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 17 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 91 77 108
Rank change year-on-year -14 +31 -46
Contract jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 34 16 9
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 1.74% 1.31% 0.47%
As % of the Operating Systems category 16.11% 10.06% 4.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 12 9
10th Percentile £389 £366 -
25th Percentile £411 £393 £501
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £428 £475 £590
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -19.49% -3.28%
75th Percentile £500 £675 £650
90th Percentile £515 £698 £670
South East median daily rate £455 £550 £570
% change year-on-year -17.27% -3.51% -0.87%

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 211 159 199
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 10.79% 13.00% 10.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 124 95 120
10th Percentile £300 £270 £212
25th Percentile £375 £396 £322
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £433 £500 £501
Median % change year-on-year -13.50% -0.20% +2.77%
75th Percentile £500 £669 £608
90th Percentile £600 £700 £626
South East median daily rate £475 £490 £480
% change year-on-year -3.06% +2.08% +6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 3 7
10th Percentile £19.25 - £56.40
25th Percentile £29.69 - £56.50
Median hourly rate £32.50 £18.87 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year +72.23% -69.37% +13.29%
75th Percentile £37.43 £21.77 £65.18
90th Percentile £56.00 £23.50 £69.13
South East median hourly rate £35.22 £18.87 £47.50
% change year-on-year +86.65% -60.27% -13.64%

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 17 July 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 17 July 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 -1 29 £430 +7.50%
Reading -29 3 £414 +13.29%
Bracknell +1 2 - - 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (5.88%) IBM HTTP Server
1 2 (5.88%) Oracle HTTP Server
1 2 (5.88%) WebSphere
1 2 (5.88%) WebSphere Application Server
1 2 (5.88%) WebSphere Portal
Cloud Services
1 7 (20.59%) OpenShift
2 3 (8.82%) Azure
3 1 (2.94%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (11.76%) DNS
1 4 (11.76%) Firewall
1 4 (11.76%) TCP/IP
2 2 (5.88%) BGP
2 2 (5.88%) HTTP
2 2 (5.88%) Intrusion Detection
2 2 (5.88%) SSL
2 2 (5.88%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.88%) Oracle Database
2 1 (2.94%) Oracle Database 12c
2 1 (2.94%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (2.94%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 9 (26.47%) Jenkins
2 2 (5.88%) GitLab
2 2 (5.88%) Introscope
2 2 (5.88%) JIRA
General
1 6 (17.65%) Social Skills
2 2 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (5.88%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 10 (29.41%) Linux Engineer
2 7 (20.59%) Platform Engineer
3 4 (11.76%) Senior
4 2 (5.88%) Architect
4 2 (5.88%) Middleware Engineer
4 2 (5.88%) Senior Middleware Engineer
4 2 (5.88%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (2.94%) Analyst
5 1 (2.94%) Cloud Engineer
5 1 (2.94%) DBA
5 1 (2.94%) Deployment Engineer
5 1 (2.94%) Infrastructure Analyst
5 1 (2.94%) Oracle DBA
5 1 (2.94%) Oracle Production DBA
5 1 (2.94%) Production DBA
5 1 (2.94%) SC Cleared DBA
5 1 (2.94%) Senior Analyst
5 1 (2.94%) Senior DBA
5 1 (2.94%) Senior Infrastructure Analyst
5 1 (2.94%) Senior Oracle DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.88%) JDBC
1 2 (5.88%) JMS
1 2 (5.88%) Kafka
1 2 (5.88%) Middleware
1 2 (5.88%) Oracle GoldenGate
1 2 (5.88%) RabbitMQ
1 2 (5.88%) WebSphere MQ
2 1 (2.94%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (5.88%) Clustering
1 2 (5.88%) Enterprise Software
1 2 (5.88%) Operational Technology
1 2 (5.88%) SCADA
2 1 (2.94%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (2.94%) Cloud Native
2 1 (2.94%) IoT
2 1 (2.94%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 34 (100.00%) Linux
2 3 (8.82%) Windows
3 2 (5.88%) Oracle Linux
3 2 (5.88%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
3 2 (5.88%) Unix
4 1 (2.94%) OpenVMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (41.18%) ITIL
2 13 (38.24%) CI/CD
3 11 (32.35%) Architectural Design
3 11 (32.35%) Platform Engineering
4 10 (29.41%) DevSecOps
4 10 (29.41%) Problem-Solving
5 9 (26.47%) DevOps
5 9 (26.47%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 7 (20.59%) Runbook
7 5 (14.71%) Deployment Automation
8 4 (11.76%) High Availability
9 3 (8.82%) Agile
9 3 (8.82%) Migration
9 3 (8.82%) Observability
10 2 (5.88%) AI
10 2 (5.88%) Architectural Patterns
10 2 (5.88%) Containerisation
10 2 (5.88%) Load Balancing
10 2 (5.88%) Security Management
10 2 (5.88%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 10 (29.41%) Bash
1 10 (29.41%) Python
2 9 (26.47%) PowerShell
3 2 (5.88%) Jython
3 2 (5.88%) Korn
3 2 (5.88%) Perl
4 1 (2.94%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 26 (76.47%) Security Cleared
2 25 (73.53%) SC Cleared
3 7 (20.59%) RHCE
4 1 (2.94%) AWS Certification
4 1 (2.94%) Degree
System Software
1 4 (11.76%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (5.88%) Oracle RAC
2 2 (5.88%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 14 (41.18%) Ansible
2 11 (32.35%) Kubernetes
2 11 (32.35%) Red Hat Satellite
3 2 (5.88%) CA Wily
3 2 (5.88%) Grafana
3 2 (5.88%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 2 (5.88%) Oracle RMAN
3 2 (5.88%) Prometheus
3 2 (5.88%) Tivoli
4 1 (2.94%) Progress Chef
4 1 (2.94%) Puppet
4 1 (2.94%) Rancher
4 1 (2.94%) Terraform
Vendors
1 33 (97.06%) Red Hat
2 13 (38.24%) VMware
3 4 (11.76%) Oracle
4 2 (5.88%) AppDynamics
4 2 (5.88%) IBM
4 2 (5.88%) Microsoft