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 4 May 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
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 283 227 257
Rank change year-on-year -56 +30 -11
Contract jobs citing Red Hat 281 582 801
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.76% 1.16% 1.13%
As % of the Vendors category 1.80% 2.78% 2.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 217 440 528
10th Percentile £358 £425 £403
25th Percentile £456 £500 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £595
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +0.84% +25.26%
75th Percentile £588 £700 £675
90th Percentile £688 £798 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £585 £575
% change year-on-year -10.26% +1.74% +19.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 16 16
10th Percentile £37.51 £25.75 £23.19
25th Percentile £56.00 £28.40 £45.56
Median hourly rate £74.44 £50.75 £63.28
Median % change year-on-year +46.68% -19.79% +32.51%
75th Percentile - £64.56 £72.41
90th Percentile £76.28 £74.50 £83.88
UK median hourly rate £74.44 £52.50 £63.00
% change year-on-year +41.79% -16.67% +31.94%

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 15,584 20,971 27,980
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 42.27% 41.93% 39.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,906 14,431 19,099
10th Percentile £262 £270 £275
25th Percentile £400 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £536 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.99% +2.10% +10.53%
75th Percentile £631 £650 £638
90th Percentile £744 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -1.90% - +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,019 603 797
10th Percentile £12.13 £15.12 £11.71
25th Percentile £14.45 £18.50 £15.00
Median hourly rate £22.50 £38.50 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -41.56% +83.33% -
75th Percentile £57.33 £64.50 £44.69
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £59.25
UK median hourly rate £22.08 £42.50 £21.40
% change year-on-year -48.06% +98.60% -2.73%

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 4 May 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 4 May 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 4 May 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 -80 99 £510 -18.40% 72
South East +36 93 £525 -4.98% 14
Midlands +49 35 £550 +21.03% 31
East of England -13 21 £550 -21.43% 15
West Midlands +36 18 £585 +98.31% 25
North West -2 17 £528 -12.00% 13
North of England -4 17 £528 -4.00% 24
East Midlands +32 16 £535 +9.24% 6
South West -7 13 £525 -8.70% 21
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 23 (8.19%) Apache
2 18 (6.41%) Tomcat
3 17 (6.05%) OpenStack
4 14 (4.98%) nginx
5 13 (4.63%) JBoss
6 8 (2.85%) IIS
7 6 (2.14%) Confluence
7 6 (2.14%) Microsoft Exchange
7 6 (2.14%) MQSeries
8 1 (0.36%) OpenEdge
8 1 (0.36%) Red Hat Fuse
8 1 (0.36%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (2.49%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 7 (2.49%) Oracle EBS
2 6 (2.14%) Temenos T24
3 3 (1.07%) Global One
3 3 (1.07%) Sage X3
4 2 (0.71%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
4 2 (0.71%) RMDS
5 1 (0.36%) MFGPRO
5 1 (0.36%) Sage 50
Cloud Services
1 54 (19.22%) AWS
2 53 (18.86%) Azure
3 22 (7.83%) OpenShift
4 17 (6.05%) GitHub
4 17 (6.05%) Slack
5 12 (4.27%) Amazon S3
6 11 (3.91%) Route 53
7 9 (3.20%) Amazon EC2
8 8 (2.85%) AWS CloudFormation
8 8 (2.85%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 7 (2.49%) Amazon EKS
9 7 (2.49%) IaaS
9 7 (2.49%) Microsoft 365
10 6 (2.14%) Amazon ECR
10 6 (2.14%) Azure DevOps
11 5 (1.78%) Azure AKS
11 5 (1.78%) Cloud Computing
11 5 (1.78%) CloudFront
11 5 (1.78%) Datadog
12 4 (1.42%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 43 (15.30%) SAN
2 32 (11.39%) TCP/IP
3 23 (8.19%) Firewall
4 19 (6.76%) DNS
5 15 (5.34%) Network Security
6 12 (4.27%) Intrusion Detection
7 11 (3.91%) HTTP
8 10 (3.56%) InfiniBand
9 9 (3.20%) NAS
10 7 (2.49%) H.323
10 7 (2.49%) VPN
11 6 (2.14%) DHCP
11 6 (2.14%) Wireless
12 4 (1.42%) FTP
12 4 (1.42%) HTTPS
12 4 (1.42%) IPsec
12 4 (1.42%) SSL
12 4 (1.42%) tcpdump
12 4 (1.42%) WAN
12 4 (1.42%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (11.74%) SQL Server
2 29 (10.32%) Elasticsearch
3 27 (9.61%) PostgreSQL
4 20 (7.12%) MySQL
5 14 (4.98%) Amazon RDS
6 13 (4.63%) RDBMS
6 13 (4.63%) Relational Database
7 11 (3.91%) Oracle Database
8 10 (3.56%) Big Data
9 7 (2.49%) MongoDB
10 3 (1.07%) Amazon Aurora
10 3 (1.07%) Data Warehouse
11 2 (0.71%) Oracle BI Publisher
12 1 (0.36%) Apache Cassandra
12 1 (0.36%) Couchbase
12 1 (0.36%) Ingres
12 1 (0.36%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 36 (12.81%) Jenkins
2 22 (7.83%) GitLab
3 21 (7.47%) Git
4 14 (4.98%) SonarQube
5 10 (3.56%) Bitbucket
6 9 (3.20%) JIRA
7 8 (2.85%) Artifactory
8 6 (2.14%) Maven
8 6 (2.14%) Sonatype Nexus
8 6 (2.14%) TeamCity
9 5 (1.78%) Bitbucket Server
9 5 (1.78%) CA Release Automation
10 4 (1.42%) Cucumber
10 4 (1.42%) JUnit
11 3 (1.07%) EasyMock
11 3 (1.07%) Mockito
11 3 (1.07%) Oracle APEX
11 3 (1.07%) Postman
11 3 (1.07%) Selenium
11 3 (1.07%) TestNG
General
1 36 (12.81%) Finance
2 29 (10.32%) Social Skills
3 26 (9.25%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (7.12%) Public Sector
5 17 (6.05%) Banking
6 12 (4.27%) Telecoms
7 6 (2.14%) Legal
8 4 (1.42%) Manufacturing
9 3 (1.07%) Electronics
9 3 (1.07%) Marketing
9 3 (1.07%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (0.71%) Advertising
10 2 (0.71%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (0.71%) Investment Banking
10 2 (0.71%) Military
11 1 (0.36%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.36%) Back Office
11 1 (0.36%) Local Government
11 1 (0.36%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 49 (17.44%) Linux Engineer
2 34 (12.10%) Developer
3 25 (8.90%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 25 (8.90%) Support Engineer
4 23 (8.19%) Python Developer
5 19 (6.76%) DevOps Engineer
6 17 (6.05%) Architect
6 17 (6.05%) Senior
7 16 (5.69%) Lead
8 15 (5.34%) Analyst
8 15 (5.34%) Cloud Engineer
9 13 (4.63%) AWS Engineer
10 11 (3.91%) Administrator
10 11 (3.91%) Applications Support
10 11 (3.91%) Linux Systems Administrator
10 11 (3.91%) Solutions Architect
10 11 (3.91%) Systems Administrator
11 10 (3.56%) Platform Engineer
12 9 (3.20%) Applications Engineer
12 9 (3.20%) Applications Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (9.96%) Elastic Stack
2 16 (5.69%) Apache NiFi
3 11 (3.91%) REST
4 10 (3.56%) Spring Boot
4 10 (3.56%) YAML
5 7 (2.49%) CSS
5 7 (2.49%) HTML
5 7 (2.49%) Swagger
6 6 (2.14%) FIX Protocol
6 6 (2.14%) IBM Integration Bus
6 6 (2.14%) Kafka
7 5 (1.78%) Spring
8 4 (1.42%) .NET
8 4 (1.42%) HTML5
8 4 (1.42%) Laravel
8 4 (1.42%) LDAP
8 4 (1.42%) Middleware
9 3 (1.07%) Gherkin
9 3 (1.07%) JAX-RS
9 3 (1.07%) Mustache
Miscellaneous
1 28 (9.96%) Onboarding
2 22 (7.83%) Linux Command Line
2 22 (7.83%) Management Information System
3 19 (6.76%) Data Centre
4 14 (4.98%) PKI
5 13 (4.63%) Distributed Applications
6 12 (4.27%) Cyber Defence
7 9 (3.20%) Clustering
8 8 (2.85%) Replication
9 7 (2.49%) IVR
9 7 (2.49%) Public Cloud
10 5 (1.78%) Enterprise Storage
10 5 (1.78%) Greenfield Project
11 4 (1.42%) Fat Client
11 4 (1.42%) Hybrid Cloud
11 4 (1.42%) Thin Client
12 3 (1.07%) CCTV
12 3 (1.07%) Cyber Threat
12 3 (1.07%) Self-Motivation
13 2 (0.71%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 212 (75.44%) Linux
2 128 (45.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 79 (28.11%) Windows
4 40 (14.23%) Unix
5 38 (13.52%) Ubuntu
6 34 (12.10%) Debian
7 33 (11.74%) Windows Server
8 28 (9.96%) CentOS
9 21 (7.47%) Windows Server 2019
10 17 (6.05%) Solaris
11 14 (4.98%) Windows Server 2016
12 12 (4.27%) Android
13 9 (3.20%) Apple iOS
14 7 (2.49%) Windows Server 2012
15 4 (1.42%) Mac OS
16 3 (1.07%) SUSE
16 3 (1.07%) VMS
16 3 (1.07%) Windows 10
16 3 (1.07%) Windows Server 2008
17 1 (0.36%) Windows Mobile
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (19.22%) Agile
2 43 (15.30%) CI/CD
3 42 (14.95%) ITIL
4 40 (14.23%) DevOps
5 33 (11.74%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 29 (10.32%) Migration
7 28 (9.96%) Data Engineering
8 27 (9.61%) Configuration Management
8 27 (9.61%) Infrastructure as Code
9 23 (8.19%) High Availability
10 22 (7.83%) Disaster Recovery
11 21 (7.47%) Change Management
11 21 (7.47%) Customer Service
11 21 (7.47%) Data Modelling
11 21 (7.47%) Observability
11 21 (7.47%) Software Engineering
12 18 (6.41%) Prototyping
12 18 (6.41%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
13 16 (5.69%) Capacity Management
13 16 (5.69%) Information Security
Programming Languages
1 89 (31.67%) Python
2 49 (17.44%) Shell Script
3 36 (12.81%) Bash
3 36 (12.81%) PowerShell
4 22 (7.83%) SQL
5 15 (5.34%) Perl
6 12 (4.27%) Java
7 8 (2.85%) MATLAB
8 7 (2.49%) Korn
9 4 (1.42%) PHP
9 4 (1.42%) T-SQL
10 3 (1.07%) C
10 3 (1.07%) C++
10 3 (1.07%) JavaScript
10 3 (1.07%) Ruby
11 2 (0.71%) AWK
11 2 (0.71%) Bourne shell
11 2 (0.71%) VBScript
12 1 (0.36%) C#
12 1 (0.36%) Go
Qualifications
1 124 (44.13%) Security Cleared
2 87 (30.96%) SC Cleared
3 51 (18.15%) DV Cleared
4 20 (7.12%) Degree
5 13 (4.63%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (2.85%) RHCE
7 4 (1.42%) RHCSA
8 2 (0.71%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.36%) CEH
9 1 (0.36%) CISSP
9 1 (0.36%) GIAC
9 1 (0.36%) Linux+ Certification
9 1 (0.36%) LPIC
9 1 (0.36%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.36%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (4.63%) QA
2 10 (3.56%) Actionable Recommendations
3 5 (1.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.07%) SLA
5 2 (0.71%) GDPR
5 2 (0.71%) NIST
6 1 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.36%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 55 (19.57%) VMware Infrastructure
2 38 (13.52%) Active Directory
3 27 (9.61%) Docker
4 22 (7.83%) Virtual Machines
5 16 (5.69%) Hyper-V
5 16 (5.69%) vSphere
6 9 (3.20%) VMware ESXi
7 8 (2.85%) Firmware
8 7 (2.49%) KVM
9 4 (1.42%) Samba
9 4 (1.42%) Virtual Servers
9 4 (1.42%) VMware NSX
10 2 (0.71%) Ceph
10 2 (0.71%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 2 (0.71%) Varnish
10 2 (0.71%) Veritas Cluster Server
11 1 (0.36%) Terminal Services
11 1 (0.36%) Xen
Systems Management
1 90 (32.03%) Ansible
2 48 (17.08%) Kubernetes
3 40 (14.23%) Terraform
4 24 (8.54%) Red Hat Satellite
5 23 (8.19%) Grafana
5 23 (8.19%) Kibana
6 22 (7.83%) Prometheus
7 17 (6.05%) logstash
8 11 (3.91%) Progress Chef
9 10 (3.56%) Puppet
10 8 (2.85%) Dell DRAC
11 7 (2.49%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 7 (2.49%) Packer
12 6 (2.14%) Data Guard
13 5 (1.78%) Istio
13 5 (1.78%) NetBackup
13 5 (1.78%) SELinux
13 5 (1.78%) Single Sign-On
13 5 (1.78%) WSUS
14 4 (1.42%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 104 (37.01%) VMware
2 54 (19.22%) Microsoft
3 35 (12.46%) Oracle
4 21 (7.47%) Dell
5 18 (6.41%) HP
6 16 (5.69%) Amdocs
7 13 (4.63%) SolarWinds
8 12 (4.27%) IBM
9 8 (2.85%) Bloomberg
9 8 (2.85%) Isilon
9 8 (2.85%) NetApp
9 8 (2.85%) Nimble Storage
9 8 (2.85%) Qualys
9 8 (2.85%) Veritas
10 7 (2.49%) Avaya
10 7 (2.49%) Cisco
10 7 (2.49%) Citrix
10 7 (2.49%) Splunk
10 7 (2.49%) Veeam
11 6 (2.14%) Temenos