The first table below looks at the demand for the UNIX Support 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 Support 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 Support
Rank 202 - 197
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Permanent jobs requiring a UNIX Support 8 0 8
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the South West 0.152% - 0.136%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.158% - 0.144%
Number of salaries quoted 8 0 7
Average salary £42,000 - £32,000
90% offered a salary of more than £40,650 - £25,500
10% offered a salary of more than £45,000 - £32,500
UK excluding London average salary £45,000 £36,000 £35,000
% change year-on-year
+25.00% +2.85%
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 Support
England

UNIX Support
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South West UNIX Support Jobs Demand Trend

UNIX Support
Salary Trend

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

South West UNIX Support Salary Trend

UNIX Support
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing UNIX Support 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 - 6 £42,000 -
Dorset - 2 £41,250 -
UNIX Support
England

UNIX Support
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 21 (100.00%) UNIX
2 16 (76.19%) Shell Script
3 13 (61.90%) Linux
4 10 (47.62%) Squid
4 10 (47.62%) Firewall
4 10 (47.62%) Load Balancing
4 10 (47.62%) qmail
4 10 (47.62%) Postfix
4 10 (47.62%) Sendmail
4 10 (47.62%) Bash shell
4 10 (47.62%) Python
4 10 (47.62%) LDAP
4 10 (47.62%) MS Exchange
4 10 (47.62%) SMTP
4 10 (47.62%) HTTP
4 10 (47.62%) Perl
4 10 (47.62%) SQL
4 10 (47.62%) Internet
4 10 (47.62%) ISA Server
4 10 (47.62%) DNS
4 10 (47.62%) Cisco
4 10 (47.62%) Microsoft
4 10 (47.62%) Juniper
5 7 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
5 7 (33.33%) SaaS
5 7 (33.33%) Telecoms
5 7 (33.33%) SLA
6 3 (14.29%) Java
6 3 (14.29%) ITIL
7 2 (9.524%) Cognizant

UNIX Support
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 1 (4.762%) J2EE
1 1 (4.762%) Spring
Application Platforms
1 10 (47.62%) MS Exchange
2 1 (4.762%) WebLogic
Communications & Networking
1 10 (47.62%) LDAP
1 10 (47.62%) SMTP
1 10 (47.62%) HTTP
1 10 (47.62%) DNS
1 10 (47.62%) Internet
1 10 (47.62%) Firewall
2 1 (4.762%) IPsec
2 1 (4.762%) TCP/IP
2 1 (4.762%) VPN
General
1 7 (33.33%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 7 (33.33%) SaaS
Operating Systems
1 21 (100.00%) UNIX
2 13 (61.90%) Linux
3 2 (9.524%) Windows
3 2 (9.524%) AIX
3 2 (9.524%) Solaris
4 1 (4.762%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (47.62%) Load Balancing
2 7 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
3 3 (14.29%) ITIL
4 1 (4.762%) MVC
4 1 (4.762%) Performance Management
Programming Languages
1 16 (76.19%) Shell Script
2 10 (47.62%) Bash shell
2 10 (47.62%) Perl
2 10 (47.62%) SQL
2 10 (47.62%) Python
3 3 (14.29%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (9.524%) Degree
2 1 (4.762%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (33.33%) SLA
System Software
1 10 (47.62%) ISA Server
1 10 (47.62%) Squid
1 10 (47.62%) qmail
1 10 (47.62%) Postfix
1 10 (47.62%) Sendmail
Vendors
1 10 (47.62%) Cisco
1 10 (47.62%) Microsoft
1 10 (47.62%) Juniper
2 2 (9.524%) Cognizant
2 2 (9.524%) Oracle
3 1 (4.762%) Red Hat
3 1 (4.762%) VMware
3 1 (4.762%) Twitter