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 North East region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Red Hat 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 Vendors 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.

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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Red Hat
Rank 14 24 25
Rank change year-on-year
+10 +1
Contract jobs citing Red Hat 23 23 21
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North East 8.487% 4.713% 4.784%
As % of the Vendors category 20.35% 9.544% 7.925%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 17 11
Average daily rate £263 £255 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.94% -43.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £231 £231 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £295 £530
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 £33.50 £30.25
% change year-on-year
+3.73% +10.74%
All Vendors
North East
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
113 241 265
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North East 41.70% 49.39% 60.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 119 105
Average daily rate £288 £330 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-12.87% +1.53%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £231 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £501 £550 £530
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 22 13
Average hourly rate £10.50 £20.00 £17.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-47.50% +17.64%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.00 £10.92 £9.62
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £18.25 £50.00 £27.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.50
% change year-on-year
- -7.31%
Red Hat
England

Red Hat
Jobs Demand Trend

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

North East 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 North East region.

North East 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 North East region.

North East Red Hat Hourly Rate Trend

Red Hat
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 21 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 +9 21 £263 +2.94%
Red Hat
England

Red Hat
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, 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 33 (97.06%) Linux
2 23 (67.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 17 (50.00%) UNIX
4 14 (41.18%) AIX
5 13 (38.24%) LDAP
5 13 (38.24%) IBM
5 13 (38.24%) CentOS
6 12 (35.29%) WebSphere
6 12 (35.29%) Apache
7 10 (29.41%) Solaris
7 10 (29.41%) MySQL
7 10 (29.41%) Firewall
7 10 (29.41%) Informatica
8 9 (26.47%) HP
8 9 (26.47%) Configuration Management
8 9 (26.47%) Change Control
9 8 (23.53%) Citrix
9 8 (23.53%) JBoss
9 8 (23.53%) DNS
10 7 (20.59%) DHCP
10 7 (20.59%) Cisco
10 7 (20.59%) Siebel
10 7 (20.59%) Perl
10 7 (20.59%) SQL
10 7 (20.59%) WebLogic
10 7 (20.59%) SAN
11 6 (17.65%) FileNet
11 6 (17.65%) Workflow
11 6 (17.65%) Sun
11 6 (17.65%) Nagios

Red Hat
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, 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 12 (35.29%) WebSphere
2 3 (8.824%) Middleware
3 1 (2.941%) Oracle Fusion
Application Platforms
1 12 (35.29%) Apache
2 7 (20.59%) WebLogic
3 6 (17.65%) FileNet
4 2 (5.882%) WebSphere Application Server
5 1 (2.941%) WebSphere MQ
5 1 (2.941%) IIS
5 1 (2.941%) Tomcat
5 1 (2.941%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (2.941%) ESB
Applications
1 3 (8.824%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (2.941%) Oracle BPM
Communications & Networking
1 13 (38.24%) LDAP
2 10 (29.41%) Firewall
3 8 (23.53%) DNS
4 7 (20.59%) DHCP
4 7 (20.59%) SAN
5 6 (17.65%) VPN
5 6 (17.65%) SSL
6 4 (11.76%) OSPF
7 3 (8.824%) BGP
8 1 (2.941%) Internet
8 1 (2.941%) Wireless
8 1 (2.941%) IPsec
8 1 (2.941%) TCP/IP
8 1 (2.941%) VLAN
8 1 (2.941%) iSCSI
8 1 (2.941%) Cisco ASA
8 1 (2.941%) HSRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (29.41%) MySQL
2 1 (2.941%) Oracle 8/8i
2 1 (2.941%) Oracle 10g
Development Applications
1 1 (2.941%) LoadRunner
1 1 (2.941%) Rational Performance Tester
General
1 2 (5.882%) Telecoms
2 1 (2.941%) Finance
Job Titles
1 17 (50.00%) Administrator
2 13 (38.24%) Systems Administrator
3 11 (32.35%) Linux Administrator
4 10 (29.41%) Linux Systems Administrator
5 7 (20.59%) Senior Systems Administrator
6 6 (17.65%) Senior Linux Administrator
6 6 (17.65%) Senior Linux Systems Administrator
7 5 (14.71%) Build Engineer
8 4 (11.76%) UNIX Engineer
9 2 (5.882%) Linux Engineer
9 2 (5.882%) Network Administrator
9 2 (5.882%) Senior Network Administrator
9 2 (5.882%) Systems Engineer
10 1 (2.941%) Senior Manager
10 1 (2.941%) Senior Systems Engineer
10 1 (2.941%) Support Engineer
10 1 (2.941%) Applications Support
10 1 (2.941%) 3rd Line Support
10 1 (2.941%) Project Manager
10 1 (2.941%) Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (2.941%) Thin Client
1 1 (2.941%) Client/Server
1 1 (2.941%) Clustering
1 1 (2.941%) Fat Client
Operating Systems
1 33 (97.06%) Linux
2 23 (67.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 17 (50.00%) UNIX
4 14 (41.18%) AIX
5 13 (38.24%) CentOS
6 10 (29.41%) Solaris
7 4 (11.76%) Debian
8 3 (8.824%) Ubuntu
9 2 (5.882%) Windows
10 1 (2.941%) Windows Server 2003
10 1 (2.941%) HPUX
10 1 (2.941%) Windows XP
10 1 (2.941%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (26.47%) Configuration Management
1 9 (26.47%) Change Control
2 6 (17.65%) Workflow
3 5 (14.71%) Disaster Recovery
4 3 (8.824%) Identity Management
5 2 (5.882%) Validation
5 2 (5.882%) ITIL
6 1 (2.941%) RDF
6 1 (2.941%) Risk Management
6 1 (2.941%) SOA
6 1 (2.941%) E-Commerce
6 1 (2.941%) Load Balancing
6 1 (2.941%) User Acceptance Testing
6 1 (2.941%) Performance Management
6 1 (2.941%) Capacity Planning
6 1 (2.941%) Capacity Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (20.59%) Perl
1 7 (20.59%) SQL
2 5 (14.71%) Java
Qualifications
1 3 (8.824%) Security Cleared
2 2 (5.882%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (2.941%) RHCE
3 1 (2.941%) CCNP
3 1 (2.941%) CCNA
3 1 (2.941%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 5 (14.71%) XenServer
2 4 (11.76%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (2.941%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 6 (17.65%) Nagios
Vendors
1 13 (38.24%) IBM
2 10 (29.41%) Informatica
3 9 (26.47%) HP
4 8 (23.53%) Citrix
4 8 (23.53%) JBoss
5 7 (20.59%) Cisco
5 7 (20.59%) Siebel
6 6 (17.65%) Sun
6 6 (17.65%) Business Objects
6 6 (17.65%) Oracle
7 4 (11.76%) VMware
8 1 (2.941%) Brocade
8 1 (2.941%) Axway
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