The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Rackspace products and/or services in IT jobs advertised for the England region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Rackspace over the 3 months to 19 June 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 England region.

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

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Rackspace
Rank 695 836 843
Rank change year-on-year
+141 +7
Permanent jobs citing Rackspace 150 33 19
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in England 0.147% 0.029% 0.016%
As % of the Vendors category 0.310% 0.062% 0.033%
Number of salaries quoted 123 27 13
Average salary £55,000 £45,000 £45,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+22.22% -
90% offered a salary of more than £35,000 £32,500 £25,700
10% offered a salary of more than £64,500 £58,500 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £57,500 £26,000
% change year-on-year
-30.43% +121.15%
All Vendors
England
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
48449 53642 56892
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in England 47.58% 47.33% 46.83%
Number of salaries quoted 40153 45674 47782
Average salary £45,000 £45,000 £45,000
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £28,500 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
Rackspace
UK

Rackspace
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England 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 England region.

England Rackspace Salary Trend

Rackspace
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Rackspace across the England region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

England Rackspace Salary Histogram

Rackspace
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Rackspace within the England region over the 3 months to 19 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
London +116 104 £55,000 +22.22% 12
South East +45 37 £41,500 -17.00% 5
North West +12 8 £35,000 -46.15% 1
East of England - 1 £52,500 -
Rackspace
UK

Rackspace
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the England 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.

1 185 (71.43%) Linux
2 145 (55.98%) PHP
3 130 (50.19%) MySQL
4 128 (49.42%) Ruby
5 126 (48.65%) Apache
6 112 (43.24%) Java
7 107 (41.31%) NoSQL
8 106 (40.93%) Web Services
9 95 (36.68%) Python
10 80 (30.89%) SQL
11 73 (28.19%) UNIX
12 71 (27.41%) Windows Azure
13 70 (27.03%) Amazon AWS
13 70 (27.03%) TDD
14 68 (26.25%) Puppet
15 61 (23.55%) OO
16 58 (22.39%) OOP
17 55 (21.24%) Scrum
18 51 (19.69%) XML
18 51 (19.69%) Red Hat
18 51 (19.69%) Bash shell
18 51 (19.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
18 51 (19.69%) Git (software)
19 49 (18.92%) RabbitMQ
19 49 (18.92%) Digital Media
19 49 (18.92%) Ruby on Rails
20 47 (18.15%) Agile Software Development
20 47 (18.15%) Amazon EC2
21 46 (17.76%) Hadoop
21 46 (17.76%) Continuous Integration

Rackspace
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the England 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
1 106 (40.93%) Web Services
2 51 (19.69%) XML
3 49 (18.92%) RabbitMQ
3 49 (18.92%) Ruby on Rails
4 38 (14.67%) Memcached
5 36 (13.90%) CSS
6 32 (12.36%) J2EE
7 29 (11.20%) XSD
7 29 (11.20%) Django
8 28 (10.81%) HTML5
9 26 (10.04%) HTML
10 25 (9.653%) jQuery
11 24 (9.266%) Node.js
12 21 (8.108%) .NET
12 21 (8.108%) REST
13 15 (5.792%) XSLT
14 13 (5.019%) Lucene
14 13 (5.019%) CSS3
15 12 (4.633%) WebCenter
15 12 (4.633%) Symfony
Application Platforms
1 126 (48.65%) Apache
2 71 (27.41%) Windows Azure
3 70 (27.03%) Amazon AWS
4 47 (18.15%) Amazon EC2
5 43 (16.60%) Rackspace Cloud
6 36 (13.90%) Tomcat
7 21 (8.108%) nginx
8 19 (7.336%) Drupal
9 15 (5.792%) Apache Solr
10 14 (5.405%) WordPress
11 13 (5.019%) SharePoint
11 13 (5.019%) Adobe CQ
12 12 (4.633%) Alfresco
12 12 (4.633%) Liferay
12 12 (4.633%) WebLogic
12 12 (4.633%) IIS
12 12 (4.633%) WebLogic Portal
12 12 (4.633%) Commerce Server
12 12 (4.633%) Joomla!
12 12 (4.633%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 12 (4.633%) MS Office
2 4 (1.544%) MS Excel
2 4 (1.544%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 12 (4.633%) SiteCatalyst
1 12 (4.633%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 46 (17.76%) DNS
2 29 (11.20%) SSH
3 16 (6.178%) Firewall
4 14 (5.405%) FTP
4 14 (5.405%) VPN
5 10 (3.861%) Internet
6 9 (3.475%) SSL
6 9 (3.475%) TCP/IP
7 8 (3.089%) Wi-Fi
8 7 (2.703%) DHCP
9 6 (2.317%) HTTP
10 5 (1.931%) LDAP
10 5 (1.931%) SMTP
10 5 (1.931%) Intranet
11 4 (1.544%) Kerberos
12 3 (1.158%) BIG-IP
12 3 (1.158%) RTSP
12 3 (1.158%) Broadband
12 3 (1.158%) RTP
12 3 (1.158%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 130 (50.19%) MySQL
2 107 (41.31%) NoSQL
3 46 (17.76%) Hadoop
4 42 (16.22%) Big Data
5 35 (13.51%) MongoDB
6 33 (12.74%) Redis
7 22 (8.494%) SQL Server
8 10 (3.861%) Apache Cassandra
9 7 (2.703%) PostgreSQL
10 4 (1.544%) Amazon RDS
10 4 (1.544%) SQL Server 2012
10 4 (1.544%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 3 (1.158%) RDBMS
12 2 (0.772%) Riak
12 2 (0.772%) CouchDB
12 2 (0.772%) Oracle 8/8i
12 2 (0.772%) Oracle Reports
13 1 (0.386%) Data Warehouse
13 1 (0.386%) Hazelcast
13 1 (0.386%) OrientDB
Development Applications
1 51 (19.69%) Git (software)
2 36 (13.90%) Subversion
3 23 (8.880%) Jenkins
4 16 (6.178%) Maven
5 12 (4.633%) RSpec
6 10 (3.861%) JIRA
7 7 (2.703%) Hudson
8 6 (2.317%) Mercurial
9 5 (1.931%) Capybara
9 5 (1.931%) GitHub
9 5 (1.931%) Trac
9 5 (1.931%) Capistrano
10 4 (1.544%) Visual Studio
11 3 (1.158%) Selenium
11 3 (1.158%) Eclipse
11 3 (1.158%) PHPUnit
12 2 (0.772%) Cucumber
12 2 (0.772%) Team Foundation Server
12 2 (0.772%) IntelliJ
12 2 (0.772%) CruiseControl
General
1 11 (4.247%) Marketing
2 9 (3.475%) Finance
3 6 (2.317%) Telecoms
3 6 (2.317%) Retail
4 5 (1.931%) Advertising
5 3 (1.158%) Japanese Language
5 3 (1.158%) Games
6 1 (0.386%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 52 (20.08%) Administrator
2 46 (17.76%) Developer
3 41 (15.83%) Systems Administrator
4 35 (13.51%) Linux Administrator
5 30 (11.58%) Linux Systems Administrator
6 29 (11.20%) Technical Leader
7 24 (9.266%) Architect
8 19 (7.336%) Web Developer
9 17 (6.564%) Team Leader
10 16 (6.178%) DevOps Engineer
11 14 (5.405%) PHP Developer
12 13 (5.019%) Lead Architect
13 12 (4.633%) Senior Linux Administrator
13 12 (4.633%) Senior Systems Administrator
14 11 (4.247%) Systems Engineer
15 9 (3.475%) Senior Linux Systems Administrator
15 9 (3.475%) UNIX Team Leader
15 9 (3.475%) UNIX Administrator
16 8 (3.089%) Senior Developer
17 6 (2.317%) Development Manager
Miscellaneous
1 49 (18.92%) Digital Media
2 17 (6.564%) Mobile App
3 15 (5.792%) Open Source
4 14 (5.405%) Heroku
5 12 (4.633%) iPad
5 12 (4.633%) SaaS
5 12 (4.633%) iPhone
6 10 (3.861%) PaaS
7 9 (3.475%) New Media
8 8 (3.089%) Cloud Computing
8 8 (3.089%) Computer Science
9 6 (2.317%) Replication
9 6 (2.317%) Clustering
10 5 (1.931%) Wiki
10 5 (1.931%) Blog
10 5 (1.931%) Taxonomies
10 5 (1.931%) Social Media
11 4 (1.544%) IaaS
12 3 (1.158%) Social Network
12 3 (1.158%) Online Games
Operating Systems
1 185 (71.43%) Linux
2 73 (28.19%) UNIX
3 51 (19.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 34 (13.13%) Solaris
5 31 (11.97%) Windows
6 22 (8.494%) SUSE
7 18 (6.950%) Windows 7
8 17 (6.564%) Ubuntu
8 17 (6.564%) Android
9 16 (6.178%) Apple iOS
10 15 (5.792%) Debian
11 13 (5.019%) Windows XP
12 10 (3.861%) CentOS
13 7 (2.703%) Windows Server 2008
14 6 (2.317%) VMS
14 6 (2.317%) Fedora
15 5 (1.931%) Mac OS X
16 3 (1.158%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (27.03%) TDD
2 61 (23.55%) OO
3 58 (22.39%) OOP
4 55 (21.24%) Scrum
5 47 (18.15%) Agile Software Development
6 46 (17.76%) Continuous Integration
7 36 (13.90%) MVC
8 26 (10.04%) User Stories
9 20 (7.722%) E-Commerce
10 19 (7.336%) SEO
11 18 (6.950%) Kanban
12 17 (6.564%) ITIL
13 15 (5.792%) Knowledge Management
14 13 (5.019%) Content Management
14 13 (5.019%) Configuration Management
14 13 (5.019%) Project Management
14 13 (5.019%) Analytics
15 12 (4.633%) Waterfall
15 12 (4.633%) Performance Testing
15 12 (4.633%) Web Analytics
Programming Languages
1 145 (55.98%) PHP
2 128 (49.42%) Ruby
3 112 (43.24%) Java
4 95 (36.68%) Python
5 80 (30.89%) SQL
6 51 (19.69%) Bash shell
7 35 (13.51%) JavaScript
8 34 (13.13%) C#
9 33 (12.74%) Perl
10 32 (12.36%) Shell Script
11 5 (1.931%) CoffeeScript
12 4 (1.544%) C++
12 4 (1.544%) VB.NET
13 3 (1.158%) C
14 2 (0.772%) PowerShell
15 1 (0.386%) Scala
15 1 (0.386%) PHP5
15 1 (0.386%) Clojure
Qualifications
1 8 (3.089%) Degree
2 6 (2.317%) RHCE
3 5 (1.931%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 5 (1.931%) LPIC
3 5 (1.931%) RHCA
4 4 (1.544%) ITIL Certification
5 2 (0.772%) MCTS
6 1 (0.386%) RHCT
6 1 (0.386%) CCNA
6 1 (0.386%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (2.703%) SLA
2 6 (2.317%) QA
3 4 (1.544%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 26 (10.04%) Sendmail
2 22 (8.494%) VMware Infrastructure
2 22 (8.494%) Samba
3 20 (7.722%) NFS
4 14 (5.405%) Active Directory
5 9 (3.475%) qmail
5 9 (3.475%) Postfix
6 6 (2.317%) Varnish
6 6 (2.317%) Hyper-V
7 4 (1.544%) Xen
8 2 (0.772%) XenApp
8 2 (0.772%) VMware ESX
9 1 (0.386%) XenServer
9 1 (0.386%) vSphere
9 1 (0.386%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 68 (26.25%) Puppet
2 27 (10.42%) ZABBIX
3 19 (7.336%) Nagios
4 14 (5.405%) Vagrant
5 10 (3.861%) CFEngine
6 5 (1.931%) SCCM
7 3 (1.158%) OpenView
8 2 (0.772%) WSUS
9 1 (0.386%) Cacti
9 1 (0.386%) Ganglia
9 1 (0.386%) Splunk
Vendors
1 51 (19.69%) Red Hat
2 43 (16.60%) Oracle
3 28 (10.81%) Microsoft
4 25 (9.653%) Google
4 25 (9.653%) VMware
5 24 (9.266%) Sun
6 19 (7.336%) StorageTek
7 18 (6.950%) Zend
8 16 (6.178%) Joyent
9 15 (5.792%) Akamai
10 14 (5.405%) Isilon
10 14 (5.405%) NetApp
11 13 (5.019%) Omniture
11 13 (5.019%) Adobe
12 12 (4.633%) hybris
12 12 (4.633%) Sitecore
12 12 (4.633%) IBM
12 12 (4.633%) Open Text
12 12 (4.633%) ATG
13 9 (3.475%) JBoss
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Experience of object oriented programming / modular programming... * Experience of SQL using either MySQL, NoSQL or similar... * Knowledge of the Linux command line and Apache... * Experience of working with...
Opilio Recruitment
Posted: 18 June 2013
London
Excellent career progression and opportunity to increase and learn a variety of technologies including Jenkins/Maven/GitHub... Provide release Management to Scrum Teams delivering digital projects run both...
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Salary: From £50,000 to £55,000 per annum + Benefits
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Creation Recruitment
Salary: £55,000 - £60,000 per year
Posted: 5 June 2013
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You will be an advanced Senior Linux Systems Administrator, with a passion for cloud technology (AWS, Rackspace) and deployment with Puppet or Chef. Further technology you will be...
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Salary: £50000.00 - £60000.00 per annum + Benefits
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Salary: From £40,000 to £80,000 per annum (solution up to enterprise level) wi
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Salary: Unspecified
Posted: 31 May 2013
City of London
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Salary: £25000 - £35000 per annum + Benefits + Bonus
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City, London
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Salary: £25000 - £35000 per annum + Benefits + Bonus
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Salary: £70000.00 - £73000.00 per annum
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Salary: £60000 - £70000 per annum + Benefits
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Salary: Unspecified Competitive
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