Red Hat Contract Job Trends 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 3 December 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
3 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 69 55 57
Rank change year-on-year -14 +2 +24
Contract jobs citing Red Hat 8 6 10
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 0.92% 0.89% 1.31%
As % of the Vendors category 2.03% 2.10% 2.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 2 6
10th Percentile - £377 £431
25th Percentile £410 £398 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £453 £590
Median % change year-on-year -7.18% -23.31% +4.89%
75th Percentile £430 £513 £657
90th Percentile £453 £538 £743
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 394 286 376
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 45.08% 42.37% 49.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 267 167 247
10th Percentile £156 £258 £213
25th Percentile £336 £356 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £480 £475
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +1.05% +5.56%
75th Percentile £516 £553 £588
90th Percentile £625 £633 £705
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 14 23
10th Percentile £16.29 £13.86 £11.33
25th Percentile £16.35 £15.03 £13.00
Median hourly rate £21.30 £17.00 £15.50
Median % change year-on-year +25.29% +9.68% -11.73%
75th Percentile £25.15 £18.11 £46.88
90th Percentile - £48.03 £88.75
England median hourly rate £24.00 £32.50 £44.50
% change year-on-year -26.15% -26.97% +71.15%

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

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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 3 December 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 - -
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England

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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 (25.00%) OpenShift
Development Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Jenkins
General
1 5 (62.50%) Manufacturing
1 5 (62.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Project Manager
2 2 (25.00%) IT Manager
2 2 (25.00%) IT Project Manager
2 2 (25.00%) Subject Matter Expert
2 2 (25.00%) Systems Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Linux Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) Keycloak
Miscellaneous
1 5 (62.50%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 6 (75.00%) Linux
1 6 (75.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 5 (62.50%) OpenVMS
3 1 (12.50%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) Issue Tracking
1 5 (62.50%) Project Delivery
1 5 (62.50%) User Acceptance Testing
2 2 (25.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (25.00%) GitOps
2 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (25.00%) Migration
2 2 (25.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 2 (25.00%) Bash
1 2 (25.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (25.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (25.00%) Ansible
1 2 (25.00%) Argo
1 2 (25.00%) Istio
1 2 (25.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (12.50%) VMware