The first table below looks at the demand for Rackspace Cloud skills in IT jobs advertised for the England region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Rackspace Cloud over the 3 months to 22 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 Application Platforms category for the England region.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Rackspace Cloud
Rank 804 871 834
Rank change year-on-year
+67 -37
Permanent jobs citing Rackspace Cloud 36 1 4
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in England 0.035% 0.001% 0.003%
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.164% 0.004% 0.018%
Number of salaries quoted 20 1 4
Average salary £52,500 £50,000 £30,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+5.00% +66.66%
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 - -
All Application Platforms
England
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
21915 23701 22050
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in England 21.54% 20.57% 19.05%
Number of salaries quoted 18839 20718 19094
Average salary £42,500 £42,500 £42,500
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £27,500 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £37,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+2.66% -
Rackspace Cloud
UK

Rackspace Cloud
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Rackspace Cloud across the England region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Platforms category.

England Rackspace Cloud Jobs Demand Trend

Rackspace Cloud
Salary Trend

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

England Rackspace Cloud Salary Trend

Rackspace Cloud
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Rackspace Cloud across the England region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

England Rackspace Cloud Salary Histogram

Rackspace Cloud
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Rackspace Cloud within the England region over the 3 months to 22 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
London +77 30 £52,500 +5.00%
South East - 6 £40,000 -
Rackspace Cloud
UK

Rackspace Cloud
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the England region citing Rackspace Cloud 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 Cloud.

1 73 (100.00%) Linux
2 49 (67.12%) Red Hat
3 44 (60.27%) Amazon EC2
3 44 (60.27%) Amazon AWS
4 41 (56.16%) Rackspace
5 38 (52.05%) Web Services
6 31 (42.47%) UNIX
7 28 (38.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 28 (38.36%) Ruby
8 27 (36.99%) Java
8 27 (36.99%) MySQL
9 25 (34.25%) DNS
9 25 (34.25%) SUSE
9 25 (34.25%) Apache
10 23 (31.51%) SSH
10 23 (31.51%) MongoDB
11 22 (30.14%) Redis
11 22 (30.14%) Puppet
11 22 (30.14%) Git (software)
11 22 (30.14%) Perl
12 21 (28.77%) VMware
12 21 (28.77%) Oracle
12 21 (28.77%) E-Commerce
13 20 (27.40%) BIG-IP
13 20 (27.40%) Ruby on Rails
13 20 (27.40%) Xen
13 20 (27.40%) Sendmail
13 20 (27.40%) CentOS
13 20 (27.40%) NFS
13 20 (27.40%) Windows

Rackspace Cloud
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the England region citing Rackspace Cloud 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 Cloud. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 38 (52.05%) Web Services
2 20 (27.40%) Ruby on Rails
3 16 (21.92%) jQuery
4 15 (20.55%) .NET
4 15 (20.55%) J2EE
4 15 (20.55%) ASP.NET
4 15 (20.55%) CSS
4 15 (20.55%) ASP.NET MVC
4 15 (20.55%) ASP.NET MVC 4
4 15 (20.55%) KnockoutJS
5 14 (19.18%) Velocity
5 14 (19.18%) Ajax
5 14 (19.18%) HTML
6 4 (5.479%) Middleware
7 3 (4.110%) Haml
7 3 (4.110%) LAMP
7 3 (4.110%) Sass
7 3 (4.110%) REST
8 1 (1.370%) Memcached
8 1 (1.370%) DOM
Application Platforms
1 44 (60.27%) Amazon EC2
1 44 (60.27%) Amazon AWS
2 25 (34.25%) Apache
3 14 (19.18%) Tomcat
4 6 (8.219%) nginx
5 3 (4.110%) OpenStack
6 2 (2.740%) Amazon S3
7 1 (1.370%) Windows Azure
7 1 (1.370%) Google App Engine
7 1 (1.370%) Drupal
7 1 (1.370%) Pressflow
Communications & Networking
1 25 (34.25%) DNS
2 23 (31.51%) SSH
3 20 (27.40%) BIG-IP
4 4 (5.479%) LDAP
4 4 (5.479%) HTTP
4 4 (5.479%) Kerberos
5 3 (4.110%) SMTP
5 3 (4.110%) FTP
6 1 (1.370%) Network Security
6 1 (1.370%) Reverse Proxy
6 1 (1.370%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (36.99%) MySQL
2 23 (31.51%) MongoDB
3 22 (30.14%) Redis
4 19 (26.03%) NoSQL
5 3 (4.110%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (4.110%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (1.370%) Hadoop
6 1 (1.370%) SQL Server
6 1 (1.370%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (1.370%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 22 (30.14%) Git (software)
2 15 (20.55%) TeamCity
2 15 (20.55%) SpecFlow
3 4 (5.479%) Jenkins
3 4 (5.479%) Subversion
4 3 (4.110%) RSpec
4 3 (4.110%) Capistrano
4 3 (4.110%) Capybara
5 1 (1.370%) WebDriver
5 1 (1.370%) NUnit
5 1 (1.370%) JMeter
5 1 (1.370%) Visual Studio
5 1 (1.370%) QUnit
General
1 17 (23.29%) Back Office
2 15 (20.55%) Retail
3 3 (4.110%) Marketing
3 3 (4.110%) Games
Job Titles
1 26 (35.62%) Administrator
2 25 (34.25%) Linux Administrator
3 22 (30.14%) Developer
3 22 (30.14%) Systems Administrator
4 21 (28.77%) Linux Systems Administrator
5 16 (21.92%) Team Leader
6 12 (16.44%) Senior Linux Administrator
7 9 (12.33%) Senior Linux Systems Administrator
7 9 (12.33%) UNIX Team Leader
7 9 (12.33%) Senior Systems Administrator
8 5 (6.849%) Systems Manager
8 5 (6.849%) DevOps Engineer
9 4 (5.479%) Senior Developer
10 3 (4.110%) Software Developer
11 1 (1.370%) Drupal Developer
11 1 (1.370%) Ruby Developer
11 1 (1.370%) Linux Engineer
11 1 (1.370%) Infrastructure Team Leader
11 1 (1.370%) Senior Software Developer
11 1 (1.370%) Architect
Miscellaneous
1 17 (23.29%) Clustering
1 17 (23.29%) Replication
1 17 (23.29%) Mobile App
2 14 (19.18%) Open Source
2 14 (19.18%) Blog
3 5 (6.849%) Cloud Computing
3 5 (6.849%) Digital Media
4 3 (4.110%) Online Games
4 3 (4.110%) Heroku
5 2 (2.740%) Enterprise Storage
6 1 (1.370%) SaaS
6 1 (1.370%) PaaS
6 1 (1.370%) Taxonomies
6 1 (1.370%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 73 (100.00%) Linux
2 31 (42.47%) UNIX
3 28 (38.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 25 (34.25%) SUSE
5 20 (27.40%) CentOS
5 20 (27.40%) Windows
5 20 (27.40%) Solaris
6 17 (23.29%) Debian
6 17 (23.29%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (28.77%) E-Commerce
2 19 (26.03%) TDD
3 18 (24.66%) Configuration Management
4 16 (21.92%) Agile Software Development
5 15 (20.55%) MVC
5 15 (20.55%) Pair Programming
5 15 (20.55%) Continuous Integration
5 15 (20.55%) BDD
6 14 (19.18%) Mobile Application Development
6 14 (19.18%) Capacity Planning
6 14 (19.18%) Business Continuity
6 14 (19.18%) Service Management
7 12 (16.44%) ITIL
8 10 (13.70%) Knowledge Management
8 10 (13.70%) Root Cause Analysis
9 3 (4.110%) Business Development
10 2 (2.740%) Change Control
10 2 (2.740%) Migration
11 1 (1.370%) Information Architecture
11 1 (1.370%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 28 (38.36%) Ruby
2 27 (36.99%) Java
3 22 (30.14%) Perl
4 19 (26.03%) JavaScript
5 16 (21.92%) C#
5 16 (21.92%) SQL
6 15 (20.55%) PHP
7 9 (12.33%) Python
8 5 (6.849%) Shell Script
9 3 (4.110%) C
9 3 (4.110%) C++
9 3 (4.110%) CoffeeScript
10 1 (1.370%) PHP5
Qualifications
1 1 (1.370%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (20.55%) QA
2 5 (6.849%) SLA
System Software
1 20 (27.40%) Xen
1 20 (27.40%) Sendmail
1 20 (27.40%) NFS
1 20 (27.40%) Samba
2 4 (5.479%) Active Directory
2 4 (5.479%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (4.110%) qmail
3 3 (4.110%) Postfix
4 1 (1.370%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 22 (30.14%) Puppet
Vendors
1 49 (67.12%) Red Hat
2 41 (56.16%) Rackspace
3 21 (28.77%) VMware
3 21 (28.77%) Oracle
4 20 (27.40%) Sun
5 19 (26.03%) StorageTek
6 16 (21.92%) F5
7 14 (19.18%) Isilon
7 14 (19.18%) NetApp
8 12 (16.44%) Cisco
9 1 (1.370%) Google
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Hands-on practical knowledge must include: Linux (Ubuntu/Debian/Redhat) installation, administration, patching and upgrading Server security and hardening (SSH, Solaris Security Toolkit [JASS] etc.) General Unix services,...
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Salary: £50000 - £52000 per annum + benefits
Posted: 15 May 2013
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Salary: £50000 - £52000 per annum + benefits
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