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 Middlesex region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Red Hat over the 3 months to 22 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 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.

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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Red Hat
Rank 27 32 35
Rank change year-on-year
+5 +3
Contract jobs citing Red Hat 1 1 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Middlesex 0.476% 0.314% 1.190%
As % of the Vendors category 0.840% 0.662% 2.439%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
Average daily rate £375 £383 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-1.96% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £400 £350
% change year-on-year
-6.25% +14.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £34.75 £34.25 £33.00
% change year-on-year
+1.45% +3.78%
All Vendors
Middlesex
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
119 151 164
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Middlesex 56.67% 47.48% 48.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 71 58
Average daily rate £375 £375 £401
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -6.36%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £301 £300
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £515 £463
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 7 9
Average hourly rate £32.50 £27.50 £23.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+18.18% +19.56%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
- -5.00%
Red Hat
South East

Red Hat
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Middlesex 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 Middlesex region.

Middlesex Red Hat Daily Rate Trend

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 Middlesex region.

Middlesex Red Hat Hourly Rate Trend

Red Hat
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Middlesex 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 4 (100.00%) Linux
2 3 (75.00%) Apache
2 3 (75.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (50.00%) Tomcat
3 2 (50.00%) Java
3 2 (50.00%) Oracle
3 2 (50.00%) UNIX
4 1 (25.00%) Solaris
4 1 (25.00%) Web Services
4 1 (25.00%) PHP
4 1 (25.00%) SQL
4 1 (25.00%) Documentum
4 1 (25.00%) EMC
4 1 (25.00%) RHCE
4 1 (25.00%) SAN
4 1 (25.00%) NetApp
4 1 (25.00%) Shell Script
4 1 (25.00%) Nagios
4 1 (25.00%) Configuration Management
4 1 (25.00%) Telecoms
4 1 (25.00%) Clustering
4 1 (25.00%) ActiveMQ
4 1 (25.00%) SCSA
4 1 (25.00%) Content Management
4 1 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
4 1 (25.00%) CentOS
4 1 (25.00%) Amazon AWS
4 1 (25.00%) Open Source
4 1 (25.00%) Puppet
4 1 (25.00%) NoSQL

Red Hat
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Middlesex 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 1 (25.00%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 3 (75.00%) Apache
2 2 (50.00%) Tomcat
3 1 (25.00%) Documentum
3 1 (25.00%) ActiveMQ
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon AWS
3 1 (25.00%) OpenStack
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) NoSQL
General
1 1 (25.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Administrator
2 2 (50.00%) Systems Administrator
2 2 (50.00%) Analyst
3 1 (25.00%) Systems Analyst
3 1 (25.00%) UNIX Systems Administrator
3 1 (25.00%) Technical Analyst
3 1 (25.00%) UNIX Administrator
3 1 (25.00%) Operations Analyst
3 1 (25.00%) Linux Systems Administrator
3 1 (25.00%) Technical Administrator
3 1 (25.00%) Linux Administrator
3 1 (25.00%) Web Analyst
3 1 (25.00%) Documentum Analyst
3 1 (25.00%) Documentum Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Clustering
1 1 (25.00%) Open Source
1 1 (25.00%) IaaS
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Linux
2 3 (75.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (50.00%) UNIX
4 1 (25.00%) Solaris
4 1 (25.00%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (25.00%) Configuration Management
1 1 (25.00%) Content Management
1 1 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Java
2 1 (25.00%) PHP
2 1 (25.00%) SQL
2 1 (25.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) RHCE
1 1 (25.00%) SCSA
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Nagios
1 1 (25.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle
2 1 (25.00%) EMC
2 1 (25.00%) NetApp