Red Hat Contracts in England

Red Hat
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for knowledge and experience of Red Hat products and/or services. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Red Hat over the 6 months to 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 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
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 280 225 248
Rank change year-on-year -55 +23 -5
Contract jobs citing Red Hat 292 608 813
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.78% 1.20% 1.15%
As % of the Vendors category 1.85% 2.86% 2.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 227 458 534
10th Percentile £350 £425 £404
25th Percentile £433 £488 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £590
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +1.69% +24.21%
75th Percentile £588 £700 £675
90th Percentile £680 £798 £752
UK median daily rate £525 £575 £569
% change year-on-year -8.70% +1.10% +18.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 16 17
10th Percentile £22.84 £25.75 £23.43
25th Percentile £32.89 £28.40 £43.50
Median hourly rate £68.22 £50.75 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +34.42% -11.74% +15.00%
75th Percentile £74.44 £64.56 £69.05
90th Percentile £75.97 £74.50 £83.85
UK median hourly rate £68.22 £52.50 £63.00
% change year-on-year +29.94% -16.67% +26.00%

All Vendors
England

Red Hat is in the Vendor Products and Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services advertised in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 15,761 21,228 27,799
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 42.34% 41.86% 39.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,032 14,600 18,956
10th Percentile £255 £265 £268
25th Percentile £400 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.63% +2.38% +10.53%
75th Percentile £631 £650 £638
90th Percentile £738 £750 £726
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -1.90% - +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,002 617 796
10th Percentile £12.01 £15.06 £11.50
25th Percentile £14.27 £18.63 £15.00
Median hourly rate £22.50 £39.00 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -42.31% +85.71% -4.55%
75th Percentile £55.97 £64.50 £43.76
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £57.50
UK median hourly rate £22.15 £43.00 £21.00
% change year-on-year -48.49% +104.76% -6.67%

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 25 April 2024.

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 25 April 2024.

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 25 April 2024. 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 -79 102 £510 -18.40% 83
South East +26 94 £527 -4.27% 17
Midlands +45 35 £550 +28.74% 34
North of England +6 24 £475 -13.24% 33
North West -3 23 £450 -18.18% 19
East of England -8 23 £543 -22.50% 13
West Midlands +38 18 £585 +88.71% 30
East Midlands +27 16 £535 +9.24% 4
South West -10 11 £550 -4.35% 18
Yorkshire +20 1 £525 - 1
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 31 (10.62%) Apache
2 26 (8.90%) Tomcat
3 17 (5.82%) OpenStack
4 16 (5.48%) IIS
5 14 (4.79%) nginx
6 12 (4.11%) JBoss
7 6 (2.05%) Confluence
7 6 (2.05%) Microsoft Exchange
7 6 (2.05%) MQSeries
8 1 (0.34%) CMS
8 1 (0.34%) OpenEdge
8 1 (0.34%) Red Hat Fuse
8 1 (0.34%) SharePoint
Applications
1 14 (4.79%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 7 (2.40%) Oracle EBS
2 6 (2.05%) Temenos T24
3 3 (1.03%) Global One
3 3 (1.03%) Sage X3
4 2 (0.68%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
4 2 (0.68%) RMDS
5 1 (0.34%) MFGPRO
5 1 (0.34%) Sage 50
Cloud Services
1 55 (18.84%) Azure
2 54 (18.49%) AWS
3 22 (7.53%) OpenShift
4 17 (5.82%) GitHub
4 17 (5.82%) Slack
5 9 (3.08%) Amazon S3
5 9 (3.08%) Route 53
6 8 (2.74%) Amazon EC2
6 8 (2.74%) AWS CloudFormation
6 8 (2.74%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 7 (2.40%) Azure DevOps
7 7 (2.40%) IaaS
7 7 (2.40%) Microsoft 365
8 5 (1.71%) Amazon EKS
8 5 (1.71%) Azure AKS
8 5 (1.71%) CloudFront
8 5 (1.71%) Datadog
8 5 (1.71%) WhatsApp
9 4 (1.37%) Nutanix
9 4 (1.37%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 44 (15.07%) SAN
2 39 (13.36%) TCP/IP
3 26 (8.90%) Firewall
4 20 (6.85%) DNS
5 18 (6.16%) HTTP
6 15 (5.14%) Network Security
7 14 (4.79%) H.323
8 12 (4.11%) Intrusion Detection
9 11 (3.77%) InfiniBand
10 9 (3.08%) NAS
11 6 (2.05%) DHCP
11 6 (2.05%) VPN
11 6 (2.05%) Wireless
12 4 (1.37%) FTP
12 4 (1.37%) HTTPS
12 4 (1.37%) IPsec
12 4 (1.37%) tcpdump
12 4 (1.37%) WAN
12 4 (1.37%) Wireshark
13 3 (1.03%) Cisco IOS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (12.33%) SQL Server
2 29 (9.93%) Elasticsearch
3 27 (9.25%) PostgreSQL
4 21 (7.19%) MySQL
5 13 (4.45%) RDBMS
5 13 (4.45%) Relational Database
6 12 (4.11%) Amazon RDS
6 12 (4.11%) Oracle Database
7 10 (3.42%) Big Data
8 7 (2.40%) MongoDB
9 3 (1.03%) Amazon Aurora
9 3 (1.03%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (0.68%) Oracle BI Publisher
11 1 (0.34%) Ingres
Development Applications
1 34 (11.64%) Jenkins
2 23 (7.88%) GitLab
3 22 (7.53%) Git
4 12 (4.11%) SonarQube
5 10 (3.42%) Bitbucket
6 9 (3.08%) JIRA
7 8 (2.74%) Artifactory
8 6 (2.05%) Maven
8 6 (2.05%) Sonatype Nexus
8 6 (2.05%) TeamCity
9 5 (1.71%) Bitbucket Server
9 5 (1.71%) CA Release Automation
10 3 (1.03%) Cucumber
10 3 (1.03%) EasyMock
10 3 (1.03%) JUnit
10 3 (1.03%) Mockito
10 3 (1.03%) Oracle APEX
10 3 (1.03%) Postman
10 3 (1.03%) Selenium
10 3 (1.03%) TestNG
General
1 39 (13.36%) Finance
2 32 (10.96%) Analytical Skills
3 30 (10.27%) Social Skills
4 21 (7.19%) Public Sector
5 20 (6.85%) Telecoms
6 19 (6.51%) Banking
7 12 (4.11%) Legal
8 5 (1.71%) Manufacturing
9 4 (1.37%) Electronics
9 4 (1.37%) Marketing
9 4 (1.37%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (1.03%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (1.03%) Investment Banking
11 2 (0.68%) Advertising
11 2 (0.68%) Military
12 1 (0.34%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.34%) Back Office
12 1 (0.34%) French Language
12 1 (0.34%) Local Government
12 1 (0.34%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 51 (17.47%) Linux Engineer
2 35 (11.99%) Developer
3 27 (9.25%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 27 (9.25%) Support Engineer
4 23 (7.88%) Python Developer
5 18 (6.16%) Architect
6 17 (5.82%) DevOps Engineer
6 17 (5.82%) Senior
7 15 (5.14%) Analyst
7 15 (5.14%) Cloud Engineer
7 15 (5.14%) Lead
8 12 (4.11%) AWS Engineer
8 12 (4.11%) Solutions Architect
9 11 (3.77%) Administrator
9 11 (3.77%) Applications Support
9 11 (3.77%) Linux Systems Administrator
9 11 (3.77%) Systems Administrator
10 10 (3.42%) Consultant
10 10 (3.42%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
10 10 (3.42%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (9.59%) Elastic Stack
2 16 (5.48%) Apache NiFi
3 11 (3.77%) REST
4 10 (3.42%) YAML
5 9 (3.08%) Spring Boot
6 8 (2.74%) CSS
6 8 (2.74%) HTML
7 7 (2.40%) FIX Protocol
7 7 (2.40%) Swagger
8 6 (2.05%) IBM Integration Bus
9 5 (1.71%) LDAP
9 5 (1.71%) Middleware
10 4 (1.37%) .NET
10 4 (1.37%) HTML5
10 4 (1.37%) Kafka
10 4 (1.37%) Spring
11 3 (1.03%) Gherkin
11 3 (1.03%) Guice
11 3 (1.03%) Mustache
11 3 (1.03%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 27 (9.25%) Management Information System
1 27 (9.25%) Onboarding
2 22 (7.53%) Linux Command Line
3 19 (6.51%) Data Centre
4 15 (5.14%) IVR
5 14 (4.79%) PKI
6 13 (4.45%) Distributed Applications
7 12 (4.11%) Cyber Defence
8 9 (3.08%) Clustering
9 8 (2.74%) Public Cloud
9 8 (2.74%) Replication
10 5 (1.71%) Enterprise Storage
10 5 (1.71%) Greenfield Project
11 4 (1.37%) Fat Client
11 4 (1.37%) Hybrid Cloud
11 4 (1.37%) Thin Client
12 3 (1.03%) CCTV
12 3 (1.03%) Cyber Threat
12 3 (1.03%) Self-Motivation
13 2 (0.68%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 225 (77.05%) Linux
2 141 (48.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 92 (31.51%) Windows
4 40 (13.70%) Ubuntu
5 38 (13.01%) Unix
6 37 (12.67%) Windows Server
7 34 (11.64%) Debian
8 29 (9.93%) CentOS
9 22 (7.53%) Windows Server 2019
10 15 (5.14%) Solaris
11 14 (4.79%) Windows Server 2016
12 12 (4.11%) Android
13 9 (3.08%) Apple iOS
14 7 (2.40%) Windows Server 2012
15 4 (1.37%) Mac OS
15 4 (1.37%) Windows 10
16 3 (1.03%) SUSE
16 3 (1.03%) VMS
16 3 (1.03%) Windows Server 2008
17 1 (0.34%) Windows Mobile
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (17.81%) Agile
2 46 (15.75%) CI/CD
3 42 (14.38%) ITIL
4 40 (13.70%) DevOps
5 36 (12.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 29 (9.93%) Infrastructure as Code
6 29 (9.93%) Migration
7 28 (9.59%) Data Engineering
8 27 (9.25%) Configuration Management
9 25 (8.56%) Change Management
10 23 (7.88%) High Availability
11 22 (7.53%) Customer Service
11 22 (7.53%) Disaster Recovery
12 21 (7.19%) Capacity Management
12 21 (7.19%) Data Modelling
13 20 (6.85%) Software Engineering
14 19 (6.51%) Observability
15 18 (6.16%) Prototyping
15 18 (6.16%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
16 16 (5.48%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 91 (31.16%) Python
2 47 (16.10%) Shell Script
3 37 (12.67%) Bash
4 36 (12.33%) PowerShell
5 24 (8.22%) SQL
6 17 (5.82%) Perl
7 11 (3.77%) Java
8 9 (3.08%) MATLAB
9 8 (2.74%) Korn
10 5 (1.71%) Ruby
11 4 (1.37%) JavaScript
11 4 (1.37%) PHP
11 4 (1.37%) T-SQL
12 3 (1.03%) C
12 3 (1.03%) C++
13 2 (0.68%) AWK
13 2 (0.68%) Bourne shell
13 2 (0.68%) Go
13 2 (0.68%) VBScript
14 1 (0.34%) C#
Qualifications
1 125 (42.81%) Security Cleared
2 88 (30.14%) SC Cleared
3 50 (17.12%) DV Cleared
4 21 (7.19%) Degree
5 12 (4.11%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (2.74%) RHCE
7 5 (1.71%) RHCSA
8 2 (0.68%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.34%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.34%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.34%) CEH
9 1 (0.34%) CISSP
9 1 (0.34%) Linux+ Certification
9 1 (0.34%) LPIC
9 1 (0.34%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.34%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (4.45%) QA
2 10 (3.42%) Actionable Recommendations
3 5 (1.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.03%) SLA
5 2 (0.68%) GDPR
5 2 (0.68%) NIST
6 1 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.34%) GxP
System Software
1 56 (19.18%) VMware Infrastructure
2 40 (13.70%) Active Directory
3 26 (8.90%) Docker
4 23 (7.88%) Virtual Machines
5 17 (5.82%) vSphere
6 15 (5.14%) Hyper-V
7 11 (3.77%) VMware ESXi
8 10 (3.42%) Firmware
9 7 (2.40%) KVM
10 5 (1.71%) VMware NSX
11 4 (1.37%) Samba
11 4 (1.37%) Virtual Servers
12 2 (0.68%) Ceph
12 2 (0.68%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 2 (0.68%) Varnish
12 2 (0.68%) Veritas Cluster Server
13 1 (0.34%) Terminal Services
13 1 (0.34%) Virtual Desktop
13 1 (0.34%) Xen
Systems Management
1 91 (31.16%) Ansible
2 48 (16.44%) Kubernetes
3 40 (13.70%) Terraform
4 25 (8.56%) Red Hat Satellite
5 22 (7.53%) Kibana
6 21 (7.19%) Grafana
7 19 (6.51%) Prometheus
8 17 (5.82%) logstash
9 11 (3.77%) Progress Chef
10 10 (3.42%) Puppet
11 9 (3.08%) Dell DRAC
12 7 (2.40%) Data Guard
12 7 (2.40%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
12 7 (2.40%) Packer
13 5 (1.71%) Istio
13 5 (1.71%) NetBackup
13 5 (1.71%) SELinux
13 5 (1.71%) vCenter Server
13 5 (1.71%) vRealize
13 5 (1.71%) WSUS
Vendors
1 105 (35.96%) VMware
2 66 (22.60%) Microsoft
3 34 (11.64%) Oracle
4 22 (7.53%) Dell
5 18 (6.16%) HP
6 16 (5.48%) Amdocs
7 15 (5.14%) Avaya
8 13 (4.45%) SolarWinds
9 12 (4.11%) IBM
10 11 (3.77%) Verint
11 9 (3.08%) Isilon
11 9 (3.08%) NetApp
12 8 (2.74%) Bloomberg
12 8 (2.74%) Nimble Storage
12 8 (2.74%) Qualys
12 8 (2.74%) Veritas
13 7 (2.40%) Cisco
13 7 (2.40%) Citrix
13 7 (2.40%) Veeam
14 6 (2.05%) Temenos