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 Chester region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Red Hat over the 3 months to 20 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 Vendors 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.

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
20 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Red Hat
Rank 22 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing Red Hat 3 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Chester 2.290% - -
As % of the Vendors category 4.225% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £350 £350
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £31.25 £31.00
% change year-on-year
+12.00% +0.80%
All Vendors
Chester
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
71 55 65
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Chester 54.20% 49.11% 51.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 15 22
Average daily rate £358 £363 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-1.37% -9.37%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £203 £293 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £520 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 3 1
Average hourly rate £42.50 £14.00 £47.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+203.57% -70.52%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.04 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
+0.21% -5.00%
Red Hat
Cheshire

Red Hat
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Chester 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 Chester region.

Chester Red Hat Daily Rate Trend

Red Hat
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Chester 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 13 (100.00%) Linux
2 12 (92.31%) UNIX
3 9 (69.23%) Windows
4 6 (46.15%) AIX
4 6 (46.15%) Blackberry
4 6 (46.15%) Windows XP
4 6 (46.15%) VB
4 6 (46.15%) Finance
4 6 (46.15%) Banking
4 6 (46.15%) Investment Banking
4 6 (46.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (46.15%) Windows 7
5 3 (23.08%) VMware
5 3 (23.08%) Clustering
5 3 (23.08%) MS Office
5 3 (23.08%) ITIL
5 3 (23.08%) HACMP
5 3 (23.08%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (15.38%) Shell Script
6 2 (15.38%) Configuration Management
6 2 (15.38%) Tru64
6 2 (15.38%) DNS
6 2 (15.38%) VMware ESX
6 2 (15.38%) Service Management
6 2 (15.38%) Change Management
6 2 (15.38%) PowerHA
7 1 (7.692%) NAS
7 1 (7.692%) SCCM
7 1 (7.692%) IBM
7 1 (7.692%) HP

Red Hat
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Chester 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 Platforms
1 1 (7.692%) IIS
Applications
1 3 (23.08%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 2 (15.38%) DNS
2 1 (7.692%) NAS
General
1 6 (46.15%) Finance
1 6 (46.15%) Banking
1 6 (46.15%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 6 (46.15%) Build Engineer
2 5 (38.46%) UNIX Specialist
3 1 (7.692%) UNIX Engineer
3 1 (7.692%) UNIX Systems Administrator
3 1 (7.692%) UNIX Administrator
3 1 (7.692%) UNIX Systems Engineer
3 1 (7.692%) Systems Administrator
3 1 (7.692%) Systems Engineer
3 1 (7.692%) Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 6 (46.15%) Blackberry
2 3 (23.08%) Clustering
2 3 (23.08%) HACMP
Operating Systems
1 13 (100.00%) Linux
2 12 (92.31%) UNIX
3 9 (69.23%) Windows
4 6 (46.15%) AIX
4 6 (46.15%) Windows XP
4 6 (46.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (46.15%) Windows 7
5 2 (15.38%) Tru64
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (23.08%) ITIL
2 2 (15.38%) Configuration Management
2 2 (15.38%) Service Management
2 2 (15.38%) Change Management
3 1 (7.692%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (46.15%) VB
2 2 (15.38%) Shell Script
System Software
1 3 (23.08%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (15.38%) VMware ESX
2 2 (15.38%) PowerHA
Systems Management
1 1 (7.692%) SCCM
Vendors
1 3 (23.08%) VMware
2 1 (7.692%) IBM
2 1 (7.692%) HP
2 1 (7.692%) Veritas