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 5 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 106 75 98
Rank change year-on-year -31 +23 -31
Contract jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 14 35 29
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 0.76% 2.16% 1.34%
As % of the Operating Systems category 6.11% 10.20% 8.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 30 22
10th Percentile £416 £408 £346
25th Percentile £422 £413 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £477 £521
Median % change year-on-year -3.04% -8.45% +4.10%
75th Percentile £500 £589 £609
90th Percentile £545 £703 £652
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -12.50%

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 229 343 354
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 12.46% 21.12% 16.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 114 177 230
10th Percentile £170 £190 £185
25th Percentile £215 £406 £324
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £465 £493
Median % change year-on-year -8.50% -5.78% +3.79%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £613
90th Percentile £652 £581 £750
UK median daily rate £450 £475 £470
% change year-on-year -5.26% +1.06% -6.93%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 13 15
10th Percentile £16.09 £16.33 £17.23
25th Percentile £16.15 £20.94 £18.27
Median hourly rate £16.25 £22.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -26.14% -58.10% -
75th Percentile £16.33 £23.50 £60.75
90th Percentile £27.93 £24.43 £62.50
UK median hourly rate £47.50 £24.09 £22.08
% change year-on-year +97.18% +9.13% -43.40%

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 5 May 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 5 May 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 -8 9 £450 -26.62%
Glasgow -10 2 £475 +9.95%
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 (21.43%) JBoss
2 2 (14.29%) Apache
3 1 (7.14%) nginx
3 1 (7.14%) OpenStack
3 1 (7.14%) Red Hat Fuse
3 1 (7.14%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 8 (57.14%) AWS
2 5 (35.71%) Azure
3 4 (28.57%) Nutanix
4 3 (21.43%) OpenShift
5 1 (7.14%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (7.14%) Amazon S3
5 1 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (7.14%) GCP
5 1 (7.14%) GitHub
5 1 (7.14%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (28.57%) Fibre Channel
2 3 (21.43%) DNS
2 3 (21.43%) SAN
3 2 (14.29%) SSH
4 1 (7.14%) DHCP
4 1 (7.14%) HTTPS
4 1 (7.14%) SSL
4 1 (7.14%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (28.57%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (7.14%) MariaDB
2 1 (7.14%) MongoDB
2 1 (7.14%) OpenStack Swift
Development Applications
1 3 (21.43%) Jenkins
2 2 (14.29%) Git
2 2 (14.29%) 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%) Finance
3 2 (14.29%) Banking
3 2 (14.29%) Social Skills
4 1 (7.14%) Military
Job Titles
1 3 (21.43%) Architect
1 3 (21.43%) Linux Engineer
1 3 (21.43%) Platform Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) Administrator
2 2 (14.29%) Senior
2 2 (14.29%) Senior Linux Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) Unix Administrator
3 1 (7.14%) AWS DevOps
3 1 (7.14%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Azure DevOps Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Linux/Unix DevOps
3 1 (7.14%) Security Architect
3 1 (7.14%) Software Architect
3 1 (7.14%) Storage Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Systems Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Technical Architect
3 1 (7.14%) Windows DevOps Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.14%) AngularJS
1 1 (7.14%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (7.14%) FastAPI
1 1 (7.14%) Flask
1 1 (7.14%) Kafka
1 1 (7.14%) Middleware
1 1 (7.14%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 4 (28.57%) NVMe
2 3 (21.43%) Data Centre
3 2 (14.29%) Cloud Native
3 2 (14.29%) Clustering
3 2 (14.29%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (7.14%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (7.14%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (7.14%) Management Information System
4 1 (7.14%) Product Ownership
4 1 (7.14%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 14 (100.00%) Linux
2 6 (42.86%) Windows
3 2 (14.29%) Unix
4 1 (7.14%) Rocky
4 1 (7.14%) Ubuntu
4 1 (7.14%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (50.00%) Agile
1 7 (50.00%) DevOps
2 6 (42.86%) Disaster Recovery
3 5 (35.71%) Roadmaps
4 4 (28.57%) Data Protection
4 4 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
4 4 (28.57%) Platform Engineering
5 3 (21.43%) Change Management
5 3 (21.43%) CI/CD
5 3 (21.43%) High Availability
5 3 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (21.43%) Task Automation
6 2 (14.29%) BCP
6 2 (14.29%) Configuration Management
6 2 (14.29%) ITIL
6 2 (14.29%) Migration
6 2 (14.29%) Performance Tuning
6 2 (14.29%) Root Cause Analysis
6 2 (14.29%) Visualisation
7 1 (7.14%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (57.14%) Bash
2 7 (50.00%) Python
3 4 (28.57%) PowerShell
4 2 (14.29%) JavaScript
4 2 (14.29%) Korn
4 2 (14.29%) Perl
4 2 (14.29%) Shell Script
5 1 (7.14%) Groovy
5 1 (7.14%) Java
5 1 (7.14%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (14.29%) NCDA
1 2 (14.29%) SC Cleared
1 2 (14.29%) Security Cleared
1 2 (14.29%) VCP6
1 2 (14.29%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 1 (7.14%) DV Cleared
2 1 (7.14%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (14.29%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (7.14%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (35.71%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (28.57%) VMware NSX
3 2 (14.29%) Ceph
4 1 (7.14%) Active Directory
4 1 (7.14%) Hyper-V
4 1 (7.14%) iptables
4 1 (7.14%) NFS
4 1 (7.14%) Samba
4 1 (7.14%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (7.14%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 7 (50.00%) Ansible
2 5 (35.71%) Grafana
3 4 (28.57%) vMotion
4 3 (21.43%) vRealize
5 2 (14.29%) Kubernetes
5 2 (14.29%) PowerCLI
6 1 (7.14%) Podman
6 1 (7.14%) Puppet
6 1 (7.14%) Rundeck
6 1 (7.14%) SELinux
6 1 (7.14%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (7.14%) systemd
6 1 (7.14%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 6 (42.86%) Red Hat
2 5 (35.71%) VMware
3 4 (28.57%) Cisco
4 3 (21.43%) Brocade
4 3 (21.43%) Commvault
4 3 (21.43%) NetApp
5 1 (7.14%) Databricks
5 1 (7.14%) EnterpriseDB
5 1 (7.14%) SaltStack