Red Hat Enterprise Linux Contract Job Trends in Buckinghamshire

Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
South East > Buckinghamshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire requiring Red Hat Enterprise Linux skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 69 34 46
Rank change year-on-year -35 +12 +25
Contract jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 2 5
As % of all contract jobs in Buckinghamshire 0.59% 0.85% 1.02%
As % of the Operating Systems category 5.32% 4.17% 6.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 2 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £425 £415 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £421 £476
Median % change year-on-year +12.96% -11.71% +0.26%
75th Percentile £490 £426 £540
90th Percentile £600 - -
South East median daily rate £456 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -17.09% - -5.17%

All Operating Systems
Buckinghamshire

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 Buckinghamshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 94 48 72
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 11.03% 20.34% 14.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 84 30 53
10th Percentile £326 £211 £214
25th Percentile £448 £325 £355
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £536 £421 £450
Median % change year-on-year +27.56% -6.56% -5.26%
75th Percentile £610 £536 £538
90th Percentile £640 £543 £558
South East median daily rate £475 £490 £475
% change year-on-year -3.06% +3.16% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 7 12
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £18.00
Median hourly rate - £14.20 £22.55
Median % change year-on-year - -37.03% +18.68%
75th Percentile - £14.66 £48.75
90th Percentile - £15.12 -
South East median hourly rate £35.22 £18.82 £47.50
% change year-on-year +87.14% -60.38% -17.39%

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

Red Hat Enterprise Linux job vacancy trend in Buckinghamshire

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Daily Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Buckinghamshire citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Buckinghamshire citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Daily Rate Histogram in Buckinghamshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux in Buckinghamshire over the 6 months to 10 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Red Hat Enterprise Linux in Buckinghamshire

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Hourly Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Buckinghamshire citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Buckinghamshire citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Contract Job Locations in Buckinghamshire

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 Buckinghamshire region over the 6 months to 10 June 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
Milton Keynes -38 2 £549 +30.62%
High Wycombe - 1 £450 -
Red Hat Enterprise Linux
South East

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Buckinghamshire 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 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) Azure
2 1 (20.00%) AWS
2 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Monitor
2 1 (20.00%) GitHub
2 1 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) Firewall
1 1 (20.00%) iSCSI
1 1 (20.00%) Remote Desktop
1 1 (20.00%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) MySQL
1 1 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) GitLab
General
1 2 (40.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Organisational Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Automation Specialist
1 2 (40.00%) Compliance Specialist
1 2 (40.00%) Senior
1 2 (40.00%) Server Specialist
2 1 (20.00%) Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Linux Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Monitoring Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Linux Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Technology Architect
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (20.00%) CMDB
2 1 (20.00%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (20.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (20.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) Linux
2 3 (60.00%) Windows
2 3 (60.00%) Windows Server
3 2 (40.00%) Ubuntu
3 2 (40.00%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Migration
2 2 (40.00%) Asset Management
2 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (40.00%) Compliance Audit
2 2 (40.00%) DevOps
2 2 (40.00%) ITIL
2 2 (40.00%) Patch Management
2 2 (40.00%) Security Management
2 2 (40.00%) Threat Detection
2 2 (40.00%) Vulnerability Management
2 2 (40.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
3 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (20.00%) Log Analytics
3 1 (20.00%) Observability
3 1 (20.00%) Proactive Monitoring
3 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (20.00%) Project Delivery
3 1 (20.00%) Runbook
3 1 (20.00%) Security Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) PowerShell
2 3 (60.00%) Bash
3 1 (20.00%) Korn
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) Degree
2 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared
2 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
3 1 (20.00%) RHCA
3 1 (20.00%) RHCE
3 1 (20.00%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (20.00%) OpenSCAP
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (20.00%) Citrix Hypervisor
1 1 (20.00%) Docker
1 1 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (40.00%) Nessus
2 1 (20.00%) Ansible
2 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (20.00%) Packer
2 1 (20.00%) Red Hat Satellite
2 1 (20.00%) SCOM
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (40.00%) Red Hat
2 2 (40.00%) ServiceNow
2 2 (40.00%) Snow
2 2 (40.00%) Sophos
2 2 (40.00%) Tenable
3 1 (20.00%) Dell
3 1 (20.00%) VMware