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 27 November 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
27 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 42 47 43
Rank change year-on-year +5 -4 +35
Contract jobs citing Red Hat 6 2 18
As % of all contract jobs in Buckinghamshire 1.53% 0.51% 3.07%
As % of the Vendors category 3.02% 0.95% 5.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 1 17
10th Percentile £513 - £471
25th Percentile £514 - £510
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £650 £550
Median % change year-on-year -17.69% +18.18% -
75th Percentile £560 - -
90th Percentile £569 - £554
South East median daily rate £485 £550 £528
% change year-on-year -11.82% +4.27% -4.09%

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 199 211 328
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 50.77% 53.83% 55.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 121 155 253
10th Percentile £259 £210 £261
25th Percentile £350 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £500 £534
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% -6.37% +6.80%
75th Percentile £538 £550 £619
90th Percentile £600 £650 £695
South East median daily rate £500 £525 £517
% change year-on-year -4.76% +1.55% +3.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 5 17
10th Percentile £15.86 £13.29 £13.41
25th Percentile £18.00 £15.22 £16.00
Median hourly rate £29.61 £22.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +31.60% +12.50% +29.03%
75th Percentile - £36.75 £24.00
90th Percentile - £37.50 £30.00
South East median hourly rate £20.79 £53.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year -60.77% +0.95% +101.03%

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 27 November 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 +6 5 £532 -18.19% 1
High Wycombe - 1 £550 -
Red Hat
South East

Red Hat
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (16.67%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 5 (83.33%) SAN
2 4 (66.67%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) UniData
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Git
General
1 2 (33.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (83.33%) Developer
2 4 (66.67%) Python Developer
2 4 (66.67%) Senior
2 4 (66.67%) Senior Developer
3 3 (50.00%) Senior Python Developer
4 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (16.67%) Linux Developer
4 1 (16.67%) Senior Software Developer
4 1 (16.67%) Software Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (16.67%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 5 (83.33%) Debian
1 5 (83.33%) Linux
1 5 (83.33%) Ubuntu
1 5 (83.33%) Windows
1 5 (83.33%) Windows Server
1 5 (83.33%) Windows Server 2016
2 1 (16.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Data Modelling
2 4 (66.67%) Agile
2 4 (66.67%) Data Engineering
2 4 (66.67%) ITIL
3 2 (33.33%) Configuration Management
3 2 (33.33%) Customer Service
3 2 (33.33%) Prototyping
3 2 (33.33%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
4 1 (16.67%) Change Control
4 1 (16.67%) Clean Code
4 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 1 (16.67%) Platform Engineering
4 1 (16.67%) Secure Coding
4 1 (16.67%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 5 (83.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (33.33%) DV Cleared
Vendors
1 5 (83.33%) VMware
2 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 1 (16.67%) Remedy