The first table below looks at the demand for RHCE in IT contracts advertised for the Reading region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited RHCE over the 3 months to 20 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 Qualifications 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
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE)
Rank - - 79
Contract jobs citing RHCE 0 0 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading - - 0.097%
As % of the Qualifications category - - 0.266%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 1
Average daily rate - - £375
UK excluding London average daily rate £295 £313 £375
% change year-on-year
-5.60% -16.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £27.50
All Qualifications
Reading
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
211 333 376
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 24.97% 31.24% 36.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 100 127 129
Average daily rate £410 £350 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+17.14% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £325 £220 £224
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £450 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 7 10
Average hourly rate £18.50 £18.00 £19.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+2.77% -5.26%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £22.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year
- -10.00%
RHCE
Berkshire

RHCE
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Reading RHCE Jobs Demand Trend

RHCE
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing RHCE across the Reading region.

Reading RHCE Daily Rate Trend

RHCE
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing RHCE across the Reading region.

Reading RHCE Hourly Rate Trend

RHCE
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading region citing RHCE 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 RHCE.

1 1 (100.00%) C++
1 1 (100.00%) Perl
1 1 (100.00%) PHP
1 1 (100.00%) MySQL
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle
1 1 (100.00%) UNIX
1 1 (100.00%) AIX
1 1 (100.00%) HPUX
1 1 (100.00%) Solaris
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) JBoss
1 1 (100.00%) Apache
1 1 (100.00%) Tomcat
1 1 (100.00%) FreeBSD
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) IBM
1 1 (100.00%) Sun
1 1 (100.00%) OpenView
1 1 (100.00%) HP
1 1 (100.00%) Intel
1 1 (100.00%) HPUX Certification
1 1 (100.00%) Veritas
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (100.00%) Internet
1 1 (100.00%) Remedy
1 1 (100.00%) Management Information System
1 1 (100.00%) Telecoms
1 1 (100.00%) LAMP
1 1 (100.00%) OpenBSD

RHCE
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading region citing RHCE 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 RHCE. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (100.00%) LAMP
Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) Apache
1 1 (100.00%) Tomcat
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) MySQL
General
1 1 (100.00%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) UNIX
1 1 (100.00%) AIX
1 1 (100.00%) HPUX
1 1 (100.00%) Solaris
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) FreeBSD
1 1 (100.00%) OpenBSD
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Operations Management
1 1 (100.00%) Change Control
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C++
1 1 (100.00%) Perl
1 1 (100.00%) PHP
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) HPUX Certification
1 1 (100.00%) SCSA
1 1 (100.00%) VERITAS Certified Professional (VCP)
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Xen
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (100.00%) Postfix
1 1 (100.00%) Sendmail
1 1 (100.00%) Veritas Cluster Server
1 1 (100.00%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) OpenView
1 1 (100.00%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle
1 1 (100.00%) JBoss
1 1 (100.00%) IBM
1 1 (100.00%) Sun
1 1 (100.00%) HP
1 1 (100.00%) Intel
1 1 (100.00%) Veritas
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (100.00%) Remedy
1 1 (100.00%) VMware
1 1 (100.00%) Egenera