Red Hat Enterprise Linux Contract Job Trends in Knutsford

Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
Cheshire > Knutsford

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Knutsford requiring Red Hat Enterprise Linux skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 32 37 -
Rank change year-on-year +5 - -
Contract jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 15 16 0
As % of all contract jobs in Knutsford 6.73% 5.93% -
As % of the Operating Systems category 39.47% 24.62% -
Number of daily rates quoted 15 16 0
10th Percentile £419 £281 -
25th Percentile £450 £333 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £383 -
Median % change year-on-year +26.19% - -
75th Percentile £525 £428 -
90th Percentile £618 £520 -
Cheshire median daily rate £494 £383 -
% change year-on-year +29.07% - -

All Operating Systems
Knutsford

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 Knutsford.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 38 65 34
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Knutsford 17.04% 24.07% 20.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 60 32
10th Percentile £349 £307 £321
25th Percentile £416 £350 £421
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £371 £504
Median % change year-on-year +25.25% -26.30% -10.84%
75th Percentile £612 £455 £547
90th Percentile £631 £520 £576
Cheshire median daily rate £448 £368 £453
% change year-on-year +21.74% -18.67% +4.93%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £15.93 - -
Median hourly rate £16.87 - -
75th Percentile £17.80 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Cheshire median hourly rate £17.50 - -

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in Knutsford

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

Red Hat Enterprise Linux job vacancy trend in Knutsford

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Daily Rate Trend in Knutsford

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

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

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Daily Rate Histogram in Knutsford

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux in Knutsford over the 6 months to 12 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Red Hat Enterprise Linux in Knutsford

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Knutsford 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 11 (73.33%) AWS
2 8 (53.33%) Azure
2 8 (53.33%) GCP
2 8 (53.33%) Google Kubernetes Engine
3 6 (40.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 2 (13.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 2 (13.33%) Amazon ECS
4 2 (13.33%) Amazon EKS
4 2 (13.33%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (13.33%) AWS CloudTrail
4 2 (13.33%) AWS KMS
4 2 (13.33%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (13.33%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (13.33%) Azure Monitor
4 2 (13.33%) Entra ID
4 2 (13.33%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 8 (53.33%) Firewall
2 3 (20.00%) DNS
2 3 (20.00%) FTP
3 2 (13.33%) Network Security
General
1 11 (73.33%) Finance
2 5 (33.33%) Banking
3 2 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (13.33%) Social Skills
4 1 (6.67%) Corporate Banking
4 1 (6.67%) Financial Institution
4 1 (6.67%) Investment Banking
4 1 (6.67%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 8 (53.33%) Security Engineer
2 7 (46.67%) Cloud Engineer
3 5 (33.33%) Cloud Security Engineer
4 4 (26.67%) Unix Engineer
5 3 (20.00%) Linux Engineer
6 2 (13.33%) Senior
7 1 (6.67%) GCP Engineer
7 1 (6.67%) Migration Engineer
7 1 (6.67%) Optimisation Engineer
7 1 (6.67%) Senior Cloud Engineer
7 1 (6.67%) Senior Security Engineer
7 1 (6.67%) Senior Unix Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (13.33%) ARM Templates
1 2 (13.33%) Azure Blueprints
Miscellaneous
1 8 (53.33%) Cloud Native
2 7 (46.67%) Security Posture
3 6 (40.00%) Management Information System
4 3 (20.00%) Data Centre
4 3 (20.00%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (13.33%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (13.33%) Virtual Team
6 1 (6.67%) FPGA
6 1 (6.67%) Grid Computing
6 1 (6.67%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 15 (100.00%) Linux
2 8 (53.33%) Windows
3 7 (46.67%) AIX
3 7 (46.67%) Unix
4 4 (26.67%) HPUX
4 4 (26.67%) Oracle Linux
4 4 (26.67%) Solaris
4 4 (26.67%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (66.67%) Change Management
2 8 (53.33%) CI/CD
2 8 (53.33%) Cloud Security
2 8 (53.33%) DevOps
2 8 (53.33%) Load Balancing
2 8 (53.33%) SIEM
3 7 (46.67%) Agile
3 7 (46.67%) Infrastructure Automation
3 7 (46.67%) Scrum
4 6 (40.00%) Storage Management
5 5 (33.33%) Observability
5 5 (33.33%) Product Roadmap
5 5 (33.33%) RBAC
5 5 (33.33%) Roadmaps
6 4 (26.67%) ITIL
7 3 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
7 3 (20.00%) Migration
7 3 (20.00%) Performance Management
7 3 (20.00%) Root Cause Analysis
7 3 (20.00%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (53.33%) Bash
1 8 (53.33%) PowerShell
1 8 (53.33%) Python
2 7 (46.67%) Java
3 2 (13.33%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 10 (66.67%) CISSP
2 9 (60.00%) Degree
3 8 (53.33%) Azure Certification
4 7 (46.67%) AWS Certification
5 3 (20.00%) CompTIA Security+
5 3 (20.00%) RHCE
6 1 (6.67%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (20.00%) GRC
System Software
1 8 (53.33%) Docker
2 3 (20.00%) NFS
2 3 (20.00%) Veritas Volume Manager
3 2 (13.33%) Active Directory
3 2 (13.33%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 10 (66.67%) Progress Chef
2 8 (53.33%) Kubernetes
2 8 (53.33%) Terraform
3 3 (20.00%) PowerBroker
3 3 (20.00%) Tivoli
3 3 (20.00%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 14 (93.33%) Red Hat
2 8 (53.33%) Google
3 7 (46.67%) Oracle
4 5 (33.33%) Microsoft
5 4 (26.67%) HP
6 3 (20.00%) Veritas
7 1 (6.67%) Mellanox
7 1 (6.67%) Solarflare