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 South East region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Red Hat 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 Vendors for the South East 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Red Hat
Rank 120 138 92
Rank change year-on-year
+18 -46
Contract jobs citing Red Hat 110 115 175
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 1.389% 1.112% 1.705%
As % of the Vendors category 2.764% 2.253% 3.484%
Number of daily rates quoted 75 59 62
Average daily rate £425 £375 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+13.33% +7.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £307 £285 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £432 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £400 £350
% change year-on-year
-6.25% +14.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 3
Average hourly rate - £45.00 £42.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +5.88%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £34.75 £34.25 £33.00
% change year-on-year
+1.45% +3.78%
All Vendors
South East
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
3980 5105 5023
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 50.24% 49.35% 48.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 1941 2222 1977
Average daily rate £350 £360 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-2.77% +2.85%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £220 £244
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £500 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 321 390 415
Average hourly rate £19.63 £17.50 £21.65
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+12.14% -19.14%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £11.31 £11.07
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £40.00 £45.00 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
- -5.00%
Red Hat
England

Red Hat
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South East 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 South East region.

South East 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 South East region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

South East 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 South East region.

South East 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 South East region over the 3 months to 22 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
Hampshire +25 47 £393 +4.66%
Kent +12 19 £450 -
Berkshire +11 18 £420 +20.00%
West Sussex +12 11 £585 +50.96%
Surrey -1 7 £338 -15.62%
Oxfordshire +3 4 £325 -7.14%
Middlesex +5 1 £375 -1.96%
Red Hat
England

Red Hat
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 200 (95.69%) Linux
2 134 (64.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 97 (46.41%) Oracle
4 91 (43.54%) UNIX
5 68 (32.54%) Windows
6 66 (31.58%) VMware
7 46 (22.01%) Microsoft
8 45 (21.53%) Oracle 11g
9 43 (20.57%) SAN
9 43 (20.57%) Apache
10 40 (19.14%) Solaris
10 40 (19.14%) SQL
10 40 (19.14%) Oracle RAC
11 39 (18.66%) Finance
12 35 (16.75%) VMware Infrastructure
13 33 (15.79%) AIX
14 32 (15.31%) Shell Script
15 31 (14.83%) Java
16 30 (14.35%) Perl
16 30 (14.35%) MS Excel
16 30 (14.35%) Security Cleared
17 29 (13.88%) MySQL
18 25 (11.96%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
18 25 (11.96%) Configuration Management
18 25 (11.96%) Clustering
18 25 (11.96%) SC Cleared
18 25 (11.96%) Windows Server 2008
19 24 (11.48%) PHP
20 23 (11.00%) ITIL
20 23 (11.00%) Tomcat

Red Hat
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East 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 15 (7.177%) XML
2 12 (5.742%) Web Services
3 8 (3.828%) Spring
4 6 (2.871%) SAML
5 5 (2.392%) HTML
5 5 (2.392%) Middleware
6 4 (1.914%) RESTful
6 4 (1.914%) wxWidgets
6 4 (1.914%) Motif
6 4 (1.914%) Hibernate
6 4 (1.914%) JDBC
7 3 (1.435%) JavaBeans
7 3 (1.435%) JSP
7 3 (1.435%) COM
7 3 (1.435%) J2EE
7 3 (1.435%) Java SE
7 3 (1.435%) WebSphere
7 3 (1.435%) Drools
8 2 (0.957%) jQuery
8 2 (0.957%) Oracle Fusion
Application Platforms
1 43 (20.57%) Apache
2 23 (11.00%) Tomcat
3 8 (3.828%) SharePoint 2010
3 8 (3.828%) SharePoint
3 8 (3.828%) OpenEdge
4 6 (2.871%) GlassFish
5 5 (2.392%) Amazon AWS
6 4 (1.914%) OpenStack
6 4 (1.914%) Liferay
6 4 (1.914%) WebLogic
7 3 (1.435%) Oracle Application Server
8 2 (0.957%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 2 (0.957%) nginx
9 1 (0.478%) Commerce Server
9 1 (0.478%) Documentum
9 1 (0.478%) Oracle 9iAS
9 1 (0.478%) IIS
9 1 (0.478%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.478%) WebSphere MQ
9 1 (0.478%) WebLogic Portal
Applications
1 30 (14.35%) MS Excel
2 8 (3.828%) MS Office
3 7 (3.349%) MS Visio
4 5 (2.392%) MS PowerPoint
5 1 (0.478%) MS Project
Business Applications
1 8 (3.828%) Dynamics NAV
2 3 (1.435%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (0.957%) Oracle EBS R12
4 1 (0.478%) Oracle 11i
4 1 (0.478%) 3000 Xtra
Communications & Networking
1 43 (20.57%) SAN
2 22 (10.53%) TCP/IP
3 16 (7.656%) WAN
3 16 (7.656%) LAN
4 15 (7.177%) SSL
5 13 (6.220%) DNS
6 11 (5.263%) VoIP
6 11 (5.263%) Wireless
7 10 (4.785%) 3G
7 10 (4.785%) PSTN
7 10 (4.785%) GPRS
7 10 (4.785%) LDAP
8 9 (4.306%) Firewall
9 8 (3.828%) NAS
9 8 (3.828%) SMTP
10 7 (3.349%) HTTP
10 7 (3.349%) IPsec
10 7 (3.349%) VLAN
11 6 (2.871%) Network Security
11 6 (2.871%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (21.53%) Oracle 11g
2 29 (13.88%) MySQL
3 20 (9.569%) Oracle 8/8i
4 19 (9.091%) SQL Server
5 18 (8.612%) SQL Server 2008
6 16 (7.656%) PostgreSQL
7 12 (5.742%) Oracle 10g
8 7 (3.349%) SQL Server 2005
9 6 (2.871%) Data Warehouse
10 4 (1.914%) MarkLogic
10 4 (1.914%) NoSQL
10 4 (1.914%) Ingres
11 3 (1.435%) Oracle OWB
11 3 (1.435%) Oracle BI EE
12 2 (0.957%) Hadoop
12 2 (0.957%) Oracle Exadata
12 2 (0.957%) DB2
13 1 (0.478%) RDBMS
13 1 (0.478%) Oracle Discoverer
13 1 (0.478%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 15 (7.177%) Subversion
2 6 (2.871%) Git (software)
2 6 (2.871%) ClearCase
3 5 (2.392%) ClearQuest
3 5 (2.392%) Jenkins
4 4 (1.914%) GoogleTest
4 4 (1.914%) CppUnit
4 4 (1.914%) Hudson
4 4 (1.914%) Maven
4 4 (1.914%) NUnit
4 4 (1.914%) CruiseControl
4 4 (1.914%) Ant
4 4 (1.914%) Rational Rose
5 3 (1.435%) Eclipse
5 3 (1.435%) Oracle APEX
5 3 (1.435%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (0.478%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.478%) Oracle Forms
General
1 39 (18.66%) Finance
2 22 (10.53%) Telecoms
3 16 (7.656%) Banking
4 5 (2.392%) Investment Banking
4 5 (2.392%) Retail
5 4 (1.914%) Manufacturing
5 4 (1.914%) Financial Institution
6 3 (1.435%) Marketing
7 2 (0.957%) Publishing
7 2 (0.957%) Military
7 2 (0.957%) Legal
8 1 (0.478%) Electronics
8 1 (0.478%) Games
8 1 (0.478%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (0.478%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 39 (18.66%) Administrator
2 35 (16.75%) DBA
3 33 (15.79%) Oracle DBA
4 25 (11.96%) Systems Administrator
4 25 (11.96%) Architect
5 23 (11.00%) Linux Administrator
6 21 (10.05%) Technical Architect
7 19 (9.091%) Developer
8 18 (8.612%) Linux Systems Administrator
9 14 (6.699%) Senior DBA
9 14 (6.699%) Senior Oracle DBA
9 14 (6.699%) Analyst
10 11 (5.263%) Linux Engineer
11 10 (4.785%) Systems Engineer
12 9 (4.306%) Infrastructure Analyst
13 7 (3.349%) Software Developer
14 6 (2.871%) UNIX Engineer
14 6 (2.871%) Consultant
14 6 (2.871%) Java Developer
14 6 (2.871%) Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 25 (11.96%) Clustering
2 14 (6.699%) Open Source
3 11 (5.263%) Management Information System
4 7 (3.349%) Digital Media
5 5 (2.392%) Wiki
6 4 (1.914%) IaaS
6 4 (1.914%) LPAR
6 4 (1.914%) Derivative
6 4 (1.914%) Cryptography
6 4 (1.914%) HACMP
7 3 (1.435%) SaaS
7 3 (1.435%) DLPAR
8 2 (0.957%) Oracle Exalogic
8 2 (0.957%) iSeries
8 2 (0.957%) CLARiiON
8 2 (0.957%) MPEG
9 1 (0.478%) NHS
9 1 (0.478%) Thin Client
9 1 (0.478%) Grid Computing
9 1 (0.478%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 200 (95.69%) Linux
2 134 (64.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 91 (43.54%) UNIX
4 68 (32.54%) Windows
5 40 (19.14%) Solaris
6 33 (15.79%) AIX
7 25 (11.96%) Windows Server 2008
8 20 (9.569%) Windows Server 2003
9 17 (8.134%) Oracle Linux
9 17 (8.134%) CentOS
10 14 (6.699%) HPUX
11 10 (4.785%) SUSE
12 9 (4.306%) Windows 7
13 6 (2.871%) Debian
14 5 (2.392%) Windows XP
15 4 (1.914%) Ubuntu
15 4 (1.914%) Windows 2000
16 3 (1.435%) FreeBSD
16 3 (1.435%) OpenBSD
17 2 (0.957%) Windows 2000 Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (11.96%) Configuration Management
2 23 (11.00%) ITIL
3 19 (9.091%) Migration
4 13 (6.220%) Project Management
5 12 (5.742%) PRINCE2
6 11 (5.263%) OO
7 9 (4.306%) Disaster Recovery
7 9 (4.306%) Risk Management
7 9 (4.306%) Information Security
7 9 (4.306%) Continuous Integration
7 9 (4.306%) Memory Management
8 8 (3.828%) Data Migration
9 7 (3.349%) Load Balancing
10 6 (2.871%) Agile Software Development
10 6 (2.871%) Change Management
10 6 (2.871%) Stakeholder Management
10 6 (2.871%) E-Commerce
11 5 (2.392%) Business Intelligence
11 5 (2.392%) Data Modelling
11 5 (2.392%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 40 (19.14%) SQL
2 32 (15.31%) Shell Script
3 31 (14.83%) Java
4 30 (14.35%) Perl
5 24 (11.48%) PHP
6 21 (10.05%) Bash shell
7 13 (6.220%) C
8 12 (5.742%) Python
9 9 (4.306%) PL/SQL
10 6 (2.871%) Korn
10 6 (2.871%) C++
11 5 (2.392%) JavaScript
12 4 (1.914%) sed
12 4 (1.914%) AWK
13 2 (0.957%) Scala
13 2 (0.957%) C-shell
13 2 (0.957%) VBScript
13 2 (0.957%) VB
14 1 (0.478%) C#
14 1 (0.478%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 30 (14.35%) Security Cleared
2 25 (11.96%) SC Cleared
3 8 (3.828%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 8 (3.828%) Microsoft Certification
4 6 (2.871%) Degree
4 6 (2.871%) DV Cleared
5 3 (1.435%) RHCE
6 2 (0.957%) JNCIP
6 2 (0.957%) SCSA
6 2 (0.957%) MCSE
6 2 (0.957%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (0.957%) CCNP
7 1 (0.478%) Sun Certification
7 1 (0.478%) HPUX Certification
7 1 (0.478%) MCP
7 1 (0.478%) MCSA
7 1 (0.478%) RHCT
7 1 (0.478%) VERITAS Certified Professional (VCP)
7 1 (0.478%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (0.957%) JSP 440
1 2 (0.957%) SLA
2 1 (0.478%) PCI DSS
2 1 (0.478%) QA
System Software
1 40 (19.14%) Oracle RAC
2 35 (16.75%) VMware Infrastructure
3 21 (10.05%) vSphere
4 18 (8.612%) Active Directory
5 17 (8.134%) VMware ESXi
6 11 (5.263%) VMware ESX
7 10 (4.785%) NFS
8 6 (2.871%) VMware Server
8 6 (2.871%) Squid
9 5 (2.392%) Xen
9 5 (2.392%) Postfix
9 5 (2.392%) XenApp
10 4 (1.914%) Hyper-V
10 4 (1.914%) Nmap
10 4 (1.914%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
11 3 (1.435%) Oracle RMAN
11 3 (1.435%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 3 (1.435%) Veritas Cluster Server
12 2 (0.957%) Veritas Volume Manager
13 1 (0.478%) Samba
Systems Management
1 25 (11.96%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 16 (7.656%) Puppet
3 7 (3.349%) Tivoli
3 7 (3.349%) Tivoli Storage Manager
4 6 (2.871%) Nagios
5 4 (1.914%) Data Guard
5 4 (1.914%) NetBackup
6 2 (0.957%) Red Hat Satellite
6 2 (0.957%) BMC PATROL
6 2 (0.957%) Control-M
6 2 (0.957%) Legato
6 2 (0.957%) Foglight
7 1 (0.478%) OpenView
7 1 (0.478%) Oracle Statspack
7 1 (0.478%) Cobbler
7 1 (0.478%) CFEngine
Vendors
1 97 (46.41%) Oracle
2 66 (31.58%) VMware
3 46 (22.01%) Microsoft
4 21 (10.05%) JBoss
5 20 (9.569%) HP
6 16 (7.656%) NetApp
7 15 (7.177%) IBM
7 15 (7.177%) EMC
8 13 (6.220%) Cisco
9 8 (3.828%) Greenplum
9 8 (3.828%) Veritas
10 7 (3.349%) Sun
11 5 (2.392%) SAP
12 4 (1.914%) 3PAR
12 4 (1.914%) Nokia Siemens Networks
12 4 (1.914%) Brocade
12 4 (1.914%) Huawei
12 4 (1.914%) Citrix
12 4 (1.914%) Ericsson
13 2 (0.957%) Remedy
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