The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Red Hat products and/or services 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 over the 3 months to 24 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 Vendors for the Berkshire region.

The figures below represent the IT job market in general and are NOT representative of salaries within Red Hat, Inc.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Red Hat
Rank 108 129 124
Rank change year-on-year
+21 -5
Permanent jobs citing Red Hat 118 94 91
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Berkshire 2.265% 1.526% 1.750%
As % of the Vendors category 3.939% 3.124% 3.411%
Number of salaries quoted 90 80 60
Average salary £53,750 £47,500 £40,750
Average salary % change year-on-year
+13.15% +16.56%
90% offered a salary of more than £23,000 £37,800 £23,000
10% offered a salary of more than £65,000 £60,000 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,500 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-3.61% +3.75%
All Vendors
Berkshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
2996 3009 2668
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Berkshire 57.50% 48.84% 51.30%
Number of salaries quoted 2340 2538 2178
Average salary £42,500 £44,000 £45,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-3.40% -2.22%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £30,000 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £70,000 £65,000 £60,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
Red Hat
South East

Red Hat
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Berkshire Red Hat Jobs Demand Trend

Red Hat
Salary Trend

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

Berkshire Red Hat Salary Trend

Red Hat
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Red Hat across the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Berkshire Red Hat Salary Histogram

Red Hat
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Red Hat within the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 24 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 +33 68 £42,500 -10.52%
Slough -5 16 £50,000 +5.26%
Bracknell -33 7 £33,500 -25.55%
Maidenhead +13 2 £70,000 +47.36%
Red Hat
South East

Red Hat
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Berkshire region citing Red Hat 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.

1 212 (81.85%) Linux
2 150 (57.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 120 (46.33%) UNIX
4 97 (37.45%) Windows
5 96 (37.07%) Solaris
6 91 (35.14%) Perl
7 83 (32.05%) CentOS
8 69 (26.64%) Microsoft
9 68 (26.25%) SQL
10 67 (25.87%) Oracle
11 65 (25.10%) MySQL
11 65 (25.10%) SUSE
12 63 (24.32%) Apache
13 61 (23.55%) Cisco
14 55 (21.24%) Sun
14 55 (21.24%) Clustering
15 50 (19.31%) VMware
16 49 (18.92%) SAN
17 48 (18.53%) TCP/IP
18 47 (18.15%) Debian
19 45 (17.37%) PHP
20 44 (16.99%) AIX
21 40 (15.44%) HP
22 39 (15.06%) EMC
23 38 (14.67%) ITIL
23 38 (14.67%) Ubuntu
24 37 (14.29%) Replication
24 37 (14.29%) HPUX
25 36 (13.90%) Shell Script
25 36 (13.90%) Firewall

Red Hat
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Berkshire region citing Red Hat 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. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 24 (9.266%) XML
2 22 (8.494%) LAMP
3 19 (7.336%) HTML
4 11 (4.247%) Middleware
5 9 (3.475%) WebSphere
6 8 (3.089%) Web Services
7 6 (2.317%) COM
8 3 (1.158%) Memcached
9 2 (0.772%) CPAN
9 2 (0.772%) X-Windows
9 2 (0.772%) Ruby on Rails
10 1 (0.386%) Hibernate
10 1 (0.386%) J2EE
10 1 (0.386%) JDBC
10 1 (0.386%) SOAP
Application Platforms
1 63 (24.32%) Apache
2 18 (6.950%) SAS
3 16 (6.178%) Tomcat
4 15 (5.792%) MS Exchange
4 15 (5.792%) IIS
5 14 (5.405%) Exchange Server 2010
5 14 (5.405%) Exchange Server 2007
6 12 (4.633%) nginx
7 10 (3.861%) WebLogic
8 8 (3.089%) Amazon AWS
9 5 (1.931%) Alfresco
9 5 (1.931%) Drupal
10 3 (1.158%) Amazon EC2
10 3 (1.158%) Amazon S3
10 3 (1.158%) WordPress
10 3 (1.158%) Amazon ELB
10 3 (1.158%) CMS
11 2 (0.772%) Oracle Application Server
11 2 (0.772%) Jetty
11 2 (0.772%) Confluence
Applications
1 19 (7.336%) MS Excel
2 5 (1.931%) Google Apps
Business Applications
1 11 (4.247%) Oracle Applications
1 11 (4.247%) Oracle EBS R12
2 9 (3.475%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (0.772%) Oracle 11i
Communications & Networking
1 49 (18.92%) SAN
2 48 (18.53%) TCP/IP
3 36 (13.90%) Firewall
4 22 (8.494%) Intrusion Detection
5 21 (8.108%) Cisco ASA
6 18 (6.950%) FWSM
7 16 (6.178%) Network Security
8 15 (5.792%) LDAP
8 15 (5.792%) DNS
9 14 (5.405%) Wireless
10 13 (5.019%) HTTP
11 11 (4.247%) Wireshark
11 11 (4.247%) tcpdump
11 11 (4.247%) snoop
12 10 (3.861%) BGP
12 10 (3.861%) OSPF
13 8 (3.089%) 3G
13 8 (3.089%) SMPP
13 8 (3.089%) GSM
13 8 (3.089%) 2G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 65 (25.10%) MySQL
2 27 (10.42%) DB2
3 26 (10.04%) SQL Server
4 17 (6.564%) Oracle 11g
5 12 (4.633%) SQL Server 2005
6 8 (3.089%) Oracle 10g
6 8 (3.089%) PostgreSQL
6 8 (3.089%) SQL Server 2008
7 6 (2.317%) RDBMS
7 6 (2.317%) NoSQL
8 4 (1.544%) Oracle 8/8i
8 4 (1.544%) SQL Server 2000
8 4 (1.544%) Redis
9 3 (1.158%) Hadoop
10 2 (0.772%) dBASE
11 1 (0.386%) QlikView
11 1 (0.386%) Crystal Reports
11 1 (0.386%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 3 (1.158%) Subversion
2 2 (0.772%) IntelliJ
2 2 (0.772%) Ant
2 2 (0.772%) Selenium
2 2 (0.772%) JIRA
2 2 (0.772%) Gradle
2 2 (0.772%) Jenkins
2 2 (0.772%) Hudson
3 1 (0.386%) Git (software)
General
1 25 (9.653%) German Language
2 24 (9.266%) French Language
3 12 (4.633%) Finance
4 10 (3.861%) Telecoms
5 6 (2.317%) Italian Language
5 6 (2.317%) Retail
6 5 (1.931%) Spanish Language
7 3 (1.158%) Banking
8 1 (0.386%) Marketing
8 1 (0.386%) Czech Language
Job Titles
1 72 (27.80%) Administrator
2 55 (21.24%) Systems Administrator
3 45 (17.37%) Linux Administrator
4 40 (15.44%) Support Engineer
5 39 (15.06%) Linux Systems Administrator
6 35 (13.51%) Linux Engineer
7 34 (13.13%) Technical Support
8 24 (9.266%) DBA
9 21 (8.108%) Technical Engineer
10 20 (7.722%) Technical Support Engineer
11 18 (6.950%) Systems Engineer
11 18 (6.950%) UNIX Support
12 16 (6.178%) Linux Support Engineer
12 16 (6.178%) Linux Support
12 16 (6.178%) UNIX Engineer
13 13 (5.019%) MySQL DBA
14 12 (4.633%) Network Engineer
14 12 (4.633%) Analyst
14 12 (4.633%) Security Engineer
15 11 (4.247%) Oracle DBA
Miscellaneous
1 55 (21.24%) Clustering
2 37 (14.29%) Replication
3 14 (5.405%) Open Source
4 13 (5.019%) Firmware
5 4 (1.544%) Social Media
6 3 (1.158%) SaaS
6 3 (1.158%) LPAR
6 3 (1.158%) DLPAR
6 3 (1.158%) CLARiiON
6 3 (1.158%) HACMP
7 2 (0.772%) Wiki
7 2 (0.772%) Enterprise Storage
8 1 (0.386%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (0.386%) SWIFT
8 1 (0.386%) Digital Media
8 1 (0.386%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.386%) BBC
8 1 (0.386%) Social Network
Operating Systems
1 212 (81.85%) Linux
2 150 (57.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 120 (46.33%) UNIX
4 97 (37.45%) Windows
5 96 (37.07%) Solaris
6 83 (32.05%) CentOS
7 65 (25.10%) SUSE
8 47 (18.15%) Debian
9 44 (16.99%) AIX
10 38 (14.67%) Ubuntu
11 37 (14.29%) HPUX
12 35 (13.51%) Windows Server 2008
13 27 (10.42%) Windows Server 2003
14 2 (0.772%) Windows XP
14 2 (0.772%) Mac OS X
14 2 (0.772%) Windows Server 2012
14 2 (0.772%) Windows 7
15 1 (0.386%) Windows 2000 Server
15 1 (0.386%) OpenBSD
15 1 (0.386%) FreeBSD
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (14.67%) ITIL
2 25 (9.653%) Project Management
3 21 (8.108%) Service Delivery
4 20 (7.722%) Change Management
4 20 (7.722%) Agile Software Development
4 20 (7.722%) E-Commerce
5 18 (6.950%) Web Development
6 17 (6.564%) Performance Management
7 15 (5.792%) Migration
7 15 (5.792%) Data Protection
8 13 (5.019%) Penetration Testing
8 13 (5.019%) OOD
9 12 (4.633%) Incident Management
10 11 (4.247%) Scrum
10 11 (4.247%) Disaster Recovery
10 11 (4.247%) Problem Management
11 9 (3.475%) OO
12 7 (2.703%) Network Management
13 6 (2.317%) Time Management
14 4 (1.544%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 91 (35.14%) Perl
2 68 (26.25%) SQL
3 45 (17.37%) PHP
4 36 (13.90%) Shell Script
5 32 (12.36%) Java
6 30 (11.58%) C
7 28 (10.81%) Bash shell
8 20 (7.722%) PowerShell
9 18 (6.950%) Python
10 17 (6.564%) PL/SQL
11 14 (5.405%) Ruby
12 5 (1.931%) Korn
13 2 (0.772%) C-shell
14 1 (0.386%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 20 (7.722%) Degree
2 18 (6.950%) CISSP
3 14 (5.405%) CISM
4 10 (3.861%) Microsoft Certification
4 10 (3.861%) ITIL Certification
5 9 (3.475%) MCSE
5 9 (3.475%) OCP
5 9 (3.475%) Oracle Certification
6 4 (1.544%) RHCE
6 4 (1.544%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (0.772%) CCSP
7 2 (0.772%) CCNA
7 2 (0.772%) JNCIS
8 1 (0.386%) SC Cleared
8 1 (0.386%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.386%) Security Cleared
8 1 (0.386%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (8.494%) SLA
2 14 (5.405%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 10 (3.861%) PCI DSS
4 6 (2.317%) ISO 9001
5 4 (1.544%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 3 (1.158%) QA
System Software
1 35 (13.51%) VMware Infrastructure
2 30 (11.58%) Veritas Cluster Server
3 20 (7.722%) Oracle RAC
4 19 (7.336%) vSphere
5 17 (6.564%) Active Directory
6 15 (5.792%) VMware ESX
7 12 (4.633%) VMware ESXi
8 5 (1.931%) NFS
9 2 (0.772%) Xen
9 2 (0.772%) Oracle RMAN
9 2 (0.772%) Sendmail
10 1 (0.386%) Veritas Volume Manager
10 1 (0.386%) Squid
Systems Management
1 17 (6.564%) Nagios
2 15 (5.792%) Puppet
3 11 (4.247%) Data Guard
4 9 (3.475%) Veritas Storage Foundation
4 9 (3.475%) Norton AntiVirus
5 5 (1.931%) Plesk
6 3 (1.158%) Ganglia
6 3 (1.158%) Tivoli
6 3 (1.158%) Tivoli Storage Manager
7 2 (0.772%) YUM
8 1 (0.386%) ZABBIX
8 1 (0.386%) Cacti
8 1 (0.386%) EMC NetWorker
8 1 (0.386%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 69 (26.64%) Microsoft
2 67 (25.87%) Oracle
3 61 (23.55%) Cisco
4 55 (21.24%) Sun
5 50 (19.31%) VMware
6 40 (15.44%) HP
7 39 (15.06%) EMC
8 34 (13.13%) Hitachi
9 30 (11.58%) Veritas
10 27 (10.42%) Sybase
11 24 (9.266%) F5
12 22 (8.494%) Juniper
13 18 (6.950%) Nortel
14 15 (5.792%) Websense
15 14 (5.405%) IBM
16 13 (5.019%) Dell
16 13 (5.019%) Foundry
17 12 (4.633%) JBoss
18 11 (4.247%) Egenera
19 9 (3.475%) Symantec
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