The first table below looks at the demand for UNIX skills in IT jobs advertised for the West Lothian 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 West Lothian region.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
UNIX
Rank 2 23 2
Rank change year-on-year
+21 -21
Permanent jobs citing UNIX 58 4 76
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in West Lothian 52.25% 3.175% 25.42%
As % of the Operating Systems category 95.08% 7.692% 73.08%
Number of salaries quoted 22 1 45
Average salary £36,000 £37,500 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-4.00% -6.25%
90% offered a salary of more than £33,000 £37,500 £32,200
10% offered a salary of more than £41,000 £37,500 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
All Operating Systems
West Lothian
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
61 52 104
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in West Lothian 54.95% 41.27% 34.78%
Number of salaries quoted 23 42 72
Average salary £33,000 £37,000 £39,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-10.81% -5.12%
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
UNIX
Scotland

UNIX
Jobs Demand Trend

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

West Lothian 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 West Lothian region.

West Lothian UNIX Salary Trend

UNIX
Salary Histogram

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

West Lothian UNIX Salary Histogram

UNIX
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 West Lothian region over the 3 months to 22 May 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
Livingston +19 54 £36,000 -4.00%
UNIX
Scotland

UNIX
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the West Lothian 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 84 (88.42%) SQL
2 70 (73.68%) Oracle
3 45 (47.37%) Degree
4 38 (40.00%) Business Intelligence
5 37 (38.95%) Linux
6 34 (35.79%) Ab Initio
7 30 (31.58%) Data Warehouse
7 30 (31.58%) ETL
7 30 (31.58%) Netezza
7 30 (31.58%) Continuous Improvement
8 29 (30.53%) Informatica
9 28 (29.47%) Finance
10 27 (28.42%) Broadband
10 27 (28.42%) Windows
10 27 (28.42%) Perl
11 23 (24.21%) RDBMS
11 23 (24.21%) Shell Script
12 21 (22.11%) TDD
12 21 (22.11%) Java
13 20 (21.05%) Telecoms
14 19 (20.00%) MySQL
15 17 (17.89%) VBScript
16 15 (15.79%) SAN
16 15 (15.79%) Cisco
16 15 (15.79%) Replication
16 15 (15.79%) Disaster Recovery
16 15 (15.79%) Korn
17 14 (14.74%) Brocade
17 14 (14.74%) Banking
17 14 (14.74%) Teradata

UNIX
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the West Lothian 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 9 (9.474%) XML
2 6 (6.316%) WebSphere
3 3 (3.158%) J2EE
4 1 (1.053%) COM
4 1 (1.053%) Web Services
4 1 (1.053%) Middleware
Application Platforms
1 4 (4.211%) WMQI
1 4 (4.211%) MQSeries
2 1 (1.053%) WebSphere Application Server
2 1 (1.053%) Tomcat
Applications
1 10 (10.53%) MS Excel
2 8 (8.421%) MS Office
3 1 (1.053%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (1.053%) Oracle 11i
1 1 (1.053%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (1.053%) Oracle Applications
Communications & Networking
1 27 (28.42%) Broadband
2 15 (15.79%) SAN
3 12 (12.63%) NAS
4 9 (9.474%) SNMP
4 9 (9.474%) SSH
5 2 (2.105%) TCP/IP
6 1 (1.053%) Ethernet
6 1 (1.053%) FTP
6 1 (1.053%) HTTP
6 1 (1.053%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (31.58%) Data Warehouse
2 23 (24.21%) RDBMS
3 19 (20.00%) MySQL
4 11 (11.58%) Informix
5 10 (10.53%) DataStage
6 8 (8.421%) SQL Server
6 8 (8.421%) Oracle 10g
7 7 (7.368%) Oracle 9i
7 7 (7.368%) Oracle 11g
8 5 (5.263%) SQLPlus
8 5 (5.263%) OLTP
8 5 (5.263%) DB2
9 4 (4.211%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 4 (4.211%) SQL Server 2005
9 4 (4.211%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 1 (1.053%) TOAD
10 1 (1.053%) MS Access
10 1 (1.053%) Oracle Reports
10 1 (1.053%) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications
1 4 (4.211%) Jenkins
1 4 (4.211%) Hudson
1 4 (4.211%) Ant
1 4 (4.211%) Subversion
2 3 (3.158%) QuickTest Pro
3 1 (1.053%) Oracle Forms
3 1 (1.053%) Oracle APEX
General
1 28 (29.47%) Finance
2 20 (21.05%) Telecoms
3 14 (14.74%) Banking
Job Titles
1 33 (34.74%) Developer
2 10 (10.53%) Analyst
3 9 (9.474%) Support Engineer
3 9 (9.474%) Data Warehouse Developer
4 8 (8.421%) Business Intelligence Developer
4 8 (8.421%) ETL Developer
5 7 (7.368%) Software Engineer
5 7 (7.368%) Administrator
5 7 (7.368%) DBA
5 7 (7.368%) Project Engineer
5 7 (7.368%) Oracle DBA
6 6 (6.316%) Test Analyst
7 5 (5.263%) Database Developer
7 5 (5.263%) Technical Analyst
7 5 (5.263%) Technical Test Analyst
7 5 (5.263%) Technical Leader
8 4 (4.211%) Storage Engineer
8 4 (4.211%) Senior Storage Engineer
8 4 (4.211%) SAN Engineer
8 4 (4.211%) Deployment Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 15 (15.79%) Replication
2 13 (13.68%) Symmetrix
2 13 (13.68%) Symmetrix DMX
3 7 (7.368%) Celerra
4 5 (5.263%) Firmware
5 4 (4.211%) Management Information System
6 3 (3.158%) Open Source
6 3 (3.158%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 37 (38.95%) Linux
2 27 (28.42%) Windows
3 8 (8.421%) Solaris
4 7 (7.368%) Oracle Linux
5 1 (1.053%) Debian
5 1 (1.053%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (40.00%) Business Intelligence
2 30 (31.58%) ETL
2 30 (31.58%) Continuous Improvement
3 21 (22.11%) TDD
4 15 (15.79%) Disaster Recovery
5 10 (10.53%) Data Modelling
6 9 (9.474%) Web Development
7 8 (8.421%) Incident Management
7 8 (8.421%) Infrastructure Management
7 8 (8.421%) Test Automation
7 8 (8.421%) Customer Engagement
7 8 (8.421%) Change Management
8 7 (7.368%) Six Sigma
8 7 (7.368%) Root Cause Analysis
8 7 (7.368%) Lean Six Sigma
9 6 (6.316%) Analytics
10 5 (5.263%) Service Delivery
10 5 (5.263%) Asset Management
10 5 (5.263%) Data Management
10 5 (5.263%) Performance Management
Programming Languages
1 84 (88.42%) SQL
2 27 (28.42%) Perl
3 23 (24.21%) Shell Script
4 21 (22.11%) Java
5 17 (17.89%) VBScript
6 15 (15.79%) Korn
7 12 (12.63%) PL/SQL
8 9 (9.474%) AWK
8 9 (9.474%) C#
8 9 (9.474%) T-SQL
8 9 (9.474%) sed
9 7 (7.368%) VB
10 6 (6.316%) C
11 4 (4.211%) C-shell
11 4 (4.211%) Bash shell
11 4 (4.211%) C++
11 4 (4.211%) Python
12 1 (1.053%) PHP
Qualifications
1 45 (47.37%) Degree
2 4 (4.211%) CISMP
2 4 (4.211%) CISSP
2 4 (4.211%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (7.368%) ISO 9001
2 6 (6.316%) SLA
3 5 (5.263%) QA
4 4 (4.211%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (4.211%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 8 (8.421%) SRDF
1 8 (8.421%) NFS
2 7 (7.368%) Active Directory
2 7 (7.368%) Oracle RAC
3 4 (4.211%) Oracle RMAN
4 1 (1.053%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 9 (9.474%) WMI
2 8 (8.421%) Ionix
2 8 (8.421%) EMC TimeFinder
3 6 (6.316%) NetBackup
4 4 (4.211%) Tivoli
5 1 (1.053%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 70 (73.68%) Oracle
2 34 (35.79%) Ab Initio
3 30 (31.58%) Netezza
4 29 (30.53%) Informatica
5 15 (15.79%) Cisco
6 14 (14.74%) Brocade
6 14 (14.74%) Teradata
6 14 (14.74%) Sun
6 14 (14.74%) EMC
6 14 (14.74%) NetApp
7 9 (9.474%) Microsoft
7 9 (9.474%) Altiris
8 8 (8.421%) Symantec
9 7 (7.368%) IBM
10 6 (6.316%) StorageTek
11 4 (4.211%) HP
11 4 (4.211%) NetIQ
12 1 (1.053%) JBoss
12 1 (1.053%) VMware
12 1 (1.053%) ZyXEL
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