Red Hat Contracts in London
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

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 London 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 London 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 127 146 163
Rank change year-on-year
+19 +17
Contract jobs citing Red Hat 341 349 365
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 1.579% 1.303% 1.168%
As % of the Vendors category 3.499% 2.930% 2.587%
Number of daily rates quoted 256 240 238
Average daily rate £450 £400 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+12.50% -11.11%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £311 £300 £325
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £496 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £418 £350
% change year-on-year
-10.17% +19.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 4
Average hourly rate £28.75 £22.50 £25.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+27.77% -10.89%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £24.95 £22.50 £21.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £32.55 £22.50 £40.20
UK excluding London average hourly rate £34.75 £33.50 £30.25
% change year-on-year
+3.73% +10.74%
All Vendors
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category		 9746 11913 14109
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 45.14% 44.48% 45.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 6153 7231 8518
Average daily rate £425 £425 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -5.55%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £260 £268 £280
10% offered a daily rate of more than £580 £600 £625
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 288 288 409
Average hourly rate £21.34 £20.00 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+6.67% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £12.50 £12.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £35.25 £40.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
- -5.00%
Red Hat
England

Red Hat
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London 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 London region.

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

London 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 London region.

London 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 London 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
City of London -1 94 £425 +1.19%
Docklands, London +7 7 £450 +16.12%
Hammersmith +4 4 £255 -
Brentford -8 2 £463 +2.77%
Surbiton - 2 - -
Greenwich +3 1 £380 -3.79%
Harrow -2 1 £363 +16.93%
Canary Wharf -8 1 £425 -22.72%
Hounslow - 1 £450 -
Kingston Upon Thames - 1 £375 -
Red Hat
England

Red Hat
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London 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.

1 683 (94.47%) Linux
2 511 (70.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 381 (52.70%) UNIX
4 254 (35.13%) Windows
5 232 (32.09%) Solaris
6 213 (29.46%) Perl
7 193 (26.69%) VMware
8 186 (25.73%) Oracle
9 179 (24.76%) Apache
10 163 (22.54%) Finance
11 158 (21.85%) SAN
12 156 (21.58%) HP
13 147 (20.33%) Banking
14 120 (16.60%) Java
15 113 (15.63%) VMware Infrastructure
16 108 (14.94%) Shell Script
16 108 (14.94%) Firewall
17 102 (14.11%) EMC
18 101 (13.97%) MySQL
18 101 (13.97%) Microsoft
19 100 (13.83%) DNS
20 97 (13.42%) TCP/IP
20 97 (13.42%) Veritas
20 97 (13.42%) Puppet
21 96 (13.28%) Citrix
21 96 (13.28%) SUSE
22 89 (12.31%) Clustering
23 85 (11.76%) SQL
23 85 (11.76%) Python
24 84 (11.62%) Bash shell

Red Hat
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London 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 54 (7.469%) XML
2 51 (7.054%) Web Services
3 50 (6.916%) WebSphere
4 43 (5.947%) LAMP
4 43 (5.947%) XSLT
5 42 (5.809%) SOAP
6 34 (4.703%) Java EE
7 31 (4.288%) COM+
8 19 (2.628%) .NET
9 14 (1.936%) HTML
9 14 (1.936%) Middleware
10 12 (1.660%) RESTful
11 11 (1.521%) J2EE
12 10 (1.383%) HTML5
13 9 (1.245%) ASP.NET
13 9 (1.245%) Spring
14 7 (0.968%) Hibernate
14 7 (0.968%) ADSI
14 7 (0.968%) CSS
14 7 (0.968%) JDBC
Application Platforms
1 179 (24.76%) Apache
2 70 (9.682%) IIS
3 63 (8.714%) Tomcat
4 44 (6.086%) WebSphere Application Server
5 23 (3.181%) SharePoint
6 20 (2.766%) Amazon AWS
7 19 (2.628%) Rendezvous
8 16 (2.213%) ESB
9 11 (1.521%) WebLogic
10 10 (1.383%) Drupal
11 8 (1.107%) SharePoint Server
11 8 (1.107%) OpenStack
12 7 (0.968%) Oracle Application Server
12 7 (0.968%) MS Exchange
13 6 (0.830%) Amazon EC2
14 5 (0.692%) Liferay
14 5 (0.692%) SharePoint 2010
14 5 (0.692%) Exchange Server 2010
15 4 (0.553%) Rackspace Cloud
15 4 (0.553%) CloudStack
Applications
1 41 (5.671%) MS Excel
2 12 (1.660%) MS Office
3 3 (0.415%) MS Project
4 2 (0.277%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.277%) MS PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 11 (1.521%) Oracle EBS
2 4 (0.553%) 3000 Xtra
3 3 (0.415%) Oracle EBS R12
4 2 (0.277%) PeopleSoft Financials
4 2 (0.277%) WebTrends
4 2 (0.277%) Oracle Applications
4 2 (0.277%) Summit
4 2 (0.277%) Front Arena
4 2 (0.277%) RMDS
4 2 (0.277%) Dynamics NAV
4 2 (0.277%) Oracle BRM
5 1 (0.138%) SunGard Stream Clearvision
Communications & Networking
1 158 (21.85%) SAN
2 108 (14.94%) Firewall
3 100 (13.83%) DNS
4 97 (13.42%) TCP/IP
5 83 (11.48%) NAS
6 71 (9.820%) LDAP
7 51 (7.054%) BIG-IP
8 49 (6.777%) NetScaler
9 38 (5.256%) DHCP
10 32 (4.426%) Internet
11 23 (3.181%) LAN
12 22 (3.043%) WAN
13 21 (2.905%) SMTP
14 19 (2.628%) HTTP
15 18 (2.490%) SNMP
16 17 (2.351%) Fibre Channel
17 16 (2.213%) SSL
18 13 (1.798%) iSCSI
19 11 (1.521%) VPN
20 9 (1.245%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 101 (13.97%) MySQL
2 51 (7.054%) Oracle 11g
3 50 (6.916%) SQL Server
4 22 (3.043%) Oracle 8/8i
5 16 (2.213%) Oracle 10g
6 11 (1.521%) PostgreSQL
7 10 (1.383%) Data Warehouse
8 7 (0.968%) NoSQL
9 5 (0.692%) Hadoop
9 5 (0.692%) Oracle OLAP
9 5 (0.692%) Ingres
9 5 (0.692%) Informix
9 5 (0.692%) OLAP
10 4 (0.553%) SQL Server 2005
11 3 (0.415%) Oracle Exadata
11 3 (0.415%) SQL Server 2012
11 3 (0.415%) Data Mining
11 3 (0.415%) RDBMS
12 2 (0.277%) Sybase ASE
12 2 (0.277%) SQL Server 2000
Development Applications
1 47 (6.501%) Subversion
2 35 (4.841%) Jenkins
3 28 (3.873%) Git (software)
4 27 (3.734%) JIRA
5 15 (2.075%) Selenium
6 14 (1.936%) Team Foundation Server
6 14 (1.936%) Hudson
7 11 (1.521%) Maven
8 9 (1.245%) Gerrit
9 6 (0.830%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 4 (0.553%) ClearCase
10 4 (0.553%) Cucumber
11 2 (0.277%) Trac
11 2 (0.277%) Redmine
11 2 (0.277%) ClearQuest
11 2 (0.277%) CruiseControl
11 2 (0.277%) WATIR
11 2 (0.277%) RSpec
11 2 (0.277%) WebDriver
12 1 (0.138%) PHPUnit
General
1 163 (22.54%) Finance
2 147 (20.33%) Banking
3 80 (11.07%) Investment Banking
4 22 (3.043%) Financial Institution
5 16 (2.213%) Retail
6 12 (1.660%) Telecoms
7 8 (1.107%) Publishing
8 6 (0.830%) Advertising
8 6 (0.830%) French Language
9 4 (0.553%) German Language
9 4 (0.553%) Manufacturing
10 3 (0.415%) Retail Banking
11 2 (0.277%) Billing
11 2 (0.277%) Back Office
11 2 (0.277%) Law
11 2 (0.277%) Dutch Language
12 1 (0.138%) Avionics
12 1 (0.138%) Legal
12 1 (0.138%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.138%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 153 (21.16%) Administrator
2 133 (18.40%) Systems Administrator
3 102 (14.11%) Linux Engineer
4 98 (13.55%) Linux Administrator
5 84 (11.62%) Linux Systems Administrator
6 66 (9.129%) UNIX Systems Administrator
7 59 (8.160%) Systems Engineer
8 58 (8.022%) UNIX Administrator
9 46 (6.362%) UNIX Engineer
10 43 (5.947%) Developer
11 41 (5.671%) Support Engineer
12 33 (4.564%) DBA
12 33 (4.564%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 30 (4.149%) Consultant
14 26 (3.596%) Oracle DBA
15 22 (3.043%) Analyst
16 21 (2.905%) Senior Support Engineer
17 20 (2.766%) Architect
18 18 (2.490%) Senior Linux Engineer
19 16 (2.213%) Linux Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 89 (12.31%) Clustering
2 42 (5.809%) Open Source
3 38 (5.256%) PKI
4 21 (2.905%) Fixed Income
5 19 (2.628%) CLARiiON
6 18 (2.490%) Computer Science
7 16 (2.213%) Replication
8 13 (1.798%) LPAR
9 12 (1.660%) Hedge funds
10 11 (1.521%) Equities
11 9 (1.245%) Oracle Exalogic
11 9 (1.245%) Digital Media
12 8 (1.107%) IaaS
12 8 (1.107%) Thin Client
12 8 (1.107%) HACMP
12 8 (1.107%) Fat Client
12 8 (1.107%) Derivative
13 7 (0.968%) Blackberry
13 7 (0.968%) Management Information System
13 7 (0.968%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 683 (94.47%) Linux
2 511 (70.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 381 (52.70%) UNIX
4 254 (35.13%) Windows
5 232 (32.09%) Solaris
6 96 (13.28%) SUSE
7 79 (10.93%) Windows Server 2008
8 74 (10.24%) CentOS
9 71 (9.820%) AIX
10 62 (8.575%) Windows Server 2003
11 49 (6.777%) Windows XP
12 40 (5.533%) Ubuntu
13 35 (4.841%) HPUX
14 21 (2.905%) Debian
15 16 (2.213%) Windows 7
16 15 (2.075%) VMS
17 13 (1.798%) Windows 2000
18 11 (1.521%) OpenVMS
19 10 (1.383%) Fedora
20 7 (0.968%) Windows NT
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (9.820%) E-Commerce
2 64 (8.852%) Migration
3 61 (8.437%) Change Management
4 55 (7.607%) ITIL
5 48 (6.639%) Load Balancing
6 38 (5.256%) Change Control
7 36 (4.979%) High Availability
8 30 (4.149%) Configuration Management
9 29 (4.011%) Capacity Management
10 28 (3.873%) Project Management
11 24 (3.320%) Time Management
12 23 (3.181%) Electronic Trading
13 22 (3.043%) Software Deployment
14 19 (2.628%) Information Security
15 17 (2.351%) Agile Software Development
16 16 (2.213%) Service Delivery
16 16 (2.213%) Disaster Recovery
17 15 (2.075%) Continuous Integration
17 15 (2.075%) Scrum
18 13 (1.798%) Problem Management
Programming Languages
1 213 (29.46%) Perl
2 120 (16.60%) Java
3 108 (14.94%) Shell Script
4 85 (11.76%) Python
4 85 (11.76%) SQL
5 84 (11.62%) Bash shell
6 78 (10.79%) PHP
7 25 (3.458%) C++
8 23 (3.181%) Ruby
9 19 (2.628%) C
10 15 (2.075%) JavaScript
11 12 (1.660%) AWK
11 12 (1.660%) sed
12 11 (1.521%) Korn
13 9 (1.245%) PowerShell
14 8 (1.107%) PHP5
15 7 (0.968%) VBScript
16 5 (0.692%) VB
16 5 (0.692%) DCL
17 4 (0.553%) C-shell
Qualifications
1 68 (9.405%) Security Cleared
2 62 (8.575%) RHCE
3 44 (6.086%) DV Cleared
4 32 (4.426%) Degree
5 24 (3.320%) SCSA
5 24 (3.320%) Microsoft Certification
6 21 (2.905%) Sun Certification
7 19 (2.628%) SC Cleared
8 16 (2.213%) MCSE
9 13 (1.798%) RHCT
10 12 (1.660%) Oracle Certification
11 10 (1.383%) Cisco Certification
11 10 (1.383%) Linux+ Certification
11 10 (1.383%) GIAC
11 10 (1.383%) GWAPT
11 10 (1.383%) GPEN
12 9 (1.245%) CCEE
12 9 (1.245%) CCA
12 9 (1.245%) Citrix Certification
13 8 (1.107%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (2.351%) SLA
2 14 (1.936%) QA
3 3 (0.415%) Solvency II
4 2 (0.277%) ISO 9001
4 2 (0.277%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.138%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.138%) COBIT
5 1 (0.138%) GxP
5 1 (0.138%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 113 (15.63%) VMware Infrastructure
2 61 (8.437%) Active Directory
3 56 (7.746%) VMware ESX
3 56 (7.746%) Oracle RAC
4 55 (7.607%) vSphere
5 52 (7.192%) NFS
6 44 (6.086%) Veritas Cluster Server
7 41 (5.671%) Veritas Volume Manager
8 24 (3.320%) VMware ESXi
9 21 (2.905%) ProxySG
10 19 (2.628%) Samba
10 19 (2.628%) XenApp
11 16 (2.213%) Oracle RMAN
12 11 (1.521%) Postfix
13 10 (1.383%) Veritas File System
14 9 (1.245%) VMware Workstation
15 8 (1.107%) Microsoft App-V
16 7 (0.968%) Squid
16 7 (0.968%) Citrix Presentation Server
16 7 (0.968%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 97 (13.42%) Puppet
2 62 (8.575%) Nagios
3 26 (3.596%) NetBackup
4 20 (2.766%) Data Guard
5 19 (2.628%) Backup Exec
6 17 (2.351%) SCCM
6 17 (2.351%) Zenoss
7 16 (2.213%) SCOM
7 16 (2.213%) Cobbler
8 15 (2.075%) Red Hat Spacewalk
8 15 (2.075%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 10 (1.383%) Legato
9 10 (1.383%) Red Hat Satellite
10 9 (1.245%) HP Data Protector
11 8 (1.107%) Veritas Storage Foundation
11 8 (1.107%) ZABBIX
11 8 (1.107%) Cacti
11 8 (1.107%) Tivoli
11 8 (1.107%) BMC PATROL
12 7 (0.968%) BladeLogic
Vendors
1 193 (26.69%) VMware
2 186 (25.73%) Oracle
3 156 (21.58%) HP
4 102 (14.11%) EMC
5 101 (13.97%) Microsoft
6 97 (13.42%) Veritas
7 96 (13.28%) Citrix
8 83 (11.48%) Sun
9 76 (10.51%) Cisco
10 72 (9.959%) F5
11 69 (9.544%) IBM
12 62 (8.575%) NetApp
13 61 (8.437%) JBoss
14 21 (2.905%) Blue Coat
15 20 (2.766%) Reuters
16 19 (2.628%) TIBCO
17 18 (2.490%) Intel
18 17 (2.351%) BMC
19 16 (2.213%) Sophos
20 15 (2.075%) Symantec
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