Red Hat Contract Job Trends in Newcastle upon Tyne

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Tyne and Wear > Newcastle upon Tyne

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 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 19 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
19 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 34 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Red Hat 6 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne 2.48% - -
As % of the Vendors category 10.17% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £455 - -
25th Percentile £481 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - -
75th Percentile £584 - -
90th Percentile £590 - -
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £550 - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £44.50 - -
Median hourly rate £48.00 - -
75th Percentile £51.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Tyne and Wear median hourly rate £48.00 - -

All Vendors
Newcastle upon Tyne

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 Newcastle upon Tyne.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 59 65 80
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 24.38% 37.14% 52.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 34 58
10th Percentile £188 £152 £200
25th Percentile £345 £329 £389
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £425 £500
Median % change year-on-year +19.41% -15.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £584 £573 £600
90th Percentile £639 £738 £720
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £500 £425 £480
% change year-on-year +17.65% -11.46% -8.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 0 2
10th Percentile £16.23 - £31.33
25th Percentile £17.88 - £31.44
Median hourly rate £19.25 - £32.25
Median % change year-on-year - - +158.00%
75th Percentile £22.19 - £33.31
90th Percentile £34.85 - £33.58
Tyne and Wear median hourly rate £19.25 - £32.25
% change year-on-year - - +143.40%

Red Hat
Job Vacancy Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

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

Red Hat job vacancy trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

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Daily Rate Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne citing Red Hat.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne citing Red Hat

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Hourly Rate Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne citing Red Hat.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne citing Red Hat

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Newcastle upon Tyne 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 6 (100.00%) OpenShift
Development Applications
1 4 (66.67%) Jenkins
2 1 (16.67%) SonarQube
General
1 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Subject Matter Expert
2 1 (16.67%) Java Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Java Software Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Platform Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (83.33%) Keycloak
2 1 (16.67%) AngularJS
2 1 (16.67%) Quarkus
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) CI/CD
1 5 (83.33%) Infrastructure as Code
1 5 (83.33%) Migration
2 4 (66.67%) GitOps
2 4 (66.67%) Validation
3 3 (50.00%) Identity Access Management
3 3 (50.00%) Microservices
3 3 (50.00%) Secrets Management
4 2 (33.33%) DevSecOps
4 2 (33.33%) Vulnerability Scanning
5 1 (16.67%) Agile
5 1 (16.67%) Front End Development
5 1 (16.67%) Platform Engineering
5 1 (16.67%) Scrum
5 1 (16.67%) SDLC
5 1 (16.67%) Software Engineering
5 1 (16.67%) Sprint Planning
5 1 (16.67%) Sprint Review
5 1 (16.67%) Test Automation
5 1 (16.67%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) Bash
1 4 (66.67%) Python
2 1 (16.67%) Java
Qualifications
1 5 (83.33%) SC Cleared
1 5 (83.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) QA
Systems Management
1 6 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 5 (83.33%) Argo
2 5 (83.33%) Istio
3 4 (66.67%) Ansible
3 4 (66.67%) Terraform