Red Hat Enterprise Linux Contracts in the North West

Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 92 125 102
Rank change year-on-year +33 -23 +26
Contract jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 28 12 55
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 1.42% 0.44% 1.72%
As % of the Operating Systems category 9.49% 3.38% 10.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 10 40
10th Percentile £358 £313 £325
25th Percentile £392 - £462
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £496 £350 £638
Median % change year-on-year +41.71% -45.10% +2.00%
75th Percentile £550 £531 £688
90th Percentile £750 £554 £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 West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 295 355 536
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 14.99% 12.89% 16.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 195 226 368
10th Percentile £156 £174 £173
25th Percentile £208 £284 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £393 £438 £476
Median % change year-on-year -10.17% -7.99% +11.88%
75th Percentile £510 £582 £575
90th Percentile £593 £825 £650
England median daily rate £475 £463 £513
% change year-on-year +2.70% -9.76% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 65 47
10th Percentile £13.00 - £15.53
25th Percentile £13.60 £10.95 £21.83
Median hourly rate £17.44 £16.00 £29.30
Median % change year-on-year +9.00% -45.39% +62.78%
75th Percentile £23.22 £18.75 £45.38
90th Percentile £80.59 £40.30 £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 West

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

Job vacancy trend for Red Hat Enterprise Linux in the North West

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Red Hat Enterprise Linux in the North West

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

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

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

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for Red Hat Enterprise Linux in the North West

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West 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
Manchester +19 13 £550 +57.14% 7
Cheshire - 12 £393 - 3
Cumbria +3 3 - -
Red Hat Enterprise Linux
England

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 5 (17.86%) JBoss
2 3 (10.71%) Apache
2 3 (10.71%) nginx
2 3 (10.71%) Tomcat
3 2 (7.14%) Confluence
4 1 (3.57%) Documentum
4 1 (3.57%) FileNet
Cloud Services
1 13 (46.43%) AWS
2 7 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 6 (21.43%) OpenShift
4 4 (14.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 4 (14.29%) Amazon EC2
4 4 (14.29%) Amazon ECS
5 3 (10.71%) Amazon S3
5 3 (10.71%) AWS KMS
5 3 (10.71%) Azure
5 3 (10.71%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (7.14%) Cloud Computing
6 2 (7.14%) Slack
7 1 (3.57%) Amazon SQS
7 1 (3.57%) AWS Fargate
7 1 (3.57%) Entra ID
7 1 (3.57%) Serverless
7 1 (3.57%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (10.71%) Firewall
1 3 (10.71%) NAS
2 1 (3.57%) DNS
2 1 (3.57%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (21.43%) MongoDB
2 5 (17.86%) Elasticsearch
2 5 (17.86%) RDBMS
2 5 (17.86%) Relational Database
3 3 (10.71%) SQL Server
4 2 (7.14%) Apache Cassandra
4 2 (7.14%) MySQL
4 2 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (3.57%) Apache Accumulo
5 1 (3.57%) Big Data
5 1 (3.57%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 12 (42.86%) Jenkins
2 8 (28.57%) GitLab
3 7 (25.00%) Git
3 7 (25.00%) JIRA
4 5 (17.86%) Bitbucket Server
4 5 (17.86%) CA Release Automation
4 5 (17.86%) SonarQube
4 5 (17.86%) Sonatype Nexus
4 5 (17.86%) TeamCity
5 3 (10.71%) Eclipse
6 2 (7.14%) Cucumber
6 2 (7.14%) Jasmine
6 2 (7.14%) JUnit
General
1 6 (21.43%) Public Sector
2 4 (14.29%) Finance
3 2 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (7.14%) Social Skills
4 1 (3.57%) Banking
4 1 (3.57%) Military
Job Titles
1 11 (39.29%) DevOps Engineer
2 7 (25.00%) Linux Engineer
3 6 (21.43%) AWS DevOps
3 6 (21.43%) Senior
4 4 (14.29%) Developer
4 4 (14.29%) Senior DevOps
5 3 (10.71%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 3 (10.71%) AWS Engineer
5 3 (10.71%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 3 (10.71%) Azure Engineer
5 3 (10.71%) Senior Developer
5 3 (10.71%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 2 (7.14%) Architect
6 2 (7.14%) Infrastructure Architect
6 2 (7.14%) Java Developer
6 2 (7.14%) Senior Java Developer
7 1 (3.57%) Documentum Developer
7 1 (3.57%) Java Software Engineer
7 1 (3.57%) Software Engineer
7 1 (3.57%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (25.00%) Spring Boot
2 5 (17.86%) Elastic Stack
3 4 (14.29%) cloud-init
4 3 (10.71%) .NET
4 3 (10.71%) LDAP
4 3 (10.71%) OAuth
5 2 (7.14%) OpenAPI
5 2 (7.14%) pytest
5 2 (7.14%) RESTful
5 2 (7.14%) Spring
5 2 (7.14%) Spring Batch
5 2 (7.14%) Spring Security
5 2 (7.14%) Swagger
6 1 (3.57%) Kafka
6 1 (3.57%) Keycloak
Miscellaneous
1 2 (7.14%) Data Centre
1 2 (7.14%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
1 2 (7.14%) Replication
2 1 (3.57%) Mainframe
2 1 (3.57%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 28 (100.00%) Linux
2 7 (25.00%) Windows
3 5 (17.86%) Unix
4 4 (14.29%) CentOS
5 2 (7.14%) HPUX
5 2 (7.14%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (60.71%) CI/CD
1 17 (60.71%) DevOps
2 11 (39.29%) Continuous Integration
3 7 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 7 (25.00%) Microservices
4 6 (21.43%) Agile
4 6 (21.43%) Code Quality
4 6 (21.43%) Migration
5 5 (17.86%) Build Automation
5 5 (17.86%) Deployment Automation
6 4 (14.29%) Observability
6 4 (14.29%) Performance Tuning
6 4 (14.29%) Secrets Management
6 4 (14.29%) Use Case
7 3 (10.71%) Analytics
7 3 (10.71%) Change Management
7 3 (10.71%) Containerisation
7 3 (10.71%) Network Architecture
7 3 (10.71%) Software Engineering
7 3 (10.71%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 16 (57.14%) Python
2 7 (25.00%) Java
3 6 (21.43%) Bash
4 5 (17.86%) Perl
4 5 (17.86%) SQL
5 4 (14.29%) Go
5 4 (14.29%) Ruby
5 4 (14.29%) Shell Script
6 3 (10.71%) C++
7 1 (3.57%) Rust
Qualifications
1 9 (32.14%) Security Cleared
2 6 (21.43%) SC Cleared
3 4 (14.29%) RHCE
4 1 (3.57%) AWS Certification
4 1 (3.57%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.14%) NIST
2 1 (3.57%) NCSC
System Software
1 10 (35.71%) Docker
2 5 (17.86%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 12 (42.86%) Kubernetes
2 11 (39.29%) Terraform
3 8 (28.57%) Kibana
4 5 (17.86%) Progress Chef
5 4 (14.29%) Packer
6 3 (10.71%) Grafana
6 3 (10.71%) Prometheus
6 3 (10.71%) SELinux
7 1 (3.57%) Ansible
7 1 (3.57%) Consul
7 1 (3.57%) Istio
7 1 (3.57%) Jamf Pro
7 1 (3.57%) linkerd
7 1 (3.57%) Rancher
7 1 (3.57%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 13 (46.43%) Red Hat
2 9 (32.14%) Splunk
3 8 (28.57%) AppDynamics
4 3 (10.71%) Cloudera
5 2 (7.14%) IBM
5 2 (7.14%) Sun
6 1 (3.57%) Okta
6 1 (3.57%) Oracle
6 1 (3.57%) Unisys