Red Hat Contracts in England

Red Hat
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 251 279 229
Rank change year-on-year +28 -50 +24
Contract jobs citing Red Hat 250 292 591
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.03% 0.79% 1.17%
As % of the Vendors category 2.16% 1.87% 2.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 172 227 447
10th Percentile £393 £350 £425
25th Percentile £449 £436 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £600
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £625 £588 £700
90th Percentile £700 £680 £798
UK median daily rate £550 £524 £575
% change year-on-year +5.01% -8.91% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 6 16
10th Percentile £67.40 £22.84 £25.75
25th Percentile - £32.89 £28.40
Median hourly rate £68.00 £68.22 £50.75
Median % change year-on-year -0.32% +34.42% -19.79%
75th Percentile - £74.44 £64.56
90th Percentile £69.50 £75.97 £74.50
UK median hourly rate £68.00 £68.22 £52.50
% change year-on-year -0.32% +29.94% -16.67%

All Vendors
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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 11,562 15,655 21,089
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 47.47% 42.09% 41.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,448 9,950 14,523
10th Percentile £287 £256 £270
25th Percentile £408 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £518 £538
Median % change year-on-year +1.30% -3.58% +2.38%
75th Percentile £625 £631 £650
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £517 £525
% change year-on-year -0.39% -1.52% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 471 1,007 599
10th Percentile £14.84 £12.08 £15.19
25th Percentile £17.56 £14.27 £18.75
Median hourly rate £27.13 £22.50 £39.55
Median % change year-on-year +20.56% -43.11% +88.33%
75th Percentile £60.00 £56.37 £64.50
90th Percentile £76.25 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £26.45 £22.30 £43.75
% change year-on-year +18.61% -49.03% +108.14%

Red Hat
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Red Hat in England

Red Hat
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Red Hat in England

Red Hat
Daily Rate Histogram in England

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

Daily rate histogram for Red Hat in England

Red Hat
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Red Hat in England

Red Hat
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

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

Hourly rate histogram for Red Hat in England

Red Hat
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 within the 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
London +38 103 £590 +15.69% 67
South West +72 39 £615 +17.14% 29
South East -10 36 £550 +4.76% 41
North of England +30 34 £403 -18.43% 31
North West +17 22 £393 -17.26% 21
Midlands +2 15 £550 - 43
East of England +21 13 £465 -15.45% 13
Yorkshire +18 11 £405 -22.86% 7
West Midlands +7 11 £551 -5.81% 21
East Midlands -2 4 £544 +1.59% 21
North East - 1 £550 - 3
Red Hat
UK

Red Hat
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 15 (6.00%) Confluence
2 10 (4.00%) JBoss
2 10 (4.00%) OpenStack
3 9 (3.60%) Microsoft Exchange
4 7 (2.80%) Apache
5 6 (2.40%) Skype for Business
6 5 (2.00%) Mattermost
6 5 (2.00%) nginx
7 4 (1.60%) Cloud Foundry
8 3 (1.20%) SharePoint
8 3 (1.20%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.40%) WebLogic
9 1 (0.40%) WebSphere
9 1 (0.40%) WinCC
Applications
1 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (1.20%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.40%) Distributed Ledger
2 1 (0.40%) iTrent
2 1 (0.40%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 75 (30.00%) AWS
2 68 (27.20%) OpenShift
3 67 (26.80%) Azure
4 23 (9.20%) GitHub
5 19 (7.60%) GCP
6 11 (4.40%) Amazon EC2
7 10 (4.00%) Amazon EKS
7 10 (4.00%) AWS CloudFormation
7 10 (4.00%) Microsoft 365
7 10 (4.00%) Nutanix
8 9 (3.60%) IaaS
8 9 (3.60%) SaaS
9 8 (3.20%) Amazon S3
10 7 (2.80%) Azure DevOps
10 7 (2.80%) Azure Stack
11 5 (2.00%) Cloud Computing
12 4 (1.60%) Azure Monitor
12 4 (1.60%) PaaS
13 3 (1.20%) Amazon SQS
13 3 (1.20%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 53 (21.20%) DNS
2 51 (20.40%) TCP/IP
3 34 (13.60%) DHCP
4 23 (9.20%) HTTP
5 20 (8.00%) Firewall
6 19 (7.60%) SAN
7 14 (5.60%) NAS
8 7 (2.80%) Internet
9 6 (2.40%) Skype
9 6 (2.40%) VSAN
10 5 (2.00%) BGP
10 5 (2.00%) Ethernet VPN
10 5 (2.00%) Fibre Channel
10 5 (2.00%) LAN
10 5 (2.00%) OSPF
10 5 (2.00%) Softphone
10 5 (2.00%) Unified Communications
10 5 (2.00%) WAN
10 5 (2.00%) WebEx
11 4 (1.60%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (6.00%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (5.60%) Elasticsearch
3 12 (4.80%) Relational Database
4 10 (4.00%) SQL Server
5 8 (3.20%) MySQL
5 8 (3.20%) RDBMS
6 7 (2.80%) Amazon Aurora
6 7 (2.80%) Amazon RDS
7 6 (2.40%) Oracle Database
8 4 (1.60%) Apache Cassandra
8 4 (1.60%) Redis
9 3 (1.20%) Hazelcast
9 3 (1.20%) MongoDB
9 3 (1.20%) Oracle Database 12c
10 2 (0.80%) Big Data
10 2 (0.80%) CockroachDB
10 2 (0.80%) MariaDB
10 2 (0.80%) Sybase ASE
11 1 (0.40%) Apache Accumulo
11 1 (0.40%) Couchbase
Development Applications
1 38 (15.20%) Git
2 36 (14.40%) Jenkins
3 32 (12.80%) JIRA
4 18 (7.20%) TeamCity
5 14 (5.60%) GitLab
6 13 (5.20%) Subversion
7 12 (4.80%) Sonatype Nexus
8 10 (4.00%) SonarQube
9 9 (3.60%) Bitbucket Server
9 9 (3.60%) CA Release Automation
10 7 (2.80%) Artifactory
11 4 (1.60%) Bitbucket
11 4 (1.60%) Maven
12 3 (1.20%) Eclipse
13 1 (0.40%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 1 (0.40%) Cucumber
13 1 (0.40%) Gradle
13 1 (0.40%) Jasmine
13 1 (0.40%) JUnit
13 1 (0.40%) Serena SBM
General
1 47 (18.80%) Finance
2 44 (17.60%) Social Skills
3 26 (10.40%) Banking
4 11 (4.40%) Telecoms
5 8 (3.20%) Investment Banking
6 6 (2.40%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (2.40%) Legal
7 5 (2.00%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (1.20%) Marketing
8 3 (1.20%) Public Sector
9 2 (0.80%) Back Office
9 2 (0.80%) Electronics
9 2 (0.80%) Front Office
9 2 (0.80%) Law
9 2 (0.80%) Manufacturing
9 2 (0.80%) Military
10 1 (0.40%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.40%) Retail
Job Titles
1 44 (17.60%) Linux Engineer
2 34 (13.60%) DevOps Engineer
3 29 (11.60%) Senior
4 25 (10.00%) Administrator
5 20 (8.00%) Architect
5 20 (8.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 19 (7.60%) Linux Administrator
7 16 (6.40%) Support Engineer
8 12 (4.80%) Lead
9 11 (4.40%) Infrastructure Architect
10 10 (4.00%) Linux Support
10 10 (4.00%) Senior DevOps
10 10 (4.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 9 (3.60%) Analyst
11 9 (3.60%) Product Engineer
11 9 (3.60%) Products Support Engineer
11 9 (3.60%) Software Support Engineer
12 8 (3.20%) Automation Engineer
12 8 (3.20%) Cloud Engineer
13 7 (2.80%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (8.80%) Elastic Stack
2 14 (5.60%) LDAP
2 14 (5.60%) Spring Boot
3 13 (5.20%) Spring
4 11 (4.40%) Middleware
5 10 (4.00%) REST
6 8 (3.20%) Kafka
7 5 (2.00%) XMPP
7 5 (2.00%) YAML
8 3 (1.20%) ActiveMQ
8 3 (1.20%) AngularJS
8 3 (1.20%) FIX Protocol
8 3 (1.20%) J2EE
9 2 (0.80%) LAMP
9 2 (0.80%) Murex MxML
9 2 (0.80%) Node.js
9 2 (0.80%) XML
10 1 (0.40%) JSON
10 1 (0.40%) RESTful
10 1 (0.40%) Spring Batch
Miscellaneous
1 20 (8.00%) Public Cloud
2 16 (6.40%) Data Centre
3 12 (4.80%) Clustering
3 12 (4.80%) Hybrid Cloud
4 11 (4.40%) Replication
5 10 (4.00%) CSOC
6 9 (3.60%) Enterprise Storage
6 9 (3.60%) Private Cloud
7 7 (2.80%) Data Protection Act
8 6 (2.40%) Cloud Native
8 6 (2.40%) Management Information System
9 5 (2.00%) Linux Command Line
10 4 (1.60%) Distributed Computing
10 4 (1.60%) EMC VMAX
11 3 (1.20%) Derivative
11 3 (1.20%) Eurex
11 3 (1.20%) Fixed Income
11 3 (1.20%) Onboarding
11 3 (1.20%) PKI
12 2 (0.80%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 207 (82.80%) Linux
2 124 (49.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 83 (33.20%) Windows
4 53 (21.20%) Windows Server
5 37 (14.80%) Ubuntu
6 33 (13.20%) CentOS
7 27 (10.80%) Unix
8 23 (9.20%) Solaris
9 12 (4.80%) VMS
9 12 (4.80%) Windows Server 2016
10 7 (2.80%) AIX
11 6 (2.40%) Windows Server 2019
12 5 (2.00%) HPUX
13 4 (1.60%) Debian
13 4 (1.60%) Oracle Linux
14 3 (1.20%) Rocky
14 3 (1.20%) SUSE
14 3 (1.20%) Windows 10
14 3 (1.20%) Windows Server 2012
15 2 (0.80%) Fedora
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (32.00%) DevOps
2 57 (22.80%) CI/CD
3 55 (22.00%) Problem-Solving
4 51 (20.40%) Containerisation
5 39 (15.60%) High Availability
6 29 (11.60%) Infrastructure as Code
7 28 (11.20%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 27 (10.80%) Agile
9 25 (10.00%) Configuration Management
9 25 (10.00%) Continuous Integration
10 23 (9.20%) Microservices
10 23 (9.20%) Migration
11 22 (8.80%) Deployment Automation
12 21 (8.40%) Disaster Recovery
12 21 (8.40%) Software Engineering
12 21 (8.40%) Task Automation
13 20 (8.00%) ITIL
14 18 (7.20%) Infrastructure Management
15 17 (6.80%) Incident Management
15 17 (6.80%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 100 (40.00%) Python
2 71 (28.40%) Bash
3 39 (15.60%) PowerShell
4 36 (14.40%) Perl
5 34 (13.60%) Java
6 30 (12.00%) SQL
7 29 (11.60%) Shell Script
8 15 (6.00%) C++
9 13 (5.20%) JavaScript
10 11 (4.40%) Ada
10 11 (4.40%) C
11 8 (3.20%) Ruby
12 4 (1.60%) Scala
13 3 (1.20%) Korn
14 2 (0.80%) C#
14 2 (0.80%) Go
14 2 (0.80%) PL/SQL
15 1 (0.40%) ActionScript 2.0
15 1 (0.40%) C-shell
15 1 (0.40%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 94 (37.60%) Security Cleared
2 66 (26.40%) SC Cleared
3 28 (11.20%) DV Cleared
4 13 (5.20%) RHCE
5 10 (4.00%) Degree
6 8 (3.20%) RHCSA
7 6 (2.40%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (2.00%) AWS Certification
8 5 (2.00%) ITIL Certification
9 2 (0.80%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (0.80%) CCIE
9 2 (0.80%) CCIE Data Center
9 2 (0.80%) CCNP
9 2 (0.80%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (0.80%) CISSP
9 2 (0.80%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.80%) RHCA
9 2 (0.80%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 1 (0.40%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.40%) CASP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (4.00%) GDPR
2 8 (3.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 6 (2.40%) QA
4 4 (1.60%) NIST
5 1 (0.40%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.40%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 77 (30.80%) Docker
2 71 (28.40%) VMware Infrastructure
3 26 (10.40%) Active Directory
4 20 (8.00%) Hyper-V
5 19 (7.60%) vSphere
6 15 (6.00%) VMware ESXi
7 9 (3.60%) NFS
8 8 (3.20%) Veritas Cluster Server
9 7 (2.80%) VMware NSX
10 5 (2.00%) Samba
11 4 (1.60%) Lustre
11 4 (1.60%) Veritas File System
11 4 (1.60%) Veritas Volume Manager
12 3 (1.20%) Ceph
12 3 (1.20%) KVM
12 3 (1.20%) Oracle RAC
13 1 (0.40%) Firmware
13 1 (0.40%) Gluster
13 1 (0.40%) GlusterFS
13 1 (0.40%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 117 (46.80%) Ansible
2 100 (40.00%) Kubernetes
3 68 (27.20%) Terraform
4 45 (18.00%) Puppet
5 31 (12.40%) Progress Chef
6 16 (6.40%) Grafana
6 16 (6.40%) Prometheus
6 16 (6.40%) Red Hat Satellite
7 10 (4.00%) Kibana
7 10 (4.00%) Nagios
8 9 (3.60%) QRadar
8 9 (3.60%) vCenter Server
9 8 (3.20%) SELinux
10 7 (2.80%) Nessus
10 7 (2.80%) Tivoli
10 7 (2.80%) VxRail
10 7 (2.80%) ZABBIX
11 6 (2.40%) Control-M
11 6 (2.40%) SCOM
11 6 (2.40%) yum
Vendors
1 100 (40.00%) VMware
2 46 (18.40%) Splunk
3 29 (11.60%) Oracle
4 25 (10.00%) Microsoft
5 24 (9.60%) ServiceNow
6 21 (8.40%) Cisco
7 19 (7.60%) F5
8 16 (6.40%) SolarWinds
9 15 (6.00%) EMC
9 15 (6.00%) HP
9 15 (6.00%) IBM
10 14 (5.60%) NetApp
11 13 (5.20%) AppDynamics
11 13 (5.20%) Veritas
12 11 (4.40%) Dell
13 10 (4.00%) Fortinet
13 10 (4.00%) Palo Alto
14 9 (3.60%) CyberArk
14 9 (3.60%) Google
14 9 (3.60%) Qualys