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

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
UNIX
Rank 50 43 62
Rank change year-on-year
-7 +19
Permanent jobs citing UNIX 180 196 129
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Manchester 4.281% 5.216% 3.226%
As % of the Operating Systems category 16.61% 19.39% 15.66%
Number of salaries quoted 159 128 122
Average salary £39,500 £42,500 £32,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-7.05% +32.81%
90% offered a salary of more than £28,300 £29,000 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £60,000 £52,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
All Operating Systems
Manchester
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
1084 1011 824
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Manchester 25.78% 26.90% 20.61%
Number of salaries quoted 947 852 774
Average salary £35,000 £32,500 £30,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+7.69% +8.33%
90% offered a salary of more than £22,500 £21,000 £20,500
10% offered a salary of more than £47,000 £42,500 £47,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
UNIX
North West

UNIX
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Manchester 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 Manchester region.

Manchester UNIX Salary Trend

UNIX
Salary Histogram

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

Manchester 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 Manchester 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
(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
Find
Job
Vacancies
Altrincham +14 14 £33,500 +42.55%
Stockport -8 14 £30,750 -9.55% 2
Cheadle -3 7 £50,000 -
Sale - 6 £37,500 - 1
Salford -2 5 £45,000 +38.46%
Bolton +3 4 £45,000 +87.50% 2
Wigan +3 2 £36,150 +15.68%
Bury - 1 £40,000 -
UNIX
North West

UNIX
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Manchester 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.

1 252 (62.69%) Linux
2 162 (40.30%) Oracle
3 125 (31.09%) Java
4 121 (30.10%) Windows
5 113 (28.11%) SQL
6 105 (26.12%) Finance
7 99 (24.63%) Degree
8 71 (17.66%) AIX
9 68 (16.92%) C
9 68 (16.92%) SQL Server
10 60 (14.93%) C++
10 60 (14.93%) ITIL
11 52 (12.94%) Red Hat
12 51 (12.69%) Retail
13 49 (12.19%) Microsoft
14 44 (10.95%) J2EE
15 43 (10.70%) HP
15 43 (10.70%) VMware
16 40 (9.950%) JavaScript
17 39 (9.701%) XML
18 38 (9.453%) Solaris
18 38 (9.453%) Shell Script
18 38 (9.453%) Spring
19 37 (9.204%) Windows Server 2008
19 37 (9.204%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
19 37 (9.204%) Apache
20 36 (8.955%) IBM
20 36 (8.955%) SAN
20 36 (8.955%) MS Excel
20 36 (8.955%) VMware Infrastructure

UNIX
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Manchester 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 44 (10.95%) J2EE
2 39 (9.701%) XML
3 38 (9.453%) Spring
4 33 (8.209%) CSS
5 29 (7.214%) .NET
6 28 (6.965%) HTML
7 25 (6.219%) Hibernate
8 23 (5.721%) JSP
9 20 (4.975%) WebSphere
10 19 (4.726%) JDBC
11 18 (4.478%) SOAP
11 18 (4.478%) Ajax
12 17 (4.229%) Web Services
13 15 (3.731%) JSF
13 15 (3.731%) WebSphere MQ
13 15 (3.731%) ASP.NET
13 15 (3.731%) J2SE
14 12 (2.985%) jQuery
15 10 (2.488%) XSLT
16 9 (2.239%) Java EE
Application Platforms
1 37 (9.204%) Apache
2 24 (5.970%) MS Exchange
3 22 (5.473%) Tomcat
4 18 (4.478%) Exchange Server 2010
5 13 (3.234%) Exchange Server 2007
6 12 (2.985%) IIS
7 8 (1.990%) Amazon ELB
7 8 (1.990%) WebLogic
7 8 (1.990%) Amazon EC2
7 8 (1.990%) Amazon AWS
7 8 (1.990%) Exchange Server 2003
8 5 (1.244%) CICS
9 3 (0.746%) Drupal
9 3 (0.746%) GlassFish
9 3 (0.746%) WebSphere Application Server
9 3 (0.746%) SAS
9 3 (0.746%) SharePoint
10 2 (0.498%) SharePoint 2010
10 2 (0.498%) Lync
10 2 (0.498%) WebLogic Integration
Applications
1 36 (8.955%) MS Excel
2 18 (4.478%) MS Office
3 6 (1.493%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (1.741%) Oracle Applications
2 5 (1.244%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.249%) Oracle EBS R12
3 1 (0.249%) Oracle iRecruitment
3 1 (0.249%) Oracle HRMS
3 1 (0.249%) Oracle 11i
3 1 (0.249%) Oracle Financials
Communications & Networking
1 36 (8.955%) SAN
2 26 (6.468%) Firewall
3 20 (4.975%) DNS
4 16 (3.980%) LAN
4 16 (3.980%) WAN
5 14 (3.483%) TCP/IP
6 12 (2.985%) VoIP
6 12 (2.985%) iSCSI
6 12 (2.985%) Fibre Channel
7 10 (2.488%) HTTP
8 6 (1.493%) Ethernet
9 5 (1.244%) NAS
9 5 (1.244%) Unified Communications
10 3 (0.746%) DMS-100
10 3 (0.746%) Internet
10 3 (0.746%) FTP
10 3 (0.746%) PBX
10 3 (0.746%) Broadband
10 3 (0.746%) VPN
10 3 (0.746%) Softswitch
Database & Business Intelligence
1 68 (16.92%) SQL Server
2 35 (8.706%) Data Warehouse
3 31 (7.711%) MySQL
4 27 (6.716%) Oracle 8/8i
5 23 (5.721%) DataStage
6 21 (5.224%) Oracle 11g
7 20 (4.975%) RDBMS
8 18 (4.478%) Oracle 10g
9 12 (2.985%) DB2
10 11 (2.736%) SQL Server 2008
11 10 (2.488%) Oracle Reports
12 8 (1.990%) MongoDB
12 8 (1.990%) Apache Cassandra
12 8 (1.990%) NoSQL
12 8 (1.990%) Oracle BI EE
13 7 (1.741%) SQL Server 2005
13 7 (1.741%) PostgreSQL
13 7 (1.741%) SQL Server 2012
14 6 (1.493%) Oracle Discoverer
15 5 (1.244%) SQL Server 2000
Development Applications
1 14 (3.483%) Hudson
2 13 (3.234%) Subversion
3 11 (2.736%) Ant
3 11 (2.736%) Eclipse
4 8 (1.990%) Jenkins
4 8 (1.990%) Visual Studio
5 7 (1.741%) LoadRunner
6 6 (1.493%) Oracle Forms
6 6 (1.493%) Maven
7 5 (1.244%) Git (software)
7 5 (1.244%) JUnit
7 5 (1.244%) Redmine
8 4 (0.995%) Oracle APEX
9 2 (0.498%) PEAR
9 2 (0.498%) Selenium
10 1 (0.249%) JDeveloper
10 1 (0.249%) GitHub
General
1 105 (26.12%) Finance
2 51 (12.69%) Retail
3 20 (4.975%) Banking
4 17 (4.229%) Advertising
5 15 (3.731%) Telecoms
6 13 (3.234%) Financial Institution
7 10 (2.488%) Pharmaceutical
8 8 (1.990%) Manufacturing
9 7 (1.741%) Retail Banking
10 5 (1.244%) Aerospace
10 5 (1.244%) Automotive
11 4 (0.995%) Local Government
12 3 (0.746%) Marketing
13 1 (0.249%) Electronics
13 1 (0.249%) Games
Job Titles
1 120 (29.85%) Developer
2 41 (10.20%) Analyst
3 34 (8.458%) Administrator
4 32 (7.960%) Java Developer
5 30 (7.463%) Software Engineer
6 27 (6.716%) Consultant
7 25 (6.219%) DBA
8 24 (5.970%) Oracle DBA
9 23 (5.721%) Systems Administrator
10 20 (4.975%) Support Engineer
10 20 (4.975%) Applications Support
10 20 (4.975%) Designer
11 19 (4.726%) Software Developer
12 18 (4.478%) Linux Administrator
13 17 (4.229%) Linux Support
13 17 (4.229%) C++ Developer
13 17 (4.229%) Technical Designer
13 17 (4.229%) Support Analyst
14 16 (3.980%) Junior
14 16 (3.980%) Linux Systems Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 35 (8.706%) Clustering
2 32 (7.960%) Enterprise Software
3 30 (7.463%) Mainframe
4 19 (4.726%) Computer Science
5 17 (4.229%) IBM Mainframe
5 17 (4.229%) Client/Server
6 16 (3.980%) Replication
7 12 (2.985%) SCADA
8 10 (2.488%) N-Tier
9 9 (2.239%) AS400
9 9 (2.239%) Open Source
10 7 (1.741%) iSeries
11 6 (1.493%) Mathematics
12 5 (1.244%) CLARiiON
13 4 (0.995%) Management Information System
14 3 (0.746%) HACMP
15 2 (0.498%) Mobile App
15 2 (0.498%) SaaS
15 2 (0.498%) IVR
15 2 (0.498%) Handset
Operating Systems
1 252 (62.69%) Linux
2 121 (30.10%) Windows
3 71 (17.66%) AIX
4 38 (9.453%) Solaris
5 37 (9.204%) Windows Server 2008
5 37 (9.204%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 19 (4.726%) HPUX
7 17 (4.229%) Windows Server 2003
8 15 (3.731%) Ubuntu
9 12 (2.985%) Windows XP
10 10 (2.488%) Mac OS X
11 8 (1.990%) CentOS
12 7 (1.741%) Windows Vista
12 7 (1.741%) Windows Server 2012
13 6 (1.493%) zOS
14 5 (1.244%) SUSE
15 4 (0.995%) Oracle Linux
16 3 (0.746%) Windows Mobile
16 3 (0.746%) Windows 2000 Server
16 3 (0.746%) Windows 2000
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (14.93%) ITIL
2 35 (8.706%) High Availability
3 29 (7.214%) Business Intelligence
4 25 (6.219%) TDD
5 24 (5.970%) ETL
6 23 (5.721%) Change Management
7 22 (5.473%) Incident Management
8 19 (4.726%) Configuration Management
8 19 (4.726%) UML
9 18 (4.478%) OO
9 18 (4.478%) Scrum
10 17 (4.229%) Logistics
11 16 (3.980%) Agile Software Development
12 15 (3.731%) Pair Programming
12 15 (3.731%) Stakeholder Management
12 15 (3.731%) BDD
13 14 (3.483%) E-Commerce
13 14 (3.483%) Service Delivery
13 14 (3.483%) E-business
13 14 (3.483%) Problem Management
Programming Languages
1 125 (31.09%) Java
2 113 (28.11%) SQL
3 68 (16.92%) C
4 60 (14.93%) C++
5 40 (9.950%) JavaScript
6 38 (9.453%) Shell Script
7 30 (7.463%) Perl
8 25 (6.219%) PHP
9 24 (5.970%) C#
10 22 (5.473%) PL/SQL
10 22 (5.473%) Ruby
11 17 (4.229%) Python
12 16 (3.980%) VB
13 15 (3.731%) COBOL
14 14 (3.483%) Bash shell
15 12 (2.985%) JCL
16 9 (2.239%) VB.NET
17 8 (1.990%) VB6
18 5 (1.244%) PowerShell
18 5 (1.244%) Prolog
Qualifications
1 99 (24.63%) Degree
2 15 (3.731%) PhD
3 8 (1.990%) ITIL Certification
4 5 (1.244%) ISTQB
4 5 (1.244%) ISEB
5 4 (0.995%) Microsoft Certification
5 4 (0.995%) OCP
5 4 (0.995%) Oracle Certification
6 3 (0.746%) SC Cleared
6 3 (0.746%) Security Cleared
6 3 (0.746%) MCSE
7 2 (0.498%) ISEB Practitioner
8 1 (0.249%) MCITP
8 1 (0.249%) MCTS
8 1 (0.249%) MCSA
8 1 (0.249%) HNC
8 1 (0.249%) HND
8 1 (0.249%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (5.224%) SLA
2 6 (1.493%) QA
3 1 (0.249%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.249%) Data Quality
System Software
1 36 (8.955%) VMware Infrastructure
2 27 (6.716%) Active Directory
3 12 (2.985%) Oracle RAC
4 8 (1.990%) VirtualBox
4 8 (1.990%) XenApp
4 8 (1.990%) Postfix
5 7 (1.741%) Oracle RMAN
5 7 (1.741%) vSphere
6 5 (1.244%) NFS
7 4 (0.995%) Hyper-V
8 3 (0.746%) MetaFrame
9 1 (0.249%) VMware Server
9 1 (0.249%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 8 (1.990%) Puppet
1 8 (1.990%) Vagrant
2 7 (1.741%) Data Guard
2 7 (1.741%) NetBackup
2 7 (1.741%) Backup Exec
3 3 (0.746%) Veritas Storage Foundation
4 2 (0.498%) HP Quality Center
4 2 (0.498%) SCCM
4 2 (0.498%) SCOM
5 1 (0.249%) OMEGAMON
5 1 (0.249%) Tivoli
5 1 (0.249%) Tivoli NetView
5 1 (0.249%) CA Wily
5 1 (0.249%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
Vendors
1 162 (40.30%) Oracle
2 52 (12.94%) Red Hat
3 49 (12.19%) Microsoft
4 43 (10.70%) HP
4 43 (10.70%) VMware
5 36 (8.955%) IBM
6 27 (6.716%) Teradata
7 20 (4.975%) Citrix
8 17 (4.229%) MicroStrategy
8 17 (4.229%) Business Objects
9 11 (2.736%) NetApp
10 10 (2.488%) Ab Initio
10 10 (2.488%) Symantec
11 9 (2.239%) Remedy
11 9 (2.239%) Siebel
12 7 (1.741%) Mitel
13 6 (1.493%) Cisco
13 6 (1.493%) TIBCO
14 5 (1.244%) Veritas
14 5 (1.244%) JBoss
Manchester, Lancashire
You will be responsible for all incident and problem management issues. Your core responsibilities will include: - Close liasion with the business users - Ensure maximum availability and serviceability - Close...
Nicoll Curtin
Salary: £45000 - £55000 per annum + Bonus + Excellent benefits
Posted: 17 June 2013
Bolton, North West
The role will involve answering and logging inbox client calls on a range of NHS products and providing a high level of service in resolving any queries or...
greywood
Salary: £22000 - £26000 per annum + bens
Posted: 11 June 2013
Bolton, Lancashire
1st & 2nd Line Support Analyst - Bolton SQL / SQL Server / Unix / Linux / MS SQL / 24x7x365 SHIFTS!... Anyone who has previous experience working with HL7 or in an NHS environment...
Greywood Associates Limited
Salary: £22000 - £26000 per annum + bens
Posted: 18 June 2013
Manchester, Lancashire
JavaScript, HTML, CSS, Windows, Linux, Unix, Degree or equivalent - £20k - £28k - Manchester My client is currently on the lookout for an Front End Developer ideally degree qualified to...
Circle Recruitment
Salary: £20000 - £28000 per annum
Posted: 13 June 2013
Manchester, Lancashire
Linux (RedHat / Oracle Enterprise Linux) and Solaris system administration... Advanced Shell scripting ? Unix networking and security ? Clustering and High Availability ?... Experience of other of Unix ports (especially AIX,...
Vertical IT
Salary: £35000 - £40000 per annum + bens
Posted: 14 June 2013
Manchester, Lancashire
Vertical IT
Salary: £35000 - £55000 per annum + bens
Posted: 14 June 2013
Manchester, North West
Computer Futures
Salary: £40000 - £45000 per annum
Posted: 18 June 2013
Sale, North West
Salary: £30000 per annum + Bonus & Benefits
Posted: 12 June 2013
Stockport, Cheshire, North West
Net Recruit.co.uk Ltd
Salary: Competitive salary
Posted: 17 June 2013
Stockport, Cheshire
Net Recruit.co.uk Ltd
Salary: Competitive salary
Posted: 17 June 2013
Manchester, Lancashire
TEKsystems
Salary: £41000 - £51000 per annum + bonus + Car (Dependent on salary)
Posted: 14 June 2013
Manchester, Lancashire
TEKsystems
Salary: £28000 - £36000 per annum + bonus + package
Posted: 15 June 2013
Manchester, North West
Huxley Associates
Salary: £30000 - £51000 per annum + Bonus, Benefits, Pension
Posted: 11 June 2013