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 Cambridge 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 Cambridge 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 18 35 32
Rank change year-on-year
+17 -3
Contract jobs citing Red Hat 18 13 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridge 5.471% 3.066% 0.781%
As % of the Vendors category 11.54% 7.386% 2.299%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 0
Average daily rate £330 £344 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-4.00% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £389 £350
% change year-on-year
-3.53% +11.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Average hourly rate - £41.25 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £34.75 £33.00 £36.75
% change year-on-year
+5.30% -10.20%
All Vendors
Cambridge
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
156 176 87
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridge 47.42% 41.51% 33.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 89 37
Average daily rate £325 £315 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.17% -3.07%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £200 £183
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £425 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 18 14
Average hourly rate £20.00 £40.00 £12.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-50.00% +220.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.45 £10.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.20 £47.50 £30.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
- -5.00%
Red Hat
Cambridgeshire

Red Hat
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cambridge 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 Cambridge region.

Cambridge 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 Cambridge region.

Cambridge Red Hat Hourly Rate Trend

Red Hat
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridge 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 47 (100.00%) Linux
2 42 (89.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 33 (70.21%) Oracle
4 20 (42.55%) ITIL
5 19 (40.43%) Microsoft
5 19 (40.43%) Oracle EBS
6 17 (36.17%) Active Directory
7 15 (31.91%) DHCP
7 15 (31.91%) DNS
7 15 (31.91%) PKI
8 14 (29.79%) VMware
9 13 (27.66%) RHCE
9 13 (27.66%) Apache
10 11 (23.40%) SQL
10 11 (23.40%) MS Exchange
10 11 (23.40%) Blackberry
10 11 (23.40%) Oracle RMAN
10 11 (23.40%) SCOM
10 11 (23.40%) Exchange Server 2010
11 10 (21.28%) EMC
11 10 (21.28%) Cisco
11 10 (21.28%) Perl
12 9 (19.15%) SAP
12 9 (19.15%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
12 9 (19.15%) ERP
12 9 (19.15%) Debian
12 9 (19.15%) EMC NetWorker
12 9 (19.15%) WSUS
13 8 (17.02%) Citrix
13 8 (17.02%) UNIX

Red Hat
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridge 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 1 (2.128%) LAMP
Application Platforms
1 13 (27.66%) Apache
2 11 (23.40%) MS Exchange
2 11 (23.40%) Exchange Server 2010
3 6 (12.77%) Exchange Server 2007
4 5 (10.64%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
5 4 (8.511%) Tomcat
6 2 (4.255%) Lync
Business Applications
1 19 (40.43%) Oracle EBS
Communications & Networking
1 15 (31.91%) DHCP
1 15 (31.91%) DNS
2 5 (10.64%) NetScaler
3 2 (4.255%) WAN
4 1 (2.128%) LAN
4 1 (2.128%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (12.77%) SQL Server
2 4 (8.511%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 3 (6.383%) Git (software)
2 2 (4.255%) Bazaar
2 2 (4.255%) Subversion
Job Titles
1 43 (91.49%) Administrator
2 37 (78.72%) Systems Administrator
3 13 (27.66%) Linux Administrator
4 7 (14.89%) Linux Systems Administrator
5 2 (4.255%) Systems Engineer
5 2 (4.255%) Senior Systems Engineer
5 2 (4.255%) Software Engineer
5 2 (4.255%) Linux Engineer
6 1 (2.128%) Senior Linux Administrator
6 1 (2.128%) Senior Linux Engineer
6 1 (2.128%) Senior Linux Systems Administrator
6 1 (2.128%) Senior Systems Administrator
6 1 (2.128%) Consultant
6 1 (2.128%) Linux Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 15 (31.91%) PKI
2 11 (23.40%) Blackberry
3 5 (10.64%) Clustering
4 1 (2.128%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 47 (100.00%) Linux
2 42 (89.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 9 (19.15%) Debian
4 8 (17.02%) UNIX
5 7 (14.89%) HPUX
6 6 (12.77%) Windows
7 5 (10.64%) Windows Server 2003
7 5 (10.64%) Windows Server 2008
8 3 (6.383%) Windows 7
9 2 (4.255%) Android
9 2 (4.255%) Ubuntu
9 2 (4.255%) Embedded Linux
10 1 (2.128%) VMS
10 1 (2.128%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (42.55%) ITIL
2 9 (19.15%) ERP
3 6 (12.77%) Data Analysis
3 6 (12.77%) Migration
4 3 (6.383%) E-business
5 1 (2.128%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 11 (23.40%) SQL
2 10 (21.28%) Perl
3 6 (12.77%) T-SQL
4 2 (4.255%) C
4 2 (4.255%) C++
4 2 (4.255%) Java
4 2 (4.255%) JavaScript
5 1 (2.128%) Python
5 1 (2.128%) Bash shell
Qualifications
1 13 (27.66%) RHCE
2 6 (12.77%) OCP
2 6 (12.77%) Oracle Certification
3 2 (4.255%) Degree
4 1 (2.128%) RHCA
4 1 (2.128%) RHCT
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.255%) GAMP
1 2 (4.255%) GxP
System Software
1 17 (36.17%) Active Directory
2 11 (23.40%) Oracle RMAN
3 7 (14.89%) VMware ESX
3 7 (14.89%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (14.89%) vSphere
4 5 (10.64%) XenApp
5 3 (6.383%) NFS
5 3 (6.383%) Microsoft App-V
6 1 (2.128%) Postfix
6 1 (2.128%) Sendmail
6 1 (2.128%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 11 (23.40%) SCOM
2 9 (19.15%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 9 (19.15%) EMC NetWorker
2 9 (19.15%) WSUS
3 6 (12.77%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
3 6 (12.77%) Backup Exec
4 3 (6.383%) SCCM
5 2 (4.255%) Nagios
6 1 (2.128%) Red Hat Satellite
6 1 (2.128%) Puppet
Vendors
1 33 (70.21%) Oracle
2 19 (40.43%) Microsoft
3 14 (29.79%) VMware
4 10 (21.28%) EMC
4 10 (21.28%) Cisco
5 9 (19.15%) SAP
6 8 (17.02%) Citrix
7 6 (12.77%) Symantec
8 5 (10.64%) NetApp
9 4 (8.511%) JBoss
10 1 (2.128%) HP