The first table below looks at the demand for the UNIX Administrator role in IT jobs advertised for the North West region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited UNIX Administrator in their job title over the 3 months to 20 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 North West region.

Location
3 months to
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
UNIX Administrator
Rank 235 230 207
Rank change year-on-year
-5 -23
Permanent jobs requiring a UNIX Administrator 6 15 29
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the North West 0.084% 0.212% 0.428%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.088% 0.221% 0.448%
Number of salaries quoted 5 15 29
Average salary £40,000 £37,500 £42,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.66% -11.76%
90% offered a salary of more than £33,500 £30,600 £37,500
10% offered a salary of more than £43,000 £44,000 £47,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £39,000 £42,250
% change year-on-year
+2.56% -7.69%
All Job Titles
North West
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
6784 6801 6469
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the North West 95.47% 95.94% 95.55%
Number of salaries quoted 5749 6008 5720
Average salary £35,000 £35,000 £35,000
90% offered a salary of more than £23,500 £23,000 £22,500
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
UNIX Administrator
England

UNIX Administrator
Jobs Demand Trend

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

North West UNIX Administrator Jobs Demand Trend

UNIX Administrator
Salary Trend

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

North West UNIX Administrator Salary Trend

UNIX Administrator
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing UNIX Administrator across the North West region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013.

North West UNIX Administrator Salary Histogram

UNIX Administrator
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing UNIX Administrator within the North West region over the 3 months to 20 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
Cheshire - 4 £40,000 -
Manchester -19 2 £38,750 +10.71%
UNIX Administrator
England

UNIX Administrator
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the North West region that cited UNIX 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 Administrator in their job title.

1 49 (100.00%) UNIX
2 47 (95.92%) AIX
3 40 (81.63%) Finance
4 29 (59.18%) Linux
5 28 (57.14%) Red Hat
6 27 (55.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 21 (42.86%) Problem Management
8 20 (40.82%) IBM
8 20 (40.82%) HP
9 19 (38.78%) Change Management
10 18 (36.73%) SAN
11 17 (34.69%) Configuration Management
11 17 (34.69%) Clustering
12 16 (32.65%) Replication
12 16 (32.65%) High Availability
13 15 (30.61%) WebSphere
13 15 (30.61%) WebSphere MQ
13 15 (30.61%) C
13 15 (30.61%) Perl
13 15 (30.61%) PHP
14 6 (12.24%) Solaris
15 5 (10.20%) HPUX
16 4 (8.163%) Shell Script
17 3 (6.122%) Service Delivery
17 3 (6.122%) HACMP
17 3 (6.122%) Veritas
17 3 (6.122%) EMC
17 3 (6.122%) Sun
17 3 (6.122%) HTTP
17 3 (6.122%) Windows

UNIX Administrator
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the North West region that cited UNIX 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 Administrator in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 15 (30.61%) WebSphere
Application Platforms
1 15 (30.61%) WebSphere MQ
Applications
1 1 (2.041%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 18 (36.73%) SAN
2 3 (6.122%) HTTP
3 2 (4.082%) DNS
3 2 (4.082%) NAS
4 1 (2.041%) TCP/IP
4 1 (2.041%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.041%) Oracle 8/8i
General
1 40 (81.63%) Finance
2 2 (4.082%) Financial Institution
Miscellaneous
1 17 (34.69%) Clustering
2 16 (32.65%) Replication
3 3 (6.122%) HACMP
4 1 (2.041%) HP StorageWorks
Operating Systems
1 49 (100.00%) UNIX
2 47 (95.92%) AIX
3 29 (59.18%) Linux
4 27 (55.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (12.24%) Solaris
6 5 (10.20%) HPUX
7 3 (6.122%) Windows
8 2 (4.082%) Mac OS X
8 2 (4.082%) Fedora
8 2 (4.082%) CentOS
9 1 (2.041%) Tru64
9 1 (2.041%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (42.86%) Problem Management
2 19 (38.78%) Change Management
3 17 (34.69%) Configuration Management
4 16 (32.65%) High Availability
5 3 (6.122%) Service Delivery
6 2 (4.082%) Network Management
6 2 (4.082%) Service Management
6 2 (4.082%) Risk Management
6 2 (4.082%) Migration
7 1 (2.041%) Business Continuity
7 1 (2.041%) Load Balancing
7 1 (2.041%) ITIL
7 1 (2.041%) Project Management
7 1 (2.041%) Disaster Recovery
7 1 (2.041%) Change Control
Programming Languages
1 15 (30.61%) C
1 15 (30.61%) Perl
1 15 (30.61%) PHP
2 4 (8.163%) Shell Script
3 1 (2.041%) PowerShell
3 1 (2.041%) VBScript
3 1 (2.041%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (2.041%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.041%) QA
System Software
1 2 (4.082%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (2.041%) PowerHA
2 1 (2.041%) VMware ESX
Vendors
1 28 (57.14%) Red Hat
2 20 (40.82%) IBM
2 20 (40.82%) HP
3 3 (6.122%) EMC
3 3 (6.122%) Veritas
3 3 (6.122%) Sun
4 2 (4.082%) VMware
4 2 (4.082%) Oracle
5 1 (2.041%) 3PAR
5 1 (2.041%) Apple