Permanent IT Jobs Contract IT Jobs

The first part of the table below looks at the demand for Red Hat Linux skills in IT contracts advertised for the Leeds region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Red Hat Linux over the 3 months to 19 March 2010 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Operating Systems category for the Leeds region.

 Red Hat Linux
Location
3 months to
19 Mar 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank49-67
Rank change year-on-year
New entry-No change0
Matching contract IT job ads303
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leeds0.536 %-0.274 %
As % of the Operating Systems category3.333 %-1.563 %
Daily rates quoted101
Average daily rate£365-£300
UK excluding London average daily rate£375£325£398
% change year-on-year
+15.38 %-18.23 %
Hourly rates quoted000
Average hourly rate---
UK excluding London average hourly rate£14.00£23.50£32.50
% change year-on-year
-40.42 %-27.69 %
Leeds IT Contractor Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryAll Operating Systems
Leeds
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
9078192
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leeds16.07 %13.18 %17.53 %
Daily rates quoted381342
Average daily rate£313£200£354
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+56.25 %-43.46 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£200£125£117
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£365£500£500
UK excluding London average daily rate£313£310£335
% change year-on-year
+0.800 %-7.460 %
Hourly rates quoted8832
Average hourly rate£15.00£16.50£15.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-9.090 %+10.00 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£9.00£8.75£11.00
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£18.20£25.00£25.46
UK excluding London average hourly rate£15.00£17.50£18.00
% change year-on-year
-14.28 %-2.770 %
Red Hat Linux West YorkshireRed Hat Linux
West Yorkshire

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.

Red Hat Linux
Demand Trend

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

Leeds Red Hat Linux Demand Trend

Red Hat Linux
Daily Rate Trend

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

Leeds Red Hat Linux Daily Rate Trend

Red Hat Linux
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Leeds Red Hat Linux Hourly Rate Trend

Red Hat Linux
Top 25 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds region citing Red Hat 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 Linux.

14 (100.00 %)Oracle
14 (100.00 %)Linux
14 (100.00 %)Red Hat
23 (75.00 %)Tomcat
23 (75.00 %)Java
32 (50.00 %)PL/SQL
32 (50.00 %)SQL
32 (50.00 %)Web Services
32 (50.00 %)Oracle Forms
32 (50.00 %)Telecoms
32 (50.00 %)Requirements Analysis
32 (50.00 %)Time Management
41 (25.00 %)Incident Management
41 (25.00 %)C
41 (25.00 %)Service Delivery
41 (25.00 %)Apache
41 (25.00 %)WebLogic
41 (25.00 %)IIS
41 (25.00 %)E-Commerce
41 (25.00 %)HP
41 (25.00 %)Internet
41 (25.00 %)ITIL
41 (25.00 %)UNIX
41 (25.00 %)HPUX
41 (25.00 %)J2EE

Red Hat Linux
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds region citing Red Hat 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 Linux. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Leeds IT Contractor Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
12 (50.00 %)Web Services
21 (25.00 %)J2EE
Leeds IT Contractor Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
13 (75.00 %)Tomcat
21 (25.00 %)Apache
21 (25.00 %)WebLogic
21 (25.00 %)IIS
Leeds IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
11 (25.00 %)Internet
Leeds IT Contractor Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
12 (50.00 %)Oracle Forms
Leeds IT Contractor Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
12 (50.00 %)Telecoms
Leeds IT Contractor Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
12 (50.00 %)Analyst
12 (50.00 %)Analyst Programmer
12 (50.00 %)Programmer
12 (50.00 %)Senior Analyst
12 (50.00 %)Senior Analyst Programmer
12 (50.00 %)Senior Programmer
21 (25.00 %)Incident Manager
21 (25.00 %)Technical Architect
21 (25.00 %)Architect
Leeds IT Contractor Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
14 (100.00 %)Linux
21 (25.00 %)UNIX
21 (25.00 %)HPUX
Leeds IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
12 (50.00 %)Requirements Analysis
12 (50.00 %)Time Management
21 (25.00 %)Incident Management
21 (25.00 %)Service Delivery
21 (25.00 %)E-Commerce
21 (25.00 %)ITIL
Leeds IT Contractor Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
13 (75.00 %)Java
22 (50.00 %)PL/SQL
22 (50.00 %)SQL
31 (25.00 %)C
Leeds IT Contractor Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
14 (100.00 %)Oracle
14 (100.00 %)Red Hat
21 (25.00 %)HP