Red Hat Enterprise Linux Contracts with Work from Home Options

Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 265 196 301
Rank change year-on-year -69 +105 -48
Contract jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 76 313 359
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.50% 1.25% 0.82%
As % of the Operating Systems category 4.88% 9.09% 6.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 248 252
10th Percentile £345 £413 £414
25th Percentile £400 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £560 £550
Median % change year-on-year -15.18% +1.82% +18.92%
75th Percentile £525 £676 £631
90th Percentile £600 £810 £688
UK median daily rate £520 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -13.33% +4.35% +21.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 4
10th Percentile - - £34.30
25th Percentile - £51.25 £52.75
Median hourly rate - £52.50 £63.00
Median % change year-on-year - -16.67% +3.70%
75th Percentile - £53.75 £67.88
90th Percentile - £67.10 £76.65
UK median hourly rate £72.75 £52.50 £63.00
% change year-on-year +38.57% -16.67% +9.57%

All Operating Systems
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 1,557 3,444 5,345
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 10.33% 13.73% 12.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,092 2,428 3,777
10th Percentile £225 £250 £293
25th Percentile £350 £408 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £520 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.65% +4.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £588 £631 £604
90th Percentile £687 £725 £675
UK median daily rate £468 £510 £500
% change year-on-year -8.24% +2.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 101 157
10th Percentile £12.80 £19.00 £14.80
25th Percentile £14.27 £38.50 £18.50
Median hourly rate £17.69 £55.00 £43.34
Median % change year-on-year -67.84% +26.92% +17.12%
75th Percentile £65.00 £69.50 £57.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £22.00 £38.50 £23.00
% change year-on-year -42.86% +67.39% +29.58%

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux trend for jobs with a WFH option

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 12 (15.79%) Confluence
2 6 (7.89%) Apache
2 6 (7.89%) JBoss
2 6 (7.89%) Tomcat
3 4 (5.26%) OpenStack
4 3 (3.95%) nginx
5 2 (2.63%) IIS
6 1 (1.32%) OpenEdge
6 1 (1.32%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (1.32%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (3.95%) Temenos T24
2 1 (1.32%) MFGPRO
2 1 (1.32%) Sage 50
2 1 (1.32%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 33 (43.42%) AWS
2 19 (25.00%) Azure
3 13 (17.11%) IaaS
4 12 (15.79%) Amazon EC2
4 12 (15.79%) OpenShift
5 11 (14.47%) Amazon S3
5 11 (14.47%) AWS CloudFormation
5 11 (14.47%) AWS Lambda
5 11 (14.47%) Serverless
6 10 (13.16%) PaaS
6 10 (13.16%) SaaS
7 9 (11.84%) Cloud Computing
8 8 (10.53%) Nutanix
9 7 (9.21%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 7 (9.21%) GCP
9 7 (9.21%) Rubrik
10 5 (6.58%) Amazon ECS
11 4 (5.26%) AWS Fargate
11 4 (5.26%) Route 53
12 3 (3.95%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 12 (15.79%) DNS
1 12 (15.79%) Firewall
2 9 (11.84%) DHCP
2 9 (11.84%) SAN
3 8 (10.53%) NAS
3 8 (10.53%) TCP/IP
4 7 (9.21%) Kerberos
4 7 (9.21%) VLAN
5 2 (2.63%) LAN
5 2 (2.63%) WAN
6 1 (1.32%) Fibre Channel
6 1 (1.32%) H.323
6 1 (1.32%) HTTP
6 1 (1.32%) Network Security
6 1 (1.32%) Remote Desktop
6 1 (1.32%) SD-WAN
6 1 (1.32%) Unified Communications
6 1 (1.32%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (15.79%) Elasticsearch
2 8 (10.53%) Relational Database
3 7 (9.21%) RDBMS
3 7 (9.21%) SQL Server
4 6 (7.89%) Amazon RDS
4 6 (7.89%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (6.58%) InfluxDB
6 3 (3.95%) Amazon Aurora
7 2 (2.63%) Informix
7 2 (2.63%) MongoDB
7 2 (2.63%) Oracle BI Publisher
7 2 (2.63%) Oracle Database
7 2 (2.63%) Redis
8 1 (1.32%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (1.32%) MariaDB
8 1 (1.32%) Metadata
8 1 (1.32%) MySQL
8 1 (1.32%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 21 (27.63%) Jenkins
2 18 (23.68%) Git
3 15 (19.74%) JIRA
4 11 (14.47%) GitLab
5 10 (13.16%) TeamCity
6 5 (6.58%) Artifactory
6 5 (6.58%) Sonatype Nexus
7 3 (3.95%) Bitbucket Server
7 3 (3.95%) CA Release Automation
7 3 (3.95%) SonarQube
8 2 (2.63%) Oracle APEX
8 2 (2.63%) Selenium
9 1 (1.32%) Maven
9 1 (1.32%) Subversion
9 1 (1.32%) Terragrunt
General
1 20 (26.32%) Finance
2 13 (17.11%) Social Skills
3 12 (15.79%) Public Sector
4 5 (6.58%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (6.58%) Banking
5 2 (2.63%) Investment Banking
5 2 (2.63%) Telecoms
6 1 (1.32%) Billing
6 1 (1.32%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.32%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (1.32%) Legal
Job Titles
1 10 (13.16%) DevOps Engineer
1 10 (13.16%) Linux Engineer
2 9 (11.84%) Administrator
2 9 (11.84%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 8 (10.53%) AWS Engineer
4 7 (9.21%) AWS DevOps
4 7 (9.21%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 6 (7.89%) Linux Administrator
5 6 (7.89%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
5 6 (7.89%) Platform Engineer
5 6 (7.89%) Senior
6 5 (6.58%) Architect
6 5 (6.58%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 5 (6.58%) Linux Systems Administrator
6 5 (6.58%) Support Engineer
6 5 (6.58%) Systems Administrator
7 4 (5.26%) Automation Engineer
7 4 (5.26%) Python Engineer
7 4 (5.26%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
7 4 (5.26%) Vulnerability Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (10.53%) AWS CDK
1 8 (10.53%) LDAP
2 7 (9.21%) Elastic Stack
3 4 (5.26%) Middleware
4 3 (3.95%) HTML
4 3 (3.95%) IBM Integration Bus
4 3 (3.95%) RabbitMQ
4 3 (3.95%) Spring Boot
5 2 (2.63%) CSS
5 2 (2.63%) OAuth
5 2 (2.63%) OAuth2
5 2 (2.63%) pytest
5 2 (2.63%) RESTful
5 2 (2.63%) Swagger
5 2 (2.63%) YAML
6 1 (1.32%) Java EE
6 1 (1.32%) jQuery
6 1 (1.32%) JSON
6 1 (1.32%) SOAP
6 1 (1.32%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 9 (11.84%) Replication
2 8 (10.53%) Clustering
3 4 (5.26%) Linux Command Line
4 3 (3.95%) Cloud Native
4 3 (3.95%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (3.95%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.63%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.32%) Client/Server
6 1 (1.32%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (1.32%) FMCG
6 1 (1.32%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (1.32%) IVR
6 1 (1.32%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.32%) PKI
6 1 (1.32%) Private Cloud
6 1 (1.32%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.32%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 76 (100.00%) Linux
2 23 (30.26%) Windows
3 15 (19.74%) Windows Server
4 14 (18.42%) Unix
5 10 (13.16%) Solaris
5 10 (13.16%) Ubuntu
6 8 (10.53%) Oracle Linux
7 7 (9.21%) CentOS
8 2 (2.63%) Alpine Linux
9 1 (1.32%) Apple iOS
9 1 (1.32%) HPUX
9 1 (1.32%) Rocky
9 1 (1.32%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (35.53%) DevOps
2 22 (28.95%) Infrastructure as Code
3 18 (23.68%) CI/CD
4 17 (22.37%) Agile
5 12 (15.79%) Disaster Recovery
6 11 (14.47%) Continuous Improvement
6 11 (14.47%) Continuous Integration
6 11 (14.47%) High Availability
6 11 (14.47%) Vulnerability Management
7 10 (13.16%) Deployment Automation
8 9 (11.84%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 9 (11.84%) Roadmaps
9 8 (10.53%) Migration
9 8 (10.53%) Observability
9 8 (10.53%) Performance Tuning
10 7 (9.21%) Cost Optimisation
10 7 (9.21%) Data Security
10 7 (9.21%) Root Cause Analysis
10 7 (9.21%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 7 (9.21%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 37 (48.68%) Python
2 24 (31.58%) Bash
3 15 (19.74%) PowerShell
4 9 (11.84%) Shell Script
5 6 (7.89%) Perl
5 6 (7.89%) SQL
6 4 (5.26%) Groovy
7 3 (3.95%) JavaScript
7 3 (3.95%) TypeScript
8 2 (2.63%) Java
8 2 (2.63%) Korn
8 2 (2.63%) Ruby
9 1 (1.32%) C
9 1 (1.32%) C++
9 1 (1.32%) PL/SQL
9 1 (1.32%) ProC
Qualifications
1 16 (21.05%) Security Cleared
2 14 (18.42%) SC Cleared
3 4 (5.26%) Degree
4 2 (2.63%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.32%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.32%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.32%) RHCE
5 1 (1.32%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (10.53%) GDPR
2 7 (9.21%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 2 (2.63%) SLA
4 1 (1.32%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.32%) QA
System Software
1 17 (22.37%) Docker
2 16 (21.05%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (19.74%) Active Directory
4 6 (7.89%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (3.95%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (3.95%) vSphere
6 2 (2.63%) VMware NSX
7 1 (1.32%) Hyper-V
7 1 (1.32%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 37 (48.68%) Ansible
2 24 (31.58%) Kubernetes
3 18 (23.68%) Terraform
4 13 (17.11%) Grafana
5 12 (15.79%) Kibana
6 9 (11.84%) Red Hat Satellite
7 8 (10.53%) Progress Chef
7 8 (10.53%) Puppet
8 7 (9.21%) EMC NetWorker
8 7 (9.21%) Netcool
8 7 (9.21%) Tivoli
8 7 (9.21%) Tivoli Storage Manager
9 6 (7.89%) Prometheus
10 4 (5.26%) logstash
11 2 (2.63%) Salt
12 1 (1.32%) FreeIPA
12 1 (1.32%) Icinga
12 1 (1.32%) Jamf Pro
12 1 (1.32%) SELinux
12 1 (1.32%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 41 (53.95%) Red Hat
2 23 (30.26%) VMware
3 19 (25.00%) Oracle
4 12 (15.79%) Qualys
4 12 (15.79%) Splunk
5 11 (14.47%) Microsoft
6 10 (13.16%) IBM
7 9 (11.84%) ServiceNow
8 8 (10.53%) Cisco
8 8 (10.53%) CyberArk
8 8 (10.53%) Dell
8 8 (10.53%) HP
9 7 (9.21%) EMC
9 7 (9.21%) Isilon
9 7 (9.21%) Serena
10 4 (5.26%) Atlassian
11 3 (3.95%) AppDynamics
11 3 (3.95%) SolarWinds
11 3 (3.95%) Temenos
12 2 (2.63%) SaltStack