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The first part of the table below looks at the demand for Red Hat 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 Linux over the 3 months to 9 February 2010 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.

LinkRed Hat Linux
Location
3 months to
9 Feb 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank185259228
Rank change year-on-year
Up+74Down-31
Matching contract IT job ads365249558
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK0.834 %0.541 %0.682 %
As % of the Operating Systems category4.801 %3.039 %3.289 %
Daily rates quoted165102171
Average daily rate£350£373£400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-6.040 %-6.870 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£250£300£260
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£450£450£500
UK excluding London average daily rate£375£367£400
% change year-on-year
+2.310 %-8.370 %
Hourly rates quoted82050
Average hourly rate£19.00£33.63£30.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-43.49 %+12.08 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£14.00£14.40£18.70
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£31.70£47.50£40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate£14.50£30.00£29.00
% change year-on-year
-51.66 %+3.440 %
IT Contractor Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryAll Operating Systems
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
7603819416965
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK17.37 %17.82 %20.73 %
Daily rates quoted314923834366
Average daily rate£363£340£375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.610 %-9.330 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£220£190£200
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£550£475£550
UK excluding London average daily rate£310£322£325
% change year-on-year
-3.570 %-1.070 %
Hourly rates quoted91713052796
Average hourly rate£16.00£18.89£18.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-15.29 %+2.100 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£9.50£11.00£11.00
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£35.00£37.25£37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate£14.75£18.00£18.00
% change year-on-year
-18.05 %-

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 Linux
Demand Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Red Hat Linux within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Operating Systems category.

Red Hat Linux Demand Trend

Red Hat Linux
Daily Rate Trend

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

Red Hat Linux Daily Rate Trend

Red Hat Linux
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Red Hat Linux within the UK over the 3 months to 9 February 2010.

Red Hat Linux Daily Rate Histogram

Red Hat Linux
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Red Hat Linux Hourly Rate Trend

Red Hat Linux
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Red Hat Linux within the UK over the 3 months to 9 February 2010.

Red Hat Linux Hourly Rate Histogram

Red Hat 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 Linux within the UK over the 3 months to 9 February 2010. 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+60352£350-6.66 %
LondonUp+75234£350-12.50 %
South EastDown-1245£400+7.16 %
City of LondonDown-3435£354-16.76 %
BerkshireUp+123£400+14.28 %
South WestDown-821£390+18.18 %
East of EnglandUp+1215£350-7.89 %
ReadingUp+115£400+21.21 %
East MidlandsUp+1411£375-
YorkshireUp+1211£351-6.33 %
North WestUp+179£320-
Docklands, LondonNew entry-9£338-
West YorkshireUp+58£365-
HampshireUp+37--
ExeterNo change07£443+30.14 %
SurreyDown-17£300-29.82 %
DevonDown-57£443+36.15 %
ScotlandDown-77£260-20.00 %
HertfordshireUp+86£350-7.89 %
South WalesUp+155£360-
WalesUp+155£360-
DerbyNo change05£310-
DerbyshireDown-25£310-
LeedsUp+114£370-
BristolDown-114£375+13.63 %
NorthamptonNew entry-4£375-
KentNew entry-4£290-
NorthamptonshireNew entry-4£375-
MidlandsUp+163£500+21.21 %
CambridgeshireUp+93--

Red Hat Linux
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 9 February 2010, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing Red Hat 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 Linux.

1621 (95.83 %)Linux
2577 (89.04 %)Red Hat
3275 (42.44 %)UNIX
4202 (31.17 %)Oracle
5198 (30.56 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6196 (30.25 %)Apache
7177 (27.31 %)Windows
8150 (23.15 %)Solaris
9142 (21.91 %)Perl
10122 (18.83 %)Java
11117 (18.06 %)SAN
12110 (16.98 %)Shell Script
13107 (16.51 %)Tomcat
14106 (16.36 %)VMware
15100 (15.43 %)DNS
1699 (15.28 %)Banking
1790 (13.89 %)MySQL
1889 (13.73 %)SQL
1889 (13.73 %)Windows Server 2003
1988 (13.58 %)Bash shell
2087 (13.43 %)HP
2184 (12.96 %)Security Cleared
2283 (12.81 %)TCP/IP
2381 (12.50 %)IBM
2381 (12.50 %)Finance
2480 (12.35 %)AIX
2572 (11.11 %)PHP
2669 (10.65 %)Veritas
2768 (10.49 %)JBoss
2768 (10.49 %)Sun

Red Hat Linux
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 9 February 2010, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing Red Hat 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 Linux. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

IT Contractor Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
150 (7.716 %)J2EE
236 (5.556 %)HTML
334 (5.247 %)Web Services
334 (5.247 %)Middleware
432 (4.938 %)WebSphere
531 (4.784 %)LAMP
624 (3.704 %)XHTML
723 (3.549 %)CSS
723 (3.549 %)Spring
820 (3.086 %)Java EE
820 (3.086 %)XML
919 (2.932 %)Hibernate
1018 (2.778 %)JDBC
1112 (1.852 %).NET
1112 (1.852 %)JAXB
1112 (1.852 %)AJAX
1211 (1.698 %)JMS
138 (1.235 %)Java SE
147 (1.080 %)COM+
156 (0.926 %)Application Packaging
IT Contractor Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
1196 (30.25 %)Apache
2107 (16.51 %)Tomcat
336 (5.556 %)IIS
429 (4.475 %)WebLogic
525 (3.858 %)CMS
624 (3.704 %)Drupal
715 (2.315 %)WebSphere Application Server
814 (2.160 %)WebSphere MQ
912 (1.852 %)MS Exchange
1010 (1.543 %)Oracle Application Server
117 (1.080 %)SharePoint
126 (0.926 %)MQSeries
126 (0.926 %)Documentum
126 (0.926 %)IBM HTTP Server
135 (0.772 %)Rendezvous
135 (0.772 %)Exchange Server 2003
144 (0.617 %)Jetty
144 (0.617 %)WebSphere Portal
144 (0.617 %)Oracle 10gAS
144 (0.617 %)Lotus Domino
IT Contractor Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
115 (2.315 %)MS Excel
213 (2.006 %)MS Office
34 (0.617 %)MS Project
34 (0.617 %)MS PowerPoint
41 (0.154 %)SPSS
41 (0.154 %)NASTRAN
IT Contractor Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
16 (0.926 %)Oracle Applications
16 (0.926 %)RMDS
25 (0.772 %)WebTrends
34 (0.617 %)3000 Xtra
34 (0.617 %)Oracle 11i
43 (0.463 %)Oracle EBS R12
52 (0.309 %)Google Analytics
52 (0.309 %)SAP Oil and Gas
61 (0.154 %)Oracle EBS
61 (0.154 %)Global One
61 (0.154 %)KBM
61 (0.154 %)Remedy ITSM
IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
1117 (18.06 %)SAN
2100 (15.43 %)DNS
383 (12.81 %)TCP/IP
445 (6.944 %)DHCP
544 (6.790 %)Internet
640 (6.173 %)LDAP
735 (5.401 %)Firewall
830 (4.630 %)SSL
928 (4.321 %)LAN
1027 (4.167 %)HTTP
1027 (4.167 %)WAN
1118 (2.778 %)SMTP
1216 (2.469 %)VPN
1216 (2.469 %)SSH
1216 (2.469 %)NAS
1313 (2.006 %)BIG-IP
148 (1.235 %)iSCSI
148 (1.235 %)VLAN
148 (1.235 %)SNMP
156 (0.926 %)Intranet
IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
190 (13.89 %)MySQL
256 (8.642 %)SQL Server
344 (6.790 %)Oracle 10g
432 (4.938 %)Oracle 11g
518 (2.778 %)Oracle 9i
614 (2.160 %)SQL Server 2005
79 (1.389 %)SQL Server 2008
88 (1.235 %)RDBMS
88 (1.235 %)SQL Server 2000
96 (0.926 %)Datawarehouse
96 (0.926 %)GIS
96 (0.926 %)Sybase ASE
105 (0.772 %)DataStage
105 (0.772 %)SQL Server 7
105 (0.772 %)BusinessObjects
114 (0.617 %)Oracle 8/8i
114 (0.617 %)OLTP
122 (0.309 %)SQL Server Analysis Services
122 (0.309 %)SQL Server Integration Services
122 (0.309 %)DB2
IT Contractor Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
120 (3.086 %)Subversion
210 (1.543 %)Ant
38 (1.235 %)Maven
47 (1.080 %)LoadRunner
56 (0.926 %)JMeter
64 (0.617 %)Oracle Forms
64 (0.617 %)ClearCase
73 (0.463 %)Oracle APEX
82 (0.309 %)JIRA
82 (0.309 %)Visual Studio
82 (0.309 %)VSS/SourceSafe
82 (0.309 %)JUnit
82 (0.309 %)ClearQuest
82 (0.309 %)PowerBuilder
91 (0.154 %)Log4j
91 (0.154 %)Eclipse
91 (0.154 %)Selenium
IT Contractor Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
199 (15.28 %)Banking
281 (12.50 %)Finance
355 (8.488 %)Investment Banking
425 (3.858 %)Government
518 (2.778 %)Telecoms
617 (2.623 %)Front Office
713 (2.006 %)Health
89 (1.389 %)Games
97 (1.080 %)Billing
97 (1.080 %)Financial Institution
106 (0.926 %)Law
115 (0.772 %)Back Office
123 (0.463 %)Insurance
123 (0.463 %)Education
123 (0.463 %)Marketing
123 (0.463 %)Auditing
132 (0.309 %)Construction
132 (0.309 %)Retail
141 (0.154 %)Local Government
141 (0.154 %)Multimedia
IT Contractor Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
1201 (31.02 %)Administrator
2140 (21.60 %)Systems Administrator
3103 (15.90 %)Linux Administrator
484 (12.96 %)Linux Engineer
575 (11.57 %)Linux Systems Administrator
669 (10.65 %)Developer
669 (10.65 %)UNIX Administrator
759 (9.105 %)Systems Engineer
848 (7.407 %)Analyst
944 (6.790 %)DBA
1039 (6.019 %)UNIX Systems Administrator
1134 (5.247 %)Consultant
1232 (4.938 %)Support Engineer
1331 (4.784 %)UNIX Engineer
1331 (4.784 %)Architect
1428 (4.321 %)Oracle DBA
1523 (3.549 %)Support Analyst
1622 (3.395 %)Java Developer
1720 (3.086 %)Linux Support
1814 (2.160 %)PHP Developer
IT Contractor Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
145 (6.944 %)Clustering
240 (6.173 %)Open Source
325 (3.858 %)Replication
418 (2.778 %)PKI
515 (2.315 %)HACMP
611 (1.698 %)LPAR
611 (1.698 %)Derivative
79 (1.389 %)DTV
79 (1.389 %)Client/Server
85 (0.772 %)Fixed Income
85 (0.772 %)CLARiiON
94 (0.617 %)DataPower
94 (0.617 %)Equity Derivative
94 (0.617 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
94 (0.617 %)Firmware
103 (0.463 %)Grid Computing
103 (0.463 %)Equities
103 (0.463 %)Symmetrix DMX
112 (0.309 %)Computer Science
112 (0.309 %)N-Tier
IT Contractor Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
1621 (95.83 %)Linux
2275 (42.44 %)UNIX
3198 (30.56 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4177 (27.31 %)Windows
5150 (23.15 %)Solaris
689 (13.73 %)Windows Server 2003
780 (12.35 %)AIX
849 (7.562 %)HPUX
946 (7.099 %)Windows Server 2008
1042 (6.481 %)CentOS
1131 (4.784 %)SUSE
1219 (2.932 %)Windows 2000
1314 (2.160 %)Debian
1413 (2.006 %)Windows 2000 Server
1413 (2.006 %)Fedora
1510 (1.543 %)Windows XP
168 (1.235 %)Ubuntu
176 (0.926 %)Windows NT
185 (0.772 %)VMS
194 (0.617 %)Windows Vista
IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
145 (6.944 %)E-Commerce
242 (6.481 %)Migration
332 (4.938 %)ITIL
431 (4.784 %)Performance Management
529 (4.475 %)Load Balancing
627 (4.167 %)Agile Software Development
725 (3.858 %)Capacity Planning
815 (2.315 %)Content Management
815 (2.315 %)Change Management
913 (2.006 %)E-business
913 (2.006 %)PRINCE2
1012 (1.852 %)UML
1012 (1.852 %)Project Management
1111 (1.698 %)Configuration Management
1210 (1.543 %)Disaster Recovery
139 (1.389 %)SOA
139 (1.389 %)Release Management
139 (1.389 %)User Acceptance Testing
148 (1.235 %)Network Load Balancing
148 (1.235 %)CRM
IT Contractor Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
1142 (21.91 %)Perl
2122 (18.83 %)Java
3110 (16.98 %)Shell Script
489 (13.73 %)SQL
588 (13.58 %)Bash shell
672 (11.11 %)PHP
757 (8.796 %)Korn
851 (7.870 %)Python
941 (6.327 %)C
1025 (3.858 %)PL/SQL
1117 (2.623 %)JavaScript
1215 (2.315 %)PHP5
1312 (1.852 %)AWK
149 (1.389 %)VB
158 (1.235 %)VBScript
158 (1.235 %)C++
167 (1.080 %)Groovy
176 (0.926 %)C-shell
185 (0.772 %)Tcl
185 (0.772 %)VBA
IT Contractor Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
184 (12.96 %)Security Cleared
254 (8.333 %)SC Cleared
324 (3.704 %)RHCE
420 (3.086 %)DV Cleared
515 (2.315 %)Degree
614 (2.160 %)RHCT
77 (1.080 %)BC Cleared
85 (0.772 %)Cisco Certification
85 (0.772 %)Microsoft Certification
85 (0.772 %)MCSE
94 (0.617 %)CCNA
103 (0.463 %)ISEB
112 (0.309 %)IBM Certification
112 (0.309 %)Sun Certification
121 (0.154 %)CCSA
121 (0.154 %)CISSP
121 (0.154 %)Oracle Certification
121 (0.154 %)PRINCE2 Certification
121 (0.154 %)ITIL Certification
121 (0.154 %)CCNP
IT Contractor Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
16 (0.926 %)QA
21 (0.154 %)SLA
21 (0.154 %)ISO27001
21 (0.154 %)PCI DSS
IT Contractor Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
150 (7.716 %)VMware ESX
244 (6.790 %)NFS
244 (6.790 %)Oracle RAC
340 (6.173 %)Active Directory
432 (4.938 %)NetBackup
529 (4.475 %)VMware Infrastructure
621 (3.241 %)Veritas Cluster Server
714 (2.160 %)Veritas File System
810 (1.543 %)Veritas Volume Manager
810 (1.543 %)Samba
99 (1.389 %)Oracle RMAN
105 (0.772 %)Sendmail
114 (0.617 %)Squid
122 (0.309 %)qmail
122 (0.309 %)Postfix
122 (0.309 %)XenServer
122 (0.309 %)Xen
122 (0.309 %)Citrix Presentation Server
122 (0.309 %)Terminal Services
131 (0.154 %)Snort
IT Contractor Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
131 (4.784 %)Nagios
227 (4.167 %)Data Guard
324 (3.704 %)Tivoli
416 (2.469 %)Tivoli Storage Manager
58 (1.235 %)OpenView
67 (1.080 %)Cacti
75 (0.772 %)Veritas Storage Foundation
75 (0.772 %)HP Data Protector
75 (0.772 %)SCOM
84 (0.617 %)YUM
84 (0.617 %)Oracle Enterprise Manager
84 (0.617 %)Legato
93 (0.463 %)EMC NetWorker
102 (0.309 %)Ganglia
102 (0.309 %)Zenoss
102 (0.309 %)BMC PATROL
102 (0.309 %)CA SiteMinder
102 (0.309 %)HP NNM
111 (0.154 %)Systems Management Server (SMS)
111 (0.154 %)AutoSys
IT Contractor Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
1577 (89.04 %)Red Hat
2202 (31.17 %)Oracle
3106 (16.36 %)VMware
487 (13.43 %)HP
581 (12.50 %)IBM
669 (10.65 %)Veritas
768 (10.49 %)JBoss
768 (10.49 %)Sun
866 (10.19 %)Microsoft
936 (5.556 %)EMC
1032 (4.938 %)NetApp
1130 (4.630 %)Cisco
1227 (4.167 %)Dell
1321 (3.241 %)Sybase
1420 (3.086 %)Citrix
1514 (2.160 %)CommVault
1514 (2.160 %)Tripwire
1612 (1.852 %)Symantec
1711 (1.698 %)McAfee
1810 (1.543 %)Nortel