Red Hat Enterprise Linux Contracts in England

Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 274 292 226
Rank change year-on-year +18 -66 +43
Contract jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 209 268 562
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.87% 0.73% 1.18%
As % of the Operating Systems category 6.24% 5.28% 7.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 155 197 420
10th Percentile £400 £363 £424
25th Percentile £448 £456 £518
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £530 £625
Median % change year-on-year +3.77% -15.20% +4.17%
75th Percentile £625 £613 £700
90th Percentile £715 £650 £798
UK median daily rate £550 £524 £600
% change year-on-year +5.01% -12.71% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 10
10th Percentile - £65.18 £50.41
25th Percentile - £67.31 £51.25
Median hourly rate - £72.75 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year - +38.57% +0.96%
75th Percentile - £76.31 £68.75
90th Percentile - £77.33 £73.83
UK median hourly rate - £72.75 £52.50
% change year-on-year - +38.57% -16.67%

All Operating Systems
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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 3,349 5,078 7,684
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.99% 13.83% 16.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,291 3,468 5,415
10th Percentile £200 £185 £194
25th Percentile £313 £300 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £468 £475 £510
Median % change year-on-year -1.58% -6.86% +2.00%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £638
90th Percentile £694 £700 £725
UK median daily rate £467 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -1.68% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 156 370 354
10th Percentile £15.11 £12.75 £13.29
25th Percentile £17.33 £15.50 £17.73
Median hourly rate £20.00 £22.50 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% -47.06% +97.67%
75th Percentile £55.63 £61.90 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £22.00 £22.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -2.22% -47.06% +93.18%

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Red Hat Enterprise Linux in England

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Red Hat Enterprise Linux in England

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux in England over the 6 months to 29 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Red Hat Enterprise Linux in England

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Red Hat Enterprise Linux in England

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Contract Job Locations in 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 England region over the 6 months to 29 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
London +42 77 £575 +12.75% 77
North of England +39 43 £500 -2.44% 84
South East -28 26 £550 - 112
North West +20 21 £393 -24.46% 30
South West +33 19 £615 +3.80% 39
Yorkshire +22 19 £538 +16.22% 44
Midlands -16 16 £540 -1.82% 56
West Midlands 0 14 £540 -6.25% 26
East of England +21 3 £600 +36.36% 46
North East - 3 £575 - 10
East Midlands -6 2 £506 +12.69% 25
Red Hat Enterprise Linux
UK

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 18 (8.61%) Apache Spark
2 17 (8.13%) Apache
3 14 (6.70%) Confluence
3 14 (6.70%) JBoss
4 8 (3.83%) nginx
5 6 (2.87%) Tomcat
6 3 (1.44%) Documentum
6 3 (1.44%) FileNet
6 3 (1.44%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (1.44%) WebSphere
7 2 (0.96%) Traefik
7 2 (0.96%) WebLogic
8 1 (0.48%) IBM HTTP Server
8 1 (0.48%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.48%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.48%) Skype for Business
8 1 (0.48%) WebSphere Application Server
8 1 (0.48%) WinCC
Cloud Services
1 73 (34.93%) AWS
2 54 (25.84%) Azure
3 36 (17.22%) OpenShift
4 14 (6.70%) GitHub
5 13 (6.22%) Amazon S3
5 13 (6.22%) GCP
6 12 (5.74%) Amazon EC2
7 10 (4.78%) AWS CloudFormation
7 10 (4.78%) Azure DevOps
8 8 (3.83%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 8 (3.83%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 7 (3.35%) Amazon ECS
9 7 (3.35%) Azure Monitor
10 6 (2.87%) Serverless
11 5 (2.39%) AWS KMS
11 5 (2.39%) IaaS
11 5 (2.39%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 4 (1.91%) Amazon SQS
12 4 (1.91%) Cloud Computing
12 4 (1.91%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 42 (20.10%) DNS
2 34 (16.27%) DHCP
3 31 (14.83%) TCP/IP
4 18 (8.61%) HTTP
5 14 (6.70%) Firewall
6 9 (4.31%) NAS
7 6 (2.87%) SAN
8 3 (1.44%) VSAN
9 2 (0.96%) FTP
9 2 (0.96%) Intrusion Detection
9 2 (0.96%) Kerberos
9 2 (0.96%) LAN
9 2 (0.96%) SMTP
9 2 (0.96%) SSH
9 2 (0.96%) tcpdump
9 2 (0.96%) Telnet
9 2 (0.96%) VLAN
9 2 (0.96%) VPN
10 1 (0.48%) Network Security
10 1 (0.48%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (12.92%) Elasticsearch
2 17 (8.13%) Hadoop
3 16 (7.66%) PostgreSQL
4 15 (7.18%) Relational Database
4 15 (7.18%) SQL Server
5 14 (6.70%) MongoDB
6 13 (6.22%) Big Data
7 11 (5.26%) MySQL
8 9 (4.31%) RDBMS
9 5 (2.39%) Data Lake
9 5 (2.39%) Oracle Database
10 4 (1.91%) Data Warehouse
11 3 (1.44%) Apache Cassandra
11 3 (1.44%) Oracle Database 12c
12 2 (0.96%) MariaDB
12 2 (0.96%) NoSQL
12 2 (0.96%) Redis
12 2 (0.96%) Sybase ASE
13 1 (0.48%) NonStop SQL
13 1 (0.48%) Oracle Database 11g
Development Applications
1 37 (17.70%) Jenkins
2 33 (15.79%) Git
3 27 (12.92%) JIRA
4 22 (10.53%) GitLab
5 18 (8.61%) Sonatype Nexus
6 15 (7.18%) SonarQube
7 14 (6.70%) TeamCity
8 10 (4.78%) Bitbucket Server
8 10 (4.78%) CA Release Automation
9 5 (2.39%) Artifactory
9 5 (2.39%) Bitbucket
9 5 (2.39%) Subversion
10 4 (1.91%) Cucumber
10 4 (1.91%) Gradle
11 3 (1.44%) Eclipse
11 3 (1.44%) Maven
11 3 (1.44%) Postman
12 2 (0.96%) git-flow
12 2 (0.96%) Jasmine
12 2 (0.96%) JUnit
General
1 47 (22.49%) Finance
2 41 (19.62%) Social Skills
3 28 (13.40%) Banking
4 15 (7.18%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (7.18%) Public Sector
5 5 (2.39%) Financial Institution
6 4 (1.91%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (1.44%) Electronics
7 3 (1.44%) Front Office
7 3 (1.44%) Law
7 3 (1.44%) Legal
7 3 (1.44%) Manufacturing
7 3 (1.44%) Marketing
7 3 (1.44%) Military
7 3 (1.44%) Telecoms
8 2 (0.96%) Back Office
9 1 (0.48%) French Language
9 1 (0.48%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.48%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.48%) Retail
Job Titles
1 39 (18.66%) Linux Engineer
2 29 (13.88%) DevOps Engineer
3 21 (10.05%) Architect
4 16 (7.66%) Senior
5 13 (6.22%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 13 (6.22%) Kubernetes Engineer
6 11 (5.26%) AWS DevOps
6 11 (5.26%) Lead
7 9 (4.31%) Administrator
7 9 (4.31%) Azure Engineer
7 9 (4.31%) Developer
8 8 (3.83%) Automation Engineer
8 8 (3.83%) AWS Engineer
8 8 (3.83%) Cloud Engineer
8 8 (3.83%) Infrastructure Architect
9 7 (3.35%) Linux Administrator
9 7 (3.35%) Solutions Architect
10 6 (2.87%) Consultant
10 6 (2.87%) Principal Engineer
10 6 (2.87%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (7.66%) Spring Boot
2 15 (7.18%) Elastic Stack
3 14 (6.70%) OpenTelemetry
4 8 (3.83%) LDAP
5 7 (3.35%) .NET
5 7 (3.35%) Spring
6 6 (2.87%) Kafka
7 5 (2.39%) RabbitMQ
8 4 (1.91%) HTML
8 4 (1.91%) LAMP
8 4 (1.91%) OAuth
9 3 (1.44%) Apache NiFi
9 3 (1.44%) ASP.NET
9 3 (1.44%) ASP.NET Core
9 3 (1.44%) CSS
9 3 (1.44%) Middleware
9 3 (1.44%) REST
9 3 (1.44%) Spring Batch
9 3 (1.44%) Spring Security
9 3 (1.44%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (6.70%) Data Centre
2 10 (4.78%) CSOC
2 10 (4.78%) Replication
3 9 (4.31%) Enterprise Storage
4 8 (3.83%) Data Protection Act
5 6 (2.87%) Private Cloud
6 5 (2.39%) Public Cloud
7 4 (1.91%) Cloud Native
7 4 (1.91%) Clustering
7 4 (1.91%) EMC VMAX
7 4 (1.91%) PKI
8 3 (1.44%) Client/Server
8 3 (1.44%) Derivative
8 3 (1.44%) Hedge funds
8 3 (1.44%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (1.44%) Mainframe
8 3 (1.44%) Management Information System
9 2 (0.96%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 2 (0.96%) Interest Rate Derivative
9 2 (0.96%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 209 (100.00%) Linux
2 77 (36.84%) Windows
3 39 (18.66%) Windows Server
4 27 (12.92%) Unix
5 18 (8.61%) Solaris
6 16 (7.66%) CentOS
7 12 (5.74%) VMS
8 8 (3.83%) Rocky
9 7 (3.35%) AIX
10 6 (2.87%) HPUX
10 6 (2.87%) Windows Server 2019
11 4 (1.91%) Ubuntu
12 3 (1.44%) Oracle Linux
12 3 (1.44%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
13 2 (0.96%) Amazon Linux
13 2 (0.96%) Mac OS
13 2 (0.96%) SUSE
14 1 (0.48%) Fedora
14 1 (0.48%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (37.32%) DevOps
2 65 (31.10%) CI/CD
3 44 (21.05%) Migration
4 43 (20.57%) Containerisation
5 38 (18.18%) Agile
6 32 (15.31%) Problem-Solving
7 31 (14.83%) Microservices
8 29 (13.88%) High Availability
9 28 (13.40%) Infrastructure as Code
10 27 (12.92%) Observability
11 23 (11.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 19 (9.09%) Continuous Integration
13 18 (8.61%) Deployment Automation
14 17 (8.13%) Performance Tuning
15 16 (7.66%) Configuration Management
15 16 (7.66%) Service Management
15 16 (7.66%) Stakeholder Management
16 14 (6.70%) SIEM
16 14 (6.70%) Technical Leadership
16 14 (6.70%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 77 (36.84%) Python
2 51 (24.40%) Bash
3 33 (15.79%) Java
4 31 (14.83%) PowerShell
5 18 (8.61%) Perl
6 16 (7.66%) SQL
7 15 (7.18%) Shell Script
8 10 (4.78%) Ruby
9 6 (2.87%) C#
9 6 (2.87%) PHP
10 5 (2.39%) C++
11 4 (1.91%) JavaScript
12 3 (1.44%) Groovy
12 3 (1.44%) Rust
12 3 (1.44%) VBScript
13 2 (0.96%) Go
14 1 (0.48%) C
14 1 (0.48%) C-shell
14 1 (0.48%) T-SQL
14 1 (0.48%) VB
Qualifications
1 81 (38.76%) Security Cleared
2 55 (26.32%) SC Cleared
3 25 (11.96%) DV Cleared
4 11 (5.26%) RHCE
5 4 (1.91%) Degree
5 4 (1.91%) RHCSA
6 3 (1.44%) AWS Certification
6 3 (1.44%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 1 (0.48%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.48%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.48%) CASP
7 1 (0.48%) CCNP
7 1 (0.48%) CISA
7 1 (0.48%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.48%) CISM
7 1 (0.48%) CISSP
7 1 (0.48%) OCA
7 1 (0.48%) Oracle Certification
7 1 (0.48%) RHCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (3.35%) GDPR
2 5 (2.39%) PCI DSS
2 5 (2.39%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 4 (1.91%) NIST
4 3 (1.44%) QA
5 2 (0.96%) HIPAA
5 2 (0.96%) NCSC
6 1 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.48%) ISO 15022
6 1 (0.48%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 61 (29.19%) Docker
2 56 (26.79%) VMware Infrastructure
3 24 (11.48%) Active Directory
4 17 (8.13%) Hyper-V
5 12 (5.74%) VMware ESXi
6 11 (5.26%) vSphere
7 10 (4.78%) Veritas Cluster Server
8 4 (1.91%) NFS
8 4 (1.91%) Virtual Machines
9 3 (1.44%) Oracle RAC
9 3 (1.44%) vCloud
9 3 (1.44%) VMware NSX
9 3 (1.44%) VMware Workstation
10 2 (0.96%) Samba
10 2 (0.96%) Veritas File System
10 2 (0.96%) Veritas Volume Manager
11 1 (0.48%) Firmware
11 1 (0.48%) Gluster
11 1 (0.48%) GlusterFS
Systems Management
1 92 (44.02%) Ansible
2 85 (40.67%) Kubernetes
3 73 (34.93%) Terraform
4 36 (17.22%) Puppet
5 18 (8.61%) Grafana
6 17 (8.13%) Kibana
7 14 (6.70%) Argo
7 14 (6.70%) Progress Chef
8 7 (3.35%) Red Hat Satellite
8 7 (3.35%) SELinux
9 6 (2.87%) Packer
9 6 (2.87%) Prometheus
10 5 (2.39%) NetBackup
11 4 (1.91%) Data Guard
11 4 (1.91%) HAProxy
11 4 (1.91%) yum
12 3 (1.44%) Nagios
12 3 (1.44%) Opsview
12 3 (1.44%) QRadar
12 3 (1.44%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 124 (59.33%) Red Hat
2 70 (33.49%) VMware
3 34 (16.27%) Splunk
4 23 (11.00%) Oracle
5 22 (10.53%) ServiceNow
6 18 (8.61%) AppDynamics
7 15 (7.18%) SolarWinds
8 13 (6.22%) Cisco
8 13 (6.22%) Microsoft
8 13 (6.22%) Veritas
9 12 (5.74%) HP
10 11 (5.26%) F5
10 11 (5.26%) IBM
11 10 (4.78%) Fortinet
11 10 (4.78%) Palo Alto
12 7 (3.35%) EMC
13 6 (2.87%) Sun
14 5 (2.39%) Dell
14 5 (2.39%) Google
14 5 (2.39%) NetApp