Red Hat
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 6 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
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 292 223 258
Rank change year-on-year -69 +35 -7
Contract jobs citing Red Hat 317 730 977
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.73% 1.24% 1.10%
As % of the Vendors category 1.71% 2.88% 2.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 239 561 634
10th Percentile £350 £425 £400
25th Percentile £425 £475 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £585 £574
Median % change year-on-year -10.26% +1.96% +19.53%
75th Percentile £584 £676 £663
90th Percentile £675 £798 £748
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £545 £513
% change year-on-year -3.58% +6.24% +17.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 17 18
10th Percentile £37.51 £25.75 £23.66
25th Percentile £56.00 £28.70 £46.25
Median hourly rate £74.44 £52.50 £63.00
Median % change year-on-year +41.79% -16.67% +31.94%
75th Percentile - £61.25 £69.05
90th Percentile £76.28 £74.50 £83.83
UK excluding London median hourly rate £74.44 £50.75 £69.05
% change year-on-year +46.68% -26.50% +51.76%

All Vendors
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 18,505 25,343 35,400
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 42.64% 42.91% 39.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,470 16,952 23,538
10th Percentile £263 £271 £290
25th Percentile £405 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.89% - +10.53%
75th Percentile £630 £647 £635
90th Percentile £738 £743 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £465
% change year-on-year - +7.53% +9.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,121 695 885
10th Percentile £12.13 £15.21 £11.94
25th Percentile £14.48 £18.79 £15.04
Median hourly rate £22.15 £42.50 £21.40
Median % change year-on-year -47.88% +98.60% -2.73%
75th Percentile £57.50 £65.00 £47.25
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.45 £61.42
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.46 £37.50 £18.70
% change year-on-year -42.77% +100.53% +1.08%

Red Hat
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Red Hat in the UK

Red Hat
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Red Hat in the UK

Red Hat
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Red Hat over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Red Hat in the UK

Red Hat
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Red Hat in the UK

Red Hat
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Red Hat over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Red Hat in the UK

Red Hat
Top 14 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 within the UK over the 6 months to 6 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 -51 281 £525 -12.50% 189
UK excluding London -8 198 £525 -3.58% 149
London -64 100 £510 -18.40% 74
South East +36 93 £525 -4.98% 20
Work from Home -42 93 £500 -10.47% 76
Midlands +51 35 £550 +21.03% 27
Scotland -7 21 £340 -32.00% 20
East of England -14 21 £550 -21.43% 15
West Midlands +31 18 £585 +98.31% 23
East Midlands +28 16 £535 +9.24% 4
North West +4 16 £539 -10.17% 14
North of England -4 16 £539 -2.00% 25
South West -6 13 £525 -8.70% 23
Wales +13 1 - -

Red Hat
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 27 (8.52%) Apache
2 22 (6.94%) Tomcat
3 19 (5.99%) OpenStack
4 17 (5.36%) nginx
5 16 (5.05%) JBoss
6 15 (4.73%) IIS
7 11 (3.47%) Confluence
8 6 (1.89%) Microsoft Exchange
8 6 (1.89%) MQSeries
9 1 (0.32%) OpenEdge
9 1 (0.32%) Red Hat Fuse
9 1 (0.32%) SAS
9 1 (0.32%) SharePoint
Applications
1 8 (2.52%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 9 (2.84%) Temenos T24
2 7 (2.21%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (0.95%) Global One
3 3 (0.95%) Sage X3
4 2 (0.63%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
4 2 (0.63%) RMDS
5 1 (0.32%) MFGPRO
5 1 (0.32%) Sage 50
Cloud Services
1 65 (20.50%) AWS
2 58 (18.30%) Azure
3 32 (10.09%) OpenShift
4 17 (5.36%) GitHub
4 17 (5.36%) Slack
5 15 (4.73%) Amazon S3
6 12 (3.79%) Amazon EC2
7 11 (3.47%) AWS CloudFormation
7 11 (3.47%) Route 53
7 11 (3.47%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 10 (3.15%) Amazon EKS
8 10 (3.15%) IaaS
9 7 (2.21%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 7 (2.21%) AWS Lambda
9 7 (2.21%) Microsoft 365
9 7 (2.21%) Serverless
10 6 (1.89%) Amazon ECR
10 6 (1.89%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 6 (1.89%) Azure DevOps
10 6 (1.89%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 43 (13.56%) SAN
2 36 (11.36%) TCP/IP
3 28 (8.83%) Firewall
4 23 (7.26%) DNS
5 15 (4.73%) Network Security
6 12 (3.79%) HTTP
6 12 (3.79%) Intrusion Detection
7 10 (3.15%) InfiniBand
8 9 (2.84%) NAS
9 8 (2.52%) H.323
9 8 (2.52%) VPN
10 7 (2.21%) DHCP
11 6 (1.89%) WAN
11 6 (1.89%) Wireless
12 4 (1.26%) FTP
12 4 (1.26%) HTTPS
12 4 (1.26%) IPsec
12 4 (1.26%) LAN
12 4 (1.26%) SSL
12 4 (1.26%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (11.67%) SQL Server
2 30 (9.46%) PostgreSQL
3 29 (9.15%) Elasticsearch
4 20 (6.31%) MySQL
5 17 (5.36%) Amazon RDS
5 17 (5.36%) Relational Database
6 16 (5.05%) RDBMS
7 11 (3.47%) Oracle Database
8 10 (3.15%) Big Data
8 10 (3.15%) MongoDB
9 6 (1.89%) Amazon Aurora
10 4 (1.26%) Data Warehouse
11 3 (0.95%) InfluxDB
11 3 (0.95%) Informix
12 2 (0.63%) Oracle BI Publisher
13 1 (0.32%) Apache Cassandra
13 1 (0.32%) Couchbase
13 1 (0.32%) Ingres
13 1 (0.32%) Metadata
13 1 (0.32%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 37 (11.67%) Jenkins
2 22 (6.94%) GitLab
3 21 (6.62%) Git
4 15 (4.73%) JIRA
5 14 (4.42%) SonarQube
6 11 (3.47%) Bitbucket
7 8 (2.52%) Artifactory
8 6 (1.89%) Maven
8 6 (1.89%) Sonatype Nexus
8 6 (1.89%) TeamCity
9 5 (1.58%) Bitbucket Server
9 5 (1.58%) CA Release Automation
10 4 (1.26%) Cucumber
10 4 (1.26%) JUnit
11 3 (0.95%) EasyMock
11 3 (0.95%) Mockito
11 3 (0.95%) Oracle APEX
11 3 (0.95%) Postman
11 3 (0.95%) Selenium
11 3 (0.95%) TestNG
General
1 42 (13.25%) Social Skills
2 40 (12.62%) Finance
3 31 (9.78%) Analytical Skills
4 25 (7.89%) Public Sector
5 17 (5.36%) Banking
6 13 (4.10%) Telecoms
7 8 (2.52%) Legal
8 4 (1.26%) Manufacturing
9 3 (0.95%) Electronics
9 3 (0.95%) Marketing
9 3 (0.95%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (0.63%) Advertising
10 2 (0.63%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (0.63%) Investment Banking
10 2 (0.63%) Military
11 1 (0.32%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.32%) Back Office
11 1 (0.32%) Front Office
11 1 (0.32%) Local Government
11 1 (0.32%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 54 (17.03%) Linux Engineer
2 36 (11.36%) Developer
3 32 (10.09%) Support Engineer
4 29 (9.15%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 23 (7.26%) Python Developer
6 22 (6.94%) Architect
7 19 (5.99%) DevOps Engineer
7 19 (5.99%) Senior
8 17 (5.36%) Administrator
9 16 (5.05%) Analyst
9 16 (5.05%) Lead
9 16 (5.05%) Linux Systems Administrator
9 16 (5.05%) Systems Administrator
10 15 (4.73%) Cloud Engineer
11 14 (4.42%) Applications Support
12 13 (4.10%) AWS Engineer
12 13 (4.10%) Linux Administrator
13 12 (3.79%) Consultant
13 12 (3.79%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
14 11 (3.47%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (9.78%) Elastic Stack
2 16 (5.05%) Apache NiFi
3 11 (3.47%) REST
4 10 (3.15%) Spring Boot
4 10 (3.15%) YAML
5 9 (2.84%) IBM Integration Bus
6 7 (2.21%) CSS
6 7 (2.21%) FIX Protocol
6 7 (2.21%) HTML
6 7 (2.21%) Middleware
6 7 (2.21%) Swagger
7 6 (1.89%) Kafka
8 5 (1.58%) LDAP
8 5 (1.58%) Spring
9 4 (1.26%) .NET
9 4 (1.26%) HTML5
9 4 (1.26%) Laravel
10 3 (0.95%) Gherkin
10 3 (0.95%) Guice
10 3 (0.95%) Mustache
Miscellaneous
1 29 (9.15%) Onboarding
2 27 (8.52%) Data Centre
3 23 (7.26%) Management Information System
4 22 (6.94%) Linux Command Line
5 16 (5.05%) Distributed Applications
6 14 (4.42%) PKI
7 12 (3.79%) Clustering
7 12 (3.79%) Cyber Defence
8 11 (3.47%) Replication
9 8 (2.52%) IVR
10 7 (2.21%) Public Cloud
11 5 (1.58%) Enterprise Storage
11 5 (1.58%) Greenfield Project
12 4 (1.26%) Cloud Native
12 4 (1.26%) Fat Client
12 4 (1.26%) Hybrid Cloud
12 4 (1.26%) Thin Client
13 3 (0.95%) CCTV
13 3 (0.95%) Cyber Threat
13 3 (0.95%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 242 (76.34%) Linux
2 146 (46.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 92 (29.02%) Windows
4 44 (13.88%) Unix
5 42 (13.25%) Windows Server
6 40 (12.62%) Debian
7 38 (11.99%) Ubuntu
8 36 (11.36%) CentOS
9 21 (6.62%) Windows Server 2019
10 20 (6.31%) Solaris
10 20 (6.31%) Windows Server 2016
11 13 (4.10%) Windows Server 2012
12 12 (3.79%) Android
13 9 (2.84%) Apple iOS
13 9 (2.84%) Windows Server 2008
14 4 (1.26%) Mac OS
15 3 (0.95%) SUSE
15 3 (0.95%) VMS
15 3 (0.95%) Windows 10
16 1 (0.32%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (18.93%) Agile
2 46 (14.51%) CI/CD
3 44 (13.88%) DevOps
4 42 (13.25%) ITIL
5 37 (11.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 33 (10.41%) Infrastructure as Code
7 32 (10.09%) Migration
8 30 (9.46%) High Availability
9 28 (8.83%) Data Engineering
10 27 (8.52%) Configuration Management
10 27 (8.52%) Customer Service
11 26 (8.20%) Disaster Recovery
12 22 (6.94%) Change Management
12 22 (6.94%) Roadmaps
12 22 (6.94%) Software Engineering
13 21 (6.62%) Data Modelling
13 21 (6.62%) Observability
14 19 (5.99%) Cybersecurity
15 18 (5.68%) Prototyping
15 18 (5.68%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 97 (30.60%) Python
2 52 (16.40%) Shell Script
3 47 (14.83%) Bash
4 39 (12.30%) PowerShell
5 25 (7.89%) SQL
6 18 (5.68%) Perl
7 13 (4.10%) Java
8 8 (2.52%) MATLAB
9 7 (2.21%) Korn
10 4 (1.26%) C++
10 4 (1.26%) PHP
10 4 (1.26%) T-SQL
11 3 (0.95%) C
11 3 (0.95%) JavaScript
11 3 (0.95%) Ruby
11 3 (0.95%) TypeScript
12 2 (0.63%) AWK
12 2 (0.63%) Bourne shell
12 2 (0.63%) VBScript
13 1 (0.32%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 135 (42.59%) Security Cleared
2 98 (30.91%) SC Cleared
3 52 (16.40%) DV Cleared
4 22 (6.94%) Degree
5 13 (4.10%) Computer Science Degree
6 11 (3.47%) RHCE
7 8 (2.52%) Microsoft Certification
8 7 (2.21%) MCSE
9 6 (1.89%) MCSA
9 6 (1.89%) RHCT
10 4 (1.26%) RHCSA
11 2 (0.63%) RHCA
12 1 (0.32%) Azure Certification
12 1 (0.32%) CEH
12 1 (0.32%) CISSP
12 1 (0.32%) GIAC
12 1 (0.32%) Linux+ Certification
12 1 (0.32%) LPIC
12 1 (0.32%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (4.42%) QA
2 10 (3.15%) Actionable Recommendations
3 6 (1.89%) SLA
4 5 (1.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.63%) GDPR
5 2 (0.63%) NIST
6 1 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.32%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 64 (20.19%) VMware Infrastructure
2 45 (14.20%) Active Directory
3 31 (9.78%) Docker
4 22 (6.94%) Hyper-V
4 22 (6.94%) Virtual Machines
5 17 (5.36%) vSphere
6 16 (5.05%) KVM
7 10 (3.15%) VMware ESXi
8 8 (2.52%) Firmware
9 4 (1.26%) Ceph
9 4 (1.26%) Samba
9 4 (1.26%) Virtual Servers
9 4 (1.26%) VMware NSX
10 2 (0.63%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 2 (0.63%) Varnish
10 2 (0.63%) Veritas Cluster Server
11 1 (0.32%) Terminal Services
11 1 (0.32%) Xen
Systems Management
1 97 (30.60%) Ansible
2 53 (16.72%) Kubernetes
3 43 (13.56%) Terraform
4 29 (9.15%) Red Hat Satellite
5 26 (8.20%) Grafana
6 23 (7.26%) Kibana
7 22 (6.94%) Prometheus
8 17 (5.36%) logstash
9 11 (3.47%) Progress Chef
9 11 (3.47%) Puppet
10 8 (2.52%) Dell DRAC
11 7 (2.21%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 7 (2.21%) Packer
12 6 (1.89%) Data Guard
13 5 (1.58%) Istio
13 5 (1.58%) NetBackup
13 5 (1.58%) SELinux
13 5 (1.58%) Single Sign-On
13 5 (1.58%) WSUS
14 4 (1.26%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 113 (35.65%) VMware
2 56 (17.67%) Microsoft
3 42 (13.25%) Oracle
4 21 (6.62%) Dell
5 18 (5.68%) HP
6 16 (5.05%) Amdocs
7 15 (4.73%) IBM
8 14 (4.42%) Citrix
9 13 (4.10%) SolarWinds
10 9 (2.84%) Cisco
10 9 (2.84%) Temenos
11 8 (2.52%) Avaya
11 8 (2.52%) Bloomberg
11 8 (2.52%) Isilon
11 8 (2.52%) NetApp
11 8 (2.52%) Nimble Storage
11 8 (2.52%) Qualys
11 8 (2.52%) Veritas
12 7 (2.21%) Splunk
12 7 (2.21%) Verint