Red Hat Contracts in the North West

Red Hat
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 20 July 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
20 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 101 127 129
Rank change year-on-year +26 +2 +16
Contract jobs citing Red Hat 26 6 26
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 1.20% 0.23% 0.86%
As % of the Vendors category 2.40% 0.60% 1.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 4 13
10th Percentile £321 £467 £355
25th Percentile £367 £492 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £393 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year -24.46% -5.41% +1.38%
75th Percentile £492 £572 £600
90th Percentile £520 £626 £660
England median daily rate £525 £523 £600
% change year-on-year +0.48% -12.92% +2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £25.75
Median hourly rate - - £26.50
75th Percentile - - £27.61
90th Percentile - - £28.27
England median hourly rate £68.00 £74.00 £49.00
% change year-on-year -8.11% +51.02% -27.14%

All Vendors
North West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 1,083 1,004 1,312
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 50.05% 38.54% 43.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 701 607 834
10th Percentile £270 £260 £252
25th Percentile £384 £400 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £485
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +3.09% +2.11%
75th Percentile £575 £585 £575
90th Percentile £665 £647 £670
England median daily rate £511 £518 £525
% change year-on-year -1.18% -1.43% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 72 125 85
10th Percentile £13.00 £10.95 £15.75
25th Percentile £19.07 £12.40 £17.46
Median hourly rate £28.75 £16.06 £26.50
Median % change year-on-year +79.02% -39.40% +31.64%
75th Percentile £59.48 £30.00 £43.75
90th Percentile £70.14 £50.00 £48.91
England median hourly rate £25.15 £26.00 £33.00
% change year-on-year -3.27% -21.21% +50.63%

Red Hat
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Red Hat in the North West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Red Hat in the North West

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Red Hat in the North West over the 6 months to 20 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Red Hat in the North West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for Red Hat in the North West

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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 within the North West region over the 6 months to 20 July 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
Cheshire +7 23 £393 -23.32%
Cumbria +7 3 - - 1
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England

Red Hat
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 9 (34.62%) JBoss
2 8 (30.77%) Mattermost
2 8 (30.77%) Skype for Business
Business Applications
1 1 (3.85%) Distributed Ledger
Cloud Services
1 10 (38.46%) AWS
1 10 (38.46%) OpenShift
2 1 (3.85%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (3.85%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 8 (30.77%) Skype
1 8 (30.77%) Softphone
1 8 (30.77%) Unified Communications
1 8 (30.77%) WebEx
2 4 (15.38%) Firewall
3 3 (11.54%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (34.62%) RDBMS
1 9 (34.62%) Relational Database
2 8 (30.77%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 9 (34.62%) Git
1 9 (34.62%) Jenkins
1 9 (34.62%) SonarQube
1 9 (34.62%) Sonatype Nexus
1 9 (34.62%) TeamCity
2 8 (30.77%) Bitbucket Server
2 8 (30.77%) CA Release Automation
2 8 (30.77%) JIRA
3 3 (11.54%) Eclipse
4 1 (3.85%) Bitbucket
General
1 9 (34.62%) Social Skills
2 2 (7.69%) Finance
3 1 (3.85%) Banking
3 1 (3.85%) Legal
Job Titles
1 8 (30.77%) Linux Engineer
1 8 (30.77%) Messaging Engineer
1 8 (30.77%) Messaging Support
1 8 (30.77%) Messaging Support Engineer
1 8 (30.77%) Operations Engineer
1 8 (30.77%) Operations Support Engineer
1 8 (30.77%) Support Engineer
2 7 (26.92%) Analyst
2 7 (26.92%) Messaging Analyst
2 7 (26.92%) Messaging Support Analyst
2 7 (26.92%) Operational Support Analyst
2 7 (26.92%) Operations Analyst
2 7 (26.92%) Operations Support Analyst
2 7 (26.92%) Support Analyst
3 4 (15.38%) AWS DevOps
3 4 (15.38%) DevOps Engineer
4 3 (11.54%) DevOps Specialist
5 1 (3.85%) AWS Architect
5 1 (3.85%) AWS Engineer
5 1 (3.85%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (38.46%) Elastic Stack
2 9 (34.62%) Spring Boot
3 8 (30.77%) XMPP
4 3 (11.54%) LDAP
5 1 (3.85%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 8 (30.77%) Management Information System
2 1 (3.85%) Blockchain
2 1 (3.85%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (3.85%) Private Cloud
2 1 (3.85%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 25 (96.15%) Linux
2 17 (65.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 9 (34.62%) Windows
4 1 (3.85%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (38.46%) DevOps
1 10 (38.46%) Microservices
2 9 (34.62%) CI/CD
2 9 (34.62%) Code Quality
2 9 (34.62%) Migration
3 8 (30.77%) Analytics
3 8 (30.77%) B2B
3 8 (30.77%) Build Automation
3 8 (30.77%) Continuous Integration
3 8 (30.77%) Deployment Automation
3 8 (30.77%) ITIL
3 8 (30.77%) Problem Management
3 8 (30.77%) Problem-Solving
3 8 (30.77%) Procure-to-Pay
4 7 (26.92%) Change Management
4 7 (26.92%) Observability
4 7 (26.92%) Runbook
4 7 (26.92%) Stakeholder Management
5 5 (19.23%) Performance Tuning
6 3 (11.54%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 14 (53.85%) Python
2 9 (34.62%) Perl
3 8 (30.77%) PowerShell
3 8 (30.77%) SQL
4 7 (26.92%) Java
5 5 (19.23%) Ruby
5 5 (19.23%) Shell Script
6 3 (11.54%) C++
Qualifications
1 8 (30.77%) ITIL Certification
2 5 (19.23%) RHCE
3 3 (11.54%) SC Cleared
3 3 (11.54%) Security Cleared
4 1 (3.85%) AWS Certification
4 1 (3.85%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (3.85%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.69%) NIST
System Software
1 17 (65.38%) Active Directory
2 10 (38.46%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (38.46%) Kubernetes
2 9 (34.62%) Kibana
2 9 (34.62%) Progress Chef
3 8 (30.77%) SCOM
4 3 (11.54%) SELinux
5 1 (3.85%) Ansible
5 1 (3.85%) Grafana
5 1 (3.85%) Prometheus
5 1 (3.85%) Terraform
Vendors
1 20 (76.92%) Splunk
2 9 (34.62%) AppDynamics
2 9 (34.62%) Microsoft
3 8 (30.77%) Cisco
4 7 (26.92%) Cloudera
5 1 (3.85%) VMware