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 Scotland region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Red Hat over the 3 months to 21 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 Scotland 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Red Hat
Rank 101 83 96
Rank change year-on-year
-18 +13
Contract jobs citing Red Hat 21 26 20
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 0.850% 0.984% 0.731%
As % of the Vendors category 1.872% 2.515% 1.688%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 7 9
Average daily rate £413 £350 £320
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+17.85% +9.37%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £355 £348 £306
10% offered a daily rate of more than £463 £412 £367
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £400 £350
% change year-on-year
-6.25% +14.28%
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
Scotland
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
1122 1034 1185
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 45.39% 39.12% 43.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 525 461 511
Average daily rate £365 £350 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+4.28% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £200 £218
10% offered a daily rate of more than £463 £450 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 52 55
Average hourly rate £14.00 £25.00 £16.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-44.00% +51.51%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £9.85 £10.00 £10.40
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £40.50 £33.20 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.50
% change year-on-year
- -7.31%
Red Hat
UK

Red Hat
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Scotland 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 Scotland region.

Scotland Red Hat Daily Rate Trend

Red Hat
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Red Hat across the Scotland region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

Scotland Red Hat Daily Rate Histogram

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 Scotland region.

Scotland 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 Scotland region over the 3 months to 21 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
Edinburgh +6 11 £400 -2.14%
Glasgow -17 7 £425 +21.42%
South Lanarkshire - 3 - -
Red Hat
UK

Red Hat
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland 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 27 (79.41%) Linux
2 18 (52.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 17 (50.00%) Windows
4 16 (47.06%) UNIX
5 14 (41.18%) Solaris
6 11 (32.35%) AIX
7 10 (29.41%) SQL Server
8 9 (26.47%) Oracle
8 9 (26.47%) Oracle 8/8i
8 9 (26.47%) VMware
9 8 (23.53%) Microsoft
10 7 (20.59%) EMC
10 7 (20.59%) IBM
10 7 (20.59%) JBoss
10 7 (20.59%) SQL
10 7 (20.59%) Finance
10 7 (20.59%) VMware Infrastructure
10 7 (20.59%) Windows Server 2008
10 7 (20.59%) SQL Server 2008
11 6 (17.65%) WebSphere
11 6 (17.65%) Java
11 6 (17.65%) MS Excel
11 6 (17.65%) SAN
12 5 (14.71%) Sun
12 5 (14.71%) HP
12 5 (14.71%) Middleware
12 5 (14.71%) vSphere
13 4 (11.76%) Microsoft Certification
13 4 (11.76%) NetApp
13 4 (11.76%) MS Exchange

Red Hat
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland 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 6 (17.65%) WebSphere
2 5 (14.71%) Middleware
3 3 (8.824%) Spring
3 3 (8.824%) Hibernate
3 3 (8.824%) JPA
3 3 (8.824%) J2EE
3 3 (8.824%) JMS
3 3 (8.824%) J2ME
3 3 (8.824%) RESTful
4 1 (2.941%) Java EE
Application Platforms
1 4 (11.76%) MS Exchange
2 3 (8.824%) Oracle Application Server
2 3 (8.824%) GlassFish
2 3 (8.824%) Apache
2 3 (8.824%) Tomcat
2 3 (8.824%) WebSphere Application Server
2 3 (8.824%) WebLogic
2 3 (8.824%) MQSeries
2 3 (8.824%) WebSphere MQ
Applications
1 6 (17.65%) MS Excel
2 1 (2.941%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 6 (17.65%) SAN
2 3 (8.824%) DHCP
2 3 (8.824%) DNS
2 3 (8.824%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (2.941%) iSCSI
3 1 (2.941%) NAS
3 1 (2.941%) Intranet
3 1 (2.941%) Internet
3 1 (2.941%) Fibre Channel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (29.41%) SQL Server
2 9 (26.47%) Oracle 8/8i
3 7 (20.59%) SQL Server 2008
4 4 (11.76%) Oracle 11g
4 4 (11.76%) SQL Server 2005
5 3 (8.824%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (8.824%) InterSystems Cache
5 3 (8.824%) MySQL
5 3 (8.824%) SQL Server 7
5 3 (8.824%) SQL Server 2000
6 2 (5.882%) Oracle Exadata
7 1 (2.941%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (2.941%) Oracle 9i
7 1 (2.941%) TOAD
Development Applications
1 3 (8.824%) Maven
1 3 (8.824%) CruiseControl
1 3 (8.824%) JIRA
1 3 (8.824%) Oracle APEX
1 3 (8.824%) WATIR
1 3 (8.824%) Selenium
1 3 (8.824%) RSpec
1 3 (8.824%) Cucumber
1 3 (8.824%) Hudson
1 3 (8.824%) Jenkins
2 2 (5.882%) Rational Rhapsody
3 1 (2.941%) Subversion
3 1 (2.941%) TortoiseSVN
General
1 7 (20.59%) Finance
2 3 (8.824%) Banking
3 1 (2.941%) Marketing
3 1 (2.941%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 7 (20.59%) Administrator
2 5 (14.71%) Systems Administrator
3 4 (11.76%) DBA
3 4 (11.76%) Architect
4 3 (8.824%) Technical Specialist
4 3 (8.824%) SQL DBA
4 3 (8.824%) Infrastructure Architect
4 3 (8.824%) SQL Server DBA
4 3 (8.824%) Infrastructure Designer
4 3 (8.824%) Infrastructure Specialist
4 3 (8.824%) Linux Engineer
4 3 (8.824%) Support Specialist
4 3 (8.824%) Consultant
4 3 (8.824%) Designer
4 3 (8.824%) Build Engineer
4 3 (8.824%) Virtualisation Specialist
5 2 (5.882%) DevOps Engineer
5 2 (5.882%) Linux Consultant
5 2 (5.882%) UNIX Systems Administrator
5 2 (5.882%) Team Leader
Miscellaneous
1 1 (2.941%) CLARiiON
1 1 (2.941%) Symmetrix
1 1 (2.941%) Symmetrix DMX
1 1 (2.941%) Management Information System
1 1 (2.941%) Enterprise Storage
Operating Systems
1 27 (79.41%) Linux
2 18 (52.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 17 (50.00%) Windows
4 16 (47.06%) UNIX
5 14 (41.18%) Solaris
6 11 (32.35%) AIX
7 7 (20.59%) Windows Server 2008
8 3 (8.824%) Windows NT
8 3 (8.824%) Windows XP
9 1 (2.941%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (8.824%) Software Engineering
1 3 (8.824%) Agile Software Development
1 3 (8.824%) TDD
1 3 (8.824%) Workflow
1 3 (8.824%) Scrum
1 3 (8.824%) Extreme Programming
1 3 (8.824%) Continuous Integration
1 3 (8.824%) Time Management
1 3 (8.824%) SOA
1 3 (8.824%) DSDM
1 3 (8.824%) Disaster Recovery
1 3 (8.824%) Dependency Injection
2 1 (2.941%) Migration
2 1 (2.941%) Strategic Planning
2 1 (2.941%) Service Delivery
2 1 (2.941%) Capacity Planning
2 1 (2.941%) Change Control
2 1 (2.941%) Database Caching
2 1 (2.941%) Capacity Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (20.59%) SQL
2 6 (17.65%) Java
3 3 (8.824%) Ruby
4 2 (5.882%) Bash shell
5 1 (2.941%) Korn
5 1 (2.941%) Perl
Qualifications
1 4 (11.76%) Microsoft Certification
1 4 (11.76%) MCSE
1 4 (11.76%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 1 (2.941%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (2.941%) CCNA
System Software
1 7 (20.59%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (14.71%) vSphere
3 3 (8.824%) Samba
3 3 (8.824%) VMware ESX
3 3 (8.824%) Oracle RAC
3 3 (8.824%) XenDesktop
4 1 (2.941%) Oracle RMAN
4 1 (2.941%) NFS
Systems Management
1 3 (8.824%) Puppet
2 1 (2.941%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 9 (26.47%) Oracle
1 9 (26.47%) VMware
2 8 (23.53%) Microsoft
3 7 (20.59%) EMC
3 7 (20.59%) IBM
3 7 (20.59%) JBoss
4 5 (14.71%) Sun
4 5 (14.71%) HP
5 4 (11.76%) NetApp
6 3 (8.824%) Cisco
6 3 (8.824%) TIBCO
6 3 (8.824%) Dell
6 3 (8.824%) Citrix
6 3 (8.824%) Symantec
7 2 (5.882%) Brocade
7 2 (5.882%) InterSystems
8 1 (2.941%) Embarcadero
8 1 (2.941%) Red Gate
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