Red Hat Contract Job Trends in Northern Ireland

Red Hat
UK > Northern Ireland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Northern Ireland 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 4 November 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
4 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 32 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Red Hat 5 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Northern Ireland 2.01% - -
As % of the Vendors category 5.68% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £325 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 - -
75th Percentile £381 - -
90th Percentile £393 - -
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £563
% change year-on-year -0.95% -6.67% +2.27%

All Vendors
Northern Ireland

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 Northern Ireland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 88 77 61
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 35.34% 40.10% 38.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 33 30
10th Percentile £158 £129 £175
25th Percentile £313 £183 £235
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £373 £388 £425
Median % change year-on-year -3.87% -8.82% -14.91%
75th Percentile £500 £550 £500
90th Percentile £588 £650 £638
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -1.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 14 1
10th Percentile £12.31 £21.19 -
25th Percentile £12.63 - £16.25
Median hourly rate £13.60 £24.18 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -43.76% +38.17% +45.99%
75th Percentile £16.25 - £18.75
90th Percentile £24.50 £40.25 -
UK median hourly rate £25.11 £32.00 £43.90
% change year-on-year -21.53% -27.11% +75.60%

Red Hat
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Red Hat relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland.

Red Hat job vacancy trend in Northern Ireland

Red Hat
Daily Rate Trend in Northern Ireland

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Northern Ireland citing Red Hat.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Northern Ireland citing Red Hat

Red Hat
Contract Job Locations in Northern Ireland

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 Northern Ireland region over the 6 months to 4 November 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
County Antrim - 5 £350 - 4
Red Hat
UK

Red Hat
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Northern Ireland by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Communications & Networking
1 5 (100.00%) SAN
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Administrator
1 3 (60.00%) Analyst
1 3 (60.00%) Consultant
1 3 (60.00%) Systems Administrator
1 3 (60.00%) Technology Consultant
2 2 (40.00%) Backup Consultant
2 2 (40.00%) Storage Analyst
2 2 (40.00%) Storage and Backup Consultant
2 2 (40.00%) Storage Consultant
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) Linux
1 5 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Capacity Planning
1 5 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 5 (100.00%) Performance Monitoring
1 5 (100.00%) Problem Management
2 4 (80.00%) Change Management
Qualifications
1 5 (100.00%) BPSS Clearance
2 3 (60.00%) SC Cleared
2 3 (60.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 5 (100.00%) EMC NetWorker
1 5 (100.00%) EMC VPLEX
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) Brocade
1 5 (100.00%) Cisco
1 5 (100.00%) Dell
1 5 (100.00%) EMC
1 5 (100.00%) Isilon
1 5 (100.00%) VMware