The first table below looks at the demand for Red Hat Enterprise Linux skills in IT contracts advertised for the North East 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 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 of the Operating Systems category for the North East 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
Rank 20 25 17
Rank change year-on-year
+5 -8
Contract jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 14 23 29
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North East 5.303% 4.812% 6.502%
As % of the Operating Systems category 21.88% 24.47% 21.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 17 15
Average daily rate £260 £255 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.96% -43.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £224 £231 £245
10% offered a daily rate of more than £266 £295 £530
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £475 £350
% change year-on-year
-21.05% +35.71%
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
North East
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
64 94 136
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North East 24.24% 19.67% 30.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 43 49
Average daily rate £263 £275 £324
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-4.54% -15.12%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £232 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £325 £400 £530
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 16 12
Average hourly rate £11.00 £12.66 £13.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-13.11% -2.61%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.00 £10.00 £8.67
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £19.13 £20.00 £26.28
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £17.00 £16.20
% change year-on-year
-5.88% +4.93%
Red Hat Enterprise Linux
England

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

North East 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 North East region.

North East 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 North East region.

North East Red Hat Enterprise Linux Hourly Rate Trend

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
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 Enterprise Linux within the North East 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
Tyne and Wear 0 12 £260 +1.96%
Red Hat Enterprise Linux
England

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North East 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 23 (100.00%) Linux
1 23 (100.00%) Red Hat
2 17 (73.91%) UNIX
3 14 (60.87%) AIX
4 13 (56.52%) IBM
5 11 (47.83%) WebSphere
6 10 (43.48%) Solaris
6 10 (43.48%) Informatica
7 9 (39.13%) Configuration Management
7 9 (39.13%) Change Control
8 8 (34.78%) LDAP
8 8 (34.78%) JBoss
9 7 (30.43%) Perl
9 7 (30.43%) WebLogic
9 7 (30.43%) Siebel
10 6 (26.09%) FileNet
10 6 (26.09%) Workflow
10 6 (26.09%) SSL
10 6 (26.09%) Sun
10 6 (26.09%) Business Objects
10 6 (26.09%) SQL
10 6 (26.09%) Oracle
10 6 (26.09%) Apache
11 5 (21.74%) Java
11 5 (21.74%) HP
12 4 (17.39%) SAN
12 4 (17.39%) VMware Infrastructure
12 4 (17.39%) CentOS
12 4 (17.39%) VMware
12 4 (17.39%) MySQL

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North East 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 11 (47.83%) WebSphere
2 3 (13.04%) Middleware
3 1 (4.348%) Oracle Fusion
Application Platforms
1 7 (30.43%) WebLogic
2 6 (26.09%) Apache
2 6 (26.09%) FileNet
3 2 (8.696%) WebSphere Application Server
4 1 (4.348%) Oracle Workflow
4 1 (4.348%) ESB
4 1 (4.348%) Tomcat
4 1 (4.348%) WebSphere MQ
4 1 (4.348%) IIS
Business Applications
1 1 (4.348%) Oracle BPM
Communications & Networking
1 8 (34.78%) LDAP
2 6 (26.09%) SSL
3 4 (17.39%) SAN
4 3 (13.04%) Firewall
5 1 (4.348%) iSCSI
5 1 (4.348%) OSPF
5 1 (4.348%) BGP
5 1 (4.348%) DHCP
5 1 (4.348%) VPN
5 1 (4.348%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (17.39%) MySQL
2 1 (4.348%) Oracle 8/8i
2 1 (4.348%) Oracle 10g
Development Applications
1 1 (4.348%) LoadRunner
1 1 (4.348%) Rational Performance Tester
General
1 1 (4.348%) Telecoms
1 1 (4.348%) Finance
Job Titles
1 7 (30.43%) Administrator
2 5 (21.74%) Systems Administrator
2 5 (21.74%) Build Engineer
3 4 (17.39%) UNIX Engineer
3 4 (17.39%) Linux Systems Administrator
3 4 (17.39%) Linux Administrator
4 1 (4.348%) Windows Administrator
4 1 (4.348%) SAN Administrator
4 1 (4.348%) Linux Engineer
4 1 (4.348%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
4 1 (4.348%) Test Leader
4 1 (4.348%) Systems Engineer
4 1 (4.348%) Senior Manager
4 1 (4.348%) Support Engineer
4 1 (4.348%) Applications Support
4 1 (4.348%) 3rd Line Support
4 1 (4.348%) UNIX Administrator
4 1 (4.348%) Project Manager
4 1 (4.348%) Analyst
4 1 (4.348%) Test Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (4.348%) Client/Server
1 1 (4.348%) Thin Client
1 1 (4.348%) Clustering
1 1 (4.348%) Fat Client
Operating Systems
1 23 (100.00%) Linux
2 17 (73.91%) UNIX
3 14 (60.87%) AIX
4 10 (43.48%) Solaris
5 4 (17.39%) CentOS
6 2 (8.696%) Debian
6 2 (8.696%) Windows
7 1 (4.348%) HPUX
7 1 (4.348%) Windows XP
7 1 (4.348%) Windows Server 2003
7 1 (4.348%) SUSE
7 1 (4.348%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (39.13%) Configuration Management
1 9 (39.13%) Change Control
2 6 (26.09%) Workflow
3 2 (8.696%) ITIL
3 2 (8.696%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (4.348%) Risk Management
4 1 (4.348%) Capacity Management
4 1 (4.348%) E-Commerce
4 1 (4.348%) SOA
4 1 (4.348%) RDF
4 1 (4.348%) Load Balancing
4 1 (4.348%) User Acceptance Testing
4 1 (4.348%) Performance Management
4 1 (4.348%) Capacity Planning
Programming Languages
1 7 (30.43%) Perl
2 6 (26.09%) SQL
3 5 (21.74%) Java
Qualifications
1 3 (13.04%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.348%) CCNA
2 1 (4.348%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (4.348%) RHCE
2 1 (4.348%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 4 (17.39%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (4.348%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 1 (4.348%) Nagios
Vendors
1 23 (100.00%) Red Hat
2 13 (56.52%) IBM
3 10 (43.48%) Informatica
4 8 (34.78%) JBoss
5 7 (30.43%) Siebel
6 6 (26.09%) Oracle
6 6 (26.09%) Business Objects
6 6 (26.09%) Sun
7 5 (21.74%) HP
8 4 (17.39%) VMware
9 2 (8.696%) Citrix
9 2 (8.696%) Cisco
10 1 (4.348%) Brocade
10 1 (4.348%) Axway
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