The first table below looks at the demand for Red Hat Enterprise Linux skills in IT contracts advertised for the Oxfordshire 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 24 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 Oxfordshire 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
Rank 50 53 26
Rank change year-on-year
+3 -27
Contract jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 1 4 22
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Oxfordshire 0.219% 0.646% 4.752%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.952% 3.604% 13.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 4 9
Average daily rate - £350 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +7.69%
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £413 £350
% change year-on-year
-9.09% +17.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.50 £33.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
+7.57% +20.00%
All Operating Systems
Oxfordshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
105 111 164
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Oxfordshire 23.03% 17.93% 35.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 32 66
Average daily rate £305 £325 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-6.15% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £160 £225 £160
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £383 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 26 37
Average hourly rate £14.63 £16.50 £14.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-11.36% +13.79%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.90 £11.50 £11.36
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £27.50 £23.00 £25.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.20 £17.00 £16.50
% change year-on-year
-4.70% +3.03%
Red Hat Enterprise Linux
South East

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

Oxfordshire 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 Oxfordshire region.

Oxfordshire 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 Oxfordshire region.

Oxfordshire 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 Oxfordshire region over the 3 months to 24 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
Oxford +4 1 - -
Red Hat Enterprise Linux
South East

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Top 20 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Oxfordshire 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 3 (100.00%) Linux
1 3 (100.00%) Red Hat
2 2 (66.67%) Windows
2 2 (66.67%) VMware
2 2 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (33.33%) Debian
3 1 (33.33%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (33.33%) vSphere
3 1 (33.33%) Puppet
3 1 (33.33%) VMware ESX
3 1 (33.33%) Cadence
3 1 (33.33%) IC Design
3 1 (33.33%) Cisco IOS
3 1 (33.33%) Oracle
3 1 (33.33%) BGP
3 1 (33.33%) DNS
3 1 (33.33%) Cisco
3 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
3 1 (33.33%) Dell
3 1 (33.33%) SAN

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Oxfordshire 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.

Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco IOS
1 1 (33.33%) BGP
1 1 (33.33%) DNS
1 1 (33.33%) SAN
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Systems Administrator
1 2 (66.67%) Administrator
2 1 (33.33%) Linux Engineer
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
2 2 (66.67%) Windows
3 1 (33.33%) Debian
3 1 (33.33%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) IC Design
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (33.33%) vSphere
2 1 (33.33%) VMware ESX
2 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Puppet
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Red Hat
2 2 (66.67%) VMware
3 1 (33.33%) Cadence
3 1 (33.33%) Oracle
3 1 (33.33%) Cisco
3 1 (33.33%) Dell