Red Hat Contract Job Trends in Hampshire

Red Hat
South East > Hampshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Hampshire 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 14 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
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 53 59 78
Rank change year-on-year +6 +19 -4
Contract jobs citing Red Hat 34 19 18
As % of all contract jobs in Hampshire 2.61% 2.05% 1.39%
As % of the Vendors category 6.23% 4.03% 2.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 19 10
10th Percentile £417 £473 £413
25th Percentile £425 £538 £473
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £580 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year +0.87% - -9.80%
75th Percentile £619 £675 £634
90th Percentile £650 - £653
South East median daily rate £500 £560 £530
% change year-on-year -10.71% +5.66% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £46.25 - £20.50
Median hourly rate £47.50 - £21.00
75th Percentile £48.75 - £21.50
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £47.50 - £21.00
% change year-on-year - - -74.55%

All Vendors
Hampshire

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 Hampshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 546 471 669
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 41.97% 50.92% 51.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 423 332 319
10th Percentile £351 £360 £270
25th Percentile £460 £447 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £638
90th Percentile £725 £700 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £525 £517
% change year-on-year -4.76% +1.55% +3.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 22 49
10th Percentile £18.61 £20.20 £16.10
25th Percentile £19.00 £30.10 £21.00
Median hourly rate £21.00 £61.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -65.85% +11.82% +133.69%
75th Percentile £24.50 £68.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £48.75 £71.13 £78.00
South East median hourly rate £20.79 £36.17 £55.00
% change year-on-year -42.51% -34.25% +129.17%

Red Hat
Job Vacancy Trend in Hampshire

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

Red Hat job vacancy trend in Hampshire

Red Hat
Daily Rate Trend in Hampshire

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

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

Red Hat
Daily Rate Histogram in Hampshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Red Hat in Hampshire over the 6 months to 14 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Red Hat in Hampshire

Red Hat
Hourly Rate Trend in Hampshire

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

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

Red Hat
Contract Job Locations in Hampshire

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 Hampshire region over the 6 months to 14 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
Farnborough +4 13 £606 +5.90% 1
Portsmouth +5 10 £435 -8.42% 4
Southampton - 3 £500 -
Fleet - 2 £486 -
Romsey - 1 £740 -
Basingstoke - 1 £600 -
Havant - 1 £625 -
Red Hat
South East

Red Hat
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hampshire 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (5.88%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (2.94%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (2.94%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 17 (50.00%) OpenShift
2 13 (38.24%) Azure
3 9 (26.47%) Amazon EKS
3 9 (26.47%) AWS
4 8 (23.53%) GitHub
5 3 (8.82%) Cloud Computing
5 3 (8.82%) GCP
6 2 (5.88%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (5.88%) Amazon S3
6 2 (5.88%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (2.94%) Amazon ECR
7 1 (2.94%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (2.94%) Azure Storage
7 1 (2.94%) IaaS
7 1 (2.94%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (11.76%) DNS
1 4 (11.76%) TCP/IP
2 3 (8.82%) Firewall
3 2 (5.88%) DHCP
3 2 (5.88%) SSL
4 1 (2.94%) HTTP
4 1 (2.94%) HTTPS
4 1 (2.94%) Internet
4 1 (2.94%) SSH
4 1 (2.94%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (20.59%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (17.65%) Redis
3 2 (5.88%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (2.94%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (2.94%) Big Data
4 1 (2.94%) Delta Lake
4 1 (2.94%) Hadoop
4 1 (2.94%) NoSQL
4 1 (2.94%) Oracle Database
4 1 (2.94%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (2.94%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 11 (32.35%) Jenkins
2 2 (5.88%) GitLab
3 1 (2.94%) Git
3 1 (2.94%) MLflow
3 1 (2.94%) Poetry
3 1 (2.94%) Postman
3 1 (2.94%) PyCharm
3 1 (2.94%) SonarQube
3 1 (2.94%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 4 (11.76%) Social Skills
2 2 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (2.94%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (2.94%) Finance
Job Titles
1 13 (38.24%) DevOps Engineer
2 8 (23.53%) Platform Engineer
3 5 (14.71%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (8.82%) Linux Engineer
4 3 (8.82%) Software Engineer
5 2 (5.88%) Kubernetes Engineer
5 2 (5.88%) Linux Specialist
5 2 (5.88%) Technical Specialist
5 2 (5.88%) VMware Engineer
6 1 (2.94%) AWS Platform Engineer
6 1 (2.94%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 1 (2.94%) Data Engineer
6 1 (2.94%) Linux Systems Engineer
6 1 (2.94%) Linux/Unix DevOps
6 1 (2.94%) Senior
6 1 (2.94%) Senior DevOps
6 1 (2.94%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 1 (2.94%) Ubuntu Engineer
6 1 (2.94%) Windows Engineer
6 1 (2.94%) Windows Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (20.59%) Middleware
1 7 (20.59%) React
1 7 (20.59%) YAML
2 6 (17.65%) Elastic Stack
2 6 (17.65%) Kafka
2 6 (17.65%) Keycloak
3 4 (11.76%) JSON
4 3 (8.82%) XML
5 1 (2.94%) Apache Avro
5 1 (2.94%) Flask
5 1 (2.94%) NumPy
5 1 (2.94%) Pandas
5 1 (2.94%) ZeroMQ
Miscellaneous
1 8 (23.53%) Private Cloud
2 1 (2.94%) Cloud Native
2 1 (2.94%) Data Centre
2 1 (2.94%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (2.94%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 23 (67.65%) Linux
2 11 (32.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (14.71%) Ubuntu
4 3 (8.82%) CentOS
4 3 (8.82%) Windows
5 2 (5.88%) Unix
6 1 (2.94%) Windows Server
6 1 (2.94%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (2.94%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 17 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 15 (44.12%) DevOps
2 15 (44.12%) Infrastructure as Code
3 14 (41.18%) Platform Engineering
4 10 (29.41%) Configuration Management
5 8 (23.53%) Migration
6 7 (20.59%) Deployment Automation
6 7 (20.59%) Problem-Solving
7 6 (17.65%) High Availability
7 6 (17.65%) Observability
8 5 (14.71%) Agile
8 5 (14.71%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 5 (14.71%) Open Source
9 4 (11.76%) Immutable Infrastructure
9 4 (11.76%) Scrum
10 3 (8.82%) Performance Tuning
10 3 (8.82%) Software Engineering
10 3 (8.82%) Task Automation
11 2 (5.88%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 16 (47.06%) Python
2 11 (32.35%) SQL
3 9 (26.47%) Bash
3 9 (26.47%) PowerShell
4 8 (23.53%) JavaScript
5 7 (20.59%) C#
5 7 (20.59%) Java
6 2 (5.88%) Perl
6 2 (5.88%) Shell Script
7 1 (2.94%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 22 (64.71%) Security Cleared
2 15 (44.12%) SC Cleared
3 7 (20.59%) DV Cleared
4 2 (5.88%) RHCE
4 2 (5.88%) RHCSA
5 1 (2.94%) Azure Certification
5 1 (2.94%) OCP
5 1 (2.94%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.88%) NCSC
2 1 (2.94%) GDPR
2 1 (2.94%) QA
System Software
1 6 (17.65%) Docker
1 6 (17.65%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (5.88%) KVM
2 2 (5.88%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (5.88%) vSphere
3 1 (2.94%) Active Directory
3 1 (2.94%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 21 (61.76%) Kubernetes
2 20 (58.82%) Ansible
3 9 (26.47%) Terraform
4 7 (20.59%) Grafana
4 7 (20.59%) Prometheus
5 4 (11.76%) Packer
6 3 (8.82%) Argo
6 3 (8.82%) Istio
6 3 (8.82%) Progress Chef
6 3 (8.82%) Puppet
7 2 (5.88%) linkerd
7 2 (5.88%) Podman
8 1 (2.94%) Data Guard
8 1 (2.94%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
8 1 (2.94%) Oracle RMAN
8 1 (2.94%) Rsyslog
8 1 (2.94%) SCOM
8 1 (2.94%) systemd
8 1 (2.94%) vCenter Server
8 1 (2.94%) VxRail
Vendors
1 12 (35.29%) VMware
2 7 (20.59%) Microsoft
3 6 (17.65%) Splunk
4 1 (2.94%) Broadcom
4 1 (2.94%) Cloudera
4 1 (2.94%) EMC
4 1 (2.94%) Oracle