Red Hat Enterprise Linux Contract Job Trends in Scotland

Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring Red Hat Enterprise Linux skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 101 87 98
Rank change year-on-year -14 +11 -27
Contract jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 31 36
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 0.62% 1.84% 1.55%
As % of the Operating Systems category 5.00% 8.31% 9.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 25 25
10th Percentile £415 £411 £507
25th Percentile £419 £415 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £600
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -16.67% +18.81%
75th Percentile £475 £582 £650
90th Percentile - £657 £653
UK median daily rate £525 £570 £550
% change year-on-year -7.89% +3.64% -5.58%

All Operating Systems
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 200 373 388
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 12.41% 22.08% 16.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 119 190 241
10th Percentile £176 £185 £185
25th Percentile £239 £352 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £450 £525
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% -14.29% +5.70%
75th Percentile £544 £538 £634
90th Percentile £651 £589 £700
UK median daily rate £450 £475 £460
% change year-on-year -5.26% +3.26% -10.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 13 14
10th Percentile £16.13 £17.07 £16.56
25th Percentile £16.17 £20.94 £20.19
Median hourly rate £16.25 £22.00 £60.50
Median % change year-on-year -26.14% -63.64% +153.56%
75th Percentile £16.33 £23.53 £61.31
90th Percentile £35.67 £24.56 £76.73
UK median hourly rate £23.25 £29.89 £23.63
% change year-on-year -22.21% +26.52% -17.11%

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Red Hat Enterprise Linux job vacancy trend in Scotland

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

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

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

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

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 4 March 2026. 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
Edinburgh -8 8 £438 -16.19% 1
Glasgow -1 2 £475 +4.40%
Red Hat Enterprise Linux
UK

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland 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%) JBoss
1 1 (10.00%) nginx
1 1 (10.00%) Red Hat Fuse
Cloud Services
1 5 (50.00%) AWS
2 3 (30.00%) Nutanix
3 2 (20.00%) Azure
3 2 (20.00%) OpenShift
4 1 (10.00%) GitHub
4 1 (10.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (40.00%) Fibre Channel
2 3 (30.00%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (10.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 3 (30.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (20.00%) Banking
2 2 (20.00%) Finance
3 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (30.00%) Architect
1 3 (30.00%) Platform Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Administrator
2 2 (20.00%) Unix Administrator
3 1 (10.00%) Automation Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Security Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Software Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Storage Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) AngularJS
1 1 (10.00%) FastAPI
1 1 (10.00%) Flask
1 1 (10.00%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 4 (40.00%) NVMe
2 3 (30.00%) Data Centre
3 2 (20.00%) Cloud Native
3 2 (20.00%) Clustering
3 2 (20.00%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (10.00%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (10.00%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 10 (100.00%) Linux
2 4 (40.00%) Windows
3 2 (20.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) Agile
1 6 (60.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 4 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 4 (40.00%) Platform Engineering
3 3 (30.00%) Data Protection
3 3 (30.00%) DevOps
3 3 (30.00%) High Availability
3 3 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (30.00%) Roadmaps
3 3 (30.00%) Root Cause Analysis
4 2 (20.00%) BCP
4 2 (20.00%) Change Management
4 2 (20.00%) CI/CD
4 2 (20.00%) ITIL
4 2 (20.00%) Migration
4 2 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
4 2 (20.00%) Task Automation
4 2 (20.00%) Visualisation
5 1 (10.00%) Containerisation
5 1 (10.00%) Knowledge Transfer
Programming Languages
1 5 (50.00%) Bash
1 5 (50.00%) Python
2 3 (30.00%) PowerShell
3 2 (20.00%) JavaScript
3 2 (20.00%) Korn
3 2 (20.00%) Perl
3 2 (20.00%) Shell Script
4 1 (10.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) NCDA
1 2 (20.00%) VCP6
1 2 (20.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 1 (10.00%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (20.00%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 4 (40.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 4 (40.00%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 4 (40.00%) Ansible
1 4 (40.00%) Grafana
1 4 (40.00%) vMotion
2 3 (30.00%) vRealize
3 2 (20.00%) PowerCLI
4 1 (10.00%) Kubernetes
4 1 (10.00%) NetBackup
4 1 (10.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 5 (50.00%) Red Hat
2 4 (40.00%) Cisco
2 4 (40.00%) VMware
3 3 (30.00%) Brocade
3 3 (30.00%) Commvault
3 3 (30.00%) NetApp
4 1 (10.00%) Databricks
4 1 (10.00%) EnterpriseDB