The first table below looks at the demand for Red Hat Enterprise Linux skills in IT jobs advertised for the Middlesex region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Red Hat Enterprise Linux over the 3 months to 21 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 of the Operating Systems category for the Middlesex region.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
Rank 38 49 57
Rank change year-on-year
+11 +8
Permanent jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 21 7 20
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Middlesex 4.008% 1.400% 2.829%
As % of the Operating Systems category 14.48% 4.930% 10.64%
Number of salaries quoted 14 6 11
Average salary £53,250 £52,500 £60,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+1.42% -12.50%
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £42,500 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-5.88% +6.25%
All Operating Systems
Middlesex
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
145 142 188
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Middlesex 27.67% 28.40% 26.59%
Number of salaries quoted 119 124 131
Average salary £45,000 £40,000 £43,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+12.50% -6.97%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £30,000 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £65,000 £60,000 £58,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Red Hat Enterprise Linux
South East

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux across the Middlesex region as a proportion of the total demand within the Operating Systems category.

Middlesex Red Hat Enterprise Linux Jobs Demand Trend

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Salary Trend

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

Middlesex Red Hat Enterprise Linux Salary Trend

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux across the Middlesex region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

Middlesex Red Hat Enterprise Linux Salary Histogram

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Middlesex region citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 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 Enterprise Linux.

1 32 (100.00%) Linux
2 25 (78.13%) UNIX
3 24 (75.00%) Apache
3 24 (75.00%) Red Hat
4 21 (65.63%) MySQL
5 17 (53.13%) CentOS
6 15 (46.88%) DNS
7 13 (40.63%) Sendmail
8 12 (37.50%) Windows
9 11 (34.38%) SQL Server
9 11 (34.38%) Windows Server 2008
10 10 (31.25%) ITIL
10 10 (31.25%) Solaris
10 10 (31.25%) Samba
11 9 (28.13%) Nagios
11 9 (28.13%) SSH
11 9 (28.13%) TCP/IP
11 9 (28.13%) OpenLDAP
12 8 (25.00%) Puppet
13 7 (21.88%) Rackspace
13 7 (21.88%) qmail
13 7 (21.88%) Postfix
13 7 (21.88%) XenServer
13 7 (21.88%) FTP
13 7 (21.88%) MS Excel
13 7 (21.88%) Sun
13 7 (21.88%) Java
13 7 (21.88%) PHP
13 7 (21.88%) Windows Server 2003
14 6 (18.75%) Clustering

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Middlesex region citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 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 Enterprise Linux. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 4 (12.50%) LAMP
2 3 (9.375%) J2EE
3 1 (3.125%) XML
3 1 (3.125%) Hibernate
Application Platforms
1 24 (75.00%) Apache
2 3 (9.375%) nginx
2 3 (9.375%) Rackspace Cloud
2 3 (9.375%) OpenStack
2 3 (9.375%) Tomcat
3 2 (6.250%) IIS
Applications
1 7 (21.88%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 15 (46.88%) DNS
2 9 (28.13%) SSH
2 9 (28.13%) TCP/IP
2 9 (28.13%) OpenLDAP
3 7 (21.88%) FTP
4 5 (15.63%) Firewall
5 4 (12.50%) SAN
5 4 (12.50%) SSL
5 4 (12.50%) VPN
6 3 (9.375%) HTTP
6 3 (9.375%) SMTP
7 2 (6.250%) LAN
7 2 (6.250%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (65.63%) MySQL
2 11 (34.38%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (9.375%) Git (software)
1 3 (9.375%) Subversion
2 1 (3.125%) JIRA
Job Titles
1 19 (59.38%) Systems Administrator
1 19 (59.38%) Administrator
1 19 (59.38%) Linux Systems Administrator
1 19 (59.38%) Linux Administrator
2 4 (12.50%) UNIX Systems Administrator
2 4 (12.50%) Team Leader
2 4 (12.50%) UNIX Administrator
2 4 (12.50%) UNIX Team Leader
3 3 (9.375%) Systems Manager
4 2 (6.250%) Architect
4 2 (6.250%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (6.250%) Infrastructure Architect
4 2 (6.250%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (6.250%) Senior Architect
4 2 (6.250%) Senior Infrastructure Architect
4 2 (6.250%) Linux Engineer
4 2 (6.250%) Senior Linux Engineer
5 1 (3.125%) Senior Linux Systems Administrator
5 1 (3.125%) Senior Linux Administrator
5 1 (3.125%) Senior Systems Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 6 (18.75%) Clustering
2 3 (9.375%) Digital Media
Operating Systems
1 32 (100.00%) Linux
2 25 (78.13%) UNIX
3 17 (53.13%) CentOS
4 12 (37.50%) Windows
5 11 (34.38%) Windows Server 2008
6 10 (31.25%) Solaris
7 7 (21.88%) Windows Server 2003
8 5 (15.63%) SUSE
9 2 (6.250%) AIX
9 2 (6.250%) Oracle Linux
10 1 (3.125%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (31.25%) ITIL
2 3 (9.375%) Service Management
3 2 (6.250%) Infrastructure Management
4 1 (3.125%) Problem Management
4 1 (3.125%) Project Management
4 1 (3.125%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (21.88%) Java
1 7 (21.88%) PHP
2 3 (9.375%) Ruby
2 3 (9.375%) Bash shell
2 3 (9.375%) Perl
2 3 (9.375%) Python
3 2 (6.250%) Shell Script
4 1 (3.125%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (12.50%) RHCA
1 4 (12.50%) RHCE
1 4 (12.50%) LPIC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.125%) QA
System Software
1 13 (40.63%) Sendmail
2 10 (31.25%) Samba
3 7 (21.88%) qmail
3 7 (21.88%) Postfix
3 7 (21.88%) XenServer
4 6 (18.75%) Xen
5 2 (6.250%) vSphere
5 2 (6.250%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (3.125%) NFS
Systems Management
1 9 (28.13%) Nagios
2 8 (25.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 24 (75.00%) Red Hat
2 7 (21.88%) Rackspace
2 7 (21.88%) Sun
3 6 (18.75%) Oracle
4 4 (12.50%) VMware
4 4 (12.50%) HP
5 3 (9.375%) Cisco
6 2 (6.250%) IBM
6 2 (6.250%) Brocade