The first table below looks at the demand for the UNIX Systems Administrator role in IT jobs advertised for the London region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited UNIX Systems Administrator in their job title 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 Job Titles advertised for the London region.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
UNIX System Administrator (UNIX SA)
Rank 548 548 500
Rank change year-on-year
0 -48
Permanent jobs requiring a UNIX Systems Administrator 59 97 149
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in London 0.133% 0.182% 0.249%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.143% 0.194% 0.266%
Number of salaries quoted 50 88 95
Average salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
90% offered a salary of more than £42,250 £40,000 £37,500
10% offered a salary of more than £65,250 £67,500 £65,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £39,000 £44,000
% change year-on-year
+2.56% -11.36%
All Job Titles
London
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
41358 50112 55964
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in London 93.45% 94.20% 93.44%
Number of salaries quoted 34786 43619 47333
Average salary £51,500 £50,000 £52,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+3.00% -4.76%
90% offered a salary of more than £32,500 £32,000 £31,500
10% offered a salary of more than £75,000 £80,000 £77,500
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-1.29% +2.66%
UNIX Systems Administrator
England

UNIX Systems Administrator
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London UNIX Systems Administrator Jobs Demand Trend

UNIX Systems Administrator
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing UNIX Systems Administrator across the London region.

London UNIX Systems Administrator Salary Trend

UNIX Systems Administrator
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing UNIX Systems Administrator across the London region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

London UNIX Systems Administrator Salary Histogram

UNIX Systems Administrator
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing UNIX Systems Administrator within the London region over the 3 months to 19 June 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
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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
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Vacancies
City of London -9 15 £57,500 +4.54% 3
Canary Wharf +8 1 £65,000 -
UNIX Systems Administrator
England

UNIX Systems Administrator
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the London region that cited UNIX Systems Administrator in their job title 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 with UNIX Systems Administrator in their job title.

1 120 (100.00%) UNIX
2 99 (82.50%) Solaris
3 88 (73.33%) Linux
4 61 (50.83%) Red Hat
5 45 (37.50%) Perl
6 43 (35.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 40 (33.33%) Java
8 39 (32.50%) Sun
9 38 (31.67%) Veritas
9 38 (31.67%) Tomcat
10 35 (29.17%) Finance
11 28 (23.33%) Bash shell
12 27 (22.50%) Shell Script
12 27 (22.50%) Apache
13 26 (21.67%) EMC
14 25 (20.83%) Banking
15 24 (20.00%) TCP/IP
15 24 (20.00%) Oracle
16 23 (19.17%) Windows
17 19 (15.83%) HTTP
17 19 (15.83%) CLARiiON
17 19 (15.83%) QA
18 18 (15.00%) GlassFish
18 18 (15.00%) Squid
19 17 (14.17%) VMware
20 16 (13.33%) Puppet
21 15 (12.50%) SAN
22 14 (11.67%) DNS
22 14 (11.67%) SLA
22 14 (11.67%) ITIL

UNIX Systems Administrator
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the London region that cited UNIX Systems Administrator in their job title 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 with UNIX Systems Administrator in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 12 (10.00%) FIX Protocol
2 10 (8.333%) Ruby on Rails
3 6 (5.000%) XML
4 5 (4.167%) HTML
5 1 (0.833%) LAMP
5 1 (0.833%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 38 (31.67%) Tomcat
2 27 (22.50%) Apache
3 18 (15.00%) GlassFish
4 7 (5.833%) Amazon AWS
5 1 (0.833%) Jetty
5 1 (0.833%) WordPress
5 1 (0.833%) IBM Notes
Applications
1 5 (4.167%) MS Excel
2 1 (0.833%) MS Office
2 1 (0.833%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 24 (20.00%) TCP/IP
2 19 (15.83%) HTTP
3 15 (12.50%) SAN
4 14 (11.67%) DNS
5 10 (8.333%) Internet
6 8 (6.667%) LAN
7 7 (5.833%) WAN
7 7 (5.833%) LDAP
8 5 (4.167%) DHCP
9 3 (2.500%) Firewall
10 2 (1.667%) OpenLDAP
10 2 (1.667%) Fibre Channel
11 1 (0.833%) tcpdump
11 1 (0.833%) snoop
11 1 (0.833%) iSCSI
11 1 (0.833%) Wireshark
11 1 (0.833%) VLAN
11 1 (0.833%) TELNET
11 1 (0.833%) SSH
11 1 (0.833%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (6.667%) MySQL
2 2 (1.667%) Oracle 8/8i
2 2 (1.667%) Informix
2 2 (1.667%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.833%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 13 (10.83%) Subversion
2 10 (8.333%) Git (software)
General
1 35 (29.17%) Finance
2 25 (20.83%) Banking
3 11 (9.167%) Investment Banking
4 9 (7.500%) Telecoms
5 1 (0.833%) Financial Institution
5 1 (0.833%) Advertising
5 1 (0.833%) Billing
Miscellaneous
1 19 (15.83%) CLARiiON
2 14 (11.67%) EMC Centera
3 10 (8.333%) New Media
4 8 (6.667%) Mobile Banking
5 7 (5.833%) Enterprise Storage
6 4 (3.333%) Hedge funds
7 3 (2.500%) HACMP
8 2 (1.667%) Symmetrix
8 2 (1.667%) AS400
8 2 (1.667%) Computer Science
8 2 (1.667%) Open Source
9 1 (0.833%) SWIFT
9 1 (0.833%) LPAR
9 1 (0.833%) iSeries
9 1 (0.833%) CMDB
9 1 (0.833%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 120 (100.00%) UNIX
2 99 (82.50%) Solaris
3 88 (73.33%) Linux
4 43 (35.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 23 (19.17%) Windows
6 12 (10.00%) Windows 7
7 10 (8.333%) Windows XP
8 9 (7.500%) CentOS
8 9 (7.500%) AIX
8 9 (7.500%) Debian
9 6 (5.000%) HPUX
9 6 (5.000%) SUSE
10 4 (3.333%) Windows Server 2008
11 3 (2.500%) Ubuntu
11 3 (2.500%) Windows Server 2003
12 2 (1.667%) Oracle Linux
13 1 (0.833%) Gentoo
13 1 (0.833%) Fedora
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (11.67%) ITIL
1 14 (11.67%) Asset Management
2 13 (10.83%) Budget Control
3 11 (9.167%) Capacity Planning
4 10 (8.333%) Resource Management
5 9 (7.500%) Change Control
6 4 (3.333%) Infrastructure Management
7 3 (2.500%) Load Balancing
7 3 (2.500%) Project Management
7 3 (2.500%) E-Commerce
8 2 (1.667%) Configuration Management
8 2 (1.667%) Problem Management
8 2 (1.667%) High Availability
9 1 (0.833%) Continuous Improvement
9 1 (0.833%) Cyber Security
9 1 (0.833%) Analytics
9 1 (0.833%) Network Architecture
9 1 (0.833%) ITIL V3
9 1 (0.833%) Risk Analysis
9 1 (0.833%) Investment Management
Programming Languages
1 45 (37.50%) Perl
2 40 (33.33%) Java
3 28 (23.33%) Bash shell
4 27 (22.50%) Shell Script
5 12 (10.00%) Ruby
6 9 (7.500%) Python
7 8 (6.667%) PHP
8 6 (5.000%) SQL
9 4 (3.333%) VBScript
10 2 (1.667%) Korn
10 2 (1.667%) Bourne shell
11 1 (0.833%) sed
11 1 (0.833%) AWK
11 1 (0.833%) VB
11 1 (0.833%) C
11 1 (0.833%) C++
Qualifications
1 10 (8.333%) RHCE
2 4 (3.333%) Degree
3 1 (0.833%) RHCT
3 1 (0.833%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (15.83%) QA
2 14 (11.67%) SLA
3 4 (3.333%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 18 (15.00%) Squid
2 13 (10.83%) Veritas Volume Manager
3 10 (8.333%) Veritas Cluster Server
4 7 (5.833%) VMware Infrastructure
5 6 (5.000%) VMware ESX
6 4 (3.333%) Active Directory
6 4 (3.333%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
6 4 (3.333%) Samba
7 3 (2.500%) NFS
8 2 (1.667%) Xen
8 2 (1.667%) XenServer
8 2 (1.667%) vSphere
9 1 (0.833%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.833%) Sendmail
Systems Management
1 16 (13.33%) Puppet
2 7 (5.833%) CFEngine
3 5 (4.167%) Tivoli
3 5 (4.167%) Nagios
4 4 (3.333%) BMC PATROL
5 3 (2.500%) NetBackup
6 2 (1.667%) ZABBIX
7 1 (0.833%) Splunk
7 1 (0.833%) Red Hat Satellite
7 1 (0.833%) Red Hat Spacewalk
7 1 (0.833%) PureDisk
7 1 (0.833%) YUM
7 1 (0.833%) Tivoli Storage Manager
7 1 (0.833%) Backup Exec
Vendors
1 61 (50.83%) Red Hat
2 39 (32.50%) Sun
3 38 (31.67%) Veritas
4 26 (21.67%) EMC
5 24 (20.00%) Oracle
6 17 (14.17%) VMware
7 13 (10.83%) HP
8 9 (7.500%) Brocade
9 8 (6.667%) IBM
9 8 (6.667%) NetApp
10 6 (5.000%) Joyent
10 6 (5.000%) Rackspace
11 4 (3.333%) BMC
11 4 (3.333%) JBoss
11 4 (3.333%) NetIQ
12 3 (2.500%) 3PAR
12 3 (2.500%) SolarWinds
12 3 (2.500%) Microsoft
13 2 (1.667%) Cisco
13 2 (1.667%) CheckPoint
London
Some VMware and other virtualisation knowledge is a definite bonus... Duties will include Unix Administration for SUN Solaris 10 based environments, which support Core Business Oracle applications. The...
Coal IT Services
Salary: £55,000 per annum + Bonus
Posted: 17 June 2013
City of London
Excellent opportunity for an experienced Unix (Solaris) Administrator to join a prestigious global law firm.The role will be working in the Unix Support Team with the specific...
Hudson IT London
Salary: £50000 - £60000 per annum + excellent benefits
Posted: 18 June 2013
East London
Duties will include * Unix Administration for SUN Solaris 10 based environments, which support Core Business Oracle applications... * SUN Solaris 10 VCS NetBackup Cluster, comprising T2000's and T5220'...
Computer People
Salary: £52000.00 - £55000.00 per annum
Posted: 17 June 2013
City of London
Opensource Virtualization, MySQLn and scripting such as Bash, Perl, Python etc.... Configuration Management Systems. Scripting or Programming a real plus in Bash, Python, Perl or PHP... Experience running...
harringtonstarr
Salary: £50000 - £60000 per annum + Bonus and Benefits
Posted: 15 June 2013
City, London
Opensource Virtualization, MySQLn and scripting such as Bash, Perl, Python etc.... Configuration Management Systems. Scripting or Programming a real plus in Bash, Python, Perl or PHP... Experience running...
Harrington Starr
Salary: £50000 - £60000 per annum + Bonus and Benefits
Posted: 15 June 2013