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 Oxfordshire 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 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.

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 45 54 34
Rank change year-on-year
+9 -20
Contract jobs citing Red Hat 4 4 18
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Oxfordshire 0.926% 0.625% 4.054%
As % of the Vendors category 1.835% 1.081% 7.895%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 4 3
Average daily rate £325 £350 £308
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.14% +13.82%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £305 £333 £302
10% offered a daily rate of more than £337 £385 £322
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
Oxfordshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
218 370 228
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Oxfordshire 50.46% 57.81% 51.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 122 177 101
Average daily rate £330 £413 £313
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-20.00% +32.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £238 £253 £180
10% offered a daily rate of more than £498 £525 £403
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 59 31
Average hourly rate £14.81 £17.50 £15.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-15.35% +16.66%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.50 £11.00 £11.36
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £23.75 £27.50 £25.80
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
- -5.00%
Red Hat
South East

Red Hat
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Oxfordshire 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 Oxfordshire region.

Oxfordshire 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 Oxfordshire region.

Oxfordshire 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 Oxfordshire region over the 3 months to 17 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 +2 1 - -
Red Hat
South East

Red Hat
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Oxfordshire 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 10 (90.91%) Linux
2 8 (72.73%) VMware
3 7 (63.64%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (63.64%) UNIX
4 5 (45.45%) Solaris
4 5 (45.45%) Bash shell
5 4 (36.36%) MarkLogic
5 4 (36.36%) Clustering
5 4 (36.36%) Perl
5 4 (36.36%) Oracle
5 4 (36.36%) TCP/IP
5 4 (36.36%) NFS
5 4 (36.36%) Veritas
6 3 (27.27%) Six Sigma
6 3 (27.27%) HP
6 3 (27.27%) ITIL
6 3 (27.27%) SMTP
6 3 (27.27%) Debian
6 3 (27.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (27.27%) Oracle 11g
7 2 (18.18%) vSphere
7 2 (18.18%) C-shell
7 2 (18.18%) Korn
7 2 (18.18%) Degree
7 2 (18.18%) Lean Six Sigma
7 2 (18.18%) Problem Management
7 2 (18.18%) DNS
7 2 (18.18%) Cisco
7 2 (18.18%) Oracle 10g
7 2 (18.18%) Active Directory

Red Hat
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Oxfordshire 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 (9.091%) Middleware
Application Platforms
1 1 (9.091%) Apache
1 1 (9.091%) Tomcat
1 1 (9.091%) Jetty
Communications & Networking
1 4 (36.36%) TCP/IP
2 3 (27.27%) SMTP
3 2 (18.18%) DNS
3 2 (18.18%) SAN
4 1 (9.091%) BGP
4 1 (9.091%) Firewall
4 1 (9.091%) Cisco IOS
4 1 (9.091%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (36.36%) MarkLogic
2 3 (27.27%) Oracle 11g
3 2 (18.18%) Oracle 10g
General
1 1 (9.091%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 4 (36.36%) Systems Administrator
1 4 (36.36%) Administrator
2 2 (18.18%) Systems Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Senior Systems Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) UNIX Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Linux Engineer
3 1 (9.091%) Linux Systems Administrator
3 1 (9.091%) Linux Administrator
3 1 (9.091%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (9.091%) Senior Systems Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 4 (36.36%) Clustering
2 1 (9.091%) HACMP
Operating Systems
1 10 (90.91%) Linux
2 7 (63.64%) UNIX
3 5 (45.45%) Solaris
4 3 (27.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (27.27%) Debian
5 2 (18.18%) Windows
6 1 (9.091%) AIX
6 1 (9.091%) HPUX
6 1 (9.091%) Ubuntu
6 1 (9.091%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (9.091%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (27.27%) ITIL
1 3 (27.27%) Six Sigma
2 2 (18.18%) Lean Six Sigma
2 2 (18.18%) Problem Management
3 1 (9.091%) Infrastructure Management
3 1 (9.091%) Configuration Management
3 1 (9.091%) IC Design
Programming Languages
1 5 (45.45%) Bash shell
2 4 (36.36%) Perl
3 2 (18.18%) Korn
3 2 (18.18%) C-shell
4 1 (9.091%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (18.18%) Degree
2 1 (9.091%) Sun Certification
2 1 (9.091%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 7 (63.64%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (36.36%) NFS
3 2 (18.18%) Active Directory
3 2 (18.18%) vSphere
4 1 (9.091%) vCloud
4 1 (9.091%) VMware ESX
Systems Management
1 1 (9.091%) Control-M
1 1 (9.091%) Puppet
Vendors
1 8 (72.73%) VMware
2 4 (36.36%) Oracle
2 4 (36.36%) Veritas
3 3 (27.27%) HP
4 2 (18.18%) Dell
4 2 (18.18%) Cisco
5 1 (9.091%) Cadence
5 1 (9.091%) EMC
5 1 (9.091%) BMC