The first table below looks at the demand for the UNIX Administrator role in IT jobs advertised for the South East region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited UNIX Administrator in their job title over the 3 months to 17 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 Job Titles advertised for the South East region.

Location
3 months to
17 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
UNIX Administrator
Rank 396 415 367
Rank change year-on-year
+19 -48
Permanent jobs requiring a UNIX Administrator 34 29 62
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the South East 0.152% 0.122% 0.264%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.160% 0.128% 0.279%
Number of salaries quoted 31 21 32
Average salary £40,000 £45,000 £44,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-11.11% +2.27%
90% offered a salary of more than £32,000 £38,500 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £50,000 £47,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £38,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year
+3.89% -9.41%
All Job Titles
South East
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
21268 22739 22241
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the South East 94.93% 95.39% 94.68%
Number of salaries quoted 17694 19475 19188
Average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £26,000 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
UNIX Administrator
England

UNIX Administrator
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing UNIX Administrator across the South East region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

South East UNIX Administrator Jobs Demand Trend

UNIX Administrator
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing UNIX Administrator across the South East region.

South East UNIX Administrator Salary Trend

UNIX Administrator
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing UNIX Administrator across the South East region over the 3 months to 17 June 2013.

South East UNIX Administrator Salary Histogram

UNIX Administrator
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing UNIX Administrator within the South East region over the 3 months to 17 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
Surrey +14 12 £55,000 +22.22%
Hampshire - 11 £38,500 - 4
East Sussex +5 5 £32,000 -28.88%
Berkshire -14 3 £40,000 +2.56%
Oxfordshire -10 2 £45,000 +12.50%
Buckinghamshire - 1 £40,000 - 1
UNIX Administrator
England

UNIX Administrator
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 June 2013, IT jobs across the South East region that cited UNIX Administrator in their job title 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 with UNIX Administrator in their job title.

1 95 (100.00%) UNIX
2 62 (65.26%) Linux
3 56 (58.95%) Solaris
4 49 (51.58%) AIX
5 45 (47.37%) Red Hat
6 42 (44.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 31 (32.63%) Shell Script
8 30 (31.58%) Sun
9 25 (26.32%) SAN
9 25 (26.32%) IBM
10 24 (25.26%) Clustering
11 23 (24.21%) Veritas
12 22 (23.16%) HPUX
12 22 (23.16%) Disaster Recovery
13 21 (22.11%) ITIL
14 20 (21.05%) Perl
14 20 (21.05%) Oracle
15 16 (16.84%) NetBackup
15 16 (16.84%) MySQL
15 16 (16.84%) HP
16 15 (15.79%) Windows
16 15 (15.79%) HTTP
16 15 (15.79%) VMware
17 14 (14.74%) Finance
18 13 (13.68%) TCP/IP
19 11 (11.58%) Apache
19 11 (11.58%) OLTP
19 11 (11.58%) Symantec
19 11 (11.58%) AWK
19 11 (11.58%) Korn

UNIX Administrator
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 June 2013, IT jobs across the South East region that cited UNIX Administrator in their job title 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 with UNIX Administrator in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 4 (4.211%) LAMP
2 3 (3.158%) SWT
3 2 (2.105%) WebSphere
Application Platforms
1 11 (11.58%) Apache
2 3 (3.158%) Tomcat
3 2 (2.105%) WebSphere Application Server
3 2 (2.105%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
4 1 (1.053%) IIS
4 1 (1.053%) MQSeries
Applications
1 2 (2.105%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 2 (2.105%) Oracle 11i
2 1 (1.053%) assyst
Communications & Networking
1 25 (26.32%) SAN
2 15 (15.79%) HTTP
3 13 (13.68%) TCP/IP
4 7 (7.368%) DNS
5 6 (6.316%) Firewall
6 5 (5.263%) Network Security
6 5 (5.263%) BGP
6 5 (5.263%) SMTP
7 4 (4.211%) Broadband
7 4 (4.211%) NAS
8 3 (3.158%) FWSM
8 3 (3.158%) LAN
8 3 (3.158%) WAN
8 3 (3.158%) Cisco ASA
9 2 (2.105%) SSH
9 2 (2.105%) LDAP
9 2 (2.105%) SSL
9 2 (2.105%) VPN
10 1 (1.053%) HTTPS
10 1 (1.053%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (16.84%) MySQL
2 11 (11.58%) OLTP
3 5 (5.263%) VLDB
3 5 (5.263%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (5.263%) SQL Server
3 5 (5.263%) DB2
4 1 (1.053%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (1.053%) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications
1 3 (3.158%) Subversion
General
1 14 (14.74%) Finance
2 3 (3.158%) Financial Institution
2 3 (3.158%) French Language
2 3 (3.158%) German Language
3 1 (1.053%) Electronics
3 1 (1.053%) Telecoms
3 1 (1.053%) Retail
3 1 (1.053%) Multimedia
Miscellaneous
1 24 (25.26%) Clustering
2 8 (8.421%) HACMP
2 8 (8.421%) iSeries
3 4 (4.211%) Mainframe
4 3 (3.158%) Informatics
4 3 (3.158%) Replication
4 3 (3.158%) Cloud Computing
4 3 (3.158%) Open Source
4 3 (3.158%) Semantic Web
5 2 (2.105%) Computer Science
5 2 (2.105%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.053%) BBC
6 1 (1.053%) Firmware
Operating Systems
1 95 (100.00%) UNIX
2 62 (65.26%) Linux
3 56 (58.95%) Solaris
4 49 (51.58%) AIX
5 42 (44.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 22 (23.16%) HPUX
7 15 (15.79%) Windows
8 7 (7.368%) SUSE
8 7 (7.368%) Debian
8 7 (7.368%) Ubuntu
9 5 (5.263%) VMS
10 4 (4.211%) CentOS
11 1 (1.053%) Windows Server 2003
11 1 (1.053%) Oracle Linux
11 1 (1.053%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (23.16%) Disaster Recovery
2 21 (22.11%) ITIL
3 7 (7.368%) Change Management
4 4 (4.211%) Business Continuity
4 4 (4.211%) Problem Management
4 4 (4.211%) Capacity Planning
5 3 (3.158%) Performance Management
5 3 (3.158%) Data Protection
5 3 (3.158%) Incident Management
5 3 (3.158%) Bioinformatics
5 3 (3.158%) Migration
5 3 (3.158%) Six Sigma
5 3 (3.158%) Benchmarking
5 3 (3.158%) Project Management
5 3 (3.158%) Service Management
6 2 (2.105%) Supplier Management
6 2 (2.105%) Resource Management
7 1 (1.053%) Change Control
7 1 (1.053%) Business Development
7 1 (1.053%) Release Management
Programming Languages
1 31 (32.63%) Shell Script
2 20 (21.05%) Perl
3 11 (11.58%) AWK
3 11 (11.58%) Korn
4 8 (8.421%) Java
5 7 (7.368%) sed
6 6 (6.316%) Python
7 5 (5.263%) Ruby
8 4 (4.211%) Bourne shell
9 3 (3.158%) C
9 3 (3.158%) PHP
10 2 (2.105%) Bash shell
Qualifications
1 3 (3.158%) RHCE
1 3 (3.158%) IBM Certification
2 1 (1.053%) Security Cleared
2 1 (1.053%) Sun Certification
2 1 (1.053%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.263%) SLA
2 2 (2.105%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 11 (11.58%) Veritas Volume Manager
2 10 (10.53%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (8.421%) Veritas File System
3 8 (8.421%) Veritas Cluster Server
4 5 (5.263%) Xen
5 4 (4.211%) Oracle RAC
6 3 (3.158%) VMware ESX
6 3 (3.158%) vSphere
6 3 (3.158%) Varnish
7 2 (2.105%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
7 2 (2.105%) Postfix
7 2 (2.105%) Sendmail
8 1 (1.053%) Samba
8 1 (1.053%) Squid
Systems Management
1 16 (16.84%) NetBackup
2 9 (9.474%) Tivoli
3 8 (8.421%) Puppet
4 7 (7.368%) Tivoli Storage Manager
4 7 (7.368%) Veritas Storage Foundation
5 6 (6.316%) Cobbler
6 5 (5.263%) YUM
7 2 (2.105%) HP SIM
7 2 (2.105%) HP Data Protector
7 2 (2.105%) BMC PATROL
8 1 (1.053%) OpenView
Vendors
1 45 (47.37%) Red Hat
2 30 (31.58%) Sun
3 25 (26.32%) IBM
4 23 (24.21%) Veritas
5 20 (21.05%) Oracle
6 16 (16.84%) HP
7 15 (15.79%) VMware
8 11 (11.58%) Symantec
9 6 (6.316%) EMC
10 4 (4.211%) Cisco
10 4 (4.211%) BMC
11 3 (3.158%) Hitachi
11 3 (3.158%) NetApp
11 3 (3.158%) Sybase
12 1 (1.053%) JBoss
12 1 (1.053%) Citrix
Portsmouth, South East
UNIX System Administrator - AIX - IT Services Fantastic opportunity for experienced UNIX System Administrator with solid AIX experience to join a leading IT Services company based in central PortsmouthThe...
Harvey Nash plc
Salary: £35000 - £40000 per annum + bens + bonus
Posted: 24 May 2013
Portsmouth, South East
UNIX System Administrator who wish to be considered for this position must display the following skills and expertise: - Solid UNIX System Administrator background - Solid AIX background - Version 5...
Harvey Nash plc
Salary: £35000 - £45000 per annum + bens
Posted: 4 June 2013
Hampshire
UNIX Administrator required for fantastic permanent opportunity in Hampshire. The role is to ensure the normal operation of the UNIX infrastructure through the provision of proactive and reactive...
Colston Consulting
Salary: £35k - 45k per year
Posted: 11 June 2013
Winchester, Hampshire
Your specific knowledge will include:• UNIX operating systems - Solaris, AIX, HP-UX, Redhat Linux• UNIX servers - Sun, HP, IBM pSeries, IBM iSeries• UNIX-related industry initiatives.Your experience...
Arqiva
Salary: £35,000 - £45,000
Posted: 13 June 2013
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