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 Slough region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Red Hat over the 3 months to 23 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 Slough 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Red Hat
Rank 56 48 28
Rank change year-on-year
-8 -20
Permanent jobs citing Red Hat 16 18 30
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Slough 2.410% 2.736% 5.929%
As % of the Vendors category 4.290% 4.905% 9.934%
Number of salaries quoted 11 18 9
Average salary £50,000 £47,500 £41,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+5.26% +14.45%
90% offered a salary of more than £39,000 £44,250 £39,500
10% offered a salary of more than £65,000 £47,500 £42,600
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,500 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-3.61% +3.75%
All Vendors
Slough
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
373 367 302
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Slough 56.17% 55.78% 59.68%
Number of salaries quoted 291 286 235
Average salary £46,000 £42,500 £41,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+8.23% +2.40%
90% offered a salary of more than £35,000 £28,500 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £65,000 £55,000 £65,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
Red Hat
Berkshire

Red Hat
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Slough 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 Slough region.

Slough Red Hat Salary Trend

Red Hat
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Red Hat across the Slough region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

Slough Red Hat Salary Histogram

Red Hat
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Slough 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 29 (100.00%) Linux
2 22 (75.86%) MySQL
3 21 (72.41%) Apache
4 20 (68.97%) PHP
5 17 (58.62%) UNIX
6 14 (48.28%) TCP/IP
7 11 (37.93%) CentOS
8 10 (34.48%) Windows
8 10 (34.48%) SQL Server
9 9 (31.03%) Cisco
10 8 (27.59%) E-Commerce
10 8 (27.59%) Active Directory
11 7 (24.14%) MS Exchange
11 7 (24.14%) OOD
11 7 (24.14%) Microsoft
11 7 (24.14%) Penetration Testing
11 7 (24.14%) Ubuntu
11 7 (24.14%) SQL Server 2005
11 7 (24.14%) Exchange Server 2007
11 7 (24.14%) Exchange Server 2010
12 6 (20.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 6 (20.69%) LDAP
12 6 (20.69%) AIX
12 6 (20.69%) Solaris
12 6 (20.69%) Nagios
12 6 (20.69%) Firewall
12 6 (20.69%) SUSE
13 5 (17.24%) LAMP
13 5 (17.24%) Scrum
13 5 (17.24%) VMware

Red Hat
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Slough 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 5 (17.24%) LAMP
2 2 (6.897%) CPAN
2 2 (6.897%) X-Windows
Application Platforms
1 21 (72.41%) Apache
2 7 (24.14%) MS Exchange
2 7 (24.14%) Exchange Server 2007
2 7 (24.14%) Exchange Server 2010
3 3 (10.34%) CMS
3 3 (10.34%) nginx
3 3 (10.34%) Alfresco
3 3 (10.34%) WordPress
3 3 (10.34%) Drupal
4 2 (6.897%) Confluence
4 2 (6.897%) WebLogic
4 2 (6.897%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (10.34%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 14 (48.28%) TCP/IP
2 6 (20.69%) LDAP
2 6 (20.69%) Firewall
3 5 (17.24%) SSH
3 5 (17.24%) DNS
4 4 (13.79%) Network Security
4 4 (13.79%) Intrusion Detection
5 3 (10.34%) FTP
5 3 (10.34%) iSCSI
6 2 (6.897%) OpenLDAP
6 2 (6.897%) Cisco Nexus
7 1 (3.448%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (75.86%) MySQL
2 10 (34.48%) SQL Server
3 7 (24.14%) SQL Server 2005
4 4 (13.79%) SQL Server 2000
5 3 (10.34%) SQL Server 2008
6 2 (6.897%) Oracle 8/8i
6 2 (6.897%) dBASE
Development Applications
1 2 (6.897%) JIRA
1 2 (6.897%) Selenium
1 2 (6.897%) Hudson
1 2 (6.897%) Gradle
1 2 (6.897%) Jenkins
1 2 (6.897%) Ant
1 2 (6.897%) IntelliJ
1 2 (6.897%) Subversion
General
1 2 (6.897%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 18 (62.07%) Systems Administrator
1 18 (62.07%) Administrator
2 16 (55.17%) Linux Systems Administrator
2 16 (55.17%) Linux Administrator
3 4 (13.79%) Sales Engineer
3 4 (13.79%) Linux Engineer
4 3 (10.34%) Support Engineer
4 3 (10.34%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (10.34%) Linux Support
4 3 (10.34%) Linux Support Engineer
5 2 (6.897%) Senior Systems Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 2 (6.897%) Wiki
1 2 (6.897%) Clustering
2 1 (3.448%) Cloud Computing
Operating Systems
1 29 (100.00%) Linux
2 17 (58.62%) UNIX
3 11 (37.93%) CentOS
4 10 (34.48%) Windows
5 7 (24.14%) Ubuntu
6 6 (20.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (20.69%) AIX
6 6 (20.69%) Solaris
6 6 (20.69%) SUSE
7 4 (13.79%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (27.59%) E-Commerce
2 7 (24.14%) OOD
2 7 (24.14%) Penetration Testing
3 5 (17.24%) Scrum
4 4 (13.79%) SIEM
4 4 (13.79%) Network Management
4 4 (13.79%) Information Security
4 4 (13.79%) Agile Software Development
5 3 (10.34%) OO
5 3 (10.34%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 2 (6.897%) Kanban
7 1 (3.448%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 20 (68.97%) PHP
2 5 (17.24%) Perl
3 3 (10.34%) Python
3 3 (10.34%) SQL
4 2 (6.897%) C-shell
4 2 (6.897%) Bash shell
4 2 (6.897%) Korn
4 2 (6.897%) Ruby
4 2 (6.897%) C
4 2 (6.897%) Java
Qualifications
1 4 (13.79%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (13.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (13.79%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 8 (27.59%) Active Directory
2 5 (17.24%) NFS
2 5 (17.24%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (10.34%) VMware ESX
3 3 (10.34%) vSphere
4 2 (6.897%) Sendmail
4 2 (6.897%) Xen
Systems Management
1 6 (20.69%) Nagios
2 3 (10.34%) Puppet
2 3 (10.34%) Plesk
3 2 (6.897%) YUM
4 1 (3.448%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 9 (31.03%) Cisco
2 7 (24.14%) Microsoft
3 5 (17.24%) VMware
4 3 (10.34%) NetApp
5 2 (6.897%) Google
5 2 (6.897%) Vignette
5 2 (6.897%) Oracle
5 2 (6.897%) Sun
5 2 (6.897%) BEA
5 2 (6.897%) HP
5 2 (6.897%) Dell
6 1 (3.448%) Rackspace