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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 82 100 62
Rank change year-on-year +18 -38 +76
Contract jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 35 29 114
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 2.15% 1.31% 3.98%
As % of the Operating Systems category 10.26% 8.08% 21.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 21 81
10th Percentile £408 £400 £413
25th Percentile £413 £465 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £477 £522 £505
Median % change year-on-year -8.62% +3.37% +12.22%
75th Percentile £589 £613 £554
90th Percentile £703 £655 £634
UK median daily rate £550 £524 £600
% change year-on-year +5.06% -12.75% +4.35%
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 - £60.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year - +14.29% -16.67%

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 341 359 535
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 20.98% 16.19% 18.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 176 235 377
10th Percentile £191 £184 £160
25th Percentile £407 £324 £260
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £500 £479
Median % change year-on-year -7.10% +4.38% +6.44%
75th Percentile £550 £626 £600
90th Percentile £581 £745 £727
UK median daily rate £475 £469 £505
% change year-on-year +1.28% -7.13% +1.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 15 13
10th Percentile £16.33 £17.23 £17.72
25th Percentile £20.94 £18.27 £20.79
Median hourly rate £22.00 £52.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -58.10% - +162.50%
75th Percentile £23.50 £60.75 £59.03
90th Percentile £24.43 £62.50 £65.36
UK median hourly rate £24.18 £22.00 £39.30
% change year-on-year +9.91% -44.02% +74.67%

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 1 May 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 1 May 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 +9 18 £432 -29.03% 5
Edinburgh +11 15 £613 +27.76% 3
Renfrewshire - 1 £550 - 5
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 (8.57%) JBoss
1 3 (8.57%) Microsoft Exchange
1 3 (8.57%) WebLogic
2 2 (5.71%) SharePoint
3 1 (2.86%) SAS
3 1 (2.86%) WebSphere
3 1 (2.86%) WebSphere Application Server
Cloud Services
1 12 (34.29%) Azure
2 6 (17.14%) AWS
3 4 (11.43%) OCI
4 3 (8.57%) Cloud Computing
4 3 (8.57%) OpenShift
5 2 (5.71%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (5.71%) Amazon ECS
5 2 (5.71%) Amazon GuardDuty
5 2 (5.71%) Amazon OpenSearch
5 2 (5.71%) Amazon S3
5 2 (5.71%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (5.71%) AWS CodeBuild
5 2 (5.71%) AWS CodeDeploy
5 2 (5.71%) AWS CodePipeline
5 2 (5.71%) AWS Fargate
5 2 (5.71%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (5.71%) IaaS
5 2 (5.71%) PaaS
5 2 (5.71%) Route 53
5 2 (5.71%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (11.43%) SAN
2 3 (8.57%) DHCP
2 3 (8.57%) DNS
2 3 (8.57%) Firewall
2 3 (8.57%) TCP/IP
3 1 (2.86%) Fibre Channel
3 1 (2.86%) iSCSI
3 1 (2.86%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (25.71%) SQL Server
2 4 (11.43%) Oracle Exadata
3 2 (5.71%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (5.71%) InfluxDB
3 2 (5.71%) Power BI
4 1 (2.86%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (2.86%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (2.86%) DB2
4 1 (2.86%) MariaDB
4 1 (2.86%) MongoDB
4 1 (2.86%) MySQL
4 1 (2.86%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (11.43%) Jenkins
2 3 (8.57%) Git
3 2 (5.71%) Artifactory
4 1 (2.86%) SonarQube
General
1 15 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 12 (34.29%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (28.57%) Finance
4 6 (17.14%) Banking
5 4 (11.43%) Public Sector
6 2 (5.71%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (2.86%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (28.57%) Senior
2 8 (22.86%) Architect
3 5 (14.29%) Database Engineer
4 4 (11.43%) Infrastructure Architect
4 4 (11.43%) Lead
4 4 (11.43%) Platform Engineer
4 4 (11.43%) Senior Storage Engineer
4 4 (11.43%) Storage Engineer
5 3 (8.57%) Designer
5 3 (8.57%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
5 3 (8.57%) Lead Architect
5 3 (8.57%) Middleware Engineer
5 3 (8.57%) Oracle Database Engineer
5 3 (8.57%) Senior Database Engineer
5 3 (8.57%) Solutions Architect
5 3 (8.57%) Technical Architect
5 3 (8.57%) Technical Leader
6 2 (5.71%) Analyst
6 2 (5.71%) Linux Engineer
6 2 (5.71%) Technical Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (8.57%) IBM Integration Bus
1 3 (8.57%) Middleware
2 2 (5.71%) AWS CDK
3 1 (2.86%) Flash
3 1 (2.86%) J2EE
3 1 (2.86%) POSIX
3 1 (2.86%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (2.86%) REST
3 1 (2.86%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 8 (22.86%) Replication
2 6 (17.14%) Data Centre
3 4 (11.43%) Clustering
3 4 (11.43%) Enterprise Storage
3 4 (11.43%) Mainframe
4 1 (2.86%) Client/Server
4 1 (2.86%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (2.86%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (2.86%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (2.86%) NVMe
4 1 (2.86%) PKI
4 1 (2.86%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 35 (100.00%) Linux
2 25 (71.43%) Windows
3 9 (25.71%) Solaris
4 6 (17.14%) AIX
4 6 (17.14%) Windows Server
5 4 (11.43%) HPUX
5 4 (11.43%) Unix
6 2 (5.71%) Data ONTAP
6 2 (5.71%) Ubuntu
7 1 (2.86%) Amazon Linux
7 1 (2.86%) CentOS
7 1 (2.86%) Oracle Linux
7 1 (2.86%) Windows 10
7 1 (2.86%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (28.57%) Disaster Recovery
1 10 (28.57%) High Availability
2 9 (25.71%) Problem-Solving
3 8 (22.86%) ITIL
4 7 (20.00%) Agile
4 7 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 7 (20.00%) Problem Management
4 7 (20.00%) Service Management
5 5 (14.29%) Customer Service
5 5 (14.29%) DevOps
5 5 (14.29%) Performance Tuning
5 5 (14.29%) Software Engineering
6 4 (11.43%) Capacity Planning
6 4 (11.43%) Database Tuning
6 4 (11.43%) ITSM
6 4 (11.43%) Platform Engineering
6 4 (11.43%) SDLC
6 4 (11.43%) Storage Management
7 3 (8.57%) Cybersecurity
7 3 (8.57%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (28.57%) Python
2 7 (20.00%) Bash
3 6 (17.14%) SQL
4 3 (8.57%) Perl
5 2 (5.71%) Groovy
6 1 (2.86%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (5.71%) CISM
1 2 (5.71%) CISSP
1 2 (5.71%) DV Cleared
1 2 (5.71%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.86%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (20.00%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (2.86%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (2.86%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 1 (2.86%) GDPR
2 1 (2.86%) NCSC
2 1 (2.86%) NIST
2 1 (2.86%) PCI DSS
2 1 (2.86%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 5 (14.29%) Oracle RAC
1 5 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (11.43%) Active Directory
3 3 (8.57%) vSphere
4 2 (5.71%) Docker
4 2 (5.71%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (2.86%) GPFS
5 1 (2.86%) KVM
5 1 (2.86%) NFS
5 1 (2.86%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (2.86%) Xen
Systems Management
1 8 (22.86%) Ansible
2 5 (14.29%) Data Guard
2 5 (14.29%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 4 (11.43%) Failover Clustering
3 4 (11.43%) Kubernetes
3 4 (11.43%) Microsoft Clustering
3 4 (11.43%) Oracle Flashback
4 3 (8.57%) Grafana
5 2 (5.71%) Kibana
5 2 (5.71%) Puppet
6 1 (2.86%) EMC NetWorker
6 1 (2.86%) HAProxy
6 1 (2.86%) Nagios
6 1 (2.86%) Packer
6 1 (2.86%) Progress Chef
6 1 (2.86%) Red Hat Satellite
6 1 (2.86%) Terraform
6 1 (2.86%) Veritas Storage Foundation
Vendors
1 17 (48.57%) Red Hat
2 14 (40.00%) VMware
3 10 (28.57%) Oracle
4 9 (25.71%) IBM
5 7 (20.00%) Dynatrace
6 5 (14.29%) Microsoft
7 4 (11.43%) Dell
7 4 (11.43%) HP
7 4 (11.43%) Sun
7 4 (11.43%) Unisys
8 2 (5.71%) Google
8 2 (5.71%) NetApp
8 2 (5.71%) Palo Alto
8 2 (5.71%) Qualys
9 1 (2.86%) Aruba
9 1 (2.86%) Brocade
9 1 (2.86%) F5
9 1 (2.86%) Imperva
9 1 (2.86%) Tanium
9 1 (2.86%) Veritas