The first table below looks at the demand for UNIX skills in IT jobs advertised for the Peterborough region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited UNIX 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 of the Operating Systems category for the Peterborough region.

Location
3 months to
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
UNIX
Rank 39 41 24
Rank change year-on-year
+2 -17
Permanent jobs citing UNIX 8 3 26
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Peterborough 2.198% 0.977% 8.844%
As % of the Operating Systems category 6.400% 5.263% 40.00%
Number of salaries quoted 6 3 14
Average salary £32,500 £37,500 £38,750
Average salary % change year-on-year
-13.33% -3.22%
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
All Operating Systems
Peterborough
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
125 57 65
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Peterborough 34.34% 18.57% 22.11%
Number of salaries quoted 118 56 44
Average salary £33,500 £22,500 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+48.88% -40.00%
90% offered a salary of more than £20,700 £19,150 £23,975
10% offered a salary of more than £38,600 £47,500 £42,400
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
UNIX
Cambridgeshire

UNIX
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Peterborough 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 Peterborough region.

Peterborough UNIX Salary Trend

UNIX
Salary Histogram

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

Peterborough UNIX Salary Histogram

UNIX
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Peterborough 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 8 (53.33%) Linux
2 5 (33.33%) SQL
3 4 (26.67%) MySQL
3 4 (26.67%) Windows
3 4 (26.67%) Apache
3 4 (26.67%) Microsoft
3 4 (26.67%) Subversion
4 3 (20.00%) IP Telephony
4 3 (20.00%) Wireless
4 3 (20.00%) VMware
4 3 (20.00%) Tru64
4 3 (20.00%) Firewall
4 3 (20.00%) Citrix
4 3 (20.00%) Avaya
4 3 (20.00%) VoIP
4 3 (20.00%) Cisco
4 3 (20.00%) IBM
4 3 (20.00%) MS Exchange
4 3 (20.00%) AIX
4 3 (20.00%) Solaris
4 3 (20.00%) VSS/SourceSafe
4 3 (20.00%) Java
4 3 (20.00%) Perl
4 3 (20.00%) Cisco ASA
4 3 (20.00%) Barracuda Networks
4 3 (20.00%) Exchange Server 2007
4 3 (20.00%) Open Source
4 3 (20.00%) Exchange Server 2010
4 3 (20.00%) SolarWinds
5 2 (13.33%) Jenkins

UNIX
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Peterborough 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 2 (13.33%) .NET
1 2 (13.33%) J2EE
1 2 (13.33%) WebSphere
2 1 (6.667%) Java EE
Application Platforms
1 4 (26.67%) Apache
2 3 (20.00%) MS Exchange
2 3 (20.00%) Exchange Server 2007
2 3 (20.00%) Exchange Server 2010
3 2 (13.33%) nginx
3 2 (13.33%) Tomcat
4 1 (6.667%) WebSphere Process Server
4 1 (6.667%) WebSphere Application Server
4 1 (6.667%) WebSphere Portal
Applications
1 1 (6.667%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (6.667%) Dynamics NAV
Communications & Networking
1 3 (20.00%) VoIP
1 3 (20.00%) Firewall
1 3 (20.00%) Wireless
1 3 (20.00%) IP Telephony
1 3 (20.00%) Cisco ASA
2 2 (13.33%) TCP/IP
2 2 (13.33%) DNS
2 2 (13.33%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (26.67%) MySQL
2 2 (13.33%) MongoDB
2 2 (13.33%) NoSQL
2 2 (13.33%) Redis
3 1 (6.667%) Oracle OWB
Development Applications
1 4 (26.67%) Subversion
2 3 (20.00%) VSS/SourceSafe
3 2 (13.33%) Eclipse
3 2 (13.33%) Xcode
3 2 (13.33%) CruiseControl
3 2 (13.33%) Jenkins
3 2 (13.33%) Ant
3 2 (13.33%) JUnit
General
1 1 (6.667%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 3 (20.00%) Analyst
1 3 (20.00%) Network Engineer
1 3 (20.00%) Applications Support
1 3 (20.00%) Infrastructure Analyst
1 3 (20.00%) Cisco Engineer
1 3 (20.00%) Cisco Network Engineer
2 2 (13.33%) UNIX Engineer
2 2 (13.33%) Support Engineer
2 2 (13.33%) Applications Support Engineer
2 2 (13.33%) Software Engineer
2 2 (13.33%) Systems Engineer
3 1 (6.667%) Technical Support
3 1 (6.667%) Senior Systems Engineer
3 1 (6.667%) Graduate
3 1 (6.667%) C++ Software Engineer
3 1 (6.667%) C Software Engineer
3 1 (6.667%) Graduate Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (20.00%) Open Source
2 1 (6.667%) Social Media
2 1 (6.667%) Embedded Systems
2 1 (6.667%) Economics
2 1 (6.667%) Mathematics
2 1 (6.667%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 8 (53.33%) Linux
2 4 (26.67%) Windows
3 3 (20.00%) AIX
3 3 (20.00%) Solaris
3 3 (20.00%) Tru64
4 2 (13.33%) SUSE
4 2 (13.33%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (13.33%) E-Commerce
1 2 (13.33%) Configuration Management
1 2 (13.33%) Waterfall
2 1 (6.667%) Signal Processing
2 1 (6.667%) Analytics
2 1 (6.667%) Service Management
2 1 (6.667%) Process Management
2 1 (6.667%) ITSM
2 1 (6.667%) Content Management
2 1 (6.667%) Software Engineering
2 1 (6.667%) Online Marketing
2 1 (6.667%) E-Discovery
Programming Languages
1 5 (33.33%) SQL
2 3 (20.00%) Java
2 3 (20.00%) Perl
3 2 (13.33%) PHP
3 2 (13.33%) Python
3 2 (13.33%) C
3 2 (13.33%) Ruby
3 2 (13.33%) Bash shell
4 1 (6.667%) C++
4 1 (6.667%) Shell Script
4 1 (6.667%) MATLAB
4 1 (6.667%) Jython
4 1 (6.667%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (13.33%) Postgraduate
1 2 (13.33%) Degree
Systems Management
1 2 (13.33%) ZABBIX
1 2 (13.33%) Puppet
1 2 (13.33%) CFEngine
Vendors
1 4 (26.67%) Microsoft
2 3 (20.00%) Citrix
2 3 (20.00%) Avaya
2 3 (20.00%) Cisco
2 3 (20.00%) IBM
2 3 (20.00%) VMware
2 3 (20.00%) Barracuda Networks
2 3 (20.00%) SolarWinds
3 2 (13.33%) JBoss
3 2 (13.33%) Red Hat
4 1 (6.667%) Oracle