The first table below looks at the demand for RHCE in IT jobs advertised for the London region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited RHCE 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 Qualifications for the London region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE)
Rank 471 525 551
Rank change year-on-year
+54 +26
Permanent jobs citing RHCE 113 112 99
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in London 0.258% 0.209% 0.171%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.017% 0.875% 0.726%
Number of salaries quoted 77 89 80
Average salary £50,000 £45,000 £50,750
Average salary % change year-on-year
+11.11% -11.33%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,500 £28,000 £27,350
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £65,000 £70,250
UK excluding London average salary £43,000 £40,000 £32,500
% change year-on-year
+7.50% +23.07%
All Qualifications
London
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
11112 12793 13635
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in London 25.41% 23.85% 23.51%
Number of salaries quoted 9020 11019 11305
Average salary £50,000 £48,000 £49,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+4.16% -2.04%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £30,000 £29,000
10% offered a salary of more than £72,500 £75,000 £75,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £38,500
% change year-on-year
- +3.89%
RHCE
England

RHCE
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London RHCE Jobs Demand Trend

RHCE
Salary Trend

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

London RHCE Salary Trend

RHCE
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing RHCE across the London region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

London RHCE Salary Histogram

RHCE
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing RHCE within the London 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
City of London +9 38 £50,000 +33.33%
Kingston Upon Thames +12 6 £60,000 +30.43%
Uxbridge - 3 £50,000 -
Ealing - 2 £50,000 -
Docklands, London +5 1 £26,500 -68.54%
Croydon - 1 - -
Hayes - 1 - -
RHCE
England

RHCE
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the London region citing RHCE 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 RHCE.

1 200 (91.32%) Linux
2 162 (73.97%) Red Hat
3 108 (49.32%) Windows
4 98 (44.75%) VMware
5 97 (44.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 96 (43.84%) UNIX
7 74 (33.79%) Perl
8 72 (32.88%) Apache
8 72 (32.88%) Puppet
9 70 (31.96%) SAN
10 64 (29.22%) TCP/IP
11 61 (27.85%) DNS
11 61 (27.85%) Bash shell
12 53 (24.20%) Python
13 51 (23.29%) MySQL
13 51 (23.29%) VMware Infrastructure
14 49 (22.37%) Degree
15 48 (21.92%) Oracle
16 46 (21.00%) Nagios
17 45 (20.55%) Finance
18 41 (18.72%) VMware ESX
19 40 (18.26%) LAN
19 40 (18.26%) WAN
20 38 (17.35%) Cisco
20 38 (17.35%) Active Directory
21 37 (16.89%) RHCT
22 34 (15.53%) CentOS
23 33 (15.07%) Solaris
24 32 (14.61%) SQL
24 32 (14.61%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)

RHCE
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the London region citing RHCE 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 RHCE. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 6 (2.740%) XML
1 6 (2.740%) Middleware
2 5 (2.283%) LAMP
3 4 (1.826%) J2EE
4 3 (1.370%) WebSphere
4 3 (1.370%) HTML
4 3 (1.370%) Web Services
5 2 (0.913%) Memcached
5 2 (0.913%) .NET
5 2 (0.913%) JMX
6 1 (0.457%) JDBC
6 1 (0.457%) SOAP
6 1 (0.457%) XSD
6 1 (0.457%) JMS
6 1 (0.457%) WSDL
Application Platforms
1 72 (32.88%) Apache
2 26 (11.87%) Tomcat
3 13 (5.936%) MS Exchange
3 13 (5.936%) Exchange Server 2010
4 10 (4.566%) SharePoint 2010
4 10 (4.566%) SharePoint
5 5 (2.283%) Liferay
5 5 (2.283%) Confluence
6 3 (1.370%) Exchange Server 2007
6 3 (1.370%) Amazon EC2
6 3 (1.370%) Amazon S3
6 3 (1.370%) Amazon AWS
6 3 (1.370%) Amazon ELB
7 2 (0.913%) RabbitMQ
7 2 (0.913%) Escenic
7 2 (0.913%) IIS
7 2 (0.913%) Apache Solr
8 1 (0.457%) ESB
8 1 (0.457%) WebLogic
8 1 (0.457%) Oracle Service Bus
Applications
1 23 (10.50%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.457%) Oracle Applications
1 1 (0.457%) Oracle BPM
Communications & Networking
1 70 (31.96%) SAN
2 64 (29.22%) TCP/IP
3 61 (27.85%) DNS
4 40 (18.26%) LAN
4 40 (18.26%) WAN
5 26 (11.87%) VPN
6 24 (10.96%) Firewall
7 21 (9.589%) DHCP
8 20 (9.132%) SSH
9 17 (7.763%) NAS
9 17 (7.763%) iSCSI
10 14 (6.393%) LDAP
10 14 (6.393%) SMTP
11 12 (5.479%) HTTP
12 11 (5.023%) VLAN
12 11 (5.023%) SNMP
12 11 (5.023%) SSL
13 10 (4.566%) FTP
14 9 (4.110%) Kerberos
15 8 (3.653%) Fibre Channel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (23.29%) MySQL
2 19 (8.676%) Oracle 8/8i
3 18 (8.219%) SQL Server
4 17 (7.763%) PostgreSQL
5 7 (3.196%) Informix
6 3 (1.370%) SQL Server 2008
6 3 (1.370%) SQL Server 2005
6 3 (1.370%) NoSQL
7 2 (0.913%) MarkLogic
7 2 (0.913%) DB2
7 2 (0.913%) Oracle 11g
8 1 (0.457%) Oracle 10g
Development Applications
1 25 (11.42%) Git (software)
2 15 (6.849%) Subversion
3 9 (4.110%) Hudson
3 9 (4.110%) Jenkins
4 8 (3.653%) JIRA
5 3 (1.370%) Talend Open Studio
General
1 45 (20.55%) Finance
2 17 (7.763%) Banking
3 5 (2.283%) Investment Banking
4 4 (1.826%) Games
5 3 (1.370%) Retail
6 1 (0.457%) Legal
6 1 (0.457%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 107 (48.86%) Administrator
2 88 (40.18%) Systems Administrator
3 68 (31.05%) Linux Administrator
4 54 (24.66%) Linux Systems Administrator
5 18 (8.219%) UNIX Administrator
5 18 (8.219%) Senior Systems Administrator
6 17 (7.763%) UNIX Systems Administrator
6 17 (7.763%) Senior Linux Administrator
7 16 (7.306%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 14 (6.393%) Senior Linux Systems Administrator
9 13 (5.936%) Linux Support
9 13 (5.936%) Systems Engineer
9 13 (5.936%) Technical Support
9 13 (5.936%) VMware Engineer
10 12 (5.479%) Linux Engineer
11 9 (4.110%) UNIX Engineer
11 9 (4.110%) Platform Engineer
12 8 (3.653%) Architect
13 7 (3.196%) UNIX Systems Engineer
13 7 (3.196%) Applications Support
Miscellaneous
1 27 (12.33%) Open Source
2 20 (9.132%) Computer Science
3 10 (4.566%) Management Information System
3 10 (4.566%) Clustering
4 8 (3.653%) SaaS
5 7 (3.196%) Enterprise Software
6 5 (2.283%) Client/Server
7 3 (1.370%) Cloud Computing
7 3 (1.370%) Online Games
7 3 (1.370%) Mathematics
7 3 (1.370%) Physics
7 3 (1.370%) Blackberry
7 3 (1.370%) N-Tier
8 2 (0.913%) Digital Media
8 2 (0.913%) Hedge funds
8 2 (0.913%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.457%) Grid Computing
9 1 (0.457%) Semantic Web
9 1 (0.457%) Derivative
9 1 (0.457%) Firmware
Operating Systems
1 200 (91.32%) Linux
2 108 (49.32%) Windows
3 97 (44.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 96 (43.84%) UNIX
5 34 (15.53%) CentOS
6 33 (15.07%) Solaris
7 29 (13.24%) Windows Server 2008
8 24 (10.96%) Windows Server 2003
9 12 (5.479%) SUSE
10 8 (3.653%) Debian
11 7 (3.196%) Ubuntu
12 6 (2.740%) HPUX
13 1 (0.457%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (14.16%) ITIL
2 28 (12.79%) Configuration Management
3 20 (9.132%) Systems Analysis
4 16 (7.306%) Scrum
4 16 (7.306%) Disaster Recovery
5 14 (6.393%) Load Balancing
6 12 (5.479%) Project Management
7 10 (4.566%) Kanban
8 9 (4.110%) Problem Management
9 8 (3.653%) Performance Management
10 7 (3.196%) Change Management
11 6 (2.740%) High Availability
11 6 (2.740%) Business Continuity
12 5 (2.283%) Continuous Integration
12 5 (2.283%) Service Delivery
13 4 (1.826%) Network Management
14 3 (1.370%) Project Planning
14 3 (1.370%) Six Sigma
14 3 (1.370%) Workflow
14 3 (1.370%) Data Security
Programming Languages
1 74 (33.79%) Perl
2 61 (27.85%) Bash shell
3 53 (24.20%) Python
4 32 (14.61%) SQL
5 29 (13.24%) Shell Script
6 28 (12.79%) PHP
7 18 (8.219%) Ruby
8 16 (7.306%) Java
9 5 (2.283%) PowerShell
10 4 (1.826%) VBScript
11 2 (0.913%) AWK
12 1 (0.457%) VB
12 1 (0.457%) XQuery
12 1 (0.457%) sed
Qualifications
1 49 (22.37%) Degree
2 37 (16.89%) RHCT
3 32 (14.61%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 29 (13.24%) Microsoft Certification
5 28 (12.79%) MCSE
6 17 (7.763%) Cisco Certification
7 16 (7.306%) CCNA
8 12 (5.479%) Linux+ Certification
9 11 (5.023%) MCP
10 8 (3.653%) CCA
10 8 (3.653%) Citrix Certification
10 8 (3.653%) SCSA
11 4 (1.826%) JNCIS
11 4 (1.826%) RHCA
12 3 (1.370%) JNCIA
12 3 (1.370%) JNCIP
12 3 (1.370%) LPIC
12 3 (1.370%) SC Cleared
12 3 (1.370%) Security Cleared
12 3 (1.370%) MCITP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (5.936%) SLA
2 5 (2.283%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.457%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.457%) ISO/IEC 17799
System Software
1 51 (23.29%) VMware Infrastructure
2 41 (18.72%) VMware ESX
3 38 (17.35%) Active Directory
4 28 (12.79%) NFS
5 17 (7.763%) vSphere
6 15 (6.849%) Xen
6 15 (6.849%) Samba
7 11 (5.023%) Squid
8 10 (4.566%) Hyper-V
9 9 (4.110%) Postfix
10 5 (2.283%) Oracle RMAN
10 5 (2.283%) XenApp
11 4 (1.826%) Varnish
11 4 (1.826%) VMware ESXi
12 3 (1.370%) Gluster
12 3 (1.370%) vCloud
13 2 (0.913%) qmail
13 2 (0.913%) Sendmail
14 1 (0.457%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 72 (32.88%) Puppet
2 46 (21.00%) Nagios
3 21 (9.589%) Red Hat Satellite
3 21 (9.589%) Red Hat Spacewalk
4 10 (4.566%) Splunk
4 10 (4.566%) Cobbler
4 10 (4.566%) SCCM
4 10 (4.566%) SCOM
5 9 (4.110%) Cacti
6 7 (3.196%) NetBackup
7 3 (1.370%) Zenoss
8 2 (0.913%) Tivoli
8 2 (0.913%) ZABBIX
8 2 (0.913%) Ganglia
8 2 (0.913%) Munin
9 1 (0.457%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 162 (73.97%) Red Hat
2 98 (44.75%) VMware
3 48 (21.92%) Oracle
4 38 (17.35%) Cisco
5 29 (13.24%) NetApp
6 26 (11.87%) EMC
7 20 (9.132%) JBoss
8 18 (8.219%) Veritas
9 17 (7.763%) HP
10 14 (6.393%) Citrix
11 11 (5.023%) 3PAR
12 8 (3.653%) Brocade
13 7 (3.196%) Juniper
14 6 (2.740%) Dell
15 5 (2.283%) Atlassian
15 5 (2.283%) SAP
15 5 (2.283%) F5
16 4 (1.826%) Cognizant
17 3 (1.370%) Riverbed
17 3 (1.370%) Sun
West London
You will need: 4yrs+ Red hat Linux in a large environment RHCE certified preferred... Good Knowledge of ESX VMware. Any knowledge of supporting Oracle DBA’s... It is...
IT City Solutions
Salary: From £50,000 to £52,000 per annum £52,000 + 32 days holiday
Posted: 21 May 2013
North London
My client has an urgent requirement for a Redhat certified Linux Engineer with RHCE (5 or above). Within this role you will need strong skills and knowledge in...
Evolution Recruitment Solutions
Salary: 40,000 - 45,000 + excellent bonus
Posted: 23 May 2013
North London
Redhat Linux Consultant/Engineer RHCE - London and South East. My client has an urgent requirement for a Redhat certified Linux Consultant with RHCE (6.0 ideally but they...
Evolution Recruitment Solutions
Salary: 40,000 - 45,000 + bonus (up to 20%)
Posted: 20 May 2013
London
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a DevOps Linux Systems Administrator to join an expanding team for a market leading organisation in Central London. The DevOps Linux Systems...
ISL
Salary: £30000 - £40000 per annum
Posted: 20 May 2013
London
Longer term, there will be an opportunity to develop and lead a localised technical team.In addition to RedHat linux skills, you must have experience in Puppet or...
Hays Specialist Recruitment
Posted: 15 May 2013
London
SKILLS/EXPERIENCE REQUIRED ** 3+ Years experience in Linux Administration including server installation ** RedHat certification or equivalent experience (RHCE, RHCT) ** Exposure to infrastructure as code- Tools such as Chef/...
Gregory James
Salary: £30000 to £40000 per annum - Health/Life Insurance,
Posted: 20 May 2013
London
As the successful Linux Systems Engineer, you will join a growing team with the opportunity to work on new and exciting products and projects in a systems engineering /...
Hays Specialist Recruitment
Salary: COMPETITIVE AND NEGOTIABLE
Posted: 10 May 2013
London
Required Attributes -At least 3 years' experience in Linux administration including new server installation -RedHat Certified (RHCE, RHCT) or equivalent experience -Exposure to infrastructure-as-code tools such...
Personnel IT
Salary: £30000.00 - £35000.00 per annum
Posted: 20 May 2013
Hayes, Middlesex
Linux team... General knowledge (Networking, Hardware, software, DNS) RedHat Linux (RHCE level) MySQL Experience. System services (i.e., Apache, Mail transfer agents(sendmail, postfix, qmail), FTP, SSH and...
Rackspace
Posted: 29 April 2013
London
Systems Administrator (Linux RedHat CentOS / Windows VMWare Cisco)... Desirable: automating installs through kick-start, Networking (OSPF/BGP, TCP/IP, Firewalls), Jenkins / Hudson build services, Citrix XenApp, CCNA and /...
Client Server
Salary: £35k to £50k + bonus + benefits
Posted: 21 May 2013
City of London
Essential experience includes: A strong foundation and passion for Linux A degree in Computer Science, Maths or Physics A Linux certification - either Red Hat, Suse or similar. For...
Dupen Recruitment Services
Salary: £20000 - £25000 per annum + range of benefits
Posted: 11 May 2013
City of London
Essential experience includes: A strong foundation and passion for Linux A degree in Computer Science, Maths or Physics Ideally a Linux certification - either Red Hat, Suse or similar...
Dupen Recruitment Services
Salary: £20000 - £25000 per annum + range of benefits
Posted: 17 May 2013
West London
PERSON SPECIFICATION: Strong, hands-on technical knowledge of VMware vSphere and Virtual infrastructure in general... Advanced understanding of VLAN, routing and virtual switches... MCSE/MCSA/RHCE preferred VCP...
Rackspace
Salary: Unspecified
Posted: 3 May 2013
West London
VMware VCP... - MySQL, PostgreSQL. - Samba, OpenLDAP, Kerberos, BIND/DNS, Squid, Apache... - Experience of Cisco ASA, Switches, LAN/WAN/Wireless, VPN, VLAN, VRRP... - CCNA... - Ubuntu, Windows 2003/2008... - Atlassian...
OpenBet Technology
Salary: Competitive
Posted: 7 May 2013
Chiswick, West London, United Kingdom
Accredited as one of Britain's best companies to work for, OpenBet is rapidly growing its online gaming powerhouse with offices in the UK and across the globe...
OpenBet
Salary: Competitive + Benefits
Posted: 25 May 2013
West London
ROLE DIMENSIONS Taking escalations from the L1 and L2s... Advanced understanding of operating systems ( Linux, or windows)... MCSE/MCSA/RHCE/RHCSA essential. VCAP4-DCA or equivalent experience required.
Rackspace
Salary: Unspecified
Posted: 13 May 2013
Central London / West End
Good Linux experience (Red Hat / CentOS)... PHP, Perl, Python or Ruby... Hadoop, MapReduce, Cassandra, Redis etc... Agile environment... HTML5/CSS3/Javascript. Computer Science degree or equivalent experience, or...
Deanslist Limited
Salary: From £40,000 to £50,000 per annum + benefits (stock options etc)
Posted: 21 May 2013