The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Red Hat products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the Berkshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Red Hat over the 3 months to 24 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 Berkshire 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.

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

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Red Hat
Rank 105 113 88
Rank change year-on-year
+8 -25
Contract jobs citing Red Hat 15 22 41
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Berkshire 0.626% 0.700% 1.378%
As % of the Vendors category 1.232% 1.402% 2.640%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 11 13
Average daily rate £420 £350 £363
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+20.00% -3.44%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £323 £225 £350
10% offered a daily rate of more than £556 £500 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £389 £350
% change year-on-year
-3.53% +11.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £31.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £34.75 £33.00 £36.75
% change year-on-year
+5.30% -10.20%
All Vendors
Berkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
1218 1569 1553
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Berkshire 50.86% 49.89% 52.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 485 537 551
Average daily rate £363 £350 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.57% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £165 £225 £217
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £475 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 49 81 90
Average hourly rate £20.50 £20.00 £32.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+2.50% -37.50%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.85 £11.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £41.80 £45.00 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
- -5.00%
Red Hat
South East

Red Hat
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Berkshire Red Hat Jobs Demand Trend

Red Hat
Daily Rate Trend

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

Berkshire Red Hat Daily Rate Trend

Red Hat
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Red Hat across the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Berkshire Red Hat Daily Rate Histogram

Red Hat
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Berkshire Red Hat Hourly Rate Trend

Red Hat
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Red Hat within the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 24 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Reading +16 8 £420 +1.81%
Bracknell -13 4 £570 +62.85%
Newbury -1 2 £375 -
Slough - 1 £500 -
Red Hat
South East

Red Hat
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire 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 contract IT job ads sampled that cited Red Hat.

1 32 (96.97%) Linux
2 19 (57.58%) UNIX
2 19 (57.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 17 (51.52%) Oracle
4 15 (45.45%) Perl
5 13 (39.39%) Windows
5 13 (39.39%) VMware
6 9 (27.27%) Telecoms
6 9 (27.27%) MySQL
6 9 (27.27%) Solaris
6 9 (27.27%) SAN
7 8 (24.24%) XML
7 8 (24.24%) SQL
7 8 (24.24%) Subversion
8 7 (21.21%) PostgreSQL
8 7 (21.21%) Python
8 7 (21.21%) TCP/IP
8 7 (21.21%) Windows Server 2008
8 7 (21.21%) Greenplum
9 6 (18.18%) Bash shell
9 6 (18.18%) OO
9 6 (18.18%) VLAN
10 5 (15.15%) Migration
10 5 (15.15%) Disaster Recovery
10 5 (15.15%) Kerberos
10 5 (15.15%) Data Warehouse
10 5 (15.15%) EMC
10 5 (15.15%) DNS
10 5 (15.15%) IBM
10 5 (15.15%) VMware ESXi

Red Hat
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire 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 contract IT job ads sampled that cited Red Hat. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 8 (24.24%) XML
2 2 (6.061%) Oracle Fusion
2 2 (6.061%) SAML
2 2 (6.061%) Web Services
2 2 (6.061%) Middleware
3 1 (3.030%) Spring
3 1 (3.030%) Ajax
3 1 (3.030%) Java SE
3 1 (3.030%) ArcObjects
3 1 (3.030%) Dojo
3 1 (3.030%) LAMP
3 1 (3.030%) XSD
3 1 (3.030%) .NET
3 1 (3.030%) J2EE
3 1 (3.030%) HTML
3 1 (3.030%) CSS
3 1 (3.030%) JSP
3 1 (3.030%) Servlets
3 1 (3.030%) JavaBeans
3 1 (3.030%) Drools
Application Platforms
1 4 (12.12%) Apache
2 3 (9.091%) Tomcat
3 2 (6.061%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 2 (6.061%) GlassFish
4 1 (3.030%) ArcGIS
4 1 (3.030%) IIS
Applications
1 2 (6.061%) MS Excel
2 1 (3.030%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 2 (6.061%) Oracle EBS R12
1 2 (6.061%) Oracle EBS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (27.27%) SAN
2 7 (21.21%) TCP/IP
3 6 (18.18%) VLAN
4 5 (15.15%) Kerberos
4 5 (15.15%) DNS
4 5 (15.15%) Network Security
5 3 (9.091%) Fibre Channel
6 2 (6.061%) SSL
6 2 (6.061%) LDAP
6 2 (6.061%) LAN
6 2 (6.061%) WAN
6 2 (6.061%) IPsec
7 1 (3.030%) Internet
7 1 (3.030%) ADSL
7 1 (3.030%) VPN
7 1 (3.030%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (27.27%) MySQL
2 7 (21.21%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (15.15%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (12.12%) Oracle 8/8i
5 2 (6.061%) Oracle Exadata
5 2 (6.061%) Oracle 11g
6 1 (3.030%) SQL Server 2005
6 1 (3.030%) GIS
6 1 (3.030%) SQL Server
6 1 (3.030%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 8 (24.24%) Subversion
2 1 (3.030%) Visual Studio
2 1 (3.030%) Eclipse
2 1 (3.030%) ClearCase
2 1 (3.030%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 9 (27.27%) Telecoms
2 4 (12.12%) Finance
3 3 (9.091%) Banking
4 2 (6.061%) Marketing
5 1 (3.030%) Publishing
5 1 (3.030%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 11 (33.33%) Architect
2 9 (27.27%) Developer
3 8 (24.24%) Technical Architect
4 5 (15.15%) Software Developer
5 4 (12.12%) Solutions Architect
5 4 (12.12%) Senior Developer
5 4 (12.12%) Linux Engineer
6 3 (9.091%) Senior Software Developer
6 3 (9.091%) Infrastructure Architect
6 3 (9.091%) Storage Engineer
7 2 (6.061%) Administrator
7 2 (6.061%) Lead Architect
7 2 (6.061%) UNIX Engineer
8 1 (3.030%) Lead Technical Architect
8 1 (3.030%) Perl Developer
8 1 (3.030%) GIS Developer
8 1 (3.030%) Java Developer
8 1 (3.030%) Oracle DBA
8 1 (3.030%) Linux Support
8 1 (3.030%) Senior Linux Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (12.12%) Wiki
1 4 (12.12%) Clustering
2 3 (9.091%) HACMP
2 3 (9.091%) LPAR
2 3 (9.091%) DLPAR
3 2 (6.061%) Oracle Exalogic
3 2 (6.061%) Management Information System
3 2 (6.061%) CLARiiON
4 1 (3.030%) Grid Computing
Operating Systems
1 32 (96.97%) Linux
2 19 (57.58%) UNIX
2 19 (57.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 13 (39.39%) Windows
4 9 (27.27%) Solaris
5 7 (21.21%) Windows Server 2008
6 4 (12.12%) AIX
6 4 (12.12%) HPUX
6 4 (12.12%) Windows Server 2003
7 3 (9.091%) Oracle Linux
8 2 (6.061%) Windows 7
8 2 (6.061%) Windows 2000 Server
8 2 (6.061%) SUSE
9 1 (3.030%) OpenBSD
9 1 (3.030%) FreeBSD
9 1 (3.030%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (18.18%) OO
2 5 (15.15%) Migration
2 5 (15.15%) Disaster Recovery
2 5 (15.15%) Test Scripting
3 4 (12.12%) Performance Management
4 2 (6.061%) SOA
4 2 (6.061%) ITIL
4 2 (6.061%) PRINCE2
4 2 (6.061%) Incident Management
5 1 (3.030%) Data Management
5 1 (3.030%) Operations Management
5 1 (3.030%) Project Management
5 1 (3.030%) Data Modelling
5 1 (3.030%) Data Migration
5 1 (3.030%) Change Control
5 1 (3.030%) Network Architecture
Programming Languages
1 15 (45.45%) Perl
2 8 (24.24%) SQL
3 7 (21.21%) Python
4 6 (18.18%) Bash shell
5 4 (12.12%) Java
6 3 (9.091%) Shell Script
6 3 (9.091%) PHP
7 1 (3.030%) JavaScript
7 1 (3.030%) C#
7 1 (3.030%) C++
Qualifications
1 4 (12.12%) Degree
2 2 (6.061%) SC Cleared
2 2 (6.061%) Security Cleared
3 1 (3.030%) SCSA
3 1 (3.030%) VERITAS Certified Professional (VCP)
3 1 (3.030%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 1 (3.030%) MCSE
3 1 (3.030%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (3.030%) RHCE
3 1 (3.030%) HPUX Certification
System Software
1 5 (15.15%) VMware ESXi
1 5 (15.15%) Oracle RAC
1 5 (15.15%) VMware Infrastructure
1 5 (15.15%) vSphere
2 3 (9.091%) Microsoft Virtual Server
2 3 (9.091%) Active Directory
3 2 (6.061%) Veritas Volume Manager
3 2 (6.061%) NFS
4 1 (3.030%) Xen
4 1 (3.030%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
4 1 (3.030%) Postfix
4 1 (3.030%) Sendmail
4 1 (3.030%) Veritas File System
4 1 (3.030%) Veritas Cluster Server
4 1 (3.030%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 4 (12.12%) Tivoli
2 3 (9.091%) NetBackup
2 3 (9.091%) Tivoli Storage Manager
3 2 (6.061%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 1 (3.030%) OpenView
Vendors
1 17 (51.52%) Oracle
2 13 (39.39%) VMware
3 7 (21.21%) Greenplum
4 5 (15.15%) EMC
4 5 (15.15%) IBM
5 4 (12.12%) Microsoft
5 4 (12.12%) HP
6 3 (9.091%) Huawei
6 3 (9.091%) JBoss
6 3 (9.091%) Ericsson
6 3 (9.091%) Nokia Siemens Networks
7 2 (6.061%) Veritas
7 2 (6.061%) Sun
7 2 (6.061%) Remedy
7 2 (6.061%) Brocade
8 1 (3.030%) ESRI
8 1 (3.030%) Intel
8 1 (3.030%) ProCurve
8 1 (3.030%) Egenera