Manchester Red Hat Contracts

This section looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Red Hat products and/or services in IT contracts within the Manchester region with a comparison to our Vendors category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited Red Hat over the 3 months to 8 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Aldershot Andover Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Bradford Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cheshire City of London Coventry Croydon Derbyshire Docklands, London Driffield East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Elgin England Essex Glasgow Gloucestershire Hammersmith Hampshire Hertfordshire Highlands Hinckley Hull Inverness Ipswich Lanarkshire Leeds Leicestershire Liverpool London Loughborough M4 Corridor Malvern Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Moray Newbury North East North West North Yorkshire Oxford Oxfordshire Reading Rugby Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Somerset South East South West South Yorkshire Southampton Suffolk Surrey Swindon Thames Valley UK Warrington Warwickshire Watford West Drayton West Midlands West Yorkshire Westminster Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Woking Worcester Worcestershire Yorkshire	3 months to 8 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	85	54
Rank change on same period last year	-31
Matching contract IT job ads	3	15
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.004 %	0.016 %
As % of the category below	0.524 %	3.326 %
Daily rates quoted	0	2
Average minimum daily rate	-	£195
Average daily rate	-	£203
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	£210
UK excluding London average daily rate	£333	£345
% change on same period last year	-3.34 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	1
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£27.60
Average hourly rate	-	£27.60
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£27.60
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£28.88	£30.86
% change on same period last year	-6.41 %
Vendors Manchester
Matching contract IT job ads	573	451
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.755 %	0.472 %
Daily rates quoted	102	94
Average minimum daily rate	£349	£337
Average daily rate	£369	£357
% change on same period last year	+3.49 %
Average maximum daily rate	£389	£376
UK excluding London average daily rate	£361	£357
% change on same period last year	+1.10 %
Hourly rates quoted	69	42
Average minimum hourly rate	£17.00	£21.46
Average hourly rate	£18.16	£23.12
% change on same period last year	-21.44 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£19.32	£24.78
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.01	£25.11
% change on same period last year	-8.37 %
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We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

These figures represent the IT job market and are NOT representative of employment within RedHat.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Red Hat across the Manchester region as a proportion of the total demand within the Vendors category.

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Daily Rate Trend

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

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Top 24 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 8 July 2008, 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 6 (100.00 %) Linux 2 3 (50.00 %) IBM 2 3 (50.00 %) Unix 2 3 (50.00 %) Solaris 3 2 (33.33 %) Clustering 3 2 (33.33 %) WebSphere 3 2 (33.33 %) AIX 3 2 (33.33 %) HPUX 3 2 (33.33 %) SAN 3 2 (33.33 %) Sun 3 2 (33.33 %) HACMP 4 1 (16.67 %) HP 4 1 (16.67 %) EMC 4 1 (16.67 %) Hitachi 4 1 (16.67 %) NetApp

4 1 (16.67 %) Firmware 4 1 (16.67 %) SQL 4 1 (16.67 %) MySQL 4 1 (16.67 %) Oracle 4 1 (16.67 %) Oracle 10g 4 1 (16.67 %) TCP/IP 4 1 (16.67 %) Brocade 4 1 (16.67 %) Back Office 4 1 (16.67 %) Finance

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 8 July 2008, 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 2 (33.33 %) WebSphere	Communications & Networking 1 2 (33.33 %) SAN 2 1 (16.67 %) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (16.67 %) MySQL 1 1 (16.67 %) Oracle 10g	General 1 1 (16.67 %) Back Office 1 1 (16.67 %) Finance
Job Titles 1 3 (50.00 %) Administrator 2 2 (33.33 %) Systems Administrator 2 2 (33.33 %) UNIX Systems Administrator 2 2 (33.33 %) UNIX Administrator 2 2 (33.33 %) AIX Administrator 2 2 (33.33 %) Implementation Specialist 3 1 (16.67 %) Analyst 3 1 (16.67 %) Linux Administrator 3 1 (16.67 %) Technical Analyst	Miscellaneous 1 2 (33.33 %) Clustering 1 2 (33.33 %) HACMP 2 1 (16.67 %) Firmware
Operating Systems 1 6 (100.00 %) Linux 2 3 (50.00 %) Unix 2 3 (50.00 %) Solaris 3 2 (33.33 %) AIX 3 2 (33.33 %) HPUX	Programming Languages 1 1 (16.67 %) SQL
Vendors 1 3 (50.00 %) IBM 2 2 (33.33 %) Sun 3 1 (16.67 %) HP 3 1 (16.67 %) EMC 3 1 (16.67 %) Hitachi 3 1 (16.67 %) NetApp 3 1 (16.67 %) Oracle 3 1 (16.67 %) Brocade