Red Hat Contract Job Trends 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 6 October 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
6 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 129 84 129
Rank change year-on-year -45 +45 +43
Contract jobs citing Red Hat 20 52 20
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 0.74% 1.94% 0.68%
As % of the Vendors category 1.49% 4.21% 1.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 23 12
10th Percentile - £442 £263
25th Percentile £410 £564 £281
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £585 £488
Median % change year-on-year -14.53% +20.00% -9.72%
75th Percentile £575 £680 £649
90th Percentile £580 £725 £685
England median daily rate £513 £525 £598
% change year-on-year -2.38% -12.13% +6.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £51.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £70.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.15% +33.33% +183.78%
75th Percentile £69.99 £75.00 £53.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £68.00 £74.22 £52.50
% change year-on-year -8.38% +41.37% -32.26%

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 1,344 1,234 1,529
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 49.80% 46.01% 51.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 873 784 995
10th Percentile £239 £226 £213
25th Percentile £360 £360 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £493 £475
Median % change year-on-year -3.55% +3.68% -3.06%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
England median daily rate £507 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.43% - -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 62 29 45
10th Percentile £15.74 £13.37 £12.40
25th Percentile £18.50 £15.00 £15.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £17.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +47.94% -15.00% +13.90%
75th Percentile £31.00 £35.00 £34.50
90th Percentile £50.00 £56.00 £70.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £43.84
% change year-on-year -28.14% -20.16% +82.65%

Red Hat
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Red Hat job vacancy trend in the Midlands

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Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Red Hat

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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 6 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Red Hat in the Midlands

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Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Red Hat

Red Hat
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 6 October 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 -38 13 £563 -10.71% 2
East Midlands -10 7 £420 -6.46%
Red Hat
England

Red Hat
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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 1 (5.00%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (5.00%) Apache Spark
1 1 (5.00%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 7 (35.00%) OpenShift
2 5 (25.00%) SaaS
3 2 (10.00%) AWS
3 2 (10.00%) Azure
3 2 (10.00%) GitHub
3 2 (10.00%) GitHub Actions
3 2 (10.00%) IBM Cloud
4 1 (5.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (5.00%) Amazon S3
4 1 (5.00%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (5.00%) Cloudflare
4 1 (5.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 7 (35.00%) DNS
2 5 (25.00%) DKIM
2 5 (25.00%) DMARC
2 5 (25.00%) Internet
2 5 (25.00%) SMTP
3 2 (10.00%) Firewall
4 1 (5.00%) LAN
4 1 (5.00%) MQTT
4 1 (5.00%) SSH
4 1 (5.00%) SSL
4 1 (5.00%) TCP/IP
4 1 (5.00%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.00%) Big Data
1 1 (5.00%) Delta Lake
1 1 (5.00%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (5.00%) Hadoop
1 1 (5.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (5.00%) Parquet
1 1 (5.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (5.00%) RDBMS
1 1 (5.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (25.00%) Jenkins
2 3 (15.00%) Git
2 3 (15.00%) SonarQube
2 3 (15.00%) Sonatype Nexus
2 3 (15.00%) Visual Studio Code
3 2 (10.00%) GitLab
3 2 (10.00%) JIRA
3 2 (10.00%) Poetry
3 2 (10.00%) PyCharm
4 1 (5.00%) Bitbucket
4 1 (5.00%) Bitbucket Server
4 1 (5.00%) CA Release Automation
4 1 (5.00%) MLflow
4 1 (5.00%) TeamCity
General
1 8 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (15.00%) Manufacturing
3 2 (10.00%) Finance
3 2 (10.00%) Public Sector
4 1 (5.00%) Aerospace
4 1 (5.00%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 4 (20.00%) Architect
2 3 (15.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 3 (15.00%) Project Manager
3 2 (10.00%) Data Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) Lead
3 2 (10.00%) Lead DevOps
3 2 (10.00%) Lead DevOps Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) Subject Matter Expert
4 1 (5.00%) Azure Architect
4 1 (5.00%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Infrastructure Support
4 1 (5.00%) IT Manager
4 1 (5.00%) IT Project Manager
4 1 (5.00%) Linux Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Senior
4 1 (5.00%) Systems Manager
4 1 (5.00%) Wintel Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (15.00%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (10.00%) Flask
2 2 (10.00%) Keycloak
2 2 (10.00%) NumPy
2 2 (10.00%) Pandas
3 1 (5.00%) Apache Avro
3 1 (5.00%) Loki
3 1 (5.00%) Spring Boot
3 1 (5.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.00%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (5.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (5.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 15 (75.00%) Linux
2 12 (60.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (15.00%) OpenVMS
4 2 (10.00%) Windows
5 1 (5.00%) AIX
5 1 (5.00%) Unix
5 1 (5.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (40.00%) CI/CD
2 7 (35.00%) Validation
3 5 (25.00%) DevOps
4 4 (20.00%) Migration
4 4 (20.00%) Project Delivery
5 3 (15.00%) Containerisation
5 3 (15.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 3 (15.00%) Issue Tracking
5 3 (15.00%) User Acceptance Testing
6 2 (10.00%) Coaching
6 2 (10.00%) Dependency Management
6 2 (10.00%) GitOps
6 2 (10.00%) High Availability
6 2 (10.00%) Platform Engineering
6 2 (10.00%) Software Delivery
7 1 (5.00%) Architectural Design
7 1 (5.00%) Observability
7 1 (5.00%) Problem-Solving
7 1 (5.00%) Secrets Management
7 1 (5.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 6 (30.00%) Python
2 5 (25.00%) Bash
3 2 (10.00%) Groovy
4 1 (5.00%) Perl
4 1 (5.00%) PowerShell
4 1 (5.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (45.00%) SC Cleared
1 9 (45.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.00%) AWS Certification
2 1 (5.00%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
2 1 (5.00%) Azure Certification
2 1 (5.00%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (5.00%) DV Cleared
2 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.00%) ISO 9001
1 1 (5.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 6 (30.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (25.00%) Dovecot
2 5 (25.00%) Postfix
3 4 (20.00%) Docker
4 1 (5.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 8 (40.00%) Kubernetes
2 5 (25.00%) Argo
2 5 (25.00%) Terraform
3 3 (15.00%) Istio
4 2 (10.00%) Ansible
4 2 (10.00%) Prometheus
5 1 (5.00%) Grafana
5 1 (5.00%) Kibana
5 1 (5.00%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 6 (30.00%) VMware
2 5 (25.00%) Broadcom
3 2 (10.00%) IBM
4 1 (5.00%) AppDynamics
4 1 (5.00%) Cisco
4 1 (5.00%) Cloudera
4 1 (5.00%) Commvault
4 1 (5.00%) Microsoft
4 1 (5.00%) ServiceNow
4 1 (5.00%) Splunk
4 1 (5.00%) Veeam