The first table below looks at the demand for UNIX skills in IT jobs advertised for the Reading region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited UNIX over the 3 months to 23 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 Reading region.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
UNIX
Rank 10 10 11
Rank change year-on-year
0 +1
Permanent jobs citing UNIX 250 305 240
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Reading 11.64% 13.45% 12.51%
As % of the Operating Systems category 35.16% 43.95% 39.22%
Number of salaries quoted 198 230 190
Average salary £38,500 £41,000 £41,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-6.09% -
90% offered a salary of more than £34,000 £34,900 £26,000
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £39,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.26%
All Operating Systems
Reading
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
711 694 612
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Reading 33.10% 30.61% 31.89%
Number of salaries quoted 593 583 480
Average salary £37,500 £40,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-6.25% +6.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £24,000 £27,500 £23,000
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
UNIX
Berkshire

UNIX
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Reading 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 Reading region.

Reading UNIX Salary Trend

UNIX
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing UNIX across the Reading region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

Reading UNIX Salary Histogram

UNIX
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Reading 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.

1 253 (51.53%) Linux
2 221 (45.01%) Windows
3 158 (32.18%) Oracle
4 137 (27.90%) Cisco
5 114 (23.22%) Solaris
6 111 (22.61%) SQL
7 103 (20.98%) TCP/IP
7 103 (20.98%) Shell Script
8 92 (18.74%) IBM
9 90 (18.33%) SAN
10 87 (17.72%) AIX
11 80 (16.29%) Java
12 76 (15.48%) Clustering
13 71 (14.46%) HPUX
14 70 (14.26%) Red Hat
15 68 (13.85%) Project Management
16 65 (13.24%) German Language
17 63 (12.83%) CISSP
18 62 (12.63%) McAfee
19 61 (12.42%) Juniper
19 61 (12.42%) F5
20 60 (12.22%) CheckPoint
20 60 (12.22%) French Language
21 59 (12.02%) JNCIA
21 59 (12.02%) JNCIE
21 59 (12.02%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
21 59 (12.02%) CCSA
21 59 (12.02%) Blue Coat
21 59 (12.02%) CCSE
21 59 (12.02%) Sourcefire

UNIX
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Reading 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 50 (10.18%) HTML
2 22 (4.481%) WebSphere
3 21 (4.277%) Web Services
4 17 (3.462%) Spring
5 16 (3.259%) Hibernate
5 16 (3.259%) J2EE
6 14 (2.851%) XML
6 14 (2.851%) SOAP
7 12 (2.444%) Middleware
7 12 (2.444%) CSS
7 12 (2.444%) XHTML
8 10 (2.037%) CGI
8 10 (2.037%) .NET
8 10 (2.037%) RESTful
9 9 (1.833%) Boost C++ Libraries
9 9 (1.833%) Node.js
10 8 (1.629%) JDBC
10 8 (1.629%) STL
10 8 (1.629%) REST
11 6 (1.222%) Ajax
Application Platforms
1 40 (8.147%) SharePoint
2 33 (6.721%) Lotus Domino
3 26 (5.295%) Apache
4 16 (3.259%) MS Exchange
5 14 (2.851%) Tomcat
6 12 (2.444%) WebSphere MQ
7 9 (1.833%) WebLogic
8 8 (1.629%) PowerExchange
9 7 (1.426%) Exchange Server 2003
10 6 (1.222%) Jetty
11 5 (1.018%) CMS
12 3 (0.611%) SharePoint 2010
12 3 (0.611%) ExpressionEngine
13 2 (0.407%) WebLogic Portal
13 2 (0.407%) Lotus Notes
13 2 (0.407%) WebSphere Application Server
13 2 (0.407%) IIS
13 2 (0.407%) SAS
13 2 (0.407%) Oracle Application Server
13 2 (0.407%) Exchange Server 2007
Applications
1 13 (2.648%) MS Excel
2 10 (2.037%) MS Office
3 5 (1.018%) Photoshop
3 5 (1.018%) Fireworks
4 4 (0.815%) Adobe Illustrator
5 2 (0.407%) Google Apps
5 2 (0.407%) Office 365
6 1 (0.204%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (0.611%) Google Analytics
2 2 (0.407%) Oracle 11i
2 2 (0.407%) Oracle Applications
2 2 (0.407%) Oracle EBS R12
Communications & Networking
1 103 (20.98%) TCP/IP
2 90 (18.33%) SAN
3 56 (11.41%) WAN
4 55 (11.20%) LAN
5 26 (5.295%) HTTP
6 25 (5.092%) Firewall
7 24 (4.888%) WLAN
8 21 (4.277%) LDAP
9 19 (3.870%) Internet
10 16 (3.259%) 3G
11 12 (2.444%) DNS
12 10 (2.037%) BGP
12 10 (2.037%) OSPF
12 10 (2.037%) GSM
12 10 (2.037%) Network Security
13 9 (1.833%) DHCP
14 8 (1.629%) SMPP
14 8 (1.629%) 2G
14 8 (1.629%) 4G
14 8 (1.629%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (10.39%) DB2
2 50 (10.18%) MySQL
3 33 (6.721%) SQL Server
4 27 (5.499%) Data Warehouse
5 12 (2.444%) Oracle 10g
5 12 (2.444%) Oracle 8/8i
6 11 (2.240%) Hadoop
6 11 (2.240%) TOAD
7 10 (2.037%) RDBMS
8 9 (1.833%) Oracle 11g
9 8 (1.629%) Star Schema
10 7 (1.426%) Oracle Reports
11 6 (1.222%) SQL Server 2005
12 5 (1.018%) Big Data
13 4 (0.815%) SQL Server 2000
13 4 (0.815%) Redis
14 3 (0.611%) NoSQL
14 3 (0.611%) Oracle 9i
15 2 (0.407%) SQL Server 2008
16 1 (0.204%) NonStop SQL
Development Applications
1 31 (6.314%) Ant
2 27 (5.499%) Maven
3 22 (4.481%) ClearCase
3 22 (4.481%) ClearQuest
4 14 (2.851%) Subversion
5 13 (2.648%) Jenkins
5 13 (2.648%) JUnit
5 13 (2.648%) Eclipse
6 12 (2.444%) Git (software)
7 7 (1.426%) Log4j
7 7 (1.426%) Oracle Forms
8 6 (1.222%) PVCS
8 6 (1.222%) Team Foundation Server
9 5 (1.018%) Mercurial
10 4 (0.815%) Gradle
11 3 (0.611%) JMeter
12 2 (0.407%) LoadRunner
13 1 (0.204%) JProfiler
13 1 (0.204%) Selenium
13 1 (0.204%) JIRA
General
1 65 (13.24%) German Language
2 60 (12.22%) French Language
3 34 (6.925%) Finance
4 32 (6.517%) Telecoms
5 18 (3.666%) Banking
6 17 (3.462%) Marketing
7 16 (3.259%) Retail
8 9 (1.833%) Italian Language
9 8 (1.629%) Spanish Language
10 7 (1.426%) Billing
10 7 (1.426%) Military
11 5 (1.018%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.407%) Russian Language
13 1 (0.204%) Czech Language
13 1 (0.204%) Financial Institution
13 1 (0.204%) Games
13 1 (0.204%) Legal
Job Titles
1 95 (19.35%) Analyst
2 86 (17.52%) Support Engineer
3 77 (15.68%) Technical Support
4 61 (12.42%) Administrator
5 58 (11.81%) Developer
6 56 (11.41%) Systems Administrator
7 55 (11.20%) Security Analyst
8 47 (9.572%) Technical Engineer
9 46 (9.369%) Technical Support Engineer
10 37 (7.536%) Consultant
11 30 (6.110%) Support Analyst
12 29 (5.906%) Linux Administrator
13 27 (5.499%) UNIX Engineer
14 26 (5.295%) Senior Security Analyst
14 26 (5.295%) Linux Systems Administrator
14 26 (5.295%) Senior Analyst
15 24 (4.888%) UNIX Support
16 20 (4.073%) Network Engineer
17 19 (3.870%) Support Specialist
17 19 (3.870%) Technical Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 76 (15.48%) Clustering
2 37 (7.536%) Replication
3 30 (6.110%) Computer Science
4 25 (5.092%) Management Information System
5 19 (3.870%) Open Source
6 14 (2.851%) SaaS
7 12 (2.444%) DataPower
8 10 (2.037%) Device Driver
9 9 (1.833%) Firmware
10 8 (1.629%) Human Factors
11 6 (1.222%) Taxonomies
11 6 (1.222%) Ontologies
12 5 (1.018%) Social Media
12 5 (1.018%) Embedded Systems
13 4 (0.815%) HACMP
13 4 (0.815%) N-Tier
14 3 (0.611%) LPAR
14 3 (0.611%) DLPAR
14 3 (0.611%) CLARiiON
14 3 (0.611%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 253 (51.53%) Linux
2 221 (45.01%) Windows
3 114 (23.22%) Solaris
4 87 (17.72%) AIX
5 71 (14.46%) HPUX
6 59 (12.02%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 58 (11.81%) SUSE
8 13 (2.648%) Windows Server 2003
9 12 (2.444%) CentOS
10 11 (2.240%) Ubuntu
11 9 (1.833%) Windows Server 2008
12 8 (1.629%) Windows XP
12 8 (1.629%) Windows 2000
13 7 (1.426%) VxWorks
14 5 (1.018%) Fedora
14 5 (1.018%) VMS
15 4 (0.815%) Debian
16 3 (0.611%) IRIX
17 1 (0.204%) Windows 7
17 1 (0.204%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (13.85%) Project Management
2 59 (12.02%) PRINCE2
3 45 (9.165%) ITIL
4 35 (7.128%) Agile Software Development
5 33 (6.721%) Data Protection
6 26 (5.295%) Data Modelling
6 26 (5.295%) Problem Management
7 24 (4.888%) Incident Management
8 21 (4.277%) Service Management
9 20 (4.073%) OO
10 18 (3.666%) Performance Management
10 18 (3.666%) Multithreading
10 18 (3.666%) CMMI
11 17 (3.462%) Configuration Management
12 16 (3.259%) Service Delivery
13 15 (3.055%) ETL
14 13 (2.648%) UML
14 13 (2.648%) Disaster Recovery
15 12 (2.444%) Migration
15 12 (2.444%) Performance Testing
Programming Languages
1 111 (22.61%) SQL
2 103 (20.98%) Shell Script
3 80 (16.29%) Java
4 56 (11.41%) Perl
5 41 (8.350%) C
6 40 (8.147%) C++
7 34 (6.925%) PHP
8 26 (5.295%) PL/SQL
9 21 (4.277%) Python
10 20 (4.073%) Bash shell
11 17 (3.462%) JavaScript
12 7 (1.426%) Scala
12 7 (1.426%) Ruby
13 6 (1.222%) C#
14 5 (1.018%) Ada
15 3 (0.611%) PHP5
16 2 (0.407%) ActionScript
16 2 (0.407%) PowerShell
17 1 (0.204%) ActionScript 3.0
17 1 (0.204%) ActionScript 2.0
Qualifications
1 63 (12.83%) CISSP
2 59 (12.02%) JNCIA
2 59 (12.02%) JNCIE
2 59 (12.02%) CCSA
2 59 (12.02%) CCSE
3 35 (7.128%) Degree
4 31 (6.314%) Cisco Certification
4 31 (6.314%) CCNA
5 18 (3.666%) CCNP
6 17 (3.462%) Security Cleared
7 9 (1.833%) SC Cleared
7 9 (1.833%) DV Cleared
8 7 (1.426%) ISTQB
8 7 (1.426%) ISEB
9 4 (0.815%) ITIL Certification
10 2 (0.407%) HNC
10 2 (0.407%) HND
11 1 (0.204%) NCDA
11 1 (0.204%) NCIE
11 1 (0.204%) Citrix Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (3.666%) ISO 9000
1 18 (3.666%) SLA
2 6 (1.222%) ISO 9001
2 6 (1.222%) QA
3 5 (1.018%) DO-178B
4 4 (0.815%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 4 (0.815%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (0.611%) WAI
6 2 (0.407%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 36 (7.332%) Active Directory
2 29 (5.906%) Veritas Cluster Server
3 21 (4.277%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (2.851%) Hyper-V
5 12 (2.444%) Oracle RAC
6 11 (2.240%) vSphere
7 10 (2.037%) Xen
8 7 (1.426%) Sendmail
9 5 (1.018%) XenApp
9 5 (1.018%) Snort
10 3 (0.611%) Apache ZooKeeper
10 3 (0.611%) Oracle RMAN
11 2 (0.407%) NDS
11 2 (0.407%) XenServer
11 2 (0.407%) XenDesktop
12 1 (0.204%) Forefront TMG
12 1 (0.204%) Veritas Volume Manager
12 1 (0.204%) Citrix Presentation Server
12 1 (0.204%) NFS
12 1 (0.204%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 21 (4.277%) NetBackup
2 19 (3.870%) Puppet
3 17 (3.462%) HP Quality Center
4 11 (2.240%) Nagios
5 9 (1.833%) Ganglia
5 9 (1.833%) Veritas Storage Foundation
6 7 (1.426%) Zenoss
7 5 (1.018%) ZABBIX
7 5 (1.018%) Tivoli Storage Manager
8 4 (0.815%) Tivoli
9 3 (0.611%) PureDisk
9 3 (0.611%) Data Guard
9 3 (0.611%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
9 3 (0.611%) Backup Exec
10 2 (0.407%) Netcool
10 2 (0.407%) SCCM
10 2 (0.407%) SCOM
11 1 (0.204%) Cisco CUCM
11 1 (0.204%) Cisco IPCC
Vendors
1 158 (32.18%) Oracle
2 137 (27.90%) Cisco
3 92 (18.74%) IBM
4 70 (14.26%) Red Hat
5 62 (12.63%) McAfee
6 61 (12.42%) Juniper
6 61 (12.42%) F5
7 60 (12.22%) CheckPoint
8 59 (12.02%) Blue Coat
8 59 (12.02%) Sourcefire
9 51 (10.39%) VMware
10 49 (9.980%) HP
11 48 (9.776%) Sun
12 39 (7.943%) Microsoft
12 39 (7.943%) EMC
13 35 (7.128%) Sybase
14 34 (6.925%) Hitachi
15 32 (6.517%) Veritas
16 20 (4.073%) Citrix
17 13 (2.648%) Ab Initio
Reading, Thames Valley
Knowledge of different testing techniques is essential; however, applicants needn't come from a pure testing background.Key technologies include UNIX (Aix, Solaris), SQL on MS SQL Server (...
E-Resourcing
Salary: £55000 - £60000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 22 May 2013
Reading, Thames Valley
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E-Resourcing
Salary: £60000 - £65000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 22 May 2013
Reading, Berkshire
Strong knowledge of at least 1 programming language: Python, Java, C++, Perl or Shell scripting. Great Linux/UNIX systems knowledge... Keywords/SEO: Senior DevOps Engineer, Systems Engineer, Internet...
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Salary: From £60,000 to £70,000 per annum + benefits
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Reading, Berkshire
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Evolution Recruitment Solutions
Salary: 25000 - 46000 + excellent benefits
Posted: 22 May 2013
Reading, Berkshire
7+ years of professional related experience in Java/J2EE/SQL - Extensive experience in database design and concepts, strong SQL/PL- SQL skills - Experience designing/implementing high performance SQL...
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Salary: From £50,000 to £80,000 per annum + Stock Options + Company Pension +
Posted: 22 May 2013
Reading, Thames Valley
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Streamline IT Recruitment
Salary: £55000 - £65000 per annum + Pension, Bonus
Posted: 22 May 2013
Reading, Berkshire
Your storage expertise must be commendable with proficiency particularly SAN with iSCSI and Fibre Channel protocols. A clustering exposure is also required for the role so you will...
Evolution Recruitment Solutions
Salary: Negotiable
Posted: 17 May 2013
Reading, Berkshire
Your storage expertise must be commendable with proficiency particularly SAN with iSCSI and Fibre Channel protocols. A clustering exposure is also required for the role so you will...
Evolution Recruitment Solutions
Salary: Negotiable
Posted: 17 May 2013
Reading, Thames Valley
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Streamline IT Recruitment
Salary: £60000 - £70000 per annum + Pension,
Posted: 22 May 2013
Reading, Berkshire
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Posted: 21 May 2013
Reading, Berkshire
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Evolution Recruitment Solutions
Salary: 25000 - 45000
Posted: 17 May 2013
Reading, Berkshire
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Connections Recruitment Ltd.
Salary: £55000 - £65000 per annum + Bens
Posted: 17 May 2013
Reading, Berkshire
Make a difference at Symantec... In the Enterprise Product Group CTO, you will have the opportunity to drive the fundamentals of Symantec’s enterprise technology... You can contribute...
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Posted: 9 May 2013
Reading, UK, Thames Valley
Websense, Inc... Update the Knowledge Base with solutions as appropriate.Adhere to company policies and procedures regarding customer handling processes, service entitlement verification, customer registration, and problem escalation...
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Salary: £0 - £40,000 per year
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Reading, Berkshire
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Salary: £45000 - £50000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 17 May 2013
Reading, Berkshire or London
In depth technical experience with the following technologies: Internet Technologies: HTTP, TCP/IP, DNS, UDP, SPDY, Apache, Github Programming Languages: Java, JavaScript, PHP, Python, C++ Operating systems: Linux,...
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Salary: competitive, plus bonus and full benefits package
Posted: 23 May 2013
Reading, Berkshire
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Salary: £45000 - 55000 Per Annum plus benefits
Posted: 22 May 2013
Reading, Thames Valley
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Posted: 23 May 2013
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Salary: £35000 per annum + Car allowance + Benefits
Posted: 30 April 2013
Reading, Berkshire
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Evolution Recruitment Solutions
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Reading, South East
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OPUS
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Opus Recruitment Solutions Ltd
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