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 19 September 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 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 63 53 63
Rank change year-on-year -10 +10 +17
Contract jobs citing Red Hat 8 13 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 1.01% 1.63% 0.70%
As % of the Vendors category 2.34% 3.61% 1.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 7 3
10th Percentile - £400 £563
25th Percentile £410 £425 £583
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £435 £498 £630
Median % change year-on-year -12.65% -20.95% +12.10%
75th Percentile £484 £530 £653
90th Percentile £494 - £658
England median daily rate £511 £521 £600
% change year-on-year -1.92% -13.13% +5.08%

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 342 360 429
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 43.35% 45.00% 49.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 230 216 288
10th Percentile £212 £263 £194
25th Percentile £331 £363 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -16.00% +5.26% +3.83%
75th Percentile £534 £588 £588
90th Percentile £645 £645 £688
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -1.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 20 25
10th Percentile £14.59 £12.75 £11.46
25th Percentile £18.51 £13.33 £13.00
Median hourly rate £23.19 £15.87 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +46.16% -20.68% +13.90%
75th Percentile £25.15 £17.00 £65.00
90th Percentile - £43.89 £88.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £33.50 £43.86
% change year-on-year -24.93% -23.62% +83.44%

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

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 September 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 - 5 £420 - 1
Lincolnshire - 2 - -
Nottinghamshire - 1 £500 - 2
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 1 (12.50%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 4 (50.00%) OpenShift
2 1 (12.50%) AWS
2 1 (12.50%) Azure
2 1 (12.50%) Azure Monitor
2 1 (12.50%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 3 (37.50%) Jenkins
2 1 (12.50%) Bitbucket
2 1 (12.50%) Bitbucket Server
2 1 (12.50%) CA Release Automation
2 1 (12.50%) Git
2 1 (12.50%) JIRA
2 1 (12.50%) SonarQube
2 1 (12.50%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (12.50%) TeamCity
2 1 (12.50%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 3 (37.50%) Manufacturing
1 3 (37.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Project Manager
2 2 (25.00%) Subject Matter Expert
3 1 (12.50%) Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) IT Manager
3 1 (12.50%) IT Project Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Linux Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Systems Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) Keycloak
2 1 (12.50%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (12.50%) Loki
2 1 (12.50%) Spring Boot
2 1 (12.50%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 5 (62.50%) Linux
1 5 (62.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 3 (37.50%) OpenVMS
3 1 (12.50%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (37.50%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (37.50%) Issue Tracking
2 3 (37.50%) Migration
2 3 (37.50%) Project Delivery
2 3 (37.50%) User Acceptance Testing
3 2 (25.00%) GitOps
3 2 (25.00%) Validation
4 1 (12.50%) API Management
4 1 (12.50%) Build Automation
4 1 (12.50%) Code Quality
4 1 (12.50%) Containerisation
4 1 (12.50%) Continuous Integration
4 1 (12.50%) Deployment Automation
4 1 (12.50%) DevOps
4 1 (12.50%) Microservices
4 1 (12.50%) Non-Functional Testing
4 1 (12.50%) Observability
4 1 (12.50%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 3 (37.50%) Python
2 2 (25.00%) Bash
3 1 (12.50%) Perl
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (12.50%) Azure Certification
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) ISO 9001
1 1 (12.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Active Directory
1 1 (12.50%) Docker
1 1 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 3 (37.50%) Terraform
3 2 (25.00%) Ansible
3 2 (25.00%) Argo
3 2 (25.00%) Istio
4 1 (12.50%) Kibana
4 1 (12.50%) Progress Chef
4 1 (12.50%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (12.50%) AppDynamics
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft
1 1 (12.50%) Splunk
1 1 (12.50%) VMware