Red Hat Enterprise Linux Contracts in the Midlands

Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 96 109 139
Rank change year-on-year +13 +30 +15
Contract jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 15 24 28
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.78% 0.87% 0.81%
As % of the Operating Systems category 5.93% 5.73% 4.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 17 12
10th Percentile £470 £356 £313
25th Percentile £537 £400 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £520 £650
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% -20.00% +18.18%
75th Percentile £551 £575 £700
90th Percentile - £675 -
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
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 253 419 641
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 13.22% 15.20% 18.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 177 268 433
10th Percentile £150 £145 £158
25th Percentile £200 £190 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £391 £377 £475
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% -20.74% +26.67%
75th Percentile £500 £538 £558
90th Percentile £578 £612 £688
England median daily rate £475 £463 £513
% change year-on-year +2.70% -9.76% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 42 38
10th Percentile £15.16 £12.86 £11.80
25th Percentile £16.31 £14.27 £14.64
Median hourly rate £18.13 £18.50 £17.61
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +5.05% +3.59%
75th Percentile £19.63 £23.75 £19.98
90th Percentile £24.21 - £30.61
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 the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Red Hat Enterprise Linux in the Midlands

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Red Hat Enterprise Linux in the Midlands

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for Red Hat Enterprise Linux in the Midlands

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Red Hat Enterprise Linux in the Midlands

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands 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
West Midlands +18 13 £546 -0.82% 7
East Midlands -2 2 £506 +17.61% 6
Red Hat Enterprise Linux
England

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 2 (13.33%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 5 (33.33%) AWS
2 3 (20.00%) Azure
3 2 (13.33%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 2 (13.33%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (13.33%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (6.67%) RDBMS
2 1 (6.67%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (20.00%) GitLab
2 2 (13.33%) Bitbucket Server
2 2 (13.33%) CA Release Automation
2 2 (13.33%) Git
2 2 (13.33%) Jenkins
2 2 (13.33%) JIRA
2 2 (13.33%) SonarQube
2 2 (13.33%) Sonatype Nexus
2 2 (13.33%) TeamCity
3 1 (6.67%) Bitbucket
General
1 3 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (13.33%) Cloud Engineer
1 2 (13.33%) Linux Engineer
1 2 (13.33%) Operations Engineer
2 1 (6.67%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (6.67%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (6.67%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (13.33%) Elastic Stack
1 2 (13.33%) Spring Boot
2 1 (6.67%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 8 (53.33%) CSOC
Operating Systems
1 15 (100.00%) Linux
2 9 (60.00%) Windows
3 8 (53.33%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (53.33%) Event Correlation
1 8 (53.33%) SIEM
2 5 (33.33%) DevOps
3 4 (26.67%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (20.00%) Agile
4 3 (20.00%) Cost Optimisation
4 3 (20.00%) Cost Reduction
4 3 (20.00%) Process Improvement
4 3 (20.00%) Software Engineering
5 2 (13.33%) Build Automation
5 2 (13.33%) CI/CD
5 2 (13.33%) Code Quality
5 2 (13.33%) Continuous Integration
5 2 (13.33%) Deployment Automation
5 2 (13.33%) Microservices
5 2 (13.33%) Migration
5 2 (13.33%) Non-Functional Testing
6 1 (6.67%) Disaster Recovery
6 1 (6.67%) Infrastructure Transformation
6 1 (6.67%) Security Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (13.33%) Perl
1 2 (13.33%) Python
2 1 (6.67%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 12 (80.00%) Security Cleared
2 10 (66.67%) SC Cleared
3 2 (13.33%) RHCE
3 2 (13.33%) RHCSA
System Software
1 2 (13.33%) Active Directory
1 2 (13.33%) Docker
1 2 (13.33%) Hyper-V
1 2 (13.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (26.67%) Ansible
2 3 (20.00%) Opsview
2 3 (20.00%) Terraform
3 2 (13.33%) Kibana
3 2 (13.33%) Kubernetes
3 2 (13.33%) Progress Chef
3 2 (13.33%) SELinux
Vendors
1 12 (80.00%) Red Hat
2 10 (66.67%) Splunk
3 8 (53.33%) Cisco
3 8 (53.33%) F5
3 8 (53.33%) Fortinet
3 8 (53.33%) Palo Alto
3 8 (53.33%) ServiceNow
3 8 (53.33%) SolarWinds
4 3 (20.00%) PagerDuty
5 2 (13.33%) AppDynamics
5 2 (13.33%) VMware