The first table below looks at the demand for Red Hat Enterprise Linux skills in IT contracts advertised for the Cheshire 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 18 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 Cheshire 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
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
Rank 65 60 69
Rank change year-on-year
-5 +9
Contract jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 7 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cheshire 0.546% 0.861% 0.321%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.826% 3.256% 1.003%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 2
Average daily rate £425 £355 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+19.71% +1.42%
UK excluding London average daily rate £378 £350 £350
% change year-on-year
+7.85% -
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
Cheshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
219 215 299
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cheshire 29.88% 26.45% 31.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 87 89 174
Average daily rate £325 £336 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.12% -4.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £205 £275 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £441 £475 £438
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 15 8
Average hourly rate £24.25 £20.00 £15.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+21.25% +31.14%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £14.42 £14.00 £10.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £43.70 £30.00 £30.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £17.50 £16.20
% change year-on-year
-8.57% +8.02%
Red Hat Enterprise Linux
North West

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

Cheshire 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 Cheshire region.

Cheshire 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 Cheshire region.

Cheshire 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 Cheshire region over the 3 months to 18 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
Chester - 2 - - 2
Warrington -1 1 - -
Knutsford - - - -
Macclesfield - - - -
Red Hat Enterprise Linux
North West

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cheshire 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 10 (100.00%) Linux
1 10 (100.00%) Red Hat
2 7 (70.00%) UNIX
3 6 (60.00%) AIX
4 3 (30.00%) HACMP
4 3 (30.00%) Shell Script
4 3 (30.00%) DNS
4 3 (30.00%) MS Office
5 2 (20.00%) Oracle
5 2 (20.00%) Windows
5 2 (20.00%) ITIL
5 2 (20.00%) IBM
5 2 (20.00%) Middleware
5 2 (20.00%) Configuration Management
5 2 (20.00%) Tru64
5 2 (20.00%) Service Management
5 2 (20.00%) Change Management
5 2 (20.00%) VMware
5 2 (20.00%) VMware ESX
5 2 (20.00%) Clustering
5 2 (20.00%) PowerHA
5 2 (20.00%) Security Cleared
5 2 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (10.00%) Rational Functional Tester
6 1 (10.00%) Oracle Fusion
6 1 (10.00%) NAS
6 1 (10.00%) Bash shell
6 1 (10.00%) Oracle Identity Manager
6 1 (10.00%) Firewall
6 1 (10.00%) SAML

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cheshire 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 2 (20.00%) Middleware
2 1 (10.00%) WebSphere
2 1 (10.00%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (10.00%) XML
2 1 (10.00%) SAML
Application Platforms
1 1 (10.00%) WebSphere Application Server
1 1 (10.00%) IIS
1 1 (10.00%) iPlanet
Applications
1 3 (30.00%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 3 (30.00%) DNS
2 1 (10.00%) SSL
2 1 (10.00%) Firewall
2 1 (10.00%) NAS
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Rational Functional Tester
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) UNIX Specialist
2 1 (10.00%) Security Architect
2 1 (10.00%) Linux Systems Administrator
2 1 (10.00%) WebSphere Consultant
2 1 (10.00%) Linux Administrator
2 1 (10.00%) Oracle Architect
2 1 (10.00%) Architect
2 1 (10.00%) Consultant
2 1 (10.00%) Systems Administrator
2 1 (10.00%) Technical Consultant
2 1 (10.00%) Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) HACMP
2 2 (20.00%) Clustering
3 1 (10.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 10 (100.00%) Linux
2 7 (70.00%) UNIX
3 6 (60.00%) AIX
4 2 (20.00%) Windows
4 2 (20.00%) Tru64
5 1 (10.00%) VMS
5 1 (10.00%) HPUX
5 1 (10.00%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (20.00%) ITIL
1 2 (20.00%) Configuration Management
1 2 (20.00%) Service Management
1 2 (20.00%) Change Management
2 1 (10.00%) Test Scripting
2 1 (10.00%) Project Management
2 1 (10.00%) SOA
Programming Languages
1 3 (30.00%) Shell Script
2 1 (10.00%) Korn
2 1 (10.00%) Bash shell
2 1 (10.00%) Perl
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (10.00%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 2 (20.00%) VMware ESX
1 2 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (20.00%) PowerHA
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) Oracle Identity Manager
Vendors
1 10 (100.00%) Red Hat
2 2 (20.00%) VMware
2 2 (20.00%) Oracle
2 2 (20.00%) IBM
3 1 (10.00%) HP