Red Hat Contracts in London

Red Hat
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 May 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 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 250 288 212
Rank change year-on-year +38 -76 +23
Contract jobs citing Red Hat 103 103 332
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.82% 0.58% 1.23%
As % of the Vendors category 1.81% 1.43% 3.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 86 258
10th Percentile £368 £359 £450
25th Percentile £450 £458 £503
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £590 £510 £625
Median % change year-on-year +15.69% -18.40% +4.17%
75th Percentile £653 £597 £754
90th Percentile £738 £738 £814
England median daily rate £550 £525 £600
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -
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 £68.00 £68.22 £50.75
% change year-on-year -0.32% +34.42% -19.79%

All Vendors
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 5,695 7,227 10,507
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 45.39% 40.53% 38.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,736 4,950 7,441
10th Percentile £325 £300 £325
25th Percentile £425 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £549 £563
Median % change year-on-year +0.23% -2.44% +2.27%
75th Percentile £653 £663 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £798
England median daily rate £525 £518 £538
% change year-on-year +1.30% -3.58% +2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 92 138 127
10th Percentile £15.91 £13.86 £16.28
25th Percentile £22.27 £17.00 £21.00
Median hourly rate £29.00 £23.99 £30.75
Median % change year-on-year +20.88% -21.98% -12.14%
75th Percentile £51.20 £36.56 £57.00
90th Percentile £67.25 £64.13 £70.00
England median hourly rate £27.13 £22.50 £39.55
% change year-on-year +20.56% -43.11% +88.33%

Red Hat
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Red Hat in London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Red Hat in London

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Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for Red Hat in London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Red Hat in London

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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 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 0 12 £600 +26.32% 1
East London +15 1 £575 +21.05% 1
South London +7 1 - - 2
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England

Red Hat
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 9 (8.74%) Confluence
1 9 (8.74%) OpenStack
2 4 (3.88%) Cloud Foundry
2 4 (3.88%) nginx
3 3 (2.91%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (2.91%) Tomcat
4 2 (1.94%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.97%) Apache
5 1 (0.97%) JBoss
5 1 (0.97%) WebLogic
5 1 (0.97%) WebSphere
5 1 (0.97%) WinCC
Applications
1 1 (0.97%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (2.91%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.97%) iTrent
2 1 (0.97%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 30 (29.13%) AWS
2 28 (27.18%) Azure
3 26 (25.24%) OpenShift
4 18 (17.48%) GitHub
5 12 (11.65%) GCP
6 9 (8.74%) Amazon EC2
6 9 (8.74%) AWS CloudFormation
7 7 (6.80%) Amazon EKS
7 7 (6.80%) Amazon S3
7 7 (6.80%) Azure DevOps
7 7 (6.80%) Azure Stack
7 7 (6.80%) IaaS
7 7 (6.80%) Nutanix
8 4 (3.88%) Azure Monitor
8 4 (3.88%) Cloud Computing
8 4 (3.88%) PaaS
9 3 (2.91%) Kong
10 2 (1.94%) Amazon SQS
10 2 (1.94%) Microsoft 365
10 2 (1.94%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 22 (21.36%) TCP/IP
2 19 (18.45%) DNS
3 8 (7.77%) HTTP
4 7 (6.80%) Firewall
4 7 (6.80%) Internet
4 7 (6.80%) SAN
5 5 (4.85%) DHCP
6 3 (2.91%) BGP
6 3 (2.91%) Ethernet VPN
6 3 (2.91%) FIX Connectivity
6 3 (2.91%) Multicast
6 3 (2.91%) NAS
6 3 (2.91%) OSPF
6 3 (2.91%) VSAN
6 3 (2.91%) VXLAN
6 3 (2.91%) Wireshark
7 2 (1.94%) Cisco Nexus
7 2 (1.94%) FCoE
7 2 (1.94%) Fibre Channel
7 2 (1.94%) NX-OS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (10.68%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (6.80%) Amazon Aurora
2 7 (6.80%) Amazon RDS
2 7 (6.80%) SQL Server
3 6 (5.83%) MySQL
4 5 (4.85%) Elasticsearch
5 4 (3.88%) Apache Cassandra
5 4 (3.88%) Relational Database
6 3 (2.91%) Hazelcast
6 3 (2.91%) MongoDB
6 3 (2.91%) Oracle Database
6 3 (2.91%) Redis
7 2 (1.94%) CockroachDB
7 2 (1.94%) MariaDB
7 2 (1.94%) Sybase ASE
8 1 (0.97%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.97%) Couchbase
8 1 (0.97%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.97%) Oracle Database 11g
8 1 (0.97%) Oracle Database 12c
Development Applications
1 22 (21.36%) Jenkins
2 19 (18.45%) Git
3 16 (15.53%) JIRA
4 9 (8.74%) Subversion
5 8 (7.77%) GitLab
5 8 (7.77%) TeamCity
6 4 (3.88%) Maven
7 3 (2.91%) Artifactory
7 3 (2.91%) Bitbucket
7 3 (2.91%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.97%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.97%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.97%) Gradle
8 1 (0.97%) Jasmine
8 1 (0.97%) JUnit
8 1 (0.97%) Serena SBM
General
1 38 (36.89%) Finance
2 25 (24.27%) Social Skills
3 22 (21.36%) Banking
4 8 (7.77%) Telecoms
5 7 (6.80%) Investment Banking
6 4 (3.88%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (2.91%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (2.91%) Public Sector
8 2 (1.94%) Back Office
8 2 (1.94%) Electronics
8 2 (1.94%) Front Office
8 2 (1.94%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.94%) Marketing
9 1 (0.97%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.97%) Law
9 1 (0.97%) Retail
Job Titles
1 19 (18.45%) Senior
2 17 (16.50%) DevOps Engineer
3 15 (14.56%) Architect
4 13 (12.62%) Linux Engineer
5 10 (9.71%) Administrator
5 10 (9.71%) Infrastructure Architect
5 10 (9.71%) Linux Administrator
6 9 (8.74%) Senior DevOps
6 9 (8.74%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 6 (5.83%) Principal Engineer
8 5 (4.85%) Azure Engineer
8 5 (4.85%) Consultant
8 5 (4.85%) Lead
8 5 (4.85%) Principal Systems Engineer
8 5 (4.85%) Systems Engineer
9 4 (3.88%) Analyst
9 4 (3.88%) Azure Architect
9 4 (3.88%) Cloud Engineer
9 4 (3.88%) Network Engineer
9 4 (3.88%) VMware Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (11.65%) Spring
2 10 (9.71%) Elastic Stack
3 8 (7.77%) REST
4 6 (5.83%) Kafka
5 5 (4.85%) Spring Boot
6 3 (2.91%) ActiveMQ
6 3 (2.91%) AngularJS
6 3 (2.91%) FIX Protocol
6 3 (2.91%) J2EE
7 2 (1.94%) LDAP
7 2 (1.94%) Murex MxML
7 2 (1.94%) Node.js
7 2 (1.94%) XML
8 1 (0.97%) JSON
8 1 (0.97%) OpenAPI
8 1 (0.97%) OpenTelemetry
8 1 (0.97%) RESTful
8 1 (0.97%) Spring Batch
8 1 (0.97%) Spring Security
8 1 (0.97%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 10 (9.71%) Replication
2 9 (8.74%) Clustering
2 9 (8.74%) Public Cloud
3 8 (7.77%) Data Centre
3 8 (7.77%) Private Cloud
4 5 (4.85%) Cloud Native
5 4 (3.88%) Data Protection Act
5 4 (3.88%) Linux Command Line
6 3 (2.91%) EMC VMAX
6 3 (2.91%) Enterprise Storage
6 3 (2.91%) Eurex
6 3 (2.91%) Fixed Income
6 3 (2.91%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (1.94%) Credit Derivative
7 2 (1.94%) Cyber Threat
7 2 (1.94%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.94%) Derivative
7 2 (1.94%) Interest Rate Derivative
7 2 (1.94%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.97%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 71 (68.93%) Linux
2 38 (36.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 21 (20.39%) Windows
4 18 (17.48%) CentOS
5 15 (14.56%) Unix
6 13 (12.62%) Windows Server
7 11 (10.68%) Solaris
8 7 (6.80%) Ubuntu
9 3 (2.91%) Rocky
9 3 (2.91%) SUSE
10 2 (1.94%) Debian
10 2 (1.94%) Oracle Linux
11 1 (0.97%) AIX
11 1 (0.97%) Amazon Linux
11 1 (0.97%) Fedora
11 1 (0.97%) Windows 10
11 1 (0.97%) Windows 8
11 1 (0.97%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.97%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (45.63%) DevOps
2 31 (30.10%) Problem-Solving
3 30 (29.13%) CI/CD
4 22 (21.36%) Containerisation
5 20 (19.42%) High Availability
5 20 (19.42%) Infrastructure as Code
6 16 (15.53%) Configuration Management
7 13 (12.62%) Disaster Recovery
7 13 (12.62%) Microservices
8 12 (11.65%) API Integration
8 12 (11.65%) Deployment Automation
9 11 (10.68%) Agile
9 11 (10.68%) Continuous Integration
9 11 (10.68%) Data Protection
9 11 (10.68%) Migration
9 11 (10.68%) Roadmaps
10 10 (9.71%) Storage Management
11 9 (8.74%) Low Latency
12 8 (7.77%) Infrastructure Automation
12 8 (7.77%) Kernel Tuning
Programming Languages
1 42 (40.78%) Python
2 28 (27.18%) Bash
3 22 (21.36%) SQL
4 17 (16.50%) Perl
5 14 (13.59%) Java
6 6 (5.83%) Shell Script
7 5 (4.85%) PowerShell
8 4 (3.88%) Scala
9 2 (1.94%) C#
9 2 (1.94%) Go
9 2 (1.94%) JavaScript
9 2 (1.94%) PL/SQL
9 2 (1.94%) Ruby
10 1 (0.97%) C++
10 1 (0.97%) Korn
10 1 (0.97%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.97%) VB
Qualifications
1 18 (17.48%) SC Cleared
1 18 (17.48%) Security Cleared
2 7 (6.80%) Degree
3 6 (5.83%) RHCSA
4 5 (4.85%) RHCE
5 3 (2.91%) AWS Certification
5 3 (2.91%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.94%) CCIE
6 2 (1.94%) CCIE Data Center
6 2 (1.94%) CCNP
6 2 (1.94%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (1.94%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.97%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.97%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.97%) CASP
7 1 (0.97%) CISA
7 1 (0.97%) CISM
7 1 (0.97%) CISSP
7 1 (0.97%) RHCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (7.77%) GDPR
1 8 (7.77%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 3 (2.91%) QA
3 2 (1.94%) NIST
4 1 (0.97%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.97%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.97%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 36 (34.95%) Docker
2 28 (27.18%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (7.77%) VMware ESXi
4 6 (5.83%) vSphere
5 5 (4.85%) Veritas Cluster Server
6 4 (3.88%) Active Directory
6 4 (3.88%) Lustre
7 3 (2.91%) NFS
7 3 (2.91%) Veritas File System
7 3 (2.91%) Veritas Volume Manager
7 3 (2.91%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.97%) Ceph
8 1 (0.97%) Gluster
8 1 (0.97%) GlusterFS
8 1 (0.97%) KVM
8 1 (0.97%) Oracle RAC
8 1 (0.97%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.97%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 49 (47.57%) Ansible
2 47 (45.63%) Kubernetes
3 31 (30.10%) Terraform
4 20 (19.42%) Puppet
5 16 (15.53%) Progress Chef
6 14 (13.59%) Grafana
6 14 (13.59%) Prometheus
7 12 (11.65%) Red Hat Satellite
8 8 (7.77%) QRadar
9 7 (6.80%) Nagios
9 7 (6.80%) VxRail
10 6 (5.83%) Rundeck
10 6 (5.83%) Tivoli
10 6 (5.83%) ZABBIX
11 5 (4.85%) Control-M
11 5 (4.85%) EMC NetWorker
11 5 (4.85%) Tivoli Storage Manager
12 4 (3.88%) Istio
12 4 (3.88%) Karpenter
12 4 (3.88%) Podman
Vendors
1 37 (35.92%) VMware
2 21 (20.39%) Oracle
3 15 (14.56%) Splunk
4 14 (13.59%) EMC
5 12 (11.65%) ServiceNow
6 9 (8.74%) IBM
7 8 (7.77%) CyberArk
7 8 (7.77%) Qualys
8 7 (6.80%) SaltStack
9 6 (5.83%) Microsoft
10 5 (4.85%) Bloomberg
10 5 (4.85%) Google
11 4 (3.88%) F5
11 4 (3.88%) SolarWinds
11 4 (3.88%) Sybase
11 4 (3.88%) Veritas
12 3 (2.91%) AppDynamics
12 3 (2.91%) Dell
12 3 (2.91%) Hitachi
12 3 (2.91%) SAP