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 Gloucestershire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Red Hat over the 3 months to 21 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 Gloucestershire 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Red Hat
Rank 15 31 38
Rank change year-on-year
+16 +7
Contract jobs citing Red Hat 22 38 7
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Gloucestershire 8.029% 5.680% 1.632%
As % of the Vendors category 18.64% 11.91% 3.365%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 33 5
Average daily rate £450 £500 £388
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-10.00% +29.03%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £475 £350
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £500 £404
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £400 £350
% change year-on-year
-6.25% +14.28%
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
Gloucestershire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
118 319 208
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Gloucestershire 43.07% 47.68% 48.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 205 86
Average daily rate £500 £400 £335
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+25.00% +19.40%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £375 £325 £195
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £500 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 20 18
Average hourly rate £11.00 £29.50 £21.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-62.71% +40.47%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.30 £24.90 £17.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £40.50 £50.00 £28.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.50
% change year-on-year
- -7.31%
Red Hat
South West

Red Hat
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Red Hat across the Gloucestershire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Vendors category.

Gloucestershire 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 Gloucestershire region.

Gloucestershire 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 Gloucestershire region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

Gloucestershire 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 Gloucestershire region.

Gloucestershire Red Hat Hourly Rate Trend

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 Gloucestershire region over the 3 months to 21 May 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
Gloucester +16 2 - -
Red Hat
South West

Red Hat
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Gloucestershire 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 52 (100.00%) Linux
2 50 (96.15%) UNIX
3 47 (90.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 43 (82.69%) DV Cleared
4 43 (82.69%) Security Cleared
5 41 (78.85%) C
6 31 (59.62%) DNS
7 30 (57.69%) DHCP
8 29 (55.77%) Solaris
9 27 (51.92%) VMware
10 25 (48.08%) SAN
10 25 (48.08%) Shell Script
11 24 (46.15%) Cisco
11 24 (46.15%) Windows
11 24 (46.15%) Perl
11 24 (46.15%) Clustering
12 23 (44.23%) VMware Infrastructure
13 19 (36.54%) Service Management
14 17 (32.69%) NetApp
14 17 (32.69%) IBM
14 17 (32.69%) LAN
14 17 (32.69%) WAN
14 17 (32.69%) Ethernet
14 17 (32.69%) HP
14 17 (32.69%) Enterprise Architecture
14 17 (32.69%) Hyper-V
15 8 (15.38%) TCP/IP
16 7 (13.46%) Firewall
16 7 (13.46%) Oracle
16 7 (13.46%) SQL Server

Red Hat
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Gloucestershire 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 6 (11.54%) Middleware
2 3 (5.769%) LAMP
3 1 (1.923%) J2EE
Application Platforms
1 6 (11.54%) Windows Azure
1 6 (11.54%) WebLogic
1 6 (11.54%) Oracle Application Server
1 6 (11.54%) GlassFish
2 5 (9.615%) Amazon AWS
2 5 (9.615%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (1.923%) Apache
3 1 (1.923%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (1.923%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 31 (59.62%) DNS
2 30 (57.69%) DHCP
3 25 (48.08%) SAN
4 17 (32.69%) LAN
4 17 (32.69%) WAN
4 17 (32.69%) Ethernet
5 8 (15.38%) TCP/IP
6 7 (13.46%) Firewall
7 6 (11.54%) MPLS
8 1 (1.923%) SSH
8 1 (1.923%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (13.46%) SQL Server
2 6 (11.54%) Oracle 10g
2 6 (11.54%) Oracle 11g
3 4 (7.692%) MySQL
4 1 (1.923%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 4 (7.692%) Git (software)
2 3 (5.769%) Hudson
3 1 (1.923%) ClearQuest
3 1 (1.923%) ClearCase
Job Titles
1 25 (48.08%) Linux Engineer
2 24 (46.15%) UNIX Engineer
3 23 (44.23%) Architect
4 17 (32.69%) Technical Architect
5 6 (11.54%) Infrastructure Architect
6 3 (5.769%) Systems Administrator
6 3 (5.769%) Administrator
6 3 (5.769%) Linux Systems Administrator
6 3 (5.769%) Linux Administrator
7 1 (1.923%) Technical Solutions Architect
7 1 (1.923%) Systems Engineer
7 1 (1.923%) Solutions Architect
7 1 (1.923%) Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 24 (46.15%) Clustering
2 6 (11.54%) PaaS
2 6 (11.54%) IaaS
3 1 (1.923%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 52 (100.00%) Linux
2 50 (96.15%) UNIX
3 47 (90.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 29 (55.77%) Solaris
5 24 (46.15%) Windows
6 2 (3.846%) Windows Server 2008
6 2 (3.846%) HPUX
7 1 (1.923%) Ubuntu
7 1 (1.923%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (36.54%) Service Management
2 17 (32.69%) Enterprise Architecture
3 6 (11.54%) Load Balancing
4 5 (9.615%) Root Cause Analysis
5 4 (7.692%) Scrum
6 3 (5.769%) ITIL
6 3 (5.769%) Content Management
7 1 (1.923%) Test Scripting
7 1 (1.923%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 41 (78.85%) C
2 25 (48.08%) Shell Script
3 24 (46.15%) Perl
4 3 (5.769%) PHP
5 1 (1.923%) Java
5 1 (1.923%) SQL
5 1 (1.923%) Korn
5 1 (1.923%) C-shell
5 1 (1.923%) Bash shell
Qualifications
1 43 (82.69%) DV Cleared
1 43 (82.69%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 23 (44.23%) VMware Infrastructure
2 17 (32.69%) Hyper-V
3 7 (13.46%) vSphere
4 6 (11.54%) Active Directory
4 6 (11.54%) Oracle RAC
5 2 (3.846%) NFS
6 1 (1.923%) Samba
6 1 (1.923%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 3 (5.769%) NetBackup
1 3 (5.769%) Red Hat Satellite
1 3 (5.769%) Puppet
2 1 (1.923%) Backup Exec
2 1 (1.923%) WSUS
Vendors
1 27 (51.92%) VMware
2 24 (46.15%) Cisco
3 17 (32.69%) NetApp
3 17 (32.69%) IBM
3 17 (32.69%) HP
4 7 (13.46%) Oracle
5 6 (11.54%) Microsoft
5 6 (11.54%) Sun
6 3 (5.769%) Mercator
7 1 (1.923%) Dell
7 1 (1.923%) Symantec
7 1 (1.923%) JBoss
7 1 (1.923%) Perforce
7 1 (1.923%) SolarWinds
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