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

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE)
Rank 43 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing RHCE 8 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridgeshire 1.460% - -
As % of the Qualifications category 7.273% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 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
Cambridgeshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
110 130 84
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridgeshire 20.07% 18.57% 16.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 70 32
Average daily rate £313 £290 £255
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.75% +13.72%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £260 £160 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £518 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 21 22
Average hourly rate £35.00 £16.00 £13.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+118.75% +23.07%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.70 £11.86 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £38.10 £47.50 £18.75
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.00 £22.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year
-2.22% -10.00%
RHCE
East of England

RHCE
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cambridgeshire 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 Cambridgeshire region.

Cambridgeshire RHCE Daily Rate Trend

RHCE
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing RHCE within the Cambridgeshire region over the 3 months to 22 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 - 6 £320 -
RHCE
East of England

RHCE
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridgeshire 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 18 (100.00%) Linux
1 18 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 18 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 12 (66.67%) Perl
3 11 (61.11%) Debian
4 10 (55.56%) Apache
5 7 (38.89%) VMware
5 7 (38.89%) Subversion
5 7 (38.89%) Nagios
5 7 (38.89%) EMC
5 7 (38.89%) WAN
6 6 (33.33%) DHCP
6 6 (33.33%) Kerberos
6 6 (33.33%) DNS
6 6 (33.33%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
6 6 (33.33%) OCP
6 6 (33.33%) Oracle Certification
6 6 (33.33%) Microsoft
6 6 (33.33%) Active Directory
6 6 (33.33%) Python
6 6 (33.33%) ERP
6 6 (33.33%) Windows
6 6 (33.33%) SQL
6 6 (33.33%) T-SQL
6 6 (33.33%) Oracle
6 6 (33.33%) SAP
6 6 (33.33%) ITIL
6 6 (33.33%) Oracle RMAN
6 6 (33.33%) Oracle EBS
6 6 (33.33%) Migration

RHCE
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridgeshire 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 6 (33.33%) LAMP
Application Platforms
1 10 (55.56%) Apache
2 4 (22.22%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 6 (33.33%) Oracle EBS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (38.89%) WAN
2 6 (33.33%) DHCP
2 6 (33.33%) Kerberos
2 6 (33.33%) DNS
3 1 (5.556%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (22.22%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 7 (38.89%) Subversion
2 6 (33.33%) Git (software)
Job Titles
1 12 (66.67%) Administrator
2 8 (44.44%) Systems Administrator
3 7 (38.89%) Linux Engineer
4 6 (33.33%) Linux Administrator
5 3 (16.67%) Systems Engineer
6 2 (11.11%) Linux Systems Administrator
7 1 (5.556%) Senior Systems Engineer
7 1 (5.556%) Senior Systems Administrator
7 1 (5.556%) Senior Linux Administrator
7 1 (5.556%) Senior Linux Engineer
7 1 (5.556%) Senior Linux Systems Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 4 (22.22%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 18 (100.00%) Linux
1 18 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 11 (61.11%) Debian
3 6 (33.33%) Windows
4 4 (22.22%) UNIX
4 4 (22.22%) HPUX
5 2 (11.11%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (33.33%) ERP
1 6 (33.33%) ITIL
1 6 (33.33%) Migration
1 6 (33.33%) Data Analysis
2 1 (5.556%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 12 (66.67%) Perl
2 6 (33.33%) Python
2 6 (33.33%) SQL
2 6 (33.33%) T-SQL
2 6 (33.33%) Bash shell
Qualifications
1 6 (33.33%) OCP
1 6 (33.33%) Oracle Certification
2 4 (22.22%) RHCT
3 1 (5.556%) RHCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.11%) GAMP
1 2 (11.11%) GxP
System Software
1 6 (33.33%) Active Directory
1 6 (33.33%) Oracle RMAN
1 6 (33.33%) Hyper-V
1 6 (33.33%) Postfix
1 6 (33.33%) Sendmail
2 4 (22.22%) vSphere
2 4 (22.22%) VMware ESX
Systems Management
1 7 (38.89%) Nagios
2 6 (33.33%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 6 (33.33%) Puppet
2 6 (33.33%) Red Hat Satellite
2 6 (33.33%) EMC NetWorker
Vendors
1 18 (100.00%) Red Hat
2 7 (38.89%) VMware
2 7 (38.89%) EMC
3 6 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 6 (33.33%) Oracle
3 6 (33.33%) SAP
4 4 (22.22%) JBoss
5 1 (5.556%) Cisco
5 1 (5.556%) HP
5 1 (5.556%) NetApp