The first table below looks at the demand for RHCT in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited RHCT over the 3 months to 20 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
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Red Hat Certified Technician (RHCT)
Rank 839 852 840
Rank change year-on-year
+13 -12
Permanent jobs citing RHCT 20 60 24
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 0.019% 0.050% 0.020%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.067% 0.178% 0.075%
Number of salaries quoted 5 53 23
Average salary £26,500 £46,000 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-42.39% +41.53%
90% offered a salary of more than £22,500 £32,500 £24,500
10% offered a salary of more than £45,000 £57,500 £42,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £46,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year
-18.47% +8.23%
All Qualifications
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
29664 33639 31807
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 27.63% 27.78% 26.13%
Number of salaries quoted 23880 28623 26511
Average salary £42,500 £42,500 £41,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +2.40%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,000 £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%

RHCT
Jobs Demand Trend

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

RHCT Jobs Demand Trend

RHCT
Salary Trend

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

RHCT Salary Trend

RHCT
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing RHCT over the 3 months to 20 May 2013 within the UK.

RHCT Salary Histogram

RHCT
Top 9 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing RHCT within the UK over the 3 months to 20 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 -14 20 £26,500 -42.39%
London +20 18 £24,500 -48.42%
City of London +1 3 £22,500 -55.00%
East of England +12 1 £37,500 -
Cambridgeshire +11 1 £37,500 -
Cambridge +6 1 £37,500 -
North West - 1 - -
Manchester - 1 - -
Hayes - 1 - -

RHCT
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK citing RHCT 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 RHCT.

1 48 (97.96%) Linux
2 46 (93.88%) RHCE
3 39 (79.59%) Windows
4 30 (61.22%) Perl
5 29 (59.18%) Python
6 25 (51.02%) Windows Server 2003
6 25 (51.02%) Windows Server 2008
7 21 (42.86%) Apache
8 20 (40.82%) Cisco Certification
8 20 (40.82%) CCNA
9 19 (38.78%) Cisco
9 19 (38.78%) DNS
9 19 (38.78%) UNIX
9 19 (38.78%) Bash shell
10 18 (36.73%) VMware Infrastructure
10 18 (36.73%) VMware
11 16 (32.65%) Degree
12 14 (28.57%) Red Hat
12 14 (28.57%) DHCP
12 14 (28.57%) PHP
13 13 (26.53%) ITIL
14 12 (24.49%) IIS
14 12 (24.49%) Web Services
14 12 (24.49%) E-Commerce
15 11 (22.45%) Incident Management
15 11 (22.45%) Amazon EC2
16 10 (20.41%) TCP/IP
17 9 (18.37%) MCP
17 9 (18.37%) Microsoft Certification
18 8 (16.33%) SAN

RHCT
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 12 (24.49%) Web Services
2 2 (4.082%) Middleware
2 2 (4.082%) WebSphere
3 1 (2.041%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 21 (42.86%) Apache
2 12 (24.49%) IIS
3 11 (22.45%) Amazon EC2
4 4 (8.163%) Exchange Server 2010
4 4 (8.163%) MS Exchange
4 4 (8.163%) Exchange Server 2007
5 2 (4.082%) Tomcat
6 1 (2.041%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (2.041%) MS Office
1 1 (2.041%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 19 (38.78%) DNS
2 14 (28.57%) DHCP
3 10 (20.41%) TCP/IP
4 8 (16.33%) SAN
4 8 (16.33%) NAS
4 8 (16.33%) Fibre Channel
5 6 (12.24%) Firewall
6 5 (10.20%) SSH
6 5 (10.20%) VPN
7 4 (8.163%) LAN
7 4 (8.163%) WAN
7 4 (8.163%) VLAN
7 4 (8.163%) Network Security
7 4 (8.163%) Cisco ASA
7 4 (8.163%) Wireless
7 4 (8.163%) VRRP
7 4 (8.163%) Kerberos
8 1 (2.041%) SMTP
8 1 (2.041%) FTP
8 1 (2.041%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (10.20%) MySQL
1 5 (10.20%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (8.163%) SQL Server 2005
2 4 (8.163%) SQL Server 2008
2 4 (8.163%) SQL Server
General
1 3 (6.122%) Finance
2 1 (2.041%) Games
2 1 (2.041%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 21 (42.86%) Administrator
2 20 (40.82%) Systems Administrator
3 17 (34.69%) Linux Administrator
4 16 (32.65%) Linux Systems Administrator
5 14 (28.57%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 3 (6.122%) Senior Systems Administrator
6 3 (6.122%) Linux Engineer
6 3 (6.122%) Storage Manager
7 2 (4.082%) Systems Engineer
7 2 (4.082%) Network Administrator
7 2 (4.082%) UNIX Administrator
7 2 (4.082%) Graduate
7 2 (4.082%) Junior
8 1 (2.041%) IT Manager
8 1 (2.041%) Network Engineer
8 1 (2.041%) Systems Manager
8 1 (2.041%) UNIX Systems Administrator
8 1 (2.041%) Linux Support
8 1 (2.041%) Operations Engineer
8 1 (2.041%) Network Operations Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (12.24%) Computer Science
2 2 (4.082%) Mathematics
2 2 (4.082%) Physics
2 2 (4.082%) Open Source
3 1 (2.041%) Clustering
3 1 (2.041%) Online Games
Operating Systems
1 48 (97.96%) Linux
2 39 (79.59%) Windows
3 25 (51.02%) Windows Server 2003
3 25 (51.02%) Windows Server 2008
4 19 (38.78%) UNIX
5 8 (16.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (8.163%) SUSE
7 2 (4.082%) Ubuntu
7 2 (4.082%) Solaris
7 2 (4.082%) CentOS
8 1 (2.041%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (26.53%) ITIL
2 12 (24.49%) E-Commerce
3 11 (22.45%) Incident Management
4 8 (16.33%) Performance Management
5 6 (12.24%) B2C
Programming Languages
1 30 (61.22%) Perl
2 29 (59.18%) Python
3 19 (38.78%) Bash shell
4 14 (28.57%) PHP
5 5 (10.20%) SQL
6 4 (8.163%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 46 (93.88%) RHCE
2 20 (40.82%) CCNA
2 20 (40.82%) Cisco Certification
3 16 (32.65%) Degree
4 9 (18.37%) Microsoft Certification
4 9 (18.37%) MCP
5 8 (16.33%) MCSE
6 3 (6.122%) LPIC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (8.163%) SLA
System Software
1 18 (36.73%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (8.163%) NFS
2 4 (8.163%) Active Directory
2 4 (8.163%) Samba
2 4 (8.163%) Squid
3 2 (4.082%) vSphere
3 2 (4.082%) VMware ESX
4 1 (2.041%) qmail
4 1 (2.041%) Postfix
4 1 (2.041%) Sendmail
Systems Management
1 4 (8.163%) Nagios
2 2 (4.082%) Puppet
3 1 (2.041%) Plesk
Vendors
1 19 (38.78%) Cisco
2 18 (36.73%) VMware
3 14 (28.57%) Red Hat
4 8 (16.33%) Brocade
4 8 (16.33%) EMC
4 8 (16.33%) NetApp
5 4 (8.163%) HP
6 1 (2.041%) Rackspace
6 1 (2.041%) Sun
London
In addition to RedHat linux skills, you must have experience in Puppet or other deployment tools, virtualisation (vmware or other) and web technologies such as Apache. You will...
HAYS INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
Posted: 15 May 2013
London
Longer term, there will be an opportunity to develop and lead a localised technical team.In addition to RedHat linux skills, you must have experience in Puppet or...
Hays Specialist Recruitment
Posted: 15 May 2013
London
As the successful Linux Systems Engineer, you will join a growing team with the opportunity to work on new and exciting products and projects in a systems engineering /...
Hays Specialist Recruitment
Salary: COMPETITIVE AND NEGOTIABLE
Posted: 10 May 2013
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
Basic scripting using bash/shell/perl... Desired: Experience of CheckPoint Firewalls... RedHat RHCT/RHCE certification. Cisco CCNA/CCNP certification... Ability to produce simple web tools using Perl, Python,...
MJH Personnel Associates
Salary: Excellent + bens
Posted: 16 May 2013
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
NOC, network, system administrat*, sysadmin, linux, unix, IP, bash, shell, perl... Basic scripting using bash/shell/perl... Experience of CheckPoint Firewalls... RedHat RHCT/RHCE certification. Cisco CCNA/CCNP...
Creative Personnel
Salary: £30000 to £38000 per annum
Posted: 16 May 2013
Hayes, Middlesex
Linux team... General knowledge (Networking, Hardware, software, DNS) RedHat Linux (RHCE level) MySQL Experience. System services (i.e., Apache, Mail transfer agents(sendmail, postfix, qmail), FTP, SSH and...
Rackspace
Posted: 29 April 2013
City of London
Essential experience includes: A strong foundation and passion for Linux A degree in Computer Science, Maths or Physics Ideally a Linux certification - either Red Hat, Suse or similar...
Dupen Recruitment Services
Salary: £20000 - £25000 per annum + range of benefits
Posted: 17 May 2013
City of London
Essential experience includes: A strong foundation and passion for Linux A degree in Computer Science, Maths or Physics A Linux certification - either Red Hat, Suse or similar. For...
Dupen Recruitment Services
Salary: £20000 - £25000 per annum + range of benefits
Posted: 11 May 2013
City of London
Essential experience includes: A strong foundation and passion for Linux A degree in Computer Science, Maths or Physics Ideally a Linux certification - either Red Hat, Suse or similar...
Dupen Recruitment Services
Salary: £20000 - £25000 per annum + share options + training + benefits
Posted: 27 April 2013
City, London
A degree in Computer Science, Maths or Physics. Ideally a Linux certification - either Red Hat, Suse or similar. For example: RHCT, RHCSA, RHCE, CLA, Linux Professional Institute Certified (...
Dupen Recruitment Services
Salary: £20000 - £25000 per annum + range of benefits
Posted: 16 May 2013