The first table below looks at the demand for Red Hat Enterprise Linux skills in IT contracts advertised for the Belfast 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 18 June 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 Belfast 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
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
Rank 28 - 39
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2 0 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Belfast 1.176% - 0.334%
As % of the Operating Systems category 4.762% - 1.266%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Average daily rate £325 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £378 £350 £350
% change year-on-year
+7.85% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £13.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £36.00 £29.75 £27.50
% change year-on-year
+21.00% +8.18%
All Operating Systems
Belfast
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
42 38 79
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Belfast 24.71% 25.00% 26.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 10 20
Average daily rate £300 £260 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+15.38% -25.71%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £127 £260 £193
10% offered a daily rate of more than £445 £450 £375
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 10
Average hourly rate - - £14.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £17.50 £16.20
% change year-on-year
-8.57% +8.02%
Red Hat Enterprise Linux
County Antrim

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 Belfast region as a proportion of the total demand within the Operating Systems category.

Belfast 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 Belfast region.

Belfast Red Hat Enterprise Linux Daily Rate Trend

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Top 25 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Belfast 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 2 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
2 1 (50.00%) Oracle 9i
2 1 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (50.00%) VMS
2 1 (50.00%) DNS
2 1 (50.00%) OLTP
2 1 (50.00%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 1 (50.00%) RDBMS
2 1 (50.00%) SLA
2 1 (50.00%) Oracle 10g
2 1 (50.00%) Oracle Certification
2 1 (50.00%) Oracle
2 1 (50.00%) Blackberry
2 1 (50.00%) Project Management
2 1 (50.00%) Service Management
2 1 (50.00%) NetBackup
2 1 (50.00%) Oracle RMAN
2 1 (50.00%) Netezza
2 1 (50.00%) Degree
2 1 (50.00%) Resource Management
2 1 (50.00%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (50.00%) Greenplum
2 1 (50.00%) Data Guard

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Belfast 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.

Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle 9i
1 1 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (50.00%) OLTP
1 1 (50.00%) RDBMS
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle 10g
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) DBA
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle DBA
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Oracle DBA
1 1 (50.00%) Senior DBA
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
2 1 (50.00%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Project Management
1 1 (50.00%) Service Management
1 1 (50.00%) Resource Management
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle Certification
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle RMAN
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
1 1 (50.00%) NetBackup
1 1 (50.00%) Data Guard
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Red Hat
2 1 (50.00%) Netezza
2 1 (50.00%) Greenplum
2 1 (50.00%) Oracle