The first table below looks at the demand for RHCA in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited RHCA over the 3 months to 24 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 Qualifications currently tracked.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Red Hat Certified Architect (RHCA)
Rank 851 886 867
Rank change year-on-year
+35 -19
Permanent jobs citing RHCA 11 13 14
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 0.010% 0.011% 0.011%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.037% 0.039% 0.043%
Number of salaries quoted 6 7 11
Average salary £55,000 £49,000 £42,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+12.24% +16.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £42,500 £32,500 £29,000
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £84,100 £63,000
UK excluding London average salary £46,250 £32,500 £38,500
% change year-on-year
+42.30% -15.58%
All Qualifications
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
29882 33504 32557
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 27.65% 27.76% 26.17%
Number of salaries quoted 24050 28534 27195
Average salary £42,500 £42,500 £41,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +3.65%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £27,500 £26,000
10% offered a salary of more than £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £38,500
% change year-on-year
- +3.89%

RHCA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

RHCA Jobs Demand Trend

RHCA
Salary Trend

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

RHCA Salary Trend

RHCA
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing RHCA over the 3 months to 24 May 2013 within the UK.

RHCA Salary Histogram

RHCA
Top 8 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing RHCA within the UK over the 3 months to 24 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 +23 11 £55,000 +12.24%
South East - 5 - -
Middlesex - 5 - -
London +50 4 £60,000 -11.11%
East of England - 2 £46,250 -
Hertfordshire - 2 £46,250 -
Welwyn - 1 £42,500 -
Welwyn Garden City - 1 £50,000 -

RHCA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK citing RHCA 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 RHCA.

1 12 (85.71%) Linux
1 12 (85.71%) RHCE
1 12 (85.71%) Red Hat
2 9 (64.29%) PHP
2 9 (64.29%) MySQL
2 9 (64.29%) Apache
2 9 (64.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 6 (42.86%) DNS
3 6 (42.86%) SSL
3 6 (42.86%) FTP
4 5 (35.71%) VPN
4 5 (35.71%) Firewall
4 5 (35.71%) SSH
4 5 (35.71%) Clustering
4 5 (35.71%) qmail
4 5 (35.71%) Postfix
4 5 (35.71%) Sendmail
4 5 (35.71%) LPIC
4 5 (35.71%) Rackspace
5 4 (28.57%) Open Source
6 3 (21.43%) NoSQL
6 3 (21.43%) Hudson
6 3 (21.43%) Jenkins
6 3 (21.43%) Continuous Integration
6 3 (21.43%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (21.43%) VMware
6 3 (21.43%) Nagios
6 3 (21.43%) Windows
6 3 (21.43%) Python
6 3 (21.43%) OOP

RHCA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK citing RHCA 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 RHCA. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (7.143%) LAMP
1 1 (7.143%) COM
Application Platforms
1 9 (64.29%) Apache
Communications & Networking
1 6 (42.86%) DNS
1 6 (42.86%) SSL
1 6 (42.86%) FTP
2 5 (35.71%) VPN
2 5 (35.71%) Firewall
2 5 (35.71%) SSH
3 2 (14.29%) SAN
4 1 (7.143%) LAN
4 1 (7.143%) WAN
4 1 (7.143%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (64.29%) MySQL
2 3 (21.43%) NoSQL
2 3 (21.43%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (21.43%) Hudson
1 3 (21.43%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (14.29%) Finance
1 2 (14.29%) Manufacturing
1 2 (14.29%) Banking
2 1 (7.143%) Retail
Job Titles
1 7 (50.00%) Systems Administrator
1 7 (50.00%) Linux Systems Administrator
1 7 (50.00%) Linux Administrator
1 7 (50.00%) Administrator
2 5 (35.71%) Architect
3 2 (14.29%) Infrastructure Architect
3 2 (14.29%) Linux Specialist
4 1 (7.143%) Senior Linux Administrator
4 1 (7.143%) Senior Linux Engineer
4 1 (7.143%) Senior Linux Systems Administrator
4 1 (7.143%) Linux Engineer
4 1 (7.143%) Senior Systems Administrator
4 1 (7.143%) Systems Engineer
4 1 (7.143%) Senior Systems Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (35.71%) Clustering
2 4 (28.57%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 12 (85.71%) Linux
2 9 (64.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (21.43%) Windows
4 2 (14.29%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (21.43%) Continuous Integration
1 3 (21.43%) OOP
2 2 (14.29%) Logistics
Programming Languages
1 9 (64.29%) PHP
2 3 (21.43%) Python
2 3 (21.43%) Perl
Qualifications
1 12 (85.71%) RHCE
2 5 (35.71%) LPIC
3 2 (14.29%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (14.29%) Microsoft Certified Architect
4 1 (7.143%) Degree
System Software
1 5 (35.71%) qmail
1 5 (35.71%) Postfix
1 5 (35.71%) Sendmail
2 2 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (14.29%) XenServer
3 1 (7.143%) Samba
3 1 (7.143%) NFS
Systems Management
1 3 (21.43%) Nagios
2 1 (7.143%) Cobbler
Vendors
1 12 (85.71%) Red Hat
2 5 (35.71%) Rackspace
3 3 (21.43%) VMware
4 2 (14.29%) SAP
4 2 (14.29%) Microsoft
5 1 (7.143%) HP
5 1 (7.143%) EMC
5 1 (7.143%) Citrix
5 1 (7.143%) NetApp
5 1 (7.143%) Cisco