England Red Hat Linux Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Red Hat Linux skills within the England region with a comparison to our Operating Systems category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Red Hat Linux over the 3 months to 4 December 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Basildon Basingstoke Benfleet Berkshire Birmingham Brentford Bristol Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cheshire Chester City of London Crawley Croydon Devon Docklands, London East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Feltham Gloucestershire Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Hertfordshire Home Counties Isleworth Knaresborough Leeds Liverpool Livingston London M4 Corridor Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne North East North West North Yorkshire Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxfordshire Portsmouth Reading Ruislip Scotland Shropshire Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West Southampton Street Surrey Swindon Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Watford West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Wirral Woking Wokingham Yorkshire	3 months to 4 Dec 2008	Same period last year
Rank	198	242
Rank change on same period last year	+44
Matching contract IT job ads	419	527
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.680 %	0.575 %
As % of the category below	3.917 %	2.915 %
Daily rates quoted	190	207
Average minimum daily rate	£352	£384
Average daily rate	£368	£404
% change on same period last year	-9.00 %
Average maximum daily rate	£384	£424
UK excluding London average daily rate	£356	£347
% change on same period last year	+2.50 %
Hourly rates quoted	40	40
Average minimum hourly rate	£28.62	£33.20
Average hourly rate	£31.37	£35.44
% change on same period last year	-11.48 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£34.11	£37.68
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£31.67	£36.07
% change on same period last year	-12.20 %
Operating Systems England
Matching contract IT job ads	10698	18079
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	17.36 %	19.73 %
Daily rates quoted	3059	4850
Average minimum daily rate	£325	£360
Average daily rate	£343	£380
% change on same period last year	-9.61 %
Average maximum daily rate	£361	£400
UK excluding London average daily rate	£316	£319
% change on same period last year	-0.84 %
Hourly rates quoted	1866	2938
Average minimum hourly rate	£20.74	£20.98
Average hourly rate	£21.99	£22.32
% change on same period last year	-1.50 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£23.23	£23.66
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£21.97	£21.93
% change on same period last year	+0.17 %
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We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Red Hat Linux across the England region as a proportion of the total demand within the Operating Systems category.

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Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Red Hat Linux across the England region.

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Red Hat Linux across the England region over the 3 months to 4 December 2008.

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Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Red Hat Linux across the England region.

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Red Hat Linux across the England region over the 3 months to 4 December 2008.

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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 Linux within the England region over the 3 months to 4 December 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
London	+7	201	£378	-10.14 %
South East	+71	110	£351	-12.35 %
East of England	+18	45	£392	+21.55 %
South West	+37	28	£324	-13.52 %
North West	+23	16	£290	-0.21 %
Yorkshire	+37	9	£375	-
East Midlands	+24	7	£333	-
West Midlands	+9	5	£275	-15.38 %
North East	-	3	-	-
Midlands	+24	2	£413	-
South Coast	-	1	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing Red Hat Linux 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 Linux.

1 955 (98.45 %) Linux 2 945 (97.42 %) Red Hat 3 390 (40.21 %) UNIX 4 341 (35.15 %) Solaris 5 290 (29.90 %) Windows 6 261 (26.91 %) Oracle 7 182 (18.76 %) MySQL 8 168 (17.32 %) SAN 9 163 (16.80 %) Perl 10 157 (16.19 %) Windows Server 2003 11 152 (15.67 %) Apache 12 149 (15.36 %) Red Hat Enterprise Linux 13 146 (15.05 %) VERITAS 13 146 (15.05 %) HP 14 132 (13.61 %) IBM

15 131 (13.51 %) Shell Script 16 123 (12.68 %) Banking 17 121 (12.47 %) VMware 18 120 (12.37 %) Finance 19 118 (12.16 %) TCP/IP 20 115 (11.86 %) Firewall 21 111 (11.44 %) Active Directory 22 106 (10.93 %) Sun 23 97 (10.00 %) Cisco 23 97 (10.00 %) Microsoft 23 97 (10.00 %) Clustering 23 97 (10.00 %) Security Cleared 24 95 (9.794 %) Java 25 93 (9.588 %) EMC 26 91 (9.381 %) SQL

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing Red Hat Linux 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 Linux. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 60 (6.186 %) XML 2 59 (6.082 %) J2EE 3 53 (5.464 %) HTML 3 53 (5.464 %) WebSphere 4 43 (4.433 %) LAMP 5 42 (4.330 %) XSLT 6 38 (3.918 %) CSS 7 32 (3.299 %) XHTML 7 32 (3.299 %) Middleware 8 29 (2.990 %) Drupal 9 23 (2.371 %) WebServices 10 20 (2.062 %) SOAP 11 18 (1.856 %) AJAX 12 15 (1.546 %) .NET 13 14 (1.443 %) JMS 14 11 (1.134 %) Spring 15 10 (1.031 %) Hibernate 15 10 (1.031 %) J2SE 15 10 (1.031 %) COM+ 16 9 (0.928 %) CGI	Application Platforms 1 152 (15.67 %) Apache 2 76 (7.835 %) MS Exchange 3 73 (7.526 %) Tomcat 4 66 (6.804 %) JBoss 5 44 (4.536 %) IIS 5 44 (4.536 %) Exchange Server 2007 6 42 (4.330 %) CMS 7 40 (4.124 %) WebLogic 8 36 (3.711 %) Exchange Server 2003 9 22 (2.268 %) WebSphere Application Server 10 7 (0.722 %) WebSphere MQ 11 6 (0.619 %) SAS 11 6 (0.619 %) Oracle Application Server 12 5 (0.515 %) Oracle Workflow 12 5 (0.515 %) Rendezvous 12 5 (0.515 %) SharePoint 12 5 (0.515 %) Oracle Collaboration Suite 13 4 (0.412 %) ATG Dynamo 14 3 (0.309 %) ArcGIS 14 3 (0.309 %) ArcSDE
Applications 1 13 (1.340 %) MS Excel 2 8 (0.825 %) MS Visio 3 4 (0.412 %) CA Clarity 4 3 (0.309 %) MS Office 5 2 (0.206 %) Photoshop 6 1 (0.103 %) MS Project	Business Applications 1 12 (1.237 %) MFGPRO 2 10 (1.031 %) Oracle EBS 3 8 (0.825 %) BusinessWorks 3 8 (0.825 %) TIBCO iProcess 4 1 (0.103 %) Oracle ERP 4 1 (0.103 %) Oracle Applications 4 1 (0.103 %) Summit 4 1 (0.103 %) RMDS
Communications & Networking 1 168 (17.32 %) SAN 2 118 (12.16 %) TCP/IP 3 115 (11.86 %) Firewall 4 89 (9.175 %) DNS 5 49 (5.052 %) LDAP 6 35 (3.608 %) Internet 7 29 (2.990 %) NetScreen 8 27 (2.784 %) Cisco ASA 9 26 (2.680 %) DHCP 10 17 (1.753 %) VLAN 11 14 (1.443 %) WAN 12 13 (1.340 %) SMTP 13 11 (1.134 %) Intranet 14 10 (1.031 %) LAN 15 8 (0.825 %) VPN 15 8 (0.825 %) FTP 16 7 (0.722 %) HTTP 16 7 (0.722 %) iSCSI 17 5 (0.515 %) SNMP 18 4 (0.412 %) 3G	Database & Business Intelligence 1 182 (18.76 %) MySQL 2 74 (7.629 %) SQL Server 3 50 (5.155 %) Oracle 10g 4 30 (3.093 %) SQL Server 2000 5 18 (1.856 %) DB2 6 17 (1.753 %) Oracle 8/8i 6 17 (1.753 %) FileMaker 6 17 (1.753 %) SQL Server 2005 7 13 (1.340 %) Oracle 9i 8 12 (1.237 %) RDBMS 9 7 (0.722 %) Oracle 11g 9 7 (0.722 %) Sybase ASE 10 6 (0.619 %) BusinessObjects 10 6 (0.619 %) ETL 11 4 (0.412 %) Datawarehouse 11 4 (0.412 %) Informix 12 3 (0.309 %) GIS 12 3 (0.309 %) Oracle OWB 13 1 (0.103 %) PostgreSQL 13 1 (0.103 %) Sybase IQ
Development Applications 1 56 (5.773 %) Subversion 2 9 (0.928 %) Eclipse 3 6 (0.619 %) MSI 4 4 (0.412 %) JIRA 5 3 (0.309 %) JUnit 5 3 (0.309 %) Flash 6 2 (0.206 %) RequisitePro 6 2 (0.206 %) ClearQuest 6 2 (0.206 %) Log4j 7 1 (0.103 %) Ant 7 1 (0.103 %) Rational Robot 7 1 (0.103 %) JMeter 7 1 (0.103 %) Bugzilla 7 1 (0.103 %) ProC 7 1 (0.103 %) ClearCase	General 1 123 (12.68 %) Banking 2 120 (12.37 %) Finance 3 80 (8.247 %) Investment Banking 4 61 (6.289 %) Government 5 27 (2.784 %) Retail 6 24 (2.474 %) Telecoms 7 14 (1.443 %) Retail Banking 8 11 (1.134 %) Publishing 9 9 (0.928 %) Health 10 8 (0.825 %) Construction 11 7 (0.722 %) Education 12 6 (0.619 %) Music 12 6 (0.619 %) Marketing 13 5 (0.515 %) Legal 13 5 (0.515 %) Financial Institution 13 5 (0.515 %) Home Office 14 4 (0.412 %) Pharmaceutical 14 4 (0.412 %) Auditing 15 3 (0.309 %) Insurance 15 3 (0.309 %) Back Office
Job Titles 1 308 (31.75 %) Administrator 2 234 (24.12 %) Systems Administrator 3 133 (13.71 %) Linux Administrator 4 108 (11.13 %) UNIX Administrator 5 95 (9.794 %) Linux Systems Administrator 6 94 (9.691 %) Developer 7 85 (8.763 %) UNIX Systems Administrator 8 79 (8.144 %) Linux Engineer 9 62 (6.392 %) Analyst 10 44 (4.536 %) Consultant 10 44 (4.536 %) Support Analyst 11 42 (4.330 %) Architect 12 39 (4.021 %) Data Centre Engineer 13 37 (3.814 %) UNIX Engineer 14 35 (3.608 %) Systems Engineer 15 34 (3.505 %) UNIX Support 16 33 (3.402 %) Linux Support 17 28 (2.887 %) Web Administrator 17 28 (2.887 %) Web Developer 18 25 (2.577 %) Support Engineer	Miscellaneous 1 97 (10.00 %) Clustering 2 29 (2.990 %) PKI 3 19 (1.959 %) Replication 4 16 (1.649 %) CLARiiON 5 7 (0.722 %) HACMP 6 6 (0.619 %) Management Information System 7 5 (0.515 %) Equities 7 5 (0.515 %) Wiki 8 4 (0.412 %) W3C 9 3 (0.309 %) Device Driver 9 3 (0.309 %) Web 2.0 10 2 (0.206 %) Fat Client 10 2 (0.206 %) Grid Computing 10 2 (0.206 %) Thin Client 10 2 (0.206 %) Mainframe 11 1 (0.103 %) AS400 11 1 (0.103 %) Symmetrix 11 1 (0.103 %) Firmware 11 1 (0.103 %) Smartcard 11 1 (0.103 %) Blackberry
Operating Systems 1 955 (98.45 %) Linux 2 390 (40.21 %) UNIX 3 341 (35.15 %) Solaris 4 290 (29.90 %) Windows 5 157 (16.19 %) Windows Server 2003 6 149 (15.36 %) Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 68 (7.010 %) AIX 8 61 (6.289 %) SUSE 9 49 (5.052 %) HPUX 10 36 (3.711 %) Debian 11 30 (3.093 %) Windows 2000 Server 11 30 (3.093 %) Windows 2000 12 28 (2.887 %) CentOS 13 22 (2.268 %) Windows XP 14 17 (1.753 %) Mac OS 15 14 (1.443 %) Nucleus RTOS 16 13 (1.340 %) Fedora 17 10 (1.031 %) Mac OS X 18 7 (0.722 %) Ubuntu 19 5 (0.515 %) Gentoo	Processes & Methodologies 1 97 (10.00 %) Security Cleared 2 78 (8.041 %) SC Cleared 3 41 (4.227 %) Migration 4 35 (3.608 %) Content Management 5 33 (3.402 %) Disaster Recovery 6 26 (2.680 %) Configuration Management 7 25 (2.577 %) ITIL 8 23 (2.371 %) E-Commerce 8 23 (2.371 %) Load Balancing 9 15 (1.546 %) OO 10 14 (1.443 %) PRINCE2 10 14 (1.443 %) B2C 10 14 (1.443 %) Investment Management 11 12 (1.237 %) Workflow 11 12 (1.237 %) Performance Testing 12 11 (1.134 %) UML 12 11 (1.134 %) Project Management 12 11 (1.134 %) SOA 13 10 (1.031 %) Service Delivery 14 9 (0.928 %) OOD
Programming Languages 1 163 (16.80 %) Perl 2 131 (13.51 %) Shell Script 3 95 (9.794 %) Java 4 91 (9.381 %) SQL 5 74 (7.629 %) PHP 6 52 (5.361 %) JavaScript 6 52 (5.361 %) C 7 37 (3.814 %) VBScript 8 35 (3.608 %) Python 9 30 (3.093 %) PHP5 10 24 (2.474 %) C++ 11 20 (2.062 %) VB 12 14 (1.443 %) Ruby 13 13 (1.340 %) Korn 14 10 (1.031 %) DHTML 15 6 (0.619 %) C# 15 6 (0.619 %) PowerShell 16 5 (0.515 %) AWK 16 5 (0.515 %) ActionScript 17 4 (0.412 %) Transact-SQL	Qualifications 1 67 (6.907 %) RHCE 2 50 (5.155 %) Degree 3 30 (3.093 %) Microsoft Certification 4 29 (2.990 %) MCSE 5 19 (1.959 %) VMware Certified Professional (VCP) 6 16 (1.649 %) Cisco Certification 7 14 (1.443 %) CCNA 8 11 (1.134 %) RHCT 9 3 (0.309 %) CCA 9 3 (0.309 %) Citrix Certification 10 2 (0.206 %) CCEA 10 2 (0.206 %) MCP 10 2 (0.206 %) RHCA 11 1 (0.103 %) MCSA 11 1 (0.103 %) CCNP 11 1 (0.103 %) VERITAS Certified Professional (VCP) 11 1 (0.103 %) Sun Certification 11 1 (0.103 %) OCP 11 1 (0.103 %) Oracle Certification 11 1 (0.103 %) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 11 (1.134 %) QA 2 7 (0.722 %) SLA 3 2 (0.206 %) GxP 4 1 (0.103 %) WAI	System Software 1 111 (11.44 %) Active Directory 2 91 (9.381 %) NetBackup 3 83 (8.557 %) NFS 4 60 (6.186 %) VMware ESX 5 53 (5.464 %) VMware Infrastructure 6 41 (4.227 %) Oracle RAC 6 41 (4.227 %) Citrix Presentation Server 7 32 (3.299 %) Samba 8 21 (2.165 %) Xen 9 14 (1.443 %) Oracle RMAN 10 8 (0.825 %) AquaLogic 11 3 (0.309 %) Snort 11 3 (0.309 %) Terminal Server 11 3 (0.309 %) ISA Server 11 3 (0.309 %) VMware Server 12 2 (0.206 %) VMware GSX 12 2 (0.206 %) MetaFrame 12 2 (0.206 %) LiteSpeed 12 2 (0.206 %) Squid 13 1 (0.103 %) VMware Workstation
Systems Management 1 25 (2.577 %) Tivoli 2 23 (2.371 %) Legato 3 18 (1.856 %) Nagios 4 11 (1.134 %) Norton AntiVirus 5 10 (1.031 %) BMC Performance Manager 5 10 (1.031 %) Data Guard 6 8 (0.825 %) BMC PATROL 6 8 (0.825 %) Tivoli Storage Manager 7 7 (0.722 %) EMC NetWorker 8 5 (0.515 %) Netcool 9 4 (0.412 %) Veritas Storage Foundation 9 4 (0.412 %) Tivoli Monitoring 10 3 (0.309 %) MOM 10 3 (0.309 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 10 3 (0.309 %) Netcool/OMNIbus 11 2 (0.206 %) CA SiteMinder 11 2 (0.206 %) MIIS 11 2 (0.206 %) HP Data Protector 12 1 (0.103 %) MIMEsweeper 12 1 (0.103 %) ARCserve	Vendors 1 945 (97.42 %) Red Hat 2 261 (26.91 %) Oracle 3 146 (15.05 %) HP 3 146 (15.05 %) VERITAS 4 132 (13.61 %) IBM 5 121 (12.47 %) VMware 6 106 (10.93 %) Sun 7 97 (10.00 %) Cisco 7 97 (10.00 %) Microsoft 8 93 (9.588 %) EMC 9 72 (7.423 %) Citrix 10 55 (5.670 %) Symantec 11 49 (5.052 %) Altiris 12 34 (3.505 %) Sybase 13 33 (3.402 %) Juniper 14 29 (2.990 %) Dell 15 28 (2.887 %) BMC 16 26 (2.680 %) NetApp 17 15 (1.546 %) CheckPoint 17 15 (1.546 %) TIBCO