Red Hat Enterprise Linux Contracts in Berkshire

Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire requiring Red Hat Enterprise Linux skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Red Hat Enterprise Linux over the 6 months leading up to 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 78 107 71
Rank change year-on-year +29 -36 +57
Contract jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 16 10 50
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 1.34% 0.51% 2.66%
As % of the Operating Systems category 10.26% 4.65% 18.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 10 39
10th Percentile £366 £501 £308
25th Percentile £393 £507 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £603 £613
Median % change year-on-year -21.16% -1.63% +6.52%
75th Percentile £675 £650 £638
90th Percentile £698 £660 £700
South East median daily rate £550 £573 £575
% change year-on-year -3.93% -0.43% +13.58%

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 156 215 272
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 13.02% 10.89% 14.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 95 131 172
10th Percentile £270 £213 £206
25th Percentile £396 £313 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £501 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.20% +0.20% -
75th Percentile £669 £608 £623
90th Percentile £700 £623 £700
South East median daily rate £490 £475 £450
% change year-on-year +3.16% +5.56% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 8 6
10th Percentile - £56.43 £34.58
25th Percentile - £56.50 £47.73
Median hourly rate £18.87 £61.60 £54.38
Median % change year-on-year -69.37% +13.29% -27.50%
75th Percentile £21.77 £63.39 £67.66
90th Percentile £23.50 £69.03 £75.69
South East median hourly rate £18.82 £47.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year -60.38% -13.64% +223.53%

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Job postings citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

Job vacancy trend for Red Hat Enterprise Linux in Berkshire

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Red Hat Enterprise Linux in Berkshire

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 6 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Red Hat Enterprise Linux in Berkshire

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Red Hat Enterprise Linux in Berkshire

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 6 July 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 -1 11 £400 -40.30% 6
Reading +23 2 £365 -37.34% 6
Bracknell - 2 £700 -
Maidenhead - 1 - -
Red Hat Enterprise Linux
South East

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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 1 (6.25%) Anypoint
Communications & Networking
1 7 (43.75%) SAN
2 4 (25.00%) DHCP
2 4 (25.00%) DNS
2 4 (25.00%) TCP/IP
3 1 (6.25%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (12.50%) Oracle Database
1 2 (12.50%) Oracle Database 12c
General
1 5 (31.25%) Social Skills
2 2 (12.50%) Documentation Skills
2 2 (12.50%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (50.00%) Administrator
2 7 (43.75%) Backup Administrator
2 7 (43.75%) Storage Administrator
2 7 (43.75%) Storage and Backup Administrator
3 4 (25.00%) Lead
4 3 (18.75%) HP Storage Administrator
5 2 (12.50%) Architect
5 2 (12.50%) Oracle Architect
6 1 (6.25%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (6.25%) Integration Engineer
6 1 (6.25%) Linux Administrator
6 1 (6.25%) Linux Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.25%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 11 (68.75%) Enterprise Storage
2 4 (25.00%) Data Centre
3 3 (18.75%) HP Storage
4 2 (12.50%) Management Information System
5 1 (6.25%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 16 (100.00%) Linux
2 11 (68.75%) Windows
3 8 (50.00%) Windows Server 2019
4 4 (25.00%) Windows Server
4 4 (25.00%) Windows Server 2012
4 4 (25.00%) Windows Server 2016
5 3 (18.75%) VMS
6 1 (6.25%) CentOS
6 1 (6.25%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (62.50%) ITIL
2 8 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 8 (50.00%) High Availability
3 7 (43.75%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (31.25%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 5 (31.25%) Stakeholder Management
4 5 (31.25%) Technical Leadership
5 4 (25.00%) DevSecOps
6 3 (18.75%) TOGAF
7 2 (12.50%) BCP
7 2 (12.50%) Business Continuity
7 2 (12.50%) Business Continuity Planning
7 2 (12.50%) Database Migration
7 2 (12.50%) Mentoring
7 2 (12.50%) Performance Tuning
7 2 (12.50%) Root Cause Analysis
7 2 (12.50%) Vulnerability Management
8 1 (6.25%) API Management
8 1 (6.25%) Decision-Making
8 1 (6.25%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (43.75%) Shell Script
2 1 (6.25%) Bash
Qualifications
1 14 (87.50%) Security Cleared
2 11 (68.75%) SC Cleared
3 2 (12.50%) DV Cleared
3 2 (12.50%) TOGAF Certification
System Software
1 2 (12.50%) Oracle RAC
1 2 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (6.25%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (6.25%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (6.25%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 10 (62.50%) NetBackup
2 2 (12.50%) Ansible
2 2 (12.50%) Data Guard
2 2 (12.50%) Oracle RMAN
2 2 (12.50%) yum
3 1 (6.25%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 15 (93.75%) Red Hat
2 12 (75.00%) HP
3 11 (68.75%) 3PAR
3 11 (68.75%) Veritas
4 7 (43.75%) Dell
4 7 (43.75%) VMware
5 6 (37.50%) NetApp
5 6 (37.50%) Nimble Storage
6 2 (12.50%) Oracle
7 1 (6.25%) IBM
7 1 (6.25%) MuleSoft