Red Hat Contract Job Trends in Buckinghamshire

Red Hat
South East > Buckinghamshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Buckinghamshire 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 14 December 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
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 44 51 48
Rank change year-on-year +7 -3 +23
Contract jobs citing Red Hat 3 2 14
As % of all contract jobs in Buckinghamshire 0.73% 0.53% 2.52%
As % of the Vendors category 1.60% 0.98% 4.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 13
10th Percentile - - £480
25th Percentile - - £511
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £650 £550
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +18.18% -
75th Percentile £555 - -
90th Percentile £558 - £558
South East median daily rate £500 £560 £530
% change year-on-year -10.71% +5.66% -3.64%

All Vendors
Buckinghamshire

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 Buckinghamshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 188 204 307
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 45.85% 54.55% 55.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 124 157 237
10th Percentile £237 £213 £225
25th Percentile £363 £363 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £550 £560 £610
90th Percentile £625 £650 £676
South East median daily rate £500 £525 £517
% change year-on-year -4.76% +1.55% +3.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 4 17
10th Percentile £15.86 £12.97 £13.41
25th Percentile £18.00 £14.42 £16.40
Median hourly rate £29.61 £26.18 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +13.11% +16.34% +45.16%
75th Percentile - £37.06 £24.00
90th Percentile - £37.62 £30.00
South East median hourly rate £20.79 £36.17 £55.00
% change year-on-year -42.51% -34.25% +129.17%

Red Hat
Job Vacancy Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

Red Hat job vacancy trend in Buckinghamshire

Red Hat
Daily Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

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

Red Hat
Hourly Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

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

Red Hat
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 within the Buckinghamshire region over the 6 months to 14 December 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
Milton Keynes +7 3 £550 -15.38%
Red Hat
South East

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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 2 (66.67%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) SAN
1 3 (100.00%) TCP/IP
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Linux Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Python Developer
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Debian
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
1 3 (100.00%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) ITIL
2 2 (66.67%) Customer Service
2 2 (66.67%) Incident Management
2 2 (66.67%) Problem Management
2 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (66.67%) Release Management
3 1 (33.33%) Configuration Management
3 1 (33.33%) Data Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Data Modelling
3 1 (33.33%) Matrix Organization
3 1 (33.33%) Prototyping
3 1 (33.33%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Shell Script
2 1 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 3 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) VMware
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft