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 30 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 117 85 76
Rank change year-on-year -32 -9 +9
Contract jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 14 33 37
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 0.63% 1.96% 1.90%
As % of the Operating Systems category 4.91% 9.35% 10.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 27 31
10th Percentile - £408 -
25th Percentile £450 £412 £340
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £448
Median % change year-on-year - +11.61% -10.40%
75th Percentile £606 £574 £537
90th Percentile £663 £623 £613
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £520
% change year-on-year -4.76% +0.96% -11.49%

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 285 353 338
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 12.86% 20.95% 17.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 136 184 234
10th Percentile £150 £177 £173
25th Percentile £206 £339 £241
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £465 £400
Median % change year-on-year -11.29% +16.25% -13.29%
75th Percentile £575 £538 £536
90th Percentile £650 £586 £691
UK median daily rate £470 £463 £475
% change year-on-year +1.62% -2.63% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 18 19
10th Percentile £13.45 £22.59 £17.44
25th Percentile £13.70 - £18.13
Median hourly rate £15.81 £25.15 £20.29
Median % change year-on-year -37.14% +23.98% +5.76%
75th Percentile £16.33 - £38.97
90th Percentile £32.87 - £62.50
UK median hourly rate £26.00 £23.50 £27.00
% change year-on-year +10.64% -12.96% -36.47%

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 30 July 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 30 July 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 -15 9 £500 -2.68% 1
Glasgow -19 2 - - 1
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 5 (35.71%) JBoss
2 2 (14.29%) Apache
2 2 (14.29%) Red Hat Fuse
3 1 (7.14%) nginx
3 1 (7.14%) OpenStack
3 1 (7.14%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 10 (71.43%) AWS
2 5 (35.71%) OpenShift
3 3 (21.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 3 (21.43%) Amazon EC2
3 3 (21.43%) Amazon S3
3 3 (21.43%) Azure
3 3 (21.43%) GitHub
3 3 (21.43%) Serverless
4 2 (14.29%) AWS CodeBuild
4 2 (14.29%) AWS CodePipeline
4 2 (14.29%) AWS KMS
4 2 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
4 2 (14.29%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 1 (7.14%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (7.14%) AWS CloudTrail
5 1 (7.14%) AWS CodeCommit
5 1 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (7.14%) GCP
5 1 (7.14%) IaaS
5 1 (7.14%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 3 (21.43%) DNS
2 2 (14.29%) SSH
3 1 (7.14%) DHCP
3 1 (7.14%) HTTPS
3 1 (7.14%) SSL
3 1 (7.14%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (42.86%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (14.29%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (7.14%) MariaDB
3 1 (7.14%) MongoDB
3 1 (7.14%) OpenStack Swift
Development Applications
1 5 (35.71%) Jenkins
2 4 (28.57%) Git
2 4 (28.57%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (7.14%) Ant
3 1 (7.14%) Artifactory
3 1 (7.14%) JIRA
3 1 (7.14%) Maven
General
1 5 (35.71%) Public Sector
2 3 (21.43%) Social Skills
3 1 (7.14%) Finance
3 1 (7.14%) Military
Job Titles
1 4 (28.57%) Architect
1 4 (28.57%) Linux Engineer
2 3 (21.43%) Technical Architect
3 2 (14.29%) Administrator
3 2 (14.29%) Cloud Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Senior
3 2 (14.29%) Senior Linux Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Systems Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) AWS DevOps
4 1 (7.14%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Linux DevOps Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Linux Scripter
4 1 (7.14%) Linux Systems Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Linux/Unix DevOps
4 1 (7.14%) Security Architect
4 1 (7.14%) Windows DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (14.29%) AngularJS
1 2 (14.29%) Vue
2 1 (7.14%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (7.14%) FastAPI
2 1 (7.14%) Flask
2 1 (7.14%) Kafka
2 1 (7.14%) LDAP
2 1 (7.14%) Middleware
2 1 (7.14%) REST
2 1 (7.14%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 3 (21.43%) Cloud Native
2 2 (14.29%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (7.14%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (7.14%) Management Information System
3 1 (7.14%) Private Cloud
3 1 (7.14%) Product Ownership
3 1 (7.14%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (7.14%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 14 (100.00%) Linux
2 5 (35.71%) Windows
3 2 (14.29%) Windows Server
4 1 (7.14%) Rocky
4 1 (7.14%) Ubuntu
4 1 (7.14%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (50.00%) DevOps
2 5 (35.71%) CI/CD
3 4 (28.57%) Agile
3 4 (28.57%) Configuration Management
3 4 (28.57%) Migration
3 4 (28.57%) Refactoring
4 3 (21.43%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (21.43%) Platform Engineering
5 2 (14.29%) Containerisation
5 2 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (14.29%) Data Protection
5 2 (14.29%) FinOps
5 2 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 2 (14.29%) Patch Management
5 2 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (14.29%) Roadmaps
6 1 (7.14%) High Availability
6 1 (7.14%) Network Management
6 1 (7.14%) Open Source
6 1 (7.14%) Software Architecture
Programming Languages
1 5 (35.71%) Python
2 3 (21.43%) Bash
2 3 (21.43%) JavaScript
3 2 (14.29%) Java
4 1 (7.14%) C
4 1 (7.14%) C++
4 1 (7.14%) Groovy
4 1 (7.14%) Perl
4 1 (7.14%) PowerShell
4 1 (7.14%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (14.29%) AWS Certification
1 2 (14.29%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
1 2 (14.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 2 (14.29%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
1 2 (14.29%) SC Cleared
1 2 (14.29%) Security Cleared
2 1 (7.14%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (7.14%) DV Cleared
2 1 (7.14%) RHCE
2 1 (7.14%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (28.57%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (7.14%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (14.29%) Active Directory
1 2 (14.29%) Ceph
1 2 (14.29%) Docker
2 1 (7.14%) Hyper-V
2 1 (7.14%) iptables
2 1 (7.14%) NFS
2 1 (7.14%) Samba
2 1 (7.14%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (7.14%) Virtual Servers
2 1 (7.14%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (28.57%) Ansible
2 3 (21.43%) Kubernetes
2 3 (21.43%) Terraform
3 2 (14.29%) Puppet
3 2 (14.29%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (7.14%) Grafana
4 1 (7.14%) Podman
4 1 (7.14%) Progress Chef
4 1 (7.14%) Rundeck
4 1 (7.14%) Salt
4 1 (7.14%) SELinux
4 1 (7.14%) systemd
4 1 (7.14%) yum
4 1 (7.14%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 8 (57.14%) Red Hat
2 3 (21.43%) EnterpriseDB
3 2 (14.29%) SaltStack
4 1 (7.14%) Databricks
4 1 (7.14%) Oracle
4 1 (7.14%) VMware