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The table below looks at the demand for UNIX skills across the UK 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 5 January 2009 with a comparison to the same period last year.

LinkUNIX
Location
3 months to
5 Jan 2009
Same period last year
Rank1613
Rank change on same period last yearDown-3
Matching permanent IT job ads993720396
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled8.426 %10.33 %
As % of the category below34.99 %41.39 %
Salaries quoted824815744
Average minimum salary£41,057£42,073
Average salary£44,850£45,907
% change on same period last year-2.30 %
Average maximum salary£48,643£49,740
UK excluding London average salary£38,086£38,572
% change on same period last year-1.25 %
IT Job Market, Operating SystemsOperating Systems
UK
Matching permanent IT job ads2840149275
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled24.08 %24.95 %
Salaries quoted2442440141
Average minimum salary£35,484£36,003
Average salary£38,271£38,919
% change on same period last year-1.66 %
Average maximum salary£41,059£41,834
UK excluding London average salary£34,270£34,174
% change on same period last year+0.27 %

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 5 January 2009 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 5 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.

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-39541£45,101-2.18 %
LondonDown-34815£53,128-0.21 %
South EastDown-11896£39,285-3.30 %
City of LondonDown-21713£55,095-0.53 %
East of EnglandUp+1723£40,389+3.27 %
BerkshireDown-1715£40,431-5.23 %
South WestDown-12571£36,903-3.74 %
North WestDown-9493£34,630-7.84 %
YorkshireUp+1424£35,303+0.76 %
HampshireUp+3402£35,936-2.43 %
SurreyDown-7363£38,416-5.89 %
West MidlandsDown-19322£34,244+2.09 %
HertfordshireUp+2284£43,916+10.06 %
CambridgeshireUp+3243£37,184-1.22 %
ScotlandDown-1238£37,543+3.71 %
East MidlandsDown-7233£42,321+28.20 %
ManchesterDown-9231£35,746-8.55 %
ReadingUp+4203£37,592-9.53 %
CambridgeDown-2194£38,280-0.59 %
West YorkshireDown-17193£33,480-1.84 %
SloughUp+4183£38,988-2.79 %
BristolDown-16172£36,986+5.50 %
CheshireDown-19135£35,411-3.29 %
WatfordUp+19122£42,396+22.05 %
GloucestershireNo change0111£38,123-1.16 %
BuckinghamshireDown-15103£35,631-8.68 %
North YorkshireDown-1102£37,508-6.05 %
South YorkshireUp+15100£36,878+15.38 %
WiltshireDown-1599£34,261-0.45 %
BirminghamDown-1699£33,244-9.03 %

UNIX
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 5 January 2009, 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.

19269 (35.26 %)Linux
28825 (33.57 %)Windows
38358 (31.79 %)SQL
48278 (31.49 %)Oracle
56882 (26.18 %)Finance
65993 (22.80 %)Java
75157 (19.62 %)Solaris
84353 (16.56 %)C++
93756 (14.29 %)Perl
103604 (13.71 %)Banking
113096 (11.78 %)SQL Server
122888 (10.99 %)Shell Script
132872 (10.93 %)Degree
142439 (9.278 %)J2EE
152314 (8.802 %)TCP/IP
162303 (8.761 %)XML
172200 (8.369 %)C
182060 (7.836 %)Sybase
192013 (7.657 %)SAN
201980 (7.532 %)PL/SQL
211970 (7.494 %)AIX
221968 (7.486 %)Apache
231811 (6.889 %)Microsoft
241760 (6.695 %)Red Hat
251735 (6.600 %)OO
261726 (6.566 %)Oracle 10g
271723 (6.554 %).NET
281661 (6.318 %)Sun
291652 (6.284 %)Red Hat Linux
301643 (6.250 %)IBM

UNIX
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 5 January 2009, 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 DevelopmentApplication Development
12439 (9.278 %)J2EE
22303 (8.761 %)XML
31723 (6.554 %).NET
41450 (5.516 %)HTML
51248 (4.747 %)WebSphere
6911 (3.465 %)WebServices
7774 (2.944 %)Middleware
8664 (2.526 %)CSS
9623 (2.370 %)STL
10601 (2.286 %)JSP
11588 (2.237 %)Spring
12528 (2.009 %)AJAX
13500 (1.902 %)Hibernate
14428 (1.628 %)ASP.NET
15380 (1.446 %)J2SE
16373 (1.419 %)Servlets
17357 (1.358 %)JMS
18333 (1.267 %)SOAP
19310 (1.179 %)Struts
20306 (1.164 %)EJB
IT Job Market, Application PlatformsApplication Platforms
11968 (7.486 %)Apache
21143 (4.348 %)WebLogic
31137 (4.325 %)Tomcat
4614 (2.336 %)JBoss
5559 (2.126 %)IIS
6485 (1.845 %)MS Exchange
7285 (1.084 %)WebSphere Application Server
8266 (1.012 %)Exchange Server 2003
9259 (0.985 %)SAS
10216 (0.822 %)WebSphere MQ
11208 (0.791 %)MQSeries
12203 (0.772 %)SharePoint
13188 (0.715 %)CMS
14182 (0.692 %)Oracle Application Server
15134 (0.510 %)Lotus Notes
16124 (0.472 %)NetWeaver
17119 (0.453 %)Oracle Workflow
1899 (0.377 %)TIBCO EMS
1992 (0.350 %)Rendezvous
2084 (0.320 %)WebLogic Portal
IT Job Market, ApplicationsApplications
1973 (3.701 %)MS Excel
2375 (1.427 %)MS Office
3198 (0.753 %)MS Visio
458 (0.221 %)MS Project
555 (0.209 %)Photoshop
555 (0.209 %)MATLAB
651 (0.194 %)Spreadsheet
733 (0.126 %)MS PowerPoint
831 (0.118 %)Acrobat
928 (0.107 %)CATIA
1026 (0.099 %)XMetaL
1118 (0.068 %)Fireworks
1215 (0.057 %)CA Clarity
1313 (0.049 %)Simulink
1410 (0.038 %)Adobe Illustrator
157 (0.027 %)FreeHand
157 (0.027 %)SPSS
165 (0.019 %)NASTRAN
165 (0.019 %)Abaqus
174 (0.015 %)PrintSoft PReS
IT Job Market, Business ApplicationsBusiness Applications
1409 (1.556 %)Oracle Applications
2267 (1.016 %)Oracle 11i
3258 (0.981 %)Oracle EBS
484 (0.320 %)Oracle Financials
575 (0.285 %)Oracle EBS R12
669 (0.262 %)Endur
758 (0.221 %)Summit
857 (0.217 %)SAP R/3
956 (0.213 %)BusinessWorks
1052 (0.198 %)TIBCO iProcess
1148 (0.183 %)RMDS
1242 (0.160 %)Kondor+
1329 (0.110 %)Oracle ERP
1428 (0.107 %)SAP CRM
1527 (0.103 %)Cognos Business Intelligence
1625 (0.095 %)Misys Opics
1723 (0.087 %)Oracle HRMS
1815 (0.057 %)Temenos Globus
1815 (0.057 %)Temenos T24
1914 (0.053 %)ZaiNet
IT Job Market, Communications & NetworkingCommunications & Networking
12314 (8.802 %)TCP/IP
22013 (7.657 %)SAN
31358 (5.166 %)Internet
41356 (5.158 %)Firewall
51152 (4.382 %)DNS
6927 (3.526 %)LAN
7917 (3.488 %)WAN
8525 (1.997 %)HTTP
9490 (1.864 %)VPN
10489 (1.860 %)LDAP
11324 (1.233 %)DHCP
12321 (1.221 %)Wireless
13316 (1.202 %)Network Security
14299 (1.137 %)VoIP
15288 (1.096 %)SMTP
16248 (0.943 %)FTP
17235 (0.894 %)SSL
18225 (0.856 %)SNMP
19186 (0.708 %)Intranet
20168 (0.639 %)SSH
IT Job Market, Database & Business IntelligenceDatabase & Business Intelligence
13096 (11.78 %)SQL Server
21726 (6.566 %)Oracle 10g
31485 (5.649 %)RDBMS
41345 (5.116 %)MySQL
51056 (4.017 %)Oracle 9i
6689 (2.621 %)Datawarehouse
7573 (2.180 %)Oracle 8/8i
8567 (2.157 %)DB2
9557 (2.119 %)Oracle Reports
10544 (2.069 %)ETL
11462 (1.757 %)SQL Server 2005
12360 (1.369 %)SQL Server 2000
13340 (1.293 %)BusinessObjects
14227 (0.864 %)Oracle 11g
15192 (0.730 %)TOAD
15192 (0.730 %)Informix
16166 (0.631 %)GIS
17160 (0.609 %)Oracle Discoverer
18136 (0.517 %)Sybase ASE
19129 (0.491 %)PostgreSQL
IT Job Market, Development ApplicationsDevelopment Applications
1406 (1.544 %)Ant
2355 (1.350 %)ClearCase
3329 (1.252 %)Oracle Forms
4325 (1.236 %)JUnit
5231 (0.879 %)Eclipse
6196 (0.746 %)Subversion
7122 (0.464 %)TestDirector
8117 (0.445 %)ClearQuest
9108 (0.411 %)Visual Studio
1092 (0.350 %)QuickTest Pro
1186 (0.327 %)PVCS
1285 (0.323 %)ProC
1372 (0.274 %)WinRunner
1470 (0.266 %)LoadRunner
1562 (0.236 %)Rational Rose
1651 (0.194 %)Log4j
1748 (0.183 %)CruiseControl
1843 (0.164 %)MSI
1940 (0.152 %)PowerBuilder
2038 (0.145 %)VSS/SourceSafe
IT Job Market, GeneralGeneral
16882 (26.18 %)Finance
23604 (13.71 %)Banking
31643 (6.250 %)Investment Banking
41485 (5.649 %)Front Office
51234 (4.694 %)Telecoms
61047 (3.983 %)Pensions
7897 (3.412 %)Health
8676 (2.572 %)Insurance
9554 (2.107 %)Education
10490 (1.864 %)Back Office
11464 (1.765 %)Retail
12427 (1.624 %)Financial Institution
13374 (1.423 %)Games
14353 (1.343 %)Government
15327 (1.244 %)Marketing
16132 (0.502 %)Manufacturing
17129 (0.491 %)Publishing
18127 (0.483 %)Billing
19117 (0.445 %)Military
20115 (0.437 %)Construction
IT Job Market, Job TitlesJob Titles
15823 (22.15 %)Developer
24073 (15.49 %)Analyst
32991 (11.38 %)Administrator
41811 (6.889 %)Systems Administrator
51793 (6.821 %)Support Analyst
61675 (6.372 %)DBA
71592 (6.056 %)Applications Support
81539 (5.854 %)C++ Developer
91463 (5.565 %)Java Developer
101451 (5.520 %)Consultant
111373 (5.223 %)UNIX Administrator
121172 (4.458 %)Oracle DBA
131030 (3.918 %)Support Engineer
141001 (3.808 %)UNIX Systems Administrator
15970 (3.690 %)Software Engineer
16855 (3.252 %)Senior Developer
17831 (3.161 %)Architect
18769 (2.925 %)Programmer
19684 (2.602 %)Team Leader
20606 (2.305 %)UNIX Engineer
IT Job Market, MiscellaneousMiscellaneous
11505 (5.725 %)Derivative
2929 (3.534 %)Equities
3855 (3.252 %)Computer Science
4775 (2.948 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
5687 (2.613 %)Multithreading
6673 (2.560 %)Mainframe
7672 (2.556 %)Fixed Income
8557 (2.119 %)Clustering
9358 (1.362 %)Replication
10340 (1.293 %)Client/Server
11339 (1.290 %)Mathematics
12300 (1.141 %)Equity Derivative
13260 (0.989 %)HACMP
14237 (0.902 %)French Language
15209 (0.795 %)Management Information System
16195 (0.742 %)Grid Computing
16195 (0.742 %)Credit Derivative
17184 (0.700 %)German Language
18161 (0.612 %)N-Tier
19138 (0.525 %)AS400
IT Job Market, Operating SystemsOperating Systems
19269 (35.26 %)Linux
28825 (33.57 %)Windows
35157 (19.62 %)Solaris
41970 (7.494 %)AIX
51652 (6.284 %)Red Hat Linux
61259 (4.789 %)HPUX
71221 (4.645 %)Windows Server 2003
8612 (2.328 %)Windows 2000
9567 (2.157 %)Windows XP
10361 (1.373 %)Windows NT
11352 (1.339 %)SUSE
12319 (1.213 %)Windows 2000 Server
13254 (0.966 %)Debian
14253 (0.962 %)VMS
15201 (0.765 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
16160 (0.609 %)Windows Vista
17109 (0.415 %)Mac OS X
1897 (0.369 %)MVS
1994 (0.358 %)Fedora
2091 (0.346 %)Tru64
IT Job Market, Processes & MethodologiesProcesses & Methodologies
11735 (6.600 %)OO
21407 (5.352 %)ITIL
31165 (4.432 %)Project Management
4804 (3.058 %)UML
5670 (2.549 %)Disaster Recovery
6587 (2.233 %)SOA
7582 (2.214 %)Agile Software Development
8550 (2.092 %)Electronic Trading
9536 (2.039 %)OOD
10524 (1.993 %)E-Commerce
11520 (1.978 %)Business Intelligence
12503 (1.913 %)Migration
13481 (1.830 %)Configuration Management
14461 (1.754 %)PRINCE2
14461 (1.754 %)Risk Management
15437 (1.662 %)Software Engineering
16420 (1.598 %)Web Development
17406 (1.544 %)Change Management
18393 (1.495 %)Algorithmic Trading
19383 (1.457 %)Service Delivery
IT Job Market, Programming LanguagesProgramming Languages
18358 (31.79 %)SQL
25993 (22.80 %)Java
34353 (16.56 %)C++
43756 (14.29 %)Perl
52888 (10.99 %)Shell Script
62200 (8.369 %)C
71980 (7.532 %)PL/SQL
81481 (5.634 %)C#
91212 (4.610 %)JavaScript
101015 (3.861 %)PHP
11858 (3.264 %)VB
12790 (3.005 %)Python
13551 (2.096 %)Korn
14395 (1.503 %)VBA
15334 (1.271 %)VC++
16252 (0.959 %)Transact-SQL
17243 (0.924 %)COBOL
18222 (0.844 %)VBScript
19219 (0.833 %)Ruby
20204 (0.776 %)VB.NET
IT Job Market, QualificationsQualifications
12872 (10.93 %)Degree
2738 (2.807 %)Security Cleared
3490 (1.864 %)Microsoft Certification
4451 (1.716 %)Cisco Certification
5409 (1.556 %)MCSE
6303 (1.153 %)CCNA
7247 (0.940 %)SC Cleared
8241 (0.917 %)Oracle Certification
9240 (0.913 %)ISEB
10184 (0.700 %)ITIL Certification
11154 (0.586 %)CISSP
12153 (0.582 %)CCNP
13144 (0.548 %)OCP
14129 (0.491 %)RHCE
15106 (0.403 %)MCP
16102 (0.388 %)HND
1799 (0.377 %)Sun Certification
1893 (0.354 %)PhD
1893 (0.354 %)DV Cleared
1982 (0.312 %)PRINCE2 Certification
IT Job Market, Quality Assurance & ComplianceQuality Assurance & Compliance
1673 (2.560 %)QA
2506 (1.925 %)SLA
3132 (0.502 %)ISO27001
4113 (0.430 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
541 (0.156 %)COBIT
634 (0.129 %)BS7799
732 (0.122 %)PCI DSS
828 (0.107 %)Basel II
925 (0.095 %)ISO17799
1018 (0.068 %)ISO9000
1018 (0.068 %)MiFID
1115 (0.057 %)WAI
1213 (0.049 %)ISO9001
136 (0.023 %)HL7
145 (0.019 %)ISO8583
154 (0.015 %)WCAG
154 (0.015 %)JSP 440
154 (0.015 %)HIPAA
163 (0.011 %)JTAG
172 (0.008 %)RosettaNet
IT Job Market, System SoftwareSystem Software
1857 (3.260 %)Active Directory
2613 (2.332 %)Oracle RAC
3560 (2.130 %)Oracle RMAN
4436 (1.659 %)NetBackup
5385 (1.465 %)VMware Infrastructure
6379 (1.442 %)NFS
7158 (0.601 %)VMware ESX
8106 (0.403 %)Terminal Services
984 (0.320 %)Samba
1075 (0.285 %)Backup Exec
1172 (0.274 %)Tivoli Workload Scheduler
1244 (0.167 %)ISA Server
1337 (0.141 %)Squid
1430 (0.114 %)Terminal Server
1526 (0.099 %)AquaLogic
1625 (0.095 %)Xen
1720 (0.076 %)Citrix Presentation Server
1815 (0.057 %)RACF
1913 (0.049 %)Microsoft Virtual Server
1913 (0.049 %)Nmap
IT Job Market, Systems ManagementSystems Management
1520 (1.978 %)Tivoli
2412 (1.567 %)Data Guard
3374 (1.423 %)Tivoli Storage Manager
4204 (0.776 %)Nagios
5197 (0.749 %)OpenView
6167 (0.635 %)AutoSys
7126 (0.479 %)Oracle Enterprise Manager
8115 (0.437 %)BMC PATROL
9113 (0.430 %)CONTROL-M
10112 (0.426 %)Legato
1175 (0.285 %)EMC NetWorker
1273 (0.278 %)Tivoli Monitoring
1371 (0.270 %)HP Data Protector
1463 (0.240 %)Netcool
1551 (0.194 %)MOM
1643 (0.164 %)Unicenter
1643 (0.164 %)Nessus
1731 (0.118 %)CiscoWorks
1731 (0.118 %)Veritas Storage Foundation
1827 (0.103 %)ServiceCenter
IT Job Market, VendorsVendors
18278 (31.49 %)Oracle
22060 (7.836 %)Sybase
31811 (6.889 %)Microsoft
41760 (6.695 %)Red Hat
51661 (6.318 %)Sun
61643 (6.250 %)IBM
71594 (6.064 %)HP
81358 (5.166 %)Cisco
9921 (3.503 %)VERITAS
10876 (3.332 %)VMware
11555 (2.111 %)Citrix
12514 (1.955 %)SAP
13493 (1.875 %)EMC
14447 (1.700 %)TIBCO
15340 (1.293 %)Business Objects
16315 (1.198 %)NetApp
17300 (1.141 %)CheckPoint
18287 (1.092 %)Remedy
19263 (1.000 %)Reuters
20260 (0.989 %)BEA