The first table below looks at the demand for the UNIX Administrator role in IT jobs advertised for the South West 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 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 Job Titles advertised for the South West region.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
UNIX Administrator
Rank 200 213 -
Rank change year-on-year
+13 -
Permanent jobs requiring a UNIX Administrator 16 2 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the South West 0.303% 0.036% -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.313% 0.038% -
Number of salaries quoted 16 2 0
Average salary £39,750 £33,750 -
Average salary % change year-on-year
+17.77% -
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £39,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year
+2.56% -8.23%
All Job Titles
South West
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
5105 5288 5532
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the South West 96.61% 95.43% 95.10%
Number of salaries quoted 4500 4567 4737
Average salary £35,500 £36,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-1.38% +2.85%
90% offered a salary of more than £23,500 £24,000 £22,500
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
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 West region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

South West 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 West region.

South West UNIX Administrator Salary Trend

UNIX Administrator
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing UNIX Administrator across the South West region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

South West 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 West region over the 3 months to 21 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
Gloucestershire - 14 £35,000 -
Bristol -8 2 £50,000 +33.33%
UNIX Administrator
England

UNIX Administrator
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the South West 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 35 (100.00%) UNIX
2 34 (97.14%) Linux
3 32 (91.43%) DNS
4 30 (85.71%) Perl
5 28 (80.00%) Shell Script
6 23 (65.71%) Red Hat
7 19 (54.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 18 (51.43%) DV Cleared
8 18 (51.43%) Security Cleared
8 18 (51.43%) C
8 18 (51.43%) DHCP
9 17 (48.57%) Clustering
10 13 (37.14%) HTTP
10 13 (37.14%) SMTP
10 13 (37.14%) Internet
10 13 (37.14%) Root Cause Analysis
11 12 (34.29%) Load Balancing
12 10 (28.57%) ISA Server
12 10 (28.57%) Firewall
12 10 (28.57%) Juniper
12 10 (28.57%) Cisco
12 10 (28.57%) Microsoft
12 10 (28.57%) MS Exchange
12 10 (28.57%) Python
12 10 (28.57%) LDAP
12 10 (28.57%) Bash shell
12 10 (28.57%) Squid
12 10 (28.57%) qmail
12 10 (28.57%) Postfix
12 10 (28.57%) Sendmail

UNIX Administrator
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the South West 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 3 (8.571%) HTML
2 2 (5.714%) Middleware
Application Platforms
1 10 (28.57%) MS Exchange
2 5 (14.29%) Apache
Communications & Networking
1 32 (91.43%) DNS
2 18 (51.43%) DHCP
3 13 (37.14%) HTTP
3 13 (37.14%) SMTP
3 13 (37.14%) Internet
4 10 (28.57%) Firewall
4 10 (28.57%) LDAP
5 5 (14.29%) TCP/IP
6 2 (5.714%) BGP
7 1 (2.857%) SAN
General
1 2 (5.714%) Retail
1 2 (5.714%) Marketing
2 1 (2.857%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 17 (48.57%) Clustering
2 7 (20.00%) SaaS
3 1 (2.857%) Firmware
3 1 (2.857%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 35 (100.00%) UNIX
2 34 (97.14%) Linux
3 19 (54.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (11.43%) HPUX
5 3 (8.571%) AIX
6 2 (5.714%) Ubuntu
6 2 (5.714%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (37.14%) Root Cause Analysis
2 12 (34.29%) Load Balancing
3 3 (8.571%) ITIL
3 3 (8.571%) E-Commerce
3 3 (8.571%) Time Management
4 2 (5.714%) Change Management
4 2 (5.714%) Capacity Management
Programming Languages
1 30 (85.71%) Perl
2 28 (80.00%) Shell Script
3 18 (51.43%) C
4 10 (28.57%) Python
4 10 (28.57%) Bash shell
Qualifications
1 18 (51.43%) DV Cleared
1 18 (51.43%) Security Cleared
2 2 (5.714%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (2.857%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (8.571%) SLA
System Software
1 10 (28.57%) ISA Server
1 10 (28.57%) Squid
1 10 (28.57%) qmail
1 10 (28.57%) Postfix
1 10 (28.57%) Sendmail
2 2 (5.714%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
2 2 (5.714%) NFS
2 2 (5.714%) Cygwin
2 2 (5.714%) Veritas Volume Manager
2 2 (5.714%) Xen
2 2 (5.714%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (5.714%) HP Data Protector
1 2 (5.714%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 23 (65.71%) Red Hat
2 10 (28.57%) Juniper
2 10 (28.57%) Cisco
2 10 (28.57%) Microsoft
3 2 (5.714%) ATG
3 2 (5.714%) Perforce
3 2 (5.714%) VMware
3 2 (5.714%) IBM
3 2 (5.714%) HP
3 2 (5.714%) Intel
3 2 (5.714%) NetApp
3 2 (5.714%) Veritas
3 2 (5.714%) Isilon
3 2 (5.714%) F5
4 1 (2.857%) Capita