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 7 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 97 77 93
Rank change year-on-year -20 +16 +7
Contract jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 11 41 49
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 0.68% 2.26% 2.05%
As % of the Operating Systems category 3.93% 11.29% 12.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 30 37
10th Percentile £481 £340 £455
25th Percentile £489 £358 £509
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year +5.79% -13.64% +7.32%
75th Percentile £538 £517 £614
90th Percentile £551 £591 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £536 £550
% change year-on-year -2.10% -2.50% -4.35%

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 280 363 382
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 17.43% 20.04% 16.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 142 220 220
10th Percentile £176 £165 £162
25th Percentile £257 £265 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £400 £500
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -20.00% +8.64%
75th Percentile £525 £503 £626
90th Percentile £575 £603 £700
UK median daily rate £450 £475 £488
% change year-on-year -5.26% -2.56% -4.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 12 24
10th Percentile - £13.45 £14.16
25th Percentile - £17.31 £17.72
Median hourly rate £25.15 £23.09 £19.18
Median % change year-on-year +8.92% +20.39% +18.65%
75th Percentile - £24.18 £61.75
90th Percentile - £54.17 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £24.00 £52.50 £33.50
% change year-on-year -54.29% +56.72% +34.00%

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 7 November 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 -15 10 £503 +5.79%
Glasgow -11 1 - - 1
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:

Cloud Services
1 9 (81.82%) AWS
2 6 (54.55%) Amazon EC2
2 6 (54.55%) Amazon S3
2 6 (54.55%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 5 (45.45%) GitHub
3 5 (45.45%) OpenShift
4 4 (36.36%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 3 (27.27%) Amazon EKS
5 3 (27.27%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (18.18%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (18.18%) AWS CodeBuild
6 2 (18.18%) AWS CodeCommit
6 2 (18.18%) AWS CodePipeline
6 2 (18.18%) AWS KMS
7 1 (9.09%) Amazon OpenSearch
Communications & Networking
1 1 (9.09%) Firewall
1 1 (9.09%) Intrusion Detection
1 1 (9.09%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (36.36%) MongoDB
2 2 (18.18%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (18.18%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (18.18%) InfluxDB
3 1 (9.09%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 4 (36.36%) Jenkins
2 3 (27.27%) Git
3 2 (18.18%) Snyk
4 1 (9.09%) GitLab
General
1 5 (45.45%) Public Sector
2 1 (9.09%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (45.45%) Site Engineer
1 5 (45.45%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Systems Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Architect
3 1 (9.09%) Automation Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) AWS Architect
3 1 (9.09%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) AWS Platform Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) AWS Solution Architect
3 1 (9.09%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Lead
3 1 (9.09%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (18.18%) AWS CDK
2 1 (9.09%) REST
2 1 (9.09%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Cloud Native
2 1 (9.09%) Cyber Security Posture
2 1 (9.09%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 11 (100.00%) Linux
2 5 (45.45%) Windows
3 4 (36.36%) Unix
4 2 (18.18%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (90.91%) CI/CD
2 9 (81.82%) Infrastructure as Code
3 7 (63.64%) Agile
4 5 (45.45%) Observability
4 5 (45.45%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (45.45%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 4 (36.36%) Disaster Recovery
5 4 (36.36%) Network Load Balancing
6 3 (27.27%) Deployment Automation
6 3 (27.27%) DevOps
6 3 (27.27%) Patch Management
6 3 (27.27%) SIEM
7 2 (18.18%) Containerisation
7 2 (18.18%) Continuous Delivery
7 2 (18.18%) FinOps
7 2 (18.18%) Infrastructure Automation
7 2 (18.18%) Platform Engineering
7 2 (18.18%) Process Improvement
7 2 (18.18%) SDLC
7 2 (18.18%) Secrets Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (63.64%) Bash
2 5 (45.45%) Perl
2 5 (45.45%) Python
3 3 (27.27%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (9.09%) AWS Certification
1 1 (9.09%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (9.09%) CCNP
1 1 (9.09%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (9.09%) CISM
1 1 (9.09%) CISSP
1 1 (9.09%) MCSE
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (9.09%) RHCE
System Software
1 5 (45.45%) Docker
2 4 (36.36%) KVM
3 2 (18.18%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 8 (72.73%) Terraform
2 7 (63.64%) Ansible
3 5 (45.45%) Grafana
3 5 (45.45%) Kubernetes
3 5 (45.45%) Prometheus
4 4 (36.36%) Red Hat Satellite
5 3 (27.27%) Nagios
6 2 (18.18%) Fluentd
6 2 (18.18%) HAProxy
7 1 (9.09%) Host Intrusion Detection System
7 1 (9.09%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 6 (54.55%) Oracle
2 4 (36.36%) Red Hat
3 3 (27.27%) Commvault
4 1 (9.09%) Fortinet
4 1 (9.09%) McAfee
4 1 (9.09%) Microsoft
4 1 (9.09%) Veeam