Permanent IT Jobs Contract IT Jobs

The first part of the 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 9 February 2010 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Operating Systems category.

LinkUNIX
Location
3 months to
9 Feb 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank181613
Rank change year-on-year
Down-2Down-3
Matching permanent IT job ads6330857420236
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK8.039 %8.483 %10.01 %
As % of the Operating Systems category37.63 %35.01 %40.41 %
Salaries quoted5165708215749
Average salary£47,500£42,500£42,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+11.76 %-
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£29,000£27,500£27,500
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£82,500£65,000£65,000
UK excluding London average salary£37,500£37,500£37,000
% change year-on-year
-+1.350 %
IT Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryAll Operating Systems
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
168232449350082
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK21.36 %24.23 %24.78 %
Salaries quoted141882106341193
Average salary£37,500£35,000£35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+7.140 %-
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£22,500£22,500£22,500
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£65,000£57,500£57,500
UK excluding London average salary£32,500£32,500£32,500

UNIX
Demand Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing UNIX within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Operating Systems category.

UNIX Demand Trend

UNIX
Salary Trend

The 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

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing UNIX over the 3 months to 9 February 2010 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 9 February 2010. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

LocationRank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
EnglandDown-26090£50,000+17.64 %
LondonDown-13675£60,000+11.11 %
City of LondonDown-61314£57,500+4.54 %
South EastDown-61014£40,000-
BerkshireDown-4400£40,000-
East of EnglandDown-7348£35,000-12.50 %
South WestDown-2337£33,000-8.33 %
North WestDown-9242£38,500+4.05 %
YorkshireDown-8214£32,000-8.57 %
SurreyDown-7192£42,500+6.25 %
CambridgeshireDown-1177£35,000-1.40 %
HampshireDown-6167£35,000-5.40 %
West MidlandsDown-10155£35,000+16.66 %
ScotlandUp+4144£35,000-12.50 %
CambridgeNo change0144£35,000-4.10 %
HertfordshireDown-7140£47,500+7.95 %
WiltshireUp+6132£32,000-5.88 %
Docklands, LondonDown-286£55,000-4.34 %
CheshireDown-686£40,000+1.26 %
ReadingDown-1084£50,000+25.00 %
ManchesterDown-1584£35,000-4.10 %
BristolUp+581£31,000-11.42 %
SloughDown-377£40,000-
East MidlandsDown-1877£40,000+5.26 %
West YorkshireDown-1076£32,500-4.41 %
SomersetUp+1059£35,000-5.40 %
South YorkshireUp+656£28,500-24.00 %
LeedsUp+954£32,500-4.41 %
SwindonUp+2753£32,233+34.30 %
WalesDown-351£31,150+3.83 %

UNIX
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 9 February 2010, 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.

14898 (40.39 %)Linux
23996 (32.95 %)Windows
33936 (32.46 %)SQL
43641 (30.03 %)Finance
53597 (29.66 %)Java
63345 (27.59 %)Oracle
72523 (20.81 %)C++
82184 (18.01 %)Perl
92096 (17.29 %)Solaris
102021 (16.67 %)Banking
111370 (11.30 %)SQL Server
121347 (11.11 %)XML
131334 (11.00 %)Shell Script
141278 (10.54 %)C
151249 (10.30 %)Degree
161098 (9.055 %)Sybase
171055 (8.700 %)Front Office
18977 (8.057 %)Investment Banking
19968 (7.983 %)Derivative
20919 (7.579 %)TCP/IP
21900 (7.422 %)OO
22894 (7.373 %)Apache
23877 (7.232 %)JavaScript
24868 (7.158 %)MySQL
25855 (7.051 %)Microsoft
26844 (6.960 %)J2EE
27798 (6.581 %)C#
28768 (6.333 %)HTML
29765 (6.309 %)PL/SQL
30762 (6.284 %)ITIL

UNIX
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 9 February 2010, 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.

IT Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
11347 (11.11 %)XML
2844 (6.960 %)J2EE
3768 (6.333 %)HTML
4692 (5.707 %).NET
5632 (5.212 %)Spring
6505 (4.165 %)WebSphere
7502 (4.140 %)CSS
8468 (3.859 %)Web Services
9427 (3.521 %)Middleware
10387 (3.191 %)STL
11366 (3.018 %)Hibernate
12317 (2.614 %)AJAX
13289 (2.383 %)JSP
14237 (1.954 %)JMS
15215 (1.773 %)XHTML
16191 (1.575 %)FIX Protocol
17187 (1.542 %)JDBC
18185 (1.526 %)Boost C++ Libraries
19153 (1.262 %)Servlets
20152 (1.254 %)SOAP
IT Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
1894 (7.373 %)Apache
2616 (5.080 %)Tomcat
3440 (3.629 %)WebLogic
4273 (2.251 %)IIS
5165 (1.361 %)MS Exchange
6155 (1.278 %)CMS
7140 (1.155 %)WebSphere MQ
8135 (1.113 %)MQSeries
9134 (1.105 %)SAS
10111 (0.915 %)Oracle Workflow
11105 (0.866 %)WebSphere Application Server
1296 (0.792 %)Rendezvous
1378 (0.643 %)Oracle Application Server
1473 (0.602 %)SharePoint
1473 (0.602 %)Lotus Notes
1568 (0.561 %)Oracle HTTP Server
1662 (0.511 %)Drupal
1754 (0.445 %)Exchange Server 2003
1844 (0.363 %)Oracle 10gAS
1938 (0.313 %)BizTalk Server
IT Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
1376 (3.101 %)MS Excel
2185 (1.526 %)MS Office
3140 (1.155 %)MS Visio
464 (0.528 %)MATLAB
533 (0.272 %)Photoshop
630 (0.247 %)SPSS
717 (0.140 %)MS PowerPoint
813 (0.107 %)MS Project
99 (0.074 %)Acrobat
108 (0.066 %)Adobe Illustrator
117 (0.058 %)Spreadsheet
126 (0.049 %)Stata
135 (0.041 %)Fireworks
135 (0.041 %)NASTRAN
144 (0.033 %)RoboHelp
144 (0.033 %)FrameMaker
144 (0.033 %)Paint Shop Pro
152 (0.016 %)MicroStation
152 (0.016 %)ProjectWise
152 (0.016 %)CA Clarity
IT Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
1153 (1.262 %)RMDS
2121 (0.998 %)Oracle EBS
394 (0.775 %)Oracle Applications
471 (0.586 %)Oracle EBS R12
570 (0.577 %)Oracle 11i
630 (0.247 %)Oracle ERP
727 (0.223 %)Oracle iProcurement
825 (0.206 %)Oracle Financials
923 (0.190 %)Endur
1022 (0.181 %)ION MarketView
1118 (0.148 %)Oracle HRMS
1212 (0.099 %)ADP Wilco Gloss
1212 (0.099 %)Summit
1212 (0.099 %)Global One
1311 (0.091 %)SAP R/3
1311 (0.091 %)Loan IQ
1311 (0.091 %)Front Arena
1311 (0.091 %)GL Clearvision
149 (0.074 %)BASE24
149 (0.074 %)Singl.eView
IT Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
1919 (7.579 %)TCP/IP
2752 (6.202 %)SAN
3738 (6.086 %)Firewall
4585 (4.824 %)Internet
5437 (3.604 %)DNS
6375 (3.093 %)LAN
7321 (2.647 %)WAN
8261 (2.152 %)VPN
9260 (2.144 %)HTTP
10210 (1.732 %)NAS
11162 (1.336 %)LDAP
12121 (0.998 %)SMTP
13119 (0.981 %)Network Security
14108 (0.891 %)FTP
1599 (0.816 %)Wireless
1698 (0.808 %)SSL
1796 (0.792 %)DHCP
1892 (0.759 %)SSH
1892 (0.759 %)VoIP
1980 (0.660 %)SNMP
IT Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
11370 (11.30 %)SQL Server
2868 (7.158 %)MySQL
3706 (5.822 %)RDBMS
4529 (4.363 %)Oracle 10g
5324 (2.672 %)Datawarehouse
6288 (2.375 %)DB2
7245 (2.020 %)ETL
7245 (2.020 %)Oracle 8/8i
8228 (1.880 %)Oracle 9i
9176 (1.451 %)SQL Server 2005
10173 (1.427 %)BusinessObjects
11166 (1.369 %)Oracle Reports
12156 (1.286 %)Oracle 11g
13132 (1.089 %)SQL Server 2000
14113 (0.932 %)Informix
1588 (0.726 %)PostgreSQL
1678 (0.643 %)SQLPlus
1775 (0.619 %)TOAD
1868 (0.561 %)Crystal Reports
1963 (0.520 %)OLAP
IT Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
1253 (2.086 %)Subversion
2206 (1.699 %)Ant
3201 (1.658 %)JUnit
4155 (1.278 %)QuickTest Pro
5151 (1.245 %)Oracle Forms
6139 (1.146 %)Eclipse
7113 (0.932 %)Maven
8107 (0.882 %)ClearCase
956 (0.462 %)LoadRunner
1049 (0.404 %)WinRunner
1049 (0.404 %)TestDirector
1148 (0.396 %)StarTeam
1243 (0.355 %)Selenium
1339 (0.322 %)Visual Studio
1438 (0.313 %)JDeveloper
1537 (0.305 %)InstallShield
1636 (0.297 %)PVCS
1733 (0.272 %)ProC
1832 (0.264 %)JIRA
1931 (0.256 %)Oracle APEX
IT Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
13641 (30.03 %)Finance
22021 (16.67 %)Banking
31055 (8.700 %)Front Office
4977 (8.057 %)Investment Banking
5419 (3.455 %)Telecoms
6410 (3.381 %)Pensions
7394 (3.249 %)Education
8274 (2.260 %)Financial Institution
9266 (2.194 %)Back Office
10259 (2.136 %)Health
11216 (1.781 %)Retail
12196 (1.616 %)Insurance
13184 (1.517 %)Games
14159 (1.311 %)Government
15120 (0.990 %)Marketing
1657 (0.470 %)Publishing
1751 (0.421 %)Billing
1844 (0.363 %)Online Games
1942 (0.346 %)Manufacturing
2037 (0.305 %)Graphic Design
IT Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
13605 (29.73 %)Developer
21994 (16.44 %)Analyst
31082 (8.923 %)Support Analyst
41060 (8.742 %)Java Developer
51024 (8.445 %)C++ Developer
6987 (8.140 %)Administrator
7961 (7.925 %)Applications Support
8715 (5.896 %)Senior Developer
9632 (5.212 %)Architect
10617 (5.088 %)Consultant
11606 (4.998 %)Systems Administrator
12545 (4.494 %)Support Engineer
13517 (4.264 %)DBA
14434 (3.579 %)Applications Support Analyst
15398 (3.282 %)UNIX Administrator
16380 (3.134 %)Technical Support
17340 (2.804 %)Software Engineer
18327 (2.697 %)Programmer
19299 (2.466 %)UNIX Systems Administrator
20293 (2.416 %)Oracle DBA
IT Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
1968 (7.983 %)Derivative
2679 (5.600 %)Equities
3661 (5.451 %)Fixed Income
4653 (5.385 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
5611 (5.039 %)Multithreading
6454 (3.744 %)Client/Server
7417 (3.439 %)Computer Science
8235 (1.938 %)Open Source
9202 (1.666 %)Mathematics
10192 (1.583 %)Equity Derivative
11180 (1.484 %)Mainframe
12174 (1.435 %)Clustering
13168 (1.385 %)French Language
14143 (1.179 %)German Language
15142 (1.171 %)Management Information System
16140 (1.155 %)Credit Derivative
17130 (1.072 %)Replication
1891 (0.750 %)Blackberry
1986 (0.709 %)Interest Rate Derivative
2085 (0.701 %)N-Tier
IT Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
14898 (40.39 %)Linux
23996 (32.95 %)Windows
32096 (17.29 %)Solaris
4689 (5.682 %)AIX
5646 (5.327 %)Red Hat Linux
6498 (4.107 %)HPUX
7470 (3.876 %)Windows Server 2003
8299 (2.466 %)Windows XP
9279 (2.301 %)Windows 2000
10135 (1.113 %)Windows NT
11129 (1.064 %)VMS
12121 (0.998 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13109 (0.899 %)Debian
1496 (0.792 %)Windows 2000 Server
1591 (0.750 %)Windows Server 2008
1686 (0.709 %)CentOS
1785 (0.701 %)SUSE
1872 (0.594 %)Ubuntu
1960 (0.495 %)Windows Vista
2047 (0.388 %)Mac OS
IT Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
1900 (7.422 %)OO
2762 (6.284 %)ITIL
3480 (3.958 %)Agile Software Development
4432 (3.563 %)Project Management
5418 (3.447 %)E-Commerce
6368 (3.035 %)Risk Management
7347 (2.862 %)Electronic Trading
8311 (2.565 %)Web Development
8311 (2.565 %)OOD
9308 (2.540 %)Algorithmic Trading
10306 (2.524 %)Change Management
11298 (2.458 %)UML
12256 (2.111 %)Configuration Management
13247 (2.037 %)Migration
14230 (1.897 %)Software Engineering
15223 (1.839 %)SOA
16207 (1.707 %)Business Intelligence
17197 (1.625 %)Data Modelling
18190 (1.567 %)Workflow
19176 (1.451 %)Disaster Recovery
IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
13936 (32.46 %)SQL
23597 (29.66 %)Java
32523 (20.81 %)C++
42184 (18.01 %)Perl
51334 (11.00 %)Shell Script
61278 (10.54 %)C
7877 (7.232 %)JavaScript
8798 (6.581 %)C#
9765 (6.309 %)PL/SQL
10721 (5.946 %)PHP
11654 (5.393 %)Python
12284 (2.342 %)Bash shell
13256 (2.111 %)VB
14237 (1.954 %)Korn
15206 (1.699 %)VBA
16182 (1.501 %)Ruby
17134 (1.105 %)T-SQL
18119 (0.981 %)PHP5
19117 (0.965 %)Tcl
20114 (0.940 %)VBScript
IT Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
11249 (10.30 %)Degree
2346 (2.853 %)Security Cleared
3193 (1.592 %)SC Cleared
4165 (1.361 %)Microsoft Certification
5159 (1.311 %)Cisco Certification
6118 (0.973 %)CCNA
7112 (0.924 %)CISSP
8110 (0.907 %)MCSE
9103 (0.849 %)PhD
1097 (0.800 %)ITIL Certification
1177 (0.635 %)ISEB
1275 (0.619 %)RHCE
1374 (0.610 %)CCNP
1453 (0.437 %)MCP
1548 (0.396 %)DV Cleared
1645 (0.371 %)RHCT
1740 (0.330 %)MCSA
1834 (0.280 %)Sun Certification
1933 (0.272 %)CEH
2030 (0.247 %)Oracle Certification
IT Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
1480 (3.958 %)QA
2247 (2.037 %)SLA
350 (0.412 %)ISO27001
439 (0.322 %)PCI DSS
519 (0.157 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
612 (0.099 %)ISO9001
79 (0.074 %)ISO9000
88 (0.066 %)COBIT
88 (0.066 %)RosettaNet
94 (0.033 %)ISO/IEC 20000
94 (0.033 %)Basel II
94 (0.033 %)BS15000
103 (0.025 %)WAI
112 (0.016 %)HL7
112 (0.016 %)BS7799
121 (0.008 %)ISO8583
IT Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
1368 (3.035 %)Active Directory
2210 (1.732 %)NFS
3208 (1.715 %)VMware Infrastructure
4184 (1.517 %)Oracle RAC
5176 (1.451 %)NetBackup
6170 (1.402 %)Oracle RMAN
7102 (0.841 %)Veritas Volume Manager
887 (0.717 %)MSMQ
973 (0.602 %)Samba
1058 (0.478 %)Sendmail
1155 (0.454 %)VMware ESX
1155 (0.454 %)Veritas Cluster Server
1253 (0.437 %)Xen
1334 (0.280 %)Citrix Presentation Server
1433 (0.272 %)SRDF
1528 (0.231 %)Backup Exec
1623 (0.190 %)Veritas File System
1721 (0.173 %)ISA Server
1820 (0.165 %)Nmap
1820 (0.165 %)Terminal Services
IT Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
1143 (1.179 %)Tivoli
2117 (0.965 %)Data Guard
389 (0.734 %)OpenView
487 (0.717 %)AutoSys
578 (0.643 %)Nagios
673 (0.602 %)CONTROL-M
743 (0.355 %)HP Quality Center
838 (0.313 %)EMC NetWorker
838 (0.313 %)Legato
934 (0.280 %)Nessus
934 (0.280 %)BMC PATROL
1032 (0.264 %)HP Data Protector
1129 (0.239 %)Oracle Enterprise Manager
1223 (0.190 %)Tivoli Monitoring
1319 (0.157 %)OVSD
1417 (0.140 %)Tivoli Storage Manager
1417 (0.140 %)SCCM
1417 (0.140 %)Zenoss
1516 (0.132 %)Cacti
1615 (0.124 %)CiscoWorks
IT Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
13345 (27.59 %)Oracle
21098 (9.055 %)Sybase
3855 (7.051 %)Microsoft
4669 (5.517 %)Red Hat
5605 (4.989 %)Cisco
6597 (4.923 %)HP
7586 (4.833 %)Sun
8452 (3.728 %)VMware
9386 (3.183 %)IBM
10363 (2.994 %)JBoss
11294 (2.425 %)Veritas
12292 (2.408 %)Reuters
13285 (2.350 %)EMC
14280 (2.309 %)Citrix
15268 (2.210 %)TIBCO
16219 (1.806 %)Bloomberg
17173 (1.427 %)Business Objects
18156 (1.286 %)Informatica
19133 (1.097 %)NetApp
20124 (1.023 %)Juniper