The first table below looks at the demand for Red Hat Enterprise Linux skills in IT contracts advertised for the City of London 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 17 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 of the Operating Systems category for the City of London 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
Rank 141 130 163
Rank change year-on-year
-11 +33
Contract jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 61 84 83
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.969% 1.080% 0.843%
As % of the Operating Systems category 4.919% 5.444% 4.424%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 54 63
Average daily rate £413 £416 £500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-0.90% -16.75%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £318 £261 £403
10% offered a daily rate of more than £513 £475 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £475 £350
% change year-on-year
-21.05% +35.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
Average hourly rate £54.00 £14.50 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+272.41% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.50 £30.25 £27.50
% change year-on-year
+17.35% +10.00%
All Operating Systems
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
1240 1543 1876
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 19.70% 19.83% 19.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 850 964 1245
Average daily rate £400 £400 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -11.11%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £235 £225 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £550 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 76 97 108
Average hourly rate £31.25 £20.00 £19.75
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+56.25% +1.26%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.50 £12.80 £12.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £135.00 £37.00 £35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £17.00 £16.20
% change year-on-year
-5.88% +4.93%
Red Hat Enterprise Linux
London

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

City of London 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 City of London region.

City of London Red Hat Enterprise Linux Daily Rate Trend

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux across the City of London region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

City of London Red Hat Enterprise Linux Daily Rate Histogram

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 City of London region.

City of London Red Hat Enterprise Linux Hourly Rate Trend

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London 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.

1 126 (96.92%) Linux
2 120 (92.31%) Red Hat
3 61 (46.92%) UNIX
4 54 (41.54%) Windows
5 51 (39.23%) Oracle
6 41 (31.54%) Finance
7 40 (30.77%) VMware
7 40 (30.77%) Banking
8 39 (30.00%) Solaris
9 36 (27.69%) HP
10 34 (26.15%) SAN
11 32 (24.62%) EMC
12 27 (20.77%) VMware Infrastructure
13 25 (19.23%) Shell Script
14 24 (18.46%) Sun
14 24 (18.46%) Security Cleared
15 23 (17.69%) Investment Banking
16 22 (16.92%) Perl
17 21 (16.15%) Windows Server 2008
18 19 (14.62%) DNS
18 19 (14.62%) Nagios
19 18 (13.85%) SQL
19 18 (13.85%) Clustering
19 18 (13.85%) DV Cleared
19 18 (13.85%) vSphere
20 17 (13.08%) Windows Server 2003
21 16 (12.31%) ITIL
22 15 (11.54%) Java
22 15 (11.54%) Apache
22 15 (11.54%) TCP/IP

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London 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 7 (5.385%) LAMP
2 6 (4.615%) Middleware
3 5 (3.846%) Web Services
4 3 (2.308%) HTML
4 3 (2.308%) .NET
4 3 (2.308%) SOAP
5 2 (1.538%) Oracle Fusion
5 2 (1.538%) XML
5 2 (1.538%) REST
6 1 (0.769%) Bing Maps
6 1 (0.769%) JMS
6 1 (0.769%) ADSI
6 1 (0.769%) WSH
6 1 (0.769%) ADO
6 1 (0.769%) ASP.NET
6 1 (0.769%) soapUI
6 1 (0.769%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
6 1 (0.769%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.769%) Java EE
6 1 (0.769%) JSON
Application Platforms
1 15 (11.54%) Apache
2 5 (3.846%) SharePoint
2 5 (3.846%) SharePoint Server
3 4 (3.077%) Tomcat
4 3 (2.308%) CloudStack
5 2 (1.538%) OpenStack
5 2 (1.538%) Amazon AWS
5 2 (1.538%) Confluence
5 2 (1.538%) IIS
6 1 (0.769%) WebSphere Application Server
6 1 (0.769%) MS Exchange
6 1 (0.769%) ActiveMQ
6 1 (0.769%) Oracle Application Server
6 1 (0.769%) Exchange Server 2010
6 1 (0.769%) Rackspace Cloud
6 1 (0.769%) Drupal
6 1 (0.769%) Magento
Applications
1 4 (3.077%) MS Excel
2 1 (0.769%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 8 (6.154%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (1.538%) Oracle Applications
2 2 (1.538%) Summit
2 2 (1.538%) Front Arena
2 2 (1.538%) Oracle BRM
Communications & Networking
1 34 (26.15%) SAN
2 19 (14.62%) DNS
3 15 (11.54%) TCP/IP
4 14 (10.77%) Firewall
5 10 (7.692%) NAS
6 8 (6.154%) DHCP
7 5 (3.846%) Internet
7 5 (3.846%) NetScaler
8 4 (3.077%) BIG-IP
8 4 (3.077%) SMTP
8 4 (3.077%) LDAP
8 4 (3.077%) VPN
8 4 (3.077%) HTTP
9 3 (2.308%) SNMP
9 3 (2.308%) LAN
9 3 (2.308%) WAN
9 3 (2.308%) SSL
9 3 (2.308%) SSH
9 3 (2.308%) Fibre Channel
9 3 (2.308%) FWSM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (10.77%) Oracle 11g
2 12 (9.231%) MySQL
3 10 (7.692%) Oracle 10g
4 8 (6.154%) SQL Server
4 8 (6.154%) Data Warehouse
5 7 (5.385%) Oracle 8/8i
6 5 (3.846%) SQL Server 2005
7 2 (1.538%) RDBMS
7 2 (1.538%) SQL Server 2000
8 1 (0.769%) GIS
8 1 (0.769%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (0.769%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (0.769%) KDB
8 1 (0.769%) SQL Server 2008
8 1 (0.769%) Oracle Exadata
8 1 (0.769%) OpenWorks
Development Applications
1 4 (3.077%) JIRA
2 3 (2.308%) Subversion
3 2 (1.538%) ClearCase
3 2 (1.538%) Git (software)
3 2 (1.538%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.769%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (0.769%) Gerrit
4 1 (0.769%) Selenium
4 1 (0.769%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 1 (0.769%) ClearQuest
4 1 (0.769%) Bugzilla
4 1 (0.769%) SilkTest
General
1 41 (31.54%) Finance
2 40 (30.77%) Banking
3 23 (17.69%) Investment Banking
4 7 (5.385%) Financial Institution
5 5 (3.846%) Telecoms
6 4 (3.077%) Advertising
7 2 (1.538%) Retail
7 2 (1.538%) Billing
7 2 (1.538%) Back Office
8 1 (0.769%) Front Office
8 1 (0.769%) Aerospace
8 1 (0.769%) Automotive
8 1 (0.769%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.769%) Publishing
8 1 (0.769%) Retail Banking
8 1 (0.769%) German Language
8 1 (0.769%) Avionics
Job Titles
1 21 (16.15%) Administrator
2 19 (14.62%) UNIX Systems Administrator
3 17 (13.08%) Systems Administrator
4 12 (9.231%) DBA
4 12 (9.231%) Linux Systems Administrator
4 12 (9.231%) Linux Administrator
5 10 (7.692%) Linux Engineer
5 10 (7.692%) Oracle DBA
6 9 (6.923%) UNIX Administrator
7 7 (5.385%) Linux Specialist
8 6 (4.615%) Server Technician
8 6 (4.615%) Systems Engineer
9 5 (3.846%) Server Engineer
10 4 (3.077%) 3rd Line Support
10 4 (3.077%) Support Engineer
10 4 (3.077%) Architect
11 3 (2.308%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 3 (2.308%) Team Leader
11 3 (2.308%) Virtualisation Specialist
11 3 (2.308%) Infrastructure Architect
Miscellaneous
1 18 (13.85%) Clustering
2 10 (7.692%) Open Source
3 6 (4.615%) CLARiiON
4 4 (3.077%) Mainframe
4 4 (3.077%) AS400
4 4 (3.077%) Replication
5 3 (2.308%) Client/Server
5 3 (2.308%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 2 (1.538%) Firmware
6 2 (1.538%) HACMP
6 2 (1.538%) Enterprise Storage
6 2 (1.538%) Cloud Computing
6 2 (1.538%) LPAR
6 2 (1.538%) Statistics
7 1 (0.769%) Computer Science
7 1 (0.769%) Celerra
7 1 (0.769%) Symmetrix DMX
7 1 (0.769%) N-Tier
7 1 (0.769%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 126 (96.92%) Linux
2 61 (46.92%) UNIX
3 54 (41.54%) Windows
4 39 (30.00%) Solaris
5 21 (16.15%) Windows Server 2008
6 17 (13.08%) Windows Server 2003
7 9 (6.923%) AIX
7 9 (6.923%) HPUX
8 7 (5.385%) CentOS
9 6 (4.615%) Oracle Linux
10 3 (2.308%) SUSE
10 3 (2.308%) Windows 2000
10 3 (2.308%) Windows XP
11 2 (1.538%) VMS
11 2 (1.538%) OpenVMS
11 2 (1.538%) Ubuntu
11 2 (1.538%) Windows Server 2012
11 2 (1.538%) Windows 7
12 1 (0.769%) Debian
12 1 (0.769%) Windows NT
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (12.31%) ITIL
2 14 (10.77%) Software Deployment
3 12 (9.231%) Configuration Management
3 12 (9.231%) Load Balancing
3 12 (9.231%) High Availability
4 11 (8.462%) Migration
5 7 (5.385%) E-Commerce
6 5 (3.846%) Service Delivery
6 5 (3.846%) Agile Software Development
7 4 (3.077%) Problem Management
7 4 (3.077%) Disaster Recovery
7 4 (3.077%) Project Management
8 3 (2.308%) Change Management
8 3 (2.308%) Information Security
9 2 (1.538%) Validation
9 2 (1.538%) Service Management
9 2 (1.538%) CRM
9 2 (1.538%) Business Intelligence
9 2 (1.538%) Risk Analysis
9 2 (1.538%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 25 (19.23%) Shell Script
2 22 (16.92%) Perl
3 18 (13.85%) SQL
4 15 (11.54%) Java
5 13 (10.00%) PHP
6 11 (8.462%) Bash shell
7 8 (6.154%) Python
8 6 (4.615%) Ruby
9 5 (3.846%) C++
10 4 (3.077%) sed
10 4 (3.077%) AWK
11 3 (2.308%) Korn
11 3 (2.308%) C
12 2 (1.538%) C#
12 2 (1.538%) JavaScript
13 1 (0.769%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 24 (18.46%) Security Cleared
2 18 (13.85%) DV Cleared
3 14 (10.77%) SCSA
4 13 (10.00%) Sun Certification
5 8 (6.154%) RHCE
6 4 (3.077%) CCNA
6 4 (3.077%) Cisco Certification
6 4 (3.077%) SC Cleared
7 3 (2.308%) RHCT
7 3 (2.308%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (1.538%) MCSE
8 2 (1.538%) Degree
9 1 (0.769%) MCITP
9 1 (0.769%) MCDBA
9 1 (0.769%) CCNP
9 1 (0.769%) MCP
9 1 (0.769%) PMP
9 1 (0.769%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (6.923%) QA
2 3 (2.308%) Solvency II
2 3 (2.308%) SLA
3 2 (1.538%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 27 (20.77%) VMware Infrastructure
2 18 (13.85%) vSphere
3 14 (10.77%) Active Directory
4 13 (10.00%) Oracle RAC
5 9 (6.923%) Oracle RMAN
5 9 (6.923%) VMware ESX
6 7 (5.385%) XenApp
7 6 (4.615%) XenDesktop
8 5 (3.846%) VMware Workstation
9 4 (3.077%) NFS
9 4 (3.077%) Veritas Cluster Server
9 4 (3.077%) VMware ESXi
10 3 (2.308%) vCloud
10 3 (2.308%) ProxySG
11 2 (1.538%) Samba
12 1 (0.769%) Squid
12 1 (0.769%) Citrix Presentation Server
12 1 (0.769%) qmail
12 1 (0.769%) Sendmail
12 1 (0.769%) Veritas Volume Manager
Systems Management
1 19 (14.62%) Nagios
2 11 (8.462%) Data Guard
3 10 (7.692%) Puppet
4 6 (4.615%) SCOM
5 5 (3.846%) Backup Exec
5 5 (3.846%) SCCM
6 4 (3.077%) Red Hat Spacewalk
6 4 (3.077%) BladeLogic
6 4 (3.077%) HP Data Protector
7 3 (2.308%) Zenoss
7 3 (2.308%) Splunk
8 2 (1.538%) Red Hat Satellite
8 2 (1.538%) Veritas Storage Foundation
8 2 (1.538%) NetBackup
8 2 (1.538%) OpenView
8 2 (1.538%) Legato
8 2 (1.538%) Tivoli
9 1 (0.769%) BMC PATROL
9 1 (0.769%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 1 (0.769%) CA SiteMinder
Vendors
1 120 (92.31%) Red Hat
2 51 (39.23%) Oracle
3 40 (30.77%) VMware
4 36 (27.69%) HP
5 32 (24.62%) EMC
6 24 (18.46%) Sun
7 14 (10.77%) Cisco
7 14 (10.77%) Citrix
8 11 (8.462%) IBM
8 11 (8.462%) Veritas
9 10 (7.692%) NetApp
10 8 (6.154%) Microsoft
10 8 (6.154%) F5
11 6 (4.615%) CommVault
11 6 (4.615%) BMC
11 6 (4.615%) Sophos
12 4 (3.077%) CheckPoint
13 3 (2.308%) Symantec
13 3 (2.308%) Blue Coat
13 3 (2.308%) Murex