The first table below looks at the demand for the UNIX Specialist role in IT jobs advertised for the England region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited UNIX Specialist in their job title over the 3 months to 18 June 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Job Titles advertised for the England region.

Location
3 months to
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
UNIX Specialist
Rank 826 868 852
Rank change year-on-year
+42 -16
Permanent jobs requiring a UNIX Specialist 25 15 27
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in England 0.024% 0.013% 0.022%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.026% 0.014% 0.024%
Number of salaries quoted 24 13 27
Average salary £40,995 £50,000 £45,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-18.01% +11.11%
90% offered a salary of more than £28,080 £33,500 £38,500
10% offered a salary of more than £62,500 £65,000 £78,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,995 £40,000 £44,000
% change year-on-year
+2.48% -9.09%
All Job Titles
England
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
97362 107351 114720
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in England 94.40% 95.02% 94.22%
Number of salaries quoted 81957 92751 97893
Average salary £42,500 £42,500 £42,500
90% offered a salary of more than £26,500 £27,500 £26,000
10% offered a salary of more than £67,500 £72,500 £70,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
UNIX Specialist
UK

UNIX Specialist
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing UNIX Specialist across the England region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

England UNIX Specialist Jobs Demand Trend

UNIX Specialist
Salary Trend

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

England UNIX Specialist Salary Trend

UNIX Specialist
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing UNIX Specialist across the England region over the 3 months to 18 June 2013.

England UNIX Specialist Salary Histogram

UNIX Specialist
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing UNIX Specialist within the England region over the 3 months to 18 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
London +49 7 £62,500 - 3
South West +5 6 £28,080 -16.17%
West Midlands -11 6 £40,995 +2.48%
East of England +5 3 £45,000 -13.46%
South East +2 3 £40,000 -
UNIX Specialist
UK

UNIX Specialist
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT jobs across the England region that cited UNIX Specialist in their job title 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 with UNIX Specialist in their job title.

1 38 (100.00%) UNIX
2 35 (92.11%) Linux
3 18 (47.37%) Solaris
4 17 (44.74%) Sun
5 16 (42.11%) HP
6 14 (36.84%) Red Hat
7 13 (34.21%) Oracle
8 10 (26.32%) Apache
9 9 (23.68%) HPUX
10 7 (18.42%) Shell Script
10 7 (18.42%) AIX
11 6 (15.79%) Perl
11 6 (15.79%) Tomcat
11 6 (15.79%) Project Management
11 6 (15.79%) Management Information System
11 6 (15.79%) Finance
11 6 (15.79%) CentOS
11 6 (15.79%) Open Source
11 6 (15.79%) Network Security
12 5 (13.16%) Data Management
12 5 (13.16%) ITIL
12 5 (13.16%) SAN
12 5 (13.16%) Veritas
13 4 (10.53%) IBM
13 4 (10.53%) MySQL
13 4 (10.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 3 (7.895%) iSeries
14 3 (7.895%) Bourne shell
14 3 (7.895%) Bash shell
14 3 (7.895%) Puppet

UNIX Specialist
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT jobs across the England region that cited UNIX Specialist in their job title 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 with UNIX Specialist in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (2.632%) Middleware
Application Platforms
1 10 (26.32%) Apache
2 6 (15.79%) Tomcat
3 1 (2.632%) CMS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (15.79%) Network Security
2 5 (13.16%) SAN
3 2 (5.263%) NAS
3 2 (5.263%) LAN
3 2 (5.263%) WAN
4 1 (2.632%) TCP/IP
4 1 (2.632%) DNS
4 1 (2.632%) BIG-IP
4 1 (2.632%) LDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (10.53%) MySQL
2 3 (7.895%) MongoDB
2 3 (7.895%) Redis
2 3 (7.895%) Neo4j
3 1 (2.632%) TOAD
General
1 6 (15.79%) Finance
2 2 (5.263%) Manufacturing
2 2 (5.263%) Banking
3 1 (2.632%) Retail
3 1 (2.632%) Arabic Language
3 1 (2.632%) Advertising
3 1 (2.632%) Financial Institution
Miscellaneous
1 6 (15.79%) Management Information System
1 6 (15.79%) Open Source
2 3 (7.895%) iSeries
2 3 (7.895%) Replication
3 1 (2.632%) Mathematics
3 1 (2.632%) Computer Science
3 1 (2.632%) CMDB
3 1 (2.632%) BBC
Operating Systems
1 38 (100.00%) UNIX
2 35 (92.11%) Linux
3 18 (47.37%) Solaris
4 9 (23.68%) HPUX
5 7 (18.42%) AIX
6 6 (15.79%) CentOS
7 4 (10.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (2.632%) NetWare
8 1 (2.632%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (15.79%) Project Management
2 5 (13.16%) ITIL
2 5 (13.16%) Data Management
3 2 (5.263%) Service Delivery
4 1 (2.632%) Regression Testing
4 1 (2.632%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (2.632%) Information Security
4 1 (2.632%) PRINCE
4 1 (2.632%) Service Management
4 1 (2.632%) Systems Analysis
4 1 (2.632%) Load Balancing
4 1 (2.632%) Release Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (18.42%) Shell Script
2 6 (15.79%) Perl
3 3 (7.895%) Bourne shell
3 3 (7.895%) Bash shell
3 3 (7.895%) Python
4 1 (2.632%) PHP
4 1 (2.632%) C
4 1 (2.632%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (2.632%) Degree
System Software
1 2 (5.263%) NFS
1 2 (5.263%) Samba
1 2 (5.263%) Veritas Volume Manager
2 1 (2.632%) Squid
2 1 (2.632%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 3 (7.895%) Nagios
1 3 (7.895%) Puppet
2 2 (5.263%) NetBackup
2 2 (5.263%) Tivoli
3 1 (2.632%) Tivoli Storage Manager
3 1 (2.632%) BMC PATROL
3 1 (2.632%) Legato
Vendors
1 17 (44.74%) Sun
2 16 (42.11%) HP
3 14 (36.84%) Red Hat
4 13 (34.21%) Oracle
5 5 (13.16%) Veritas
6 4 (10.53%) IBM
7 3 (7.895%) BT
8 2 (5.263%) Symantec
8 2 (5.263%) Cisco
8 2 (5.263%) EMC
8 2 (5.263%) BMC
8 2 (5.263%) NetApp
9 1 (2.632%) VMware
9 1 (2.632%) F5
9 1 (2.632%) NetIQ
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