North East 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 North East 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 5 December 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Basildon Basingstoke Benfleet Berkshire Birmingham Brentford Bristol Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cheshire Chester City of London Crawley Croydon Devon Docklands, London Dorset East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Feltham Gloucestershire Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Hertfordshire Home Counties Isleworth Knaresborough Leeds Liverpool Livingston London M4 Corridor Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne North East North West North Yorkshire Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxfordshire Portsmouth Reading Ruislip Scotland Shropshire Slough South Coast South East South Wales South West Southampton Surrey Swindon Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Watford West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Wirral Woking Wokingham Yorkshire	3 months to 5 Dec 2008	Same period last year
Rank	45	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	3	0
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.005 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	1.266 %	0.000 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£344	£357
% change on same period last year	-3.70 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£31.80	£36.00
% change on same period last year	-11.68 %
Vendors North East
Matching contract IT job ads	237	401
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.387 %	0.439 %
Daily rates quoted	40	127
Average minimum daily rate	£286	£331
Average daily rate	£310	£342
% change on same period last year	-9.38 %
Average maximum daily rate	£334	£353
UK excluding London average daily rate	£356	£348
% change on same period last year	+2.30 %
Hourly rates quoted	44	42
Average minimum hourly rate	£17.90	£21.65
Average hourly rate	£18.63	£23.78
% change on same period last year	-21.64 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£19.36	£25.90
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.95	£23.82
% change on same period last year	+0.54 %
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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 North East 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 North East region.

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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 within the North East region over the 3 months to 5 December 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Tyne and Wear	-	2	-	-

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Top 21 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 5 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the North East 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 3 (100.00 %) Oracle 1 3 (100.00 %) Linux 1 3 (100.00 %) Red Hat Linux 2 2 (66.67 %) Oracle RAC 2 2 (66.67 %) Oracle 11g 2 2 (66.67 %) Intel 2 2 (66.67 %) SUSE 3 1 (33.33 %) Internet 3 1 (33.33 %) Windows 2000 3 1 (33.33 %) Apache 3 1 (33.33 %) XHTML 3 1 (33.33 %) SQL Server 3 1 (33.33 %) CSS 3 1 (33.33 %) XML 3 1 (33.33 %) XSLT

3 1 (33.33 %) Windows 3 1 (33.33 %) HTML 3 1 (33.33 %) JavaScript 3 1 (33.33 %) Perl 3 1 (33.33 %) SQL 3 1 (33.33 %) MySQL

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 5 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the North East 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 (33.33 %) HTML 1 1 (33.33 %) CSS 1 1 (33.33 %) XML 1 1 (33.33 %) XSLT 1 1 (33.33 %) XHTML	Application Platforms 1 1 (33.33 %) Apache
Communications & Networking 1 1 (33.33 %) Internet	Database & Business Intelligence 1 2 (66.67 %) Oracle 11g 2 1 (33.33 %) MySQL 2 1 (33.33 %) SQL Server
Job Titles 1 1 (33.33 %) DBA 1 1 (33.33 %) Oracle DBA	Operating Systems 1 3 (100.00 %) Linux 1 3 (100.00 %) Red Hat Linux 2 2 (66.67 %) SUSE 3 1 (33.33 %) Windows 3 1 (33.33 %) Windows 2000
Programming Languages 1 1 (33.33 %) JavaScript 1 1 (33.33 %) Perl 1 1 (33.33 %) SQL	System Software 1 2 (66.67 %) Oracle RAC
Vendors 1 3 (100.00 %) Oracle 2 2 (66.67 %) Intel