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 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 49 53 72
Rank change year-on-year +4 +19 +6
Contract jobs citing Red Hat 30 36 22
As % of all contract jobs in Hampshire 2.94% 3.01% 1.63%
As % of the Vendors category 6.06% 5.91% 2.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 26 17
10th Percentile - £469 -
25th Percentile £418 £512 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £579 £575
Median % change year-on-year -7.09% +0.61% -9.80%
75th Percentile £596 £621 £625
90th Percentile £617 £675 £655
South East median daily rate £506 £528 £550
% change year-on-year -4.12% -4.00% -3.17%

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 495 609 751
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 48.53% 50.92% 55.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 370 398 383
10th Percentile £262 £363 £263
25th Percentile £450 £463 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -
75th Percentile £600 £650 £624
90th Percentile £650 £723 £674
South East median daily rate £500 £515 £510
% change year-on-year -2.91% +0.98% +2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 24 63
10th Percentile - £18.05 £15.50
25th Percentile £19.00 £29.37 £18.88
Median hourly rate £22.50 £66.25 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -66.04% +26.19% +135.96%
75th Percentile £33.05 £70.00 £64.38
90th Percentile £34.83 - £77.50
South East median hourly rate £20.00 £58.05 £51.06
% change year-on-year -65.54% +13.69% +132.07%

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 18 October 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 18 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
Farnborough -6 10 £613 +4.97% 2
Portsmouth +8 7 £435 -8.42%
Southampton - 4 £550 -
Basingstoke - 3 £600 -
Fleet - 2 £486 -
Eastleigh - 1 £500 -
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 (6.67%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (3.33%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (3.33%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 18 (60.00%) OpenShift
2 14 (46.67%) Azure
3 12 (40.00%) Amazon EKS
4 7 (23.33%) GitHub
5 4 (13.33%) AWS
6 3 (10.00%) GCP
7 1 (3.33%) Amazon ECR
7 1 (3.33%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 4 (13.33%) Firewall
2 3 (10.00%) DNS
2 3 (10.00%) TCP/IP
3 2 (6.67%) DHCP
3 2 (6.67%) SSL
3 2 (6.67%) VSAN
4 1 (3.33%) HTTPS
4 1 (3.33%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (23.33%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (16.67%) Redis
3 1 (3.33%) Big Data
3 1 (3.33%) Delta Lake
3 1 (3.33%) Hadoop
3 1 (3.33%) NoSQL
3 1 (3.33%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 13 (43.33%) Jenkins
2 1 (3.33%) Git
2 1 (3.33%) MLflow
2 1 (3.33%) Poetry
2 1 (3.33%) PyCharm
2 1 (3.33%) SonarQube
2 1 (3.33%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 6 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (6.67%) Documentation Skills
2 2 (6.67%) Public Sector
3 1 (3.33%) Finance
3 1 (3.33%) Military
Job Titles
1 12 (40.00%) Platform Engineer
2 8 (26.67%) DevOps Engineer
3 6 (20.00%) Kubernetes Engineer
4 4 (13.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (10.00%) Integration Engineer
5 3 (10.00%) Security Engineer
5 3 (10.00%) Senior
5 3 (10.00%) Senior Platform Engineer
6 2 (6.67%) Linux Specialist
6 2 (6.67%) Technical Specialist
7 1 (3.33%) AWS Engineer
7 1 (3.33%) AWS Platform Engineer
7 1 (3.33%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 1 (3.33%) Data Engineer
7 1 (3.33%) Linux Engineer
7 1 (3.33%) Linux/Unix DevOps
7 1 (3.33%) Ubuntu Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (36.67%) Middleware
1 11 (36.67%) React
2 6 (20.00%) Elastic Stack
3 5 (16.67%) Kafka
3 5 (16.67%) Keycloak
3 5 (16.67%) YAML
4 2 (6.67%) JSON
5 1 (3.33%) Apache Avro
5 1 (3.33%) Flask
5 1 (3.33%) NumPy
5 1 (3.33%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 12 (40.00%) Private Cloud
2 1 (3.33%) Data Centre
2 1 (3.33%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (3.33%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 18 (60.00%) Linux
2 6 (20.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 6 (20.00%) Ubuntu
2 6 (20.00%) Windows
3 5 (16.67%) CentOS
4 4 (13.33%) Windows Server
4 4 (13.33%) Windows Server 2016
5 3 (10.00%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (6.67%) Unix
7 1 (3.33%) Oracle Linux
7 1 (3.33%) Solaris
7 1 (3.33%) Windows 10
7 1 (3.33%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (63.33%) CI/CD
2 17 (56.67%) Infrastructure as Code
2 17 (56.67%) Platform Engineering
3 15 (50.00%) Containerisation
4 13 (43.33%) Configuration Management
5 12 (40.00%) Migration
5 12 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
6 9 (30.00%) DevOps
7 7 (23.33%) Agile
8 6 (20.00%) Deployment Automation
9 5 (16.67%) High Availability
9 5 (16.67%) Immutable Infrastructure
9 5 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 5 (16.67%) Observability
9 5 (16.67%) Open Source
9 5 (16.67%) Scrum
10 2 (6.67%) Infrastructure Automation
10 2 (6.67%) Network Management
10 2 (6.67%) Security Management
10 2 (6.67%) Vulnerability Assessment
Programming Languages
1 16 (53.33%) PowerShell
1 16 (53.33%) SQL
2 15 (50.00%) Python
3 12 (40.00%) JavaScript
4 11 (36.67%) C#
4 11 (36.67%) Java
5 8 (26.67%) Bash
6 2 (6.67%) Perl
7 1 (3.33%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 15 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 10 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 3 (10.00%) DV Cleared
4 2 (6.67%) RHCE
4 2 (6.67%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.33%) QA
System Software
1 4 (13.33%) Docker
2 3 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (10.00%) vSphere
3 2 (6.67%) KVM
3 2 (6.67%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (3.33%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 24 (80.00%) Ansible
2 22 (73.33%) Kubernetes
3 7 (23.33%) Terraform
4 5 (16.67%) Grafana
4 5 (16.67%) Packer
4 5 (16.67%) Prometheus
5 2 (6.67%) Progress Chef
5 2 (6.67%) Puppet
5 2 (6.67%) VxRail
6 1 (3.33%) Argo
6 1 (3.33%) Istio
6 1 (3.33%) Podman
6 1 (3.33%) Rsyslog
6 1 (3.33%) SCOM
Vendors
1 9 (30.00%) VMware
2 7 (23.33%) Microsoft
3 5 (16.67%) Splunk
4 1 (3.33%) Cloudera
4 1 (3.33%) Dell
4 1 (3.33%) EMC
4 1 (3.33%) Oracle