North West Unix Jobs

This section looks at the demand for Unix skills within the North West region with a comparison to our Operating Systems category. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Unix over the last 3 months to 13 May 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Abingdon Aldershot Altrincham Amersham Andover Aylesbury Banbury Barking Barnsley Basildon Basingstoke Bath Batley Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkhamsted Berkshire Bexley Bexleyheath Bicester Birkenhead Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Blackburn Blackpool Bolton Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Braintree Brentford Brentwood Bridgend Brighton Bristol Buckingham Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Channel Islands Cheadle Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chichester Chippenham City of London Clapham Colchester Corby Cornwall County Antrim County Londonderry Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cwmbran Daventry Deeside Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorchester Dorking Dorset Dumfries and Galloway Dundee Dunfermline Dunstable Durham Ealing East Anglia East Lothian East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastbourne Eastleigh Edinburgh Egham Elland England Epsom Essex Exeter Falkirk Fareham Farnborough Faversham Feltham Fife Flintshire Folkestone Gateshead Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Gosport Gourock Greenford Guildford Gwent Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Harrow Havant Hayes Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hinckley Home Counties Horsham Hounslow Huddersfield Hull Hungerford Huntingdon Ilford Inverclyde Ipswich Isle of Man Kent Kettering Kingston Upon Thames Knaresborough Knutsford Lanarkshire Lancashire Lancaster Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Letchworth Lincolnshire Linlithgow Liverpool Livingston London Lothian Loughborough Lowestoft Luton Lytham St Annes M4 Corridor Maidenhead Maidstone Malmesbury Manchester Market Harborough Marlow Melksham Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Morecambe Musselburgh Nantwich Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Newton-le-Willows Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northumberland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oldham Osterley Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Perth and Kinross Peterborough Petersfield Plymouth Pontefract Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Redhill Reigate Rickmansworth Ripon Rochdale Romford Rugby Runcorn Sale Salford Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South Croydon South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans St Helens St Neots Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stamford Stansted Stevenage Stirling Stockport Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surbiton Surrey Swanley Swansea Swindon Taunton Tayside Telford Tewkesbury Thames Valley Torfaen Torquay Trowbridge Tunbridge Wells Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Walsall Warminster Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wellingborough Welwyn Garden City Wembley West Bromwich West Dunbartonshire West Lothian West Malling West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Weston-super-Mare Weybridge Whyteleafe Wigan Wilmslow Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Winsford Woking Wokingham Worcester Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 13 May 2008	Same period last year
Rank	21	13
Rank change on same period last year	-8
Matching permanent IT job ads	894	1355
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.437 %	0.582 %
As % of the category below	30.10 %	43.11 %
Salaries quoted	768	1177
Average minimum salary	£35,108	£31,616
Average salary	£38,314	£34,070
% change on same period last year	+12.45 %
Average maximum salary	£41,520	£36,524
UK excluding London average salary	£38,912	£38,161
% change on same period last year	+1.96 %
Operating Systems North West
Matching permanent IT job ads	2970	3143
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	1.453 %	1.350 %
Salaries quoted	2576	2775
Average minimum salary	£29,577	£29,265
Average salary	£32,160	£31,675
% change on same period last year	+1.53 %
Average maximum salary	£34,744	£34,085
UK excluding London average salary	£34,684	£34,941
% change on same period last year	-0.73 %
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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total starting in 2004 of permanent IT jobs ads citing Unix across the North West region as a proportion of the total demand within the Operating Systems category.

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Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs ads citing Unix across the North West region.

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Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Unix across the North West region over the past 3 months.

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Job Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Unix within the North West region over the past 3 months.

Rank	Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Permanent IT Job Ads	Average Salary Last 3 Months	Average Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year
1	Cheshire	+1	377	£40,630	+11.19 %
2	Manchester	-16	305	£35,970	+19.14 %
3	Merseyside	+9	110	£33,448	-5.20 %
4	Lancashire	-8	65	£38,140	+21.93 %
5	Cumbria	-7	1	£40,000	+56.55 %

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

Over the past 6 months permanent IT jobs across the North West region citing Unix also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing Unix.

1 668 (35.65 %) Windows 2 459 (24.49 %) Oracle 3 451 (24.07 %) Linux 4 425 (22.68 %) Finance 5 401 (21.40 %) SQL 6 360 (19.21 %) AIX 7 307 (16.38 %) Banking 8 302 (16.12 %) Solaris 9 239 (12.75 %) Java 10 226 (12.06 %) Mainframe 11 223 (11.90 %) Perl 12 204 (10.89 %) SAN 13 188 (10.03 %) SQL Server 14 187 (9.979 %) Pensions 15 172 (9.178 %) Microsoft

16 169 (9.018 %) J2EE 17 162 (8.645 %) Oracle 10g 18 156 (8.324 %) HTML 19 149 (7.951 %) PL/SQL 19 149 (7.951 %) IBM 20 145 (7.737 %) HPUX 21 136 (7.257 %) ITIL 21 136 (7.257 %) Oracle 9i 22 133 (7.097 %) C 23 129 (6.884 %) Stakeholder Management 23 129 (6.884 %) XML 24 125 (6.670 %) Cisco 25 124 (6.617 %) Shell Script 26 123 (6.564 %) Degree 27 112 (5.977 %) Apache

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

Over the past 6 months permanent IT jobs across the North West region citing Unix also mentioned the following skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing Unix. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 169 (9.018 %) J2EE 2 156 (8.324 %) HTML 3 129 (6.884 %) XML 4 103 (5.496 %) WebSphere 5 99 (5.283 %) Middleware 6 98 (5.229 %) JSP 7 85 (4.536 %) .NET 8 67 (3.575 %) CSS 9 54 (2.882 %) Servlets 10 46 (2.455 %) EJB 11 45 (2.401 %) JDBC 12 41 (2.188 %) ASP 13 33 (1.761 %) AJAX 14 31 (1.654 %) Hibernate 15 30 (1.601 %) WebServices 16 29 (1.547 %) XHTML 17 28 (1.494 %) ASP.NET 18 21 (1.121 %) SOAP 19 17 (0.907 %) XSLT 20 15 (0.800 %) Struts	Application Platforms 1 112 (5.977 %) Apache 2 69 (3.682 %) MS Exchange 3 48 (2.561 %) WebSphere Application Server 4 47 (2.508 %) Tomcat 5 37 (1.974 %) JBoss 6 28 (1.494 %) IIS 7 27 (1.441 %) Oracle Application Server 8 24 (1.281 %) SharePoint 9 19 (1.014 %) WebSphere MQ 10 17 (0.907 %) Exchange Server 2003 11 15 (0.800 %) Oracle Workflow 12 14 (0.747 %) Lotus Notes 13 13 (0.694 %) SAS 14 12 (0.640 %) Exchange Server 2000 14 12 (0.640 %) CMS 15 11 (0.587 %) WebLogic 16 10 (0.534 %) ColdFusion 17 9 (0.480 %) IBM HTTP Server 18 8 (0.427 %) Exstream Dialogue 18 8 (0.427 %) Exchange Server 2007
Applications 1 71 (3.789 %) MS Excel 2 32 (1.708 %) MS Office 3 14 (0.747 %) MS Visio 4 5 (0.267 %) Photoshop 5 3 (0.160 %) MS PowerPoint 6 1 (0.053 %) AutoCAD	Business Applications 1 51 (2.721 %) Oracle Applications 2 45 (2.401 %) Oracle 11i 3 39 (2.081 %) BASE24 4 17 (0.907 %) Axapta 4 17 (0.907 %) Dynamics CRM 5 7 (0.374 %) Oracle EBS 6 4 (0.213 %) Dynamics GP 6 4 (0.213 %) Dynamics SL 6 4 (0.213 %) Dynamics NAV 6 4 (0.213 %) Oracle Financials 7 2 (0.107 %) Cognos Business Intelligence 7 2 (0.107 %) Microsoft CRM
Communications & Networking 1 204 (10.89 %) SAN 2 97 (5.176 %) TCP/IP 3 81 (4.322 %) Firewall 4 75 (4.002 %) Internet 5 49 (2.615 %) HTTP 6 42 (2.241 %) LAN 7 39 (2.081 %) SSL 8 37 (1.974 %) S/MIME 8 37 (1.974 %) IPsec 9 36 (1.921 %) OSPF 10 35 (1.868 %) WAN 11 29 (1.547 %) BGP 12 26 (1.387 %) EIGRP 12 26 (1.387 %) MPLS 12 26 (1.387 %) SNA 13 24 (1.281 %) Ethernet 14 21 (1.121 %) VPN 14 21 (1.121 %) Intrusion Detection 15 20 (1.067 %) Cisco PIX 15 20 (1.067 %) LDAP	Database & Business Intelligence 1 188 (10.03 %) SQL Server 2 162 (8.645 %) Oracle 10g 3 136 (7.257 %) Oracle 9i 4 79 (4.216 %) MySQL 5 71 (3.789 %) Oracle Reports 6 48 (2.561 %) DB2 7 34 (1.814 %) Datawarehouse 8 30 (1.601 %) Crystal Reports 8 30 (1.601 %) Oracle 8/8i 9 26 (1.387 %) RDBMS 10 25 (1.334 %) SQL Server 2000 11 16 (0.854 %) SQL Server 2005 11 16 (0.854 %) BusinessObjects 12 12 (0.640 %) Oracle Discoverer 13 11 (0.587 %) SQL Server 7 14 8 (0.427 %) SQLPlus 15 7 (0.374 %) ETL 16 5 (0.267 %) Informix 16 5 (0.267 %) EDRMS 16 5 (0.267 %) Database Marketing
Development Applications 1 65 (3.469 %) Oracle Forms 2 19 (1.014 %) Introscope 3 16 (0.854 %) Eclipse 4 10 (0.534 %) Ant 5 9 (0.480 %) Visual Studio 6 8 (0.427 %) Subversion 7 7 (0.374 %) ClearCase 7 7 (0.374 %) ClearQuest 8 5 (0.267 %) LoadRunner 9 4 (0.213 %) TestDirector 9 4 (0.213 %) QuickTest Pro 9 4 (0.213 %) Dreamweaver 10 3 (0.160 %) JUnit 10 3 (0.160 %) JIRA 11 2 (0.107 %) WinRunner 11 2 (0.107 %) ProC 11 2 (0.107 %) Log4j 12 1 (0.053 %) CruiseControl 12 1 (0.053 %) WebSpeed 12 1 (0.053 %) PVCS	General 1 425 (22.68 %) Finance 2 307 (16.38 %) Banking 3 187 (9.979 %) Pensions 4 109 (5.816 %) Health 5 53 (2.828 %) Telecoms 6 43 (2.295 %) Auditing 7 36 (1.921 %) Retail 8 24 (1.281 %) Marketing 8 24 (1.281 %) Education 8 24 (1.281 %) Government 9 21 (1.121 %) Financial Institution 10 19 (1.014 %) Publishing 11 18 (0.961 %) Legal 11 18 (0.961 %) Billing 12 11 (0.587 %) Manufacturing 13 9 (0.480 %) Games 14 8 (0.427 %) Insurance 15 7 (0.374 %) Investment Banking 16 5 (0.267 %) Construction 17 2 (0.107 %) Electric
Job Titles 1 311 (16.60 %) Developer 2 282 (15.05 %) Analyst 3 206 (10.99 %) Administrator 4 168 (8.965 %) Consultant 5 140 (7.471 %) UNIX Administrator 6 133 (7.097 %) Systems Administrator 6 133 (7.097 %) DBA 7 119 (6.350 %) Oracle DBA 8 113 (6.030 %) Project Manager 9 103 (5.496 %) UNIX Systems Administrator 10 86 (4.589 %) Java Developer 11 85 (4.536 %) Support Analyst 12 78 (4.162 %) Architect 13 73 (3.895 %) Senior Developer 14 70 (3.735 %) Team Leader 15 52 (2.775 %) Security Consultant 16 49 (2.615 %) UNIX Team Leader 17 48 (2.561 %) Network Engineer 18 46 (2.455 %) Java/J2EE Developer 19 45 (2.401 %) Infrastructure Analyst	Miscellaneous 1 226 (12.06 %) Mainframe 2 71 (3.789 %) Tandem 3 56 (2.988 %) PKI 4 50 (2.668 %) SecurID 5 46 (2.455 %) AS400 6 44 (2.348 %) Cryptography 7 40 (2.134 %) Clustering 8 38 (2.028 %) HACMP 9 29 (1.547 %) Computer Science 9 29 (1.547 %) IBM Mainframe 10 19 (1.014 %) Client/Server 11 18 (0.961 %) PDA 12 17 (0.907 %) Fat Client 12 17 (0.907 %) Thin Client 13 16 (0.854 %) Management Information System 14 11 (0.587 %) N-Tier 15 10 (0.534 %) PMI 16 8 (0.427 %) Blackberry 16 8 (0.427 %) Data Conversion 17 7 (0.374 %) Multithreading
Operating Systems 1 668 (35.65 %) Windows 2 451 (24.07 %) Linux 3 360 (19.21 %) AIX 4 302 (16.12 %) Solaris 5 145 (7.737 %) HPUX 6 47 (2.508 %) Windows NT 7 35 (1.868 %) VMS 7 35 (1.868 %) Windows 2000 8 29 (1.547 %) Debian 9 21 (1.121 %) Windows XP 10 20 (1.067 %) zOS 11 16 (0.854 %) SUSE 12 15 (0.800 %) Windows Server 2003 13 10 (0.534 %) Fedora 14 9 (0.480 %) MVS 15 6 (0.320 %) Tru64 16 5 (0.267 %) OpenVMS 17 4 (0.213 %) LynxOS 17 4 (0.213 %) VxWorks 17 4 (0.213 %) GCOS	Processes & Methodologies 1 136 (7.257 %) ITIL 2 129 (6.884 %) Stakeholder Management 3 108 (5.763 %) PRINCE2 4 84 (4.482 %) OO 5 79 (4.216 %) Web Development 6 75 (4.002 %) Matrix Management 7 67 (3.575 %) UML 8 56 (2.988 %) Project Management 9 47 (2.508 %) E-Commerce 10 46 (2.455 %) Service Delivery 11 45 (2.401 %) Risk Management 12 44 (2.348 %) Service Management 12 44 (2.348 %) Software Engineering 13 42 (2.241 %) Information Security 14 38 (2.028 %) CRM 14 38 (2.028 %) ERP 15 37 (1.974 %) Change Management 16 34 (1.814 %) Disaster Recovery 17 31 (1.654 %) Software Testing 17 31 (1.654 %) Release Management
Programming Languages 1 401 (21.40 %) SQL 2 239 (12.75 %) Java 3 223 (11.90 %) Perl 4 149 (7.951 %) PL/SQL 5 133 (7.097 %) C 6 124 (6.617 %) Shell Script 7 98 (5.229 %) C++ 8 96 (5.123 %) JavaScript 9 87 (4.642 %) PHP 10 55 (2.935 %) Python 11 53 (2.828 %) COBOL 12 37 (1.974 %) C# 12 37 (1.974 %) VB.NET 13 28 (1.494 %) VB 14 13 (0.694 %) Tcl 15 11 (0.587 %) Korn 15 11 (0.587 %) PHP5 15 11 (0.587 %) PHP4 16 10 (0.534 %) VBScript 17 8 (0.427 %) Delphi	Qualifications 1 123 (6.564 %) Degree 2 75 (4.002 %) PMP 2 75 (4.002 %) PMI Certification 3 71 (3.789 %) CISSP 4 58 (3.095 %) Cisco Certification 5 56 (2.988 %) Microsoft Certification 6 47 (2.508 %) MCSE 7 37 (1.974 %) CCNA 8 23 (1.227 %) CCNP 9 20 (1.067 %) Oracle Certification 10 18 (0.961 %) MCP 10 18 (0.961 %) OCP 11 17 (0.907 %) CCDA 12 13 (0.694 %) MCSA 12 13 (0.694 %) ITIL Certification 13 12 (0.640 %) HND 14 10 (0.534 %) CHFI 15 6 (0.320 %) PRINCE2 Certification 15 6 (0.320 %) Citrix Certification 15 6 (0.320 %) MCT
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 68 (3.629 %) SLA 2 35 (1.868 %) QA 3 32 (1.708 %) Sarbanes-Oxley 4 25 (1.334 %) ISO27001 5 10 (0.534 %) ISO17799 6 1 (0.053 %) COBIT 6 1 (0.053 %) BS7799	System Software 1 80 (4.269 %) Active Directory 2 44 (2.348 %) Oracle RAC 3 33 (1.761 %) Oracle RMAN 4 7 (0.374 %) NetBackup 4 7 (0.374 %) Terminal Server 4 7 (0.374 %) Terminal Services 4 7 (0.374 %) Samba 5 6 (0.320 %) ISA Server 5 6 (0.320 %) Nmap 6 5 (0.267 %) Citrix Presentation Server 7 3 (0.160 %) RACF 7 3 (0.160 %) MetaFrame 8 2 (0.107 %) Backup Exec 9 1 (0.053 %) VMware Server 9 1 (0.053 %) Xen 9 1 (0.053 %) Microsoft Virtual Server 9 1 (0.053 %) Tivoli Workload Scheduler 9 1 (0.053 %) VMware ESX
Systems Management 1 46 (2.455 %) Tivoli 2 16 (0.854 %) Netcool 3 12 (0.640 %) OpenView 4 10 (0.534 %) Oracle Enterprise Manager 5 8 (0.427 %) Tivoli Storage Manager 6 6 (0.320 %) Nessus 7 4 (0.213 %) ServiceCenter 7 4 (0.213 %) AssetCenter 8 3 (0.160 %) Legato 8 3 (0.160 %) Tivoli Identity Manager 9 2 (0.107 %) ARCserve 10 1 (0.053 %) OMEGAMON 10 1 (0.053 %) OpenView Configuration Management 10 1 (0.053 %) BMC PATROL 10 1 (0.053 %) Tivoli Monitoring 10 1 (0.053 %) Tivoli NetView	Vendors 1 459 (24.49 %) Oracle 2 172 (9.178 %) Microsoft 3 149 (7.951 %) IBM 4 125 (6.670 %) Cisco 5 93 (4.963 %) Red Hat 6 92 (4.909 %) HP 7 91 (4.856 %) Sun 8 61 (3.255 %) Citrix 9 31 (1.654 %) VERITAS 10 29 (1.547 %) Juniper 11 26 (1.387 %) SAP 11 26 (1.387 %) Redback 12 25 (1.334 %) Intel 13 23 (1.227 %) Sybase 14 19 (1.014 %) EMC 14 19 (1.014 %) VMware 15 17 (0.907 %) Lotus 16 16 (0.854 %) Business Objects 16 16 (0.854 %) Nortel 16 16 (0.854 %) webMethods