The first table below looks at the demand for Red Hat Enterprise Linux skills in IT jobs advertised for the South West 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 19 June 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 West region.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
Rank 139 159 151
Rank change year-on-year
+20 -8
Permanent jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 74 55 69
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the South West 1.404% 0.985% 1.105%
As % of the Operating Systems category 5.230% 3.623% 4.259%
Number of salaries quoted 70 29 53
Average salary £41,000 £40,500 £42,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+1.23% -4.70%
90% offered a salary of more than £32,950 £30,212 £37,500
10% offered a salary of more than £46,000 £60,000 £60,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
All Operating Systems
South West
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
1415 1518 1620
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the South West 26.84% 27.18% 25.94%
Number of salaries quoted 1295 1312 1389
Average salary £35,000 £35,000 £35,000
90% offered a salary of more than £22,500 £24,000 £23,500
10% offered a salary of more than £46,500 £50,000 £50,000
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 West region as a proportion of the total demand within the Operating Systems category.

South West 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 West region.

South West 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 West region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

South West 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 West region over the 3 months to 19 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
Gloucestershire +21 30 £41,000 -15.89% 2
Bristol +6 25 £45,000 +12.50% 3
Wiltshire +3 4 £36,250 -10.49% 2
Somerset - 4 £40,500 - 1
Devon +2 3 £37,500 +24.12%
Dorset -12 3 £45,000 - 2
Red Hat Enterprise Linux
England

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the South West 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.

1 147 (100.00%) Linux
2 115 (78.23%) Red Hat
3 95 (64.63%) Security Cleared
4 76 (51.70%) Java
5 67 (45.58%) DV Cleared
6 66 (44.90%) HTML
7 65 (44.22%) Windows
8 61 (41.50%) Oracle
9 60 (40.82%) UNIX
10 56 (38.10%) JavaScript
11 52 (35.37%) Shell Script
12 51 (34.69%) SQL
13 48 (32.65%) DNS
14 45 (30.61%) DHCP
15 43 (29.25%) Apache
15 43 (29.25%) Clustering
16 38 (25.85%) SQL Server
17 36 (24.49%) C#
18 31 (21.09%) VMware
19 27 (18.37%) ITIL
20 26 (17.69%) XML
20 26 (17.69%) Middleware
21 25 (17.01%) Perl
21 25 (17.01%) Windows Server 2008
22 24 (16.33%) Oracle 11g
23 23 (15.65%) Solaris
23 23 (15.65%) MS Excel
23 23 (15.65%) Cisco
24 22 (14.97%) Windows Server 2003
24 22 (14.97%) Root Cause Analysis

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the South West 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 66 (44.90%) HTML
2 26 (17.69%) XML
2 26 (17.69%) Middleware
3 21 (14.29%) FreeMarker
4 16 (10.88%) CSS
5 14 (9.524%) .NET
5 14 (9.524%) J2EE
6 6 (4.082%) REST
7 2 (1.361%) XSLT
8 1 (0.680%) Oracle Fusion
Application Platforms
1 43 (29.25%) Apache
2 16 (10.88%) Tomcat
3 8 (5.442%) Exchange Server 2010
3 8 (5.442%) MS Exchange
4 6 (4.082%) SharePoint
4 6 (4.082%) IIS
5 5 (3.401%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
6 4 (2.721%) Exchange Server 2003
7 1 (0.680%) Exchange Server 2007
Applications
1 23 (15.65%) MS Excel
2 2 (1.361%) Photoshop
2 2 (1.361%) MS Office
2 2 (1.361%) Adobe Illustrator
Communications & Networking
1 48 (32.65%) DNS
2 45 (30.61%) DHCP
3 21 (14.29%) SAN
3 21 (14.29%) SSL
4 13 (8.844%) TCP/IP
5 12 (8.163%) HTTP
6 11 (7.483%) Firewall
7 7 (4.762%) LAN
7 7 (4.762%) WAN
8 5 (3.401%) Ethernet
8 5 (3.401%) VPN
9 4 (2.721%) Internet
9 4 (2.721%) Cisco ASA
10 3 (2.041%) VLAN
10 3 (2.041%) NetScaler
10 3 (2.041%) NetScreen
11 2 (1.361%) Network Security
12 1 (0.680%) iSCSI
12 1 (0.680%) VoIP
12 1 (0.680%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (25.85%) SQL Server
2 24 (16.33%) Oracle 11g
3 17 (11.56%) SQL Server 2008
4 15 (10.20%) MySQL
5 7 (4.762%) Oracle 8/8i
6 3 (2.041%) Oracle 10g
7 2 (1.361%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (0.680%) Oracle ODI
8 1 (0.680%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 17 (11.56%) Visual Studio
2 8 (5.442%) Subversion
3 3 (2.041%) JIRA
3 3 (2.041%) Git (software)
3 3 (2.041%) ClearCase
3 3 (2.041%) ClearQuest
4 2 (1.361%) Talend Open Studio
5 1 (0.680%) Maven
5 1 (0.680%) Hudson
5 1 (0.680%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (1.361%) Telecoms
1 2 (1.361%) Manufacturing
1 2 (1.361%) Banking
1 2 (1.361%) Retail
2 1 (0.680%) Back Office
2 1 (0.680%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 32 (21.77%) Administrator
2 29 (19.73%) Developer
3 26 (17.69%) Analyst
4 25 (17.01%) Support Analyst
5 24 (16.33%) Linux Engineer
6 23 (15.65%) Linux Administrator
6 23 (15.65%) Systems Administrator
7 22 (14.97%) Applications Support
7 22 (14.97%) Linux Systems Administrator
8 21 (14.29%) C# Developer
8 21 (14.29%) Applications Support Analyst
9 19 (12.93%) C++/Java Developer
9 19 (12.93%) C++/C# Developer
9 19 (12.93%) Java Developer
9 19 (12.93%) C++ Developer
10 17 (11.56%) UNIX Systems Administrator
10 17 (11.56%) UNIX Administrator
11 16 (10.88%) UNIX Engineer
12 14 (9.524%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 8 (5.442%) .NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 43 (29.25%) Clustering
2 21 (14.29%) PKI
3 5 (3.401%) Blackberry
4 4 (2.721%) Replication
5 3 (2.041%) Enterprise Storage
5 3 (2.041%) Firmware
6 2 (1.361%) Open Source
7 1 (0.680%) EqualLogic
Operating Systems
1 147 (100.00%) Linux
2 65 (44.22%) Windows
3 60 (40.82%) UNIX
4 25 (17.01%) Windows Server 2008
5 23 (15.65%) Solaris
6 22 (14.97%) Windows Server 2003
7 15 (10.20%) HPUX
8 11 (7.483%) Ubuntu
9 8 (5.442%) Windows 7
10 4 (2.721%) CentOS
11 3 (2.041%) Windows 2000 Server
12 2 (1.361%) Windows Server 2012
12 2 (1.361%) Oracle Linux
12 2 (1.361%) Embedded Linux
13 1 (0.680%) Windows Vista
13 1 (0.680%) Windows XP
13 1 (0.680%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (18.37%) ITIL
2 22 (14.97%) Root Cause Analysis
3 19 (12.93%) Software Engineering
4 12 (8.163%) Performance Management
5 10 (6.803%) Network Load Balancing
5 10 (6.803%) ITIL V3
5 10 (6.803%) Service Management
6 6 (4.082%) SIEM
6 6 (4.082%) Load Balancing
7 5 (3.401%) Information Management
7 5 (3.401%) Release Management
8 3 (2.041%) Technical Architecture
8 3 (2.041%) Problem Management
8 3 (2.041%) Capacity Planning
9 2 (1.361%) Business Continuity
9 2 (1.361%) Information Security
9 2 (1.361%) Migration
9 2 (1.361%) Service Delivery
9 2 (1.361%) Configuration Management
9 2 (1.361%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 76 (51.70%) Java
2 56 (38.10%) JavaScript
3 52 (35.37%) Shell Script
4 51 (34.69%) SQL
5 36 (24.49%) C#
6 25 (17.01%) Perl
7 21 (14.29%) C++
8 19 (12.93%) C
9 11 (7.483%) Bash shell
10 8 (5.442%) VB.NET
11 4 (2.721%) PHP
12 2 (1.361%) Python
12 2 (1.361%) Ruby
13 1 (0.680%) VBScript
13 1 (0.680%) VB
Qualifications
1 95 (64.63%) Security Cleared
2 67 (45.58%) DV Cleared
3 18 (12.24%) SC Cleared
4 17 (11.56%) MCSE
4 17 (11.56%) Microsoft Certification
5 13 (8.844%) Degree
6 11 (7.483%) MCP
7 8 (5.442%) RHCE
8 4 (2.721%) MCITP
9 3 (2.041%) JNCIS
9 3 (2.041%) CCNA
9 3 (2.041%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (1.361%) OCP
10 2 (1.361%) Oracle Certification
10 2 (1.361%) PRINCE2 Certification
10 2 (1.361%) MCSA
10 2 (1.361%) Six Sigma Green Belt
11 1 (0.680%) MCTS
11 1 (0.680%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.361%) PCI DSS
1 2 (1.361%) QA
1 2 (1.361%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (0.680%) SLA
System Software
1 21 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
1 21 (14.29%) Active Directory
2 17 (11.56%) VMware ESXi
3 10 (6.803%) Xen
3 10 (6.803%) NFS
4 9 (6.122%) Veritas Cluster Server
5 8 (5.442%) vSphere
6 3 (2.041%) VMware ESX
7 2 (1.361%) Oracle RMAN
7 2 (1.361%) Gluster
7 2 (1.361%) Hyper-V
7 2 (1.361%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 2 (1.361%) Oracle RAC
8 1 (0.680%) VMware Server
8 1 (0.680%) Forefront TMG
Systems Management
1 10 (6.803%) Tivoli
2 9 (6.122%) Veritas Storage Foundation
3 8 (5.442%) Puppet
4 6 (4.082%) WSUS
5 5 (3.401%) Backup Exec
6 2 (1.361%) Oracle Identity Management
7 1 (0.680%) SCCM
7 1 (0.680%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 115 (78.23%) Red Hat
2 61 (41.50%) Oracle
3 31 (21.09%) VMware
4 23 (15.65%) Cisco
5 21 (14.29%) Saba
6 16 (10.88%) IBM
7 15 (10.20%) Microsoft
8 14 (9.524%) Symantec
9 12 (8.163%) HP
10 9 (6.122%) Veritas
11 7 (4.762%) EMC
12 6 (4.082%) Citrix
12 6 (4.082%) Dell
12 6 (4.082%) NetApp
12 6 (4.082%) F5
12 6 (4.082%) ArcSight
13 5 (3.401%) JBoss
14 3 (2.041%) SolarWinds
14 3 (2.041%) Foundry
14 3 (2.041%) Sun
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