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 Hertfordshire 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 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.

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 51 55 62
Rank change year-on-year
+4 +7
Contract jobs citing Red Hat 12 13 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 1.866% 1.343% 0.461%
As % of the Vendors category 4.096% 3.571% 0.893%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 1 2
Average daily rate £263 £300 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-12.50% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £300 £288
10% offered a daily rate of more than £375 £300 £312
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £418 £350
% change year-on-year
-10.17% +19.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Average hourly rate - £26.00 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £34.75 £33.50 £30.25
% change year-on-year
+3.73% +10.74%
All Vendors
Hertfordshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
293 364 448
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 45.57% 37.60% 51.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 128 140 168
Average daily rate £375 £350 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £210 £185 £189
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £471 £488
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 36 70
Average hourly rate £17.50 £16.00 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+9.37% -54.28%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.00 £11.00 £14.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £37.50 £36.00 £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
- -5.00%
Red Hat
East of England

Red Hat
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Hertfordshire 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 Hertfordshire region.

Hertfordshire Red Hat Daily Rate Trend

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 Hertfordshire region.

Hertfordshire 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 Hertfordshire region over the 3 months to 17 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
Stevenage +7 5 £311 -
Hemel Hempstead - 3 - -
Red Hat
East of England

Red Hat
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire 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 15 (100.00%) Linux
2 10 (66.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 8 (53.33%) UNIX
3 8 (53.33%) Windows
4 5 (33.33%) VMware
4 5 (33.33%) SQL
4 5 (33.33%) Security Cleared
5 4 (26.67%) Windows Server 2008
5 4 (26.67%) SC Cleared
5 4 (26.67%) Subversion
5 4 (26.67%) ITIL
5 4 (26.67%) Solaris
5 4 (26.67%) TCP/IP
5 4 (26.67%) Clustering
6 3 (20.00%) Project Management
6 3 (20.00%) SAN
6 3 (20.00%) Middleware
6 3 (20.00%) ClearQuest
6 3 (20.00%) HP
6 3 (20.00%) EMC
6 3 (20.00%) Veritas
6 3 (20.00%) DNS
6 3 (20.00%) IBM
6 3 (20.00%) ClearCase
6 3 (20.00%) Apache
6 3 (20.00%) Perl
6 3 (20.00%) Oracle
6 3 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
7 2 (13.33%) Crossbeam
7 2 (13.33%) Network Security

Red Hat
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire 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 3 (20.00%) Middleware
2 1 (6.667%) WebSphere
2 1 (6.667%) Memcached
2 1 (6.667%) Gearman
2 1 (6.667%) .NET
2 1 (6.667%) ASP.NET
Application Platforms
1 3 (20.00%) Apache
2 1 (6.667%) Tomcat
2 1 (6.667%) WebSphere MQ
Applications
1 2 (13.33%) MS Visio
2 1 (6.667%) MS Office
2 1 (6.667%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 4 (26.67%) TCP/IP
2 3 (20.00%) DNS
2 3 (20.00%) SAN
3 2 (13.33%) DHCP
3 2 (13.33%) BIG-IP
3 2 (13.33%) Network Security
4 1 (6.667%) iSCSI
4 1 (6.667%) HTTP
4 1 (6.667%) LAN
4 1 (6.667%) WAN
4 1 (6.667%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (13.33%) SQL Server
2 1 (6.667%) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications
1 4 (26.67%) Subversion
2 3 (20.00%) ClearCase
2 3 (20.00%) ClearQuest
3 1 (6.667%) Eclipse
3 1 (6.667%) Redmine
General
1 2 (13.33%) Finance
1 2 (13.33%) Retail
2 1 (6.667%) Billing
2 1 (6.667%) Banking
Job Titles
1 7 (46.67%) Administrator
2 6 (40.00%) Systems Administrator
3 4 (26.67%) Linux Administrator
4 3 (20.00%) Linux Systems Administrator
5 2 (13.33%) Technical Leader
6 1 (6.667%) Solaris Administrator
6 1 (6.667%) Senior Linux Administrator
6 1 (6.667%) Systems Support Engineer
6 1 (6.667%) Analyst
6 1 (6.667%) Consultant
6 1 (6.667%) Systems Engineer
6 1 (6.667%) Systems Support
6 1 (6.667%) Support Engineer
6 1 (6.667%) Network Analyst
6 1 (6.667%) UNIX Systems Administrator
6 1 (6.667%) UNIX Administrator
6 1 (6.667%) Oracle Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 4 (26.67%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 15 (100.00%) Linux
2 10 (66.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 8 (53.33%) UNIX
3 8 (53.33%) Windows
4 4 (26.67%) Solaris
4 4 (26.67%) Windows Server 2008
5 2 (13.33%) Windows Server 2003
5 2 (13.33%) AIX
6 1 (6.667%) Windows XP
6 1 (6.667%) CentOS
6 1 (6.667%) Windows 7
6 1 (6.667%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (26.67%) ITIL
2 3 (20.00%) Project Management
3 2 (13.33%) Service Management
3 2 (13.33%) Service Delivery
3 2 (13.33%) Programme Office Management
3 2 (13.33%) E-Commerce
3 2 (13.33%) Change Control
3 2 (13.33%) Build Automation
4 1 (6.667%) Capacity Management
4 1 (6.667%) Software Engineering
4 1 (6.667%) Network Load Balancing
4 1 (6.667%) Network Architecture
Programming Languages
1 5 (33.33%) SQL
2 3 (20.00%) Perl
3 1 (6.667%) PHP
3 1 (6.667%) VB.NET
3 1 (6.667%) Shell Script
3 1 (6.667%) Korn
3 1 (6.667%) Bash shell
Qualifications
1 5 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 4 (26.67%) SC Cleared
3 2 (13.33%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (6.667%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (13.33%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (13.33%) Active Directory
3 1 (6.667%) Postfix
3 1 (6.667%) Veritas Cluster Server
3 1 (6.667%) Varnish
3 1 (6.667%) Cygwin
Systems Management
1 2 (13.33%) NetBackup
2 1 (6.667%) Puppet
2 1 (6.667%) Nagios
Vendors
1 5 (33.33%) VMware
2 3 (20.00%) Veritas
2 3 (20.00%) Oracle
2 3 (20.00%) IBM
2 3 (20.00%) HP
2 3 (20.00%) EMC
3 2 (13.33%) Citrix
3 2 (13.33%) Nokia
3 2 (13.33%) Microsoft
3 2 (13.33%) Sun
3 2 (13.33%) Cisco
3 2 (13.33%) CheckPoint
3 2 (13.33%) Remedy
3 2 (13.33%) Crossbeam
3 2 (13.33%) F5
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