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The table 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 3 July 2009 with a comparison to the same period last year. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Operating Systems category.

LinkRed Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
Location
3 months to
3 Jul 2009
Same period last year
Rank479721
Rank change on the same period last yearUp+242
Matching permanent IT job ads147228
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK0.216 %0.114 %
As % of the Operating Systems category0.890 %0.462 %
Salaries quoted130202
Average salary£42,500£42,000
Average salary % change on the same period last year+1.190 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£32,500£32,500
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£60,000£50,000
UK excluding London average salary£35,000£40,000
% change on same period last year-12.50 %
IT Job Market, Operating SystemsAll Operating Systems
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
1652649348
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK24.27 %24.74 %
Salaries quoted1394041154
Average salary£35,000£35,000
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£22,500£22,500
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£60,000£60,000
UK excluding London average salary£32,500£32,500

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Demand Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 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 3 July 2009 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 3 July 2009. 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+253141£45,000+5.88 %
LondonUp+24378£52,500+23.52 %
South WestUp+12628£32,500-7.14 %
BristolUp+6525£35,000-12.50 %
City of LondonUp+12423£52,500+23.52 %
South EastUp+14613£43,750-2.77 %
SurreyUp+10410£45,000+28.57 %
West MidlandsUp+7110£35,000-10.82 %
WarwickshireUp+5010£35,000-18.60 %
Leamington SpaUp+289£35,000-6.66 %
YorkshireUp+1136£38,750-3.12 %
West YorkshireUp+925£40,000-
ScotlandUp+745£32,500+30.00 %
GuildfordUp+305£42,500+21.42 %
GlasgowNew entry-4£32,500-
RugbyNew entry-3£35,000-
WarwickNew entry-3£35,000-
CoventryNew entry-3£35,000-
North WestUp+1222£38,750+47.93 %
East of EnglandUp+782£28,500-36.66 %
HertfordshireUp+582£28,500-36.66 %
BuckinghamshireUp+392£37,500-16.66 %
SomersetUp+352£27,500-21.42 %
Docklands, LondonUp+302£51,250-14.58 %
BathNew entry-2£27,500-
WakefieldNew entry-2£40,000-
SwindonNew entry-2£27,500-
Milton KeynesNew entry-2£37,500-
WiltshireNew entry-2£27,500-
CheshireNew entry-2£38,750-

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 3 July 2009, 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.

1311 (100.00 %)Red Hat Linux
2288 (92.60 %)Linux
3282 (90.68 %)Red Hat
4164 (52.73 %)UNIX
5127 (40.84 %)Solaris
6105 (33.76 %)SAN
7103 (33.12 %)Apache
893 (29.90 %)Finance
980 (25.72 %)HP
1077 (24.76 %)Shell Script
1176 (24.44 %)Java
1176 (24.44 %)Perl
1275 (24.12 %)MySQL
1275 (24.12 %)Sun
1371 (22.83 %)Windows
1467 (21.54 %)Veritas
1566 (21.22 %)Tomcat
1656 (18.01 %)DNS
1755 (17.68 %)Cisco
1854 (17.36 %)Oracle
1952 (16.72 %)TCP/IP
2044 (14.15 %)Subversion
2141 (13.18 %)NFS
2141 (13.18 %)Degree
2239 (12.54 %)JBoss
2338 (12.22 %)Windows Server 2003
2436 (11.58 %)NetApp
2534 (10.93 %)VMware
2633 (10.61 %)IBM
2633 (10.61 %)SQL Server

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 3 July 2009, 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 DevelopmentApplication Development
125 (8.039 %)Hibernate
221 (6.752 %)Spring
318 (5.788 %)WebServices
410 (3.215 %)J2EE
59 (2.894 %)HTML
68 (2.572 %)Java EE
76 (1.929 %)LAMP
85 (1.608 %)CSS
85 (1.608 %)JSP
85 (1.608 %)Servlets
94 (1.286 %)XML
94 (1.286 %).NET
94 (1.286 %)AJAX
103 (0.965 %)Flash
103 (0.965 %)JSF
112 (0.643 %)JMX
112 (0.643 %)Lucene
112 (0.643 %)CGI
112 (0.643 %)STL
112 (0.643 %)Adobe Flex
IT Job Market, Application PlatformsApplication Platforms
1103 (33.12 %)Apache
266 (21.22 %)Tomcat
326 (8.360 %)WebLogic
48 (2.572 %)iPlanet
48 (2.572 %)MS Exchange
57 (2.251 %)Exchange Server 2003
57 (2.251 %)IIS
66 (1.929 %)SharePoint
75 (1.608 %)Lotus Notes
75 (1.608 %)Lotus Domino
84 (1.286 %)SharePoint Server 2007
84 (1.286 %)Exchange Server 2007
92 (0.643 %)Oracle Workflow
92 (0.643 %)Alfresco
92 (0.643 %)SharePoint Portal Server
92 (0.643 %)Oracle Application Server
101 (0.322 %)Exchange Server 2000
IT Job Market, ApplicationsApplications
17 (2.251 %)MS Excel
21 (0.322 %)MS Office
IT Job Market, Business ApplicationsBusiness Applications
11 (0.322 %)RMDS
IT Job Market, Communications & NetworkingCommunications & Networking
1105 (33.76 %)SAN
256 (18.01 %)DNS
352 (16.72 %)TCP/IP
427 (8.682 %)LDAP
427 (8.682 %)DHCP
427 (8.682 %)Firewall
427 (8.682 %)VLAN
513 (4.180 %)iSCSI
513 (4.180 %)WAN
612 (3.859 %)LAN
710 (3.215 %)VPN
88 (2.572 %)FTP
88 (2.572 %)Internet
96 (1.929 %)SSH
104 (1.286 %)IP Telephony
104 (1.286 %)HTTP
104 (1.286 %)SMTP
104 (1.286 %)Cisco IPT
113 (0.965 %)Cisco PIX
113 (0.965 %)Ethernet
IT Job Market, Database & Business IntelligenceDatabase & Business Intelligence
175 (24.12 %)MySQL
233 (10.61 %)SQL Server
311 (3.537 %)PostgreSQL
47 (2.251 %)SQL Server 2005
47 (2.251 %)Oracle 8/8i
56 (1.929 %)RDBMS
65 (1.608 %)SQL Server 2008
73 (0.965 %)Oracle 10g
82 (0.643 %)SQL Server 2000
82 (0.643 %)DB2
82 (0.643 %)Oracle 11g
91 (0.322 %)SQL Server Integration Services
91 (0.322 %)DTS
91 (0.322 %)Oracle 9i
91 (0.322 %)Crystal Reports
IT Job Market, Development ApplicationsDevelopment Applications
144 (14.15 %)Subversion
223 (7.395 %)Eclipse
316 (5.145 %)JIRA
49 (2.894 %)Ant
53 (0.965 %)Bugzilla
62 (0.643 %)JUnit
71 (0.322 %)FitNesse
71 (0.322 %)Git (software)
IT Job Market, GeneralGeneral
193 (29.90 %)Finance
216 (5.145 %)Games
313 (4.180 %)Banking
411 (3.537 %)Health
58 (2.572 %)Telecoms
58 (2.572 %)Insurance
66 (1.929 %)Online Games
75 (1.608 %)Investment Banking
75 (1.608 %)Front Office
84 (1.286 %)Back Office
84 (1.286 %)Financial Institution
93 (0.965 %)Auditing
93 (0.965 %)Pensions
93 (0.965 %)Online Gambling
93 (0.965 %)Publishing
101 (0.322 %)Construction
101 (0.322 %)3D Graphics
IT Job Market, Job TitlesJob Titles
1158 (50.80 %)Administrator
2116 (37.30 %)Systems Administrator
368 (21.86 %)Linux Administrator
450 (16.08 %)UNIX Administrator
543 (13.83 %)UNIX Systems Administrator
638 (12.22 %)Linux Systems Administrator
729 (9.325 %)Developer
826 (8.360 %)Java Developer
922 (7.074 %)Analyst
1019 (6.109 %)Support Engineer
1019 (6.109 %)Applications Support
1019 (6.109 %)Linux Engineer
1116 (5.145 %)Systems Engineer
1215 (4.823 %)Infrastructure Engineer
1314 (4.502 %)Linux Support
1411 (3.537 %)Technical Support
1510 (3.215 %)Storage Administrator
1510 (3.215 %)Solaris Systems Administrator
1510 (3.215 %)Solaris Administrator
169 (2.894 %)UNIX Engineer
IT Job Market, MiscellaneousMiscellaneous
127 (8.682 %)Clustering
213 (4.180 %)Firmware
38 (2.572 %)Derivative
47 (2.251 %)Computer Science
56 (1.929 %)Replication
65 (1.608 %)Mathematics
74 (1.286 %)Equities
74 (1.286 %)Credit Derivative
82 (0.643 %)IVR
82 (0.643 %)HACMP
82 (0.643 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
82 (0.643 %)Multithreading
91 (0.322 %)IPTV
91 (0.322 %)Spread Betting
91 (0.322 %)CLARiiON
91 (0.322 %)DTV
IT Job Market, Operating SystemsOperating Systems
1311 (100.00 %)Red Hat Linux
2288 (92.60 %)Linux
3164 (52.73 %)UNIX
4127 (40.84 %)Solaris
571 (22.83 %)Windows
638 (12.22 %)Windows Server 2003
725 (8.039 %)AIX
817 (5.466 %)HPUX
915 (4.823 %)SUSE
915 (4.823 %)CentOS
109 (2.894 %)Windows 2000 Server
117 (2.251 %)Windows Server 2008
117 (2.251 %)Fedora
125 (1.608 %)Windows XP
125 (1.608 %)Debian
134 (1.286 %)Ubuntu
143 (0.965 %)Windows Vista
152 (0.643 %)Mac OS X
152 (0.643 %)Windows NT
161 (0.322 %)Windows 2000
IT Job Market, Processes & MethodologiesProcesses & Methodologies
128 (9.003 %)SOA
217 (5.466 %)ITIL
313 (4.180 %)E-Commerce
49 (2.894 %)Load Balancing
49 (2.894 %)Web Development
55 (1.608 %)Agile Software Development
55 (1.608 %)TDD
55 (1.608 %)Scrum
64 (1.286 %)Project Management
64 (1.286 %)Migration
64 (1.286 %)Performance Management
73 (0.965 %)Fault Management
73 (0.965 %)Data Management
73 (0.965 %)Service Delivery
82 (0.643 %)Workflow
82 (0.643 %)Content Management
82 (0.643 %)OO
82 (0.643 %)Data Modelling
82 (0.643 %)Continuous Integration
82 (0.643 %)Computer Security
IT Job Market, Programming LanguagesProgramming Languages
177 (24.76 %)Shell Script
276 (24.44 %)Java
276 (24.44 %)Perl
333 (10.61 %)Korn
428 (9.003 %)SQL
522 (7.074 %)PHP
618 (5.788 %)Python
712 (3.859 %)C
87 (2.251 %)JavaScript
95 (1.608 %)VB
103 (0.965 %)ActionScript
103 (0.965 %)C#
112 (0.643 %)Tcl
112 (0.643 %)C++
112 (0.643 %)PL/SQL
112 (0.643 %)VBScript
112 (0.643 %)PowerShell
IT Job Market, QualificationsQualifications
141 (13.18 %)Degree
219 (6.109 %)RHCE
36 (1.929 %)Cisco Certification
36 (1.929 %)Microsoft Certification
45 (1.608 %)CCNP
45 (1.608 %)CCNA
54 (1.286 %)MCSE
61 (0.322 %)SCJA
61 (0.322 %)Security Cleared
61 (0.322 %)MCSA
61 (0.322 %)SCJP
IT Job Market, Quality Assurance & ComplianceQuality Assurance & Compliance
19 (2.894 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
21 (0.322 %)SLA
IT Job Market, System SoftwareSystem Software
141 (13.18 %)NFS
233 (10.61 %)Veritas Volume Manager
325 (8.039 %)Xen
418 (5.788 %)NetBackup
517 (5.466 %)VMware Infrastructure
614 (4.502 %)Veritas Cluster Server
710 (3.215 %)Sendmail
89 (2.894 %)Samba
98 (2.572 %)Active Directory
105 (1.608 %)Squid
113 (0.965 %)VMware ESX
122 (0.643 %)Backup Exec
122 (0.643 %)Oracle RMAN
122 (0.643 %)ISA Server
122 (0.643 %)Postfix
122 (0.643 %)Oracle RAC
131 (0.322 %)Snort
IT Job Market, Systems ManagementSystems Management
121 (6.752 %)OpenView
27 (2.251 %)Tivoli Storage Manager
36 (1.929 %)Nagios
45 (1.608 %)Legato
52 (0.643 %)MOM
52 (0.643 %)Systems Management Server (SMS)
52 (0.643 %)Tivoli
52 (0.643 %)SCCM
52 (0.643 %)SCOM
52 (0.643 %)Data Guard
61 (0.322 %)Cacti
61 (0.322 %)Zenoss
61 (0.322 %)Nessus
IT Job Market, VendorsVendors
1282 (90.68 %)Red Hat
280 (25.72 %)HP
375 (24.12 %)Sun
467 (21.54 %)Veritas
555 (17.68 %)Cisco
654 (17.36 %)Oracle
739 (12.54 %)JBoss
836 (11.58 %)NetApp
934 (10.93 %)VMware
1033 (10.61 %)IBM
1124 (7.717 %)EMC
1220 (6.431 %)Intel
1313 (4.180 %)Nokia
1412 (3.859 %)CheckPoint
1511 (3.537 %)Microsoft
1610 (3.215 %)Hitachi
1610 (3.215 %)Brocade
179 (2.894 %)Dell
187 (2.251 %)Symantec
196 (1.929 %)Citrix