Red Hat Enterprise Linux Contracts in the Thames Valley

Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 119 109 144
Rank change year-on-year -10 +35 -30
Contract jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 23 41 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.86% 1.40% 0.60%
As % of the Operating Systems category 5.88% 9.26% 3.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 30 12
10th Percentile £400 £448 £400
25th Percentile £500 £481 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £610 £513
Median % change year-on-year -13.93% +19.02% +13.89%
75th Percentile £600 £623 £638
90th Percentile £650 £688 £656
South East median daily rate £550 £600 £510
% change year-on-year -8.33% +17.65% +27.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £10.50
Median hourly rate - - £11.00
75th Percentile - - £11.50
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate - £52.50 £45.50
% change year-on-year - +15.38% -

All Operating Systems
Thames Valley

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 the Thames Valley with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 391 443 604
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 14.61% 15.08% 17.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 279 317 440
10th Percentile £191 £223 £145
25th Percentile £213 £350 £199
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% +11.11% +12.50%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £575
90th Percentile £608 £675 £650
South East median daily rate £450 £475 £450
% change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 16 22
10th Percentile £16.25 £18.08 £12.25
25th Percentile £19.13 £19.52 £12.63
Median hourly rate £38.75 £48.70 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.43% +143.50% -20.00%
75th Percentile £57.13 £62.97 £42.50
90th Percentile £61.60 £78.19 £67.38
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £52.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -9.52% +162.50% +5.26%

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Red Hat Enterprise Linux in the Thames Valley

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Daily rate trend for Red Hat Enterprise Linux in the Thames Valley

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

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

Daily rate histogram for Red Hat Enterprise Linux in the Thames Valley

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Hourly rate trend for Red Hat Enterprise Linux in the Thames Valley

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley 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
Berkshire -20 16 £550 -10.20% 1
Oxfordshire +1 6 £525 +5.00%
Buckinghamshire +26 1 - -
Red Hat Enterprise Linux
South East

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 2 (8.70%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (8.70%) nginx
Business Applications
1 2 (8.70%) Sage X3
Cloud Services
1 9 (39.13%) Azure
2 7 (30.43%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (8.70%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 5 (21.74%) SAN
2 2 (8.70%) Cisco IOS
2 2 (8.70%) Firewall
2 2 (8.70%) WAN
2 2 (8.70%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (13.04%) Oracle Database
1 3 (13.04%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (8.70%) MongoDB
2 2 (8.70%) MySQL
2 2 (8.70%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (13.04%) GitLab
1 3 (13.04%) Robot Framework
1 3 (13.04%) Selenium
General
1 9 (39.13%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (13.04%) Social Skills
3 2 (8.70%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (4.35%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (26.09%) Analyst
2 4 (17.39%) Infrastructure Analyst
2 4 (17.39%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 4 (17.39%) Solutions Analyst
3 2 (8.70%) Backup Engineer
3 2 (8.70%) Infrastructure Manager
3 2 (8.70%) Linux Engineer
3 2 (8.70%) Platform Engineer
3 2 (8.70%) Storage Analyst
4 1 (4.35%) Administrator
4 1 (4.35%) Applications Packager
4 1 (4.35%) Architect
4 1 (4.35%) ArcSight Engineer
4 1 (4.35%) Database Specialist
4 1 (4.35%) IT Administrator
4 1 (4.35%) IT Systems Administrator
4 1 (4.35%) PostgreSQL Specialist
4 1 (4.35%) Storage Architect
4 1 (4.35%) Support Engineer
4 1 (4.35%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (8.70%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 7 (30.43%) Client/Server
2 5 (21.74%) Enterprise Storage
3 3 (13.04%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (8.70%) CCTV
4 2 (8.70%) Data Centre
4 2 (8.70%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (8.70%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 23 (100.00%) Linux
2 16 (69.57%) Windows
3 8 (34.78%) Windows Server
4 5 (21.74%) Windows Server 2012
4 5 (21.74%) Windows Server 2019
5 3 (13.04%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (8.70%) Android
6 2 (8.70%) Mac OS
6 2 (8.70%) Ubuntu
6 2 (8.70%) Unix
6 2 (8.70%) VMS
6 2 (8.70%) Windows Server 2008
7 1 (4.35%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (30.43%) Agile
1 7 (30.43%) Application Packaging
1 7 (30.43%) Application Virtualisation
1 7 (30.43%) DevOps
1 7 (30.43%) Scaled Agile Framework
2 6 (26.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 6 (26.09%) Release Management
3 5 (21.74%) ITIL
3 5 (21.74%) Mentoring
3 5 (21.74%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (17.39%) Disaster Recovery
5 3 (13.04%) Infrastructure Management
5 3 (13.04%) Problem Management
5 3 (13.04%) Scrum
5 3 (13.04%) Test Automation
6 2 (8.70%) Coaching
6 2 (8.70%) Collaborative Culture
6 2 (8.70%) Containerisation
6 2 (8.70%) IT Strategy
6 2 (8.70%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 9 (39.13%) Python
2 7 (30.43%) PowerShell
2 7 (30.43%) VBScript
3 5 (21.74%) Shell Script
4 2 (8.70%) Bash
4 2 (8.70%) SQL
Qualifications
1 16 (69.57%) Security Cleared
2 9 (39.13%) DV Cleared
3 7 (30.43%) SC Cleared
4 3 (13.04%) Degree
5 1 (4.35%) HNC
5 1 (4.35%) RHCE
5 1 (4.35%) RHCSA
System Software
1 9 (39.13%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (8.70%) Active Directory
2 2 (8.70%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (8.70%) vSphere
3 1 (4.35%) NFS
3 1 (4.35%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 5 (21.74%) Ansible
2 3 (13.04%) NetBackup
3 2 (8.70%) Kubernetes
3 2 (8.70%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (8.70%) Packer
3 2 (8.70%) PaperCut
3 2 (8.70%) SCCM
3 2 (8.70%) vRealize
4 1 (4.35%) Terraform
Vendors
1 14 (60.87%) VMware
2 13 (56.52%) Red Hat
3 7 (30.43%) HP
3 7 (30.43%) Nimble Storage
4 5 (21.74%) 3PAR
4 5 (21.74%) NetApp
5 3 (13.04%) Dell
5 3 (13.04%) Oracle
5 3 (13.04%) Veritas
6 2 (8.70%) Aruba
6 2 (8.70%) Cisco
6 2 (8.70%) Sage
6 2 (8.70%) Veeam
6 2 (8.70%) WatchGuard
7 1 (4.35%) ArcSight
7 1 (4.35%) Microsoft
7 1 (4.35%) SolarWinds