The first table below looks at the demand for RHCE in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited RHCE over the 3 months to 20 June 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Qualifications currently tracked.

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.

Location
3 months to
20 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE)
Rank 485 522 553
Rank change year-on-year
+37 +31
Contract jobs citing RHCE 56 57 37
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.115% 0.100% 0.060%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.631% 0.582% 0.376%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 27 18
Average daily rate £381 £360 £433
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+5.90% -16.76%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £288 £313 £260
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £485 £513
UK excluding London average daily rate £328 £350 £400
% change year-on-year
-6.42% -12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
Average hourly rate - - £27.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £27.50
All Qualifications
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
8879 9800 9840
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 18.16% 17.14% 15.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 4722 5078 4824
Average daily rate £375 £375 £375
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £225 £220
10% offered a daily rate of more than £536 £550 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 504 508 670
Average hourly rate £22.00 £21.50 £22.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+2.32% -4.44%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.43 £12.00 £12.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £40.00 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £21.50 £21.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year
- -14.00%

RHCE
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing RHCE within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Qualifications category.

RHCE Jobs Demand Trend

RHCE
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing RHCE within the UK.

RHCE Daily Rate Trend

RHCE
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing RHCE within the UK over the 3 months to 20 June 2013.

RHCE Daily Rate Histogram

RHCE
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing RHCE within the UK.

RHCE Hourly Rate Trend

RHCE
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 RHCE within the UK over the 3 months to 20 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
England +27 53 £381 +5.90% 12
London +26 33 £450 +12.50% 9
South East +22 9 £300 -16.66% 2
East of England +20 6 £359 -
Cambridgeshire - 5 £330 -
Cambridge - 5 £330 -
City of London -4 4 £360 -10.00% 2
North East - 2 £338 - 1
Tyne and Wear - 2 £338 - 1
Newcastle upon Tyne - 2 £338 - 1
Hertfordshire +22 1 £388 -
Hampshire -16 1 £355 -1.38% 1
Berkshire - 1 £325 -
Middlesex - 1 £375 -
Oxfordshire - 1 - -
Somerset - - - -
Surrey - - - - 1
Dorset - - - -
Scotland - - - - 1
Ealing - - - -
South West - - - -
Oxford - - - -
Reading - - - -
Staines - - - - 1
Sunbury-on-Thames - - - -
Uxbridge - - - -
Welwyn Garden City - - - -
Welwyn - - - -
Witney - - - -
Croydon - - - -

RHCE
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing RHCE 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 RHCE.

1 90 (90.91%) Linux
2 83 (83.84%) Red Hat
3 68 (68.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 41 (41.41%) Perl
5 39 (39.39%) UNIX
5 39 (39.39%) Apache
5 39 (39.39%) HP
6 36 (36.36%) Puppet
7 30 (30.30%) VMware
8 29 (29.29%) Python
9 27 (27.27%) Solaris
10 26 (26.26%) Bash shell
11 25 (25.25%) Nagios
12 24 (24.24%) Change Management
13 23 (23.23%) Tomcat
13 23 (23.23%) ITIL
14 22 (22.22%) Oracle
14 22 (22.22%) DHCP
14 22 (22.22%) DNS
15 21 (21.21%) MySQL
16 20 (20.20%) SAN
17 19 (19.19%) EMC
17 19 (19.19%) Finance
18 18 (18.18%) Debian
18 18 (18.18%) TCP/IP
18 18 (18.18%) Windows
18 18 (18.18%) Git (software)
18 18 (18.18%) Degree
19 17 (17.17%) VMS
20 15 (15.15%) RHCT

RHCE
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing RHCE 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 RHCE. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 9 (9.091%) WebSphere
1 9 (9.091%) LAMP
2 3 (3.030%) EJB
3 1 (1.010%) JDBC
Application Platforms
1 39 (39.39%) Apache
2 23 (23.23%) Tomcat
3 3 (3.030%) Confluence
3 3 (3.030%) CMS
4 2 (2.020%) WebLogic
5 1 (1.010%) Liferay
5 1 (1.010%) MS Exchange
Applications
1 3 (3.030%) MS Excel
2 1 (1.010%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (3.030%) Oracle EBS
Communications & Networking
1 22 (22.22%) DHCP
1 22 (22.22%) DNS
2 20 (20.20%) SAN
3 18 (18.18%) TCP/IP
4 10 (10.10%) BGP
4 10 (10.10%) Internet
4 10 (10.10%) MPLS
4 10 (10.10%) OSPF
4 10 (10.10%) Wireless
4 10 (10.10%) VoIP
4 10 (10.10%) IPv6
5 9 (9.091%) NAS
5 9 (9.091%) Ethernet
5 9 (9.091%) Gigabit Ethernet
6 8 (8.081%) SSL
6 8 (8.081%) WAN
7 7 (7.071%) iSCSI
7 7 (7.071%) SNMP
7 7 (7.071%) Kerberos
8 5 (5.051%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (21.21%) MySQL
2 4 (4.040%) Informix
3 2 (2.020%) Oracle 11g
4 1 (1.010%) DB2
Development Applications
1 18 (18.18%) Git (software)
2 11 (11.11%) Subversion
3 9 (9.091%) Gerrit
3 9 (9.091%) Jenkins
4 3 (3.030%) JIRA
4 3 (3.030%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 3 (3.030%) Redmine
4 3 (3.030%) Maven
5 1 (1.010%) Bugzilla
General
1 19 (19.19%) Finance
2 10 (10.10%) Legal
3 7 (7.071%) Investment Banking
3 7 (7.071%) Banking
4 2 (2.020%) French Language
5 1 (1.010%) Danish Language
5 1 (1.010%) Dutch Language
5 1 (1.010%) Swedish Language
5 1 (1.010%) Retail
Job Titles
1 39 (39.39%) Administrator
2 37 (37.37%) Linux Engineer
3 31 (31.31%) Systems Administrator
4 30 (30.30%) Linux Administrator
5 22 (22.22%) Linux Systems Administrator
6 18 (18.18%) Systems Engineer
7 12 (12.12%) Senior Linux Engineer
8 11 (11.11%) Analyst
9 10 (10.10%) Network Analyst
10 8 (8.081%) UNIX Systems Administrator
10 8 (8.081%) UNIX Administrator
11 2 (2.020%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
11 2 (2.020%) Senior Systems Administrator
11 2 (2.020%) UNIX Engineer
11 2 (2.020%) Team Leader
11 2 (2.020%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 2 (2.020%) Senior Linux Administrator
11 2 (2.020%) Senior Linux Systems Administrator
12 1 (1.010%) Linux Specialist
12 1 (1.010%) Linux Support
Miscellaneous
1 14 (14.14%) Clustering
2 6 (6.061%) Open Source
3 5 (5.051%) Management Information System
4 4 (4.040%) Client/Server
5 3 (3.030%) PKI
5 3 (3.030%) Digital Media
6 2 (2.020%) Freedom of Information
6 2 (2.020%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (2.020%) Freedom of Information Act
6 2 (2.020%) Computer Science
7 1 (1.010%) LPAR
7 1 (1.010%) Derivative
7 1 (1.010%) Statistics
7 1 (1.010%) Blackberry
7 1 (1.010%) HACMP
7 1 (1.010%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 90 (90.91%) Linux
2 68 (68.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 39 (39.39%) UNIX
4 27 (27.27%) Solaris
5 18 (18.18%) Debian
5 18 (18.18%) Windows
6 17 (17.17%) VMS
7 14 (14.14%) CentOS
8 10 (10.10%) AIX
9 8 (8.081%) Windows Server 2008
10 5 (5.051%) Ubuntu
10 5 (5.051%) FreeBSD
10 5 (5.051%) OpenVMS
10 5 (5.051%) Windows Server 2003
10 5 (5.051%) Gentoo
11 4 (4.040%) HPUX
12 1 (1.010%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (24.24%) Change Management
2 23 (23.23%) ITIL
3 10 (10.10%) Validation
3 10 (10.10%) Migration
4 9 (9.091%) Capacity Planning
5 4 (4.040%) Configuration Management
5 4 (4.040%) High Availability
6 3 (3.030%) Refactoring
6 3 (3.030%) Problem Management
6 3 (3.030%) ERP
6 3 (3.030%) Service Delivery
6 3 (3.030%) Data Analysis
7 2 (2.020%) Project Management
7 2 (2.020%) Software Deployment
7 2 (2.020%) Infrastructure Management
7 2 (2.020%) Data Protection
7 2 (2.020%) Network Management
8 1 (1.010%) Market Research
8 1 (1.010%) Benchmarking
8 1 (1.010%) Six Sigma
Programming Languages
1 41 (41.41%) Perl
2 29 (29.29%) Python
3 26 (26.26%) Bash shell
4 15 (15.15%) Shell Script
5 7 (7.071%) SQL
6 6 (6.061%) PHP
7 5 (5.051%) DCL
8 4 (4.040%) Java
8 4 (4.040%) Ruby
9 3 (3.030%) T-SQL
10 2 (2.020%) AWK
10 2 (2.020%) sed
Qualifications
1 18 (18.18%) Degree
2 15 (15.15%) RHCT
3 12 (12.12%) CCNP
3 12 (12.12%) Cisco Certification
4 11 (11.11%) Microsoft Certification
4 11 (11.11%) MCSE
5 10 (10.10%) JNCIP
6 8 (8.081%) SCSA
6 8 (8.081%) OCP
6 8 (8.081%) Oracle Certification
7 5 (5.051%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 4 (4.040%) Security Cleared
9 3 (3.030%) SC Cleared
9 3 (3.030%) RHCA
10 1 (1.010%) DV Cleared
10 1 (1.010%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (10.10%) SLA
2 1 (1.010%) QA
System Software
1 15 (15.15%) VMware Infrastructure
2 11 (11.11%) Postfix
2 11 (11.11%) Samba
3 9 (9.091%) Oracle RAC
3 9 (9.091%) Veritas Cluster Server
3 9 (9.091%) SRDF
3 9 (9.091%) VMware ESX
4 8 (8.081%) NFS
4 8 (8.081%) vSphere
5 7 (7.071%) Oracle RMAN
6 6 (6.061%) Hyper-V
6 6 (6.061%) Sendmail
7 5 (5.051%) VMware ESXi
7 5 (5.051%) Active Directory
8 2 (2.020%) XenServer
9 1 (1.010%) Squid
9 1 (1.010%) Snort
Systems Management
1 36 (36.36%) Puppet
2 25 (25.25%) Nagios
3 14 (14.14%) Red Hat Spacewalk
4 12 (12.12%) EMC NetWorker
5 11 (11.11%) Red Hat Satellite
6 10 (10.10%) Cobbler
7 6 (6.061%) NetBackup
8 5 (5.051%) Cacti
9 3 (3.030%) ZABBIX
9 3 (3.030%) YUM
9 3 (3.030%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 1 (1.010%) HP Data Protector
10 1 (1.010%) OpenView
Vendors
1 83 (83.84%) Red Hat
2 39 (39.39%) HP
3 30 (30.30%) VMware
4 22 (22.22%) Oracle
5 19 (19.19%) EMC
6 14 (14.14%) Cisco
7 13 (13.13%) Veritas
8 11 (11.11%) Juniper
9 9 (9.091%) Aruba
10 7 (7.071%) JBoss
11 4 (4.040%) NetApp
11 4 (4.040%) Microsoft
11 4 (4.040%) SAP
12 3 (3.030%) Akamai
12 3 (3.030%) Sun
12 3 (3.030%) Citrix
13 2 (2.020%) Primavera
14 1 (1.010%) Isilon
14 1 (1.010%) Infoblox
14 1 (1.010%) Novell
Newcastle Upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear
Austin Fraser are working with a leading client based in Newcastle who require a Linux System Administrator for a 3-6 Month Contract... As a professional company we...
Austin Fraser
Rate: £300 - £350 per day
Posted: 14 June 2013
Hampshire
Austin Fraser are working with a leading client based in the Hampshire area who require a Linux System Engineer for a 6 Month Contract... As a professional company...
Austin Fraser
Rate: £310 - £400 per day
Posted: 14 June 2013
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