Red Hat Enterprise Linux Contract Job Trends in Reading

Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Reading requiring Red Hat Enterprise Linux skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 58 95 67
Rank change year-on-year +37 -28 +27
Contract jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 1 21
As % of all contract jobs in Reading 0.82% 0.091% 1.93%
As % of the Operating Systems category 8.06% 1.10% 12.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 19
10th Percentile £381 - £520
25th Percentile £416 £525 £584
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £620
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -11.29% -7.12%
75th Percentile £541 £575 £694
90th Percentile £551 - £703
Berkshire median daily rate £483 £650 £610
% change year-on-year -25.77% +6.56% -0.41%

All Operating Systems
Reading

Red Hat Enterprise Linux falls under the Operating Systems category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring operating system skills in Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 62 91 166
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 10.16% 8.33% 15.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 53 131
10th Percentile £223 £249 £205
25th Percentile £255 £425 £211
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £605 £450
Median % change year-on-year -38.02% +34.44% -11.76%
75th Percentile £536 £638 £615
90th Percentile £600 £695 £638
Berkshire median daily rate £425 £425 £405
% change year-on-year - +4.94% -19.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £69.06 £58.75
Median hourly rate - £69.38 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year - +15.63% +13.21%
75th Percentile - £69.69 £61.25
90th Percentile - - -
Berkshire median hourly rate £18.87 £56.75 £54.56
% change year-on-year -66.75% +4.00% -39.38%

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Red Hat Enterprise Linux job vacancy trend in Reading

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Daily Rate Trend in Reading

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux in Reading over the 6 months to 22 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Red Hat Enterprise Linux in Reading

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Reading 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) SAN
General
1 5 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Administrator
1 2 (40.00%) Backup Administrator
1 2 (40.00%) Storage Administrator
1 2 (40.00%) Storage and Backup Administrator
2 1 (20.00%) HP Storage Administrator
2 1 (20.00%) Senior
2 1 (20.00%) Site Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) Loki
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Cloud Native
1 3 (60.00%) Virtual Team
2 2 (40.00%) Enterprise Storage
3 1 (20.00%) HP Storage
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) Linux
2 2 (40.00%) Windows
3 1 (20.00%) Windows Server 2012
3 1 (20.00%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (20.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Agile
1 3 (60.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (60.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 3 (60.00%) Infrastructure Management
1 3 (60.00%) Observability
1 3 (60.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 2 (40.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (40.00%) ITIL
3 1 (20.00%) Decision-Making
3 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (20.00%) Storage Management
3 1 (20.00%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (20.00%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) Bash
2 3 (60.00%) Python
3 2 (40.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 5 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 5 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (60.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 3 (60.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) Argo
1 3 (60.00%) Grafana
1 3 (60.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (60.00%) Kustomize
1 3 (60.00%) Prometheus
2 2 (40.00%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) Red Hat
2 3 (60.00%) VMware
3 2 (40.00%) 3PAR
3 2 (40.00%) HP
3 2 (40.00%) Veritas
4 1 (20.00%) Dell
4 1 (20.00%) NetApp
4 1 (20.00%) Nimble Storage