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 Suffolk region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Red Hat 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 Vendors for the Suffolk 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Red Hat
Rank 58 59 -
Rank change year-on-year
+1 -
Permanent jobs citing Red Hat 17 4 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Suffolk 2.453% 0.713% -
As % of the Vendors category 5.537% 1.633% -
Number of salaries quoted 17 4 0
Average salary £32,500 £35,000 -
Average salary % change year-on-year
-7.14% -
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,500 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-3.61% +3.75%
All Vendors
Suffolk
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
307 245 274
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Suffolk 44.30% 43.67% 43.84%
Number of salaries quoted 292 209 241
Average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +7.14%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,700 £27,500 £23,500
10% offered a salary of more than £45,000 £57,500 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
Red Hat
East of England

Red Hat
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Suffolk 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 Suffolk region.

Suffolk Red Hat Salary Trend

Red Hat
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Suffolk 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 31 (100.00%) Linux
2 30 (96.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 28 (90.32%) VoIP
4 16 (51.61%) Windows
5 15 (48.39%) SQL Server
5 15 (48.39%) Open Source
6 14 (45.16%) Network Architecture
7 13 (41.94%) IP Telephony
8 7 (22.58%) Cloud Computing
8 7 (22.58%) MySQL
9 6 (19.35%) ITIL
10 5 (16.13%) MS Exchange
10 5 (16.13%) TCP/IP
10 5 (16.13%) Active Directory
11 4 (12.90%) Microsoft
11 4 (12.90%) Microsoft Certification
11 4 (12.90%) LAN
11 4 (12.90%) MS Excel
11 4 (12.90%) Firewall
11 4 (12.90%) CentOS
12 3 (9.677%) Bash shell
12 3 (9.677%) Windows Server 2008
12 3 (9.677%) Finance
12 3 (9.677%) VMware
12 3 (9.677%) Computer Science
12 3 (9.677%) VMware Infrastructure
12 3 (9.677%) Degree
12 3 (9.677%) Python
12 3 (9.677%) Windows 2000
12 3 (9.677%) Perl

Red Hat
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Suffolk 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 2 (6.452%) LAMP
2 1 (3.226%) JSON
2 1 (3.226%) Web Services
2 1 (3.226%) .NET
Application Platforms
1 5 (16.13%) MS Exchange
2 2 (6.452%) IIS
2 2 (6.452%) Apache
3 1 (3.226%) Amazon AWS
Applications
1 4 (12.90%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 28 (90.32%) VoIP
2 13 (41.94%) IP Telephony
3 5 (16.13%) TCP/IP
4 4 (12.90%) LAN
4 4 (12.90%) Firewall
5 3 (9.677%) DNS
5 3 (9.677%) DHCP
6 2 (6.452%) Ethernet
6 2 (6.452%) WAN
7 1 (3.226%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (48.39%) SQL Server
2 7 (22.58%) MySQL
General
1 3 (9.677%) Finance
Job Titles
1 15 (48.39%) Systems Engineer
2 13 (41.94%) Network Engineer
3 9 (29.03%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (6.452%) Linux Administrator
4 2 (6.452%) Linux Systems Administrator
4 2 (6.452%) Systems Administrator
4 2 (6.452%) Administrator
5 1 (3.226%) Graduate Systems Engineer
5 1 (3.226%) Infrastructure Consultant
5 1 (3.226%) Implementation Consultant
5 1 (3.226%) Infrastructure Architect
5 1 (3.226%) Graduate
5 1 (3.226%) Architect
5 1 (3.226%) Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 15 (48.39%) Open Source
2 7 (22.58%) Cloud Computing
3 3 (9.677%) Computer Science
4 2 (6.452%) SaaS
Operating Systems
1 31 (100.00%) Linux
2 30 (96.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 16 (51.61%) Windows
4 4 (12.90%) CentOS
5 3 (9.677%) Windows Server 2008
5 3 (9.677%) Windows 2000
6 2 (6.452%) Ubuntu
6 2 (6.452%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (45.16%) Network Architecture
2 6 (19.35%) ITIL
3 2 (6.452%) Load Balancing
4 1 (3.226%) Service Management
4 1 (3.226%) Agile Software Development
4 1 (3.226%) TOGAF
4 1 (3.226%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (9.677%) Bash shell
1 3 (9.677%) Python
1 3 (9.677%) Perl
2 2 (6.452%) PHP
3 1 (3.226%) Ruby
3 1 (3.226%) PowerShell
3 1 (3.226%) C#
3 1 (3.226%) Java
Qualifications
1 4 (12.90%) Microsoft Certification
2 3 (9.677%) Degree
3 1 (3.226%) CCSA
3 1 (3.226%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 1 (3.226%) MCTS
3 1 (3.226%) MCP
3 1 (3.226%) RHCE
3 1 (3.226%) CCNP
3 1 (3.226%) CCNA
3 1 (3.226%) Cisco Certification
System Software
1 5 (16.13%) Active Directory
2 3 (9.677%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (6.452%) VMware ESX
4 1 (3.226%) Hyper-V
4 1 (3.226%) XenServer
Systems Management
1 1 (3.226%) Puppet
Vendors
1 4 (12.90%) Microsoft
2 3 (9.677%) VMware
3 2 (6.452%) JBoss
4 1 (3.226%) Cisco
4 1 (3.226%) CheckPoint
4 1 (3.226%) Citrix