Red Hat Enterprise Linux Contract Job Trends in the North East

Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North East requiring Red Hat Enterprise Linux skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 43 37 34
Rank change year-on-year -6 -3 +26
Contract jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 6 1
As % of all contract jobs in the North East 1.52% 1.99% 0.39%
As % of the Operating Systems category 12.77% 15.38% 3.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 5 1
10th Percentile £444 £433 -
25th Percentile - £469 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +15.79% -32.14%
75th Percentile - £575 -
90th Percentile £575 £680 -
England median daily rate £535 £590 £568
% change year-on-year -9.36% +4.01% -5.42%

All Operating Systems
North East

Red Hat Enterprise Linux falls under the Operating Systems category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring operating system skills in the North East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 47 39 31
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East 11.87% 12.91% 12.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 20 21
10th Percentile £103 £149 £131
25th Percentile £115 £181 £140
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £184 £345 £190
Median % change year-on-year -46.74% +81.58% -65.45%
75th Percentile £265 £483 £425
90th Percentile £550 £573 £475
England median daily rate £450 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -5.26% - -7.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile £21.75 - £15.58
25th Percentile £22.50 - £15.69
Median hourly rate £25.00 - £16.75
Median % change year-on-year - - -25.56%
75th Percentile £27.50 - £18.19
90th Percentile £28.25 - £18.53
England median hourly rate £25.15 £57.25 £32.50
% change year-on-year -56.07% +76.15% +30.00%

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

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

Red Hat Enterprise Linux job vacancy trend in the North East

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Daily Rate Trend in the North East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Daily Rate Histogram in the North East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux in the North East over the 6 months to 19 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Red Hat Enterprise Linux in the North East

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Hourly Rate Trend in the North East

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Contract Job Locations in the North East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux within the North East region over the 6 months to 19 December 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
Northumberland - 4 £550 -
Tyne and Wear -15 2 £475 -13.64%
Red Hat Enterprise Linux
England

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North East 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 (33.33%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (33.33%) SharePoint
2 1 (16.67%) CMS
2 1 (16.67%) Documentum
Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) Entra ID
2 1 (16.67%) AWS
2 1 (16.67%) Azure
2 1 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (16.67%) GitHub
2 1 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (16.67%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) BGP
1 2 (33.33%) Firewall
1 2 (33.33%) Software-Defined Networking
1 2 (33.33%) VLAN
1 2 (33.33%) WebEx
2 1 (16.67%) Network Security
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) GitLab
2 1 (16.67%) Artifactory
2 1 (16.67%) Jenkins
2 1 (16.67%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 4 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Legal
3 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Platform Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Automation Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Linux Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Software Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) XMPP
2 1 (16.67%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 4 (66.67%) Product Ownership
2 1 (16.67%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (16.67%) Data Centre
2 1 (16.67%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 6 (100.00%) Linux
2 4 (66.67%) Windows
2 4 (66.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Platform Engineering
1 5 (83.33%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (66.67%) Change Control
2 4 (66.67%) ITSM
3 3 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 3 (50.00%) Containerisation
3 3 (50.00%) Knowledge Management
3 3 (50.00%) Service Management
4 2 (33.33%) Acceptance Criteria
4 2 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
4 2 (33.33%) Digital Transformation Programme
4 2 (33.33%) Identity Access Management
4 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (33.33%) Mobile Device Management
4 2 (33.33%) Performance Monitoring
4 2 (33.33%) Product Requirements
4 2 (33.33%) User Stories
5 1 (16.67%) DevOps
5 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) Bash
2 5 (83.33%) Python
3 4 (66.67%) PowerShell
4 3 (50.00%) Perl
5 1 (16.67%) Groovy
5 1 (16.67%) Java
5 1 (16.67%) Rust
Qualifications
1 6 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 6 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (50.00%) CCDP
2 3 (50.00%) CCNA
2 3 (50.00%) CCNP
2 3 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (16.67%) Degree
System Software
1 3 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (33.33%) Docker
3 1 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
1 2 (33.33%) Ansible
1 2 (33.33%) Kubernetes
1 2 (33.33%) Terraform
2 1 (16.67%) Argo
2 1 (16.67%) Grafana
2 1 (16.67%) Istio
2 1 (16.67%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 5 (83.33%) Red Hat
2 3 (50.00%) Citrix
2 3 (50.00%) VMware
3 2 (33.33%) Cisco
3 2 (33.33%) Microsoft