Red Hat Contract Job Trends in the City of London

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Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of 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 7 October 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
7 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 114 107 122
Rank change year-on-year -7 +15 +7
Contract jobs citing Red Hat 8 19 36
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.46% 0.90% 1.23%
As % of the Vendors category 0.94% 2.05% 2.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 11 21
10th Percentile £400 £425 £450
25th Percentile £459 £475 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £525 £675
Median % change year-on-year +19.05% -22.22% +20.00%
75th Percentile £675 £631 £738
90th Percentile £680 £700 £800
Central London median daily rate £625 £525 £675
% change year-on-year +19.05% -22.22% +22.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £112.00 -
Central London median hourly rate - £112.00 -

All Vendors
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 854 927 1,233
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 49.48% 44.14% 42.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 579 584 846
10th Percentile £325 £340 £313
25th Percentile £415 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
75th Percentile £675 £675 £688
90th Percentile £738 £750 £788
Central London median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 14 7
10th Percentile £19.79 £16.75 £15.10
25th Percentile £21.09 £22.13 £17.00
Median hourly rate £28.15 £50.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -43.70% +122.22% +7.14%
75th Percentile £50.25 £112.00 £52.75
90th Percentile £63.75 £137.50 £62.80
Central London median hourly rate £28.15 £42.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -32.98% +86.67% -4.94%

Red Hat
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Red Hat job vacancy trend in the City of London

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Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

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

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

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Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Red Hat in the City of London over the 6 months to 7 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Red Hat in the City of London

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Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

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

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

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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
1 8 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise 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%) DevOps
3 1 (12.50%) E-business
3 1 (12.50%) ITIL
3 1 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
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 2 (25.00%) Oracle
1 2 (25.00%) Splunk
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 1 (12.50%) Tenable