The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Rackspace products and/or services in IT jobs advertised for the City of London region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Rackspace over the 3 months to 17 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 City of London region.

The figures below represent the IT job market in general and are NOT representative of salaries within Rackspace.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Rackspace
Rank 307 325 330
Rank change year-on-year
+18 +5
Permanent jobs citing Rackspace 10 1 6
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the City of London 0.086% 0.008% 0.039%
As % of the Vendors category 0.187% 0.016% 0.090%
Number of salaries quoted 9 1 5
Average salary £55,000 £60,000 £52,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-8.33% +14.28%
90% offered a salary of more than £52,000 £60,000 £45,000
10% offered a salary of more than £86,000 £60,000 £76,500
UK excluding London average salary £42,500 £65,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year
-34.61% -13.33%
All Vendors
City of London
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
5353 6104 6634
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the City of London 45.86% 46.43% 43.32%
Number of salaries quoted 4602 5573 5958
Average salary £52,500 £55,000 £57,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-4.54% -4.34%
90% offered a salary of more than £35,000 £34,000 £35,000
10% offered a salary of more than £75,000 £82,500 £80,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
Rackspace
London

Rackspace
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London Rackspace Jobs Demand Trend

Rackspace
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Rackspace across the City of London region.

City of London Rackspace Salary Trend

Rackspace
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Rackspace across the City of London region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

City of London Rackspace Salary Histogram

Rackspace
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the City of London region citing Rackspace 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 Rackspace.

1 8 (50.00%) Java
1 8 (50.00%) Amazon AWS
2 7 (43.75%) Puppet
2 7 (43.75%) Linux
2 7 (43.75%) Python
3 6 (37.50%) Windows
3 6 (37.50%) Ruby
4 5 (31.25%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (31.25%) Web Services
4 5 (31.25%) VMware
5 4 (25.00%) Nagios
5 4 (25.00%) Hadoop
5 4 (25.00%) Amazon EC2
5 4 (25.00%) Windows Azure
5 4 (25.00%) NoSQL
5 4 (25.00%) Redis
6 3 (18.75%) RabbitMQ
6 3 (18.75%) Node.js
6 3 (18.75%) Digital Media
6 3 (18.75%) Bash shell
6 3 (18.75%) HTML5
6 3 (18.75%) YAML
6 3 (18.75%) Xen
6 3 (18.75%) ZABBIX
6 3 (18.75%) Ruby on Rails
6 3 (18.75%) Configuration Management
6 3 (18.75%) Project Management
6 3 (18.75%) JMX
6 3 (18.75%) Finance
6 3 (18.75%) Agile Software Development

Rackspace
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the City of London region citing Rackspace 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 Rackspace. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 5 (31.25%) Web Services
2 3 (18.75%) JMX
2 3 (18.75%) Ruby on Rails
2 3 (18.75%) YAML
2 3 (18.75%) HTML5
2 3 (18.75%) Node.js
3 2 (12.50%) Sinatra
4 1 (6.250%) MapReduce
Application Platforms
1 8 (50.00%) Amazon AWS
2 4 (25.00%) Amazon EC2
2 4 (25.00%) Windows Azure
3 3 (18.75%) RabbitMQ
4 2 (12.50%) Rackspace Cloud
4 2 (12.50%) IIS
5 1 (6.250%) Apache
5 1 (6.250%) Tomcat
5 1 (6.250%) Jetty
5 1 (6.250%) nginx
5 1 (6.250%) Amazon S3
Applications
1 2 (12.50%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 3 (18.75%) VPN
1 3 (18.75%) DNS
2 2 (12.50%) DHCP
2 2 (12.50%) TCP/IP
3 1 (6.250%) LDAP
3 1 (6.250%) HTTP
3 1 (6.250%) Kerberos
3 1 (6.250%) Internet
3 1 (6.250%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (25.00%) Hadoop
1 4 (25.00%) NoSQL
1 4 (25.00%) Redis
2 3 (18.75%) MySQL
3 2 (12.50%) SQL Server
3 2 (12.50%) MongoDB
3 2 (12.50%) Apache Cassandra
3 2 (12.50%) Big Data
4 1 (6.250%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (6.250%) Subversion
General
1 3 (18.75%) Finance
2 1 (6.250%) Games
2 1 (6.250%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 4 (25.00%) Architect
1 4 (25.00%) Systems Administrator
1 4 (25.00%) Systems Engineer
1 4 (25.00%) Administrator
1 4 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 3 (18.75%) Project Manager
2 3 (18.75%) Linux Systems Administrator
2 3 (18.75%) Linux Administrator
2 3 (18.75%) Linux Engineer
2 3 (18.75%) Agile Project Manager
3 2 (12.50%) Lead Architect
3 2 (12.50%) IT Operations Manager
3 2 (12.50%) Systems Architect
3 2 (12.50%) Infrastructure Manager
3 2 (12.50%) Operations Manager
3 2 (12.50%) Infrastructure Project Manager
4 1 (6.250%) UNIX Administrator
4 1 (6.250%) Senior Systems Engineer
4 1 (6.250%) Data Architect
4 1 (6.250%) Senior Systems Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 3 (18.75%) Digital Media
2 2 (12.50%) Social Network
2 2 (12.50%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (6.250%) Open Source
3 1 (6.250%) PaaS
3 1 (6.250%) New Media
3 1 (6.250%) Replication
3 1 (6.250%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 7 (43.75%) Linux
2 6 (37.50%) Windows
3 2 (12.50%) Windows Server 2008
3 2 (12.50%) Windows 7
3 2 (12.50%) UNIX
4 1 (6.250%) Solaris
4 1 (6.250%) Windows XP
4 1 (6.250%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (18.75%) Configuration Management
1 3 (18.75%) Project Management
1 3 (18.75%) Agile Software Development
2 2 (12.50%) ITIL
2 2 (12.50%) Service Delivery
2 2 (12.50%) Network Design
2 2 (12.50%) Technical Architecture
3 1 (6.250%) Operations Management
3 1 (6.250%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (6.250%) Network Management
3 1 (6.250%) Analytics
3 1 (6.250%) Migration
3 1 (6.250%) E-Commerce
3 1 (6.250%) RDF
3 1 (6.250%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 8 (50.00%) Java
2 7 (43.75%) Python
3 6 (37.50%) Ruby
4 3 (18.75%) Bash shell
5 2 (12.50%) Shell Script
6 1 (6.250%) JavaScript
6 1 (6.250%) PHP
6 1 (6.250%) SQL
6 1 (6.250%) C#
System Software
1 5 (31.25%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (18.75%) Active Directory
2 3 (18.75%) Xen
3 1 (6.250%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 7 (43.75%) Puppet
2 4 (25.00%) Nagios
3 3 (18.75%) ZABBIX
4 1 (6.250%) Ganglia
4 1 (6.250%) Zenoss
4 1 (6.250%) SCCM
4 1 (6.250%) Splunk
4 1 (6.250%) CFEngine
Vendors
1 5 (31.25%) VMware
2 1 (6.250%) SonicWALL
2 1 (6.250%) NETGEAR
2 1 (6.250%) Joyent
2 1 (6.250%) Hortonworks
2 1 (6.250%) Cloudera
2 1 (6.250%) Oracle
2 1 (6.250%) JBoss
2 1 (6.250%) Cisco
2 1 (6.250%) Microsoft
2 1 (6.250%) Sun
2 1 (6.250%) Red Hat