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 City of London 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 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.

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 131 99 123
Rank change year-on-year
-32 +24
Contract jobs citing Red Hat 87 132 125
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 1.263% 1.735% 1.247%
As % of the Vendors category 2.764% 4.070% 2.921%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 83 102
Average daily rate £438 £400 £463
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+9.37% -13.51%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £333 £250 £325
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £500 £548
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £350 £350
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Average hourly rate - - £21.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £31.25 £31.00
% change year-on-year
+12.00% +0.80%
All Vendors
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
3148 3243 4280
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 45.68% 42.62% 42.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 2228 2221 2982
Average daily rate £425 £425 £475
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -10.52%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £275 £290
10% offered a daily rate of more than £576 £600 £625
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 115 93 139
Average hourly rate £22.50 £21.00 £22.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% -4.54%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.45 £12.50 £14.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £59.00 £39.00 £50.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.04 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
+0.21% -5.00%
Red Hat
London

Red Hat
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London 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 City of London region.

City of London Red Hat Daily Rate Trend

Red Hat
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Red Hat across the City of London region over the 3 months to 20 June 2013.

City of London Red Hat Daily Rate Histogram

Red Hat
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Red Hat across the City of London region.

City of London Red Hat Hourly Rate Trend

Red Hat
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London 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.

1 154 (90.59%) Linux
2 107 (62.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 80 (47.06%) UNIX
4 65 (38.24%) Solaris
5 55 (32.35%) Oracle
6 52 (30.59%) Banking
7 51 (30.00%) Windows
8 48 (28.24%) Finance
9 44 (25.88%) VMware
10 39 (22.94%) Perl
11 38 (22.35%) SAN
12 33 (19.41%) Shell Script
13 32 (18.82%) HP
14 31 (18.24%) Java
15 29 (17.06%) EMC
16 28 (16.47%) VMware Infrastructure
17 26 (15.29%) Nagios
18 25 (14.71%) SUSE
19 24 (14.12%) SQL
20 22 (12.94%) Apache
21 21 (12.35%) Veritas
21 21 (12.35%) Investment Banking
22 20 (11.76%) Sun
23 19 (11.18%) IBM
23 19 (11.18%) Security Cleared
24 18 (10.59%) vSphere
24 18 (10.59%) TCP/IP
25 17 (10.00%) DNS
25 17 (10.00%) Cisco
25 17 (10.00%) ITIL

Red Hat
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London 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 Development
1 8 (4.706%) Web Services
2 6 (3.529%) LAMP
3 5 (2.941%) Middleware
4 4 (2.353%) JMS
4 4 (2.353%) XML
5 3 (1.765%) REST
5 3 (1.765%) SAML
6 2 (1.176%) CSS
6 2 (1.176%) Servlets
6 2 (1.176%) SOAP
6 2 (1.176%) OSGi
6 2 (1.176%) Oracle Fusion
6 2 (1.176%) Java EE
7 1 (0.588%) WCF
7 1 (0.588%) FIX Protocol
7 1 (0.588%) WebSphere
7 1 (0.588%) Hibernate
7 1 (0.588%) Spring
7 1 (0.588%) JTA
7 1 (0.588%) JTS
Application Platforms
1 22 (12.94%) Apache
2 12 (7.059%) Tomcat
3 6 (3.529%) SharePoint
4 5 (2.941%) SharePoint Server
4 5 (2.941%) Amazon AWS
5 4 (2.353%) OpenStack
5 4 (2.353%) ESB
6 3 (1.765%) CloudStack
7 2 (1.176%) MS Exchange
7 2 (1.176%) Exchange Server 2007
8 1 (0.588%) Drupal
8 1 (0.588%) Exchange Server 2003
8 1 (0.588%) Magento
8 1 (0.588%) Confluence
8 1 (0.588%) Rackspace Cloud
8 1 (0.588%) Lync
8 1 (0.588%) Exchange Server 2010
8 1 (0.588%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
8 1 (0.588%) IBM HTTP Server
8 1 (0.588%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 3 (1.765%) MS Excel
2 2 (1.176%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 8 (4.706%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (1.176%) Summit
2 2 (1.176%) Front Arena
2 2 (1.176%) RMDS
2 2 (1.176%) Oracle Applications
2 2 (1.176%) Oracle BRM
3 1 (0.588%) 3000 Xtra
3 1 (0.588%) SunGard Stream Clearvision
Communications & Networking
1 38 (22.35%) SAN
2 18 (10.59%) TCP/IP
3 17 (10.00%) DNS
4 14 (8.235%) LDAP
5 11 (6.471%) NAS
6 8 (4.706%) Internet
6 8 (4.706%) Firewall
7 7 (4.118%) DHCP
8 5 (2.941%) Cisco Nexus
8 5 (2.941%) Fibre Channel
9 4 (2.353%) HTTP
10 3 (1.765%) FWSM
10 3 (1.765%) BIG-IP
10 3 (1.765%) Kerberos
10 3 (1.765%) SSL
10 3 (1.765%) SMTP
11 2 (1.176%) SNMP
11 2 (1.176%) SSH
11 2 (1.176%) FCoE
11 2 (1.176%) tcpdump
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (8.824%) Oracle 11g
2 12 (7.059%) MySQL
3 10 (5.882%) Oracle 10g
4 9 (5.294%) SQL Server
5 8 (4.706%) Oracle 8/8i
5 8 (4.706%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (1.176%) RDBMS
6 2 (1.176%) SQL Server 2000
6 2 (1.176%) SQL Server 2005
7 1 (0.588%) SQL Server 2008
7 1 (0.588%) OpenWorks
7 1 (0.588%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.588%) Oracle Exadata
7 1 (0.588%) GIS
7 1 (0.588%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.588%) MS Access
7 1 (0.588%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 5 (2.941%) Subversion
2 3 (1.765%) JIRA
2 3 (1.765%) Jenkins
2 3 (1.765%) Hudson
3 2 (1.176%) Git (software)
4 1 (0.588%) Selenium
4 1 (0.588%) jMock
4 1 (0.588%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 1 (0.588%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (0.588%) WebDriver
4 1 (0.588%) Gerrit
4 1 (0.588%) Bugzilla
4 1 (0.588%) Maven
4 1 (0.588%) ClearQuest
4 1 (0.588%) JUnit
4 1 (0.588%) ClearCase
General
1 52 (30.59%) Banking
2 48 (28.24%) Finance
3 21 (12.35%) Investment Banking
4 6 (3.529%) Financial Institution
4 6 (3.529%) Telecoms
5 5 (2.941%) Advertising
6 3 (1.765%) Front Office
6 3 (1.765%) Back Office
6 3 (1.765%) Retail
7 2 (1.176%) Billing
7 2 (1.176%) Manufacturing
7 2 (1.176%) French Language
7 2 (1.176%) German Language
8 1 (0.588%) Retail Banking
8 1 (0.588%) Avionics
8 1 (0.588%) Publishing
8 1 (0.588%) Aerospace
8 1 (0.588%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 34 (20.00%) Administrator
2 31 (18.24%) Systems Administrator
3 18 (10.59%) Linux Administrator
3 18 (10.59%) UNIX Systems Administrator
4 17 (10.00%) UNIX Administrator
4 17 (10.00%) Linux Systems Administrator
5 16 (9.412%) Analyst
6 12 (7.059%) Linux Engineer
6 12 (7.059%) DBA
7 10 (5.882%) Oracle DBA
8 9 (5.294%) Support Analyst
9 8 (4.706%) Linux Specialist
10 7 (4.118%) Consultant
10 7 (4.118%) UNIX Engineer
11 6 (3.529%) Systems Engineer
12 5 (2.941%) AIX Consultant
12 5 (2.941%) 3rd Line Support
12 5 (2.941%) Support Engineer
12 5 (2.941%) Developer
12 5 (2.941%) Server Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 13 (7.647%) Clustering
2 12 (7.059%) Open Source
3 6 (3.529%) Equities
4 5 (2.941%) LPAR
4 5 (2.941%) CLARiiON
5 4 (2.353%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 3 (1.765%) Replication
6 3 (1.765%) Fixed Income
7 2 (1.176%) Client/Server
7 2 (1.176%) Firmware
7 2 (1.176%) AS400
7 2 (1.176%) Mainframe
7 2 (1.176%) Blackberry
7 2 (1.176%) Enterprise Storage
7 2 (1.176%) New Media
7 2 (1.176%) Statistics
8 1 (0.588%) Computer Science
8 1 (0.588%) Fat Client
8 1 (0.588%) Celerra
8 1 (0.588%) Cloud Computing
Operating Systems
1 154 (90.59%) Linux
2 107 (62.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 80 (47.06%) UNIX
4 65 (38.24%) Solaris
5 51 (30.00%) Windows
6 25 (14.71%) SUSE
7 17 (10.00%) CentOS
8 16 (9.412%) Windows Server 2008
8 16 (9.412%) AIX
9 15 (8.824%) Windows Server 2003
10 13 (7.647%) HPUX
11 6 (3.529%) Debian
11 6 (3.529%) Oracle Linux
12 5 (2.941%) Windows 7
12 5 (2.941%) Windows XP
13 4 (2.353%) Ubuntu
14 3 (1.765%) Windows 2000
15 2 (1.176%) VMS
15 2 (1.176%) OpenVMS
16 1 (0.588%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (10.00%) ITIL
2 14 (8.235%) Configuration Management
3 13 (7.647%) Migration
4 10 (5.882%) High Availability
5 9 (5.294%) Load Balancing
6 6 (3.529%) Software Deployment
7 5 (2.941%) Service Delivery
7 5 (2.941%) Project Management
7 5 (2.941%) Agile Software Development
8 4 (2.353%) Change Management
8 4 (2.353%) Capacity Management
8 4 (2.353%) Problem Management
9 3 (1.765%) Electronic Trading
9 3 (1.765%) User Acceptance Testing
9 3 (1.765%) Incident Management
9 3 (1.765%) Disaster Recovery
9 3 (1.765%) Stakeholder Management
10 2 (1.176%) CRM
10 2 (1.176%) E-Commerce
10 2 (1.176%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 39 (22.94%) Perl
2 33 (19.41%) Shell Script
3 31 (18.24%) Java
4 24 (14.12%) SQL
5 13 (7.647%) Bash shell
6 12 (7.059%) PHP
6 12 (7.059%) C++
7 11 (6.471%) C
8 9 (5.294%) Python
9 6 (3.529%) Ruby
10 5 (2.941%) Korn
11 2 (1.176%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.588%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.588%) Clojure
12 1 (0.588%) sed
12 1 (0.588%) AWK
12 1 (0.588%) JavaScript
12 1 (0.588%) C#
Qualifications
1 19 (11.18%) Security Cleared
2 14 (8.235%) DV Cleared
3 8 (4.706%) RHCE
4 7 (4.118%) SCSA
5 5 (2.941%) Sun Certification
6 4 (2.353%) SC Cleared
7 3 (1.765%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (1.765%) MCSE
8 2 (1.176%) MCP
8 2 (1.176%) CCNA
8 2 (1.176%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (1.176%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 2 (1.176%) VCP4
9 1 (0.588%) MCITP
9 1 (0.588%) CCEE
9 1 (0.588%) Linux+ Certification
9 1 (0.588%) RHCT
9 1 (0.588%) CCNP
9 1 (0.588%) IBM AIX Certification
9 1 (0.588%) CCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (1.765%) Solvency II
2 2 (1.176%) ISO 9001
2 2 (1.176%) SLA
2 2 (1.176%) QA
System Software
1 28 (16.47%) VMware Infrastructure
2 18 (10.59%) vSphere
3 15 (8.824%) Oracle RAC
4 13 (7.647%) Veritas Cluster Server
5 12 (7.059%) Veritas Volume Manager
6 11 (6.471%) Active Directory
7 9 (5.294%) Oracle RMAN
8 8 (4.706%) VMware ESXi
8 8 (4.706%) NFS
9 6 (3.529%) VMware ESX
10 5 (2.941%) VMware Workstation
11 4 (2.353%) XenApp
11 4 (2.353%) XenDesktop
12 3 (1.765%) Veritas File System
12 3 (1.765%) vCloud
13 2 (1.176%) EMC RecoverPoint
14 1 (0.588%) Squid
14 1 (0.588%) IAG
14 1 (0.588%) UAG
14 1 (0.588%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 26 (15.29%) Nagios
2 13 (7.647%) Puppet
3 10 (5.882%) Data Guard
4 6 (3.529%) BladeLogic
4 6 (3.529%) SCCM
5 5 (2.941%) SCOM
5 5 (2.941%) NetBackup
5 5 (2.941%) Tivoli
5 5 (2.941%) BMC PATROL
6 4 (2.353%) Red Hat Spacewalk
7 3 (1.765%) Splunk
7 3 (1.765%) Zenoss
7 3 (1.765%) Control-M
8 2 (1.176%) Foglight
8 2 (1.176%) CFEngine
8 2 (1.176%) Red Hat Satellite
8 2 (1.176%) HP Data Protector
8 2 (1.176%) ZABBIX
8 2 (1.176%) Veritas Storage Foundation
9 1 (0.588%) EMC NetWorker
Vendors
1 55 (32.35%) Oracle
2 44 (25.88%) VMware
3 32 (18.82%) HP
4 29 (17.06%) EMC
5 21 (12.35%) Veritas
6 20 (11.76%) Sun
7 19 (11.18%) IBM
8 17 (10.00%) Cisco
9 10 (5.882%) Citrix
9 10 (5.882%) Microsoft
10 9 (5.294%) BMC
11 8 (4.706%) NetApp
12 6 (3.529%) Murex
13 5 (2.941%) F5
13 5 (2.941%) Sophos
14 4 (2.353%) Sybase
14 4 (2.353%) CheckPoint
14 4 (2.353%) Rackspace
15 3 (1.765%) JBoss
16 2 (1.176%) Siebel
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