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 Reading region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Red Hat over the 3 months to 20 June 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 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.

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
20 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Red Hat
Rank 70 70 64
Rank change year-on-year
0 -6
Contract jobs citing Red Hat 5 9 10
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 0.562% 0.797% 0.999%
As % of the Vendors category 1.031% 1.500% 1.751%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 1
Average daily rate £420 £425 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-1.17% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £350 £350
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £31.25 £31.00
% change year-on-year
+12.00% +0.80%
All Vendors
Reading
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
485 600 571
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 54.56% 53.14% 57.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 184 193 213
Average daily rate £335 £340 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-1.47% -9.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £140 £225 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £500 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 38 27
Average hourly rate £27.50 £15.58 £16.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+76.56% -2.65%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.50 £10.00 £10.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £31.00 £31.00 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.04 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
+0.21% -5.00%
Red Hat
Berkshire

Red Hat
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Reading 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 Reading region.

Reading 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 Reading region.

Reading Red Hat Hourly Rate Trend

Red Hat
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading 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 19 (95.00%) Linux
2 12 (60.00%) UNIX
3 11 (55.00%) Perl
3 11 (55.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 9 (45.00%) Windows
5 8 (40.00%) Oracle
5 8 (40.00%) VMware
6 7 (35.00%) Subversion
6 7 (35.00%) XML
6 7 (35.00%) MySQL
6 7 (35.00%) Python
7 6 (30.00%) TCP/IP
7 6 (30.00%) SQL
7 6 (30.00%) VLAN
7 6 (30.00%) PostgreSQL
7 6 (30.00%) Telecoms
7 6 (30.00%) Greenplum
8 5 (25.00%) Test Scripting
8 5 (25.00%) Network Security
8 5 (25.00%) vSphere
8 5 (25.00%) Bash shell
8 5 (25.00%) VMware ESXi
8 5 (25.00%) OO
8 5 (25.00%) Kerberos
9 4 (20.00%) SAN
9 4 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
9 4 (20.00%) Solaris
9 4 (20.00%) Performance Management
9 4 (20.00%) Windows Server 2008
10 3 (15.00%) Huawei

Red Hat
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading 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 7 (35.00%) XML
2 2 (10.00%) Middleware
2 2 (10.00%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (5.000%) Ajax
3 1 (5.000%) jQuery
3 1 (5.000%) Silverlight
3 1 (5.000%) Apache Flex
3 1 (5.000%) ArcObjects
3 1 (5.000%) Dojo
3 1 (5.000%) REST
3 1 (5.000%) XSD
3 1 (5.000%) .NET
3 1 (5.000%) J2EE
3 1 (5.000%) HTML
3 1 (5.000%) CSS
3 1 (5.000%) Servlets
3 1 (5.000%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 2 (10.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 1 (5.000%) ArcGIS
2 1 (5.000%) Apache
2 1 (5.000%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (5.000%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 2 (10.00%) Oracle EBS R12
1 2 (10.00%) Oracle EBS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (30.00%) TCP/IP
1 6 (30.00%) VLAN
2 5 (25.00%) Network Security
2 5 (25.00%) Kerberos
3 4 (20.00%) SAN
4 2 (10.00%) DNS
5 1 (5.000%) Fibre Channel
5 1 (5.000%) VPN
5 1 (5.000%) ADSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (35.00%) MySQL
2 6 (30.00%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (10.00%) Oracle Exadata
4 2 (10.00%) Oracle 11g
5 1 (5.000%) SQL Server 2005
5 1 (5.000%) GIS
5 1 (5.000%) SQL Server 2008
5 1 (5.000%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (35.00%) Subversion
2 1 (5.000%) ClearCase
2 1 (5.000%) Visual Studio
General
1 6 (30.00%) Telecoms
2 2 (10.00%) Marketing
3 1 (5.000%) Banking
3 1 (5.000%) Finance
3 1 (5.000%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 7 (35.00%) Developer
2 4 (20.00%) Technical Architect
2 4 (20.00%) Solutions Architect
2 4 (20.00%) Senior Developer
2 4 (20.00%) Software Developer
2 4 (20.00%) Architect
2 4 (20.00%) Linux Engineer
3 3 (15.00%) Senior Software Developer
4 2 (10.00%) Administrator
4 2 (10.00%) UNIX Engineer
5 1 (5.000%) Linux Support
5 1 (5.000%) Senior Linux Engineer
5 1 (5.000%) Storage Engineer
5 1 (5.000%) Oracle DBA
5 1 (5.000%) Perl Developer
5 1 (5.000%) GIS Developer
5 1 (5.000%) Infrastructure Technician
5 1 (5.000%) Linux Support Engineer
5 1 (5.000%) Support Technician
5 1 (5.000%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.00%) Wiki
2 2 (10.00%) Oracle Exalogic
3 1 (5.000%) CLARiiON
3 1 (5.000%) Clustering
3 1 (5.000%) Management Information System
3 1 (5.000%) LPAR
3 1 (5.000%) DLPAR
3 1 (5.000%) HACMP
Operating Systems
1 19 (95.00%) Linux
2 12 (60.00%) UNIX
3 11 (55.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 9 (45.00%) Windows
5 4 (20.00%) Solaris
5 4 (20.00%) Windows Server 2008
6 2 (10.00%) HPUX
6 2 (10.00%) Windows 7
6 2 (10.00%) Windows 2000 Server
7 1 (5.000%) SUSE
7 1 (5.000%) CentOS
7 1 (5.000%) AIX
7 1 (5.000%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (25.00%) Test Scripting
1 5 (25.00%) OO
2 4 (20.00%) Performance Management
3 3 (15.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 2 (10.00%) SOA
4 2 (10.00%) ITIL
4 2 (10.00%) Migration
4 2 (10.00%) Incident Management
5 1 (5.000%) Data Management
5 1 (5.000%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 11 (55.00%) Perl
2 7 (35.00%) Python
3 6 (30.00%) SQL
4 5 (25.00%) Bash shell
5 1 (5.000%) C#
5 1 (5.000%) Java
5 1 (5.000%) JavaScript
5 1 (5.000%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (15.00%) Degree
2 1 (5.000%) MCSE
2 1 (5.000%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 5 (25.00%) vSphere
1 5 (25.00%) VMware ESXi
2 3 (15.00%) Active Directory
3 2 (10.00%) Veritas Volume Manager
3 2 (10.00%) Oracle RAC
3 2 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (5.000%) Veritas File System
4 1 (5.000%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
4 1 (5.000%) NFS
Systems Management
1 2 (10.00%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
1 2 (10.00%) Tivoli
1 2 (10.00%) NetBackup
2 1 (5.000%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 8 (40.00%) Oracle
1 8 (40.00%) VMware
2 6 (30.00%) Greenplum
3 3 (15.00%) Huawei
3 3 (15.00%) Nokia Siemens Networks
3 3 (15.00%) Ericsson
3 3 (15.00%) HP
3 3 (15.00%) EMC
4 2 (10.00%) IBM
4 2 (10.00%) Brocade
5 1 (5.000%) ESRI
5 1 (5.000%) ProCurve
5 1 (5.000%) Remedy
5 1 (5.000%) Microsoft
5 1 (5.000%) Sun
5 1 (5.000%) Veritas