Red Hat Contract Job Trends in Hertfordshire

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East of England > Hertfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Hertfordshire 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 1 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
1 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 52 44 46
Rank change year-on-year -8 +2 +9
Contract jobs citing Red Hat 2 10 29
As % of all contract jobs in Hertfordshire 0.44% 1.72% 3.77%
As % of the Vendors category 0.88% 4.50% 7.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 7 19
10th Percentile £334 £505 £390
25th Percentile £337 £525 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £343 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -37.73% +10.00% -13.79%
75th Percentile £347 £575 £634
90th Percentile £349 - £717
East of England median daily rate £350 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -36.36% +2.33% +2.38%

All Vendors
Hertfordshire

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 Hertfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 227 222 398
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 50.22% 38.21% 51.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 130 105 239
10th Percentile £349 £265 £260
25th Percentile £463 £425 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% -
75th Percentile £600 £575 £650
90th Percentile £700 £633 £775
East of England median daily rate £525 £500 £490
% change year-on-year +5.00% +2.04% +5.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 48 44 51
10th Percentile £16.19 £13.86 £22.00
25th Percentile £17.11 £15.73 £42.25
Median hourly rate £22.63 £65.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -65.18% +13.04% +4.55%
75th Percentile £65.00 £67.50 £70.00
90th Percentile - £85.00 £84.36
East of England median hourly rate £22.63 £16.23 £44.50
% change year-on-year +39.43% -63.53% +97.78%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Red Hat job vacancy trend in Hertfordshire

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Daily Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

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

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

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Hourly Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

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

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

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Contract Job Locations in Hertfordshire

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 Hertfordshire region over the 6 months to 1 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
St Albans - 1 £335 -
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East of England

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hertfordshire 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 2 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
General
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
1 1 (50.00%) 3rd Line Support
1 1 (50.00%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Support
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Linux Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Support Engineer
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
2 1 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Customer Service
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Hyper-V
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) HP
1 1 (50.00%) Veritas
1 1 (50.00%) VMware