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

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
UNIX
Rank 39 27 32
Rank change year-on-year
-12 +5
Permanent jobs citing UNIX 11 22 4
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Luton 2.902% 5.612% 1.732%
As % of the Operating Systems category 10.58% 25.58% 8.889%
Number of salaries quoted 9 21 4
Average salary £50,000 £45,000 £45,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+11.11% -
90% offered a salary of more than £33,000 £37,500 £43,250
10% offered a salary of more than £54,500 £52,500 £47,100
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
All Operating Systems
Luton
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
104 86 45
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Luton 27.44% 21.94% 19.48%
Number of salaries quoted 87 80 40
Average salary £42,000 £41,000 £42,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+2.43% -3.52%
90% offered a salary of more than £24,800 £30,000 £29,500
10% offered a salary of more than £54,900 £57,750 £52,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
UNIX
Bedfordshire

UNIX
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Luton 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 Luton region.

Luton UNIX Salary Trend

UNIX
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing UNIX across the Luton region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Luton UNIX Salary Histogram

UNIX
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Luton 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 16 (64.00%) Oracle
2 14 (56.00%) Solaris
3 10 (40.00%) Linux
3 10 (40.00%) SAN
4 8 (32.00%) Oracle RMAN
4 8 (32.00%) Data Guard
4 8 (32.00%) Oracle 11g
5 7 (28.00%) Banking
6 6 (24.00%) Finance
6 6 (24.00%) SQL
7 5 (20.00%) C
7 5 (20.00%) Oracle 8/8i
7 5 (20.00%) MS Excel
7 5 (20.00%) ITIL
7 5 (20.00%) Windows
7 5 (20.00%) SLA
7 5 (20.00%) Microsoft
7 5 (20.00%) HP
7 5 (20.00%) Citrix
7 5 (20.00%) OCP
7 5 (20.00%) Oracle Certification
7 5 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
8 4 (16.00%) Cisco Nexus
8 4 (16.00%) F5
8 4 (16.00%) Change Control
8 4 (16.00%) Firewall
8 4 (16.00%) Shell Script
8 4 (16.00%) Juniper
8 4 (16.00%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (16.00%) CCNP

UNIX
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Luton 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 3 (12.00%) HTML
1 3 (12.00%) ASP
1 3 (12.00%) XML
Application Platforms
1 2 (8.000%) Oracle Application Server
Applications
1 5 (20.00%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 10 (40.00%) SAN
2 4 (16.00%) Firewall
2 4 (16.00%) Cisco Nexus
2 4 (16.00%) TCP/IP
2 4 (16.00%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (32.00%) Oracle 11g
2 5 (20.00%) Oracle 8/8i
3 1 (4.000%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (4.000%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (8.000%) PROIV
General
1 7 (28.00%) Banking
2 6 (24.00%) Finance
3 1 (4.000%) Retail
Job Titles
1 8 (32.00%) DBA
1 8 (32.00%) Oracle DBA
2 5 (20.00%) Server Engineer
2 5 (20.00%) Wintel Engineer
2 5 (20.00%) 3rd Line Server Engineer
2 5 (20.00%) Applications Support
2 5 (20.00%) Administrator
3 4 (16.00%) Support Analyst
3 4 (16.00%) Architect
3 4 (16.00%) Analyst
3 4 (16.00%) Network Architect
3 4 (16.00%) Applications Support Analyst
3 4 (16.00%) UNIX Administrator
4 3 (12.00%) Developer
5 1 (4.000%) Consultant
5 1 (4.000%) Informatica Developer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (12.00%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 14 (56.00%) Solaris
2 10 (40.00%) Linux
3 5 (20.00%) Windows
4 2 (8.000%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (20.00%) ITIL
1 5 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 4 (16.00%) Change Control
2 4 (16.00%) PRINCE2
3 3 (12.00%) Capacity Planning
4 1 (4.000%) Incident Management
4 1 (4.000%) ETL
4 1 (4.000%) Configuration Management
4 1 (4.000%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 6 (24.00%) SQL
2 5 (20.00%) C
3 4 (16.00%) Shell Script
4 3 (12.00%) Java
4 3 (12.00%) JavaScript
4 3 (12.00%) VB
5 2 (8.000%) PL/SQL
6 1 (4.000%) Perl
6 1 (4.000%) AWK
6 1 (4.000%) Korn
6 1 (4.000%) C-shell
6 1 (4.000%) Bash shell
Qualifications
1 5 (20.00%) OCP
1 5 (20.00%) Oracle Certification
2 4 (16.00%) CCNP
2 4 (16.00%) CCNA
2 4 (16.00%) CCDA
2 4 (16.00%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (4.000%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (20.00%) SLA
2 1 (4.000%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 8 (32.00%) Oracle RMAN
2 2 (8.000%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 8 (32.00%) Data Guard
2 1 (4.000%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 16 (64.00%) Oracle
2 5 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (20.00%) HP
2 5 (20.00%) Citrix
3 4 (16.00%) Juniper
3 4 (16.00%) Cisco
3 4 (16.00%) F5
4 2 (8.000%) Informatica