The first table below looks at the demand for UNIX skills in IT jobs advertised for the South Yorkshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited UNIX 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 of the Operating Systems category for the South Yorkshire region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
UNIX
Rank 52 42 15
Rank change year-on-year
-10 -27
Permanent jobs citing UNIX 24 38 87
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in South Yorkshire 3.333% 3.992% 10.09%
As % of the Operating Systems category 11.59% 17.04% 39.91%
Number of salaries quoted 19 29 55
Average salary £40,000 £35,000 £31,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+14.28% +12.90%
90% offered a salary of more than £24,480 £28,000 £23,000
10% offered a salary of more than £64,000 £38,000 £66,200
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
All Operating Systems
South Yorkshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
207 223 218
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in South Yorkshire 28.75% 23.42% 25.29%
Number of salaries quoted 167 181 162
Average salary £32,500 £30,000 £30,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+8.33% -
90% offered a salary of more than £16,500 £19,000 £22,500
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £45,000 £41,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
UNIX
Yorkshire

UNIX
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South Yorkshire UNIX Jobs Demand Trend

UNIX
Salary Trend

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

South Yorkshire UNIX Salary Trend

UNIX
Salary Histogram

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

South Yorkshire UNIX Salary Histogram

UNIX
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing UNIX within the South Yorkshire 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
Sheffield +6 19 £40,000 +14.28%
Barnsley +12 2 £47,250 +56.19%
Doncaster -8 2 £29,000 -10.76%
Rotherham -9 1 - -
UNIX
Yorkshire

UNIX
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the South Yorkshire region citing UNIX also 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 that cited UNIX.

1 52 (72.22%) Linux
2 21 (29.17%) Solaris
3 19 (26.39%) Windows
4 18 (25.00%) SAN
5 15 (20.83%) VMware
5 15 (20.83%) AIX
6 13 (18.06%) ITIL
6 13 (18.06%) Perl
7 12 (16.67%) MySQL
7 12 (16.67%) Oracle
8 11 (15.28%) Security Cleared
9 10 (13.89%) Banking
9 10 (13.89%) Bash shell
9 10 (13.89%) Python
10 9 (12.50%) Microsoft
10 9 (12.50%) SQL Server
10 9 (12.50%) HPUX
11 8 (11.11%) Oracle RMAN
11 8 (11.11%) Apache
11 8 (11.11%) Puppet
11 8 (11.11%) Oracle 11g
12 7 (9.722%) VMware Infrastructure
12 7 (9.722%) SLA
12 7 (9.722%) IBM
12 7 (9.722%) PHP
12 7 (9.722%) SOAP
12 7 (9.722%) Firewall
12 7 (9.722%) Shell Script
13 6 (8.333%) ITIL Certification
13 6 (8.333%) Red Hat

UNIX
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the South Yorkshire region citing UNIX also 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 that cited UNIX. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 7 (9.722%) SOAP
2 5 (6.944%) XML
3 4 (5.556%) LAMP
4 3 (4.167%) EDI
4 3 (4.167%) REST
4 3 (4.167%) Web Services
4 3 (4.167%) CSS
5 2 (2.778%) JSP
5 2 (2.778%) HTML
5 2 (2.778%) J2EE
5 2 (2.778%) XHTML
5 2 (2.778%) Hibernate
5 2 (2.778%) Spring
6 1 (1.389%) Ajax
6 1 (1.389%) .NET
6 1 (1.389%) Flash
Application Platforms
1 8 (11.11%) Apache
2 3 (4.167%) Amazon AWS
3 2 (2.778%) MS Exchange
3 2 (2.778%) Exchange Server 2003
3 2 (2.778%) Exchange Server 2007
4 1 (1.389%) Exchange Server 2010
4 1 (1.389%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (1.389%) IIS
Applications
1 4 (5.556%) MS Excel
2 1 (1.389%) Adobe Illustrator
2 1 (1.389%) Photoshop
2 1 (1.389%) MS Project
Business Applications
1 1 (1.389%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (1.389%) Oracle EBS R12
Communications & Networking
1 18 (25.00%) SAN
2 7 (9.722%) Firewall
3 3 (4.167%) NAS
3 3 (4.167%) Internet
4 2 (2.778%) HTTP
4 2 (2.778%) TCP/IP
4 2 (2.778%) Intrusion Detection
4 2 (2.778%) Network Security
5 1 (1.389%) Fibre Channel
5 1 (1.389%) DNS
5 1 (1.389%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (16.67%) MySQL
2 9 (12.50%) SQL Server
3 8 (11.11%) Oracle 11g
4 5 (6.944%) Oracle 8/8i
5 3 (4.167%) Oracle 10g
5 3 (4.167%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (2.778%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 2 (2.778%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 2 (2.778%) JUnit
1 2 (2.778%) Git (software)
General
1 10 (13.89%) Banking
2 6 (8.333%) Finance
3 1 (1.389%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 26 (36.11%) Administrator
2 18 (25.00%) UNIX Administrator
3 12 (16.67%) Systems Administrator
4 11 (15.28%) Analyst
5 9 (12.50%) Developer
5 9 (12.50%) Systems Engineer
6 8 (11.11%) Oracle DBA
6 8 (11.11%) DBA
7 6 (8.333%) Linux Systems Administrator
7 6 (8.333%) Linux Administrator
8 5 (6.944%) Project Manager
8 5 (6.944%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 4 (5.556%) Data Analyst
9 4 (5.556%) UNIX Systems Administrator
9 4 (5.556%) Support Analyst
9 4 (5.556%) UNIX Support
9 4 (5.556%) UNIX Engineer
9 4 (5.556%) UNIX Support Analyst
9 4 (5.556%) PHP Developer
9 4 (5.556%) Linux Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (6.944%) Management Information System
2 3 (4.167%) Digital Media
3 2 (2.778%) Open Source
3 2 (2.778%) Replication
4 1 (1.389%) Clustering
4 1 (1.389%) Statistics
4 1 (1.389%) Data Conversion
4 1 (1.389%) Data Extraction
4 1 (1.389%) TRADACOMS
Operating Systems
1 52 (72.22%) Linux
2 21 (29.17%) Solaris
3 19 (26.39%) Windows
4 15 (20.83%) AIX
5 9 (12.50%) HPUX
6 5 (6.944%) Ubuntu
7 4 (5.556%) Debian
8 3 (4.167%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 2 (2.778%) Windows 7
9 2 (2.778%) Windows Server 2008
9 2 (2.778%) Windows Server 2003
9 2 (2.778%) SUSE
9 2 (2.778%) Windows 2000
9 2 (2.778%) Windows NT
9 2 (2.778%) Windows XP
10 1 (1.389%) NetWare
10 1 (1.389%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (18.06%) ITIL
2 6 (8.333%) Service Management
3 5 (6.944%) Configuration Management
4 4 (5.556%) Project Management
4 4 (5.556%) MVC
4 4 (5.556%) PRINCE2
4 4 (5.556%) ERP
5 3 (4.167%) Business Continuity
5 3 (4.167%) TDD
5 3 (4.167%) Data Management
5 3 (4.167%) Continuous Integration
5 3 (4.167%) Disaster Recovery
5 3 (4.167%) Database Tuning
5 3 (4.167%) Capacity Planning
5 3 (4.167%) Web Application Development
6 2 (2.778%) SIEM
6 2 (2.778%) Test Strategy
6 2 (2.778%) Data Mapping
6 2 (2.778%) Vulnerability Assessment
6 2 (2.778%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 13 (18.06%) Perl
2 10 (13.89%) Python
2 10 (13.89%) Bash shell
3 7 (9.722%) Shell Script
3 7 (9.722%) PHP
4 5 (6.944%) C
4 5 (6.944%) Java
4 5 (6.944%) Ruby
5 3 (4.167%) SQL
6 2 (2.778%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.389%) PL/SQL
7 1 (1.389%) ActionScript 3.0
7 1 (1.389%) T-SQL
7 1 (1.389%) ActionScript
Qualifications
1 11 (15.28%) Security Cleared
2 6 (8.333%) ITIL Certification
3 5 (6.944%) OCP
3 5 (6.944%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (9.722%) SLA
2 1 (1.389%) QA
System Software
1 8 (11.11%) Oracle RMAN
2 7 (9.722%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (5.556%) Active Directory
3 4 (5.556%) Oracle RAC
4 3 (4.167%) Veritas Volume Manager
5 2 (2.778%) Veritas Cluster Server
5 2 (2.778%) Nmap
6 1 (1.389%) Samba
6 1 (1.389%) vSphere
6 1 (1.389%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (1.389%) Novell eDirectory
Systems Management
1 8 (11.11%) Puppet
2 5 (6.944%) Data Guard
3 2 (2.778%) Nessus
Vendors
1 15 (20.83%) VMware
2 12 (16.67%) Oracle
3 9 (12.50%) Microsoft
4 7 (9.722%) IBM
5 6 (8.333%) Red Hat
6 5 (6.944%) HP
7 4 (5.556%) Veritas
8 3 (4.167%) NetApp
9 2 (2.778%) Citrix
9 2 (2.778%) Sun
9 2 (2.778%) JBoss
10 1 (1.389%) SAP
10 1 (1.389%) EMC
10 1 (1.389%) Hitachi
10 1 (1.389%) Novell
10 1 (1.389%) Apple
10 1 (1.389%) ION Trading
10 1 (1.389%) Atlassian
Doncaster, South Yorkshire
SKILLS: Service Desk Manager, Helpdesk Manager, Incident Manager, Active Directory, Windows, Unix, Citrix, VMWare, Microsoft Licensing Model, ITIL, Support & Process Management, Troubleshooting, Escalations, Incident analysis, Prioritsation, Customer Satisfaction,...
Vertical IT
Salary: £35000 - £38000 per annum + excellent benefits
Posted: 14 May 2013