The first table below looks at the demand for UNIX skills in IT jobs advertised for the Royston region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited UNIX over the 3 months to 21 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 Royston region.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
UNIX
Rank 7 3 -
Rank change year-on-year
-4 -
Permanent jobs citing UNIX 2 4 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Royston 9.524% 26.67% -
As % of the Operating Systems category 28.57% 66.67% -
Number of salaries quoted 2 4 0
Average salary £41,250 £33,000 -
Average salary % change year-on-year
+25.00% -
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
All Operating Systems
Royston
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
7 6 2
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Royston 33.33% 40.00% 16.67%
Number of salaries quoted 7 6 2
Average salary £25,000 £33,000 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-24.24% +1.53%
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
UNIX
Hertfordshire

UNIX
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Royston 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 Royston region.

Royston UNIX Salary Trend

UNIX
Top 27 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Royston 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 12 (75.00%) Linux
2 11 (68.75%) XML
2 11 (68.75%) Pharmaceutical
2 11 (68.75%) C++
2 11 (68.75%) Scrum
2 11 (68.75%) Agile Software Development
3 7 (43.75%) Automated Testing
3 7 (43.75%) QA
3 7 (43.75%) V-Model
3 7 (43.75%) Test Automation
3 7 (43.75%) Waterfall
3 7 (43.75%) Ruby
3 7 (43.75%) Java
3 7 (43.75%) Ant
3 7 (43.75%) Shell Script
3 7 (43.75%) JMeter
4 5 (31.25%) Solaris
4 5 (31.25%) TCP/IP
4 5 (31.25%) Cisco
4 5 (31.25%) Load Balancing
5 4 (25.00%) Web Application Development
5 4 (25.00%) CSS
5 4 (25.00%) JSP
5 4 (25.00%) Web Services
5 4 (25.00%) JavaScript
5 4 (25.00%) Oracle
5 4 (25.00%) HTML

UNIX
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Royston 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 11 (68.75%) XML
2 4 (25.00%) CSS
2 4 (25.00%) JSP
2 4 (25.00%) Web Services
2 4 (25.00%) HTML
Communications & Networking
1 5 (31.25%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 7 (43.75%) Ant
1 7 (43.75%) JMeter
General
1 11 (68.75%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 7 (43.75%) Senior Test Engineer
1 7 (43.75%) Test Engineer
2 5 (31.25%) UNIX Administrator
2 5 (31.25%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 5 (31.25%) UNIX Engineer
3 4 (25.00%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
3 4 (25.00%) Senior Software Engineer
3 4 (25.00%) C++ Software Engineer
3 4 (25.00%) Software Engineer
Operating Systems
1 12 (75.00%) Linux
2 5 (31.25%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (68.75%) Scrum
1 11 (68.75%) Agile Software Development
2 7 (43.75%) Automated Testing
2 7 (43.75%) V-Model
2 7 (43.75%) Test Automation
2 7 (43.75%) Waterfall
3 5 (31.25%) Load Balancing
4 4 (25.00%) Web Application Development
Programming Languages
1 11 (68.75%) C++
2 7 (43.75%) Ruby
2 7 (43.75%) Java
2 7 (43.75%) Shell Script
3 4 (25.00%) JavaScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (43.75%) QA
Vendors
1 5 (31.25%) Cisco
2 4 (25.00%) Oracle