Red Hat Contracts in the Midlands

Red Hat
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 96 98 152
Rank change year-on-year +2 +54 +13
Contract jobs citing Red Hat 15 35 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.78% 1.27% 0.44%
As % of the Vendors category 1.74% 2.95% 0.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 24 9
10th Percentile £463 £356 £290
25th Percentile £537 £441 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £454
Median % change year-on-year - +21.03% -6.78%
75th Percentile £551 £597 £538
90th Percentile - £803 £615
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
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 862 1,185 1,730
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 45.04% 42.98% 50.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 564 750 1,154
10th Percentile £200 £212 £209
25th Percentile £326 £350 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.50% -5.21% +5.56%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £575
90th Percentile £661 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £518 £538
% change year-on-year +1.30% -3.58% +2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 78 58
10th Percentile £13.25 £10.92 £13.13
25th Percentile £13.81 £12.75 £15.25
Median hourly rate £18.13 £15.61 £20.20
Median % change year-on-year +16.18% -22.75% +18.82%
75th Percentile £23.00 £26.50 £37.69
90th Percentile £31.33 £47.42 £65.30
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 the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Red Hat in the Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Red Hat in the Midlands

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for Red Hat in the Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Red Hat in the Midlands

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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 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 +7 11 £551 -5.81% 21
East Midlands -2 4 £544 +1.59% 21
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England

Red Hat
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 3 (20.00%) AWS
2 2 (13.33%) OpenShift
3 1 (6.67%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (6.67%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (6.67%) Amazon S3
3 1 (6.67%) GitHub
3 1 (6.67%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (6.67%) SonarCloud
3 1 (6.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (13.33%) Firewall
1 2 (13.33%) SAN
1 2 (13.33%) TCP/IP
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%) JIRA
1 3 (20.00%) SonarQube
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%) Sonatype Nexus
2 2 (13.33%) TeamCity
3 1 (6.67%) Bitbucket
3 1 (6.67%) Snyk
Job Titles
1 2 (13.33%) Cloud Engineer
1 2 (13.33%) Developer
1 2 (13.33%) Linux Engineer
1 2 (13.33%) Python Developer
2 1 (6.67%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (6.67%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (6.67%) Linux Developer
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
2 1 (6.67%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (53.33%) CSOC
Operating Systems
1 14 (93.33%) Linux
2 12 (80.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 9 (60.00%) Windows
4 8 (53.33%) VMS
5 2 (13.33%) Debian
5 2 (13.33%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (53.33%) Event Correlation
1 8 (53.33%) SIEM
2 3 (20.00%) Agile
2 3 (20.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (20.00%) DevOps
3 2 (13.33%) Build Automation
3 2 (13.33%) Code Quality
3 2 (13.33%) Configuration Management
3 2 (13.33%) Continuous Integration
3 2 (13.33%) Data Engineering
3 2 (13.33%) Data Modelling
3 2 (13.33%) Deployment Automation
3 2 (13.33%) ITIL
3 2 (13.33%) Matrix Organization
3 2 (13.33%) Microservices
3 2 (13.33%) Migration
3 2 (13.33%) Non-Functional Testing
3 2 (13.33%) Prototyping
3 2 (13.33%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
4 1 (6.67%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 4 (26.67%) Python
2 2 (13.33%) Perl
3 1 (6.67%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 11 (73.33%) Security Cleared
2 9 (60.00%) SC Cleared
3 2 (13.33%) DV Cleared
3 2 (13.33%) RHCE
3 2 (13.33%) RHCSA
System Software
1 3 (20.00%) Docker
2 2 (13.33%) Active Directory
2 2 (13.33%) Hyper-V
2 2 (13.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (20.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (13.33%) Ansible
2 2 (13.33%) Kibana
2 2 (13.33%) Progress Chef
2 2 (13.33%) SELinux
3 1 (6.67%) Argo
3 1 (6.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (66.67%) Splunk
2 8 (53.33%) Cisco
2 8 (53.33%) F5
2 8 (53.33%) Fortinet
2 8 (53.33%) Palo Alto
2 8 (53.33%) ServiceNow
2 8 (53.33%) SolarWinds
3 4 (26.67%) VMware
4 2 (13.33%) AppDynamics
4 2 (13.33%) Microsoft