The first table below looks at the demand for RHCE in IT contracts advertised for the London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited RHCE over the 3 months to 20 June 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Qualifications 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.

Location
3 months to
20 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE)
Rank 353 379 416
Rank change year-on-year
+26 +37
Contract jobs citing RHCE 33 30 25
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.142% 0.114% 0.079%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.980% 0.800% 0.600%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 16 13
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 £314 £325 £260
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £500 £575
UK excluding London average daily rate £328 £350 £400
% change year-on-year
-6.42% -12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £27.50
All Qualifications
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
3366 3751 4166
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 14.51% 14.31% 13.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 2010 2279 2433
Average daily rate £425 £425 £425
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £250 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £593 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 128 107 137
Average hourly rate £22.50 £19.50 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+15.38% -2.50%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.50 £12.00 £15.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £46.00 £41.63 £35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £21.50 £21.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year
- -14.00%
RHCE
England

RHCE
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London RHCE Jobs Demand Trend

RHCE
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing RHCE across the London region.

London RHCE Daily Rate Trend

RHCE
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing RHCE across the London region over the 3 months to 20 June 2013.

London RHCE Daily Rate Histogram

RHCE
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing RHCE across the London region.

London RHCE Hourly Rate Trend

RHCE
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing RHCE within the London region over the 3 months to 20 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
City of London -4 4 £360 -10.00% 2
Ealing - - - -
Croydon - - - -
Kingston Upon Thames - - - -
Uxbridge - - - -
RHCE
England

RHCE
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing RHCE 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 RHCE.

1 54 (98.18%) Linux
1 54 (98.18%) Red Hat
2 38 (69.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 28 (50.91%) UNIX
3 28 (50.91%) Perl
3 28 (50.91%) Puppet
4 26 (47.27%) Apache
5 25 (45.45%) HP
6 24 (43.64%) VMware
7 22 (40.00%) Solaris
8 20 (36.36%) Python
9 19 (34.55%) Finance
10 17 (30.91%) SAN
10 17 (30.91%) TCP/IP
11 16 (29.09%) ITIL
12 15 (27.27%) MySQL
12 15 (27.27%) VMS
13 14 (25.45%) Tomcat
13 14 (25.45%) Change Management
13 14 (25.45%) Nagios
13 14 (25.45%) Bash shell
13 14 (25.45%) Red Hat Spacewalk
14 13 (23.64%) VMware Infrastructure
14 13 (23.64%) Veritas
14 13 (23.64%) EMC
14 13 (23.64%) Oracle
15 12 (21.82%) Clustering
15 12 (21.82%) Git (software)
15 12 (21.82%) CentOS
16 11 (20.00%) Shell Script

RHCE
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing RHCE 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 RHCE. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 9 (16.36%) WebSphere
2 3 (5.455%) EJB
2 3 (5.455%) LAMP
3 1 (1.818%) JDBC
Application Platforms
1 26 (47.27%) Apache
2 14 (25.45%) Tomcat
3 3 (5.455%) Confluence
4 1 (1.818%) MS Exchange
4 1 (1.818%) Liferay
Applications
1 3 (5.455%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 17 (30.91%) SAN
1 17 (30.91%) TCP/IP
2 9 (16.36%) DHCP
2 9 (16.36%) Ethernet
2 9 (16.36%) DNS
2 9 (16.36%) Gigabit Ethernet
2 9 (16.36%) NAS
3 8 (14.55%) SSL
4 7 (12.73%) SNMP
4 7 (12.73%) iSCSI
5 5 (9.091%) SMTP
5 5 (9.091%) DECnet
5 5 (9.091%) Wireshark
5 5 (9.091%) Fibre Channel
6 2 (3.636%) tcpdump
7 1 (1.818%) LAN
7 1 (1.818%) HTTP
7 1 (1.818%) Firewall
7 1 (1.818%) Junos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (27.27%) MySQL
2 4 (7.273%) Informix
Development Applications
1 12 (21.82%) Git (software)
2 9 (16.36%) Gerrit
2 9 (16.36%) Jenkins
3 3 (5.455%) Subversion
3 3 (5.455%) Maven
3 3 (5.455%) Redmine
3 3 (5.455%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 3 (5.455%) JIRA
General
1 19 (34.55%) Finance
2 7 (12.73%) Investment Banking
2 7 (12.73%) Banking
3 1 (1.818%) Retail
Job Titles
1 26 (47.27%) Linux Engineer
2 19 (34.55%) Administrator
3 16 (29.09%) Systems Administrator
3 16 (29.09%) Linux Administrator
4 13 (23.64%) Linux Systems Administrator
5 11 (20.00%) Senior Linux Engineer
5 11 (20.00%) Systems Engineer
6 6 (10.91%) UNIX Administrator
6 6 (10.91%) UNIX Systems Administrator
7 2 (3.636%) UNIX Engineer
7 2 (3.636%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (3.636%) Team Leader
7 2 (3.636%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 1 (1.818%) Network Engineer
8 1 (1.818%) Senior Systems Administrator
8 1 (1.818%) Senior Linux Systems Administrator
8 1 (1.818%) Network Team Leader
8 1 (1.818%) Senior UNIX Engineer
8 1 (1.818%) Linux Support
8 1 (1.818%) Senior Linux Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 12 (21.82%) Clustering
2 5 (9.091%) Management Information System
2 5 (9.091%) Open Source
3 4 (7.273%) Client/Server
4 3 (5.455%) Digital Media
5 2 (3.636%) Freedom of Information
5 2 (3.636%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (3.636%) Freedom of Information Act
5 2 (3.636%) Computer Science
6 1 (1.818%) Blackberry
6 1 (1.818%) HACMP
6 1 (1.818%) LPAR
Operating Systems
1 54 (98.18%) Linux
2 38 (69.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 28 (50.91%) UNIX
4 22 (40.00%) Solaris
5 15 (27.27%) VMS
6 12 (21.82%) CentOS
7 10 (18.18%) AIX
8 9 (16.36%) Windows
9 8 (14.55%) Windows Server 2008
10 5 (9.091%) OpenVMS
10 5 (9.091%) FreeBSD
10 5 (9.091%) Windows Server 2003
10 5 (9.091%) Debian
10 5 (9.091%) Gentoo
10 5 (9.091%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (29.09%) ITIL
2 14 (25.45%) Change Management
3 9 (16.36%) Validation
3 9 (16.36%) Capacity Planning
4 7 (12.73%) Migration
5 3 (5.455%) Refactoring
5 3 (5.455%) High Availability
5 3 (5.455%) Problem Management
6 2 (3.636%) Infrastructure Management
6 2 (3.636%) Data Protection
6 2 (3.636%) Configuration Management
6 2 (3.636%) Service Delivery
7 1 (1.818%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 28 (50.91%) Perl
2 20 (36.36%) Python
3 14 (25.45%) Bash shell
4 11 (20.00%) Shell Script
5 6 (10.91%) PHP
6 5 (9.091%) DCL
7 2 (3.636%) sed
7 2 (3.636%) Ruby
7 2 (3.636%) AWK
7 2 (3.636%) Java
8 1 (1.818%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (14.55%) Degree
2 6 (10.91%) SCSA
2 6 (10.91%) RHCT
3 5 (9.091%) OCP
3 5 (9.091%) Oracle Certification
3 5 (9.091%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 1 (1.818%) DV Cleared
4 1 (1.818%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (16.36%) SLA
2 1 (1.818%) QA
System Software
1 13 (23.64%) VMware Infrastructure
2 10 (18.18%) Samba
3 9 (16.36%) Oracle RAC
3 9 (16.36%) Veritas Cluster Server
3 9 (16.36%) SRDF
4 6 (10.91%) VMware ESX
4 6 (10.91%) NFS
5 5 (9.091%) vSphere
5 5 (9.091%) Postfix
5 5 (9.091%) VMware ESXi
6 4 (7.273%) Oracle RMAN
7 1 (1.818%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 28 (50.91%) Puppet
2 14 (25.45%) Nagios
2 14 (25.45%) Red Hat Spacewalk
3 9 (16.36%) EMC NetWorker
3 9 (16.36%) Cobbler
4 6 (10.91%) NetBackup
5 5 (9.091%) Cacti
5 5 (9.091%) Red Hat Satellite
6 3 (5.455%) YUM
6 3 (5.455%) ZABBIX
7 1 (1.818%) OpenView
7 1 (1.818%) HP Data Protector
Vendors
1 54 (98.18%) Red Hat
2 25 (45.45%) HP
3 24 (43.64%) VMware
4 13 (23.64%) Veritas
4 13 (23.64%) EMC
4 13 (23.64%) Oracle
5 5 (9.091%) Cisco
6 3 (5.455%) Sun
6 3 (5.455%) Akamai
7 1 (1.818%) SAP
7 1 (1.818%) JBoss
7 1 (1.818%) IBM
7 1 (1.818%) Microsoft
7 1 (1.818%) Intel
7 1 (1.818%) Juniper
7 1 (1.818%) Novell
7 1 (1.818%) Infoblox
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