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 Manchester 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 Manchester 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 173 121 150
Rank change year-on-year
-52 +29
Permanent jobs citing Red Hat 19 52 20
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Manchester 0.464% 1.435% 0.506%
As % of the Vendors category 1.029% 3.184% 1.006%
Number of salaries quoted 14 47 19
Average salary £37,500 £33,500 £26,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+11.94% +28.84%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £29,000 £22,000
10% offered a salary of more than £45,000 £54,000 £33,900
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,500 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-3.61% +3.75%
All Vendors
Manchester
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
1847 1633 1989
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Manchester 45.10% 45.06% 50.30%
Number of salaries quoted 1555 1392 1792
Average salary £37,500 £36,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+4.16% -4.00%
90% offered a salary of more than £24,500 £23,500 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
Red Hat
North West

Red Hat
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Manchester 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 Manchester region.

Manchester Red Hat Salary Trend

Red Hat
Salary Histogram

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

Manchester 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 Manchester 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
Sale - 3 £45,000 -
Stockport -9 1 £29,000 -
Red Hat
North West

Red Hat
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Manchester 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 61 (93.85%) Linux
2 52 (80.00%) UNIX
3 43 (66.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 26 (40.00%) High Availability
4 26 (40.00%) AIX
4 26 (40.00%) Clustering
5 25 (38.46%) SAN
6 22 (33.85%) PHP
7 21 (32.31%) Windows
8 20 (30.77%) Finance
9 19 (29.23%) Configuration Management
9 19 (29.23%) IBM
10 18 (27.69%) WebSphere
11 17 (26.15%) Windows Server 2008
11 17 (26.15%) HP
11 17 (26.15%) SQL Server
12 16 (24.62%) C
13 15 (23.08%) Perl
13 15 (23.08%) WebSphere MQ
13 15 (23.08%) Replication
14 14 (21.54%) SQL
14 14 (21.54%) ITIL
15 13 (20.00%) Apache
15 13 (20.00%) VMware
15 13 (20.00%) CentOS
16 12 (18.46%) VMware Infrastructure
16 12 (18.46%) Solaris
16 12 (18.46%) Windows Server 2003
17 11 (16.92%) Microsoft
17 11 (16.92%) Tomcat

Red Hat
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Manchester 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 18 (27.69%) WebSphere
2 5 (7.692%) CSS
3 4 (6.154%) .NET
3 4 (6.154%) Web Services
3 4 (6.154%) ASP.NET
3 4 (6.154%) LAMP
3 4 (6.154%) FIX Protocol
4 3 (4.615%) jQuery
4 3 (4.615%) Ajax
5 2 (3.077%) XHTML
Application Platforms
1 15 (23.08%) WebSphere MQ
2 13 (20.00%) Apache
3 11 (16.92%) Tomcat
4 6 (9.231%) MS Exchange
4 6 (9.231%) Exchange Server 2010
5 5 (7.692%) Exchange Server 2003
5 5 (7.692%) IIS
6 3 (4.615%) Drupal
6 3 (4.615%) GlassFish
6 3 (4.615%) WebSphere Application Server
6 3 (4.615%) CICS
7 1 (1.538%) RabbitMQ
7 1 (1.538%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
Applications
1 5 (7.692%) MS Excel
2 2 (3.077%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 25 (38.46%) SAN
2 9 (13.85%) LAN
2 9 (13.85%) WAN
2 9 (13.85%) iSCSI
2 9 (13.85%) Fibre Channel
3 7 (10.77%) DNS
4 6 (9.231%) Firewall
5 4 (6.154%) HTTP
6 3 (4.615%) TCP/IP
7 1 (1.538%) IMAP
7 1 (1.538%) LDAP
7 1 (1.538%) SMTP
7 1 (1.538%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (26.15%) SQL Server
2 9 (13.85%) MySQL
3 5 (7.692%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (7.692%) RDBMS
3 5 (7.692%) SQL Server 2000
4 4 (6.154%) Oracle 8/8i
5 3 (4.615%) DB2
General
1 20 (30.77%) Finance
2 2 (3.077%) Telecoms
3 1 (1.538%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 22 (33.85%) Administrator
2 20 (30.77%) Systems Administrator
3 18 (27.69%) Linux Administrator
4 17 (26.15%) Linux Systems Administrator
5 15 (23.08%) Linux Support
6 12 (18.46%) Analyst
7 10 (15.38%) UNIX Administrator
8 9 (13.85%) UNIX Support
9 8 (12.31%) Linux Support Engineer
9 8 (12.31%) Linux Engineer
9 8 (12.31%) UNIX Engineer
9 8 (12.31%) UNIX Support Engineer
9 8 (12.31%) UNIX Systems Administrator
9 8 (12.31%) Support Engineer
10 6 (9.231%) Developer
10 6 (9.231%) Consultant
10 6 (9.231%) Linux Consultant
11 5 (7.692%) Support Analyst
11 5 (7.692%) Storage Analyst
12 4 (6.154%) Oracle Technical Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 26 (40.00%) Clustering
2 15 (23.08%) Replication
3 6 (9.231%) Client/Server
4 5 (7.692%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (4.615%) IBM Mainframe
5 3 (4.615%) Mainframe
6 2 (3.077%) HACMP
6 2 (3.077%) Handset
6 2 (3.077%) Computer Science
7 1 (1.538%) HP StorageWorks
7 1 (1.538%) iSeries
Operating Systems
1 61 (93.85%) Linux
2 52 (80.00%) UNIX
3 43 (66.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 26 (40.00%) AIX
5 21 (32.31%) Windows
6 17 (26.15%) Windows Server 2008
7 13 (20.00%) CentOS
8 12 (18.46%) Solaris
8 12 (18.46%) Windows Server 2003
9 8 (12.31%) Ubuntu
10 7 (10.77%) HPUX
11 5 (7.692%) Windows 2000 Server
11 5 (7.692%) Windows 2000
12 4 (6.154%) Fedora
12 4 (6.154%) SUSE
13 3 (4.615%) Debian
13 3 (4.615%) zOS
14 2 (3.077%) Oracle Linux
15 1 (1.538%) Windows 7
15 1 (1.538%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (40.00%) High Availability
2 19 (29.23%) Configuration Management
3 14 (21.54%) ITIL
4 4 (6.154%) Service Delivery
4 4 (6.154%) Network Load Balancing
4 4 (6.154%) Infrastructure Management
4 4 (6.154%) Capacity Management
4 4 (6.154%) Performance Management
5 2 (3.077%) Business Intelligence
5 2 (3.077%) PRINCE2
5 2 (3.077%) ERP
5 2 (3.077%) Software Engineering
5 2 (3.077%) Load Balancing
5 2 (3.077%) V-Model
6 1 (1.538%) Mobile Device Management
6 1 (1.538%) Change Control
6 1 (1.538%) Product Management
6 1 (1.538%) Resource Management
6 1 (1.538%) Agile Software Development
6 1 (1.538%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 22 (33.85%) PHP
2 16 (24.62%) C
3 15 (23.08%) Perl
4 14 (21.54%) SQL
5 11 (16.92%) Java
6 9 (13.85%) Shell Script
7 5 (7.692%) PowerShell
7 5 (7.692%) VB
8 3 (4.615%) Bash shell
8 3 (4.615%) PHP5
8 3 (4.615%) JavaScript
9 2 (3.077%) VBA
9 2 (3.077%) Python
Qualifications
1 10 (15.38%) ITIL Certification
2 6 (9.231%) Degree
3 4 (6.154%) Microsoft Certification
3 4 (6.154%) MCSE
4 1 (1.538%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.154%) SLA
2 2 (3.077%) QA
3 1 (1.538%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 12 (18.46%) VMware Infrastructure
2 10 (15.38%) Active Directory
3 5 (7.692%) NFS
Systems Management
1 5 (7.692%) NetBackup
2 1 (1.538%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
2 1 (1.538%) CA Wily
2 1 (1.538%) MAILsweeper
2 1 (1.538%) Nagios
2 1 (1.538%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 19 (29.23%) IBM
2 17 (26.15%) HP
3 13 (20.00%) VMware
4 11 (16.92%) Microsoft
5 10 (15.38%) Oracle
6 6 (9.231%) Symantec
7 5 (7.692%) NetApp
8 2 (3.077%) Veritas
9 1 (1.538%) MobileIron
9 1 (1.538%) Nimsoft
9 1 (1.538%) Lumension
9 1 (1.538%) 3PAR
9 1 (1.538%) Acronis
9 1 (1.538%) SolarWinds
9 1 (1.538%) Endeca
9 1 (1.538%) AppSense
9 1 (1.538%) FatWire
9 1 (1.538%) Dell
9 1 (1.538%) Citrix
9 1 (1.538%) Apple
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