The first table below looks at the demand for Red Hat Enterprise Linux skills in IT contracts advertised for the Manchester region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Red Hat Enterprise Linux over the 3 months to 19 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 of the Operating Systems category for the Manchester 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
Rank 71 74 66
Rank change year-on-year
+3 -8
Contract jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 7 5
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 0.417% 0.567% 0.479%
As % of the Operating Systems category 2.062% 2.713% 3.268%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 3
Average daily rate £238 £325 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-26.92% -13.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £228 £325 £305
10% offered a daily rate of more than £248 £325 £395
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £350 £350
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 0
Average hourly rate - £22.50 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £36.00 £32.50 £27.50
% change year-on-year
+10.76% +18.18%
All Operating Systems
Manchester
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
194 258 153
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 20.23% 20.91% 14.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 74 85 65
Average daily rate £300 £280 £220
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% +27.27%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £175 £190 £150
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £365 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 40 39
Average hourly rate £16.00 £17.50 £11.10
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-8.57% +57.65%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £9.25 £9.00 £9.92
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £22.00 £32.50 £20.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £17.50 £16.00
% change year-on-year
-8.57% +9.37%
Red Hat Enterprise Linux
North West

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux across the Manchester region as a proportion of the total demand within the Operating Systems category.

Manchester Red Hat Enterprise Linux Jobs Demand Trend

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Daily Rate Trend

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

Manchester Red Hat Enterprise Linux Daily Rate Trend

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Manchester Red Hat Enterprise Linux Hourly Rate Trend

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Top 19 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester region citing Red Hat Enterprise 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 Enterprise Linux.

1 7 (100.00%) Linux
1 7 (100.00%) Red Hat
2 5 (71.43%) PHP
2 5 (71.43%) MySQL
3 3 (42.86%) LAMP
3 3 (42.86%) Oracle
3 3 (42.86%) Apache
4 2 (28.57%) Oracle 8/8i
4 2 (28.57%) Oracle 11i
4 2 (28.57%) Windows
4 2 (28.57%) HPUX
4 2 (28.57%) Business Analysis
4 2 (28.57%) Security Cleared
4 2 (28.57%) Windows Server 2008
5 1 (14.29%) Load Balancing
5 1 (14.29%) Communications Security
5 1 (14.29%) Migration
5 1 (14.29%) Supply Chain Management
5 1 (14.29%) HP

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester region citing Red Hat Enterprise 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 Enterprise Linux. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 3 (42.86%) LAMP
Application Platforms
1 3 (42.86%) Apache
Business Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Oracle 11i
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (71.43%) MySQL
2 2 (28.57%) Oracle 8/8i
Job Titles
1 5 (71.43%) Developer
2 3 (42.86%) PHP Developer
3 2 (28.57%) Analyst
3 2 (28.57%) Business Systems Analyst
3 2 (28.57%) Systems Analyst
3 2 (28.57%) Business Analyst
3 2 (28.57%) LAMP Developer
3 2 (28.57%) PHP MySQL Developer
4 1 (14.29%) MySQL Developer
Operating Systems
1 7 (100.00%) Linux
2 2 (28.57%) Windows
2 2 (28.57%) HPUX
2 2 (28.57%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (28.57%) Business Analysis
2 1 (14.29%) Load Balancing
2 1 (14.29%) Communications Security
2 1 (14.29%) Migration
2 1 (14.29%) Supply Chain Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (71.43%) PHP
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 7 (100.00%) Red Hat
2 3 (42.86%) Oracle
3 1 (14.29%) HP