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

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
UNIX
Rank 4 18 24
Rank change year-on-year
+14 +6
Permanent jobs citing UNIX 2 6 7
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the Home Counties 9.091% 6.383% 3.684%
As % of the Operating Systems category 33.33% 37.50% 70.00%
Number of salaries quoted 2 1 6
Average salary £67,000 £38,000 £60,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+76.31% -36.66%
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
All Operating Systems
Home Counties
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
6 16 10
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the Home Counties 27.27% 17.02% 5.263%
Number of salaries quoted 6 2 9
Average salary £60,000 £44,000 £60,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+36.36% -26.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £35,100 £39,200 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £69,000 £60,000 £48,800
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
UNIX
South East

UNIX
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Home Counties 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 Home Counties region.

Home Counties UNIX Salary Trend

UNIX
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Home Counties 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 3 (75.00%) Linux
2 2 (50.00%) Java
2 2 (50.00%) SSL
2 2 (50.00%) TCP/IP
2 2 (50.00%) Firewall
2 2 (50.00%) BIG-IP
2 2 (50.00%) Blue Coat
2 2 (50.00%) F5
3 1 (25.00%) WAN Optimisation
3 1 (25.00%) Mobile App
3 1 (25.00%) C
3 1 (25.00%) Content Management
3 1 (25.00%) InterSystems Cache
3 1 (25.00%) Ajax
3 1 (25.00%) Incident Management
3 1 (25.00%) JSON
3 1 (25.00%) Load Balancing
3 1 (25.00%) Problem Management
3 1 (25.00%) Capacity Planning
3 1 (25.00%) Escenic
3 1 (25.00%) CMS
3 1 (25.00%) DNS
3 1 (25.00%) Change Management
3 1 (25.00%) Cisco
3 1 (25.00%) Juniper
3 1 (25.00%) Shell Script
3 1 (25.00%) Perl
3 1 (25.00%) PHP
3 1 (25.00%) J2EE
3 1 (25.00%) MySQL

UNIX
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Home Counties 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 1 (25.00%) Ajax
1 1 (25.00%) JSON
1 1 (25.00%) J2EE
1 1 (25.00%) XML
Application Platforms
1 1 (25.00%) Escenic
1 1 (25.00%) CMS
1 1 (25.00%) Apache
1 1 (25.00%) Tomcat
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) SSL
1 2 (50.00%) TCP/IP
1 2 (50.00%) Firewall
1 2 (50.00%) BIG-IP
2 1 (25.00%) DNS
2 1 (25.00%) LAN
2 1 (25.00%) WAN
2 1 (25.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) InterSystems Cache
1 1 (25.00%) MySQL
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Infrastructure Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) Programmer
2 1 (25.00%) Applications Support
2 1 (25.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Network Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Linux
2 1 (25.00%) Solaris
2 1 (25.00%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (25.00%) WAN Optimisation
1 1 (25.00%) Content Management
1 1 (25.00%) Incident Management
1 1 (25.00%) Load Balancing
1 1 (25.00%) Problem Management
1 1 (25.00%) Capacity Planning
1 1 (25.00%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Java
2 1 (25.00%) C
2 1 (25.00%) Shell Script
2 1 (25.00%) Perl
2 1 (25.00%) PHP
2 1 (25.00%) MUMPS
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Blue Coat
1 2 (50.00%) F5
2 1 (25.00%) Cisco
2 1 (25.00%) Juniper