Red Hat Contract Job Trends in Milton Keynes

Red Hat
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 9 December 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
9 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 33 49 41
Rank change year-on-year +16 -8 +29
Contract jobs citing Red Hat 8 2 16
As % of all contract jobs in Milton Keynes 2.46% 0.70% 3.03%
As % of the Vendors category 4.55% 1.21% 5.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 1 15
10th Percentile £514 - £470
25th Percentile £523 - £511
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £650 £550
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +18.18% -
75th Percentile £555 - -
90th Percentile £560 - £556
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £550 £650 £550
% change year-on-year -15.38% +18.18% -

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 176 165 292
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 54.15% 58.10% 55.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 120 125 234
10th Percentile £248 £248 £275
25th Percentile £373 £363 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £451 £495 £543
Median % change year-on-year -8.84% -8.76% +13.02%
75th Percentile £550 £565 £614
90th Percentile £614 £675 £688
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £453 £500 £534
% change year-on-year -9.50% -6.37% +6.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 4 11
10th Percentile £18.00 £12.97 £13.17
25th Percentile £23.81 £14.42 £14.79
Median hourly rate £29.61 £26.18 £23.75
Median % change year-on-year +13.11% +10.22% +18.75%
75th Percentile - £37.06 £24.00
90th Percentile - £37.62 £30.00
Buckinghamshire median hourly rate £29.61 £26.18 £21.25
% change year-on-year +13.11% +23.19% +37.10%

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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (25.00%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 2 (25.00%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (100.00%) SAN
2 7 (87.50%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Git
General
1 2 (25.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (75.00%) Developer
2 5 (62.50%) Python Developer
3 4 (50.00%) Senior
3 4 (50.00%) Senior Developer
4 3 (37.50%) Senior Python Developer
5 2 (25.00%) Linux Engineer
6 1 (12.50%) Linux Developer
6 1 (12.50%) Senior Software Developer
6 1 (12.50%) Software Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 8 (100.00%) Debian
1 8 (100.00%) Linux
1 8 (100.00%) Ubuntu
2 5 (62.50%) Windows
2 5 (62.50%) Windows Server
2 5 (62.50%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (12.50%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (87.50%) Agile
1 7 (87.50%) ITIL
2 6 (75.00%) Data Modelling
3 5 (62.50%) Data Engineering
4 4 (50.00%) Customer Service
5 3 (37.50%) Configuration Management
5 3 (37.50%) Prototyping
5 3 (37.50%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
6 2 (25.00%) Incident Management
6 2 (25.00%) Problem Management
6 2 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (25.00%) Release Management
7 1 (12.50%) Change Control
7 1 (12.50%) Clean Code
7 1 (12.50%) Matrix Organization
7 1 (12.50%) Secure Coding
7 1 (12.50%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 6 (75.00%) Python
2 2 (25.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 6 (75.00%) SC Cleared
1 6 (75.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (62.50%) DV Cleared
Vendors
1 8 (100.00%) VMware
2 3 (37.50%) Microsoft
3 1 (12.50%) Remedy