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

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
Rank 185 162 215
Rank change year-on-year
-23 +53
Permanent jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 309 343 243
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the South East 1.404% 1.446% 1.045%
As % of the Operating Systems category 4.824% 5.060% 3.868%
Number of salaries quoted 251 317 188
Average salary £43,500 £45,000 £42,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-3.33% +5.88%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £35,000 £29,000
10% offered a salary of more than £67,200 £57,500 £60,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £42,500 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-5.88% +6.25%
All Operating Systems
South East
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
6405 6779 6283
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the South East 29.10% 28.57% 27.03%
Number of salaries quoted 5508 5883 5422
Average salary £38,000 £39,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-2.56% +4.00%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £25,000 £23,500
10% offered a salary of more than £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Red Hat Enterprise Linux
England

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

South East 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 South East region.

South East 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 South East region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

South East Red Hat Enterprise Linux Salary Histogram

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux within the South East region over the 3 months to 23 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
Hampshire +45 91 £38,750 +10.71%
Berkshire -12 82 £45,000 -
Surrey -21 81 £42,500 -15.00%
Middlesex +14 22 £53,250 +1.42%
West Sussex +8 16 £39,250 -9.77%
Buckinghamshire -7 8 £40,000 +33.33%
Oxfordshire -9 8 £44,375 -1.38%
Kent -17 4 £58,750 +22.39%
East Sussex -33 4 £45,000 +12.50%
Sussex - 1 £45,000 -
Red Hat Enterprise Linux
England

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the South East 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.

1 560 (96.22%) Linux
2 508 (87.29%) Red Hat
3 242 (41.58%) Oracle
4 238 (40.89%) Windows
5 231 (39.69%) UNIX
6 220 (37.80%) VMware
7 161 (27.66%) ITIL
8 159 (27.32%) Solaris
9 156 (26.80%) Microsoft
10 150 (25.77%) SQL
11 138 (23.71%) Clustering
12 137 (23.54%) Apache
13 136 (23.37%) Perl
14 126 (21.65%) MySQL
15 121 (20.79%) AIX
16 110 (18.90%) VMware Infrastructure
17 107 (18.38%) SQL Server
18 100 (17.18%) Windows Server 2008
19 99 (17.01%) Cisco
20 98 (16.84%) SAN
21 94 (16.15%) HP
22 93 (15.98%) Oracle 10g
23 91 (15.64%) CentOS
24 87 (14.95%) Windows Server 2003
25 86 (14.78%) Oracle 11g
26 84 (14.43%) MS Excel
27 82 (14.09%) Java
28 81 (13.92%) Sun
28 81 (13.92%) EMC
28 81 (13.92%) Project Management

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the South East 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 37 (6.357%) Middleware
2 33 (5.670%) XML
3 29 (4.983%) Hibernate
4 27 (4.639%) Spring
5 26 (4.467%) J2EE
6 24 (4.124%) HTML
7 16 (2.749%) WebSphere
8 12 (2.062%) LAMP
8 12 (2.062%) Java EE
9 8 (1.375%) HTML5
9 8 (1.375%) CSS
9 8 (1.375%) SOAP
9 8 (1.375%) jQuery
10 6 (1.031%) WebCenter
10 6 (1.031%) Web Services
10 6 (1.031%) COM
10 6 (1.031%) Oracle ADF
10 6 (1.031%) Grails
11 5 (0.859%) .NET
12 4 (0.687%) J2ME
Application Platforms
1 137 (23.54%) Apache
2 63 (10.82%) Tomcat
3 34 (5.842%) IIS
4 24 (4.124%) WebLogic
5 11 (1.890%) MS Exchange
5 11 (1.890%) SAS
6 6 (1.031%) Force.com
6 6 (1.031%) Exchange Server 2007
7 5 (0.859%) Oracle Application Server
7 5 (0.859%) nginx
8 3 (0.515%) Jetty
8 3 (0.515%) WebSphere Application Server
8 3 (0.515%) Rackspace Cloud
8 3 (0.515%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.344%) Exchange Server 2010
9 2 (0.344%) Escenic
9 2 (0.344%) Confluence
9 2 (0.344%) CICS
9 2 (0.344%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
9 2 (0.344%) ActiveMQ
Applications
1 84 (14.43%) MS Excel
2 8 (1.375%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.172%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 13 (2.234%) Oracle Applications
2 11 (1.890%) Oracle EBS R12
3 9 (1.546%) Oracle EBS
4 5 (0.859%) Oracle 11i
5 2 (0.344%) Oracle BPM
6 1 (0.172%) assyst
6 1 (0.172%) Remedy ITSM
Communications & Networking
1 98 (16.84%) SAN
2 69 (11.86%) TCP/IP
3 66 (11.34%) Firewall
4 52 (8.935%) DNS
5 26 (4.467%) Cisco ASA
6 23 (3.952%) Internet
6 23 (3.952%) FWSM
7 22 (3.780%) HTTP
8 20 (3.436%) SSH
8 20 (3.436%) NAS
9 17 (2.921%) Network Security
10 16 (2.749%) Wireless
11 15 (2.577%) FTP
12 13 (2.234%) Intrusion Detection
13 11 (1.890%) Wireshark
13 11 (1.890%) tcpdump
13 11 (1.890%) snoop
13 11 (1.890%) OpenLDAP
14 10 (1.718%) WAN
15 9 (1.546%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 126 (21.65%) MySQL
2 107 (18.38%) SQL Server
3 93 (15.98%) Oracle 10g
4 86 (14.78%) Oracle 11g
5 50 (8.591%) DB2
6 30 (5.155%) Oracle 8/8i
7 15 (2.577%) RDBMS
7 15 (2.577%) PostgreSQL
8 11 (1.890%) SQL Server 2005
8 11 (1.890%) SQL Server 2008
9 6 (1.031%) SQL Server 2000
10 5 (0.859%) Oracle Reports
11 4 (0.687%) Ingres
12 2 (0.344%) MongoDB
12 2 (0.344%) Apache Cassandra
12 2 (0.344%) Hadoop
12 2 (0.344%) Data Warehouse
13 1 (0.172%) DataStage
13 1 (0.172%) SAP BW
13 1 (0.172%) Informix
Development Applications
1 11 (1.890%) Subversion
2 6 (1.031%) Spring Roo
2 6 (1.031%) JIRA
3 5 (0.859%) Selenium
3 5 (0.859%) LoadRunner
3 5 (0.859%) Ant
3 5 (0.859%) Mercurial
4 4 (0.687%) Rational Robot
5 3 (0.515%) SilkTest
5 3 (0.515%) CppUnit
5 3 (0.515%) CruiseControl
5 3 (0.515%) NUnit
5 3 (0.515%) ClearQuest
5 3 (0.515%) ClearCase
5 3 (0.515%) Git (software)
5 3 (0.515%) GoogleTest
6 2 (0.344%) Hudson
6 2 (0.344%) Gradle
6 2 (0.344%) Jenkins
6 2 (0.344%) IntelliJ
General
1 52 (8.935%) Finance
2 25 (4.296%) German Language
3 24 (4.124%) French Language
4 18 (3.093%) Banking
5 16 (2.749%) Telecoms
6 7 (1.203%) Marketing
6 7 (1.203%) Spanish Language
6 7 (1.203%) Retail
7 6 (1.031%) Back Office
7 6 (1.031%) Investment Banking
7 6 (1.031%) Italian Language
8 4 (0.687%) Financial Institution
9 3 (0.515%) Games
10 2 (0.344%) Advertising
10 2 (0.344%) International Banking
11 1 (0.172%) Czech Language
11 1 (0.172%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 190 (32.65%) Administrator
2 130 (22.34%) Systems Administrator
3 99 (17.01%) Linux Administrator
4 94 (16.15%) Linux Systems Administrator
5 85 (14.60%) DBA
6 71 (12.20%) Oracle DBA
7 49 (8.419%) Support Engineer
8 46 (7.904%) UNIX Administrator
9 43 (7.388%) Linux Engineer
10 39 (6.701%) Technical Support
11 34 (5.842%) Developer
12 33 (5.670%) Consultant
12 33 (5.670%) Analyst
13 30 (5.155%) UNIX Systems Administrator
14 29 (4.983%) Java Developer
14 29 (4.983%) Technical Specialist
15 27 (4.639%) Technical Engineer
15 27 (4.639%) Linux Support
16 24 (4.124%) Technical Support Engineer
17 23 (3.952%) Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 138 (23.71%) Clustering
2 49 (8.419%) Replication
3 23 (3.952%) Management Information System
3 23 (3.952%) DataPower
4 20 (3.436%) Firmware
5 15 (2.577%) N-Tier
6 11 (1.890%) Derivative
6 11 (1.890%) iSeries
6 11 (1.890%) HACMP
7 9 (1.546%) Computer Science
7 9 (1.546%) Open Source
8 6 (1.031%) Mainframe
8 6 (1.031%) Mathematics
9 5 (0.859%) Digital Media
10 4 (0.687%) SaaS
10 4 (0.687%) IVR
10 4 (0.687%) Pocket PC
11 3 (0.515%) Online Games
11 3 (0.515%) CLARiiON
11 3 (0.515%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 560 (96.22%) Linux
2 238 (40.89%) Windows
3 231 (39.69%) UNIX
4 159 (27.32%) Solaris
5 121 (20.79%) AIX
6 100 (17.18%) Windows Server 2008
7 91 (15.64%) CentOS
8 87 (14.95%) Windows Server 2003
9 78 (13.40%) SUSE
10 55 (9.450%) HPUX
11 52 (8.935%) Oracle Linux
12 48 (8.247%) Ubuntu
13 34 (5.842%) Debian
14 11 (1.890%) VMS
15 8 (1.375%) Windows Server 2012
16 7 (1.203%) Fedora
17 5 (0.859%) Windows XP
18 3 (0.515%) OS/400
19 2 (0.344%) Windows 7
19 2 (0.344%) FreeBSD
Processes & Methodologies
1 161 (27.66%) ITIL
2 81 (13.92%) Project Management
3 80 (13.75%) Service Delivery
4 46 (7.904%) Service Management
5 39 (6.701%) Change Management
6 37 (6.357%) Disaster Recovery
7 33 (5.670%) Configuration Management
8 28 (4.811%) PRINCE2
8 28 (4.811%) Capacity Management
9 21 (3.608%) Knowledge Management
9 21 (3.608%) Content Management
9 21 (3.608%) Business Analysis
10 19 (3.265%) Software Testing
10 19 (3.265%) Incident Management
10 19 (3.265%) Matrix Management
11 15 (2.577%) Agile Software Development
12 14 (2.405%) Scrum
12 14 (2.405%) Problem Management
12 14 (2.405%) Web Development
13 13 (2.234%) Performance Management
Programming Languages
1 150 (25.77%) SQL
2 136 (23.37%) Perl
3 82 (14.09%) Java
4 79 (13.57%) Bash shell
5 74 (12.71%) Shell Script
6 56 (9.622%) Python
6 56 (9.622%) C
7 53 (9.107%) PL/SQL
8 47 (8.076%) PHP
9 23 (3.952%) Ruby
10 19 (3.265%) C++
11 15 (2.577%) PowerShell
12 12 (2.062%) AWK
13 11 (1.890%) Korn
14 8 (1.375%) sed
14 8 (1.375%) Delphi
14 8 (1.375%) C#
15 6 (1.031%) VB
15 6 (1.031%) Groovy
16 3 (0.515%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 69 (11.86%) Degree
2 45 (7.732%) Security Cleared
2 45 (7.732%) Microsoft Certification
3 43 (7.388%) MCSE
4 38 (6.529%) SC Cleared
5 33 (5.670%) RHCE
6 26 (4.467%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 23 (3.952%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 17 (2.921%) ITIL Certification
9 16 (2.749%) CISSP
10 15 (2.577%) CISM
11 14 (2.405%) DV Cleared
12 9 (1.546%) Cisco Certification
12 9 (1.546%) OCP
12 9 (1.546%) Oracle Certification
13 8 (1.375%) MCITP
14 7 (1.203%) CCNA
15 6 (1.031%) ISEB
16 5 (0.859%) LPIC
16 5 (0.859%) RHCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 60 (10.31%) SLA
2 11 (1.890%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 11 (1.890%) PCI DSS
3 7 (1.203%) QA
4 6 (1.031%) ISO 9001
5 2 (0.344%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 110 (18.90%) VMware Infrastructure
2 69 (11.86%) Oracle RAC
3 49 (8.419%) vSphere
4 45 (7.732%) VMware ESX
5 38 (6.529%) Veritas Cluster Server
6 29 (4.983%) Active Directory
7 20 (3.436%) Sendmail
8 19 (3.265%) VMware ESXi
8 19 (3.265%) Oracle RMAN
9 17 (2.921%) Samba
10 12 (2.062%) Varnish
11 10 (1.718%) qmail
12 9 (1.546%) NFS
13 8 (1.375%) Postfix
13 8 (1.375%) Xen
14 7 (1.203%) XenServer
15 6 (1.031%) XenApp
16 5 (0.859%) VMware Server
16 5 (0.859%) Veritas Volume Manager
17 4 (0.687%) Veritas File System
Systems Management
1 47 (8.076%) Puppet
2 36 (6.186%) Nagios
3 32 (5.498%) Data Guard
4 31 (5.326%) NetBackup
5 24 (4.124%) Control-M
6 17 (2.921%) Foglight
7 14 (2.405%) Legato
7 14 (2.405%) SCCM
7 14 (2.405%) Veritas Storage Foundation
8 12 (2.062%) YUM
9 11 (1.890%) Norton AntiVirus
10 10 (1.718%) Tivoli
11 9 (1.546%) Tivoli Storage Manager
11 9 (1.546%) Cobbler
12 7 (1.203%) SCOM
12 7 (1.203%) HP SIM
13 6 (1.031%) AppManager
13 6 (1.031%) Opalis
14 5 (0.859%) ZABBIX
15 4 (0.687%) HP SiteScope
Vendors
1 508 (87.29%) Red Hat
2 242 (41.58%) Oracle
3 220 (37.80%) VMware
4 156 (26.80%) Microsoft
5 99 (17.01%) Cisco
6 94 (16.15%) HP
7 81 (13.92%) Sun
7 81 (13.92%) EMC
8 64 (11.00%) IBM
9 48 (8.247%) Veritas
10 44 (7.560%) NetApp
11 41 (7.045%) Citrix
12 39 (6.701%) JBoss
13 34 (5.842%) Hitachi
13 34 (5.842%) Symantec
14 27 (4.639%) Sybase
15 25 (4.296%) Juniper
16 17 (2.921%) Websense
16 17 (2.921%) F5
17 14 (2.405%) Foundry
Surrey
Linux Engineer (Security Vendor) Working for a leading US Security vendor expanding throughout EMEA. Responsible providing specialist support to corporate customers throughout EMEA on Linux based Networking security...
Epsilium Recruitment
Salary: From £45,000 to £60,000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 18 May 2013
South East
LINUX ENGINEER - LOGISTICS / BLUE CHIP - WEST LONDON / MIDDLESEX A leading Blue Chip client require a Linux Engineer to be involved with a Greenfield Infrastructure solution and : - Ensure standards...
McGregor Boyall
Salary: £60-80K Base + package
Posted: 21 May 2013
Kent
Linux - Redhat - Shell Scripting - Vmware... Red Hat enterprise Linux experience gained in a commercial environment. Redhat clustering experience. Excellent experience in scripting with Shell (bask, KSH), Perl and...
EarthStream Global
Salary: From £60,000 to £80,000 per annum
Posted: 17 May 2013
Staines, Middlesex
Linux Engineer - Red Hat RHEL, VMware... Skills required: Excellent Red Hat Linux knowledge required - RHCE preferred or equivalent demonstrable knowledge. Excellent understanding of web site and enterprise infrastructure...
Zorba Consulting Limited
Salary: £57000 per annum + Competitive Benefits
Posted: 17 May 2013
Staines, Middlesex
The solutions are highly available, secure architectures to support n-tier Internet and enterprise solutions and cloud based. Theses are based around Microsoft technologies (Windows 2008/2003, IIS,...
Zorba Consulting Limited
Salary: £65000 - £75000 per annum + bonus + benefits
Posted: 17 May 2013
Farnborough, Hampshire
Linux Systems Administrator from a Redhat, RHEL, Ubuntu or CentOS background with some Ruby, Python or Perl experience required by a leading edge Technology Solutions Provider based in...
Zorba Consulting Limited
Salary: £30000 - £40000 per annum
Posted: 17 May 2013
Reading, Berkshire
Skills/Qualifications: HP Proliant Blade systems * HP Proliant DL/ML servers * Storage (NAS, SAN, MSL Tape Library's) * Networking fundamentals * Windows 2003/2008 * Linux (Redhat) * VMware ESXi * EMC...
Global Technology Solutions Ltd
Salary: £20000 - £22000 per annum
Posted: 20 May 2013
Staines, Middlesex
Solution Architect / Infrastructure Client Design Consultant / Technical Design Authority from a web infrastructure background including Microsoft, Cisco, HP, RHEL & Sun technologies required to architect customer n-tier web...
Zorba Consulting Limited
Salary: £55000 - £65000 per annum + bonus + benefits
Posted: 17 May 2013
Reading, Berkshire
HP Proliant Blade systems * HP Proliant DL/ML servers * Storage (NAS, SAN, MSL Tape Library's) * Networking fundamentals * Windows 2003/2008 * Linux (Redhat) * VMware ESXi * EMC Networker back...
Polar Recruitment
Salary: £0000 - £9999 per annum
Posted: 20 May 2013
Southampton, Hampshire
Applicants will have experience in areas such as: Clustering solutions, LAN/WAN, mobile technologies, Load balancing and Routers/Firewalls. Knowledge of a broad range of products/service providers...
Novate IT Ltd
Salary: £50000 - £56000 per annum + car allowance + bonus + bens
Posted: 20 May 2013
Southampton, South East
Applicants will have experience in areas such as: Clustering solutions, LAN/WAN, mobile technologies, Load balancing and Routers/Firewalls. Knowledge of a broad range of products/service providers...
Novate IT
Salary: £50000 - £56000 per annum + car allowance + bonus + bens
Posted: 21 May 2013
Didcot, Oxford, Oxfordshire, South East
Skills: Network Consultant, Cisco switches, Cisco Routers, trunking and interconnections, IPSEC VPNs, Cisco ASA/PIX Firewalls, TCP/IP, With strong Linux Administration, Linux Servers, Centos, Redhat / Redhat Enterprise...
Xperian Recruitment Limited
Salary: £0 - £50,000 per year
Posted: 20 May 2013
Didcot, Oxfordshire
Skills: Network Consultant, Cisco switches, Cisco Routers, trunking and interconnections, IPSEC VPNs, Cisco ASA/PIX Firewalls, TCP/IP, With strong Linux Administration, Linux Servers, Centos, Redhat / Redhat Enterprise...
Xperian Recruitment Limited
Salary: From £45,000 to £50,000 per annum + Bonus + Pension+ Medical + Life As
Posted: 17 May 2013
Farnborough, Hampshire
Linux, Systems Administrator, Systems Administration, Redhat, Ubuntu, Ruby on Rails, RoR, Ruby, CentOS, RHEL, Python, Perl, Apache, Nagios, Solarwinds, PHP, Linux, Graduate... ~ Nagios, Solarwinds, SCCM, NetIQ AppManager, Opalis,...
Peopleworks
Salary: From £30,000 to £40,000 per annum + Bonus + Excellent Benefits
Posted: 17 May 2013
Basingstoke, South East
Capita Clinical Solutions is a dynamic, world leader in Clinical software. Capita Clinical Solutions is focused on being clinically-led in its software and operating procedures, this is...
Capita Resourcing
Salary: £40000.00 - £45000.00 per annum
Posted: 23 May 2013
Basingstoke, South East
Capita Clinical Solutions is a dynamic, world leader in Clinical software. Capita Clinical Solutions is focused on being clinically-led in its software and operating procedures, this is...
Capita Resourcing
Salary: £40000.00 - £45000.00 per annum + Car + Oncall
Posted: 9 May 2013
Walton-On-Thames, Surrey
Required Skills/Experience: * CCNA preferred * 2+ years' experience in an IT support environment * Network administration experience, including troubleshooting * Experience administering Windows Server 2003/2008 in an Active Directory...
Mortimer Spinks
Salary: £22000 - £24000 per annum + Excellent Benefits
Posted: 17 May 2013
Walton-On-Thames, Surrey
Desktop Software Testing. on Windows with some Solaris 10, RHEL-5 UNIX Linux and Windows-7 basic administrative experience... Programming skills with Python, Perl and XML are desirable.
Go IT Recruitment Ltd
Salary: From £24,000 to £28,000 per annum + benefits
Posted: 20 May 2013
Guildford, Surrey
Their main services are Electronic Service Delivery (ESD), Electronic Forms for both on-line and off-line data capture, Casework and Assessment Systems, Content Management Solutions, Systems Integration,...
Evolution Recruitment Solutions
Salary: Circa 40,000 - 45,000
Posted: 20 May 2013
Reading, Berkshire
For these positions exposure in at least one of the following Java, C#, C++, in Linux or Windows based environments is essential although for more junior positions other...
Evolution Recruitment Solutions
Salary: 25000 - 46000 + excellent benefits
Posted: 22 May 2013