Red Hat Contracts in the East Midlands

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England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands 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 52 50 78
Rank change year-on-year -2 +28 +3
Contract jobs citing Red Hat 4 16 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 0.75% 2.07% 0.67%
As % of the Vendors category 1.79% 5.03% 1.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 12 6
10th Percentile £485 £356 £381
25th Percentile £518 £356 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £544 £535 £490
Median % change year-on-year +1.59% +9.24% -2.06%
75th Percentile £550 £550 £538
90th Percentile - - £569
England median daily rate £550 £525 £600
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -

All Vendors
East Midlands

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 East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 224 318 520
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 41.79% 41.14% 49.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 152 190 392
10th Percentile £250 £160 £205
25th Percentile £361 £325 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +5.56% +5.88%
75th Percentile £545 £600 £565
90th Percentile £630 £659 £690
England median daily rate £525 £518 £538
% change year-on-year +1.30% -3.58% +2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 25 29
10th Percentile - £10.90 £14.16
25th Percentile - £12.28 £15.75
Median hourly rate £13.81 £14.00 £20.40
Median % change year-on-year -1.36% -31.37% +36.00%
75th Percentile £18.87 £14.27 £26.48
90th Percentile £23.00 £24.48 £40.25
England median hourly rate £27.13 £22.50 £39.55
% change year-on-year +20.56% -43.11% +88.33%

Red Hat
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Job postings citing Red Hat as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Red Hat in the East Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Red Hat in the East Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Red Hat in the East Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Red Hat in the East Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Red Hat in the East Midlands

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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 within the East Midlands 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
Northamptonshire -4 2 £506 +42.13%
Red Hat
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 2 (50.00%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) AWS
1 2 (50.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) SAN
1 2 (50.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (25.00%) RDBMS
2 1 (25.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Bitbucket Server
1 2 (50.00%) CA Release Automation
1 2 (50.00%) Git
1 2 (50.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (50.00%) JIRA
1 2 (50.00%) SonarQube
1 2 (50.00%) Sonatype Nexus
1 2 (50.00%) TeamCity
2 1 (25.00%) Bitbucket
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Cloud Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Developer
1 2 (50.00%) Python Developer
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Linux Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) Elastic Stack
1 2 (50.00%) Spring Boot
2 1 (25.00%) Spring
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Linux
2 2 (50.00%) Debian
2 2 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (50.00%) Ubuntu
3 1 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Agile
1 2 (50.00%) Build Automation
1 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (50.00%) Code Quality
1 2 (50.00%) Configuration Management
1 2 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
1 2 (50.00%) Data Engineering
1 2 (50.00%) Data Modelling
1 2 (50.00%) Deployment Automation
1 2 (50.00%) DevOps
1 2 (50.00%) ITIL
1 2 (50.00%) Matrix Organization
1 2 (50.00%) Microservices
1 2 (50.00%) Migration
1 2 (50.00%) Non-Functional Testing
1 2 (50.00%) Prototyping
1 2 (50.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Python
2 2 (50.00%) Perl
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) DV Cleared
1 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Kibana
1 2 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (50.00%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) AppDynamics
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (50.00%) Splunk
1 2 (50.00%) VMware