Red Hat Contracts in Oxfordshire

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South East > Oxfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Oxfordshire 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 1 May 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 20 22 13
Rank change year-on-year +2 -9 +21
Contract jobs citing Red Hat 2 5 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 1.89% 2.20% 7.20%
As % of the Vendors category 3.57% 5.68% 16.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 5 4
10th Percentile £466 - £433
25th Percentile £472 £500 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £525 £488
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +7.69% -
75th Percentile £497 £538 £525
90th Percentile £499 £575 -
South East median daily rate £550 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £48.50
Median hourly rate - - £49.00
75th Percentile - - £49.50
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate - £21.00 £50.75
% change year-on-year - -58.62% -36.56%

All Vendors
Oxfordshire

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 Oxfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 56 88 111
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 52.83% 38.77% 44.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 60 72
10th Percentile - £128 £213
25th Percentile £250 £319 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £450 £444
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% +1.41% -11.25%
75th Percentile £513 £525 £538
90th Percentile £666 £558 £679
South East median daily rate £514 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +2.80% - +2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 9 10
10th Percentile £13.08 £16.10 -
25th Percentile £23.50 £16.25 £18.08
Median hourly rate £25.30 £17.50 £24.50
Median % change year-on-year +44.57% -28.57% +19.51%
75th Percentile £46.30 £26.03 £31.79
90th Percentile - £26.92 £34.02
South East median hourly rate £24.66 £48.75 £45.00
% change year-on-year -49.42% +8.33% +130.53%

Red Hat
Job Vacancy Trend in Oxfordshire

Job postings citing Red Hat as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Oxfordshire.

Job vacancy trend for Red Hat in Oxfordshire

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Oxfordshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Red Hat in Oxfordshire.

Daily rate trend for Red Hat in Oxfordshire

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Oxfordshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Red Hat in Oxfordshire.

Hourly rate trend for Red Hat in Oxfordshire

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Contract Job Locations in Oxfordshire

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 Oxfordshire 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
Oxford -1 1 £500 - 9
Abingdon - 1 £475 -
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South East

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Oxfordshire 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:

Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Git
General
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Administrator
1 2 (100.00%) Unix Administrator
2 1 (50.00%) DBA
2 1 (50.00%) Linux Administrator
2 1 (50.00%) Solaris Administrator
2 1 (50.00%) Unix DBA
2 1 (50.00%) Unix Systems Administrator
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) AIX
1 2 (100.00%) CentOS
1 2 (100.00%) HPUX
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Solaris
1 2 (100.00%) Ubuntu
1 2 (100.00%) Unix
2 1 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Configuration Management
2 1 (50.00%) Capacity Management
2 1 (50.00%) Capacity Planning
2 1 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (50.00%) Server Management
2 1 (50.00%) Service Management
2 1 (50.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Bash
2 1 (50.00%) Korn
2 1 (50.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Ansible
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle ZFS
1 2 (100.00%) Progress Chef
1 2 (100.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) HP