The first table below looks at the demand for Red Hat Enterprise Linux skills in IT jobs advertised for the Berkshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Red Hat Enterprise Linux over the 3 months to 21 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 Berkshire region.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
Rank 130 132 151
Rank change year-on-year
+2 +19
Permanent jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 88 98 46
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Berkshire 1.687% 1.597% 0.901%
As % of the Operating Systems category 5.419% 5.292% 3.144%
Number of salaries quoted 71 90 32
Average salary £45,000 £45,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +12.50%
90% offered a salary of more than £23,000 £37,500 £23,000
10% offered a salary of more than £67,500 £55,000 £59,750
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £42,500 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-5.88% +6.25%
All Operating Systems
Berkshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
1624 1852 1463
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Berkshire 31.13% 30.18% 28.65%
Number of salaries quoted 1320 1545 1221
Average salary £37,500 £40,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-6.25% -
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £30,000 £24,500
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Red Hat Enterprise Linux
South East

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux across the Berkshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Operating Systems category.

Berkshire Red Hat Enterprise Linux Jobs Demand Trend

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux across the Berkshire region.

Berkshire Red Hat Enterprise Linux Salary Trend

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux across the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

Berkshire Red Hat Enterprise Linux Salary Histogram

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux within the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 21 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
Reading +18 54 £38,500 -5.52%
Bracknell -29 8 £34,000 +13.33%
Slough -5 5 £65,000 +36.84%
Maidenhead +9 1 £70,000 +47.36%
Red Hat Enterprise Linux
South East

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Berkshire region citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 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 Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

1 149 (95.51%) Red Hat
2 145 (92.95%) Linux
3 78 (50.00%) Windows
4 68 (43.59%) UNIX
5 65 (41.67%) Oracle
6 61 (39.10%) Solaris
7 55 (35.26%) Clustering
8 53 (33.97%) Sun
9 49 (31.41%) SUSE
9 49 (31.41%) VMware
10 48 (30.77%) SQL
10 48 (30.77%) SAN
11 47 (30.13%) Microsoft
12 40 (25.64%) AIX
13 38 (24.36%) EMC
14 36 (23.08%) HP
14 36 (23.08%) HPUX
14 36 (23.08%) VMware Infrastructure
14 36 (23.08%) Windows Server 2008
15 35 (22.44%) CentOS
16 34 (21.79%) Replication
16 34 (21.79%) Hitachi
17 33 (21.15%) Apache
17 33 (21.15%) Perl
18 32 (20.51%) Shell Script
19 31 (19.87%) Firewall
20 30 (19.23%) Veritas
20 30 (19.23%) C
20 30 (19.23%) Ubuntu
20 30 (19.23%) Veritas Cluster Server

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Berkshire region citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 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 Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 17 (10.90%) XML
2 11 (7.051%) Middleware
2 11 (7.051%) HTML
3 9 (5.769%) WebSphere
4 5 (3.205%) COM
5 2 (1.282%) X-Windows
5 2 (1.282%) CPAN
6 1 (0.641%) J2EE
6 1 (0.641%) JDBC
6 1 (0.641%) SOAP
6 1 (0.641%) Web Services
6 1 (0.641%) LAMP
6 1 (0.641%) Hibernate
Application Platforms
1 33 (21.15%) Apache
2 14 (8.974%) IIS
3 11 (7.051%) Tomcat
3 11 (7.051%) SAS
4 10 (6.410%) WebLogic
5 2 (1.282%) Confluence
5 2 (1.282%) Drupal
5 2 (1.282%) Alfresco
5 2 (1.282%) Oracle Application Server
6 1 (0.641%) Amazon AWS
6 1 (0.641%) nginx
Applications
1 13 (8.333%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 11 (7.051%) Oracle EBS R12
1 11 (7.051%) Oracle Applications
2 9 (5.769%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (1.282%) Oracle 11i
Communications & Networking
1 48 (30.77%) SAN
2 31 (19.87%) Firewall
3 18 (11.54%) TCP/IP
4 14 (8.974%) Cisco ASA
4 14 (8.974%) Wireless
5 12 (7.692%) Network Security
6 11 (7.051%) Wireshark
6 11 (7.051%) Intrusion Detection
6 11 (7.051%) tcpdump
6 11 (7.051%) snoop
6 11 (7.051%) FWSM
7 10 (6.410%) DNS
8 8 (5.128%) LTE
8 8 (5.128%) XCAP
8 8 (5.128%) 3G
8 8 (5.128%) SMPP
8 8 (5.128%) 2G
8 8 (5.128%) HTTP
8 8 (5.128%) GSM
8 8 (5.128%) 4G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (17.31%) DB2
2 18 (11.54%) MySQL
3 17 (10.90%) Oracle 11g
4 14 (8.974%) SQL Server
5 8 (5.128%) PostgreSQL
5 8 (5.128%) Oracle 10g
6 6 (3.846%) RDBMS
7 5 (3.205%) SQL Server 2008
7 5 (3.205%) SQL Server 2005
8 4 (2.564%) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications
1 7 (4.487%) Subversion
2 5 (3.205%) Mercurial
3 2 (1.282%) Hudson
3 2 (1.282%) Gradle
3 2 (1.282%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.282%) JIRA
3 2 (1.282%) Selenium
3 2 (1.282%) IntelliJ
3 2 (1.282%) Ant
General
1 25 (16.03%) German Language
2 24 (15.38%) French Language
3 10 (6.410%) Telecoms
4 9 (5.769%) Finance
5 6 (3.846%) Italian Language
5 6 (3.846%) Marketing
6 5 (3.205%) Spanish Language
7 3 (1.923%) Banking
8 1 (0.641%) Czech Language
Job Titles
1 37 (23.72%) Support Engineer
2 34 (21.79%) Technical Support
3 29 (18.59%) Administrator
4 28 (17.95%) Systems Administrator
5 27 (17.31%) Linux Engineer
6 22 (14.10%) Linux Administrator
7 21 (13.46%) Linux Systems Administrator
7 21 (13.46%) Technical Engineer
8 20 (12.82%) Technical Support Engineer
9 17 (10.90%) UNIX Support
10 16 (10.26%) UNIX Engineer
11 13 (8.333%) Linux Support
11 13 (8.333%) Linux Support Engineer
12 12 (7.692%) Security Engineer
12 12 (7.692%) Analyst
13 11 (7.051%) DBA
13 11 (7.051%) UNIX Support Engineer
13 11 (7.051%) Oracle DBA
13 11 (7.051%) Senior Systems Administrator
14 9 (5.769%) Oracle Applications DBA
Miscellaneous
1 55 (35.26%) Clustering
2 34 (21.79%) Replication
3 11 (7.051%) Firmware
4 3 (1.923%) HACMP
4 3 (1.923%) CLARiiON
4 3 (1.923%) LPAR
4 3 (1.923%) DLPAR
5 2 (1.282%) Wiki
6 1 (0.641%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.641%) SWIFT
Operating Systems
1 145 (92.95%) Linux
2 78 (50.00%) Windows
3 68 (43.59%) UNIX
4 61 (39.10%) Solaris
5 49 (31.41%) SUSE
6 40 (25.64%) AIX
7 36 (23.08%) HPUX
7 36 (23.08%) Windows Server 2008
8 35 (22.44%) CentOS
9 30 (19.23%) Ubuntu
10 26 (16.67%) Windows Server 2003
11 23 (14.74%) Debian
12 5 (3.205%) VMS
12 5 (3.205%) Fedora
13 2 (1.282%) Windows Server 2012
14 1 (0.641%) Windows 2000 Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (18.59%) ITIL
2 19 (12.18%) Service Delivery
3 18 (11.54%) Project Management
4 12 (7.692%) Incident Management
5 11 (7.051%) Change Management
5 11 (7.051%) Problem Management
5 11 (7.051%) Web Development
6 10 (6.410%) Disaster Recovery
7 9 (5.769%) Performance Management
7 9 (5.769%) Data Protection
8 8 (5.128%) Agile Software Development
8 8 (5.128%) Configuration Management
9 6 (3.846%) Scrum
9 6 (3.846%) Time Management
10 5 (3.205%) Load Testing
11 4 (2.564%) Data Security
12 3 (1.923%) E-Commerce
12 3 (1.923%) Infrastructure Management
12 3 (1.923%) Network Management
12 3 (1.923%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 48 (30.77%) SQL
2 33 (21.15%) Perl
3 32 (20.51%) Shell Script
4 30 (19.23%) C
5 22 (14.10%) Java
6 17 (10.90%) PL/SQL
7 15 (9.615%) Bash shell
8 14 (8.974%) PHP
9 13 (8.333%) Python
10 11 (7.051%) PowerShell
10 11 (7.051%) Ruby
11 5 (3.205%) Korn
12 2 (1.282%) C-shell
Qualifications
1 14 (8.974%) CISSP
1 14 (8.974%) CISM
2 13 (8.333%) Degree
3 10 (6.410%) ITIL Certification
4 9 (5.769%) Microsoft Certification
4 9 (5.769%) OCP
4 9 (5.769%) Oracle Certification
5 8 (5.128%) MCSE
6 3 (1.923%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (1.923%) RHCE
7 2 (1.282%) CCSP
8 1 (0.641%) MCP
8 1 (0.641%) CCNA
8 1 (0.641%) JNCIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (14.10%) SLA
2 10 (6.410%) PCI DSS
2 10 (6.410%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (3.846%) ISO 9001
4 3 (1.923%) QA
System Software
1 36 (23.08%) VMware Infrastructure
2 30 (19.23%) Veritas Cluster Server
3 20 (12.82%) Oracle RAC
4 15 (9.615%) vSphere
5 11 (7.051%) VMware ESX
6 10 (6.410%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (1.282%) Sendmail
7 2 (1.282%) Xen
7 2 (1.282%) Oracle RMAN
7 2 (1.282%) NFS
8 1 (0.641%) Active Directory
8 1 (0.641%) Veritas Volume Manager
Systems Management
1 11 (7.051%) Data Guard
2 9 (5.769%) Nagios
2 9 (5.769%) Norton AntiVirus
2 9 (5.769%) Veritas Storage Foundation
3 8 (5.128%) Puppet
4 5 (3.205%) ZABBIX
5 3 (1.923%) Tivoli
5 3 (1.923%) Tivoli Storage Manager
6 2 (1.282%) YUM
6 2 (1.282%) Plesk
7 1 (0.641%) NetBackup
7 1 (0.641%) Cacti
Vendors
1 149 (95.51%) Red Hat
2 65 (41.67%) Oracle
3 53 (33.97%) Sun
4 49 (31.41%) VMware
5 47 (30.13%) Microsoft
6 38 (24.36%) EMC
7 36 (23.08%) HP
8 34 (21.79%) Hitachi
9 30 (19.23%) Veritas
10 28 (17.95%) Cisco
11 27 (17.31%) Sybase
12 14 (8.974%) F5
12 14 (8.974%) IBM
12 14 (8.974%) Websense
12 14 (8.974%) Juniper
13 13 (8.333%) Dell
14 12 (7.692%) Foundry
15 11 (7.051%) JBoss
15 11 (7.051%) Nortel
15 11 (7.051%) Egenera
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