The first table below looks at the demand for RHCT 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 RHCT 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 Qualifications for the City of London region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Red Hat Certified Technician (RHCT)
Rank 314 318 330
Rank change year-on-year
+4 +12
Permanent jobs citing RHCT 3 8 6
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the City of London 0.026% 0.061% 0.039%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.108% 0.270% 0.188%
Number of salaries quoted 3 8 6
Average salary £22,500 £50,000 £25,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-55.00% +100.00%
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £46,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year
-18.47% +8.23%
All Qualifications
City of London
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
2775 2961 3188
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the City of London 23.77% 22.52% 20.82%
Number of salaries quoted 2397 2687 2873
Average salary £50,000 £50,000 £52,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- -4.76%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £30,000 £29,000
10% offered a salary of more than £72,500 £80,000 £72,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £38,500
% change year-on-year
- +3.89%
RHCT
London

RHCT
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London RHCT Jobs Demand Trend

RHCT
Salary Trend

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

City of London RHCT Salary Trend

RHCT
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 8 (88.89%) Linux
1 8 (88.89%) Red Hat
2 7 (77.78%) RHCE
3 5 (55.56%) VMware
3 5 (55.56%) Computer Science
3 5 (55.56%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (55.56%) Apache
4 4 (44.44%) Windows
4 4 (44.44%) Cisco
4 4 (44.44%) Windows Server 2003
4 4 (44.44%) SQL
4 4 (44.44%) Windows Server 2008
4 4 (44.44%) SUSE
4 4 (44.44%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (33.33%) Bash shell
5 3 (33.33%) Exchange Server 2010
5 3 (33.33%) Samba
5 3 (33.33%) Firewall
5 3 (33.33%) Wireless
5 3 (33.33%) SSH
5 3 (33.33%) SQL Server 2008
5 3 (33.33%) Cisco ASA
5 3 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (33.33%) Exchange Server 2007
5 3 (33.33%) Network Security
5 3 (33.33%) LPIC
5 3 (33.33%) SQL Server 2005
5 3 (33.33%) Squid
5 3 (33.33%) VLAN
5 3 (33.33%) MySQL

RHCT
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 2 (22.22%) Middleware
1 2 (22.22%) WebSphere
2 1 (11.11%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 5 (55.56%) Apache
2 3 (33.33%) MS Exchange
2 3 (33.33%) Exchange Server 2007
2 3 (33.33%) Exchange Server 2010
3 2 (22.22%) Tomcat
4 1 (11.11%) nginx
Communications & Networking
1 3 (33.33%) LAN
1 3 (33.33%) WAN
1 3 (33.33%) Kerberos
1 3 (33.33%) VPN
1 3 (33.33%) DNS
1 3 (33.33%) VRRP
1 3 (33.33%) Firewall
1 3 (33.33%) Wireless
1 3 (33.33%) SSH
1 3 (33.33%) VLAN
1 3 (33.33%) Network Security
1 3 (33.33%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (44.44%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (33.33%) SQL Server 2005
2 3 (33.33%) SQL Server 2008
2 3 (33.33%) MySQL
2 3 (33.33%) SQL Server
General
1 2 (22.22%) Finance
Job Titles
1 7 (77.78%) Administrator
2 6 (66.67%) Systems Administrator
3 4 (44.44%) Linux Administrator
4 3 (33.33%) Senior Systems Administrator
4 3 (33.33%) Linux Systems Administrator
5 2 (22.22%) Network Administrator
5 2 (22.22%) UNIX Administrator
5 2 (22.22%) Graduate
5 2 (22.22%) Junior
6 1 (11.11%) UNIX Systems Administrator
6 1 (11.11%) Linux Engineer
6 1 (11.11%) Data Centre Technician
6 1 (11.11%) Junior Systems Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 5 (55.56%) Computer Science
2 2 (22.22%) Mathematics
2 2 (22.22%) Physics
3 1 (11.11%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 8 (88.89%) Linux
2 4 (44.44%) Windows Server 2003
2 4 (44.44%) SUSE
2 4 (44.44%) Windows
2 4 (44.44%) Windows Server 2008
3 3 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (33.33%) UNIX
4 2 (22.22%) Ubuntu
4 2 (22.22%) Solaris
4 2 (22.22%) CentOS
5 1 (11.11%) Debian
Programming Languages
1 4 (44.44%) SQL
2 3 (33.33%) Shell Script
2 3 (33.33%) Bash shell
3 1 (11.11%) Python
3 1 (11.11%) Perl
3 1 (11.11%) PHP
Qualifications
1 7 (77.78%) RHCE
2 3 (33.33%) LPIC
3 2 (22.22%) Degree
4 1 (11.11%) MCP
4 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (33.33%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (55.56%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (33.33%) Squid
2 3 (33.33%) NFS
2 3 (33.33%) Active Directory
2 3 (33.33%) Samba
3 2 (22.22%) VMware ESX
3 2 (22.22%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (33.33%) Nagios
2 1 (11.11%) Plesk
Vendors
1 8 (88.89%) Red Hat
2 5 (55.56%) VMware
3 4 (44.44%) Cisco
4 3 (33.33%) HP
5 1 (11.11%) Sun
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