Permanent IT Jobs Contract IT Jobs

The table looks at the demand for Red Hat 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 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 Linux
Location
3 months to
3 Jul 2009
Same period last year
Rank176227
Rank change on the same period last yearUp+51
Matching permanent IT job ads7601605
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK1.116 %0.805 %
As % of the Operating Systems category4.599 %3.252 %
Salaries quoted6511334
Average salary£40,000£42,500
Average salary % change on the same period last year-5.880 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£30,000£29,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£57,500£60,000
UK excluding London average salary£35,000£37,750
% change on same period last year-7.280 %
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 Linux
Demand Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing Red Hat Linux within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Operating Systems category.

Red Hat Linux Demand Trend

Red Hat Linux
Salary Trend

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

Red Hat Linux Salary Trend

Red Hat Linux
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Red Hat Linux over the 3 months to 3 July 2009 within the UK.

Red Hat Linux Salary Histogram

Red Hat 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 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+53737£40,000-5.88 %
LondonUp+25333£50,000+5.26 %
South EastUp+48174£40,000+0.62 %
City of LondonUp+1984£52,500+10.52 %
East of EnglandUp+6161£35,000-12.50 %
South WestUp+12057£32,500-7.14 %
West MidlandsUp+7851£35,000-6.66 %
BerkshireUp+9147£38,500-3.75 %
YorkshireUp+7945£35,000-
HertfordshireUp+7744£32,500-26.96 %
BristolUp+6942£32,500+3.17 %
HampshireUp+8039£42,500+12.58 %
SurreyUp+5732£40,000+3.89 %
WarwickshireUp+6424£35,000-18.60 %
East YorkshireUp+624£35,000-22.22 %
HullUp+1122£40,000-11.11 %
MiddlesexUp+5221£42,500+8.97 %
ReadingUp+3419£42,500+8.97 %
BirminghamUp+6318£35,000-4.10 %
OxfordshireUp+5316£36,500-14.11 %
North YorkshireUp+3516£35,000-
KnaresboroughDown-415£35,000-
ScotlandUp+6713£37,250+24.16 %
HarrogateUp+2113£35,000-
North WestUp+9011£31,500+26.00 %
FarehamNew entry-11--
KentUp+3110£25,000-13.04 %
OxfordUp+489£35,000-17.64 %
Leamington SpaUp+289£35,000-6.66 %
ManchesterUp+738£31,500+40.00 %

Red Hat Linux
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 3 July 2009, IT jobs within the UK citing Red Hat 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 Linux.

11614 (98.59 %)Linux
21608 (98.23 %)Red Hat
3891 (54.43 %)UNIX
4544 (33.23 %)Solaris
5536 (32.74 %)Apache
6490 (29.93 %)Windows
7469 (28.65 %)MySQL
8441 (26.94 %)Perl
9392 (23.95 %)Oracle
10326 (19.91 %)DNS
11316 (19.30 %)Shell Script
12311 (19.00 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13307 (18.75 %)Java
14284 (17.35 %)SAN
15276 (16.86 %)TCP/IP
16269 (16.43 %)Finance
17253 (15.46 %)Tomcat
18244 (14.91 %)HP
19240 (14.66 %)SQL
20234 (14.29 %)Cisco
21229 (13.99 %)SQL Server
22224 (13.68 %)Windows Server 2003
23222 (13.56 %)VMware
24187 (11.42 %)Sun
25176 (10.75 %)PHP
26175 (10.69 %)JBoss
27169 (10.32 %)AIX
28164 (10.02 %)Internet
29161 (9.835 %)SUSE
30153 (9.346 %)Microsoft

Red Hat Linux
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 3 July 2009, IT jobs within the UK citing Red Hat 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 Linux. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

IT Job Market, Application DevelopmentApplication Development
1152 (9.285 %)J2EE
284 (5.131 %)WebSphere
379 (4.826 %)Middleware
449 (2.993 %)LAMP
449 (2.993 %)XML
537 (2.260 %)HTML
634 (2.077 %)WebServices
729 (1.772 %)JMS
828 (1.710 %)Hibernate
828 (1.710 %)Spring
926 (1.588 %)AJAX
1022 (1.344 %)XSLT
1119 (1.161 %).NET
1218 (1.100 %)EJB
1317 (1.038 %)SOAP
1414 (0.855 %)DHTML
1414 (0.855 %)CSS
1512 (0.733 %)J2SE
1512 (0.733 %)Flash
1610 (0.611 %)JDBC
IT Job Market, Application PlatformsApplication Platforms
1536 (32.74 %)Apache
2253 (15.46 %)Tomcat
397 (5.925 %)WebLogic
487 (5.315 %)MS Exchange
576 (4.643 %)WebSphere Application Server
671 (4.337 %)IIS
744 (2.688 %)WebSphere Portal
843 (2.627 %)Exchange Server 2003
930 (1.833 %)Exchange Server 2007
1016 (0.977 %)SharePoint
1016 (0.977 %)Oracle HTTP Server
1114 (0.855 %)Oracle Application Server
1212 (0.733 %)Lotus Notes
1212 (0.733 %)Lotus Domino
1310 (0.611 %)SharePoint Server 2007
148 (0.489 %)iPlanet
156 (0.367 %)CMS
156 (0.367 %)Flash Media Server
165 (0.305 %)Drupal
165 (0.305 %)nginx
IT Job Market, ApplicationsApplications
161 (3.726 %)MS Excel
218 (1.100 %)MS Office
35 (0.305 %)Photoshop
43 (0.183 %)Doxygen
43 (0.183 %)MATLAB
43 (0.183 %)S-PLUS
52 (0.122 %)MS Visio
52 (0.122 %)MS Project
61 (0.061 %)ImageReady
61 (0.061 %)Fireworks
IT Job Market, Business ApplicationsBusiness Applications
115 (0.916 %)RMDS
28 (0.489 %)Oracle 11i
35 (0.305 %)Dynamics AX
35 (0.305 %)Oracle Applications
41 (0.061 %)Oracle Financials
41 (0.061 %)Summit
IT Job Market, Communications & NetworkingCommunications & Networking
1326 (19.91 %)DNS
2284 (17.35 %)SAN
3276 (16.86 %)TCP/IP
4164 (10.02 %)Internet
5133 (8.125 %)Firewall
6104 (6.353 %)SMTP
780 (4.887 %)VPN
874 (4.520 %)LAN
973 (4.459 %)WAN
1062 (3.787 %)DHCP
1161 (3.726 %)LDAP
1260 (3.665 %)NAS
1359 (3.604 %)FTP
1455 (3.360 %)SSH
1553 (3.238 %)HTTP
1641 (2.505 %)SSL
1641 (2.505 %)VLAN
1732 (1.955 %)Cisco PIX
1827 (1.649 %)IMAP
1926 (1.588 %)Cisco ASA
IT Job Market, Database & Business IntelligenceDatabase & Business Intelligence
1469 (28.65 %)MySQL
2229 (13.99 %)SQL Server
3104 (6.353 %)RDBMS
481 (4.948 %)DB2
579 (4.826 %)Oracle 10g
676 (4.643 %)Oracle 8/8i
745 (2.749 %)PostgreSQL
838 (2.321 %)Oracle Reports
932 (1.955 %)SQL Server 2005
1025 (1.527 %)SQL Server 2000
1121 (1.283 %)Oracle 11g
1219 (1.161 %)Oracle 9i
1311 (0.672 %)SQL Server 2008
148 (0.489 %)Informix
157 (0.428 %)Datawarehouse
166 (0.367 %)Oracle Discoverer
174 (0.244 %)BusinessObjects
174 (0.244 %)OLTP
174 (0.244 %)ETL
174 (0.244 %)Microsoft Analysis Services
IT Job Market, Development ApplicationsDevelopment Applications
171 (4.337 %)Subversion
237 (2.260 %)Ant
329 (1.772 %)Eclipse
422 (1.344 %)JIRA
55 (0.305 %)CruiseControl
63 (0.183 %)WATIR
63 (0.183 %)CppUnit
63 (0.183 %)Visual Studio
63 (0.183 %)Rational Rose
63 (0.183 %)ClearCase
63 (0.183 %)ClearQuest
63 (0.183 %)Bugzilla
72 (0.122 %)JUnit
72 (0.122 %)WebLOAD
81 (0.061 %)FitNesse
81 (0.061 %)Git (software)
81 (0.061 %)Dreamweaver
81 (0.061 %)IntelliJ
IT Job Market, GeneralGeneral
1269 (16.43 %)Finance
287 (5.315 %)Banking
348 (2.932 %)Health
445 (2.749 %)Telecoms
538 (2.321 %)Retail
636 (2.199 %)Financial Institution
636 (2.199 %)Games
731 (1.894 %)Investment Banking
828 (1.710 %)Pensions
926 (1.588 %)Insurance
1024 (1.466 %)Education
1119 (1.161 %)Front Office
1213 (0.794 %)Online Games
1312 (0.733 %)Back Office
1312 (0.733 %)Marketing
1410 (0.611 %)Publishing
158 (0.489 %)Government
167 (0.428 %)Auditing
175 (0.305 %)Online Gambling
175 (0.305 %)Multimedia
IT Job Market, Job TitlesJob Titles
1732 (44.72 %)Administrator
2522 (31.89 %)Systems Administrator
3385 (23.52 %)Linux Administrator
4288 (17.59 %)Linux Systems Administrator
5221 (13.50 %)UNIX Administrator
6180 (11.00 %)UNIX Systems Administrator
7173 (10.57 %)Analyst
8119 (7.269 %)Linux Engineer
9101 (6.170 %)Support Analyst
1097 (5.925 %)Applications Support
1191 (5.559 %)Developer
1284 (5.131 %)Support Engineer
1380 (4.887 %)Systems Engineer
1464 (3.910 %)Linux Support
1552 (3.177 %)DBA
1647 (2.871 %)WebSphere Administrator
1743 (2.627 %)Architect
1842 (2.566 %)Support Specialist
1940 (2.443 %)Java Developer
2036 (2.199 %)Senior WebSphere Administrator
IT Job Market, MiscellaneousMiscellaneous
1106 (6.475 %)Clustering
228 (1.710 %)HACMP
322 (1.344 %)Replication
421 (1.283 %)Computer Science
520 (1.222 %)Management Information System
616 (0.977 %)Mathematics
714 (0.855 %)Firmware
813 (0.794 %)German Language
813 (0.794 %)Derivative
813 (0.794 %)Symmetrix
911 (0.672 %)French Language
911 (0.672 %)Client/Server
911 (0.672 %)Equities
1010 (0.611 %)iSeries
118 (0.489 %)Spanish Language
118 (0.489 %)Italian Language
118 (0.489 %)Dutch Language
126 (0.367 %)CLARiiON
126 (0.367 %)Blackberry
135 (0.305 %)Multithreading
IT Job Market, Operating SystemsOperating Systems
11614 (98.59 %)Linux
2891 (54.43 %)UNIX
3544 (33.23 %)Solaris
4490 (29.93 %)Windows
5311 (19.00 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6224 (13.68 %)Windows Server 2003
7169 (10.32 %)AIX
8161 (9.835 %)SUSE
9131 (8.002 %)Debian
10109 (6.659 %)CentOS
11101 (6.170 %)HPUX
1279 (4.826 %)Ubuntu
1365 (3.971 %)Windows XP
1365 (3.971 %)Windows 2000
1462 (3.787 %)Fedora
1549 (2.993 %)Windows 2000 Server
1646 (2.810 %)Windows Server 2008
1718 (1.100 %)FreeBSD
1718 (1.100 %)Nucleus RTOS
1816 (0.977 %)Gentoo
IT Job Market, Processes & MethodologiesProcesses & Methodologies
1148 (9.041 %)ITIL
286 (5.254 %)E-Commerce
350 (3.054 %)Disaster Recovery
437 (2.260 %)Release Management
535 (2.138 %)Service Management
634 (2.077 %)Project Management
730 (1.833 %)Load Balancing
828 (1.710 %)SOA
828 (1.710 %)Electronic Trading
927 (1.649 %)Agile Software Development
1025 (1.527 %)Configuration Management
1124 (1.466 %)Workflow
1222 (1.344 %)Service Delivery
1319 (1.161 %)Problem Management
1319 (1.161 %)B2C
1418 (1.100 %)OO
1516 (0.977 %)Content Management
1516 (0.977 %)Performance Management
1615 (0.916 %)Change Management
1714 (0.855 %)Migration
IT Job Market, Programming LanguagesProgramming Languages
1441 (26.94 %)Perl
2316 (19.30 %)Shell Script
3307 (18.75 %)Java
4240 (14.66 %)SQL
5176 (10.75 %)PHP
6108 (6.597 %)Python
757 (3.482 %)Korn
845 (2.749 %)C
944 (2.688 %)C++
1041 (2.505 %)JavaScript
1129 (1.772 %)C#
1225 (1.527 %)Ruby
1322 (1.344 %)Tcl
1417 (1.038 %)VB
1516 (0.977 %)PL/SQL
166 (0.367 %)JCL
175 (0.305 %)AWK
184 (0.244 %)VBScript
193 (0.183 %)PHP5
193 (0.183 %)ActionScript
IT Job Market, QualificationsQualifications
1131 (8.002 %)Degree
274 (4.520 %)RHCE
360 (3.665 %)Cisco Certification
454 (3.299 %)CCNA
534 (2.077 %)Security Cleared
632 (1.955 %)Microsoft Certification
730 (1.833 %)MCSE
825 (1.527 %)CCNP
923 (1.405 %)SC Cleared
1013 (0.794 %)RHCT
1111 (0.672 %)MCSA
1111 (0.672 %)ITIL Certification
129 (0.550 %)Oracle Certification
137 (0.428 %)OCP
146 (0.367 %)CISSP
154 (0.244 %)CCIE
154 (0.244 %)VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
163 (0.183 %)DV Cleared
163 (0.183 %)MCP
163 (0.183 %)ISEB
IT Job Market, Quality Assurance & ComplianceQuality Assurance & Compliance
130 (1.833 %)SLA
212 (0.733 %)QA
310 (0.611 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
41 (0.061 %)COBIT
41 (0.061 %)ISO27001
IT Job Market, System SoftwareSystem Software
1108 (6.597 %)Active Directory
2102 (6.231 %)VMware Infrastructure
390 (5.498 %)Sendmail
488 (5.376 %)NetBackup
575 (4.582 %)Postfix
667 (4.093 %)NFS
762 (3.787 %)VMware ESX
861 (3.726 %)Veritas Volume Manager
956 (3.421 %)Xen
1046 (2.810 %)Samba
1136 (2.199 %)Veritas Cluster Server
1223 (1.405 %)Squid
1223 (1.405 %)qmail
1322 (1.344 %)Oracle RMAN
1414 (0.855 %)ISA Server
1414 (0.855 %)Oracle RAC
1414 (0.855 %)Veritas File System
1513 (0.794 %)Backup Exec
1610 (0.611 %)Citrix Presentation Server
176 (0.367 %)VMware Server
IT Job Market, Systems ManagementSystems Management
164 (3.910 %)Nagios
238 (2.321 %)OpenView
325 (1.527 %)Tivoli Storage Manager
424 (1.466 %)Data Guard
519 (1.161 %)Legato
615 (0.916 %)BMC PATROL
713 (0.794 %)Tivoli
811 (0.672 %)Cacti
811 (0.672 %)Systems Management Server (SMS)
96 (0.367 %)CiscoWorks
96 (0.367 %)Oracle Enterprise Manager
96 (0.367 %)EMC NetWorker
96 (0.367 %)BMC Performance Manager
105 (0.305 %)HP Data Protector
113 (0.183 %)SCOM
113 (0.183 %)MOM
122 (0.122 %)Norton AntiVirus
122 (0.122 %)Munin
122 (0.122 %)SCCM
131 (0.061 %)Veritas Storage Foundation
IT Job Market, VendorsVendors
11608 (98.23 %)Red Hat
2392 (23.95 %)Oracle
3244 (14.91 %)HP
4234 (14.29 %)Cisco
5222 (13.56 %)VMware
6187 (11.42 %)Sun
7175 (10.69 %)JBoss
8153 (9.346 %)Microsoft
9150 (9.163 %)Veritas
10147 (8.980 %)IBM
1193 (5.681 %)NetApp
1281 (4.948 %)EMC
1343 (2.627 %)Dell
1442 (2.566 %)Citrix
1442 (2.566 %)Juniper
1541 (2.505 %)Reuters
1541 (2.505 %)CheckPoint
1640 (2.443 %)Symantec
1733 (2.016 %)Bloomberg
1827 (1.649 %)Nokia