Red Hat Contract Job Trends in the East Midlands

Red Hat
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 19 November 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
19 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 69 50 56
Rank change year-on-year -19 +6 +24
Contract jobs citing Red Hat 9 9 9
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 1.00% 1.27% 1.15%
As % of the Vendors category 2.26% 2.97% 2.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 5 5
10th Percentile - £387 £408
25th Percentile £410 £425 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year -19.23% -5.45% -2.22%
75th Percentile £453 £530 £645
90th Percentile £485 £545 £655
England median daily rate £525 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £20.82
Median hourly rate - - £22.28
75th Percentile - - £23.73
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £68.00 £74.00 £22.28
% change year-on-year -8.11% +232.21% -70.69%

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 398 303 395
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 44.27% 42.68% 50.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 270 179 269
10th Percentile £183 £266 £213
25th Percentile £334 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £480 £475
Median % change year-on-year -11.46% +1.05% +5.56%
75th Percentile £524 £550 £588
90th Percentile £638 £631 £701
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 13 25
10th Percentile £16.35 £13.75 £11.46
25th Percentile £18.71 £15.00 £13.00
Median hourly rate £25.00 £17.00 £15.50
Median % change year-on-year +47.06% +9.68% -11.73%
75th Percentile £25.15 - £65.00
90th Percentile - £47.70 £88.75
England median hourly rate £25.08 £35.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -28.36% -22.22% +73.08%

Red Hat
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

Red Hat job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

Red Hat
Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

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

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

Red Hat
Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

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

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

Red Hat
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 19 November 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 - 6 £420 -
Lincolnshire - 2 - -
Nottinghamshire - 1 £500 -
Red Hat
England

Red Hat
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 3 (33.33%) OpenShift
2 1 (11.11%) Azure
2 1 (11.11%) Azure Monitor
2 1 (11.11%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) MQTT
Development Applications
1 2 (22.22%) Jenkins
2 1 (11.11%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 5 (55.56%) Manufacturing
1 5 (55.56%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (55.56%) Project Manager
2 2 (22.22%) IT Manager
2 2 (22.22%) IT Project Manager
2 2 (22.22%) Subject Matter Expert
2 2 (22.22%) Systems Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Azure Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Linux Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (22.22%) Keycloak
2 1 (11.11%) Loki
2 1 (11.11%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (55.56%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 6 (66.67%) Linux
1 6 (66.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 5 (55.56%) OpenVMS
3 1 (11.11%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (55.56%) Issue Tracking
1 5 (55.56%) Project Delivery
1 5 (55.56%) User Acceptance Testing
2 3 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 3 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (22.22%) GitOps
3 2 (22.22%) Migration
3 2 (22.22%) Validation
4 1 (11.11%) API Management
4 1 (11.11%) Containerisation
4 1 (11.11%) Observability
4 1 (11.11%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 2 (22.22%) Bash
1 2 (22.22%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) SC Cleared
1 2 (22.22%) Security Cleared
2 1 (11.11%) Azure Certification
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) ISO 9001
1 1 (11.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (33.33%) Kubernetes
1 3 (33.33%) Terraform
2 2 (22.22%) Ansible
2 2 (22.22%) Argo
2 2 (22.22%) Istio
3 1 (11.11%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft
1 1 (11.11%) VMware