Red Hat Contracts in the North of England

Red Hat
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 21 August 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
21 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 132 142 172
Rank change year-on-year +10 +30 +5
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Red Hat 56 21 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 1.40% 0.50% 0.43%
As % of the Vendors category 2.91% 1.24% 0.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 14 13
10th Percentile £339 £454 £432
25th Percentile £393 £496 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £518 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.38% -5.91% -
75th Percentile £531 £580 £588
90th Percentile £600 £655 £609
England median daily rate £520 £520 £600
% change year-on-year -0.05% -13.33% +3.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £25.75
Median hourly rate - - £26.50
75th Percentile - - £27.25
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £68.00 £74.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year -8.11% +40.95% -32.04%

All Vendors
North of England

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 the North of England.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 1,927 1,693 2,294
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 48.13% 40.52% 44.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,230 981 1,431
10th Percentile £268 £313 £219
25th Percentile £375 £413 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £589
90th Percentile £650 £675 £673
England median daily rate £501 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.67% - -0.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 115 131 106
10th Percentile £13.93 £10.95 £15.75
25th Percentile £18.87 £13.50 £17.55
Median hourly rate £22.63 £16.06 £27.90
Median % change year-on-year +40.91% -42.44% +41.27%
75th Percentile £59.65 £40.00 £46.18
90th Percentile £81.25 £50.00 £53.99
England median hourly rate £25.15 £29.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -13.28% -17.14% +55.56%

Red Hat
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Red Hat in the North of England

Red Hat
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Red Hat.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Red Hat

Red Hat
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Red Hat in the North of England over the 6 months to 21 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Red Hat in the North of England

Red Hat
Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Red Hat.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Red Hat

Red Hat
DemandTrendContract 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 within the North of England region over the 6 months to 21 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North West +7 25 £393 -27.72% 11
Yorkshire -3 22 £513 -0.97% 5
North East - 9 £550 - 5
Red Hat
England

Red Hat
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 8 (14.29%) Mattermost
1 8 (14.29%) Skype for Business
2 7 (12.50%) JBoss
3 6 (10.71%) Confluence
4 1 (1.79%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (1.79%) WebSphere
4 1 (1.79%) WebSphere Application Server
Business Applications
1 1 (1.79%) Distributed Ledger
Cloud Services
1 18 (32.14%) OpenShift
2 15 (26.79%) AWS
3 6 (10.71%) CloudBees
4 5 (8.93%) Azure
5 2 (3.57%) Amazon EKS
5 2 (3.57%) Entra ID
5 2 (3.57%) GCP
6 1 (1.79%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (1.79%) Amazon SQS
6 1 (1.79%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (1.79%) IBM Cloud
6 1 (1.79%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (1.79%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 10 (17.86%) Firewall
2 8 (14.29%) Skype
2 8 (14.29%) Softphone
2 8 (14.29%) Unified Communications
2 8 (14.29%) WebEx
3 5 (8.93%) NAS
3 5 (8.93%) TCP/IP
4 1 (1.79%) LAN
4 1 (1.79%) SSL
4 1 (1.79%) VLAN
4 1 (1.79%) VPN
4 1 (1.79%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (12.50%) RDBMS
1 7 (12.50%) Relational Database
2 6 (10.71%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (1.79%) Big Data
3 1 (1.79%) MySQL
3 1 (1.79%) Oracle Database
3 1 (1.79%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.79%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 29 (51.79%) Jenkins
2 12 (21.43%) Git
2 12 (21.43%) JIRA
3 7 (12.50%) SonarQube
3 7 (12.50%) Sonatype Nexus
3 7 (12.50%) TeamCity
4 6 (10.71%) Bitbucket Server
4 6 (10.71%) CA Release Automation
4 6 (10.71%) GitLab
5 4 (7.14%) Eclipse
5 4 (7.14%) Postman
6 1 (1.79%) Bitbucket
6 1 (1.79%) Log4j
6 1 (1.79%) Subversion
General
1 12 (21.43%) Social Skills
2 8 (14.29%) Finance
3 4 (7.14%) Documentation Skills
4 3 (5.36%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (3.57%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.79%) Banking
6 1 (1.79%) Legal
Job Titles
1 13 (23.21%) Linux Engineer
2 8 (14.29%) Messaging Engineer
2 8 (14.29%) Messaging Support
2 8 (14.29%) Messaging Support Engineer
2 8 (14.29%) Operations Engineer
2 8 (14.29%) Operations Support Engineer
2 8 (14.29%) Support Engineer
3 7 (12.50%) Analyst
3 7 (12.50%) Automation Engineer
3 7 (12.50%) Messaging Analyst
3 7 (12.50%) Messaging Support Analyst
3 7 (12.50%) Operational Support Analyst
3 7 (12.50%) Operations Analyst
3 7 (12.50%) Operations Support Analyst
3 7 (12.50%) Support Analyst
4 6 (10.71%) Data Protection Engineer
4 6 (10.71%) DevOps Engineer
5 5 (8.93%) Data Engineer
5 5 (8.93%) Senior
6 4 (7.14%) AWS DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (16.07%) Keycloak
2 8 (14.29%) Elastic Stack
2 8 (14.29%) XMPP
3 7 (12.50%) Spring Boot
4 5 (8.93%) LDAP
5 2 (3.57%) Kafka
6 1 (1.79%) JDBC
6 1 (1.79%) JMS
6 1 (1.79%) JNDI
6 1 (1.79%) OAuth
6 1 (1.79%) RESTful
6 1 (1.79%) SAML
6 1 (1.79%) WebSphere MQ
Miscellaneous
1 8 (14.29%) Management Information System
2 6 (10.71%) Product Ownership
3 4 (7.14%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (3.57%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.79%) Blockchain
5 1 (1.79%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.79%) Enterprise Storage
5 1 (1.79%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.79%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (1.79%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (1.79%) Private Cloud
5 1 (1.79%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 39 (69.64%) Linux
2 29 (51.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 10 (17.86%) Windows
4 4 (7.14%) Unix
5 3 (5.36%) AIX
5 3 (5.36%) Solaris
5 3 (5.36%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
5 3 (5.36%) Windows Server
6 2 (3.57%) CentOS
6 2 (3.57%) Ubuntu
7 1 (1.79%) Amazon Linux
7 1 (1.79%) Oracle Linux
7 1 (1.79%) SUSE
7 1 (1.79%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (1.79%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (44.64%) CI/CD
2 21 (37.50%) DevOps
3 19 (33.93%) Migration
4 12 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
5 11 (19.64%) Data Protection
5 11 (19.64%) Microservices
6 10 (17.86%) Configuration Management
6 10 (17.86%) Infrastructure as Code
6 10 (17.86%) Problem Management
7 9 (16.07%) Analytics
7 9 (16.07%) GitOps
8 8 (14.29%) B2B
8 8 (14.29%) Change Management
8 8 (14.29%) ITIL
8 8 (14.29%) Procure-to-Pay
8 8 (14.29%) Validation
9 7 (12.50%) Continuous Integration
9 7 (12.50%) Observability
9 7 (12.50%) Scrum
9 7 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 33 (58.93%) Python
2 18 (32.14%) Bash
3 11 (19.64%) PowerShell
4 9 (16.07%) SQL
5 7 (12.50%) Java
5 7 (12.50%) Perl
5 7 (12.50%) Shell Script
6 5 (8.93%) Ruby
7 4 (7.14%) C++
8 1 (1.79%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 15 (26.79%) SC Cleared
1 15 (26.79%) Security Cleared
2 8 (14.29%) ITIL Certification
3 5 (8.93%) RHCE
4 2 (3.57%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 1 (1.79%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.79%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (1.79%) IBM Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.36%) NIST
System Software
1 17 (30.36%) Active Directory
2 11 (19.64%) Docker
3 7 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (8.93%) Veritas Cluster Server
5 2 (3.57%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (3.57%) VMware NSX
6 1 (1.79%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 23 (41.07%) Ansible
2 21 (37.50%) Kubernetes
3 11 (19.64%) Terraform
4 9 (16.07%) Istio
5 8 (14.29%) Argo
5 8 (14.29%) SCOM
6 7 (12.50%) Kibana
6 7 (12.50%) NetBackup
6 7 (12.50%) Progress Chef
7 5 (8.93%) Puppet
8 4 (7.14%) SELinux
9 2 (3.57%) Prometheus
9 2 (3.57%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (1.79%) Grafana
10 1 (1.79%) NetApp OnCommand
10 1 (1.79%) vCenter Server
10 1 (1.79%) vRealize
Vendors
1 20 (35.71%) Splunk
2 14 (25.00%) Microsoft
3 9 (16.07%) Cisco
4 8 (14.29%) VMware
5 7 (12.50%) AppDynamics
5 7 (12.50%) Cloudera
5 7 (12.50%) Commvault
5 7 (12.50%) Veritas
6 4 (7.14%) MuleSoft
7 2 (3.57%) Oracle
7 2 (3.57%) Veeam
8 1 (1.79%) Databricks
8 1 (1.79%) Dynatrace
8 1 (1.79%) Google
8 1 (1.79%) IBM
8 1 (1.79%) NetApp
8 1 (1.79%) TIBCO