The first table below looks at the demand for Red Hat Enterprise Linux skills in IT contracts advertised for the Middlesex 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 21 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 of the Operating Systems category for the Middlesex 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
Rank 26 28 33
Rank change year-on-year
+2 +5
Contract jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 1 3 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Middlesex 0.485% 0.965% 1.156%
As % of the Operating Systems category 2.564% 6.383% 6.452%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 0
Average daily rate £375 £383 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-1.96% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £413 £350
% change year-on-year
-9.09% +17.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.50 £30.25 £27.50
% change year-on-year
+17.35% +10.00%
All Operating Systems
Middlesex
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
39 47 62
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Middlesex 18.93% 15.11% 17.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 22 24
Average daily rate £475 £375 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+26.66% +15.38%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £247 £285
10% offered a daily rate of more than £615 £495 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 9 14
Average hourly rate £32.50 £32.50 £16.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +103.12%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £16.00 £24.00 £12.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £38.25 £39.00 £36.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £17.00 £16.50
% change year-on-year
-5.88% +3.03%
Red Hat Enterprise Linux
South East

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 Middlesex region as a proportion of the total demand within the Operating Systems category.

Middlesex 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 Middlesex region.

Middlesex 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 Middlesex region.

Middlesex Red Hat Enterprise Linux Hourly Rate Trend

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Middlesex 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 4 (80.00%) Oracle
1 4 (80.00%) UNIX
1 4 (80.00%) Apache
1 4 (80.00%) Tomcat
2 3 (60.00%) EMC
2 3 (60.00%) Solaris
2 3 (60.00%) Linux
2 3 (60.00%) SQL
2 3 (60.00%) NetApp
2 3 (60.00%) Red Hat
3 2 (40.00%) Telecoms
3 2 (40.00%) Middleware
3 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (40.00%) WebLogic
3 2 (40.00%) JBoss
3 2 (40.00%) Citrix
3 2 (40.00%) Oracle Application Server
3 2 (40.00%) WebSphere
4 1 (20.00%) Puppet
4 1 (20.00%) RHCE
4 1 (20.00%) SAN
4 1 (20.00%) Oracle 8/8i
4 1 (20.00%) Documentum
4 1 (20.00%) Java
4 1 (20.00%) Shell Script
4 1 (20.00%) Nagios
4 1 (20.00%) ActiveMQ
4 1 (20.00%) SCSA
4 1 (20.00%) Content Management
4 1 (20.00%) Finance

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Middlesex 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 2 (40.00%) Middleware
1 2 (40.00%) WebSphere
Application Platforms
1 4 (80.00%) Apache
1 4 (80.00%) Tomcat
2 2 (40.00%) WebLogic
2 2 (40.00%) Oracle Application Server
3 1 (20.00%) Documentum
3 1 (20.00%) ActiveMQ
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle 8/8i
General
1 2 (40.00%) Telecoms
2 1 (20.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Administrator
2 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Architect
2 2 (40.00%) Architect
2 2 (40.00%) Systems Administrator
3 1 (20.00%) Documentum Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) Documentum Administrator
3 1 (20.00%) Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) Linux Systems Administrator
3 1 (20.00%) Technical Administrator
3 1 (20.00%) Linux Administrator
3 1 (20.00%) UNIX Systems Administrator
3 1 (20.00%) Technical Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) UNIX Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 4 (80.00%) UNIX
2 3 (60.00%) Solaris
2 3 (60.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (20.00%) Content Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) SQL
2 1 (20.00%) Java
2 1 (20.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) RHCE
1 1 (20.00%) SCSA
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Puppet
1 1 (20.00%) Nagios
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Oracle
2 3 (60.00%) EMC
2 3 (60.00%) NetApp
2 3 (60.00%) Red Hat
3 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (40.00%) JBoss
3 2 (40.00%) Citrix