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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 95 68 92
Rank change year-on-year -27 +24 +27
Contract jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 20 45 59
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 1.26% 2.42% 2.35%
As % of the Operating Systems category 6.21% 13.55% 15.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 37 41
10th Percentile £415 - £450
25th Percentile £442 £340 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £525
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -14.29% +2.69%
75th Percentile £554 £513 £575
90th Percentile £675 £600 £614
UK median daily rate £513 £516 £575
% change year-on-year -0.73% -10.22% -2.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £51.25
Median hourly rate - - £52.50
75th Percentile - - £53.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - - £71.25

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 322 332 389
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 20.25% 17.89% 15.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 158 228 220
10th Percentile £181 £165 £158
25th Percentile £377 £274 £374
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £471 £400 £475
Median % change year-on-year +17.75% -15.79% +5.56%
75th Percentile £538 £525 £573
90th Percentile £580 £685 £673
UK median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 18 28
10th Percentile £24.30 £17.17 £14.10
25th Percentile - £18.13 £17.72
Median hourly rate £25.15 £19.28 £48.87
Median % change year-on-year +30.46% -60.55% +175.76%
75th Percentile - £24.18 £63.52
90th Percentile - £62.50 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £49.25 £46.69
% change year-on-year -48.93% +5.48% +95.27%

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 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
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux in Scotland over the 6 months to 16 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Red Hat Enterprise Linux in Scotland

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 16 September 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
Edinburgh -14 15 £525 +22.81%
Glasgow -25 5 £432 -4.00% 1
Red Hat Enterprise Linux
UK

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 3 (15.00%) JBoss
1 3 (15.00%) WebLogic
2 1 (5.00%) SAS
2 1 (5.00%) WebSphere
2 1 (5.00%) WebSphere Application Server
Cloud Services
1 10 (50.00%) AWS
2 6 (30.00%) Amazon EC2
2 6 (30.00%) Amazon S3
2 6 (30.00%) OpenShift
2 6 (30.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 5 (25.00%) GitHub
4 4 (20.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 3 (15.00%) Amazon EKS
5 3 (15.00%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (10.00%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (10.00%) AWS CodeBuild
6 2 (10.00%) AWS CodeCommit
6 2 (10.00%) AWS CodePipeline
6 2 (10.00%) AWS KMS
7 1 (5.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
7 1 (5.00%) Azure
7 1 (5.00%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.00%) Fibre Channel
1 1 (5.00%) Firewall
1 1 (5.00%) Intrusion Detection
1 1 (5.00%) iSCSI
1 1 (5.00%) SAN
1 1 (5.00%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (25.00%) MongoDB
2 3 (15.00%) InfluxDB
3 2 (10.00%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (10.00%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (5.00%) DB2
4 1 (5.00%) Oracle Database
4 1 (5.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 5 (25.00%) Jenkins
2 3 (15.00%) Git
3 2 (10.00%) Snyk
4 1 (5.00%) GitLab
General
1 7 (35.00%) Analytical Skills
1 7 (35.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (25.00%) Public Sector
3 4 (20.00%) Finance
4 3 (15.00%) Banking
5 1 (5.00%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (5.00%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (25.00%) Architect
1 5 (25.00%) Site Engineer
1 5 (25.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 4 (20.00%) Infrastructure Architect
2 4 (20.00%) Solutions Architect
3 3 (15.00%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
3 3 (15.00%) Middleware Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Senior
4 2 (10.00%) Senior Middleware Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Systems Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Analyst
5 1 (5.00%) AWS Platform Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) AWS Solution Architect
5 1 (5.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Developer
5 1 (5.00%) Lead
5 1 (5.00%) Platform Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Security Analyst
5 1 (5.00%) Unix Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Vulnerability Management Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (15.00%) IBM Integration Bus
1 3 (15.00%) Middleware
2 2 (10.00%) AWS CDK
2 2 (10.00%) REST
3 1 (5.00%) Flash
3 1 (5.00%) J2EE
3 1 (5.00%) POSIX
3 1 (5.00%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 4 (20.00%) Data Centre
1 4 (20.00%) Mainframe
1 4 (20.00%) Replication
2 2 (10.00%) Cloud Native
3 1 (5.00%) Client/Server
3 1 (5.00%) Cyber Security Posture
3 1 (5.00%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (5.00%) NVMe
3 1 (5.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 20 (100.00%) Linux
2 15 (75.00%) Windows
3 6 (30.00%) Unix
4 4 (20.00%) HPUX
4 4 (20.00%) Solaris
5 2 (10.00%) Data ONTAP
5 2 (10.00%) Oracle Linux
6 1 (5.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (60.00%) Agile
2 9 (45.00%) CI/CD
2 9 (45.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 9 (45.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 7 (35.00%) DevOps
3 7 (35.00%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (30.00%) Observability
5 5 (25.00%) High Availability
5 5 (25.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 4 (20.00%) Capacity Planning
6 4 (20.00%) Network Load Balancing
7 3 (15.00%) Analytical Thinking
7 3 (15.00%) Cybersecurity
7 3 (15.00%) Deployment Automation
7 3 (15.00%) Kanban
7 3 (15.00%) Patch Management
7 3 (15.00%) Planning and Forecasting
7 3 (15.00%) SIEM
7 3 (15.00%) Software Engineering
7 3 (15.00%) Systems Thinking
Programming Languages
1 8 (40.00%) Bash
2 7 (35.00%) Perl
2 7 (35.00%) Python
3 4 (20.00%) Shell Script
4 1 (5.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (10.00%) CISM
1 2 (10.00%) CISSP
2 1 (5.00%) AWS Certification
2 1 (5.00%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (5.00%) CCNP
2 1 (5.00%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (5.00%) MCSE
2 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (5.00%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (15.00%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (5.00%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (5.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 6 (30.00%) Docker
2 5 (25.00%) KVM
3 2 (10.00%) Active Directory
4 1 (5.00%) GPFS
4 1 (5.00%) NFS
4 1 (5.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 8 (40.00%) Ansible
1 8 (40.00%) Terraform
2 6 (30.00%) Grafana
2 6 (30.00%) Kubernetes
3 5 (25.00%) Prometheus
3 5 (25.00%) Red Hat Satellite
4 4 (20.00%) Nagios
5 3 (15.00%) HAProxy
6 2 (10.00%) Fluentd
7 1 (5.00%) Host Intrusion Detection System
7 1 (5.00%) Veritas Storage Foundation
Vendors
1 8 (40.00%) IBM
2 7 (35.00%) Oracle
3 5 (25.00%) Red Hat
4 4 (20.00%) Commvault
4 4 (20.00%) Unisys
5 3 (15.00%) Dynatrace
6 2 (10.00%) HP
6 2 (10.00%) NetApp
7 1 (5.00%) Brocade
7 1 (5.00%) EMC
7 1 (5.00%) Fortinet
7 1 (5.00%) Google
7 1 (5.00%) McAfee
7 1 (5.00%) Microsoft
7 1 (5.00%) Palo Alto
7 1 (5.00%) Qualys
7 1 (5.00%) Sybase
7 1 (5.00%) Veeam
7 1 (5.00%) Veritas