Red Hat Contract Job Trends in the East of England

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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 19 October 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 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 91 76 76
Rank change year-on-year -15 0 +17
Contract jobs citing Red Hat 8 16 41
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.57% 1.13% 2.19%
As % of the Vendors category 1.19% 2.57% 5.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 10 30
10th Percentile £334 £413 £396
25th Percentile £335 £488 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £550 £513
Median % change year-on-year -36.36% +7.32% -2.38%
75th Percentile £400 £575 £636
90th Percentile £460 £605 £719
England median daily rate £513 £535 £598
% change year-on-year -4.21% -10.46% +7.66%

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 672 622 748
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 48.28% 43.80% 40.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 344 267 435
10th Percentile £200 £240 £190
25th Percentile £400 £363 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £589 £575 £608
90th Percentile £675 £650 £725
England median daily rate £510 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.86% - -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 106 143 96
10th Percentile £16.00 £14.84 £14.00
25th Percentile £16.92 £15.62 £16.16
Median hourly rate £21.92 £16.23 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year +35.06% -63.53% +106.98%
75th Percentile £55.63 £46.13 £65.00
90th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £78.75
England median hourly rate £25.00 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.57% -21.35% +80.56%

Red Hat
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Red Hat relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Red Hat job vacancy trend in the East of England

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Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Red Hat.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Red Hat

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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 19 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Red Hat in the East of England

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Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Red Hat.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Red Hat

Red Hat
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 19 October 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 -2 3 £500 +17.65%
Hertfordshire -15 2 £343 -37.73% 2
Suffolk - 2 £400 -
Essex - 2 £335 -
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England

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (37.50%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 5 (62.50%) Azure
2 4 (50.00%) AWS
3 3 (37.50%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) NAS
1 1 (12.50%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (37.50%) Artifactory
1 3 (37.50%) JIRA
General
1 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Linux Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
3 1 (12.50%) 3rd Line Support
3 1 (12.50%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Support
3 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Technical Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Support Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Technical Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Windows Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) Public Cloud
2 2 (25.00%) Linux Command Line
2 2 (25.00%) Virtual Team
3 1 (12.50%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 8 (100.00%) Linux
2 5 (62.50%) Windows
3 4 (50.00%) Windows Server
4 2 (25.00%) CentOS
4 2 (25.00%) Oracle Linux
4 2 (25.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (12.50%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 3 (37.50%) Agile
2 3 (37.50%) Continuous Integration
2 3 (37.50%) Performance Tuning
2 3 (37.50%) Workload Management
3 2 (25.00%) Computer Science
3 2 (25.00%) ITIL
3 2 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis
3 2 (25.00%) Security Patching
3 2 (25.00%) Task Automation
3 2 (25.00%) Vulnerability Management
4 1 (12.50%) Computer Architecture
4 1 (12.50%) Customer Service
4 1 (12.50%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 3 (37.50%) Bash
1 3 (37.50%) Perl
1 3 (37.50%) Python
2 2 (25.00%) PowerShell
2 2 (25.00%) Shell Script
3 1 (12.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (25.00%) Degree
System Software
1 2 (25.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (12.50%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 3 (37.50%) Ansible
1 3 (37.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Google
1 3 (37.50%) IBM
2 2 (25.00%) Oracle
3 1 (12.50%) HP
3 1 (12.50%) Veritas
3 1 (12.50%) VMware