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 10 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 96 82 108
Rank change year-on-year -14 +26 -38
Contract jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 32 14 6
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 1.65% 1.15% 0.35%
As % of the Operating Systems category 15.76% 9.52% 3.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 10 6
10th Percentile £407 £362 £513
25th Percentile £414 £393 £556
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £434 £400 £650
Median % change year-on-year +8.38% -38.46% +6.34%
75th Percentile £500 £575 -
90th Percentile £525 £700 £700
South East median daily rate £455 £550 £573
% change year-on-year -17.27% -3.93% -0.43%

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 203 147 181
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 10.49% 12.10% 10.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 113 90 108
10th Percentile £300 £220 £213
25th Percentile £378 £367 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £435 £488 £498
Median % change year-on-year -10.77% -2.01% +10.56%
75th Percentile £500 £663 £608
90th Percentile £600 £700 £641
South East median daily rate £475 £475 £473
% change year-on-year - +0.37% +11.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 2 5
10th Percentile £20.25 - £57.15
25th Percentile £29.69 - £58.49
Median hourly rate £32.50 £18.87 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year +72.23% -69.37% +16.23%
75th Percentile £55.00 - £68.75
90th Percentile £70.59 - £69.31
South East median hourly rate £42.71 £18.87 £57.25
% change year-on-year +126.31% -67.04% +4.09%

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 10 August 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 10 August 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 +4 27 £437 +9.25%
Reading -19 3 £414 +13.29% 1
Bracknell -3 2 - -
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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (6.25%) IBM HTTP Server
1 2 (6.25%) Oracle HTTP Server
1 2 (6.25%) WebSphere
1 2 (6.25%) WebSphere Application Server
1 2 (6.25%) WebSphere Portal
Cloud Services
1 8 (25.00%) OpenShift
2 3 (9.38%) Azure
3 1 (3.13%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (12.50%) DNS
1 4 (12.50%) Firewall
1 4 (12.50%) TCP/IP
2 2 (6.25%) BGP
2 2 (6.25%) HTTP
2 2 (6.25%) Intrusion Detection
2 2 (6.25%) SSL
2 2 (6.25%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.25%) Oracle Database
2 1 (3.13%) Oracle Database 12c
2 1 (3.13%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (3.13%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 10 (31.25%) Jenkins
2 2 (6.25%) GitLab
2 2 (6.25%) Introscope
2 2 (6.25%) JIRA
General
1 6 (18.75%) Social Skills
2 3 (9.38%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (6.25%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 10 (31.25%) Linux Engineer
2 8 (25.00%) Platform Engineer
3 4 (12.50%) Senior
4 2 (6.25%) Architect
4 2 (6.25%) Deployment Engineer
4 2 (6.25%) Middleware Engineer
4 2 (6.25%) Senior Middleware Engineer
4 2 (6.25%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (3.13%) Analyst
5 1 (3.13%) Cloud Engineer
5 1 (3.13%) DBA
5 1 (3.13%) Infrastructure Analyst
5 1 (3.13%) Oracle DBA
5 1 (3.13%) Oracle Production DBA
5 1 (3.13%) SC Cleared DBA
5 1 (3.13%) SC Cleared Deployment Engineer
5 1 (3.13%) Senior Analyst
5 1 (3.13%) Senior DBA
5 1 (3.13%) Senior Infrastructure Analyst
5 1 (3.13%) Senior Oracle DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (6.25%) JDBC
1 2 (6.25%) JMS
1 2 (6.25%) Kafka
1 2 (6.25%) Middleware
1 2 (6.25%) Oracle GoldenGate
1 2 (6.25%) RabbitMQ
1 2 (6.25%) WebSphere MQ
1 2 (6.25%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (6.25%) Clustering
1 2 (6.25%) Enterprise Software
1 2 (6.25%) Operational Technology
1 2 (6.25%) SCADA
2 1 (3.13%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (3.13%) Cloud Native
2 1 (3.13%) IoT
2 1 (3.13%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 32 (100.00%) Linux
2 3 (9.38%) Windows
3 2 (6.25%) Oracle Linux
3 2 (6.25%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
3 2 (6.25%) Unix
4 1 (3.13%) OpenVMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (43.75%) CI/CD
2 12 (37.50%) Platform Engineering
3 11 (34.38%) ITIL
4 10 (31.25%) DevOps
4 10 (31.25%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 8 (25.00%) Architectural Design
5 8 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
5 8 (25.00%) Runbook
6 7 (21.88%) DevSecOps
7 6 (18.75%) Deployment Automation
8 5 (15.63%) High Availability
9 4 (12.50%) Agile
9 4 (12.50%) Observability
10 3 (9.38%) Infrastructure as Code
10 3 (9.38%) Migration
11 2 (6.25%) AI
11 2 (6.25%) Load Balancing
11 2 (6.25%) Microservices
11 2 (6.25%) Performance Optimisation
11 2 (6.25%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 11 (34.38%) Bash
1 11 (34.38%) Python
2 9 (28.13%) PowerShell
3 2 (6.25%) Jython
3 2 (6.25%) Korn
3 2 (6.25%) Perl
4 1 (3.13%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 24 (75.00%) Security Cleared
2 23 (71.88%) SC Cleared
3 7 (21.88%) RHCE
4 1 (3.13%) AWS Certification
4 1 (3.13%) Degree
System Software
1 3 (9.38%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (6.25%) Oracle RAC
2 2 (6.25%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 12 (37.50%) Kubernetes
2 11 (34.38%) Ansible
3 8 (25.00%) Red Hat Satellite
4 2 (6.25%) CA Wily
4 2 (6.25%) Grafana
4 2 (6.25%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 2 (6.25%) Oracle RMAN
4 2 (6.25%) Prometheus
4 2 (6.25%) Tivoli
5 1 (3.13%) Progress Chef
5 1 (3.13%) Puppet
5 1 (3.13%) Rancher
5 1 (3.13%) Terraform
Vendors
1 31 (96.88%) Red Hat
2 10 (31.25%) VMware
3 4 (12.50%) Oracle
4 2 (6.25%) AppDynamics
4 2 (6.25%) IBM
4 2 (6.25%) Microsoft