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 East Midlands region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Red Hat 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 Vendors for the East Midlands 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Red Hat
Rank 74 70 62
Rank change year-on-year
-4 -8
Contract jobs citing Red Hat 9 10 22
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East Midlands 0.718% 0.729% 1.578%
As % of the Vendors category 1.557% 1.730% 3.679%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 1 9
Average daily rate £375 £313 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+20.00% -21.87%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £309 £313 £365
10% offered a daily rate of more than £435 £313 £406
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £389 £350
% change year-on-year
-3.53% +11.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £33.50 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £34.75 £33.00 £36.75
% change year-on-year
+5.30% -10.20%
All Vendors
East Midlands
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
578 578 598
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East Midlands 46.09% 42.16% 42.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 226 276 217
Average daily rate £325 £338 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.70% +3.84%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £227 £175 £160
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £475 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 62 51 70
Average hourly rate £18.00 £15.00 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+20.00% -25.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.09 £8.50 £11.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £30.00 £55.00 £34.75
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
- -5.00%
Red Hat
England

Red Hat
Jobs Demand Trend

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

East Midlands 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 East Midlands region.

East Midlands 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 East Midlands region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

East Midlands 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 East Midlands region.

East Midlands Red Hat Hourly Rate Trend

Red Hat
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Red Hat within the East Midlands region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Nottinghamshire 0 5 £363 -
Leicestershire -9 2 £438 +40.00%
Red Hat
England

Red Hat
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East Midlands 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 16 (66.67%) Windows
2 14 (58.33%) Linux
2 14 (58.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 12 (50.00%) UNIX
4 10 (41.67%) IBM
5 7 (29.17%) Oracle
5 7 (29.17%) WebSphere
6 5 (20.83%) Security Cleared
6 5 (20.83%) Migration
6 5 (20.83%) WebSphere MQ
7 4 (16.67%) Tivoli
7 4 (16.67%) Tivoli Storage Manager
7 4 (16.67%) HP
7 4 (16.67%) SQL
7 4 (16.67%) DB2
7 4 (16.67%) WebSphere Message Broker
7 4 (16.67%) Cisco
7 4 (16.67%) VMware
7 4 (16.67%) Windows Server 2008
8 3 (12.50%) Root Cause Analysis
8 3 (12.50%) Java EE
8 3 (12.50%) Subversion
8 3 (12.50%) J2EE
8 3 (12.50%) ITIL
8 3 (12.50%) HPUX
8 3 (12.50%) Microsoft
8 3 (12.50%) ERP
8 3 (12.50%) EMC
8 3 (12.50%) SAN
8 3 (12.50%) NetApp

Red Hat
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East Midlands 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 7 (29.17%) WebSphere
2 3 (12.50%) Java EE
2 3 (12.50%) J2EE
3 2 (8.333%) Middleware
4 1 (4.167%) soapUI
4 1 (4.167%) Web Services
4 1 (4.167%) XML
4 1 (4.167%) WSDL
Application Platforms
1 5 (20.83%) WebSphere MQ
2 4 (16.67%) WebSphere Message Broker
3 1 (4.167%) ESB
3 1 (4.167%) Lotus Domino
3 1 (4.167%) MQSeries
Applications
1 2 (8.333%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (12.50%) Oracle ERP
Communications & Networking
1 3 (12.50%) SAN
2 2 (8.333%) HTTP
2 2 (8.333%) Network Security
2 2 (8.333%) NAS
3 1 (4.167%) VLAN
3 1 (4.167%) TCP/IP
3 1 (4.167%) LAN
3 1 (4.167%) WAN
3 1 (4.167%) Intranet
3 1 (4.167%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (16.67%) DB2
2 1 (4.167%) SQL Server 2008
2 1 (4.167%) SQL Server
2 1 (4.167%) TOAD
2 1 (4.167%) RDBMS
2 1 (4.167%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (4.167%) Oracle 8/8i
2 1 (4.167%) SQL Server 2000
Development Applications
1 3 (12.50%) Subversion
General
1 2 (8.333%) Retail
1 2 (8.333%) Finance
2 1 (4.167%) Danish Language
2 1 (4.167%) French Language
2 1 (4.167%) Swedish Language
Job Titles
1 8 (33.33%) Administrator
2 5 (20.83%) Systems Administrator
3 4 (16.67%) Security Engineer
4 2 (8.333%) Systems Integrator
4 2 (8.333%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (8.333%) Agile Coach
5 1 (4.167%) Storage Architect
5 1 (4.167%) Teradata DBA
5 1 (4.167%) Migration Engineer
5 1 (4.167%) Migration Consultant
5 1 (4.167%) Oracle DBA
5 1 (4.167%) UNIX Systems Administrator
5 1 (4.167%) Senior Support Analyst
5 1 (4.167%) UNIX Administrator
5 1 (4.167%) SQL DBA
5 1 (4.167%) Senior Analyst
5 1 (4.167%) Architect
5 1 (4.167%) Developer
5 1 (4.167%) Analyst
5 1 (4.167%) Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 1 (4.167%) Clustering
1 1 (4.167%) Statistics
1 1 (4.167%) Client/Server
1 1 (4.167%) Management Information System
1 1 (4.167%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 16 (66.67%) Windows
2 14 (58.33%) Linux
2 14 (58.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 12 (50.00%) UNIX
4 4 (16.67%) Windows Server 2008
5 3 (12.50%) HPUX
5 3 (12.50%) Windows Server 2003
6 2 (8.333%) AIX
7 1 (4.167%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (20.83%) Migration
2 3 (12.50%) Root Cause Analysis
2 3 (12.50%) ITIL
2 3 (12.50%) ERP
3 2 (8.333%) Scrum
3 2 (8.333%) Extreme Programming
3 2 (8.333%) Service Management
3 2 (8.333%) E-Commerce
3 2 (8.333%) Kanban
3 2 (8.333%) TDD
3 2 (8.333%) Pair Programming
3 2 (8.333%) BDD
4 1 (4.167%) Market Research
4 1 (4.167%) Memory Management
4 1 (4.167%) Infrastructure Management
4 1 (4.167%) Data Analysis
4 1 (4.167%) Incident Management
4 1 (4.167%) Project Planning
4 1 (4.167%) EAI
4 1 (4.167%) SOA
Programming Languages
1 4 (16.67%) SQL
2 1 (4.167%) PL/SQL
2 1 (4.167%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (20.83%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.167%) RHCA
2 1 (4.167%) CCNP
2 1 (4.167%) MCSE
2 1 (4.167%) CISSP
2 1 (4.167%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (4.167%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (4.167%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.167%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (8.333%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (8.333%) vSphere
2 1 (4.167%) Veritas Volume Manager
2 1 (4.167%) Oracle RMAN
2 1 (4.167%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (4.167%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (16.67%) Tivoli
1 4 (16.67%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 10 (41.67%) IBM
2 7 (29.17%) Oracle
3 4 (16.67%) HP
3 4 (16.67%) Cisco
3 4 (16.67%) VMware
4 3 (12.50%) Microsoft
4 3 (12.50%) EMC
4 3 (12.50%) NetApp
5 2 (8.333%) PlateSpin
6 1 (4.167%) Isilon
6 1 (4.167%) Brocade
6 1 (4.167%) SAP
6 1 (4.167%) Sun
6 1 (4.167%) Veritas
6 1 (4.167%) Lotus