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 22 May 2012 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.

UNIX
Location
3 months to
22 May 2012
Same period 2011Same period 2010
Rank232215
Rank change year-on-year
Down-1Down-7
Matching permanent IT job ads9328108208955
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK7.735 %8.824 %9.379 %
As % of the Operating Systems category28.95 %35.44 %38.40 %
Number of salaries quoted756787097344
Average salary£46,000£47,500£50,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-3.15 %-5.00 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£31,500£30,000£30,829
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£75,000£75,000£82,500
UK excluding London average salary£40,000£40,000£40,000
IT Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryAll Operating Systems
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
322193052723318
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK26.72 %24.90 %24.42 %
Number of salaries quoted276442574319496
Average salary£40,000£40,000£40,000
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£25,000£24,500£23,500
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£62,500£67,500£65,000
UK excluding London average salary£37,500£35,000£35,000
% change year-on-year
+7.14 %-

UNIX
Demand Trend

The 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 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 22 May 2012 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 22 May 2012. 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-18887£47,500-5.00 %
LondonDown-54579£55,000-8.33 %
South EastDown-11947£40,000-2.43 %
City of LondonNo change01254£57,500-8.00 %
BerkshireUp+1729£40,000-3.61 %
East of EnglandUp+1676£40,000+6.66 %
SurreyDown-5532£45,000+9.75 %
North WestUp+9428£40,000+3.89 %
South WestDown-4381£40,000+6.66 %
HampshireUp+3343£40,000-0.62 %
YorkshireDown-12308£35,000+7.69 %
ReadingNo change0303£41,000-
HertfordshireUp+7292£42,500+6.25 %
West MidlandsUp+6258£39,000-2.50 %
CambridgeshireDown-8242£40,000+9.58 %
CambridgeDown-6212£40,000+9.58 %
East MidlandsNo change0206£42,500+13.33 %
West YorkshireDown-14204£35,500+9.23 %
ScotlandDown-14204£35,000-6.66 %
ManchesterUp+10193£38,750+21.09 %
CheshireUp+24163£40,000-1.23 %
GloucestershireDown-4162£42,500+21.42 %
LeedsDown-10161£36,000+20.00 %
StainesUp+2148£50,750+1.50 %
SouthamptonUp+21115£40,000-11.11 %
BuckinghamshireDown-9104£35,000-22.22 %
SloughDown-3103£40,000+14.28 %
North EastUp+990£30,000-11.76 %
GloucesterUp+789£40,000+9.58 %
BirminghamUp+1586£42,500-0.58 %

UNIX
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2012, 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.

19704 (52.46 %)Linux
26862 (37.10 %)SQL
36343 (34.29 %)Java
46128 (33.13 %)Oracle
56102 (32.99 %)Windows
64876 (26.36 %)Finance
73208 (17.34 %)Perl
83020 (16.33 %)Degree
92960 (16.00 %)C++
102770 (14.97 %)Solaris
112505 (13.54 %)Shell Script
122430 (13.14 %)XML
132116 (11.44 %)Banking
142081 (11.25 %)SQL Server
152010 (10.87 %)JavaScript
162008 (10.86 %)Apache
171897 (10.26 %)ITIL
181882 (10.17 %)J2EE
191769 (9.563 %)Microsoft
201749 (9.455 %)HTML
211714 (9.266 %)TCP/IP
211714 (9.266 %)Red Hat
221711 (9.250 %)Python
231661 (8.979 %)MySQL
241628 (8.801 %)C
251506 (8.141 %)VMware
261417 (7.660 %)OO
271373 (7.422 %)PL/SQL
281355 (7.325 %)SAN
291343 (7.260 %)Agile Software Development

UNIX
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2012, 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
12430 (13.14 %)XML
21882 (10.17 %)J2EE
31749 (9.455 %)HTML
41281 (6.925 %)Spring
51198 (6.476 %)CSS
61162 (6.282 %).NET
71125 (6.082 %)WebSphere
81120 (6.055 %)Web Services
91070 (5.784 %)Middleware
10806 (4.357 %)Hibernate
11667 (3.606 %)JSP
12577 (3.119 %)Ajax
13560 (3.027 %)JDBC
14492 (2.660 %)STL
15450 (2.433 %)JMS
16438 (2.368 %)XSLT
17436 (2.357 %)Java EE
17436 (2.357 %)jQuery
18435 (2.352 %)SOAP
19428 (2.314 %)LAMP
IT Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
12008 (10.86 %)Apache
21305 (7.055 %)Tomcat
3947 (5.119 %)WebLogic
4382 (2.065 %)IIS
5289 (1.562 %)MS Exchange
5289 (1.562 %)WebSphere MQ
6274 (1.481 %)WebSphere Application Server
7271 (1.465 %)CMS
8213 (1.151 %)SharePoint
9201 (1.087 %)MQSeries
10173 (0.935 %)SAS
11161 (0.870 %)ESB
12157 (0.849 %)Exchange Server 2010
13132 (0.714 %)Exchange Server 2007
13132 (0.714 %)Oracle Application Server
14126 (0.681 %)Exchange Server 2003
15120 (0.649 %)IBM HTTP Server
16106 (0.573 %)NetWeaver
17104 (0.562 %)GlassFish
1882 (0.443 %)Oracle Workflow
IT Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
1875 (4.730 %)MS Excel
2405 (2.189 %)MS Office
3242 (1.308 %)MS Visio
492 (0.497 %)MATLAB
573 (0.395 %)Photoshop
663 (0.341 %)MS PowerPoint
758 (0.314 %)MS Project
835 (0.189 %)Fireworks
920 (0.108 %)Adobe Illustrator
1014 (0.076 %)Spreadsheet
1111 (0.059 %)Windchill
1210 (0.054 %)SPSS
138 (0.043 %)Google Apps
147 (0.038 %)Adobe After Effects
147 (0.038 %)InDesign
147 (0.038 %)Adobe Premiere
156 (0.032 %)CATIA
156 (0.032 %)Maya
156 (0.032 %)3ds Max
164 (0.022 %)Maple
IT Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
1160 (0.865 %)Oracle EBS
2152 (0.822 %)Oracle Applications
3114 (0.616 %)Oracle EBS R12
485 (0.460 %)Oracle 11i
485 (0.460 %)Oracle ERP
548 (0.259 %)ION MarketView
644 (0.238 %)Oracle BPM
740 (0.216 %)RMDS
836 (0.195 %)Staffware
930 (0.162 %)Dynamics CRM
1029 (0.157 %)Oracle Financials
1124 (0.130 %)Remedy ITSM
1222 (0.119 %)3000 Xtra
1222 (0.119 %)Summit
1321 (0.114 %)Oracle iProcurement
1417 (0.092 %)BASE24
1417 (0.092 %)Cognos Business Intelligence
1516 (0.086 %)Siebel Analytics
1613 (0.070 %)SAP CRM
1613 (0.070 %)SunGard Stream Clearvision
IT Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
11714 (9.266 %)TCP/IP
21355 (7.325 %)SAN
31254 (6.779 %)Internet
41245 (6.730 %)Firewall
5907 (4.903 %)DNS
6700 (3.784 %)HTTP
7634 (3.427 %)LAN
8611 (3.303 %)WAN
9447 (2.416 %)NAS
10444 (2.400 %)LDAP
11394 (2.130 %)DHCP
12380 (2.054 %)VPN
13279 (1.508 %)Network Security
14261 (1.411 %)FTP
15233 (1.260 %)VoIP
16200 (1.081 %)SSL
17198 (1.070 %)SMTP
18176 (0.951 %)BGP
18176 (0.951 %)Wireless
19172 (0.930 %)OSPF
IT Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
12081 (11.25 %)SQL Server
21661 (8.979 %)MySQL
3830 (4.487 %)RDBMS
4739 (3.995 %)Oracle 11g
5664 (3.590 %)DB2
6660 (3.568 %)Oracle 10g
7600 (3.244 %)Data Warehouse
8462 (2.498 %)Oracle 8/8i
9428 (2.314 %)ETL
10262 (1.416 %)Oracle Reports
11224 (1.211 %)Oracle 9i
11224 (1.211 %)SQL Server 2005
12219 (1.184 %)SQL Server 2008
13206 (1.114 %)PostgreSQL
14152 (0.822 %)OLTP
15150 (0.811 %)TOAD
16137 (0.741 %)Informix
17129 (0.697 %)SQL Server Integration Services
18126 (0.681 %)DataStage
19116 (0.627 %)SQLPlus
IT Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
11096 (5.925 %)Subversion
2584 (3.157 %)Ant
3490 (2.649 %)Maven
4442 (2.389 %)Eclipse
5426 (2.303 %)JUnit
6360 (1.946 %)Selenium
7271 (1.465 %)Git (software)
8266 (1.438 %)QuickTest Pro
9238 (1.287 %)ClearCase
10198 (1.070 %)JIRA
11172 (0.930 %)Oracle Forms
12163 (0.881 %)Hudson
13143 (0.773 %)LoadRunner
14126 (0.681 %)Visual Studio
15116 (0.627 %)Bugzilla
16112 (0.605 %)FitNesse
17108 (0.584 %)JDeveloper
1882 (0.443 %)Rational Robot
1981 (0.438 %)JMeter
2074 (0.400 %)ClearQuest
IT Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
14876 (26.36 %)Finance
22116 (11.44 %)Banking
31018 (5.503 %)Front Office
4959 (5.184 %)Telecoms
5910 (4.919 %)Investment Banking
6634 (3.427 %)Retail
7579 (3.130 %)Games
8323 (1.746 %)Back Office
9276 (1.492 %)Marketing
10261 (1.411 %)Financial Institution
11209 (1.130 %)Publishing
12173 (0.935 %)French Language
13171 (0.924 %)Manufacturing
14167 (0.903 %)Advertising
15164 (0.887 %)German Language
16104 (0.562 %)Legal
1778 (0.422 %)Italian Language
1876 (0.411 %)Billing
1975 (0.405 %)Electronics
2067 (0.362 %)Spanish Language
IT Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
14798 (25.94 %)Developer
22795 (15.11 %)Analyst
31775 (9.596 %)Java Developer
41745 (9.433 %)Administrator
51355 (7.325 %)Applications Support
61223 (6.612 %)Support Analyst
71165 (6.298 %)Systems Administrator
81040 (5.622 %)Architect
9932 (5.038 %)C++ Developer
10905 (4.892 %)Consultant
11882 (4.768 %)Software Engineer
12767 (4.146 %)Support Engineer
13737 (3.984 %)Senior Developer
14703 (3.800 %)DBA
15565 (3.054 %)Applications Support Analyst
16543 (2.935 %)Linux Administrator
17501 (2.708 %)UNIX Administrator
18471 (2.546 %)Team Leader
19464 (2.508 %)Software Developer
20460 (2.487 %)Linux Systems Administrator
IT Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
11340 (7.244 %)Computer Science
2743 (4.017 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
3679 (3.671 %)Open Source
4615 (3.325 %)Equities
5599 (3.238 %)Derivative
6551 (2.979 %)Clustering
7537 (2.903 %)Mathematics
8484 (2.616 %)Fixed Income
9444 (2.400 %)Hedge funds
10366 (1.979 %)Management Information System
11351 (1.898 %)Replication
12287 (1.552 %)Client/Server
13285 (1.541 %)Mainframe
14263 (1.422 %)Online Games
15229 (1.238 %)SaaS
16170 (0.919 %)Digital Media
17165 (0.892 %)Cloud Computing
18160 (0.865 %)Physics
19148 (0.800 %)Embedded Systems
20142 (0.768 %)Equity Derivative
IT Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
19704 (52.46 %)Linux
26102 (32.99 %)Windows
32770 (14.97 %)Solaris
41242 (6.714 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5936 (5.060 %)AIX
6681 (3.681 %)Windows Server 2003
7600 (3.244 %)Windows Server 2008
8556 (3.006 %)HPUX
9265 (1.433 %)CentOS
10260 (1.406 %)Windows XP
11181 (0.978 %)Debian
12150 (0.811 %)SUSE
13145 (0.784 %)Ubuntu
14141 (0.762 %)Android
15137 (0.741 %)Windows 2000
16112 (0.605 %)Windows 2000 Server
17100 (0.541 %)Windows NT
1873 (0.395 %)Windows 7
1970 (0.378 %)Apple iOS
2061 (0.330 %)Mac OS X
IT Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
11897 (10.26 %)ITIL
21417 (7.660 %)OO
31343 (7.260 %)Agile Software Development
41143 (6.179 %)E-Commerce
51100 (5.947 %)Multithreading
6835 (4.514 %)Project Management
7748 (4.044 %)UML
8661 (3.573 %)Scrum
9587 (3.173 %)Configuration Management
10575 (3.108 %)Service Delivery
11527 (2.849 %)TDD
12508 (2.746 %)Disaster Recovery
13490 (2.649 %)SOA
14475 (2.568 %)Software Engineering
15457 (2.471 %)Change Management
16450 (2.433 %)Web Development
17444 (2.400 %)Migration
18441 (2.384 %)Problem Management
19440 (2.379 %)Business Intelligence
20432 (2.335 %)Capacity Planning
IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
16862 (37.10 %)SQL
26343 (34.29 %)Java
33208 (17.34 %)Perl
42960 (16.00 %)C++
52505 (13.54 %)Shell Script
62010 (10.87 %)JavaScript
71711 (9.250 %)Python
81628 (8.801 %)C
91373 (7.422 %)PL/SQL
101316 (7.114 %)C#
111167 (6.309 %)PHP
12955 (5.163 %)Bash shell
13608 (3.287 %)Ruby
14454 (2.454 %)VB
15367 (1.984 %)Korn
16197 (1.065 %)AWK
17193 (1.043 %)T-SQL
18179 (0.968 %)VBScript
19169 (0.914 %)Scala
20160 (0.865 %)VBA
IT Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
13020 (16.33 %)Degree
2940 (5.082 %)Security Cleared
3519 (2.806 %)SC Cleared
4478 (2.584 %)Cisco Certification
5452 (2.444 %)ISEB
6309 (1.670 %)CCNA
7289 (1.562 %)Microsoft Certification
8264 (1.427 %)DV Cleared
9260 (1.406 %)CISSP
10240 (1.297 %)MCSE
11194 (1.049 %)RHCE
12181 (0.978 %)CCNP
13176 (0.951 %)ISTQB
14165 (0.892 %)ITIL Certification
15152 (0.822 %)Oracle Certification
16116 (0.627 %)MCITP
17104 (0.562 %)MCP
1893 (0.503 %)CISA
1992 (0.497 %)CCIE
2088 (0.476 %)HND
IT Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
1915 (4.946 %)QA
2472 (2.552 %)SLA
3224 (1.211 %)ISO/IEC 27001
4196 (1.060 %)PCI DSS
595 (0.514 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
595 (0.514 %)ISO 9001
643 (0.232 %)COBIT
742 (0.227 %)DO-178B
837 (0.200 %)WAI
933 (0.178 %)ISO/IEC 17799
1031 (0.168 %)Data Quality
1119 (0.103 %)TickIT
1218 (0.097 %)ISO 8583
1317 (0.092 %)ISO 9000
1416 (0.086 %)BS7799
156 (0.032 %)WCAG
156 (0.032 %)HIPAA
165 (0.027 %)ISO 14001
174 (0.022 %)JSP 440
174 (0.022 %)Basel II
IT Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
1874 (4.725 %)VMware Infrastructure
2835 (4.514 %)Active Directory
3332 (1.795 %)Oracle RMAN
4313 (1.692 %)Oracle RAC
5281 (1.519 %)NFS
6273 (1.476 %)VMware ESX
7252 (1.362 %)vSphere
8143 (0.773 %)Veritas Cluster Server
9128 (0.692 %)Xen
10126 (0.681 %)VMware ESXi
1199 (0.535 %)XenApp
1298 (0.530 %)Hyper-V
1382 (0.443 %)Samba
1473 (0.395 %)Squid
1552 (0.281 %)Veritas Volume Manager
1648 (0.259 %)Nmap
1746 (0.249 %)Varnish
1840 (0.216 %)XenServer
1840 (0.216 %)Postfix
1939 (0.211 %)Terminal Services
IT Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
1426 (2.303 %)NetBackup
2299 (1.616 %)Tivoli
3259 (1.400 %)Nagios
4250 (1.351 %)Data Guard
5227 (1.227 %)HP Quality Center
6177 (0.957 %)Puppet
7165 (0.892 %)Tivoli Storage Manager
8123 (0.665 %)Oracle Enterprise Manager
9111 (0.600 %)Control-M
10102 (0.551 %)BMC PATROL
1192 (0.497 %)Backup Exec
1280 (0.432 %)Nessus
1371 (0.384 %)SCCM
1469 (0.373 %)BladeLogic
1568 (0.368 %)OpenView
1662 (0.335 %)Cacti
1746 (0.249 %)vCenter
1746 (0.249 %)EMC NetWorker
1845 (0.243 %)SCOM
1845 (0.243 %)ZABBIX
IT Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
16128 (33.13 %)Oracle
21769 (9.563 %)Microsoft
31714 (9.266 %)Red Hat
41506 (8.141 %)VMware
51318 (7.125 %)Cisco
61061 (5.736 %)IBM
71054 (5.698 %)HP
8891 (4.817 %)JBoss
9841 (4.546 %)Sybase
10747 (4.038 %)Sun
11500 (2.703 %)Citrix
12482 (2.606 %)EMC
13365 (1.973 %)SAP
14363 (1.962 %)Veritas
15359 (1.941 %)NetApp
16327 (1.768 %)Juniper
17264 (1.427 %)CheckPoint
18260 (1.406 %)TIBCO
19257 (1.389 %)BMC
20229 (1.238 %)Symantec