Red Hat Contracts in Central London

Red Hat
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London 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 June 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 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 115 127 135
Rank change year-on-year +12 +8 +13
Contract jobs citing Red Hat 10 12 43
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.52% 0.50% 1.17%
As % of the Vendors category 1.13% 1.15% 2.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 10 34
10th Percentile £530 £392 £433
25th Percentile £603 £416 £567
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £500 £650
Median % change year-on-year +30.00% -23.08% +10.64%
75th Percentile £694 £526 £684
90th Percentile £758 £720 £739
London median daily rate £580 £500 £650
% change year-on-year +16.00% -23.08% +8.33%

All Vendors
Central London

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 Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 885 1,047 1,478
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 45.62% 43.97% 40.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 552 767 988
10th Percentile £304 £320 £225
25th Percentile £422 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.91% - -
75th Percentile £675 £675 £694
90th Percentile £751 £775 £800
London median daily rate £530 £535 £550
% change year-on-year -0.93% -2.73% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 9 9
10th Percentile £23.05 £12.75 £15.74
25th Percentile £26.75 £16.00 £20.22
Median hourly rate £31.00 £22.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +37.78% -10.00% -5.66%
75th Percentile £56.75 £27.00 £52.75
90th Percentile £79.34 £51.35 £53.15
London median hourly rate £28.55 £23.80 £28.50
% change year-on-year +19.96% -16.49% -18.57%

Red Hat
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Job postings citing Red Hat as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Job vacancy trend for Red Hat in Central London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Red Hat in Central London.

Daily rate trend for Red Hat in Central London

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Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Red Hat in Central London over the 6 months to 27 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Red Hat in Central London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Red Hat in Central London.

Hourly rate trend for Red Hat in Central London

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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 within the Central London region over the 6 months to 27 June 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 0 10 £650 +30.00% 29
Red Hat
London

Red Hat
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (10.00%) Confluence
1 1 (10.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 3 (30.00%) AWS
1 3 (30.00%) GitHub
2 2 (20.00%) Amazon S3
2 2 (20.00%) Azure
2 2 (20.00%) GCP
3 1 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (10.00%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (10.00%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (10.00%) Nutanix
3 1 (10.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) DNS
1 1 (10.00%) Firewall
1 1 (10.00%) Kerberos
1 1 (10.00%) SAN
1 1 (10.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (40.00%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (20.00%) CockroachDB
2 2 (20.00%) MySQL
2 2 (20.00%) Oracle Database
2 2 (20.00%) Oracle Exadata
2 2 (20.00%) Relational Database
2 2 (20.00%) SQL Server
3 1 (10.00%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 4 (40.00%) JIRA
2 1 (10.00%) Artifactory
2 1 (10.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 1 (10.00%) Bitbucket
2 1 (10.00%) Git
2 1 (10.00%) GitLab
2 1 (10.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (10.00%) Subversion
2 1 (10.00%) TeamCity
General
1 3 (30.00%) Banking
2 2 (20.00%) Finance
3 1 (10.00%) Front Office
3 1 (10.00%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 3 (30.00%) Administrator
1 3 (30.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Database Specialist
2 2 (20.00%) DBA
2 2 (20.00%) PostgreSQL DBA
2 2 (20.00%) PostgreSQL Specialist
2 2 (20.00%) Senior
3 1 (10.00%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Database Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) IT Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) IT Security Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Linux Administrator
3 1 (10.00%) Migration Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Security Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Senior DevOps
3 1 (10.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Storage Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Storage Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Vulnerability Management Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) LDAP
1 1 (10.00%) REST
1 1 (10.00%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 4 (40.00%) Replication
2 3 (30.00%) Clustering
2 3 (30.00%) Public Cloud
3 2 (20.00%) Data Centre
3 2 (20.00%) Data Structures
3 2 (20.00%) Private Cloud
3 2 (20.00%) Product Ownership
4 1 (10.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 8 (80.00%) Linux
2 5 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (30.00%) Unix
4 2 (20.00%) CentOS
4 2 (20.00%) Windows
5 1 (10.00%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) DevOps
1 5 (50.00%) High Availability
2 3 (30.00%) Agile
2 3 (30.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (30.00%) Electronic Trading
2 3 (30.00%) Task Automation
3 2 (20.00%) API Integration
3 2 (20.00%) Configuration Management
3 2 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
3 2 (20.00%) Database Security
3 2 (20.00%) Pair Programming
3 2 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
3 2 (20.00%) Proactive Monitoring
3 2 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (20.00%) Runbook
3 2 (20.00%) SDLC
3 2 (20.00%) Software Engineering
3 2 (20.00%) SQL Optimisation
3 2 (20.00%) TDD
3 2 (20.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 4 (40.00%) Bash
1 4 (40.00%) Python
1 4 (40.00%) SQL
2 2 (20.00%) AWK
2 2 (20.00%) sed
2 2 (20.00%) Shell Script
3 1 (10.00%) Java
3 1 (10.00%) Perl
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (30.00%) NFS
2 2 (20.00%) GPFS
3 1 (10.00%) Active Directory
3 1 (10.00%) Docker
3 1 (10.00%) Lustre
3 1 (10.00%) Veritas File System
3 1 (10.00%) Veritas Volume Manager
3 1 (10.00%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (40.00%) Ansible
2 3 (30.00%) Terraform
3 2 (20.00%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 1 (10.00%) Control-M
4 1 (10.00%) Grafana
4 1 (10.00%) Karpenter
4 1 (10.00%) Kubernetes
4 1 (10.00%) Netcool
4 1 (10.00%) Podman
4 1 (10.00%) QRadar
4 1 (10.00%) Red Hat Satellite
4 1 (10.00%) Tivoli
4 1 (10.00%) WSUS
Vendors
1 5 (50.00%) Oracle
2 2 (20.00%) Splunk
3 1 (10.00%) BMC
3 1 (10.00%) CyberArk
3 1 (10.00%) F5
3 1 (10.00%) Google
3 1 (10.00%) Hitachi
3 1 (10.00%) IBM
3 1 (10.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (10.00%) Qualys
3 1 (10.00%) SaltStack
3 1 (10.00%) Sun
3 1 (10.00%) Tenable
3 1 (10.00%) VMware