The first table below looks at the demand for the UNIX Consultant role in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited UNIX Consultant 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 currently tracked.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
UNIX Consultant
Rank 845 886 856
Rank change year-on-year
+41 -30
Permanent jobs requiring a UNIX Consultant 13 10 15
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 0.012% 0.008% 0.012%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.013% 0.009% 0.013%
Number of salaries quoted 12 6 11
Average salary £42,000 £48,750 £45,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-13.84% +8.33%
90% offered a salary of more than £37,750 £39,125 £32,500
10% offered a salary of more than £54,000 £55,000 £65,000
UK excluding London average salary £42,000 £39,125 £35,000
% change year-on-year
+7.34% +11.78%
All Job Titles
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
101791 114576 116360
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 94.44% 94.74% 94.25%
Number of salaries quoted 84727 98303 98213
Average salary £42,500 £42,500 £42,500
90% offered a salary of more than £26,500 £27,000 £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%

UNIX Consultant
Jobs Demand Trend

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

UNIX Consultant Jobs Demand Trend

UNIX Consultant
Salary Trend

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

UNIX Consultant Salary Trend

UNIX Consultant
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing UNIX Consultant over the 3 months to 17 May 2013 within the UK.

UNIX Consultant Salary Histogram

UNIX Consultant
Top 10 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing UNIX Consultant within the UK 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
England +35 12 £42,000 -13.84%
Gloucestershire +18 9 £42,000 -
South West +13 9 £42,000 -
Gloucester - 6 £42,000 -
London +30 3 £48,500 -9.76%
Cheltenham +19 2 £37,500 -
Northern Ireland - 1 £55,000 -
Twickenham - 1 £57,000 -
Belfast - 1 £55,000 -
County Antrim - 1 £55,000 -

UNIX Consultant
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK that cited UNIX Consultant 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 Consultant in their job title.

1 23 (100.00%) UNIX
2 21 (91.30%) Linux
3 19 (82.61%) DNS
4 18 (78.26%) Perl
5 17 (73.91%) Shell Script
6 13 (56.52%) Firewall
7 12 (52.17%) Internet
7 12 (52.17%) SMTP
7 12 (52.17%) HTTP
7 12 (52.17%) Squid
7 12 (52.17%) Load Balancing
8 11 (47.83%) Sendmail
9 10 (43.48%) ISA Server
9 10 (43.48%) MS Exchange
9 10 (43.48%) Microsoft
9 10 (43.48%) Cisco
9 10 (43.48%) Juniper
9 10 (43.48%) Python
9 10 (43.48%) LDAP
9 10 (43.48%) qmail
9 10 (43.48%) Postfix
9 10 (43.48%) Bash shell
10 7 (30.43%) SaaS
10 7 (30.43%) Clustering
11 6 (26.09%) DHCP
11 6 (26.09%) DV Cleared
11 6 (26.09%) Security Cleared
12 4 (17.39%) SAN
12 4 (17.39%) Red Hat
13 3 (13.04%) Apache

UNIX Consultant
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK that cited UNIX Consultant 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 Consultant in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (8.696%) Memcached
2 1 (4.348%) J2EE
Application Platforms
1 10 (43.48%) MS Exchange
2 3 (13.04%) Apache
3 2 (8.696%) nginx
4 1 (4.348%) Tomcat
Communications & Networking
1 19 (82.61%) DNS
2 13 (56.52%) Firewall
3 12 (52.17%) Internet
3 12 (52.17%) SMTP
3 12 (52.17%) HTTP
4 10 (43.48%) LDAP
5 6 (26.09%) DHCP
6 4 (17.39%) SAN
7 2 (8.696%) SSL
7 2 (8.696%) VRRP
7 2 (8.696%) IPsec
7 2 (8.696%) VLAN
7 2 (8.696%) iSCSI
8 1 (4.348%) NAS
8 1 (4.348%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.696%) MySQL
General
1 2 (8.696%) Banking
2 1 (4.348%) Telecoms
2 1 (4.348%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 7 (30.43%) Clustering
1 7 (30.43%) SaaS
2 2 (8.696%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 23 (100.00%) UNIX
2 21 (91.30%) Linux
3 3 (13.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (13.04%) Solaris
4 2 (8.696%) AIX
4 2 (8.696%) FreeBSD
4 2 (8.696%) Debian
4 2 (8.696%) OpenBSD
4 2 (8.696%) Ubuntu
4 2 (8.696%) CentOS
5 1 (4.348%) HPUX
5 1 (4.348%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (52.17%) Load Balancing
2 3 (13.04%) ITIL
3 2 (8.696%) Configuration Management
3 2 (8.696%) Service Management
4 1 (4.348%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (4.348%) ITSM
4 1 (4.348%) PRINCE2
4 1 (4.348%) ERP
4 1 (4.348%) Business Intelligence
4 1 (4.348%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 18 (78.26%) Perl
2 17 (73.91%) Shell Script
3 10 (43.48%) Bash shell
3 10 (43.48%) Python
4 3 (13.04%) Java
4 3 (13.04%) PHP
Qualifications
1 6 (26.09%) DV Cleared
1 6 (26.09%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.696%) SLA
System Software
1 12 (52.17%) Squid
2 11 (47.83%) Sendmail
3 10 (43.48%) qmail
3 10 (43.48%) Postfix
3 10 (43.48%) ISA Server
4 2 (8.696%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (8.696%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (8.696%) NFS
5 1 (4.348%) Samba
Systems Management
1 1 (4.348%) OpenView
1 1 (4.348%) Control-M
1 1 (4.348%) Nagios
1 1 (4.348%) NetBackup
1 1 (4.348%) Puppet
Vendors
1 10 (43.48%) Microsoft
1 10 (43.48%) Cisco
1 10 (43.48%) Juniper
2 4 (17.39%) Red Hat
3 2 (8.696%) VMware
3 2 (8.696%) Oracle
3 2 (8.696%) Veritas
4 1 (4.348%) IBM
4 1 (4.348%) Sun
4 1 (4.348%) HP
4 1 (4.348%) Dell
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You must have proven experience with system management and in the following technologies: UNIX NetApp Storage Replication Technologies Storage Virtualisation iSCSi Backup Technologies - NetBackup / BackupExec The following are...
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Salary: £45000 per annum + Bens
Posted: 2 May 2013