Oxfordshire Red Hat Enterprise Linux Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) skills within the Oxfordshire region with a comparison to our Operating Systems category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Red Hat Enterprise Linux over the 3 months to 9 January 2009 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
Location Basildon Benfleet Berkshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire City of London East of England Edinburgh England Essex Guildford Hampshire Hertfordshire London M4 Corridor Manchester Middlesex North West Oxfordshire Reading Scotland Slough Somerset South East South West Southampton Street Surrey UK Watford	3 months to 9 Jan 2009	Same period last year
Rank	-	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	0	0
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.000 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	0.000 %	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	£397	£411
% change on same period last year	-3.25 %
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	£30.00	£42.50
% change on same period last year	-29.41 %
Operating Systems Oxfordshire
Matching contract IT job ads	160	136
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.322 %	0.167 %
Daily rates quoted	29	18
Average minimum daily rate	£246	£286
Average daily rate	£259	£301
% change on same period last year	-13.86 %
Average maximum daily rate	£273	£316
UK excluding London average daily rate	£310	£321
% change on same period last year	-3.48 %
Hourly rates quoted	40	46
Average minimum hourly rate	£21.58	£18.84
Average hourly rate	£22.19	£20.59
% change on same period last year	+7.81 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£22.81	£22.33
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£21.55	£21.50
% change on same period last year	+0.25 %
Red Hat Enterprise Linux South East

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.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 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.