The first table below looks at the demand for UNIX skills in IT jobs advertised for the Welwyn Garden City region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited UNIX over the 3 months to 22 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 of the Operating Systems category for the Welwyn Garden City region.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
UNIX
Rank 32 15 39
Rank change year-on-year
-17 +24
Permanent jobs citing UNIX 12 9 11
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Welwyn Garden City 4.800% 7.031% 4.167%
As % of the Operating Systems category 19.35% 28.13% 13.41%
Number of salaries quoted 11 7 11
Average salary £45,000 £37,500 £42,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+20.00% -11.76%
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
All Operating Systems
Welwyn Garden City
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
62 32 82
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Welwyn Garden City 24.80% 25.00% 31.06%
Number of salaries quoted 60 27 81
Average salary £45,000 £42,250 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.50% +20.71%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,000 £30,400 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £45,000 £65,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
UNIX
Hertfordshire

UNIX
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Welwyn Garden City UNIX Jobs Demand Trend

UNIX
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing UNIX across the Welwyn Garden City region.

Welwyn Garden City UNIX Salary Trend

UNIX
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing UNIX across the Welwyn Garden City region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

Welwyn Garden City UNIX Salary Histogram

UNIX
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Welwyn Garden City region 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 17 (89.47%) Linux
2 14 (73.68%) SQL
2 14 (73.68%) MS Exchange
2 14 (73.68%) Active Directory
2 14 (73.68%) VMware
3 12 (63.16%) SAN
3 12 (63.16%) Red Hat
4 10 (52.63%) Perl
5 9 (47.37%) MS Excel
5 9 (47.37%) SharePoint
5 9 (47.37%) VB
5 9 (47.37%) ITIL
5 9 (47.37%) CommVault
5 9 (47.37%) BizTalk Server
5 9 (47.37%) Citrix
5 9 (47.37%) Exchange Server 2003
5 9 (47.37%) Xen
5 9 (47.37%) Exchange Server 2007
5 9 (47.37%) Postini
5 9 (47.37%) VMware Infrastructure
5 9 (47.37%) NAS
5 9 (47.37%) Bash shell
5 9 (47.37%) NetBackup
5 9 (47.37%) Backup Exec
5 9 (47.37%) Exchange Server 2010
5 9 (47.37%) Fibre Channel
6 8 (42.11%) HP
6 8 (42.11%) Windows
7 6 (31.58%) NetApp
8 5 (26.32%) Windows Server 2003

UNIX
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Welwyn Garden City region 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 2 (10.53%) Middleware
Application Platforms
1 14 (73.68%) MS Exchange
2 9 (47.37%) SharePoint
2 9 (47.37%) BizTalk Server
2 9 (47.37%) Exchange Server 2003
2 9 (47.37%) Exchange Server 2007
2 9 (47.37%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 9 (47.37%) MS Excel
2 1 (5.263%) MS PowerPoint
2 1 (5.263%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 12 (63.16%) SAN
2 9 (47.37%) NAS
2 9 (47.37%) Fibre Channel
3 5 (26.32%) LAN
3 5 (26.32%) TCP/IP
3 5 (26.32%) VPN
Development Applications
1 1 (5.263%) ClearQuest
1 1 (5.263%) RequisitePro
Job Titles
1 14 (73.68%) Systems Engineer
2 8 (42.11%) Senior Systems Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) Architect
4 1 (5.263%) Software Engineer
4 1 (5.263%) Technical Architect
4 1 (5.263%) Embedded Software Engineer
4 1 (5.263%) Technical Engineer
4 1 (5.263%) Infrastructure Architect
4 1 (5.263%) UNIX Specialist
4 1 (5.263%) Technical Leader
4 1 (5.263%) Lead Software Engineer
4 1 (5.263%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (5.263%) AIX Specialist
4 1 (5.263%) Domain Architect
4 1 (5.263%) Storage Systems Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 4 (21.05%) Replication
2 3 (15.79%) Clustering
3 1 (5.263%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 17 (89.47%) Linux
2 8 (42.11%) Windows
3 5 (26.32%) Windows Server 2003
3 5 (26.32%) Windows Server 2008
4 3 (15.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (15.79%) AIX
4 3 (15.79%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (47.37%) ITIL
2 5 (26.32%) CRM
2 5 (26.32%) Release Management
3 3 (15.79%) Business Continuity
4 1 (5.263%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (5.263%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (5.263%) Agile Software Development
4 1 (5.263%) Document Management
4 1 (5.263%) Integration Testing
4 1 (5.263%) System Testing
4 1 (5.263%) Capacity Planning
4 1 (5.263%) UML
4 1 (5.263%) Embedded Software Development
Programming Languages
1 14 (73.68%) SQL
2 10 (52.63%) Perl
3 9 (47.37%) VB
3 9 (47.37%) Bash shell
4 1 (5.263%) PHP
Qualifications
1 5 (26.32%) Cisco Certification
1 5 (26.32%) Microsoft Certification
1 5 (26.32%) CCNA
1 5 (26.32%) MCSE
1 5 (26.32%) MCITP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (21.05%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 14 (73.68%) Active Directory
2 9 (47.37%) Xen
2 9 (47.37%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (26.32%) VMware ESX
3 5 (26.32%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 9 (47.37%) NetBackup
1 9 (47.37%) Backup Exec
Vendors
1 14 (73.68%) VMware
2 12 (63.16%) Red Hat
3 9 (47.37%) CommVault
3 9 (47.37%) Citrix
3 9 (47.37%) Postini
4 8 (42.11%) HP
5 6 (31.58%) NetApp
6 5 (26.32%) Cisco
6 5 (26.32%) Microsoft
6 5 (26.32%) Symantec
7 3 (15.79%) Oracle
8 1 (5.263%) Intel