Red Hat Enterprise Linux Contract Job Trends in Central London

Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Central London requiring Red Hat Enterprise Linux skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 120 111 117
Rank change year-on-year -9 +6 +11
Contract jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 16 28
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.45% 0.68% 1.03%
As % of the Operating Systems category 4.33% 5.54% 7.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 3 18
10th Percentile £400 £345 £434
25th Percentile £484 £375 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £531 £450 £550
Median % change year-on-year +18.06% -18.18% -15.38%
75th Percentile £586 £475 £772
90th Percentile £679 - £800
London median daily rate £525 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -12.50% - -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £112.00 -
London median hourly rate - £112.00 -

All Operating Systems
Central London

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 Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 208 289 396
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 10.37% 12.36% 14.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 145 197 292
10th Percentile £200 £208 £182
25th Percentile £325 £350 £307
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% +5.26% -9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £614 £594
90th Percentile £775 £696 £695
London median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 3
10th Percentile £19.46 - -
25th Percentile £20.33 - -
Median hourly rate £24.88 £112.00 £18.93
Median % change year-on-year -77.78% +491.65% -7.66%
75th Percentile £28.94 - £21.34
90th Percentile £29.28 - £22.79
London median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% +7.69% +30.00%

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Red Hat Enterprise Linux job vacancy trend in Central London

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

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

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux in Central London over the 6 months to 21 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Red Hat Enterprise Linux in Central London

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

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

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

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Contract Job Locations in Central London

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 Central London region over the 6 months to 21 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
City of London -9 9 £531 +18.06% 4
Red Hat Enterprise Linux
London

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London 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 2 (22.22%) OCI
1 2 (22.22%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) Firewall
1 1 (11.11%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (33.33%) Oracle Database
2 1 (11.11%) Oracle Exadata
2 1 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (11.11%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Artifactory
1 1 (11.11%) Jenkins
General
1 6 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 5 (55.56%) Finance
3 2 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (22.22%) Banking
Job Titles
1 2 (22.22%) CyberArk Engineer
1 2 (22.22%) Platform Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Administrator
2 1 (11.11%) Applications Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Database Specialist
2 1 (11.11%) DBA
2 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Manager
2 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Project Manager
2 1 (11.11%) PostgreSQL DBA
2 1 (11.11%) PostgreSQL Specialist
2 1 (11.11%) Project Manager
2 1 (11.11%) Technical Infrastructure Manager
2 1 (11.11%) Technical Infrastructure Project Manager
2 1 (11.11%) Technical Manager
2 1 (11.11%) Technical Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (22.22%) Loki
1 2 (22.22%) REST
2 1 (11.11%) Middleware
2 1 (11.11%) Regular Expression
Miscellaneous
1 4 (44.44%) Onboarding
2 1 (11.11%) Clustering
2 1 (11.11%) Data Centre
2 1 (11.11%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (11.11%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (11.11%) Replication
2 1 (11.11%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 9 (100.00%) Linux
2 4 (44.44%) Windows
3 3 (33.33%) Windows Server
4 1 (11.11%) Solaris
4 1 (11.11%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (33.33%) DevOps
2 2 (22.22%) Change Management
2 2 (22.22%) CI/CD
2 2 (22.22%) High Availability
2 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure Automation
2 2 (22.22%) Migration
2 2 (22.22%) Platform Engineering
2 2 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (22.22%) Project Management
2 2 (22.22%) RBAC
2 2 (22.22%) SIEM
2 2 (22.22%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 2 (22.22%) Zero Trust
3 1 (11.11%) Budget Management
3 1 (11.11%) Collaborative Working
3 1 (11.11%) Proactive Monitoring
3 1 (11.11%) Runbook
3 1 (11.11%) SQL Optimisation
3 1 (11.11%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 5 (55.56%) Bash
1 5 (55.56%) Python
2 3 (33.33%) PowerShell
3 2 (22.22%) Shell Script
3 2 (22.22%) SQL
4 1 (11.11%) AWK
4 1 (11.11%) sed
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) CESG Certified Professional
2 1 (11.11%) RHCE
2 1 (11.11%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (22.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (22.22%) NIST
1 2 (22.22%) NIST 800
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) GPFS
1 1 (11.11%) NFS
Systems Management
1 2 (22.22%) Ansible
1 2 (22.22%) Argo
1 2 (22.22%) Grafana
1 2 (22.22%) Kubernetes
1 2 (22.22%) Kustomize
1 2 (22.22%) Prometheus
2 1 (11.11%) ITRS Geneos
2 1 (11.11%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 1 (11.11%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 6 (66.67%) Red Hat
2 3 (33.33%) Oracle
3 2 (22.22%) CyberArk
3 2 (22.22%) Splunk
4 1 (11.11%) Qualys
4 1 (11.11%) Symantec
4 1 (11.11%) Tanium
4 1 (11.11%) Tenable
4 1 (11.11%) VMware