Red Hat Enterprise Linux Contracts

Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 328 206 282
Rank change year-on-year -122 +76 +2
Contract jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 290 777 873
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.67% 1.30% 0.98%
As % of the Operating Systems category 5.02% 7.99% 6.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 219 586 593
10th Percentile £350 £413 £425
25th Percentile £433 £481 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +4.35% +21.05%
75th Percentile £600 £676 £663
90th Percentile £651 £775 £741
UK excluding London median daily rate £533 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -3.18% - +22.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 12 5
10th Percentile £33.00 - £15.10
25th Percentile £44.73 £51.25 £22.00
Median hourly rate £60.00 £52.50 £63.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -16.67% +9.57%
75th Percentile £72.94 £74.50 -
90th Percentile £75.98 - £74.70
UK excluding London median hourly rate £60.00 £52.50 £45.50
% change year-on-year +14.29% +15.38% -17.27%

All Operating Systems
UK

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 with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 5,775 9,719 13,427
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 13.34% 16.25% 15.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,885 6,848 9,128
10th Percentile £184 £189 £175
25th Percentile £300 £326 £340
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £505 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.93% +1.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £591 £638 £615
90th Percentile £700 £717 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £475 £425
% change year-on-year -5.26% +11.76% +8.97%
Number of hourly rates quoted 394 422 633
10th Percentile £12.75 £14.25 £13.25
25th Percentile £15.31 £17.75 £15.63
Median hourly rate £22.00 £38.75 £22.28
Median % change year-on-year -43.23% +73.92% +23.78%
75th Percentile £59.88 £65.00 £52.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.00 £31.25 £20.00
% change year-on-year -32.80% +56.25% +17.65%

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Red Hat Enterprise Linux in the UK

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Red Hat Enterprise Linux in the UK

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for Red Hat Enterprise Linux in the UK

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Red Hat Enterprise Linux in the UK

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Hourly Rate Histogram

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

Hourly rate histogram for Red Hat Enterprise Linux in the UK

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Top 15 Contract Locations

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 UK 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
England -65 244 £525 -16.00% 70
UK excluding London -42 185 £533 -3.18% 44
London -89 89 £510 -18.40% 31
South East +23 83 £550 -8.33% 10
Work from Home -65 80 £475 -14.18% 47
Scotland -33 30 £531 +4.63% 6
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
Wales +18 4 £700 +43.59% 1

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 34 (11.72%) Apache
2 31 (10.69%) Tomcat
3 22 (7.59%) OpenStack
4 19 (6.55%) IIS
5 17 (5.86%) Confluence
5 17 (5.86%) nginx
6 14 (4.83%) JBoss
7 7 (2.41%) Microsoft Exchange
7 7 (2.41%) SAS
8 2 (0.69%) Apache Spark
8 2 (0.69%) Traefik
9 1 (0.34%) CMS
9 1 (0.34%) Jupyter
9 1 (0.34%) OpenEdge
9 1 (0.34%) SharePoint
Applications
1 16 (5.52%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 9 (3.10%) Temenos T24
2 3 (1.03%) Global One
2 3 (1.03%) Sage X3
3 2 (0.69%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
3 2 (0.69%) RMDS
4 1 (0.34%) MFGPRO
4 1 (0.34%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.34%) Sage 50
4 1 (0.34%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 75 (25.86%) AWS
2 71 (24.48%) Azure
3 23 (7.93%) Amazon EC2
4 22 (7.59%) OpenShift
5 21 (7.24%) Amazon S3
6 20 (6.90%) Azure DevOps
6 20 (6.90%) IaaS
7 17 (5.86%) AWS CloudFormation
7 17 (5.86%) Slack
8 15 (5.17%) Serverless
9 14 (4.83%) AWS Lambda
9 14 (4.83%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 13 (4.48%) Route 53
11 12 (4.14%) GCP
11 12 (4.14%) PaaS
12 11 (3.79%) Cloud Computing
12 11 (3.79%) Nutanix
12 11 (3.79%) SaaS
13 10 (3.45%) GitHub
14 8 (2.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 33 (11.38%) TCP/IP
2 32 (11.03%) DNS
3 26 (8.97%) Firewall
3 26 (8.97%) SAN
4 17 (5.86%) DHCP
5 16 (5.52%) H.323
5 16 (5.52%) HTTP
6 12 (4.14%) NAS
7 11 (3.79%) Kerberos
8 8 (2.76%) VLAN
9 7 (2.41%) Fibre Channel
10 6 (2.07%) iSCSI
10 6 (2.07%) WAN
11 4 (1.38%) LAN
12 3 (1.03%) Cisco IOS
12 3 (1.03%) SSL
12 3 (1.03%) Wireless
13 2 (0.69%) Multicast
13 2 (0.69%) VPN
14 1 (0.34%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (11.38%) Elasticsearch
2 32 (11.03%) SQL Server
3 23 (7.93%) PostgreSQL
4 22 (7.59%) Relational Database
5 21 (7.24%) RDBMS
6 19 (6.55%) MySQL
7 13 (4.48%) MongoDB
7 13 (4.48%) Oracle Database
8 11 (3.79%) Amazon RDS
9 5 (1.72%) InfluxDB
10 4 (1.38%) DB2
10 4 (1.38%) Redis
11 3 (1.03%) Amazon Aurora
12 2 (0.69%) Informix
12 2 (0.69%) MariaDB
12 2 (0.69%) NoSQL
12 2 (0.69%) Oracle BI Publisher
12 2 (0.69%) Oracle Exadata
13 1 (0.34%) Azure SQL Database
13 1 (0.34%) Ingres
Development Applications
1 59 (20.34%) Jenkins
2 39 (13.45%) Git
3 35 (12.07%) GitLab
4 26 (8.97%) JIRA
5 13 (4.48%) TeamCity
6 10 (3.45%) Artifactory
6 10 (3.45%) Selenium
7 9 (3.10%) Sonatype Nexus
8 6 (2.07%) Bitbucket Server
8 6 (2.07%) Robot Framework
9 5 (1.72%) CA Release Automation
9 5 (1.72%) SonarQube
10 3 (1.03%) Oracle APEX
11 2 (0.69%) Bitbucket
11 2 (0.69%) Jaeger
11 2 (0.69%) Subversion
12 1 (0.34%) Maven
12 1 (0.34%) Postman
12 1 (0.34%) Terragrunt
12 1 (0.34%) Vagrant
General
1 45 (15.52%) Finance
2 42 (14.48%) Analytical Skills
3 36 (12.41%) Social Skills
4 24 (8.28%) Banking
4 24 (8.28%) Public Sector
5 21 (7.24%) Telecoms
6 13 (4.48%) Legal
7 7 (2.41%) Investment Banking
8 5 (1.72%) Billing
9 2 (0.69%) Manufacturing
9 2 (0.69%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (0.69%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.34%) Advertising
10 1 (0.34%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.34%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.34%) Electronics
10 1 (0.34%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.34%) Local Government
10 1 (0.34%) Marketing
10 1 (0.34%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 43 (14.83%) Linux Engineer
2 34 (11.72%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 31 (10.69%) DevOps Engineer
4 25 (8.62%) Support Engineer
5 22 (7.59%) Administrator
5 22 (7.59%) Architect
6 19 (6.55%) Systems Administrator
7 17 (5.86%) Linux Systems Administrator
7 17 (5.86%) Platform Engineer
8 15 (5.17%) Linux Administrator
9 14 (4.83%) Lead
9 14 (4.83%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
10 12 (4.14%) AWS Engineer
10 12 (4.14%) Cloud Engineer
10 12 (4.14%) Consultant
11 11 (3.79%) Senior
12 10 (3.45%) AWS DevOps
12 10 (3.45%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 10 (3.45%) Linux Support
13 9 (3.10%) Storage Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (9.31%) Elastic Stack
2 11 (3.79%) LDAP
2 11 (3.79%) Middleware
3 9 (3.10%) AWS CDK
3 9 (3.10%) IBM Integration Bus
4 6 (2.07%) Flash
4 6 (2.07%) POSIX
5 5 (1.72%) RabbitMQ
5 5 (1.72%) Spring Boot
5 5 (1.72%) YAML
6 4 (1.38%) JSON
6 4 (1.38%) Kafka
6 4 (1.38%) pytest
7 3 (1.03%) EDI
7 3 (1.03%) HTML
8 2 (0.69%) CSS
8 2 (0.69%) HornetQ
8 2 (0.69%) OAuth2
8 2 (0.69%) Swagger
8 2 (0.69%) VCL
Miscellaneous
1 23 (7.93%) Client/Server
2 19 (6.55%) Linux Command Line
3 17 (5.86%) IVR
3 17 (5.86%) Management Information System
3 17 (5.86%) Onboarding
4 15 (5.17%) Clustering
5 13 (4.48%) Data Centre
6 12 (4.14%) Replication
7 8 (2.76%) PKI
8 5 (1.72%) Enterprise Storage
9 4 (1.38%) Greenfield Project
9 4 (1.38%) NVMe
10 3 (1.03%) CCTV
10 3 (1.03%) Cloud Native
10 3 (1.03%) Public Cloud
10 3 (1.03%) Self-Motivation
10 3 (1.03%) Smart Meter
11 2 (0.69%) Data Protection Act
11 2 (0.69%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 2 (0.69%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 290 (100.00%) Linux
2 125 (43.10%) Windows
3 72 (24.83%) Windows Server
4 55 (18.97%) Unix
5 38 (13.10%) CentOS
6 18 (6.21%) Solaris
7 17 (5.86%) Windows Server 2019
8 16 (5.52%) Ubuntu
9 10 (3.45%) Oracle Linux
9 10 (3.45%) VMS
10 8 (2.76%) Windows Server 2016
11 6 (2.07%) Windows Server 2012
12 5 (1.72%) Data ONTAP
13 4 (1.38%) AIX
13 4 (1.38%) Alpine Linux
14 3 (1.03%) Android
14 3 (1.03%) Debian
14 3 (1.03%) Rocky
14 3 (1.03%) SUSE
14 3 (1.03%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (26.55%) DevOps
2 66 (22.76%) Agile
3 64 (22.07%) CI/CD
4 62 (21.38%) Infrastructure as Code
5 37 (12.76%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 29 (10.00%) High Availability
6 29 (10.00%) Observability
7 24 (8.28%) Containerisation
8 23 (7.93%) Migration
9 22 (7.59%) SIEM
10 21 (7.24%) Continuous Integration
10 21 (7.24%) Cybersecurity
11 19 (6.55%) Capacity Management
11 19 (6.55%) Disaster Recovery
11 19 (6.55%) Problem-Solving
11 19 (6.55%) Scrum
12 18 (6.21%) Application Virtualisation
12 18 (6.21%) Deployment Automation
12 18 (6.21%) Roadmaps
12 18 (6.21%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 127 (43.79%) Python
2 57 (19.66%) PowerShell
3 55 (18.97%) Shell Script
4 52 (17.93%) Bash
5 35 (12.07%) SQL
6 20 (6.90%) Perl
7 19 (6.55%) Java
8 18 (6.21%) VBScript
9 9 (3.10%) Groovy
10 8 (2.76%) C
10 8 (2.76%) Korn
11 7 (2.41%) C#
12 6 (2.07%) PL/SQL
12 6 (2.07%) ProC
12 6 (2.07%) Ruby
13 3 (1.03%) Go
13 3 (1.03%) JavaScript
13 3 (1.03%) TypeScript
14 2 (0.69%) C++
15 1 (0.34%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 114 (39.31%) Security Cleared
2 64 (22.07%) SC Cleared
3 47 (16.21%) DV Cleared
4 11 (3.79%) Degree
5 6 (2.07%) RHCE
6 4 (1.38%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (1.03%) RHCSA
8 2 (0.69%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.34%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.34%) HNC
9 1 (0.34%) Linux+ Certification
9 1 (0.34%) LPIC
9 1 (0.34%) MCSE
9 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (3.45%) GDPR
2 9 (3.10%) NIST
3 8 (2.76%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 5 (1.72%) SLA
5 3 (1.03%) Disclosure Scotland
6 2 (0.69%) NCSC
6 2 (0.69%) QA
7 1 (0.34%) Accessibility
System Software
1 70 (24.14%) VMware Infrastructure
2 44 (15.17%) Docker
3 33 (11.38%) Active Directory
4 28 (9.66%) Virtual Machines
5 13 (4.48%) Hyper-V
5 13 (4.48%) vSphere
6 11 (3.79%) VMware ESXi
7 10 (3.45%) VMware NSX
8 8 (2.76%) KVM
9 7 (2.41%) NFS
10 4 (1.38%) GPFS
10 4 (1.38%) Virtual Servers
11 2 (0.69%) Oracle RAC
11 2 (0.69%) Varnish
12 1 (0.34%) Firmware
12 1 (0.34%) Terminal Services
12 1 (0.34%) VMware Server
12 1 (0.34%) Xen
Systems Management
1 96 (33.10%) Ansible
2 68 (23.45%) Kubernetes
3 37 (12.76%) Terraform
4 35 (12.07%) Grafana
5 32 (11.03%) Kibana
6 29 (10.00%) Prometheus
7 21 (7.24%) logstash
7 21 (7.24%) Packer
8 17 (5.86%) Puppet
8 17 (5.86%) Red Hat Satellite
9 12 (4.14%) Progress Chef
10 10 (3.45%) SCCM
10 10 (3.45%) vRealize
11 9 (3.10%) vCenter Server
12 8 (2.76%) Data Guard
12 8 (2.76%) EMC NetWorker
12 8 (2.76%) Netcool
12 8 (2.76%) Tivoli
12 8 (2.76%) Tivoli Storage Manager
13 5 (1.72%) HAProxy
Vendors
1 158 (54.48%) Red Hat
2 96 (33.10%) VMware
3 52 (17.93%) Oracle
4 40 (13.79%) Microsoft
5 23 (7.93%) IBM
6 20 (6.90%) HP
7 19 (6.55%) Splunk
8 17 (5.86%) Avaya
8 17 (5.86%) Cisco
9 16 (5.52%) Amdocs
9 16 (5.52%) Dell
9 16 (5.52%) Qualys
10 15 (5.17%) ArcSight
11 14 (4.83%) Veritas
12 13 (4.48%) NetApp
12 13 (4.48%) Verint
13 12 (4.14%) EMC
14 11 (3.79%) CyberArk
15 10 (3.45%) ServiceNow
15 10 (3.45%) Veeam