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 Birmingham region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Red Hat over the 3 months to 22 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 Birmingham 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Red Hat
Rank 42 - 39
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing Red Hat 1 0 5
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Birmingham 0.226% - 0.994%
As % of the Vendors category 0.461% - 2.128%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 5
Average daily rate £400 - £300
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £400 £350
% change year-on-year
-6.25% +14.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £34.75 £34.25 £33.00
% change year-on-year
+1.45% +3.78%
All Vendors
Birmingham
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
217 301 235
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Birmingham 48.98% 47.63% 46.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 91 136 114
Average daily rate £325 £325 £325
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £173 £192
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £480 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 22 21
Average hourly rate £18.46 £14.50 £15.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+27.31% -3.33%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.93 £10.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £92.20 £33.00 £20.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
- -5.00%
Red Hat
West Midlands

Red Hat
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Birmingham 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 Birmingham region.

Birmingham Red Hat Daily Rate Trend

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 Birmingham region.

Birmingham Red Hat Hourly Rate Trend

Red Hat
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham 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 14 (100.00%) Linux
2 13 (92.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 12 (85.71%) WebSphere Process Server
3 12 (85.71%) WebSphere
4 11 (78.57%) HTTP
5 10 (71.43%) IBM
5 10 (71.43%) DB2
5 10 (71.43%) IBM HTTP Server
6 9 (64.29%) JMS
6 9 (64.29%) Security Cleared
7 8 (57.14%) TCP/IP
7 8 (57.14%) Active Directory
8 7 (50.00%) Middleware
8 7 (50.00%) DNS
8 7 (50.00%) LDAP
8 7 (50.00%) .NET
8 7 (50.00%) Web Services
9 6 (42.86%) Oracle
9 6 (42.86%) SOA
9 6 (42.86%) Oracle HTTP Server
9 6 (42.86%) SC Cleared
10 3 (21.43%) ESB
10 3 (21.43%) FTP
11 2 (14.29%) Investment Banking
11 2 (14.29%) Banking
11 2 (14.29%) Microsoft
11 2 (14.29%) SQL Server
11 2 (14.29%) WebSphere Application Server
11 2 (14.29%) Java
11 2 (14.29%) JDBC

Red Hat
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham 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 12 (85.71%) WebSphere
2 9 (64.29%) JMS
3 7 (50.00%) Middleware
3 7 (50.00%) .NET
3 7 (50.00%) Web Services
4 2 (14.29%) JDBC
4 2 (14.29%) SOAP
5 1 (7.143%) RESTful
5 1 (7.143%) XML
5 1 (7.143%) J2EE
5 1 (7.143%) WSDL
5 1 (7.143%) Java RMI
5 1 (7.143%) JMX
Application Platforms
1 12 (85.71%) WebSphere Process Server
2 10 (71.43%) IBM HTTP Server
3 6 (42.86%) Oracle HTTP Server
4 3 (21.43%) ESB
5 2 (14.29%) WebSphere Application Server
6 1 (7.143%) Apache
6 1 (7.143%) Tomcat
6 1 (7.143%) MS Exchange
6 1 (7.143%) WebSphere MQ
Applications
1 1 (7.143%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 11 (78.57%) HTTP
2 8 (57.14%) TCP/IP
3 7 (50.00%) DNS
3 7 (50.00%) LDAP
4 3 (21.43%) FTP
5 1 (7.143%) NAS
5 1 (7.143%) VPN
5 1 (7.143%) HTTPS
5 1 (7.143%) IIOP
5 1 (7.143%) SSL
5 1 (7.143%) SMTP
5 1 (7.143%) Ethernet
5 1 (7.143%) SNMP
5 1 (7.143%) IPv6
5 1 (7.143%) Firewall
5 1 (7.143%) IPsec
5 1 (7.143%) NetScreen
5 1 (7.143%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (71.43%) DB2
2 2 (14.29%) SQL Server
3 1 (7.143%) SQL Server 2008
3 1 (7.143%) Oracle 8/8i
General
1 2 (14.29%) Investment Banking
1 2 (14.29%) Banking
2 1 (7.143%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (28.57%) Administrator
1 4 (28.57%) WebSphere Administrator
1 4 (28.57%) WebSphere Specialist
2 3 (21.43%) WebSphere Consultant
2 3 (21.43%) Consultant
3 2 (14.29%) Server Administrator
3 2 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (7.143%) Linux Engineer
4 1 (7.143%) WebSphere Architect
4 1 (7.143%) Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.143%) Clustering
1 1 (7.143%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 14 (100.00%) Linux
2 13 (92.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (7.143%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (42.86%) SOA
2 2 (14.29%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (7.143%) Business Continuity
3 1 (7.143%) Data Management
3 1 (7.143%) BPEL
3 1 (7.143%) User Acceptance Testing
3 1 (7.143%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 2 (14.29%) Java
2 1 (7.143%) Bash shell
2 1 (7.143%) SQL
2 1 (7.143%) Jython
2 1 (7.143%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 9 (64.29%) Security Cleared
2 6 (42.86%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 8 (57.14%) Active Directory
2 2 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (7.143%) XenServer
3 1 (7.143%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 1 (7.143%) WSUS
Vendors
1 10 (71.43%) IBM
2 6 (42.86%) Oracle
3 2 (14.29%) Microsoft
3 2 (14.29%) VMware
4 1 (7.143%) Business Objects
4 1 (7.143%) Cisco
4 1 (7.143%) Citrix
4 1 (7.143%) Juniper