The first table below looks at the demand for Red Hat Enterprise Linux skills in IT contracts advertised for the Chester 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 Chester 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 24 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Chester 1.481% - -
As % of the Operating Systems category 4.545% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
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
Chester
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
44 33 37
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Chester 32.59% 29.20% 25.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 7 12
Average daily rate £300 £388 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-22.58% +29.16%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £255 £330 £290
10% offered a daily rate of more than £405 £550 £409
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 2 0
Average hourly rate £15.00 £14.00 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £17.50 £16.20
% change year-on-year
-8.57% +8.02%
Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Cheshire

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

Chester Red Hat Enterprise Linux Jobs Demand Trend

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Top 24 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Chester 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 6 (100.00%) Linux
1 6 (100.00%) Red Hat
2 5 (83.33%) UNIX
2 5 (83.33%) AIX
3 3 (50.00%) HACMP
4 2 (33.33%) Shell Script
4 2 (33.33%) Configuration Management
4 2 (33.33%) Tru64
4 2 (33.33%) Service Management
4 2 (33.33%) Change Management
4 2 (33.33%) VMware
4 2 (33.33%) VMware ESX
4 2 (33.33%) Clustering
4 2 (33.33%) Windows
4 2 (33.33%) MS Office
4 2 (33.33%) ITIL
4 2 (33.33%) DNS
4 2 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (33.33%) PowerHA
5 1 (16.67%) NAS
5 1 (16.67%) IIS
5 1 (16.67%) IBM
5 1 (16.67%) HP
5 1 (16.67%) Project Management

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Chester 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 Platforms
1 1 (16.67%) IIS
Applications
1 2 (33.33%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) DNS
2 1 (16.67%) NAS
Job Titles
1 5 (83.33%) UNIX Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) HACMP
2 2 (33.33%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 6 (100.00%) Linux
2 5 (83.33%) UNIX
2 5 (83.33%) AIX
3 2 (33.33%) Windows
3 2 (33.33%) Tru64
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (33.33%) ITIL
1 2 (33.33%) Configuration Management
1 2 (33.33%) Service Management
1 2 (33.33%) Change Management
2 1 (16.67%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) Shell Script
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) VMware ESX
1 2 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (33.33%) PowerHA
Vendors
1 6 (100.00%) Red Hat
2 2 (33.33%) VMware
3 1 (16.67%) IBM
3 1 (16.67%) HP