The first table below looks at the demand for UNIX skills in IT jobs advertised for the Kent region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited UNIX over the 3 months to 23 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 Kent region.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
UNIX
Rank 19 35 33
Rank change year-on-year
+16 -2
Permanent jobs citing UNIX 91 37 84
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Kent 7.941% 5.204% 7.814%
As % of the Operating Systems category 31.27% 19.37% 25.69%
Number of salaries quoted 83 32 81
Average salary £38,500 £35,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+10.00% -6.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £33,800 £30,000 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £61,000 £51,125 £47,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £39,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.26%
All Operating Systems
Kent
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
291 191 327
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Kent 25.39% 26.86% 30.42%
Number of salaries quoted 250 181 301
Average salary £37,500 £35,000 £37,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+7.14% -5.40%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,000 £23,000 £24,000
10% offered a salary of more than £70,000 £45,000 £54,000
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 Kent region as a proportion of the total demand within the Operating Systems category.

Kent 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 Kent region.

Kent UNIX Salary Trend

UNIX
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing UNIX across the Kent region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

Kent 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 Kent region over the 3 months to 23 May 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
Tunbridge Wells - 13 £42,500 -
Folkestone +16 10 £35,000 +2.94%
Dover - 2 £50,500 -
Maidstone -4 1 £37,000 +9.62%
UNIX
South East

UNIX
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Kent 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 72 (45.00%) SQL
2 63 (39.38%) Linux
3 58 (36.25%) Banking
4 55 (34.38%) Finance
5 54 (33.75%) Investment Banking
6 53 (33.13%) Windows
7 48 (30.00%) Java
8 39 (24.38%) Degree
9 29 (18.13%) Oracle
10 25 (15.63%) SQL Server
10 25 (15.63%) MySQL
10 25 (15.63%) QA
11 22 (13.75%) Solaris
11 22 (13.75%) Cisco
12 21 (13.13%) Juniper
13 20 (12.50%) PHP
13 20 (12.50%) Agile Software Development
14 19 (11.88%) PL/SQL
15 18 (11.25%) ITIL
15 18 (11.25%) Unit Testing
16 17 (10.63%) Perl
16 17 (10.63%) J2EE
17 16 (10.00%) System Testing
17 16 (10.00%) Scrum
18 15 (9.375%) .NET
18 15 (9.375%) VPN
19 14 (8.750%) Oracle Forms
19 14 (8.750%) Apache
19 14 (8.750%) Microsoft
19 14 (8.750%) VMware

UNIX
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Kent 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 17 (10.63%) J2EE
2 15 (9.375%) .NET
3 12 (7.500%) HTML
3 12 (7.500%) FIX Protocol
4 11 (6.875%) CSS
5 9 (5.625%) Regular Expression
5 9 (5.625%) Swing
5 9 (5.625%) AWT
5 9 (5.625%) JDBC
5 9 (5.625%) JMX
6 8 (5.000%) Spring
6 8 (5.000%) Hibernate
7 5 (3.125%) WebSphere
8 3 (1.875%) WinForms
8 3 (1.875%) .NET Framework
8 3 (1.875%) Java EE
8 3 (1.875%) WPF
8 3 (1.875%) ASP.NET
8 3 (1.875%) XML
8 3 (1.875%) J2SE
Application Platforms
1 14 (8.750%) Apache
2 5 (3.125%) Tomcat
2 5 (3.125%) MS Exchange
3 3 (1.875%) Oracle Workflow
3 3 (1.875%) GlassFish
3 3 (1.875%) SAS
3 3 (1.875%) CICS
4 2 (1.250%) nginx
5 1 (0.625%) IIS
5 1 (0.625%) MQSeries
Applications
1 5 (3.125%) MS Excel
2 1 (0.625%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 15 (9.375%) VPN
2 11 (6.875%) SAN
3 9 (5.625%) Firewall
4 6 (3.750%) VLAN
5 5 (3.125%) DNS
5 5 (3.125%) HTTP
5 5 (3.125%) NAS
6 3 (1.875%) Internet
7 2 (1.250%) Fibre Channel
7 2 (1.250%) TCP/IP
7 2 (1.250%) DSL
7 2 (1.250%) VRRP
7 2 (1.250%) SMTP
7 2 (1.250%) SSL
7 2 (1.250%) iSCSI
7 2 (1.250%) IPsec
8 1 (0.625%) Network Security
8 1 (0.625%) DHCP
8 1 (0.625%) SMS
8 1 (0.625%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (15.63%) SQL Server
1 25 (15.63%) MySQL
2 7 (4.375%) DB2
2 7 (4.375%) Oracle 10g
3 4 (2.500%) Oracle 9i
3 4 (2.500%) Oracle Reports
3 4 (2.500%) Oracle 11g
4 2 (1.250%) Oracle 8/8i
4 2 (1.250%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (0.625%) InterSystems Cache
5 1 (0.625%) QlikView
5 1 (0.625%) BusinessObjects
Development Applications
1 14 (8.750%) Oracle Forms
2 13 (8.125%) JUnit
3 9 (5.625%) Jenkins
3 9 (5.625%) Log4j
3 9 (5.625%) QuickTest Pro
4 8 (5.000%) Ant
4 8 (5.000%) Subversion
5 5 (3.125%) Maven
5 5 (3.125%) JIRA
5 5 (3.125%) ClearCase
6 4 (2.500%) Build Forge
6 4 (2.500%) TeamCity
7 3 (1.875%) JProfiler
General
1 58 (36.25%) Banking
2 55 (34.38%) Finance
3 54 (33.75%) Investment Banking
4 14 (8.750%) Retail
5 12 (7.500%) Legal
6 10 (6.250%) Front Office
7 8 (5.000%) Telecoms
8 5 (3.125%) Manufacturing
9 3 (1.875%) International Banking
10 1 (0.625%) Games
10 1 (0.625%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 32 (20.00%) Developer
2 18 (11.25%) Analyst
3 14 (8.750%) Applications Support
3 14 (8.750%) Java Developer
4 11 (6.875%) Architect
5 10 (6.250%) Network Specialist
6 9 (5.625%) Senior Java Developer
6 9 (5.625%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 9 (5.625%) ScrumMaster
6 9 (5.625%) Senior Developer
7 8 (5.000%) Support Analyst
8 7 (4.375%) Oracle Developer
9 6 (3.750%) Support Engineer
9 6 (3.750%) Technical Architect
9 6 (3.750%) QA Analyst
9 6 (3.750%) QA Engineer
10 5 (3.125%) Oracle Analyst
11 4 (2.500%) Technical Design Authority
11 4 (2.500%) Consultant
11 4 (2.500%) Technical Support
Miscellaneous
1 8 (5.000%) Mainframe
2 6 (3.750%) e-Health
3 5 (3.125%) Equities
3 5 (3.125%) EPoS
3 5 (3.125%) SaaS
4 3 (1.875%) Management Information System
5 2 (1.250%) Open Source
5 2 (1.250%) iSeries
5 2 (1.250%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 2 (1.250%) CMDB
5 2 (1.250%) Clustering
5 2 (1.250%) AS400
6 1 (0.625%) Tandem
6 1 (0.625%) Mathematics
6 1 (0.625%) Computer Science
6 1 (0.625%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 63 (39.38%) Linux
2 53 (33.13%) Windows
3 22 (13.75%) Solaris
4 9 (5.625%) CentOS
5 8 (5.000%) AIX
6 4 (2.500%) Mac OS
6 4 (2.500%) VMS
6 4 (2.500%) HPUX
6 4 (2.500%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (1.875%) Debian
7 3 (1.875%) Ubuntu
7 3 (1.875%) Windows XP
8 2 (1.250%) Windows 7
8 2 (1.250%) FreeBSD
8 2 (1.250%) OpenBSD
9 1 (0.625%) Windows 2000
9 1 (0.625%) Windows NT
9 1 (0.625%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (12.50%) Agile Software Development
2 18 (11.25%) ITIL
2 18 (11.25%) Unit Testing
3 16 (10.00%) System Testing
3 16 (10.00%) Scrum
4 12 (7.500%) Data Management
5 11 (6.875%) Automated Testing
5 11 (6.875%) Systems Analysis
6 10 (6.250%) E-Commerce
6 10 (6.250%) Problem Management
7 9 (5.625%) Capacity Planning
7 9 (5.625%) Fault Management
8 8 (5.000%) Configuration Management
9 7 (4.375%) Information Security
9 7 (4.375%) Multithreading
9 7 (4.375%) Regression Testing
9 7 (4.375%) Project Management
10 6 (3.750%) OO
10 6 (3.750%) Test Scripting
10 6 (3.750%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 72 (45.00%) SQL
2 48 (30.00%) Java
3 20 (12.50%) PHP
4 19 (11.88%) PL/SQL
5 17 (10.63%) Perl
6 9 (5.625%) C#
7 8 (5.000%) C++
8 7 (4.375%) Shell Script
9 4 (2.500%) COBOL
10 3 (1.875%) JavaScript
10 3 (1.875%) VB.NET
10 3 (1.875%) PL/1
10 3 (1.875%) PowerShell
11 2 (1.250%) VBA
12 1 (0.625%) Fortran
12 1 (0.625%) MUMPS
Qualifications
1 39 (24.38%) Degree
2 9 (5.625%) SCJP
2 9 (5.625%) Sun Certification
3 8 (5.000%) CCA
4 6 (3.750%) ISEB
4 6 (3.750%) Security Cleared
5 3 (1.875%) CISA
5 3 (1.875%) ACCA
5 3 (1.875%) CISSP
6 1 (0.625%) MCSE
6 1 (0.625%) CCNA
6 1 (0.625%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (0.625%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (15.63%) QA
2 6 (3.750%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.250%) SLA
System Software
1 13 (8.125%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (3.125%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.250%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (1.250%) NFS
3 2 (1.250%) Squid
4 1 (0.625%) VMware ESX
4 1 (0.625%) Xen
4 1 (0.625%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 9 (5.625%) HP Quality Center
2 6 (3.750%) Tivoli
2 6 (3.750%) BMC PATROL
3 3 (1.875%) BladeLogic
4 2 (1.250%) Legato
4 2 (1.250%) NetBackup
5 1 (0.625%) SCCM
Vendors
1 29 (18.13%) Oracle
2 22 (13.75%) Cisco
3 21 (13.13%) Juniper
4 14 (8.750%) Microsoft
4 14 (8.750%) VMware
5 13 (8.125%) BMC
6 11 (6.875%) Sun
7 10 (6.250%) F5
8 9 (5.625%) IBM
9 6 (3.750%) Compuware
9 6 (3.750%) Citrix
9 6 (3.750%) CA
10 5 (3.125%) WatchGuard
10 5 (3.125%) Red Hat
10 5 (3.125%) HP
10 5 (3.125%) 3PAR
11 4 (2.500%) Pega
12 3 (1.875%) Business Objects
12 3 (1.875%) Sybase
12 3 (1.875%) JBoss
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