Red Hat Contract Job Trends 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 20 April 2026, 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
20 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 350 250 289
Rank change year-on-year -100 +39 -76
Contract jobs citing Red Hat 55 105 107
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.32% 0.83% 0.60%
As % of the Vendors category 0.73% 1.82% 1.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 72 89
10th Percentile £463 £406 £372
25th Percentile £507 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £600 £525
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +14.29% -16.00%
75th Percentile £588 £653 £631
90th Percentile £675 £738 £750
England median daily rate £514 £551 £525
% change year-on-year -6.72% +4.95% -12.50%

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 7,580 5,758 7,202
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 43.52% 45.30% 40.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,000 3,783 4,951
10th Percentile £350 £325 £281
25th Percentile £425 £421 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% -2.22%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £667
90th Percentile £738 £770 £775
England median daily rate £500 £525 £520
% change year-on-year -4.76% +0.96% -3.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 119 89 144
10th Percentile £18.24 £15.84 £13.86
25th Percentile £21.84 £23.50 £16.97
Median hourly rate £32.50 £29.07 £24.93
Median % change year-on-year +11.80% +16.62% -4.13%
75th Percentile £46.13 £51.25 £39.41
90th Percentile £69.00 £67.75 £69.85
England median hourly rate £30.00 £28.75 £22.50
% change year-on-year +4.35% +27.78% -41.56%

Red Hat
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Red Hat job vacancy trend in London

Red Hat
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

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

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Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Red Hat in London over the 6 months to 20 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Red Hat in London

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Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

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

Red Hat
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 20 April 2026. 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
South London -10 6 £519 - 2
Central London -23 2 £538 -10.42% 5
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England

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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:

Application Platforms
1 17 (30.91%) nginx
2 10 (18.18%) Tomcat
3 7 (12.73%) Confluence
4 3 (5.45%) JBoss
4 3 (5.45%) OpenStack
4 3 (5.45%) WebLogic
5 2 (3.64%) Camunda
6 1 (1.82%) Apache
6 1 (1.82%) Apache Spark
6 1 (1.82%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 25 (45.45%) AWS
2 22 (40.00%) OpenShift
3 11 (20.00%) Amazon S3
4 10 (18.18%) Azure
5 9 (16.36%) Amazon EC2
5 9 (16.36%) Amazon EKS
5 9 (16.36%) AWS Lambda
5 9 (16.36%) Route 53
5 9 (16.36%) Serverless
5 9 (16.36%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 4 (7.27%) GCP
6 4 (7.27%) GitHub
7 2 (3.64%) Amazon OpenSearch
7 2 (3.64%) MinIO
8 1 (1.82%) Amazon ECR
Communications & Networking
1 15 (27.27%) DNS
2 12 (21.82%) TCP/IP
3 11 (20.00%) Firewall
4 10 (18.18%) VPN
5 9 (16.36%) OpenVPN
6 5 (9.09%) HTTP
7 4 (7.27%) NAS
7 4 (7.27%) SAN
8 3 (5.45%) Multicast
9 2 (3.64%) Calico
9 2 (3.64%) VSAN
10 1 (1.82%) DHCP
10 1 (1.82%) DSL
10 1 (1.82%) Kerberos
10 1 (1.82%) SMTP
10 1 (1.82%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (29.09%) Elasticsearch
2 4 (7.27%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (3.64%) GIS
3 2 (3.64%) MySQL
3 2 (3.64%) Oracle Database
3 2 (3.64%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.82%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (1.82%) Apache Hive
4 1 (1.82%) Hadoop
4 1 (1.82%) Impala
Development Applications
1 10 (18.18%) Jenkins
2 9 (16.36%) JIRA
3 8 (14.55%) GitLab
4 7 (12.73%) Bitbucket
4 7 (12.73%) SonarQube
5 4 (7.27%) Cucumber
5 4 (7.27%) Git
6 2 (3.64%) Ant
6 2 (3.64%) Cypress.io
6 2 (3.64%) Gradle
6 2 (3.64%) JUnit
6 2 (3.64%) Maven
6 2 (3.64%) Mockito
7 1 (1.82%) Artifactory
General
1 15 (27.27%) Social Skills
2 12 (21.82%) Public Sector
3 8 (14.55%) Documentation Skills
4 7 (12.73%) Finance
5 4 (7.27%) Banking
6 1 (1.82%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.82%) Back Office
6 1 (1.82%) Front Office
6 1 (1.82%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 15 (27.27%) Architect
2 9 (16.36%) Software Engineer
3 6 (10.91%) Lead
3 6 (10.91%) Senior
4 5 (9.09%) AWS Architect
4 5 (9.09%) Developer
4 5 (9.09%) Linux Engineer
4 5 (9.09%) Technical Architect
5 4 (7.27%) Senior Software Engineer
6 3 (5.45%) DevOps Engineer
6 3 (5.45%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 3 (5.45%) J2EE Developer
6 3 (5.45%) Lead Software Engineer
6 3 (5.45%) Platform Engineer
6 3 (5.45%) Software Developer
6 3 (5.45%) Solutions Architect
7 2 (3.64%) Administrator
7 2 (3.64%) Cloud Architect
7 2 (3.64%) Principal Architect
7 2 (3.64%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (16.36%) LDAP
1 9 (16.36%) OpenID
2 6 (10.91%) Spring
3 5 (9.09%) OpenTelemetry
4 4 (7.27%) AngularJS
4 4 (7.27%) Kafka
4 4 (7.27%) Spring Boot
5 3 (5.45%) EJB
5 3 (5.45%) Elastic Stack
5 3 (5.45%) J2EE
6 2 (3.64%) CSS
6 2 (3.64%) Flash
6 2 (3.64%) HTML
6 2 (3.64%) Java EE
6 2 (3.64%) JSON
6 2 (3.64%) Middleware
6 2 (3.64%) OAuth
6 2 (3.64%) React
6 2 (3.64%) SAML
6 2 (3.64%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 10 (18.18%) Cloud Native
1 10 (18.18%) Hybrid Cloud
2 5 (9.09%) Legacy Applications
3 4 (7.27%) Private Cloud
3 4 (7.27%) Public Cloud
4 3 (5.45%) Data Centre
4 3 (5.45%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (5.45%) Enterprise Storage
5 2 (3.64%) Cyber Threat
5 2 (3.64%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (3.64%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (3.64%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (3.64%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (3.64%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.82%) Clustering
6 1 (1.82%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (1.82%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.82%) NHS
6 1 (1.82%) PKI
6 1 (1.82%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 27 (49.09%) Linux
2 17 (30.91%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 16 (29.09%) Windows
4 11 (20.00%) Windows Server
5 8 (14.55%) Solaris
6 7 (12.73%) Windows Server 2008
7 6 (10.91%) Windows Server 2019
8 4 (7.27%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (3.64%) AIX
9 2 (3.64%) CentOS
9 2 (3.64%) Ubuntu
10 1 (1.82%) Oracle Linux
10 1 (1.82%) Rocky
10 1 (1.82%) Unix
10 1 (1.82%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (52.73%) DevOps
2 21 (38.18%) CI/CD
3 17 (30.91%) Roadmaps
4 16 (29.09%) Containerisation
5 14 (25.45%) Problem-Solving
6 12 (21.82%) Decision-Making
7 10 (18.18%) High Availability
8 9 (16.36%) Migration
8 9 (16.36%) Software Engineering
9 8 (14.55%) Agile
9 8 (14.55%) Observability
10 7 (12.73%) ETL
10 7 (12.73%) Infrastructure as Code
11 6 (10.91%) Continuous Improvement
11 6 (10.91%) Data Protection
11 6 (10.91%) Full-Stack Development
11 6 (10.91%) Master Data Management
11 6 (10.91%) Performance Tuning
11 6 (10.91%) Technology Roadmap
11 6 (10.91%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 15 (27.27%) Python
2 9 (16.36%) Bash
2 9 (16.36%) SQL
3 8 (14.55%) Java
4 6 (10.91%) PL/SQL
5 4 (7.27%) Go
5 4 (7.27%) Shell Script
6 3 (5.45%) R
6 3 (5.45%) TypeScript
7 2 (3.64%) JavaScript
8 1 (1.82%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 32 (58.18%) Security Cleared
2 26 (47.27%) SC Cleared
3 3 (5.45%) Degree
3 3 (5.45%) DV Cleared
4 1 (1.82%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.45%) NCSC
2 2 (3.64%) NIST
3 1 (1.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 14 (25.45%) VMware Infrastructure
2 9 (16.36%) Docker
2 9 (16.36%) Squid
3 6 (10.91%) VMware ESXi
4 5 (9.09%) VMware NSX
4 5 (9.09%) vSphere
5 4 (7.27%) Oracle RAC
6 3 (5.45%) Active Directory
7 1 (1.82%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 1 (1.82%) BitLocker
7 1 (1.82%) Ceph
7 1 (1.82%) HDFS
7 1 (1.82%) Hyper-V
7 1 (1.82%) KVM
7 1 (1.82%) Microsoft App-V
7 1 (1.82%) Terminal Services
7 1 (1.82%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 28 (50.91%) Kubernetes
2 18 (32.73%) Terraform
3 17 (30.91%) Ansible
4 16 (29.09%) Grafana
4 16 (29.09%) Prometheus
5 11 (20.00%) Single Sign-On
6 9 (16.36%) FortiGate
7 7 (12.73%) Consul
8 4 (7.27%) Argo
8 4 (7.27%) Oracle RMAN
8 4 (7.27%) vCenter Server
9 3 (5.45%) Red Hat Satellite
10 2 (3.64%) Istio
10 2 (3.64%) Puppet
10 2 (3.64%) SCCM
10 2 (3.64%) SCOM
11 1 (1.82%) Apache Ranger
11 1 (1.82%) Microsoft Intune
11 1 (1.82%) Podman
11 1 (1.82%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 15 (27.27%) VMware
2 10 (18.18%) Oracle
3 9 (16.36%) Dynatrace
4 7 (12.73%) Atlassian
4 7 (12.73%) IBM
4 7 (12.73%) Microsoft
5 6 (10.91%) Splunk
6 3 (5.45%) Dell
6 3 (5.45%) Pure Storage
7 2 (3.64%) Arista
7 2 (3.64%) Cisco
7 2 (3.64%) F5
7 2 (3.64%) Wind River
8 1 (1.82%) Citrix
8 1 (1.82%) Cloudera
8 1 (1.82%) HP
8 1 (1.82%) Murex
8 1 (1.82%) NetApp
8 1 (1.82%) Symantec
8 1 (1.82%) Trend Micro