Red Hat Enterprise Linux Contracts in the South West
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for Red Hat Enterprise Linux skills in IT contracts advertised for the South West 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 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 of the Operating Systems category for the South West 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
21 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
Rank 89 94 85
Rank change year-on-year
+5 -9
Contract jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 28 49 36
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South West 1.344% 1.501% 1.309%
As % of the Operating Systems category 5.405% 6.806% 6.429%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 35 17
Average daily rate £450 £500 £388
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-10.00% +29.03%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £395 £475 £335
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £500 £410
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £413 £350
% change year-on-year
-9.09% +17.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Average hourly rate - - £39.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.50 £30.25 £27.50
% change year-on-year
+17.35% +10.00%
All Operating Systems
South West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category		 518 720 560
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South West 24.86% 22.05% 20.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 268 352 236
Average daily rate £325 £415 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-21.68% +18.57%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £175 £280 £213
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £500 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 84 73 92
Average hourly rate £14.02 £21.00 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-33.23% +5.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.00 £12.50 £12.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £38.10 £40.90 £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £17.00 £16.50
% change year-on-year
-5.88% +3.03%
Red Hat Enterprise Linux
England

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

South West 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 South West region.

South West 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 South West region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

South West 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 South West region.

South West Red Hat Enterprise Linux Hourly Rate Trend

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
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 Enterprise Linux within the South West 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
Gloucestershire +12 18 £450 -10.00%
Dorset +1 5 £280 -27.74%
Devon +4 4 - -
Bristol +10 1 - -
Red Hat Enterprise Linux
England

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South West 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 68 (97.14%) Linux
2 66 (94.29%) Red Hat
3 52 (74.29%) UNIX
4 46 (65.71%) Security Cleared
5 41 (58.57%) DV Cleared
6 40 (57.14%) C
7 34 (48.57%) Windows
8 30 (42.86%) DNS
8 30 (42.86%) VMware
9 29 (41.43%) Cisco
9 29 (41.43%) DHCP
10 28 (40.00%) VMware Infrastructure
11 26 (37.14%) Shell Script
12 25 (35.71%) SAN
12 25 (35.71%) Solaris
12 25 (35.71%) Clustering
13 23 (32.86%) Perl
14 20 (28.57%) LAN
14 20 (28.57%) WAN
15 19 (27.14%) Oracle
15 19 (27.14%) NetApp
16 17 (24.29%) HP
16 17 (24.29%) IBM
16 17 (24.29%) Ethernet
16 17 (24.29%) Service Management
16 17 (24.29%) Enterprise Architecture
16 17 (24.29%) Hyper-V
17 13 (18.57%) Firewall
18 12 (17.14%) SQL Server
19 10 (14.29%) Java

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South West 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 7 (10.00%) Middleware
1 7 (10.00%) J2EE
2 6 (8.571%) REST
2 6 (8.571%) CSS
2 6 (8.571%) Servlets
2 6 (8.571%) Web Services
2 6 (8.571%) XML
2 6 (8.571%) XSD
2 6 (8.571%) .NET
2 6 (8.571%) HTML
2 6 (8.571%) Ajax
2 6 (8.571%) Dojo
2 6 (8.571%) Apache Flex
2 6 (8.571%) ArcObjects
2 6 (8.571%) jQuery
2 6 (8.571%) Silverlight
3 2 (2.857%) WebSphere
4 1 (1.429%) Java EE
Application Platforms
1 7 (10.00%) GlassFish
1 7 (10.00%) Oracle Application Server
1 7 (10.00%) WebLogic
1 7 (10.00%) Windows Azure
2 6 (8.571%) Amazon AWS
2 6 (8.571%) Amazon EC2
2 6 (8.571%) ArcSDE
2 6 (8.571%) ArcGIS
3 2 (2.857%) Apache
4 1 (1.429%) Tomcat
4 1 (1.429%) MQSeries
4 1 (1.429%) ESB
Applications
1 1 (1.429%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.429%) AWD
Communications & Networking
1 30 (42.86%) DNS
2 29 (41.43%) DHCP
3 25 (35.71%) SAN
4 20 (28.57%) LAN
4 20 (28.57%) WAN
5 17 (24.29%) Ethernet
6 13 (18.57%) Firewall
7 7 (10.00%) TCP/IP
7 7 (10.00%) MPLS
8 2 (2.857%) VPN
9 1 (1.429%) Cisco ASA
9 1 (1.429%) NAS
9 1 (1.429%) SSL
9 1 (1.429%) LDAP
9 1 (1.429%) HTTP
9 1 (1.429%) SSH
9 1 (1.429%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (17.14%) SQL Server
2 10 (14.29%) Oracle 10g
3 8 (11.43%) Oracle 11g
4 6 (8.571%) GIS
5 3 (4.286%) SQL Server 2008
6 2 (2.857%) MySQL
7 1 (1.429%) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications
1 6 (8.571%) Visual Studio
2 2 (2.857%) Subversion
3 1 (1.429%) Git (software)
3 1 (1.429%) ClearQuest
3 1 (1.429%) ClearCase
General
1 6 (8.571%) Publishing
2 1 (1.429%) Finance
Job Titles
1 29 (41.43%) Linux Engineer
2 24 (34.29%) UNIX Engineer
2 24 (34.29%) Architect
3 17 (24.29%) Technical Architect
4 7 (10.00%) Infrastructure Architect
5 6 (8.571%) Developer
5 6 (8.571%) GIS Developer
6 2 (2.857%) Oracle DBA
6 2 (2.857%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (2.857%) Infrastructure Consultant
6 2 (2.857%) DBA
6 2 (2.857%) Support Engineer
6 2 (2.857%) Support Consultant
6 2 (2.857%) Consultant
6 2 (2.857%) Infrastructure Support Consultant
7 1 (1.429%) Linux Support Engineer
7 1 (1.429%) Technical Project Manager
7 1 (1.429%) Systems Engineer
7 1 (1.429%) Project Manager
7 1 (1.429%) Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 25 (35.71%) Clustering
2 7 (10.00%) PaaS
2 7 (10.00%) IaaS
3 3 (4.286%) Replication
4 2 (2.857%) PKI
4 2 (2.857%) EqualLogic
Operating Systems
1 68 (97.14%) Linux
2 52 (74.29%) UNIX
3 34 (48.57%) Windows
4 25 (35.71%) Solaris
5 10 (14.29%) Windows Server 2008
6 6 (8.571%) Windows 7
7 3 (4.286%) Oracle Linux
8 2 (2.857%) Ubuntu
9 1 (1.429%) Windows Server 2003
9 1 (1.429%) AIX
9 1 (1.429%) SUSE
9 1 (1.429%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (24.29%) Service Management
1 17 (24.29%) Enterprise Architecture
2 7 (10.00%) Load Balancing
3 6 (8.571%) Data Modelling
3 6 (8.571%) Data Management
3 6 (8.571%) Information Management
4 4 (5.714%) Scrum
5 3 (4.286%) Capacity Planning
5 3 (4.286%) ERP
6 2 (2.857%) User Acceptance Testing
6 2 (2.857%) Migration
6 2 (2.857%) Root Cause Analysis
7 1 (1.429%) Build Automation
7 1 (1.429%) High Availability
7 1 (1.429%) Database Security
7 1 (1.429%) ITIL
7 1 (1.429%) Disaster Recovery
7 1 (1.429%) Network Design
7 1 (1.429%) Project Planning
7 1 (1.429%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 40 (57.14%) C
2 26 (37.14%) Shell Script
3 23 (32.86%) Perl
4 10 (14.29%) Java
5 7 (10.00%) Python
6 6 (8.571%) SQL
6 6 (8.571%) JavaScript
6 6 (8.571%) C#
7 2 (2.857%) Bash shell
8 1 (1.429%) C-shell
8 1 (1.429%) Korn
8 1 (1.429%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 46 (65.71%) Security Cleared
2 41 (58.57%) DV Cleared
3 5 (7.143%) SC Cleared
4 2 (2.857%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (2.857%) CCNP
5 1 (1.429%) Degree
System Software
1 28 (40.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 17 (24.29%) Hyper-V
3 9 (12.86%) Oracle RAC
3 9 (12.86%) Active Directory
3 9 (12.86%) vSphere
4 1 (1.429%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (1.429%) Veritas Cluster Server
4 1 (1.429%) Samba
4 1 (1.429%) Oracle RMAN
Systems Management
1 4 (5.714%) Puppet
2 2 (2.857%) SCCM
2 2 (2.857%) SCOM
2 2 (2.857%) Data Guard
3 1 (1.429%) NetBackup
3 1 (1.429%) Backup Exec
3 1 (1.429%) WSUS
Vendors
1 66 (94.29%) Red Hat
2 30 (42.86%) VMware
3 29 (41.43%) Cisco
4 19 (27.14%) Oracle
4 19 (27.14%) NetApp
5 17 (24.29%) HP
5 17 (24.29%) IBM
6 9 (12.86%) Microsoft
7 7 (10.00%) Sun
8 6 (8.571%) ESRI
9 4 (5.714%) Dell
9 4 (5.714%) Remedy
10 3 (4.286%) JBoss
11 2 (2.857%) SonicWALL
11 2 (2.857%) Nokia
11 2 (2.857%) CheckPoint
11 2 (2.857%) Juniper
11 2 (2.857%) CommVault
12 1 (1.429%) SolarWinds
12 1 (1.429%) Veritas
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