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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 79 110 80
Rank change year-on-year +31 -30 +32
Contract jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 15 2 37
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 1.27% 0.12% 2.05%
As % of the Operating Systems category 12.00% 1.23% 12.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 2 28
10th Percentile £363 £548 £308
25th Percentile £393 £581 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £650 £593
Median % change year-on-year -25.77% +9.70% -3.27%
75th Percentile £486 £706 £650
90th Percentile £700 £733 £700
South East median daily rate £525 £580 £550
% change year-on-year -9.48% +5.45% -

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 125 163 297
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 10.60% 9.57% 16.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 80 102 187
10th Percentile £199 £215 £153
25th Percentile £293 £330 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £431 £431 £410
Median % change year-on-year +0.06% +5.12% -18.00%
75th Percentile £505 £608 £595
90th Percentile £590 £638 £675
South East median daily rate £450 £450 £414
% change year-on-year - +8.76% -8.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 4 11
10th Percentile - - £47.50
25th Percentile - £55.87 £48.40
Median hourly rate £18.87 £57.62 £49.73
Median % change year-on-year -67.25% +15.86% -44.74%
75th Percentile £22.01 £61.29 £55.28
90th Percentile £23.89 £66.33 £56.06
South East median hourly rate £18.87 £56.75 £56.00
% change year-on-year -66.75% +1.33% +229.41%

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
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 20 September 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 20 September 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 +2 10 £483 -35.67% 1
Reading +28 2 £365 -33.64%
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 (6.67%) Anypoint
Communications & Networking
1 7 (46.67%) SAN
2 1 (6.67%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (13.33%) Oracle Database
1 2 (13.33%) Oracle Database 12c
General
1 5 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 2 (13.33%) Documentation Skills
2 2 (13.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (46.67%) Administrator
1 7 (46.67%) Backup Administrator
1 7 (46.67%) Storage Administrator
1 7 (46.67%) Storage and Backup Administrator
2 6 (40.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 5 (33.33%) Infrastructure Support
3 5 (33.33%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
3 5 (33.33%) Support Engineer
4 3 (20.00%) HP Storage Administrator
5 2 (13.33%) Architect
5 2 (13.33%) Oracle Architect
6 1 (6.67%) Integration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.67%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 7 (46.67%) Enterprise Storage
2 3 (20.00%) HP Storage
3 2 (13.33%) Management Information System
4 1 (6.67%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 15 (100.00%) Linux
2 7 (46.67%) Windows
3 4 (26.67%) Windows Server 2012
3 4 (26.67%) Windows Server 2016
3 4 (26.67%) Windows Server 2019
4 3 (20.00%) VMS
5 1 (6.67%) CentOS
5 1 (6.67%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (73.33%) ITIL
2 8 (53.33%) Disaster Recovery
2 8 (53.33%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (40.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 5 (33.33%) Architectural Design
4 5 (33.33%) DevSecOps
5 4 (26.67%) Stakeholder Management
6 3 (20.00%) High Availability
6 3 (20.00%) TOGAF
7 2 (13.33%) BCP
7 2 (13.33%) Business Continuity
7 2 (13.33%) Business Continuity Planning
7 2 (13.33%) Database Migration
7 2 (13.33%) Mentoring
7 2 (13.33%) Performance Tuning
8 1 (6.67%) API Management
8 1 (6.67%) Patch Management
8 1 (6.67%) Storage Management
8 1 (6.67%) Technical Leadership
8 1 (6.67%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 7 (46.67%) Shell Script
2 1 (6.67%) Bash
Qualifications
1 8 (53.33%) Security Cleared
2 5 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 2 (13.33%) DV Cleared
3 2 (13.33%) TOGAF Certification
System Software
1 2 (13.33%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (6.67%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (6.67%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (6.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (6.67%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 6 (40.00%) NetBackup
2 5 (33.33%) Ansible
2 5 (33.33%) Red Hat Satellite
3 2 (13.33%) Data Guard
3 2 (13.33%) Oracle RMAN
4 1 (6.67%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 14 (93.33%) Red Hat
2 7 (46.67%) 3PAR
2 7 (46.67%) HP
2 7 (46.67%) Veritas
3 6 (40.00%) NetApp
3 6 (40.00%) Nimble Storage
3 6 (40.00%) VMware
4 3 (20.00%) Dell
5 2 (13.33%) Oracle
6 1 (6.67%) IBM
6 1 (6.67%) MuleSoft