The first table below looks at the demand for RHCE in IT contracts advertised for the England region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited RHCE over the 3 months to 19 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 Qualifications 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.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE)
Rank 480 485 542
Rank change year-on-year
+5 +57
Contract jobs citing RHCE 52 60 38
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.120% 0.113% 0.066%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.672% 0.656% 0.421%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 29 20
Average daily rate £388 £375 £424
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.33% -11.50%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £288 £313 £260
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £480 £488
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £350 £375
% change year-on-year
-7.14% -6.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
Average hourly rate - - £27.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £27.50
All Qualifications
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
7742 9142 9022
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 17.89% 17.26% 15.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 4099 4839 4491
Average daily rate £376 £375 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+0.26% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £225 £221
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £550 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 454 474 634
Average hourly rate £22.50 £20.60 £22.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+9.22% -8.44%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £12.00 £12.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £41.50 £39.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.00 £21.50 £24.00
% change year-on-year
+2.32% -10.41%
RHCE
UK

RHCE
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England 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 England region.

England RHCE Daily Rate Trend

RHCE
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing RHCE across the England region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

England RHCE Daily Rate Histogram

RHCE
Hourly Rate Trend

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

England RHCE Hourly Rate Trend

RHCE
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing RHCE within the England region over the 3 months to 19 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 +26 33 £450 +12.50% 9
South East +24 9 £300 -16.66% 2
East of England +21 6 £359 -
North East - 1 £325 - 1
South West - - - -
RHCE
UK

RHCE
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England 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 85 (90.43%) Linux
2 80 (85.11%) Red Hat
3 66 (70.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 41 (43.62%) Perl
5 39 (41.49%) HP
6 38 (40.43%) UNIX
7 36 (38.30%) Apache
7 36 (38.30%) Puppet
8 30 (31.91%) VMware
9 29 (30.85%) Python
10 26 (27.66%) Solaris
11 24 (25.53%) Nagios
11 24 (25.53%) Change Management
11 24 (25.53%) Bash shell
12 22 (23.40%) ITIL
12 22 (23.40%) DHCP
12 22 (23.40%) DNS
13 20 (21.28%) SAN
13 20 (21.28%) Tomcat
13 20 (21.28%) MySQL
13 20 (21.28%) Oracle
14 19 (20.21%) EMC
14 19 (20.21%) Finance
15 18 (19.15%) TCP/IP
15 18 (19.15%) Windows
15 18 (19.15%) Git (software)
15 18 (19.15%) Degree
16 17 (18.09%) VMS
16 17 (18.09%) Debian
17 15 (15.96%) Shell Script

RHCE
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England 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 Development
1 9 (9.574%) WebSphere
1 9 (9.574%) LAMP
2 3 (3.191%) EJB
3 1 (1.064%) JDBC
Application Platforms
1 36 (38.30%) Apache
2 20 (21.28%) Tomcat
3 3 (3.191%) Confluence
4 2 (2.128%) WebLogic
5 1 (1.064%) Liferay
5 1 (1.064%) MS Exchange
5 1 (1.064%) CMS
Applications
1 3 (3.191%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (3.191%) Oracle EBS
Communications & Networking
1 22 (23.40%) DHCP
1 22 (23.40%) DNS
2 20 (21.28%) SAN
3 18 (19.15%) TCP/IP
4 10 (10.64%) Wireless
4 10 (10.64%) BGP
4 10 (10.64%) MPLS
4 10 (10.64%) OSPF
4 10 (10.64%) VoIP
4 10 (10.64%) IPv6
4 10 (10.64%) Internet
5 9 (9.574%) NAS
5 9 (9.574%) Ethernet
5 9 (9.574%) Gigabit Ethernet
6 8 (8.511%) WAN
6 8 (8.511%) SSL
7 7 (7.447%) iSCSI
7 7 (7.447%) SNMP
8 6 (6.383%) Kerberos
9 5 (5.319%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (21.28%) MySQL
2 4 (4.255%) Informix
3 2 (2.128%) Oracle 11g
4 1 (1.064%) DB2
Development Applications
1 18 (19.15%) Git (software)
2 11 (11.70%) Subversion
3 9 (9.574%) Gerrit
3 9 (9.574%) Jenkins
4 3 (3.191%) JIRA
4 3 (3.191%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 3 (3.191%) Redmine
4 3 (3.191%) Maven
General
1 19 (20.21%) Finance
2 10 (10.64%) Legal
3 7 (7.447%) Investment Banking
3 7 (7.447%) Banking
4 1 (1.064%) Danish Language
4 1 (1.064%) French Language
4 1 (1.064%) Swedish Language
4 1 (1.064%) Retail
Job Titles
1 37 (39.36%) Administrator
2 36 (38.30%) Linux Engineer
3 30 (31.91%) Systems Administrator
4 28 (29.79%) Linux Administrator
5 21 (22.34%) Linux Systems Administrator
6 17 (18.09%) Systems Engineer
7 12 (12.77%) Senior Linux Engineer
8 11 (11.70%) Analyst
9 10 (10.64%) Network Analyst
10 8 (8.511%) UNIX Systems Administrator
10 8 (8.511%) UNIX Administrator
11 2 (2.128%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 2 (2.128%) Team Leader
11 2 (2.128%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
11 2 (2.128%) Senior Systems Administrator
11 2 (2.128%) UNIX Engineer
11 2 (2.128%) Senior Linux Administrator
11 2 (2.128%) Senior Linux Systems Administrator
12 1 (1.064%) Linux Specialist
12 1 (1.064%) Linux Support
Miscellaneous
1 14 (14.89%) Clustering
2 6 (6.383%) Open Source
3 5 (5.319%) Management Information System
4 4 (4.255%) Client/Server
5 3 (3.191%) PKI
5 3 (3.191%) Digital Media
6 2 (2.128%) Freedom of Information
6 2 (2.128%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (2.128%) Freedom of Information Act
6 2 (2.128%) Computer Science
7 1 (1.064%) LPAR
7 1 (1.064%) Derivative
7 1 (1.064%) Statistics
7 1 (1.064%) HACMP
7 1 (1.064%) Blackberry
7 1 (1.064%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 85 (90.43%) Linux
2 66 (70.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 38 (40.43%) UNIX
4 26 (27.66%) Solaris
5 18 (19.15%) Windows
6 17 (18.09%) VMS
6 17 (18.09%) Debian
7 14 (14.89%) CentOS
8 10 (10.64%) AIX
9 8 (8.511%) Windows Server 2008
10 5 (5.319%) Ubuntu
10 5 (5.319%) Windows Server 2003
10 5 (5.319%) FreeBSD
10 5 (5.319%) OpenVMS
10 5 (5.319%) Gentoo
11 4 (4.255%) HPUX
12 1 (1.064%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (25.53%) Change Management
2 22 (23.40%) ITIL
3 10 (10.64%) Migration
4 9 (9.574%) Capacity Planning
4 9 (9.574%) Validation
5 4 (4.255%) Configuration Management
5 4 (4.255%) High Availability
6 3 (3.191%) Data Analysis
6 3 (3.191%) Refactoring
6 3 (3.191%) Problem Management
6 3 (3.191%) ERP
6 3 (3.191%) Service Delivery
7 2 (2.128%) Project Management
7 2 (2.128%) Software Deployment
7 2 (2.128%) Network Management
7 2 (2.128%) Infrastructure Management
7 2 (2.128%) Data Protection
8 1 (1.064%) Market Research
8 1 (1.064%) Service Management
8 1 (1.064%) Benchmarking
Programming Languages
1 41 (43.62%) Perl
2 29 (30.85%) Python
3 24 (25.53%) Bash shell
4 15 (15.96%) Shell Script
5 7 (7.447%) SQL
6 6 (6.383%) PHP
7 5 (5.319%) DCL
8 4 (4.255%) Ruby
9 3 (3.191%) T-SQL
10 2 (2.128%) AWK
10 2 (2.128%) Java
10 2 (2.128%) sed
Qualifications
1 18 (19.15%) Degree
2 15 (15.96%) RHCT
3 11 (11.70%) Cisco Certification
3 11 (11.70%) Microsoft Certification
3 11 (11.70%) CCNP
3 11 (11.70%) MCSE
4 10 (10.64%) JNCIP
5 8 (8.511%) SCSA
5 8 (8.511%) OCP
5 8 (8.511%) Oracle Certification
6 5 (5.319%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 4 (4.255%) Security Cleared
8 3 (3.191%) SC Cleared
8 3 (3.191%) RHCA
9 1 (1.064%) DV Cleared
9 1 (1.064%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (10.64%) SLA
2 1 (1.064%) QA
System Software
1 15 (15.96%) VMware Infrastructure
2 11 (11.70%) Postfix
2 11 (11.70%) Samba
3 9 (9.574%) Oracle RAC
3 9 (9.574%) Veritas Cluster Server
3 9 (9.574%) SRDF
3 9 (9.574%) VMware ESX
4 8 (8.511%) vSphere
5 7 (7.447%) Oracle RMAN
6 6 (6.383%) NFS
6 6 (6.383%) Hyper-V
6 6 (6.383%) Sendmail
7 5 (5.319%) VMware ESXi
7 5 (5.319%) Active Directory
8 1 (1.064%) XenServer
8 1 (1.064%) Squid
8 1 (1.064%) Snort
Systems Management
1 36 (38.30%) Puppet
2 24 (25.53%) Nagios
3 14 (14.89%) Red Hat Spacewalk
4 12 (12.77%) EMC NetWorker
5 11 (11.70%) Red Hat Satellite
6 10 (10.64%) Cobbler
7 6 (6.383%) NetBackup
8 5 (5.319%) Cacti
9 3 (3.191%) ZABBIX
9 3 (3.191%) YUM
9 3 (3.191%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 1 (1.064%) HP Data Protector
10 1 (1.064%) OpenView
Vendors
1 80 (85.11%) Red Hat
2 39 (41.49%) HP
3 30 (31.91%) VMware
4 20 (21.28%) Oracle
5 19 (20.21%) EMC
6 13 (13.83%) Cisco
6 13 (13.83%) Veritas
7 11 (11.70%) Juniper
8 9 (9.574%) Aruba
9 6 (6.383%) JBoss
10 4 (4.255%) SAP
10 4 (4.255%) NetApp
10 4 (4.255%) Microsoft
11 3 (3.191%) Akamai
11 3 (3.191%) Sun
12 2 (2.128%) Primavera
12 2 (2.128%) Citrix
13 1 (1.064%) Isilon
13 1 (1.064%) Infoblox
13 1 (1.064%) Intel
Newcastle Upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear
Austin Fraser are working with a leading client based in Newcastle who require a Linux System Administrator for a 3-6 Month Contract... As a professional company we...
Austin Fraser
Rate: £300 - £350 per day
Posted: 14 June 2013
Hampshire
Austin Fraser are working with a leading client based in the Hampshire area who require a Linux System Engineer for a 6 Month Contract... As a professional company...
Austin Fraser
Rate: £310 - £400 per day
Posted: 14 June 2013
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