The first table below looks at the demand for UNIX skills in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited UNIX over the 3 months to 19 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 of the Operating Systems category.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
UNIX
Rank 28 23 22
Rank change year-on-year
-5 -1
Permanent jobs citing UNIX 7452 9283 11253
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 6.841% 7.702% 8.765%
As % of the Operating Systems category 24.95% 28.59% 34.87%
Number of salaries quoted 6019 7475 9031
Average salary £45,000 £45,000 £50,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- -10.00%
90% offered a salary of more than £31,500 £31,000 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £70,000 £72,500 £77,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
All Operating Systems
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
29871 32465 32268
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 27.42% 26.94% 25.13%
Number of salaries quoted 25323 27774 27328
Average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £25,000 £24,500
10% offered a salary of more than £62,500 £65,000 £64,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%

UNIX
Jobs Demand Trend

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

UNIX Jobs Demand Trend

UNIX
Salary Trend

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

UNIX Salary Trend

UNIX
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing UNIX over the 3 months to 19 June 2013 within the UK.

UNIX Salary Histogram

UNIX
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 within the UK over the 3 months to 19 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
England -4 6897 £46,000 -1.07% 784
London -5 3391 £55,000 - 400
South East -6 1488 £42,000 -1.17% 149
City of London -2 1027 £55,000 - 184
Berkshire -8 481 £42,500 -3.40% 46
East of England -16 446 £42,500 - 61
North West -3 395 £40,000 - 35
Yorkshire +3 367 £33,000 -10.81% 42
Surrey -10 331 £45,000 - 39
Scotland +12 320 £42,500 +21.42% 24
West Midlands +8 319 £40,000 - 34
Hampshire -9 252 £37,500 -6.25% 35
South West -13 248 £40,000 +11.11% 35
Reading -3 225 £40,000 -11.11% 18
West Yorkshire +4 219 £33,500 -9.45% 32
East Midlands -2 205 £35,000 -12.50% 27
Hertfordshire -7 198 £45,000 +4.65% 19
Cambridgeshire +2 181 £42,500 +6.25% 34
Manchester -7 180 £39,500 -7.05% 15
Glasgow +25 174 £45,000 +20.00% 11
Cheshire +1 168 £42,500 +6.25% 12
Cambridge +1 163 £42,500 +6.25% 29
Leeds 0 144 £36,000 -3.35% 18
West Sussex +34 142 £37,500 +4.16% 6
Birmingham +5 123 £45,000 +5.88% 12
Nottinghamshire +2 111 £33,000 -17.50% 13
Nottingham +2 98 £32,500 -18.75% 11
Gloucestershire -6 93 £42,500 +6.25% 9
Wales +17 87 £35,000 -6.66% 3
North Yorkshire 0 87 £32,500 -18.75% 4

UNIX
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs within the UK 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 8407 (54.88%) Linux
2 5412 (35.33%) SQL
3 5239 (34.20%) Windows
4 5208 (34.00%) Oracle
5 4768 (31.12%) Java
6 3983 (26.00%) Finance
7 2490 (16.25%) Degree
8 2261 (14.76%) Perl
9 2240 (14.62%) Solaris
10 2122 (13.85%) Shell Script
11 2021 (13.19%) C++
12 1841 (12.02%) Microsoft
13 1759 (11.48%) ITIL
14 1737 (11.34%) XML
15 1687 (11.01%) SQL Server
16 1605 (10.48%) Banking
17 1560 (10.18%) TCP/IP
18 1503 (9.811%) Red Hat
19 1495 (9.759%) JavaScript
20 1494 (9.753%) Apache
21 1448 (9.452%) MySQL
22 1336 (8.721%) Python
23 1333 (8.702%) PL/SQL
24 1300 (8.486%) HTML
25 1286 (8.395%) VMware
26 1279 (8.349%) Agile Software Development
27 1277 (8.336%) C
28 1249 (8.153%) SAN
29 1215 (7.931%) Firewall
30 1200 (7.833%) Cisco

UNIX
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs within the UK 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 1737 (11.34%) XML
2 1300 (8.486%) HTML
3 1054 (6.880%) J2EE
4 987 (6.443%) .NET
5 980 (6.397%) Spring
6 945 (6.169%) CSS
7 890 (5.810%) Web Services
8 838 (5.470%) Middleware
9 826 (5.392%) WebSphere
10 670 (4.374%) Hibernate
11 522 (3.408%) jQuery
12 515 (3.362%) Ajax
13 407 (2.657%) SOAP
14 397 (2.592%) JSP
15 360 (2.350%) HTML5
16 316 (2.063%) JMS
17 290 (1.893%) XSLT
18 267 (1.743%) Java EE
19 260 (1.697%) JDBC
20 252 (1.645%) LAMP
Application Platforms
1 1494 (9.753%) Apache
2 1012 (6.606%) Tomcat
3 820 (5.353%) WebLogic
4 468 (3.055%) MS Exchange
5 420 (2.742%) IIS
6 351 (2.291%) SharePoint
7 199 (1.299%) WebSphere Application Server
8 198 (1.293%) Exchange Server 2010
9 190 (1.240%) Exchange Server 2007
10 189 (1.234%) CMS
11 162 (1.058%) MQSeries
12 155 (1.012%) SAS
13 134 (0.875%) Amazon AWS
14 130 (0.849%) Exchange Server 2003
15 104 (0.679%) nginx
16 100 (0.653%) ESB
17 95 (0.620%) WebSphere Message Broker
18 92 (0.601%) GlassFish
19 89 (0.581%) Oracle Application Server
20 76 (0.496%) Drupal
Applications
1 1028 (6.711%) MS Excel
2 395 (2.578%) MS Office
3 99 (0.646%) Photoshop
4 93 (0.607%) MS PowerPoint
5 70 (0.457%) MS Visio
6 28 (0.183%) MS Project
7 24 (0.157%) Google Apps
8 14 (0.091%) Office 365
9 13 (0.085%) Adobe Illustrator
10 11 (0.072%) InfoPath
10 11 (0.072%) Mingle
11 9 (0.059%) Fireworks
11 9 (0.059%) Spreadsheet
12 4 (0.026%) InDesign
13 3 (0.020%) Open Workbench
13 3 (0.020%) Stata
14 1 (0.007%) DOC1
14 1 (0.007%) PrintSoft PReS
Business Applications
1 174 (1.136%) Oracle EBS
2 129 (0.842%) Oracle Applications
3 109 (0.712%) Oracle EBS R12
4 90 (0.588%) SAP Business One
5 73 (0.477%) Oracle 11i
6 56 (0.366%) Oracle BPM
7 52 (0.339%) Oracle Financials
8 49 (0.320%) Oracle ERP
9 39 (0.255%) SAP BPC
10 31 (0.202%) SAP PSCD
11 25 (0.163%) ION MarketView
12 23 (0.150%) RMDS
13 21 (0.137%) Remedy ITSM
14 19 (0.124%) Temenos T24
14 19 (0.124%) SAP CRM
15 18 (0.118%) BusinessWorks
16 15 (0.098%) Siebel Analytics
17 14 (0.091%) Oracle iProcurement
17 14 (0.091%) Murex MxG2000
18 13 (0.085%) Oracle HRMS
Communications & Networking
1 1560 (10.18%) TCP/IP
2 1249 (8.153%) SAN
3 1215 (7.931%) Firewall
4 1088 (7.102%) DNS
5 881 (5.751%) Internet
6 804 (5.248%) HTTP
7 556 (3.629%) WAN
8 552 (3.603%) LAN
9 432 (2.820%) VPN
10 401 (2.618%) DHCP
11 349 (2.278%) LDAP
12 340 (2.219%) NAS
13 246 (1.606%) SSL
14 225 (1.469%) Network Security
15 202 (1.319%) FTP
16 197 (1.286%) SMTP
17 195 (1.273%) SSH
18 178 (1.162%) VoIP
19 169 (1.103%) BGP
20 160 (1.044%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1687 (11.01%) SQL Server
2 1448 (9.452%) MySQL
3 810 (5.288%) Oracle 11g
4 734 (4.791%) Oracle 10g
5 711 (4.641%) RDBMS
6 600 (3.917%) DB2
7 488 (3.186%) Data Warehouse
8 466 (3.042%) Oracle 8/8i
9 344 (2.246%) Oracle Reports
10 254 (1.658%) PostgreSQL
11 213 (1.390%) Oracle 9i
12 199 (1.299%) NoSQL
13 195 (1.273%) SQL Server 2008
14 154 (1.005%) Big Data
15 150 (0.979%) SQL Server 2005
16 145 (0.947%) TOAD
17 138 (0.901%) MongoDB
18 112 (0.731%) Informix
19 102 (0.666%) Hadoop
20 95 (0.620%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 854 (5.575%) Subversion
2 486 (3.173%) Maven
3 423 (2.761%) Git (software)
4 385 (2.513%) Ant
5 377 (2.461%) Eclipse
6 338 (2.206%) JUnit
7 294 (1.919%) JIRA
8 272 (1.776%) Selenium
9 202 (1.319%) Jenkins
10 182 (1.188%) Oracle Forms
11 137 (0.894%) Visual Studio
12 134 (0.875%) Hudson
13 132 (0.862%) ClearCase
14 126 (0.823%) QuickTest Pro
15 124 (0.809%) LoadRunner
16 87 (0.568%) Cucumber
17 75 (0.490%) ClearQuest
18 70 (0.457%) FitNesse
19 69 (0.450%) WebDriver
20 65 (0.424%) TeamCity
General
1 3983 (26.00%) Finance
2 1605 (10.48%) Banking
3 741 (4.837%) Front Office
4 731 (4.772%) Investment Banking
5 722 (4.713%) Telecoms
6 593 (3.871%) Retail
7 299 (1.952%) Financial Institution
8 269 (1.756%) Games
9 236 (1.541%) Marketing
10 201 (1.312%) Back Office
11 162 (1.058%) Advertising
12 159 (1.038%) French Language
13 149 (0.973%) Legal
14 147 (0.960%) Publishing
15 146 (0.953%) German Language
16 126 (0.823%) Electronics
17 118 (0.770%) Manufacturing
18 89 (0.581%) Billing
19 70 (0.457%) Military
20 50 (0.326%) Law
Job Titles
1 3736 (24.39%) Developer
2 2369 (15.46%) Analyst
3 1571 (10.26%) Administrator
4 1092 (7.128%) Support Analyst
5 1085 (7.083%) Java Developer
6 1082 (7.063%) Applications Support
7 876 (5.718%) Systems Administrator
8 863 (5.634%) DBA
9 779 (5.085%) Consultant
10 756 (4.935%) Support Engineer
11 698 (4.556%) Software Engineer
12 677 (4.419%) C++ Developer
13 654 (4.269%) Oracle DBA
14 643 (4.197%) Architect
15 611 (3.989%) Senior Developer
16 456 (2.977%) Linux Administrator
17 444 (2.898%) Applications Support Analyst
18 411 (2.683%) UNIX Administrator
19 373 (2.435%) Linux Systems Administrator
20 369 (2.409%) Software Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1128 (7.363%) Computer Science
2 615 (4.015%) Derivative
3 537 (3.505%) Clustering
4 492 (3.212%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 450 (2.938%) Open Source
6 439 (2.866%) Fixed Income
7 426 (2.781%) Management Information System
8 393 (2.565%) Equities
9 379 (2.474%) Mathematics
10 314 (2.050%) Replication
11 277 (1.808%) SaaS
12 274 (1.789%) Mainframe
13 227 (1.482%) Digital Media
14 202 (1.319%) Hedge funds
15 189 (1.234%) Client/Server
16 174 (1.136%) Enterprise Software
17 150 (0.979%) Statistics
18 138 (0.901%) Equity Derivative
19 132 (0.862%) Enterprise Storage
20 128 (0.836%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 8407 (54.88%) Linux
2 5239 (34.20%) Windows
3 2240 (14.62%) Solaris
4 1179 (7.696%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 952 (6.215%) AIX
6 589 (3.845%) Windows Server 2008
7 520 (3.394%) Windows Server 2003
8 447 (2.918%) HPUX
9 234 (1.528%) Windows 7
10 219 (1.430%) CentOS
11 216 (1.410%) Windows XP
12 214 (1.397%) Apple iOS
13 207 (1.351%) SUSE
14 203 (1.325%) Android
15 198 (1.293%) Ubuntu
16 143 (0.933%) Debian
17 122 (0.796%) Oracle Linux
18 102 (0.666%) OpenVMS
19 97 (0.633%) Windows 2000
20 76 (0.496%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1759 (11.48%) ITIL
2 1279 (8.349%) Agile Software Development
3 1026 (6.698%) OO
4 870 (5.679%) Project Management
5 790 (5.157%) E-Commerce
6 642 (4.191%) Multithreading
7 634 (4.139%) Scrum
8 589 (3.845%) TDD
9 511 (3.336%) Configuration Management
10 499 (3.257%) Service Delivery
11 483 (3.153%) Software Engineering
12 476 (3.107%) Service Management
13 467 (3.049%) Problem Management
14 464 (3.029%) Business Intelligence
15 448 (2.924%) Risk Management
16 406 (2.650%) ETL
17 405 (2.644%) SOA
18 402 (2.624%) Disaster Recovery
19 398 (2.598%) Change Management
20 388 (2.533%) Information Security
Programming Languages
1 5412 (35.33%) SQL
2 4768 (31.12%) Java
3 2261 (14.76%) Perl
4 2122 (13.85%) Shell Script
5 2021 (13.19%) C++
6 1495 (9.759%) JavaScript
7 1336 (8.721%) Python
8 1333 (8.702%) PL/SQL
9 1277 (8.336%) C
10 1092 (7.128%) C#
11 1048 (6.841%) PHP
12 757 (4.942%) Bash shell
13 449 (2.931%) Ruby
14 285 (1.860%) VB
15 253 (1.652%) Korn
16 186 (1.214%) T-SQL
17 125 (0.816%) Scala
18 119 (0.777%) PowerShell
19 115 (0.751%) Groovy
20 104 (0.679%) VBA
Qualifications
1 2490 (16.25%) Degree
2 782 (5.105%) Security Cleared
3 455 (2.970%) Cisco Certification
4 435 (2.840%) SC Cleared
5 365 (2.383%) CCNA
6 336 (2.193%) Microsoft Certification
7 322 (2.102%) CISSP
8 299 (1.952%) ISEB
9 282 (1.841%) MCSE
10 277 (1.808%) DV Cleared
11 182 (1.188%) CCNP
12 165 (1.077%) ITIL Certification
13 150 (0.979%) ISTQB
14 132 (0.862%) RHCE
15 124 (0.809%) Oracle Certification
16 117 (0.764%) MCP
17 109 (0.712%) JNCIA
18 100 (0.653%) CCSA
19 96 (0.627%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
20 92 (0.601%) MCITP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 832 (5.431%) QA
2 517 (3.375%) SLA
3 159 (1.038%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 117 (0.764%) PCI DSS
5 79 (0.516%) ISO 9001
6 65 (0.424%) ISO 9000
6 65 (0.424%) COBIT
7 61 (0.398%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 24 (0.157%) Data Quality
8 24 (0.157%) DO-178B
9 20 (0.131%) TickIT
10 16 (0.104%) BS7799
11 11 (0.072%) Basel III
12 10 (0.065%) HL7
13 7 (0.046%) ISO 8583
14 6 (0.039%) JTAG
14 6 (0.039%) WAI
15 5 (0.033%) HIPAA
16 4 (0.026%) ISO/IEC 17799
16 4 (0.026%) Basel II
System Software
1 805 (5.255%) VMware Infrastructure
2 749 (4.889%) Active Directory
3 364 (2.376%) Oracle RAC
4 244 (1.593%) Oracle RMAN
5 236 (1.541%) NFS
6 233 (1.521%) vSphere
7 184 (1.201%) VMware ESX
8 168 (1.097%) Hyper-V
9 131 (0.855%) Sendmail
10 126 (0.823%) Samba
11 117 (0.764%) Veritas Cluster Server
12 113 (0.738%) XenApp
13 101 (0.659%) Xen
14 92 (0.601%) Postfix
15 91 (0.594%) Veritas Volume Manager
16 85 (0.555%) Squid
17 60 (0.392%) VMware ESXi
18 58 (0.379%) XenServer
19 52 (0.339%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
20 51 (0.333%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 362 (2.363%) Puppet
2 311 (2.030%) Data Guard
3 283 (1.847%) NetBackup
4 259 (1.691%) Nagios
5 255 (1.665%) Tivoli
6 186 (1.214%) HP Quality Center
7 156 (1.018%) Tivoli Storage Manager
8 111 (0.725%) SCCM
9 110 (0.718%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 106 (0.692%) SCOM
11 63 (0.411%) OpenView
12 62 (0.405%) Backup Exec
12 62 (0.405%) Control-M
13 60 (0.392%) BMC PATROL
14 56 (0.366%) Red Hat Satellite
15 49 (0.320%) ZABBIX
16 47 (0.307%) EMC NetWorker
17 46 (0.300%) Splunk
18 41 (0.268%) WSUS
19 38 (0.248%) Vagrant
Vendors
1 5208 (34.00%) Oracle
2 1841 (12.02%) Microsoft
3 1503 (9.811%) Red Hat
4 1286 (8.395%) VMware
5 1200 (7.833%) Cisco
6 978 (6.384%) IBM
7 953 (6.221%) HP
8 765 (4.994%) Sybase
9 633 (4.132%) Sun
10 529 (3.453%) Citrix
11 512 (3.342%) JBoss
12 492 (3.212%) EMC
13 408 (2.663%) SAP
14 401 (2.618%) Juniper
15 380 (2.481%) Veritas
16 325 (2.122%) NetApp
17 303 (1.978%) CheckPoint
18 255 (1.665%) Symantec
19 242 (1.580%) F5
20 226 (1.475%) Informatica
Bromley, South East
Creating SQL scripts to extract information from the applications and provide analysis/explanation of the information provided... The ideal candidate will have experience in the following: General knowledge...
Capita Resourcing Ltd
Salary: £18000 - £24000 per annum + benefits
Posted: 14 June 2013
Bromley, Kent
Creating SQL scripts to extract information from the applications and provide analysis/explanation of the information provided... The ideal candidate will have experience in the following: General knowledge...
Capita Resourcing - IT Resourcing
Salary: £18000 - £24000 per annum + benefits
Posted: 14 June 2013
Bromley, South East
Creating SQL scripts to extract information from the applications and provide analysis/explanation of the information provided... The ideal candidate will have experience in the following: General knowledge...
Capita Resourcing Ltd
Salary: £18000 - £24000 per annum + benefits
Posted: 12 June 2013
Thames Ditton, Surrey
You will have a strong technical backgroun in Perl... Strong understanding of Oracle (or MySQL) within Linux/Unix environment is required. This is a fantastic opportunity for a...
Evolution Recruitment Solutions
Salary: 30,000 to 40,000
Posted: 17 June 2013
London
Online Transactional based company are looking for a Systems Manager to head up a number of teams across London. The role will require mixture of both hands off...
Linux Recruit
Salary: From £65,000 to £75,000 per annum
Posted: 17 June 2013
Glasgow, Scotland
Hays Specialist Recruitment Ltd
Salary: £30000.00 - £35000.00 per annum
Posted: 22 May 2013
Hungerford, Berkshire
Redrock Consulting Ltd
Salary: £22000 - £32000 per annum + Good Benefits + Bonus!!
Posted: 17 June 2013
Telford, Shropshire
Redrock Consulting Ltd
Salary: £25000 - £32000 per annum + Good Benefits Package + Bonus
Posted: 18 June 2013
Crewe, North West
Computer Futures
Salary: £38000 - £47000 per annum
Posted: 12 June 2013
City, London
Aston Carter
Salary: £45000 - £60000 per annum + Package and bonus
Posted: 17 June 2013
City, London
McGregor Boyall
Salary: £75000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 14 June 2013
City, London
Cititec
Salary: £45000 - £55000 per annum
Posted: 17 June 2013
North London
Travelfusion
Posted: 23 May 2013
Manchester, Lancashire
Nicoll Curtin
Salary: £45000 - £55000 per annum + Bonus + Excellent benefits
Posted: 17 June 2013
City, London
Anderson Cole Recruitment Ltd
Salary: From £45,000 to £60,000 per annum Bonus and benefits package
Posted: 13 June 2013
London
Stott & May
Salary: £40000 - £55000 per annum + Bonus and Extensive Benefits
Posted: 13 June 2013
London
Tindall IT Resourcing
Salary: From £28,000 to £40,000 per annum GBP 40K +Bonus +Benefits
Posted: 16 June 2013
City, London
Aston Carter
Salary: £60000 - £80000 per annum + Bonuses and Benefits
Posted: 12 June 2013
Glasgow, Scotland
Hays Specialist Recruitment Ltd
Salary: £25000.00 - £35000.00 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 18 June 2013
Basingstoke, Hampshire
Spectrum IT Recruitment (South) Ltd
Salary: £20000 - £25000 per annum + Bonus, Pension, Medical
Posted: 18 June 2013
Luton, Bedfordshire
Understanding Recruitment
Salary: £40000 - £45000 per annum + bonus + benefits
Posted: 18 June 2013
City of London
harringtonstarr
Salary: £70000 - £110000 per annum + Bonus and benefits and Training
Posted: 12 June 2013
City, London
Harrington Starr
Salary: £70000 - £110000 per annum + Bonus and benefits and Training
Posted: 12 June 2013
City, London
Experis IT
Salary: £8000 - £85000 per annum + Bonus + Benefits
Posted: 12 June 2013
Leeds, West Yorkshire
Lorien Resourcing
Salary: £20000 - £40000 per annum
Posted: 13 June 2013
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