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 Leeds 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 Leeds 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 42 51 54
Rank change year-on-year
+9 +3
Contract jobs citing Red Hat 34 17 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leeds 4.564% 1.910% 0.479%
As % of the Vendors category 10.59% 3.890% 1.370%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 9 3
Average daily rate £350 £350 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +16.66%
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £418 £350
% change year-on-year
-10.17% +19.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Average hourly rate £34.75 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £34.75 £33.50 £30.25
% change year-on-year
+3.73% +10.74%
All Vendors
Leeds
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
321 437 219
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leeds 43.09% 49.10% 34.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 166 247 108
Average daily rate £300 £325 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.69% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £213 £191 £185
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £448 £457
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 25 25
Average hourly rate £26.00 £15.00 £17.11
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+73.33% -12.33%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.30 £11.40 £11.15
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £35.50 £30.00 £25.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
- -5.00%
Red Hat
West Yorkshire

Red Hat
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Leeds 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 Leeds region.

Leeds 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 Leeds region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Leeds 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 Leeds region.

Leeds Red Hat Hourly Rate Trend

Red Hat
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds 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 32 (86.49%) Linux
2 30 (81.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 22 (59.46%) Firewall
4 21 (56.76%) Oracle
5 19 (51.35%) UNIX
5 19 (51.35%) Apache
6 18 (48.65%) Windows
7 15 (40.54%) PHP
7 15 (40.54%) Tomcat
7 15 (40.54%) MySQL
7 15 (40.54%) VMware
8 14 (37.84%) SQL Server
9 11 (29.73%) VMware Infrastructure
10 9 (24.32%) HPUX
11 8 (21.62%) E-Commerce
11 8 (21.62%) Cisco
11 8 (21.62%) Cisco ASA
11 8 (21.62%) Windows Server 2008
11 8 (21.62%) CentOS
12 7 (18.92%) BIG-IP
12 7 (18.92%) F5
12 7 (18.92%) JBoss
12 7 (18.92%) Web Services
12 7 (18.92%) Java
13 6 (16.22%) Configuration Management
13 6 (16.22%) X-Windows
13 6 (16.22%) Windows Server 2012
13 6 (16.22%) Perforce
14 5 (13.51%) Perl
14 5 (13.51%) AIX

Red Hat
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds 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 7 (18.92%) Web Services
2 6 (16.22%) X-Windows
3 4 (10.81%) J2EE
4 3 (8.108%) LAMP
5 1 (2.703%) WebSphere
5 1 (2.703%) Java EE
5 1 (2.703%) .NET
5 1 (2.703%) Middleware
Application Platforms
1 19 (51.35%) Apache
2 15 (40.54%) Tomcat
3 1 (2.703%) WebSphere Application Server
3 1 (2.703%) WebLogic
3 1 (2.703%) IIS
Applications
1 4 (10.81%) MS Visio
2 1 (2.703%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (2.703%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 22 (59.46%) Firewall
2 8 (21.62%) Cisco ASA
3 7 (18.92%) BIG-IP
4 2 (5.405%) NAS
4 2 (5.405%) TCP/IP
4 2 (5.405%) DNS
4 2 (5.405%) SAN
5 1 (2.703%) VPN
5 1 (2.703%) SMTP
5 1 (2.703%) DHCP
5 1 (2.703%) FTP
5 1 (2.703%) HTTP
5 1 (2.703%) Unified Communications
5 1 (2.703%) Cisco Nexus
5 1 (2.703%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (40.54%) MySQL
2 14 (37.84%) SQL Server
3 2 (5.405%) Oracle 9i
4 1 (2.703%) Data Mining
4 1 (2.703%) Oracle 11g
Development Applications
1 4 (10.81%) Introscope
Job Titles
1 14 (37.84%) Architect
2 10 (27.03%) Infrastructure Architect
3 3 (8.108%) DBA
3 3 (8.108%) Administrator
3 3 (8.108%) Oracle DBA
3 3 (8.108%) Software Manager
4 2 (5.405%) Designer
4 2 (5.405%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (5.405%) Infrastructure Designer
4 2 (5.405%) Systems Administrator
4 2 (5.405%) Network Engineer
4 2 (5.405%) Server Engineer
5 1 (2.703%) Network Support
5 1 (2.703%) Server Support Engineer
5 1 (2.703%) Linux Systems Administrator
5 1 (2.703%) Server Administrator
5 1 (2.703%) Linux Administrator
5 1 (2.703%) Network Specialist
5 1 (2.703%) Environment Manager
5 1 (2.703%) Software Configuration Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (2.703%) Firmware
1 1 (2.703%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 32 (86.49%) Linux
2 30 (81.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 19 (51.35%) UNIX
4 18 (48.65%) Windows
5 9 (24.32%) HPUX
6 8 (21.62%) Windows Server 2008
6 8 (21.62%) CentOS
7 6 (16.22%) Windows Server 2012
8 5 (13.51%) AIX
9 4 (10.81%) Solaris
10 2 (5.405%) Windows Server 2003
11 1 (2.703%) SUSE
11 1 (2.703%) Debian
11 1 (2.703%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (21.62%) E-Commerce
2 6 (16.22%) Configuration Management
3 4 (10.81%) ITIL
4 2 (5.405%) Data Protection
5 1 (2.703%) Capacity Planning
5 1 (2.703%) CRM
5 1 (2.703%) SOA
5 1 (2.703%) Service Delivery
5 1 (2.703%) Migration
5 1 (2.703%) Load Balancing
5 1 (2.703%) Problem Management
5 1 (2.703%) Test Management
5 1 (2.703%) Test Scripting
5 1 (2.703%) Performance Management
Programming Languages
1 15 (40.54%) PHP
2 7 (18.92%) Java
3 5 (13.51%) Perl
4 3 (8.108%) SQL
5 1 (2.703%) Shell Script
5 1 (2.703%) AWK
5 1 (2.703%) C
Qualifications
1 1 (2.703%) MCP
1 1 (2.703%) MCSE
1 1 (2.703%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (2.703%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.703%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 11 (29.73%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (5.405%) Active Directory
2 2 (5.405%) vSphere
3 1 (2.703%) NFS
3 1 (2.703%) VMware ESX
3 1 (2.703%) Squid
3 1 (2.703%) XenServer
Systems Management
1 4 (10.81%) CA Wily
1 4 (10.81%) Splunk
2 1 (2.703%) PureDisk
Vendors
1 21 (56.76%) Oracle
2 15 (40.54%) VMware
3 8 (21.62%) Cisco
4 7 (18.92%) JBoss
4 7 (18.92%) F5
5 6 (16.22%) Perforce
6 3 (8.108%) Terracotta
7 2 (5.405%) Microsoft
7 2 (5.405%) HP
8 1 (2.703%) Citrix
8 1 (2.703%) Juniper
8 1 (2.703%) Nokia
8 1 (2.703%) CheckPoint
8 1 (2.703%) Symantec
8 1 (2.703%) Brocade
8 1 (2.703%) Syncsort
8 1 (2.703%) SolarWinds
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