The first table below looks at the demand for UNIX skills in IT jobs advertised for the Fife region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited UNIX over the 3 months to 19 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 of the Operating Systems category for the Fife region.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
UNIX
Rank - 13 8
Permanent jobs citing UNIX 0 1 12
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Fife - 2.381% 20.69%
As % of the Operating Systems category - 5.882% 32.43%
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 3
Average salary - - £25,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
All Operating Systems
Fife
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
14 17 37
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Fife 35.90% 40.48% 63.79%
Number of salaries quoted 8 9 24
Average salary £36,500 £34,500 £20,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+5.79% +72.50%
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
UNIX
Scotland

UNIX
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Fife UNIX Jobs Demand Trend

UNIX
Salary Trend

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

Fife UNIX Salary Trend

UNIX
Top 20 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Fife region citing UNIX 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 UNIX.

1 1 (100.00%) Perl
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) MS Office
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) MS Excel
1 1 (100.00%) RDBMS
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Shell Script
1 1 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 1 (100.00%) Electronics
1 1 (100.00%) Automated Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Ruby
1 1 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Mathematics
1 1 (100.00%) Physics
1 1 (100.00%) Manual Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Automation Testing

UNIX
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Fife region citing UNIX 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 UNIX. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Applications
1 1 (100.00%) MS Office
1 1 (100.00%) MS Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) RDBMS
General
1 1 (100.00%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Test Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Test Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Mathematics
1 1 (100.00%) Physics
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 1 (100.00%) Automated Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Manual Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Automation Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Perl
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) Shell Script
1 1 (100.00%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft