South West Red Hat Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Red Hat products and/or services in IT contracts within the South West region with a comparison to our Vendors category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Red Hat over the 3 months to 21 November 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Aylesbury Basingstoke Benfleet Berkshire Birmingham Brentford Bristol Buckinghamshire Camberley Canary Wharf Cheshire Chester City of London Crawley Devon Docklands, London Dorset East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Essex Feltham Glasgow Gloucestershire Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Hertfordshire Home Counties Isleworth Knaresborough Liverpool Livingston London M4 Corridor Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Newbury Newcastle North East North West North Yorkshire Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxfordshire Portsmouth Reading Ruislip Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Stevenage Surrey Swindon Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Watford West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Wirral Woking Wokingham Yorkshire	3 months to 21 Nov 2008	Same period last year
Rank	110	151
Rank change on same period last year	+41
Matching contract IT job ads	25	12
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.039 %	0.013 %
As % of the category below	1.490 %	0.567 %
Daily rates quoted	7	2
Average minimum daily rate	£304	£288
Average daily rate	£318	£300
% change on same period last year	+5.95 %
Average maximum daily rate	£332	£313
UK excluding London average daily rate	£349	£349
% change on same period last year	-
Hourly rates quoted	2	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£45.00	-
Average hourly rate	£47.50	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£50.00	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£33.32	£37.03
% change on same period last year	-9.99 %
Vendors South West
Matching contract IT job ads	1678	2115
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	2.643 %	2.266 %
Daily rates quoted	444	477
Average minimum daily rate	£342	£314
Average daily rate	£364	£330
% change on same period last year	+10.39 %
Average maximum daily rate	£387	£346
UK excluding London average daily rate	£358	£348
% change on same period last year	+2.84 %
Hourly rates quoted	193	256
Average minimum hourly rate	£23.28	£23.11
Average hourly rate	£24.68	£24.78
% change on same period last year	-0.39 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£26.09	£26.45
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£24.26	£24.41
% change on same period last year	-0.60 %
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We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

These figures represent the IT job market and are NOT representative of employment within Red Hat, Inc.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Red Hat across the South West region as a proportion of the total demand within the Vendors category.

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Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Red Hat across the South West region.

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Daily Rate Histogram

The 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 21 November 2008.

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Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Red Hat across the South West region.

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Red Hat across the South West region over the 3 months to 21 November 2008.

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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 21 November 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Wiltshire	-	10	£325	-
Bristol	-	7	£350	-
Dorset	+25	1	£225	-40.00 %
Devon	+19	1	£325	-
Gloucestershire	-3	1	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 November 2008, 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 43 (95.56 %) Linux 1 43 (95.56 %) Red Hat Linux 2 19 (42.22 %) Security Cleared 3 16 (35.56 %) SC Cleared 4 14 (31.11 %) Government 4 14 (31.11 %) Oracle 5 9 (20.00 %) SAN 5 9 (20.00 %) WebLogic 5 9 (20.00 %) UNIX 5 9 (20.00 %) Windows 5 9 (20.00 %) ATG 6 8 (17.78 %) Nucleus RTOS 6 8 (17.78 %) JBoss 6 8 (17.78 %) B2C 6 8 (17.78 %) RHCE

6 8 (17.78 %) Active Directory 7 7 (15.56 %) Windows Server 2003 7 7 (15.56 %) MS Exchange 7 7 (15.56 %) Solaris 7 7 (15.56 %) C 7 7 (15.56 %) Workflow 7 7 (15.56 %) Firewall 7 7 (15.56 %) Clustering 8 6 (13.33 %) NetBackup 8 6 (13.33 %) AJAX 8 6 (13.33 %) DHTML 8 6 (13.33 %) JavaScript 8 6 (13.33 %) HPUX 8 6 (13.33 %) SOAP 8 6 (13.33 %) JMS

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 November 2008, 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 6 (13.33 %) AJAX 1 6 (13.33 %) SOAP 1 6 (13.33 %) JMS 2 3 (6.667 %) CGI 3 1 (2.222 %) CORBA 3 1 (2.222 %) Application Packaging	Application Platforms 1 9 (20.00 %) WebLogic 2 8 (17.78 %) JBoss 3 7 (15.56 %) MS Exchange 4 5 (11.11 %) Exchange Server 2003 5 3 (6.667 %) Exchange Server 2007 6 1 (2.222 %) Apache 6 1 (2.222 %) Exchange Server 2000
Applications 1 1 (2.222 %) MS Excel	Communications & Networking 1 9 (20.00 %) SAN 2 7 (15.56 %) Firewall 3 4 (8.889 %) NetScreen 4 3 (6.667 %) 3G 4 3 (6.667 %) TCP/IP 4 3 (6.667 %) DNS 5 2 (4.444 %) Cisco ASA 5 2 (4.444 %) LDAP 5 2 (4.444 %) DHCP 6 1 (2.222 %) MPLS 6 1 (2.222 %) SSL 6 1 (2.222 %) ATM 6 1 (2.222 %) LAN 6 1 (2.222 %) VoIP 6 1 (2.222 %) WAN 6 1 (2.222 %) Wi-Fi 6 1 (2.222 %) Frame Relay 6 1 (2.222 %) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (2.222 %) Datawarehouse 1 1 (2.222 %) ETL 1 1 (2.222 %) Oracle OWB	General 1 14 (31.11 %) Government 2 4 (8.889 %) Telecoms 3 2 (4.444 %) Home Office 4 1 (2.222 %) Military
Job Titles 1 11 (24.44 %) Developer 2 8 (17.78 %) Linux Engineer 3 7 (15.56 %) Data Centre Engineer 4 6 (13.33 %) Senior Developer 5 4 (8.889 %) Administrator 5 4 (8.889 %) Systems Administrator 6 3 (6.667 %) UNIX Engineer 7 2 (4.444 %) Implementation Engineer 7 2 (4.444 %) C Developer 7 2 (4.444 %) Linux Systems Administrator 7 2 (4.444 %) Linux Administrator 7 2 (4.444 %) UNIX Support 7 2 (4.444 %) Infrastructure Engineer 7 2 (4.444 %) C++ Developer 7 2 (4.444 %) Consultant 7 2 (4.444 %) Support Engineer 8 1 (2.222 %) Architect 8 1 (2.222 %) Project Manager 8 1 (2.222 %) Technical Project Manager 8 1 (2.222 %) Analyst	Miscellaneous 1 7 (15.56 %) Clustering 2 4 (8.889 %) PKI 3 3 (6.667 %) Device Driver 4 1 (2.222 %) Smartcard 4 1 (2.222 %) Management Information System
Operating Systems 1 43 (95.56 %) Linux 1 43 (95.56 %) Red Hat Linux 2 9 (20.00 %) UNIX 2 9 (20.00 %) Windows 3 8 (17.78 %) Nucleus RTOS 4 7 (15.56 %) Windows Server 2003 4 7 (15.56 %) Solaris 5 6 (13.33 %) HPUX 6 3 (6.667 %) VxWorks 6 3 (6.667 %) pSOS 6 3 (6.667 %) Embedded Linux 7 2 (4.444 %) Windows XP 8 1 (2.222 %) IRIX 8 1 (2.222 %) AIX 8 1 (2.222 %) Windows Server 2008 8 1 (2.222 %) Windows 2000 Server 8 1 (2.222 %) Red Hat Enterprise Linux	Processes & Methodologies 1 19 (42.22 %) Security Cleared 2 16 (35.56 %) SC Cleared 3 8 (17.78 %) B2C 4 7 (15.56 %) Workflow 5 2 (4.444 %) DV Cleared 6 1 (2.222 %) Project Management 6 1 (2.222 %) ITIL 6 1 (2.222 %) Load Balancing
Programming Languages 1 7 (15.56 %) C 2 6 (13.33 %) DHTML 2 6 (13.33 %) JavaScript 3 3 (6.667 %) Perl 3 3 (6.667 %) C++ 4 2 (4.444 %) Java 4 2 (4.444 %) SQL 4 2 (4.444 %) VBScript 4 2 (4.444 %) VB 4 2 (4.444 %) Shell Script 5 1 (2.222 %) Embedded C++ 5 1 (2.222 %) PL/SQL 5 1 (2.222 %) Korn	Qualifications 1 8 (17.78 %) RHCE 2 1 (2.222 %) Microsoft Certification 2 1 (2.222 %) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (2.222 %) SLA	System Software 1 8 (17.78 %) Active Directory 2 6 (13.33 %) NetBackup 3 4 (8.889 %) Citrix Presentation Server 4 1 (2.222 %) Oracle RAC
Systems Management 1 2 (4.444 %) BMC Performance Manager 2 1 (2.222 %) MOM 2 1 (2.222 %) Norton AntiVirus	Vendors 1 14 (31.11 %) Oracle 2 9 (20.00 %) ATG 3 5 (11.11 %) Microsoft 3 5 (11.11 %) Citrix 3 5 (11.11 %) Altiris 4 4 (8.889 %) VERITAS 4 4 (8.889 %) Sun 4 4 (8.889 %) Cisco 5 3 (6.667 %) Symantec 5 3 (6.667 %) IBM 5 3 (6.667 %) HP 5 3 (6.667 %) Juniper 6 2 (4.444 %) VMware 6 2 (4.444 %) BMC 7 1 (2.222 %) NetApp 7 1 (2.222 %) AppSense