Red Hat Contract Job Trends in Oxfordshire

Red Hat
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 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 29 19 21
Rank change year-on-year -10 +2 +13
Contract jobs citing Red Hat 1 1 6
As % of all contract jobs in Oxfordshire 0.61% 0.72% 2.87%
As % of the Vendors category 1.25% 2.33% 6.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 6
10th Percentile - - £475
25th Percentile £356 - £544
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £363 - £588
Median % change year-on-year - - +67.86%
75th Percentile £369 - £622
90th Percentile - - £650
South East median daily rate £492 £570 £550
% change year-on-year -13.68% +3.64% -

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 80 43 86
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 48.78% 30.94% 41.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 24 63
10th Percentile £166 £160 £180
25th Percentile £200 £306 £304
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -26.32% +5.56% +10.77%
75th Percentile £494 £638 £600
90th Percentile £565 £650 £650
South East median daily rate £500 £515 £513
% change year-on-year -2.91% +0.39% +2.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 2 4
10th Percentile £18.60 £26.50 £32.31
25th Percentile £23.13 £32.50 £32.32
Median hourly rate £77.00 £45.00 £32.32
Median % change year-on-year +71.11% +39.23% +90.12%
75th Percentile £89.63 £57.50 £39.12
90th Percentile - £63.50 £51.35
South East median hourly rate £20.00 £57.65 £45.21
% change year-on-year -65.31% +27.51% +88.38%

Red Hat
Job Vacancy Trend in Oxfordshire

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

Red Hat job vacancy trend in Oxfordshire

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Daily Rate Trend in Oxfordshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Oxfordshire citing Red Hat

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Hourly Rate Trend in Oxfordshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Oxfordshire citing Red Hat.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Oxfordshire citing Red Hat

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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 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
Abingdon - 1 £363 - 2
Red Hat
South East

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Oxfordshire 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 1 (100.00%) DHCP
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
General
1 1 (100.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Administrator
1 1 (100.00%) Linux Administrator
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Rocky
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) VMware