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 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 264 306 208
Rank change year-on-year +42 -98 +44
Contract jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 77 90 310
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.64% 0.52% 1.22%
As % of the Operating Systems category 5.41% 4.28% 8.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 63 245
10th Percentile £416 £365 £450
25th Percentile £468 £428 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £510 £650
Median % change year-on-year +12.75% -21.54% +7.44%
75th Percentile £684 £628 £798
90th Percentile £738 £720 £818
England median daily rate £550 £530 £625
% change year-on-year +3.77% -15.20% +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 - £72.75 £52.50
% change year-on-year - +38.57% +0.96%

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 1,423 2,103 3,658
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 11.74% 12.04% 14.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 993 1,498 2,670
10th Percentile £250 £206 £213
25th Percentile £375 £336 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% -
75th Percentile £638 £625 £674
90th Percentile £738 £750 £775
England median daily rate £468 £475 £510
% change year-on-year -1.58% -6.86% +2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 66 60
10th Percentile £20.88 £14.99 £18.65
25th Percentile £23.85 £18.13 £23.31
Median hourly rate £24.66 £22.00 £48.75
Median % change year-on-year +12.09% -54.87% +103.13%
75th Percentile £29.94 £26.57 £66.13
90th Percentile £53.80 £60.00 £83.88
England median hourly rate £20.00 £22.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -11.11% -47.06% +97.67%

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 29 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 29 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 +6 6 £450 -10.09% 2
South London - 3 - - 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 10 (12.99%) Confluence
2 6 (7.79%) Apache Spark
3 5 (6.49%) Apache
4 3 (3.90%) JBoss
4 3 (3.90%) nginx
5 2 (2.60%) Tomcat
5 2 (2.60%) WebSphere
6 1 (1.30%) IBM HTTP Server
6 1 (1.30%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (1.30%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (1.30%) SharePoint
6 1 (1.30%) Traefik
6 1 (1.30%) WebLogic
6 1 (1.30%) WinCC
Cloud Services
1 23 (29.87%) AWS
2 22 (28.57%) Azure
3 12 (15.58%) GitHub
4 9 (11.69%) GCP
5 7 (9.09%) Amazon S3
6 5 (6.49%) Amazon EC2
6 5 (6.49%) AWS CloudFormation
6 5 (6.49%) Azure Monitor
6 5 (6.49%) OpenShift
7 4 (5.19%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (5.19%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 3 (3.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 3 (3.90%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (3.90%) Cloud Computing
8 3 (3.90%) IaaS
8 3 (3.90%) PaaS
8 3 (3.90%) Serverless
9 2 (2.60%) Amazon ECS
9 2 (2.60%) Rubrik
9 2 (2.60%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 14 (18.18%) DNS
2 8 (10.39%) DHCP
3 6 (7.79%) TCP/IP
4 4 (5.19%) NAS
4 4 (5.19%) SAN
5 2 (2.60%) Firewall
5 2 (2.60%) HTTP
5 2 (2.60%) Kerberos
5 2 (2.60%) SSH
5 2 (2.60%) VSAN
6 1 (1.30%) Broadband
6 1 (1.30%) Internet
6 1 (1.30%) Intrusion Detection
6 1 (1.30%) IPv4
6 1 (1.30%) LAN
6 1 (1.30%) Multicast
6 1 (1.30%) OpenLDAP
6 1 (1.30%) SMS
6 1 (1.30%) VLAN
6 1 (1.30%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (10.39%) MongoDB
1 8 (10.39%) SQL Server
2 6 (7.79%) MySQL
2 6 (7.79%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (7.79%) Relational Database
3 5 (6.49%) Elasticsearch
4 4 (5.19%) Hadoop
5 3 (3.90%) Big Data
6 2 (2.60%) Apache Cassandra
6 2 (2.60%) MariaDB
6 2 (2.60%) NoSQL
6 2 (2.60%) Oracle Database
6 2 (2.60%) Redis
6 2 (2.60%) Sybase ASE
7 1 (1.30%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (1.30%) DB2
7 1 (1.30%) NonStop SQL
7 1 (1.30%) Oracle Database 11g
7 1 (1.30%) Oracle Database 12c
7 1 (1.30%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 16 (20.78%) Jenkins
2 13 (16.88%) JIRA
3 12 (15.58%) Git
4 10 (12.99%) GitLab
5 7 (9.09%) Sonatype Nexus
6 5 (6.49%) SonarQube
7 4 (5.19%) Gradle
7 4 (5.19%) TeamCity
8 3 (3.90%) Artifactory
8 3 (3.90%) Bitbucket
8 3 (3.90%) Cucumber
8 3 (3.90%) Maven
8 3 (3.90%) Subversion
9 2 (2.60%) git-flow
10 1 (1.30%) Ant
10 1 (1.30%) Jasmine
10 1 (1.30%) JUnit
10 1 (1.30%) Serena SBM
General
1 28 (36.36%) Finance
2 18 (23.38%) Social Skills
3 14 (18.18%) Banking
4 7 (9.09%) Public Sector
5 5 (6.49%) Financial Institution
6 3 (3.90%) Front Office
6 3 (3.90%) Law
6 3 (3.90%) Legal
7 2 (2.60%) Back Office
7 2 (2.60%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (2.60%) Electronics
7 2 (2.60%) Manufacturing
7 2 (2.60%) Marketing
7 2 (2.60%) Military
7 2 (2.60%) Telecoms
8 1 (1.30%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (1.30%) French Language
8 1 (1.30%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.30%) Retail
Job Titles
1 19 (24.68%) Linux Engineer
2 12 (15.58%) Architect
3 9 (11.69%) Senior
4 7 (9.09%) DevOps Engineer
5 6 (7.79%) Azure Engineer
5 6 (7.79%) Principal Engineer
5 6 (7.79%) Systems Engineer
6 5 (6.49%) Cloud Engineer
6 5 (6.49%) Developer
6 5 (6.49%) Lead
6 5 (6.49%) Principal Systems Engineer
7 4 (5.19%) Administrator
7 4 (5.19%) Consultant
7 4 (5.19%) Java Developer
7 4 (5.19%) Kubernetes Engineer
7 4 (5.19%) Linux Systems Engineer
7 4 (5.19%) Senior Developer
7 4 (5.19%) Senior Java Developer
7 4 (5.19%) Solutions Architect
8 3 (3.90%) Infrastructure Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (6.49%) Elastic Stack
1 5 (6.49%) Kafka
1 5 (6.49%) RabbitMQ
1 5 (6.49%) Spring
1 5 (6.49%) Spring Boot
2 4 (5.19%) HTML
3 3 (3.90%) .NET
3 3 (3.90%) Apache NiFi
3 3 (3.90%) ASP.NET
3 3 (3.90%) ASP.NET Core
3 3 (3.90%) CSS
3 3 (3.90%) LDAP
3 3 (3.90%) XML
4 2 (2.60%) Middleware
4 2 (2.60%) Murex MxML
4 2 (2.60%) Node.js
4 2 (2.60%) OpenTelemetry
4 2 (2.60%) REST
4 2 (2.60%) Spring Batch
4 2 (2.60%) Spring Security
Miscellaneous
1 6 (7.79%) Private Cloud
1 6 (7.79%) Replication
2 5 (6.49%) Public Cloud
3 4 (5.19%) Clustering
3 4 (5.19%) Data Centre
3 4 (5.19%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (3.90%) Cloud Native
4 3 (3.90%) EMC VMAX
4 3 (3.90%) Enterprise Storage
4 3 (3.90%) Hedge funds
4 3 (3.90%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.60%) Credit Derivative
5 2 (2.60%) Derivative
5 2 (2.60%) Fixed Income
5 2 (2.60%) Interest Rate Derivative
5 2 (2.60%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.30%) Online Banking
6 1 (1.30%) PKI
6 1 (1.30%) SCADA
6 1 (1.30%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 77 (100.00%) Linux
2 18 (23.38%) Windows
3 16 (20.78%) Unix
4 10 (12.99%) CentOS
5 9 (11.69%) Windows Server
6 8 (10.39%) Rocky
7 7 (9.09%) Solaris
8 3 (3.90%) AIX
8 3 (3.90%) Oracle Linux
8 3 (3.90%) Ubuntu
9 2 (2.60%) SUSE
10 1 (1.30%) Amazon Linux
10 1 (1.30%) HPUX
10 1 (1.30%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (40.26%) DevOps
2 27 (35.06%) CI/CD
3 17 (22.08%) Migration
4 16 (20.78%) Infrastructure as Code
5 15 (19.48%) Containerisation
5 15 (19.48%) Problem-Solving
6 13 (16.88%) High Availability
7 12 (15.58%) Configuration Management
7 12 (15.58%) Microservices
8 9 (11.69%) Agile
8 9 (11.69%) Observability
9 7 (9.09%) Performance Tuning
9 7 (9.09%) Storage Management
10 6 (7.79%) Data Protection
10 6 (7.79%) Disaster Recovery
10 6 (7.79%) Low Latency
10 6 (7.79%) Project Management
10 6 (7.79%) Security Hardening
11 5 (6.49%) Continuous Integration
11 5 (6.49%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 27 (35.06%) Python
2 21 (27.27%) Bash
3 10 (12.99%) SQL
4 9 (11.69%) Java
5 7 (9.09%) Shell Script
6 6 (7.79%) C#
6 6 (7.79%) Perl
7 4 (5.19%) JavaScript
7 4 (5.19%) Ruby
8 3 (3.90%) PowerShell
9 2 (2.60%) C++
9 2 (2.60%) Groovy
10 1 (1.30%) C
10 1 (1.30%) COBOL
10 1 (1.30%) Go
10 1 (1.30%) PL/SQL
10 1 (1.30%) T-SQL
10 1 (1.30%) VB
Qualifications
1 17 (22.08%) SC Cleared
1 17 (22.08%) Security Cleared
2 4 (5.19%) Degree
3 3 (3.90%) DV Cleared
3 3 (3.90%) RHCE
4 2 (2.60%) AWS Certification
4 2 (2.60%) RHCSA
5 1 (1.30%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (1.30%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.30%) CASP
5 1 (1.30%) CISA
5 1 (1.30%) CISM
5 1 (1.30%) CISSP
5 1 (1.30%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.49%) GDPR
1 5 (6.49%) PCI DSS
1 5 (6.49%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 2 (2.60%) HIPAA
2 2 (2.60%) NIST
3 1 (1.30%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (1.30%) ISO 15022
3 1 (1.30%) ISO 20022
3 1 (1.30%) NCSC
3 1 (1.30%) QA
System Software
1 28 (36.36%) Docker
2 20 (25.97%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (10.39%) Active Directory
4 6 (7.79%) VMware ESXi
4 6 (7.79%) vSphere
5 4 (5.19%) Veritas Cluster Server
5 4 (5.19%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (3.90%) vCloud
6 3 (3.90%) VMware Workstation
7 2 (2.60%) NFS
7 2 (2.60%) Veritas File System
7 2 (2.60%) Veritas Volume Manager
8 1 (1.30%) Gluster
8 1 (1.30%) GlusterFS
8 1 (1.30%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 36 (46.75%) Kubernetes
2 31 (40.26%) Ansible
3 26 (33.77%) Terraform
4 14 (18.18%) Puppet
5 5 (6.49%) Packer
5 5 (6.49%) Red Hat Satellite
6 4 (5.19%) Grafana
6 4 (5.19%) Prometheus
7 3 (3.90%) Kibana
7 3 (3.90%) Podman
7 3 (3.90%) Progress Chef
7 3 (3.90%) QRadar
8 2 (2.60%) Argo
8 2 (2.60%) EMC NetWorker
8 2 (2.60%) Failover Clustering
8 2 (2.60%) HAProxy
8 2 (2.60%) Istio
8 2 (2.60%) Nagios
8 2 (2.60%) Tivoli
8 2 (2.60%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 38 (49.35%) Red Hat
2 23 (29.87%) VMware
3 13 (16.88%) Oracle
4 10 (12.99%) ServiceNow
5 9 (11.69%) Splunk
6 6 (7.79%) EMC
6 6 (7.79%) Microsoft
7 5 (6.49%) IBM
8 4 (5.19%) CyberArk
8 4 (5.19%) Google
8 4 (5.19%) Qualys
8 4 (5.19%) Sybase
8 4 (5.19%) Veritas
9 3 (3.90%) AppDynamics
9 3 (3.90%) NetApp
9 3 (3.90%) SAP
9 3 (3.90%) SolarWinds
10 2 (2.60%) Bloomberg
10 2 (2.60%) Murex
10 2 (2.60%) Serena