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 Edinburgh 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 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 Edinburgh 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 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Red Hat
Rank 48 50 51
Rank change year-on-year
+2 +1
Contract jobs citing Red Hat 10 13 14
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh 1.245% 1.182% 1.071%
As % of the Vendors category 3.509% 3.736% 3.279%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 6
Average daily rate £400 £409 £320
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-2.14% +27.73%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £380 £392 £311
10% offered a daily rate of more than £460 £426 £359
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £409 £350
% change year-on-year
-8.25% +16.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £34.75 £33.50 £30.25
% change year-on-year
+3.73% +10.74%
All Vendors
Edinburgh
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
285 348 427
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh 35.49% 31.64% 32.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 103 149 168
Average daily rate £375 £360 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+4.16% -4.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £202 £250 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £518 £450 £488
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 4 18
Average hourly rate £20.25 £16.00 £15.29
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+26.56% +4.64%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.29 £14.75 £13.80
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £70.00 £23.75 £21.35
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
- -5.00%
Red Hat
Scotland

Red Hat
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Edinburgh 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 Edinburgh region.

Edinburgh Red Hat Daily Rate Trend

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 Edinburgh region.

Edinburgh Red Hat Hourly Rate Trend

Red Hat
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Edinburgh 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 15 (93.75%) Linux
2 10 (62.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 8 (50.00%) Windows
4 7 (43.75%) UNIX
5 6 (37.50%) Solaris
5 6 (37.50%) VMware
6 5 (31.25%) SQL
6 5 (31.25%) VMware Infrastructure
6 5 (31.25%) vSphere
7 4 (25.00%) MCSE
7 4 (25.00%) MS Exchange
7 4 (25.00%) Microsoft
7 4 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (25.00%) NetApp
7 4 (25.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 3 (18.75%) Samba
8 3 (18.75%) Disaster Recovery
8 3 (18.75%) Wi-Fi
8 3 (18.75%) MS Excel
8 3 (18.75%) SAN
8 3 (18.75%) DNS
8 3 (18.75%) DHCP
8 3 (18.75%) Apache
8 3 (18.75%) Tomcat
9 2 (12.50%) Oracle Exadata
9 2 (12.50%) WebSphere
9 2 (12.50%) JBoss
9 2 (12.50%) Java
9 2 (12.50%) AIX
9 2 (12.50%) WebLogic

Red Hat
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Edinburgh 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 2 (12.50%) Middleware
1 2 (12.50%) WebSphere
Application Platforms
1 4 (25.00%) MS Exchange
2 3 (18.75%) Apache
2 3 (18.75%) Tomcat
3 2 (12.50%) WebLogic
Applications
1 3 (18.75%) MS Excel
2 1 (6.250%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 3 (18.75%) DHCP
1 3 (18.75%) DNS
1 3 (18.75%) SAN
1 3 (18.75%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (6.250%) iSCSI
2 1 (6.250%) NAS
2 1 (6.250%) Fibre Channel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (12.50%) Oracle Exadata
2 1 (6.250%) SQL Server
2 1 (6.250%) Oracle 8/8i
2 1 (6.250%) Oracle 9i
2 1 (6.250%) TOAD
2 1 (6.250%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 1 (6.250%) SQL Server 2005
2 1 (6.250%) Oracle 11g
2 1 (6.250%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 1 (6.250%) Subversion
1 1 (6.250%) TortoiseSVN
General
1 2 (12.50%) Finance
1 2 (12.50%) Banking
2 1 (6.250%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 4 (25.00%) Administrator
2 3 (18.75%) Systems Administrator
2 3 (18.75%) Support Specialist
2 3 (18.75%) Virtualisation Specialist
3 2 (12.50%) Consultant
3 2 (12.50%) Linux Engineer
4 1 (6.250%) Linux Specialist
4 1 (6.250%) Virtualisation Consultant
4 1 (6.250%) Architect
4 1 (6.250%) Network Engineer
4 1 (6.250%) Systems Engineer
4 1 (6.250%) DBA
4 1 (6.250%) Senior Systems Engineer
4 1 (6.250%) Oracle DBA
4 1 (6.250%) Linux Administrator
4 1 (6.250%) Storage Engineer
4 1 (6.250%) Data Centre Engineer
4 1 (6.250%) Linux Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.250%) CLARiiON
1 1 (6.250%) Symmetrix
1 1 (6.250%) Symmetrix DMX
1 1 (6.250%) Enterprise Storage
Operating Systems
1 15 (93.75%) Linux
2 10 (62.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 8 (50.00%) Windows
4 7 (43.75%) UNIX
5 6 (37.50%) Solaris
6 2 (12.50%) AIX
7 1 (6.250%) Windows Server 2003
7 1 (6.250%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (18.75%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (6.250%) Migration
2 1 (6.250%) Strategic Planning
2 1 (6.250%) Capacity Planning
2 1 (6.250%) Change Control
Programming Languages
1 5 (31.25%) SQL
2 2 (12.50%) Java
3 1 (6.250%) Perl
3 1 (6.250%) Korn
3 1 (6.250%) Bash shell
Qualifications
1 4 (25.00%) MCSE
1 4 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 4 (25.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 5 (31.25%) VMware Infrastructure
1 5 (31.25%) vSphere
2 3 (18.75%) Samba
3 1 (6.250%) Oracle RMAN
3 1 (6.250%) NFS
Systems Management
1 1 (6.250%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 6 (37.50%) VMware
2 4 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (25.00%) NetApp
3 2 (12.50%) TIBCO
3 2 (12.50%) JBoss
3 2 (12.50%) Cisco
3 2 (12.50%) Sun
3 2 (12.50%) HP
3 2 (12.50%) Brocade
4 1 (6.250%) Red Gate
4 1 (6.250%) Oracle
4 1 (6.250%) EMC
4 1 (6.250%) Embarcadero
4 1 (6.250%) IBM
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