The first table below looks at the demand for Red Hat Enterprise Linux skills in IT jobs advertised for the Northamptonshire 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 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 of the Operating Systems category for the Northamptonshire region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
Rank 66 60 70
Rank change year-on-year
-6 +10
Permanent jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 8 9
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Northamptonshire 0.454% 1.062% 1.125%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.775% 4.233% 5.590%
Number of salaries quoted 1 7 9
Average salary £40,000 £42,500 £27,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-5.88% +54.54%
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £42,500 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-5.88% +6.25%
All Operating Systems
Northamptonshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
169 189 161
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Northamptonshire 25.57% 25.10% 20.13%
Number of salaries quoted 149 173 152
Average salary £35,000 £37,500 £27,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-6.66% +36.36%
90% offered a salary of more than £22,000 £24,000 £22,500
10% offered a salary of more than £44,300 £43,000 £57,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Red Hat Enterprise Linux
East Midlands

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 Northamptonshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Operating Systems category.

Northamptonshire 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 Northamptonshire region.

Northamptonshire Red Hat Enterprise Linux Salary Trend

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Northamptonshire 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 10 (100.00%) Linux
1 10 (100.00%) Red Hat
2 7 (70.00%) SAN
2 7 (70.00%) UNIX
2 7 (70.00%) Windows
2 7 (70.00%) VMware
3 5 (50.00%) VMware ESX
3 5 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (50.00%) IBM
3 5 (50.00%) Solaris
3 5 (50.00%) Active Directory
4 4 (40.00%) AIX
4 4 (40.00%) HPUX
5 3 (30.00%) JBoss
5 3 (30.00%) Oracle
5 3 (30.00%) WebSphere Application Server
5 3 (30.00%) Tomcat
5 3 (30.00%) LAN
5 3 (30.00%) WAN
5 3 (30.00%) OS/400
5 3 (30.00%) TCP/IP
5 3 (30.00%) HP
5 3 (30.00%) Tivoli
5 3 (30.00%) Tivoli Storage Manager
5 3 (30.00%) HACMP
5 3 (30.00%) Brocade
5 3 (30.00%) WebSphere
5 3 (30.00%) Windows 7
5 3 (30.00%) High Availability
5 3 (30.00%) PowerHA

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Northamptonshire 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 3 (30.00%) WebSphere
Application Platforms
1 3 (30.00%) WebSphere Application Server
1 3 (30.00%) Tomcat
Communications & Networking
1 7 (70.00%) SAN
2 3 (30.00%) LAN
2 3 (30.00%) WAN
2 3 (30.00%) TCP/IP
3 1 (10.00%) Firewall
Job Titles
1 3 (30.00%) Analyst
1 3 (30.00%) Infrastructure Analyst
2 2 (20.00%) Senior Technical Consultant
2 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure Support Analyst
2 2 (20.00%) Network Support
2 2 (20.00%) Linux Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Network Support Analyst
2 2 (20.00%) Technical Consultant
2 2 (20.00%) Network Infrastructure Analyst
2 2 (20.00%) Network Analyst
2 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Senior Consultant
2 2 (20.00%) Consultant
2 2 (20.00%) Support Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Technical Support
3 1 (10.00%) 2nd Line Support
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) HACMP
2 2 (20.00%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 10 (100.00%) Linux
2 7 (70.00%) UNIX
2 7 (70.00%) Windows
3 5 (50.00%) Solaris
4 4 (40.00%) AIX
4 4 (40.00%) HPUX
5 3 (30.00%) OS/400
5 3 (30.00%) Windows 7
5 3 (30.00%) SUSE
6 2 (20.00%) Debian
6 2 (20.00%) Windows Server 2008
6 2 (20.00%) Fedora
6 2 (20.00%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (30.00%) High Availability
2 2 (20.00%) Business Continuity
2 2 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (20.00%) Configuration Management
2 2 (20.00%) CRM
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
1 2 (20.00%) MCITP
1 2 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 2 (20.00%) MCP
1 2 (20.00%) MCSE
System Software
1 5 (50.00%) VMware ESX
1 5 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 5 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 3 (30.00%) PowerHA
2 3 (30.00%) Oracle RMAN
3 2 (20.00%) Samba
Systems Management
1 3 (30.00%) Tivoli
1 3 (30.00%) Tivoli Storage Manager
1 3 (30.00%) Backup Exec
2 2 (20.00%) EMC NetWorker
2 2 (20.00%) Nagios
2 2 (20.00%) OpenView
Vendors
1 10 (100.00%) Red Hat
2 7 (70.00%) VMware
3 5 (50.00%) IBM
4 3 (30.00%) JBoss
4 3 (30.00%) Oracle
4 3 (30.00%) HP
4 3 (30.00%) Brocade
5 2 (20.00%) EMC
5 2 (20.00%) Citrix
6 1 (10.00%) Microsoft