Red Hat Contracts in Cheshire

Red Hat
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire 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 1 May 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 43 56 62
Rank change year-on-year +13 +6 -11
Contract jobs citing Red Hat 15 2 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 3.34% 0.40% 0.19%
As % of the Vendors category 5.88% 0.76% 0.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 1 1
10th Percentile £384 - -
25th Percentile £393 £506 £508
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £393 £513 £515
Median % change year-on-year -23.32% -0.49% -13.45%
75th Percentile £499 £519 £523
90th Percentile £520 - -
North West median daily rate £393 £475 £600
% change year-on-year -17.26% -20.83% +2.56%

All Vendors
Cheshire

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 Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 255 264 244
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 56.79% 52.38% 46.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 167 169 163
10th Percentile £315 £267 £231
25th Percentile £381 £400 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £510 £450
Median % change year-on-year -6.86% +13.33% +5.14%
75th Percentile £550 £582 £565
90th Percentile £639 £625 £648
North West median daily rate £495 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.00% - +7.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 15 5
10th Percentile £18.40 £11.00 £12.35
25th Percentile £30.10 £14.00 £14.00
Median hourly rate £50.00 £17.72 £18.82
Median % change year-on-year +182.17% -5.84% +22.93%
75th Percentile £86.00 - £22.41
90th Percentile - £23.11 £32.96
North West median hourly rate £32.50 £16.06 £37.50
% change year-on-year +102.37% -57.17% +97.73%

Red Hat
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Red Hat in Cheshire

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Daily rate trend for Red Hat in Cheshire

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Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Red Hat in Cheshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Red Hat in Cheshire

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Red Hat in Cheshire

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Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

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 Cheshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Knutsford +4 9 £393 -23.32% 1
Chester -2 5 - - 11
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North West

Red Hat
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire 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 5 (33.33%) JBoss
1 5 (33.33%) Mattermost
1 5 (33.33%) Skype for Business
Business Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Distributed Ledger
Cloud Services
1 6 (40.00%) AWS
1 6 (40.00%) OpenShift
2 1 (6.67%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (6.67%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 5 (33.33%) Skype
1 5 (33.33%) Softphone
1 5 (33.33%) Unified Communications
1 5 (33.33%) WebEx
2 1 (6.67%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (33.33%) Elasticsearch
1 5 (33.33%) RDBMS
1 5 (33.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (33.33%) Bitbucket Server
1 5 (33.33%) CA Release Automation
1 5 (33.33%) Git
1 5 (33.33%) Jenkins
1 5 (33.33%) JIRA
1 5 (33.33%) SonarQube
1 5 (33.33%) Sonatype Nexus
1 5 (33.33%) TeamCity
General
1 5 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (6.67%) Banking
2 1 (6.67%) Finance
2 1 (6.67%) Legal
Job Titles
1 5 (33.33%) Messaging Engineer
1 5 (33.33%) Messaging Support
1 5 (33.33%) Messaging Support Engineer
1 5 (33.33%) Operations Engineer
1 5 (33.33%) Operations Support Engineer
1 5 (33.33%) Support Engineer
2 4 (26.67%) Analyst
2 4 (26.67%) Linux Engineer
2 4 (26.67%) Messaging Analyst
2 4 (26.67%) Messaging Support Analyst
2 4 (26.67%) Operational Support Analyst
2 4 (26.67%) Operations Analyst
2 4 (26.67%) Operations Support Analyst
2 4 (26.67%) Support Analyst
3 3 (20.00%) AWS DevOps
4 2 (13.33%) DevOps Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Applications Support
5 1 (6.67%) Cloud Architect
5 1 (6.67%) Cloud Solutions Architect
5 1 (6.67%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (40.00%) Elastic Stack
2 5 (33.33%) Spring Boot
2 5 (33.33%) XMPP
3 1 (6.67%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 5 (33.33%) Management Information System
2 1 (6.67%) Blockchain
2 1 (6.67%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (6.67%) Private Cloud
2 1 (6.67%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 14 (93.33%) Linux
2 9 (60.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (33.33%) Windows
4 1 (6.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (40.00%) DevOps
1 6 (40.00%) Microservices
1 6 (40.00%) Migration
2 5 (33.33%) B2B
2 5 (33.33%) Build Automation
2 5 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 5 (33.33%) Code Quality
2 5 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
2 5 (33.33%) Deployment Automation
2 5 (33.33%) ITIL
2 5 (33.33%) Problem Management
2 5 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (33.33%) Procure-to-Pay
3 4 (26.67%) Analytics
3 4 (26.67%) Observability
3 4 (26.67%) Performance Tuning
4 3 (20.00%) Change Management
4 3 (20.00%) Runbook
4 3 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 1 (6.67%) Fraud Detection
Programming Languages
1 9 (60.00%) Python
2 5 (33.33%) Perl
2 5 (33.33%) PowerShell
2 5 (33.33%) SQL
3 4 (26.67%) Java
3 4 (26.67%) Ruby
3 4 (26.67%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 5 (33.33%) ITIL Certification
2 4 (26.67%) RHCE
3 1 (6.67%) AWS Certification
3 1 (6.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (6.67%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 10 (66.67%) Active Directory
2 6 (40.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (40.00%) Kubernetes
2 5 (33.33%) Kibana
2 5 (33.33%) Progress Chef
2 5 (33.33%) SCOM
3 1 (6.67%) Ansible
3 1 (6.67%) Grafana
3 1 (6.67%) Prometheus
3 1 (6.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (66.67%) Splunk
2 5 (33.33%) AppDynamics
2 5 (33.33%) Cisco
2 5 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 3 (20.00%) Cloudera
4 1 (6.67%) VMware