The first table below looks at the demand for RHCT 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 RHCT 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 Technician (RHCT)
Rank - 217 243
Contract jobs citing RHCT 0 1 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London - 0.013% 0.020%
As % of the Qualifications category - 0.093% 0.165%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 0
Average daily rate - £500 -
UK excluding London average daily rate £328 £310 £341
% change year-on-year
+5.64% -9.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
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%
RHCT
London

RHCT
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London RHCT Jobs Demand Trend

RHCT
Daily Rate Trend

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

City of London RHCT Daily Rate Trend

RHCT
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 3 (100.00%) RHCE
1 3 (100.00%) Red Hat
2 2 (66.67%) VMware
2 2 (66.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (66.67%) HP
2 2 (66.67%) TCP/IP
2 2 (66.67%) UNIX
2 2 (66.67%) Linux
3 1 (33.33%) Finance
3 1 (33.33%) Samba
3 1 (33.33%) MCDBA
3 1 (33.33%) Apache
3 1 (33.33%) Tomcat
3 1 (33.33%) NFS
3 1 (33.33%) AIX
3 1 (33.33%) Solaris
3 1 (33.33%) Perl
3 1 (33.33%) PHP
3 1 (33.33%) MySQL
3 1 (33.33%) IBM
3 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
3 1 (33.33%) OpenView
3 1 (33.33%) Intel
3 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (33.33%) SAN
3 1 (33.33%) LPAR
3 1 (33.33%) Bash shell
3 1 (33.33%) sed
3 1 (33.33%) SCSA
3 1 (33.33%) HP Data Protector

RHCT
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) Apache
1 1 (33.33%) Tomcat
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) TCP/IP
2 1 (33.33%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) MySQL
General
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) UNIX Administrator
1 2 (66.67%) Administrator
2 1 (33.33%) Linux Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) UNIX Systems Administrator
2 1 (33.33%) Systems Administrator
2 1 (33.33%) Systems Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) LPAR
1 1 (33.33%) HACMP
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 2 (66.67%) UNIX
1 2 (66.67%) Linux
2 1 (33.33%) AIX
2 1 (33.33%) Solaris
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Perl
1 1 (33.33%) PHP
1 1 (33.33%) Bash shell
1 1 (33.33%) sed
1 1 (33.33%) AWK
1 1 (33.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) RHCE
2 1 (33.33%) MCDBA
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (33.33%) SCSA
2 1 (33.33%) DV Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Samba
1 1 (33.33%) NFS
1 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
1 1 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (33.33%) VMware ESX
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) OpenView
1 1 (33.33%) HP Data Protector
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Red Hat
2 2 (66.67%) VMware
2 2 (66.67%) HP
3 1 (33.33%) IBM
3 1 (33.33%) Intel