Red Hat Contract Job Trends in Portsmouth

Red Hat
Hampshire > Portsmouth

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Portsmouth 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 3 December 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
3 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 16 26 28
Rank change year-on-year +10 +2 +17
Contract jobs citing Red Hat 10 1 11
As % of all contract jobs in Portsmouth 5.21% 0.74% 4.21%
As % of the Vendors category 14.29% 1.41% 7.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 1 6
10th Percentile £409 - -
25th Percentile £416 £463 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £435 £475 £588
Median % change year-on-year -8.42% -19.15% -6.00%
75th Percentile £453 £488 £634
90th Percentile - - £644
Hampshire median daily rate £488 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -15.22% - -8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £46.25 - £20.50
Median hourly rate £47.50 - £21.00
75th Percentile £48.75 - £21.50
90th Percentile - - -
Hampshire median hourly rate £47.50 - £21.00
% change year-on-year - - -73.75%

All Vendors
Portsmouth

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 Portsmouth.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 70 71 144
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Portsmouth 36.46% 52.59% 55.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 43 86
10th Percentile £200 £360 £405
25th Percentile £213 £374 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £435 £470 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.45% -14.55% +15.18%
75th Percentile £548 £594 £634
90th Percentile £550 £698 £670
Hampshire median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 17 13
10th Percentile £25.48 £39.00 £21.65
25th Percentile £32.94 £59.50 £45.63
Median hourly rate £33.89 £62.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -45.78% +8.70% +13.26%
75th Percentile £48.75 £70.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £51.05 £72.75 £69.00
Hampshire median hourly rate £22.00 £62.50 £51.42
% change year-on-year -64.80% +21.55% +75.38%

Red Hat
Job Vacancy Trend in Portsmouth

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

Red Hat job vacancy trend in Portsmouth

Red Hat
Daily Rate Trend in Portsmouth

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

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

Red Hat
Hourly Rate Trend in Portsmouth

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

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

Red Hat
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Portsmouth 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (10.00%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (10.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 9 (90.00%) GitHub
2 8 (80.00%) OpenShift
3 3 (30.00%) AWS
4 2 (20.00%) Azure
4 2 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (10.00%) Amazon S3
5 1 (10.00%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (10.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) DNS
1 1 (10.00%) SSH
1 1 (10.00%) SSL
1 1 (10.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (90.00%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (80.00%) Redis
3 1 (10.00%) Big Data
3 1 (10.00%) Delta Lake
3 1 (10.00%) Hadoop
3 1 (10.00%) NoSQL
3 1 (10.00%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 2 (20.00%) GitLab
1 2 (20.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (10.00%) Git
2 1 (10.00%) MLflow
2 1 (10.00%) Poetry
2 1 (10.00%) Postman
2 1 (10.00%) PyCharm
2 1 (10.00%) SonarQube
2 1 (10.00%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 6 (60.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (100.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Data Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (80.00%) Kafka
1 8 (80.00%) Keycloak
2 7 (70.00%) Elastic Stack
2 7 (70.00%) YAML
3 1 (10.00%) Apache Avro
3 1 (10.00%) Flask
3 1 (10.00%) JSON
3 1 (10.00%) NumPy
3 1 (10.00%) Pandas
3 1 (10.00%) XML
3 1 (10.00%) ZeroMQ
Operating Systems
1 8 (80.00%) Linux
2 1 (10.00%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (100.00%) DevOps
2 9 (90.00%) Containerisation
3 8 (80.00%) CI/CD
3 8 (80.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 8 (80.00%) Observability
3 8 (80.00%) Platform Engineering
4 7 (70.00%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (60.00%) Agile
5 6 (60.00%) Immutable Infrastructure
5 6 (60.00%) Scrum
6 2 (20.00%) DevSecOps
6 2 (20.00%) GitOps
6 2 (20.00%) SBOM
7 1 (10.00%) Continuous Integration
7 1 (10.00%) Data Engineering
7 1 (10.00%) Dependency Management
7 1 (10.00%) ETL
7 1 (10.00%) Memory Management
7 1 (10.00%) Secrets Management
7 1 (10.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 9 (90.00%) Bash
2 4 (40.00%) Python
3 1 (10.00%) Groovy
3 1 (10.00%) Shell Script
3 1 (10.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (30.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (30.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (20.00%) NCSC
System Software
1 2 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 8 (80.00%) Ansible
2 8 (80.00%) Grafana
2 8 (80.00%) Prometheus
2 8 (80.00%) Terraform
3 6 (60.00%) Packer
4 3 (30.00%) Argo
4 3 (30.00%) Istio
5 2 (20.00%) linkerd
6 1 (10.00%) Podman
Vendors
1 8 (80.00%) Splunk
2 2 (20.00%) VMware
3 1 (10.00%) Cloudera