Red Hat Enterprise Linux Contract Job Trends in Gloucestershire

Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
South West > Gloucestershire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Gloucestershire requiring Red Hat Enterprise Linux skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 41 57 52
Rank change year-on-year +16 -5 +6
Contract jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 2 7
As % of all contract jobs in Gloucestershire 1.59% 0.46% 1.42%
As % of the Operating Systems category 5.68% 2.15% 4.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 2 3
10th Percentile £454 £536 £585
25th Percentile £525 £543 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £571 £650
Median % change year-on-year -3.72% -12.12% -
75th Percentile £575 £610 £675
90th Percentile - £624 -
South West median daily rate £550 £576 £620
% change year-on-year -4.51% -7.10% +12.73%

All Operating Systems
Gloucestershire

Red Hat Enterprise Linux falls under the Operating Systems category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring operating system skills in Gloucestershire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 88 93 172
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 27.94% 21.18% 34.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 49 101
10th Percentile £191 £338 £415
25th Percentile £225 £460 £490
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £401 £563 £575
Median % change year-on-year -28.67% -2.17% +15.00%
75th Percentile £475 £675 £700
90th Percentile £575 £734 £775
South West median daily rate £425 £520 £520
% change year-on-year -18.27% - +9.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 4 17
10th Percentile £34.95 - £45.20
25th Percentile £56.20 - £70.50
Median hourly rate £68.00 £70.00 £78.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -10.26% +54.41%
75th Percentile £68.50 - -
90th Percentile £69.40 - £87.00
South West median hourly rate £25.15 £70.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -64.07% +7.69% -

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Red Hat Enterprise Linux job vacancy trend in Gloucestershire

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Daily Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Gloucestershire citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Gloucestershire citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Daily Rate Histogram in Gloucestershire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux in Gloucestershire over the 6 months to 3 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Red Hat Enterprise Linux in Gloucestershire

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Hourly Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Gloucestershire citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Gloucestershire citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Contract Job Locations in Gloucestershire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux within the Gloucestershire region over the 6 months to 3 October 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
Cheltenham +27 4 £550 +2.33% 2
Gloucester - 1 £413 - 1
Red Hat Enterprise Linux
South West

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Gloucestershire 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 4 (80.00%) npm
1 4 (80.00%) OpenShift
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 4 (80.00%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (80.00%) RDBMS
1 4 (80.00%) Relational Database
2 2 (40.00%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 4 (80.00%) Git
1 4 (80.00%) Maven
General
1 2 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Support Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Applications Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Applications Support
2 2 (40.00%) Applications Support Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Java Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 4 (80.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (20.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) Linux
2 4 (80.00%) CentOS
3 1 (20.00%) Windows
3 1 (20.00%) Windows 8
3 1 (20.00%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (20.00%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (80.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 4 (80.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 4 (80.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (40.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (40.00%) Data Centre Operations
2 2 (40.00%) Decision-Making
2 2 (40.00%) Microservices
2 2 (40.00%) Observability
2 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (40.00%) Service Delivery
2 2 (40.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 2 (40.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (40.00%) Task Automation
3 1 (20.00%) Application Security
3 1 (20.00%) Cloud Security
3 1 (20.00%) Migration
3 1 (20.00%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
3 1 (20.00%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) Java
2 2 (40.00%) C
Qualifications
1 5 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (80.00%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 4 (80.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (80.00%) Ansible
1 4 (80.00%) Grafana
1 4 (80.00%) Terraform
2 1 (20.00%) Norton AntiVirus
2 1 (20.00%) SCCM
2 1 (20.00%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Oracle
2 1 (20.00%) McAfee
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) Symantec