The first table below looks at the demand for Red Hat Enterprise Linux skills in IT contracts advertised for the Reading 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 22 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 Reading 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
Rank 66 75 69
Rank change year-on-year
+9 -6
Contract jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 6 8
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 0.581% 0.527% 0.776%
As % of the Operating Systems category 2.427% 2.256% 2.581%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 5
Average daily rate £488 £413 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+18.18% -2.94%
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 £35.50 £33.50 £27.50
% change year-on-year
+5.97% +21.81%
All Operating Systems
Reading
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
206 266 310
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 23.93% 23.37% 30.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 86 94 114
Average daily rate £335 £350 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-4.28% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £140 £225 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £450 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 25 12
Average hourly rate £19.00 £15.13 £12.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+25.61% +23.46%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.50 £14.50 £9.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £32.50 £20.00 £19.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £17.00 £16.50
% change year-on-year
-5.88% +3.03%
Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Berkshire

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

Reading 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 Reading region.

Reading Red Hat Enterprise Linux Daily Rate Trend

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux across the Reading region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

Reading Red Hat Enterprise Linux Daily Rate Histogram

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 Reading region.

Reading Red Hat Enterprise Linux Hourly Rate Trend

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading 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 15 (100.00%) Linux
2 14 (93.33%) Red Hat
3 9 (60.00%) Windows
3 9 (60.00%) VMware
4 8 (53.33%) UNIX
5 7 (46.67%) TCP/IP
5 7 (46.67%) SAN
6 6 (40.00%) Solaris
6 6 (40.00%) Python
6 6 (40.00%) Perl
7 5 (33.33%) Kerberos
7 5 (33.33%) IBM
7 5 (33.33%) EMC
7 5 (33.33%) VLAN
7 5 (33.33%) Test Scripting
7 5 (33.33%) Network Security
7 5 (33.33%) vSphere
7 5 (33.33%) Bash shell
7 5 (33.33%) VMware ESXi
8 4 (26.67%) HP
8 4 (26.67%) Tivoli
8 4 (26.67%) DNS
8 4 (26.67%) AIX
9 3 (20.00%) HPUX
9 3 (20.00%) Oracle
9 3 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
9 3 (20.00%) Finance
9 3 (20.00%) Tivoli Storage Manager
9 3 (20.00%) HACMP
9 3 (20.00%) Veritas

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading 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.

Application Development
1 1 (6.667%) CSS
1 1 (6.667%) Servlets
1 1 (6.667%) Web Services
1 1 (6.667%) XML
1 1 (6.667%) XSD
1 1 (6.667%) .NET
1 1 (6.667%) J2EE
1 1 (6.667%) HTML
1 1 (6.667%) LAMP
1 1 (6.667%) Ajax
1 1 (6.667%) ArcObjects
1 1 (6.667%) Dojo
1 1 (6.667%) Apache Flex
1 1 (6.667%) Silverlight
1 1 (6.667%) jQuery
1 1 (6.667%) REST
Application Platforms
1 2 (13.33%) Apache
2 1 (6.667%) Tomcat
2 1 (6.667%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 1 (6.667%) MS Excel
1 1 (6.667%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 7 (46.67%) TCP/IP
1 7 (46.67%) SAN
2 5 (33.33%) Kerberos
2 5 (33.33%) VLAN
2 5 (33.33%) Network Security
3 4 (26.67%) DNS
4 3 (20.00%) Fibre Channel
5 1 (6.667%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (13.33%) MySQL
2 1 (6.667%) Oracle 8/8i
2 1 (6.667%) GIS
Development Applications
1 1 (6.667%) ClearCase
1 1 (6.667%) Visual Studio
1 1 (6.667%) Subversion
General
1 3 (20.00%) Finance
1 3 (20.00%) Banking
2 2 (13.33%) Marketing
3 1 (6.667%) Telecoms
3 1 (6.667%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 4 (26.67%) Storage Engineer
1 4 (26.67%) Linux Engineer
1 4 (26.67%) Architect
1 4 (26.67%) Technical Architect
1 4 (26.67%) Solutions Architect
2 2 (13.33%) UNIX Engineer
3 1 (6.667%) Support Engineer
3 1 (6.667%) 3rd Line Support
3 1 (6.667%) Administrator
3 1 (6.667%) Systems Administrator
3 1 (6.667%) Developer
3 1 (6.667%) GIS Developer
3 1 (6.667%) Linux Support
3 1 (6.667%) Senior Linux Engineer
3 1 (6.667%) Implementation Engineer
3 1 (6.667%) Linux Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (20.00%) HACMP
1 3 (20.00%) Clustering
1 3 (20.00%) LPAR
1 3 (20.00%) DLPAR
2 2 (13.33%) CLARiiON
2 2 (13.33%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 15 (100.00%) Linux
2 9 (60.00%) Windows
3 8 (53.33%) UNIX
4 6 (40.00%) Solaris
5 4 (26.67%) AIX
6 3 (20.00%) HPUX
6 3 (20.00%) Windows Server 2008
7 2 (13.33%) Windows 2000 Server
8 1 (6.667%) FreeBSD
8 1 (6.667%) SUSE
8 1 (6.667%) OpenBSD
8 1 (6.667%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (33.33%) Test Scripting
2 3 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (13.33%) Migration
4 1 (6.667%) Data Modelling
4 1 (6.667%) ITIL
4 1 (6.667%) Data Management
4 1 (6.667%) Operations Management
4 1 (6.667%) Time Management
4 1 (6.667%) Change Control
Programming Languages
1 6 (40.00%) Python
1 6 (40.00%) Perl
2 5 (33.33%) Bash shell
3 1 (6.667%) PHP
3 1 (6.667%) C#
3 1 (6.667%) C++
3 1 (6.667%) Java
3 1 (6.667%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (6.667%) MCSE
1 1 (6.667%) CCNA
1 1 (6.667%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (6.667%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (6.667%) RHCE
1 1 (6.667%) HPUX Certification
1 1 (6.667%) SCSA
1 1 (6.667%) VERITAS Certified Professional (VCP)
1 1 (6.667%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.667%) SLA
1 1 (6.667%) QA
System Software
1 5 (33.33%) vSphere
1 5 (33.33%) VMware ESXi
2 3 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (13.33%) Veritas Volume Manager
3 2 (13.33%) Veritas Cluster Server
3 2 (13.33%) Active Directory
4 1 (6.667%) NFS
4 1 (6.667%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
4 1 (6.667%) Xen
4 1 (6.667%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (6.667%) Postfix
4 1 (6.667%) Sendmail
4 1 (6.667%) Veritas File System
4 1 (6.667%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 4 (26.67%) Tivoli
2 3 (20.00%) Tivoli Storage Manager
2 3 (20.00%) NetBackup
3 1 (6.667%) OpenView
Vendors
1 14 (93.33%) Red Hat
2 9 (60.00%) VMware
3 5 (33.33%) IBM
3 5 (33.33%) EMC
4 4 (26.67%) HP
5 3 (20.00%) Oracle
5 3 (20.00%) Veritas
6 2 (13.33%) Brocade
6 2 (13.33%) Microsoft
6 2 (13.33%) Sun
6 2 (13.33%) Remedy
7 1 (6.667%) JBoss
7 1 (6.667%) ESRI
7 1 (6.667%) Intel
7 1 (6.667%) Egenera