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 England 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 June 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 England 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 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Red Hat
Rank 144 143 162
Rank change year-on-year
-1 +19
Contract jobs citing Red Hat 649 703 709
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 1.476% 1.348% 1.238%
As % of the Vendors category 3.150% 2.917% 2.656%
Number of daily rates quoted 424 407 405
Average daily rate £425 £375 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+13.33% -6.25%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £263 £255 £290
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £500 £525
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £350 £350
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 20 15
Average hourly rate £32.00 £28.50 £27.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+12.28% +3.63%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £23.25 £21.50 £20.60
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £36.00 £47.25 £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £31.25 £31.00
% change year-on-year
+12.00% +0.80%
All Vendors
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
20606 24101 26699
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 46.85% 46.20% 46.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 11303 12677 13886
Average daily rate £400 £395 £413
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.26% -4.24%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £225 £240
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £550 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 1165 1210 1549
Average hourly rate £20.00 £19.50 £20.85
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+2.56% -6.47%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.50 £11.35 £11.25
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £40.00 £40.00 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.04 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
+0.21% -5.00%
Red Hat
UK

Red Hat
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total 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 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 England region.

England 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 England region over the 3 months to 20 June 2013.

England 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 England region.

England Red Hat Hourly Rate Trend

Red Hat
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Red Hat across the England region over the 3 months to 20 June 2013.

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 20 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
London -7 337 £448 +15.48% 96
South East +34 127 £413 +17.85% 36
Yorkshire +23 69 £343 +2.23% 16
East of England +9 40 £350 +6.06% 13
North West +12 31 £350 +7.69% 8
South West 0 19 £450 -7.69% 7
East Midlands -6 10 £425 +36.00% 7
North East -3 9 £338 +28.57% 3
West Midlands +5 6 £205 -24.42% 4
Midlands - - - -
Red Hat
UK

Red Hat
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, 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.

1 1209 (93.65%) Linux
2 862 (66.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 632 (48.95%) UNIX
4 437 (33.85%) Windows
5 416 (32.22%) Oracle
6 351 (27.19%) Solaris
7 346 (26.80%) VMware
8 320 (24.79%) Apache
8 320 (24.79%) Perl
9 247 (19.13%) SAN
10 235 (18.20%) Finance
11 224 (17.35%) VMware Infrastructure
12 202 (15.65%) HP
13 196 (15.18%) Java
13 196 (15.18%) MySQL
14 193 (14.95%) Microsoft
15 180 (13.94%) Firewall
16 178 (13.79%) SQL
17 175 (13.56%) Shell Script
17 175 (13.56%) Security Cleared
18 170 (13.17%) Banking
19 169 (13.09%) DNS
20 165 (12.78%) Cisco
21 156 (12.08%) Puppet
21 156 (12.08%) TCP/IP
22 154 (11.93%) Clustering
23 151 (11.70%) IBM
24 145 (11.23%) Windows Server 2008
25 143 (11.08%) CentOS
25 143 (11.08%) PHP

Red Hat
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, 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.

Application Development
1 99 (7.668%) WebSphere
2 95 (7.359%) Web Services
3 83 (6.429%) XML
4 62 (4.802%) LAMP
5 53 (4.105%) Middleware
6 50 (3.873%) SOAP
7 44 (3.408%) XSLT
8 43 (3.331%) .NET
9 37 (2.866%) Java EE
10 32 (2.479%) COM+
11 27 (2.091%) J2EE
12 25 (1.936%) CSS
13 23 (1.782%) JMS
14 20 (1.549%) HTML
14 20 (1.549%) Rendezvous
15 18 (1.394%) HTML5
16 16 (1.239%) Symfony
17 14 (1.084%) JDBC
18 13 (1.007%) REST
18 13 (1.007%) SAML
Application Platforms
1 320 (24.79%) Apache
2 137 (10.61%) Tomcat
3 76 (5.887%) IIS
4 49 (3.796%) WebSphere Application Server
5 43 (3.331%) Amazon AWS
6 32 (2.479%) SharePoint
7 31 (2.401%) WebLogic
8 24 (1.859%) Amazon EC2
9 21 (1.627%) MS Exchange
10 19 (1.472%) WebSphere Process Server
11 17 (1.317%) Exchange Server 2010
11 17 (1.317%) IBM HTTP Server
12 15 (1.162%) nginx
12 15 (1.162%) SharePoint 2010
12 15 (1.162%) Drupal
12 15 (1.162%) Oracle Application Server
13 14 (1.084%) GlassFish
13 14 (1.084%) OpenStack
14 13 (1.007%) Amazon S3
15 12 (0.930%) Oracle HTTP Server
Applications
1 81 (6.274%) MS Excel
2 37 (2.866%) MS Visio
3 27 (2.091%) MS Office
4 9 (0.697%) MS PowerPoint
5 5 (0.387%) Spreadsheet
6 3 (0.232%) MS Project
Business Applications
1 29 (2.246%) Oracle EBS
2 10 (0.775%) Dynamics NAV
3 7 (0.542%) Oracle EBS R12
4 5 (0.387%) Dynamics CRM
4 5 (0.387%) Oracle 11i
5 4 (0.310%) 3000 Xtra
6 3 (0.232%) Oracle Applications
6 3 (0.232%) PeopleSoft Financials
7 2 (0.155%) Summit
7 2 (0.155%) Front Arena
7 2 (0.155%) RMDS
7 2 (0.155%) Oracle BRM
8 1 (0.077%) Oracle BPM
8 1 (0.077%) SunGard Stream Clearvision
8 1 (0.077%) Dynamics AX
Communications & Networking
1 247 (19.13%) SAN
2 180 (13.94%) Firewall
3 169 (13.09%) DNS
4 156 (12.08%) TCP/IP
5 138 (10.69%) LDAP
6 103 (7.978%) NAS
7 90 (6.971%) DHCP
8 70 (5.422%) WAN
9 67 (5.190%) LAN
10 65 (5.035%) BIG-IP
11 53 (4.105%) HTTP
12 52 (4.028%) Internet
13 48 (3.718%) NetScaler
14 41 (3.176%) SSL
15 32 (2.479%) Ethernet
16 29 (2.246%) SMTP
17 28 (2.169%) Cisco ASA
18 24 (1.859%) iSCSI
19 23 (1.782%) Fibre Channel
20 21 (1.627%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 196 (15.18%) MySQL
2 108 (8.366%) SQL Server
3 107 (8.288%) Oracle 11g
4 45 (3.486%) Oracle 8/8i
5 37 (2.866%) Oracle 10g
6 33 (2.556%) SQL Server 2008
7 32 (2.479%) PostgreSQL
8 28 (2.169%) DB2
9 16 (1.239%) Data Warehouse
10 14 (1.084%) MongoDB
11 10 (0.775%) SQL Server 2005
11 10 (0.775%) NoSQL
12 9 (0.697%) GIS
12 9 (0.697%) Ingres
13 8 (0.620%) Oracle Reports
13 8 (0.620%) Informix
14 7 (0.542%) Oracle Exadata
15 6 (0.465%) SQL Server 2000
15 6 (0.465%) RDBMS
16 5 (0.387%) SQL Server 2012
Development Applications
1 68 (5.267%) Subversion
2 57 (4.415%) Git (software)
3 37 (2.866%) Jenkins
4 23 (1.782%) Hudson
5 18 (1.394%) JIRA
6 16 (1.239%) Maven
7 13 (1.007%) ClearCase
8 12 (0.930%) ClearQuest
9 9 (0.697%) Gerrit
10 8 (0.620%) Cucumber
11 7 (0.542%) Team Foundation Server
11 7 (0.542%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 7 (0.542%) Selenium
11 7 (0.542%) CruiseControl
11 7 (0.542%) Visual Studio
12 5 (0.387%) Oracle APEX
12 5 (0.387%) Introscope
12 5 (0.387%) Ant
13 4 (0.310%) Rational Rose
13 4 (0.310%) NUnit
General
1 235 (18.20%) Finance
2 170 (13.17%) Banking
3 86 (6.662%) Investment Banking
4 44 (3.408%) Telecoms
5 31 (2.401%) Retail
6 24 (1.859%) Financial Institution
7 17 (1.317%) Publishing
8 11 (0.852%) Manufacturing
9 9 (0.697%) French Language
10 6 (0.465%) Back Office
10 6 (0.465%) Advertising
11 4 (0.310%) Military
11 4 (0.310%) Games
11 4 (0.310%) Law
11 4 (0.310%) Marketing
11 4 (0.310%) German Language
12 3 (0.232%) Retail Banking
12 3 (0.232%) Billing
12 3 (0.232%) Legal
12 3 (0.232%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 299 (23.16%) Administrator
2 227 (17.58%) Systems Administrator
3 161 (12.47%) Linux Administrator
4 160 (12.39%) Linux Engineer
5 125 (9.682%) Linux Systems Administrator
6 88 (6.816%) Architect
7 84 (6.507%) DBA
8 79 (6.119%) UNIX Engineer
9 75 (5.809%) Oracle DBA
9 75 (5.809%) Systems Engineer
10 74 (5.732%) Developer
11 70 (5.422%) UNIX Administrator
12 66 (5.112%) UNIX Systems Administrator
13 63 (4.880%) Analyst
14 56 (4.338%) Support Engineer
15 54 (4.183%) Consultant
16 43 (3.331%) Infrastructure Engineer
17 37 (2.866%) Technical Architect
18 35 (2.711%) Infrastructure Architect
19 26 (2.014%) Senior Systems Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 154 (11.93%) Clustering
2 62 (4.802%) Open Source
3 55 (4.260%) PKI
4 27 (2.091%) Blackberry
5 23 (1.782%) Fixed Income
6 21 (1.627%) Management Information System
7 20 (1.549%) Replication
8 19 (1.472%) CLARiiON
9 16 (1.239%) IaaS
10 15 (1.162%) Digital Media
10 15 (1.162%) Wiki
11 14 (1.084%) Derivative
11 14 (1.084%) Computer Science
12 13 (1.007%) Oracle Exalogic
13 11 (0.852%) Equities
14 10 (0.775%) LPAR
14 10 (0.775%) Hedge funds
15 9 (0.697%) Fat Client
15 9 (0.697%) Cryptography
15 9 (0.697%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 1209 (93.65%) Linux
2 862 (66.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 632 (48.95%) UNIX
4 437 (33.85%) Windows
5 351 (27.19%) Solaris
6 145 (11.23%) Windows Server 2008
7 143 (11.08%) CentOS
8 139 (10.77%) AIX
9 106 (8.211%) SUSE
10 104 (8.056%) Windows Server 2003
11 75 (5.809%) HPUX
12 69 (5.345%) Ubuntu
13 64 (4.957%) Windows XP
14 50 (3.873%) Debian
15 39 (3.021%) Windows 7
16 31 (2.401%) Oracle Linux
17 24 (1.859%) VMS
18 18 (1.394%) Windows Server 2012
19 17 (1.317%) Windows 2000
20 12 (0.930%) OpenVMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 131 (10.15%) ITIL
2 99 (7.668%) Migration
3 94 (7.281%) Configuration Management
4 78 (6.042%) E-Commerce
5 75 (5.809%) Change Management
6 62 (4.802%) Load Balancing
7 57 (4.415%) Project Management
8 50 (3.873%) Change Control
9 49 (3.796%) Service Management
10 39 (3.021%) Scrum
10 39 (3.021%) Disaster Recovery
11 34 (2.634%) Capacity Management
12 31 (2.401%) SOA
13 30 (2.324%) High Availability
13 30 (2.324%) Time Management
14 28 (2.169%) Information Security
14 28 (2.169%) Continuous Integration
15 24 (1.859%) OO
15 24 (1.859%) Incident Management
15 24 (1.859%) Electronic Trading
Programming Languages
1 320 (24.79%) Perl
2 196 (15.18%) Java
3 178 (13.79%) SQL
4 175 (13.56%) Shell Script
5 143 (11.08%) PHP
6 118 (9.140%) Bash shell
7 116 (8.985%) Python
8 93 (7.204%) C
9 46 (3.563%) JavaScript
10 45 (3.486%) Ruby
11 39 (3.021%) C++
12 23 (1.782%) PL/SQL
13 20 (1.549%) Korn
14 15 (1.162%) PowerShell
15 13 (1.007%) C#
15 13 (1.007%) VB
16 9 (0.697%) sed
16 9 (0.697%) AWK
17 8 (0.620%) VBScript
18 6 (0.465%) PHP5
Qualifications
1 175 (13.56%) Security Cleared
2 82 (6.352%) SC Cleared
3 81 (6.274%) RHCE
4 76 (5.887%) DV Cleared
5 38 (2.943%) Degree
6 29 (2.246%) Microsoft Certification
7 19 (1.472%) Oracle Certification
7 19 (1.472%) MCSE
8 18 (1.394%) SCSA
9 17 (1.317%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 16 (1.239%) RHCT
11 14 (1.084%) Sun Certification
12 11 (0.852%) OCA
13 10 (0.775%) Cisco Certification
13 10 (0.775%) GIAC
13 10 (0.775%) GWAPT
13 10 (0.775%) GPEN
14 9 (0.697%) CCEE
14 9 (0.697%) CCA
14 9 (0.697%) Citrix Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (1.782%) SLA
2 12 (0.930%) QA
3 6 (0.465%) PCI DSS
4 4 (0.310%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (0.232%) Solvency II
6 2 (0.155%) ISO 9001
6 2 (0.155%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 2 (0.155%) JSP 440
7 1 (0.077%) COBIT
7 1 (0.077%) GxP
System Software
1 224 (17.35%) VMware Infrastructure
2 127 (9.837%) Active Directory
3 115 (8.908%) Oracle RAC
4 102 (7.901%) vSphere
5 71 (5.500%) VMware ESX
6 68 (5.267%) Veritas Cluster Server
7 60 (4.648%) Veritas Volume Manager
7 60 (4.648%) NFS
8 45 (3.486%) VMware ESXi
9 32 (2.479%) Hyper-V
10 28 (2.169%) Oracle RMAN
11 25 (1.936%) Postfix
12 22 (1.704%) Samba
12 22 (1.704%) XenApp
13 17 (1.317%) XenServer
14 15 (1.162%) Squid
15 14 (1.084%) ProxySG
16 13 (1.007%) Veritas File System
17 11 (0.852%) Microsoft App-V
18 10 (0.775%) Xen
Systems Management
1 156 (12.08%) Puppet
2 108 (8.366%) Nagios
3 58 (4.493%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 39 (3.021%) NetBackup
5 28 (2.169%) Tivoli
6 27 (2.091%) SCOM
7 24 (1.859%) SCCM
8 23 (1.782%) Data Guard
9 20 (1.549%) Red Hat Satellite
10 19 (1.472%) Backup Exec
10 19 (1.472%) BMC PATROL
11 18 (1.394%) Cobbler
11 18 (1.394%) Zenoss
12 16 (1.239%) EMC NetWorker
12 16 (1.239%) Red Hat Spacewalk
13 12 (0.930%) Control-M
13 12 (0.930%) Tivoli Storage Manager
13 12 (0.930%) Splunk
14 11 (0.852%) WSUS
14 11 (0.852%) Netcool
Vendors
1 416 (32.22%) Oracle
2 346 (26.80%) VMware
3 202 (15.65%) HP
4 193 (14.95%) Microsoft
5 165 (12.78%) Cisco
6 151 (11.70%) IBM
7 134 (10.38%) EMC
8 133 (10.30%) Veritas
9 110 (8.521%) Sun
10 108 (8.366%) JBoss
11 105 (8.133%) Citrix
12 89 (6.894%) NetApp
13 83 (6.429%) F5
14 24 (1.859%) Symantec
14 24 (1.859%) BMC
15 22 (1.704%) TIBCO
16 19 (1.472%) Remedy
16 19 (1.472%) Reuters
17 18 (1.394%) Dell
18 16 (1.239%) SAP
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Posted: 10 June 2013
Bournemouth, Dorset
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Rate: £400 - £450 per annum
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Newcastle Upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear
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Posted: 14 June 2013
West London
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Rate: From £300 to £400 per annum
Posted: 17 June 2013
City, London
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Posted: 17 June 2013
East London
Eaglecliff
Rate: From £20 to £25 per hour
Posted: 17 June 2013
City of London
Capita Resourcing Ltd
Rate: £300 - £500 per day
Posted: 18 June 2013
Hampshire
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Rate: £310 - £400 per day
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Kent, South East
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Milton Keynes, Thames Valley
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City of London
Real Staffing
Rate: £350 - £450 per day
Posted: 11 June 2013
Southampton, South East
Novate IT
Rate: £175 - £185 per day
Posted: 10 June 2013
City, London
MBA Ltd
Posted: 14 June 2013
Barnsley, Yorkshire
Hays Specialist Recruitment
Rate: £200.00 - £250.00 per day
Posted: 4 June 2013
Southampton, Hampshire
Novate IT Ltd
Rate: £175 - £185 per day
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Barnsley, Yorkshire
Hays Specialist Recruitment
Rate: £250 - £280 per day
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Kent, South East
Rate: £400 - £500 per day
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London
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London
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City of London
Real Staffing
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Kent, South East
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London
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Farnborough, Hampshire
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