The first table below looks at the demand for RHCE 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 RHCE 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 Qualifications 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.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE)
Rank 82 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing RHCE 2 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East Midlands 0.159% - -
As % of the Qualifications category 1.176% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £295 £313 £375
% change year-on-year
-5.60% -16.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £27.50
All Qualifications
East Midlands
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
170 207 240
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East Midlands 13.48% 15.16% 17.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 88 85
Average daily rate £345 £350 £371
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-1.42% -5.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £205 £175
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £470 £493
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 35 26
Average hourly rate £14.50 £13.50 £20.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+7.40% -34.14%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.35 £8.50 £9.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £27.00 £56.00 £47.40
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £23.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year
-2.17% -8.00%
RHCE
England

RHCE
Jobs Demand Trend

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

East Midlands 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 East Midlands region.

East Midlands RHCE Daily Rate Trend

RHCE
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East Midlands 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 3 (100.00%) SQL
1 3 (100.00%) Oracle
1 3 (100.00%) HP
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
1 3 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (66.67%) Shell Script
2 2 (66.67%) Primavera
2 2 (66.67%) Oracle 11g
2 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared
2 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 2 (66.67%) Ruby
2 2 (66.67%) SAN
2 2 (66.67%) WebLogic
2 2 (66.67%) Python
2 2 (66.67%) Bash shell
2 2 (66.67%) Perl
2 2 (66.67%) Software Deployment
3 1 (33.33%) Isilon
3 1 (33.33%) LAN
3 1 (33.33%) WAN
3 1 (33.33%) Cisco
3 1 (33.33%) CCNP
3 1 (33.33%) ITIL
3 1 (33.33%) UNIX
3 1 (33.33%) NetApp
3 1 (33.33%) Red Hat
3 1 (33.33%) MCSE
3 1 (33.33%) EMC
3 1 (33.33%) CISSP
3 1 (33.33%) Cisco Certification

RHCE
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East Midlands 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 (66.67%) WebLogic
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) SAN
2 1 (33.33%) LAN
2 1 (33.33%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Oracle 11g
General
1 1 (33.33%) Danish Language
1 1 (33.33%) French Language
1 1 (33.33%) Swedish Language
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Systems Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Linux Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Support Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Support Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Statistics
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
1 3 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (33.33%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Software Deployment
2 1 (33.33%) ITIL
2 1 (33.33%) Data Security
2 1 (33.33%) Market Research
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
2 2 (66.67%) Python
2 2 (66.67%) Shell Script
2 2 (66.67%) Ruby
2 2 (66.67%) Bash shell
2 2 (66.67%) Perl
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) MCSE
2 1 (33.33%) CCNP
2 1 (33.33%) CISSP
2 1 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (33.33%) RHCA
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) HP
1 3 (100.00%) Oracle
2 2 (66.67%) Primavera
3 1 (33.33%) VMware
3 1 (33.33%) Isilon
3 1 (33.33%) Cisco
3 1 (33.33%) EMC
3 1 (33.33%) NetApp
3 1 (33.33%) Red Hat