Midlands Red Hat Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Red Hat products and/or services in IT contracts within the Midlands region with a comparison to our Vendors category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Red Hat over the 3 months to 4 September 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aldershot Ascot Aylesbury Basildon Berkshire Birmingham Brentford Bristol Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cheshire Chester City of London Coventry Croydon Derbyshire Docklands, London Driffield East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh England Essex Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Hampshire Hertfordshire Hinckley Hull Kent Lanarkshire Leeds Leicestershire Liverpool London M4 Corridor Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes North West Northern Ireland Oxford Oxfordshire Reading Rugby Salisbury Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield South East South West South Yorkshire Southampton Stevenage Surrey Sussex Swindon Thames Valley UK Uxbridge Warrington Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Yorkshire Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Woking Yorkshire	3 months to 4 Sep 2008	Same period last year
Rank	62	65
Rank change on same period last year	+3
Matching contract IT job ads	3	14
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.004 %	0.014 %
As % of the category below	0.548 %	1.571 %
Daily rates quoted	0	4
Average minimum daily rate	-	£293
Average daily rate	-	£293
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	£293
UK excluding London average daily rate	£368	£340
% change on same period last year	+8.11 %
Hourly rates quoted	3	1
Average minimum hourly rate	£32.67	£40.00
Average hourly rate	£33.83	£40.00
% change on same period last year	-15.41 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£35.00	£40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£33.90	£32.93
% change on same period last year	+2.95 %
Vendors Midlands
Matching contract IT job ads	547	891
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.737 %	0.891 %
Daily rates quoted	89	157
Average minimum daily rate	£339	£390
Average daily rate	£363	£415
% change on same period last year	-12.40 %
Average maximum daily rate	£388	£439
UK excluding London average daily rate	£360	£359
% change on same period last year	+0.40 %
Hourly rates quoted	14	56
Average minimum hourly rate	£25.61	£27.72
Average hourly rate	£27.22	£29.21
% change on same period last year	-6.79 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£28.83	£30.69
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£24.28	£24.68
% change on same period last year	-1.61 %
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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 Red Hat, Inc.

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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 Midlands 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 Midlands 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 Midlands region.

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Red Hat across the Midlands region over the 3 months to 4 September 2008.

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Top 26 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Midlands 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 (75.00 %) UNIX 1 6 (75.00 %) Windows 2 4 (50.00 %) Oracle 2 4 (50.00 %) Linux 2 4 (50.00 %) Red Hat Linux 3 3 (37.50 %) Oracle RAC 3 3 (37.50 %) Data Migration 3 3 (37.50 %) Reference Data 3 3 (37.50 %) SC Cleared 3 3 (37.50 %) Security Cleared 3 3 (37.50 %) WAN 3 3 (37.50 %) Oracle 10g 3 3 (37.50 %) Migration 4 2 (25.00 %) Windows CE 4 2 (25.00 %) Government

5 1 (12.50 %) Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 1 (12.50 %) Tivoli 5 1 (12.50 %) Tivoli Storage Manager 5 1 (12.50 %) WebSphere 5 1 (12.50 %) EJB 5 1 (12.50 %) Java 5 1 (12.50 %) SQL 5 1 (12.50 %) J2EE 5 1 (12.50 %) AIX 5 1 (12.50 %) HPUX 5 1 (12.50 %) Solaris

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Midlands 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 (12.50 %) J2EE 1 1 (12.50 %) EJB 1 1 (12.50 %) WebSphere	Communications & Networking 1 3 (37.50 %) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence 1 3 (37.50 %) Oracle 10g 1 3 (37.50 %) Reference Data	General 1 2 (25.00 %) Government
Job Titles 1 3 (37.50 %) Oracle DBA 1 3 (37.50 %) DBA 2 1 (12.50 %) Administrator 2 1 (12.50 %) UNIX Engineer 2 1 (12.50 %) Linux Administrator 2 1 (12.50 %) Technical Lead	Operating Systems 1 6 (75.00 %) UNIX 1 6 (75.00 %) Windows 2 4 (50.00 %) Linux 2 4 (50.00 %) Red Hat Linux 3 2 (25.00 %) Windows CE 4 1 (12.50 %) Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 1 (12.50 %) AIX 4 1 (12.50 %) HPUX 4 1 (12.50 %) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies 1 3 (37.50 %) Migration 1 3 (37.50 %) Data Migration 1 3 (37.50 %) SC Cleared 1 3 (37.50 %) Security Cleared	Programming Languages 1 1 (12.50 %) Java 1 1 (12.50 %) SQL
System Software 1 3 (37.50 %) Oracle RAC	Systems Management 1 1 (12.50 %) Tivoli 1 1 (12.50 %) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors 1 4 (50.00 %) Oracle