Hertfordshire Red Hat Contracts

This section looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Red Hat products and/or services in IT contracts within the Hertfordshire region with a comparison to our Vendors category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Red Hat over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Aldershot Andover Ascot Aylesbury Basildon Berkshire Birmingham Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cheshire City of London Coventry Croydon Docklands, London Driffield East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Elgin England Essex Glasgow Hampshire Hertfordshire Highlands Hinckley Hull Inverness Ipswich Lanarkshire Leeds Leicestershire Liverpool London M4 Corridor Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Moray Newbury North West Oxford Oxfordshire Reading Rugby Salisbury Scotland Somerset South East South West Southampton Stevenage Suffolk Surrey Sussex Swindon Thames Valley UK Uxbridge Warrington Warwickshire Watford West Drayton West Midlands West Yorkshire Westminster Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Woking Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	77	81
Rank change on same period last year	+4
Matching contract IT job ads	12	13
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.016 %	0.013 %
As % of the category below	1.702 %	1.482 %
Daily rates quoted	3	4
Average minimum daily rate	£367	£265
Average daily rate	£375	£265
% change on same period last year	+41.62 %
Average maximum daily rate	£383	£265
UK excluding London average daily rate	£359	£355
% change on same period last year	+1.22 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	1
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£30.00
Average hourly rate	-	£35.00
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£27.77	£31.12
% change on same period last year	-10.75 %
Vendors Hertfordshire
Matching contract IT job ads	705	877
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.940 %	0.887 %
Daily rates quoted	238	340
Average minimum daily rate	£358	£339
Average daily rate	£377	£361
% change on same period last year	+4.42 %
Average maximum daily rate	£396	£383
UK excluding London average daily rate	£357	£359
% change on same period last year	-0.40 %
Hourly rates quoted	80	81
Average minimum hourly rate	£22.70	£20.67
Average hourly rate	£23.58	£22.42
% change on same period last year	+5.15 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£24.46	£24.17
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.25	£24.99
% change on same period last year	-6.94 %
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We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

These figures represent the IT job market and are NOT representative of employment within RedHat.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Red Hat across the Hertfordshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Vendors category.

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Daily Rate Trend

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

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Red Hat across the Hertfordshire region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Contract Locations

This section 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 25 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Watford	-	3	£375	-
Stevenage	-14	1	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, 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 17 (89.47 %) Linux 2 15 (78.95 %) UNIX 3 12 (63.16 %) J2EE 4 9 (47.37 %) SQL 4 9 (47.37 %) AIX 4 9 (47.37 %) HP 5 8 (42.11 %) IBM 5 8 (42.11 %) Perl 5 8 (42.11 %) Oracle 5 8 (42.11 %) WebSphere 6 7 (36.84 %) DB2 6 7 (36.84 %) WebSphere Application Server 7 6 (31.58 %) Shell Script 8 5 (26.32 %) VMware 8 5 (26.32 %) Windows

8 5 (26.32 %) Java 8 5 (26.32 %) MySQL 8 5 (26.32 %) JBoss 8 5 (26.32 %) Tomcat 9 4 (21.05 %) J2SE 9 4 (21.05 %) IIS 9 4 (21.05 %) Middleware 9 4 (21.05 %) SAN 10 3 (15.79 %) Nokia 10 3 (15.79 %) CheckPoint 10 3 (15.79 %) EMC 10 3 (15.79 %) Cisco Certification 10 3 (15.79 %) CCNA 10 3 (15.79 %) SUSE 10 3 (15.79 %) Firewall

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, 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 12 (63.16 %) J2EE 2 8 (42.11 %) WebSphere 3 4 (21.05 %) J2SE 3 4 (21.05 %) Middleware 4 3 (15.79 %) .NET 5 1 (5.263 %) LAMP	Application Platforms 1 7 (36.84 %) WebSphere Application Server 2 5 (26.32 %) JBoss 2 5 (26.32 %) Tomcat 3 4 (21.05 %) IIS 4 3 (15.79 %) MQSeries 4 3 (15.79 %) IBM HTTP Server 5 2 (10.53 %) WebLogic 6 1 (5.263 %) Apache
Communications & Networking 1 4 (21.05 %) SAN 2 3 (15.79 %) Firewall 2 3 (15.79 %) HTTP 3 2 (10.53 %) TCP/IP 3 2 (10.53 %) DNS 3 2 (10.53 %) Cisco PIX	Database & Business Intelligence 1 7 (36.84 %) DB2 2 5 (26.32 %) MySQL
Development Applications 1 1 (5.263 %) Ant	General 1 1 (5.263 %) Pharmaceutical 1 1 (5.263 %) Telecoms 1 1 (5.263 %) Games
Job Titles 1 8 (42.11 %) Administrator 2 7 (36.84 %) Systems Administrator 3 5 (26.32 %) Support Specialist 3 5 (26.32 %) Linux Administrator 4 4 (21.05 %) Applications Support 4 4 (21.05 %) Applications Specialist 4 4 (21.05 %) Applications Support Specialist 4 4 (21.05 %) Linux Systems Administrator 5 3 (15.79 %) UNIX Support 6 2 (10.53 %) UNIX Specialist 7 1 (5.263 %) WebSphere Specialist 7 1 (5.263 %) Build Manager 7 1 (5.263 %) Technical Team Leader 7 1 (5.263 %) Infrastructure Specialist 7 1 (5.263 %) Configuration Manager 7 1 (5.263 %) Infrastructure Analyst 7 1 (5.263 %) UNIX Systems Administrator 7 1 (5.263 %) Team Leader 7 1 (5.263 %) UNIX Administrator 7 1 (5.263 %) Linux Support	Operating Systems 1 17 (89.47 %) Linux 2 15 (78.95 %) UNIX 3 9 (47.37 %) AIX 4 5 (26.32 %) Windows 5 3 (15.79 %) HPUX 5 3 (15.79 %) Solaris 5 3 (15.79 %) SUSE 6 1 (5.263 %) Tru64
Processes & Methodologies 1 3 (15.79 %) E-Commerce 2 2 (10.53 %) Security Management 3 1 (5.263 %) Security Cleared	Programming Languages 1 9 (47.37 %) SQL 2 8 (42.11 %) Perl 3 6 (31.58 %) Shell Script 4 5 (26.32 %) Java 5 2 (10.53 %) PL/SQL 6 1 (5.263 %) PHP
Qualifications 1 3 (15.79 %) CCNA 1 3 (15.79 %) Cisco Certification 2 2 (10.53 %) RHCE 3 1 (5.263 %) Degree 3 1 (5.263 %) Microsoft Certification 3 1 (5.263 %) MCP	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (5.263 %) GxP
System Software 1 1 (5.263 %) ISA Server 1 1 (5.263 %) Samba 1 1 (5.263 %) VMware Infrastructure	Systems Management 1 1 (5.263 %) Veritas Storage Foundation
Vendors 1 9 (47.37 %) HP 2 8 (42.11 %) Oracle 2 8 (42.11 %) IBM 3 5 (26.32 %) VMware 4 3 (15.79 %) CheckPoint 4 3 (15.79 %) Cisco 4 3 (15.79 %) EMC 4 3 (15.79 %) Nokia 5 2 (10.53 %) Dell 5 2 (10.53 %) Sun 6 1 (5.263 %) VERITAS 6 1 (5.263 %) Microsoft