Red Hat Contracts in Scotland

Red Hat
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland requiring knowledge or experience of Red Hat products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Red Hat over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within Red Hat, Inc.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 94 107 98
Rank change year-on-year +13 -9 +13
Contract jobs citing Red Hat 22 22 68
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 1.35% 0.99% 2.38%
As % of the Vendors category 3.06% 2.48% 5.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 16 57
10th Percentile £420 - £399
25th Percentile £456 £313 £443
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £522 £358 £500
Median % change year-on-year +46.08% -28.50% -
75th Percentile £589 £494 £538
90th Percentile £648 £550 £559
UK median daily rate £550 £524 £575
% change year-on-year +5.01% -8.91% -
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 £68.00 £68.22 £52.50
% change year-on-year -0.32% +29.94% -16.67%

All Vendors
Scotland

Red Hat falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 719 888 1,140
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 44.25% 40.05% 39.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 450 546 823
10th Percentile £234 £183 £175
25th Percentile £363 £350 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £465 £473
Median % change year-on-year -0.11% -1.69% +5.11%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £538
90th Percentile £625 £688 £633
UK median daily rate £515 £517 £525
% change year-on-year -0.39% -1.52% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 52 16
10th Percentile £16.11 £13.28 £21.26
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.00 £43.86
Median hourly rate £22.00 £17.50 £59.03
Median % change year-on-year +25.71% -70.35% +47.56%
75th Percentile £24.58 £55.63 £65.39
90th Percentile £28.22 £60.00 £69.38
UK median hourly rate £26.45 £22.30 £43.75
% change year-on-year +18.61% -49.03% +108.14%

Red Hat
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing Red Hat as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Red Hat in Scotland

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Red Hat in Scotland

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Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Red Hat in Scotland over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Red Hat in Scotland

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for Red Hat in Scotland

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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 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
Edinburgh +13 12 £545 +47.16% 3
Glasgow 0 7 £545 +67.54% 2
Renfrewshire - 1 £550 - 2
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UK

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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 2 (9.09%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (9.09%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 11 (50.00%) Azure
2 6 (27.27%) AWS
3 4 (18.18%) OCI
4 3 (13.64%) Cloud Computing
5 2 (9.09%) IaaS
5 2 (9.09%) PaaS
6 1 (4.55%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 3 (13.64%) TCP/IP
2 2 (9.09%) DHCP
2 2 (9.09%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (36.36%) SQL Server
2 4 (18.18%) Oracle Exadata
3 1 (4.55%) InfluxDB
3 1 (4.55%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 1 (4.55%) Jenkins
General
1 12 (54.55%) Social Skills
2 8 (36.36%) Finance
3 4 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (18.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 4 (18.18%) Law
4 3 (13.64%) Public Sector
5 2 (9.09%) Banking
6 1 (4.55%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (22.73%) Database Engineer
2 4 (18.18%) Architect
2 4 (18.18%) Linux Engineer
2 4 (18.18%) Senior
2 4 (18.18%) Server Engineer
3 3 (13.64%) Designer
3 3 (13.64%) Lead
3 3 (13.64%) Lead Architect
3 3 (13.64%) Oracle Database Engineer
3 3 (13.64%) Senior Database Engineer
3 3 (13.64%) Technical Architect
3 3 (13.64%) Technical Leader
4 2 (9.09%) Linux Server Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) Platform Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) Technical Designer
5 1 (4.55%) Infrastructure Designer
5 1 (4.55%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Network Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Unix Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.55%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 4 (18.18%) Clustering
1 4 (18.18%) Product Ownership
1 4 (18.18%) Replication
2 3 (13.64%) Data Centre
3 1 (4.55%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (4.55%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (4.55%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (4.55%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 22 (100.00%) Linux
2 17 (77.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 14 (63.64%) Windows
4 8 (36.36%) Windows Server
5 6 (27.27%) AIX
6 5 (22.73%) Amazon Linux
6 5 (22.73%) Solaris
7 3 (13.64%) Unix
8 1 (4.55%) Data ONTAP
8 1 (4.55%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (40.91%) ITIL
1 9 (40.91%) Problem Management
2 6 (27.27%) Disaster Recovery
3 5 (22.73%) Continuous Improvement
3 5 (22.73%) High Availability
3 5 (22.73%) Performance Tuning
3 5 (22.73%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (22.73%) Project Delivery
3 5 (22.73%) Service-Level Objective
3 5 (22.73%) Technical Debt
4 4 (18.18%) Database Tuning
4 4 (18.18%) Mentoring
5 3 (13.64%) Decision-Making
5 3 (13.64%) Proactive Maintenance
5 3 (13.64%) Roadmaps
5 3 (13.64%) SDLC
5 3 (13.64%) Service Management
6 2 (9.09%) Impact Analysis
6 2 (9.09%) Platform Engineering
6 2 (9.09%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 5 (22.73%) Python
2 4 (18.18%) Bash
2 4 (18.18%) SQL
3 2 (9.09%) Perl
3 2 (9.09%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (4.55%) DV Cleared
1 1 (4.55%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (18.18%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (4.55%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (4.55%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 1 (4.55%) GDPR
2 1 (4.55%) PCI DSS
2 1 (4.55%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 5 (22.73%) Oracle RAC
1 5 (22.73%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (13.64%) Active Directory
2 3 (13.64%) vSphere
3 2 (9.09%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (4.55%) Docker
4 1 (4.55%) KVM
4 1 (4.55%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (4.55%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 6 (27.27%) Ansible
2 5 (22.73%) Data Guard
2 5 (22.73%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 4 (18.18%) Failover Clustering
3 4 (18.18%) Microsoft Clustering
3 4 (18.18%) Oracle Flashback
4 1 (4.55%) Grafana
4 1 (4.55%) HAProxy
4 1 (4.55%) Kubernetes
4 1 (4.55%) Nagios
4 1 (4.55%) Progress Chef
4 1 (4.55%) Puppet
4 1 (4.55%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 14 (63.64%) VMware
2 10 (45.45%) Oracle
3 5 (22.73%) Dell
3 5 (22.73%) Microsoft
4 4 (18.18%) Dynatrace
5 1 (4.55%) Commvault
5 1 (4.55%) F5
5 1 (4.55%) Google
5 1 (4.55%) HP
5 1 (4.55%) IBM
5 1 (4.55%) Juniper
5 1 (4.55%) NetApp
5 1 (4.55%) Palo Alto
5 1 (4.55%) Tanium