Wiltshire Red Hat Contracts

This section looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Red Hat products and/or services in IT contracts within the Wiltshire 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 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Aldershot Andover Ascot Aylesbury Basildon Berkshire Birmingham Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cheshire City of London Coventry Croydon Docklands, London Driffield East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Elgin England Essex Glasgow Hampshire Hertfordshire Highlands Hinckley Hull Inverness Ipswich Lanarkshire Leeds Leicestershire Liverpool London M4 Corridor Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Moray Newbury North West Oxford Oxfordshire Reading Rugby Salisbury Scotland Somerset South East South West Southampton Stevenage Suffolk Surrey Sussex Swindon Thames Valley UK Uxbridge Warrington Warwickshire Watford West Drayton West Midlands West Yorkshire Westminster Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Woking Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	60	70
Rank change on same period last year	+10
Matching contract IT job ads	6	6
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.008 %	0.006 %
As % of the category below	1.364 %	1.325 %
Daily rates quoted	2	1
Average minimum daily rate	£450	£550
Average daily rate	£475	£550
% change on same period last year	-13.63 %
Average maximum daily rate	£500	£550
UK excluding London average daily rate	£359	£355
% change on same period last year	+1.22 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	1
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£25.00
Average hourly rate	-	£27.50
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£30.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£27.77	£31.12
% change on same period last year	-10.75 %
Vendors Wiltshire
Matching contract IT job ads	440	453
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.586 %	0.458 %
Daily rates quoted	139	111
Average minimum daily rate	£343	£317
Average daily rate	£375	£341
% change on same period last year	+10.03 %
Average maximum daily rate	£407	£365
UK excluding London average daily rate	£357	£359
% change on same period last year	-0.40 %
Hourly rates quoted	58	33
Average minimum hourly rate	£21.46	£20.89
Average hourly rate	£22.97	£22.23
% change on same period last year	+3.34 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£24.49	£23.58
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.25	£24.99
% change on same period last year	-6.94 %
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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 RedHat.

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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 Wiltshire 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 Wiltshire region.

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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 Wiltshire region.

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Red Hat within the Wiltshire region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Swindon	+2	5	£475	-
Salisbury	-	1	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Wiltshire 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 20 (95.24 %) Linux 2 11 (52.38 %) Security Cleared 3 9 (42.86 %) Solaris 3 9 (42.86 %) Government 3 9 (42.86 %) SC Cleared 4 8 (38.10 %) VMware 4 8 (38.10 %) VERITAS 4 8 (38.10 %) UNIX 5 7 (33.33 %) Clustering 6 6 (28.57 %) BMC 6 6 (28.57 %) Telecoms 7 5 (23.81 %) ITIL 7 5 (23.81 %) Apache 7 5 (23.81 %) Sun 7 5 (23.81 %) Shell Script

8 4 (19.05 %) Remedy 8 4 (19.05 %) BMC PATROL 9 3 (14.29 %) SAN 9 3 (14.29 %) NetBackup 9 3 (14.29 %) Active Directory 9 3 (14.29 %) Windows 10 2 (9.524 %) DNS 10 2 (9.524 %) Backup Exec 10 2 (9.524 %) Microsoft 10 2 (9.524 %) VMware Infrastructure 11 1 (4.762 %) Windows Server 2003 11 1 (4.762 %) Firewall 11 1 (4.762 %) VMware ESX 11 1 (4.762 %) Military 11 1 (4.762 %) Migration

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Wiltshire 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 Platforms 1 5 (23.81 %) Apache 2 1 (4.762 %) MS Exchange 2 1 (4.762 %) Exchange Server 2003 2 1 (4.762 %) IIS	Communications & Networking 1 3 (14.29 %) SAN 2 2 (9.524 %) DNS 3 1 (4.762 %) Firewall 3 1 (4.762 %) LAN 3 1 (4.762 %) VoIP 3 1 (4.762 %) WAN 3 1 (4.762 %) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (4.762 %) SQL Server	Development Applications 1 1 (4.762 %) Subversion
General 1 9 (42.86 %) Government 2 6 (28.57 %) Telecoms 3 1 (4.762 %) Home Office 3 1 (4.762 %) Military	Job Titles 1 7 (33.33 %) Linux Engineer 2 5 (23.81 %) UNIX Engineer 3 4 (19.05 %) Implementation Engineer 4 3 (14.29 %) Systems Administrator 4 3 (14.29 %) Administrator 5 1 (4.762 %) UNIX Systems Administrator 5 1 (4.762 %) UNIX Administrator 5 1 (4.762 %) Infrastructure Architect 5 1 (4.762 %) Server Engineer 5 1 (4.762 %) Support Engineer 5 1 (4.762 %) Architect 5 1 (4.762 %) Consultant 5 1 (4.762 %) Linux Systems Administrator 5 1 (4.762 %) Linux Administrator 5 1 (4.762 %) Linux Consultant
Miscellaneous 1 7 (33.33 %) Clustering 2 1 (4.762 %) PKI	Operating Systems 1 20 (95.24 %) Linux 2 9 (42.86 %) Solaris 3 8 (38.10 %) UNIX 4 3 (14.29 %) Windows 5 1 (4.762 %) Windows 2000 5 1 (4.762 %) Windows NT 5 1 (4.762 %) Windows XP 5 1 (4.762 %) Windows Server 2003 5 1 (4.762 %) Tru64 5 1 (4.762 %) Fedora
Processes & Methodologies 1 11 (52.38 %) Security Cleared 2 9 (42.86 %) SC Cleared 3 5 (23.81 %) ITIL 4 1 (4.762 %) PRINCE2 4 1 (4.762 %) Configuration Management 4 1 (4.762 %) Project Management 4 1 (4.762 %) Migration	Programming Languages 1 5 (23.81 %) Shell Script 2 1 (4.762 %) Perl 2 1 (4.762 %) SQL
System Software 1 3 (14.29 %) Active Directory 1 3 (14.29 %) NetBackup 2 2 (9.524 %) Backup Exec 2 2 (9.524 %) VMware Infrastructure 3 1 (4.762 %) Oracle RAC 3 1 (4.762 %) VMware ESX	Systems Management 1 4 (19.05 %) BMC PATROL
Vendors 1 8 (38.10 %) VERITAS 1 8 (38.10 %) VMware 2 6 (28.57 %) BMC 3 5 (23.81 %) Sun 4 4 (19.05 %) Remedy 5 2 (9.524 %) Microsoft 6 1 (4.762 %) Oracle 6 1 (4.762 %) IBM 6 1 (4.762 %) HP 6 1 (4.762 %) Dell 6 1 (4.762 %) Juniper 6 1 (4.762 %) McAfee Security