The first table below looks at the demand for the UNIX Systems Engineer 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 Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 23 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
UNIX System Engineer
Rank 812 827 843
Rank change year-on-year
+15 +16
Permanent jobs requiring a UNIX Systems Engineer 24 33 27
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in England 0.024% 0.029% 0.023%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.025% 0.031% 0.024%
Number of salaries quoted 20 27 25
Average salary £45,000 £35,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+28.57% -12.50%
90% offered a salary of more than £40,000 £29,000 £28,500
10% offered a salary of more than £63,000 £50,000 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £42,500 £32,500 £35,250
% change year-on-year
+30.76% -7.80%
All Job Titles
England
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
95030 107492 112528
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in England 94.41% 94.80% 94.28%
Number of salaries quoted 79926 92829 95737
Average salary £42,500 £42,500 £42,500
90% offered a salary of more than £27,000 £27,500 £26,500
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 Engineer
UK

UNIX Systems Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England UNIX Systems Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

UNIX Systems Engineer
Salary Trend

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

England UNIX Systems Engineer Salary Trend

UNIX Systems Engineer
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing UNIX Systems Engineer across the England region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

England UNIX Systems Engineer Salary Histogram

UNIX Systems Engineer
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing UNIX Systems Engineer within the England region over the 3 months to 23 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 +46 18 £50,000 +11.11%
South East +8 6 £42,500 -15.00%
UNIX Systems Engineer
UK

UNIX Systems Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the England region that cited UNIX Systems Engineer 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 Engineer in their job title.

1 46 (100.00%) UNIX
2 30 (65.22%) Solaris
2 30 (65.22%) Linux
3 25 (54.35%) Oracle
4 21 (45.65%) Red Hat
5 20 (43.48%) Perl
6 18 (39.13%) SAN
7 16 (34.78%) Puppet
8 15 (32.61%) Finance
9 14 (30.43%) Veritas
9 14 (30.43%) DNS
9 14 (30.43%) Windows
10 12 (26.09%) Bash shell
11 11 (23.91%) AIX
11 11 (23.91%) Tomcat
12 10 (21.74%) TCP/IP
12 10 (21.74%) Java
12 10 (21.74%) IBM
12 10 (21.74%) Internet
12 10 (21.74%) Tivoli
12 10 (21.74%) Shell Script
12 10 (21.74%) Git (software)
12 10 (21.74%) Infrastructure Management
13 9 (19.57%) Sun
13 9 (19.57%) BMC
14 8 (17.39%) LAN
14 8 (17.39%) WAN
15 7 (15.22%) Ruby
15 7 (15.22%) Ruby on Rails
15 7 (15.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux

UNIX Systems Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the England region that cited UNIX Systems Engineer 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 Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 7 (15.22%) Ruby on Rails
2 1 (2.174%) WebSphere
2 1 (2.174%) LAMP
2 1 (2.174%) J2EE
2 1 (2.174%) ASP
2 1 (2.174%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 11 (23.91%) Tomcat
2 7 (15.22%) Apache
3 5 (10.87%) Amazon AWS
4 2 (4.348%) Oracle HTTP Server
4 2 (4.348%) GlassFish
Communications & Networking
1 18 (39.13%) SAN
2 14 (30.43%) DNS
3 10 (21.74%) TCP/IP
3 10 (21.74%) Internet
4 8 (17.39%) LAN
4 8 (17.39%) WAN
5 7 (15.22%) LDAP
6 5 (10.87%) Firewall
7 4 (8.696%) HTTP
8 3 (6.522%) DHCP
9 2 (4.348%) NAS
9 2 (4.348%) VPN
10 1 (2.174%) iSCSI
10 1 (2.174%) SSH
10 1 (2.174%) RTSP
10 1 (2.174%) SSL
10 1 (2.174%) RTP
10 1 (2.174%) Broadband
10 1 (2.174%) OpenLDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (15.22%) MySQL
2 4 (8.696%) Oracle 8/8i
2 4 (8.696%) UniData
3 1 (2.174%) SQL Server
3 1 (2.174%) DB2
3 1 (2.174%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 10 (21.74%) Git (software)
2 7 (15.22%) Subversion
3 3 (6.522%) Hudson
3 3 (6.522%) Jenkins
4 2 (4.348%) Mercurial
4 2 (4.348%) Eclipse
5 1 (2.174%) Selenium
5 1 (2.174%) JIRA
5 1 (2.174%) Maven
General
1 15 (32.61%) Finance
2 3 (6.522%) Banking
3 1 (2.174%) French Language
3 1 (2.174%) German Language
3 1 (2.174%) Back Office
Miscellaneous
1 7 (15.22%) New Media
2 4 (8.696%) Open Source
2 4 (8.696%) NHS
3 3 (6.522%) Management Information System
4 2 (4.348%) PKI
4 2 (4.348%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (2.174%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (2.174%) Mathematics
5 1 (2.174%) Physics
5 1 (2.174%) Computer Science
5 1 (2.174%) Clustering
5 1 (2.174%) Firmware
5 1 (2.174%) Hedge funds
5 1 (2.174%) SaaS
5 1 (2.174%) PaaS
5 1 (2.174%) Enterprise Storage
5 1 (2.174%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 46 (100.00%) UNIX
2 30 (65.22%) Solaris
2 30 (65.22%) Linux
3 14 (30.43%) Windows
4 11 (23.91%) AIX
5 7 (15.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (15.22%) Debian
5 7 (15.22%) Windows XP
5 7 (15.22%) Windows 7
6 5 (10.87%) HPUX
7 4 (8.696%) VMS
7 4 (8.696%) Windows Server 2008
7 4 (8.696%) CentOS
8 2 (4.348%) SUSE
9 1 (2.174%) Ubuntu
9 1 (2.174%) OpenBSD
9 1 (2.174%) Windows Server 2003
9 1 (2.174%) FreeBSD
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (21.74%) Infrastructure Management
2 6 (13.04%) ITIL
3 5 (10.87%) Capacity Planning
4 4 (8.696%) Service Management
4 4 (8.696%) Supplier Management
4 4 (8.696%) Test Scripting
5 3 (6.522%) Problem Management
5 3 (6.522%) Change Management
5 3 (6.522%) Disaster Recovery
5 3 (6.522%) Project Management
6 2 (4.348%) Change Control
6 2 (4.348%) E-Commerce
6 2 (4.348%) Resource Management
6 2 (4.348%) Data Protection
7 1 (2.174%) Load Balancing
7 1 (2.174%) Agile Software Development
Programming Languages
1 20 (43.48%) Perl
2 12 (26.09%) Bash shell
3 10 (21.74%) Java
3 10 (21.74%) Shell Script
4 7 (15.22%) Ruby
5 5 (10.87%) SQL
6 2 (4.348%) PHP
6 2 (4.348%) Objective-C
7 1 (2.174%) Korn
7 1 (2.174%) Python
Qualifications
1 7 (15.22%) RHCE
2 1 (2.174%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (13.04%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 2 (4.348%) QA
3 1 (2.174%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (13.04%) Active Directory
1 6 (13.04%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
2 4 (8.696%) Xen
3 3 (6.522%) VMware ESX
3 3 (6.522%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (4.348%) Samba
4 2 (4.348%) Squid
5 1 (2.174%) Veritas Volume Manager
5 1 (2.174%) Sendmail
Systems Management
1 16 (34.78%) Puppet
2 10 (21.74%) Tivoli
3 6 (13.04%) CFEngine
3 6 (13.04%) Nagios
3 6 (13.04%) BMC PATROL
4 4 (8.696%) Tivoli Storage Manager
5 1 (2.174%) OpenView
5 1 (2.174%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 25 (54.35%) Oracle
2 21 (45.65%) Red Hat
3 14 (30.43%) Veritas
4 10 (21.74%) IBM
5 9 (19.57%) Sun
5 9 (19.57%) BMC
6 6 (13.04%) Rackspace
6 6 (13.04%) HP
6 6 (13.04%) NetIQ
7 5 (10.87%) VMware
7 5 (10.87%) Joyent
8 3 (6.522%) 3PAR
9 2 (4.348%) JBoss
9 2 (4.348%) Cisco
9 2 (4.348%) Juniper
9 2 (4.348%) Hitachi
9 2 (4.348%) Brocade
10 1 (2.174%) NetApp
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
City, London
Key Skills: Linux, Unix, Unix Scripting,, Debian, Ubuntu, Ceph, Netapp, Virtualisation... Understanding of Linux and Unix operating systems (Debian & Ubuntu preferably) Unix Scripting Server build and configuration (e...
Aston Carter
Salary: £40000 - £60000 per annum + Benefits & Bonus
Posted: 20 May 2013
Slough, Berkshire
IBM Tivoli Storage Manager... Microsoft Windows Server Administration/Support experience. VMWare. - Install, configure and support VMWare infrastructures including ESX Servers (VI3 / vSphere4) HP SAN EVA 8000 or IBM...
FT Select
Salary: From £40,000 to £45,000 per annum plus oncall, overtime and benefits
Posted: 17 May 2013