Watford Red Hat Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Red Hat products and/or services in IT contracts within the Watford region with a comparison to our Vendors category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Red Hat over the 3 months to 6 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Ascot Aylesbury Basildon Basingstoke Berkshire Brentford Bristol Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cheshire Chester City of London Crawley Derbyshire Docklands, London Dorset East Midlands East of England East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Essex Feltham Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Hampshire Harrogate Hertfordshire Home Counties Hull Isleworth Kent Leeds Liverpool Livingston London M4 Corridor Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes North West North Yorkshire Northern Ireland Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Portsmouth Reading Ruislip Salisbury Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield South Coast South East South West South Yorkshire Southampton Stevenage Surrey Sussex Swindon Thames Valley UK Uxbridge Watford West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Wirral Woking Yorkshire	3 months to 6 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	15	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	5	0
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.007 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	7.042 %	0.000 %
Daily rates quoted	4	0
Average minimum daily rate	£363	-
Average daily rate	£381	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£400	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£367	£341
% change on same period last year	+7.68 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£15.00	-
Average hourly rate	£17.50	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£20.00	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£35.35	£36.16
% change on same period last year	-2.22 %
Vendors Watford
Matching contract IT job ads	71	118
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.099 %	0.119 %
Daily rates quoted	30	38
Average minimum daily rate	£365	£374
Average daily rate	£381	£380
% change on same period last year	+0.15 %
Average maximum daily rate	£397	£387
UK excluding London average daily rate	£360	£354
% change on same period last year	+1.60 %
Hourly rates quoted	6	8
Average minimum hourly rate	£16.38	£19.74
Average hourly rate	£17.92	£19.85
% change on same period last year	-9.76 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£19.45	£19.97
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£24.36	£24.43
% change on same period last year	-0.31 %
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We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

These figures represent the IT job market and are NOT representative of employment within Red Hat, Inc.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Red Hat across the Watford region as a proportion of the total demand within the Vendors category.

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Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Red Hat across the Watford region.

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Red Hat across the Watford region over the 3 months to 6 October 2008.

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Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Red Hat across the Watford region.

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 6 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Watford region citing Red Hat 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.

1 7 (87.50 %) Linux 1 7 (87.50 %) UNIX 1 7 (87.50 %) AIX 1 7 (87.50 %) Red Hat Linux 2 6 (75.00 %) Shell Script 2 6 (75.00 %) Middleware 2 6 (75.00 %) IBM 2 6 (75.00 %) JBoss 2 6 (75.00 %) Perl 2 6 (75.00 %) SQL 2 6 (75.00 %) J2EE 2 6 (75.00 %) DB2 3 5 (62.50 %) WebSphere Application Server 3 5 (62.50 %) J2SE 3 5 (62.50 %) Java

3 5 (62.50 %) WebSphere 4 2 (25.00 %) HPUX 4 2 (25.00 %) HP 5 1 (12.50 %) Nortel 5 1 (12.50 %) Motorola 5 1 (12.50 %) Windows Server 2003 5 1 (12.50 %) SQL Server 2000 5 1 (12.50 %) Tivoli 5 1 (12.50 %) Tivoli Storage Manager 5 1 (12.50 %) Windows 5 1 (12.50 %) Microsoft 5 1 (12.50 %) Active Directory 5 1 (12.50 %) SharePoint 5 1 (12.50 %) Windows XP 5 1 (12.50 %) MS Exchange

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 6 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Watford region citing Red Hat 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. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 6 (75.00 %) J2EE 1 6 (75.00 %) Middleware 2 5 (62.50 %) WebSphere 2 5 (62.50 %) J2SE	Application Platforms 1 6 (75.00 %) JBoss 2 5 (62.50 %) WebSphere Application Server 3 1 (12.50 %) SharePoint 3 1 (12.50 %) MS Exchange 3 1 (12.50 %) Exchange Server 2003
Communications & Networking 1 1 (12.50 %) WAN 1 1 (12.50 %) Wireless	Database & Business Intelligence 1 6 (75.00 %) DB2 2 1 (12.50 %) SQL Server 2000 2 1 (12.50 %) SQL Server 2005 2 1 (12.50 %) SQL Server
General 1 1 (12.50 %) Construction 1 1 (12.50 %) Games	Job Titles 1 6 (75.00 %) Applications Support 2 5 (62.50 %) Applications Support Specialist 2 5 (62.50 %) Applications Specialist 2 5 (62.50 %) Support Specialist 3 1 (12.50 %) Server Support 3 1 (12.50 %) Support Analyst 3 1 (12.50 %) Analyst 3 1 (12.50 %) Consultant 3 1 (12.50 %) Microsoft Consultant 3 1 (12.50 %) Support Consultant 3 1 (12.50 %) Applications Support Analyst
Operating Systems 1 7 (87.50 %) UNIX 1 7 (87.50 %) AIX 1 7 (87.50 %) Linux 1 7 (87.50 %) Red Hat Linux 2 2 (25.00 %) HPUX 3 1 (12.50 %) Windows 3 1 (12.50 %) Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 1 (12.50 %) Windows XP 3 1 (12.50 %) Windows Server 2003	Programming Languages 1 6 (75.00 %) Perl 1 6 (75.00 %) SQL 1 6 (75.00 %) Shell Script 2 5 (62.50 %) Java 3 1 (12.50 %) VBScript 3 1 (12.50 %) VB
System Software 1 1 (12.50 %) Active Directory 1 1 (12.50 %) VMware ESX	Systems Management 1 1 (12.50 %) Tivoli 1 1 (12.50 %) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors 1 6 (75.00 %) IBM 2 2 (25.00 %) HP 3 1 (12.50 %) Nortel 3 1 (12.50 %) Motorola 3 1 (12.50 %) VMware 3 1 (12.50 %) Microsoft 3 1 (12.50 %) Cisco