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

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
UNIX
Rank 29 37 49
Rank change year-on-year
+8 +12
Permanent jobs citing UNIX 27 46 23
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Merseyside 6.054% 6.825% 4.936%
As % of the Operating Systems category 21.95% 18.25% 19.33%
Number of salaries quoted 24 46 15
Average salary £38,000 £42,500 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-10.58% +6.25%
90% offered a salary of more than £22,500 £35,000 £22,500
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £52,500 £78,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
All Operating Systems
Merseyside
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
123 252 119
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Merseyside 27.58% 37.39% 25.54%
Number of salaries quoted 96 228 102
Average salary £30,000 £37,500 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-20.00% +7.14%
90% offered a salary of more than £22,500 £25,000 £26,000
10% offered a salary of more than £47,500 £50,000 £50,000
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 Merseyside region as a proportion of the total demand within the Operating Systems category.

Merseyside 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 Merseyside region.

Merseyside UNIX Salary Trend

UNIX
Salary Histogram

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

Merseyside 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 Merseyside region over the 3 months to 17 May 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
Liverpool +3 19 £42,500 -
Southport +1 7 £27,500 -47.61%
UNIX
North West

UNIX
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Merseyside 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 41 (50.62%) Windows
1 41 (50.62%) Linux
2 39 (48.15%) Oracle
3 36 (44.44%) SQL
4 24 (29.63%) Java
4 24 (29.63%) Degree
5 23 (28.40%) RDBMS
6 21 (25.93%) XML
7 20 (24.69%) SQL Server
8 19 (23.46%) Retail
8 19 (23.46%) Web Services
9 17 (20.99%) PL/SQL
10 16 (19.75%) Oracle 10g
11 15 (18.52%) Microsoft
11 15 (18.52%) J2EE
12 14 (17.28%) IIS
13 12 (14.81%) ITIL
14 11 (13.58%) EJB
14 11 (13.58%) E-Commerce
14 11 (13.58%) Scrum
14 11 (13.58%) Finance
14 11 (13.58%) TDD
14 11 (13.58%) Spring
14 11 (13.58%) jQuery
15 10 (12.35%) Agile Software Development
15 10 (12.35%) SLA
16 9 (11.11%) Swing
16 9 (11.11%) HND
16 9 (11.11%) Windows Server 2003
16 9 (11.11%) Middleware

UNIX
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Merseyside 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 21 (25.93%) XML
2 19 (23.46%) Web Services
3 15 (18.52%) J2EE
4 11 (13.58%) EJB
4 11 (13.58%) Spring
4 11 (13.58%) jQuery
5 9 (11.11%) EJB 3.0
5 9 (11.11%) Hibernate
5 9 (11.11%) Middleware
5 9 (11.11%) Swing
6 8 (9.877%) Oracle Fusion
7 5 (6.173%) HTML
8 4 (4.938%) JDBC
8 4 (4.938%) Struts
8 4 (4.938%) JMS
8 4 (4.938%) WSDL
8 4 (4.938%) MapReduce
8 4 (4.938%) Zend Framework
8 4 (4.938%) LAMP
9 3 (3.704%) .NET
Application Platforms
1 14 (17.28%) IIS
2 5 (6.173%) Apache
2 5 (6.173%) WebLogic
3 4 (4.938%) Tomcat
3 4 (4.938%) ESB
3 4 (4.938%) Oracle Service Bus
3 4 (4.938%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 2 (2.469%) ActiveMQ
5 1 (1.235%) Oracle Application Server
5 1 (1.235%) CICS
5 1 (1.235%) Exstream Dialogue
Applications
1 5 (6.173%) MS Excel
2 1 (1.235%) PrintSoft PReS
Business Applications
1 1 (1.235%) Exstream
Communications & Networking
1 5 (6.173%) SAN
2 2 (2.469%) Firewall
2 2 (2.469%) IP Telephony
3 1 (1.235%) Cisco ASA
3 1 (1.235%) NAS
3 1 (1.235%) VoIP
3 1 (1.235%) SNMP
3 1 (1.235%) VPN
3 1 (1.235%) DNS
3 1 (1.235%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (28.40%) RDBMS
2 20 (24.69%) SQL Server
3 16 (19.75%) Oracle 10g
4 8 (9.877%) Oracle 11g
5 5 (6.173%) Data Warehouse
5 5 (6.173%) Informix
5 5 (6.173%) MySQL
6 4 (4.938%) Data Mining
7 3 (3.704%) Oracle 8/8i
8 1 (1.235%) Oracle 9i
8 1 (1.235%) DB2
Development Applications
1 9 (11.11%) JIRA
2 8 (9.877%) Subversion
3 2 (2.469%) Maven
3 2 (2.469%) JUnit
4 1 (1.235%) Ant
4 1 (1.235%) Hudson
General
1 19 (23.46%) Retail
2 11 (13.58%) Finance
3 8 (9.877%) Back Office
4 7 (8.642%) Telecoms
5 3 (3.704%) Marketing
6 1 (1.235%) Law
6 1 (1.235%) Advertising
6 1 (1.235%) Publishing
6 1 (1.235%) Banking
Job Titles
1 26 (32.10%) Developer
2 25 (30.86%) Analyst
3 20 (24.69%) Technical Analyst
4 13 (16.05%) Java Developer
5 11 (13.58%) Java/J2EE Developer
6 9 (11.11%) Java Software Developer
6 9 (11.11%) Software Developer
7 8 (9.877%) Support Technician
7 8 (9.877%) 2nd Line Support
8 7 (8.642%) Senior Developer
8 7 (8.642%) Technical Support
8 7 (8.642%) 2nd Line Support Technician
8 7 (8.642%) Senior Java Developer
9 6 (7.407%) Senior Java/J2EE Developer
9 6 (7.407%) DBA
9 6 (7.407%) Oracle DBA
10 5 (6.173%) Technical Support Analyst
10 5 (6.173%) Security Analyst
10 5 (6.173%) Support Analyst
10 5 (6.173%) Senior Java Software Developer
Miscellaneous
1 7 (8.642%) Digital Media
2 5 (6.173%) Mainframe
3 4 (4.938%) SaaS
4 2 (2.469%) PMI
4 2 (2.469%) Open Source
5 1 (1.235%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.235%) Mathematics
5 1 (1.235%) IBM Mainframe
5 1 (1.235%) Cloud Computing
Operating Systems
1 41 (50.62%) Windows
1 41 (50.62%) Linux
2 9 (11.11%) Windows Server 2003
2 9 (11.11%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (1.235%) Mac OS
3 1 (1.235%) Apple iOS
3 1 (1.235%) SUSE
3 1 (1.235%) Android
3 1 (1.235%) zOS
3 1 (1.235%) MVS
3 1 (1.235%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (14.81%) ITIL
2 11 (13.58%) E-Commerce
2 11 (13.58%) Scrum
2 11 (13.58%) TDD
3 10 (12.35%) Agile Software Development
4 9 (11.11%) Use Case
4 9 (11.11%) BDD
4 9 (11.11%) Change Control
5 8 (9.877%) Data Management
6 6 (7.407%) Information Security
6 6 (7.407%) Project Management
6 6 (7.407%) Waterfall
7 4 (4.938%) Release Management
7 4 (4.938%) Time Management
7 4 (4.938%) Disaster Recovery
7 4 (4.938%) OOD
7 4 (4.938%) SOA
7 4 (4.938%) ETL
7 4 (4.938%) OO
7 4 (4.938%) Network Design
Programming Languages
1 36 (44.44%) SQL
2 24 (29.63%) Java
3 17 (20.99%) PL/SQL
4 8 (9.877%) Shell Script
5 7 (8.642%) Perl
6 6 (7.407%) JavaScript
7 5 (6.173%) PHP
7 5 (6.173%) C
7 5 (6.173%) Uniface
8 3 (3.704%) Ruby
9 1 (1.235%) LINC
9 1 (1.235%) Bash shell
9 1 (1.235%) Python
9 1 (1.235%) Prolog
Qualifications
1 24 (29.63%) Degree
2 9 (11.11%) HND
3 8 (9.877%) ITIL Certification
4 5 (6.173%) CISSP
4 5 (6.173%) CISM
4 5 (6.173%) ISSAP
5 3 (3.704%) ISSMP
6 2 (2.469%) PMP
6 2 (2.469%) PMI Certification
7 1 (1.235%) CISA
7 1 (1.235%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (1.235%) CCSP
7 1 (1.235%) VTSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (12.35%) SLA
2 4 (4.938%) COBIT
3 2 (2.469%) QA
4 1 (1.235%) Data Quality
System Software
1 7 (8.642%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (1.235%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (1.235%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.235%) Oracle RMAN
Systems Management
1 3 (3.704%) Control-M
2 1 (1.235%) Data Guard
2 1 (1.235%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 39 (48.15%) Oracle
2 15 (18.52%) Microsoft
3 4 (4.938%) Zend
4 3 (3.704%) Cisco
4 3 (3.704%) CheckPoint
5 1 (1.235%) VMware
5 1 (1.235%) IBM
5 1 (1.235%) Sun
5 1 (1.235%) Citrix
5 1 (1.235%) Red Hat
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