The first table below looks at the demand for Red Hat Enterprise Linux skills in IT jobs advertised for the Cambridge 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 Cambridge region.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
Rank 94 102 116
Rank change year-on-year
+8 +14
Permanent jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 30 25 11
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cambridge 1.612% 1.249% 0.512%
As % of the Operating Systems category 4.354% 3.294% 1.423%
Number of salaries quoted 29 20 11
Average salary £35,000 £40,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-12.50% +14.28%
90% offered a salary of more than £33,500 £32,000 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £41,000 £45,250 £47,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £42,500 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-5.88% +6.25%
All Operating Systems
Cambridge
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
689 759 773
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cambridge 37.02% 37.91% 35.99%
Number of salaries quoted 593 634 703
Average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +8.10%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £28,000 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Cambridgeshire

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 Cambridge region as a proportion of the total demand within the Operating Systems category.

Cambridge 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 Cambridge region.

Cambridge 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 Cambridge region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

Cambridge Red Hat Enterprise Linux Salary Histogram

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cambridge 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 57 (100.00%) Linux
2 51 (89.47%) Red Hat
3 26 (45.61%) Windows
4 25 (43.86%) UNIX
4 25 (43.86%) MySQL
5 22 (38.60%) SAN
6 20 (35.09%) DNS
6 20 (35.09%) Oracle
7 19 (33.33%) Python
8 18 (31.58%) Firewall
8 18 (31.58%) Bash shell
9 17 (29.82%) Perl
10 16 (28.07%) Apache
11 15 (26.32%) ITIL
12 13 (22.81%) Middleware
12 13 (22.81%) Degree
13 12 (21.05%) WebSphere
13 12 (21.05%) Open Source
13 12 (21.05%) Disaster Recovery
13 12 (21.05%) Finance
13 12 (21.05%) VMware
13 12 (21.05%) WebLogic
13 12 (21.05%) Informatica
14 11 (19.30%) NFS
14 11 (19.30%) SQL
15 10 (17.54%) Microsoft
15 10 (17.54%) HP
15 10 (17.54%) Debian
15 10 (17.54%) Ubuntu
15 10 (17.54%) Network Security

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cambridge 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 13 (22.81%) Middleware
2 12 (21.05%) WebSphere
3 9 (15.79%) WebCenter
3 9 (15.79%) JRules
4 7 (12.28%) Oracle Fusion
4 7 (12.28%) LAMP
5 4 (7.018%) HTML
5 4 (7.018%) CSS
6 2 (3.509%) WSDL
6 2 (3.509%) JSP
6 2 (3.509%) SOAP
6 2 (3.509%) Web Services
6 2 (3.509%) XML
6 2 (3.509%) XSL
6 2 (3.509%) XSLT
6 2 (3.509%) Ajax
6 2 (3.509%) jQuery
6 2 (3.509%) OAuth
6 2 (3.509%) FastCGI
6 2 (3.509%) CSS3
Application Platforms
1 16 (28.07%) Apache
2 12 (21.05%) WebLogic
3 9 (15.79%) WebSphere Message Broker
3 9 (15.79%) WebSphere MQ
3 9 (15.79%) SharePoint
3 9 (15.79%) IIS
4 4 (7.018%) CMS
5 3 (5.263%) Tomcat
6 2 (3.509%) MS Exchange
6 2 (3.509%) Oracle Workflow
6 2 (3.509%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
6 2 (3.509%) WordPress
6 2 (3.509%) Exchange Server 2010
7 1 (1.754%) Lync
Business Applications
1 9 (15.79%) Documaker
2 1 (1.754%) Oracle EBS
Communications & Networking
1 22 (38.60%) SAN
2 20 (35.09%) DNS
3 18 (31.58%) Firewall
4 10 (17.54%) Network Security
5 7 (12.28%) VLAN
6 6 (10.53%) SSL
6 6 (10.53%) LAN
7 5 (8.772%) Ethernet
8 2 (3.509%) Intranet
8 2 (3.509%) WAN
8 2 (3.509%) NetScaler
9 1 (1.754%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (43.86%) MySQL
2 8 (14.04%) Big Data
3 6 (10.53%) Oracle 8/8i
4 4 (7.018%) Text Mining
5 3 (5.263%) SQL Server
6 2 (3.509%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (1.754%) BusinessObjects
General
1 12 (21.05%) Finance
2 5 (8.772%) Financial Institution
3 2 (3.509%) Publishing
4 1 (1.754%) Advertising
4 1 (1.754%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 33 (57.89%) Administrator
2 30 (52.63%) Systems Administrator
3 17 (29.82%) Linux Administrator
3 17 (29.82%) Linux Systems Administrator
4 9 (15.79%) IT Support
4 9 (15.79%) IT Support Engineer
4 9 (15.79%) Support Engineer
5 7 (12.28%) Linux Engineer
6 6 (10.53%) Systems Engineer
7 5 (8.772%) Applications Support
7 5 (8.772%) Consultant
8 4 (7.018%) IT Administrator
8 4 (7.018%) Senior Systems Administrator
8 4 (7.018%) Developer
8 4 (7.018%) Systems Support
9 3 (5.263%) Senior IT Support
9 3 (5.263%) Linux Support Engineer
9 3 (5.263%) Technical Support
9 3 (5.263%) Senior Support Engineer
9 3 (5.263%) Systems Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 12 (21.05%) Open Source
2 7 (12.28%) Wiki
3 6 (10.53%) Replication
4 4 (7.018%) SaaS
5 3 (5.263%) Computer Science
5 3 (5.263%) PKI
6 2 (3.509%) Clustering
6 2 (3.509%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 57 (100.00%) Linux
2 26 (45.61%) Windows
3 25 (43.86%) UNIX
4 10 (17.54%) Debian
4 10 (17.54%) Ubuntu
5 8 (14.04%) Oracle Linux
6 7 (12.28%) CentOS
7 3 (5.263%) Windows Server 2008
7 3 (5.263%) Windows Server 2003
8 2 (3.509%) Windows 7
9 1 (1.754%) HPUX
9 1 (1.754%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (26.32%) ITIL
2 12 (21.05%) Disaster Recovery
3 9 (15.79%) BPMN
3 9 (15.79%) Service Delivery
4 7 (12.28%) Data Protection
5 6 (10.53%) E-Commerce
5 6 (10.53%) Network Design
5 6 (10.53%) Load Balancing
6 5 (8.772%) BCP
6 5 (8.772%) Business Continuity
7 4 (7.018%) Content Management
8 2 (3.509%) Workflow
8 2 (3.509%) Web Development
8 2 (3.509%) Infrastructure Management
8 2 (3.509%) Continuous Improvement
9 1 (1.754%) Mobile Device Management
9 1 (1.754%) Migration
9 1 (1.754%) Change Management
9 1 (1.754%) Data Analysis
9 1 (1.754%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 19 (33.33%) Python
2 18 (31.58%) Bash shell
3 17 (29.82%) Perl
4 11 (19.30%) SQL
5 8 (14.04%) PHP
6 7 (12.28%) Shell Script
7 2 (3.509%) Tcl
7 2 (3.509%) VB
7 2 (3.509%) Java
7 2 (3.509%) PL/SQL
8 1 (1.754%) Bourne shell
8 1 (1.754%) PowerShell
8 1 (1.754%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 13 (22.81%) Degree
2 8 (14.04%) RHCE
3 7 (12.28%) Postgraduate
4 1 (1.754%) RHCA
4 1 (1.754%) OCP
4 1 (1.754%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.509%) GxP
System Software
1 11 (19.30%) NFS
2 8 (14.04%) Samba
2 8 (14.04%) vSphere
2 8 (14.04%) Postfix
3 7 (12.28%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (12.28%) VMware ESX
4 6 (10.53%) Sendmail
5 4 (7.018%) Active Directory
6 3 (5.263%) Oracle RMAN
7 2 (3.509%) Xen
7 2 (3.509%) XenApp
7 2 (3.509%) OpenSSO
8 1 (1.754%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (1.754%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 9 (15.79%) Tivoli Identity Manager
2 7 (12.28%) Oracle Identity Manager
3 6 (10.53%) Nagios
3 6 (10.53%) OSSEC
4 5 (8.772%) Control-M
5 1 (1.754%) Puppet
5 1 (1.754%) EMC NetWorker
5 1 (1.754%) WSUS
5 1 (1.754%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 51 (89.47%) Red Hat
2 20 (35.09%) Oracle
3 12 (21.05%) VMware
3 12 (21.05%) Informatica
4 10 (17.54%) Microsoft
4 10 (17.54%) HP
5 9 (15.79%) IBM
6 8 (14.04%) NetApp
7 7 (12.28%) Cisco
8 6 (10.53%) TippingPoint
8 6 (10.53%) SolarWinds
9 5 (8.772%) EMC
10 4 (7.018%) Citrix
11 2 (3.509%) SAP
12 1 (1.754%) 3PAR
12 1 (1.754%) ProCurve
12 1 (1.754%) Symantec
12 1 (1.754%) Business Objects
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