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

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
UNIX
Rank 34 33 29
Rank change year-on-year
-1 -4
Permanent jobs citing UNIX 3 7 8
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Kingston Upon Thames 1.974% 3.889% 5.442%
As % of the Operating Systems category 6.522% 12.28% 18.18%
Number of salaries quoted 3 7 8
Average salary £55,000 £47,500 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+15.78% +18.75%
90% offered a salary of more than £43,000 £44,600 £22,500
10% offered a salary of more than £59,000 £47,500 £42,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
All Operating Systems
Kingston Upon Thames
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
46 57 44
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Kingston Upon Thames 30.26% 31.67% 29.93%
Number of salaries quoted 46 55 44
Average salary £40,000 £40,000 £42,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- -5.88%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £27,500 £22,500
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £55,000 £47,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
UNIX
London

UNIX
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Kingston Upon Thames 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 Kingston Upon Thames region.

Kingston Upon Thames UNIX Salary Trend

UNIX
Salary Histogram

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

Kingston Upon Thames UNIX Salary Histogram

UNIX
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Kingston Upon Thames 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 13 (86.67%) Linux
2 8 (53.33%) SAN
2 8 (53.33%) VMware
3 7 (46.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (46.67%) Red Hat
4 6 (40.00%) RHCE
4 6 (40.00%) LAN
4 6 (40.00%) WAN
4 6 (40.00%) VPN
4 6 (40.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 6 (40.00%) Systems Analysis
5 5 (33.33%) Oracle
6 4 (26.67%) Perl
6 4 (26.67%) Internet
7 3 (20.00%) Remedy
7 3 (20.00%) RDBMS
7 3 (20.00%) PHP
7 3 (20.00%) MySQL
7 3 (20.00%) Windows
7 3 (20.00%) SMTP
7 3 (20.00%) Windows Server 2008
7 3 (20.00%) QA
8 2 (13.33%) Shell Script
8 2 (13.33%) Computer Science
8 2 (13.33%) Capacity Planning
8 2 (13.33%) FTP
8 2 (13.33%) DNS
8 2 (13.33%) OO
8 2 (13.33%) SQL Server
8 2 (13.33%) IIS

UNIX
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Kingston Upon Thames 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 (6.667%) LAMP
1 1 (6.667%) CPAN
1 1 (6.667%) SOAP
1 1 (6.667%) XML
1 1 (6.667%) CGI
1 1 (6.667%) FastCGI
1 1 (6.667%) Mason
1 1 (6.667%) JSON
Application Platforms
1 2 (13.33%) IIS
2 1 (6.667%) Apache
2 1 (6.667%) MS Exchange
2 1 (6.667%) Exchange Server 2007
Applications
1 1 (6.667%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 8 (53.33%) SAN
2 6 (40.00%) LAN
2 6 (40.00%) WAN
2 6 (40.00%) VPN
3 4 (26.67%) Internet
4 3 (20.00%) SMTP
5 2 (13.33%) FTP
5 2 (13.33%) DNS
5 2 (13.33%) TCP/IP
6 1 (6.667%) Firewall
6 1 (6.667%) Intranet
6 1 (6.667%) LDAP
6 1 (6.667%) HTTP
6 1 (6.667%) NAS
6 1 (6.667%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (20.00%) RDBMS
1 3 (20.00%) MySQL
2 2 (13.33%) SQL Server
3 1 (6.667%) SQL Server 2000
3 1 (6.667%) Oracle 10g
3 1 (6.667%) Oracle 8/8i
3 1 (6.667%) Oracle 9i
3 1 (6.667%) Big Data
3 1 (6.667%) Oracle 11g
3 1 (6.667%) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications
1 1 (6.667%) Git (software)
1 1 (6.667%) Subversion
General
1 1 (6.667%) Billing
Job Titles
1 5 (33.33%) VMware Engineer
2 4 (26.67%) DBA
3 2 (13.33%) Administrator
4 1 (6.667%) Senior Systems Engineer
4 1 (6.667%) Architect
4 1 (6.667%) Tester
4 1 (6.667%) Developer
4 1 (6.667%) Systems Administrator
4 1 (6.667%) Systems Engineer
4 1 (6.667%) QA Leader
4 1 (6.667%) Windows Systems Engineer
4 1 (6.667%) Virtualisation Engineer
4 1 (6.667%) Virtualisation Architect
4 1 (6.667%) Test Leader
4 1 (6.667%) Senior Architect
4 1 (6.667%) Storage Engineer
4 1 (6.667%) Senior Storage Engineer
4 1 (6.667%) Linux Engineer
4 1 (6.667%) Senior Linux Engineer
4 1 (6.667%) Oracle DBA
Miscellaneous
1 2 (13.33%) Computer Science
1 2 (13.33%) Firmware
2 1 (6.667%) Management Information System
2 1 (6.667%) Enterprise Storage
2 1 (6.667%) Social Network
2 1 (6.667%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (6.667%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 13 (86.67%) Linux
2 3 (20.00%) Windows
2 3 (20.00%) Windows Server 2008
3 2 (13.33%) Windows Server 2003
4 1 (6.667%) Windows 2000
4 1 (6.667%) Windows XP
4 1 (6.667%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (40.00%) Systems Analysis
2 2 (13.33%) Capacity Planning
2 2 (13.33%) OO
3 1 (6.667%) Migration
3 1 (6.667%) Benchmarking
3 1 (6.667%) OOP
3 1 (6.667%) Data Mapping
3 1 (6.667%) Software Testing
3 1 (6.667%) Web Development
3 1 (6.667%) Asset Management
3 1 (6.667%) Content Management
3 1 (6.667%) Document Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (26.67%) Perl
2 3 (20.00%) PHP
3 2 (13.33%) Shell Script
3 2 (13.33%) PL/SQL
3 2 (13.33%) SQL
4 1 (6.667%) T-SQL
4 1 (6.667%) C#
4 1 (6.667%) C++
4 1 (6.667%) Java
4 1 (6.667%) JavaScript
4 1 (6.667%) sed
4 1 (6.667%) PHP5
4 1 (6.667%) PHP4
4 1 (6.667%) AWK
Qualifications
1 6 (40.00%) RHCE
1 6 (40.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 1 (6.667%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (6.667%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (6.667%) CCNA
2 1 (6.667%) MCSE
2 1 (6.667%) MCITP
2 1 (6.667%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (20.00%) QA
System Software
1 7 (46.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (13.33%) Active Directory
3 1 (6.667%) Terminal Services
3 1 (6.667%) vSphere
3 1 (6.667%) VMware Server
3 1 (6.667%) Oracle RMAN
Systems Management
1 1 (6.667%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
1 1 (6.667%) HP Data Protector
1 1 (6.667%) Data Guard
1 1 (6.667%) Veritas Storage Foundation
Vendors
1 8 (53.33%) VMware
2 7 (46.67%) Red Hat
3 5 (33.33%) Oracle
4 3 (20.00%) Remedy
5 2 (13.33%) Microsoft
5 2 (13.33%) HP
5 2 (13.33%) Dell
5 2 (13.33%) EMC
5 2 (13.33%) Citrix
5 2 (13.33%) NetApp
6 1 (6.667%) Veritas
6 1 (6.667%) Cisco
6 1 (6.667%) IBM
6 1 (6.667%) Sybase