UNIX Systems Administrator Jobs
 
Demand Trend Salary Trend Salary Histogram Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for the UNIX Systems Administrator role in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited UNIX Systems Administrator 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 System Administrator (UNIX SA)
Rank 742 736 623
Rank change year-on-year
-6 -113
Permanent jobs requiring a UNIX Systems Administrator 116 160 254
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 0.108% 0.132% 0.206%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.114% 0.140% 0.218%
Number of salaries quoted 92 131 188
Average salary £45,000 £45,000 £44,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +2.27%
90% offered a salary of more than £32,500 £32,500 £35,000
10% offered a salary of more than £57,500 £65,000 £60,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £39,000 £40,707
% change year-on-year
+2.56% -4.19%
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 Systems Administrator
Jobs Demand Trend

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

UNIX Systems Administrator Jobs Demand Trend

UNIX Systems Administrator
Salary Trend

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

UNIX Systems Administrator Salary Trend

UNIX Systems Administrator
Salary Histogram

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

UNIX Systems Administrator Salary Histogram

UNIX Systems Administrator
Top 30 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing UNIX Systems Administrator 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 -15 109 £45,500 +1.11%
London -4 60 £55,000 -4.34%
City of London +2 14 £57,500 -
South East -5 13 £44,250 +10.62%
Yorkshire -14 11 £50,000 +25.00%
West Yorkshire 0 8 £50,000 +25.00%
Leeds - 8 £50,000 -
Gloucestershire - 8 £32,500 -
South West - 8 £32,500 -
East of England -2 7 £42,500 +30.76%
Cambridgeshire 0 6 £40,500 +24.61%
Cambridge +2 5 £42,500 -
East Midlands +4 4 £33,000 +20.00%
West Midlands -19 4 £37,500 -16.66%
Birmingham -25 4 £37,500 -16.66%
Staines +25 3 £50,000 +25.00%
Surrey +4 3 £50,000 +11.11%
Berkshire +3 3 £35,750 -8.33%
Scotland -2 3 £43,000 +14.66%
Reading -3 3 £35,750 -8.33%
Hampshire +2 2 - -
North West -6 2 £40,000 +11.11%
Basingstoke -12 2 - -
Glasgow -18 2 £38,500 -
Buckinghamshire - 2 £40,000 -
High Wycombe - 2 £40,000 -
Sleaford - 2 £33,000 -
Sheffield - 2 £36,250 -
Lincolnshire - 2 £33,000 -
Middlesex - 2 £48,500 -

UNIX Systems Administrator
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 308 (100.00%) UNIX
2 243 (78.90%) Linux
3 185 (60.06%) Red Hat
4 180 (58.44%) Solaris
5 155 (50.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 113 (36.69%) Finance
7 112 (36.36%) Perl
8 111 (36.04%) AIX
9 101 (32.79%) Shell Script
10 96 (31.17%) Veritas
11 92 (29.87%) SAN
12 77 (25.00%) Sun
13 74 (24.03%) Oracle
14 69 (22.40%) EMC
15 62 (20.13%) VMware
16 61 (19.81%) Clustering
17 60 (19.48%) IBM
18 57 (18.51%) HP
19 55 (17.86%) TCP/IP
20 52 (16.88%) Banking
21 49 (15.91%) Veritas Volume Manager
22 45 (14.61%) Veritas Cluster Server
23 44 (14.29%) DNS
23 44 (14.29%) ITIL
23 44 (14.29%) Change Management
24 41 (13.31%) Java
25 40 (12.99%) Apache
26 39 (12.66%) Windows
27 37 (12.01%) C
27 37 (12.01%) Problem Management

UNIX Systems Administrator
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 25 (8.117%) WebSphere
2 15 (4.870%) FIX Protocol
3 8 (2.597%) Ruby on Rails
3 8 (2.597%) HTML
4 6 (1.948%) XML
5 5 (1.623%) LAMP
5 5 (1.623%) SWT
6 4 (1.299%) Middleware
7 3 (0.974%) Web Services
8 1 (0.325%) Java EE
8 1 (0.325%) FastCGI
Application Platforms
1 40 (12.99%) Apache
2 32 (10.39%) Tomcat
3 15 (4.870%) WebSphere MQ
4 11 (3.571%) SharePoint
4 11 (3.571%) SAS
5 8 (2.597%) WebLogic
5 8 (2.597%) GlassFish
6 7 (2.273%) Amazon AWS
7 3 (0.974%) WebSphere Application Server
8 2 (0.649%) IIS
8 2 (0.649%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
8 2 (0.649%) Oracle Application Server
9 1 (0.325%) Lotus Notes
9 1 (0.325%) OpenEdge
9 1 (0.325%) Jetty
9 1 (0.325%) WordPress
9 1 (0.325%) Magento
9 1 (0.325%) lighttpd
Applications
1 8 (2.597%) MS Excel
2 5 (1.623%) MS Office
3 1 (0.325%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.649%) Oracle 11i
2 1 (0.325%) assyst
2 1 (0.325%) Oracle BPM
Communications & Networking
1 92 (29.87%) SAN
2 55 (17.86%) TCP/IP
3 44 (14.29%) DNS
4 30 (9.740%) DHCP
5 18 (5.844%) Internet
6 16 (5.195%) HTTP
7 13 (4.221%) LAN
8 12 (3.896%) WAN
9 11 (3.571%) LDAP
9 11 (3.571%) NAS
10 8 (2.597%) Firewall
11 5 (1.623%) SSH
11 5 (1.623%) Broadband
12 4 (1.299%) SMTP
12 4 (1.299%) iSCSI
13 3 (0.974%) Cisco ASA
13 3 (0.974%) Fibre Channel
13 3 (0.974%) FWSM
13 3 (0.974%) SSL
13 3 (0.974%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (7.792%) MySQL
2 11 (3.571%) Oracle Exadata
3 6 (1.948%) DB2
4 4 (1.299%) Oracle 8/8i
5 2 (0.649%) TOAD
5 2 (0.649%) Informix
5 2 (0.649%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.325%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (0.325%) Oracle 10g
6 1 (0.325%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.325%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 16 (5.195%) Subversion
2 8 (2.597%) Git (software)
3 7 (2.273%) MSBuild
3 7 (2.273%) Maven
4 2 (0.649%) Visual Studio
General
1 113 (36.69%) Finance
2 52 (16.88%) Banking
3 34 (11.04%) Investment Banking
4 6 (1.948%) Financial Institution
4 6 (1.948%) Telecoms
5 4 (1.299%) French Language
5 4 (1.299%) German Language
6 3 (0.974%) Corporate Banking
7 2 (0.649%) Marketing
7 2 (0.649%) Games
7 2 (0.649%) Law
7 2 (0.649%) Retail
8 1 (0.325%) Billing
8 1 (0.325%) Local Government
8 1 (0.325%) Advertising
Miscellaneous
1 61 (19.81%) Clustering
2 23 (7.468%) CLARiiON
3 21 (6.818%) Replication
4 17 (5.519%) HACMP
5 16 (5.195%) EMC Centera
6 14 (4.545%) Symmetrix DMX
7 11 (3.571%) Enterprise Storage
7 11 (3.571%) Wiki
8 8 (2.597%) New Media
9 7 (2.273%) Open Source
10 6 (1.948%) Cloud Computing
10 6 (1.948%) Mainframe
11 5 (1.623%) Management Information System
11 5 (1.623%) Semantic Web
11 5 (1.623%) Informatics
12 4 (1.299%) Hedge funds
12 4 (1.299%) Mobile Banking
13 3 (0.974%) LPAR
14 2 (0.649%) Psychology
14 2 (0.649%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 308 (100.00%) UNIX
2 243 (78.90%) Linux
3 180 (58.44%) Solaris
4 155 (50.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 111 (36.04%) AIX
6 39 (12.66%) Windows
7 36 (11.69%) HPUX
8 34 (11.04%) SUSE
9 15 (4.870%) Debian
9 15 (4.870%) CentOS
10 10 (3.247%) Windows 7
11 8 (2.597%) Windows XP
12 7 (2.273%) Ubuntu
13 6 (1.948%) VMS
14 5 (1.623%) Windows Server 2003
14 5 (1.623%) Windows Server 2008
15 3 (0.974%) Oracle Linux
16 1 (0.325%) FreeBSD
16 1 (0.325%) Gentoo
16 1 (0.325%) Fedora
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (14.29%) ITIL
1 44 (14.29%) Change Management
2 37 (12.01%) Problem Management
3 20 (6.494%) Configuration Management
4 19 (6.169%) High Availability
5 17 (5.519%) Disaster Recovery
5 17 (5.519%) Asset Management
6 16 (5.195%) Budget Control
7 14 (4.545%) RDF
8 12 (3.896%) Risk Analysis
8 12 (3.896%) Root Cause Analysis
9 11 (3.571%) Load Balancing
10 10 (3.247%) Capacity Management
11 8 (2.597%) Logistics
12 7 (2.273%) Resource Management
12 7 (2.273%) Project Management
13 6 (1.948%) E-Commerce
13 6 (1.948%) Infrastructure Management
14 5 (1.623%) Capacity Planning
14 5 (1.623%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 112 (36.36%) Perl
2 101 (32.79%) Shell Script
3 41 (13.31%) Java
4 37 (12.01%) C
5 34 (11.04%) Bash shell
6 31 (10.06%) PHP
7 22 (7.143%) Korn
8 14 (4.545%) Python
9 12 (3.896%) Ruby
10 11 (3.571%) Bourne shell
10 11 (3.571%) SQL
11 8 (2.597%) AWK
11 8 (2.597%) sed
12 5 (1.623%) VBScript
13 3 (0.974%) C++
14 1 (0.325%) REXX
14 1 (0.325%) VB
14 1 (0.325%) ActionScript
14 1 (0.325%) JCL
14 1 (0.325%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 22 (7.143%) Security Cleared
2 20 (6.494%) RHCE
3 19 (6.169%) Degree
4 18 (5.844%) DV Cleared
5 4 (1.299%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 3 (0.974%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.325%) RHCT
7 1 (0.325%) Sun Certification
7 1 (0.325%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.325%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (10.71%) SLA
2 9 (2.922%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 8 (2.597%) QA
System Software
1 49 (15.91%) Veritas Volume Manager
2 45 (14.61%) Veritas Cluster Server
3 22 (7.143%) Veritas File System
4 20 (6.494%) VMware Infrastructure
5 12 (3.896%) Sendmail
5 12 (3.896%) Samba
6 10 (3.247%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
7 8 (2.597%) VMware ESX
7 8 (2.597%) Squid
8 7 (2.273%) Active Directory
8 7 (2.273%) vSphere
9 6 (1.948%) Oracle RAC
10 5 (1.623%) NFS
10 5 (1.623%) Xen
11 4 (1.299%) Varnish
12 2 (0.649%) XenServer
12 2 (0.649%) Postfix
13 1 (0.325%) Hyper-V
13 1 (0.325%) Cygwin
Systems Management
1 19 (6.169%) NetBackup
2 17 (5.519%) Puppet
3 12 (3.896%) Tivoli
4 11 (3.571%) Cobbler
5 10 (3.247%) Veritas Storage Foundation
6 9 (2.922%) YUM
7 8 (2.597%) Legato
8 7 (2.273%) CFEngine
9 6 (1.948%) BMC PATROL
10 5 (1.623%) Nagios
10 5 (1.623%) HP Data Protector
11 2 (0.649%) ZABBIX
11 2 (0.649%) BladeLogic
11 2 (0.649%) Opalis
11 2 (0.649%) Foglight
11 2 (0.649%) Tivoli Storage Manager
11 2 (0.649%) Red Hat Satellite
11 2 (0.649%) Red Hat Spacewalk
11 2 (0.649%) HP SIM
12 1 (0.325%) PureDisk
Vendors
1 185 (60.06%) Red Hat
2 96 (31.17%) Veritas
3 77 (25.00%) Sun
4 74 (24.03%) Oracle
5 69 (22.40%) EMC
6 62 (20.13%) VMware
7 60 (19.48%) IBM
8 57 (18.51%) HP
9 21 (6.818%) Symantec
10 20 (6.494%) Sybase
11 18 (5.844%) NetApp
12 12 (3.896%) Cisco
13 9 (2.922%) F5
14 8 (2.597%) Brocade
14 8 (2.597%) BMC
15 6 (1.948%) Microsoft
15 6 (1.948%) Compaq
15 6 (1.948%) Joyent
15 6 (1.948%) Rackspace
15 6 (1.948%) NetIQ
Unix Systems Administrator - Linux, Solaris
West London
UNIX Systems AdministratorCurrently we are recruiting for a Unix/Linux Systems Administrator to work for a multinational organisation based in West London.
E-Resourcing
Salary: £25000 - £30000 per annum
Posted: 17 May 2013
Unix System Administrator / Cambridge, UK / Attractive Salary
Cambridge, East Anglia
In this position as a Unix System Administrator you will be responsible for managing and providing support for all aspects of the client's website and infrastructure... Required...
montreal
Salary: Attractive Salary Package
Posted: 2 May 2013
Unix System Administrator
Birmingham, West Midlands
Senior Unix Systems Administrator - £45-55,000 + Bonus + BenefitsOur prestigious Central Birmingham client is looking to recruit an experienced Unix Systems Administrator with a strong technical background and...
Harvey Nash plc
Salary: £45000 - £55000 per annum + excellent benefits
Posted: 15 May 2013
Unix System Administrator - Birmingham
Birmingham, West Midlands (County)
Unix Systems Administrator - £35-45K + Bonus. Our client a leading Financial Services organisation is looking to recruit an experienced Unix Sytems Administrator with a strong technical background and...
Harvey Nash plc
Salary: £35000 - £45000 per annum + excellent benefits
Posted: 14 May 2013
Senior UNIX/LINUX Systems Administrator - Cambridge
Cambridge, East Anglia
Experience with administration of Linux systems on modern HP server hardware and SAN disk systems... The main technical skills needed are Red Hat Linux and Net App Storage.
Computer Futures
Salary: £45000 - £55000 per annum + Excellent benefits
Posted: 15 May 2013
Unix / Linux Systems Administrator
Watford, Hertfordshire
For this position Unix / Linux Systems Administrators will need to have a strong experience of Solaris, Linux administration and scripting. A proven experience of Unix System administration, Enterprise.....
ENTERPRISE RECRUITMENT LTD
Salary: From £25,000 to £35,000 per annum canteen, shares, good benefits packa
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Linux / Unix Systems Administrator NOC Engineer
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
A leading software company based in Cambridge require a Systems Administrator with Linux experience and solid networking knowledge... Experience required The ideal candidate will have a broad experience...
Edgar Cowen
Salary: Excellent salary and Benefits
Posted: 13 May 2013
Linux Systems Administrator (UNIX, Sys Admin)
Brighton, East Sussex
In addition you will require the following: -DNS, SMTP, HTTP -Scripting: Either Shell, Perl, Ruby, Python -PostgreSQL or MySQL Working in a Java environment Additional experience of Puppet,...
ARC IT Recruitment Ltd
Salary: £32000 Per Annum £32,000 per annum
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Unix Sys Admin, Java Web Application Server - London - To £60k
London
Unix systems administrator, Java web applications, Glassfish, Sun Application Server, Tomcat, Apache, Solaris 10, SPARC , to join to this world class business in the mobile telecom / financial space...
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Salary: £50000 - £60000 per annum + Bonus
Posted: 14 May 2013
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