The first table below looks at the demand for Red Hat Enterprise Linux skills in IT contracts advertised for the Basingstoke region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Red Hat Enterprise Linux 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 of the Operating Systems category for the Basingstoke region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
Rank 39 27 28
Rank change year-on-year
-12 +1
Contract jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 1 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Basingstoke 1.435% 0.546% 0.810%
As % of the Operating Systems category 4.918% 1.563% 3.030%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 2
Average daily rate £400 - £350
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £475 £350
% change year-on-year
-21.05% +35.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.50 £30.25 £27.50
% change year-on-year
+17.35% +10.00%
All Operating Systems
Basingstoke
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
61 64 66
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Basingstoke 29.19% 34.97% 26.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 18 22
Average daily rate £375 £331 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+13.20% -5.35%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £90 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £438 £400 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 14 13
Average hourly rate £39.00 £31.00 £28.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+25.80% +10.71%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.20 £17.00 £16.20
% change year-on-year
-4.70% +4.93%
Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Hampshire

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux across the Basingstoke region as a proportion of the total demand within the Operating Systems category.

Basingstoke Red Hat Enterprise Linux Jobs Demand Trend

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux across the Basingstoke region.

Basingstoke Red Hat Enterprise Linux Daily Rate Trend

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux across the Basingstoke region.

Basingstoke Red Hat Enterprise Linux Hourly Rate Trend

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Top 17 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Basingstoke region citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 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 contract IT job ads sampled that cited Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

1 4 (100.00%) Linux
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 4 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 4 (100.00%) SUSE
1 4 (100.00%) VMware
1 4 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (75.00%) Finance
2 3 (75.00%) MS Excel
2 3 (75.00%) Oracle
2 3 (75.00%) Solaris
3 2 (50.00%) Configuration Management
3 2 (50.00%) ATM
3 2 (50.00%) Change Management
3 2 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (50.00%) VMware Server
4 1 (25.00%) MS Visio
4 1 (25.00%) Oracle 8/8i

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Basingstoke region citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Applications
1 3 (75.00%) MS Excel
2 1 (25.00%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) ATM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle 8/8i
General
1 3 (75.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Design Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Linux Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Designer
2 1 (25.00%) Designer
2 1 (25.00%) Consultant
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Linux
1 4 (100.00%) SUSE
2 3 (75.00%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Configuration Management
1 2 (50.00%) Change Management
1 2 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
System Software
1 4 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (50.00%) VMware Server
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 4 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 4 (100.00%) VMware
2 3 (75.00%) Oracle