Permanent IT Jobs Contract IT Jobs

The first part of the 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 22 March 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 Qualifications currently tracked.

LinkRed Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE)
Location
3 months to
22 Mar 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank460432595
Rank change year-on-year
Down-28Up+163
Matching contract IT job ads171411
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK0.035 %0.035 %0.013 %
As % of the Qualifications category0.243 %0.195 %0.093 %
Daily rates quoted1071
Average daily rate£338£263£288
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+28.57 %-8.690 %
UK excluding London average daily rate-£250-
Hourly rates quoted201
Average hourly rate£16.75-£28.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate£16.75-£28.50
IT Contractor Job Market, Qualifications CategoryAll Qualifications
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
7004718411791
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK14.41 %18.10 %14.38 %
Daily rates quoted305024123589
Average daily rate£350£365£365
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-4.100 %-
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£220£200£220
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£525£525£520
UK excluding London average daily rate£325£350£350
% change year-on-year
-7.140 %-
Hourly rates quoted5526991298
Average hourly rate£21.37£25.00£24.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-14.52 %+4.160 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£12.50£12.90£13.00
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£38.95£41.00£40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate£21.00£25.00£25.00
% change year-on-year
-16.00 %-

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.

RHCE
Demand Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing RHCE within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Qualifications category.

RHCE Demand Trend

RHCE
Daily Rate Trend

The 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

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing RHCE within the UK over the 3 months to 22 March 2010.

RHCE Daily Rate Histogram

RHCE
Hourly Rate Trend

The 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 11 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 22 March 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
EnglandDown-3117£338+31.70 %
LondonDown-6113£338-25.00 %
City of LondonDown-695£285+8.57 %
South EastDown-102--
East of EnglandNew entry-2--
SurreyDown-201--
BracknellNew entry-1--
NorfolkNew entry-1--
HertfordshireNew entry-1--
BerkshireNew entry-1--
NorwichNew entry-1--

RHCE
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 March 2010, 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.

131 (93.94 %)Linux
222 (66.67 %)Red Hat
321 (63.64 %)Red Hat Linux
416 (48.48 %)Windows
513 (39.39 %)Active Directory
612 (36.36 %)Windows Server 2003
612 (36.36 %)Windows 2000
711 (33.33 %)RHCT
711 (33.33 %)Perl
711 (33.33 %)Finance
810 (30.30 %)VMware
810 (30.30 %)HP
98 (24.24 %)MCSE
98 (24.24 %)Nagios
98 (24.24 %)Microsoft Certification
98 (24.24 %)SAN
98 (24.24 %)RHCA
107 (21.21 %)JNCIA
107 (21.21 %)JNCIS
107 (21.21 %)JNCIE
107 (21.21 %)MCTS
107 (21.21 %)MCITP
107 (21.21 %)MCDST
107 (21.21 %)Windows Vista
107 (21.21 %)CentOS
107 (21.21 %)Juniper
107 (21.21 %)MCSA
107 (21.21 %)MCDBA
107 (21.21 %)Python
116 (18.18 %)C

RHCE
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 March 2010, 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.

IT Contractor Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
12 (6.061 %)LAMP
12 (6.061 %)Web Services
IT Contractor Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
15 (15.15 %)Apache
IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
18 (24.24 %)SAN
26 (18.18 %)Internet
35 (15.15 %)TCP/IP
43 (9.091 %)VPN
52 (6.061 %)DNS
52 (6.061 %)iSCSI
61 (3.030 %)LDAP
IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
11 (3.030 %)MySQL
IT Contractor Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
111 (33.33 %)Finance
24 (12.12 %)Banking
32 (6.061 %)Health
41 (3.030 %)Auditing
41 (3.030 %)Retail
41 (3.030 %)Education
41 (3.030 %)Back Office
41 (3.030 %)Telecoms
IT Contractor Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
113 (39.39 %)Administrator
212 (36.36 %)Systems Administrator
212 (36.36 %)Linux Systems Administrator
212 (36.36 %)Linux Administrator
38 (24.24 %)Support Engineer
47 (21.21 %)Linux Engineer
55 (15.15 %)Systems Engineer
62 (6.061 %)Developer
62 (6.061 %)Technical Support
62 (6.061 %)IT Support
62 (6.061 %)Linux Support
62 (6.061 %)UNIX Systems Administrator
62 (6.061 %)Technical Support Engineer
62 (6.061 %)UNIX Administrator
62 (6.061 %)IT Support Engineer
62 (6.061 %)Technical Engineer
71 (3.030 %)Network Support
71 (3.030 %)Support Manager
71 (3.030 %)Storage Administrator
71 (3.030 %)Network Support Engineer
IT Contractor Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
16 (18.18 %)Clustering
24 (12.12 %)Open Source
32 (6.061 %)Amazon EC2
32 (6.061 %)Amazon S3
32 (6.061 %)Amazon AWS
41 (3.030 %)NHS
IT Contractor Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
131 (93.94 %)Linux
221 (63.64 %)Red Hat Linux
316 (48.48 %)Windows
412 (36.36 %)Windows Server 2003
412 (36.36 %)Windows 2000
57 (21.21 %)Windows Vista
57 (21.21 %)CentOS
65 (15.15 %)Windows Server 2008
65 (15.15 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
65 (15.15 %)UNIX
74 (12.12 %)AIX
82 (6.061 %)Debian
82 (6.061 %)Solaris
82 (6.061 %)Ubuntu
91 (3.030 %)Fedora
IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
13 (9.091 %)ITIL
13 (9.091 %)E-Commerce
13 (9.091 %)Configuration Management
21 (3.030 %)Load Balancing
21 (3.030 %)Electronic Trading
21 (3.030 %)Performance Management
21 (3.030 %)PRINCE2
21 (3.030 %)Migration
21 (3.030 %)Project Management
IT Contractor Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
111 (33.33 %)Perl
27 (21.21 %)Python
36 (18.18 %)C
36 (18.18 %)Shell Script
45 (15.15 %)C++
45 (15.15 %)Java
54 (12.12 %)PHP
54 (12.12 %)Bash shell
62 (6.061 %)SQL
71 (3.030 %)Korn
71 (3.030 %)C-shell
IT Contractor Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
111 (33.33 %)RHCT
28 (24.24 %)MCSE
28 (24.24 %)Microsoft Certification
28 (24.24 %)RHCA
37 (21.21 %)JNCIA
37 (21.21 %)JNCIS
37 (21.21 %)JNCIE
37 (21.21 %)MCTS
37 (21.21 %)MCITP
37 (21.21 %)MCDST
37 (21.21 %)MCSA
37 (21.21 %)MCDBA
44 (12.12 %)MCP
53 (9.091 %)Degree
62 (6.061 %)LPIC
71 (3.030 %)Security Cleared
71 (3.030 %)Cisco Certification
71 (3.030 %)CCNP
71 (3.030 %)CCNA
IT Contractor Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
11 (3.030 %)QA
IT Contractor Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
113 (39.39 %)Active Directory
26 (18.18 %)Veritas Cluster Server
26 (18.18 %)VMware Infrastructure
35 (15.15 %)VMware ESX
42 (6.061 %)NFS
51 (3.030 %)Xen
51 (3.030 %)Sendmail
51 (3.030 %)Veritas Volume Manager
51 (3.030 %)Veritas File System
IT Contractor Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
18 (24.24 %)Nagios
24 (12.12 %)Cacti
32 (6.061 %)NetBackup
IT Contractor Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
122 (66.67 %)Red Hat
210 (30.30 %)VMware
210 (30.30 %)HP
37 (21.21 %)Juniper
46 (18.18 %)Altiris
55 (15.15 %)IBM
64 (12.12 %)Oracle
73 (9.091 %)NetApp
73 (9.091 %)Veritas
82 (6.061 %)Cisco
91 (3.030 %)Blue Coat
91 (3.030 %)Brocade
91 (3.030 %)Microsoft
91 (3.030 %)Sun
91 (3.030 %)Remedy