The first table below looks at the demand for the UNIX Systems Engineer 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 Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 22 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 Job Titles advertised for the London region.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
UNIX System Engineer
Rank 584 640 615
Rank change year-on-year
+56 -25
Permanent jobs requiring a UNIX Systems Engineer 17 9 15
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in London 0.039% 0.017% 0.026%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.041% 0.018% 0.028%
Number of salaries quoted 15 8 15
Average salary £50,000 £45,000 £45,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+11.11% -
90% offered a salary of more than £42,000 £41,000 £36,000
10% offered a salary of more than £65,500 £69,500 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £42,500 £32,500 £37,000
% change year-on-year
+30.76% -12.16%
All Job Titles
London
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
41114 51159 53446
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in London 93.43% 93.93% 93.59%
Number of salaries quoted 34577 44402 45054
Average salary £50,000 £50,000 £52,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- -4.76%
90% offered a salary of more than £32,500 £31,500 £31,500
10% offered a salary of more than £75,000 £80,000 £77,500
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
UNIX Systems Engineer
England

UNIX Systems Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London UNIX Systems Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

UNIX Systems Engineer
Salary Trend

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

London UNIX Systems Engineer Salary Trend

UNIX Systems Engineer
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing UNIX Systems Engineer across the London region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

London UNIX Systems Engineer Salary Histogram

UNIX Systems Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the London region that cited UNIX Systems Engineer 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 Engineer in their job title.

1 30 (100.00%) UNIX
2 24 (80.00%) Solaris
3 20 (66.67%) Linux
4 18 (60.00%) Red Hat
4 18 (60.00%) Perl
5 16 (53.33%) Oracle
6 15 (50.00%) Finance
6 15 (50.00%) Puppet
7 14 (46.67%) Windows
8 10 (33.33%) Tomcat
8 10 (33.33%) DNS
8 10 (33.33%) SAN
8 10 (33.33%) Bash shell
8 10 (33.33%) Infrastructure Management
8 10 (33.33%) Git (software)
9 9 (30.00%) Internet
9 9 (30.00%) Veritas
9 9 (30.00%) Java
10 8 (26.67%) Sun
11 7 (23.33%) Windows XP
11 7 (23.33%) LAN
11 7 (23.33%) WAN
11 7 (23.33%) Apache
11 7 (23.33%) TCP/IP
11 7 (23.33%) MySQL
11 7 (23.33%) Shell Script
11 7 (23.33%) RHCE
11 7 (23.33%) Subversion
11 7 (23.33%) Ruby
11 7 (23.33%) Ruby on Rails

UNIX Systems Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the London region that cited UNIX Systems Engineer 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 Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 7 (23.33%) Ruby on Rails
2 1 (3.333%) Web Services
2 1 (3.333%) LAMP
Application Platforms
1 10 (33.33%) Tomcat
2 7 (23.33%) Apache
3 5 (16.67%) Amazon AWS
4 2 (6.667%) GlassFish
4 2 (6.667%) Oracle HTTP Server
Communications & Networking
1 10 (33.33%) DNS
1 10 (33.33%) SAN
2 9 (30.00%) Internet
3 7 (23.33%) LAN
3 7 (23.33%) WAN
3 7 (23.33%) TCP/IP
4 6 (20.00%) LDAP
5 3 (10.00%) HTTP
6 2 (6.667%) Firewall
6 2 (6.667%) VPN
6 2 (6.667%) DHCP
7 1 (3.333%) SSL
7 1 (3.333%) RTP
7 1 (3.333%) RTSP
7 1 (3.333%) OpenLDAP
7 1 (3.333%) NAS
7 1 (3.333%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (23.33%) MySQL
2 2 (6.667%) Oracle 8/8i
3 1 (3.333%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 10 (33.33%) Git (software)
2 7 (23.33%) Subversion
3 3 (10.00%) Hudson
3 3 (10.00%) Jenkins
4 2 (6.667%) Mercurial
4 2 (6.667%) Eclipse
5 1 (3.333%) Maven
5 1 (3.333%) Selenium
5 1 (3.333%) JIRA
General
1 15 (50.00%) Finance
2 2 (6.667%) Banking
Miscellaneous
1 7 (23.33%) New Media
2 3 (10.00%) Open Source
3 2 (6.667%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (6.667%) PKI
3 2 (6.667%) Management Information System
4 1 (3.333%) Hedge funds
4 1 (3.333%) SaaS
4 1 (3.333%) PaaS
Operating Systems
1 30 (100.00%) UNIX
2 24 (80.00%) Solaris
3 20 (66.67%) Linux
4 14 (46.67%) Windows
5 7 (23.33%) Windows XP
5 7 (23.33%) Windows 7
6 6 (20.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 5 (16.67%) Debian
8 4 (13.33%) Windows Server 2008
8 4 (13.33%) CentOS
9 1 (3.333%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (33.33%) Infrastructure Management
2 3 (10.00%) Project Management
3 2 (6.667%) Change Control
3 2 (6.667%) Capacity Planning
3 2 (6.667%) Resource Management
3 2 (6.667%) Data Protection
3 2 (6.667%) ITIL
3 2 (6.667%) E-Commerce
4 1 (3.333%) Agile Software Development
Programming Languages
1 18 (60.00%) Perl
2 10 (33.33%) Bash shell
3 9 (30.00%) Java
4 7 (23.33%) Shell Script
4 7 (23.33%) Ruby
5 4 (13.33%) SQL
6 2 (6.667%) Objective-C
6 2 (6.667%) PHP
Qualifications
1 7 (23.33%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (20.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 2 (6.667%) QA
System Software
1 6 (20.00%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
1 6 (20.00%) Active Directory
2 4 (13.33%) Xen
3 3 (10.00%) VMware ESX
3 3 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (6.667%) Squid
5 1 (3.333%) Samba
5 1 (3.333%) Sendmail
Systems Management
1 15 (50.00%) Puppet
2 6 (20.00%) CFEngine
2 6 (20.00%) Tivoli
2 6 (20.00%) BMC PATROL
3 5 (16.67%) Nagios
4 1 (3.333%) OpenView
4 1 (3.333%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 18 (60.00%) Red Hat
2 16 (53.33%) Oracle
3 9 (30.00%) Veritas
4 8 (26.67%) Sun
5 6 (20.00%) Rackspace
5 6 (20.00%) BMC
5 6 (20.00%) NetIQ
5 6 (20.00%) HP
5 6 (20.00%) IBM
6 5 (16.67%) VMware
6 5 (16.67%) Joyent
7 3 (10.00%) 3PAR
8 2 (6.667%) Brocade
8 2 (6.667%) Hitachi
8 2 (6.667%) Juniper
8 2 (6.667%) Cisco
9 1 (3.333%) JBoss
City, London
Key Skills: Linux, Unix, Unix Scripting,, Debian, Ubuntu, Ceph, Netapp, Virtualisation... Understanding of Linux and Unix operating systems (Debian & Ubuntu preferably) Unix Scripting Server build and configuration (e...
Aston Carter
Salary: £40000 - £60000 per annum + Benefits & Bonus
Posted: 20 May 2013