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 27 August 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
27 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 58 46 78
Rank change year-on-year -12 +32 +44
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Red Hat 10 23 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 1.62% 2.86% 2.07%
As % of the Vendors category 3.73% 7.19% 4.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 19 15
10th Percentile £483 - £480
25th Percentile £494 - £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £340 £515
Median % change year-on-year +50.74% -33.98% -1.62%
75th Percentile £543 £453 £547
90th Percentile £553 £746 £569
Scotland median daily rate £535 £413 £500
% change year-on-year +29.64% -17.50% -
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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 268 320 466
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 43.44% 39.75% 41.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 111 179 291
10th Percentile £366 £156 £185
25th Percentile £425 £223 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £425 £475
Median % change year-on-year +11.76% -10.53% +2.15%
75th Percentile £538 £529 £528
90th Percentile £600 £678 £588
Scotland median daily rate £460 £448 £475
% change year-on-year +2.68% -5.68% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 25 3
10th Percentile £17.00 £13.33 -
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.50 -
Median hourly rate £17.87 £18.13 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -1.43% +2.31% +1.26%
75th Percentile £30.00 £20.93 £35.74
90th Percentile £60.50 £24.18 £46.54
Scotland median hourly rate £19.23 £18.13 £17.72
% change year-on-year +6.07% +2.31% +1.26%

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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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Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Red Hat.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Red Hat

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Hourly Rate Trend in Edinburgh

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Red Hat.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Red Hat

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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 8 (80.00%) AWS
2 4 (40.00%) Amazon EC2
2 4 (40.00%) Amazon S3
2 4 (40.00%) OpenShift
2 4 (40.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 3 (30.00%) Amazon EKS
4 2 (20.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (10.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
5 1 (10.00%) Azure
5 1 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (10.00%) GitHub
5 1 (10.00%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (10.00%) OCI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (40.00%) MongoDB
2 3 (30.00%) InfluxDB
3 2 (20.00%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (20.00%) Oracle Database
4 1 (10.00%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 3 (30.00%) Git
2 1 (10.00%) GitLab
2 1 (10.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (10.00%) Oracle APEX
General
1 4 (40.00%) Finance
1 4 (40.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 4 (40.00%) Law
1 4 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (30.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (10.00%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Site Engineer
1 4 (40.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) Server Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Linux Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Administrator
4 1 (10.00%) DBA
4 1 (10.00%) Linux Server Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Oracle DBA
4 1 (10.00%) Unix Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (20.00%) AWS CDK
2 1 (10.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 4 (40.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (10.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (10.00%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (10.00%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (10.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 10 (100.00%) Linux
2 5 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 5 (50.00%) Unix
2 5 (50.00%) Windows
3 4 (40.00%) Amazon Linux
3 4 (40.00%) Windows Server
4 2 (20.00%) Oracle Linux
5 1 (10.00%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) Agile
1 5 (50.00%) Project Delivery
1 5 (50.00%) Service-Level Objective
2 4 (40.00%) CI/CD
2 4 (40.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 4 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 4 (40.00%) ITIL
2 4 (40.00%) Mentoring
2 4 (40.00%) Network Load Balancing
2 4 (40.00%) Observability
2 4 (40.00%) Problem Management
2 4 (40.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 4 (40.00%) Technical Debt
3 3 (30.00%) Kanban
3 3 (30.00%) Scrum
4 2 (20.00%) Decision-Making
4 2 (20.00%) Deployment Automation
4 2 (20.00%) DevOps
4 2 (20.00%) Migration
5 1 (10.00%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (50.00%) Bash
1 5 (50.00%) Perl
1 5 (50.00%) Shell Script
2 4 (40.00%) Python
3 1 (10.00%) PL/SQL
3 1 (10.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (10.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 1 (10.00%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 4 (40.00%) Docker
1 4 (40.00%) KVM
2 1 (10.00%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (10.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (50.00%) Ansible
1 5 (50.00%) Grafana
1 5 (50.00%) Red Hat Satellite
2 4 (40.00%) Kubernetes
2 4 (40.00%) Prometheus
2 4 (40.00%) Terraform
3 3 (30.00%) HAProxy
3 3 (30.00%) Nagios
4 2 (20.00%) Fluentd
5 1 (10.00%) Data Guard
5 1 (10.00%) Oracle RMAN
5 1 (10.00%) Oracle ZFS
Vendors
1 5 (50.00%) Oracle
2 4 (40.00%) Commvault
2 4 (40.00%) VMware
3 1 (10.00%) Delphix
3 1 (10.00%) NetApp
3 1 (10.00%) Palo Alto