Red Hat Contract Job Trends in Birmingham

Red Hat
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Birmingham 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 21 June 2026, 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
21 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 72 49 -
Rank change year-on-year -23 - -
Contract jobs citing Red Hat 5 2 0
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 0.53% 0.38% -
As % of the Vendors category 1.22% 0.88% -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 0
10th Percentile £519 £469 -
25th Percentile £547 £478 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £582 £513 -
Median % change year-on-year +13.46% - -
75th Percentile £606 £553 -
90th Percentile £616 £566 -
West Midlands median daily rate £483 £551 £619
% change year-on-year -12.19% -11.03% +109.75%

All Vendors
Birmingham

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 Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 410 227 333
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 43.85% 43.49% 43.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 258 154 229
10th Percentile £311 £153 £260
25th Percentile £400 £301 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +5.56% -7.69%
75th Percentile £542 £600 £588
90th Percentile £619 £689 £675
West Midlands median daily rate £469 £475 £450
% change year-on-year -1.26% +5.56% -7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 4 22
10th Percentile £15.11 £19.33 £11.34
25th Percentile £18.53 £20.57 £14.03
Median hourly rate £22.17 £26.40 £25.33
Median % change year-on-year -16.01% +4.23% +22.31%
75th Percentile £32.99 £37.87 £35.31
90th Percentile £51.25 £51.52 £54.05
West Midlands median hourly rate £33.99 £30.00 £16.82
% change year-on-year +13.30% +78.36% -18.76%

Red Hat
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Red Hat relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

Red Hat job vacancy trend in Birmingham

Red Hat
Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

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

Red Hat
Hourly Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

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

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham 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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) OpenShift
2 3 (60.00%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 4 (80.00%) DNS
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) Jenkins
General
1 4 (80.00%) Finance
2 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Architect
2 2 (40.00%) Data Architect
2 2 (40.00%) VMware Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 4 (80.00%) Cloud Native
1 4 (80.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (20.00%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Containerisation
2 4 (80.00%) DevOps
2 4 (80.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 4 (80.00%) High Availability
2 4 (80.00%) Load Balancing
3 3 (60.00%) CI/CD
3 3 (60.00%) Data Migration
3 3 (60.00%) Migration
3 3 (60.00%) Performance Optimisation
3 3 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (60.00%) RBAC
4 1 (20.00%) Configuration Management
4 1 (20.00%) Data Protection
4 1 (20.00%) Digital Banking
4 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (20.00%) Logistics
4 1 (20.00%) Observability
4 1 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
4 1 (20.00%) Systems Engineering
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) Bash
1 4 (80.00%) Python
System Software
1 4 (80.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (60.00%) VMware NSX
2 3 (60.00%) vSphere
3 1 (20.00%) KVM
Systems Management
1 5 (100.00%) Ansible
1 5 (100.00%) Terraform
2 4 (80.00%) Grafana
2 4 (80.00%) Kubernetes
3 3 (60.00%) Argo
3 3 (60.00%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Splunk
1 4 (80.00%) VMware
2 3 (60.00%) Pure Storage
3 1 (20.00%) Microsoft