The first table below looks at the demand for RHCE in IT contracts advertised for the Cambridge region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited RHCE over the 3 months to 23 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 Qualifications 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.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE)
Rank 33 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing RHCE 6 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridge 1.829% - -
As % of the Qualifications category 8.955% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
Average daily rate £320 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £325 £369
% change year-on-year
-7.69% -11.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £27.50
All Qualifications
Cambridge
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
67 85 41
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridge 20.43% 20.14% 15.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 44 13
Average daily rate £308 £288 £250
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.95% +15.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £262 £160 £246
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £428 £383
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 18 9
Average hourly rate £37.00 £14.80 £12.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+150.00% +23.33%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £31.80 £11.65 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £39.20 £47.50 £21.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.00 £22.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year
-2.22% -10.00%
RHCE
Cambridgeshire

RHCE
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cambridge RHCE Jobs Demand Trend

RHCE
Daily Rate Trend

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

Cambridge RHCE Daily Rate Trend

RHCE
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridge region citing RHCE 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 RHCE.

1 13 (100.00%) Linux
1 13 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 13 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 10 (76.92%) Apache
3 7 (53.85%) EMC
3 7 (53.85%) Perl
3 7 (53.85%) VMware
4 6 (46.15%) Debian
4 6 (46.15%) Oracle EBS
4 6 (46.15%) Migration
4 6 (46.15%) Oracle RMAN
4 6 (46.15%) Data Analysis
4 6 (46.15%) EMC NetWorker
4 6 (46.15%) SQL
4 6 (46.15%) T-SQL
4 6 (46.15%) Oracle
4 6 (46.15%) SAP
4 6 (46.15%) ITIL
4 6 (46.15%) ERP
4 6 (46.15%) OCP
4 6 (46.15%) Oracle Certification
4 6 (46.15%) DHCP
4 6 (46.15%) DNS
4 6 (46.15%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 6 (46.15%) Microsoft
4 6 (46.15%) Active Directory
5 4 (30.77%) Tomcat
5 4 (30.77%) JBoss
5 4 (30.77%) UNIX
5 4 (30.77%) MySQL

RHCE
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridge region citing RHCE 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 RHCE. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (7.692%) LAMP
Application Platforms
1 10 (76.92%) Apache
2 4 (30.77%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 6 (46.15%) Oracle EBS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (46.15%) DHCP
1 6 (46.15%) DNS
2 2 (15.38%) WAN
3 1 (7.692%) Kerberos
3 1 (7.692%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (30.77%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 2 (15.38%) Subversion
2 1 (7.692%) Git (software)
Job Titles
1 12 (92.31%) Administrator
2 8 (61.54%) Systems Administrator
3 6 (46.15%) Linux Administrator
4 2 (15.38%) Linux Engineer
4 2 (15.38%) Linux Systems Administrator
5 1 (7.692%) Systems Engineer
5 1 (7.692%) Senior Systems Engineer
5 1 (7.692%) Senior Systems Administrator
5 1 (7.692%) Senior Linux Administrator
5 1 (7.692%) Senior Linux Engineer
5 1 (7.692%) Senior Linux Systems Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 4 (30.77%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 13 (100.00%) Linux
1 13 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 6 (46.15%) Debian
3 4 (30.77%) UNIX
3 4 (30.77%) HPUX
4 1 (7.692%) VMS
4 1 (7.692%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (46.15%) Migration
1 6 (46.15%) Data Analysis
1 6 (46.15%) ITIL
1 6 (46.15%) ERP
2 1 (7.692%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (53.85%) Perl
2 6 (46.15%) SQL
2 6 (46.15%) T-SQL
3 1 (7.692%) Python
3 1 (7.692%) Bash shell
Qualifications
1 6 (46.15%) OCP
1 6 (46.15%) Oracle Certification
2 1 (7.692%) RHCA
2 1 (7.692%) RHCT
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (15.38%) GAMP
1 2 (15.38%) GxP
System Software
1 6 (46.15%) Oracle RMAN
1 6 (46.15%) Active Directory
2 4 (30.77%) vSphere
2 4 (30.77%) VMware ESX
3 1 (7.692%) Hyper-V
3 1 (7.692%) Postfix
3 1 (7.692%) Sendmail
Systems Management
1 6 (46.15%) EMC NetWorker
1 6 (46.15%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 2 (15.38%) Nagios
3 1 (7.692%) Puppet
3 1 (7.692%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 13 (100.00%) Red Hat
2 7 (53.85%) EMC
2 7 (53.85%) VMware
3 6 (46.15%) Oracle
3 6 (46.15%) SAP
3 6 (46.15%) Microsoft
4 4 (30.77%) JBoss
5 1 (7.692%) NetApp
5 1 (7.692%) HP
5 1 (7.692%) Cisco