The first table below looks at the demand for UNIX skills in IT jobs advertised for the Gloucestershire 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 Gloucestershire region.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
UNIX
Rank 25 19 12
Rank change year-on-year
-6 -7
Permanent jobs citing UNIX 93 124 158
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Gloucestershire 10.67% 9.725% 12.84%
As % of the Operating Systems category 32.18% 30.54% 42.70%
Number of salaries quoted 73 90 127
Average salary £42,500 £40,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.25% +14.28%
90% offered a salary of more than £35,000 £34,000 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £46,000 £52,500 £52,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
All Operating Systems
Gloucestershire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
289 406 370
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Gloucestershire 33.14% 31.84% 30.06%
Number of salaries quoted 254 345 312
Average salary £38,250 £40,000 £36,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-4.37% +11.11%
90% offered a salary of more than £23,500 £28,000 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £46,000 £52,500 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
UNIX
South West

UNIX
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Gloucestershire 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 Gloucestershire region.

Gloucestershire UNIX Salary Trend

UNIX
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing UNIX across the Gloucestershire region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

Gloucestershire UNIX Salary Histogram

UNIX
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing UNIX within the Gloucestershire region over the 3 months to 19 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
Gloucester +1 45 £46,000 +15.00% 2
Cheltenham -21 7 £43,750 +7.36% 5
Tewkesbury -17 3 £35,000 +2.94%
Cirencester - 1 £32,500 - 1
UNIX
South West

UNIX
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Gloucestershire 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.

1 224 (87.84%) Linux
2 219 (85.88%) Security Cleared
3 186 (72.94%) DV Cleared
4 177 (69.41%) Shell Script
5 100 (39.22%) Java
6 93 (36.47%) C++
7 85 (33.33%) Perl
8 84 (32.94%) C#
9 83 (32.55%) DNS
10 77 (30.20%) Software Engineering
11 69 (27.06%) Degree
12 65 (25.49%) JavaScript
13 59 (23.14%) Red Hat
13 59 (23.14%) Clustering
14 57 (22.35%) SC Cleared
15 56 (21.96%) C
15 56 (21.96%) HTML
15 56 (21.96%) Solaris
16 52 (20.39%) Bash shell
17 51 (20.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
18 49 (19.22%) Python
19 48 (18.82%) HPUX
19 48 (18.82%) Firewall
19 48 (18.82%) Mathematics
20 47 (18.43%) Windows
21 46 (18.04%) HP
22 45 (17.65%) Symantec
23 44 (17.25%) Microsoft
23 44 (17.25%) DHCP
24 43 (16.86%) VB

UNIX
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Gloucestershire 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.

Application Development
1 56 (21.96%) HTML
2 42 (16.47%) CGI
3 22 (8.627%) J2EE
4 11 (4.314%) EJB
5 10 (3.922%) XML
6 7 (2.745%) Swing
6 7 (2.745%) WebSphere
7 6 (2.353%) SWT
8 5 (1.961%) Web Services
8 5 (1.961%) .NET
8 5 (1.961%) JSF
8 5 (1.961%) Hibernate
9 3 (1.176%) SOAP
9 3 (1.176%) Zend Framework
9 3 (1.176%) XML-RPC
10 2 (0.784%) LAMP
10 2 (0.784%) jQuery
11 1 (0.392%) STL
11 1 (0.392%) ODBC
11 1 (0.392%) CSS
Application Platforms
1 41 (16.08%) MS Exchange
2 7 (2.745%) WebLogic
2 7 (2.745%) GlassFish
3 3 (1.176%) Apache
4 1 (0.392%) SAS
4 1 (0.392%) DotNetNuke
4 1 (0.392%) Exchange Server 2003
Applications
1 24 (9.412%) MS Excel
2 1 (0.392%) MS Office
2 1 (0.392%) MS PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (0.784%) Oracle Applications
Communications & Networking
1 83 (32.55%) DNS
2 48 (18.82%) Firewall
3 44 (17.25%) DHCP
4 40 (15.69%) HTTP
5 39 (15.29%) Internet
5 39 (15.29%) SAN
6 38 (14.90%) SMTP
6 38 (14.90%) LDAP
7 29 (11.37%) WAN
7 29 (11.37%) LAN
8 5 (1.961%) SMS
9 3 (1.176%) TCP/IP
10 2 (0.784%) iSCSI
10 2 (0.784%) NAS
10 2 (0.784%) Network Security
11 1 (0.392%) VPN
11 1 (0.392%) VoIP
11 1 (0.392%) SNMP
11 1 (0.392%) Ethernet
11 1 (0.392%) ASN.1
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (3.529%) NoSQL
2 4 (1.569%) SQL Server
3 3 (1.176%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (0.784%) Sybase ASE
4 2 (0.784%) MySQL
4 2 (0.784%) DB2
4 2 (0.784%) Oracle 8/8i
5 1 (0.392%) Oracle 10g
5 1 (0.392%) Oracle 11g
Development Applications
1 29 (11.37%) LoadRunner
2 7 (2.745%) Eclipse
3 6 (2.353%) Eclipse RCP
4 2 (0.784%) Oracle APEX
5 1 (0.392%) TestDirector
5 1 (0.392%) Ant
5 1 (0.392%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.392%) Git (software)
5 1 (0.392%) Rational Functional Tester
5 1 (0.392%) Hudson
5 1 (0.392%) GCC
5 1 (0.392%) Maven
General
1 13 (5.098%) Military
2 2 (0.784%) Telecoms
2 2 (0.784%) Finance
3 1 (0.392%) Electronics
3 1 (0.392%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 62 (24.31%) Developer
2 55 (21.57%) Java Developer
3 49 (19.22%) C++ Developer
4 48 (18.82%) C++/Java Developer
5 44 (17.25%) Consultant
6 40 (15.69%) Administrator
7 34 (13.33%) Linux Administrator
8 28 (10.98%) UNIX Administrator
9 24 (9.412%) Linux Engineer
10 23 (9.020%) Storage Engineer
10 23 (9.020%) UNIX Engineer
11 22 (8.627%) Technical Consultant
12 19 (7.451%) C# Developer
12 19 (7.451%) C++/C# Developer
13 18 (7.059%) Linux Systems Administrator
13 18 (7.059%) UNIX Systems Administrator
13 18 (7.059%) Systems Administrator
14 17 (6.667%) Tester
15 16 (6.275%) Linux Consultant
16 15 (5.882%) Test Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 59 (23.14%) Clustering
2 48 (18.82%) Mathematics
3 28 (10.98%) SaaS
4 11 (4.314%) Management Information System
5 5 (1.961%) iPhone
5 5 (1.961%) Handset
6 4 (1.569%) Computer Science
7 3 (1.176%) Client/Server
8 2 (0.784%) CMDB
9 1 (0.392%) Blackberry
9 1 (0.392%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.392%) Mobile Computing
Operating Systems
1 224 (87.84%) Linux
2 56 (21.96%) Solaris
3 51 (20.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 48 (18.82%) HPUX
5 47 (18.43%) Windows
6 6 (2.353%) Android
7 5 (1.961%) Apple iOS
8 4 (1.569%) Windows 7
8 4 (1.569%) Windows XP
8 4 (1.569%) Mac OS X
9 3 (1.176%) Windows Server 2003
9 3 (1.176%) Windows Server 2008
10 2 (0.784%) SUSE
10 2 (0.784%) Windows 2000
11 1 (0.392%) AIX
11 1 (0.392%) BlackBerry OS
11 1 (0.392%) Windows Mobile
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (30.20%) Software Engineering
2 41 (16.08%) User Acceptance Testing
3 38 (14.90%) Load Balancing
4 37 (14.51%) ITIL
5 36 (14.12%) Identity Management
6 32 (12.55%) Root Cause Analysis
7 28 (10.98%) Penetration Testing
7 28 (10.98%) Performance Testing
8 18 (7.059%) Data Protection
9 15 (5.882%) Configuration Management
9 15 (5.882%) UML
10 14 (5.490%) Software Architecture
10 14 (5.490%) Kanban
11 10 (3.922%) Information Security
12 9 (3.529%) RUP
13 7 (2.745%) Agile Software Development
14 5 (1.961%) Service Management
14 5 (1.961%) Reverse Engineering
14 5 (1.961%) Ethical Hacking
14 5 (1.961%) Requirements Analysis
Programming Languages
1 177 (69.41%) Shell Script
2 100 (39.22%) Java
3 93 (36.47%) C++
4 85 (33.33%) Perl
5 84 (32.94%) C#
6 65 (25.49%) JavaScript
7 56 (21.96%) C
8 52 (20.39%) Bash shell
9 49 (19.22%) Python
10 43 (16.86%) VB
11 28 (10.98%) SQL
12 9 (3.529%) AWK
12 9 (3.529%) sed
13 5 (1.961%) VB.NET
13 5 (1.961%) PHP
13 5 (1.961%) Ruby
14 3 (1.176%) PL/SQL
15 2 (0.784%) Korn
16 1 (0.392%) VC++
Qualifications
1 219 (85.88%) Security Cleared
2 186 (72.94%) DV Cleared
3 69 (27.06%) Degree
4 57 (22.35%) SC Cleared
5 41 (16.08%) ISEB
6 5 (1.961%) Sun Certification
6 5 (1.961%) SCJP
7 1 (0.392%) CCNA
7 1 (0.392%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.392%) OCP
7 1 (0.392%) Oracle Certification
7 1 (0.392%) RHCE
7 1 (0.392%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.392%) PMP
7 1 (0.392%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.392%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 1 (0.392%) MCTS
7 1 (0.392%) MCITP
7 1 (0.392%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (1.961%) JTAG
2 2 (0.784%) QA
3 1 (0.392%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (0.392%) Basel II
System Software
1 38 (14.90%) qmail
1 38 (14.90%) Postfix
1 38 (14.90%) Sendmail
1 38 (14.90%) ISA Server
1 38 (14.90%) Squid
2 9 (3.529%) Veritas Cluster Server
3 3 (1.176%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (1.176%) Microsoft App-V
4 1 (0.392%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.392%) Terminal Services
4 1 (0.392%) NFS
4 1 (0.392%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (0.392%) Citrix Presentation Server
Systems Management
1 36 (14.12%) NetBackup
2 9 (3.529%) Veritas Storage Foundation
3 1 (0.392%) Tivoli
3 1 (0.392%) Tivoli Storage Manager
3 1 (0.392%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 59 (23.14%) Red Hat
2 46 (18.04%) HP
3 45 (17.65%) Symantec
4 44 (17.25%) Microsoft
5 40 (15.69%) Cisco
6 38 (14.90%) Juniper
6 38 (14.90%) NetApp
7 30 (11.76%) Oracle
8 18 (7.059%) IBM
8 18 (7.059%) Citrix
9 17 (6.667%) EMC
10 13 (5.098%) JBoss
11 9 (3.529%) Sybase
11 9 (3.529%) Veritas
12 6 (2.353%) Symbian
12 6 (2.353%) Sun
12 6 (2.353%) 3PAR
13 3 (1.176%) Zend
13 3 (1.176%) VMware
13 3 (1.176%) Altiris
Cheltenham, Gloucestershire
A rare and exciting opportunity has arisen for a driven, proactive SYSTEMS ADMINISTRATOR with skills in Linux, shell scripting Windows servers, TCP/IP networking and 2ND LINE SUPPORT...
Circle Recruitment
Salary: £32000 - £38000 per annum
Posted: 18 June 2013
Cheltenham, Gloucestershire
For these positions exposure in at least one of the following Java, C#, C++, in Linux or Windows based environments is essential although for more junior positions other...
Evolution Recruitment Solutions
Salary: upto 46k + excellent benefits
Posted: 14 June 2013
Gloucester, South West
The team also delivers automation and information systems projects within the The client Group.A successful applicant would be a developer who demonstrates a pride and passion for...
Harvey Nash plc
Salary: £35000 - £45000 per annum
Posted: 11 June 2013
Bristol, Chippenham, Gloucester, Bath, Swindon,...
Infrastructure / Networking Lead, CCNP, Linux, Windows, VMWare, £40-50k (dependent on experience), based in Frenchay, North Bristol... The Infrastructure / Networking Lead ( CCNP, Linux, Windows, VMWare, Virtualization )responsibilities will...
XIST4 Recruitment
Salary: £40-50,000 + Bens
Posted: 5 June 2013
Gloucestershire
Strong shell scripting experience coupled with experience/exposure to one of the following: Bash, Perl, Python or Expect * Understanding of routing and switching protocols and associated Cisco/Juniper...
Redrock Consulting Ltd
Salary: £35000 - £42000 per annum + Excellent Benefits Package
Posted: 18 June 2013
Cheltenham, Gloucestershire
Experis Engineering
Salary: £45000 - £55000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 18 June 2013
Cheltenham, Gloucestershire
Evolution Recruitment Solutions
Salary: Up to 50000 plus benefits
Posted: 14 June 2013