Red Hat Contract Job Trends in Preston

Red Hat
Lancashire > Preston

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Preston 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 24 October 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
24 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 14 15 -
Rank change year-on-year +1 - -
Contract jobs citing Red Hat 7 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in Preston 8.33% 2.13% -
As % of the Vendors category 12.96% 2.70% -
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - -
Lancashire median daily rate £550 - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
Median hourly rate £74.26 £63.79 -
Median % change year-on-year +16.42% - -
Lancashire median hourly rate £74.26 £63.79 -
% change year-on-year +16.42% - -

All Vendors
Preston

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 Preston.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 54 37 43
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Preston 64.29% 78.72% 50.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 16 13
10th Percentile £258 £431 £356
25th Percentile £400 £541 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £539 £575 £425
Median % change year-on-year -6.26% +35.29% +88.89%
75th Percentile £610 £617 £475
90th Percentile £680 £630 £487
Lancashire median daily rate £528 £567 £600
% change year-on-year -6.97% -5.50% +13.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 4 26
10th Percentile £23.32 £18.43 £20.43
25th Percentile £30.68 £22.85 £20.58
Median hourly rate £47.12 £31.15 £44.19
Median % change year-on-year +51.27% -29.51% +16.90%
75th Percentile £58.64 £44.79 £46.18
90th Percentile £71.80 £58.82 £76.19
Lancashire median hourly rate £63.40 £40.33 £46.18
% change year-on-year +57.22% -12.68% +59.68%

Red Hat
Job Vacancy Trend in Preston

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

Red Hat job vacancy trend in Preston

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Daily Rate Trend in Preston

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

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

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Hourly Rate Trend in Preston

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

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

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Preston 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 3 (42.86%) Microsoft Exchange
1 3 (42.86%) SharePoint
2 1 (14.29%) SharePoint Server
Cloud Services
1 3 (42.86%) Entra ID
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 4 (57.14%) BGP
1 4 (57.14%) Firewall
1 4 (57.14%) Software-Defined Networking
1 4 (57.14%) VLAN
2 3 (42.86%) WebEx
3 2 (28.57%) Network Security
General
1 6 (85.71%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (42.86%) Legal
3 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (85.71%) Platform Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Software Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (42.86%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 7 (100.00%) Product Ownership
2 2 (28.57%) Analytical Mindset
2 2 (28.57%) Data Centre
3 1 (14.29%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 7 (100.00%) Linux
1 7 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 7 (100.00%) Windows
1 7 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) Change Control
1 6 (85.71%) ITSM
1 6 (85.71%) Platform Engineering
1 6 (85.71%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (71.43%) Cybersecurity
2 5 (71.43%) Service Management
3 4 (57.14%) Containerisation
3 4 (57.14%) Continuous Improvement
3 4 (57.14%) Knowledge Management
4 3 (42.86%) Acceptance Criteria
4 3 (42.86%) Digital Transformation Programme
4 3 (42.86%) Identity Access Management
4 3 (42.86%) Product Requirements
4 3 (42.86%) User Stories
5 2 (28.57%) CI/CD
5 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 2 (28.57%) Mobile Device Management
5 2 (28.57%) Performance Monitoring
5 2 (28.57%) Regulatory Compliance
5 2 (28.57%) Virtual Infrastructure
Programming Languages
1 7 (100.00%) Bash
1 7 (100.00%) PowerShell
2 5 (71.43%) Perl
2 5 (71.43%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (85.71%) SC Cleared
1 6 (85.71%) Security Cleared
2 4 (57.14%) CCDP
2 4 (57.14%) CCNA
2 4 (57.14%) CCNP
2 4 (57.14%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (28.57%) Degree
System Software
1 5 (71.43%) Active Directory
2 3 (42.86%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (28.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) Active Directory Federation Services
1 2 (28.57%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (71.43%) Citrix
1 5 (71.43%) VMware
2 3 (42.86%) Cisco
2 3 (42.86%) Microsoft