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 10 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 132 88 72
Rank change year-on-year -44 -16 +21
Contract jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 16 20 46
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 0.68% 1.24% 2.45%
As % of the Operating Systems category 4.83% 6.13% 13.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 14 38
10th Percentile £450 £415 -
25th Percentile £455 £442 £340
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £456
Median % change year-on-year -2.40% +9.59% -12.47%
75th Percentile £558 £554 £517
90th Percentile £638 £675 £600
UK median daily rate £500 £510 £520
% change year-on-year -1.96% -1.92% -9.57%

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 331 326 335
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 14.12% 20.19% 17.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 165 163 231
10th Percentile £150 £181 £169
25th Percentile £206 £333 £278
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £390 £467 £405
Median % change year-on-year -16.49% +15.31% -14.74%
75th Percentile £525 £538 £530
90th Percentile £624 £575 £688
UK median daily rate £470 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +4.42% -5.26% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 20 19
10th Percentile £13.45 £24.30 £17.44
25th Percentile £13.89 - £18.13
Median hourly rate £15.81 £25.15 £20.29
Median % change year-on-year -37.14% +23.98% -57.50%
75th Percentile £18.61 - £40.84
90th Percentile £41.75 - £62.50
UK median hourly rate £25.77 £25.15 £48.03
% change year-on-year +2.47% -47.64% +6.75%

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
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux in Scotland over the 6 months to 10 September 2026.

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 10 September 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 -11 9 £488 -7.05%
Glasgow -16 5 - - 2
South Lanarkshire - 2 - -
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 3 (18.75%) JBoss
2 1 (6.25%) Apache
2 1 (6.25%) Red Hat Fuse
2 1 (6.25%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 11 (68.75%) AWS
2 6 (37.50%) OpenShift
3 4 (25.00%) Azure
4 3 (18.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 3 (18.75%) Amazon EC2
4 3 (18.75%) Amazon S3
4 3 (18.75%) GCP
5 2 (12.50%) AWS CodeBuild
5 2 (12.50%) AWS CodePipeline
5 2 (12.50%) AWS KMS
5 2 (12.50%) GitHub
5 2 (12.50%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (12.50%) IaaS
5 2 (12.50%) Serverless
5 2 (12.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 1 (6.25%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (6.25%) AWS CloudTrail
6 1 (6.25%) AWS CodeCommit
Communications & Networking
1 3 (18.75%) DNS
2 2 (12.50%) iSCSI
3 1 (6.25%) DHCP
3 1 (6.25%) Fibre Channel
3 1 (6.25%) HTTPS
3 1 (6.25%) NAS
3 1 (6.25%) SAN
3 1 (6.25%) SSH
3 1 (6.25%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (12.50%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (6.25%) MariaDB
3 1 (6.25%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 5 (31.25%) Jenkins
2 4 (25.00%) Git
3 3 (18.75%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (6.25%) Ant
4 1 (6.25%) Artifactory
4 1 (6.25%) JIRA
4 1 (6.25%) Maven
General
1 5 (31.25%) Finance
2 4 (25.00%) Public Sector
2 4 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (6.25%) Military
3 1 (6.25%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (43.75%) Linux Engineer
2 4 (25.00%) Senior
2 4 (25.00%) Senior Linux Engineer
3 3 (18.75%) Systems Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Administrator
4 2 (12.50%) Architect
4 2 (12.50%) Cloud Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Linux Server Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Linux Systems Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Senior Server Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Server Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Technical Architect
4 2 (12.50%) Windows Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) AWS DevOps
5 1 (6.25%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) AWS Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Azure Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Linux Scripter
5 1 (6.25%) Linux/Unix DevOps
5 1 (6.25%) Senior Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (18.75%) Terraform
2 2 (12.50%) REST
3 1 (6.25%) AngularJS
3 1 (6.25%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (6.25%) Kafka
3 1 (6.25%) LDAP
3 1 (6.25%) Middleware
3 1 (6.25%) SOAP
3 1 (6.25%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 2 (12.50%) Cloud Native
1 2 (12.50%) Enterprise Storage
1 2 (12.50%) Private Cloud
1 2 (12.50%) Virtual Team
2 1 (6.25%) Data Centre
2 1 (6.25%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (6.25%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (6.25%) Management Information System
2 1 (6.25%) NVMe
2 1 (6.25%) Product Ownership
2 1 (6.25%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 16 (100.00%) Linux
2 8 (50.00%) Windows
3 5 (31.25%) Windows Server
4 4 (25.00%) Unix
5 2 (12.50%) AIX
5 2 (12.50%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (37.50%) DevOps
2 5 (31.25%) CI/CD
3 4 (25.00%) Configuration Management
3 4 (25.00%) Migration
3 4 (25.00%) Patch Management
4 3 (18.75%) Agile
4 3 (18.75%) Asset Management
4 3 (18.75%) Change Management
4 3 (18.75%) Containerisation
4 3 (18.75%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (18.75%) Platform Engineering
4 3 (18.75%) Refactoring
5 2 (12.50%) FinOps
5 2 (12.50%) Infrastructure Transformation
5 2 (12.50%) Open Source
5 2 (12.50%) Preventative Maintenance
5 2 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (12.50%) Roadmaps
5 2 (12.50%) SDLC
5 2 (12.50%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 8 (50.00%) Python
2 4 (25.00%) Bash
3 3 (18.75%) Perl
3 3 (18.75%) PowerShell
3 3 (18.75%) SQL
4 2 (12.50%) C
4 2 (12.50%) C++
5 1 (6.25%) Groovy
5 1 (6.25%) Java
5 1 (6.25%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 2 (12.50%) AWS Certification
1 2 (12.50%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
1 2 (12.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 2 (12.50%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
1 2 (12.50%) SC Cleared
1 2 (12.50%) Security Cleared
2 1 (6.25%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (6.25%) DV Cleared
2 1 (6.25%) RHCE
2 1 (6.25%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (18.75%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (6.25%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (25.00%) Docker
2 2 (12.50%) Active Directory
2 2 (12.50%) Ceph
2 2 (12.50%) GPFS
2 2 (12.50%) NFS
3 1 (6.25%) Hyper-V
3 1 (6.25%) Virtual Servers
3 1 (6.25%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (31.25%) Kubernetes
2 4 (25.00%) Ansible
3 3 (18.75%) Puppet
4 2 (12.50%) Progress Chef
4 2 (12.50%) Salt
5 1 (6.25%) Podman
5 1 (6.25%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (6.25%) yum
Vendors
1 9 (56.25%) Red Hat
2 2 (12.50%) Brocade
2 2 (12.50%) EMC
2 2 (12.50%) EnterpriseDB
2 2 (12.50%) Google
2 2 (12.50%) IBM
2 2 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 2 (12.50%) NetApp
2 2 (12.50%) Qualys
2 2 (12.50%) Rapid7
2 2 (12.50%) SaltStack
2 2 (12.50%) Tenable
3 1 (6.25%) Oracle
3 1 (6.25%) Veritas
3 1 (6.25%) VMware