The first table below looks at the demand for UNIX skills in IT jobs advertised for the Northern Ireland region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited UNIX over the 3 months to 22 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 Northern Ireland region.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
UNIX
Rank 14 25 7
Rank change year-on-year
+11 -18
Permanent jobs citing UNIX 34 20 37
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Northern Ireland 12.50% 7.874% 16.23%
As % of the Operating Systems category 39.53% 30.77% 45.12%
Number of salaries quoted 16 9 17
Average salary £41,000 £50,000 £29,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-18.00% +69.49%
90% offered a salary of more than £29,250 £32,300 £28,700
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £65,000 £45,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
All Operating Systems
Northern Ireland
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
86 65 82
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Northern Ireland 31.62% 25.59% 35.96%
Number of salaries quoted 48 43 38
Average salary £35,000 £32,500 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+7.69% -7.14%
90% offered a salary of more than £29,550 £21,000 £29,500
10% offered a salary of more than £47,500 £45,500 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
UNIX
UK

UNIX
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Northern Ireland 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 Northern Ireland region.

Northern Ireland UNIX Salary Trend

UNIX
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing UNIX across the Northern Ireland region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

Northern Ireland 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 Northern Ireland region over the 3 months to 22 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
County Antrim +7 33 £41,000 -18.00%
County Londonderry - 1 - -
UNIX
UK

UNIX
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Northern Ireland 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 56 (62.22%) Linux
2 53 (58.89%) Java
3 38 (42.22%) C
4 35 (38.89%) SQL
5 26 (28.89%) C++
5 26 (28.89%) Degree
6 25 (27.78%) QA
7 20 (22.22%) Tomcat
8 16 (17.78%) Finance
8 16 (17.78%) Software Engineering
9 15 (16.67%) Computer Science
9 15 (16.67%) Agile Software Development
10 14 (15.56%) Open Source
10 14 (15.56%) Telecoms
10 14 (15.56%) Oracle
11 13 (14.44%) J2EE
11 13 (14.44%) Windows
11 13 (14.44%) WebLogic
12 12 (13.33%) MVC
12 12 (13.33%) Electronic Trading
12 12 (13.33%) Spring
13 11 (12.22%) Derivative
13 11 (12.22%) Selenium
14 10 (11.11%) Integration Testing
14 10 (11.11%) Spring MVC
14 10 (11.11%) Web Services
14 10 (11.11%) Data Modelling
15 9 (10.00%) Servlets
15 9 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
16 8 (8.889%) XML

UNIX
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Northern Ireland 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 13 (14.44%) J2EE
2 12 (13.33%) Spring
3 10 (11.11%) Spring MVC
3 10 (11.11%) Web Services
4 9 (10.00%) Servlets
5 8 (8.889%) XML
6 7 (7.778%) JSON
6 7 (7.778%) Middleware
7 6 (6.667%) XMPP
8 4 (4.444%) jQuery
9 3 (3.333%) .NET
9 3 (3.333%) JSP
10 2 (2.222%) JMS
10 2 (2.222%) CSS
10 2 (2.222%) HTML
10 2 (2.222%) Hibernate
10 2 (2.222%) WebSphere
10 2 (2.222%) Ajax
11 1 (1.111%) Ruby on Rails
11 1 (1.111%) HTML5
Application Platforms
1 20 (22.22%) Tomcat
2 13 (14.44%) WebLogic
3 8 (8.889%) Apache
Communications & Networking
1 8 (8.889%) TCP/IP
2 4 (4.444%) SAN
2 4 (4.444%) Firewall
3 3 (3.333%) Cisco ASA
3 3 (3.333%) Cisco PIX
3 3 (3.333%) NetScreen
4 2 (2.222%) Broadband
5 1 (1.111%) VLAN
5 1 (1.111%) Wireless Security
5 1 (1.111%) NAS
5 1 (1.111%) IPsec
5 1 (1.111%) Wireless
5 1 (1.111%) Intranet
5 1 (1.111%) HTTP
5 1 (1.111%) VPN
5 1 (1.111%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (5.556%) SQL Server
3 4 (4.444%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (4.444%) RDBMS
4 3 (3.333%) Oracle 11g
4 3 (3.333%) SQL Server 2008
4 3 (3.333%) Oracle 10g
4 3 (3.333%) Oracle 8/8i
5 1 (1.111%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.111%) Redis
5 1 (1.111%) CouchDB
5 1 (1.111%) KDB
Development Applications
1 11 (12.22%) Selenium
2 2 (2.222%) ClearCase
2 2 (2.222%) Git (software)
2 2 (2.222%) Maven
3 1 (1.111%) JIRA
3 1 (1.111%) WATIR
3 1 (1.111%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.111%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 1 (1.111%) Build Forge
3 1 (1.111%) ClearQuest
3 1 (1.111%) QuickTest Pro
3 1 (1.111%) Ant
3 1 (1.111%) JUnit
3 1 (1.111%) Visual Studio
General
1 16 (17.78%) Finance
2 14 (15.56%) Telecoms
3 4 (4.444%) Banking
4 2 (2.222%) Marketing
5 1 (1.111%) Retail
5 1 (1.111%) Financial Institution
5 1 (1.111%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 19 (21.11%) Developer
2 13 (14.44%) Tester
3 12 (13.33%) Applications Support
4 10 (11.11%) Automated Tester
5 8 (8.889%) Java Developer
6 7 (7.778%) C++ Developer
6 7 (7.778%) Software Engineer
7 4 (4.444%) Senior Developer
7 4 (4.444%) Principal Engineer
7 4 (4.444%) Informatica Developer
7 4 (4.444%) Server Engineer
7 4 (4.444%) ETL Developer
7 4 (4.444%) Security Engineer
7 4 (4.444%) Senior Java Developer
8 3 (3.333%) UNIX Support Engineer
8 3 (3.333%) UNIX Engineer
8 3 (3.333%) SQL Server DBA
8 3 (3.333%) SQL DBA
8 3 (3.333%) Oracle DBA
8 3 (3.333%) Java Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 15 (16.67%) Computer Science
2 14 (15.56%) Open Source
3 11 (12.22%) Derivative
4 7 (7.778%) Video on Demand
5 3 (3.333%) Field-Programmable Gate Array
5 3 (3.333%) Equities
6 2 (2.222%) Client/Server
6 2 (2.222%) DTV
6 2 (2.222%) Firmware
6 2 (2.222%) Clustering
6 2 (2.222%) IPTV
7 1 (1.111%) STB
7 1 (1.111%) Life Science
7 1 (1.111%) Hedge funds
7 1 (1.111%) Mobile App
7 1 (1.111%) New Media
7 1 (1.111%) SaaS
7 1 (1.111%) Credit Risk
7 1 (1.111%) Symmetrix DMX
7 1 (1.111%) CLARiiON
Operating Systems
1 56 (62.22%) Linux
2 13 (14.44%) Windows
3 5 (5.556%) AIX
4 4 (4.444%) HPUX
4 4 (4.444%) Solaris
5 1 (1.111%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (17.78%) Software Engineering
2 15 (16.67%) Agile Software Development
3 12 (13.33%) MVC
3 12 (13.33%) Electronic Trading
4 10 (11.11%) Integration Testing
4 10 (11.11%) Data Modelling
5 8 (8.889%) OO
6 5 (5.556%) Multithreading
7 4 (4.444%) Business Intelligence
7 4 (4.444%) ETL
7 4 (4.444%) Dimensional Modelling
7 4 (4.444%) Capacity Planning
8 3 (3.333%) Software Testing
8 3 (3.333%) Test Management
8 3 (3.333%) Change Management
8 3 (3.333%) ITIL
9 2 (2.222%) SOA
9 2 (2.222%) E-Commerce
9 2 (2.222%) Service Delivery
9 2 (2.222%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 53 (58.89%) Java
2 38 (42.22%) C
3 35 (38.89%) SQL
4 26 (28.89%) C++
5 8 (8.889%) Perl
6 5 (5.556%) Ruby
6 5 (5.556%) T-SQL
6 5 (5.556%) Python
7 4 (4.444%) PL/SQL
8 3 (3.333%) Shell Script
8 3 (3.333%) JavaScript
8 3 (3.333%) C#
9 2 (2.222%) PHP
9 2 (2.222%) Bash shell
Qualifications
1 26 (28.89%) Degree
2 4 (4.444%) CISSP
2 4 (4.444%) Cisco Certification
2 4 (4.444%) CCSA
3 3 (3.333%) OCP
3 3 (3.333%) Oracle Certification
3 3 (3.333%) CCSP
4 2 (2.222%) JNCIA
4 2 (2.222%) CCSE
5 1 (1.111%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (27.78%) QA
2 1 (1.111%) HL7
System Software
1 3 (3.333%) Oracle RAC
2 2 (2.222%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.111%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 3 (3.333%) Data Guard
2 1 (1.111%) BladeLogic
2 1 (1.111%) YUM
2 1 (1.111%) Puppet
2 1 (1.111%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 14 (15.56%) Oracle
2 6 (6.667%) Sybase
3 5 (5.556%) UC4
3 5 (5.556%) Cisco
4 4 (4.444%) Business Objects
4 4 (4.444%) CheckPoint
4 4 (4.444%) Juniper
4 4 (4.444%) Actuate
4 4 (4.444%) Informatica
4 4 (4.444%) HP
4 4 (4.444%) Red Hat
4 4 (4.444%) Ab Initio
4 4 (4.444%) Blue Coat
5 2 (2.222%) Microsoft
5 2 (2.222%) Progress
6 1 (1.111%) Brocade
6 1 (1.111%) Fujitsu
6 1 (1.111%) F5
6 1 (1.111%) AccuRev
6 1 (1.111%) Symantec
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