Red Hat Contracts in England

Red Hat
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for knowledge and experience of Red Hat products and/or services. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Red Hat over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within Red Hat, Inc.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 276 240 250
Rank change year-on-year -36 +10 0
Contract jobs citing Red Hat 290 593 809
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.78% 1.17% 1.14%
As % of the Vendors category 1.86% 2.80% 2.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 225 448 531
10th Percentile £350 £425 £405
25th Percentile £431 £500 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +26.32%
75th Percentile £588 £700 £675
90th Percentile £683 £798 £753
UK median daily rate £521 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -9.35% - +19.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 16 16
10th Percentile £22.84 £25.75 £23.19
25th Percentile £32.89 £28.40 £45.56
Median hourly rate £68.22 £50.75 £63.28
Median % change year-on-year +34.42% -19.79% +26.55%
75th Percentile £74.44 £64.56 £72.41
90th Percentile £75.97 £74.50 £83.88
UK median hourly rate £68.22 £52.50 £63.00
% change year-on-year +29.94% -16.67% +26.00%

All Vendors
England

Red Hat is in the Vendor Products and Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services advertised in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 15,613 21,186 27,948
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 42.24% 41.91% 39.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,913 14,600 19,083
10th Percentile £256 £265 £270
25th Percentile £400 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.26% +2.38% +10.53%
75th Percentile £631 £650 £638
90th Percentile £738 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £518 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -1.43% - +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,002 609 793
10th Percentile £12.01 £15.19 £11.50
25th Percentile £14.27 £18.75 £15.00
Median hourly rate £22.40 £39.55 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -43.36% +88.33% -4.55%
75th Percentile £55.00 £64.50 £43.80
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.15 £57.50
UK median hourly rate £22.00 £43.75 £21.00
% change year-on-year -49.71% +108.33% -6.67%

Red Hat
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Red Hat in England

Red Hat
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Red Hat in England

Red Hat
Daily Rate Histogram in England

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

Daily rate histogram for Red Hat in England

Red Hat
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Red Hat in England

Red Hat
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

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

Hourly rate histogram for Red Hat in England

Red Hat
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 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 -82 101 £510 -18.40% 69
South East +35 93 £525 -4.55% 17
Midlands +43 35 £550 +21.03% 28
North of England +8 24 £475 -13.64% 34
North West -1 23 £450 -21.74% 20
East of England -5 22 £535 -23.57% 14
West Midlands +41 18 £585 +98.31% 24
East Midlands +27 16 £535 +9.24% 4
South West -9 12 £550 -4.35% 18
Yorkshire +13 1 £525 - 1
Red Hat
UK

Red Hat
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 31 (10.69%) Apache
2 26 (8.97%) Tomcat
3 17 (5.86%) OpenStack
4 16 (5.52%) IIS
5 14 (4.83%) nginx
6 12 (4.14%) JBoss
7 6 (2.07%) Confluence
7 6 (2.07%) Microsoft Exchange
7 6 (2.07%) MQSeries
8 1 (0.34%) CMS
8 1 (0.34%) OpenEdge
8 1 (0.34%) Red Hat Fuse
8 1 (0.34%) SharePoint
Applications
1 14 (4.83%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 7 (2.41%) Oracle EBS
2 6 (2.07%) Temenos T24
3 3 (1.03%) Global One
3 3 (1.03%) Sage X3
4 2 (0.69%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
4 2 (0.69%) RMDS
5 1 (0.34%) MFGPRO
5 1 (0.34%) Sage 50
Cloud Services
1 55 (18.97%) Azure
2 53 (18.28%) AWS
3 22 (7.59%) OpenShift
4 17 (5.86%) GitHub
4 17 (5.86%) Slack
5 9 (3.10%) Amazon S3
5 9 (3.10%) Route 53
6 8 (2.76%) Amazon EC2
6 8 (2.76%) AWS CloudFormation
6 8 (2.76%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 7 (2.41%) Azure DevOps
7 7 (2.41%) IaaS
7 7 (2.41%) Microsoft 365
8 5 (1.72%) Amazon EKS
8 5 (1.72%) Azure AKS
8 5 (1.72%) CloudFront
8 5 (1.72%) Datadog
8 5 (1.72%) WhatsApp
9 4 (1.38%) Cloud Computing
9 4 (1.38%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 44 (15.17%) SAN
2 39 (13.45%) TCP/IP
3 25 (8.62%) Firewall
4 20 (6.90%) DNS
5 18 (6.21%) HTTP
6 14 (4.83%) H.323
6 14 (4.83%) Network Security
7 12 (4.14%) Intrusion Detection
8 11 (3.79%) InfiniBand
9 9 (3.10%) NAS
10 7 (2.41%) VPN
11 6 (2.07%) DHCP
11 6 (2.07%) Wireless
12 4 (1.38%) FTP
12 4 (1.38%) HTTPS
12 4 (1.38%) IPsec
12 4 (1.38%) tcpdump
12 4 (1.38%) WAN
12 4 (1.38%) Wireshark
13 3 (1.03%) Cisco IOS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (12.07%) SQL Server
2 29 (10.00%) Elasticsearch
3 26 (8.97%) PostgreSQL
4 21 (7.24%) MySQL
5 13 (4.48%) RDBMS
5 13 (4.48%) Relational Database
6 12 (4.14%) Amazon RDS
6 12 (4.14%) Oracle Database
7 10 (3.45%) Big Data
8 7 (2.41%) MongoDB
9 3 (1.03%) Amazon Aurora
9 3 (1.03%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (0.69%) Oracle BI Publisher
11 1 (0.34%) Ingres
Development Applications
1 34 (11.72%) Jenkins
2 23 (7.93%) GitLab
3 22 (7.59%) Git
4 12 (4.14%) SonarQube
5 10 (3.45%) Bitbucket
6 9 (3.10%) JIRA
7 8 (2.76%) Artifactory
8 6 (2.07%) Maven
8 6 (2.07%) Sonatype Nexus
8 6 (2.07%) TeamCity
9 5 (1.72%) Bitbucket Server
9 5 (1.72%) CA Release Automation
10 3 (1.03%) Cucumber
10 3 (1.03%) EasyMock
10 3 (1.03%) JUnit
10 3 (1.03%) Mockito
10 3 (1.03%) Oracle APEX
10 3 (1.03%) Postman
10 3 (1.03%) Selenium
10 3 (1.03%) TestNG
General
1 39 (13.45%) Finance
2 32 (11.03%) Analytical Skills
3 30 (10.34%) Social Skills
4 20 (6.90%) Public Sector
4 20 (6.90%) Telecoms
5 19 (6.55%) Banking
6 12 (4.14%) Legal
7 5 (1.72%) Manufacturing
8 4 (1.38%) Electronics
8 4 (1.38%) Marketing
8 4 (1.38%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (1.03%) Investment Banking
10 2 (0.69%) Advertising
10 2 (0.69%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (0.69%) Military
11 1 (0.34%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.34%) Back Office
11 1 (0.34%) French Language
11 1 (0.34%) Local Government
11 1 (0.34%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 51 (17.59%) Linux Engineer
2 34 (11.72%) Developer
3 27 (9.31%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 27 (9.31%) Support Engineer
4 23 (7.93%) Python Developer
5 17 (5.86%) Architect
5 17 (5.86%) DevOps Engineer
5 17 (5.86%) Senior
6 16 (5.52%) Lead
7 15 (5.17%) Analyst
7 15 (5.17%) Cloud Engineer
8 12 (4.14%) AWS Engineer
9 11 (3.79%) Administrator
9 11 (3.79%) Applications Support
9 11 (3.79%) Linux Systems Administrator
9 11 (3.79%) Solutions Architect
9 11 (3.79%) Systems Administrator
10 10 (3.45%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
10 10 (3.45%) Platform Engineer
11 9 (3.10%) Applications Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (9.66%) Elastic Stack
2 16 (5.52%) Apache NiFi
3 11 (3.79%) REST
4 10 (3.45%) YAML
5 9 (3.10%) Spring Boot
6 7 (2.41%) CSS
6 7 (2.41%) FIX Protocol
6 7 (2.41%) HTML
6 7 (2.41%) Swagger
7 6 (2.07%) IBM Integration Bus
8 5 (1.72%) Middleware
9 4 (1.38%) HTML5
9 4 (1.38%) Kafka
9 4 (1.38%) LDAP
9 4 (1.38%) Spring
10 3 (1.03%) EDI
10 3 (1.03%) Gherkin
10 3 (1.03%) Guice
10 3 (1.03%) JAX-RS
10 3 (1.03%) Mustache
Miscellaneous
1 27 (9.31%) Management Information System
1 27 (9.31%) Onboarding
2 22 (7.59%) Linux Command Line
3 19 (6.55%) Data Centre
4 15 (5.17%) IVR
5 14 (4.83%) PKI
6 13 (4.48%) Distributed Applications
7 12 (4.14%) Cyber Defence
8 9 (3.10%) Clustering
9 8 (2.76%) Public Cloud
9 8 (2.76%) Replication
10 5 (1.72%) Enterprise Storage
10 5 (1.72%) Greenfield Project
11 4 (1.38%) Fat Client
11 4 (1.38%) Hybrid Cloud
11 4 (1.38%) Thin Client
12 3 (1.03%) CCTV
12 3 (1.03%) Cyber Threat
12 3 (1.03%) Self-Motivation
13 2 (0.69%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 224 (77.24%) Linux
2 139 (47.93%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 91 (31.38%) Windows
4 40 (13.79%) Ubuntu
5 39 (13.45%) Unix
6 36 (12.41%) Windows Server
7 34 (11.72%) Debian
8 29 (10.00%) CentOS
9 22 (7.59%) Windows Server 2019
10 15 (5.17%) Solaris
11 14 (4.83%) Windows Server 2016
12 12 (4.14%) Android
13 9 (3.10%) Apple iOS
14 7 (2.41%) Windows Server 2012
15 4 (1.38%) Mac OS
15 4 (1.38%) Windows 10
16 3 (1.03%) SUSE
16 3 (1.03%) VMS
16 3 (1.03%) Windows Server 2008
17 1 (0.34%) Windows Mobile
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (18.28%) Agile
2 45 (15.52%) CI/CD
3 42 (14.48%) ITIL
4 40 (13.79%) DevOps
5 35 (12.07%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 28 (9.66%) Data Engineering
6 28 (9.66%) Infrastructure as Code
6 28 (9.66%) Migration
7 27 (9.31%) Configuration Management
8 25 (8.62%) Change Management
9 22 (7.59%) Customer Service
9 22 (7.59%) Disaster Recovery
9 22 (7.59%) High Availability
10 21 (7.24%) Capacity Management
10 21 (7.24%) Data Modelling
11 20 (6.90%) Software Engineering
12 19 (6.55%) Observability
13 18 (6.21%) Prototyping
13 18 (6.21%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
14 16 (5.52%) Information Security
Programming Languages
1 91 (31.38%) Python
2 47 (16.21%) Shell Script
3 38 (13.10%) Bash
4 37 (12.76%) PowerShell
5 23 (7.93%) SQL
6 17 (5.86%) Perl
7 11 (3.79%) Java
8 9 (3.10%) MATLAB
9 8 (2.76%) Korn
10 5 (1.72%) Ruby
11 4 (1.38%) PHP
11 4 (1.38%) T-SQL
12 3 (1.03%) C
12 3 (1.03%) C++
12 3 (1.03%) JavaScript
13 2 (0.69%) AWK
13 2 (0.69%) Bourne shell
13 2 (0.69%) Go
13 2 (0.69%) VBScript
14 1 (0.34%) C#
Qualifications
1 124 (42.76%) Security Cleared
2 88 (30.34%) SC Cleared
3 49 (16.90%) DV Cleared
4 20 (6.90%) Degree
5 12 (4.14%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (2.76%) RHCE
7 4 (1.38%) RHCSA
8 2 (0.69%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.34%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.34%) CEH
9 1 (0.34%) CISSP
9 1 (0.34%) GIAC
9 1 (0.34%) Linux+ Certification
9 1 (0.34%) LPIC
9 1 (0.34%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.34%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (4.48%) QA
2 10 (3.45%) Actionable Recommendations
3 5 (1.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.03%) SLA
5 2 (0.69%) GDPR
5 2 (0.69%) NIST
6 1 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 56 (19.31%) VMware Infrastructure
2 40 (13.79%) Active Directory
3 27 (9.31%) Docker
4 23 (7.93%) Virtual Machines
5 16 (5.52%) vSphere
6 15 (5.17%) Hyper-V
7 11 (3.79%) VMware ESXi
8 10 (3.45%) Firmware
9 7 (2.41%) KVM
10 4 (1.38%) Samba
10 4 (1.38%) Virtual Servers
10 4 (1.38%) VMware NSX
11 2 (0.69%) Ceph
11 2 (0.69%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 2 (0.69%) Varnish
11 2 (0.69%) Veritas Cluster Server
12 1 (0.34%) Terminal Services
12 1 (0.34%) Virtual Desktop
12 1 (0.34%) Xen
Systems Management
1 91 (31.38%) Ansible
2 47 (16.21%) Kubernetes
3 40 (13.79%) Terraform
4 25 (8.62%) Red Hat Satellite
5 22 (7.59%) Kibana
6 21 (7.24%) Grafana
7 19 (6.55%) Prometheus
8 17 (5.86%) logstash
9 11 (3.79%) Progress Chef
9 11 (3.79%) Puppet
10 9 (3.10%) Dell DRAC
11 7 (2.41%) Data Guard
11 7 (2.41%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 7 (2.41%) Packer
12 5 (1.72%) Istio
12 5 (1.72%) NetBackup
12 5 (1.72%) SELinux
12 5 (1.72%) vCenter Server
12 5 (1.72%) vRealize
12 5 (1.72%) WSUS
Vendors
1 105 (36.21%) VMware
2 65 (22.41%) Microsoft
3 35 (12.07%) Oracle
4 22 (7.59%) Dell
5 18 (6.21%) HP
6 16 (5.52%) Amdocs
7 15 (5.17%) Avaya
8 13 (4.48%) SolarWinds
9 12 (4.14%) IBM
10 11 (3.79%) Verint
11 9 (3.10%) Isilon
11 9 (3.10%) NetApp
12 8 (2.76%) Bloomberg
12 8 (2.76%) Nimble Storage
12 8 (2.76%) Qualys
12 8 (2.76%) Veritas
13 7 (2.41%) Cisco
13 7 (2.41%) Citrix
13 7 (2.41%) Veeam
14 6 (2.07%) SAP