Red Hat Enterprise Linux Contracts in London

Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring Red Hat Enterprise Linux skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Red Hat Enterprise Linux over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 258 302 214
Rank change year-on-year +44 -88 +34
Contract jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 95 89 328
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.76% 0.50% 1.21%
As % of the Operating Systems category 6.32% 4.20% 8.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 66 255
10th Percentile £400 £400 £450
25th Percentile £475 £458 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £595 £510 £625
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -18.40% +4.17%
75th Percentile £700 £609 £738
90th Percentile £750 £674 £810
England median daily rate £551 £525 £625
% change year-on-year +4.95% -16.00% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £51.25
Median hourly rate - - £52.50
75th Percentile - - £53.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate - £60.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year - +14.29% +118.75%

All Operating Systems
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 1,502 2,117 3,859
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 11.97% 11.87% 14.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,043 1,510 2,826
10th Percentile £250 £200 £213
25th Percentile £375 £325 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% -
75th Percentile £641 £629 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £764
England median daily rate £475 £463 £513
% change year-on-year +2.70% -9.76% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 69 61
10th Percentile £17.72 £15.30 £18.93
25th Percentile £21.89 £18.93 £22.63
Median hourly rate £24.66 £22.00 £37.34
Median % change year-on-year +12.09% -41.08% +52.41%
75th Percentile £32.75 £33.75 £64.50
90th Percentile £53.80 £60.00 £75.00
England median hourly rate £24.18 £22.00 £38.00
% change year-on-year +9.91% -42.11% +76.74%

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Red Hat Enterprise Linux in London

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux in London.

Daily rate trend for Red Hat Enterprise Linux in London

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Red Hat Enterprise Linux in London

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux in London.

Hourly rate trend for Red Hat Enterprise Linux in London

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Central London +2 7 £450 - 3
South London - 1 - -
Red Hat Enterprise Linux
England

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 18 (18.95%) Confluence
2 8 (8.42%) Apache Spark
3 7 (7.37%) nginx
4 5 (5.26%) Traefik
5 4 (4.21%) Apache
6 2 (2.11%) JBoss
6 2 (2.11%) Tomcat
6 2 (2.11%) WebSphere
7 1 (1.05%) CMS
7 1 (1.05%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (1.05%) OpenStack
7 1 (1.05%) SharePoint
7 1 (1.05%) WebLogic
7 1 (1.05%) WinCC
Cloud Services
1 31 (32.63%) AWS
2 23 (24.21%) Azure
3 16 (16.84%) GitHub
4 10 (10.53%) AWS CloudFormation
4 10 (10.53%) Slack
5 9 (9.47%) Cloud Computing
6 8 (8.42%) Amazon S3
6 8 (8.42%) GCP
7 7 (7.37%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 7 (7.37%) Azure DevOps
7 7 (7.37%) Azure Monitor
7 7 (7.37%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 6 (6.32%) Amazon ECS
9 5 (5.26%) AWS Fargate
9 5 (5.26%) Entra ID
9 5 (5.26%) OpenShift
10 4 (4.21%) Amazon EC2
10 4 (4.21%) AWS Lambda
10 4 (4.21%) Serverless
11 3 (3.16%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 18 (18.95%) DNS
2 10 (10.53%) TCP/IP
3 8 (8.42%) DHCP
4 6 (6.32%) HTTP
5 4 (4.21%) NAS
5 4 (4.21%) SAN
5 4 (4.21%) VPN
6 3 (3.16%) Firewall
7 2 (2.11%) BGP
7 2 (2.11%) EIGRP
7 2 (2.11%) Ethernet
7 2 (2.11%) Kerberos
7 2 (2.11%) MPLS
7 2 (2.11%) OSPF
7 2 (2.11%) SDH
7 2 (2.11%) SSH
7 2 (2.11%) VoIP
8 1 (1.05%) BIG-IP
8 1 (1.05%) Intrusion Detection
8 1 (1.05%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (24.21%) MongoDB
2 17 (17.89%) PostgreSQL
3 16 (16.84%) MySQL
4 10 (10.53%) Apache Cassandra
4 10 (10.53%) SQL Server
5 6 (6.32%) Relational Database
6 5 (5.26%) Elasticsearch
6 5 (5.26%) NoSQL
7 4 (4.21%) Hadoop
8 3 (3.16%) Big Data
8 3 (3.16%) Sybase ASE
9 2 (2.11%) MariaDB
9 2 (2.11%) Oracle Database
9 2 (2.11%) Redis
10 1 (1.05%) Amazon Redshift
10 1 (1.05%) CockroachDB
10 1 (1.05%) Couchbase
10 1 (1.05%) IDOL
10 1 (1.05%) Oracle Database 11g
10 1 (1.05%) Oracle Database 12c
Development Applications
1 26 (27.37%) Jenkins
2 20 (21.05%) JIRA
3 19 (20.00%) Git
4 18 (18.95%) GitLab
5 12 (12.63%) Cucumber
6 9 (9.47%) Jasmine
6 9 (9.47%) JUnit
7 5 (5.26%) SonarQube
7 5 (5.26%) Sonatype Nexus
8 4 (4.21%) Artifactory
8 4 (4.21%) Gradle
8 4 (4.21%) TeamCity
9 3 (3.16%) Bitbucket
9 3 (3.16%) git-flow
9 3 (3.16%) Subversion
10 2 (2.11%) Maven
11 1 (1.05%) Ant
11 1 (1.05%) HP UFT
11 1 (1.05%) LoadRunner
11 1 (1.05%) Serena SBM
General
1 27 (28.42%) Finance
2 18 (18.95%) Social Skills
3 13 (13.68%) Banking
4 12 (12.63%) Public Sector
5 4 (4.21%) Military
5 4 (4.21%) Telecoms
6 3 (3.16%) Financial Institution
6 3 (3.16%) Law
6 3 (3.16%) Legal
7 2 (2.11%) Back Office
7 2 (2.11%) Electronics
7 2 (2.11%) Front Office
7 2 (2.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (2.11%) Manufacturing
7 2 (2.11%) Marketing
8 1 (1.05%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.05%) Retail
Job Titles
1 19 (20.00%) Linux Engineer
2 15 (15.79%) Senior
3 14 (14.74%) DevOps Engineer
4 13 (13.68%) Lead
5 10 (10.53%) Developer
5 10 (10.53%) Java Developer
6 9 (9.47%) Architect
6 9 (9.47%) Azure Engineer
7 7 (7.37%) Senior DevOps
8 6 (6.32%) Principal Engineer
9 5 (5.26%) Administrator
9 5 (5.26%) Cloud Engineer
9 5 (5.26%) Consultant
9 5 (5.26%) Lead Developer
9 5 (5.26%) Lead Java Developer
9 5 (5.26%) Principal Systems Engineer
9 5 (5.26%) Senior Developer
9 5 (5.26%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 5 (5.26%) Senior Java Developer
9 5 (5.26%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (13.68%) Spring
1 13 (13.68%) Spring Boot
2 11 (11.58%) Kafka
3 10 (10.53%) Spring Batch
3 10 (10.53%) Spring Security
4 9 (9.47%) OpenAPI
4 9 (9.47%) RESTful
4 9 (9.47%) Swagger
5 6 (6.32%) Elastic Stack
5 6 (6.32%) RabbitMQ
6 5 (5.26%) cloud-init
6 5 (5.26%) Keycloak
7 3 (3.16%) .NET
7 3 (3.16%) Apache NiFi
7 3 (3.16%) ASP.NET
7 3 (3.16%) ASP.NET Core
7 3 (3.16%) CSS
7 3 (3.16%) HTML
7 3 (3.16%) LDAP
7 3 (3.16%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 9 (9.47%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 7 (7.37%) Clustering
3 6 (6.32%) Private Cloud
3 6 (6.32%) Public Cloud
3 6 (6.32%) Replication
4 5 (5.26%) PKI
5 4 (4.21%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (3.16%) Cloud Native
6 3 (3.16%) Data Centre
6 3 (3.16%) EMC VMAX
6 3 (3.16%) Enterprise Storage
6 3 (3.16%) Hedge funds
7 2 (2.11%) Credit Derivative
7 2 (2.11%) Derivative
7 2 (2.11%) Fixed Income
7 2 (2.11%) Interest Rate Derivative
7 2 (2.11%) Management Information System
8 1 (1.05%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (1.05%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (1.05%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 95 (100.00%) Linux
2 20 (21.05%) Unix
3 18 (18.95%) Windows
4 15 (15.79%) CentOS
5 11 (11.58%) Windows Server
6 8 (8.42%) Rocky
7 5 (5.26%) Solaris
7 5 (5.26%) Ubuntu
8 3 (3.16%) Oracle Linux
8 3 (3.16%) SUSE
9 1 (1.05%) AIX
9 1 (1.05%) Amazon Linux
9 1 (1.05%) Debian
9 1 (1.05%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (48.42%) CI/CD
2 43 (45.26%) DevOps
3 26 (27.37%) Containerisation
4 22 (23.16%) Infrastructure as Code
5 21 (22.11%) Microservices
6 18 (18.95%) High Availability
7 17 (17.89%) Configuration Management
7 17 (17.89%) Problem-Solving
8 16 (16.84%) Continuous Integration
9 15 (15.79%) TDD
10 13 (13.68%) BDD
10 13 (13.68%) Observability
11 12 (12.63%) Migration
11 12 (12.63%) Test Automation
12 11 (11.58%) Agile
12 11 (11.58%) Software Engineering
13 10 (10.53%) Kernel Tuning
13 10 (10.53%) Platform Engineering
14 9 (9.47%) Cloud Security
14 9 (9.47%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 34 (35.79%) Bash
2 33 (34.74%) Python
3 22 (23.16%) SQL
4 16 (16.84%) Java
5 8 (8.42%) Perl
6 7 (7.37%) Go
6 7 (7.37%) Shell Script
7 6 (6.32%) C#
8 4 (4.21%) JavaScript
8 4 (4.21%) Ruby
9 3 (3.16%) PowerShell
10 2 (2.11%) Groovy
11 1 (1.05%) C++
11 1 (1.05%) Korn
11 1 (1.05%) PL/SQL
11 1 (1.05%) T-SQL
11 1 (1.05%) VB
Qualifications
1 36 (37.89%) Security Cleared
2 35 (36.84%) SC Cleared
3 8 (8.42%) DV Cleared
4 6 (6.32%) AWS Certification
4 6 (6.32%) Degree
5 3 (3.16%) RHCE
6 2 (2.11%) RHCSA
7 1 (1.05%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (1.05%) Azure Certification
7 1 (1.05%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.05%) CASP
7 1 (1.05%) CISA
7 1 (1.05%) CISM
7 1 (1.05%) CISSP
7 1 (1.05%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.32%) PCI DSS
2 5 (5.26%) GDPR
2 5 (5.26%) NCSC
2 5 (5.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 4 (4.21%) Accessibility
4 2 (2.11%) HIPAA
4 2 (2.11%) NIST
5 1 (1.05%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (1.05%) QA
System Software
1 40 (42.11%) Docker
2 18 (18.95%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (8.42%) Active Directory
4 4 (4.21%) Veritas Cluster Server
4 4 (4.21%) VMware ESXi
4 4 (4.21%) vSphere
5 3 (3.16%) vCloud
5 3 (3.16%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (3.16%) VMware Workstation
6 2 (2.11%) NFS
6 2 (2.11%) Veritas File System
6 2 (2.11%) Veritas Volume Manager
7 1 (1.05%) Gluster
7 1 (1.05%) GlusterFS
7 1 (1.05%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 52 (54.74%) Kubernetes
2 38 (40.00%) Terraform
3 36 (37.89%) Ansible
4 14 (14.74%) Puppet
5 11 (11.58%) Prometheus
6 10 (10.53%) Grafana
6 10 (10.53%) Packer
7 7 (7.37%) ZABBIX
8 6 (6.32%) HAProxy
8 6 (6.32%) Istio
9 5 (5.26%) Consul
9 5 (5.26%) Jamf Pro
9 5 (5.26%) linkerd
9 5 (5.26%) Rancher
9 5 (5.26%) Red Hat Satellite
10 3 (3.16%) Kibana
10 3 (3.16%) Progress Chef
10 3 (3.16%) QRadar
11 2 (2.11%) Argo
11 2 (2.11%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 38 (40.00%) Red Hat
2 21 (22.11%) VMware
3 16 (16.84%) Oracle
3 16 (16.84%) Splunk
4 10 (10.53%) ServiceNow
5 8 (8.42%) EMC
6 6 (6.32%) Microsoft
7 5 (5.26%) Apple
7 5 (5.26%) CyberArk
7 5 (5.26%) ESET
7 5 (5.26%) Okta
7 5 (5.26%) Sybase
8 4 (4.21%) AppDynamics
8 4 (4.21%) Google
8 4 (4.21%) Qualys
8 4 (4.21%) Veritas
9 3 (3.16%) IBM
9 3 (3.16%) NetApp
9 3 (3.16%) SAP
9 3 (3.16%) SolarWinds