Rackspace Jobs
 
Demand Trend Salary Trend Salary Histogram Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Rackspace products and/or services in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Rackspace over the 3 months to 20 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 currently tracked.

The figures below represent the IT job market in general and are NOT representative of salaries within Rackspace.

Location
 3 months to
20 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Rackspace
Rank 705 871 845
Rank change year-on-year
+166 -26
Permanent jobs citing Rackspace 155 41 19
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 0.144% 0.034% 0.016%
As % of the Vendors category 0.300% 0.071% 0.033%
Number of salaries quoted 122 39 18
Average salary £55,000 £45,000 £45,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+22.22% -
90% offered a salary of more than £37,500 £32,500 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £64,500 £67,500 £75,000
UK excluding London average salary £42,500 £65,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year
-34.61% -13.33%
All Vendors
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category		 51691 57760 57071
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 48.15% 47.70% 46.89%
Number of salaries quoted 42248 48678 47341
Average salary £45,000 £45,000 £45,000
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £28,500 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000

Rackspace
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Rackspace Jobs Demand Trend

Rackspace
Salary Trend

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

Rackspace Salary Trend

Rackspace
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Rackspace over the 3 months to 20 May 2013 within the UK.

Rackspace Salary Histogram

Rackspace
Top 23 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Rackspace within the UK over the 3 months to 20 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 +139 153 £55,000 +22.22%
London +127 121 £55,000 +22.22%
South East +39 30 £40,000 -
City of London +15 10 £55,000 -8.33%
Berkshire - 10 £52,500 -
Surrey - 8 £45,000 -
Reading - 7 - -
Middlesex - 7 - -
East Sussex - 6 £37,500 -
Brighton - 6 £37,500 -
Feltham - 5 £57,000 -
Farnham - 2 £40,000 -
North West +4 1 £31,500 -51.53%
Buckinghamshire +1 1 £52,500 -
East of England - 1 £52,500 -
Scotland - 1 £45,000 -
Hertfordshire - 1 £52,500 -
Cheshire - 1 £31,500 -
Twickenham - 1 £57,500 -
Slough - 1 £40,000 -
Hounslow - 1 - -
Hayes - 1 - -
Glasgow - 1 £45,000 -

Rackspace
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK citing Rackspace 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 Rackspace.

1 168 (69.42%) Linux
2 118 (48.76%) PHP
3 117 (48.35%) Apache
4 115 (47.52%) Ruby
5 112 (46.28%) Java
6 111 (45.87%) MySQL
7 105 (43.39%) NoSQL
8 96 (39.67%) Web Services
9 83 (34.30%) Python
10 81 (33.47%) UNIX
11 79 (32.64%) Amazon AWS
12 74 (30.58%) SQL
13 65 (26.86%) Puppet
14 61 (25.21%) Windows Azure
15 55 (22.73%) OO
16 54 (22.31%) Red Hat
16 54 (22.31%) TDD
17 51 (21.07%) DNS
17 51 (21.07%) OOP
17 51 (21.07%) Oracle
18 50 (20.66%) XML
18 50 (20.66%) RabbitMQ
19 49 (20.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
20 48 (19.83%) Hadoop
21 46 (19.01%) Amazon EC2
22 45 (18.60%) Ruby on Rails
22 45 (18.60%) Digital Media
23 44 (18.18%) Bash shell
24 43 (17.77%) Big Data
25 42 (17.36%) Rackspace Cloud

Rackspace
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 96 (39.67%) Web Services
2 50 (20.66%) XML
3 45 (18.60%) Ruby on Rails
4 39 (16.12%) J2EE
5 34 (14.05%) Memcached
6 32 (13.22%) CSS
7 30 (12.40%) Node.js
8 27 (11.16%) Django
8 27 (11.16%) HTML
8 27 (11.16%) XSD
9 25 (10.33%) HTML5
10 21 (8.678%) jQuery
11 19 (7.851%) XSLT
12 15 (6.198%) Lucene
13 14 (5.785%) WebSphere
13 14 (5.785%) Apache Flex
13 14 (5.785%) WebCenter
14 13 (5.372%) REST
14 13 (5.372%) .NET
15 10 (4.132%) LAMP
Application Platforms
1 117 (48.35%) Apache
2 79 (32.64%) Amazon AWS
3 61 (25.21%) Windows Azure
4 50 (20.66%) RabbitMQ
5 46 (19.01%) Amazon EC2
6 42 (17.36%) Rackspace Cloud
7 41 (16.94%) Tomcat
8 19 (7.851%) Drupal
9 18 (7.438%) nginx
10 15 (6.198%) Adobe CQ
10 15 (6.198%) Apache Solr
10 15 (6.198%) WordPress
11 14 (5.785%) Alfresco
11 14 (5.785%) SharePoint Server
11 14 (5.785%) Joomla!
11 14 (5.785%) SharePoint
11 14 (5.785%) WebLogic
11 14 (5.785%) WebLogic Portal
11 14 (5.785%) Liferay
12 13 (5.372%) MS Exchange
Applications
1 14 (5.785%) MS Office
2 4 (1.653%) MS Excel
2 4 (1.653%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.413%) Google Apps
Business Applications
1 14 (5.785%) Google Analytics
1 14 (5.785%) SiteCatalyst
Communications & Networking
1 51 (21.07%) DNS
2 30 (12.40%) SSH
3 15 (6.198%) Firewall
4 13 (5.372%) FTP
5 12 (4.959%) VPN
6 11 (4.545%) Internet
7 10 (4.132%) TCP/IP
7 10 (4.132%) HTTP
8 8 (3.306%) SSL
9 7 (2.893%) DHCP
10 5 (2.066%) Intranet
10 5 (2.066%) SMTP
10 5 (2.066%) LDAP
10 5 (2.066%) NAS
11 4 (1.653%) LAN
11 4 (1.653%) WAN
11 4 (1.653%) Kerberos
11 4 (1.653%) SAN
12 3 (1.240%) RTP
12 3 (1.240%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 111 (45.87%) MySQL
2 105 (43.39%) NoSQL
3 48 (19.83%) Hadoop
4 43 (17.77%) Big Data
5 39 (16.12%) Redis
6 37 (15.29%) MongoDB
7 17 (7.025%) SQL Server
8 11 (4.545%) Apache Cassandra
9 7 (2.893%) PostgreSQL
10 6 (2.479%) RDBMS
11 4 (1.653%) SQL Server 2012
12 2 (0.826%) Riak
12 2 (0.826%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 2 (0.826%) Jackrabbit
12 2 (0.826%) CouchDB
12 2 (0.826%) Oracle 8/8i
13 1 (0.413%) Data Warehouse
13 1 (0.413%) Oracle Reports
13 1 (0.413%) Hazelcast
13 1 (0.413%) OrientDB
Development Applications
1 39 (16.12%) Git (software)
2 32 (13.22%) Subversion
3 21 (8.678%) Jenkins
4 15 (6.198%) Maven
5 11 (4.545%) JIRA
6 8 (3.306%) Hudson
7 5 (2.066%) Mercurial
7 5 (2.066%) Trac
8 3 (1.240%) Selenium
8 3 (1.240%) Eclipse
9 2 (0.826%) IntelliJ
9 2 (0.826%) CruiseControl
9 2 (0.826%) Visual Studio
9 2 (0.826%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 2 (0.826%) RSpec
9 2 (0.826%) FishEye
9 2 (0.826%) GitHub
9 2 (0.826%) Capybara
9 2 (0.826%) Capistrano
10 1 (0.413%) PHPUnit
General
1 11 (4.545%) Marketing
2 8 (3.306%) Finance
3 6 (2.479%) Telecoms
3 6 (2.479%) Retail
4 5 (2.066%) Advertising
4 5 (2.066%) Games
5 3 (1.240%) Japanese Language
Job Titles
1 46 (19.01%) Administrator
2 35 (14.46%) Systems Administrator
3 31 (12.81%) Developer
4 30 (12.40%) Technical Leader
5 29 (11.98%) Linux Administrator
6 24 (9.917%) Linux Systems Administrator
7 23 (9.504%) Architect
8 19 (7.851%) Team Leader
8 19 (7.851%) DevOps Engineer
9 17 (7.025%) Lead Architect
10 15 (6.198%) Web Developer
11 13 (5.372%) Systems Engineer
12 11 (4.545%) PHP Developer
13 9 (3.719%) UNIX Team Leader
13 9 (3.719%) UNIX Administrator
14 7 (2.893%) Systems Manager
14 7 (2.893%) Linux Engineer
14 7 (2.893%) Senior Linux Administrator
14 7 (2.893%) Senior Systems Administrator
15 6 (2.479%) IT Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 45 (18.60%) Digital Media
2 14 (5.785%) iPhone
2 14 (5.785%) iPad
3 10 (4.132%) SaaS
3 10 (4.132%) Mobile App
4 9 (3.719%) Open Source
4 9 (3.719%) New Media
4 9 (3.719%) PaaS
4 9 (3.719%) Computer Science
5 8 (3.306%) Heroku
5 8 (3.306%) Cloud Computing
6 7 (2.893%) Replication
7 6 (2.479%) Clustering
7 6 (2.479%) Social Media
8 5 (2.066%) Wiki
8 5 (2.066%) Blog
8 5 (2.066%) Social Network
9 4 (1.653%) IaaS
10 3 (1.240%) Online Games
10 3 (1.240%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 168 (69.42%) Linux
2 81 (33.47%) UNIX
3 49 (20.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 36 (14.88%) Solaris
5 30 (12.40%) Windows
6 27 (11.16%) SUSE
7 17 (7.025%) Ubuntu
7 17 (7.025%) Windows 7
8 15 (6.198%) Android
9 14 (5.785%) Apple iOS
10 13 (5.372%) Debian
11 12 (4.959%) Windows XP
12 10 (4.132%) CentOS
13 8 (3.306%) Windows Server 2008
14 5 (2.066%) VMS
14 5 (2.066%) Fedora
15 4 (1.653%) Mac OS X
15 4 (1.653%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (22.73%) OO
2 54 (22.31%) TDD
3 51 (21.07%) OOP
4 40 (16.53%) Scrum
5 39 (16.12%) Agile Software Development
6 38 (15.70%) Continuous Integration
7 27 (11.16%) MVC
8 22 (9.091%) User Stories
9 21 (8.678%) SEO
9 21 (8.678%) ITIL
10 16 (6.612%) Content Management
10 16 (6.612%) Knowledge Management
10 16 (6.612%) Analytics
11 15 (6.198%) Performance Testing
11 15 (6.198%) Service Management
12 14 (5.785%) Web Analytics
13 13 (5.372%) Configuration Management
13 13 (5.372%) E-Commerce
14 11 (4.545%) Project Management
14 11 (4.545%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 118 (48.76%) PHP
2 115 (47.52%) Ruby
3 112 (46.28%) Java
4 83 (34.30%) Python
5 74 (30.58%) SQL
6 44 (18.18%) Bash shell
7 37 (15.29%) Perl
8 33 (13.64%) JavaScript
9 32 (13.22%) Shell Script
10 30 (12.40%) C#
11 4 (1.653%) C++
12 3 (1.240%) C
13 2 (0.826%) VB.NET
13 2 (0.826%) CoffeeScript
13 2 (0.826%) Groovy
13 2 (0.826%) PowerShell
14 1 (0.413%) Scala
14 1 (0.413%) PHP5
Qualifications
1 6 (2.479%) Degree
2 5 (2.066%) RHCE
3 4 (1.653%) ITIL Certification
3 4 (1.653%) RHCA
3 4 (1.653%) LPIC
4 3 (1.240%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 2 (0.826%) MCTS
6 1 (0.413%) MCITP
6 1 (0.413%) MCSE
6 1 (0.413%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.413%) RHCT
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (2.479%) SLA
1 6 (2.479%) QA
2 2 (0.826%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 27 (11.16%) Sendmail
2 24 (9.917%) Samba
3 22 (9.091%) NFS
4 21 (8.678%) VMware Infrastructure
5 12 (4.959%) Active Directory
6 8 (3.306%) qmail
6 8 (3.306%) Postfix
7 6 (2.479%) Hyper-V
7 6 (2.479%) Xen
8 4 (1.653%) Varnish
9 2 (0.826%) XenApp
9 2 (0.826%) VMware ESX
10 1 (0.413%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 65 (26.86%) Puppet
2 22 (9.091%) ZABBIX
3 20 (8.264%) Nagios
4 9 (3.719%) CFEngine
5 5 (2.066%) SCCM
6 3 (1.240%) OpenView
7 2 (0.826%) WSUS
8 1 (0.413%) Ganglia
8 1 (0.413%) Zenoss
8 1 (0.413%) Splunk
Vendors
1 54 (22.31%) Red Hat
2 51 (21.07%) Oracle
3 33 (13.64%) Microsoft
4 26 (10.74%) Sun
5 24 (9.917%) VMware
6 21 (8.678%) StorageTek
7 20 (8.264%) Google
8 15 (6.198%) Omniture
8 15 (6.198%) Isilon
8 15 (6.198%) NetApp
8 15 (6.198%) Adobe
9 14 (5.785%) IBM
9 14 (5.785%) Open Text
9 14 (5.785%) Joyent
9 14 (5.785%) Sitecore
10 12 (4.959%) Zend
10 12 (4.959%) JBoss
11 10 (4.132%) Akamai
12 7 (2.893%) hybris
12 7 (2.893%) ATG
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