Permanent IT Jobs Contract IT Jobs

The first part of the table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Red Hat 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 Red Hat over the 3 months to 18 March 2010 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 Vendors currently tracked.

LinkRed Hat
Location
3 months to
18 Mar 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank203192214
Rank change year-on-year
Down-11Up+22
Matching permanent IT job ads8298691835
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK0.969 %1.023 %0.900 %
As % of the Vendors category2.367 %2.417 %2.009 %
Salaries quoted7027281501
Average salary£41,000£41,500£40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-1.200 %+3.750 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£28,818£27,500£28,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£57,500£60,000£57,500
UK excluding London average salary£36,000£35,000£35,000
% change year-on-year
+2.850 %-
IT Job Market, Vendors CategoryAll Vendors
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
350293596091327
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK40.95 %42.35 %44.78 %
Salaries quoted280982901173396
Average salary£42,500£40,000£40,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.250 %-1.230 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£26,500£25,000£25,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£70,000£65,000£66,000
UK excluding London average salary£40,000£37,500£37,500
% change year-on-year
+6.660 %-

These figures represent the IT job market and are NOT representative of employment within Red Hat, Inc.

Red Hat
Demand Trend

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

Red Hat Demand Trend

Red Hat
Salary Trend

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

Red Hat Salary Trend

Red Hat
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Red Hat over the 3 months to 18 March 2010 within the UK.

Red Hat Salary Histogram

Red Hat
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 within the UK over the 3 months to 18 March 2010. 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
EnglandDown-14815£41,000-3.52 %
LondonDown-42368£50,000+5.82 %
South EastUp+72260£38,000-5.00 %
City of LondonDown-5995£45,000-10.00 %
South WestUp+2567£35,000+2.94 %
SurreyUp+5457£35,500+1.42 %
East of EnglandDown-4852£35,000-22.22 %
BerkshireDown-1342£40,000-11.11 %
CambridgeshireUp+2441£35,000+12.90 %
CambridgeUp+1735£34,000+9.67 %
HampshireUp+2331£39,000+8.33 %
BristolUp+2529£34,500+20.00 %
Home CountiesNew entry-28£42,500-
ReadingUp+1027£40,000-11.11 %
West MidlandsUp+626£37,500+7.14 %
Docklands, LondonDown-323£50,000-23.07 %
East SussexUp+2122£38,000-10.58 %
MiddlesexUp+2621£50,000+25.00 %
BrightonUp+2321£38,000-10.58 %
BuckinghamshireUp+221£20,000-15.78 %
Milton KeynesUp+920£20,000-11.11 %
SomersetUp+1516£35,000+7.69 %
East MidlandsUp+415£32,500+18.18 %
OxfordshireUp+414£27,500-
GuildfordUp+3913£35,500+1.42 %
EastleighUp+313£35,000-
BathUp+2511£35,000+7.69 %
BirminghamUp+2311£47,500+26.66 %
OxfordUp+1411£27,500-
West SussexUp+1011£40,000+70.21 %

Red Hat
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 March 2010, IT jobs within the UK citing Red Hat 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.

11446 (92.46 %)Red Hat Linux
21443 (92.26 %)Linux
3711 (45.46 %)UNIX
4492 (31.46 %)Windows
5423 (27.05 %)Solaris
6356 (22.76 %)MySQL
7345 (22.06 %)Apache
8343 (21.93 %)Perl
9310 (19.82 %)Finance
10300 (19.18 %)VMware
11297 (18.99 %)Oracle
12285 (18.22 %)TCP/IP
13276 (17.65 %)SAN
14250 (15.98 %)Shell Script
15233 (14.90 %)Java
16224 (14.32 %)PHP
17217 (13.87 %)SQL
18205 (13.11 %)Cisco
19203 (12.98 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
20189 (12.08 %)Bash shell
20189 (12.08 %)Windows Server 2003
21188 (12.02 %)CentOS
22185 (11.83 %)JBoss
23177 (11.32 %)DNS
23177 (11.32 %)Tomcat
24168 (10.74 %)SQL Server
24168 (10.74 %)Active Directory
25161 (10.29 %)AIX
26154 (9.847 %)Clustering
27146 (9.335 %)Firewall

Red Hat
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 March 2010, IT jobs within the UK citing Red Hat 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. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

IT Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
1102 (6.522 %)J2EE
295 (6.074 %)HTML
389 (5.691 %)XML
463 (4.028 %)LAMP
557 (3.645 %)CSS
654 (3.453 %)WebSphere
744 (2.813 %)Web Services
842 (2.685 %)Middleware
842 (2.685 %)Spring
938 (2.430 %)JSP
1034 (2.174 %)Hibernate
1131 (1.982 %)AJAX
1229 (1.854 %)ASP
1229 (1.854 %)XSLT
1325 (1.598 %).NET
1421 (1.343 %)Struts
1520 (1.279 %)SOAP
1615 (0.959 %)Servlets
1714 (0.895 %)XSD
1813 (0.831 %)JMS
IT Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
1345 (22.06 %)Apache
2177 (11.32 %)Tomcat
384 (5.371 %)WebLogic
482 (5.243 %)IIS
558 (3.708 %)MS Exchange
634 (2.174 %)Exchange Server 2003
634 (2.174 %)WebSphere Application Server
733 (2.110 %)SharePoint
831 (1.982 %)AquaLogic
929 (1.854 %)Exchange Server 2007
1025 (1.598 %)Blackberry Enterprise Server
1120 (1.279 %)ColdFusion
1213 (0.831 %)Oracle Application Server
1311 (0.703 %)Resin
147 (0.448 %)CMS
147 (0.448 %)WebLogic Portal
147 (0.448 %)Confluence
156 (0.384 %)Jetty
156 (0.384 %)WordPress
156 (0.384 %)SharePoint Server 2007
IT Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
151 (3.261 %)MS Excel
232 (2.046 %)MS Visio
232 (2.046 %)MS Office
36 (0.384 %)MS PowerPoint
44 (0.256 %)Photoshop
53 (0.192 %)ImageReady
61 (0.064 %)Fireworks
IT Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
17 (0.448 %)RMDS
25 (0.320 %)Oracle EBS
34 (0.256 %)Oracle 11i
43 (0.192 %)Oracle EBS R12
51 (0.064 %)Oracle Applications
51 (0.064 %)WebTrends
51 (0.064 %)GL Clearvision
51 (0.064 %)Oracle General Ledger
51 (0.064 %)SalesLogix
IT Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
1285 (18.22 %)TCP/IP
2276 (17.65 %)SAN
3177 (11.32 %)DNS
4146 (9.335 %)Firewall
5141 (9.015 %)Internet
699 (6.330 %)DHCP
791 (5.818 %)NAS
873 (4.668 %)VoIP
968 (4.348 %)SNMP
1059 (3.772 %)HTTP
1142 (2.685 %)LDAP
1241 (2.621 %)FTP
1338 (2.430 %)SMTP
1433 (2.110 %)SSL
1433 (2.110 %)LAN
1529 (1.854 %)WAN
1529 (1.854 %)VPN
1623 (1.471 %)iSCSI
1720 (1.279 %)SSH
1817 (1.087 %)MPLS
IT Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
1356 (22.76 %)MySQL
2168 (10.74 %)SQL Server
363 (4.028 %)Oracle 10g
462 (3.964 %)RDBMS
536 (2.302 %)Oracle 11g
633 (2.110 %)Oracle 9i
732 (2.046 %)Oracle 8/8i
831 (1.982 %)SQL Server 2005
929 (1.854 %)PostgreSQL
1028 (1.790 %)Informix
1124 (1.535 %)SQL Server 2008
1220 (1.279 %)SQL Server 2000
1316 (1.023 %)DB2
1412 (0.767 %)TOAD
1511 (0.703 %)Oracle Discoverer
1610 (0.639 %)Oracle OWB
179 (0.575 %)BusinessObjects
188 (0.512 %)Datawarehouse
188 (0.512 %)ETL
196 (0.384 %)Oracle Reports
IT Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
164 (4.092 %)Subversion
244 (2.813 %)JIRA
327 (1.726 %)Ant
327 (1.726 %)Eclipse
417 (1.087 %)Maven
512 (0.767 %)WebLOAD
68 (0.512 %)ERwin
76 (0.384 %)JUnit
84 (0.256 %)Oracle Forms
93 (0.192 %)ClearCase
102 (0.128 %)WATIR
102 (0.128 %)Oracle APEX
102 (0.128 %)Optimizeit
111 (0.064 %)CruiseControl
111 (0.064 %)Bugzilla
111 (0.064 %)Dreamweaver
111 (0.064 %)WebSpeed
111 (0.064 %)Git (software)
111 (0.064 %)FitNesse
111 (0.064 %)Selenium
IT Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
1310 (19.82 %)Finance
2102 (6.522 %)Banking
344 (2.813 %)Telecoms
440 (2.558 %)Retail
440 (2.558 %)Education
538 (2.430 %)Investment Banking
633 (2.110 %)Government
732 (2.046 %)Financial Institution
830 (1.918 %)Pensions
924 (1.535 %)Games
1021 (1.343 %)Health
1115 (0.959 %)Insurance
1211 (0.703 %)Manufacturing
139 (0.575 %)Front Office
139 (0.575 %)Back Office
148 (0.512 %)Publishing
157 (0.448 %)Online Games
166 (0.384 %)Social Media
166 (0.384 %)Advertising
166 (0.384 %)Construction
IT Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
1578 (36.96 %)Administrator
2490 (31.33 %)Systems Administrator
3400 (25.58 %)Linux Administrator
4341 (21.80 %)Linux Systems Administrator
5146 (9.335 %)UNIX Administrator
6138 (8.824 %)UNIX Systems Administrator
7137 (8.760 %)Analyst
8121 (7.737 %)Linux Engineer
9104 (6.650 %)Developer
1096 (6.138 %)Systems Engineer
1179 (5.051 %)DBA
1276 (4.859 %)Support Engineer
1366 (4.220 %)Linux Support
1460 (3.836 %)Infrastructure Engineer
1559 (3.772 %)Systems Analyst
1650 (3.197 %)Architect
1748 (3.069 %)Senior Systems Administrator
1748 (3.069 %)Senior Linux Administrator
1841 (2.621 %)Oracle DBA
1938 (2.430 %)Support Analyst
IT Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
1154 (9.847 %)Clustering
270 (4.476 %)Open Source
330 (1.918 %)Computer Science
423 (1.471 %)AS400
521 (1.343 %)N-Tier
521 (1.343 %)Client/Server
618 (1.151 %)Replication
715 (0.959 %)SaaS
814 (0.895 %)HACMP
913 (0.831 %)Symmetrix
913 (0.831 %)Equities
913 (0.831 %)Blackberry
913 (0.831 %)Derivative
1010 (0.639 %)Fat Client
1010 (0.639 %)Thin Client
119 (0.575 %)Cloud Computing
119 (0.575 %)Semantic Web
119 (0.575 %)Web 2.0
128 (0.512 %)LPAR
137 (0.448 %)CLARiiON
IT Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
11446 (92.46 %)Red Hat Linux
21443 (92.26 %)Linux
3711 (45.46 %)UNIX
4492 (31.46 %)Windows
5423 (27.05 %)Solaris
6203 (12.98 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7189 (12.08 %)Windows Server 2003
8188 (12.02 %)CentOS
9161 (10.29 %)AIX
10134 (8.568 %)Debian
11114 (7.289 %)SUSE
12113 (7.225 %)HPUX
13105 (6.714 %)Ubuntu
1484 (5.371 %)Windows Server 2008
1551 (3.261 %)Fedora
1636 (2.302 %)Windows XP
1730 (1.918 %)Windows 2000 Server
1825 (1.598 %)Windows 2000
1916 (1.023 %)Gentoo
2010 (0.639 %)Windows Vista
IT Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
197 (6.202 %)ITIL
275 (4.795 %)E-Commerce
360 (3.836 %)Incident Management
456 (3.581 %)Load Balancing
555 (3.517 %)Disaster Recovery
646 (2.941 %)Problem Management
742 (2.685 %)Change Management
838 (2.430 %)Load Testing
937 (2.366 %)Project Management
1034 (2.174 %)Configuration Management
1133 (2.110 %)SOA
1231 (1.982 %)Performance Management
1330 (1.918 %)Systems Analysis
1428 (1.790 %)Scrum
1428 (1.790 %)Migration
1428 (1.790 %)OO
1527 (1.726 %)Investment Management
1624 (1.535 %)Risk Management
1723 (1.471 %)Capacity Planning
1822 (1.407 %)Continuous Integration
IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
1343 (21.93 %)Perl
2250 (15.98 %)Shell Script
3233 (14.90 %)Java
4224 (14.32 %)PHP
5217 (13.87 %)SQL
6189 (12.08 %)Bash shell
7106 (6.777 %)Python
898 (6.266 %)C
986 (5.499 %)JavaScript
1047 (3.005 %)Korn
1142 (2.685 %)Ruby
1231 (1.982 %)PL/SQL
1329 (1.854 %)Bourne shell
1427 (1.726 %)VB
1525 (1.598 %)C++
1622 (1.407 %)PHP5
1715 (0.959 %)AWK
1813 (0.831 %)VBScript
1912 (0.767 %)PHP4
2010 (0.639 %)SPARQL
IT Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
1137 (8.760 %)Degree
2108 (6.905 %)Cisco Certification
3105 (6.714 %)RHCE
4101 (6.458 %)CCNA
575 (4.795 %)Microsoft Certification
661 (3.900 %)MCSE
760 (3.836 %)Security Cleared
851 (3.261 %)CCNP
947 (3.005 %)RHCT
1028 (1.790 %)SC Cleared
1123 (1.471 %)MCP
1219 (1.215 %)DV Cleared
1313 (0.831 %)MCSA
1411 (0.703 %)ITIL Certification
158 (0.512 %)Sun Certification
166 (0.384 %)Oracle Certification
166 (0.384 %)EMC Certification
166 (0.384 %)CCIP
175 (0.320 %)PhD
175 (0.320 %)MCITP
IT Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
140 (2.558 %)SLA
235 (2.238 %)QA
31 (0.064 %)PCI DSS
31 (0.064 %)ISO/IEC 20000
IT Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
1168 (10.74 %)Active Directory
298 (6.266 %)VMware Infrastructure
369 (4.412 %)VMware ESX
464 (4.092 %)NFS
556 (3.581 %)Veritas Volume Manager
641 (2.621 %)Sendmail
738 (2.430 %)Xen
833 (2.110 %)Oracle RAC
932 (2.046 %)Samba
1029 (1.854 %)Veritas Cluster Server
1125 (1.598 %)Oracle RMAN
1125 (1.598 %)Veritas File System
1222 (1.407 %)Postfix
1318 (1.151 %)Cronacle
148 (0.512 %)Squid
148 (0.512 %)ISA Server
157 (0.448 %)XenServer
163 (0.192 %)qmail
163 (0.192 %)SRDF
163 (0.192 %)vSphere
IT Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
187 (5.563 %)Nagios
240 (2.558 %)NetBackup
330 (1.918 %)Tivoli
428 (1.790 %)Data Guard
521 (1.343 %)OpenView
620 (1.279 %)Zenoss
718 (1.151 %)Backup Exec
815 (0.959 %)BMC PATROL
910 (0.639 %)Oracle Enterprise Manager
109 (0.575 %)CONTROL-M
118 (0.512 %)Munin
127 (0.448 %)Norton AntiVirus
127 (0.448 %)WSUS
136 (0.384 %)Ganglia
136 (0.384 %)EMC Navisphere
145 (0.320 %)Legato
145 (0.320 %)Cacti
145 (0.320 %)EMC NetWorker
153 (0.192 %)Tivoli Storage Manager
153 (0.192 %)Sun Identity Manager
IT Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
1300 (19.18 %)VMware
2297 (18.99 %)Oracle
3205 (13.11 %)Cisco
4185 (11.83 %)JBoss
5135 (8.632 %)HP
6131 (8.376 %)Microsoft
7126 (8.056 %)Veritas
8115 (7.353 %)Sun
9112 (7.161 %)IBM
1071 (4.540 %)EMC
1158 (3.708 %)NetApp
1251 (3.261 %)Citrix
1339 (2.494 %)Sybase
1432 (2.046 %)Reuters
1432 (2.046 %)Bloomberg
1524 (1.535 %)Dell
1524 (1.535 %)BMC
1621 (1.343 %)Juniper
1621 (1.343 %)Compaq
1621 (1.343 %)BladeLogic