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

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
Rank 95 108 114
Rank change year-on-year
+13 +6
Permanent jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 23 19 3
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cheshire 1.276% 0.970% 0.183%
As % of the Operating Systems category 4.189% 3.188% 0.636%
Number of salaries quoted 22 19 2
Average salary £40,000 £35,000 £32,250
Average salary % change year-on-year
+14.28% +8.52%
90% offered a salary of more than £38,500 £32,500 £30,050
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £35,200 £34,450
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £42,500 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-5.88% +6.25%
All Operating Systems
Cheshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
549 596 472
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cheshire 30.45% 30.42% 28.85%
Number of salaries quoted 442 536 393
Average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +7.14%
90% offered a salary of more than £22,000 £23,000 £21,500
10% offered a salary of more than £52,500 £50,000 £47,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Red Hat Enterprise Linux
North West

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

Cheshire 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 Cheshire region.

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

Cheshire 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 Cheshire 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
Knutsford - 10 £40,500 -
Chester - 5 £37,500 -
Warrington +22 3 £40,000 +19.40%
Macclesfield - 3 £38,500 -
Red Hat Enterprise Linux
North West

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cheshire 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.

1 100 (100.00%) Linux
1 100 (100.00%) Red Hat
2 73 (73.00%) UNIX
3 58 (58.00%) AIX
4 45 (45.00%) Solaris
5 33 (33.00%) HP
6 28 (28.00%) SAN
7 26 (26.00%) Finance
7 26 (26.00%) C
8 25 (25.00%) IBM
9 23 (23.00%) Configuration Management
9 23 (23.00%) Clustering
10 22 (22.00%) High Availability
10 22 (22.00%) Replication
11 21 (21.00%) WebSphere MQ
11 21 (21.00%) Perl
11 21 (21.00%) PHP
11 21 (21.00%) WebSphere
12 19 (19.00%) Stakeholder Management
13 17 (17.00%) Shell Script
14 15 (15.00%) Problem Management
14 15 (15.00%) Service Delivery
15 14 (14.00%) HPUX
16 13 (13.00%) Sun
17 10 (10.00%) Software Packaging
17 10 (10.00%) Veritas Volume Manager
17 10 (10.00%) Benchmarking
17 10 (10.00%) Intel
17 10 (10.00%) Veritas
18 8 (8.000%) Windows

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cheshire 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 21 (21.00%) WebSphere
2 10 (10.00%) Software Packaging
Application Platforms
1 21 (21.00%) WebSphere MQ
2 5 (5.000%) Exchange Server 2010
2 5 (5.000%) MS Exchange
3 2 (2.000%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (1.000%) Exchange Server 2007
4 1 (1.000%) Zimbra
4 1 (1.000%) Exchange Server 2003
Applications
1 1 (1.000%) MS Excel
1 1 (1.000%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 28 (28.00%) SAN
2 5 (5.000%) HTTP
3 4 (4.000%) LAN
3 4 (4.000%) PBX
3 4 (4.000%) WLAN
3 4 (4.000%) WAN
3 4 (4.000%) Wireless
4 2 (2.000%) SMTP
4 2 (2.000%) TCP/IP
4 2 (2.000%) LDAP
4 2 (2.000%) IMAP
4 2 (2.000%) NAS
5 1 (1.000%) DNS
5 1 (1.000%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (4.000%) SQL Server
1 4 (4.000%) SQL Server 2008
General
1 26 (26.00%) Finance
2 4 (4.000%) Telecoms
3 3 (3.000%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 52 (52.00%) Administrator
2 47 (47.00%) Systems Administrator
2 47 (47.00%) Linux Administrator
3 45 (45.00%) Linux Systems Administrator
4 17 (17.00%) Analyst
4 17 (17.00%) Infrastructure Analyst
4 17 (17.00%) UNIX Administrator
5 14 (14.00%) UNIX Systems Administrator
6 11 (11.00%) Linux Engineer
7 8 (8.000%) Infrastructure Manager
8 7 (7.000%) Senior Systems Administrator
8 7 (7.000%) Team Leader
8 7 (7.000%) Senior Linux Administrator
8 7 (7.000%) Senior Linux Systems Administrator
9 5 (5.000%) Technical Support
10 4 (4.000%) Support Engineer
10 4 (4.000%) Senior Support Engineer
10 4 (4.000%) Technical Manager
10 4 (4.000%) Support Manager
10 4 (4.000%) Technical Support Manager
Miscellaneous
1 23 (23.00%) Clustering
2 22 (22.00%) Replication
3 7 (7.000%) iSeries
4 4 (4.000%) Handset
Operating Systems
1 100 (100.00%) Linux
2 73 (73.00%) UNIX
3 58 (58.00%) AIX
4 45 (45.00%) Solaris
5 14 (14.00%) HPUX
6 8 (8.000%) Windows
6 8 (8.000%) Mac OS
7 7 (7.000%) CentOS
8 6 (6.000%) Ubuntu
8 6 (6.000%) Fedora
9 5 (5.000%) Windows Server 2003
10 4 (4.000%) Windows XP
10 4 (4.000%) Windows Server 2008
11 1 (1.000%) Debian
11 1 (1.000%) Tru64
11 1 (1.000%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (23.00%) Configuration Management
2 22 (22.00%) High Availability
3 19 (19.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 15 (15.00%) Problem Management
4 15 (15.00%) Service Delivery
5 10 (10.00%) Benchmarking
6 7 (7.000%) Incident Management
7 5 (5.000%) ITIL
8 2 (2.000%) Risk Management
8 2 (2.000%) Migration
8 2 (2.000%) Network Management
8 2 (2.000%) Product Management
9 1 (1.000%) Change Control
9 1 (1.000%) Change Management
9 1 (1.000%) Service Management
9 1 (1.000%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 26 (26.00%) C
2 21 (21.00%) Perl
2 21 (21.00%) PHP
3 17 (17.00%) Shell Script
4 6 (6.000%) Java
5 4 (4.000%) SQL
5 4 (4.000%) Bash shell
6 1 (1.000%) PowerShell
6 1 (1.000%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 4 (4.000%) HP APS
2 1 (1.000%) Degree
2 1 (1.000%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.000%) QA
System Software
1 10 (10.00%) Veritas Volume Manager
2 5 (5.000%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (5.000%) VMware ESX
3 4 (4.000%) XenApp
3 4 (4.000%) XenDesktop
4 1 (1.000%) PowerHA
Vendors
1 100 (100.00%) Red Hat
2 33 (33.00%) HP
3 25 (25.00%) IBM
4 13 (13.00%) Sun
5 10 (10.00%) Intel
5 10 (10.00%) Veritas
6 7 (7.000%) Nimsoft
6 7 (7.000%) Dell
7 6 (6.000%) VMware
8 5 (5.000%) NetApp
9 4 (4.000%) Citrix
9 4 (4.000%) ProCurve
9 4 (4.000%) Mitel
10 3 (3.000%) EMC
11 2 (2.000%) TIBCO
12 1 (1.000%) Cisco
12 1 (1.000%) Microsoft
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