The first table below looks at the demand for Red Hat Enterprise Linux skills in IT contracts advertised for the West Sussex region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Red Hat Enterprise Linux over the 3 months to 21 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 of the Operating Systems category for the West Sussex region.

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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
Rank 30 45 33
Rank change year-on-year
+15 -12
Contract jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 11 11 19
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Sussex 2.887% 1.703% 4.318%
As % of the Operating Systems category 13.41% 10.09% 16.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 3 3
Average daily rate £585 £388 £388
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+50.96% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £413 £350
% change year-on-year
-9.09% +17.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.50 £30.25 £27.50
% change year-on-year
+17.35% +10.00%
All Operating Systems
West Sussex
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
82 109 116
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Sussex 21.52% 16.87% 26.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 63 37
Average daily rate £425 £305 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+39.34% -23.75%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £243 £173 £260
10% offered a daily rate of more than £585 £488 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 6 20
Average hourly rate £17.88 £11.75 £21.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+52.19% -44.04%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.69 £11.75 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £39.65 £32.50 £24.40
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £17.00 £16.50
% change year-on-year
-5.88% +3.03%
Red Hat Enterprise Linux
South East

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux across the West Sussex region as a proportion of the total demand within the Operating Systems category.

West Sussex Red Hat Enterprise Linux Jobs Demand Trend

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux across the West Sussex region.

West Sussex Red Hat Enterprise Linux Daily Rate Trend

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux across the West Sussex region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

West Sussex Red Hat Enterprise Linux Daily Rate Histogram

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
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 Enterprise Linux within the West Sussex region over the 3 months to 21 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
Gatwick +10 8 £585 +50.96%
Crawley +9 2 £340 -2.85%
Red Hat Enterprise Linux
South East

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Sussex region citing Red Hat Enterprise 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 Enterprise Linux.

1 12 (100.00%) Linux
1 12 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 12 (100.00%) VMware
2 11 (91.67%) NetApp
3 10 (83.33%) Windows
3 10 (83.33%) SQL Server
3 10 (83.33%) VMware ESX
3 10 (83.33%) SQL Server 2008
4 9 (75.00%) vSphere
4 9 (75.00%) Windows Server 2008
4 9 (75.00%) MySQL
4 9 (75.00%) Apache
4 9 (75.00%) Microsoft
5 8 (66.67%) Active Directory
5 8 (66.67%) SharePoint
5 8 (66.67%) OpenEdge
5 8 (66.67%) PHP
5 8 (66.67%) SharePoint 2010
5 8 (66.67%) Clustering
5 8 (66.67%) Dynamics NAV
6 6 (50.00%) Cisco
6 6 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
7 5 (41.67%) XenApp
7 5 (41.67%) Windows 7
7 5 (41.67%) Cisco Nexus
8 4 (33.33%) Project Management
8 4 (33.33%) ITIL
9 2 (16.67%) PRINCE2
9 2 (16.67%) MS Excel
9 2 (16.67%) EMC

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Sussex region citing Red Hat Enterprise 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 Enterprise Linux. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (8.333%) Middleware
Application Platforms
1 9 (75.00%) Apache
2 8 (66.67%) SharePoint
2 8 (66.67%) OpenEdge
2 8 (66.67%) SharePoint 2010
3 1 (8.333%) WebLogic
Applications
1 2 (16.67%) MS Excel
2 1 (8.333%) MS Visio
2 1 (8.333%) MS Project
2 1 (8.333%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 8 (66.67%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (8.333%) Oracle 11i
Communications & Networking
1 5 (41.67%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (83.33%) SQL Server
1 10 (83.33%) SQL Server 2008
2 9 (75.00%) MySQL
3 1 (8.333%) Oracle 10g
3 1 (8.333%) Oracle 8/8i
3 1 (8.333%) DB2
Job Titles
1 9 (75.00%) Analyst
1 9 (75.00%) Infrastructure Analyst
2 2 (16.67%) Project Manager
3 1 (8.333%) VMware Specialist
3 1 (8.333%) Agile Project Manager
3 1 (8.333%) Infrastructure Project Manager
3 1 (8.333%) Technical Specialist
3 1 (8.333%) Infrastructure Manager
Miscellaneous
1 8 (66.67%) Clustering
2 1 (8.333%) DataPower
Operating Systems
1 12 (100.00%) Linux
2 10 (83.33%) Windows
3 9 (75.00%) Windows Server 2008
4 5 (41.67%) Windows 7
5 1 (8.333%) Windows Server 2003
5 1 (8.333%) AIX
5 1 (8.333%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (33.33%) Project Management
1 4 (33.33%) ITIL
2 2 (16.67%) PRINCE2
3 1 (8.333%) E-Commerce
3 1 (8.333%) Budget Control
3 1 (8.333%) Waterfall
3 1 (8.333%) Capacity Management
3 1 (8.333%) Matrix Management
3 1 (8.333%) Service Management
3 1 (8.333%) Service Delivery
3 1 (8.333%) Data Security
3 1 (8.333%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (8.333%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 8 (66.67%) PHP
Qualifications
1 6 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (8.333%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.333%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 10 (83.33%) VMware ESX
2 9 (75.00%) vSphere
3 8 (66.67%) Active Directory
4 5 (41.67%) XenApp
5 1 (8.333%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (8.333%) Control-M
Vendors
1 12 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 12 (100.00%) VMware
2 11 (91.67%) NetApp
3 9 (75.00%) Microsoft
4 6 (50.00%) Cisco
5 2 (16.67%) EMC
6 1 (8.333%) Citrix
6 1 (8.333%) Oracle
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