Red Hat Contracts in Edinburgh

Red Hat
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh 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 55 68 72
Rank change year-on-year +13 +4 +29
Contract jobs citing Red Hat 12 4 40
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 1.92% 0.49% 3.07%
As % of the Vendors category 4.30% 1.25% 7.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 4 36
10th Percentile £446 - £433
25th Percentile £484 £340 £478
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £370 £509
Median % change year-on-year +47.16% -27.27% +10.00%
75th Percentile £677 £407 £551
90th Percentile £744 £420 £570
Scotland median daily rate £522 £358 £500
% change year-on-year +46.08% -28.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £51.25
Median hourly rate - - £52.50
75th Percentile - - £53.75
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median hourly rate - - £52.50

All Vendors
Edinburgh

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 Edinburgh.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 279 319 540
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 44.64% 39.14% 41.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 144 181 393
10th Percentile £189 £210 £179
25th Percentile £400 £410 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £490 £475
Median % change year-on-year +1.02% +3.16% -
75th Percentile £561 £588 £525
90th Percentile £638 £725 £600
Scotland median daily rate £465 £465 £473
% change year-on-year -0.11% -1.69% +5.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 25 4
10th Percentile - £15.46 -
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.25 £21.26
Median hourly rate £22.44 £17.72 £21.47
Median % change year-on-year +26.62% -17.45% -41.19%
75th Percentile £24.30 £55.00 £29.69
90th Percentile £31.54 £60.75 £44.13
Scotland median hourly rate £22.00 £17.50 £59.03
% change year-on-year +25.71% -70.35% +47.56%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Job postings citing Red Hat as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Job vacancy trend for Red Hat in Edinburgh

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Red Hat in Edinburgh.

Daily rate trend for Red Hat in Edinburgh

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Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

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

Daily rate histogram for Red Hat in Edinburgh

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Red Hat in Edinburgh.

Hourly rate trend for Red Hat in Edinburgh

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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:

Cloud Services
1 6 (50.00%) AWS
2 5 (41.67%) Azure
3 3 (25.00%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (8.33%) GCP
4 1 (8.33%) IaaS
4 1 (8.33%) OCI
4 1 (8.33%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.33%) InfluxDB
1 1 (8.33%) MongoDB
1 1 (8.33%) Oracle Exadata
1 1 (8.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Jenkins
General
1 7 (58.33%) Social Skills
2 5 (41.67%) Finance
3 4 (33.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 4 (33.33%) Law
4 3 (25.00%) Public Sector
5 1 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (8.33%) Banking
5 1 (8.33%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (33.33%) Architect
1 4 (33.33%) Server Engineer
2 3 (25.00%) Lead
2 3 (25.00%) Lead Architect
2 3 (25.00%) Linux Engineer
2 3 (25.00%) Technical Architect
2 3 (25.00%) Technical Leader
3 2 (16.67%) Linux Server Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Senior
4 1 (8.33%) Database Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Senior Database Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Senior Platform Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Unix Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Unix Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (8.33%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 4 (33.33%) Product Ownership
2 1 (8.33%) Clustering
2 1 (8.33%) Data Centre
2 1 (8.33%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (8.33%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (8.33%) Public Cloud
2 1 (8.33%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 12 (100.00%) Linux
2 8 (66.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 7 (58.33%) Windows
4 5 (41.67%) Amazon Linux
4 5 (41.67%) Windows Server
5 3 (25.00%) Unix
6 2 (16.67%) AIX
7 1 (8.33%) Data ONTAP
7 1 (8.33%) Oracle Linux
7 1 (8.33%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (50.00%) ITIL
1 6 (50.00%) Problem Management
2 5 (41.67%) Project Delivery
2 5 (41.67%) Service-Level Objective
2 5 (41.67%) Technical Debt
3 4 (33.33%) Mentoring
4 3 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
5 2 (16.67%) Software Engineering
6 1 (8.33%) Agile
6 1 (8.33%) Continuous Improvement
6 1 (8.33%) Database Tuning
6 1 (8.33%) High Availability
6 1 (8.33%) Incident Management
6 1 (8.33%) Kanban
6 1 (8.33%) Root Cause Analysis
6 1 (8.33%) Scrum
6 1 (8.33%) Service Management
6 1 (8.33%) Stakeholder Management
6 1 (8.33%) Systems Analysis
Programming Languages
1 3 (25.00%) Bash
1 3 (25.00%) Python
2 2 (16.67%) Perl
3 1 (8.33%) Shell Script
3 1 (8.33%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (33.33%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (8.33%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (8.33%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 1 (8.33%) GDPR
2 1 (8.33%) PCI DSS
2 1 (8.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 3 (25.00%) vSphere
2 1 (8.33%) Docker
2 1 (8.33%) KVM
2 1 (8.33%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (8.33%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (8.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (33.33%) Ansible
2 1 (8.33%) Data Guard
2 1 (8.33%) Failover Clustering
2 1 (8.33%) Grafana
2 1 (8.33%) HAProxy
2 1 (8.33%) Kubernetes
2 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Clustering
2 1 (8.33%) Nagios
2 1 (8.33%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 1 (8.33%) Oracle Flashback
2 1 (8.33%) Progress Chef
2 1 (8.33%) Puppet
2 1 (8.33%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 9 (75.00%) VMware
2 3 (25.00%) Oracle
3 1 (8.33%) Commvault
3 1 (8.33%) Dell
3 1 (8.33%) Dynatrace
3 1 (8.33%) Google
3 1 (8.33%) IBM
3 1 (8.33%) Microsoft
3 1 (8.33%) NetApp
3 1 (8.33%) Palo Alto
3 1 (8.33%) Tanium