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 Glasgow region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Red Hat over the 3 months to 17 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 Glasgow 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Red Hat
Rank 74 56 59
Rank change year-on-year
-18 +3
Contract jobs citing Red Hat 6 4 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Glasgow 0.637% 0.518% 0.571%
As % of the Vendors category 1.361% 1.208% 1.072%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 1
Average daily rate £393 £350 £365
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+12.14% -4.10%
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £418 £350
% change year-on-year
-10.17% +19.28%
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
Glasgow
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
441 331 373
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Glasgow 46.82% 42.88% 53.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 203 157 193
Average daily rate £338 £300 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+12.50% -14.28%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £260 £225 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £445 £449
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 28 12
Average hourly rate £14.00 £25.00 £40.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-44.00% -37.50%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £9.25 £9.50 £10.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £14.90 £35.00 £175.00
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 Glasgow region as a proportion of the total demand within the Vendors category.

Glasgow 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 Glasgow region.

Glasgow 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 Glasgow region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Glasgow 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 Glasgow region.

Glasgow Red Hat Hourly Rate Trend

Red Hat
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Glasgow 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 8 (88.89%) Linux
2 6 (66.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (55.56%) Windows Server 2008
3 5 (55.56%) SQL Server
3 5 (55.56%) UNIX
3 5 (55.56%) Windows
3 5 (55.56%) AIX
3 5 (55.56%) IBM
3 5 (55.56%) EMC
4 4 (44.44%) Oracle 8/8i
4 4 (44.44%) Oracle
4 4 (44.44%) Finance
5 3 (33.33%) InterSystems Cache
5 3 (33.33%) HP
5 3 (33.33%) Microsoft
5 3 (33.33%) Sun
5 3 (33.33%) SAN
5 3 (33.33%) JBoss
6 2 (22.22%) WebSphere Application Server
6 2 (22.22%) MQSeries
6 2 (22.22%) MS Excel
6 2 (22.22%) Windows XP
6 2 (22.22%) Solaris
6 2 (22.22%) Java
6 2 (22.22%) SQL
6 2 (22.22%) Citrix
6 2 (22.22%) WebSphere MQ
6 2 (22.22%) Middleware
6 2 (22.22%) Symantec
6 2 (22.22%) Dell

Red Hat
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Glasgow 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 (22.22%) Middleware
1 2 (22.22%) WebSphere
2 1 (11.11%) Java EE
2 1 (11.11%) JPA
2 1 (11.11%) RESTful
2 1 (11.11%) Hibernate
2 1 (11.11%) Spring
2 1 (11.11%) J2EE
2 1 (11.11%) J2ME
2 1 (11.11%) JMS
Application Platforms
1 2 (22.22%) WebSphere Application Server
1 2 (22.22%) MQSeries
1 2 (22.22%) WebSphere MQ
2 1 (11.11%) GlassFish
Applications
1 2 (22.22%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 3 (33.33%) SAN
2 1 (11.11%) Intranet
2 1 (11.11%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (55.56%) SQL Server
2 4 (44.44%) Oracle 8/8i
3 3 (33.33%) InterSystems Cache
4 2 (22.22%) SQL Server 2008
5 1 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (11.11%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 2 (22.22%) Rational Rhapsody
2 1 (11.11%) Jenkins
2 1 (11.11%) CruiseControl
2 1 (11.11%) Maven
2 1 (11.11%) JIRA
2 1 (11.11%) WATIR
2 1 (11.11%) Selenium
2 1 (11.11%) RSpec
2 1 (11.11%) Cucumber
2 1 (11.11%) Hudson
General
1 4 (44.44%) Finance
2 1 (11.11%) Banking
2 1 (11.11%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 2 (22.22%) Team Leader
1 2 (22.22%) Technical Specialist
1 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure Architect
1 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure Specialist
1 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure Designer
1 2 (22.22%) Designer
1 2 (22.22%) Architect
2 1 (11.11%) Administrator
2 1 (11.11%) Build Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Server Administrator
2 1 (11.11%) Technical Leader
2 1 (11.11%) Linux Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Technical Team Leader
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 8 (88.89%) Linux
2 6 (66.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (55.56%) Windows Server 2008
3 5 (55.56%) UNIX
3 5 (55.56%) Windows
3 5 (55.56%) AIX
4 2 (22.22%) Solaris
4 2 (22.22%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (22.22%) Time Management
2 1 (11.11%) Dependency Injection
2 1 (11.11%) Database Caching
2 1 (11.11%) Capacity Management
2 1 (11.11%) DSDM
2 1 (11.11%) SOA
2 1 (11.11%) Service Delivery
2 1 (11.11%) Workflow
2 1 (11.11%) Scrum
2 1 (11.11%) Extreme Programming
2 1 (11.11%) Agile Software Development
2 1 (11.11%) TDD
2 1 (11.11%) Software Engineering
2 1 (11.11%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 2 (22.22%) Java
1 2 (22.22%) SQL
2 1 (11.11%) Ruby
2 1 (11.11%) Bash shell
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) CCNA
1 1 (11.11%) Cisco Certification
System Software
1 2 (22.22%) VMware ESX
1 2 (22.22%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (22.22%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) Puppet
Vendors
1 5 (55.56%) IBM
1 5 (55.56%) EMC
2 4 (44.44%) Oracle
3 3 (33.33%) JBoss
3 3 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 3 (33.33%) Sun
3 3 (33.33%) HP
4 2 (22.22%) Dell
4 2 (22.22%) Citrix
4 2 (22.22%) Symantec
4 2 (22.22%) InterSystems
4 2 (22.22%) VMware
5 1 (11.11%) Cisco