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 7 May 2026, 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
7 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 85 51 50
Rank change year-on-year -34 -1 +28
Contract jobs citing Red Hat 1 4 16
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 0.090% 0.73% 2.06%
As % of the Vendors category 0.21% 1.78% 5.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 4 12
10th Percentile - £485 £356
25th Percentile £413 £518 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £544 £535
Median % change year-on-year -21.80% +1.59% +9.24%
75th Percentile £438 £550 £550
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £501 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -9.00% +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 482 225 320
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 43.38% 41.28% 41.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 290 156 192
10th Percentile £190 £250 £163
25th Percentile £361 £358 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% - +5.56%
75th Percentile £550 £544 £600
90th Percentile £626 £626 £658
England median daily rate £500 £525 £520
% change year-on-year -4.76% +0.96% -2.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 61 17 25
10th Percentile £13.25 £13.79 £10.90
25th Percentile £15.25 £13.81 £12.28
Median hourly rate £16.50 £18.20 £14.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.34% +30.00% -30.69%
75th Percentile £24.49 £19.15 £14.27
90th Percentile £74.00 £26.50 £26.50
England median hourly rate £31.18 £27.13 £22.50
% change year-on-year +14.93% +20.56% -43.75%

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

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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

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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 7 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 - 1 £425 - 3
Red Hat
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 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Site Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) CentOS
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Collaborative Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (100.00%) Graceful Degradation
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform