Red Hat Contract Job Trends in Essex

Red Hat
East of England > Essex

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Essex 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 19 September 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
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 20 - 31
Rank change year-on-year - - +12
Contract jobs citing Red Hat 2 0 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Essex 1.60% - 2.14%
As % of the Vendors category 4.55% - 6.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 3
10th Percentile £333 - £565
25th Percentile £333 - £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £335 - £750
Median % change year-on-year - - +63.04%
75th Percentile £337 - £775
90th Percentile £337 - -
East of England median daily rate £350 £550 £544
% change year-on-year -36.36% +1.15% +3.57%

All Vendors
Essex

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 Essex.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 44 51 75
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Essex 35.20% 37.78% 32.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 29 46
10th Percentile £215 £173 £195
25th Percentile £231 £263 £298
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £300 £500
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -40.00% +6.10%
75th Percentile £493 £550 £574
90th Percentile £525 £575 £650
East of England median daily rate £525 £500 £475
% change year-on-year +5.00% +5.26% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 7 9
10th Percentile £21.13 £18.39 £21.67
25th Percentile £24.63 £23.13 £41.25
Median hourly rate £37.75 £59.50 £47.75
Median % change year-on-year -36.55% +24.61% +122.09%
75th Percentile £42.46 £64.25 £70.26
90th Percentile £59.10 £67.85 £78.00
East of England median hourly rate £22.60 £16.23 £44.50
% change year-on-year +39.22% -63.53% +111.90%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Essex

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

Job vacancy trend for Red Hat in Essex

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Daily Rate Trend in Essex

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

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

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Hourly Rate Trend in Essex

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

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

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Contract Job Locations in Essex

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 Essex region over the 6 months to 19 September 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
Witham - 2 £335 -
Red Hat
East of England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Essex 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 1 (50.00%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Linux Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) SQL