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 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 126 165 151
Rank change year-on-year +39 -14 +27
Contract jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 43 13 55
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 1.30% 0.28% 0.98%
As % of the Operating Systems category 8.13% 1.88% 6.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 11 37
10th Percentile £358 - £325
25th Percentile £392 £456 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -10.87% -8.00%
75th Percentile £575 £584 £650
90th Percentile £725 £663 £700
England median daily rate £550 £530 £625
% change year-on-year +3.77% -15.20% +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 - £72.75 £52.50
% change year-on-year - +38.57% +0.96%

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 529 693 879
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 15.98% 14.80% 15.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 337 472 607
10th Percentile £177 £165 £164
25th Percentile £250 £275 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £425 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% -10.53% +13.10%
75th Percentile £538 £530 £575
90th Percentile £623 £650 £675
England median daily rate £468 £475 £510
% change year-on-year -1.58% -6.86% +2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 77 61
10th Percentile £13.00 - £13.16
25th Percentile £13.90 £10.95 £16.50
Median hourly rate £17.47 £16.00 £26.50
Median % change year-on-year +9.19% -39.62% +43.24%
75th Percentile £18.91 £19.18 £43.75
90th Percentile £19.75 £48.00 £49.52
England median hourly rate £20.00 £22.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -11.11% -47.06% +97.67%

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 29 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 29 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
North West +20 21 £393 -24.46% 30
Yorkshire +22 19 £538 +16.22% 44
North East - 3 £575 - 10
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 6 (13.95%) JBoss
2 4 (9.30%) nginx
3 3 (6.98%) Apache
3 3 (6.98%) Confluence
3 3 (6.98%) Documentum
3 3 (6.98%) FileNet
3 3 (6.98%) Tomcat
4 1 (2.33%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (2.33%) Traefik
Cloud Services
1 19 (44.19%) AWS
2 7 (16.28%) OpenShift
3 6 (13.95%) Amazon EC2
3 6 (13.95%) Azure
4 4 (9.30%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 4 (9.30%) Amazon ECS
4 4 (9.30%) AWS CloudFormation
5 3 (6.98%) Amazon S3
5 3 (6.98%) Amazon SQS
5 3 (6.98%) AWS KMS
5 3 (6.98%) Entra ID
5 3 (6.98%) Serverless
6 2 (4.65%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (4.65%) GCP
7 1 (2.33%) AWS Fargate
7 1 (2.33%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (2.33%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (2.33%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (2.33%) Slack
7 1 (2.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 7 (16.28%) Firewall
2 5 (11.63%) NAS
2 5 (11.63%) TCP/IP
3 2 (4.65%) DNS
4 1 (2.33%) DHCP
4 1 (2.33%) HTTP
4 1 (2.33%) LAN
4 1 (2.33%) SAN
4 1 (2.33%) VLAN
4 1 (2.33%) VPN
4 1 (2.33%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (13.95%) Elasticsearch
1 6 (13.95%) RDBMS
1 6 (13.95%) Relational Database
2 5 (11.63%) MongoDB
3 4 (9.30%) SQL Server
4 2 (4.65%) Big Data
4 2 (4.65%) MySQL
4 2 (4.65%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (2.33%) Apache Accumulo
5 1 (2.33%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (2.33%) Hadoop
5 1 (2.33%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 16 (37.21%) Jenkins
2 12 (27.91%) Git
3 9 (20.93%) JIRA
4 6 (13.95%) Bitbucket Server
4 6 (13.95%) CA Release Automation
4 6 (13.95%) SonarQube
4 6 (13.95%) Sonatype Nexus
4 6 (13.95%) TeamCity
5 5 (11.63%) GitLab
6 3 (6.98%) Eclipse
6 3 (6.98%) Postman
7 1 (2.33%) Cucumber
7 1 (2.33%) Jasmine
7 1 (2.33%) JUnit
7 1 (2.33%) Selenium
General
1 10 (23.26%) Finance
2 6 (13.95%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (13.95%) Social Skills
3 4 (9.30%) Public Sector
4 2 (4.65%) Banking
5 1 (2.33%) Electronics
5 1 (2.33%) Manufacturing
5 1 (2.33%) Marketing
5 1 (2.33%) Military
5 1 (2.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 12 (27.91%) Linux Engineer
2 10 (23.26%) DevOps Engineer
3 6 (13.95%) AWS DevOps
4 5 (11.63%) Architect
4 5 (11.63%) Senior
5 4 (9.30%) Developer
5 4 (9.30%) Infrastructure Architect
6 3 (6.98%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 3 (6.98%) AWS Engineer
6 3 (6.98%) Documentum Developer
6 3 (6.98%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 3 (6.98%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
6 3 (6.98%) Senior Linux Engineer
6 3 (6.98%) Solutions Architect
7 2 (4.65%) Senior Technical Engineer
7 2 (4.65%) Technical Engineer
8 1 (2.33%) Infrastructure Specialist
8 1 (2.33%) Java Developer
8 1 (2.33%) Senior Java Developer
8 1 (2.33%) Unix Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (16.28%) Spring Boot
2 6 (13.95%) Elastic Stack
3 3 (6.98%) .NET
3 3 (6.98%) LDAP
3 3 (6.98%) OAuth
4 1 (2.33%) ARM Templates
4 1 (2.33%) cloud-init
4 1 (2.33%) Kafka
4 1 (2.33%) Keycloak
4 1 (2.33%) OpenAPI
4 1 (2.33%) pytest
4 1 (2.33%) RESTful
4 1 (2.33%) Spring
4 1 (2.33%) Spring Batch
4 1 (2.33%) Spring Security
4 1 (2.33%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 5 (11.63%) Data Centre
2 4 (9.30%) Replication
3 3 (6.98%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (6.98%) Mainframe
4 2 (4.65%) Enterprise Storage
5 1 (2.33%) Cloud Native
5 1 (2.33%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 1 (2.33%) EMC VMAX
5 1 (2.33%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (2.33%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (2.33%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 43 (100.00%) Linux
2 15 (34.88%) Windows
3 7 (16.28%) Solaris
4 6 (13.95%) Unix
5 4 (9.30%) HPUX
6 3 (6.98%) AIX
6 3 (6.98%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
6 3 (6.98%) Windows Server
7 2 (4.65%) CentOS
8 1 (2.33%) Amazon Linux
8 1 (2.33%) Mac OS
8 1 (2.33%) Ubuntu
8 1 (2.33%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (2.33%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (46.51%) DevOps
2 15 (34.88%) CI/CD
3 11 (25.58%) Agile
4 10 (23.26%) Continuous Integration
4 10 (23.26%) Migration
5 8 (18.60%) Deployment Automation
6 7 (16.28%) Code Quality
6 7 (16.28%) High Availability
6 7 (16.28%) Microservices
7 6 (13.95%) Build Automation
7 6 (13.95%) Observability
8 5 (11.63%) Analytics
8 5 (11.63%) Change Management
8 5 (11.63%) Disaster Recovery
8 5 (11.63%) Infrastructure as Code
8 5 (11.63%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 5 (11.63%) Performance Tuning
8 5 (11.63%) Software Engineering
8 5 (11.63%) Stakeholder Management
9 4 (9.30%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 19 (44.19%) Python
2 9 (20.93%) Java
3 7 (16.28%) Shell Script
4 6 (13.95%) Perl
5 5 (11.63%) Bash
5 5 (11.63%) Ruby
5 5 (11.63%) SQL
6 3 (6.98%) C++
6 3 (6.98%) PowerShell
6 3 (6.98%) Rust
7 1 (2.33%) Bicep
7 1 (2.33%) Go
7 1 (2.33%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 7 (16.28%) Security Cleared
2 5 (11.63%) RHCE
2 5 (11.63%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.33%) AWS Certification
3 1 (2.33%) DV Cleared
3 1 (2.33%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.65%) NIST
2 1 (2.33%) NCSC
System Software
1 10 (23.26%) Docker
2 9 (20.93%) Active Directory
3 7 (16.28%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (11.63%) Veritas Cluster Server
5 2 (4.65%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (4.65%) VMware NSX
6 1 (2.33%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 13 (30.23%) Kubernetes
2 11 (25.58%) Ansible
3 9 (20.93%) Kibana
3 9 (20.93%) Terraform
4 6 (13.95%) Progress Chef
5 5 (11.63%) Puppet
6 3 (6.98%) SELinux
7 2 (4.65%) Grafana
7 2 (4.65%) Prometheus
8 1 (2.33%) Consul
8 1 (2.33%) HAProxy
8 1 (2.33%) Istio
8 1 (2.33%) Jamf Pro
8 1 (2.33%) linkerd
8 1 (2.33%) NetApp OnCommand
8 1 (2.33%) Packer
8 1 (2.33%) Rancher
8 1 (2.33%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (2.33%) vCenter Server
8 1 (2.33%) vRealize
Vendors
1 29 (67.44%) Red Hat
2 11 (25.58%) Splunk
3 10 (23.26%) AppDynamics
4 7 (16.28%) VMware
5 5 (11.63%) Oracle
6 4 (9.30%) Cloudera
6 4 (9.30%) IBM
6 4 (9.30%) Sun
7 3 (6.98%) MuleSoft
7 3 (6.98%) Unisys
8 2 (4.65%) Microsoft
8 2 (4.65%) NetApp
8 2 (4.65%) Veeam
8 2 (4.65%) Veritas
9 1 (2.33%) Apple
9 1 (2.33%) Cisco
9 1 (2.33%) EMC
9 1 (2.33%) Google
9 1 (2.33%) HP
9 1 (2.33%) OpenText