Red Hat Enterprise Linux Contracts in Scotland

Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland requiring Red Hat Enterprise Linux skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Red Hat Enterprise Linux over the 6 months leading up to 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 85 94 81
Rank change year-on-year +9 -13 +50
Contract jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 31 28 92
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 1.80% 1.35% 3.35%
As % of the Operating Systems category 8.56% 8.21% 19.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 26 62
10th Percentile £408 - £383
25th Percentile £411 £340 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £468 £418 £500
Median % change year-on-year +12.16% -16.50% -
75th Percentile £578 £520 £549
90th Percentile £632 £600 £580
UK median daily rate £525 £520 £593
% change year-on-year +0.96% -12.24% +3.04%
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 - £72.75 £70.00
% change year-on-year - +3.93% +11.11%

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 362 341 461
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 21.02% 16.43% 16.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 186 237 305
10th Percentile £181 £172 £160
25th Percentile £370 £250 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £400 £465
Median % change year-on-year +15.63% -13.89% +3.22%
75th Percentile £538 £563 £558
90th Percentile £582 £706 £676
UK median daily rate £465 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -2.11% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 20 20
10th Percentile £16.51 £17.72 £14.37
25th Percentile £21.92 £18.13 £17.72
Median hourly rate £25.15 £25.09 £19.06
Median % change year-on-year +0.24% +31.67% +8.21%
75th Percentile - £60.75 £58.82
90th Percentile - £62.50 £62.91
UK median hourly rate £22.56 £25.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -9.76% -41.18% +88.89%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux in Scotland.

Daily rate trend for Red Hat Enterprise Linux in Scotland

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 6 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Red Hat Enterprise Linux in Scotland

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux in Scotland.

Hourly rate trend for Red Hat Enterprise Linux in Scotland

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 6 July 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
Glasgow -6 17 £432 -24.87% 4
Edinburgh +5 13 £545 +60.15% 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 (9.68%) JBoss
1 3 (9.68%) WebLogic
2 2 (6.45%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (6.45%) SharePoint
3 1 (3.23%) SAS
3 1 (3.23%) WebSphere
3 1 (3.23%) WebSphere Application Server
Cloud Services
1 9 (29.03%) Azure
2 7 (22.58%) AWS
3 4 (12.90%) GitHub
3 4 (12.90%) OCI
4 2 (6.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 2 (6.45%) Amazon EC2
4 2 (6.45%) Amazon S3
4 2 (6.45%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (6.45%) AWS CodeBuild
4 2 (6.45%) AWS CodeCommit
4 2 (6.45%) AWS CodePipeline
4 2 (6.45%) AWS KMS
4 2 (6.45%) GitHub Actions
4 2 (6.45%) IaaS
4 2 (6.45%) PaaS
4 2 (6.45%) Power Platform
4 2 (6.45%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 1 (3.23%) GCP
5 1 (3.23%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 4 (12.90%) SAN
2 3 (9.68%) TCP/IP
3 2 (6.45%) DHCP
3 2 (6.45%) DNS
4 1 (3.23%) Fibre Channel
4 1 (3.23%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (25.81%) SQL Server
2 4 (12.90%) Oracle Exadata
3 2 (6.45%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (6.45%) Power BI
4 1 (3.23%) DB2
4 1 (3.23%) InfluxDB
4 1 (3.23%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 5 (16.13%) Jenkins
2 2 (6.45%) Snyk
General
1 16 (51.61%) Social Skills
2 12 (38.71%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (32.26%) Finance
4 6 (19.35%) Banking
5 2 (6.45%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (3.23%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (3.23%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 10 (32.26%) Senior
2 6 (19.35%) Architect
3 5 (16.13%) Database Engineer
4 4 (12.90%) Infrastructure Architect
4 4 (12.90%) Senior Storage Engineer
4 4 (12.90%) Solutions Architect
4 4 (12.90%) Storage Engineer
5 3 (9.68%) Designer
5 3 (9.68%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
5 3 (9.68%) Middleware Engineer
5 3 (9.68%) Oracle Database Engineer
5 3 (9.68%) Platform Engineer
5 3 (9.68%) Senior Database Engineer
6 2 (6.45%) Analyst
6 2 (6.45%) Linux Engineer
6 2 (6.45%) Senior Middleware Engineer
6 2 (6.45%) Systems Engineer
6 2 (6.45%) Technical Designer
6 2 (6.45%) Vulnerability Analyst
7 1 (3.23%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (9.68%) IBM Integration Bus
1 3 (9.68%) Middleware
2 2 (6.45%) REST
3 1 (3.23%) Flash
3 1 (3.23%) J2EE
3 1 (3.23%) POSIX
3 1 (3.23%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 8 (25.81%) Replication
2 6 (19.35%) Data Centre
3 4 (12.90%) Clustering
3 4 (12.90%) Enterprise Storage
3 4 (12.90%) Mainframe
4 1 (3.23%) Client/Server
4 1 (3.23%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (3.23%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (3.23%) NVMe
4 1 (3.23%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 31 (100.00%) Linux
2 28 (90.32%) Windows
3 9 (29.03%) Solaris
4 6 (19.35%) AIX
5 5 (16.13%) Windows Server
6 4 (12.90%) HPUX
6 4 (12.90%) Unix
7 2 (6.45%) Data ONTAP
8 1 (3.23%) Amazon Linux
8 1 (3.23%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (41.94%) Problem-Solving
2 10 (32.26%) Disaster Recovery
2 10 (32.26%) High Availability
3 8 (25.81%) ITIL
4 7 (22.58%) Agile
4 7 (22.58%) Continuous Improvement
4 7 (22.58%) Problem Management
5 6 (19.35%) DevOps
5 6 (19.35%) Infrastructure as Code
5 6 (19.35%) SDLC
5 6 (19.35%) Service Management
6 5 (16.13%) Customer Service
6 5 (16.13%) Performance Tuning
7 4 (12.90%) Capacity Planning
7 4 (12.90%) CI/CD
7 4 (12.90%) Database Tuning
7 4 (12.90%) Platform Engineering
7 4 (12.90%) Storage Management
8 3 (9.68%) Analytical Thinking
8 3 (9.68%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 7 (22.58%) Python
2 6 (19.35%) Bash
3 5 (16.13%) SQL
4 3 (9.68%) Perl
5 1 (3.23%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (6.45%) CISM
1 2 (6.45%) CISSP
2 1 (3.23%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (16.13%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (3.23%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (3.23%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 1 (3.23%) GDPR
2 1 (3.23%) PCI DSS
2 1 (3.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 5 (16.13%) Oracle RAC
2 4 (12.90%) Active Directory
2 4 (12.90%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (6.45%) Docker
3 2 (6.45%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (3.23%) GPFS
4 1 (3.23%) KVM
4 1 (3.23%) NFS
4 1 (3.23%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 7 (22.58%) Ansible
2 5 (16.13%) Data Guard
2 5 (16.13%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 4 (12.90%) Failover Clustering
3 4 (12.90%) Microsoft Clustering
3 4 (12.90%) Oracle Flashback
3 4 (12.90%) Terraform
4 2 (6.45%) Kubernetes
5 1 (3.23%) EMC NetWorker
5 1 (3.23%) Grafana
5 1 (3.23%) HAProxy
5 1 (3.23%) Nagios
5 1 (3.23%) Progress Chef
5 1 (3.23%) Puppet
5 1 (3.23%) Red Hat Satellite
5 1 (3.23%) Veritas Storage Foundation
Vendors
1 13 (41.94%) Red Hat
2 12 (38.71%) Oracle
3 10 (32.26%) VMware
4 9 (29.03%) IBM
5 7 (22.58%) Dynatrace
6 5 (16.13%) Microsoft
7 4 (12.90%) Dell
7 4 (12.90%) Sun
7 4 (12.90%) Unisys
8 2 (6.45%) Google
8 2 (6.45%) HP
8 2 (6.45%) NetApp
8 2 (6.45%) Qualys
9 1 (3.23%) Brocade
9 1 (3.23%) Commvault
9 1 (3.23%) EMC
9 1 (3.23%) Palo Alto
9 1 (3.23%) Sybase
9 1 (3.23%) Tanium
9 1 (3.23%) Veritas