The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Red Hat products and/or services in IT jobs advertised for the Watford region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Red Hat over the 3 months to 17 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 Vendors for the Watford region.

The figures below represent the IT job market in general and are NOT representative of salaries within Red Hat, Inc.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Red Hat
Rank 31 52 52
Rank change year-on-year
+21 0
Permanent jobs citing Red Hat 16 11 15
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Watford 5.556% 3.081% 3.505%
As % of the Vendors category 9.697% 4.825% 5.597%
Number of salaries quoted 11 3 4
Average salary £51,500 £52,500 £67,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-1.90% -22.22%
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,500 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-3.61% +3.75%
All Vendors
Watford
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
165 228 268
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Watford 57.29% 63.87% 62.62%
Number of salaries quoted 135 134 199
Average salary £45,000 £40,000 £42,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+12.50% -5.88%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,000 £30,000 £28,500
10% offered a salary of more than £55,500 £61,500 £52,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
Red Hat
Hertfordshire

Red Hat
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Red Hat across the Watford region as a proportion of the total demand within the Vendors category.

Watford Red Hat Jobs Demand Trend

Red Hat
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Red Hat across the Watford region.

Watford Red Hat Salary Trend

Red Hat
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Watford region 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.

1 32 (100.00%) Linux
2 29 (90.63%) SUSE
3 28 (87.50%) Windows
3 28 (87.50%) AIX
4 21 (65.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 19 (59.38%) Finance
6 18 (56.25%) UNIX
6 18 (56.25%) E-Commerce
6 18 (56.25%) HTTP
7 17 (53.13%) MQSeries
7 17 (53.13%) Project Management
7 17 (53.13%) Tomcat
7 17 (53.13%) IBM
7 17 (53.13%) Sun
7 17 (53.13%) HP
7 17 (53.13%) Dell
7 17 (53.13%) ITIL
7 17 (53.13%) Oracle
7 17 (53.13%) DB2
7 17 (53.13%) WebSphere Application Server
7 17 (53.13%) IIS
7 17 (53.13%) IBM HTTP Server
7 17 (53.13%) Retail
7 17 (53.13%) WebSphere
7 17 (53.13%) Web Development
8 12 (37.50%) Service Delivery
8 12 (37.50%) Perl
8 12 (37.50%) Bash shell
9 11 (34.38%) OLE
9 11 (34.38%) VMware

Red Hat
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Watford region 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.

Application Development
1 17 (53.13%) WebSphere
2 11 (34.38%) OLE
3 1 (3.125%) Apache CXF
3 1 (3.125%) REST
3 1 (3.125%) HTML
3 1 (3.125%) SOAP
3 1 (3.125%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 17 (53.13%) WebSphere Application Server
1 17 (53.13%) IIS
1 17 (53.13%) Tomcat
1 17 (53.13%) MQSeries
1 17 (53.13%) IBM HTTP Server
2 3 (9.375%) Apache
Communications & Networking
1 18 (56.25%) HTTP
2 3 (9.375%) Internet
3 1 (3.125%) Network Security
3 1 (3.125%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (53.13%) DB2
Development Applications
1 1 (3.125%) Ant
1 1 (3.125%) Subversion
1 1 (3.125%) Maven
1 1 (3.125%) Git (software)
1 1 (3.125%) Jenkins
General
1 19 (59.38%) Finance
2 17 (53.13%) Retail
3 9 (28.13%) Games
4 7 (21.88%) Manufacturing
5 1 (3.125%) Marketing
5 1 (3.125%) Interactive Media
Job Titles
1 11 (34.38%) Administrator
1 11 (34.38%) Linux Administrator
2 10 (31.25%) Technical Delivery Manager
2 10 (31.25%) Technical Manager
2 10 (31.25%) Delivery Manager
2 10 (31.25%) Technical Services Manager
2 10 (31.25%) Services Delivery Manager
2 10 (31.25%) Service Manager
3 9 (28.13%) Systems Administrator
3 9 (28.13%) Linux Systems Administrator
4 7 (21.88%) Project Manager
5 3 (9.375%) Senior Linux Administrator
6 2 (6.250%) Analyst
6 2 (6.250%) Technical Analyst
7 1 (3.125%) Systems Architect
7 1 (3.125%) Architect
7 1 (3.125%) Senior Linux Systems Administrator
7 1 (3.125%) DevOps Engineer
7 1 (3.125%) Senior Systems Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 5 (15.63%) Management Information System
2 1 (3.125%) Statistics
Operating Systems
1 32 (100.00%) Linux
2 29 (90.63%) SUSE
3 28 (87.50%) Windows
3 28 (87.50%) AIX
4 21 (65.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 18 (56.25%) UNIX
6 3 (9.375%) CentOS
7 1 (3.125%) Debian
7 1 (3.125%) Fedora
7 1 (3.125%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (56.25%) E-Commerce
2 17 (53.13%) Project Management
2 17 (53.13%) Web Development
2 17 (53.13%) ITIL
3 12 (37.50%) Service Delivery
4 5 (15.63%) Performance Testing
4 5 (15.63%) Performance Management
4 5 (15.63%) Capacity Planning
5 1 (3.125%) High Availability
5 1 (3.125%) Parallel Computing
5 1 (3.125%) Release Management
5 1 (3.125%) Agile Software Development
5 1 (3.125%) Benchmarking
5 1 (3.125%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 12 (37.50%) Perl
1 12 (37.50%) Bash shell
2 2 (6.250%) PHP
3 1 (3.125%) Python
3 1 (3.125%) Java
3 1 (3.125%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (3.125%) RHCE
System Software
1 1 (3.125%) Xen
Systems Management
1 1 (3.125%) Puppet
Vendors
1 17 (53.13%) Oracle
1 17 (53.13%) IBM
1 17 (53.13%) Sun
1 17 (53.13%) HP
1 17 (53.13%) Dell
2 11 (34.38%) VMware
3 1 (3.125%) Intel
Watford, Hertfordshire
The Essential Skills CentOS / Redhat - Linux / UNIX Systems Administrator for at least 5 years... LAMP. Shell - Perl / Bash... UNIX / Linux Systems Administrator - Team Leader - CentOS / Redhat / LAMP / Web...
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Salary: £45000 - £52000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 17 May 2013