Red Hat Contract Job Trends in Milton Keynes

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Buckinghamshire > Milton Keynes

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Milton Keynes 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 7 July 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
7 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 60 33 32
Rank change year-on-year -27 -1 +26
Contract jobs citing Red Hat 7 5 11
As % of all contract jobs in Milton Keynes 0.93% 2.48% 3.08%
As % of the Vendors category 2.45% 4.85% 6.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 4 7
10th Percentile £528 £513 £506
25th Percentile £558 £514 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £610 £532 £550
Median % change year-on-year +14.72% -3.32% +4.76%
75th Percentile - £547 £555
90th Percentile £648 £555 £560
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £610 £535 £550
% change year-on-year +14.02% -2.73% +4.76%

All Vendors
Milton Keynes

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 Milton Keynes.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 286 103 165
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 37.98% 50.99% 46.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 245 64 120
10th Percentile £361 £314 £202
25th Percentile £463 £348 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £536 £425 £475
Median % change year-on-year +26.21% -10.53% -7.32%
75th Percentile £598 £545 £538
90th Percentile £613 £600 £575
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £525 £433 £465
% change year-on-year +21.39% -6.99% -9.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 7 13
10th Percentile - £13.92 £18.00
25th Percentile £33.70 £14.90 £21.25
Median hourly rate £38.72 £18.00 £24.43
Median % change year-on-year +115.11% -26.32% +80.03%
75th Percentile £43.75 £19.25 £48.75
90th Percentile - £40.30 -
Buckinghamshire median hourly rate £38.72 £14.20 £23.51
% change year-on-year +172.68% -39.59% +43.32%

Red Hat
Job Vacancy Trend in Milton Keynes

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

Red Hat job vacancy trend in Milton Keynes

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Daily Rate Trend in Milton Keynes

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Milton Keynes citing Red Hat

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Hourly Rate Trend in Milton Keynes

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Milton Keynes citing Red Hat

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Milton Keynes 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (14.29%) Azure
1 1 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (14.29%) GitHub
1 1 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) GitLab
General
1 2 (28.57%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (85.71%) Linux Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Senior
2 2 (28.57%) Senior Linux Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Technology Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) CMDB
1 1 (14.29%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 7 (100.00%) Linux
2 1 (14.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) Containerisation
2 4 (57.14%) Service Management
3 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 1 (14.29%) CI/CD
4 1 (14.29%) DevOps
4 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (14.29%) Migration
4 1 (14.29%) Runbook
4 1 (14.29%) Validation
4 1 (14.29%) Workflow
Qualifications
1 7 (100.00%) RHCE
1 7 (100.00%) RHCSA
1 7 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 6 (85.71%) LFCS
3 5 (71.43%) SC Cleared
4 4 (57.14%) DV Cleared
4 4 (57.14%) LPIC
5 1 (14.29%) Degree
5 1 (14.29%) RHCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) OpenSCAP
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Ansible
1 1 (14.29%) Packer
1 1 (14.29%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) ServiceNow