The first table below looks at the demand for UNIX skills in IT jobs advertised for the Oxfordshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited UNIX over the 3 months to 20 June 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 Oxfordshire region.

Location
3 months to
20 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
UNIX
Rank 54 88 27
Rank change year-on-year
+34 -61
Permanent jobs citing UNIX 73 18 130
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Oxfordshire 3.883% 1.260% 7.230%
As % of the Operating Systems category 15.87% 5.714% 32.34%
Number of salaries quoted 57 16 102
Average salary £48,000 £45,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.66% +20.00%
90% offered a salary of more than £32,500 £25,000 £27,800
10% offered a salary of more than £52,500 £65,000 £52,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
All Operating Systems
Oxfordshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
460 315 402
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Oxfordshire 24.47% 22.04% 22.36%
Number of salaries quoted 400 277 357
Average salary £40,000 £35,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+14.28% -
90% offered a salary of more than £24,000 £24,000 £22,000
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £52,000 £46,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
UNIX
South East

UNIX
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Oxfordshire 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 Oxfordshire region.

Oxfordshire UNIX Salary Trend

UNIX
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing UNIX across the Oxfordshire region over the 3 months to 20 June 2013.

Oxfordshire 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 Oxfordshire region over the 3 months to 20 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
Oxford +8 43 £48,500 +7.77% 5
Witney - 8 £48,000 -
Bicester - 5 - -
Banbury +3 2 £55,000 +37.50%
Abingdon -9 2 £30,000 -33.33%
UNIX
South East

UNIX
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT jobs across the Oxfordshire 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.

1 102 (70.34%) Linux
2 96 (66.21%) Windows
3 46 (31.72%) Oracle
4 35 (24.14%) SAN
5 34 (23.45%) C++
6 31 (21.38%) Java
7 30 (20.69%) IBM
8 28 (19.31%) NAS
9 26 (17.93%) Solaris
10 25 (17.24%) Enterprise Storage
11 24 (16.55%) Python
12 22 (15.17%) EMC
13 20 (13.79%) Security Cleared
13 20 (13.79%) HPUX
13 20 (13.79%) WebLogic
13 20 (13.79%) Fibre Channel
14 19 (13.10%) Perl
14 19 (13.10%) HP
14 19 (13.10%) Degree
15 18 (12.41%) Replication
15 18 (12.41%) Clustering
15 18 (12.41%) NFS
16 17 (11.72%) Apache
17 16 (11.03%) SQL
17 16 (11.03%) Tivoli Storage Manager
17 16 (11.03%) Information Security
17 16 (11.03%) iSCSI
18 14 (9.655%) Windows Server 2008
18 14 (9.655%) Agile Software Development
18 14 (9.655%) Project Management

UNIX
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT jobs across the Oxfordshire 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 12 (8.276%) .NET
2 6 (4.138%) STL
2 6 (4.138%) Struts
3 5 (3.448%) Middleware
4 3 (2.069%) HTML
4 3 (2.069%) J2EE
4 3 (2.069%) WebSphere
5 2 (1.379%) JSF
5 2 (1.379%) Boost C++ Libraries
5 2 (1.379%) Qt
5 2 (1.379%) JSP
6 1 (0.690%) OpenGL
6 1 (0.690%) JDBC
6 1 (0.690%) Web Services
6 1 (0.690%) XML
6 1 (0.690%) RESTful
6 1 (0.690%) Spring
6 1 (0.690%) Hibernate
Application Platforms
1 20 (13.79%) WebLogic
2 17 (11.72%) Apache
3 11 (7.586%) IIS
4 3 (2.069%) Tomcat
5 2 (1.379%) ESB
5 2 (1.379%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.690%) Amazon AWS
Applications
1 8 (5.517%) MS Excel
2 3 (2.069%) MS Project
2 3 (2.069%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 3 (2.069%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (1.379%) Oracle 11i
2 2 (1.379%) BusinessWorks
2 2 (1.379%) Oracle BPM
Communications & Networking
1 35 (24.14%) SAN
2 28 (19.31%) NAS
3 20 (13.79%) Fibre Channel
4 16 (11.03%) iSCSI
5 14 (9.655%) FCoE
6 12 (8.276%) TCP/IP
6 12 (8.276%) Firewall
7 7 (4.828%) DNS
8 5 (3.448%) HTTP
9 4 (2.759%) Intrusion Detection
9 4 (2.759%) Network Security
9 4 (2.759%) WAN
9 4 (2.759%) LAN
10 3 (2.069%) HTTPS
11 2 (1.379%) VLAN
11 2 (1.379%) Cisco ASA
11 2 (1.379%) VPN
11 2 (1.379%) VoIP
11 2 (1.379%) Internet
11 2 (1.379%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (6.897%) SQL Server
2 9 (6.207%) Oracle 10g
3 7 (4.828%) Data Warehouse
4 6 (4.138%) Oracle 11g
5 4 (2.759%) SQL Server 2005
5 4 (2.759%) Oracle 8/8i
5 4 (2.759%) SQL Server 2000
6 3 (2.069%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.690%) Oracle Exadata
7 1 (0.690%) MarkLogic
7 1 (0.690%) MySQL
7 1 (0.690%) Oracle Discoverer
Development Applications
1 4 (2.759%) Eclipse
2 3 (2.069%) LoadRunner
3 1 (0.690%) Metasploit
General
1 12 (8.276%) Publishing
2 5 (3.448%) Retail
3 2 (1.379%) Billing
3 2 (1.379%) Finance
3 2 (1.379%) Back Office
4 1 (0.690%) Legal
4 1 (0.690%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 36 (24.83%) Systems Engineer
2 21 (14.48%) Storage Engineer
3 18 (12.41%) Administrator
3 18 (12.41%) Developer
4 16 (11.03%) Systems Administrator
5 11 (7.586%) Project Manager
6 10 (6.897%) DBA
7 9 (6.207%) Linux Engineer
7 9 (6.207%) Oracle DBA
8 8 (5.517%) Test Engineer
8 8 (5.517%) Analyst
8 8 (5.517%) Development Manager
8 8 (5.517%) Test Automation Engineer
8 8 (5.517%) Automation Engineer
9 7 (4.828%) Team Leader
9 7 (4.828%) Senior DBA
9 7 (4.828%) Technical Analyst
9 7 (4.828%) Senior Oracle DBA
10 6 (4.138%) UNIX Engineer
10 6 (4.138%) Oracle Team Leader
Miscellaneous
1 25 (17.24%) Enterprise Storage
2 18 (12.41%) Replication
2 18 (12.41%) Clustering
3 13 (8.966%) Computer Science
4 9 (6.207%) CLARiiON
4 9 (6.207%) Symmetrix
5 7 (4.828%) Management Information System
6 5 (3.448%) IaaS
6 5 (3.448%) PaaS
7 2 (1.379%) Mathematics
7 2 (1.379%) Physics
7 2 (1.379%) Video Conferencing
8 1 (0.690%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.690%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (0.690%) Handset
8 1 (0.690%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 102 (70.34%) Linux
2 96 (66.21%) Windows
3 26 (17.93%) Solaris
4 20 (13.79%) HPUX
5 14 (9.655%) Windows Server 2008
5 14 (9.655%) Windows Server 2003
6 13 (8.966%) AIX
7 11 (7.586%) Apple iOS
7 11 (7.586%) Android
8 10 (6.897%) Windows 2000 Server
9 8 (5.517%) VMS
10 5 (3.448%) Ubuntu
10 5 (3.448%) Debian
11 1 (0.690%) CentOS
11 1 (0.690%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (11.03%) Information Security
2 14 (9.655%) Agile Software Development
2 14 (9.655%) Project Management
3 12 (8.276%) Security Testing
4 11 (7.586%) ITIL
4 11 (7.586%) OWASP
4 11 (7.586%) Data Protection
5 9 (6.207%) Penetration Testing
5 9 (6.207%) Change Management
5 9 (6.207%) Disaster Recovery
6 8 (5.517%) Test Automation
6 8 (5.517%) Capacity Planning
7 7 (4.828%) Software Architecture
7 7 (4.828%) Service Management
7 7 (4.828%) Problem Management
8 6 (4.138%) SOA
9 5 (3.448%) Asset Management
9 5 (3.448%) Business Continuity
10 4 (2.759%) User Acceptance Testing
10 4 (2.759%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 34 (23.45%) C++
2 31 (21.38%) Java
3 24 (16.55%) Python
4 19 (13.10%) Perl
5 16 (11.03%) SQL
6 9 (6.207%) PL/SQL
7 7 (4.828%) Shell Script
7 7 (4.828%) C
8 4 (2.759%) PHP
9 3 (2.069%) JavaScript
9 3 (2.069%) Ruby
10 1 (0.690%) VB
10 1 (0.690%) C#
10 1 (0.690%) Bash shell
Qualifications
1 20 (13.79%) Security Cleared
2 19 (13.10%) Degree
3 12 (8.276%) CSSLP
3 12 (8.276%) GWAPT
4 6 (4.138%) SC Cleared
5 4 (2.759%) CISSP
5 4 (2.759%) RHCE
6 2 (1.379%) ISEB Practitioner
6 2 (1.379%) ISTQB
6 2 (1.379%) CCNA
6 2 (1.379%) PhD
6 2 (1.379%) ITIL Certification
6 2 (1.379%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (1.379%) ISEB
7 1 (0.690%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (8.966%) QA
2 4 (2.759%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (2.759%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 18 (12.41%) NFS
2 9 (6.207%) Active Directory
2 9 (6.207%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (2.759%) VMware ESX
4 3 (2.069%) Oracle RMAN
5 2 (1.379%) Samba
5 2 (1.379%) Oracle RAC
5 2 (1.379%) Postfix
6 1 (0.690%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 16 (11.03%) Tivoli Storage Manager
2 11 (7.586%) AppDetective
3 9 (6.207%) NetBackup
4 7 (4.828%) Puppet
5 6 (4.138%) Tivoli
6 2 (1.379%) HP Quality Center
6 2 (1.379%) Data Guard
7 1 (0.690%) Red Hat Spacewalk
7 1 (0.690%) Cobbler
7 1 (0.690%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 1 (0.690%) WebInspect
7 1 (0.690%) Nessus
Vendors
1 46 (31.72%) Oracle
2 30 (20.69%) IBM
3 22 (15.17%) EMC
4 19 (13.10%) HP
5 12 (8.276%) VMware
5 12 (8.276%) Microsoft
5 12 (8.276%) Cisco
6 11 (7.586%) Brocade
7 9 (6.207%) Red Hat
8 8 (5.517%) Veritas
8 8 (5.517%) BMC
9 5 (3.448%) TIBCO
9 5 (3.448%) Citrix
10 4 (2.759%) Sun
10 4 (2.759%) NetApp
11 3 (2.069%) 3PAR
11 3 (2.069%) JBoss
12 2 (1.379%) Polycom
12 2 (1.379%) Barracuda Networks
12 2 (1.379%) Siebel
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