The first part of the table below looks at the demand for Red Hat Enterprise Linux skills in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Red Hat Enterprise Linux over the 3 months to 22 May 2012 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Operating Systems category.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
Location
3 months to
22 May 2012
Same period 2011Same period 2010
Rank225245268
Rank change year-on-year
Up+20Up+23
Matching permanent IT job ads13641172753
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK1.131 %0.956 %0.789 %
As % of the Operating Systems category4.234 %3.839 %3.229 %
Number of salaries quoted1161944601
Average salary£45,000£42,500£45,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+5.88 %-5.55 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£32,500£29,100£29,400
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£65,450£66,200£65,000
UK excluding London average salary£42,500£40,000£38,000
% change year-on-year
+6.25 %+5.26 %
IT Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryAll Operating Systems
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
322193052723318
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK26.72 %24.90 %24.42 %
Number of salaries quoted276442574319496
Average salary£40,000£40,000£40,000
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£25,000£24,500£23,500
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£62,500£67,500£65,000
UK excluding London average salary£37,500£35,000£35,000
% change year-on-year
+7.14 %-

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Demand Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Operating Systems category.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Demand Trend

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux within the UK.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Salary Trend

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux over the 3 months to 22 May 2012 within the UK.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Salary Histogram

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Top 30 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 UK over the 3 months to 22 May 2012. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

LocationRank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
EnglandUp+91312£45,000+5.88 %
LondonUp+29663£47,500-
South EastUp+39347£45,000+5.88 %
City of LondonUp+76178£50,000-4.76 %
SurreyUp+13128£50,000+7.52 %
BerkshireUp+2399£45,000+16.12 %
East of EnglandDown-1779£40,000-15.78 %
South WestUp+966£45,000+12.50 %
StainesUp+2265£55,000+13.98 %
North WestUp+861£35,000+6.06 %
YorkshireDown-4353£38,125+1.66 %
HampshireDown-949£35,000-12.50 %
East SussexUp+2542£40,000+73.91 %
BrightonUp+2040£40,000+73.91 %
ScotlandUp+436£43,500+11.53 %
ReadingUp+136£39,000+0.64 %
West YorkshireDown-4536£39,500+5.33 %
ManchesterUp+934£36,000+63.63 %
CambridgeshireUp+1533£40,000+3.89 %
GloucestershireUp+730£50,000+33.33 %
EssexDown-1528£35,000-39.13 %
CambridgeUp+1424£40,000+14.28 %
GloucesterNew entry-24£50,000-
CheltenhamDown-423£50,000+33.33 %
LeedsDown-2923£46,250+42.30 %
StroudNew entry-23£50,000-
TewkesburyNew entry-23£50,000-
CheshireUp+620£35,000+8.52 %
East MidlandsDown-420£42,500+2.40 %
EdinburghUp+2518£60,000+179.06 %

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2012, IT jobs within the UK 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.

12719 (98.23 %)Linux
22400 (86.71 %)Red Hat
31242 (44.87 %)UNIX
41222 (44.15 %)Windows
51024 (36.99 %)Apache
6996 (35.98 %)Oracle
7822 (29.70 %)VMware
8711 (25.69 %)Perl
9640 (23.12 %)Solaris
10616 (22.25 %)SQL
11604 (21.82 %)SAN
12597 (21.57 %)Finance
13581 (20.99 %)MySQL
14537 (19.40 %)Tomcat
15525 (18.97 %)TCP/IP
16477 (17.23 %)Cisco
17474 (17.12 %)Java
18443 (16.00 %)DNS
19434 (15.68 %)SQL Server
20431 (15.57 %)VMware Infrastructure
21424 (15.32 %)Shell Script
22420 (15.17 %)Microsoft
23418 (15.10 %)HP
24393 (14.20 %)Windows Server 2003
25391 (14.13 %)JBoss
26389 (14.05 %)PHP
27379 (13.69 %)Windows Server 2008
27379 (13.69 %)CentOS
28357 (12.90 %)Active Directory
29341 (12.32 %)ITIL

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2012, IT jobs within the UK 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.

IT Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
1236 (8.526 %)WebSphere
2219 (7.912 %)Web Services
3180 (6.503 %)J2EE
4172 (6.214 %)Middleware
5171 (6.178 %)LAMP
6150 (5.419 %)HTML
7136 (4.913 %).NET
8101 (3.649 %)XML
971 (2.565 %)SOAP
1068 (2.457 %)CSS
1162 (2.240 %)Ruby on Rails
1253 (1.915 %)Servlets
1337 (1.337 %)Java EE
1436 (1.301 %)ASP
1534 (1.228 %)jQuery
1631 (1.120 %)Spring
1727 (0.975 %)XSLT
1825 (0.903 %)REST
1923 (0.831 %)JMS
1923 (0.831 %)Ajax
IT Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
11024 (36.99 %)Apache
2537 (19.40 %)Tomcat
3288 (10.40 %)WebLogic
4264 (9.538 %)IIS
5121 (4.371 %)Oracle Coherence
6114 (4.118 %)MS Exchange
789 (3.215 %)WebSphere MQ
883 (2.999 %)SharePoint
959 (2.132 %)GlassFish
1057 (2.059 %)ESB
1155 (1.987 %)nginx
1252 (1.879 %)Amazon AWS
1347 (1.698 %)Amazon EC2
1442 (1.517 %)Exchange Server 2010
1442 (1.517 %)WebSphere Application Server
1540 (1.445 %)Exchange Server 2003
1638 (1.373 %)CMS
1728 (1.012 %)Exchange Server 2007
1728 (1.012 %)MQSeries
1728 (1.012 %)Oracle SOA Suite
IT Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
1142 (5.130 %)MS Excel
243 (1.553 %)MS Visio
323 (0.831 %)MS Office
413 (0.470 %)Google Apps
53 (0.108 %)MS PowerPoint
62 (0.072 %)Photoshop
62 (0.072 %)MS Project
IT Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
126 (0.939 %)RMDS
220 (0.723 %)Oracle BPM
311 (0.397 %)Oracle EBS
311 (0.397 %)Oracle Applications
46 (0.217 %)3000 Xtra
54 (0.145 %)Oracle Financials
62 (0.072 %)FLEXCUBE
62 (0.072 %)BusinessWorks
62 (0.072 %)Oracle EBS R12
71 (0.036 %)Oracle 11i
71 (0.036 %)Sword FircoSoft
IT Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
1604 (21.82 %)SAN
2525 (18.97 %)TCP/IP
3443 (16.00 %)DNS
4299 (10.80 %)Firewall
5249 (8.996 %)HTTP
6243 (8.779 %)LDAP
7220 (7.948 %)Internet
8184 (6.647 %)DHCP
9163 (5.889 %)SSL
10156 (5.636 %)NAS
1196 (3.468 %)VPN
1294 (3.396 %)LAN
1390 (3.251 %)DMZ
1482 (2.962 %)WAN
1482 (2.962 %)FTP
1569 (2.493 %)SSH
1660 (2.168 %)SMTP
1756 (2.023 %)BGP
1855 (1.987 %)iSCSI
1949 (1.770 %)VLAN
IT Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
1581 (20.99 %)MySQL
2434 (15.68 %)SQL Server
3124 (4.480 %)Oracle 11g
4117 (4.227 %)Oracle 10g
593 (3.360 %)RDBMS
687 (3.143 %)Oracle 8/8i
764 (2.312 %)PostgreSQL
856 (2.023 %)DB2
953 (1.915 %)SQL Server 2008
1052 (1.879 %)SQL Server 2005
1134 (1.228 %)Oracle 9i
1233 (1.192 %)MongoDB
1329 (1.048 %)NoSQL
1424 (0.867 %)Data Warehouse
1518 (0.650 %)Oracle Reports
1615 (0.542 %)Informix
1714 (0.506 %)SQL Server 2000
1813 (0.470 %)OLTP
1813 (0.470 %)Oracle BI EE
1912 (0.434 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
IT Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
1151 (5.455 %)Subversion
290 (3.251 %)Git (software)
353 (1.915 %)Eclipse
446 (1.662 %)JIRA
539 (1.409 %)Ant
621 (0.759 %)Hudson
718 (0.650 %)NetBeans
816 (0.578 %)Maven
816 (0.578 %)PHPUnit
915 (0.542 %)VSS/SourceSafe
1011 (0.397 %)Selenium
1011 (0.397 %)Team Foundation Server
1011 (0.397 %)Cucumber
1110 (0.361 %)JUnit
128 (0.289 %)JDeveloper
128 (0.289 %)TeamCity
137 (0.253 %)ProC
137 (0.253 %)Visual Studio
137 (0.253 %)JBuilder
137 (0.253 %)Mercurial
IT Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
1597 (21.57 %)Finance
2172 (6.214 %)Banking
3109 (3.938 %)Retail
4104 (3.757 %)Telecoms
578 (2.818 %)Games
665 (2.348 %)Back Office
756 (2.023 %)Investment Banking
824 (0.867 %)Marketing
824 (0.867 %)French Language
923 (0.831 %)German Language
1020 (0.723 %)Spanish Language
1119 (0.686 %)Italian Language
1215 (0.542 %)Publishing
1314 (0.506 %)Music
1412 (0.434 %)Manufacturing
1511 (0.397 %)Law
1610 (0.361 %)Legal
1610 (0.361 %)Front Office
178 (0.289 %)Electronics
186 (0.217 %)Financial Institution
IT Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
1931 (33.63 %)Administrator
2802 (28.97 %)Systems Administrator
3562 (20.30 %)Linux Administrator
4482 (17.41 %)Linux Systems Administrator
5291 (10.51 %)Analyst
6214 (7.731 %)Linux Engineer
7185 (6.684 %)Architect
8157 (5.672 %)Support Engineer
9152 (5.491 %)UNIX Administrator
10141 (5.094 %)Developer
11134 (4.841 %)Systems Engineer
12132 (4.769 %)UNIX Engineer
13127 (4.588 %)UNIX Systems Administrator
14125 (4.516 %)Infrastructure Engineer
15117 (4.227 %)Support Analyst
16116 (4.191 %)Applications Support
16116 (4.191 %)Senior Systems Administrator
1787 (3.143 %)DBA
1876 (2.746 %)Middleware Engineer
1971 (2.565 %)Senior Linux Administrator
IT Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
1263 (9.501 %)Clustering
2198 (7.153 %)Open Source
3128 (4.624 %)Replication
491 (3.288 %)Enterprise Storage
585 (3.071 %)PKI
664 (2.312 %)SaaS
664 (2.312 %)Computer Science
763 (2.276 %)CLARiiON
860 (2.168 %)Online Games
959 (2.132 %)Cloud Computing
1051 (1.842 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
1150 (1.806 %)Management Information System
1249 (1.770 %)Social Network
1337 (1.337 %)N-Tier
1434 (1.228 %)Digital Media
1527 (0.975 %)Derivative
1625 (0.903 %)Spread Betting
1625 (0.903 %)HP StorageWorks
1724 (0.867 %)Client/Server
1823 (0.831 %)Firmware
IT Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
12719 (98.23 %)Linux
21242 (44.87 %)UNIX
31222 (44.15 %)Windows
4640 (23.12 %)Solaris
5393 (14.20 %)Windows Server 2003
6379 (13.69 %)Windows Server 2008
6379 (13.69 %)CentOS
7224 (8.092 %)HPUX
8197 (7.117 %)AIX
9189 (6.828 %)Debian
10143 (5.166 %)Ubuntu
11109 (3.938 %)SUSE
1249 (1.770 %)Windows 7
1342 (1.517 %)Windows XP
1432 (1.156 %)Oracle Linux
1521 (0.759 %)Windows 2000 Server
1620 (0.723 %)Fedora
1718 (0.650 %)VMS
1816 (0.578 %)Android
1915 (0.542 %)Apple iOS
IT Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
1341 (12.32 %)ITIL
2300 (10.84 %)E-Commerce
3164 (5.925 %)Configuration Management
4143 (5.166 %)Disaster Recovery
5133 (4.805 %)Load Balancing
6128 (4.624 %)Service Delivery
7121 (4.371 %)Change Management
8115 (4.155 %)Project Management
9100 (3.613 %)Capacity Planning
1094 (3.396 %)Agile Software Development
1178 (2.818 %)Root Cause Analysis
1276 (2.746 %)Change Control
1371 (2.565 %)Release Management
1466 (2.384 %)Service Management
1563 (2.276 %)Migration
1661 (2.204 %)Scrum
1759 (2.132 %)Problem Management
1759 (2.132 %)Capacity Management
1854 (1.951 %)Incident Management
1854 (1.951 %)SOA
IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
1711 (25.69 %)Perl
2616 (22.25 %)SQL
3474 (17.12 %)Java
4424 (15.32 %)Shell Script
5389 (14.05 %)PHP
6341 (12.32 %)Bash shell
7311 (11.24 %)Python
8216 (7.803 %)Ruby
9159 (5.744 %)C
10105 (3.793 %)JavaScript
1183 (2.999 %)PL/SQL
1279 (2.854 %)Korn
1377 (2.782 %)AWK
1472 (2.601 %)C++
1555 (1.987 %)PowerShell
1637 (1.337 %)PHP5
1731 (1.120 %)C#
1826 (0.939 %)XPath
1916 (0.578 %)T-SQL
2015 (0.542 %)VB
IT Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
1215 (7.767 %)Degree
2186 (6.720 %)RHCE
3128 (4.624 %)Security Cleared
4103 (3.721 %)Cisco Certification
596 (3.468 %)CCNA
690 (3.251 %)Microsoft Certification
783 (2.999 %)RHCT
875 (2.710 %)VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
971 (2.565 %)MCSE
1063 (2.276 %)DV Cleared
1143 (1.553 %)SC Cleared
1240 (1.445 %)MCP
1337 (1.337 %)CCNP
1434 (1.228 %)MCSA
1523 (0.831 %)RHCA
1622 (0.795 %)CISSP
1622 (0.795 %)CCIP
1719 (0.686 %)JNCIA
1719 (0.686 %)JNCIS
1719 (0.686 %)MCITP
IT Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
187 (3.143 %)SLA
234 (1.228 %)QA
315 (0.542 %)ISO/IEC 27001
413 (0.470 %)PCI DSS
54 (0.145 %)COBIT
62 (0.072 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
62 (0.072 %)ISO 9001
IT Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
1431 (15.57 %)VMware Infrastructure
2357 (12.90 %)Active Directory
3255 (9.212 %)vSphere
4221 (7.984 %)VMware ESX
5138 (4.986 %)NFS
685 (3.071 %)VMware ESXi
784 (3.035 %)Veritas Cluster Server
877 (2.782 %)Samba
960 (2.168 %)Postfix
1058 (2.095 %)Xen
1137 (1.337 %)Oracle RAC
1137 (1.337 %)Sendmail
1235 (1.264 %)Hyper-V
1329 (1.048 %)Squid
1428 (1.012 %)Veritas Volume Manager
1527 (0.975 %)XenApp
1626 (0.939 %)Varnish
1626 (0.939 %)Oracle RMAN
1716 (0.578 %)Microsoft Virtual Server
1716 (0.578 %)Citrix Presentation Server
IT Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
1258 (9.321 %)Nagios
2257 (9.285 %)Puppet
3141 (5.094 %)NetBackup
495 (3.432 %)Oracle Enterprise Manager
564 (2.312 %)Tivoli Storage Manager
663 (2.276 %)Tivoli
754 (1.951 %)Backup Exec
853 (1.915 %)ZABBIX
948 (1.734 %)Red Hat Satellite
1046 (1.662 %)vCenter
1139 (1.409 %)Cacti
1238 (1.373 %)WSUS
1238 (1.373 %)HP SIM
1333 (1.192 %)Munin
1430 (1.084 %)Nessus
1430 (1.084 %)BMC PATROL
1528 (1.012 %)Veritas Storage Foundation
1625 (0.903 %)Ganglia
1724 (0.867 %)SCCM
1724 (0.867 %)Data Guard
IT Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
12400 (86.71 %)Red Hat
2996 (35.98 %)Oracle
3822 (29.70 %)VMware
4477 (17.23 %)Cisco
5420 (15.17 %)Microsoft
6418 (15.10 %)HP
7391 (14.13 %)JBoss
8299 (10.80 %)Sun
9207 (7.478 %)EMC
10197 (7.117 %)Veritas
11193 (6.973 %)IBM
12191 (6.900 %)NetApp
13125 (4.516 %)Citrix
1488 (3.179 %)Symantec
1578 (2.818 %)Juniper
1676 (2.746 %)Dell
1772 (2.601 %)Intel
1863 (2.276 %)BMC
1947 (1.698 %)F5
2045 (1.626 %)Brocade