Red Hat Enterprise Linux Contract Job Trends in Berkshire

Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Berkshire requiring Red Hat Enterprise Linux skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 90 102 93
Rank change year-on-year +12 -9 +19
Contract jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 23 10 27
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 1.64% 0.64% 1.53%
As % of the Operating Systems category 12.50% 5.49% 9.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 5 22
10th Percentile £387 £388 £360
25th Percentile £413 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £475 £501
Median % change year-on-year +1.58% -5.19% -21.41%
75th Percentile £490 £575 £622
90th Percentile £532 £680 £700
South East median daily rate £483 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -12.27% +3.77% -7.54%

All Operating Systems
Berkshire

Red Hat Enterprise Linux falls under the Operating Systems category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring operating system skills in Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 184 182 287
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 13.11% 11.58% 16.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 128 113 215
10th Percentile £214 £200 £148
25th Percentile £255 £313 £208
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £423 £425 £400
Median % change year-on-year -0.59% +6.25% -18.08%
75th Percentile £519 £608 £588
90th Percentile £588 £683 £624
South East median daily rate £431 £438 £400
% change year-on-year -1.43% +9.38% -15.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 4 14
10th Percentile £17.36 - £31.56
25th Percentile £18.87 £55.87 £48.40
Median hourly rate £20.79 £56.75 £55.28
Median % change year-on-year -63.36% +2.65% +0.51%
75th Percentile £22.82 £60.64 £64.06
90th Percentile £63.55 £66.07 £68.22
South East median hourly rate £20.09 £60.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year -66.79% +10.00% +195.30%

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux job vacancy trend in Berkshire

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux in Berkshire over the 6 months to 2 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Red Hat Enterprise Linux in Berkshire

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

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 Berkshire region over the 6 months to 2 December 2025. 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
Wokingham -7 19 £483 -21.22%
Reading +21 6 £488 +21.88% 1
Red Hat Enterprise Linux
South East

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Berkshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 8 (34.78%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 7 (30.43%) SAN
General
1 13 (56.52%) Social Skills
2 6 (26.09%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (30.43%) Administrator
1 7 (30.43%) Backup Administrator
1 7 (30.43%) Storage Administrator
1 7 (30.43%) Storage and Backup Administrator
2 6 (26.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 6 (26.09%) Infrastructure Support
2 6 (26.09%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
2 6 (26.09%) Support Engineer
3 5 (21.74%) Site Engineer
3 5 (21.74%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 3 (13.04%) HP Storage Administrator
5 2 (8.70%) Senior
6 1 (4.35%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (34.78%) Loki
Miscellaneous
1 8 (34.78%) Cloud Native
1 8 (34.78%) Virtual Team
2 7 (30.43%) Enterprise Storage
3 3 (13.04%) HP Storage
4 2 (8.70%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 23 (100.00%) Linux
2 7 (30.43%) Windows
3 4 (17.39%) Windows Server 2012
3 4 (17.39%) Windows Server 2016
3 4 (17.39%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (60.87%) ITIL
2 11 (47.83%) Problem-Solving
3 8 (34.78%) Agile
3 8 (34.78%) Architectural Design
3 8 (34.78%) CI/CD
3 8 (34.78%) DevSecOps
3 8 (34.78%) Infrastructure as Code
3 8 (34.78%) Infrastructure Management
3 8 (34.78%) Observability
3 8 (34.78%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 7 (30.43%) Disaster Recovery
5 6 (26.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 4 (17.39%) Stakeholder Management
7 3 (13.04%) TOGAF
8 2 (8.70%) Mentoring
9 1 (4.35%) Decision-Making
9 1 (4.35%) GitOps
9 1 (4.35%) High Availability
9 1 (4.35%) Storage Management
9 1 (4.35%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 9 (39.13%) Bash
2 8 (34.78%) Python
3 7 (30.43%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 16 (69.57%) Security Cleared
2 15 (65.22%) SC Cleared
3 2 (8.70%) TOGAF Certification
System Software
1 8 (34.78%) vSphere
2 7 (30.43%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (34.78%) Ansible
1 8 (34.78%) Argo
1 8 (34.78%) Grafana
1 8 (34.78%) Kubernetes
1 8 (34.78%) Kustomize
1 8 (34.78%) Prometheus
1 8 (34.78%) Red Hat Satellite
2 6 (26.09%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 23 (100.00%) Red Hat
2 16 (69.57%) VMware
3 7 (30.43%) 3PAR
3 7 (30.43%) HP
3 7 (30.43%) Veritas
4 6 (26.09%) NetApp
4 6 (26.09%) Nimble Storage
5 3 (13.04%) Dell