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 Northamptonshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Red Hat 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 Vendors for the Northamptonshire 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Red Hat
Rank - 43 24
Contract jobs citing Red Hat 0 3 8
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Northamptonshire - 0.746% 2.920%
As % of the Vendors category - 2.239% 8.081%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 8
Average daily rate - - £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £418 £350
% change year-on-year
-10.17% +19.28%
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
Northamptonshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
79 134 99
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Northamptonshire 32.11% 33.33% 36.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 86 57
Average daily rate £350 £250 £338
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+40.00% -25.92%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £220 £225 £153
10% offered a daily rate of more than £555 £475 £430
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 10 13
Average hourly rate £15.00 £14.50 £17.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+3.44% -14.70%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.30 £10.20 £10.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £35.00 £18.00 £20.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
- -5.00%
Red Hat
East Midlands

Red Hat
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Northamptonshire 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 Northamptonshire region.

Northamptonshire Red Hat Daily Rate Trend

Red Hat
Top 17 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Northamptonshire 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%) J2EE
1 3 (100.00%) Oracle
1 3 (100.00%) DB2
1 3 (100.00%) UNIX
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
1 3 (100.00%) ERP
1 3 (100.00%) IBM
1 3 (100.00%) WebSphere MQ
1 3 (100.00%) Oracle ERP
1 3 (100.00%) Subversion
1 3 (100.00%) WebSphere
1 3 (100.00%) Java EE
1 3 (100.00%) WebSphere Message Broker
1 3 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 3 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (33.33%) ESB

Red Hat
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Northamptonshire 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 3 (100.00%) J2EE
1 3 (100.00%) WebSphere
1 3 (100.00%) Java EE
Application Platforms
1 3 (100.00%) WebSphere MQ
1 3 (100.00%) WebSphere Message Broker
2 1 (33.33%) ESB
Business Applications
1 3 (100.00%) Oracle ERP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) DB2
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) Subversion
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Administrator
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) UNIX
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
1 3 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) ERP
1 3 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Oracle
1 3 (100.00%) IBM