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 Kent region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Red Hat over the 3 months to 24 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 Kent 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Red Hat
Rank 85 65 89
Rank change year-on-year
-20 +24
Permanent jobs citing Red Hat 2 7 13
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Kent 0.173% 0.976% 1.223%
As % of the Vendors category 0.376% 2.006% 2.149%
Number of salaries quoted 2 7 12
Average salary £41,250 £48,000 £30,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-14.06% +60.00%
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,500 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-3.61% +3.75%
All Vendors
Kent
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
532 349 605
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Kent 45.98% 48.68% 56.91%
Number of salaries quoted 457 317 539
Average salary £42,500 £37,500 £38,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+13.33% -1.31%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £25,000 £23,500
10% offered a salary of more than £75,000 £47,500 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
Red Hat
South East

Red Hat
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Kent 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 Kent region.

Kent Red Hat Salary Trend

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 Kent region over the 3 months to 24 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
Tunbridge Wells - 1 £37,500 -
Red Hat
South East

Red Hat
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Kent 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 7 (100.00%) Linux
2 5 (71.43%) UNIX
2 5 (71.43%) SAN
2 5 (71.43%) VMware
3 4 (57.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (42.86%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (42.86%) CentOS
4 3 (42.86%) NAS
4 3 (42.86%) Debian
4 3 (42.86%) Ubuntu
4 3 (42.86%) Firewall
4 3 (42.86%) Cisco
4 3 (42.86%) HP
4 3 (42.86%) Windows
4 3 (42.86%) Solaris
4 3 (42.86%) MySQL
4 3 (42.86%) Apache
5 2 (28.57%) FreeBSD
5 2 (28.57%) MS Exchange
5 2 (28.57%) SMTP
5 2 (28.57%) HTTP
5 2 (28.57%) TCP/IP
5 2 (28.57%) Java
5 2 (28.57%) PHP
5 2 (28.57%) VB
5 2 (28.57%) DNS
5 2 (28.57%) SSL
5 2 (28.57%) SLA
5 2 (28.57%) Active Directory
5 2 (28.57%) Apple

Red Hat
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Kent 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 2 (28.57%) Memcached
Application Platforms
1 3 (42.86%) Apache
2 2 (28.57%) MS Exchange
2 2 (28.57%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
2 2 (28.57%) nginx
Communications & Networking
1 5 (71.43%) SAN
2 3 (42.86%) NAS
2 3 (42.86%) Firewall
3 2 (28.57%) SMTP
3 2 (28.57%) HTTP
3 2 (28.57%) TCP/IP
3 2 (28.57%) DNS
3 2 (28.57%) SSL
3 2 (28.57%) Internet
3 2 (28.57%) VRRP
3 2 (28.57%) IPsec
3 2 (28.57%) VLAN
3 2 (28.57%) iSCSI
4 1 (14.29%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (42.86%) MySQL
2 1 (14.29%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (14.29%) Retail
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Consultant
2 2 (28.57%) UNIX Consultant
2 2 (28.57%) Linux Consultant
2 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Specialist
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Support Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Systems Administrator
3 1 (14.29%) Support Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Administrator
3 1 (14.29%) Network Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 7 (100.00%) Linux
2 5 (71.43%) UNIX
3 4 (57.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (42.86%) CentOS
4 3 (42.86%) Debian
4 3 (42.86%) Ubuntu
4 3 (42.86%) Windows
4 3 (42.86%) Solaris
5 2 (28.57%) FreeBSD
5 2 (28.57%) Mac OS X Server
5 2 (28.57%) OpenBSD
6 1 (14.29%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (28.57%) Configuration Management
1 2 (28.57%) Load Balancing
2 1 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (14.29%) Supplier Management
2 1 (14.29%) Service Delivery
2 1 (14.29%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) Java
1 2 (28.57%) PHP
1 2 (28.57%) VB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (42.86%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (28.57%) Active Directory
2 2 (28.57%) Squid
2 2 (28.57%) vSphere
2 2 (28.57%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (14.29%) Xen
Vendors
1 5 (71.43%) VMware
2 3 (42.86%) Cisco
2 3 (42.86%) HP
3 2 (28.57%) Apple
3 2 (28.57%) Kerio
3 2 (28.57%) Google
3 2 (28.57%) ProCurve
3 2 (28.57%) MobileIron
4 1 (14.29%) 3PAR
4 1 (14.29%) WatchGuard
4 1 (14.29%) Veritas
4 1 (14.29%) Juniper