The first table below looks at the demand for Red Hat Enterprise Linux skills in IT contracts advertised for the Hertfordshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Red Hat Enterprise Linux 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 of the Operating Systems category for the Hertfordshire 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 Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
Rank 42 66 71
Rank change year-on-year
+24 +5
Contract jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 16 13 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 2.504% 1.305% 0.217%
As % of the Operating Systems category 8.602% 4.962% 0.833%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 4 1
Average daily rate £355 £319 £315
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+11.37% +1.19%
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £350 £350
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £32.50 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £36.00 £32.50 £27.50
% change year-on-year
+10.76% +18.18%
All Operating Systems
Hertfordshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
186 262 240
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 29.11% 26.31% 26.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 75 97 75
Average daily rate £301 £350 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-14.00% +16.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £180 £185 £165
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £450 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 32 55
Average hourly rate £16.00 £18.00 £16.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-11.11% +12.50%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.50 £11.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £32.55 £35.00 £37.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £17.50 £16.00
% change year-on-year
-8.57% +9.37%
Red Hat Enterprise Linux
East of England

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux across the Hertfordshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Operating Systems category.

Hertfordshire Red Hat Enterprise Linux Jobs Demand Trend

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux across the Hertfordshire region.

Hertfordshire Red Hat Enterprise Linux Daily Rate Trend

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux across the Hertfordshire region.

Hertfordshire Red Hat Enterprise Linux Hourly Rate Trend

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
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 Enterprise Linux within the Hertfordshire 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
Hemel Hempstead - 1 - - 2
Hertford - - - -
Watford - - - -
Welwyn Garden City - - - - 1
Bishop's Stortford - - - -
Red Hat Enterprise Linux
East of England

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire region citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 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 Enterprise Linux.

1 17 (94.44%) Linux
2 16 (88.89%) Red Hat
3 11 (61.11%) Security Cleared
4 9 (50.00%) UNIX
4 9 (50.00%) Windows
5 7 (38.89%) Oracle
5 7 (38.89%) SC Cleared
6 5 (27.78%) Perl
6 5 (27.78%) Solaris
7 4 (22.22%) ITIL
7 4 (22.22%) SQL
7 4 (22.22%) Sun
7 4 (22.22%) HP
7 4 (22.22%) IBM
7 4 (22.22%) Middleware
7 4 (22.22%) VMware
7 4 (22.22%) Clustering
7 4 (22.22%) Subversion
8 3 (16.67%) ClearQuest
8 3 (16.67%) SAN
8 3 (16.67%) ClearCase
8 3 (16.67%) SQL Server
8 3 (16.67%) Apache
9 2 (11.11%) Tomcat
9 2 (11.11%) J2EE
9 2 (11.11%) HTTP
9 2 (11.11%) TCP/IP
9 2 (11.11%) MS Visio
9 2 (11.11%) Microsoft
9 2 (11.11%) EMC

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire region citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 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 Enterprise Linux. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 4 (22.22%) Middleware
2 2 (11.11%) J2EE
2 2 (11.11%) WebSphere MQ
2 2 (11.11%) WebSphere
3 1 (5.556%) Memcached
3 1 (5.556%) Gearman
3 1 (5.556%) ASP.NET
3 1 (5.556%) .NET
Application Platforms
1 3 (16.67%) Apache
2 2 (11.11%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (11.11%) MS Visio
2 1 (5.556%) MS Excel
2 1 (5.556%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 3 (16.67%) SAN
2 2 (11.11%) HTTP
2 2 (11.11%) TCP/IP
2 2 (11.11%) iSCSI
3 1 (5.556%) LAN
3 1 (5.556%) WAN
3 1 (5.556%) DHCP
3 1 (5.556%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (16.67%) SQL Server
2 1 (5.556%) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications
1 4 (22.22%) Subversion
2 3 (16.67%) ClearQuest
2 3 (16.67%) ClearCase
3 1 (5.556%) Redmine
3 1 (5.556%) Eclipse
General
1 2 (11.11%) Finance
1 2 (11.11%) Banking
2 1 (5.556%) Billing
Job Titles
1 6 (33.33%) Administrator
2 4 (22.22%) Systems Administrator
3 3 (16.67%) Solaris Administrator
4 2 (11.11%) Analyst
4 2 (11.11%) Network Analyst
4 2 (11.11%) UNIX Administrator
4 2 (11.11%) Technical Leader
4 2 (11.11%) Linux Specialist
5 1 (5.556%) Build Engineer
5 1 (5.556%) Technical Specialist
5 1 (5.556%) Security Specialist
5 1 (5.556%) Oracle Consultant
5 1 (5.556%) UNIX Specialist
5 1 (5.556%) Linux Systems Administrator
5 1 (5.556%) Systems Support Engineer
5 1 (5.556%) UNIX Systems Administrator
5 1 (5.556%) UNIX Technical Specialist
5 1 (5.556%) Linux Engineer
5 1 (5.556%) Linux Administrator
5 1 (5.556%) Systems Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (22.22%) Clustering
2 1 (5.556%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 17 (94.44%) Linux
2 9 (50.00%) UNIX
2 9 (50.00%) Windows
3 5 (27.78%) Solaris
4 2 (11.11%) Windows Server 2003
4 2 (11.11%) Windows Server 2008
5 1 (5.556%) Windows 7
5 1 (5.556%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (5.556%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (22.22%) ITIL
2 2 (11.11%) Project Management
2 2 (11.11%) Service Management
2 2 (11.11%) Change Management
2 2 (11.11%) Change Control
2 2 (11.11%) Network Load Balancing
2 2 (11.11%) Problem Management
3 1 (5.556%) Network Architecture
3 1 (5.556%) Test Scripting
3 1 (5.556%) Capacity Management
3 1 (5.556%) Data Migration
3 1 (5.556%) Software Engineering
3 1 (5.556%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 5 (27.78%) Perl
2 4 (22.22%) SQL
3 1 (5.556%) Bash shell
3 1 (5.556%) Korn
3 1 (5.556%) Shell Script
3 1 (5.556%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 11 (61.11%) Security Cleared
2 7 (38.89%) SC Cleared
3 1 (5.556%) Degree
3 1 (5.556%) RHCA
3 1 (5.556%) RHCE
System Software
1 1 (5.556%) Postfix
1 1 (5.556%) XenServer
1 1 (5.556%) Veritas Cluster Server
1 1 (5.556%) Varnish
1 1 (5.556%) Cygwin
1 1 (5.556%) Oracle RAC
1 1 (5.556%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (5.556%) Samba
Systems Management
1 1 (5.556%) YUM
1 1 (5.556%) Puppet
1 1 (5.556%) Cobbler
1 1 (5.556%) Nagios
Vendors
1 16 (88.89%) Red Hat
2 7 (38.89%) Oracle
3 4 (22.22%) Sun
3 4 (22.22%) HP
3 4 (22.22%) IBM
3 4 (22.22%) VMware
4 2 (11.11%) Microsoft
4 2 (11.11%) EMC
4 2 (11.11%) Remedy
5 1 (5.556%) Citrix
5 1 (5.556%) Veritas