Red Hat Contracts in the East of England

Red Hat
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England 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 1 May 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 69 90 79
Rank change year-on-year +21 -11 +48
Contract jobs citing Red Hat 13 22 44
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 1.39% 1.15% 2.13%
As % of the Vendors category 2.59% 3.09% 4.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 19 35
10th Percentile £414 £313 £389
25th Percentile £415 £350 £531
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £550 £700
Median % change year-on-year -15.45% -21.43% +72.84%
75th Percentile £525 £613 -
90th Percentile £608 £675 £709
England median daily rate £550 £525 £600
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £71.50
Median hourly rate - £25.18 £73.00
Median % change year-on-year - -65.51% -
75th Percentile - - £74.88
90th Percentile - - £75.55
England median hourly rate £68.00 £68.22 £50.75
% change year-on-year -0.32% +34.42% -19.79%

All Vendors
East of England

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 of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 501 713 916
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 53.41% 37.35% 44.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 260 355 578
10th Percentile £225 £200 £187
25th Percentile £405 £348 £295
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £502 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year +0.35% +11.11% -
75th Percentile £600 £588 £600
90th Percentile £676 £701 £700
England median daily rate £525 £518 £538
% change year-on-year +1.30% -3.58% +2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 95 218 116
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.00 £13.29
25th Percentile £15.53 £14.48 £15.25
Median hourly rate £21.28 £21.37 £19.81
Median % change year-on-year -0.42% +7.87% +24.79%
75th Percentile £64.38 £47.25 £64.06
90th Percentile £85.00 £76.68 £65.75
England median hourly rate £27.13 £22.50 £39.55
% change year-on-year +20.56% -43.11% +88.33%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Red Hat in the East of England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

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

Daily rate trend for Red Hat in the East of England

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Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Red Hat in the East of England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Red Hat in the East of England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

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

Hourly rate trend for Red Hat in the East of England

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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 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 +18 10 £430 -2.27% 10
Hertfordshire +11 2 £500 -9.09% 3
Essex +12 1 £600 +12.15%
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England

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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 5 (38.46%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (23.08%) Confluence
3 1 (7.69%) Skype for Business
Cloud Services
1 3 (23.08%) AWS
1 3 (23.08%) Azure
1 3 (23.08%) GCP
2 2 (15.38%) Nutanix
3 1 (7.69%) Cohesity
Communications & Networking
1 4 (30.77%) LAN
1 4 (30.77%) NAS
1 4 (30.77%) SAN
1 4 (30.77%) TCP/IP
1 4 (30.77%) WAN
2 2 (15.38%) DNS
3 1 (7.69%) Fibre Channel
3 1 (7.69%) Skype
3 1 (7.69%) SNMP
3 1 (7.69%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.69%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (23.08%) Artifactory
1 3 (23.08%) JIRA
2 1 (7.69%) Git
2 1 (7.69%) GitLab
General
1 2 (15.38%) Social Skills
2 1 (7.69%) Legal
Job Titles
1 4 (30.77%) Administrator
1 4 (30.77%) DevOps Administrator
1 4 (30.77%) Systems Administrator
2 3 (23.08%) Linux Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Architect
4 1 (7.69%) IT Administrator
4 1 (7.69%) IT Systems Administrator
4 1 (7.69%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) VMware Architect
4 1 (7.69%) VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (30.77%) LDAP
2 1 (7.69%) Redfish
Miscellaneous
1 4 (30.77%) Distributed Computing
2 3 (23.08%) Public Cloud
3 2 (15.38%) Virtual Team
4 1 (7.69%) Blackberry
4 1 (7.69%) Clustering
4 1 (7.69%) Data Centre
4 1 (7.69%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (7.69%) PKI
4 1 (7.69%) Replication
4 1 (7.69%) RSA SecurID
Operating Systems
1 12 (92.31%) Linux
2 7 (53.85%) Windows
2 7 (53.85%) Windows Server
3 4 (30.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (30.77%) Ubuntu
4 1 (7.69%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (46.15%) Infrastructure Management
2 5 (38.46%) Incident Management
2 5 (38.46%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 5 (38.46%) ITIL
2 5 (38.46%) Problem Management
3 4 (30.77%) Change Management
3 4 (30.77%) DevOps
3 4 (30.77%) Performance Tuning
3 4 (30.77%) Resource Management
3 4 (30.77%) Task Automation
4 3 (23.08%) Agile
4 3 (23.08%) Continuous Integration
4 3 (23.08%) Workload Management
5 2 (15.38%) Computer Science
5 2 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (15.38%) Security Patching
5 2 (15.38%) Vulnerability Management
6 1 (7.69%) Collaborative Working
6 1 (7.69%) Proactive Management
6 1 (7.69%) Proactive Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 5 (38.46%) Bash
1 5 (38.46%) Python
2 3 (23.08%) Perl
3 1 (7.69%) C-shell
3 1 (7.69%) PowerShell
3 1 (7.69%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (15.38%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (15.38%) Degree
1 2 (15.38%) SC Cleared
1 2 (15.38%) Security Cleared
2 1 (7.69%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 3 (23.08%) Active Directory
1 3 (23.08%) Docker
1 3 (23.08%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (15.38%) VMware NSX
3 1 (7.69%) Firmware
3 1 (7.69%) Hyper-V
3 1 (7.69%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (7.69%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 8 (61.54%) Ansible
2 3 (23.08%) Terraform
3 2 (15.38%) Kubernetes
4 1 (7.69%) Failover Clustering
4 1 (7.69%) HAProxy
4 1 (7.69%) Nagios
4 1 (7.69%) Podman
4 1 (7.69%) Puppet
4 1 (7.69%) Red Hat Satellite
4 1 (7.69%) SCOM
4 1 (7.69%) vCenter Server
4 1 (7.69%) WSUS
Vendors
1 5 (38.46%) NetApp
2 4 (30.77%) VMware
3 3 (23.08%) Google
3 3 (23.08%) IBM
4 2 (15.38%) HP
5 1 (7.69%) Dell
5 1 (7.69%) LogicMonitor
5 1 (7.69%) Microsoft
5 1 (7.69%) ServiceNow
5 1 (7.69%) Sun