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

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

Location
3 months to
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Rackspace
Rank 476 603 602
Rank change year-on-year
+127 -1
Permanent jobs citing Rackspace 121 38 16
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in London 0.278% 0.071% 0.028%
As % of the Vendors category 0.597% 0.150% 0.063%
Number of salaries quoted 102 38 15
Average salary £55,000 £45,000 £45,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+22.22% -
90% offered a salary of more than £42,500 £32,500 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £67,200 £67,500 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £42,500 £65,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year
-34.61% -13.33%
All Vendors
London
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
20262 25275 25350
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in London 46.58% 46.96% 44.73%
Number of salaries quoted 16725 21666 21075
Average salary £50,500 £52,500 £52,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-3.80% -
90% offered a salary of more than £32,500 £32,500 £32,000
10% offered a salary of more than £75,000 £80,000 £77,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
Rackspace
England

Rackspace
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London 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 London region.

London Rackspace Salary Trend

Rackspace
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Rackspace across the London region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013.

London 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 London region over the 3 months to 20 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
City of London +15 10 £55,000 -8.33%
Feltham - 5 £57,000 -
Hayes - 1 - -
Hounslow - 1 - -
Twickenham - 1 £57,500 -
Rackspace
England

Rackspace
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the London 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.

1 140 (72.16%) Linux
2 107 (55.15%) Ruby
3 105 (54.12%) Apache
4 103 (53.09%) NoSQL
5 101 (52.06%) Java
6 95 (48.97%) MySQL
7 94 (48.45%) PHP
8 93 (47.94%) Web Services
9 80 (41.24%) Python
10 77 (39.69%) Amazon AWS
11 71 (36.60%) SQL
12 68 (35.05%) UNIX
13 57 (29.38%) Windows Azure
14 56 (28.87%) Puppet
15 53 (27.32%) OO
16 52 (26.80%) TDD
17 50 (25.77%) OOP
17 50 (25.77%) RabbitMQ
18 48 (24.74%) Hadoop
18 48 (24.74%) XML
19 43 (22.16%) Oracle
19 43 (22.16%) Digital Media
19 43 (22.16%) Big Data
20 42 (21.65%) Amazon EC2
21 41 (21.13%) Bash shell
21 41 (21.13%) DNS
21 41 (21.13%) Red Hat
22 40 (20.62%) Ruby on Rails
23 38 (19.59%) Agile Software Development
23 38 (19.59%) Redis

Rackspace
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the London 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 93 (47.94%) Web Services
2 48 (24.74%) XML
3 40 (20.62%) Ruby on Rails
4 36 (18.56%) J2EE
5 34 (17.53%) Memcached
6 30 (15.46%) Node.js
7 27 (13.92%) Django
7 27 (13.92%) XSD
8 24 (12.37%) HTML
9 23 (11.86%) CSS
10 19 (9.794%) XSLT
10 19 (9.794%) jQuery
10 19 (9.794%) HTML5
11 15 (7.732%) Lucene
12 14 (7.216%) Apache Flex
12 14 (7.216%) WebCenter
12 14 (7.216%) WebSphere
13 11 (5.670%) REST
13 11 (5.670%) .NET
14 9 (4.639%) Ajax
Application Platforms
1 105 (54.12%) Apache
2 77 (39.69%) Amazon AWS
3 57 (29.38%) Windows Azure
4 50 (25.77%) RabbitMQ
5 42 (21.65%) Amazon EC2
6 35 (18.04%) Rackspace Cloud
7 34 (17.53%) Tomcat
8 19 (9.794%) Drupal
9 15 (7.732%) Adobe CQ
9 15 (7.732%) Apache Solr
10 14 (7.216%) SharePoint Server
10 14 (7.216%) Joomla!
10 14 (7.216%) Alfresco
10 14 (7.216%) WordPress
10 14 (7.216%) Liferay
10 14 (7.216%) SharePoint
10 14 (7.216%) WebLogic
10 14 (7.216%) WebLogic Portal
11 13 (6.701%) nginx
12 11 (5.670%) IIS
Applications
1 14 (7.216%) MS Office
2 4 (2.062%) MS Visio
3 3 (1.546%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 14 (7.216%) Google Analytics
1 14 (7.216%) SiteCatalyst
Communications & Networking
1 41 (21.13%) DNS
2 21 (10.82%) SSH
3 11 (5.670%) Internet
4 10 (5.155%) Firewall
5 9 (4.639%) TCP/IP
6 8 (4.124%) VPN
7 7 (3.608%) HTTP
8 6 (3.093%) DHCP
9 4 (2.062%) Kerberos
9 4 (2.062%) LDAP
9 4 (2.062%) SSL
10 3 (1.546%) SAN
10 3 (1.546%) Wi-Fi
10 3 (1.546%) RTP
10 3 (1.546%) Broadband
10 3 (1.546%) BIG-IP
10 3 (1.546%) RTSP
10 3 (1.546%) Network Security
10 3 (1.546%) NAS
11 2 (1.031%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 103 (53.09%) NoSQL
2 95 (48.97%) MySQL
3 48 (24.74%) Hadoop
4 43 (22.16%) Big Data
5 38 (19.59%) Redis
6 37 (19.07%) MongoDB
7 14 (7.216%) SQL Server
8 11 (5.670%) Apache Cassandra
9 4 (2.062%) SQL Server 2012
10 3 (1.546%) PostgreSQL
11 2 (1.031%) Jackrabbit
11 2 (1.031%) CouchDB
11 2 (1.031%) Oracle 8/8i
11 2 (1.031%) RDBMS
11 2 (1.031%) Riak
12 1 (0.515%) Hazelcast
12 1 (0.515%) OrientDB
12 1 (0.515%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 30 (15.46%) Git (software)
2 20 (10.31%) Jenkins
3 18 (9.278%) Subversion
4 14 (7.216%) Maven
5 11 (5.670%) JIRA
6 6 (3.093%) Hudson
7 3 (1.546%) Selenium
7 3 (1.546%) Eclipse
8 2 (1.031%) IntelliJ
8 2 (1.031%) CruiseControl
8 2 (1.031%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 2 (1.031%) FishEye
8 2 (1.031%) GitHub
General
1 8 (4.124%) Finance
2 6 (3.093%) Retail
2 6 (3.093%) Telecoms
3 5 (2.577%) Marketing
3 5 (2.577%) Advertising
4 4 (2.062%) Games
5 3 (1.546%) Japanese Language
Job Titles
1 30 (15.46%) Technical Leader
2 26 (13.40%) Administrator
3 23 (11.86%) Architect
4 22 (11.34%) Systems Administrator
5 19 (9.794%) Developer
5 19 (9.794%) DevOps Engineer
6 17 (8.763%) Lead Architect
7 16 (8.247%) Team Leader
8 15 (7.732%) Linux Administrator
9 13 (6.701%) Web Developer
9 13 (6.701%) Systems Engineer
10 11 (5.670%) Linux Systems Administrator
11 9 (4.639%) UNIX Team Leader
11 9 (4.639%) UNIX Administrator
12 7 (3.608%) Senior Systems Administrator
12 7 (3.608%) Senior Linux Administrator
13 6 (3.093%) UNIX Engineer
13 6 (3.093%) UNIX Systems Engineer
13 6 (3.093%) Systems Architect
13 6 (3.093%) UNIX Systems Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 43 (22.16%) Digital Media
2 14 (7.216%) iPad
2 14 (7.216%) iPhone
3 9 (4.639%) New Media
4 8 (4.124%) Open Source
4 8 (4.124%) SaaS
4 8 (4.124%) PaaS
5 7 (3.608%) Cloud Computing
6 6 (3.093%) Computer Science
6 6 (3.093%) Social Media
7 5 (2.577%) Social Network
7 5 (2.577%) Replication
8 4 (2.062%) IaaS
8 4 (2.062%) Heroku
9 3 (1.546%) Taxonomies
9 3 (1.546%) Online Games
10 2 (1.031%) Ontologies
10 2 (1.031%) Enterprise Storage
10 2 (1.031%) Web 2.0
11 1 (0.515%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 140 (72.16%) Linux
2 68 (35.05%) UNIX
3 36 (18.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 31 (15.98%) Solaris
5 25 (12.89%) SUSE
5 25 (12.89%) Windows
6 15 (7.732%) Android
7 14 (7.216%) Windows 7
7 14 (7.216%) Apple iOS
8 11 (5.670%) Ubuntu
9 9 (4.639%) Windows XP
9 9 (4.639%) Debian
10 7 (3.608%) Windows Server 2008
11 5 (2.577%) CentOS
12 3 (1.546%) Windows Server 2003
13 1 (0.515%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (27.32%) OO
2 52 (26.80%) TDD
3 50 (25.77%) OOP
4 38 (19.59%) Agile Software Development
5 36 (18.56%) Continuous Integration
6 35 (18.04%) Scrum
7 22 (11.34%) User Stories
8 21 (10.82%) MVC
9 20 (10.31%) ITIL
10 19 (9.794%) SEO
11 16 (8.247%) Content Management
11 16 (8.247%) Analytics
12 15 (7.732%) Performance Testing
13 14 (7.216%) Web Analytics
13 14 (7.216%) Service Management
14 13 (6.701%) E-Commerce
15 11 (5.670%) Project Management
15 11 (5.670%) Kanban
16 10 (5.155%) Root Cause Analysis
16 10 (5.155%) Knowledge Management
Programming Languages
1 107 (55.15%) Ruby
2 101 (52.06%) Java
3 94 (48.45%) PHP
4 80 (41.24%) Python
5 71 (36.60%) SQL
6 41 (21.13%) Bash shell
7 31 (15.98%) JavaScript
8 29 (14.95%) Shell Script
9 28 (14.43%) C#
10 26 (13.40%) Perl
11 4 (2.062%) C++
12 3 (1.546%) C
13 2 (1.031%) Groovy
13 2 (1.031%) PowerShell
14 1 (0.515%) Scala
14 1 (0.515%) PHP5
Qualifications
1 3 (1.546%) ITIL Certification
1 3 (1.546%) Degree
2 2 (1.031%) MCTS
3 1 (0.515%) RHCE
3 1 (0.515%) RHCT
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.093%) SLA
1 6 (3.093%) QA
System Software
1 22 (11.34%) Samba
2 21 (10.82%) Sendmail
3 20 (10.31%) NFS
4 13 (6.701%) VMware Infrastructure
5 12 (6.186%) Active Directory
6 6 (3.093%) Xen
7 5 (2.577%) Hyper-V
8 4 (2.062%) Varnish
9 2 (1.031%) XenApp
9 2 (1.031%) VMware ESX
10 1 (0.515%) qmail
10 1 (0.515%) Postfix
10 1 (0.515%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 56 (28.87%) Puppet
2 16 (8.247%) ZABBIX
3 14 (7.216%) Nagios
4 9 (4.639%) CFEngine
5 5 (2.577%) SCCM
6 3 (1.546%) OpenView
7 2 (1.031%) WSUS
8 1 (0.515%) Ganglia
8 1 (0.515%) Zenoss
8 1 (0.515%) Splunk
Vendors
1 43 (22.16%) Oracle
2 41 (21.13%) Red Hat
3 25 (12.89%) Microsoft
4 24 (12.37%) Sun
5 19 (9.794%) StorageTek
6 17 (8.763%) Google
7 15 (7.732%) VMware
7 15 (7.732%) Omniture
7 15 (7.732%) Adobe
8 14 (7.216%) NetApp
8 14 (7.216%) IBM
8 14 (7.216%) Open Text
8 14 (7.216%) Sitecore
8 14 (7.216%) Isilon
9 12 (6.186%) JBoss
10 11 (5.670%) Joyent
11 9 (4.639%) Akamai
12 7 (3.608%) hybris
12 7 (3.608%) ATG
13 6 (3.093%) Mercator
London
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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: Unspecified
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Salary: Unspecified
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