The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Red Hat products and/or services in IT jobs advertised for the Hertfordshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Red Hat over the 3 months to 20 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 Hertfordshire region.

The figures below represent the IT job market in general and are NOT representative of salaries within Red Hat, Inc.

Location
3 months to
20 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Red Hat
Rank 98 123 100
Rank change year-on-year
+25 -23
Permanent jobs citing Red Hat 45 27 78
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 1.888% 1.069% 2.126%
As % of the Vendors category 3.719% 2.141% 4.244%
Number of salaries quoted 37 14 18
Average salary £50,000 £45,000 £42,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+11.11% +5.88%
90% offered a salary of more than £41,500 £32,000 £37,000
10% offered a salary of more than £53,200 £49,700 £67,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
All Vendors
Hertfordshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
1210 1261 1838
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 50.78% 49.92% 50.10%
Number of salaries quoted 906 988 1439
Average salary £42,500 £45,000 £42,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-5.55% +5.88%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,000 £27,500 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £65,000 £65,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
Red Hat
East of England

Red Hat
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Hertfordshire Red Hat Jobs Demand Trend

Red Hat
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Red Hat across the Hertfordshire region.

Hertfordshire Red Hat Salary Trend

Red Hat
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Red Hat across the Hertfordshire region over the 3 months to 20 June 2013.

Hertfordshire Red Hat Salary Histogram

Red Hat
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Red Hat within the Hertfordshire region over the 3 months to 20 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
Watford +10 9 £51,500 -
Welwyn Garden City -3 9 £50,000 +17.64% 1
Hemel Hempstead - 7 £53,000 - 3
Rickmansworth - 4 £47,500 -
St Albans - 1 - -
Hertford - 1 £24,000 -
Welwyn - 1 £42,500 -
Bishop's Stortford - 1 £37,500 -
Red Hat
East of England

Red Hat
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT jobs across the Hertfordshire region citing Red Hat 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.

1 136 (91.28%) Linux
2 68 (45.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 64 (42.95%) UNIX
4 63 (42.28%) Windows
4 63 (42.28%) Oracle
5 58 (38.93%) Perl
6 53 (35.57%) DNS
7 52 (34.90%) Bash shell
8 49 (32.89%) VMware
9 48 (32.21%) Apache
10 47 (31.54%) SAN
11 41 (27.52%) AIX
12 40 (26.85%) HP
13 39 (26.17%) Sun
13 39 (26.17%) MySQL
14 38 (25.50%) Xen
15 37 (24.83%) Finance
16 35 (23.49%) CentOS
16 35 (23.49%) SUSE
17 34 (22.82%) ITIL
17 34 (22.82%) PHP
18 32 (21.48%) Solaris
19 31 (20.81%) Cisco
19 31 (20.81%) TCP/IP
19 31 (20.81%) Clustering
20 30 (20.13%) Citrix
21 28 (18.79%) WebSphere
22 27 (18.12%) IBM
23 26 (17.45%) Tomcat
23 26 (17.45%) Time Management

Red Hat
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT jobs across the Hertfordshire region citing Red Hat 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. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 28 (18.79%) WebSphere
2 15 (10.07%) Middleware
2 15 (10.07%) LAMP
3 11 (7.383%) OLE
4 5 (3.356%) HTML
5 3 (2.013%) ASP
5 3 (2.013%) XML
6 2 (1.342%) SOAP
6 2 (1.342%) Web Services
6 2 (1.342%) J2EE
7 1 (0.671%) Apache CXF
7 1 (0.671%) .NET
7 1 (0.671%) CSS
7 1 (0.671%) REST
Application Platforms
1 48 (32.21%) Apache
2 26 (17.45%) Tomcat
3 23 (15.44%) IIS
4 22 (14.77%) MQSeries
5 21 (14.09%) WebSphere Application Server
6 16 (10.74%) IBM HTTP Server
7 13 (8.725%) MS Exchange
8 12 (8.054%) Exchange Server 2003
8 12 (8.054%) Exchange Server 2007
8 12 (8.054%) Exchange Server 2010
9 9 (6.040%) SharePoint
10 8 (5.369%) BizTalk Server
10 8 (5.369%) WebLogic
11 7 (4.698%) nginx
12 6 (4.027%) WordPress
12 6 (4.027%) Joomla!
12 6 (4.027%) Moodle
12 6 (4.027%) Magento
13 1 (0.671%) Amazon AWS
13 1 (0.671%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 3 (2.013%) MS Excel
2 1 (0.671%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 3 (2.013%) Temenos Globus
Communications & Networking
1 53 (35.57%) DNS
2 47 (31.54%) SAN
3 31 (20.81%) TCP/IP
4 24 (16.11%) SSH
4 24 (16.11%) HTTP
5 23 (15.44%) NAS
6 15 (10.07%) LDAP
7 13 (8.725%) SMTP
7 13 (8.725%) Fibre Channel
8 11 (7.383%) Internet
9 10 (6.711%) Firewall
10 9 (6.040%) IMAP
10 9 (6.040%) POP3
10 9 (6.040%) FTP
11 8 (5.369%) SSL
12 3 (2.013%) Network Security
13 2 (1.342%) LAN
13 2 (1.342%) WAN
14 1 (0.671%) iSCSI
14 1 (0.671%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (26.17%) MySQL
2 19 (12.75%) SQL Server
3 18 (12.08%) DB2
4 6 (4.027%) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications
1 1 (0.671%) Git (software)
1 1 (0.671%) Subversion
1 1 (0.671%) Maven
1 1 (0.671%) Ant
1 1 (0.671%) Jenkins
General
1 37 (24.83%) Finance
2 19 (12.75%) Retail
3 11 (7.383%) Manufacturing
4 5 (3.356%) Games
5 3 (2.013%) Marketing
6 1 (0.671%) Interactive Media
6 1 (0.671%) Banking
6 1 (0.671%) Telecoms
6 1 (0.671%) Law
Job Titles
1 51 (34.23%) Administrator
2 43 (28.86%) Systems Administrator
3 42 (28.19%) Linux Administrator
4 40 (26.85%) Linux Systems Administrator
5 17 (11.41%) UNIX Engineer
6 15 (10.07%) Web Administrator
7 12 (8.054%) Infrastructure Designer
7 12 (8.054%) Designer
8 11 (7.383%) Architect
8 11 (7.383%) Support Engineer
9 10 (6.711%) Systems Engineer
9 10 (6.711%) Senior UNIX Engineer
10 9 (6.040%) Infrastructure Architect
10 9 (6.040%) Project Manager
11 8 (5.369%) Senior Systems Engineer
11 8 (5.369%) Technical Manager
11 8 (5.369%) Service Manager
11 8 (5.369%) Services Delivery Manager
11 8 (5.369%) Technical Services Manager
11 8 (5.369%) Delivery Manager
Miscellaneous
1 31 (20.81%) Clustering
2 12 (8.054%) Replication
3 5 (3.356%) Management Information System
4 3 (2.013%) Statistics
4 3 (2.013%) Grid Computing
4 3 (2.013%) HACMP
5 2 (1.342%) PKI
6 1 (0.671%) SWIFT
6 1 (0.671%) Open Source
6 1 (0.671%) EPoS
Operating Systems
1 136 (91.28%) Linux
2 68 (45.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 64 (42.95%) UNIX
4 63 (42.28%) Windows
5 41 (27.52%) AIX
6 35 (23.49%) CentOS
6 35 (23.49%) SUSE
7 32 (21.48%) Solaris
8 16 (10.74%) Windows Server 2003
9 15 (10.07%) Windows Server 2008
10 13 (8.725%) Debian
11 5 (3.356%) Windows 7
12 3 (2.013%) OS/400
13 2 (1.342%) HPUX
13 2 (1.342%) Ubuntu
14 1 (0.671%) Windows Vista
14 1 (0.671%) OpenBSD
14 1 (0.671%) Fedora
14 1 (0.671%) VMS
14 1 (0.671%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (22.82%) ITIL
2 26 (17.45%) Time Management
3 22 (14.77%) Project Management
4 19 (12.75%) E-Commerce
5 17 (11.41%) Migration
6 16 (10.74%) Web Development
7 14 (9.396%) Load Balancing
8 12 (8.054%) Capacity Planning
9 11 (7.383%) Agile Software Development
9 11 (7.383%) PRINCE2
9 11 (7.383%) Service Delivery
10 9 (6.040%) TOGAF
11 6 (4.027%) Stakeholder Management
12 5 (3.356%) Parallel Computing
12 5 (3.356%) Operations Management
12 5 (3.356%) Technical Architecture
12 5 (3.356%) Performance Management
12 5 (3.356%) Performance Testing
12 5 (3.356%) Root Cause Analysis
13 4 (2.685%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 58 (38.93%) Perl
2 52 (34.90%) Bash shell
3 34 (22.82%) PHP
4 18 (12.08%) SQL
5 10 (6.711%) VB
6 8 (5.369%) Python
7 7 (4.698%) Shell Script
8 5 (3.356%) Bourne shell
8 5 (3.356%) C-shell
8 5 (3.356%) JavaScript
9 4 (2.685%) Java
10 1 (0.671%) WebLogic Scripting Tool
10 1 (0.671%) Ruby
10 1 (0.671%) Korn
10 1 (0.671%) VB.NET
10 1 (0.671%) C
10 1 (0.671%) C#
10 1 (0.671%) C++
10 1 (0.671%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 11 (7.383%) RHCE
2 9 (6.040%) Degree
3 3 (2.013%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 2 (1.342%) RHCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (7.383%) SLA
2 4 (2.685%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 38 (25.50%) Xen
2 21 (14.09%) Active Directory
3 17 (11.41%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (9.396%) Hyper-V
5 13 (8.725%) VMware ESX
6 9 (6.040%) Sendmail
7 8 (5.369%) vSphere
8 7 (4.698%) Samba
8 7 (4.698%) Varnish
8 7 (4.698%) Postfix
9 6 (4.027%) NFS
10 3 (2.013%) Oracle RMAN
10 3 (2.013%) PowerHA
11 2 (1.342%) XenServer
11 2 (1.342%) VMware ESXi
12 1 (0.671%) Oracle RAC
12 1 (0.671%) Squid
12 1 (0.671%) Nmap
12 1 (0.671%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 9 (6.040%) NetBackup
1 9 (6.040%) Nagios
2 8 (5.369%) Puppet
3 7 (4.698%) Backup Exec
3 7 (4.698%) Cacti
4 4 (2.685%) Tivoli
5 3 (2.013%) Tivoli Storage Manager
6 2 (1.342%) OpenView
7 1 (0.671%) Plesk
7 1 (0.671%) BMC PATROL
7 1 (0.671%) Cobbler
Vendors
1 63 (42.28%) Oracle
2 49 (32.89%) VMware
3 40 (26.85%) HP
4 39 (26.17%) Sun
5 31 (20.81%) Cisco
6 30 (20.13%) Citrix
7 27 (18.12%) IBM
8 17 (11.41%) Dell
9 14 (9.396%) Microsoft
10 9 (6.040%) Postini
10 9 (6.040%) CommVault
11 8 (5.369%) EMC
12 7 (4.698%) NetApp
13 6 (4.027%) JBoss
14 5 (3.356%) Intel
15 3 (2.013%) Brocade
15 3 (2.013%) Juniper
16 1 (0.671%) VocaLink
16 1 (0.671%) Apple
16 1 (0.671%) BMC
Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire
Searchability are proud to be in brand new partnership with this first class, continually expanding Hosting Company in beginning of their search for a skilled Linux Systems Administrator...
Searchability.co.uk
Salary: £40000 - £50000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 17 June 2013
Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire
line Support Engineer: virtualisation, Unix / Linux (Redhat,Centos), Windows server 2003/2008/2012, LAN technologies, Citrix, SAN, HP BladeSystem & Enclosures, IIS, datacentre support, back-ups and network monitoring.
Green Thompson Consulting
Salary: From £35,000 to £40,000 per annum
Posted: 18 June 2013
Hertfordshire, South East
ExperienceThis role will require knowledge and experience of the following:- Experience in a enterprise high availability environment Solaris 8 & 9 & 10 RedHat and/or OEL HP Chassis / Blade...
Volt
Salary: £50000 per annum + Total value Package £56,000
Posted: 14 June 2013
Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire
Detailed understanding of UNIX (Solaris, AIX, Linux), Network and Security, Oracle Databases and SAN (Mainly SVC and IBM storage preferably with Cisco SAN Switches)... Exposure Middleware Technologies like...
Networking People
Posted: 13 June 2013
Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire
Job Title: Infrastructure Designer (Technical Project Lead) Location: Welwyn Garden City Key Skills: Red Hat Linux, Citrix, SQL, Oracle, Storage (Local, SAN, NAS)A new opportunity has arisen...
Tesco
Salary: Competitive
Posted: 6 May 2013