Red Hat Enterprise Linux Contracts in the East of England

Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England requiring Red Hat Enterprise Linux skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Red Hat Enterprise Linux over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 78 93 86
Rank change year-on-year +15 -7 +49
Contract jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 19 37
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 0.43% 1.00% 1.79%
As % of the Operating Systems category 2.35% 8.37% 7.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 15 22
10th Percentile £578 £313 £381
25th Percentile £581 £350 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £375 £466
Median % change year-on-year +60.00% -19.57% -1.84%
75th Percentile £619 £602 £638
90th Percentile £623 £665 £676
England median daily rate £551 £525 £625
% change year-on-year +4.95% -16.00% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 4
10th Percentile - £27.79 -
25th Percentile - £31.70 £71.50
Median hourly rate - £38.84 £73.00
Median % change year-on-year - -46.79% -
75th Percentile - £46.61 £74.88
90th Percentile - £50.89 £75.55
England median hourly rate - £60.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year - +14.29% +118.75%

All Operating Systems
East of England

Red Hat Enterprise Linux falls under the Operating Systems category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring operating system skills in the East of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 170 227 491
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 18.12% 11.89% 23.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 103 127 333
10th Percentile £178 £175 £160
25th Percentile £208 £238 £210
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £383 £350 £425
Median % change year-on-year +9.29% -17.65% +6.25%
75th Percentile £500 £570 £575
90th Percentile £561 £650 £700
England median daily rate £475 £463 £513
% change year-on-year +2.70% -9.76% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 47 65
10th Percentile £16.95 £13.72 -
25th Percentile £19.22 £14.00 £13.29
Median hourly rate £52.50 £25.18 £17.75
Median % change year-on-year +108.50% +41.86% -12.99%
75th Percentile £65.38 £64.38 £53.75
90th Percentile £84.75 £66.25 £65.00
England median hourly rate £24.18 £22.00 £38.00
% change year-on-year +9.91% -42.11% +76.74%

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Red Hat Enterprise Linux in the East of England

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux in the East of England.

Daily rate trend for Red Hat Enterprise Linux in the East of England

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux in the East of England.

Hourly rate trend for Red Hat Enterprise Linux in the East of England

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux within the East of England 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
Cambridgeshire +10 2 £600 +36.36% 5
Hertfordshire +16 1 - - 2
Essex +12 1 £600 +12.15%
Red Hat Enterprise Linux
England

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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 (25.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (25.00%) Skype for Business
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) Cohesity
1 1 (25.00%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) DNS
2 1 (25.00%) Skype
2 1 (25.00%) SNMP
2 1 (25.00%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Git
1 1 (25.00%) GitLab
General
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Linux Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Platform Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) VMware Architect
2 1 (25.00%) VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) Redfish
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Blackberry
1 1 (25.00%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (25.00%) PKI
1 1 (25.00%) RSA SecurID
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Linux
2 2 (50.00%) Windows
2 2 (50.00%) Windows Server
3 1 (25.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Management
2 1 (25.00%) Break/Fix
2 1 (25.00%) Collaborative Working
2 1 (25.00%) Configuration Management
2 1 (25.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (25.00%) Incident Management
2 1 (25.00%) Knowledge Transfer
2 1 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (25.00%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) Proactive Monitoring
2 1 (25.00%) Server Management
2 1 (25.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Bash
1 1 (25.00%) C-shell
1 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (25.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (25.00%) Docker
2 1 (25.00%) Firmware
2 1 (25.00%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (25.00%) VMware NSX
2 1 (25.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Ansible
2 1 (25.00%) HAProxy
2 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (25.00%) Nagios
2 1 (25.00%) Puppet
2 1 (25.00%) Red Hat Satellite
2 1 (25.00%) SCOM
2 1 (25.00%) vCenter Server
2 1 (25.00%) WSUS
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Red Hat
2 2 (50.00%) HP
2 2 (50.00%) VMware
3 1 (25.00%) Dell
3 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (25.00%) ServiceNow
3 1 (25.00%) Sun