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 19 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 324 203 281
Rank change year-on-year -121 +78 +2
Contract jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 270 745 846
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.63% 1.30% 0.96%
As % of the Operating Systems category 4.76% 8.05% 6.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 202 560 581
10th Percentile £350 £413 £413
25th Percentile £427 £481 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -14.58% +4.35% +21.05%
75th Percentile £600 £688 £663
90th Percentile £661 £798 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £530 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -3.64% +1.85% +16.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 9 5
10th Percentile £65.18 £49.56 £27.20
25th Percentile £67.31 £51.25 £35.00
Median hourly rate £72.75 £52.50 £63.00
Median % change year-on-year +38.57% -16.67% +8.62%
75th Percentile £76.31 £53.75 -
90th Percentile £77.33 £57.90 £74.70
UK excluding London median hourly rate £72.75 £52.32 £80.00
% change year-on-year +39.06% -34.61% +39.13%

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 5,675 9,252 13,029
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 13.34% 16.15% 14.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,836 6,457 8,858
10th Percentile £185 £190 £175
25th Percentile £300 £338 £341
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £503 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.50% +0.54% +11.11%
75th Percentile £588 £638 £613
90th Percentile £700 £719 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £475 £425
% change year-on-year -5.26% +11.76% +6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 392 404 593
10th Percentile £12.75 £14.08 £13.28
25th Percentile £15.44 £17.74 £15.93
Median hourly rate £22.00 £39.05 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -43.66% +73.56% +28.57%
75th Percentile £60.75 £64.13 £52.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.50 £30.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year -25.00% +50.00% +21.21%

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 19 May 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
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 19 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
England -87 228 £520 -16.80% 94
UK excluding London -58 172 £530 -3.64% 61
London -94 83 £510 -21.54% 44
South East +14 78 £550 -10.17% 22
Work from Home -85 67 £475 -17.39% 31
Scotland -30 27 £495 -1.00% 6
Midlands +22 26 £498 -23.38% 8
East Midlands +30 15 £449 -38.07% 1
North of England -12 14 £499 -12.50% 7
East of England -7 13 £440 +1.73% 3
West Midlands +10 11 £550 -15.38% 7
South West -6 11 £600 +6.67% 13
Yorkshire +11 7 £463 -11.90% 1
North West -23 7 £513 -18.00% 4
Wales +21 4 £700 +43.59%

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 22 (8.15%) Apache
2 18 (6.67%) Tomcat
3 17 (6.30%) OpenStack
4 15 (5.56%) JBoss
5 14 (5.19%) nginx
6 12 (4.44%) Confluence
7 7 (2.59%) IIS
8 5 (1.85%) SAS
9 4 (1.48%) Microsoft Exchange
10 2 (0.74%) Apache Spark
10 2 (0.74%) Traefik
11 1 (0.37%) Jupyter
11 1 (0.37%) OpenEdge
11 1 (0.37%) SharePoint
11 1 (0.37%) WebSphere
Applications
1 5 (1.85%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 9 (3.33%) Temenos T24
2 4 (1.48%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (1.11%) Global One
4 2 (0.74%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
4 2 (0.74%) RMDS
5 1 (0.37%) MFGPRO
5 1 (0.37%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.37%) Sage 50
Cloud Services
1 79 (29.26%) AWS
2 72 (26.67%) Azure
3 23 (8.52%) Amazon EC2
3 23 (8.52%) OpenShift
4 22 (8.15%) Amazon S3
5 20 (7.41%) Azure DevOps
6 18 (6.67%) IaaS
7 17 (6.30%) AWS CloudFormation
8 15 (5.56%) Serverless
9 14 (5.19%) AWS Lambda
9 14 (5.19%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 13 (4.81%) Route 53
10 13 (4.81%) Slack
11 10 (3.70%) GCP
11 10 (3.70%) PaaS
12 9 (3.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 9 (3.33%) Cloud Computing
12 9 (3.33%) SaaS
13 8 (2.96%) Amazon ECS
13 8 (2.96%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 32 (11.85%) DNS
2 21 (7.78%) Firewall
2 21 (7.78%) SAN
3 20 (7.41%) TCP/IP
4 18 (6.67%) DHCP
5 10 (3.70%) NAS
6 9 (3.33%) Kerberos
7 8 (2.96%) Fibre Channel
8 6 (2.22%) LAN
8 6 (2.22%) VLAN
8 6 (2.22%) WAN
9 5 (1.85%) H.323
9 5 (1.85%) HTTP
10 4 (1.48%) iSCSI
10 4 (1.48%) Remote Desktop
10 4 (1.48%) SSL
11 2 (0.74%) Multicast
12 1 (0.37%) LTE
12 1 (0.37%) Network Security
12 1 (0.37%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (12.59%) SQL Server
2 29 (10.74%) Relational Database
3 28 (10.37%) Elasticsearch
3 28 (10.37%) RDBMS
4 21 (7.78%) PostgreSQL
5 13 (4.81%) MongoDB
6 11 (4.07%) MySQL
6 11 (4.07%) Oracle Database
7 10 (3.70%) Amazon RDS
8 7 (2.59%) DB2
9 5 (1.85%) InfluxDB
10 4 (1.48%) Redis
11 3 (1.11%) SAP HANA
12 2 (0.74%) Amazon Aurora
12 2 (0.74%) Informix
12 2 (0.74%) NoSQL
12 2 (0.74%) Oracle BI Publisher
12 2 (0.74%) Oracle Exadata
13 1 (0.37%) Data Warehouse
13 1 (0.37%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 56 (20.74%) Jenkins
2 35 (12.96%) GitLab
3 34 (12.59%) Git
4 21 (7.78%) JIRA
5 11 (4.07%) Artifactory
5 11 (4.07%) TeamCity
6 10 (3.70%) Selenium
7 9 (3.33%) Sonatype Nexus
8 6 (2.22%) Bitbucket Server
8 6 (2.22%) Robot Framework
9 5 (1.85%) CA Release Automation
9 5 (1.85%) SonarQube
10 3 (1.11%) Oracle APEX
11 2 (0.74%) Bitbucket
11 2 (0.74%) Jaeger
11 2 (0.74%) Maven
11 2 (0.74%) Subversion
12 1 (0.37%) Cucumber
12 1 (0.37%) Gerrit
12 1 (0.37%) Postman
General
1 42 (15.56%) Social Skills
2 41 (15.19%) Finance
3 36 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
4 28 (10.37%) Public Sector
5 20 (7.41%) Banking
6 8 (2.96%) Telecoms
7 6 (2.22%) Legal
8 5 (1.85%) Billing
9 4 (1.48%) Investment Banking
10 2 (0.74%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.37%) Advertising
11 1 (0.37%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.37%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.37%) Front Office
11 1 (0.37%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.37%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 43 (15.93%) Linux Engineer
2 39 (14.44%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 30 (11.11%) DevOps Engineer
4 23 (8.52%) Support Engineer
5 21 (7.78%) Administrator
6 20 (7.41%) Architect
7 16 (5.93%) Platform Engineer
7 16 (5.93%) Systems Administrator
8 14 (5.19%) Consultant
8 14 (5.19%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
8 14 (5.19%) Linux Systems Administrator
9 13 (4.81%) AWS Engineer
10 12 (4.44%) Linux Administrator
11 11 (4.07%) AWS DevOps
11 11 (4.07%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 11 (4.07%) Cloud Engineer
11 11 (4.07%) Linux Support
11 11 (4.07%) Senior
12 9 (3.33%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 9 (3.33%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (8.52%) Elastic Stack
2 17 (6.30%) Middleware
3 9 (3.33%) AWS CDK
3 9 (3.33%) HTML
3 9 (3.33%) IBM Integration Bus
4 8 (2.96%) LDAP
5 7 (2.59%) HTML5
6 5 (1.85%) RabbitMQ
6 5 (1.85%) Spring Boot
6 5 (1.85%) YAML
7 4 (1.48%) Flash
7 4 (1.48%) JSON
7 4 (1.48%) Kafka
7 4 (1.48%) POSIX
7 4 (1.48%) pytest
8 3 (1.11%) Web Services
9 2 (0.74%) CSS
9 2 (0.74%) Django
9 2 (0.74%) Node.js
9 2 (0.74%) VCL
Miscellaneous
1 23 (8.52%) Client/Server
2 21 (7.78%) Onboarding
3 19 (7.04%) Linux Command Line
4 16 (5.93%) Clustering
5 11 (4.07%) Data Centre
5 11 (4.07%) PKI
6 10 (3.70%) Management Information System
6 10 (3.70%) Replication
7 5 (1.85%) IVR
8 4 (1.48%) NVMe
8 4 (1.48%) Public Cloud
9 3 (1.11%) Cloud Native
9 3 (1.11%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (1.11%) Smart Meter
10 2 (0.74%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (0.74%) Distributed Systems
10 2 (0.74%) Enterprise Storage
10 2 (0.74%) LPAR
10 2 (0.74%) Private Cloud
11 1 (0.37%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 270 (100.00%) Linux
2 110 (40.74%) Windows
3 67 (24.81%) Windows Server
4 62 (22.96%) Unix
5 35 (12.96%) CentOS
6 18 (6.67%) Solaris
7 16 (5.93%) Ubuntu
8 11 (4.07%) Windows Server 2019
9 10 (3.70%) VMS
10 7 (2.59%) Oracle Linux
11 6 (2.22%) Windows Server 2016
12 4 (1.48%) AIX
12 4 (1.48%) Alpine Linux
12 4 (1.48%) Data ONTAP
13 3 (1.11%) Debian
13 3 (1.11%) SUSE
13 3 (1.11%) zOS
14 2 (0.74%) Rocky
15 1 (0.37%) Fedora
15 1 (0.37%) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (25.56%) DevOps
2 58 (21.48%) Agile
3 56 (20.74%) CI/CD
4 53 (19.63%) Infrastructure as Code
5 41 (15.19%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 29 (10.74%) High Availability
7 27 (10.00%) Containerisation
8 24 (8.89%) Cybersecurity
8 24 (8.89%) Observability
9 22 (8.15%) Migration
10 21 (7.78%) SIEM
11 20 (7.41%) Performance Tuning
12 19 (7.04%) Problem-Solving
12 19 (7.04%) Scrum
13 18 (6.67%) Application Packaging
13 18 (6.67%) Application Virtualisation
13 18 (6.67%) Continuous Integration
13 18 (6.67%) Runbook
14 17 (6.30%) Deployment Automation
15 15 (5.56%) Scaled Agile Framework
Programming Languages
1 110 (40.74%) Python
2 57 (21.11%) PowerShell
3 48 (17.78%) Shell Script
4 46 (17.04%) Bash
5 33 (12.22%) SQL
6 18 (6.67%) VBScript
7 17 (6.30%) Perl
8 16 (5.93%) Java
9 10 (3.70%) Groovy
10 7 (2.59%) C
10 7 (2.59%) C#
10 7 (2.59%) PL/SQL
11 6 (2.22%) ProC
12 4 (1.48%) Korn
13 3 (1.11%) C++
13 3 (1.11%) Go
13 3 (1.11%) JavaScript
13 3 (1.11%) TypeScript
14 2 (0.74%) Ruby
15 1 (0.37%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 120 (44.44%) Security Cleared
2 72 (26.67%) SC Cleared
3 48 (17.78%) DV Cleared
4 9 (3.33%) Degree
4 9 (3.33%) RHCE
5 4 (1.48%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (1.11%) RHCSA
7 1 (0.37%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.37%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.37%) HNC
7 1 (0.37%) Linux+ Certification
7 1 (0.37%) LPIC
7 1 (0.37%) MCSE
7 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (3.33%) NIST
2 8 (2.96%) GDPR
2 8 (2.96%) SLA
3 6 (2.22%) QA
3 6 (2.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 3 (1.11%) Disclosure Scotland
5 2 (0.74%) NCSC
6 1 (0.37%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.37%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 73 (27.04%) VMware Infrastructure
2 44 (16.30%) Docker
3 38 (14.07%) Active Directory
4 23 (8.52%) Virtual Machines
5 15 (5.56%) vSphere
6 14 (5.19%) Hyper-V
7 13 (4.81%) VMware ESXi
7 13 (4.81%) VMware NSX
8 11 (4.07%) KVM
9 5 (1.85%) NFS
10 4 (1.48%) GPFS
10 4 (1.48%) Virtual Servers
10 4 (1.48%) VMware Server
11 2 (0.74%) Varnish
12 1 (0.37%) Firmware
12 1 (0.37%) Oracle RAC
12 1 (0.37%) Terminal Services
12 1 (0.37%) Xen
Systems Management
1 88 (32.59%) Ansible
2 68 (25.19%) Kubernetes
3 35 (12.96%) Terraform
4 31 (11.48%) Grafana
5 27 (10.00%) Kibana
6 25 (9.26%) Prometheus
7 21 (7.78%) Packer
8 16 (5.93%) logstash
9 13 (4.81%) Progress Chef
9 13 (4.81%) Puppet
9 13 (4.81%) Red Hat Satellite
10 11 (4.07%) vCenter Server
11 9 (3.33%) vRealize
12 8 (2.96%) SCCM
13 6 (2.22%) EMC NetWorker
13 6 (2.22%) Netcool
13 6 (2.22%) Tivoli
13 6 (2.22%) Tivoli Storage Manager
14 5 (1.85%) Data Guard
14 5 (1.85%) HAProxy
Vendors
1 129 (47.78%) Red Hat
2 96 (35.56%) VMware
3 54 (20.00%) Oracle
4 37 (13.70%) Microsoft
5 24 (8.89%) IBM
6 17 (6.30%) CyberArk
6 17 (6.30%) Splunk
7 14 (5.19%) ArcSight
8 13 (4.81%) Amdocs
8 13 (4.81%) Dell
8 13 (4.81%) Qualys
9 12 (4.44%) Cisco
9 12 (4.44%) HP
9 12 (4.44%) Veritas
10 10 (3.70%) EMC
11 9 (3.33%) NetApp
11 9 (3.33%) Temenos
12 8 (2.96%) ServiceNow
12 8 (2.96%) Sybase
13 7 (2.59%) AppDynamics