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 West Midlands 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 West Midlands 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 169 158 136
Rank change year-on-year
-11 -22
Permanent jobs citing Red Hat 38 31 34
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the West Midlands 0.765% 0.688% 0.819%
As % of the Vendors category 1.509% 1.433% 1.678%
Number of salaries quoted 32 23 31
Average salary £40,000 £42,500 £38,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-5.88% +10.38%
90% offered a salary of more than £32,500 £27,600 £23,000
10% offered a salary of more than £47,500 £49,700 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,500 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-3.61% +3.75%
All Vendors
West Midlands
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
2518 2163 2026
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the West Midlands 50.72% 48.03% 48.81%
Number of salaries quoted 2063 1807 1675
Average salary £40,000 £37,500 £38,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.66% -1.31%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,000 £25,000 £24,000
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £61,500 £60,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
Red Hat
England

Red Hat
Jobs Demand Trend

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

West Midlands 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 West Midlands region.

West Midlands Red Hat Salary Trend

Red Hat
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Red Hat across the West Midlands region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

West Midlands Red Hat Salary Histogram

Red Hat
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 West Midlands region over the 3 months to 17 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
Birmingham -23 10 £40,000 +5.26%
Coventry - 5 £32,500 -
Warwickshire -1 3 £34,500 -27.36%
West Bromwich - 2 £40,000 -
Worcestershire - 1 £32,500 -
Wednesbury - 1 £22,500 -
Red Hat
England

Red Hat
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the West Midlands 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 87 (100.00%) Linux
2 66 (75.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 56 (64.37%) UNIX
4 52 (59.77%) Oracle
5 41 (47.13%) Windows
6 36 (41.38%) IBM
7 28 (32.18%) VMware
8 26 (29.89%) SAN
8 26 (29.89%) DB2
9 25 (28.74%) Subversion
10 24 (27.59%) WebSphere
11 23 (26.44%) Java EE
11 23 (26.44%) WebSphere Message Broker
11 23 (26.44%) Root Cause Analysis
11 23 (26.44%) Oracle ERP
11 23 (26.44%) WebSphere MQ
11 23 (26.44%) J2EE
11 23 (26.44%) ERP
12 21 (24.14%) Solaris
13 19 (21.84%) SharePoint
13 19 (21.84%) SQL
13 19 (21.84%) AIX
14 18 (20.69%) Perl
14 18 (20.69%) Sun
15 17 (19.54%) Microsoft
15 17 (19.54%) ITIL
15 17 (19.54%) Degree
16 16 (18.39%) SQL Server
16 16 (18.39%) Shell Script
16 16 (18.39%) SUSE

Red Hat
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the West Midlands 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 24 (27.59%) WebSphere
2 23 (26.44%) Java EE
2 23 (26.44%) J2EE
3 4 (4.598%) LAMP
4 1 (1.149%) CSS
4 1 (1.149%) Web Services
4 1 (1.149%) JMS
4 1 (1.149%) Middleware
4 1 (1.149%) jQuery
4 1 (1.149%) HTML
4 1 (1.149%) .NET
Application Platforms
1 23 (26.44%) WebSphere MQ
1 23 (26.44%) WebSphere Message Broker
2 19 (21.84%) SharePoint
3 12 (13.79%) SAS
4 7 (8.046%) Tomcat
5 4 (4.598%) Apache
5 4 (4.598%) MS Exchange
5 4 (4.598%) nginx
5 4 (4.598%) Apache Solr
6 3 (3.448%) Exchange Server 2003
7 2 (2.299%) Oracle Application Server
8 1 (1.149%) Exchange Server 2007
8 1 (1.149%) Drupal
8 1 (1.149%) Exchange Server 2010
8 1 (1.149%) Oracle HTTP Server
8 1 (1.149%) IBM HTTP Server
8 1 (1.149%) WebSphere Process Server
Applications
1 7 (8.046%) MS Excel
2 3 (3.448%) MS Office
3 1 (1.149%) CATIA
Business Applications
1 23 (26.44%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (1.149%) Cognos Controller
2 1 (1.149%) Oracle 11i
2 1 (1.149%) Oracle EBS
Communications & Networking
1 26 (29.89%) SAN
2 13 (14.94%) DNS
3 12 (13.79%) TCP/IP
4 8 (9.195%) WAN
4 8 (9.195%) DHCP
5 4 (4.598%) HTTP
5 4 (4.598%) VPN
5 4 (4.598%) Network Security
6 3 (3.448%) OpenVPN
6 3 (3.448%) Firewall
6 3 (3.448%) LAN
7 1 (1.149%) LDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (29.89%) DB2
2 16 (18.39%) SQL Server
3 11 (12.64%) Oracle Exadata
4 10 (11.49%) MySQL
5 7 (8.046%) NoSQL
6 2 (2.299%) TOAD
6 2 (2.299%) Oracle 10g
7 1 (1.149%) Oracle 11g
7 1 (1.149%) Base SAS
7 1 (1.149%) Oracle 9i
Development Applications
1 25 (28.74%) Subversion
2 2 (2.299%) Git (software)
General
1 15 (17.24%) Finance
2 11 (12.64%) Banking
2 11 (12.64%) Investment Banking
3 5 (5.747%) French Language
3 5 (5.747%) Retail
4 1 (1.149%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 37 (42.53%) Administrator
2 33 (37.93%) Analyst
3 19 (21.84%) UNIX Systems Administrator
4 12 (13.79%) Systems Administrator
5 9 (10.34%) Consultant
6 8 (9.195%) Linux Administrator
6 8 (9.195%) UNIX Administrator
7 7 (8.046%) Support Engineer
7 7 (8.046%) Technical Analyst
8 4 (4.598%) IT Consultant
8 4 (4.598%) Linux Systems Administrator
8 4 (4.598%) IT Support
8 4 (4.598%) Configuration Engineer
9 3 (3.448%) Operations Engineer
9 3 (3.448%) IT Support Specialist
9 3 (3.448%) Support Specialist
9 3 (3.448%) Linux Engineer
10 2 (2.299%) Linux Support
10 2 (2.299%) Senior Linux Administrator
10 2 (2.299%) Senior Linux Systems Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 11 (12.64%) Wiki
1 11 (12.64%) Symmetrix DMX
2 6 (6.897%) Replication
3 3 (3.448%) Mobile App
4 2 (2.299%) HACMP
4 2 (2.299%) LPAR
4 2 (2.299%) Open Source
4 2 (2.299%) IaaS
5 1 (1.149%) Visualisation
5 1 (1.149%) Clustering
5 1 (1.149%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 87 (100.00%) Linux
2 66 (75.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 56 (64.37%) UNIX
4 41 (47.13%) Windows
5 21 (24.14%) Solaris
6 19 (21.84%) AIX
7 16 (18.39%) SUSE
8 10 (11.49%) CentOS
9 8 (9.195%) Debian
10 7 (8.046%) Ubuntu
10 7 (8.046%) HPUX
10 7 (8.046%) Windows 7
10 7 (8.046%) Windows XP
11 4 (4.598%) Windows Server 2008
12 3 (3.448%) Windows Server 2003
12 3 (3.448%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (26.44%) ERP
1 23 (26.44%) Root Cause Analysis
2 17 (19.54%) ITIL
3 15 (17.24%) Problem Management
4 13 (14.94%) Change Management
5 11 (12.64%) Risk Analysis
5 11 (12.64%) RDF
6 6 (6.897%) Configuration Management
6 6 (6.897%) Project Management
7 4 (4.598%) Service Delivery
7 4 (4.598%) Time Management
7 4 (4.598%) Change Control
8 2 (2.299%) Capacity Management
8 2 (2.299%) Capacity Planning
8 2 (2.299%) Matrix Management
9 1 (1.149%) Disaster Recovery
9 1 (1.149%) Data Security
9 1 (1.149%) Stakeholder Management
9 1 (1.149%) PLM
9 1 (1.149%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 19 (21.84%) SQL
2 18 (20.69%) Perl
3 16 (18.39%) Shell Script
4 12 (13.79%) Korn
5 7 (8.046%) PHP
5 7 (8.046%) Java
6 6 (6.897%) Python
7 2 (2.299%) Ruby
8 1 (1.149%) PHP5
Qualifications
1 17 (19.54%) Degree
2 2 (2.299%) MCSE
2 2 (2.299%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (1.149%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.149%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.747%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 3 (3.448%) SLA
3 1 (1.149%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 13 (14.94%) Veritas Volume Manager
2 12 (13.79%) Veritas File System
2 12 (13.79%) Active Directory
3 11 (12.64%) Veritas Cluster Server
4 7 (8.046%) Postfix
5 5 (5.747%) VMware ESXi
6 4 (4.598%) VMware Infrastructure
6 4 (4.598%) Sendmail
6 4 (4.598%) Varnish
7 3 (3.448%) Samba
8 1 (1.149%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 11 (12.64%) Nagios
2 5 (5.747%) SCCM
3 4 (4.598%) Puppet
4 3 (3.448%) NetBackup
5 2 (2.299%) Backup Exec
5 2 (2.299%) Foglight
5 2 (2.299%) OpenNMS
5 2 (2.299%) YUM
6 1 (1.149%) Data Guard
6 1 (1.149%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 52 (59.77%) Oracle
2 36 (41.38%) IBM
3 28 (32.18%) VMware
4 18 (20.69%) Sun
5 17 (19.54%) Microsoft
6 15 (17.24%) EMC
6 15 (17.24%) Veritas
7 11 (12.64%) Sybase
8 9 (10.34%) HP
9 7 (8.046%) NetApp
10 4 (4.598%) Dell
10 4 (4.598%) Symantec
10 4 (4.598%) LANDesk
10 4 (4.598%) Acronis
11 3 (3.448%) Cisco
11 3 (3.448%) JBoss
11 3 (3.448%) Citrix
12 2 (2.299%) BMC
13 1 (1.149%) Hitachi
13 1 (1.149%) Siemens
Coventry, West Midlands (County)
Knowledge of UNIX/OE/Red Hat Linux operating systems and TCP/IP networking protocol is essential, with a thorough understanding of product licensing terms for both Oracle and...
Sainsburys
Salary: £attractive
Posted: 15 May 2013
Walsgrave, Coventry
Knowledge of UNIX/OE/Red Hat Linux operating systems and TCP/IP networking protocol is essential, with a thorough understanding of product licensing terms for both Oracle and...
Sainsburys
Salary: £attractive
Posted: 18 May 2013
Warwickshire, West Midlands
The role will be focused around the design, implementation and support for server equipment; primarily architected using WebSphere MQ, WebSphere Message Broker in predominantly aRedhat Linux environment. Skills...
Computer Futures
Salary: £35000 - £45000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 15 May 2013
Coventry, West Midlands (County)
IT Operations Engineer - Support, Linux, SQL Server - Midlands... Technical skills needed include: Linux (Redhat ideally) Nagios Windows Server / Desktop Sharepoint SQL / MySQL Tomcat The company is looking to...
ISL
Salary: £30000 - £35000 per annum
Posted: 17 May 2013
Birmingham, West Midlands (County)
Understanding of SANs and LANs. *Strong Shell Scripting skills. *Experience of large AIX migration projects... *Linux (Red Hat) skills - will ideally have worked on Linux migration projects. *Understanding...
Polar Recruitment
Salary: £50000 - £65000 per annum + + Car & Benefits
Posted: 16 May 2013
Birmingham, West Midlands
Senior Unix Systems Administrator - £45-55,000 + Bonus + BenefitsOur prestigious Central Birmingham client is looking to recruit an experienced Unix Systems Administrator with a strong technical background and...
Harvey Nash plc
Salary: £45000 - £55000 per annum + excellent benefits
Posted: 15 May 2013
Birmingham, West Midlands (County)
Unix Systems Administrator - £35-45K + Bonus. Our client a leading Financial Services organisation is looking to recruit an experienced Unix Sytems Administrator with a strong technical background and...
Harvey Nash plc
Salary: £35000 - £45000 per annum + excellent benefits
Posted: 14 May 2013
Birmingham, West Midlands (County)
Experience with frameworks such as Spring and Hibernate... - JavaScript (JQuery, DOJO or any standard frameworks)... - Linux/Redhat Technologies. - Web Servers, IIS, Apache, configuration and implementation. - Virtualisation (VMWare/ESXI)...
Candidate Source
Salary: £28,000 - £35,000 per annum DOE
Posted: 13 May 2013