The first table below looks at the demand for the UNIX Systems Administrator 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 Systems Administrator in their job title over the 3 months to 24 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 Job Titles advertised for the England region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
UNIX System Administrator (UNIX SA)
Rank 730 708 612
Rank change year-on-year
-22 -96
Permanent jobs requiring a UNIX Systems Administrator 111 159 243
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in England 0.110% 0.140% 0.206%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.116% 0.148% 0.219%
Number of salaries quoted 88 132 177
Average salary £45,250 £45,000 £45,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+0.55% -
90% offered a salary of more than £32,500 £32,500 £35,000
10% offered a salary of more than £58,250 £65,000 £62,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £39,000 £41,500
% change year-on-year
+2.56% -6.02%
All Job Titles
England
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
95490 107493 111049
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in England 94.41% 94.82% 94.26%
Number of salaries quoted 80297 92843 94497
Average salary £42,500 £42,500 £42,500
90% offered a salary of more than £26,925 £27,500 £26,250
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 Systems Administrator
UK

UNIX Systems Administrator
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England UNIX Systems Administrator Jobs Demand Trend

UNIX Systems Administrator
Salary Trend

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

England UNIX Systems Administrator Salary Trend

UNIX Systems Administrator
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing UNIX Systems Administrator across the England region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

England UNIX Systems Administrator Salary Histogram

UNIX Systems Administrator
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing UNIX Systems Administrator within the England region over the 3 months to 24 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 +21 60 £55,000 -4.34%
South East -4 12 £40,000 -
Yorkshire +6 11 £50,000 +25.00%
East of England -1 8 £42,500 +30.76%
South West +4 7 £32,500 -3.70%
West Midlands -19 7 £45,000 -
East Midlands -2 4 £33,000 +20.00%
North West -7 2 £40,000 +11.11%
UNIX Systems Administrator
UK

UNIX Systems Administrator
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the England region that cited UNIX Systems Administrator 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 Systems Administrator in their job title.

1 290 (100.00%) UNIX
2 232 (80.00%) Linux
3 176 (60.69%) Red Hat
4 170 (58.62%) Solaris
5 146 (50.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 110 (37.93%) Perl
7 108 (37.24%) Finance
8 100 (34.48%) AIX
9 95 (32.76%) Shell Script
10 91 (31.38%) Veritas
11 85 (29.31%) SAN
12 72 (24.83%) Oracle
13 71 (24.48%) Sun
14 66 (22.76%) EMC
15 60 (20.69%) VMware
16 55 (18.97%) Clustering
17 53 (18.28%) HP
17 53 (18.28%) TCP/IP
18 51 (17.59%) IBM
18 51 (17.59%) Banking
19 48 (16.55%) Veritas Volume Manager
20 45 (15.52%) Java
20 45 (15.52%) ITIL
21 44 (15.17%) Veritas Cluster Server
22 42 (14.48%) DNS
23 39 (13.45%) Windows
24 37 (12.76%) Apache
24 37 (12.76%) C
24 37 (12.76%) Change Management
25 35 (12.07%) Tomcat

UNIX Systems Administrator
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the England region that cited UNIX Systems Administrator 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 Systems Administrator in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 25 (8.621%) WebSphere
2 15 (5.172%) FIX Protocol
3 9 (3.103%) Ruby on Rails
4 8 (2.759%) HTML
5 6 (2.069%) XML
6 5 (1.724%) LAMP
6 5 (1.724%) SWT
7 4 (1.379%) Middleware
8 1 (0.345%) Web Services
8 1 (0.345%) Java EE
Application Platforms
1 37 (12.76%) Apache
2 35 (12.07%) Tomcat
3 15 (5.172%) WebSphere MQ
4 13 (4.483%) SharePoint
5 11 (3.793%) SAS
6 10 (3.448%) GlassFish
7 8 (2.759%) WebLogic
8 7 (2.414%) Amazon AWS
9 3 (1.034%) WebSphere Application Server
10 2 (0.690%) Oracle Application Server
10 2 (0.690%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
10 2 (0.690%) IIS
11 1 (0.345%) Lotus Notes
11 1 (0.345%) WordPress
11 1 (0.345%) Jetty
Applications
1 9 (3.103%) MS Excel
2 5 (1.724%) MS Office
3 1 (0.345%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.690%) Oracle 11i
2 1 (0.345%) assyst
2 1 (0.345%) Oracle BPM
Communications & Networking
1 85 (29.31%) SAN
2 53 (18.28%) TCP/IP
3 42 (14.48%) DNS
4 27 (9.310%) DHCP
5 19 (6.552%) Internet
6 17 (5.862%) HTTP
7 12 (4.138%) LAN
8 11 (3.793%) WAN
8 11 (3.793%) LDAP
9 8 (2.759%) Firewall
10 6 (2.069%) NAS
11 5 (1.724%) SMTP
12 4 (1.379%) Fibre Channel
12 4 (1.379%) SSH
12 4 (1.379%) iSCSI
12 4 (1.379%) BGP
12 4 (1.379%) Broadband
13 3 (1.034%) Network Security
13 3 (1.034%) Cisco ASA
13 3 (1.034%) FWSM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (7.586%) MySQL
2 13 (4.483%) Oracle Exadata
3 6 (2.069%) DB2
4 3 (1.034%) Oracle 8/8i
5 2 (0.690%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (0.690%) Informix
5 2 (0.690%) TOAD
6 1 (0.345%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.345%) Oracle 10g
6 1 (0.345%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.345%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 17 (5.862%) Subversion
2 9 (3.103%) Git (software)
3 7 (2.414%) Maven
3 7 (2.414%) MSBuild
4 2 (0.690%) Visual Studio
General
1 108 (37.24%) Finance
2 51 (17.59%) Banking
3 33 (11.38%) Investment Banking
4 8 (2.759%) Financial Institution
5 6 (2.069%) Telecoms
6 4 (1.379%) French Language
6 4 (1.379%) German Language
7 3 (1.034%) Corporate Banking
8 2 (0.690%) Retail
8 2 (0.690%) Marketing
8 2 (0.690%) Games
8 2 (0.690%) Law
9 1 (0.345%) Advertising
9 1 (0.345%) Billing
Miscellaneous
1 55 (18.97%) Clustering
2 22 (7.586%) CLARiiON
3 20 (6.897%) Replication
4 16 (5.517%) EMC Centera
4 16 (5.517%) Symmetrix DMX
5 14 (4.828%) HACMP
6 13 (4.483%) Wiki
7 12 (4.138%) Enterprise Storage
8 9 (3.103%) New Media
9 7 (2.414%) Open Source
10 5 (1.724%) Informatics
10 5 (1.724%) Cloud Computing
10 5 (1.724%) Semantic Web
10 5 (1.724%) Mobile Banking
11 4 (1.379%) Hedge funds
11 4 (1.379%) Management Information System
11 4 (1.379%) Mainframe
12 3 (1.034%) LPAR
13 2 (0.690%) Online Games
13 2 (0.690%) Psychology
Operating Systems
1 290 (100.00%) UNIX
2 232 (80.00%) Linux
3 170 (58.62%) Solaris
4 146 (50.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 100 (34.48%) AIX
6 39 (13.45%) Windows
7 34 (11.72%) SUSE
8 31 (10.69%) HPUX
9 17 (5.862%) Debian
10 13 (4.483%) CentOS
11 11 (3.793%) Windows 7
12 9 (3.103%) Windows XP
13 8 (2.759%) Ubuntu
14 6 (2.069%) Windows Server 2008
15 5 (1.724%) Windows Server 2003
16 4 (1.379%) VMS
17 3 (1.034%) Oracle Linux
18 1 (0.345%) Mac OS X
18 1 (0.345%) MVS
18 1 (0.345%) Gentoo
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (15.52%) ITIL
2 37 (12.76%) Change Management
3 33 (11.38%) Problem Management
4 19 (6.552%) Configuration Management
5 18 (6.207%) High Availability
6 17 (5.862%) Asset Management
7 16 (5.517%) RDF
7 16 (5.517%) Budget Control
8 13 (4.483%) Disaster Recovery
9 12 (4.138%) Root Cause Analysis
9 12 (4.138%) Risk Analysis
10 10 (3.448%) Load Balancing
11 8 (2.759%) Capacity Management
12 7 (2.414%) Resource Management
12 7 (2.414%) Capacity Planning
13 6 (2.069%) Infrastructure Management
13 6 (2.069%) Project Management
13 6 (2.069%) E-Commerce
14 5 (1.724%) Bioinformatics
14 5 (1.724%) Change Control
Programming Languages
1 110 (37.93%) Perl
2 95 (32.76%) Shell Script
3 45 (15.52%) Java
4 37 (12.76%) C
5 33 (11.38%) Bash shell
6 29 (10.00%) PHP
7 23 (7.931%) Korn
8 16 (5.517%) Python
9 14 (4.828%) Ruby
10 11 (3.793%) SQL
11 8 (2.759%) sed
11 8 (2.759%) Bourne shell
11 8 (2.759%) AWK
12 5 (1.724%) VBScript
13 3 (1.034%) C++
14 1 (0.345%) VB
14 1 (0.345%) ActionScript
14 1 (0.345%) JCL
14 1 (0.345%) REXX
14 1 (0.345%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 20 (6.897%) RHCE
2 19 (6.552%) Security Cleared
3 17 (5.862%) DV Cleared
4 16 (5.517%) Degree
5 4 (1.379%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 3 (1.034%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.345%) Sun Certification
7 1 (0.345%) RHCT
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (10.00%) SLA
2 11 (3.793%) QA
3 8 (2.759%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 48 (16.55%) Veritas Volume Manager
2 44 (15.17%) Veritas Cluster Server
3 22 (7.586%) VMware Infrastructure
3 22 (7.586%) Veritas File System
4 10 (3.448%) Squid
4 10 (3.448%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
5 9 (3.103%) VMware ESX
6 8 (2.759%) Samba
7 7 (2.414%) Sendmail
8 6 (2.069%) vSphere
8 6 (2.069%) Oracle RAC
9 5 (1.724%) Xen
10 4 (1.379%) Active Directory
10 4 (1.379%) NFS
11 3 (1.034%) Varnish
12 2 (0.690%) Postfix
12 2 (0.690%) XenServer
13 1 (0.345%) VMware ESXi
13 1 (0.345%) Cygwin
Systems Management
1 21 (7.241%) Puppet
2 15 (5.172%) NetBackup
3 12 (4.138%) Tivoli
4 9 (3.103%) Cobbler
5 8 (2.759%) YUM
5 8 (2.759%) Veritas Storage Foundation
6 7 (2.414%) CFEngine
7 6 (2.069%) BMC PATROL
8 4 (1.379%) HP Data Protector
8 4 (1.379%) Nagios
8 4 (1.379%) Legato
9 2 (0.690%) HP SIM
9 2 (0.690%) Red Hat Spacewalk
9 2 (0.690%) ZABBIX
9 2 (0.690%) BladeLogic
9 2 (0.690%) Opalis
9 2 (0.690%) Tivoli Storage Manager
9 2 (0.690%) Foglight
10 1 (0.345%) OpenView
10 1 (0.345%) SCCM
Vendors
1 176 (60.69%) Red Hat
2 91 (31.38%) Veritas
3 72 (24.83%) Oracle
4 71 (24.48%) Sun
5 66 (22.76%) EMC
6 60 (20.69%) VMware
7 53 (18.28%) HP
8 51 (17.59%) IBM
9 20 (6.897%) Sybase
10 18 (6.207%) Symantec
11 16 (5.517%) NetApp
12 10 (3.448%) Cisco
13 9 (3.103%) Brocade
14 8 (2.759%) Microsoft
14 8 (2.759%) BMC
15 7 (2.414%) F5
16 6 (2.069%) Joyent
16 6 (2.069%) Rackspace
16 6 (2.069%) NetIQ
17 5 (1.724%) JBoss
Portsmouth, South East
UNIX System Administrator - AIX - IT Services Fantastic opportunity for experienced UNIX System Administrator with solid AIX experience to join a leading IT Services company based in central PortsmouthThe...
Harvey Nash plc
Salary: £35000 - £40000 per annum + bens + bonus
Posted: 24 May 2013
West London
UNIX Systems AdministratorCurrently we are recruiting for a Unix/Linux Systems Administrator to work for a multinational organisation based in West London.
E-Resourcing
Salary: £25000 - £30000 per annum
Posted: 17 May 2013
Cambridge, East Anglia
In this position as a Unix System Administrator you will be responsible for managing and providing support for all aspects of the client's website and infrastructure... Required...
montreal
Salary: Attractive Salary Package
Posted: 2 May 2013
Birmingham, West Midlands
Senior Unix Systems Administrator - £45-55,000 + Bonus + BenefitsOur prestigious Central Birmingham client is looking to recruit an experienced Unix Systems Administrator with a strong technical background and...
Harvey Nash plc
Salary: £45000 - £55000 per annum + excellent benefits
Posted: 15 May 2013
Birmingham, West Midlands (County)
The successful candidate should have experience of supporting Unix, Solaris and Linux Operating systems within large scale production environments. They should also have strong experience of Veritas (VxVM,...
Aston Carter
Salary: £40000 - £50000 per annum + Bonus + Benefits
Posted: 18 May 2013
Birmingham, West Midlands (County)
The successful candidate should have experience of supporting Unix, Solaris and Linux Operating systems within large scale production environments. They should also have strong experience of Veritas (VxVM,...
TEKsystems
Salary: £40000 - £50000 per annum + Bonus + Benefits
Posted: 19 May 2013
Cambridge, East Anglia
Experience with administration of Linux systems on modern HP server hardware and SAN disk systems... The main technical skills needed are Red Hat Linux and Net App Storage.
Computer Futures
Salary: £45000 - £55000 per annum + Excellent benefits
Posted: 15 May 2013
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
A leading software company based in Cambridge require a Systems Administrator with Linux experience and solid networking knowledge... Experience required The ideal candidate will have a broad experience...
Edgar Cowen
Salary: Excellent salary and Benefits
Posted: 20 May 2013
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
Great new role for an experienced Linux Systems Administration Engineer to join a flourishing Cambridge enterprise... You'll be ideally degree educated and be comfortable installing, configuring and...
Edgar Cowen
Salary: £35000 - £45000 per annum + Great Base+Prospects
Posted: 22 May 2013
Birmingham, West Midlands
Skills required: - Solaris 10 (and earlier releases) - Solaris 10 Zones - Linux (Red hat, SUSE, VMware) - Veritas Cluster Server (Support & Architecture/Deployments) - Veritas Volume Manager (including advanced troubleshooting) - Veritas...
Scope AT Ltd
Salary: £45 - £55 per annum + benefits, bonus
Posted: 22 May 2013
London
Unix systems administrator, Java web applications, Glassfish, Sun Application Server, Tomcat, Apache, Solaris 10, SPARC , to join to this world class business in the mobile telecom / financial space...
Parallel Consulting
Salary: £50000 - £60000 per annum + Bonus
Posted: 20 May 2013