The first part of the table below looks at the demand for Red Hat Enterprise Linux skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. 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 16 May 2012 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Operating Systems category.

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.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
Location
3 months to
16 May 2012
Same period 2011Same period 2010
Rank184188260
Rank change year-on-year
Up+4Up+72
Matching contract IT job ads582589317
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK0.983 %0.960 %0.576 %
As % of the Operating Systems category4.842 %4.637 %3.161 %
Number of daily rates quoted350300149
Average daily rate£425£400£400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.25 %-
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£275£290£300
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£500£550£530
UK excluding London average daily rate£475£350£350
% change year-on-year
+35.71 %-
Number of hourly rates quoted13720
Average hourly rate£25.00£27.50£38.75
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-9.09 %-29.03 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£18.50£12.30£13.98
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£40.00£37.80£40.90
UK excluding London average hourly rate£27.00£27.50£40.00
% change year-on-year
-1.81 %-31.25 %
IT Contractor Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryAll Operating Systems
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
120201270110029
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK20.31 %20.70 %18.21 %
Number of daily rates quoted606461864456
Average daily rate£350£375£375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-6.66 %-
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£200£215£200
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£500£550£550
UK excluding London average daily rate£325£324£306
% change year-on-year
+0.30 %+5.79 %
Number of hourly rates quoted118112531038
Average hourly rate£17.50£16.75£16.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+4.47 %+4.68 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£11.00£11.00£10.50
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£40.00£37.50£37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate£17.00£16.20£15.50
% change year-on-year
+4.93 %+4.51 %

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Demand Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Operating Systems category.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Demand Trend

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux within the UK.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Daily Rate Trend

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux within the UK over the 3 months to 16 May 2012.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Daily Rate Histogram

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux within the UK.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Hourly Rate Trend

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux within the UK over the 3 months to 16 May 2012.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Hourly Rate Histogram

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Top 30 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 UK over the 3 months to 16 May 2012. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

LocationRank 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
EnglandUp+10558£425+6.25 %
LondonUp+32279£405-12.43 %
City of LondonUp+3785£420-16.00 %
South EastDown-4684£375+7.14 %
South WestDown-555£500+31.14 %
GloucestershireUp+1844£500+42.85 %
East of EnglandDown-438£325-5.45 %
North WestUp+1533£348+2.20 %
CheltenhamUp+433£500+60.00 %
YorkshireUp+731£325+8.33 %
SurreyUp+723£400+23.07 %
Newcastle upon TyneDown-123£255-18.40 %
North EastDown-523£255-43.33 %
Tyne and WearDown-523£255-43.33 %
GloucesterDown-721£500+29.03 %
HampshireUp+320£375+50.00 %
West YorkshireDown-220£338+12.50 %
StroudNew entry-20£500-
TewkesburyNew entry-20£500-
CirencesterNew entry-20£500-
ScotlandDown-718£350+10.67 %
LeedsDown-1014£350+16.66 %
CroydonUp+1613£450+21.62 %
ManchesterDown-1512£333-11.33 %
BerkshireDown-2912£375-11.76 %
CheshireUp+1311£355+9.23 %
West SussexDown-1211£388-
EdinburghDown-110£409+27.73 %
West MidlandsDown-2010£271-9.58 %
NorfolkNew entry-10--

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 16 May 2012, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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.

1976 (96.25 %)Linux
2911 (89.84 %)Red Hat
3480 (47.34 %)UNIX
4348 (34.32 %)Windows
5332 (32.74 %)Solaris
6321 (31.66 %)Oracle
7303 (29.88 %)VMware
8250 (24.65 %)Shell Script
9249 (24.56 %)Finance
10245 (24.16 %)Perl
11224 (22.09 %)HP
12209 (20.61 %)Security Cleared
13200 (19.72 %)Apache
14194 (19.13 %)SAN
15182 (17.95 %)VMware Infrastructure
16166 (16.37 %)SQL
17164 (16.17 %)Java
18144 (14.20 %)AIX
19135 (13.31 %)JBoss
19135 (13.31 %)Clustering
20126 (12.43 %)DNS
21124 (12.23 %)Banking
22118 (11.64 %)Sun
23113 (11.14 %)Tomcat
24108 (10.65 %)IBM
24108 (10.65 %)SC Cleared
25107 (10.55 %)Veritas
26104 (10.26 %)ITIL
27103 (10.16 %)Windows Server 2008
28102 (10.06 %)DV Cleared

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 16 May 2012, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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.

IT Contractor Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
181 (7.988 %)WebSphere
273 (7.199 %)Middleware
360 (5.917 %)J2EE
448 (4.734 %)LAMP
543 (4.241 %)Web Services
634 (3.353 %)XML
732 (3.156 %)Java EE
822 (2.170 %).NET
920 (1.972 %)HTML
1017 (1.677 %)JMS
1115 (1.479 %)CSS
1212 (1.183 %)Spring
1310 (0.986 %)WCF
1310 (0.986 %)Ajax
1310 (0.986 %)COM+
149 (0.888 %)jQuery
158 (0.789 %)FIX Protocol
158 (0.789 %)WebCenter
158 (0.789 %)ASP
167 (0.690 %)ASP.NET
IT Contractor Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
1200 (19.72 %)Apache
2113 (11.14 %)Tomcat
375 (7.396 %)WebLogic
451 (5.030 %)IIS
526 (2.564 %)SharePoint
625 (2.465 %)WebSphere Application Server
721 (2.071 %)IBM HTTP Server
820 (1.972 %)MS Exchange
915 (1.479 %)WebSphere MQ
1013 (1.282 %)SAS
1013 (1.282 %)Oracle Application Server
1111 (1.085 %)Oracle HTTP Server
1210 (0.986 %)AquaLogic
139 (0.888 %)Rendezvous
148 (0.789 %)GlassFish
148 (0.789 %)Liferay
148 (0.789 %)Documentum
157 (0.690 %)WebLogic Portal
157 (0.690 %)SharePoint 2010
157 (0.690 %)Oracle Spatial
IT Contractor Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
122 (2.170 %)MS Excel
221 (2.071 %)MS Office
312 (1.183 %)MS Visio
49 (0.888 %)MS Project
55 (0.493 %)MS PowerPoint
62 (0.197 %)AutoCAD
71 (0.099 %)MATLAB
IT Contractor Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
124 (2.367 %)RMDS
29 (0.888 %)3000 Xtra
36 (0.592 %)BusinessWorks
44 (0.394 %)SAP ERP
44 (0.394 %)WebTrends
53 (0.296 %)Oracle Applications
62 (0.197 %)Remedy ITSM
62 (0.197 %)Global One
62 (0.197 %)Oracle Financials
71 (0.099 %)Oracle EBS
71 (0.099 %)FLEXCUBE
71 (0.099 %)SAP Oil and Gas
71 (0.099 %)Dynamics NAV
IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
1194 (19.13 %)SAN
2126 (12.43 %)DNS
385 (8.383 %)TCP/IP
467 (6.607 %)DHCP
562 (6.114 %)LDAP
658 (5.720 %)Firewall
750 (4.931 %)Internet
845 (4.438 %)NAS
936 (3.550 %)HTTP
1027 (2.663 %)LAN
1027 (2.663 %)VLAN
1126 (2.564 %)WAN
1218 (1.775 %)SSL
1316 (1.578 %)SNMP
1414 (1.381 %)iSCSI
1513 (1.282 %)FTP
1513 (1.282 %)SMTP
1612 (1.183 %)SSH
1710 (0.986 %)BIG-IP
1710 (0.986 %)VPN
IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
1100 (9.862 %)MySQL
290 (8.876 %)SQL Server
388 (8.679 %)Oracle 11g
455 (5.424 %)Oracle 10g
540 (3.945 %)Oracle 8/8i
627 (2.663 %)Data Warehouse
724 (2.367 %)SQL Server 2005
724 (2.367 %)RDBMS
819 (1.874 %)DB2
915 (1.479 %)ETL
915 (1.479 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
915 (1.479 %)Oracle BI EE
915 (1.479 %)SQL Server Analysis Services
1011 (1.085 %)Oracle Reports
1011 (1.085 %)Oracle OWB
1011 (1.085 %)SQL Server Integration Services
119 (0.888 %)OLTP
128 (0.789 %)SQL Server 2008
136 (0.592 %)SAS Enterprise Guide
136 (0.592 %)Oracle 9i
IT Contractor Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
135 (3.452 %)Subversion
211 (1.085 %)Oracle APEX
310 (0.986 %)ClearCase
49 (0.888 %)Ant
49 (0.888 %)ClearQuest
49 (0.888 %)Git (software)
49 (0.888 %)JIRA
57 (0.690 %)Oracle Forms
57 (0.690 %)Team Foundation Server
66 (0.592 %)Maven
66 (0.592 %)Eclipse
75 (0.493 %)Visual Studio
84 (0.394 %)Hudson
84 (0.394 %)PeopleTools
93 (0.296 %)Introscope
93 (0.296 %)GCC
93 (0.296 %)MSBuild
93 (0.296 %)FishEye
93 (0.296 %)TeamCity
102 (0.197 %)Bugzilla
IT Contractor Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
1249 (24.56 %)Finance
2124 (12.23 %)Banking
359 (5.819 %)Investment Banking
423 (2.268 %)Telecoms
521 (2.071 %)Financial Institution
618 (1.775 %)Back Office
710 (0.986 %)Retail
710 (0.986 %)Games
89 (0.888 %)Billing
97 (0.690 %)Front Office
102 (0.197 %)Aerospace
102 (0.197 %)Pharmaceutical
111 (0.099 %)Legal
111 (0.099 %)Advertising
111 (0.099 %)Electronics
111 (0.099 %)Multimedia
111 (0.099 %)German Language
IT Contractor Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
1279 (27.51 %)Administrator
2199 (19.63 %)Systems Administrator
3106 (10.45 %)Linux Administrator
3106 (10.45 %)Linux Engineer
493 (9.172 %)UNIX Administrator
584 (8.284 %)Linux Systems Administrator
675 (7.396 %)UNIX Engineer
773 (7.199 %)Developer
865 (6.410 %)UNIX Systems Administrator
959 (5.819 %)DBA
1054 (5.325 %)Analyst
1151 (5.030 %)Systems Engineer
1250 (4.931 %)Consultant
1348 (4.734 %)Architect
1443 (4.241 %)Oracle DBA
1539 (3.846 %)Support Engineer
1637 (3.649 %)Infrastructure Engineer
1736 (3.550 %)Java Developer
1833 (3.254 %)Support Analyst
1930 (2.959 %)Linux Specialist
IT Contractor Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
1135 (13.31 %)Clustering
236 (3.550 %)Replication
334 (3.353 %)Client/Server
426 (2.564 %)PKI
520 (1.972 %)Open Source
520 (1.972 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
619 (1.874 %)Derivative
718 (1.775 %)Hedge funds
817 (1.677 %)Computer Science
916 (1.578 %)CLARiiON
1015 (1.479 %)HACMP
1110 (0.986 %)LPAR
129 (0.888 %)Management Information System
129 (0.888 %)Enterprise Storage
138 (0.789 %)Fixed Income
147 (0.690 %)CESG
147 (0.690 %)Cloud Computing
156 (0.592 %)N-Tier
165 (0.493 %)DataPower
165 (0.493 %)HP StorageWorks
IT Contractor Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
1976 (96.25 %)Linux
2480 (47.34 %)UNIX
3348 (34.32 %)Windows
4332 (32.74 %)Solaris
5144 (14.20 %)AIX
6103 (10.16 %)Windows Server 2008
797 (9.566 %)Windows Server 2003
896 (9.467 %)HPUX
973 (7.199 %)CentOS
1042 (4.142 %)SUSE
1120 (1.972 %)Windows XP
1215 (1.479 %)VMS
1215 (1.479 %)Oracle Linux
1314 (1.381 %)Ubuntu
1411 (1.085 %)Windows 7
1510 (0.986 %)Debian
1510 (0.986 %)Windows NT
165 (0.493 %)Windows Vista
174 (0.394 %)Windows 2000
183 (0.296 %)Fedora
IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
1104 (10.26 %)ITIL
281 (7.988 %)Root Cause Analysis
356 (5.523 %)Migration
454 (5.325 %)E-Commerce
552 (5.128 %)Configuration Management
651 (5.030 %)Load Balancing
748 (4.734 %)Disaster Recovery
847 (4.635 %)Change Management
942 (4.142 %)Project Management
1038 (3.748 %)Capacity Planning
1128 (2.761 %)SOA
1227 (2.663 %)Data Modelling
1325 (2.465 %)Problem Management
1325 (2.465 %)Release Management
1421 (2.071 %)Service Management
1421 (2.071 %)CRM
1421 (2.071 %)Change Control
1519 (1.874 %)Business Intelligence
1519 (1.874 %)Service Delivery
1618 (1.775 %)Capacity Management
IT Contractor Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
1250 (24.65 %)Shell Script
2245 (24.16 %)Perl
3166 (16.37 %)SQL
4164 (16.17 %)Java
598 (9.665 %)C
670 (6.903 %)Bash shell
757 (5.621 %)Korn
853 (5.227 %)Python
943 (4.241 %)PHP
943 (4.241 %)PL/SQL
1027 (2.663 %)C++
1118 (1.775 %)AWK
1217 (1.677 %)C-shell
1316 (1.578 %)JavaScript
1414 (1.381 %)VBScript
1513 (1.282 %)Jython
1611 (1.085 %)VB
1710 (0.986 %)Ruby
188 (0.789 %)PowerShell
197 (0.690 %)C#
IT Contractor Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
1209 (20.61 %)Security Cleared
2108 (10.65 %)SC Cleared
3102 (10.06 %)DV Cleared
452 (5.128 %)RHCE
526 (2.564 %)Degree
610 (0.986 %)Cisco Certification
79 (0.888 %)Microsoft Certification
79 (0.888 %)Oracle Certification
88 (0.789 %)VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
88 (0.789 %)CCNP
88 (0.789 %)CCNA
97 (0.690 %)BC Cleared
106 (0.592 %)OCA
106 (0.592 %)SAS Certification
115 (0.493 %)MCSE
115 (0.493 %)RHCA
124 (0.394 %)RHCT
124 (0.394 %)ITIL Certification
124 (0.394 %)CISSP
133 (0.296 %)ISEB
IT Contractor Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
135 (3.452 %)SLA
232 (3.156 %)QA
38 (0.789 %)PCI DSS
47 (0.690 %)ISO 9001
56 (0.592 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
63 (0.296 %)Data Quality
71 (0.099 %)BS7799
71 (0.099 %)ISO/IEC 27001
IT Contractor Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
1182 (17.95 %)VMware Infrastructure
264 (6.312 %)Veritas Cluster Server
361 (6.016 %)Active Directory
459 (5.819 %)vSphere
558 (5.720 %)Oracle RAC
651 (5.030 %)VMware ESX
733 (3.254 %)Oracle RMAN
831 (3.057 %)Veritas Volume Manager
927 (2.663 %)VMware ESXi
1022 (2.170 %)NFS
1118 (1.775 %)Hyper-V
1216 (1.578 %)XenApp
1315 (1.479 %)Veritas File System
1414 (1.381 %)Xen
1513 (1.282 %)XenDesktop
168 (0.789 %)Squid
168 (0.789 %)Varnish
176 (0.592 %)SRDF
185 (0.493 %)vCloud
185 (0.493 %)Citrix Presentation Server
IT Contractor Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
164 (6.312 %)Puppet
248 (4.734 %)Nagios
342 (4.142 %)Tivoli
439 (3.846 %)NetBackup
534 (3.353 %)Data Guard
632 (3.156 %)Red Hat Spacewalk
731 (3.057 %)OpenView
829 (2.860 %)Tivoli Storage Manager
924 (2.367 %)Tivoli Monitoring
1022 (2.170 %)Red Hat Satellite
1120 (1.972 %)Cobbler
1215 (1.479 %)Zenoss
1314 (1.381 %)BladeLogic
1314 (1.381 %)ZABBIX
1413 (1.282 %)vCenter
1511 (1.085 %)Legato
1511 (1.085 %)BMC PATROL
168 (0.789 %)SCCM
168 (0.789 %)Foglight
168 (0.789 %)Control-M
IT Contractor Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
1911 (89.84 %)Red Hat
2321 (31.66 %)Oracle
3303 (29.88 %)VMware
4224 (22.09 %)HP
5135 (13.31 %)JBoss
6118 (11.64 %)Sun
7108 (10.65 %)IBM
8107 (10.55 %)Veritas
989 (8.777 %)Microsoft
1076 (7.495 %)EMC
1150 (4.931 %)Cisco
1243 (4.241 %)NetApp
1337 (3.649 %)Citrix
1424 (2.367 %)Dell
1523 (2.268 %)Reuters
1621 (2.071 %)BMC
1720 (1.972 %)TIBCO
1819 (1.874 %)Intel
1918 (1.775 %)Bloomberg
2017 (1.677 %)Symantec