The first table below looks at the demand for CFEngine skills in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited CFEngine 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 Systems Management category.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
CFEngine
Rank 822 881 879
Rank change year-on-year
+59 -2
Permanent jobs citing CFEngine 40 18 2
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 0.037% 0.015% 0.002%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.656% 0.315% 0.035%
Number of salaries quoted 39 16 1
Average salary £55,000 £37,500 £50,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+46.66% -25.00%
UK excluding London average salary £45,000 £35,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year
+28.57% -30.00%
All Systems Management
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Systems Management category
6101 5720 5741
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 5.645% 4.740% 4.614%
Number of salaries quoted 4727 4743 4554
Average salary £45,000 £43,750 £42,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+2.85% +2.94%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,500 £29,500 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £65,000 £61,500 £65,000
UK excluding London average salary £41,500 £40,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
+3.75% -

CFEngine
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing CFEngine within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Systems Management category.

CFEngine Jobs Demand Trend

CFEngine
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing CFEngine within the UK.

CFEngine Salary Trend

CFEngine
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing CFEngine over the 3 months to 24 May 2013 within the UK.

CFEngine Salary Histogram

CFEngine
Top 6 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing CFEngine within the UK over the 3 months to 24 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
England +48 40 £55,000 +46.66%
London +82 37 £55,000 +46.66%
Cambridgeshire +14 3 £45,000 -18.18%
East of England +5 3 £45,000 -18.18%
Peterborough - 3 £45,000 -
City of London 0 2 £50,000 +33.33%

CFEngine
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK citing CFEngine 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 CFEngine.

1 51 (92.73%) Linux
2 50 (90.91%) Puppet
3 48 (87.27%) Perl
4 45 (81.82%) Ruby
5 43 (78.18%) Bash shell
6 39 (70.91%) CentOS
7 37 (67.27%) Red Hat
8 35 (63.64%) Debian
9 28 (50.91%) MongoDB
9 28 (50.91%) NoSQL
9 28 (50.91%) Redis
10 27 (49.09%) Hadoop
10 27 (49.09%) Ubuntu
10 27 (49.09%) Shell Script
10 27 (49.09%) Python
11 26 (47.27%) PHP
11 26 (47.27%) Open Source
12 24 (43.64%) Solaris
13 22 (40.00%) Java
14 20 (36.36%) Internet
14 20 (36.36%) Apache
14 20 (36.36%) Joyent
15 19 (34.55%) Amazon AWS
15 19 (34.55%) nginx
15 19 (34.55%) Tomcat
16 18 (32.73%) Apache Cassandra
17 17 (30.91%) Subversion
17 17 (30.91%) Vertica
17 17 (30.91%) Big Data
17 17 (30.91%) sed

CFEngine
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK citing CFEngine 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 CFEngine. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 10 (18.18%) Node.js
2 9 (16.36%) Ruby on Rails
3 3 (5.455%) LAMP
4 1 (1.818%) J2EE
Application Platforms
1 20 (36.36%) Apache
2 19 (34.55%) Amazon AWS
2 19 (34.55%) nginx
2 19 (34.55%) Tomcat
3 9 (16.36%) Mule
3 9 (16.36%) ActiveMQ
4 2 (3.636%) Confluence
5 1 (1.818%) OpenStack
Communications & Networking
1 20 (36.36%) Internet
2 6 (10.91%) TCP/IP
2 6 (10.91%) DNS
3 2 (3.636%) VoIP
4 1 (1.818%) HTTP
4 1 (1.818%) Kerberos
4 1 (1.818%) LDAP
4 1 (1.818%) SAN
4 1 (1.818%) NAS
4 1 (1.818%) OpenLDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (50.91%) MongoDB
1 28 (50.91%) NoSQL
1 28 (50.91%) Redis
2 27 (49.09%) Hadoop
3 18 (32.73%) Apache Cassandra
4 17 (30.91%) Big Data
4 17 (30.91%) MySQL
5 4 (7.273%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (5.455%) RDBMS
6 3 (5.455%) SQL Server
7 1 (1.818%) DB2
7 1 (1.818%) Couchbase
7 1 (1.818%) Riak
Development Applications
1 17 (30.91%) Subversion
2 10 (18.18%) Selenium
3 9 (16.36%) Git (software)
3 9 (16.36%) Talend Open Studio
3 9 (16.36%) JMeter
4 7 (12.73%) Jenkins
5 3 (5.455%) Maven
5 3 (5.455%) GitHub
6 2 (3.636%) JIRA
7 1 (1.818%) Hudson
General
1 2 (3.636%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 34 (61.82%) Administrator
1 34 (61.82%) Systems Administrator
2 21 (38.18%) Linux Administrator
2 21 (38.18%) Linux Systems Administrator
3 14 (25.45%) Systems Engineer
4 10 (18.18%) UNIX Administrator
5 9 (16.36%) Linux Engineer
6 7 (12.73%) UNIX Systems Administrator
7 6 (10.91%) UNIX Systems Engineer
7 6 (10.91%) UNIX Engineer
8 5 (9.091%) Senior Systems Administrator
8 5 (9.091%) DevOps Engineer
9 4 (7.273%) Senior UNIX Administrator
9 4 (7.273%) Senior Systems Engineer
10 3 (5.455%) Storage Engineer
11 2 (3.636%) Junior
12 1 (1.818%) Graduate
12 1 (1.818%) Solaris Systems Administrator
12 1 (1.818%) Senior UNIX Systems Administrator
12 1 (1.818%) Solaris Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 26 (47.27%) Open Source
2 13 (23.64%) Clustering
3 10 (18.18%) Replication
3 10 (18.18%) New Media
Operating Systems
1 51 (92.73%) Linux
2 39 (70.91%) CentOS
3 35 (63.64%) Debian
4 27 (49.09%) Ubuntu
5 24 (43.64%) Solaris
6 17 (30.91%) UNIX
7 16 (29.09%) Windows
8 10 (18.18%) Windows XP
8 10 (18.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 10 (18.18%) Windows 7
9 1 (1.818%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (16.36%) Configuration Management
2 6 (10.91%) E-Commerce
3 1 (1.818%) ITIL
3 1 (1.818%) Service Management
3 1 (1.818%) High Availability
3 1 (1.818%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 48 (87.27%) Perl
2 45 (81.82%) Ruby
3 43 (78.18%) Bash shell
4 27 (49.09%) Shell Script
4 27 (49.09%) Python
5 26 (47.27%) PHP
6 22 (40.00%) Java
7 17 (30.91%) sed
7 17 (30.91%) AWK
8 10 (18.18%) JavaScript
8 10 (18.18%) SQL
8 10 (18.18%) Erlang
9 4 (7.273%) C
9 4 (7.273%) C#
Qualifications
1 6 (10.91%) Degree
1 6 (10.91%) Postgraduate
System Software
1 1 (1.818%) Xen
1 1 (1.818%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 50 (90.91%) Puppet
2 15 (27.27%) ZABBIX
3 11 (20.00%) Nagios
4 2 (3.636%) Cacti
4 2 (3.636%) Zenoss
Vendors
1 37 (67.27%) Red Hat
2 20 (36.36%) Joyent
3 17 (30.91%) Vertica
4 10 (18.18%) Percona
5 9 (16.36%) Rackspace
5 9 (16.36%) Talend
6 6 (10.91%) JBoss
7 4 (7.273%) Cisco
8 3 (5.455%) Oracle
9 2 (3.636%) VMware
9 2 (3.636%) HP
9 2 (3.636%) Dell
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