Red Hat Contracts with Work from Home Options

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The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 9 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
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 254 201 265
Rank change year-on-year -53 +64 -45
Contract jobs citing Red Hat 87 305 436
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.58% 1.22% 0.99%
As % of the Vendors category 1.35% 2.82% 2.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 245 286
10th Percentile £354 £425 £375
25th Percentile £463 £454 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £557 £550
Median % change year-on-year -10.23% +1.27% +14.58%
75th Percentile £550 £675 £634
90th Percentile £563 £819 £703
UK median daily rate £525 £585 £572
% change year-on-year -10.26% +2.36% +19.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 8
10th Percentile - - £23.66
25th Percentile - £51.25 £38.72
Median hourly rate - £52.50 £55.79
Median % change year-on-year - -5.90% -3.81%
75th Percentile - £59.38 £67.88
90th Percentile - £68.63 £82.95
UK median hourly rate £74.44 £52.50 £63.00
% change year-on-year +41.79% -16.67% +31.94%

All Vendors
Work from Home

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 WFH option and 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 6,422 10,810 17,157
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 42.60% 43.09% 39.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,015 7,268 11,680
10th Percentile £325 £325 £344
25th Percentile £425 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - +10.53%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £625
90th Percentile £725 £750 £713
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -1.90% - +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 216 254 252
10th Percentile £13.65 £17.50 £13.94
25th Percentile £16.68 £30.81 £19.19
Median hourly rate £30.56 £54.00 £36.89
Median % change year-on-year -43.41% +46.39% +22.96%
75th Percentile £58.13 £68.44 £52.91
90th Percentile £70.00 £80.25 £66.68
UK median hourly rate £22.00 £42.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year -48.24% +97.67% -3.91%

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Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Red Hat trend for jobs with a WFH option

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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.

Red Hat daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Red Hat daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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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.

Red Hat hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

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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 8 (9.20%) Tomcat
2 7 (8.05%) Confluence
2 7 (8.05%) JBoss
3 6 (6.90%) Apache
4 5 (5.75%) nginx
5 1 (1.15%) IIS
5 1 (1.15%) OpenEdge
5 1 (1.15%) OpenStack
5 1 (1.15%) Red Hat Fuse
5 1 (1.15%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (1.15%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (3.45%) Temenos T24
2 1 (1.15%) MFGPRO
2 1 (1.15%) Sage 50
Cloud Services
1 27 (31.03%) AWS
2 19 (21.84%) Azure
3 12 (13.79%) OpenShift
4 9 (10.34%) IaaS
5 7 (8.05%) AWS CloudFormation
6 5 (5.75%) Amazon EKS
6 5 (5.75%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 4 (4.60%) Amazon EC2
7 4 (4.60%) Amazon OpenSearch
7 4 (4.60%) Amazon S3
7 4 (4.60%) AWS Lambda
7 4 (4.60%) GitHub
7 4 (4.60%) Serverless
8 3 (3.45%) Azure AKS
8 3 (3.45%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (3.45%) Cloud Computing
9 2 (2.30%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 2 (2.30%) AWS CodeBuild
9 2 (2.30%) AWS CodeCommit
9 2 (2.30%) AWS CodePipeline
Communications & Networking
1 21 (24.14%) TCP/IP
2 17 (19.54%) SAN
3 9 (10.34%) Firewall
4 6 (6.90%) DNS
5 2 (2.30%) DHCP
5 2 (2.30%) LAN
5 2 (2.30%) SD-WAN
5 2 (2.30%) WAN
6 1 (1.15%) H.323
6 1 (1.15%) HTTP
6 1 (1.15%) InfiniBand
6 1 (1.15%) Intrusion Detection
6 1 (1.15%) Unified Communications
6 1 (1.15%) VPN
6 1 (1.15%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (9.20%) Relational Database
2 7 (8.05%) RDBMS
2 7 (8.05%) SQL Server
3 6 (6.90%) Amazon RDS
4 5 (5.75%) Elasticsearch
4 5 (5.75%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (4.60%) Amazon Aurora
6 3 (3.45%) MongoDB
7 2 (2.30%) InfluxDB
7 2 (2.30%) Informix
7 2 (2.30%) MySQL
7 2 (2.30%) Oracle BI Publisher
7 2 (2.30%) Oracle Database
8 1 (1.15%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (1.15%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 9 (10.34%) JIRA
2 7 (8.05%) Git
3 6 (6.90%) Jenkins
4 5 (5.75%) SonarQube
5 4 (4.60%) GitLab
5 4 (4.60%) Sonatype Nexus
6 3 (3.45%) Bitbucket
6 3 (3.45%) Bitbucket Server
6 3 (3.45%) CA Release Automation
6 3 (3.45%) TeamCity
7 2 (2.30%) Cucumber
7 2 (2.30%) EasyMock
7 2 (2.30%) JUnit
7 2 (2.30%) Maven
7 2 (2.30%) Mockito
7 2 (2.30%) Oracle APEX
7 2 (2.30%) Postman
7 2 (2.30%) Selenium
7 2 (2.30%) TestNG
8 1 (1.15%) Subversion
General
1 18 (20.69%) Social Skills
2 14 (16.09%) Finance
3 9 (10.34%) Public Sector
4 5 (5.75%) Banking
5 4 (4.60%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (3.45%) Telecoms
7 2 (2.30%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (2.30%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.15%) Back Office
8 1 (1.15%) Electronics
8 1 (1.15%) Legal
8 1 (1.15%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.15%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 22 (25.29%) Developer
2 17 (19.54%) Python Developer
3 15 (17.24%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 15 (17.24%) Linux Engineer
4 10 (11.49%) Senior
5 9 (10.34%) Administrator
6 8 (9.20%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
7 7 (8.05%) Linux Administrator
8 6 (6.90%) Cloud Engineer
8 6 (6.90%) Linux Systems Administrator
8 6 (6.90%) Support Engineer
8 6 (6.90%) Systems Administrator
9 5 (5.75%) Applications Support
9 5 (5.75%) AWS Engineer
9 5 (5.75%) Backend Developer
9 5 (5.75%) Vulnerability Specialist
10 4 (4.60%) Consultant
10 4 (4.60%) Security Engineer
10 4 (4.60%) Senior Developer
10 4 (4.60%) Senior Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (9.20%) Elastic Stack
2 6 (6.90%) Spring Boot
3 5 (5.75%) YAML
4 4 (4.60%) Middleware
4 4 (4.60%) Swagger
5 3 (3.45%) CSS
5 3 (3.45%) HTML
5 3 (3.45%) IBM Integration Bus
5 3 (3.45%) REST
5 3 (3.45%) Spring
6 2 (2.30%) FIX Protocol
6 2 (2.30%) Gherkin
6 2 (2.30%) Guice
6 2 (2.30%) JAX-RS
6 2 (2.30%) Kafka
6 2 (2.30%) Mustache
6 2 (2.30%) OAuth
6 2 (2.30%) OAuth2
6 2 (2.30%) RESTful
6 2 (2.30%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 6 (6.90%) Data Centre
1 6 (6.90%) Linux Command Line
2 5 (5.75%) Onboarding
3 3 (3.45%) Cloud Native
3 3 (3.45%) Distributed Applications
3 3 (3.45%) Greenfield Project
3 3 (3.45%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (3.45%) Management Information System
4 2 (2.30%) Public Cloud
4 2 (2.30%) Replication
5 1 (1.15%) Client/Server
5 1 (1.15%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (1.15%) FMCG
5 1 (1.15%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (1.15%) IVR
5 1 (1.15%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.15%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 74 (85.06%) Linux
2 41 (47.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 23 (26.44%) Ubuntu
4 20 (22.99%) Windows
5 19 (21.84%) Debian
6 12 (13.79%) Unix
7 10 (11.49%) Windows Server
8 6 (6.90%) CentOS
9 4 (4.60%) Solaris
10 1 (1.15%) Android
10 1 (1.15%) Apple iOS
10 1 (1.15%) HPUX
10 1 (1.15%) Windows Mobile
10 1 (1.15%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (1.15%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (27.59%) Agile
2 20 (22.99%) ITIL
3 19 (21.84%) Customer Service
4 17 (19.54%) Configuration Management
4 17 (19.54%) Data Modelling
5 14 (16.09%) Data Engineering
5 14 (16.09%) Matrix Organization
5 14 (16.09%) Prototyping
5 14 (16.09%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
6 13 (14.94%) DevOps
6 13 (14.94%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 12 (13.79%) CI/CD
7 12 (13.79%) Roadmaps
8 11 (12.64%) Software Engineering
9 10 (11.49%) Migration
10 9 (10.34%) High Availability
11 8 (9.20%) Runbook
12 7 (8.05%) Infrastructure as Code
12 7 (8.05%) Infrastructure Automation
12 7 (8.05%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 39 (44.83%) Python
2 15 (17.24%) Bash
3 11 (12.64%) PowerShell
4 9 (10.34%) Perl
5 5 (5.75%) Shell Script
5 5 (5.75%) SQL
6 4 (4.60%) Java
7 2 (2.30%) JavaScript
7 2 (2.30%) Korn
7 2 (2.30%) Ruby
7 2 (2.30%) TypeScript
8 1 (1.15%) MATLAB
8 1 (1.15%) PHP
8 1 (1.15%) PL/SQL
8 1 (1.15%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 27 (31.03%) SC Cleared
1 27 (31.03%) Security Cleared
2 14 (16.09%) DV Cleared
3 6 (6.90%) Degree
4 3 (3.45%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.15%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.15%) CEH
5 1 (1.15%) CISSP
5 1 (1.15%) RHCA
5 1 (1.15%) RHCE
5 1 (1.15%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (2.30%) QA
2 2 (2.30%) SLA
3 1 (1.15%) GDPR
System Software
1 16 (18.39%) Docker
2 13 (14.94%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (8.05%) Active Directory
4 4 (4.60%) vSphere
5 3 (3.45%) Ceph
5 3 (3.45%) VMware NSX
6 2 (2.30%) Veritas Cluster Server
6 2 (2.30%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (2.30%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (1.15%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 30 (34.48%) Ansible
2 20 (22.99%) Kubernetes
3 12 (13.79%) Terraform
4 11 (12.64%) Red Hat Satellite
5 8 (9.20%) Progress Chef
5 8 (9.20%) Puppet
6 3 (3.45%) Kibana
7 2 (2.30%) Grafana
7 2 (2.30%) Kustomize
7 2 (2.30%) Pacemaker
7 2 (2.30%) Packer
7 2 (2.30%) Podman
7 2 (2.30%) Salt
7 2 (2.30%) SELinux
8 1 (1.15%) Dell DRAC
8 1 (1.15%) Nagios
8 1 (1.15%) Opsview
Vendors
1 35 (40.23%) VMware
2 19 (21.84%) Microsoft
3 8 (9.20%) Oracle
4 6 (6.90%) Qualys
5 5 (5.75%) Atlassian
6 4 (4.60%) Splunk
6 4 (4.60%) Sun
7 3 (3.45%) AppDynamics
7 3 (3.45%) IBM
7 3 (3.45%) SolarWinds
7 3 (3.45%) Temenos
8 2 (2.30%) Cisco
8 2 (2.30%) Commvault
8 2 (2.30%) Dell
8 2 (2.30%) Juniper
8 2 (2.30%) Remedy
8 2 (2.30%) SaltStack
8 2 (2.30%) TOWER Software
9 1 (1.15%) Avaya
9 1 (1.15%) Symantec