RHCT Contracts
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for RHCT in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited RHCT over the 3 months to 22 May 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
22 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Red Hat Certified Technician (RHCT)
Rank 528 572 579
Rank change year-on-year
+44 +7
Contract jobs citing RHCT 6 14 7
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.013% 0.024% 0.012%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.070% 0.137% 0.074%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 8 3
Average daily rate £400 £406 £433
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-1.53% -6.06%
UK excluding London average daily rate £328 £310 £341
% change year-on-year
+5.64% -9.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Qualifications
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category		 8550 10235 9482
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 18.14% 17.26% 15.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 4574 5344 4533
Average daily rate £375 £375 £375
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £220 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £539 £550 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 462 564 657
Average hourly rate £22.50 £22.00 £22.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+2.27% -2.22%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.00 £12.50 £12.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £47.50 £42.50 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.00 £22.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year
-2.22% -10.00%

RHCT
Jobs Demand Trend

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

RHCT Jobs Demand Trend

RHCT
Daily Rate Trend

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

RHCT Daily Rate Trend

RHCT
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing RHCT within the UK over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

RHCT Daily Rate Histogram

RHCT
Hourly Rate Trend

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

RHCT Hourly Rate Trend

RHCT
Top 5 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing RHCT within the UK over the 3 months to 22 May 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
England +48 6 £400 -1.53%
London +28 4 £451 -5.15%
East of England - 2 £328 -
Cambridgeshire - 2 £328 -
Cambridge - 1 £330 -

RHCT
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing RHCT 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 RHCT.

1 18 (100.00%) Red Hat
2 17 (94.44%) RHCE
2 17 (94.44%) Linux
3 15 (83.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 10 (55.56%) UNIX
5 8 (44.44%) AIX
5 8 (44.44%) HP
5 8 (44.44%) DV Cleared
5 8 (44.44%) Security Cleared
6 7 (38.89%) VMware
6 7 (38.89%) Windows
7 6 (33.33%) Intel
7 6 (33.33%) HACMP
7 6 (33.33%) NFS
7 6 (33.33%) IBM
7 6 (33.33%) Active Directory
7 6 (33.33%) OpenView
7 6 (33.33%) VMware ESX
7 6 (33.33%) AWK
7 6 (33.33%) Subversion
7 6 (33.33%) Samba
7 6 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
7 6 (33.33%) LPAR
7 6 (33.33%) HP Data Protector
7 6 (33.33%) sed
8 5 (27.78%) Bash shell
8 5 (27.78%) Git (software)
8 5 (27.78%) Perl
9 4 (22.22%) Nagios
9 4 (22.22%) Debian

RHCT
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing RHCT 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 RHCT. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 3 (16.67%) LAMP
2 2 (11.11%) EJB
Application Platforms
1 3 (16.67%) Apache
1 3 (16.67%) Tomcat
2 2 (11.11%) Confluence
3 1 (5.556%) MS Exchange
Applications
1 2 (11.11%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 3 (16.67%) TCP/IP
1 3 (16.67%) Kerberos
1 3 (16.67%) WAN
2 2 (11.11%) Wireshark
2 2 (11.11%) SSL
3 1 (5.556%) DNS
3 1 (5.556%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.556%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 6 (33.33%) Subversion
2 5 (27.78%) Git (software)
3 2 (11.11%) Redmine
3 2 (11.11%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 2 (11.11%) Maven
General
1 2 (11.11%) Finance
Job Titles
1 10 (55.56%) Administrator
2 8 (44.44%) UNIX Administrator
3 6 (33.33%) Systems Administrator
4 5 (27.78%) Linux Engineer
5 4 (22.22%) Linux Administrator
6 3 (16.67%) UNIX Systems Administrator
6 3 (16.67%) Linux Systems Administrator
7 1 (5.556%) Systems Engineer
7 1 (5.556%) Senior Systems Administrator
7 1 (5.556%) Senior Linux Administrator
7 1 (5.556%) Senior Linux Systems Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 6 (33.33%) HACMP
1 6 (33.33%) LPAR
2 2 (11.11%) Digital Media
3 1 (5.556%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 17 (94.44%) Linux
2 15 (83.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 10 (55.56%) UNIX
4 8 (44.44%) AIX
5 7 (38.89%) Windows
6 4 (22.22%) Debian
7 2 (11.11%) Windows Server 2008
8 1 (5.556%) Solaris
8 1 (5.556%) Windows XP
8 1 (5.556%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (11.11%) ITIL
2 1 (5.556%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (33.33%) AWK
1 6 (33.33%) sed
2 5 (27.78%) Bash shell
2 5 (27.78%) Perl
3 3 (16.67%) Python
4 1 (5.556%) PHP
4 1 (5.556%) Java
4 1 (5.556%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 17 (94.44%) RHCE
2 8 (44.44%) DV Cleared
2 8 (44.44%) Security Cleared
3 1 (5.556%) SCSA
3 1 (5.556%) MCDBA
3 1 (5.556%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 6 (33.33%) NFS
1 6 (33.33%) Active Directory
1 6 (33.33%) VMware ESX
1 6 (33.33%) Samba
1 6 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (16.67%) Postfix
2 3 (16.67%) Sendmail
2 3 (16.67%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 6 (33.33%) OpenView
1 6 (33.33%) HP Data Protector
2 4 (22.22%) Nagios
3 3 (16.67%) Puppet
3 3 (16.67%) Red Hat Satellite
4 2 (11.11%) YUM
Vendors
1 18 (100.00%) Red Hat
2 8 (44.44%) HP
3 7 (38.89%) VMware
4 6 (33.33%) Intel
4 6 (33.33%) IBM
5 1 (5.556%) Infoblox
5 1 (5.556%) Microsoft
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