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 28 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 84 73 106
Rank change year-on-year -11 +33 -10
Contract jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 30 17 22
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 1.73% 1.35% 1.11%
As % of the Operating Systems category 11.03% 9.50% 7.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 10 22
10th Percentile £399 £398 -
25th Percentile £428 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £513 £526
Median % change year-on-year -5.85% -2.47% -14.55%
75th Percentile £519 £575 £594
90th Percentile £583 £675 £622
South East median daily rate £483 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -12.27% - -6.14%

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 272 179 312
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 15.66% 14.20% 15.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 199 108 241
10th Percentile £204 £204 £200
25th Percentile £305 £334 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £458 £400
Median % change year-on-year -7.26% +14.56% -23.81%
75th Percentile £500 £588 £575
90th Percentile £575 £675 £615
South East median daily rate £456 £454 £431
% change year-on-year +0.44% +5.28% -11.99%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 4 14
10th Percentile £17.36 £34.02 £31.56
25th Percentile £20.57 £48.07 £49.94
Median hourly rate £20.79 £56.75 £59.80
Median % change year-on-year -63.36% -5.11% +8.73%
75th Percentile £65.01 £57.62 £66.69
90th Percentile £81.40 - £68.63
South East median hourly rate £20.79 £57.75 £54.53
% change year-on-year -64.00% +5.91% +77.33%

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 28 February 2026.

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 28 February 2026. 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 -24 25 £483 -12.27% 7
Reading -2 7 £549 +37.19% 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 10 (33.33%) OpenShift
2 3 (10.00%) Amazon EC2
2 3 (10.00%) Amazon S3
2 3 (10.00%) AWS
2 3 (10.00%) Azure
2 3 (10.00%) Azure Storage
3 2 (6.67%) IaaS
3 2 (6.67%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.33%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (13.33%) Oracle Database
2 3 (10.00%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (10.00%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (3.33%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (3.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (6.67%) Jenkins
General
1 11 (36.67%) Social Skills
2 6 (20.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (3.33%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 6 (20.00%) Infrastructure Support
1 6 (20.00%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
1 6 (20.00%) Support Engineer
2 5 (16.67%) Site Engineer
2 5 (16.67%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 3 (10.00%) DBA
3 3 (10.00%) Oracle DBA
3 3 (10.00%) Senior
4 2 (6.67%) Platform Engineer
5 1 (3.33%) Administrator
5 1 (3.33%) Analyst
5 1 (3.33%) Deployment Engineer
5 1 (3.33%) Infrastructure Analyst
5 1 (3.33%) Principal Engineer
5 1 (3.33%) Senior Analyst
5 1 (3.33%) Senior Infrastructure Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (26.67%) Loki
2 1 (3.33%) Oracle GoldenGate
2 1 (3.33%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (36.67%) Cloud Native
2 8 (26.67%) Virtual Team
3 1 (3.33%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (3.33%) Enterprise Storage
3 1 (3.33%) HP Storage
3 1 (3.33%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 30 (100.00%) Linux
2 1 (3.33%) OpenVMS
2 1 (3.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (53.33%) ITIL
1 16 (53.33%) Problem-Solving
2 15 (50.00%) Architectural Design
2 15 (50.00%) DevSecOps
3 13 (43.33%) CI/CD
4 10 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 9 (30.00%) Agile
5 9 (30.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 9 (30.00%) Observability
6 8 (26.67%) Infrastructure Management
7 6 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 5 (16.67%) DevOps
8 5 (16.67%) High Availability
8 5 (16.67%) Runbook
9 4 (13.33%) Task Automation
10 3 (10.00%) Performance Tuning
10 3 (10.00%) Statistics
11 2 (6.67%) Performance Monitoring
11 2 (6.67%) Platform Engineering
11 2 (6.67%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (33.33%) Bash
1 10 (33.33%) Python
2 5 (16.67%) Shell Script
3 3 (10.00%) SQL
4 1 (3.33%) Korn
4 1 (3.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 20 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 20 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 3 (10.00%) Azure Certification
2 3 (10.00%) OCP
2 3 (10.00%) Oracle Certification
3 2 (6.67%) RHCE
4 1 (3.33%) Degree
4 1 (3.33%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.00%) GDPR
System Software
1 8 (26.67%) VMware Infrastructure
1 8 (26.67%) vSphere
2 3 (10.00%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (3.33%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 15 (50.00%) Ansible
1 15 (50.00%) Red Hat Satellite
2 10 (33.33%) Kubernetes
3 8 (26.67%) Argo
3 8 (26.67%) Grafana
3 8 (26.67%) Kustomize
3 8 (26.67%) Prometheus
4 4 (13.33%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 4 (13.33%) Oracle RMAN
5 3 (10.00%) Data Guard
6 2 (6.67%) systemd
7 1 (3.33%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 30 (100.00%) Red Hat
2 23 (76.67%) VMware
3 4 (13.33%) Oracle
4 1 (3.33%) 3PAR
4 1 (3.33%) Dell
4 1 (3.33%) HP
4 1 (3.33%) Microsoft
4 1 (3.33%) NetApp
4 1 (3.33%) Nimble Storage
4 1 (3.33%) Veritas