2.52 %
Average maximum salary£44,726£45,953
UK excluding London average salary£35,690£35,938
% change on same period last year-0.68 %
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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing AWK across the England region as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.

England AWK Demand Trend

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Salary Trend

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

England AWK Salary Trend

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Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing AWK across the England region over the 3 months to 21 November 2008.

England AWK Salary Histogram

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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 21 November 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.

LocationRank Change
on Same Period
Last Last
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
South EastUp+6337£46,182+24.61 %
LondonUp+7031£43,481-10.09 %
East of EnglandUp+192£40,000-11.60 %
North EastNew entry-2£29,000-
YorkshireUp+291£22,000-41.33 %
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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 November 2008, 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.

1158 (87.78 %)UNIX
2141 (78.33 %)Perl
3114 (63.33 %)Linux
483 (46.11 %)Windows
569 (38.33 %)DNS
663 (35.00 %)Python
762 (34.44 %)JavaScript
859 (32.78 %)NFS
957 (31.67 %)VBScript
1055 (30.56 %)Solaris
1153 (29.44 %)C
1249 (27.22 %)Shell Script
1249 (27.22 %)Wireless
1346 (25.56 %)Performance Management
1445 (25.00 %)Finance
1445 (25.00 %)DHCP
1445 (25.00 %)Internet
1544 (24.44 %)RDBMS
1642 (23.33 %)Korn
1739 (21.67 %)Oracle
1837 (20.56 %)Validation
1837 (20.56 %)SQL
1934 (18.89 %)Apache
2032 (17.78 %)C++
2130 (16.67 %)Sun
2226 (14.44 %)Change Management
2325 (13.89 %)Red Hat Linux
2325 (13.89 %)Red Hat
2424 (13.33 %)XML
2424 (13.33 %)Degree

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 November 2008, 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.

England IT Job Market, Application DevelopmentApplication Development
124 (13.33 %)XML
214 (7.778 %)XSLT
214 (7.778 %).NET
313 (7.222 %)HTML
412 (6.667 %)ASP
510 (5.556 %)Middleware
510 (5.556 %)WebSphere
67 (3.889 %)WebServices
67 (3.889 %)LAMP
76 (3.333 %)ASP.NET
76 (3.333 %)JSP
84 (2.222 %)JMS
84 (2.222 %)CGI
84 (2.222 %)FIX Protocol
93 (1.667 %)STL
102 (1.111 %)J2EE
111 (0.556 %)CSS
111 (0.556 %)Servlets
111 (0.556 %)XHTML
111 (0.556 %)Hibernate
England IT Job Market, Application PlatformsApplication Platforms
134 (18.89 %)Apache
214 (7.778 %)Tomcat
38 (4.444 %)IIS
44 (2.222 %)JBoss
44 (2.222 %)MS Exchange
53 (1.667 %)WebLogic
61 (0.556 %)TeamSite
61 (0.556 %)iPlanet
61 (0.556 %)WebLogic Portal
England IT Job Market, ApplicationsApplications
17 (3.889 %)MATLAB
24 (2.222 %)MS Office
24 (2.222 %)MS Excel
England IT Job Market, Communications & NetworkingCommunications & Networking
169 (38.33 %)DNS
249 (27.22 %)Wireless
345 (25.00 %)Internet
345 (25.00 %)DHCP
420 (11.11 %)TCP/IP
420 (11.11 %)Firewall
519 (10.56 %)SAN
614 (7.778 %)VPN
614 (7.778 %)SMTP
713 (7.222 %)LDAP
812 (6.667 %)LAN
812 (6.667 %)SSH
911 (6.111 %)FTP
1010 (5.556 %)HTTP
1010 (5.556 %)SNMP
117 (3.889 %)3G
117 (3.889 %)IPsec
126 (3.333 %)Wireshark
126 (3.333 %)GGSN
126 (3.333 %)SGSN
England IT Job Market, Database & Business IntelligenceDatabase & Business Intelligence
144 (24.44 %)RDBMS
217 (9.444 %)MySQL
313 (7.222 %)SQL Server
47 (3.889 %)PostgreSQL
55 (2.778 %)SQL Server 2005
55 (2.778 %)Oracle Reports
62 (1.111 %)Oracle 8/8i
62 (1.111 %)Data Mining
62 (1.111 %)TOAD
71 (0.556 %)Informix
71 (0.556 %)Oracle 9i
71 (0.556 %)MS Access
England IT Job Market, Development ApplicationsDevelopment Applications
18 (4.444 %)NUnit
25 (2.778 %)Oracle Forms
34 (2.222 %)ProC
41 (0.556 %)Ant
41 (0.556 %)Flash
41 (0.556 %)Subversion
England IT Job Market, GeneralGeneral
145 (25.00 %)Finance
222 (12.22 %)Telecoms
313 (7.222 %)Banking
412 (6.667 %)Education
56 (3.333 %)Insurance
65 (2.778 %)Investment Banking
65 (2.778 %)Health
74 (2.222 %)Pensions
74 (2.222 %)Marketing
74 (2.222 %)Front Office
83 (1.667 %)Government
England IT Job Market, Job TitlesJob Titles
138 (21.11 %)Administrator
230 (16.67 %)Systems Administrator
324 (13.33 %)UNIX Systems Administrator
422 (12.22 %)UNIX Administrator
422 (12.22 %)Analyst
514 (7.778 %)Infrastructure Specialist
613 (7.222 %)Linux Specialist
712 (6.667 %)Systems Analyst
811 (6.111 %)Systems Engineer
910 (5.556 %)Software Engineer
910 (5.556 %)Developer
910 (5.556 %)Senior Systems Administrator
109 (5.000 %)Linux Administrator
109 (5.000 %)Senior UNIX Administrator
109 (5.000 %)Infrastructure Engineer
118 (4.444 %)Senior UNIX Systems Administrator
127 (3.889 %)Linux Systems Administrator
127 (3.889 %)C++ Software Engineer
127 (3.889 %)Senior Analyst
127 (3.889 %)Consultant
England IT Job Market, MiscellaneousMiscellaneous
118 (10.00 %)Computer Science
210 (5.556 %)Mathematics
37 (3.889 %)Equities
46 (3.333 %)Symmetrix
54 (2.222 %)CLARiiON
63 (1.667 %)Speech Recognition
72 (1.111 %)Video Conferencing
81 (0.556 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
81 (0.556 %)Device Driver
81 (0.556 %)Replication
England IT Job Market, Operating SystemsOperating Systems
1158 (87.78 %)UNIX
2114 (63.33 %)Linux
383 (46.11 %)Windows
455 (30.56 %)Solaris
525 (13.89 %)Red Hat Linux
617 (9.444 %)Windows Server 2003
714 (7.778 %)HPUX
812 (6.667 %)SUSE
98 (4.444 %)Windows 2000
107 (3.889 %)Windows XP
116 (3.333 %)Debian
125 (2.778 %)Windows 2000 Server
125 (2.778 %)FreeBSD
134 (2.222 %)AIX
142 (1.111 %)Windows Vista
151 (0.556 %)Gentoo
151 (0.556 %)Mac OS X
England IT Job Market, Processes & MethodologiesProcesses & Methodologies
146 (25.56 %)Performance Management
237 (20.56 %)Validation
326 (14.44 %)Change Management
423 (12.78 %)Problem Management
511 (6.111 %)OO
68 (4.444 %)UML
77 (3.889 %)OOD
86 (3.333 %)Electronic Trading
86 (3.333 %)Investment Management
86 (3.333 %)Security Cleared
95 (2.778 %)SC Cleared
95 (2.778 %)Migration
104 (2.222 %)SOA
113 (1.667 %)Code Coverage
113 (1.667 %)Business Continuity
113 (1.667 %)DoDAF
113 (1.667 %)MODAF
122 (1.111 %)Operations Management
122 (1.111 %)RUP
122 (1.111 %)DNA
England IT Job Market, Programming LanguagesProgramming Languages
1141 (78.33 %)Perl
263 (35.00 %)Python
362 (34.44 %)JavaScript
457 (31.67 %)VBScript
553 (29.44 %)C
649 (27.22 %)Shell Script
742 (23.33 %)Korn
837 (20.56 %)SQL
932 (17.78 %)C++
1013 (7.222 %)C#
1013 (7.222 %)Java
1111 (6.111 %)PHP
1210 (5.556 %)Tcl
136 (3.333 %)PL/SQL
145 (2.778 %)COBOL
145 (2.778 %)VB6
145 (2.778 %)Transact-SQL
145 (2.778 %)VB
154 (2.222 %)VBA
161 (0.556 %)Ruby
England IT Job Market, QualificationsQualifications
124 (13.33 %)Degree
26 (3.333 %)PhD
34 (2.222 %)MCSE
34 (2.222 %)Microsoft Certification
43 (1.667 %)HND
51 (0.556 %)HNC
51 (0.556 %)CCNA
51 (0.556 %)Cisco Certification
England IT Job Market, Quality Assurance & ComplianceQuality Assurance & Compliance
17 (3.889 %)ISO9000
17 (3.889 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
22 (1.111 %)SLA
England IT Job Market, System SoftwareSystem Software
159 (32.78 %)NFS
210 (5.556 %)Active Directory
37 (3.889 %)Samba
46 (3.333 %)NetBackup
54 (2.222 %)Terminal Services
England IT Job Market, Systems ManagementSystems Management
18 (4.444 %)HP Data Protector
26 (3.333 %)Nagios
32 (1.111 %)BMC PATROL
32 (1.111 %)Legato
41 (0.556 %)Tivoli
England IT Job Market, VendorsVendors
139 (21.67 %)Oracle
230 (16.67 %)Sun
325 (13.89 %)Red Hat
423 (12.78 %)VERITAS
516 (8.889 %)HP
615 (8.333 %)Cisco
714 (7.778 %)Sybase
812 (6.667 %)Bloomberg
911 (6.111 %)Microsoft
109 (5.000 %)Reuters
117 (3.889 %)Ab Initio
117 (3.889 %)Fujitsu
126 (3.333 %)Brocade
126 (3.333 %)EMC
126 (3.333 %)NetApp
135 (2.778 %)NYFIX
135 (2.778 %)EasyScreen
135 (2.778 %)Patsystems
135 (2.778 %)GL TRADE
135 (2.778 %)EccoWare