The first table below looks at the demand for UNIX skills in IT jobs advertised for the Oxford region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited UNIX over the 3 months to 24 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 Oxford region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
UNIX
Rank 43 43 23
Rank change year-on-year
0 -20
Permanent jobs citing UNIX 44 19 70
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Oxford 4.259% 2.997% 8.750%
As % of the Operating Systems category 21.78% 13.97% 39.33%
Number of salaries quoted 37 15 60
Average salary £48,500 £45,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+7.77% +20.00%
90% offered a salary of more than £35,200 £26,000 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £65,000 £52,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £39,000
% change year-on-year
- +2.56%
All Operating Systems
Oxford
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
202 136 178
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Oxford 19.55% 21.45% 22.25%
Number of salaries quoted 176 104 157
Average salary £43,500 £35,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+24.28% -
90% offered a salary of more than £32,500 £25,000 £22,000
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £52,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
UNIX
Oxfordshire

UNIX
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Oxford 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 Oxford region.

Oxford UNIX Salary Trend

UNIX
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing UNIX across the Oxford region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Oxford UNIX Salary Histogram

UNIX
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Oxford 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 68 (68.00%) Linux
2 64 (64.00%) Windows
3 28 (28.00%) C++
4 26 (26.00%) Java
5 25 (25.00%) SAN
6 23 (23.00%) IBM
7 21 (21.00%) NAS
8 20 (20.00%) Python
8 20 (20.00%) Oracle
9 19 (19.00%) WebLogic
10 18 (18.00%) Perl
10 18 (18.00%) EMC
11 17 (17.00%) Degree
11 17 (17.00%) Enterprise Storage
12 16 (16.00%) Agile Software Development
12 16 (16.00%) Solaris
13 14 (14.00%) NFS
14 12 (12.00%) Apache
14 12 (12.00%) TCP/IP
14 12 (12.00%) Tivoli Storage Manager
14 12 (12.00%) Information Security
14 12 (12.00%) Fibre Channel
15 11 (11.00%) QA
15 11 (11.00%) iSCSI
15 11 (11.00%) Replication
15 11 (11.00%) Clustering
15 11 (11.00%) HP
15 11 (11.00%) SQL
16 10 (10.00%) Microsoft
16 10 (10.00%) Tomcat

UNIX
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Oxford 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 9 (9.000%) WebSphere
2 8 (8.000%) .NET
3 6 (6.000%) STL
4 4 (4.000%) Struts
5 3 (3.000%) Middleware
5 3 (3.000%) XML
5 3 (3.000%) HTML
6 2 (2.000%) J2EE
6 2 (2.000%) JSP
6 2 (2.000%) JSF
6 2 (2.000%) Qt
6 2 (2.000%) Boost C++ Libraries
7 1 (1.000%) RESTful
7 1 (1.000%) Spring
7 1 (1.000%) OpenGL
7 1 (1.000%) Hibernate
7 1 (1.000%) Web Services
7 1 (1.000%) JDBC
Application Platforms
1 19 (19.00%) WebLogic
2 12 (12.00%) Apache
3 10 (10.00%) Tomcat
4 8 (8.000%) IIS
5 7 (7.000%) ESB
5 7 (7.000%) SharePoint
6 1 (1.000%) Amazon AWS
6 1 (1.000%) Jetty
Applications
1 3 (3.000%) MS Excel
2 2 (2.000%) MS Project
2 2 (2.000%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 6 (6.000%) Oracle BPM
2 2 (2.000%) BusinessWorks
Communications & Networking
1 25 (25.00%) SAN
2 21 (21.00%) NAS
3 12 (12.00%) TCP/IP
3 12 (12.00%) Fibre Channel
4 11 (11.00%) iSCSI
5 10 (10.00%) FCoE
6 8 (8.000%) Firewall
7 4 (4.000%) DNS
7 4 (4.000%) Intrusion Detection
7 4 (4.000%) Network Security
8 3 (3.000%) LAN
8 3 (3.000%) WAN
9 2 (2.000%) Wi-Fi
9 2 (2.000%) VLAN
10 1 (1.000%) Intranet
10 1 (1.000%) SMTP
10 1 (1.000%) HTTP
10 1 (1.000%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (7.000%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (5.000%) SQL Server
3 4 (4.000%) SQL Server 2000
3 4 (4.000%) SQL Server 2005
4 3 (3.000%) MarkLogic
4 3 (3.000%) Oracle 8/8i
5 2 (2.000%) Oracle 11g
6 1 (1.000%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 7 (7.000%) Eclipse
General
1 10 (10.00%) Publishing
2 6 (6.000%) Billing
3 2 (2.000%) Finance
4 1 (1.000%) Music
4 1 (1.000%) Legal
4 1 (1.000%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 22 (22.00%) Developer
2 17 (17.00%) Storage Engineer
3 15 (15.00%) Systems Engineer
4 9 (9.000%) Architect
5 8 (8.000%) Project Manager
5 8 (8.000%) Test Engineer
5 8 (8.000%) Test Automation Engineer
5 8 (8.000%) Automation Engineer
6 7 (7.000%) Systems Administrator
6 7 (7.000%) Administrator
7 6 (6.000%) Analyst
7 6 (6.000%) Applications Developer
7 6 (6.000%) Technical Analyst
8 5 (5.000%) Linux Administrator
8 5 (5.000%) Infrastructure Architect
8 5 (5.000%) Linux Systems Administrator
8 5 (5.000%) Software Engineer
8 5 (5.000%) Software Developer
8 5 (5.000%) C++ Developer
9 4 (4.000%) Java Developer
Miscellaneous
1 17 (17.00%) Enterprise Storage
2 11 (11.00%) Replication
2 11 (11.00%) Clustering
3 10 (10.00%) Computer Science
4 9 (9.000%) CLARiiON
4 9 (9.000%) Symmetrix
5 7 (7.000%) Management Information System
6 5 (5.000%) PaaS
6 5 (5.000%) IaaS
7 3 (3.000%) Cloud Computing
8 2 (2.000%) Mathematics
8 2 (2.000%) Physics
9 1 (1.000%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (1.000%) Digital Media
9 1 (1.000%) Handset
9 1 (1.000%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 68 (68.00%) Linux
2 64 (64.00%) Windows
3 16 (16.00%) Solaris
4 8 (8.000%) AIX
4 8 (8.000%) Android
4 8 (8.000%) Apple iOS
5 6 (6.000%) Debian
5 6 (6.000%) Ubuntu
6 4 (4.000%) HPUX
6 4 (4.000%) VMS
7 2 (2.000%) Windows Server 2003
7 2 (2.000%) Windows Server 2008
7 2 (2.000%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (16.00%) Agile Software Development
2 12 (12.00%) Information Security
3 10 (10.00%) Project Management
4 8 (8.000%) SOA
4 8 (8.000%) Data Protection
4 8 (8.000%) Security Testing
4 8 (8.000%) Test Automation
4 8 (8.000%) OWASP
4 8 (8.000%) Penetration Testing
5 6 (6.000%) ITIL
5 6 (6.000%) OOP
5 6 (6.000%) Process Management
5 6 (6.000%) E-business
5 6 (6.000%) Scrum
5 6 (6.000%) TOGAF
6 5 (5.000%) Software Architecture
6 5 (5.000%) Asset Management
6 5 (5.000%) Problem Management
6 5 (5.000%) Business Continuity
6 5 (5.000%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 28 (28.00%) C++
2 26 (26.00%) Java
3 20 (20.00%) Python
4 18 (18.00%) Perl
5 11 (11.00%) SQL
6 9 (9.000%) C
7 5 (5.000%) PL/SQL
8 3 (3.000%) Ruby
8 3 (3.000%) PHP
8 3 (3.000%) JavaScript
8 3 (3.000%) VB
9 2 (2.000%) Bash shell
Qualifications
1 17 (17.00%) Degree
2 8 (8.000%) GWAPT
2 8 (8.000%) CSSLP
3 4 (4.000%) CISSP
4 3 (3.000%) RHCE
5 2 (2.000%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (2.000%) CCNA
5 2 (2.000%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (11.00%) QA
2 4 (4.000%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 4 (4.000%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 14 (14.00%) NFS
2 9 (9.000%) Active Directory
3 6 (6.000%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (3.000%) VMware ESX
5 2 (2.000%) Samba
Systems Management
1 12 (12.00%) Tivoli Storage Manager
2 9 (9.000%) NetBackup
3 8 (8.000%) AppDetective
4 7 (7.000%) Puppet
5 3 (3.000%) Tivoli
6 2 (2.000%) HP Quality Center
7 1 (1.000%) Red Hat Spacewalk
7 1 (1.000%) Cobbler
Vendors
1 23 (23.00%) IBM
2 20 (20.00%) Oracle
3 18 (18.00%) EMC
4 11 (11.00%) HP
5 10 (10.00%) Microsoft
6 9 (9.000%) Brocade
6 9 (9.000%) Red Hat
6 9 (9.000%) VMware
6 9 (9.000%) JBoss
6 9 (9.000%) Cisco
7 6 (6.000%) Siebel
7 6 (6.000%) PeopleSoft
8 4 (4.000%) Veritas
8 4 (4.000%) TIBCO
9 3 (3.000%) 3PAR
9 3 (3.000%) BMC
10 2 (2.000%) Citrix
10 2 (2.000%) Apple
11 1 (1.000%) Dell
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