The first table below looks at the demand for UNIX skills in IT jobs advertised for the Wiltshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited UNIX over the 3 months to 20 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 Wiltshire region.

Location
3 months to
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
UNIX
Rank 42 22 24
Rank change year-on-year
-20 +2
Permanent jobs citing UNIX 35 84 76
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Wiltshire 4.018% 8.268% 7.024%
As % of the Operating Systems category 17.07% 30.00% 26.86%
Number of salaries quoted 35 67 74
Average salary £37,500 £33,500 £33,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+11.94% +1.51%
90% offered a salary of more than £23,100 £25,000 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £48,400 £44,000 £47,700
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
All Operating Systems
Wiltshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
205 280 283
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Wiltshire 23.54% 27.56% 26.16%
Number of salaries quoted 194 231 261
Average salary £36,000 £35,000 £32,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+2.85% +9.37%
90% offered a salary of more than £23,500 £21,000 £22,000
10% offered a salary of more than £45,700 £45,000 £49,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
UNIX
South West

UNIX
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Wiltshire 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 Wiltshire region.

Wiltshire UNIX Salary Trend

UNIX
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing UNIX across the Wiltshire region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013.

Wiltshire 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 Wiltshire region over the 3 months to 20 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
Swindon -16 21 £37,500 +13.63%
Chippenham +5 3 £28,000 -23.28%
Trowbridge +1 2 £31,000 -
Warminster - 1 £35,000 -
UNIX
South West

UNIX
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Wiltshire 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 71 (56.80%) SQL
2 49 (39.20%) Windows
3 43 (34.40%) Oracle
4 37 (29.60%) Linux
5 36 (28.80%) TCP/IP
6 30 (24.00%) ITIL
7 28 (22.40%) Solaris
8 26 (20.80%) Security Cleared
9 23 (18.40%) Java
9 23 (18.40%) Cisco
10 22 (17.60%) SQL Server
11 21 (16.80%) XML
11 21 (16.80%) SC Cleared
12 17 (13.60%) HTML
12 17 (13.60%) VMware
13 16 (12.80%) Service Delivery
13 16 (12.80%) Windows Server 2003
13 16 (12.80%) Symantec
14 15 (12.00%) DNS
15 14 (11.20%) QA
15 14 (11.20%) Firewall
15 14 (11.20%) Management Information System
15 14 (11.20%) Sun
15 14 (11.20%) SAN
15 14 (11.20%) DHCP
15 14 (11.20%) HTTP
15 14 (11.20%) VMware Infrastructure
16 13 (10.40%) SMTP
16 13 (10.40%) CSS
16 13 (10.40%) Citrix

UNIX
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Wiltshire 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 21 (16.80%) XML
2 17 (13.60%) HTML
3 13 (10.40%) CSS
4 11 (8.800%) Hibernate
4 11 (8.800%) Spring
5 6 (4.800%) Web Services
6 4 (3.200%) SOAP
7 3 (2.400%) JMS
7 3 (2.400%) Qt
8 2 (1.600%) .NET
9 1 (0.800%) ASP.NET
9 1 (0.800%) JSP
9 1 (0.800%) J2ME
9 1 (0.800%) Bing Maps
9 1 (0.800%) XML Schema
9 1 (0.800%) Ajax
9 1 (0.800%) JSTL
9 1 (0.800%) jQuery
9 1 (0.800%) Google Maps API
9 1 (0.800%) Ext JS
Application Platforms
1 11 (8.800%) MS Exchange
2 10 (8.000%) Apache
2 10 (8.000%) Tomcat
3 2 (1.600%) Oracle Workflow
4 1 (0.800%) IIS
4 1 (0.800%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.800%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
Applications
1 12 (9.600%) MS Excel
2 2 (1.600%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.800%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 4 (3.200%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.800%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.800%) Oracle EBS R12
2 1 (0.800%) Oracle 11i
Communications & Networking
1 36 (28.80%) TCP/IP
2 15 (12.00%) DNS
3 14 (11.20%) SAN
3 14 (11.20%) DHCP
3 14 (11.20%) HTTP
3 14 (11.20%) Firewall
4 13 (10.40%) SMTP
4 13 (10.40%) X.400
5 12 (9.600%) Cisco ASA
5 12 (9.600%) Ethernet
5 12 (9.600%) S/MIME
6 11 (8.800%) VLAN
7 9 (7.200%) SNMP
8 7 (5.600%) Network Security
9 4 (3.200%) Cisco PIX
10 3 (2.400%) BSS
10 3 (2.400%) LDAP
10 3 (2.400%) LAN
11 2 (1.600%) SMS
11 2 (1.600%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (17.60%) SQL Server
2 5 (4.000%) RDBMS
2 5 (4.000%) Oracle 10g
3 4 (3.200%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (3.200%) Oracle 8/8i
4 3 (2.400%) Oracle OWB
4 3 (2.400%) Oracle 11g
4 3 (2.400%) Oracle BI EE
5 2 (1.600%) SQL Server 2008
5 2 (1.600%) Oracle Reports
5 2 (1.600%) Data Mart
5 2 (1.600%) SQL Server 2005
5 2 (1.600%) Ingres
5 2 (1.600%) SQL Server 2000
6 1 (0.800%) OLTP
6 1 (0.800%) Oracle 9i
6 1 (0.800%) OLAP
6 1 (0.800%) Oracle OLAP
Development Applications
1 11 (8.800%) JUnit
2 10 (8.000%) Subversion
3 7 (5.600%) QuickTest Pro
4 2 (1.600%) LoadRunner
4 2 (1.600%) SilkPerformer
5 1 (0.800%) jMock
5 1 (0.800%) Hudson
5 1 (0.800%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.800%) Ant
General
1 6 (4.800%) Retail
2 5 (4.000%) Finance
3 4 (3.200%) Back Office
4 3 (2.400%) Telecoms
5 2 (1.600%) Local Government
5 2 (1.600%) Legal
5 2 (1.600%) Manufacturing
6 1 (0.800%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 23 (18.40%) Analyst
2 17 (13.60%) Support Analyst
3 15 (12.00%) Applications Support
3 15 (12.00%) Security Engineer
4 13 (10.40%) Developer
5 12 (9.600%) Applications Support Analyst
6 11 (8.800%) Design Engineer
6 11 (8.800%) Java Developer
7 9 (7.200%) Support Engineer
8 8 (6.400%) Consultant
8 8 (6.400%) QA Engineer
9 7 (5.600%) UNIX Engineer
9 7 (5.600%) Quality Engineer
10 6 (4.800%) DBA
11 5 (4.000%) Network Engineer
11 5 (4.000%) Network Security Engineer
11 5 (4.000%) Architect
12 4 (3.200%) Oracle DBA
12 4 (3.200%) 2nd Line Support
12 4 (3.200%) Network Design Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 14 (11.20%) Management Information System
2 4 (3.200%) Clustering
2 4 (3.200%) EPoS
2 4 (3.200%) EFT
3 3 (2.400%) Firmware
3 3 (2.400%) Artificial Intelligence
3 3 (2.400%) Mainframe
4 2 (1.600%) Open Source
4 2 (1.600%) Economics
4 2 (1.600%) W3C
5 1 (0.800%) Blackberry
5 1 (0.800%) CESG
5 1 (0.800%) Replication
5 1 (0.800%) CLARiiON
5 1 (0.800%) Computer Science
5 1 (0.800%) Symmetrix DMX
Operating Systems
1 49 (39.20%) Windows
2 37 (29.60%) Linux
3 28 (22.40%) Solaris
4 16 (12.80%) Windows Server 2003
5 9 (7.200%) Windows 7
6 5 (4.000%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (3.200%) HPUX
8 3 (2.400%) AIX
8 3 (2.400%) Windows Server 2008
9 2 (1.600%) CentOS
9 2 (1.600%) MVS
10 1 (0.800%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.800%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (24.00%) ITIL
2 16 (12.80%) Service Delivery
3 12 (9.600%) Agile Software Development
4 11 (8.800%) Unit Testing
5 10 (8.000%) Automated Testing
5 10 (8.000%) OOA/OOD
5 10 (8.000%) OOD
6 9 (7.200%) ITSM
6 9 (7.200%) Information Security
6 9 (7.200%) Capacity Management
7 8 (6.400%) Problem Management
8 7 (5.600%) Infrastructure Management
9 6 (4.800%) Network Design
10 5 (4.000%) Fault Management
10 5 (4.000%) Incident Management
11 4 (3.200%) TOGAF
11 4 (3.200%) Project Management
11 4 (3.200%) SOA
12 3 (2.400%) ERP
12 3 (2.400%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 71 (56.80%) SQL
2 23 (18.40%) Java
3 13 (10.40%) Shell Script
4 11 (8.800%) JavaScript
5 9 (7.200%) PL/SQL
6 7 (5.600%) VBScript
7 6 (4.800%) C
8 5 (4.000%) C++
9 3 (2.400%) VB
9 3 (2.400%) Python
10 2 (1.600%) C#
10 2 (1.600%) Korn
11 1 (0.800%) Perl
Qualifications
1 26 (20.80%) Security Cleared
2 21 (16.80%) SC Cleared
3 9 (7.200%) CCNA
3 9 (7.200%) Cisco Certification
4 8 (6.400%) DV Cleared
5 5 (4.000%) Degree
6 3 (2.400%) ITIL Certification
7 2 (1.600%) OCP
7 2 (1.600%) Oracle Certification
7 2 (1.600%) CISSP
7 2 (1.600%) ISEB
8 1 (0.800%) CCA
8 1 (0.800%) Citrix Certification
8 1 (0.800%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.800%) MCP
8 1 (0.800%) MCSE
8 1 (0.800%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 1 (0.800%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (11.20%) QA
2 13 (10.40%) SLA
3 2 (1.600%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.600%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 14 (11.20%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (4.000%) Active Directory
3 3 (2.400%) RACF
3 3 (2.400%) Oracle RAC
4 2 (1.600%) Hyper-V
4 2 (1.600%) XenServer
5 1 (0.800%) XenDesktop
5 1 (0.800%) vSphere
5 1 (0.800%) XenApp
5 1 (0.800%) NFS
5 1 (0.800%) Oracle RMAN
5 1 (0.800%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 1 (0.800%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 12 (9.600%) Norton AntiVirus
1 12 (9.600%) MIMEsweeper
2 8 (6.400%) SCOM
3 7 (5.600%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
4 4 (3.200%) NetBackup
5 2 (1.600%) SCCM
5 2 (1.600%) Data Guard
5 2 (1.600%) HP Quality Center
6 1 (0.800%) WSUS
6 1 (0.800%) EMC NetWorker
Vendors
1 43 (34.40%) Oracle
2 23 (18.40%) Cisco
3 17 (13.60%) VMware
4 16 (12.80%) Symantec
5 14 (11.20%) Sun
6 13 (10.40%) Citrix
6 13 (10.40%) Juniper
6 13 (10.40%) Sophos
7 12 (9.600%) McAfee
7 12 (9.600%) M86 Security
8 10 (8.000%) Microsoft
9 8 (6.400%) Red Hat
10 7 (5.600%) HP
11 3 (2.400%) EMC
11 3 (2.400%) IBM
11 3 (2.400%) NetApp
11 3 (2.400%) Google
11 3 (2.400%) Remedy
12 2 (1.600%) Epicor
12 2 (1.600%) Borland
Wiltshire
Required skills - Oracle database administration with 10g - Strong Unix skills (Linux/Solaris) including scripting. - IP Networking skills - Clusterware - SQL (performance tuning / read explain-plan output) - Current full UK...
Redrock Consulting Ltd
Salary: £30000 - £50000 per annum + private medical, pension
Posted: 14 May 2013
Swindon, South West
You don't need Oracle University accreditation such as OCP/OCM if you can demonstrate that you can easily cover the skillsets without such things.- Good UNIX skills,...
Salary: £35000 - £50000 per annum + private medical cover, pension
Posted: 10 May 2013
Berkshire Wilts Oxon Newbury Swindon, Thames...
Software Developers Knowledge/Experience Essential Requires knowledge ordinarily acquired from a 2.1 degree or above in Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics, or other scientific disciplines containing considerable computing...
Questor Resourcing
Salary: To £22,500 + Bonus to 8% + Laptop
Posted: 14 May 2013
Swindon, Wiltshire
Java Software Engineers- to £45k (d.o.e) plus benefits - Swindon Java Engineer opportunities with Java and OOA/OOD to work in a fast paced and dynamic environment...
Colston Consulting
Salary: £30k - 45k per year
Posted: 17 May 2013
Chippenham, South West
The candidate will ideally have several years' experience and must have an excellent working knowledge of at least one primary versions of UNIX that may include Solaris, HP-...
Capita Resourcing
Salary: £35000 - £40000 per annum
Posted: 24 April 2013
Swindon
The role of the Oracle Database and Unix Specialist: Information, Systems & Technology (IST) is a division of NERC providing IT support, project management, information systems and data management...
Natural Environment Research Council
Salary: £26,450 - £29,710
Posted: 20 May 2013
Wiltshire
So seeking applicants with the following: * Very good knowledge of at least one of the following: UNIX/LINUX/Windows operating system * Experience in SAN, NAS & ISCSI technologies (Preferably...
Capita Resourcing - Jobs at Capita
Salary: £45000.00 - £55000.00 per annum + car, bonus, benefits
Posted: 14 May 2013
Berkshire Wilts Oxon Newbury Swindon, Thames...
To develop and maintain some Manual test scripts in HP QC to supplement the test AUTOMATION scripts. - Mentor other QA staff in the use of HP QTP, test...
Questor Resourcing
Salary: up to £37,000 + Bonus + Excellent Benefits
Posted: 17 May 2013