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 West region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Red Hat over the 3 months to 17 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 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.

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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Red Hat
Rank 81 81 78
Rank change year-on-year
0 -3
Contract jobs citing Red Hat 34 58 39
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South West 1.660% 1.750% 1.392%
As % of the Vendors category 3.803% 4.105% 3.202%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 42 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 £375 £475 £338
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £500 £419
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £418 £350
% change year-on-year
-10.17% +19.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Average hourly rate - - £39.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £34.75 £33.50 £30.25
% change year-on-year
+3.73% +10.74%
All Vendors
South West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
894 1413 1218
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South West 43.65% 42.64% 43.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 519 817 555
Average daily rate £375 £400 £370
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-6.25% +8.10%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £263 £210
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 52 98 118
Average hourly rate £13.95 £25.00 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-44.20% +25.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.00 £12.90 £13.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £40.50 £50.00 £31.00
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 West region as a proportion of the total demand within the Vendors category.

South West 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 West region.

South West 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 West region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

South West 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 West region.

South West 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 West region over the 3 months to 17 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 +7 23 £450 -10.00%
Devon +4 4 - -
Dorset -3 3 £280 -25.33%
Wiltshire - 2 £375 -
Bristol +7 1 - -
Red Hat
England

Red Hat
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South West 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 94 (100.00%) Linux
2 70 (74.47%) Security Cleared
3 66 (70.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 58 (61.70%) UNIX
5 49 (52.13%) VMware
6 43 (45.74%) DV Cleared
6 43 (45.74%) VMware Infrastructure
7 41 (43.62%) C
8 32 (34.04%) Windows
9 31 (32.98%) DNS
10 30 (31.91%) DHCP
10 30 (31.91%) Solaris
11 28 (29.79%) Cisco
12 27 (28.72%) SAN
12 27 (28.72%) Shell Script
12 27 (28.72%) Perl
12 27 (28.72%) SC Cleared
12 27 (28.72%) Clustering
13 21 (22.34%) LAN
13 21 (22.34%) WAN
14 19 (20.21%) Oracle
14 19 (20.21%) NetApp
14 19 (20.21%) Service Management
15 17 (18.09%) Enterprise Architecture
15 17 (18.09%) IBM
15 17 (18.09%) Ethernet
15 17 (18.09%) HP
15 17 (18.09%) Hyper-V
16 16 (17.02%) Remedy
17 12 (12.77%) Java

Red Hat
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South West 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 (7.447%) J2EE
2 6 (6.383%) CSS
2 6 (6.383%) Servlets
2 6 (6.383%) Web Services
2 6 (6.383%) XML
2 6 (6.383%) XSD
2 6 (6.383%) HTML
2 6 (6.383%) .NET
2 6 (6.383%) Middleware
2 6 (6.383%) ArcObjects
2 6 (6.383%) Dojo
2 6 (6.383%) Apache Flex
2 6 (6.383%) Silverlight
2 6 (6.383%) jQuery
2 6 (6.383%) REST
2 6 (6.383%) Ajax
3 3 (3.191%) LAMP
4 2 (2.128%) SAML
4 2 (2.128%) WebSphere
5 1 (1.064%) Java EE
Application Platforms
1 8 (8.511%) GlassFish
1 8 (8.511%) OpenStack
2 6 (6.383%) Windows Azure
2 6 (6.383%) ArcGIS
2 6 (6.383%) ArcSDE
2 6 (6.383%) Oracle Application Server
2 6 (6.383%) WebLogic
3 5 (5.319%) Amazon EC2
3 5 (5.319%) Amazon AWS
4 3 (3.191%) Apache
4 3 (3.191%) Tomcat
5 1 (1.064%) MQSeries
Applications
1 1 (1.064%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 31 (32.98%) DNS
2 30 (31.91%) DHCP
3 27 (28.72%) SAN
4 21 (22.34%) LAN
4 21 (22.34%) WAN
5 17 (18.09%) Ethernet
6 11 (11.70%) Firewall
7 8 (8.511%) TCP/IP
8 6 (6.383%) MPLS
9 3 (3.191%) SSL
10 2 (2.128%) VPN
10 2 (2.128%) LDAP
10 2 (2.128%) IPsec
11 1 (1.064%) SSH
11 1 (1.064%) Network Security
11 1 (1.064%) Cisco ASA
11 1 (1.064%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (10.64%) SQL Server
2 8 (8.511%) Oracle 10g
3 6 (6.383%) GIS
3 6 (6.383%) Oracle 11g
4 5 (5.319%) MySQL
5 3 (3.191%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 6 (6.383%) Visual Studio
2 4 (4.255%) Git (software)
3 3 (3.191%) Hudson
4 2 (2.128%) Subversion
5 1 (1.064%) ClearCase
5 1 (1.064%) ClearQuest
General
1 6 (6.383%) Publishing
2 1 (1.064%) Finance
Job Titles
1 51 (54.26%) Linux Engineer
2 25 (26.60%) Architect
2 25 (26.60%) UNIX Engineer
3 19 (20.21%) Technical Architect
4 6 (6.383%) Developer
4 6 (6.383%) Infrastructure Architect
4 6 (6.383%) GIS Developer
5 4 (4.255%) Administrator
6 3 (3.191%) Linux Systems Administrator
6 3 (3.191%) Systems Administrator
6 3 (3.191%) Linux Administrator
7 2 (2.128%) Support Consultant
7 2 (2.128%) Infrastructure Support Consultant
7 2 (2.128%) Consultant
7 2 (2.128%) Infrastructure Consultant
7 2 (2.128%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (2.128%) Support Engineer
8 1 (1.064%) 3rd Line Support
8 1 (1.064%) Oracle DBA
8 1 (1.064%) Server Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 27 (28.72%) Clustering
2 6 (6.383%) PaaS
2 6 (6.383%) IaaS
3 2 (2.128%) EqualLogic
3 2 (2.128%) PKI
4 1 (1.064%) Open Source
4 1 (1.064%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 94 (100.00%) Linux
2 66 (70.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 58 (61.70%) UNIX
4 32 (34.04%) Windows
5 30 (31.91%) Solaris
6 10 (10.64%) Windows Server 2008
7 6 (6.383%) Windows 7
8 2 (2.128%) Oracle Linux
8 2 (2.128%) CentOS
8 2 (2.128%) HPUX
9 1 (1.064%) Windows Server 2003
9 1 (1.064%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (20.21%) Service Management
2 17 (18.09%) Enterprise Architecture
3 6 (6.383%) Load Balancing
3 6 (6.383%) Data Management
3 6 (6.383%) Information Management
3 6 (6.383%) Data Modelling
4 5 (5.319%) Root Cause Analysis
5 4 (4.255%) Migration
5 4 (4.255%) Scrum
5 4 (4.255%) ITIL
6 3 (3.191%) Content Management
7 2 (2.128%) PRINCE2
7 2 (2.128%) ERP
7 2 (2.128%) Capacity Planning
7 2 (2.128%) User Acceptance Testing
8 1 (1.064%) Test Scripting
8 1 (1.064%) Project Planning
8 1 (1.064%) High Availability
8 1 (1.064%) Database Security
8 1 (1.064%) Network Design
Programming Languages
1 41 (43.62%) C
2 27 (28.72%) Shell Script
2 27 (28.72%) Perl
3 12 (12.77%) Java
4 7 (7.447%) Python
5 6 (6.383%) JavaScript
5 6 (6.383%) C#
6 5 (5.319%) PHP
6 5 (5.319%) SQL
7 2 (2.128%) Bash shell
8 1 (1.064%) Ruby
8 1 (1.064%) Korn
8 1 (1.064%) C-shell
Qualifications
1 70 (74.47%) Security Cleared
2 43 (45.74%) DV Cleared
3 27 (28.72%) SC Cleared
4 2 (2.128%) CCNP
4 2 (2.128%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (1.064%) Degree
System Software
1 43 (45.74%) VMware Infrastructure
2 17 (18.09%) Hyper-V
3 9 (9.574%) vSphere
4 8 (8.511%) Active Directory
5 7 (7.447%) Oracle RAC
6 2 (2.128%) NFS
7 1 (1.064%) Samba
7 1 (1.064%) Oracle RMAN
7 1 (1.064%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (1.064%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 8 (8.511%) Puppet
2 4 (4.255%) NetBackup
3 3 (3.191%) Red Hat Satellite
4 2 (2.128%) SCCM
4 2 (2.128%) SCOM
5 1 (1.064%) Data Guard
5 1 (1.064%) Backup Exec
5 1 (1.064%) WSUS
Vendors
1 49 (52.13%) VMware
2 28 (29.79%) Cisco
3 19 (20.21%) Oracle
3 19 (20.21%) NetApp
4 17 (18.09%) IBM
4 17 (18.09%) HP
5 16 (17.02%) Remedy
6 8 (8.511%) Microsoft
7 7 (7.447%) Sun
8 6 (6.383%) ESRI
9 4 (4.255%) JBoss
9 4 (4.255%) Dell
10 3 (3.191%) Mercator
11 2 (2.128%) Nokia
11 2 (2.128%) Juniper
11 2 (2.128%) CommVault
11 2 (2.128%) SonicWALL
11 2 (2.128%) CheckPoint
12 1 (1.064%) SolarWinds
12 1 (1.064%) Veritas
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