Red Hat Enterprise Linux Contracts in England

Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Red Hat Enterprise Linux skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Red Hat Enterprise Linux over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 306 241 274
Rank change year-on-year -65 +33 +16
Contract jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 244 592 718
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.66% 1.17% 1.01%
As % of the Operating Systems category 4.84% 7.17% 6.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 186 446 496
10th Percentile £350 £413 £425
25th Percentile £436 £513 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year -16.00% +4.17% +26.32%
75th Percentile £595 £700 £675
90th Percentile £650 £798 £781
UK median daily rate £525 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -12.50% +4.35% +21.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 11 3
10th Percentile £33.00 - £12.80
25th Percentile £44.73 £51.25 £16.25
Median hourly rate £60.00 £52.50 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% +118.75% -58.26%
75th Percentile £72.94 £74.50 £54.25
90th Percentile £75.98 - £71.20
UK median hourly rate £60.00 £52.50 £63.00
% change year-on-year +14.29% -16.67% +9.57%

All Operating Systems
England

Red Hat Enterprise Linux is in the Operating Systems category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 5,045 8,260 11,221
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.65% 16.34% 15.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,433 5,890 7,674
10th Percentile £181 £190 £170
25th Percentile £285 £325 £318
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.76% +2.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £588 £638 £625
90th Percentile £700 £725 £700
UK median daily rate £470 £505 £500
% change year-on-year -6.93% +1.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 367 390 559
10th Percentile £12.75 £14.00 £13.25
25th Percentile £14.95 £17.73 £15.50
Median hourly rate £22.00 £37.50 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -41.33% +74.42% +19.44%
75th Percentile £59.50 £65.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £22.00 £38.75 £22.28
% change year-on-year -43.23% +73.92% +23.78%

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Red Hat Enterprise Linux in England

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux in England.

Daily rate trend for Red Hat Enterprise Linux in England

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Red Hat Enterprise Linux in England

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux in England.

Hourly rate trend for Red Hat Enterprise Linux in England

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Red Hat Enterprise Linux in England

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux within the England region over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London -89 89 £510 -18.40% 31
South East +23 83 £550 -8.33% 10
Midlands +18 23 £523 -19.62% 5
East of England 0 20 £363 -22.25% 8
North of England -15 19 £463 -26.00% 5
East Midlands +28 13 £363 -50.00% 1
North West -27 12 £350 -45.10% 3
West Midlands +13 9 £550 -15.38% 4
South West -2 8 £600 +4.35% 9
Yorkshire +12 7 £463 -13.75% 1
Red Hat Enterprise Linux
UK

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 29 (11.89%) Apache
2 26 (10.66%) Tomcat
3 22 (9.02%) OpenStack
4 16 (6.56%) IIS
5 14 (5.74%) nginx
6 11 (4.51%) JBoss
7 10 (4.10%) Confluence
8 7 (2.87%) Microsoft Exchange
9 2 (0.82%) Apache Spark
9 2 (0.82%) Traefik
10 1 (0.41%) CMS
10 1 (0.41%) OpenEdge
10 1 (0.41%) SharePoint
Applications
1 14 (5.74%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 6 (2.46%) Temenos T24
2 3 (1.23%) Global One
2 3 (1.23%) Sage X3
3 2 (0.82%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
3 2 (0.82%) RMDS
4 1 (0.41%) MFGPRO
4 1 (0.41%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.41%) Sage 50
Cloud Services
1 63 (25.82%) Azure
2 53 (21.72%) AWS
3 20 (8.20%) Azure DevOps
3 20 (8.20%) IaaS
4 17 (6.97%) Slack
5 14 (5.74%) Amazon EC2
5 14 (5.74%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 12 (4.92%) Amazon S3
6 12 (4.92%) GCP
6 12 (4.92%) PaaS
6 12 (4.92%) Route 53
7 11 (4.51%) Cloud Computing
7 11 (4.51%) Nutanix
7 11 (4.51%) SaaS
8 10 (4.10%) OpenShift
9 9 (3.69%) GitHub
10 8 (3.28%) Rubrik
11 7 (2.87%) AWS CloudFormation
12 6 (2.46%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 6 (2.46%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 31 (12.70%) TCP/IP
2 29 (11.89%) DNS
3 22 (9.02%) Firewall
3 22 (9.02%) SAN
4 17 (6.97%) DHCP
5 14 (5.74%) H.323
5 14 (5.74%) HTTP
6 12 (4.92%) NAS
7 11 (4.51%) Kerberos
8 8 (3.28%) VLAN
9 5 (2.05%) WAN
10 3 (1.23%) Cisco IOS
10 3 (1.23%) LAN
10 3 (1.23%) SSL
10 3 (1.23%) Wireless
11 2 (0.82%) Multicast
12 1 (0.41%) Fibre Channel
12 1 (0.41%) Remote Desktop
12 1 (0.41%) SSH
12 1 (0.41%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (11.48%) SQL Server
2 27 (11.07%) Elasticsearch
3 18 (7.38%) PostgreSQL
3 18 (7.38%) RDBMS
3 18 (7.38%) Relational Database
4 17 (6.97%) MySQL
5 13 (5.33%) Oracle Database
6 11 (4.51%) MongoDB
7 8 (3.28%) Amazon RDS
8 4 (1.64%) Redis
9 2 (0.82%) NoSQL
9 2 (0.82%) Oracle BI Publisher
10 1 (0.41%) Azure SQL Database
10 1 (0.41%) Ingres
10 1 (0.41%) MariaDB
10 1 (0.41%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 52 (21.31%) Jenkins
2 38 (15.57%) Git
3 29 (11.89%) GitLab
4 19 (7.79%) JIRA
5 13 (5.33%) TeamCity
6 10 (4.10%) Selenium
7 8 (3.28%) Sonatype Nexus
8 6 (2.46%) Robot Framework
9 5 (2.05%) Bitbucket Server
9 5 (2.05%) CA Release Automation
9 5 (2.05%) SonarQube
10 4 (1.64%) Artifactory
11 3 (1.23%) Oracle APEX
12 2 (0.82%) Bitbucket
12 2 (0.82%) Jaeger
12 2 (0.82%) Subversion
13 1 (0.41%) Cucumber
13 1 (0.41%) Gerrit
13 1 (0.41%) Postman
13 1 (0.41%) Vagrant
General
1 38 (15.57%) Finance
2 37 (15.16%) Analytical Skills
3 22 (9.02%) Social Skills
4 19 (7.79%) Banking
5 18 (7.38%) Telecoms
6 12 (4.92%) Public Sector
7 11 (4.51%) Legal
8 5 (2.05%) Billing
9 4 (1.64%) Investment Banking
10 2 (0.82%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.82%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.41%) Advertising
11 1 (0.41%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.41%) Electronics
11 1 (0.41%) French Language
11 1 (0.41%) Local Government
11 1 (0.41%) Marketing
11 1 (0.41%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.41%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 35 (14.34%) Linux Engineer
2 26 (10.66%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 24 (9.84%) DevOps Engineer
4 21 (8.61%) Support Engineer
5 20 (8.20%) Architect
6 15 (6.15%) Administrator
7 14 (5.74%) Lead
8 13 (5.33%) Systems Administrator
9 11 (4.51%) Linux Systems Administrator
10 10 (4.10%) Platform Engineer
11 9 (3.69%) Consultant
11 9 (3.69%) Linux Administrator
11 9 (3.69%) Senior
11 9 (3.69%) Solutions Architect
12 8 (3.28%) Analyst
12 8 (3.28%) Cloud Engineer
12 8 (3.28%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
12 8 (3.28%) Security Consultant
12 8 (3.28%) Technical Leader
12 8 (3.28%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (11.07%) Elastic Stack
2 10 (4.10%) LDAP
3 8 (3.28%) Middleware
4 6 (2.46%) IBM Integration Bus
5 5 (2.05%) Spring Boot
5 5 (2.05%) YAML
6 4 (1.64%) JSON
6 4 (1.64%) Kafka
6 4 (1.64%) pytest
7 3 (1.23%) EDI
7 3 (1.23%) HTML
8 2 (0.82%) CSS
8 2 (0.82%) Django
8 2 (0.82%) FIX Protocol
8 2 (0.82%) HornetQ
8 2 (0.82%) OAuth
8 2 (0.82%) OAuth2
8 2 (0.82%) RESTful
8 2 (0.82%) Swagger
8 2 (0.82%) VCL
Miscellaneous
1 19 (7.79%) Client/Server
1 19 (7.79%) Linux Command Line
2 17 (6.97%) Onboarding
3 15 (6.15%) IVR
3 15 (6.15%) Management Information System
4 13 (5.33%) Clustering
5 10 (4.10%) Data Centre
5 10 (4.10%) Replication
6 8 (3.28%) PKI
7 5 (2.05%) Enterprise Storage
8 4 (1.64%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (1.23%) CCTV
9 3 (1.23%) Public Cloud
9 3 (1.23%) Self-Motivation
9 3 (1.23%) Smart Meter
10 2 (0.82%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (0.82%) Distributed Systems
10 2 (0.82%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 1 (0.41%) Driving Licence
11 1 (0.41%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 244 (100.00%) Linux
2 112 (45.90%) Windows
3 62 (25.41%) Windows Server
4 41 (16.80%) Unix
5 36 (14.75%) CentOS
6 16 (6.56%) Solaris
6 16 (6.56%) Windows Server 2019
7 10 (4.10%) VMS
8 9 (3.69%) Oracle Linux
8 9 (3.69%) Ubuntu
9 8 (3.28%) Windows Server 2016
10 6 (2.46%) Windows Server 2012
11 4 (1.64%) AIX
11 4 (1.64%) Alpine Linux
12 3 (1.23%) Android
12 3 (1.23%) Debian
12 3 (1.23%) Mac OS
12 3 (1.23%) SUSE
12 3 (1.23%) Windows Server 2008
13 2 (0.82%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (25.82%) DevOps
2 55 (22.54%) Agile
3 54 (22.13%) CI/CD
4 50 (20.49%) Infrastructure as Code
5 33 (13.52%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 22 (9.02%) SIEM
7 21 (8.61%) High Availability
7 21 (8.61%) Observability
8 20 (8.20%) Cybersecurity
8 20 (8.20%) Migration
9 18 (7.38%) Application Packaging
9 18 (7.38%) Application Virtualisation
9 18 (7.38%) Containerisation
9 18 (7.38%) Deployment Automation
10 17 (6.97%) Problem-Solving
10 17 (6.97%) Security Hardening
11 16 (6.56%) Continuous Integration
11 16 (6.56%) Disaster Recovery
12 15 (6.15%) Scaled Agile Framework
12 15 (6.15%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 102 (41.80%) Python
2 54 (22.13%) PowerShell
3 51 (20.90%) Shell Script
4 39 (15.98%) Bash
5 27 (11.07%) SQL
6 18 (7.38%) VBScript
7 16 (6.56%) Perl
8 11 (4.51%) Java
9 8 (3.28%) C
9 8 (3.28%) Korn
10 7 (2.87%) C#
11 6 (2.46%) PL/SQL
11 6 (2.46%) ProC
11 6 (2.46%) Ruby
12 4 (1.64%) Groovy
13 3 (1.23%) Go
14 2 (0.82%) C++
14 2 (0.82%) JavaScript
15 1 (0.41%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 99 (40.57%) Security Cleared
2 49 (20.08%) SC Cleared
3 46 (18.85%) DV Cleared
4 9 (3.69%) Degree
5 4 (1.64%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (1.64%) RHCE
6 3 (1.23%) RHCSA
7 1 (0.41%) HNC
7 1 (0.41%) Linux+ Certification
7 1 (0.41%) LPIC
7 1 (0.41%) MCSE
7 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (4.10%) GDPR
2 9 (3.69%) NIST
3 8 (3.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 3 (1.23%) SLA
5 2 (0.82%) NCSC
6 1 (0.41%) QA
System Software
1 68 (27.87%) VMware Infrastructure
2 39 (15.98%) Docker
3 31 (12.70%) Active Directory
4 28 (11.48%) Virtual Machines
5 13 (5.33%) Hyper-V
6 12 (4.92%) vSphere
7 10 (4.10%) VMware ESXi
7 10 (4.10%) VMware NSX
8 6 (2.46%) KVM
9 4 (1.64%) Virtual Servers
10 2 (0.82%) Oracle RAC
10 2 (0.82%) Varnish
11 1 (0.41%) Firmware
11 1 (0.41%) NFS
11 1 (0.41%) Terminal Services
11 1 (0.41%) VMware Server
11 1 (0.41%) Xen
Systems Management
1 83 (34.02%) Ansible
2 57 (23.36%) Kubernetes
3 31 (12.70%) Terraform
4 29 (11.89%) Prometheus
5 27 (11.07%) Grafana
6 26 (10.66%) Kibana
7 21 (8.61%) logstash
8 17 (6.97%) Packer
9 16 (6.56%) Puppet
10 11 (4.51%) Progress Chef
10 11 (4.51%) Red Hat Satellite
11 10 (4.10%) SCCM
11 10 (4.10%) vRealize
12 9 (3.69%) vCenter Server
13 8 (3.28%) Data Guard
13 8 (3.28%) EMC NetWorker
13 8 (3.28%) Netcool
13 8 (3.28%) Tivoli
13 8 (3.28%) Tivoli Storage Manager
14 5 (2.05%) HAProxy
Vendors
1 139 (56.97%) Red Hat
2 94 (38.52%) VMware
3 44 (18.03%) Oracle
4 37 (15.16%) Microsoft
5 20 (8.20%) HP
6 18 (7.38%) Splunk
7 16 (6.56%) Amdocs
7 16 (6.56%) Cisco
7 16 (6.56%) Dell
7 16 (6.56%) IBM
7 16 (6.56%) Qualys
8 15 (6.15%) ArcSight
8 15 (6.15%) Avaya
9 11 (4.51%) CyberArk
9 11 (4.51%) Verint
10 10 (4.10%) Veeam
10 10 (4.10%) Veritas
11 9 (3.69%) NetApp
11 9 (3.69%) ServiceNow
12 8 (3.28%) Isilon