The first table below looks at the demand for the UNIX Engineer 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 Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 17 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
UNIX Engineer
Rank 196 193 174
Rank change year-on-year
-3 -19
Permanent jobs requiring a UNIX Engineer 14 22 31
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the South West 0.267% 0.399% 0.529%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.276% 0.418% 0.556%
Number of salaries quoted 12 12 27
Average salary £40,000 £50,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-20.00% +25.00%
90% offered a salary of more than £35,700 £50,000 £32,300
10% offered a salary of more than £49,000 £50,000 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £47,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-15.78% +26.66%
All Job Titles
South West
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
5066 5265 5574
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the South West 96.57% 95.45% 95.09%
Number of salaries quoted 4462 4544 4772
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 Engineer
England

UNIX Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South West UNIX Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

UNIX Engineer
Salary Trend

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

South West UNIX Engineer Salary Trend

UNIX Engineer
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing UNIX Engineer across the South West region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

South West UNIX Engineer Salary Histogram

UNIX Engineer
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing UNIX Engineer within the South West region over the 3 months to 17 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 +3 13 £40,000 -20.00%
Wiltshire +8 1 £37,500 -
UNIX Engineer
England

UNIX Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the South West region that cited UNIX Engineer 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 Engineer in their job title.

1 42 (100.00%) UNIX
2 41 (97.62%) Linux
3 34 (80.95%) Security Cleared
4 33 (78.57%) Shell Script
5 32 (76.19%) DHCP
5 32 (76.19%) DNS
6 24 (57.14%) HPUX
6 24 (57.14%) Solaris
6 24 (57.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 23 (54.76%) Clustering
7 23 (54.76%) Perl
8 22 (52.38%) DV Cleared
9 16 (38.10%) Red Hat
10 13 (30.95%) Root Cause Analysis
11 10 (23.81%) Symantec
12 9 (21.43%) Veritas Storage Foundation
12 9 (21.43%) Veritas Cluster Server
12 9 (21.43%) Veritas
13 5 (11.90%) HP
13 5 (11.90%) C
14 4 (9.524%) SAN
15 3 (7.143%) TCP/IP
15 3 (7.143%) SLA
16 2 (4.762%) SC Cleared
16 2 (4.762%) Retail
16 2 (4.762%) Apache
16 2 (4.762%) ITIL
16 2 (4.762%) AIX
16 2 (4.762%) Firmware
16 2 (4.762%) Service Management

UNIX Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Platforms
1 2 (4.762%) Apache
Communications & Networking
1 32 (76.19%) DHCP
1 32 (76.19%) DNS
2 4 (9.524%) SAN
3 3 (7.143%) TCP/IP
General
1 2 (4.762%) Retail
2 1 (2.381%) Telecoms
2 1 (2.381%) Finance
2 1 (2.381%) Legal
Miscellaneous
1 23 (54.76%) Clustering
2 2 (4.762%) Firmware
3 1 (2.381%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.381%) Economics
3 1 (2.381%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 42 (100.00%) UNIX
2 41 (97.62%) Linux
3 24 (57.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 24 (57.14%) HPUX
3 24 (57.14%) Solaris
4 2 (4.762%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (30.95%) Root Cause Analysis
2 2 (4.762%) ITIL
2 2 (4.762%) Service Management
3 1 (2.381%) Fault Management
3 1 (2.381%) Change Control
3 1 (2.381%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 33 (78.57%) Shell Script
2 23 (54.76%) Perl
3 5 (11.90%) C
Qualifications
1 34 (80.95%) Security Cleared
2 22 (52.38%) DV Cleared
3 2 (4.762%) SC Cleared
4 1 (2.381%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (2.381%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (7.143%) SLA
2 1 (2.381%) QA
System Software
1 9 (21.43%) Veritas Cluster Server
2 1 (2.381%) NFS
Systems Management
1 9 (21.43%) Veritas Storage Foundation
2 1 (2.381%) EMC NetWorker
2 1 (2.381%) Tivoli
2 1 (2.381%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 16 (38.10%) Red Hat
2 10 (23.81%) Symantec
3 9 (21.43%) Veritas
4 5 (11.90%) HP
5 1 (2.381%) EMC
5 1 (2.381%) Oracle
5 1 (2.381%) IBM
5 1 (2.381%) Sun
5 1 (2.381%) Capita
Chippenham, South West
The candidate will ideally have several years' experience and must have an excellent working knowledge of at least one primary versions of UNIX that may include Solaris, HP-...
Capita Resourcing
Salary: £35000 - £40000 per annum
Posted: 24 April 2013