The first table below looks at the demand for RHCE 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 RHCE over the 3 months to 24 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 Qualifications 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE)
Rank 199 207 232
Rank change year-on-year
+8 +25
Contract jobs citing RHCE 4 11 13
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.063% 0.140% 0.133%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.426% 1.022% 1.075%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 4 10
Average daily rate £360 £400 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-10.00% -11.11%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £336 £383 £260
10% offered a daily rate of more than £406 £470 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £338 £369
% change year-on-year
-11.11% -8.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £27.50
All Qualifications
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
940 1076 1209
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 14.74% 13.68% 12.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 620 646 767
Average daily rate £425 £425 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -5.55%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £250 £265
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £600 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 50 53
Average hourly rate £36.29 £17.85 £21.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+103.30% -15.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £13.00 £15.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £135.00 £28.20 £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.00 £22.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year
-2.22% -10.00%
RHCE
London

RHCE
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London RHCE Jobs Demand Trend

RHCE
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing RHCE across the City of London region.

City of London RHCE Daily Rate Trend

RHCE
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing RHCE 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 RHCE.

1 10 (100.00%) Red Hat
2 9 (90.00%) Linux
3 7 (70.00%) TCP/IP
3 7 (70.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (60.00%) VMware
4 6 (60.00%) UNIX
5 5 (50.00%) Perl
5 5 (50.00%) HP
5 5 (50.00%) CentOS
6 4 (40.00%) VMware Infrastructure
6 4 (40.00%) Bash shell
6 4 (40.00%) SAN
6 4 (40.00%) Red Hat Spacewalk
7 3 (30.00%) Nagios
7 3 (30.00%) Solaris
7 3 (30.00%) PHP
7 3 (30.00%) MySQL
7 3 (30.00%) Puppet
7 3 (30.00%) RHCT
7 3 (30.00%) Problem Management
8 2 (20.00%) AWK
8 2 (20.00%) Ruby
8 2 (20.00%) Wireshark
8 2 (20.00%) Banking
8 2 (20.00%) SCSA
8 2 (20.00%) Investment Banking
8 2 (20.00%) iSCSI
8 2 (20.00%) tcpdump
8 2 (20.00%) ZABBIX
8 2 (20.00%) Apache

RHCE
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing RHCE 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 RHCE. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 2 (20.00%) Apache
1 2 (20.00%) Tomcat
Communications & Networking
1 7 (70.00%) TCP/IP
2 4 (40.00%) SAN
3 2 (20.00%) Wireshark
3 2 (20.00%) iSCSI
3 2 (20.00%) tcpdump
4 1 (10.00%) SNMP
4 1 (10.00%) Junos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (30.00%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (10.00%) Git (software)
1 1 (10.00%) Gerrit
General
1 2 (20.00%) Banking
1 2 (20.00%) Investment Banking
1 2 (20.00%) Finance
2 1 (10.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) Linux Engineer
2 4 (40.00%) Administrator
3 3 (30.00%) Systems Administrator
3 3 (30.00%) UNIX Administrator
4 2 (20.00%) UNIX Systems Administrator
4 2 (20.00%) Team Leader
4 2 (20.00%) Systems Engineer
5 1 (10.00%) Network Engineer
5 1 (10.00%) Network Team Leader
5 1 (10.00%) Linux Administrator
5 1 (10.00%) Linux Systems Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) HACMP
1 1 (10.00%) LPAR
Operating Systems
1 9 (90.00%) Linux
2 7 (70.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 6 (60.00%) UNIX
4 5 (50.00%) CentOS
5 3 (30.00%) Solaris
6 1 (10.00%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (30.00%) Problem Management
2 2 (20.00%) Configuration Management
3 1 (10.00%) Migration
3 1 (10.00%) Change Management
3 1 (10.00%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 5 (50.00%) Perl
2 4 (40.00%) Bash shell
3 3 (30.00%) PHP
4 2 (20.00%) AWK
4 2 (20.00%) Ruby
4 2 (20.00%) sed
5 1 (10.00%) Shell Script
5 1 (10.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (30.00%) RHCT
2 2 (20.00%) SCSA
3 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (10.00%) MCDBA
3 1 (10.00%) DV Cleared
3 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) QA
System Software
1 4 (40.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (10.00%) Samba
2 1 (10.00%) NFS
2 1 (10.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (10.00%) VMware ESX
Systems Management
1 4 (40.00%) Red Hat Spacewalk
2 3 (30.00%) Nagios
2 3 (30.00%) Puppet
3 2 (20.00%) ZABBIX
4 1 (10.00%) OpenView
4 1 (10.00%) HP Data Protector
4 1 (10.00%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 10 (100.00%) Red Hat
2 6 (60.00%) VMware
3 5 (50.00%) HP
4 1 (10.00%) Intel
4 1 (10.00%) Juniper
4 1 (10.00%) IBM