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 20 August 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
20 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 296 302 206
Rank change year-on-year +6 -96 +39
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Red Hat 73 90 297
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.54% 0.56% 1.27%
As % of the Vendors category 1.18% 1.29% 3.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 70 235
10th Percentile £385 £372 £450
25th Percentile £440 £458 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £510 £663
Median % change year-on-year +12.75% -23.02% +10.42%
75th Percentile £653 £587 £798
90th Percentile £738 £756 £819
England median daily rate £520 £520 £600
% change year-on-year -0.05% -13.33% +3.90%
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 £74.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year -8.11% +40.95% -32.04%

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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 6,180 6,983 9,629
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 46.01% 43.15% 41.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,007 4,718 6,793
10th Percentile £325 £313 £325
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £531 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.04% -3.55% -2.65%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £680
90th Percentile £750 £751 £788
England median daily rate £501 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.57% - -0.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 127 86 111
10th Percentile £16.24 £17.08 £16.61
25th Percentile £22.95 £20.50 £21.25
Median hourly rate £26.30 £27.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.36% -21.43% +32.08%
75th Percentile £38.75 £60.94 £57.00
90th Percentile £63.45 £75.63 £70.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £29.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -13.28% -17.14% +55.56%

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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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 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Red Hat in London

Red Hat
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

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DemandTrendContract 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 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Central London -5 8 £650 +28.71% 8
South London - 3 £650 -
West London - 2 - -
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England

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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 4 (5.48%) Tomcat
2 3 (4.11%) Apache
2 3 (4.11%) Confluence
2 3 (4.11%) nginx
3 2 (2.74%) OpenStack
4 1 (1.37%) IBM HTTP Server
4 1 (1.37%) Mattermost
4 1 (1.37%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (1.37%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (1.37%) Skype for Business
4 1 (1.37%) WebSphere
4 1 (1.37%) WebSphere Application Server
Cloud Services
1 18 (24.66%) AWS
2 13 (17.81%) Azure
3 12 (16.44%) OpenShift
4 8 (10.96%) Amazon EC2
4 8 (10.96%) Amazon EKS
4 8 (10.96%) AWS CloudFormation
5 3 (4.11%) Amazon S3
5 3 (4.11%) Azure AKS
5 3 (4.11%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (4.11%) GCP
5 3 (4.11%) GitHub
6 2 (2.74%) Azure Monitor
6 2 (2.74%) IaaS
6 2 (2.74%) Kong
6 2 (2.74%) SaaS
7 1 (1.37%) CloudBees
7 1 (1.37%) IBM Cloud
7 1 (1.37%) MinIO
7 1 (1.37%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 17 (23.29%) DNS
2 13 (17.81%) TCP/IP
3 10 (13.70%) Firewall
3 10 (13.70%) Internet
4 8 (10.96%) HTTP
5 7 (9.59%) SAN
6 5 (6.85%) DHCP
7 2 (2.74%) FCoE
7 2 (2.74%) Fibre Channel
7 2 (2.74%) iSCSI
7 2 (2.74%) NAS
7 2 (2.74%) Remote Desktop
7 2 (2.74%) VLAN
7 2 (2.74%) VPN
7 2 (2.74%) VSAN
8 1 (1.37%) Anycast
8 1 (1.37%) Ethernet VPN
8 1 (1.37%) Skype
8 1 (1.37%) Software-Defined Networking
8 1 (1.37%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (10.96%) Amazon Aurora
1 8 (10.96%) Amazon RDS
2 7 (9.59%) Oracle Database
3 5 (6.85%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (5.48%) SQL Server
5 3 (4.11%) Relational Database
6 2 (2.74%) Apache Cassandra
6 2 (2.74%) Hazelcast
6 2 (2.74%) Oracle BI Publisher
6 2 (2.74%) Oracle Exadata
6 2 (2.74%) Redis
7 1 (1.37%) DB2
7 1 (1.37%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (1.37%) GIS
7 1 (1.37%) MongoDB
7 1 (1.37%) MySQL
7 1 (1.37%) NonStop SQL
7 1 (1.37%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 16 (21.92%) Jenkins
2 7 (9.59%) Git
2 7 (9.59%) GitLab
3 5 (6.85%) JIRA
4 4 (5.48%) Maven
5 3 (4.11%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (2.74%) Gradle
6 2 (2.74%) Oracle APEX
6 2 (2.74%) Subversion
6 2 (2.74%) TeamCity
7 1 (1.37%) Artifactory
7 1 (1.37%) Log4j
General
1 24 (32.88%) Finance
2 19 (26.03%) Social Skills
3 11 (15.07%) Banking
4 5 (6.85%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (4.11%) Front Office
5 3 (4.11%) Public Sector
6 2 (2.74%) Back Office
6 2 (2.74%) Investment Banking
6 2 (2.74%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.37%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.37%) French Language
7 1 (1.37%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 15 (20.55%) Senior
2 11 (15.07%) DevOps Engineer
3 9 (12.33%) Linux Engineer
4 7 (9.59%) Architect
5 6 (8.22%) Administrator
5 6 (8.22%) Senior DevOps
5 6 (8.22%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 4 (5.48%) Consultant
7 3 (4.11%) Cloud Engineer
7 3 (4.11%) DBA
7 3 (4.11%) Developer
7 3 (4.11%) Linux Administrator
7 3 (4.11%) Linux Specialist
7 3 (4.11%) Storage Engineer
7 3 (4.11%) Support Engineer
7 3 (4.11%) Technical Engineer
8 2 (2.74%) Cloud Architect
8 2 (2.74%) DevOps Specialist
8 2 (2.74%) PostgreSQL DBA
8 2 (2.74%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (12.33%) Elastic Stack
2 5 (6.85%) Kafka
3 4 (5.48%) JSON
3 4 (5.48%) REST
3 4 (5.48%) Spring
4 3 (4.11%) AngularJS
4 3 (4.11%) HTML
4 3 (4.11%) OAuth
4 3 (4.11%) RESTful
4 3 (4.11%) XML
5 2 (2.74%) ActiveMQ
5 2 (2.74%) Ajax
5 2 (2.74%) CSS
5 2 (2.74%) J2EE
5 2 (2.74%) jQuery
5 2 (2.74%) Loki
5 2 (2.74%) Murex MxML
5 2 (2.74%) Node.js
5 2 (2.74%) OAuth2
5 2 (2.74%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 9 (12.33%) Data Centre
2 5 (6.85%) Cloud Native
3 4 (5.48%) Clustering
3 4 (5.48%) Replication
4 3 (4.11%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (2.74%) Credit Derivative
5 2 (2.74%) Cyber Threat
5 2 (2.74%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (2.74%) Derivative
5 2 (2.74%) Enterprise Storage
5 2 (2.74%) Fixed Income
5 2 (2.74%) Interest Rate Derivative
5 2 (2.74%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (2.74%) Onboarding
5 2 (2.74%) Security Posture
5 2 (2.74%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.37%) Hedge funds
6 1 (1.37%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.37%) Online Banking
6 1 (1.37%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 61 (83.56%) Linux
2 41 (56.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 16 (21.92%) Windows
4 13 (17.81%) CentOS
5 8 (10.96%) Windows Server
6 5 (6.85%) Solaris
7 4 (5.48%) Ubuntu
7 4 (5.48%) Unix
8 1 (1.37%) AIX
8 1 (1.37%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (36.99%) DevOps
2 19 (26.03%) Problem-Solving
3 18 (24.66%) Infrastructure as Code
4 17 (23.29%) CI/CD
5 14 (19.18%) Migration
6 13 (17.81%) Containerisation
7 12 (16.44%) Configuration Management
7 12 (16.44%) High Availability
8 9 (12.33%) Continuous Integration
9 8 (10.96%) Cost Management
9 8 (10.96%) Deployment Automation
10 7 (9.59%) Disaster Recovery
11 6 (8.22%) Data Protection
11 6 (8.22%) Infrastructure Automation
11 6 (8.22%) Roadmaps
11 6 (8.22%) Technical Leadership
12 5 (6.85%) Microservices
12 5 (6.85%) Task Automation
13 4 (5.48%) Infrastructure Management
13 4 (5.48%) Low Latency
Programming Languages
1 20 (27.40%) Bash
2 19 (26.03%) Python
3 9 (12.33%) PowerShell
4 8 (10.96%) SQL
5 6 (8.22%) Java
6 5 (6.85%) Shell Script
7 4 (5.48%) JavaScript
7 4 (5.48%) Perl
8 3 (4.11%) Bicep
9 2 (2.74%) AWK
9 2 (2.74%) C
9 2 (2.74%) PL/SQL
9 2 (2.74%) sed
10 1 (1.37%) C++
10 1 (1.37%) COBOL
10 1 (1.37%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 15 (20.55%) Security Cleared
2 14 (19.18%) SC Cleared
3 5 (6.85%) Degree
4 3 (4.11%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (2.74%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.37%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.37%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.37%) CCIE
6 1 (1.37%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (1.37%) CISSP
6 1 (1.37%) IBM Certification
6 1 (1.37%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (1.37%) JNCIE
6 1 (1.37%) RHCE
6 1 (1.37%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.74%) GDPR
1 2 (2.74%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 1 (1.37%) ISO 15022
2 1 (1.37%) ISO 20022
2 1 (1.37%) QA
System Software
1 15 (20.55%) Docker
2 14 (19.18%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (6.85%) Active Directory
4 4 (5.48%) Hyper-V
4 4 (5.48%) NFS
5 3 (4.11%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (2.74%) GPFS
6 2 (2.74%) Veritas File System
6 2 (2.74%) Veritas Volume Manager
6 2 (2.74%) vSphere
7 1 (1.37%) Dovecot
7 1 (1.37%) KVM
7 1 (1.37%) Oracle RAC
7 1 (1.37%) Postfix
7 1 (1.37%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (1.37%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 31 (42.47%) Kubernetes
2 24 (32.88%) Ansible
3 20 (27.40%) Terraform
4 15 (20.55%) Prometheus
5 13 (17.81%) Puppet
6 12 (16.44%) Grafana
7 10 (13.70%) Progress Chef
8 5 (6.85%) Nagios
8 5 (6.85%) Red Hat Satellite
9 3 (4.11%) Istio
10 2 (2.74%) Argo
10 2 (2.74%) Control-M
10 2 (2.74%) Kustomize
10 2 (2.74%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 2 (2.74%) QRadar
10 2 (2.74%) Rundeck
11 1 (1.37%) HP Data Protector
11 1 (1.37%) NetBackup
11 1 (1.37%) SCOM
11 1 (1.37%) yum
Vendors
1 17 (23.29%) VMware
2 9 (12.33%) Oracle
3 7 (9.59%) Microsoft
3 7 (9.59%) Splunk
4 5 (6.85%) Cisco
5 4 (5.48%) Dell
5 4 (5.48%) IBM
5 4 (5.48%) ServiceNow
6 3 (4.11%) F5
6 3 (4.11%) Hitachi
6 3 (4.11%) Qualys
7 2 (2.74%) Bloomberg
7 2 (2.74%) CyberArk
7 2 (2.74%) EMC
7 2 (2.74%) HP
7 2 (2.74%) Murex
7 2 (2.74%) SaltStack
7 2 (2.74%) Sun
7 2 (2.74%) Sybase
7 2 (2.74%) Wind River