The first table below looks at the demand for UNIX skills in IT jobs advertised for the Ipswich region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited UNIX over the 3 months to 17 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 of the Operating Systems category for the Ipswich region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
UNIX
Rank 40 30 27
Rank change year-on-year
-10 -3
Permanent jobs citing UNIX 14 12 25
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Ipswich 4.473% 4.743% 8.418%
As % of the Operating Systems category 10.94% 15.00% 49.02%
Number of salaries quoted 14 6 25
Average salary £36,250 £33,750 £29,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+7.40% +14.40%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £31,500 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £40,000 £35,000 £36,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
All Operating Systems
Ipswich
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
128 80 51
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Ipswich 40.89% 31.62% 17.17%
Number of salaries quoted 122 70 49
Average salary £35,000 £35,000 £29,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +18.64%
90% offered a salary of more than £23,250 £30,000 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £45,000 £44,000 £42,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
UNIX
Suffolk

UNIX
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Ipswich 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 Ipswich region.

Ipswich UNIX Salary Trend

UNIX
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Ipswich 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 26 (60.47%) Linux
2 22 (51.16%) SQL
3 19 (44.19%) Windows
4 16 (37.21%) VMware
5 15 (34.88%) Solaris
5 15 (34.88%) Oracle
6 14 (32.56%) PL/SQL
7 13 (30.23%) Perl
7 13 (30.23%) J2EE
8 12 (27.91%) VMware Infrastructure
8 12 (27.91%) Cisco
8 12 (27.91%) EMC
8 12 (27.91%) SAN
9 10 (23.26%) Firewall
10 9 (20.93%) Active Directory
10 9 (20.93%) Microsoft
10 9 (20.93%) Web Services
10 9 (20.93%) Amazon AWS
11 8 (18.60%) VMware ESXi
11 8 (18.60%) WebLogic
11 8 (18.60%) Java
12 7 (16.28%) LAN
12 7 (16.28%) WAN
12 7 (16.28%) DNS
12 7 (16.28%) RDBMS
12 7 (16.28%) NetApp
12 7 (16.28%) Wi-Fi
12 7 (16.28%) Oracle Applications
13 6 (13.95%) DHCP
14 5 (11.63%) TCP/IP

UNIX
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Ipswich 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 13 (30.23%) J2EE
2 9 (20.93%) Web Services
3 4 (9.302%) XML
3 4 (9.302%) Hibernate
3 4 (9.302%) Tapestry
3 4 (9.302%) DHTML
3 4 (9.302%) HTML
4 1 (2.326%) JSON
4 1 (2.326%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (2.326%) Middleware
Application Platforms
1 9 (20.93%) Amazon AWS
2 8 (18.60%) WebLogic
3 5 (11.63%) MS Exchange
4 3 (6.977%) Exchange Server 2003
4 3 (6.977%) Exchange Server 2010
5 1 (2.326%) Apache
5 1 (2.326%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (2.326%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 7 (16.28%) Oracle Applications
Communications & Networking
1 12 (27.91%) SAN
2 10 (23.26%) Firewall
3 7 (16.28%) Wi-Fi
3 7 (16.28%) DNS
3 7 (16.28%) LAN
3 7 (16.28%) WAN
4 6 (13.95%) DHCP
5 5 (11.63%) TCP/IP
6 4 (9.302%) iSCSI
6 4 (9.302%) NAS
7 3 (6.977%) Internet
8 1 (2.326%) VoIP
8 1 (2.326%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (16.28%) RDBMS
2 5 (11.63%) Oracle 10g
2 5 (11.63%) SQL Server
2 5 (11.63%) Oracle 11g
3 4 (9.302%) MySQL
4 3 (6.977%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (2.326%) Oracle 8/8i
General
1 3 (6.977%) Telecoms
1 3 (6.977%) Finance
Job Titles
1 17 (39.53%) Administrator
2 14 (32.56%) DBA
3 13 (30.23%) Oracle DBA
4 8 (18.60%) UNIX Administrator
5 7 (16.28%) Infrastructure Analyst
5 7 (16.28%) Analyst
5 7 (16.28%) Systems Engineer
6 4 (9.302%) Developer
6 4 (9.302%) UNIX Engineer
6 4 (9.302%) Java Developer
7 2 (4.651%) Development DBA
7 2 (4.651%) Oracle Development DBA
7 2 (4.651%) Teradata DBA
7 2 (4.651%) SQL DBA
8 1 (2.326%) Oracle Consultant
8 1 (2.326%) Consultant
8 1 (2.326%) Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (9.302%) Replication
1 4 (9.302%) Computer Science
2 1 (2.326%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 26 (60.47%) Linux
2 19 (44.19%) Windows
3 15 (34.88%) Solaris
4 4 (9.302%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (11.63%) Disaster Recovery
2 4 (9.302%) UML
2 4 (9.302%) OO
3 1 (2.326%) Service Management
3 1 (2.326%) Change Management
3 1 (2.326%) Business Continuity
3 1 (2.326%) Incident Management
3 1 (2.326%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 22 (51.16%) SQL
2 14 (32.56%) PL/SQL
3 13 (30.23%) Perl
4 8 (18.60%) Java
5 5 (11.63%) Python
5 5 (11.63%) Bash shell
6 4 (9.302%) VB
6 4 (9.302%) Shell Script
6 4 (9.302%) JavaScript
7 1 (2.326%) Ruby
7 1 (2.326%) PowerShell
7 1 (2.326%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (11.63%) Cisco Certification
2 4 (9.302%) OCP
2 4 (9.302%) Oracle Certification
2 4 (9.302%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 4 (9.302%) Degree
3 3 (6.977%) Microsoft Certification
3 3 (6.977%) CCNP
3 3 (6.977%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (9.302%) QA
System Software
1 12 (27.91%) VMware Infrastructure
2 9 (20.93%) Active Directory
3 8 (18.60%) VMware ESXi
4 4 (9.302%) NFS
4 4 (9.302%) VMware ESX
4 4 (9.302%) Hyper-V
5 1 (2.326%) vSphere
Vendors
1 16 (37.21%) VMware
2 15 (34.88%) Oracle
3 12 (27.91%) Cisco
3 12 (27.91%) EMC
4 9 (20.93%) Microsoft
5 7 (16.28%) NetApp
6 3 (6.977%) BEA
6 3 (6.977%) Fortinet
7 2 (4.651%) IBM
8 1 (2.326%) Dell