Red Hat Contract Job Trends in Essex

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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 2 December 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
2 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 21 17 31
Rank change year-on-year -4 +14 +8
Contract jobs citing Red Hat 2 3 3
As % of all contract jobs in Essex 1.77% 2.91% 1.52%
As % of the Vendors category 5.41% 6.67% 4.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 2
10th Percentile £333 - £526
25th Percentile £333 - £528
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £335 £600 £530
Median % change year-on-year -44.17% +13.21% +17.78%
75th Percentile £337 - £533
90th Percentile £337 - £534
East of England median daily rate £373 £600 £530
% change year-on-year -37.92% +13.21% -1.40%

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 37 45 65
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Essex 32.74% 43.69% 32.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 26 40
10th Percentile £185 £171 £178
25th Percentile £199 £243 £221
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £335 £275 £425
Median % change year-on-year +21.82% -35.29% -5.56%
75th Percentile £461 £350 £516
90th Percentile £520 £638 £601
East of England median daily rate £500 £488 £500
% change year-on-year +2.56% -2.50% +2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 13
10th Percentile - £20.63 £20.50
25th Percentile - £21.56 £22.09
Median hourly rate £12.75 £23.75 £47.75
Median % change year-on-year -46.32% -50.26% +56.56%
75th Percentile £23.61 £26.56 £55.56
90th Percentile £54.45 £27.88 £74.00
East of England median hourly rate £20.35 £18.46 £40.31
% change year-on-year +10.24% -54.20% +22.15%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Essex

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Red Hat relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Essex.

Red Hat job vacancy trend 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 2 December 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 & Capabilities in Essex by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

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