The first table below looks at the demand for the UNIX Systems 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 Systems Administrator in their job title 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 Job Titles advertised for the South East region.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
UNIX System Administrator (UNIX SA)
Rank 425 417 383
Rank change year-on-year
-8 -34
Permanent jobs requiring a UNIX Systems Administrator 13 24 49
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the South East 0.059% 0.101% 0.211%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.062% 0.106% 0.223%
Number of salaries quoted 10 16 35
Average salary £40,000 £40,000 £44,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- -9.09%
90% offered a salary of more than £32,000 £39,000 £40,616
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £46,250 £47,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £39,000 £41,500
% change year-on-year
+2.56% -6.02%
All Job Titles
South East
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
20864 22592 21955
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the South East 94.81% 95.22% 94.44%
Number of salaries quoted 17307 19499 18875
Average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £26,500 £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 Systems Administrator
England

UNIX Systems Administrator
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South East UNIX Systems Administrator Jobs Demand Trend

UNIX Systems Administrator
Salary Trend

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

South East UNIX Systems Administrator Salary Trend

UNIX Systems Administrator
Salary Histogram

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

South East UNIX Systems Administrator Salary Histogram

UNIX Systems Administrator
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing UNIX Systems Administrator within the South East region over the 3 months to 23 May 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
Surrey +4 3 £50,000 +11.11%
Berkshire -1 3 £35,750 -8.33%
Buckinghamshire - 2 £40,000 -
East Sussex - 2 £32,000 -
Hampshire - 2 - -
Middlesex - 1 £48,500 -
UNIX Systems Administrator
England

UNIX Systems Administrator
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the South East region that cited UNIX Systems 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 Systems Administrator in their job title.

1 44 (100.00%) UNIX
2 36 (81.82%) Linux
3 30 (68.18%) Red Hat
3 30 (68.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 26 (59.09%) Solaris
5 25 (56.82%) Shell Script
6 23 (52.27%) SAN
7 22 (50.00%) AIX
8 18 (40.91%) Clustering
9 17 (38.64%) Veritas
10 16 (36.36%) IBM
11 14 (31.82%) Symantec
11 14 (31.82%) Windows
11 14 (31.82%) MySQL
12 13 (29.55%) Oracle
13 12 (27.27%) Apache
13 12 (27.27%) Disaster Recovery
13 12 (27.27%) VMware
13 12 (27.27%) Veritas Cluster Server
14 11 (25.00%) Perl
14 11 (25.00%) Sun
15 10 (22.73%) ITIL
15 10 (22.73%) HPUX
15 10 (22.73%) TCP/IP
15 10 (22.73%) NetBackup
16 9 (20.45%) Finance
16 9 (20.45%) Cobbler
17 8 (18.18%) Change Management
17 8 (18.18%) Veritas Storage Foundation
17 8 (18.18%) EMC

UNIX Systems Administrator
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the South East region that cited UNIX Systems 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 Systems Administrator in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 5 (11.36%) SWT
2 4 (9.091%) LAMP
3 2 (4.545%) WebSphere
Application Platforms
1 12 (27.27%) Apache
2 5 (11.36%) Tomcat
3 2 (4.545%) WebSphere Application Server
3 2 (4.545%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
4 1 (2.273%) IIS
Applications
1 2 (4.545%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 2 (4.545%) Oracle 11i
2 1 (2.273%) assyst
Communications & Networking
1 23 (52.27%) SAN
2 10 (22.73%) TCP/IP
3 5 (11.36%) Firewall
4 4 (9.091%) NAS
4 4 (9.091%) Broadband
5 3 (6.818%) DNS
5 3 (6.818%) Cisco ASA
5 3 (6.818%) FWSM
6 2 (4.545%) Network Security
6 2 (4.545%) SSH
6 2 (4.545%) SSL
6 2 (4.545%) VPN
6 2 (4.545%) SMTP
6 2 (4.545%) LAN
6 2 (4.545%) WAN
6 2 (4.545%) BGP
6 2 (4.545%) HTTP
7 1 (2.273%) LDAP
7 1 (2.273%) DHCP
7 1 (2.273%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (31.82%) MySQL
2 6 (13.64%) DB2
3 2 (4.545%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (2.273%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (2.273%) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications
1 5 (11.36%) Subversion
General
1 9 (20.45%) Finance
2 4 (9.091%) Banking
2 4 (9.091%) French Language
2 4 (9.091%) German Language
3 1 (2.273%) Investment Banking
3 1 (2.273%) Financial Institution
Miscellaneous
1 18 (40.91%) Clustering
2 5 (11.36%) HACMP
2 5 (11.36%) Informatics
2 5 (11.36%) Open Source
2 5 (11.36%) Semantic Web
2 5 (11.36%) Cloud Computing
3 4 (9.091%) Replication
3 4 (9.091%) Mainframe
4 2 (4.545%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.273%) Firmware
Operating Systems
1 44 (100.00%) UNIX
2 36 (81.82%) Linux
3 30 (68.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 26 (59.09%) Solaris
5 22 (50.00%) AIX
6 14 (31.82%) Windows
7 10 (22.73%) HPUX
8 6 (13.64%) SUSE
9 4 (9.091%) CentOS
9 4 (9.091%) Debian
9 4 (9.091%) Ubuntu
9 4 (9.091%) VMS
10 1 (2.273%) Windows Server 2003
10 1 (2.273%) Windows Server 2008
10 1 (2.273%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (27.27%) Disaster Recovery
2 10 (22.73%) ITIL
3 8 (18.18%) Change Management
4 5 (11.36%) Bioinformatics
5 4 (9.091%) Performance Management
5 4 (9.091%) Data Protection
6 3 (6.818%) Project Management
6 3 (6.818%) Business Development
7 2 (4.545%) Resource Management
7 2 (4.545%) Incident Management
7 2 (4.545%) Supplier Management
8 1 (2.273%) Six Sigma
8 1 (2.273%) Logistics
8 1 (2.273%) Problem Management
8 1 (2.273%) Service Management
8 1 (2.273%) Capacity Management
8 1 (2.273%) Change Control
Programming Languages
1 25 (56.82%) Shell Script
2 11 (25.00%) Perl
3 7 (15.91%) Java
3 7 (15.91%) AWK
3 7 (15.91%) sed
4 5 (11.36%) PHP
5 4 (9.091%) Korn
5 4 (9.091%) C
6 2 (4.545%) Bash shell
6 2 (4.545%) Ruby
6 2 (4.545%) Python
7 1 (2.273%) Bourne shell
Qualifications
1 3 (6.818%) RHCE
2 1 (2.273%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (13.64%) SLA
2 2 (4.545%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 12 (27.27%) Veritas Cluster Server
2 7 (15.91%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (11.36%) Oracle RAC
4 4 (9.091%) Veritas Volume Manager
4 4 (9.091%) Veritas File System
5 3 (6.818%) VMware ESX
5 3 (6.818%) Sendmail
5 3 (6.818%) Varnish
5 3 (6.818%) vSphere
6 2 (4.545%) Postfix
6 2 (4.545%) Xen
6 2 (4.545%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
7 1 (2.273%) Samba
Systems Management
1 10 (22.73%) NetBackup
2 9 (20.45%) Cobbler
3 8 (18.18%) Veritas Storage Foundation
4 5 (11.36%) Puppet
4 5 (11.36%) YUM
5 3 (6.818%) Tivoli
6 2 (4.545%) HP SIM
6 2 (4.545%) HP Data Protector
7 1 (2.273%) Legato
7 1 (2.273%) OpenView
7 1 (2.273%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 30 (68.18%) Red Hat
2 17 (38.64%) Veritas
3 16 (36.36%) IBM
4 14 (31.82%) Symantec
5 13 (29.55%) Oracle
6 12 (27.27%) VMware
7 11 (25.00%) Sun
8 8 (18.18%) EMC
9 7 (15.91%) HP
10 4 (9.091%) Sybase
10 4 (9.091%) Cisco
10 4 (9.091%) Hitachi
11 3 (6.818%) NetApp
12 1 (2.273%) Compaq
12 1 (2.273%) Citrix
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In addition you will require the following: -DNS, SMTP, HTTP -Scripting: Either Shell, Perl, Ruby, Python -PostgreSQL or MySQL Working in a Java environment Additional experience of Puppet,...
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Posted: 17 May 2013