Hertfordshire Unix Jobs

This section looks at the demand for Unix skills within the Hertfordshire region with a comparison to our Operating Systems category. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Unix over the last 3 months to 9 May 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Abingdon Aldershot Altrincham Amersham Andover Aylesbury Banbury Barking Barnsley Basildon Basingstoke Bath Batley Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkhamsted Berkshire Bexley Bexleyheath Bicester Birkenhead Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Blackburn Blackpool Bolton Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Braintree Brentford Brentwood Bridgend Brighton Bristol Buckingham Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Channel Islands Cheadle Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chichester Chippenham City of London Clapham Colchester Corby Cornwall County Antrim County Londonderry Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cwmbran Daventry Deeside Derby Derbyshire Devon Diss Docklands, London Doncaster Dorchester Dorking Dorset Dundee Dunfermline Dunstable Durham Ealing East Anglia East Lothian East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastbourne Eastleigh Edinburgh Egham Elland England Epsom Essex Exeter Falkirk Fareham Farnborough Faversham Feltham Fife Flintshire Folkestone Gateshead Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Gosport Gourock Greenford Guildford Gwent Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Harrow Havant Hayes Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hinckley Home Counties Horsham Hounslow Huddersfield Hull Huntingdon Ilford Inverclyde Ipswich Isle of Man Kent Kettering Kingston Upon Thames Knaresborough Knutsford Lanarkshire Lancashire Lancaster Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Letchworth Lincolnshire Linlithgow Liverpool Livingston London Lothian Loughborough Lowestoft Luton Lytham St Annes M4 Corridor Maidenhead Maidstone Malmesbury Manchester Marlow Melksham Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Monmouth Morecambe Musselburgh Nantwich Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Newton-le-Willows Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northumberland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oldham Osterley Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Peterborough Petersfield Plymouth Pontefract Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Redhill Reigate Rickmansworth Ripon Rochdale Romford Rotherham Rugby Runcorn Sale Salford Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South Croydon South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans St Helens St Neots Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stamford Stansted Stevenage Stirling Stockport Stranraer Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surbiton Surrey Swanley Swansea Swindon Taunton Telford Tewkesbury Thame Thames Valley Tilbury Torfaen Torquay Trowbridge Tunbridge Wells Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Walsall Warminster Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wellingborough Welwyn Garden City Wembley West Bromwich West Lothian West Malling West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Weston-super-Mare Weybridge Whyteleafe Wigan Wilmslow Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Winsford Woking Wokingham Worcester Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 9 May 2008	Same period last year
Rank	13	8
Rank change on same period last year	-5
Matching permanent IT job ads	434	591
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.212 %	0.264 %
As % of the category below	38.37 %	47.70 %
Salaries quoted	361	468
Average minimum salary	£37,635	£37,110
Average salary	£40,796	£40,287
% change on same period last year	+1.26 %
Average maximum salary	£43,957	£43,463
UK excluding London average salary	£38,998	£38,098
% change on same period last year	+2.36 %
Operating Systems Hertfordshire
Matching permanent IT job ads	1131	1239
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.551 %	0.554 %
Salaries quoted	974	969
Average minimum salary	£32,865	£34,863
Average salary	£35,757	£37,603
% change on same period last year	-4.90 %
Average maximum salary	£38,648	£40,342
UK excluding London average salary	£34,732	£34,919
% change on same period last year	-0.53 %
Unix East of England

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total starting in 2004 of permanent IT jobs ads citing Unix across the Hertfordshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Operating Systems category.

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Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs ads citing Unix across the Hertfordshire region.

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Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Unix across the Hertfordshire region over the past 3 months.

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Job Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Unix within the Hertfordshire region over the past 3 months.

Rank	Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Permanent IT Job Ads	Average Salary Last 3 Months	Average Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year
1	Watford	-7	65	£34,614	-11.93 %
2	Stevenage	+3	29	£40,687	-4.26 %
3	St Albans	-8	16	£34,688	+1.46 %
4	Bishop's Stortford	-	11	£31,182	-
4	Welwyn Garden City	-6	11	£33,409	-14.98 %
5	Rickmansworth	0	9	£54,063	-8.62 %
5	Letchworth	-1	9	£33,778	-20.24 %
6	Berkhamsted	+1	4	£37,500	+36.36 %

Unix East of England

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

Over the past 6 months permanent IT jobs across the Hertfordshire region citing Unix also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing Unix.

1 412 (45.88 %) Oracle 2 356 (39.64 %) Windows 3 276 (30.73 %) SQL 4 235 (26.17 %) Linux 5 203 (22.61 %) Solaris 6 161 (17.93 %) SQL Server 7 149 (16.59 %) SAN 8 145 (16.15 %) Java 9 141 (15.70 %) AIX 10 124 (13.81 %) Retail 11 120 (13.36 %) J2EE 12 115 (12.81 %) DB2 13 110 (12.25 %) IBM 14 108 (12.03 %) Finance 15 104 (11.58 %) Degree

16 89 (9.911 %) SLA 17 80 (8.909 %) WebSphere 18 79 (8.797 %) Shell Script 19 78 (8.686 %) PL/SQL 19 78 (8.686 %) C 20 73 (8.129 %) Perl 21 72 (8.018 %) Middleware 22 71 (7.906 %) TCP/IP 23 65 (7.238 %) Microsoft 24 64 (7.127 %) ITIL 25 63 (7.016 %) C++ 26 61 (6.793 %) Cisco 27 60 (6.682 %) Firewall 28 58 (6.459 %) HP 28 58 (6.459 %) LAN

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

Over the past 6 months permanent IT jobs across the Hertfordshire region citing Unix also mentioned the following skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing Unix. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 120 (13.36 %) J2EE 2 80 (8.909 %) WebSphere 3 72 (8.018 %) Middleware 4 38 (4.232 %) XML 5 23 (2.561 %) JSP 5 23 (2.561 %) Struts 5 23 (2.561 %) HTML 6 20 (2.227 %) .NET 7 16 (1.782 %) Servlets 8 14 (1.559 %) Java RMI 9 12 (1.336 %) WebServices 9 12 (1.336 %) XSD 10 11 (1.225 %) WAP 11 10 (1.114 %) JDBC 12 9 (1.002 %) ASP 13 8 (0.891 %) ASP.NET 14 7 (0.780 %) EJB 15 6 (0.668 %) Hibernate 16 5 (0.557 %) Spring 16 5 (0.557 %) MFC	Application Platforms 1 55 (6.125 %) WebLogic 2 41 (4.566 %) Tomcat 3 33 (3.675 %) IBM HTTP Server 4 24 (2.673 %) MQSeries 5 22 (2.450 %) WebSphere Application Server 6 20 (2.227 %) Apache 7 19 (2.116 %) IIS 8 9 (1.002 %) WebLogic Portal 8 9 (1.002 %) Exchange Server 2003 9 8 (0.891 %) Exchange Server 2000 9 8 (0.891 %) JBoss 10 6 (0.668 %) SAS 10 6 (0.668 %) Mule 11 5 (0.557 %) Tuxedo 12 4 (0.445 %) Lotus Domino 13 3 (0.334 %) OpenEdge 13 3 (0.334 %) BizTalk Server 13 3 (0.334 %) SharePoint 13 3 (0.334 %) MS Exchange 13 3 (0.334 %) LiveLink
Applications 1 32 (3.563 %) MS Excel 2 26 (2.895 %) MS Office 3 11 (1.225 %) MS Visio 3 11 (1.225 %) CA Clarity	Business Applications 1 4 (0.445 %) Oracle Applications 2 3 (0.334 %) Oracle Financials 3 2 (0.223 %) Oracle 11i 3 2 (0.223 %) SAP R/3 3 2 (0.223 %) BASE24 3 2 (0.223 %) Teamcenter
Communications & Networking 1 149 (16.59 %) SAN 2 71 (7.906 %) TCP/IP 3 60 (6.682 %) Firewall 4 58 (6.459 %) LAN 5 50 (5.568 %) WAN 6 49 (5.457 %) HTTP 7 25 (2.784 %) VPN 8 18 (2.004 %) Internet 9 12 (1.336 %) ISDN 10 11 (1.225 %) ATM 10 11 (1.225 %) Network Security 11 10 (1.114 %) Intranet 11 10 (1.114 %) SSH 12 9 (1.002 %) DNS 13 8 (0.891 %) X.25 14 7 (0.780 %) GSM 15 6 (0.668 %) RTP 16 5 (0.557 %) UMTS 17 4 (0.445 %) RIP 17 4 (0.445 %) SNMP	Database & Business Intelligence 1 161 (17.93 %) SQL Server 2 115 (12.81 %) DB2 3 55 (6.125 %) Oracle 9i 4 53 (5.902 %) Oracle 10g 5 39 (4.343 %) RDBMS 5 39 (4.343 %) Oracle Reports 6 36 (4.009 %) MySQL 7 16 (1.782 %) SQL Server 2000 8 11 (1.225 %) TOAD 9 10 (1.114 %) ETL 9 10 (1.114 %) Datawarehouse 10 9 (1.002 %) Oracle 8/8i 11 8 (0.891 %) SQL Server 2005 12 5 (0.557 %) DTS 13 4 (0.445 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 13 4 (0.445 %) SQL Server Integration Services 14 3 (0.334 %) VLDB 14 3 (0.334 %) BusinessObjects 15 2 (0.223 %) SQL Server 7 15 2 (0.223 %) Oracle Discoverer
Development Applications 1 37 (4.120 %) Oracle Forms 2 27 (3.007 %) JDeveloper 2 27 (3.007 %) WinRunner 3 23 (2.561 %) ProC 4 21 (2.339 %) TestDirector 5 17 (1.893 %) Eclipse 6 14 (1.559 %) Rational Rose 7 11 (1.225 %) Ant 8 9 (1.002 %) QuickTest Pro 9 7 (0.780 %) ClearCase 10 5 (0.557 %) TeamTrack 10 5 (0.557 %) Subversion 11 4 (0.445 %) VSS/SourceSafe 11 4 (0.445 %) LoadRunner 12 3 (0.334 %) WebSphere Studio Application Developer 12 3 (0.334 %) Visual Studio 13 2 (0.223 %) Telelogic Synergy 14 1 (0.111 %) JIRA 14 1 (0.111 %) ClearQuest 14 1 (0.111 %) Rational Robot	General 1 124 (13.81 %) Retail 2 108 (12.03 %) Finance 3 56 (6.236 %) Telecoms 4 36 (4.009 %) Health 5 30 (3.341 %) Banking 6 24 (2.673 %) Pensions 7 13 (1.448 %) Education 8 12 (1.336 %) Games 9 11 (1.225 %) Back Office 10 10 (1.114 %) Auditing 10 10 (1.114 %) Insurance 11 9 (1.002 %) Financial Institution 12 7 (0.780 %) Manufacturing 12 7 (0.780 %) General Ledger 13 6 (0.668 %) Front Office 14 5 (0.557 %) Electronics 14 5 (0.557 %) Government 14 5 (0.557 %) Music 15 4 (0.445 %) Legal 15 4 (0.445 %) Multimedia
Job Titles 1 121 (13.47 %) Administrator 2 119 (13.25 %) Analyst 3 86 (9.577 %) Developer 4 76 (8.463 %) Architect 5 69 (7.684 %) DBA 6 62 (6.904 %) Oracle DBA 7 56 (6.236 %) Systems Administrator 8 53 (5.902 %) Consultant 9 51 (5.679 %) UNIX Administrator 10 47 (5.234 %) Applications Support 11 44 (4.900 %) Solutions Architect 12 43 (4.788 %) UNIX Systems Administrator 13 35 (3.898 %) Tester 13 35 (3.898 %) Software Engineer 13 35 (3.898 %) UNIX Engineer 14 34 (3.786 %) UNIX Support 14 34 (3.786 %) Support Engineer 14 34 (3.786 %) Support Analyst 14 34 (3.786 %) Technical Consultant 15 32 (3.563 %) Team Leader	Miscellaneous 1 31 (3.452 %) Mainframe 2 18 (2.004 %) AS400 3 14 (1.559 %) Client/Server 3 14 (1.559 %) Multithreading 4 12 (1.336 %) French Language 5 11 (1.225 %) Computer Science 6 9 (1.002 %) EFT 6 9 (1.002 %) Replication 7 8 (0.891 %) CLARiiON 8 7 (0.780 %) IPTV 9 6 (0.668 %) Device Driver 10 5 (0.557 %) PMI 11 4 (0.445 %) EPoS 11 4 (0.445 %) Clustering 11 4 (0.445 %) VLE 11 4 (0.445 %) Asset Management 11 4 (0.445 %) VAX 12 3 (0.334 %) STB 13 2 (0.223 %) IBM Mainframe 13 2 (0.223 %) Tandem
Operating Systems 1 356 (39.64 %) Windows 2 235 (26.17 %) Linux 3 203 (22.61 %) Solaris 4 141 (15.70 %) AIX 5 43 (4.788 %) HPUX 6 34 (3.786 %) Windows NT 7 28 (3.118 %) Windows Server 2003 8 19 (2.116 %) Windows 2000 9 15 (1.670 %) zOS 10 14 (1.559 %) SUSE 10 14 (1.559 %) VMS 11 13 (1.448 %) OS/400 12 8 (0.891 %) Windows XP 13 6 (0.668 %) VxWorks 14 1 (0.111 %) Fedora 14 1 (0.111 %) FreeBSD	Processes & Methodologies 1 64 (7.127 %) ITIL 2 51 (5.679 %) E-Commerce 3 50 (5.568 %) Service Delivery 4 47 (5.234 %) Project Management 5 45 (5.011 %) UML 6 33 (3.675 %) Change Management 6 33 (3.675 %) Automated Testing 7 23 (2.561 %) Disaster Recovery 7 23 (2.561 %) OO 8 20 (2.227 %) Software Testing 9 18 (2.004 %) PRINCE2 9 18 (2.004 %) Regression Testing 10 16 (1.782 %) Service Management 10 16 (1.782 %) Load Testing 10 16 (1.782 %) Test Scripting 11 15 (1.670 %) MVC 12 14 (1.559 %) Information Management 13 13 (1.448 %) PRINCE 14 11 (1.225 %) Migration 15 10 (1.114 %) Business Continuity
Programming Languages 1 276 (30.73 %) SQL 2 145 (16.15 %) Java 3 79 (8.797 %) Shell Script 4 78 (8.686 %) C 4 78 (8.686 %) PL/SQL 5 73 (8.129 %) Perl 6 63 (7.016 %) C++ 7 15 (1.670 %) JavaScript 8 13 (1.448 %) C# 9 10 (1.114 %) PHP 9 10 (1.114 %) Python 10 9 (1.002 %) Ruby 11 8 (0.891 %) VBScript 12 7 (0.780 %) AWK 13 6 (0.668 %) Korn 13 6 (0.668 %) VC++ 14 5 (0.557 %) COBOL 15 4 (0.445 %) Progress 4GL 15 4 (0.445 %) VB 15 4 (0.445 %) VBA	Qualifications 1 104 (11.58 %) Degree 2 40 (4.454 %) ISEB 3 11 (1.225 %) Oracle Certification 4 9 (1.002 %) RHCE 4 9 (1.002 %) ITIL Certification 5 7 (0.780 %) OCP 6 5 (0.557 %) VMware Certified Professional (VCP) 6 5 (0.557 %) PMP 6 5 (0.557 %) PMI Certification 7 4 (0.445 %) CCSA 7 4 (0.445 %) CCSE 8 3 (0.334 %) HND 8 3 (0.334 %) ISTQB 9 2 (0.223 %) MCSE 9 2 (0.223 %) Microsoft Certification 10 1 (0.111 %) OCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 89 (9.911 %) SLA 2 36 (4.009 %) QA 3 8 (0.891 %) Sarbanes-Oxley 4 6 (0.668 %) ISO27001 4 6 (0.668 %) ISO9000 5 2 (0.223 %) BS7799	System Software 1 22 (2.450 %) Oracle RAC 2 19 (2.116 %) Oracle RMAN 3 13 (1.448 %) NetBackup 4 11 (1.225 %) Active Directory 5 1 (0.111 %) MetaFrame 5 1 (0.111 %) Tivoli Workload Scheduler 5 1 (0.111 %) Citrix Presentation Server
Systems Management 1 11 (1.225 %) Tivoli 2 10 (1.114 %) EMC NetWorker 2 10 (1.114 %) Legato 3 9 (1.002 %) Oracle Enterprise Manager 4 8 (0.891 %) Tivoli Storage Manager 5 5 (0.557 %) CONTROL-M 6 3 (0.334 %) EMC TimeFinder 6 3 (0.334 %) Netcool 6 3 (0.334 %) Netcool/OMNIbus 7 2 (0.223 %) OpenView 7 2 (0.223 %) CiscoWorks 7 2 (0.223 %) Tivoli Monitoring 8 1 (0.111 %) ServiceCenter 8 1 (0.111 %) SCOM	Vendors 1 412 (45.88 %) Oracle 2 110 (12.25 %) IBM 3 65 (7.238 %) Microsoft 4 61 (6.793 %) Cisco 5 58 (6.459 %) HP 6 56 (6.236 %) EMC 7 51 (5.679 %) Sybase 8 43 (4.788 %) Red Hat 9 41 (4.566 %) Sun 10 36 (4.009 %) Brocade 11 33 (3.675 %) VERITAS 12 22 (2.450 %) BEA 13 21 (2.339 %) Intel 13 21 (2.339 %) SAP 14 16 (1.782 %) Citrix 15 14 (1.559 %) VMware 16 8 (0.891 %) CheckPoint 16 8 (0.891 %) Cognizant 16 8 (0.891 %) Retek 17 7 (0.780 %) Hitachi