The first table below looks at the demand for Red Hat Enterprise Linux skills in IT contracts advertised for the Buckinghamshire 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 17 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 Buckinghamshire 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
17 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
Rank 68 68 57
Rank change year-on-year
0 -11
Contract jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 8 19
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Buckinghamshire 0.651% 0.815% 1.763%
As % of the Operating Systems category 3.448% 2.749% 6.529%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 2
Average daily rate £214 £315 £330
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-31.98% -4.54%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £210 £315 £314
10% offered a daily rate of more than £218 £315 £346
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £353 £350
% change year-on-year
+6.38% +0.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £36.00 £29.75 £27.50
% change year-on-year
+21.00% +8.18%
All Operating Systems
Buckinghamshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
174 291 291
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Buckinghamshire 18.87% 29.63% 26.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 75 108 83
Average daily rate £325 £300 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+8.33% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £210 £148 £100
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £400 £375
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 26 52
Average hourly rate £14.00 £13.50 £14.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+3.70% -3.57%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.00 £11.00 £10.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £22.50 £17.00 £26.40
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £17.00 £16.08
% change year-on-year
-5.88% +5.70%
Red Hat Enterprise Linux
South East

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

Buckinghamshire 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 Buckinghamshire region.

Buckinghamshire 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 Buckinghamshire region.

Buckinghamshire Red Hat Enterprise Linux Hourly Rate Trend

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
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 Enterprise Linux within the Buckinghamshire region over the 3 months to 17 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
Milton Keynes -3 5 £214 -31.98% 3
High Wycombe - - - -
Red Hat Enterprise Linux
South East

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Buckinghamshire 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 6 (85.71%) UNIX
2 5 (71.43%) Windows
2 5 (71.43%) Linux
2 5 (71.43%) Oracle
2 5 (71.43%) Service Delivery
3 4 (57.14%) Red Hat
3 4 (57.14%) Service Management
4 3 (42.86%) Technical Architecture
4 3 (42.86%) VMware
4 3 (42.86%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (42.86%) NetApp
4 3 (42.86%) Disaster Recovery
4 3 (42.86%) OLTP
4 3 (42.86%) SLA
4 3 (42.86%) Intel
4 3 (42.86%) SQL Server
4 3 (42.86%) SQL
4 3 (42.86%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (42.86%) N-Tier
5 2 (28.57%) Solaris
5 2 (28.57%) Shell Script
5 2 (28.57%) Finance
5 2 (28.57%) CentOS
5 2 (28.57%) Derivative
5 2 (28.57%) Requirements Management
5 2 (28.57%) Bash shell
5 2 (28.57%) Oracle Linux
6 1 (14.29%) QA
6 1 (14.29%) DV Cleared
6 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Buckinghamshire 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.

Application Development
1 1 (14.29%) J2EE
1 1 (14.29%) WebSphere MQ
1 1 (14.29%) WebSphere
Application Platforms
1 1 (14.29%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (14.29%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) DHCP
1 1 (14.29%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (42.86%) SQL Server
1 3 (42.86%) Data Warehouse
1 3 (42.86%) OLTP
2 1 (14.29%) DB2
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) ClearCase
1 1 (14.29%) ClearQuest
General
1 2 (28.57%) Finance
2 1 (14.29%) Retail
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Administrator
2 2 (28.57%) Linux Administrator
2 2 (28.57%) Systems Administrator
3 1 (14.29%) Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Designer
3 1 (14.29%) Virtualisation Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Virtualisation Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Designer
3 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Design Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Java Developer
3 1 (14.29%) UNIX Systems Administrator
3 1 (14.29%) UNIX Administrator
3 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Linux Systems Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) N-Tier
2 2 (28.57%) Derivative
3 1 (14.29%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 6 (85.71%) UNIX
2 5 (71.43%) Windows
2 5 (71.43%) Linux
3 2 (28.57%) Solaris
3 2 (28.57%) CentOS
3 2 (28.57%) Oracle Linux
4 1 (14.29%) OS/2
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Service Delivery
2 4 (57.14%) Service Management
3 3 (42.86%) Disaster Recovery
3 3 (42.86%) Technical Architecture
4 2 (28.57%) Requirements Management
5 1 (14.29%) Migration
5 1 (14.29%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) SQL
2 2 (28.57%) Shell Script
2 2 (28.57%) Bash shell
3 1 (14.29%) Java
3 1 (14.29%) Perl
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) RHCE
1 1 (14.29%) DV Cleared
1 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (42.86%) SLA
2 1 (14.29%) QA
System Software
1 3 (42.86%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (14.29%) NFS
Vendors
1 5 (71.43%) Oracle
2 4 (57.14%) Red Hat
3 3 (42.86%) VMware
3 3 (42.86%) Intel
3 3 (42.86%) NetApp
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