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 Manchester 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 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.

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 58 73 63
Rank change year-on-year
+15 -10
Contract jobs citing Red Hat 15 11 8
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 1.641% 0.846% 0.771%
As % of the Vendors category 4.098% 1.687% 1.918%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 3 1
Average daily rate £285 £325 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-12.30% -13.33%
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £418 £350
% change year-on-year
-10.17% +19.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 0
Average hourly rate - £22.50 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £34.75 £33.50 £30.25
% change year-on-year
+3.73% +10.74%
All Vendors
Manchester
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
366 652 417
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 40.04% 50.12% 40.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 150 294 168
Average daily rate £315 £325 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.07% -13.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £173 £200 £195
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £475 £525
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 37 45
Average hourly rate £16.50 £17.50 £13.75
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-5.71% +27.27%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.77 £12.50 £10.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £33.50 £25.00 £18.95
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
- -5.00%
Red Hat
North West

Red Hat
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Manchester 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 Manchester region.

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

Manchester 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 Manchester region.

Manchester 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 Manchester 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
Oldham - 2 £170 -
Red Hat
North West

Red Hat
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester 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 23 (100.00%) Linux
2 10 (43.48%) Apache
2 10 (43.48%) PHP
3 9 (39.13%) MySQL
3 9 (39.13%) Oracle
4 8 (34.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (30.43%) JavaScript
5 7 (30.43%) UNIX
6 6 (26.09%) Active Directory
6 6 (26.09%) LAMP
7 5 (21.74%) LDAP
7 5 (21.74%) Windows
8 4 (17.39%) Perl
8 4 (17.39%) SQL
8 4 (17.39%) MS Visio
8 4 (17.39%) IBM
8 4 (17.39%) Microsoft
8 4 (17.39%) Telecoms
8 4 (17.39%) C
8 4 (17.39%) Migration
8 4 (17.39%) Netcool
8 4 (17.39%) Nagios
8 4 (17.39%) Windows Server 2008
8 4 (17.39%) Ruby
8 4 (17.39%) Wiki
8 4 (17.39%) Puppet
9 3 (13.04%) Postfix
9 3 (13.04%) Change Control
9 3 (13.04%) Ajax
9 3 (13.04%) HPUX

Red Hat
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester 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 6 (26.09%) LAMP
2 3 (13.04%) Ajax
3 2 (8.696%) Oracle Fusion
3 2 (8.696%) XHTML
3 2 (8.696%) Middleware
3 2 (8.696%) CSS
4 1 (4.348%) Web Services
4 1 (4.348%) XML
4 1 (4.348%) XSD
4 1 (4.348%) XSLT
Application Platforms
1 10 (43.48%) Apache
2 2 (8.696%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 4 (17.39%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (8.696%) Oracle 11i
1 2 (8.696%) Oracle EBS
1 2 (8.696%) Oracle EBS R12
Communications & Networking
1 5 (21.74%) LDAP
2 1 (4.348%) DNS
2 1 (4.348%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (39.13%) MySQL
2 2 (8.696%) SQL Server
2 2 (8.696%) Oracle 8/8i
2 2 (8.696%) Oracle 11g
2 2 (8.696%) SQL Server 2008
2 2 (8.696%) Oracle Exadata
2 2 (8.696%) SQL Server 2012
Development Applications
1 1 (4.348%) Subversion
General
1 4 (17.39%) Telecoms
2 1 (4.348%) Finance
Job Titles
1 10 (43.48%) Developer
2 8 (34.78%) PHP Developer
3 4 (17.39%) Systems Support Engineer
3 4 (17.39%) Systems Engineer
3 4 (17.39%) Systems Support
3 4 (17.39%) Support Engineer
4 3 (13.04%) LAMP Developer
5 2 (8.696%) PHP MySQL Developer
5 2 (8.696%) Junior Developer
5 2 (8.696%) Infrastructure Architect
5 2 (8.696%) Junior PHP Developer
5 2 (8.696%) Administrator
5 2 (8.696%) Architect
5 2 (8.696%) Business Analyst
5 2 (8.696%) Junior
5 2 (8.696%) Analyst
5 2 (8.696%) Business Systems Analyst
5 2 (8.696%) Systems Analyst
6 1 (4.348%) Consultant
6 1 (4.348%) Systems Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 4 (17.39%) Wiki
2 2 (8.696%) Derivative
2 2 (8.696%) Oracle Exalogic
3 1 (4.348%) LPAR
3 1 (4.348%) CLARiiON
3 1 (4.348%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 23 (100.00%) Linux
2 8 (34.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 7 (30.43%) UNIX
4 5 (21.74%) Windows
5 4 (17.39%) Windows Server 2008
6 3 (13.04%) HPUX
7 2 (8.696%) Solaris
7 2 (8.696%) AIX
7 2 (8.696%) Debian
7 2 (8.696%) Ubuntu
7 2 (8.696%) CentOS
7 2 (8.696%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (4.348%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (17.39%) Migration
2 3 (13.04%) Change Control
3 2 (8.696%) OO
3 2 (8.696%) SOA
3 2 (8.696%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (8.696%) Business Analysis
3 2 (8.696%) Incident Management
4 1 (4.348%) Load Balancing
4 1 (4.348%) Communications Security
4 1 (4.348%) Capacity Planning
4 1 (4.348%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 1 (4.348%) E-Commerce
4 1 (4.348%) Infrastructure Management
4 1 (4.348%) Supply Chain Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (43.48%) PHP
2 7 (30.43%) JavaScript
3 4 (17.39%) Perl
3 4 (17.39%) SQL
3 4 (17.39%) Ruby
3 4 (17.39%) C
Qualifications
1 2 (8.696%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 6 (26.09%) Active Directory
2 3 (13.04%) Postfix
3 2 (8.696%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (4.348%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (4.348%) Veritas Volume Manager
Systems Management
1 4 (17.39%) Netcool
1 4 (17.39%) Nagios
1 4 (17.39%) Puppet
2 2 (8.696%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 9 (39.13%) Oracle
2 4 (17.39%) IBM
2 4 (17.39%) Microsoft
3 2 (8.696%) Cisco
3 2 (8.696%) HP
3 2 (8.696%) Riverbed
4 1 (4.348%) EMC
4 1 (4.348%) Veritas
4 1 (4.348%) VMware
4 1 (4.348%) Sun