England UNIX Jobs

The table below looks at the demand for UNIX skills within the England region with a comparison to our Operating Systems category. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited UNIX over the 3 months to 8 January 2009 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Abingdon Aldershot Alfreton Altrincham Andover Ascot Avon Aylesbury Banbury Barnsley Barry Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Blackburn Bodmin Bolton Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brentwood Brighton Bristol Brixham Bromley Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Castleford Caterham Cheadle Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chichester Chippenham Chorley Cirencester City of London Clapham Colchester Cornwall Corsham County Antrim County Londonderry Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Darlington Dartford Deeside Derby Derbyshire Devon Diss Docklands, London Doncaster Dorset Dundee Dunstable Durham Ealing East Anglia East Kilbride East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Egham Elland Enfield England Epsom Essex Evesham Exeter Exmouth Fareham Farnborough Farnham Felixstowe Feltham Fife Flintshire Gateshead Gatwick Glamorgan Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Goole Gosport Greenford Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harrogate Harrow Havant Hayes Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertford Hertfordshire High Wycombe Highlands Hitchin Home Counties Horsham Hounslow Hove Huddersfield Hull Huntingdon Inverness Ipswich Kendal Kent Kidlington King's Lynn Knaresborough Knutsford Lancashire Lancaster Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lichfield Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Luton M4 Corridor Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes New Malden Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Newton Abbot Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northwood Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Ormskirk Osterley Oxford Oxfordshire Perth and Kinross Peterborough Petersfield Plymouth Pontefract Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Redditch Redhill Ringwood Rotherham Rugby Runcorn Saffron Walden Salford Salisbury Scarborough Scotland Selby Sheffield Shropshire Skelmersdale Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southwark St Albans Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stirling Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Street Stroud Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Taunton Telford Tewkesbury Thame Thames Valley Thetford Tonbridge Trowbridge Tyne and Wear Tyneside UK Uxbridge Vale of Glamorgan Wakefield Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City West Drayton West Lothian West Malling West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Weybridge Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Wirral Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Worthing Wrexham York Yorkshire	3 months to 8 Jan 2009	Same period last year
Rank	15	12
Rank change on same period last year	-3
Matching permanent IT job ads	9354	19200
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	8.085 %	9.798 %
As % of the category below	34.78 %	40.99 %
Salaries quoted	7796	15063
Average minimum salary	£41,284	£42,201
Average salary	£45,078	£46,051
% change on same period last year	-2.11 %
Average maximum salary	£48,872	£49,901
UK excluding London average salary	£38,077	£38,524
% change on same period last year	-1.15 %
Operating Systems England
Matching permanent IT job ads	26897	46837
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	23.25 %	23.90 %
Salaries quoted	23230	38568
Average minimum salary	£35,529	£36,065
Average salary	£38,291	£38,978
% change on same period last year	-1.76 %
Average maximum salary	£41,052	£41,891
UK excluding London average salary	£34,281	£34,122
% change on same period last year	+0.46 %
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UNIX
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing UNIX across the England region as a proportion of the total demand within the Operating Systems category.

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Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing UNIX across the England region.

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Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing UNIX across the England region over the 3 months to 8 January 2009.

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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 England region over the 3 months to 8 January 2009. 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	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
London	-3	4712	£53,174	-0.03 %
South East	-1	1851	£39,385	-2.74 %
East of England	-1	699	£40,578	+3.65 %
South West	-12	571	£36,856	-3.61 %
North West	-9	490	£34,919	-6.93 %
Yorkshire	0	415	£35,169	-1.09 %
West Midlands	-16	324	£33,898	+1.21 %
East Midlands	-9	229	£41,998	+26.99 %
North East	+13	76	£34,669	+15.60 %
Midlands	+4	44	£41,931	-13.25 %
South Coast	+6	2	£45,000	+30.43 %

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 8 January 2009, IT jobs across the England 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 8773 (35.29 %) Linux 2 8519 (34.27 %) Windows 3 7834 (31.52 %) SQL 4 7635 (30.71 %) Oracle 5 6624 (26.65 %) Finance 6 5675 (22.83 %) Java 7 4795 (19.29 %) Solaris 8 4211 (16.94 %) C++ 9 3509 (14.12 %) Perl 10 3507 (14.11 %) Banking 11 2910 (11.71 %) SQL Server 12 2707 (10.89 %) Degree 13 2652 (10.67 %) Shell Script 14 2293 (9.224 %) J2EE 15 2175 (8.750 %) TCP/IP

16 2098 (8.440 %) XML 17 2082 (8.376 %) C 18 1960 (7.885 %) Sybase 19 1910 (7.684 %) SAN 20 1865 (7.503 %) Apache 21 1846 (7.426 %) AIX 22 1787 (7.189 %) PL/SQL 23 1711 (6.883 %) Microsoft 24 1665 (6.698 %) OO 25 1654 (6.654 %) Red Hat 26 1632 (6.565 %) .NET 27 1613 (6.489 %) Investment Banking 28 1581 (6.360 %) Oracle 10g 28 1581 (6.360 %) Sun 29 1556 (6.260 %) Red Hat Linux

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 8 January 2009, IT jobs across the England 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 2293 (9.224 %) J2EE 2 2098 (8.440 %) XML 3 1632 (6.565 %) .NET 4 1320 (5.310 %) HTML 5 1118 (4.498 %) WebSphere 6 798 (3.210 %) WebServices 7 727 (2.925 %) Middleware 8 622 (2.502 %) STL 9 603 (2.426 %) CSS 10 557 (2.241 %) Spring 11 509 (2.048 %) JSP 12 485 (1.951 %) Hibernate 13 454 (1.826 %) AJAX 14 405 (1.629 %) ASP.NET 15 375 (1.509 %) J2SE 16 309 (1.243 %) JMS 17 307 (1.235 %) Servlets 18 287 (1.155 %) Struts 19 261 (1.050 %) SOAP 20 259 (1.042 %) EJB	Application Platforms 1 1865 (7.503 %) Apache 2 1105 (4.445 %) Tomcat 3 1056 (4.248 %) WebLogic 4 596 (2.398 %) JBoss 5 524 (2.108 %) IIS 6 463 (1.863 %) MS Exchange 7 270 (1.086 %) WebSphere Application Server 8 258 (1.038 %) Exchange Server 2003 9 238 (0.957 %) SAS 10 200 (0.805 %) SharePoint 11 195 (0.784 %) MQSeries 12 187 (0.752 %) CMS 13 172 (0.692 %) WebSphere MQ 14 169 (0.680 %) Oracle Application Server 15 139 (0.559 %) Lotus Notes 16 119 (0.479 %) NetWeaver 17 117 (0.471 %) Oracle Workflow 18 99 (0.398 %) TIBCO EMS 19 90 (0.362 %) Rendezvous 20 65 (0.261 %) Oracle 10gAS
Applications 1 874 (3.516 %) MS Excel 2 354 (1.424 %) MS Office 3 187 (0.752 %) MS Visio 4 59 (0.237 %) MS Project 5 55 (0.221 %) MATLAB 6 53 (0.213 %) Photoshop 7 51 (0.205 %) Spreadsheet 8 33 (0.133 %) MS PowerPoint 8 33 (0.133 %) Acrobat 9 29 (0.117 %) XMetaL 10 28 (0.113 %) CATIA 11 18 (0.072 %) Fireworks 12 15 (0.060 %) CA Clarity 13 13 (0.052 %) Simulink 14 9 (0.036 %) Adobe Illustrator 15 7 (0.028 %) FreeHand 16 5 (0.020 %) SPSS 16 5 (0.020 %) NASTRAN 16 5 (0.020 %) Abaqus 17 3 (0.012 %) Windchill	Business Applications 1 349 (1.404 %) Oracle Applications 2 231 (0.929 %) Oracle 11i 3 194 (0.780 %) Oracle EBS 4 81 (0.326 %) Oracle Financials 5 68 (0.274 %) Endur 5 68 (0.274 %) Oracle EBS R12 6 59 (0.237 %) Summit 7 56 (0.225 %) SAP R/3 7 56 (0.225 %) BusinessWorks 8 52 (0.209 %) RMDS 9 51 (0.205 %) TIBCO iProcess 10 42 (0.169 %) Kondor+ 11 29 (0.117 %) SAP CRM 11 29 (0.117 %) Oracle ERP 12 24 (0.097 %) Misys Opics 13 23 (0.093 %) Oracle HRMS 14 14 (0.056 %) ZaiNet 15 12 (0.048 %) SAP SRM 15 12 (0.048 %) BASE24 16 11 (0.044 %) Temenos Globus
Communications & Networking 1 2175 (8.750 %) TCP/IP 2 1910 (7.684 %) SAN 3 1313 (5.282 %) Internet 4 1279 (5.145 %) Firewall 5 1114 (4.481 %) DNS 6 888 (3.572 %) LAN 7 885 (3.560 %) WAN 8 474 (1.907 %) VPN 9 472 (1.899 %) HTTP 10 460 (1.851 %) LDAP 11 311 (1.251 %) DHCP 12 309 (1.243 %) Network Security 13 300 (1.207 %) Wireless 14 287 (1.155 %) VoIP 15 285 (1.147 %) SMTP 16 242 (0.974 %) SSL 17 237 (0.953 %) FTP 18 218 (0.877 %) SNMP 19 179 (0.720 %) Intranet 20 164 (0.660 %) SSH	Database & Business Intelligence 1 2910 (11.71 %) SQL Server 2 1581 (6.360 %) Oracle 10g 3 1382 (5.560 %) RDBMS 4 1313 (5.282 %) MySQL 5 971 (3.906 %) Oracle 9i 6 578 (2.325 %) Datawarehouse 7 533 (2.144 %) DB2 8 518 (2.084 %) Oracle 8/8i 9 515 (2.072 %) Oracle Reports 10 429 (1.726 %) ETL 10 429 (1.726 %) SQL Server 2005 11 314 (1.263 %) SQL Server 2000 12 282 (1.134 %) BusinessObjects 13 213 (0.857 %) Oracle 11g 14 188 (0.756 %) TOAD 15 185 (0.744 %) Informix 16 173 (0.696 %) GIS 17 156 (0.628 %) Oracle Discoverer 18 134 (0.539 %) Sybase ASE 19 110 (0.443 %) PostgreSQL
Development Applications 1 338 (1.360 %) Ant 2 318 (1.279 %) ClearCase 3 313 (1.259 %) Oracle Forms 4 306 (1.231 %) JUnit 5 214 (0.861 %) Eclipse 6 182 (0.732 %) Subversion 7 112 (0.451 %) TestDirector 8 101 (0.406 %) ClearQuest 9 89 (0.358 %) QuickTest Pro 9 89 (0.358 %) Visual Studio 10 76 (0.306 %) PVCS 11 74 (0.298 %) ProC 12 69 (0.278 %) WinRunner 13 62 (0.249 %) LoadRunner 14 54 (0.217 %) Log4j 15 48 (0.193 %) CruiseControl 16 46 (0.185 %) MSI 17 39 (0.157 %) PowerBuilder 18 36 (0.145 %) VSS/SourceSafe 18 36 (0.145 %) Rational Rose	General 1 6624 (26.65 %) Finance 2 3507 (14.11 %) Banking 3 1613 (6.489 %) Investment Banking 4 1485 (5.974 %) Front Office 5 1167 (4.695 %) Telecoms 6 971 (3.906 %) Pensions 7 853 (3.431 %) Health 8 652 (2.623 %) Insurance 9 515 (2.072 %) Education 10 492 (1.979 %) Back Office 11 456 (1.834 %) Retail 12 420 (1.690 %) Financial Institution 13 338 (1.360 %) Government 14 327 (1.315 %) Games 15 321 (1.291 %) Marketing 16 125 (0.503 %) Publishing 17 119 (0.479 %) Manufacturing 18 109 (0.438 %) Billing 19 107 (0.430 %) FMCG 19 107 (0.430 %) Auditing
Job Titles 1 5523 (22.22 %) Developer 2 3925 (15.79 %) Analyst 3 2857 (11.49 %) Administrator 4 1746 (7.024 %) Support Analyst 5 1726 (6.943 %) Systems Administrator 6 1562 (6.284 %) DBA 7 1519 (6.111 %) Applications Support 8 1510 (6.075 %) C++ Developer 9 1414 (5.688 %) Consultant 10 1383 (5.564 %) Java Developer 11 1306 (5.254 %) UNIX Administrator 12 1067 (4.292 %) Oracle DBA 13 976 (3.926 %) Support Engineer 14 948 (3.814 %) UNIX Systems Administrator 15 898 (3.613 %) Software Engineer 16 807 (3.246 %) Senior Developer 17 762 (3.065 %) Architect 18 697 (2.804 %) Programmer 19 623 (2.506 %) Team Leader 20 581 (2.337 %) UNIX Engineer	Miscellaneous 1 1502 (6.042 %) Derivative 2 929 (3.737 %) Equities 3 793 (3.190 %) Computer Science 4 776 (3.122 %) Foreign Exchange (FX) 5 687 (2.764 %) Multithreading 6 668 (2.687 %) Mainframe 7 667 (2.683 %) Fixed Income 8 505 (2.032 %) Clustering 9 355 (1.428 %) Replication 10 328 (1.319 %) Mathematics 11 316 (1.271 %) Client/Server 12 310 (1.247 %) Equity Derivative 13 245 (0.986 %) HACMP 14 227 (0.913 %) French Language 15 201 (0.809 %) Management Information System 16 191 (0.768 %) Grid Computing 17 189 (0.760 %) Credit Derivative 18 175 (0.704 %) German Language 19 149 (0.599 %) N-Tier 20 129 (0.519 %) AS400
Operating Systems 1 8773 (35.29 %) Linux 2 8519 (34.27 %) Windows 3 4795 (19.29 %) Solaris 4 1846 (7.426 %) AIX 5 1556 (6.260 %) Red Hat Linux 6 1181 (4.751 %) Windows Server 2003 7 1165 (4.687 %) HPUX 8 593 (2.386 %) Windows 2000 9 558 (2.245 %) Windows XP 10 357 (1.436 %) Windows NT 11 306 (1.231 %) SUSE 12 303 (1.219 %) Windows 2000 Server 13 249 (1.002 %) VMS 14 243 (0.978 %) Debian 15 193 (0.776 %) Red Hat Enterprise Linux 16 161 (0.648 %) Windows Vista 17 110 (0.443 %) Mac OS X 18 90 (0.362 %) Fedora 18 90 (0.362 %) Tru64 19 84 (0.338 %) MVS	Processes & Methodologies 1 1665 (6.698 %) OO 2 1365 (5.491 %) ITIL 3 1122 (4.514 %) Project Management 4 749 (3.013 %) UML 5 628 (2.526 %) Disaster Recovery 6 571 (2.297 %) Agile Software Development 7 545 (2.192 %) Electronic Trading 8 525 (2.112 %) SOA 9 515 (2.072 %) OOD 10 512 (2.060 %) E-Commerce 11 451 (1.814 %) Risk Management 12 446 (1.794 %) PRINCE2 13 442 (1.778 %) Migration 14 409 (1.645 %) Configuration Management 15 403 (1.621 %) Software Engineering 16 396 (1.593 %) Business Intelligence 17 392 (1.577 %) Algorithmic Trading 18 386 (1.553 %) Change Management 19 378 (1.521 %) Web Development 20 355 (1.428 %) Service Delivery
Programming Languages 1 7834 (31.52 %) SQL 2 5675 (22.83 %) Java 3 4211 (16.94 %) C++ 4 3509 (14.12 %) Perl 5 2652 (10.67 %) Shell Script 6 2082 (8.376 %) C 7 1787 (7.189 %) PL/SQL 8 1440 (5.793 %) C# 9 1107 (4.453 %) JavaScript 10 993 (3.995 %) PHP 11 797 (3.206 %) VB 12 741 (2.981 %) Python 13 506 (2.036 %) Korn 14 387 (1.557 %) VBA 15 331 (1.332 %) VC++ 16 237 (0.953 %) Transact-SQL 17 228 (0.917 %) COBOL 18 214 (0.861 %) Ruby 19 211 (0.849 %) VBScript 20 197 (0.793 %) VB.NET	Qualifications 1 2707 (10.89 %) Degree 2 676 (2.719 %) Security Cleared 3 469 (1.887 %) Microsoft Certification 4 417 (1.678 %) Cisco Certification 5 395 (1.589 %) MCSE 6 285 (1.147 %) CCNA 7 237 (0.953 %) ISEB 8 210 (0.845 %) SC Cleared 9 204 (0.821 %) Oracle Certification 10 174 (0.700 %) ITIL Certification 11 150 (0.603 %) CISSP 12 139 (0.559 %) CCNP 13 125 (0.503 %) RHCE 14 117 (0.471 %) OCP 15 99 (0.398 %) HND 16 98 (0.394 %) Sun Certification 16 98 (0.394 %) DV Cleared 17 96 (0.386 %) MCP 18 90 (0.362 %) PhD 19 79 (0.318 %) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 657 (2.643 %) QA 2 474 (1.907 %) SLA 3 129 (0.519 %) ISO27001 4 112 (0.451 %) Sarbanes-Oxley 5 38 (0.153 %) COBIT 6 32 (0.129 %) BS7799 7 30 (0.121 %) PCI DSS 8 28 (0.113 %) Basel II 9 27 (0.109 %) ISO17799 10 18 (0.072 %) ISO9000 11 14 (0.056 %) MiFID 12 13 (0.052 %) WAI 13 12 (0.048 %) ISO9001 14 5 (0.020 %) HL7 15 4 (0.016 %) JTAG 15 4 (0.016 %) HIPAA 16 3 (0.012 %) JSP 440 16 3 (0.012 %) ISO8583 16 3 (0.012 %) WCAG 17 2 (0.008 %) RosettaNet	System Software 1 822 (3.307 %) Active Directory 2 563 (2.265 %) Oracle RAC 3 502 (2.019 %) Oracle RMAN 4 407 (1.637 %) NetBackup 5 380 (1.529 %) VMware Infrastructure 6 364 (1.464 %) NFS 7 155 (0.624 %) VMware ESX 8 104 (0.418 %) Terminal Services 9 75 (0.302 %) Backup Exec 10 66 (0.266 %) Tivoli Workload Scheduler 11 48 (0.193 %) Samba 12 39 (0.157 %) ISA Server 13 37 (0.149 %) Squid 14 30 (0.121 %) Terminal Server 15 26 (0.105 %) Xen 16 19 (0.076 %) Citrix Presentation Server 17 17 (0.068 %) AquaLogic 18 15 (0.060 %) RACF 19 13 (0.052 %) Microsoft Virtual Server 19 13 (0.052 %) Nmap
Systems Management 1 477 (1.919 %) Tivoli 2 385 (1.549 %) Data Guard 3 344 (1.384 %) Tivoli Storage Manager 4 200 (0.805 %) Nagios 5 180 (0.724 %) OpenView 6 164 (0.660 %) AutoSys 7 120 (0.483 %) Oracle Enterprise Manager 8 113 (0.455 %) CONTROL-M 9 110 (0.443 %) BMC PATROL 10 104 (0.418 %) Legato 11 75 (0.302 %) EMC NetWorker 12 72 (0.290 %) Tivoli Monitoring 13 71 (0.286 %) HP Data Protector 14 46 (0.185 %) Netcool 15 43 (0.173 %) Nessus 16 42 (0.169 %) MOM 17 36 (0.145 %) Unicenter 18 32 (0.129 %) Veritas Storage Foundation 19 24 (0.097 %) EMC TimeFinder 19 24 (0.097 %) ARCserve	Vendors 1 7635 (30.71 %) Oracle 2 1960 (7.885 %) Sybase 3 1711 (6.883 %) Microsoft 4 1654 (6.654 %) Red Hat 5 1581 (6.360 %) Sun 6 1554 (6.252 %) IBM 7 1505 (6.054 %) HP 8 1301 (5.234 %) Cisco 9 855 (3.440 %) VMware 10 851 (3.423 %) VERITAS 11 530 (2.132 %) Citrix 12 492 (1.979 %) SAP 13 477 (1.919 %) EMC 14 432 (1.738 %) TIBCO 15 305 (1.227 %) NetApp 16 284 (1.142 %) CheckPoint 17 282 (1.134 %) Business Objects 18 267 (1.074 %) Remedy 19 260 (1.046 %) Reuters 20 248 (0.998 %) Bloomberg