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 Cambridgeshire 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 Cambridgeshire 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 30 44 45
Rank change year-on-year
+14 +1
Contract jobs citing Red Hat 20 18 6
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridgeshire 3.656% 2.624% 1.134%
As % of the Vendors category 7.299% 5.556% 2.985%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 6 4
Average daily rate £325 £334 £293
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-2.62% +14.10%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £312 £319 £262
10% offered a daily rate of more than £342 £355 £369
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
Cambridgeshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
274 324 201
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridgeshire 50.09% 47.23% 38.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 117 159 78
Average daily rate £325 £325 £310
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +4.83%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £223 £219 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £450 £413
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 31 50
Average hourly rate £17.50 £35.75 £13.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-51.04% +164.81%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.50 £10.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £37.50 £47.50 £27.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
- -5.00%
Red Hat
East of England

Red Hat
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cambridgeshire 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 Cambridgeshire region.

Cambridgeshire 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 Cambridgeshire region.

Cambridgeshire 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 Cambridgeshire 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
Cambridge +17 18 £330 -4.00%
Red Hat
East of England

Red Hat
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridgeshire 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 54 (100.00%) Linux
2 48 (88.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 33 (61.11%) Oracle
4 20 (37.04%) ITIL
4 20 (37.04%) Microsoft
5 19 (35.19%) Oracle EBS
6 18 (33.33%) Active Directory
6 18 (33.33%) RHCE
7 15 (27.78%) DNS
7 15 (27.78%) Perl
7 15 (27.78%) DHCP
7 15 (27.78%) VMware
7 15 (27.78%) PKI
8 14 (25.93%) Debian
9 13 (24.07%) Apache
10 12 (22.22%) MS Exchange
10 12 (22.22%) Windows
10 12 (22.22%) Exchange Server 2010
11 11 (20.37%) SCOM
11 11 (20.37%) Oracle RMAN
11 11 (20.37%) SQL
11 11 (20.37%) Cisco
11 11 (20.37%) Blackberry
12 10 (18.52%) EMC
13 9 (16.67%) Citrix
13 9 (16.67%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
13 9 (16.67%) UNIX
13 9 (16.67%) SAP
13 9 (16.67%) ERP
13 9 (16.67%) WSUS

Red Hat
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridgeshire 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 6 (11.11%) LAMP
Application Platforms
1 13 (24.07%) Apache
2 12 (22.22%) MS Exchange
2 12 (22.22%) Exchange Server 2010
3 6 (11.11%) Exchange Server 2007
4 5 (9.259%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
5 4 (7.407%) Tomcat
6 3 (5.556%) Lync
7 1 (1.852%) SharePoint 2010
7 1 (1.852%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.852%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 19 (35.19%) Oracle EBS
Communications & Networking
1 15 (27.78%) DNS
1 15 (27.78%) DHCP
2 7 (12.96%) WAN
3 6 (11.11%) Kerberos
4 5 (9.259%) NetScaler
5 1 (1.852%) VLAN
5 1 (1.852%) Cisco IOS
5 1 (1.852%) Fibre Channel
5 1 (1.852%) LAN
5 1 (1.852%) LDAP
5 1 (1.852%) Firewall
5 1 (1.852%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (11.11%) SQL Server
2 4 (7.407%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 8 (14.81%) Subversion
1 8 (14.81%) Git (software)
2 2 (3.704%) Bazaar
Job Titles
1 44 (81.48%) Administrator
2 38 (70.37%) Systems Administrator
3 14 (25.93%) Linux Administrator
4 8 (14.81%) Linux Systems Administrator
5 7 (12.96%) Linux Engineer
6 4 (7.407%) Systems Engineer
7 2 (3.704%) Software Engineer
7 2 (3.704%) Senior Systems Engineer
8 1 (1.852%) Linux Consultant
8 1 (1.852%) Senior Linux Administrator
8 1 (1.852%) Senior Linux Engineer
8 1 (1.852%) Senior Linux Systems Administrator
8 1 (1.852%) UNIX Systems Administrator
8 1 (1.852%) UNIX Administrator
8 1 (1.852%) Senior Systems Administrator
8 1 (1.852%) Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 15 (27.78%) PKI
2 11 (20.37%) Blackberry
3 5 (9.259%) Clustering
4 1 (1.852%) Computer Science
4 1 (1.852%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 54 (100.00%) Linux
2 48 (88.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 14 (25.93%) Debian
4 12 (22.22%) Windows
5 9 (16.67%) UNIX
6 7 (12.96%) HPUX
7 5 (9.259%) Windows Server 2008
7 5 (9.259%) Windows Server 2003
8 3 (5.556%) Windows 7
9 2 (3.704%) VMS
9 2 (3.704%) Android
9 2 (3.704%) Embedded Linux
9 2 (3.704%) Ubuntu
10 1 (1.852%) CentOS
10 1 (1.852%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (37.04%) ITIL
2 9 (16.67%) ERP
3 6 (11.11%) Migration
3 6 (11.11%) Data Analysis
4 3 (5.556%) E-business
5 1 (1.852%) Software Engineering
5 1 (1.852%) IC Design
5 1 (1.852%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 15 (27.78%) Perl
2 11 (20.37%) SQL
3 6 (11.11%) T-SQL
3 6 (11.11%) Python
3 6 (11.11%) Bash shell
4 2 (3.704%) C
4 2 (3.704%) C++
4 2 (3.704%) Java
4 2 (3.704%) JavaScript
5 1 (1.852%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 18 (33.33%) RHCE
2 6 (11.11%) OCP
2 6 (11.11%) Oracle Certification
3 4 (7.407%) RHCT
4 3 (5.556%) Degree
5 1 (1.852%) RHCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.704%) GAMP
1 2 (3.704%) GxP
System Software
1 18 (33.33%) Active Directory
2 11 (20.37%) Oracle RMAN
3 8 (14.81%) VMware ESX
3 8 (14.81%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (12.96%) vSphere
5 6 (11.11%) Hyper-V
5 6 (11.11%) Postfix
5 6 (11.11%) Sendmail
5 6 (11.11%) XenApp
6 4 (7.407%) NFS
7 3 (5.556%) Microsoft App-V
8 1 (1.852%) VMware Workstation
8 1 (1.852%) Samba
8 1 (1.852%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 11 (20.37%) SCOM
2 9 (16.67%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 9 (16.67%) WSUS
2 9 (16.67%) EMC NetWorker
3 7 (12.96%) Nagios
4 6 (11.11%) Backup Exec
4 6 (11.11%) Puppet
4 6 (11.11%) Red Hat Satellite
4 6 (11.11%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
5 3 (5.556%) SCCM
6 1 (1.852%) AppManager
Vendors
1 33 (61.11%) Oracle
2 20 (37.04%) Microsoft
3 15 (27.78%) VMware
4 11 (20.37%) Cisco
5 10 (18.52%) EMC
6 9 (16.67%) Citrix
6 9 (16.67%) SAP
7 6 (11.11%) Symantec
8 5 (9.259%) NetApp
9 4 (7.407%) JBoss
10 1 (1.852%) Cadence
10 1 (1.852%) CheckPoint
10 1 (1.852%) CommVault
10 1 (1.852%) HP
10 1 (1.852%) Sun