Red Hat Contracts in Berkshire

Red Hat
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire requiring knowledge or experience of Red Hat products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Red Hat over the 6 months leading up to 22 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within Red Hat, Inc.

6 months to
22 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 82 98 74
Rank change year-on-year +16 -24 +40
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Red Hat 15 14 38
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 1.27% 0.84% 2.19%
As % of the Vendors category 2.20% 1.63% 4.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 9 20
10th Percentile £366 £433 £301
25th Percentile £393 £450 £308
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £600 £650
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% -7.69% +13.04%
75th Percentile £616 £650 £703
90th Percentile £700 £670 £793
South East median daily rate £525 £560 £550
% change year-on-year -6.25% +1.82% -4.35%

All Vendors
Berkshire

Red Hat falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in Berkshire.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 681 857 912
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 57.52% 51.16% 52.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 420 469 563
10th Percentile £350 £278 £300
25th Percentile £450 £450 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £575 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.52% +9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £613 £651 £625
90th Percentile £700 £738 £713
South East median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 40 32
10th Percentile £14.57 £14.50 £17.01
25th Percentile £14.75 £19.22 £24.50
Median hourly rate £20.75 £58.40 £57.41
Median % change year-on-year -64.47% +1.72% +64.01%
75th Percentile £35.37 £61.60 £66.27
90th Percentile £49.90 £74.91 £72.30
South East median hourly rate £18.94 £57.35 £45.00
% change year-on-year -66.98% +27.44% +125.00%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Red Hat in Berkshire

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Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Red Hat.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Red Hat

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Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Red Hat in Berkshire over the 6 months to 22 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Red Hat in Berkshire

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Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Red Hat.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Red Hat

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DemandTrendContract 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 within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 22 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Wokingham -5 8 £398 -47.00% 2
Reading +18 3 £556 -7.29% 1
Bracknell -1 2 £700 +86.67%
Red Hat
South East

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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%) Appian
Cloud Services
1 3 (20.00%) OpenShift
2 2 (13.33%) GitHub
3 1 (6.67%) Azure
3 1 (6.67%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 9 (60.00%) SAN
2 3 (20.00%) DNS
3 2 (13.33%) BGP
3 2 (13.33%) Ethernet VPN
3 2 (13.33%) Fibre Channel
3 2 (13.33%) IPv6
3 2 (13.33%) OSPF
3 2 (13.33%) Spanning Tree
3 2 (13.33%) TACACS
3 2 (13.33%) VSAN
4 1 (6.67%) DHCP
4 1 (6.67%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (13.33%) Oracle Database
1 2 (13.33%) Oracle Database 12c
Development Applications
1 3 (20.00%) GitLab
2 1 (6.67%) Cucumber
2 1 (6.67%) Cypress.io
2 1 (6.67%) Robot Framework
2 1 (6.67%) Selenium
2 1 (6.67%) SonarQube
General
1 6 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (20.00%) Telecoms
3 2 (13.33%) Documentation Skills
3 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 3 (20.00%) HP Storage Administrator
3 2 (13.33%) Architect
3 2 (13.33%) Oracle Architect
4 1 (6.67%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Developer
4 1 (6.67%) Head of Development
4 1 (6.67%) Lead
4 1 (6.67%) Linux Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Network Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (13.33%) YAML
2 1 (6.67%) Apollo GraphQL
2 1 (6.67%) GraphQL
2 1 (6.67%) Jinja
2 1 (6.67%) JSON
2 1 (6.67%) NETCONF
2 1 (6.67%) Playwright
2 1 (6.67%) React
2 1 (6.67%) RESTful
2 1 (6.67%) Spring
2 1 (6.67%) Spring Boot
2 1 (6.67%) XML
2 1 (6.67%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 8 (53.33%) Enterprise Storage
2 3 (20.00%) HP Storage
3 2 (13.33%) Management Information System
3 2 (13.33%) Onboarding
4 1 (6.67%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 11 (73.33%) Linux
1 11 (73.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 8 (53.33%) Windows
3 5 (33.33%) Windows Server 2019
4 4 (26.67%) Windows Server 2012
4 4 (26.67%) Windows Server 2016
5 2 (13.33%) VMS
6 1 (6.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (46.67%) Disaster Recovery
1 7 (46.67%) ITIL
2 5 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (26.67%) High Availability
3 4 (26.67%) Stakeholder Management
4 3 (20.00%) CI/CD
4 3 (20.00%) DevOps
4 3 (20.00%) TOGAF
5 2 (13.33%) Business Continuity Planning
5 2 (13.33%) Database Migration
5 2 (13.33%) Decision-Making
5 2 (13.33%) DevSecOps
5 2 (13.33%) Infrastructure Automation
5 2 (13.33%) Infrastructure Management
5 2 (13.33%) Mentoring
5 2 (13.33%) Microservices
5 2 (13.33%) Performance Optimisation
5 2 (13.33%) Performance Tuning
5 2 (13.33%) Runbook
5 2 (13.33%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 7 (46.67%) Shell Script
2 1 (6.67%) Bash
2 1 (6.67%) JavaScript
2 1 (6.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 10 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 7 (46.67%) SC Cleared
3 2 (13.33%) DV Cleared
3 2 (13.33%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.67%) Accessibility
1 1 (6.67%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (13.33%) Ceph
1 2 (13.33%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (6.67%) Docker
2 1 (6.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (46.67%) NetBackup
2 2 (13.33%) Ansible
2 2 (13.33%) Argo
2 2 (13.33%) Data Guard
2 2 (13.33%) Oracle RMAN
3 1 (6.67%) yum
Vendors
1 8 (53.33%) 3PAR
1 8 (53.33%) HP
1 8 (53.33%) Veritas
2 6 (40.00%) Dell
2 6 (40.00%) NetApp
2 6 (40.00%) Nimble Storage
3 3 (20.00%) Cisco
4 2 (13.33%) Oracle
4 2 (13.33%) VMware
5 1 (6.67%) Veracode