Red Hat Contract Job Trends in Farnborough

Red Hat
Hampshire > Farnborough

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Farnborough 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 18 October 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
18 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 19 13 22
Rank change year-on-year -6 +9 -
Contract jobs citing Red Hat 10 19 4
As % of all contract jobs in Farnborough 9.80% 11.52% 3.15%
As % of the Vendors category 20.41% 15.97% 7.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 16 4
10th Percentile £591 £496 £487
25th Percentile £601 £562 £528
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £584 £588
Median % change year-on-year +4.97% -0.68% -
75th Percentile £619 £636 £666
90th Percentile - £680 £671
Hampshire median daily rate £538 £579 £575
% change year-on-year -7.09% +0.61% -9.80%

All Vendors
Farnborough

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 Farnborough.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 49 119 57
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Farnborough 48.04% 72.12% 44.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 84 37
10th Percentile £360 £475 £300
25th Percentile £400 £525 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £608 £575
Median % change year-on-year -17.70% +5.65% +9.52%
75th Percentile £619 £688 £655
90th Percentile £648 £750 £718
Hampshire median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 10
10th Percentile - - £16.15
25th Percentile £63.75 - £21.01
Median hourly rate £67.50 - £41.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +9.33%
75th Percentile £71.25 - £73.13
90th Percentile - - £80.00
Hampshire median hourly rate £22.50 £66.25 £52.50
% change year-on-year -66.04% +26.19% +135.96%

Red Hat
Job Vacancy Trend in Farnborough

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

Red Hat job vacancy trend in Farnborough

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Daily Rate Trend in Farnborough

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

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

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Hourly Rate Trend in Farnborough

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

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

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Farnborough 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 10 (100.00%) Amazon EKS
1 10 (100.00%) Azure
1 10 (100.00%) OpenShift
Development Applications
1 10 (100.00%) Jenkins
Job Titles
1 10 (100.00%) Platform Engineer
2 6 (60.00%) Kubernetes Engineer
3 3 (30.00%) Security Engineer
4 2 (20.00%) Senior
4 2 (20.00%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (100.00%) Middleware
1 10 (100.00%) React
Miscellaneous
1 10 (100.00%) Private Cloud
2 1 (10.00%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 10 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 10 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 10 (100.00%) Migration
1 10 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 4 (40.00%) Containerisation
2 4 (40.00%) Deployment Automation
2 4 (40.00%) High Availability
2 4 (40.00%) Open Source
3 1 (10.00%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 10 (100.00%) C#
1 10 (100.00%) Java
1 10 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 10 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 10 (100.00%) Python
1 10 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (80.00%) SC Cleared
1 8 (80.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 10 (100.00%) Ansible
1 10 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) Microsoft