Red Hat Enterprise Linux Contract Job Trends in the East Midlands

Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring Red Hat Enterprise Linux skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 84 54 52
Rank change year-on-year -30 -2 +30
Contract jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2 2 14
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 0.18% 0.38% 1.81%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.57% 2.86% 8.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 8
10th Percentile - £470 -
25th Percentile £515 £481 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £506 £430
Median % change year-on-year +4.74% +17.61% -40.66%
75th Percentile £545 £525 £508
90th Percentile - £532 £619
England median daily rate £500 £551 £525
% change year-on-year -9.26% +4.95% -16.00%

All Operating Systems
East Midlands

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 East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 127 70 170
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 11.64% 13.18% 21.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 85 52 102
10th Percentile £131 £173 £122
25th Percentile £181 £200 £150
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £225 £391 £325
Median % change year-on-year -42.38% +20.15% -7.14%
75th Percentile £438 £476 £504
90th Percentile £538 £530 £575
England median daily rate £450 £475 £463
% change year-on-year -5.26% +2.70% -9.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 5 26
10th Percentile £12.95 £14.29 £12.75
25th Percentile £13.25 £15.09 £14.27
Median hourly rate £22.80 £18.77 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year +21.50% +10.38% -4.06%
75th Percentile £74.00 £23.75 £20.00
90th Percentile - £24.59 £21.88
England median hourly rate £47.50 £24.18 £22.00
% change year-on-year +96.44% +9.91% -42.11%

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

Red Hat Enterprise Linux job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

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 East Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 May 2026. 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
Nottinghamshire - 2 £530 - 2
Red Hat Enterprise Linux
England

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) GitLab
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Senior
1 2 (100.00%) Site Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) CentOS
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Analytics
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Data Analytics
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Ansible
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft