Permanent IT Jobs Contract IT Jobs

The table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Red Hat products and/or services in IT contracts within the England region with a comparison to our Vendors category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Red Hat over the 3 months to 4 December 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

LinkRed Hat
Location
3 months to
4 Dec 2008
Same period last year
Rank192217
Rank change on same period last yearUp+25
Matching contract IT job ads439586
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled0.712 %0.640 %
As % of the category below1.811 %1.566 %
Daily rates quoted197226
Average minimum daily rate£351£389
Average daily rate£367£409
% change on same period last year-10.25 %
Average maximum daily rate£382£429
UK excluding London average daily rate£345£357
% change on same period last year-3.41 %
Hourly rates quoted4051
Average minimum hourly rate£28.50£32.80
Average hourly rate£31.31£35.53
% change on same period last year-11.87 %
Average maximum hourly rate£34.11£38.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate£31.59£36.00
% change on same period last year-12.25 %
England IT Contractor Job Market, VendorsVendors
England
Matching contract IT job ads2424737415
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled39.35 %40.84 %
Daily rates quoted730810910
Average minimum daily rate£361£385
Average daily rate£384£408
% change on same period last year-5.73 %
Average maximum daily rate£408£431
UK excluding London average daily rate£357£348
% change on same period last year+2.54 %
Hourly rates quoted23763418
Average minimum hourly rate£23.06£22.90
Average hourly rate£24.42£24.42
% change on same period last year-
Average maximum hourly rate£25.78£25.94
UK excluding London average hourly rate£23.89£24.00
% change on same period last year-0.42 %
Red Hat UKRed Hat
UK

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.

These figures represent the IT job market and are NOT representative of employment within Red Hat, Inc.

Red Hat
Demand Trend

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

England Red Hat Demand Trend

Red Hat
Daily Rate Trend

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

England Red Hat Daily Rate Trend

Red Hat
Daily Rate Histogram

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

England Red Hat Daily Rate Histogram

Red Hat
Hourly Rate Trend

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

England Red Hat Hourly Rate Trend

Red Hat
Hourly Rate Histogram

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

England Red Hat Hourly Rate Histogram

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 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.

LocationRank 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
LondonUp+7220£382-10.12 %
South EastUp+59109£345-15.01 %
East of EnglandUp+940£378+10.30 %
South WestUp+3729£318-15.28 %
North WestUp+2518£268-7.67 %
YorkshireUp+379£375-
East MidlandsUp+247£333-
West MidlandsUp+35£275-12.00 %
MidlandsUp+253£413-
North EastNew entry-3--
South CoastNew entry-1--
Red Hat UKRed Hat
UK

Red Hat
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the England 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.

1945 (91.04 %)Red Hat Linux
2930 (89.60 %)Linux
3438 (42.20 %)UNIX
4388 (37.38 %)Solaris
5327 (31.50 %)Windows
6276 (26.59 %)Oracle
7186 (17.92 %)SAN
8176 (16.96 %)MySQL
9168 (16.18 %)Windows Server 2003
10165 (15.90 %)Perl
11163 (15.70 %)HP
12160 (15.41 %)Apache
13151 (14.55 %)VERITAS
14140 (13.49 %)IBM
14140 (13.49 %)Banking
15139 (13.39 %)Firewall
16134 (12.91 %)Shell Script
17130 (12.52 %)Active Directory
17130 (12.52 %)Finance
18125 (12.04 %)VMware
19124 (11.95 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
20121 (11.66 %)TCP/IP
21119 (11.46 %)Microsoft
22113 (10.89 %)Sun
23107 (10.31 %)Cisco
24102 (9.827 %)Java
24102 (9.827 %)Security Cleared
25100 (9.634 %)Clustering
2694 (9.056 %)EMC
2793 (8.960 %)SQL

Red Hat
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the England 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.

England IT Contractor Job Market, Application DevelopmentApplication Development
163 (6.069 %)XML
256 (5.395 %)J2EE
353 (5.106 %)HTML
448 (4.624 %)WebSphere
544 (4.239 %)LAMP
642 (4.046 %)XSLT
740 (3.854 %)CSS
834 (3.276 %)XHTML
933 (3.179 %)Middleware
1028 (2.697 %)Drupal
1123 (2.216 %)WebServices
1220 (1.927 %)SOAP
1318 (1.734 %)AJAX
1417 (1.638 %).NET
1515 (1.445 %)JMS
1612 (1.156 %)Spring
1711 (1.060 %)Hibernate
1711 (1.060 %)COM+
1810 (0.963 %)J2SE
199 (0.867 %)CGI
England IT Contractor Job Market, Application PlatformsApplication Platforms
1160 (15.41 %)Apache
278 (7.514 %)MS Exchange
374 (7.129 %)Tomcat
462 (5.973 %)JBoss
546 (4.432 %)CMS
645 (4.335 %)IIS
645 (4.335 %)Exchange Server 2007
741 (3.950 %)WebLogic
838 (3.661 %)Exchange Server 2003
917 (1.638 %)WebSphere Application Server
108 (0.771 %)WebSphere MQ
116 (0.578 %)SAS
116 (0.578 %)Oracle Application Server
116 (0.578 %)Oracle Collaboration Suite
125 (0.482 %)Oracle Workflow
125 (0.482 %)Rendezvous
125 (0.482 %)SharePoint
134 (0.385 %)ATG Dynamo
134 (0.385 %)iPlanet
143 (0.289 %)ArcGIS
England IT Contractor Job Market, ApplicationsApplications
114 (1.349 %)MS Excel
28 (0.771 %)MS Visio
34 (0.385 %)CA Clarity
43 (0.289 %)MS Office
52 (0.193 %)Photoshop
61 (0.096 %)MS Project
England IT Contractor Job Market, Business ApplicationsBusiness Applications
113 (1.252 %)MFGPRO
210 (0.963 %)Oracle EBS
39 (0.867 %)TIBCO iProcess
48 (0.771 %)BusinessWorks
51 (0.096 %)Oracle ERP
51 (0.096 %)Oracle Applications
51 (0.096 %)Summit
51 (0.096 %)RMDS
England IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & NetworkingCommunications & Networking
1186 (17.92 %)SAN
2139 (13.39 %)Firewall
3121 (11.66 %)TCP/IP
493 (8.960 %)DNS
558 (5.588 %)LDAP
640 (3.854 %)Internet
729 (2.794 %)NetScreen
729 (2.794 %)Cisco ASA
828 (2.697 %)WAN
925 (2.408 %)DHCP
1020 (1.927 %)LAN
1117 (1.638 %)VLAN
1214 (1.349 %)SMTP
1214 (1.349 %)VPN
1312 (1.156 %)Intranet
1411 (1.060 %)HTTP
159 (0.867 %)FTP
167 (0.674 %)iSCSI
176 (0.578 %)Network Security
176 (0.578 %)IP Telephony
England IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business IntelligenceDatabase & Business Intelligence
1176 (16.96 %)MySQL
274 (7.129 %)SQL Server
357 (5.491 %)Oracle 10g
429 (2.794 %)SQL Server 2000
517 (1.638 %)FileMaker
517 (1.638 %)DB2
517 (1.638 %)Oracle 8/8i
517 (1.638 %)SQL Server 2005
613 (1.252 %)Oracle 9i
712 (1.156 %)RDBMS
88 (0.771 %)Oracle 11g
88 (0.771 %)Sybase ASE
96 (0.578 %)BusinessObjects
96 (0.578 %)Datawarehouse
96 (0.578 %)ETL
104 (0.385 %)Informix
104 (0.385 %)Reference Data
113 (0.289 %)GIS
113 (0.289 %)Oracle OWB
122 (0.193 %)PostgreSQL
England IT Contractor Job Market, Development ApplicationsDevelopment Applications
147 (4.528 %)Subversion
210 (0.963 %)Eclipse
36 (0.578 %)MSI
43 (0.289 %)JUnit
43 (0.289 %)Flash
52 (0.193 %)RequisitePro
52 (0.193 %)ClearQuest
52 (0.193 %)Ant
52 (0.193 %)Log4j
52 (0.193 %)JIRA
61 (0.096 %)Selenium
61 (0.096 %)FitNesse
61 (0.096 %)JMeter
61 (0.096 %)Bugzilla
61 (0.096 %)Rational Robot
61 (0.096 %)ProC
61 (0.096 %)ClearCase
61 (0.096 %)Synon
England IT Contractor Job Market, GeneralGeneral
1140 (13.49 %)Banking
2130 (12.52 %)Finance
392 (8.863 %)Investment Banking
465 (6.262 %)Government
527 (2.601 %)Retail
625 (2.408 %)Telecoms
714 (1.349 %)Retail Banking
811 (1.060 %)Publishing
99 (0.867 %)Education
108 (0.771 %)Health
108 (0.771 %)Construction
116 (0.578 %)Marketing
125 (0.482 %)Auditing
125 (0.482 %)Home Office
125 (0.482 %)Pharmaceutical
125 (0.482 %)Financial Institution
125 (0.482 %)Legal
133 (0.289 %)Multimedia
133 (0.289 %)Billing
133 (0.289 %)Back Office
England IT Contractor Job Market, Job TitlesJob Titles
1322 (31.02 %)Administrator
2234 (22.54 %)Systems Administrator
3128 (12.33 %)Linux Administrator
4115 (11.08 %)UNIX Administrator
596 (9.249 %)Developer
691 (8.767 %)Linux Systems Administrator
789 (8.574 %)UNIX Systems Administrator
879 (7.611 %)Linux Engineer
972 (6.936 %)Analyst
1047 (4.528 %)Architect
1047 (4.528 %)Support Analyst
1144 (4.239 %)Consultant
1144 (4.239 %)UNIX Engineer
1242 (4.046 %)Systems Engineer
1340 (3.854 %)Data Centre Engineer
1434 (3.276 %)UNIX Support
1532 (3.083 %)Linux Support
1629 (2.794 %)DBA
1728 (2.697 %)Web Developer
1827 (2.601 %)Oracle DBA
England IT Contractor Job Market, MiscellaneousMiscellaneous
1100 (9.634 %)Clustering
238 (3.661 %)PKI
317 (1.638 %)CLARiiON
416 (1.541 %)Replication
59 (0.867 %)SecurID
67 (0.674 %)HACMP
76 (0.578 %)Management Information System
85 (0.482 %)Equities
85 (0.482 %)Wiki
94 (0.385 %)W3C
103 (0.289 %)Device Driver
103 (0.289 %)Web 2.0
112 (0.193 %)Grid Computing
112 (0.193 %)Market Risk
112 (0.193 %)Fat Client
112 (0.193 %)iSeries
112 (0.193 %)Thin Client
112 (0.193 %)Mainframe
121 (0.096 %)AS400
121 (0.096 %)Symmetrix
England IT Contractor Job Market, Operating SystemsOperating Systems
1945 (91.04 %)Red Hat Linux
2930 (89.60 %)Linux
3438 (42.20 %)UNIX
4388 (37.38 %)Solaris
5327 (31.50 %)Windows
6168 (16.18 %)Windows Server 2003
7124 (11.95 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
886 (8.285 %)AIX
963 (6.069 %)SUSE
1052 (5.010 %)HPUX
1137 (3.565 %)Debian
1235 (3.372 %)Windows 2000 Server
1329 (2.794 %)CentOS
1329 (2.794 %)Windows 2000
1423 (2.216 %)Windows XP
1517 (1.638 %)Mac OS
1615 (1.445 %)Fedora
1714 (1.349 %)Nucleus RTOS
1810 (0.963 %)Mac OS X
198 (0.771 %)Ubuntu
England IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & MethodologiesProcesses & Methodologies
1102 (9.827 %)Security Cleared
283 (7.996 %)SC Cleared
342 (4.046 %)Migration
435 (3.372 %)Content Management
534 (3.276 %)ITIL
633 (3.179 %)Configuration Management
633 (3.179 %)Disaster Recovery
725 (2.408 %)E-Commerce
823 (2.216 %)Load Balancing
916 (1.541 %)OO
1015 (1.445 %)Investment Management
1114 (1.349 %)PRINCE2
1114 (1.349 %)B2C
1213 (1.252 %)Performance Testing
1312 (1.156 %)Workflow
1312 (1.156 %)Project Management
1312 (1.156 %)SOA
1411 (1.060 %)UML
1411 (1.060 %)Service Delivery
158 (0.771 %)Validation
England IT Contractor Job Market, Programming LanguagesProgramming Languages
1165 (15.90 %)Perl
2134 (12.91 %)Shell Script
3102 (9.827 %)Java
493 (8.960 %)SQL
576 (7.322 %)PHP
654 (5.202 %)JavaScript
752 (5.010 %)C
848 (4.624 %)VBScript
935 (3.372 %)Python
1032 (3.083 %)PHP5
1125 (2.408 %)C++
1221 (2.023 %)VB
1313 (1.252 %)Korn
1410 (0.963 %)DHTML
157 (0.674 %)Ruby
166 (0.578 %)PowerShell
166 (0.578 %)C#
175 (0.482 %)ActionScript
175 (0.482 %)AWK
184 (0.385 %)XPath
England IT Contractor Job Market, QualificationsQualifications
169 (6.647 %)RHCE
252 (5.010 %)Degree
336 (3.468 %)Microsoft Certification
429 (2.794 %)MCSE
523 (2.216 %)Cisco Certification
619 (1.830 %)VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
715 (1.445 %)CCNA
811 (1.060 %)RHCT
98 (0.771 %)MCP
106 (0.578 %)CISSP
113 (0.289 %)CCA
113 (0.289 %)Citrix Certification
122 (0.193 %)CCEA
122 (0.193 %)MCSA
122 (0.193 %)RHCA
131 (0.096 %)Sun Certification
131 (0.096 %)OCP
131 (0.096 %)Oracle Certification
131 (0.096 %)PRINCE2 Certification
131 (0.096 %)CCNP
England IT Contractor Job Market, Quality Assurance & ComplianceQuality Assurance & Compliance
114 (1.349 %)QA
28 (0.771 %)SLA
33 (0.289 %)ISO17799
33 (0.289 %)ISO27001
42 (0.193 %)GxP
51 (0.096 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
51 (0.096 %)WAI
England IT Contractor Job Market, System SoftwareSystem Software
1130 (12.52 %)Active Directory
291 (8.767 %)NetBackup
388 (8.478 %)NFS
460 (5.780 %)VMware ESX
553 (5.106 %)VMware Infrastructure
648 (4.624 %)Oracle RAC
741 (3.950 %)Citrix Presentation Server
835 (3.372 %)Samba
921 (2.023 %)Xen
1017 (1.638 %)Oracle RMAN
118 (0.771 %)AquaLogic
123 (0.289 %)Snort
123 (0.289 %)Terminal Server
123 (0.289 %)ISA Server
123 (0.289 %)VMware Server
132 (0.193 %)VMware GSX
132 (0.193 %)MetaFrame
132 (0.193 %)LiteSpeed
132 (0.193 %)Squid
141 (0.096 %)VMware Workstation
England IT Contractor Job Market, Systems ManagementSystems Management
125 (2.408 %)Tivoli
223 (2.216 %)Legato
319 (1.830 %)Nagios
413 (1.252 %)Data Guard
511 (1.060 %)Norton AntiVirus
610 (0.963 %)BMC Performance Manager
78 (0.771 %)BMC PATROL
78 (0.771 %)Tivoli Storage Manager
87 (0.674 %)EMC NetWorker
95 (0.482 %)Netcool
104 (0.385 %)Veritas Storage Foundation
104 (0.385 %)Tivoli Monitoring
113 (0.289 %)MOM
113 (0.289 %)Systems Management Server (SMS)
113 (0.289 %)Netcool/OMNIbus
122 (0.193 %)CA SiteMinder
122 (0.193 %)MIIS
131 (0.096 %)MIMEsweeper
131 (0.096 %)AutoSys
131 (0.096 %)Tivoli Configuration Manager
England IT Contractor Job Market, VendorsVendors
1276 (26.59 %)Oracle
2163 (15.70 %)HP
3151 (14.55 %)VERITAS
4140 (13.49 %)IBM
5125 (12.04 %)VMware
6119 (11.46 %)Microsoft
7113 (10.89 %)Sun
8107 (10.31 %)Cisco
994 (9.056 %)EMC
1075 (7.225 %)Citrix
1156 (5.395 %)Symantec
1250 (4.817 %)Altiris
1337 (3.565 %)Sybase
1434 (3.276 %)Juniper
1529 (2.794 %)Dell
1628 (2.697 %)BMC
1628 (2.697 %)NetApp
1727 (2.601 %)CheckPoint
1816 (1.541 %)TIBCO
1915 (1.445 %)ATG