Red Hat Enterprise Linux Contracts in the North of England

Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England requiring Red Hat Enterprise Linux skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Red Hat Enterprise Linux over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 100 166 153
Rank change year-on-year +66 -13 +19
Contract jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 67 19 67
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 2.03% 0.40% 1.15%
As % of the Operating Systems category 12.03% 2.62% 7.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 17 50
10th Percentile £366 £335 £325
25th Percentile £393 £350 £474
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £463 £625
Median % change year-on-year +18.92% -26.00% -
75th Percentile £738 £531 £688
90th Percentile £753 £640 £700
England median daily rate £551 £525 £625
% change year-on-year +4.95% -16.00% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - £45.60
25th Percentile - - £49.80
Median hourly rate - - £52.13
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate - £60.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year - +14.29% +118.75%

All Operating Systems
North of England

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 of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 557 725 911
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 16.90% 15.21% 15.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 353 495 652
10th Percentile £163 £167 £165
25th Percentile £210 £275 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £425 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% -10.53% +18.75%
75th Percentile £538 £531 £575
90th Percentile £635 £650 £675
England median daily rate £475 £463 £513
% change year-on-year +2.70% -9.76% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 80 57
10th Percentile £13.00 - £13.98
25th Percentile £16.25 £10.95 £17.75
Median hourly rate £18.00 £16.00 £28.70
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -44.25% +63.35%
75th Percentile £19.75 £19.44 £43.75
90th Percentile £41.50 £30.68 £49.52
England median hourly rate £24.18 £22.00 £38.00
% change year-on-year +9.91% -42.11% +76.74%

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Red Hat Enterprise Linux in the North of England

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Red Hat Enterprise Linux in the North of England

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux in the North of England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Red Hat Enterprise Linux in the North of England

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Red Hat Enterprise Linux in the North of England

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Yorkshire +35 34 £700 +51.35% 7
North West +33 28 £496 +41.71% 11
North East - 5 £558 - 3
Red Hat Enterprise Linux
England

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 11 (16.42%) Confluence
2 10 (14.93%) nginx
3 7 (10.45%) Traefik
4 5 (7.46%) JBoss
5 3 (4.48%) Apache
5 3 (4.48%) Tomcat
6 1 (1.49%) Documentum
6 1 (1.49%) FileNet
6 1 (1.49%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 32 (47.76%) AWS
2 21 (31.34%) AWS CloudFormation
3 13 (19.40%) Amazon ECS
4 12 (17.91%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 11 (16.42%) Entra ID
6 10 (14.93%) AWS Fargate
6 10 (14.93%) Azure
7 9 (13.43%) Slack
7 9 (13.43%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 7 (10.45%) Cloud Computing
9 6 (8.96%) OpenShift
10 5 (7.46%) Azure DevOps
11 4 (5.97%) Amazon EC2
12 3 (4.48%) Amazon S3
12 3 (4.48%) AWS KMS
13 2 (2.99%) Amazon EKS
13 2 (2.99%) GCP
14 1 (1.49%) Amazon SQS
14 1 (1.49%) Microsoft 365
14 1 (1.49%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 10 (14.93%) DNS
1 10 (14.93%) TCP/IP
2 5 (7.46%) HTTP
2 5 (7.46%) NAS
3 4 (5.97%) Firewall
4 1 (1.49%) DHCP
4 1 (1.49%) LAN
4 1 (1.49%) SAN
4 1 (1.49%) VLAN
4 1 (1.49%) VPN
4 1 (1.49%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (37.31%) MongoDB
2 13 (19.40%) MySQL
2 13 (19.40%) PostgreSQL
3 12 (17.91%) Apache Cassandra
4 5 (7.46%) Elasticsearch
4 5 (7.46%) RDBMS
4 5 (7.46%) Relational Database
5 4 (5.97%) SQL Server
6 2 (2.99%) Big Data
7 1 (1.49%) Apache Accumulo
7 1 (1.49%) Hadoop
7 1 (1.49%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 29 (43.28%) Jenkins
2 24 (35.82%) GitLab
3 17 (25.37%) JIRA
4 16 (23.88%) Git
5 10 (14.93%) Cucumber
5 10 (14.93%) Jasmine
5 10 (14.93%) JUnit
6 5 (7.46%) Bitbucket Server
6 5 (7.46%) CA Release Automation
6 5 (7.46%) SonarQube
6 5 (7.46%) Sonatype Nexus
6 5 (7.46%) TeamCity
7 3 (4.48%) Eclipse
8 2 (2.99%) Selenium
General
1 18 (26.87%) Public Sector
2 8 (11.94%) Finance
3 6 (8.96%) Social Skills
4 5 (7.46%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (4.48%) Military
6 2 (2.99%) Banking
6 2 (2.99%) Electronics
6 2 (2.99%) Manufacturing
6 2 (2.99%) Marketing
6 2 (2.99%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 27 (40.30%) DevOps Engineer
1 27 (40.30%) Senior
2 16 (23.88%) Senior DevOps
3 13 (19.40%) Developer
4 12 (17.91%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 11 (16.42%) Java Developer
5 11 (16.42%) Senior Developer
6 10 (14.93%) Senior Java Developer
7 7 (10.45%) Linux Engineer
8 6 (8.96%) AWS DevOps
9 5 (7.46%) Azure DevOps Engineer
9 5 (7.46%) Azure Engineer
10 4 (5.97%) Architect
10 4 (5.97%) Infrastructure Architect
11 3 (4.48%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 3 (4.48%) AWS Engineer
11 3 (4.48%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
11 3 (4.48%) Java Engineer
11 3 (4.48%) Lead
11 3 (4.48%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (25.37%) cloud-init
1 17 (25.37%) Spring Boot
2 12 (17.91%) Spring
3 11 (16.42%) Spring Security
4 10 (14.93%) Kafka
4 10 (14.93%) RESTful
4 10 (14.93%) Spring Batch
5 9 (13.43%) Keycloak
5 9 (13.43%) Swagger
6 8 (11.94%) OpenAPI
7 5 (7.46%) Elastic Stack
8 4 (5.97%) pytest
9 3 (4.48%) .NET
9 3 (4.48%) LDAP
9 3 (4.48%) OAuth
10 1 (1.49%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 9 (13.43%) PKI
2 8 (11.94%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 4 (5.97%) Data Centre
3 4 (5.97%) Replication
4 3 (4.48%) Mainframe
5 2 (2.99%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (2.99%) Enterprise Storage
6 1 (1.49%) EMC VMAX
6 1 (1.49%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 67 (100.00%) Linux
2 20 (29.85%) Unix
3 19 (28.36%) CentOS
4 14 (20.90%) Windows
5 4 (5.97%) HPUX
5 4 (5.97%) Solaris
6 3 (4.48%) Windows Server
7 1 (1.49%) Alpine Linux
7 1 (1.49%) Amazon Linux
7 1 (1.49%) Mac OS
7 1 (1.49%) Ubuntu
7 1 (1.49%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (1.49%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (64.18%) CI/CD
2 37 (55.22%) DevOps
3 30 (44.78%) Continuous Integration
4 22 (32.84%) Infrastructure as Code
5 16 (23.88%) Microservices
6 14 (20.90%) Containerisation
7 13 (19.40%) Cloud Security
7 13 (19.40%) Observability
7 13 (19.40%) Secrets Management
7 13 (19.40%) Software Engineering
8 12 (17.91%) BDD
8 12 (17.91%) TDD
9 11 (16.42%) Continuous Delivery
9 11 (16.42%) High Availability
10 10 (14.93%) Agile
10 10 (14.93%) Technical Leadership
11 9 (13.43%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
11 9 (13.43%) OWASP
11 9 (13.43%) Static Application Security Testing
11 9 (13.43%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 35 (52.24%) Python
2 32 (47.76%) Bash
3 18 (26.87%) Go
4 17 (25.37%) Java
5 16 (23.88%) SQL
6 6 (8.96%) Shell Script
7 5 (7.46%) Perl
8 4 (5.97%) Ruby
9 3 (4.48%) C++
9 3 (4.48%) PowerShell
10 1 (1.49%) Bicep
10 1 (1.49%) Groovy
10 1 (1.49%) Rust
Qualifications
1 30 (44.78%) Security Cleared
2 25 (37.31%) SC Cleared
3 9 (13.43%) AWS Certification
4 4 (5.97%) RHCE
5 2 (2.99%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.49%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.49%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (13.43%) NCSC
2 2 (2.99%) NIST
3 1 (1.49%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 22 (32.84%) Docker
2 8 (11.94%) Active Directory
3 4 (5.97%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (2.99%) Veritas Cluster Server
4 2 (2.99%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (2.99%) VMware NSX
5 1 (1.49%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 35 (52.24%) Kubernetes
2 28 (41.79%) Terraform
3 18 (26.87%) Packer
4 14 (20.90%) Grafana
4 14 (20.90%) Prometheus
5 9 (13.43%) Consul
5 9 (13.43%) Istio
5 9 (13.43%) Jamf Pro
5 9 (13.43%) linkerd
5 9 (13.43%) Rancher
5 9 (13.43%) ZABBIX
6 8 (11.94%) Kibana
7 7 (10.45%) HAProxy
8 6 (8.96%) Ansible
9 5 (7.46%) Progress Chef
10 3 (4.48%) SELinux
11 2 (2.99%) Puppet
12 1 (1.49%) NetApp OnCommand
12 1 (1.49%) Single Sign-On
12 1 (1.49%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 23 (34.33%) Red Hat
2 18 (26.87%) Splunk
3 9 (13.43%) AppDynamics
3 9 (13.43%) Okta
4 7 (10.45%) Apple
4 7 (10.45%) ESET
5 4 (5.97%) IBM
5 4 (5.97%) Sun
5 4 (5.97%) VMware
6 3 (4.48%) Cloudera
6 3 (4.48%) Oracle
6 3 (4.48%) Unisys
7 2 (2.99%) HP
7 2 (2.99%) Microsoft
7 2 (2.99%) NetApp
7 2 (2.99%) SAP
7 2 (2.99%) Veeam
7 2 (2.99%) Veritas
8 1 (1.49%) EMC
8 1 (1.49%) Juniper