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 19 March 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
19 Mar 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank191613
Rank change year-on-year
Down-3Down-3
Matching permanent IT job ads6969740820213
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK8.111 %8.735 %9.904 %
As % of the Operating Systems category37.39 %35.60 %40.07 %
Salaries quoted5683600415881
Average salary£50,000£42,500£43,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+17.64 %-1.160 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£30,000£27,500£28,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£80,000£67,500£70,000
UK excluding London average salary£40,000£37,500£36,500
% change year-on-year
+6.660 %+2.730 %
IT Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryAll Operating Systems
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
186402080750438
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK21.70 %24.53 %24.71 %
Salaries quoted156871754841822
Average salary£38,000£35,000£35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+8.570 %-
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£23,000£22,500£22,500
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£65,000£60,000£57,500
UK excluding London average salary£33,500£32,500£32,500
% change year-on-year
+3.070 %-

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 19 March 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 19 March 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-46677£50,000+13.63 %
LondonDown-14054£60,000+9.09 %
City of LondonDown-61412£60,000+4.34 %
South EastDown-41183£41,000+2.50 %
BerkshireDown-1449£40,000-5.88 %
East of EnglandDown-6352£37,500-6.25 %
South WestDown-1346£37,500+7.14 %
North WestDown-14240£40,000+6.66 %
SurreyDown-5233£42,500+6.25 %
YorkshireDown-3214£30,500+1.66 %
HampshireDown-5175£35,500+0.70 %
ScotlandDown-1158£36,250-3.33 %
HertfordshireDown-5154£49,500+10.00 %
CambridgeshireDown-1151£35,000+2.94 %
WiltshireUp+5149£38,500+13.23 %
West MidlandsDown-10149£35,000-
CambridgeDown-4122£32,500-4.41 %
Docklands, LondonUp+1107£60,000-2.04 %
CheshireDown-998£40,000-
ManchesterDown-1794£42,500+32.81 %
SloughDown-193£40,000-1.84 %
East MidlandsDown-1591£37,500-1.31 %
ReadingDown-790£45,000+5.88 %
BristolUp+183£35,000-12.50 %
SwindonUp+1782£37,500+33.92 %
GlasgowUp+871£35,000-6.66 %
West YorkshireDown-1770£35,000+27.27 %
WalesUp+2465£34,500+15.00 %
South YorkshireUp+2660£29,500-1.66 %
South WalesUp+2857£33,500+8.94 %

UNIX
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 March 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.

15443 (41.37 %)Linux
24444 (33.78 %)SQL
34260 (32.38 %)Windows
43973 (30.20 %)Finance
53931 (29.88 %)Java
63429 (26.06 %)Oracle
72834 (21.54 %)C++
82343 (17.81 %)Perl
92316 (17.60 %)Banking
102173 (16.52 %)Solaris
111565 (11.90 %)XML
121529 (11.62 %)Shell Script
131439 (10.94 %)SQL Server
141415 (10.76 %)Degree
151391 (10.57 %)C
161244 (9.456 %)Front Office
171182 (8.984 %)Sybase
181121 (8.521 %)Investment Banking
191111 (8.445 %)Derivative
201022 (7.768 %)OO
21941 (7.153 %)JavaScript
22938 (7.130 %)MySQL
23934 (7.099 %)Apache
23934 (7.099 %)TCP/IP
24926 (7.039 %)C#
25890 (6.765 %)J2EE
26867 (6.590 %)Microsoft
27858 (6.522 %)HTML
28828 (6.294 %)Equities
29810 (6.157 %)PL/SQL

UNIX
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 March 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
11565 (11.90 %)XML
2890 (6.765 %)J2EE
3858 (6.522 %)HTML
4795 (6.043 %).NET
5674 (5.123 %)Spring
6573 (4.355 %)CSS
7528 (4.013 %)WebSphere
8487 (3.702 %)Middleware
9479 (3.641 %)STL
10478 (3.633 %)Web Services
11413 (3.139 %)Hibernate
12316 (2.402 %)AJAX
13287 (2.182 %)JSP
14245 (1.862 %)JMS
15243 (1.847 %)Boost C++ Libraries
16239 (1.817 %)FIX Protocol
17191 (1.452 %)SOAP
18176 (1.338 %)JDBC
19166 (1.262 %)XHTML
20159 (1.209 %)Swing
IT Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
1934 (7.099 %)Apache
2633 (4.811 %)Tomcat
3462 (3.512 %)WebLogic
4283 (2.151 %)IIS
5156 (1.186 %)WebSphere MQ
5156 (1.186 %)CMS
6155 (1.178 %)MS Exchange
7144 (1.095 %)SAS
8124 (0.943 %)MQSeries
9111 (0.844 %)WebSphere Application Server
1089 (0.676 %)Oracle Workflow
1184 (0.638 %)SharePoint
1184 (0.638 %)Rendezvous
1282 (0.623 %)Oracle Application Server
1377 (0.585 %)Drupal
1468 (0.517 %)Oracle HTTP Server
1566 (0.502 %)Lotus Notes
1657 (0.433 %)ColdFusion
1743 (0.327 %)Exchange Server 2003
1842 (0.319 %)ESB
IT Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
1383 (2.911 %)MS Excel
2191 (1.452 %)MS Office
3126 (0.958 %)MS Visio
459 (0.448 %)MATLAB
535 (0.266 %)SPSS
634 (0.258 %)Photoshop
723 (0.175 %)Spreadsheet
818 (0.137 %)MS Project
916 (0.122 %)MS PowerPoint
108 (0.061 %)Adobe Illustrator
117 (0.053 %)Fireworks
126 (0.046 %)Acrobat
135 (0.038 %)NASTRAN
144 (0.030 %)RoboHelp
144 (0.030 %)FrameMaker
144 (0.030 %)Paint Shop Pro
152 (0.015 %)Stata
152 (0.015 %)AutoCAD
152 (0.015 %)PrintSoft PReS
152 (0.015 %)MicroStation
IT Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
1135 (1.026 %)RMDS
2131 (0.996 %)Oracle EBS
394 (0.715 %)Oracle Applications
467 (0.509 %)Oracle EBS R12
558 (0.441 %)Oracle 11i
633 (0.251 %)Oracle ERP
732 (0.243 %)Oracle iProcurement
822 (0.167 %)Global One
822 (0.167 %)Oracle Financials
920 (0.152 %)ION MarketView
1015 (0.114 %)GL Clearvision
1112 (0.091 %)Loan IQ
1112 (0.091 %)ADP Wilco Gloss
1112 (0.091 %)Temenos T24
1112 (0.091 %)Singl.eView
1211 (0.084 %)SAP R/3
1310 (0.076 %)3000 Xtra
149 (0.068 %)Summit
158 (0.061 %)Capstone
158 (0.061 %)CODA-Financials
IT Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
1934 (7.099 %)TCP/IP
2757 (5.754 %)SAN
3756 (5.746 %)Firewall
4635 (4.827 %)Internet
5397 (3.018 %)DNS
6383 (2.911 %)LAN
7352 (2.676 %)WAN
8267 (2.029 %)VPN
9258 (1.961 %)HTTP
10229 (1.741 %)NAS
11193 (1.467 %)LDAP
12123 (0.935 %)SMTP
13121 (0.920 %)Network Security
14120 (0.912 %)VoIP
15112 (0.851 %)Wireless
16101 (0.768 %)SSL
17100 (0.760 %)DHCP
1898 (0.745 %)OSPF
1994 (0.715 %)FTP
2092 (0.699 %)BGP
IT Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
11439 (10.94 %)SQL Server
2938 (7.130 %)MySQL
3765 (5.815 %)RDBMS
4494 (3.755 %)Oracle 10g
5299 (2.273 %)Datawarehouse
6288 (2.189 %)DB2
7278 (2.113 %)ETL
8241 (1.832 %)Oracle 8/8i
9230 (1.748 %)Oracle 9i
10209 (1.589 %)SQL Server 2005
11181 (1.376 %)Oracle Reports
12172 (1.307 %)Oracle 11g
13158 (1.201 %)BusinessObjects
14151 (1.148 %)Informix
15149 (1.133 %)SQL Server 2000
16126 (0.958 %)PostgreSQL
17101 (0.768 %)SQLPlus
1884 (0.638 %)TOAD
1975 (0.570 %)Crystal Reports
2073 (0.555 %)KDB
IT Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
1286 (2.174 %)Subversion
2215 (1.634 %)JUnit
3206 (1.566 %)Ant
4181 (1.376 %)QuickTest Pro
5152 (1.155 %)Eclipse
6147 (1.117 %)ClearCase
7138 (1.049 %)Oracle Forms
8136 (1.034 %)Maven
977 (0.585 %)LoadRunner
1064 (0.486 %)WinRunner
1156 (0.426 %)StarTeam
1250 (0.380 %)TestDirector
1344 (0.334 %)PVCS
1440 (0.304 %)JIRA
1539 (0.296 %)Visual Studio
1539 (0.296 %)ClearQuest
1539 (0.296 %)InstallShield
1636 (0.274 %)ProC
1733 (0.251 %)Selenium
1825 (0.190 %)ERwin
IT Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
13973 (30.20 %)Finance
22316 (17.60 %)Banking
31244 (9.456 %)Front Office
41121 (8.521 %)Investment Banking
5426 (3.238 %)Education
6419 (3.185 %)Pensions
7389 (2.957 %)Telecoms
8288 (2.189 %)Back Office
9284 (2.159 %)Health
10281 (2.136 %)Financial Institution
11246 (1.870 %)Retail
12218 (1.657 %)Games
13202 (1.535 %)Insurance
14158 (1.201 %)Government
15104 (0.791 %)Marketing
1686 (0.654 %)Publishing
1760 (0.456 %)Online Games
1854 (0.410 %)Billing
1949 (0.372 %)Construction
2046 (0.350 %)Electronics
IT Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
14027 (30.61 %)Developer
22206 (16.77 %)Analyst
31212 (9.213 %)C++ Developer
41165 (8.855 %)Support Analyst
51143 (8.688 %)Java Developer
61065 (8.095 %)Applications Support
71015 (7.715 %)Administrator
8809 (6.149 %)Senior Developer
9647 (4.918 %)Architect
10641 (4.872 %)Systems Administrator
11636 (4.834 %)Consultant
12572 (4.348 %)DBA
13477 (3.626 %)Support Engineer
14451 (3.428 %)Applications Support Analyst
15416 (3.162 %)Software Engineer
16404 (3.071 %)UNIX Administrator
17381 (2.896 %)Technical Support
18343 (2.607 %)Programmer
19330 (2.508 %)UNIX Systems Administrator
20325 (2.470 %)Team Leader
IT Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
11111 (8.445 %)Derivative
2828 (6.294 %)Equities
3787 (5.982 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
4762 (5.792 %)Fixed Income
5701 (5.328 %)Multithreading
6529 (4.021 %)Client/Server
7520 (3.953 %)Computer Science
8303 (2.303 %)Open Source
9259 (1.969 %)Mathematics
9259 (1.969 %)Equity Derivative
10202 (1.535 %)Mainframe
11181 (1.376 %)Clustering
12169 (1.285 %)French Language
13144 (1.095 %)Management Information System
14141 (1.072 %)Credit Derivative
15129 (0.981 %)Replication
16119 (0.905 %)German Language
1796 (0.730 %)Physics
1895 (0.722 %)Blackberry
1993 (0.707 %)Spread Betting
IT Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
15443 (41.37 %)Linux
24260 (32.38 %)Windows
32173 (16.52 %)Solaris
4750 (5.701 %)AIX
5692 (5.260 %)Red Hat Linux
6491 (3.732 %)HPUX
7454 (3.451 %)Windows Server 2003
8286 (2.174 %)Windows XP
9267 (2.029 %)Windows 2000
10134 (1.019 %)Windows NT
11131 (0.996 %)VMS
12118 (0.897 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13102 (0.775 %)Debian
1495 (0.722 %)Windows Server 2008
1591 (0.692 %)Windows 2000 Server
1688 (0.669 %)CentOS
1784 (0.638 %)Ubuntu
1874 (0.562 %)SUSE
1961 (0.464 %)Windows Vista
2043 (0.327 %)zOS
IT Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
11022 (7.768 %)OO
2761 (5.784 %)ITIL
3570 (4.333 %)Agile Software Development
4499 (3.793 %)Project Management
5492 (3.740 %)E-Commerce
6390 (2.964 %)Electronic Trading
7382 (2.904 %)Algorithmic Trading
8351 (2.668 %)Risk Management
9345 (2.622 %)Web Development
10340 (2.584 %)OOD
11333 (2.531 %)UML
12328 (2.493 %)Change Management
13300 (2.280 %)Configuration Management
14243 (1.847 %)SOA
15240 (1.824 %)Software Engineering
16224 (1.703 %)Migration
17217 (1.649 %)Business Intelligence
18211 (1.604 %)Data Modelling
19195 (1.482 %)Workflow
20183 (1.391 %)Service Delivery
IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
14444 (33.78 %)SQL
23931 (29.88 %)Java
32834 (21.54 %)C++
42343 (17.81 %)Perl
51529 (11.62 %)Shell Script
61391 (10.57 %)C
7941 (7.153 %)JavaScript
8926 (7.039 %)C#
9810 (6.157 %)PL/SQL
10742 (5.640 %)PHP
11670 (5.093 %)Python
12346 (2.630 %)VB
13282 (2.144 %)Bash shell
14215 (1.634 %)Korn
15212 (1.611 %)VBA
16209 (1.589 %)Ruby
17149 (1.133 %)T-SQL
18135 (1.026 %)VBScript
19122 (0.927 %)Tcl
20111 (0.844 %)PHP5
IT Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
11415 (10.76 %)Degree
2336 (2.554 %)Security Cleared
3212 (1.611 %)SC Cleared
4174 (1.323 %)Cisco Certification
5145 (1.102 %)Microsoft Certification
6118 (0.897 %)CCNA
7113 (0.859 %)ISEB
896 (0.730 %)MCSE
896 (0.730 %)PhD
995 (0.722 %)CISSP
995 (0.722 %)ITIL Certification
1086 (0.654 %)CCNP
1171 (0.540 %)RHCE
1256 (0.426 %)Oracle Certification
1348 (0.365 %)MCP
1446 (0.350 %)CCIE
1543 (0.327 %)OCP
1642 (0.319 %)RHCT
1740 (0.304 %)DV Cleared
1837 (0.281 %)CEH
IT Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
1534 (4.059 %)QA
2240 (1.824 %)SLA
337 (0.281 %)ISO27001
426 (0.198 %)PCI DSS
523 (0.175 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
617 (0.129 %)COBIT
711 (0.084 %)ISO9001
89 (0.068 %)MiFID
97 (0.053 %)ISO9000
104 (0.030 %)Basel II
104 (0.030 %)BS15000
112 (0.015 %)BS7799
112 (0.015 %)HL7
121 (0.008 %)ISO/IEC 20000
121 (0.008 %)WCAG
121 (0.008 %)WAI
121 (0.008 %)TickIT
IT Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
1377 (2.866 %)Active Directory
2220 (1.672 %)VMware Infrastructure
3188 (1.429 %)NFS
4174 (1.323 %)Oracle RMAN
4174 (1.323 %)Oracle RAC
5106 (0.806 %)Veritas Volume Manager
691 (0.692 %)MSMQ
764 (0.486 %)VMware ESX
862 (0.471 %)Samba
862 (0.471 %)Xen
951 (0.388 %)Veritas Cluster Server
1050 (0.380 %)Sendmail
1139 (0.296 %)Citrix Presentation Server
1233 (0.251 %)Veritas File System
1323 (0.175 %)Tivoli Workload Scheduler
1421 (0.160 %)XenServer
1421 (0.160 %)SRDF
1520 (0.152 %)Postfix
1520 (0.152 %)Squid
1619 (0.144 %)ISA Server
IT Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
1171 (1.300 %)NetBackup
2152 (1.155 %)Tivoli
3119 (0.905 %)Data Guard
497 (0.737 %)AutoSys
584 (0.638 %)OpenView
667 (0.509 %)Nagios
764 (0.486 %)CONTROL-M
851 (0.388 %)EMC NetWorker
944 (0.334 %)BMC PATROL
944 (0.334 %)Oracle Enterprise Manager
1043 (0.327 %)Legato
1141 (0.312 %)HP Quality Center
1236 (0.274 %)Nessus
1331 (0.236 %)Backup Exec
1426 (0.198 %)Tivoli Monitoring
1520 (0.152 %)SCCM
1619 (0.144 %)Zenoss
1716 (0.122 %)Tivoli Storage Manager
1815 (0.114 %)MOM
1815 (0.114 %)CiscoWorks
IT Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
13429 (26.06 %)Oracle
21182 (8.984 %)Sybase
3867 (6.590 %)Microsoft
4712 (5.412 %)Red Hat
5585 (4.447 %)Cisco
6583 (4.431 %)Sun
7575 (4.371 %)HP
8468 (3.557 %)VMware
9467 (3.550 %)IBM
10388 (2.949 %)JBoss
11307 (2.334 %)TIBCO
12291 (2.212 %)Veritas
13275 (2.090 %)EMC
14261 (1.984 %)Reuters
15258 (1.961 %)Citrix
16222 (1.687 %)Bloomberg
17158 (1.201 %)Business Objects
18156 (1.186 %)Juniper
19150 (1.140 %)SAP
20131 (0.996 %)NetApp