The first table below looks at the demand for the Senior UNIX Engineer role in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Senior UNIX Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 18 June 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 currently tracked.

Location
3 months to
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Senior UNIX Engineer
Rank 854 893 852
Rank change year-on-year
+39 -41
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior UNIX Engineer 17 8 43
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 0.015% 0.007% 0.033%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.016% 0.007% 0.035%
Number of salaries quoted 2 3 26
Average salary £55,500 £55,000 £83,750
Average salary % change year-on-year
+0.90% -34.32%
90% offered a salary of more than £35,900 £47,000 £47,500
10% offered a salary of more than £75,100 £55,000 £85,000
UK excluding London average salary £31,000 - £43,000
All Job Titles
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
104165 114120 121133
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 94.41% 94.97% 94.12%
Number of salaries quoted 86738 97875 102752
Average salary £42,500 £42,500 £42,500
90% offered a salary of more than £26,500 £27,500 £26,500
10% offered a salary of more than £67,500 £72,500 £70,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%

Senior UNIX Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Senior UNIX Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

Senior UNIX Engineer
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Senior UNIX Engineer within the UK.

Senior UNIX Engineer Salary Trend

Senior UNIX Engineer
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Senior UNIX Engineer over the 3 months to 18 June 2013 within the UK.

Senior UNIX Engineer Salary Histogram

Senior UNIX Engineer
Top 11 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior UNIX Engineer within the UK over the 3 months to 18 June 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
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Job
Vacancies
England +40 16 £80,000 +45.45% 4
Yorkshire -7 8 - - 2
York +5 7 - - 2
North Yorkshire -1 7 - - 2
London +52 6 £80,000 +45.45% 2
City of London 0 5 £80,000 +45.45% 1
South East - 2 - -
Reading - 2 - -
Berkshire - 2 - -
Glasgow - 1 £31,000 -
Scotland - 1 £31,000 -

Senior UNIX Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT jobs within the UK that cited Senior 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 Senior UNIX Engineer in their job title.

1 52 (100.00%) UNIX
2 44 (84.62%) Solaris
3 40 (76.92%) Linux
4 38 (73.08%) Oracle
5 36 (69.23%) LDAP
5 36 (69.23%) TCP/IP
6 35 (67.31%) SSH
7 34 (65.38%) Sun
8 33 (63.46%) Perl
9 32 (61.54%) Python
10 30 (57.69%) ITIL
10 30 (57.69%) SAN
11 29 (55.77%) Java
11 29 (55.77%) Bash shell
12 28 (53.85%) HTTP
13 26 (50.00%) NAS
13 26 (50.00%) Service Management
13 26 (50.00%) Tomcat
14 25 (48.08%) JBoss
14 25 (48.08%) Internet
14 25 (48.08%) Cloud Computing
14 25 (48.08%) Enterprise Storage
14 25 (48.08%) WebSphere
14 25 (48.08%) Load Balancing
15 23 (44.23%) Workflow
16 22 (42.31%) XML
16 22 (42.31%) SOAP
16 22 (42.31%) REST
17 20 (38.46%) Red Hat
18 16 (30.77%) Shell Script

Senior UNIX Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT jobs within the UK that cited Senior 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 Senior UNIX Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 25 (48.08%) WebSphere
2 22 (42.31%) REST
2 22 (42.31%) SOAP
2 22 (42.31%) XML
3 7 (13.46%) Middleware
4 1 (1.923%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 26 (50.00%) Tomcat
2 5 (9.615%) WebLogic
3 2 (3.846%) Oracle Application Server
4 1 (1.923%) SharePoint Server
4 1 (1.923%) Jetty
4 1 (1.923%) Amazon AWS
4 1 (1.923%) Apache
Communications & Networking
1 36 (69.23%) LDAP
1 36 (69.23%) TCP/IP
2 35 (67.31%) SSH
3 30 (57.69%) SAN
4 28 (53.85%) HTTP
5 26 (50.00%) NAS
6 25 (48.08%) Internet
7 11 (21.15%) DNS
8 5 (9.615%) Broadband
9 2 (3.846%) CDMA
9 2 (3.846%) GPRS
9 2 (3.846%) GSM
9 2 (3.846%) UMTS
9 2 (3.846%) DSL
9 2 (3.846%) SS7
9 2 (3.846%) INAP
9 2 (3.846%) NGN
10 1 (1.923%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (7.692%) SQL Server
1 4 (7.692%) Oracle 8/8i
2 3 (5.769%) Oracle 11g
3 2 (3.846%) Oracle 10g
3 2 (3.846%) SQLPlus
3 2 (3.846%) Crystal Reports
3 2 (3.846%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 2 (3.846%) Oracle APEX
General
1 10 (19.23%) Finance
2 5 (9.615%) Telecoms
3 1 (1.923%) Back Office
3 1 (1.923%) Banking
Miscellaneous
1 25 (48.08%) Cloud Computing
1 25 (48.08%) Enterprise Storage
2 9 (17.31%) New Media
2 9 (17.31%) Video on Demand
3 4 (7.692%) HACMP
3 4 (7.692%) Clustering
4 3 (5.769%) Handset
5 1 (1.923%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 52 (100.00%) UNIX
2 44 (84.62%) Solaris
3 40 (76.92%) Linux
4 8 (15.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (11.54%) AIX
6 5 (9.615%) Windows
6 5 (9.615%) Ubuntu
7 4 (7.692%) CentOS
7 4 (7.692%) SUSE
8 3 (5.769%) Debian
8 3 (5.769%) Fedora
9 2 (3.846%) Windows Server 2003
10 1 (1.923%) HPUX
10 1 (1.923%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (57.69%) ITIL
2 26 (50.00%) Service Management
3 25 (48.08%) Load Balancing
4 23 (44.23%) Workflow
5 6 (11.54%) Problem Management
6 4 (7.692%) Performance Management
6 4 (7.692%) Data Modelling
6 4 (7.692%) Incident Management
6 4 (7.692%) Root Cause Analysis
7 3 (5.769%) Disaster Recovery
7 3 (5.769%) Operations Management
8 1 (1.923%) Configuration Management
8 1 (1.923%) Service Delivery
8 1 (1.923%) Capacity Planning
Programming Languages
1 33 (63.46%) Perl
2 32 (61.54%) Python
3 29 (55.77%) Bash shell
3 29 (55.77%) Java
4 16 (30.77%) Shell Script
5 7 (13.46%) Bourne shell
6 5 (9.615%) C-shell
7 2 (3.846%) sed
7 2 (3.846%) AWK
7 2 (3.846%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.769%) QA
2 1 (1.923%) SLA
System Software
1 9 (17.31%) VMware ESX
2 8 (15.38%) Hyper-V
2 8 (15.38%) vSphere
3 2 (3.846%) Oracle RMAN
4 1 (1.923%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (1.923%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (3.846%) Data Guard
2 1 (1.923%) BMC PATROL
2 1 (1.923%) Nagios
Vendors
1 38 (73.08%) Oracle
2 34 (65.38%) Sun
3 25 (48.08%) JBoss
4 20 (38.46%) Red Hat
5 15 (28.85%) HP
6 11 (21.15%) Cisco
7 9 (17.31%) VMware
7 9 (17.31%) Akamai
8 8 (15.38%) EMC
9 5 (9.615%) Veritas
10 4 (7.692%) Nortel
11 2 (3.846%) BMC
11 2 (3.846%) IBM
11 2 (3.846%) Huawei
11 2 (3.846%) Business Objects
12 1 (1.923%) SAP
12 1 (1.923%) NetIQ
12 1 (1.923%) LANDesk
12 1 (1.923%) VocaLink
12 1 (1.923%) Microsoft
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