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The table 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 3 July 2009 with a comparison to the same period last year. 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
3 Jul 2009
Same period last year
Rank199223
Rank change on the same period last yearUp+24
Matching contract IT job ads244508
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK0.710 %0.660 %
As % of the Operating Systems category3.967 %3.280 %
Daily rates quoted101163
Average daily rate£340£370
Average daily rate % change on the same period last year-8.100 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£225£225
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£500£500
UK excluding London average daily rate£270£350
% change on same period last year-22.85 %
Hourly rates quoted1010
Average hourly rate£28.25£27.00
Average hourly rate % change on the same period last year+4.620 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£21.60£20.00
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£31.50£40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate£29.00£27.00
% change on same period last year+7.400 %
IT Contractor Job Market, Operating SystemsAll Operating Systems
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
615115487
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK17.91 %20.12 %
Daily rates quoted20924219
Average daily rate£329£375
Average daily rate % change on the same period last year-12.26 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£190£195
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£500£525
UK excluding London average daily rate£287£350
% change on same period last year-18.14 %
Hourly rates quoted8092394
Average hourly rate£17.50£17.50
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£10.00£11.00
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£36.00£36.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate£17.50£16.50
% change on same period last year+6.060 %

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 3 July 2009.

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 3 July 2009.

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 3 July 2009. 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+29230£340-9.33 %
LondonUp+26135£401+0.31 %
South EastUp+7346£275-19.11 %
City of LondonUp+3744£463+2.77 %
South WestUp+4422£295-26.25 %
East of EnglandUp+5118£260-30.66 %
BerkshireUp+2416£281-17.27 %
HampshireUp+3714£250-28.57 %
CambridgeshireUp+3114£275+37.50 %
ReadingUp+2613£281+25.00 %
ScotlandUp+3412£217-18.40 %
CambridgeUp+2912£250+25.00 %
SurreyUp+5310£275-8.33 %
GloucestershireNew entry-9£275-
GlasgowUp+268£217-19.53 %
BristolUp+198--
West MidlandsUp+275£150-50.00 %
WokingUp+125£275-
HertfordshireUp+354£255-32.00 %
WorcestershireUp+74£150-50.00 %
WiltshireUp+253£500+25.00 %
SwindonUp+213£500+25.00 %
North WestUp+452£333-8.90 %
YorkshireUp+422£325+6.47 %
KentNew entry-2£240-
ManchesterUp+331--
West YorkshireUp+301--
CoventryUp+221--
DorsetUp+191£295-31.39 %
South YorkshireUp+181£325-7.27 %

Red Hat Linux
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 3 July 2009, 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.

1449 (98.03 %)Linux
2441 (96.29 %)Red Hat
3170 (37.12 %)UNIX
4126 (27.51 %)Solaris
5104 (22.71 %)Windows
689 (19.43 %)Oracle
786 (18.78 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
881 (17.69 %)Apache
881 (17.69 %)HP
976 (16.59 %)MySQL
1075 (16.38 %)PHP
1173 (15.94 %)Security Cleared
1269 (15.07 %)VMware
1368 (14.85 %)Perl
1460 (13.10 %)Shell Script
1460 (13.10 %)Python
1558 (12.66 %)Banking
1655 (12.01 %)SC Cleared
1655 (12.01 %)SAN
1752 (11.35 %)Windows Server 2003
1848 (10.48 %)Finance
1848 (10.48 %)TCP/IP
1848 (10.48 %)DNS
1946 (10.04 %)Java
2044 (9.607 %)HTML
2044 (9.607 %)Veritas
2142 (9.170 %)Clustering
2142 (9.170 %)Tomcat
2239 (8.515 %)Cisco
2239 (8.515 %)CMS

Red Hat Linux
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 3 July 2009, 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 DevelopmentApplication Development
144 (9.607 %)HTML
237 (8.079 %)CSS
334 (7.424 %)XML
334 (7.424 %)LAMP
425 (5.459 %)XHTML
517 (3.712 %)WebSphere
616 (3.493 %)J2EE
715 (3.275 %)XSLT
814 (3.057 %)Spring
99 (1.965 %)Hibernate
108 (1.747 %)Lucene
108 (1.747 %)AJAX
116 (1.310 %)Middleware
125 (1.092 %)JSON
125 (1.092 %)WebServices
134 (0.873 %)RSS
134 (0.873 %)JMS
134 (0.873 %)Spring MVC
134 (0.873 %)Acegi Security
134 (0.873 %)MVC
IT Contractor Job Market, Application PlatformsApplication Platforms
181 (17.69 %)Apache
242 (9.170 %)Tomcat
339 (8.515 %)CMS
427 (5.895 %)Drupal
514 (3.057 %)WebLogic
514 (3.057 %)IIS
69 (1.965 %)Zope
78 (1.747 %)Apache Solr
86 (1.310 %)MS Exchange
95 (1.092 %)Documentum
95 (1.092 %)Joomla!
104 (0.873 %)Exchange Server 2003
104 (0.873 %)Liferay
104 (0.873 %)WordPress
104 (0.873 %)WebSphere Application Server
104 (0.873 %)iPlanet
113 (0.655 %)SharePoint
122 (0.437 %)WebSphere MQ
122 (0.437 %)Oracle Collaboration Suite
122 (0.437 %)SAS
IT Contractor Job Market, ApplicationsApplications
17 (1.528 %)MS Excel
24 (0.873 %)Photoshop
33 (0.655 %)MS Visio
33 (0.655 %)Fireworks
41 (0.218 %)MS PowerPoint
41 (0.218 %)MS Project
IT Contractor Job Market, Business ApplicationsBusiness Applications
12 (0.437 %)Oracle 11i
12 (0.437 %)Oracle EBS
21 (0.218 %)Oracle Applications
21 (0.218 %)Cognos Business Intelligence
21 (0.218 %)Siebel Analytics
IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & NetworkingCommunications & Networking
155 (12.01 %)SAN
248 (10.48 %)TCP/IP
248 (10.48 %)DNS
337 (8.079 %)LDAP
435 (7.642 %)DHCP
527 (5.895 %)LAN
626 (5.677 %)Internet
725 (5.459 %)WAN
824 (5.240 %)Firewall
915 (3.275 %)Intranet
1013 (2.838 %)SNMP
1112 (2.620 %)FTP
1211 (2.402 %)SMTP
1310 (2.183 %)OSPF
147 (1.528 %)VLAN
147 (1.528 %)SSL
147 (1.528 %)HTTP
147 (1.528 %)VPN
156 (1.310 %)SSH
156 (1.310 %)NAS
IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business IntelligenceDatabase & Business Intelligence
176 (16.59 %)MySQL
227 (5.895 %)Oracle 10g
325 (5.459 %)SQL Server
417 (3.712 %)RDBMS
515 (3.275 %)Oracle 9i
613 (2.838 %)Oracle 11g
75 (1.092 %)DB2
84 (0.873 %)SQL Server 2005
84 (0.873 %)SQL Server 2000
84 (0.873 %)SQL Server 2008
92 (0.437 %)PostgreSQL
92 (0.437 %)Oracle BI EE
101 (0.218 %)dBASE
101 (0.218 %)Oracle 8/8i
101 (0.218 %)Datawarehouse
101 (0.218 %)Data Mining
101 (0.218 %)ETL
IT Contractor Job Market, Development ApplicationsDevelopment Applications
123 (5.022 %)Subversion
29 (1.965 %)Ant
36 (1.310 %)PVCS
44 (0.873 %)JUnit
44 (0.873 %)Log4j
53 (0.655 %)ClearCase
62 (0.437 %)Eclipse
71 (0.218 %)TestDirector
71 (0.218 %)Bugzilla
71 (0.218 %)Visual Studio
71 (0.218 %)VSS/SourceSafe
71 (0.218 %)Oracle Forms
71 (0.218 %)JIRA
71 (0.218 %)TeamCity
71 (0.218 %)Team Foundation Server
IT Contractor Job Market, GeneralGeneral
158 (12.66 %)Banking
248 (10.48 %)Finance
337 (8.079 %)Government
435 (7.642 %)Investment Banking
517 (3.712 %)Telecoms
613 (2.838 %)Retail
712 (2.620 %)Education
89 (1.965 %)Front Office
98 (1.747 %)Billing
106 (1.310 %)Military
113 (0.655 %)Publishing
113 (0.655 %)Games
113 (0.655 %)Insurance
113 (0.655 %)Marketing
113 (0.655 %)Online Games
122 (0.437 %)Graphic Design
122 (0.437 %)Law
122 (0.437 %)Pharmaceutical
131 (0.218 %)Back Office
131 (0.218 %)Electronics
IT Contractor Job Market, Job TitlesJob Titles
1162 (35.37 %)Administrator
2110 (24.02 %)Systems Administrator
367 (14.63 %)Linux Administrator
465 (14.19 %)Developer
543 (9.389 %)Linux Systems Administrator
642 (9.170 %)UNIX Administrator
735 (7.642 %)UNIX Systems Administrator
831 (6.769 %)DBA
922 (4.803 %)Consultant
1021 (4.585 %)Web Developer
1021 (4.585 %)PHP Developer
1120 (4.367 %)Linux Engineer
1219 (4.148 %)Oracle DBA
1318 (3.930 %)Systems Engineer
1318 (3.930 %)UNIX Engineer
1417 (3.712 %)Architect
1516 (3.493 %)Analyst
1516 (3.493 %)Senior Systems Administrator
1612 (2.620 %)Senior UNIX Administrator
1711 (2.402 %)Support Engineer
IT Contractor Job Market, MiscellaneousMiscellaneous
142 (9.170 %)Clustering
220 (4.367 %)Replication
34 (0.873 %)Web 2.0
34 (0.873 %)PKI
43 (0.655 %)LPAR
52 (0.437 %)DataPower
52 (0.437 %)IPTV
52 (0.437 %)BBC
52 (0.437 %)PMI
61 (0.218 %)HACMP
61 (0.218 %)Blackberry
61 (0.218 %)DTV
61 (0.218 %)Mainframe
61 (0.218 %)Management Information System
61 (0.218 %)AS400
61 (0.218 %)Streaming Video
61 (0.218 %)Fixed Income
61 (0.218 %)Grid Computing
61 (0.218 %)Derivative
61 (0.218 %)Interest Rate Derivative
IT Contractor Job Market, Operating SystemsOperating Systems
1449 (98.03 %)Linux
2170 (37.12 %)UNIX
3126 (27.51 %)Solaris
4104 (22.71 %)Windows
586 (18.78 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
652 (11.35 %)Windows Server 2003
738 (8.297 %)HPUX
819 (4.148 %)SUSE
917 (3.712 %)AIX
1012 (2.620 %)Windows 2000
1012 (2.620 %)Debian
1012 (2.620 %)Windows 2000 Server
119 (1.965 %)Tru64
128 (1.747 %)CentOS
137 (1.528 %)Fedora
137 (1.528 %)Windows XP
146 (1.310 %)Ubuntu
154 (0.873 %)Nucleus RTOS
163 (0.655 %)Windows Vista
163 (0.655 %)Windows Server 2008
IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & MethodologiesProcesses & Methodologies
138 (8.297 %)ITIL
228 (6.114 %)Migration
228 (6.114 %)Content Management
320 (4.367 %)SOA
414 (3.057 %)Asset Management
513 (2.838 %)Web Development
612 (2.620 %)Change Management
710 (2.183 %)Project Management
710 (2.183 %)B2C
710 (2.183 %)Unit Testing
89 (1.965 %)Release Management
89 (1.965 %)Load Balancing
98 (1.747 %)Network Design
98 (1.747 %)Configuration Management
98 (1.747 %)CRM
107 (1.528 %)E-Commerce
116 (1.310 %)OO
116 (1.310 %)Service Delivery
116 (1.310 %)Agile Software Development
116 (1.310 %)Software Engineering
IT Contractor Job Market, Programming LanguagesProgramming Languages
175 (16.38 %)PHP
268 (14.85 %)Perl
360 (13.10 %)Python
360 (13.10 %)Shell Script
446 (10.04 %)Java
536 (7.860 %)JavaScript
634 (7.424 %)SQL
719 (4.148 %)PHP5
719 (4.148 %)C++
810 (2.183 %)C
810 (2.183 %)Jython
98 (1.747 %)Korn
107 (1.528 %)PL/SQL
112 (0.437 %)C#
121 (0.218 %)Ruby
121 (0.218 %)PowerShell
121 (0.218 %)VBScript
121 (0.218 %)VB
121 (0.218 %)Progress 4GL
121 (0.218 %)Pascal
IT Contractor Job Market, QualificationsQualifications
173 (15.94 %)Security Cleared
255 (12.01 %)SC Cleared
333 (7.205 %)RHCE
411 (2.402 %)RHCT
411 (2.402 %)Microsoft Certification
510 (2.183 %)DV Cleared
69 (1.965 %)RHCA
77 (1.528 %)Cisco Certification
77 (1.528 %)MCSA
86 (1.310 %)CCNA
95 (1.092 %)ITIL Certification
104 (0.873 %)MCSE
104 (0.873 %)Degree
113 (0.655 %)Oracle Certification
122 (0.437 %)PMI Certification
122 (0.437 %)IBM AIX Certification
122 (0.437 %)OCP
122 (0.437 %)BC Cleared
131 (0.218 %)MCSD
131 (0.218 %)CCIE
IT Contractor Job Market, Quality Assurance & ComplianceQuality Assurance & Compliance
110 (2.183 %)SLA
26 (1.310 %)PCI DSS
31 (0.218 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
31 (0.218 %)ISO27001
31 (0.218 %)QA
IT Contractor Job Market, System SoftwareSystem Software
131 (6.769 %)Active Directory
223 (5.022 %)NetBackup
320 (4.367 %)Oracle RAC
417 (3.712 %)NFS
516 (3.493 %)Backup Exec
516 (3.493 %)VMware Infrastructure
613 (2.838 %)VMware ESX
711 (2.402 %)Oracle RMAN
711 (2.402 %)Sendmail
88 (1.747 %)Veritas Volume Manager
97 (1.528 %)Veritas Cluster Server
97 (1.528 %)Squid
97 (1.528 %)Xen
97 (1.528 %)Samba
105 (1.092 %)Citrix Presentation Server
105 (1.092 %)Postfix
113 (0.655 %)Terminal Services
122 (0.437 %)VMware Workstation
122 (0.437 %)Veritas File System
122 (0.437 %)OpenLDAP
IT Contractor Job Market, Systems ManagementSystems Management
111 (2.402 %)BMC PATROL
29 (1.965 %)Data Guard
37 (1.528 %)Norton AntiVirus
45 (1.092 %)Nagios
45 (1.092 %)Systems Management Server (SMS)
45 (1.092 %)AutoSys
45 (1.092 %)Tivoli
54 (0.873 %)Legato
54 (0.873 %)EMC NetWorker
63 (0.655 %)HP Data Protector
63 (0.655 %)Oracle Enterprise Manager
71 (0.218 %)OpenView
71 (0.218 %)Tivoli Storage Manager
71 (0.218 %)MOM
71 (0.218 %)MIMEsweeper
71 (0.218 %)ServiceCenter
71 (0.218 %)SCCM
71 (0.218 %)SCOM
IT Contractor Job Market, VendorsVendors
1441 (96.29 %)Red Hat
289 (19.43 %)Oracle
381 (17.69 %)HP
469 (15.07 %)VMware
544 (9.607 %)Veritas
639 (8.515 %)Cisco
737 (8.079 %)Sun
830 (6.550 %)JBoss
922 (4.803 %)Microsoft
1021 (4.585 %)EMC
1117 (3.712 %)Altiris
1216 (3.493 %)Symantec
1216 (3.493 %)NetApp
1315 (3.275 %)IBM
1414 (3.057 %)Citrix
1512 (2.620 %)BMC
1512 (2.620 %)Remedy
1611 (2.402 %)Brocade
179 (1.965 %)Sophos
179 (1.965 %)Serena