Red Hat Enterprise Linux Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Red Hat Enterprise Linux skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 117 113 121
Rank change year-on-year -4 +8 -10
Contract jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 10 31
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.46% 0.47% 1.05%
As % of the Operating Systems category 4.42% 3.82% 7.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 3 14
10th Percentile £400 £500 £450
25th Percentile £459 £613 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £850 £510
Median % change year-on-year -26.47% +66.67% -19.69%
75th Percentile £675 £919 £647
90th Percentile £680 £930 £766
Central London median daily rate £625 £850 £540
% change year-on-year -26.47% +57.41% -14.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £112.00 -
Central London median hourly rate - £112.00 -

All Operating Systems
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 181 262 410
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 10.40% 12.36% 13.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 137 170 279
10th Percentile £252 £247 £193
25th Percentile £350 £363 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £505 £513
Median % change year-on-year +3.96% -1.46% -
75th Percentile £675 £638 £638
90th Percentile £729 £725 £725
Central London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 5 2
10th Percentile £24.25 £24.68 £23.88
25th Percentile £25.00 - £27.81
Median hourly rate £27.50 £27.00 £36.25
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -25.52% +81.25%
75th Percentile £29.50 £112.00 £45.31
90th Percentile £29.95 - £49.63
Central London median hourly rate £26.00 £27.00 £36.25
% change year-on-year -3.70% -25.52% +79.01%

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Red Hat Enterprise Linux job vacancy trend in the City of London

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux in the City of London over the 6 months to 4 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Red Hat Enterprise Linux in the City of London

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of 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 (25.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) Firewall
1 1 (12.50%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) Oracle Database
1 2 (25.00%) Oracle Exadata
1 2 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (25.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Artifactory
1 1 (12.50%) Jenkins
General
1 4 (50.00%) Finance
2 3 (37.50%) Social Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 2 (25.00%) Administrator
1 2 (25.00%) Database Specialist
1 2 (25.00%) DBA
1 2 (25.00%) Platform Engineer
1 2 (25.00%) PostgreSQL DBA
1 2 (25.00%) PostgreSQL Specialist
2 1 (12.50%) Applications Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Manager
2 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Project Manager
2 1 (12.50%) IT Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) IT Security Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Project Manager
2 1 (12.50%) Security Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Technical Infrastructure Manager
2 1 (12.50%) Technical Infrastructure Project Manager
2 1 (12.50%) Technical Manager
2 1 (12.50%) Technical Project Manager
2 1 (12.50%) Vulnerability Management Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) Loki
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Clustering
1 2 (25.00%) Data Centre
1 2 (25.00%) Onboarding
1 2 (25.00%) Replication
2 1 (12.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (12.50%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (12.50%) Management Information System
2 1 (12.50%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 8 (100.00%) Linux
2 2 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (37.50%) High Availability
1 3 (37.50%) Project Management
2 2 (25.00%) Change Management
2 2 (25.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (25.00%) Electronic Trading
2 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure Automation
2 2 (25.00%) Migration
2 2 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
2 2 (25.00%) Platform Engineering
2 2 (25.00%) Proactive Monitoring
2 2 (25.00%) Runbook
2 2 (25.00%) SQL Optimisation
2 2 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (12.50%) Budget Management
3 1 (12.50%) Capacity Planning
3 1 (12.50%) DevOps
3 1 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (12.50%) Vulnerability Management
3 1 (12.50%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 5 (62.50%) Bash
2 4 (50.00%) Python
3 3 (37.50%) SQL
4 2 (25.00%) AWK
4 2 (25.00%) sed
4 2 (25.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) RHCE
1 1 (12.50%) RHCSA
System Software
1 2 (25.00%) GPFS
1 2 (25.00%) NFS
Systems Management
1 2 (25.00%) Ansible
1 2 (25.00%) Argo
1 2 (25.00%) Grafana
1 2 (25.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (25.00%) Kustomize
1 2 (25.00%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
1 2 (25.00%) Prometheus
2 1 (12.50%) ITRS Geneos
2 1 (12.50%) WSUS
2 1 (12.50%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 8 (100.00%) Red Hat
2 2 (25.00%) Oracle
2 2 (25.00%) Splunk
3 1 (12.50%) Microsoft
3 1 (12.50%) Tenable