Red Hat Contract Job Trends in Shropshire

Red Hat
West Midlands > Shropshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Shropshire 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 19 September 2026, 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
19 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 84 42 -
Rank change year-on-year -42 - -
Contract jobs citing Red Hat 2 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in Shropshire 0.24% 0.48% -
As % of the Vendors category 0.55% 0.83% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £468 - -
25th Percentile £475 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - -
75th Percentile £525 - -
90th Percentile £533 - -
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £563 £630
% change year-on-year -11.11% -10.71% +75.00%

All Vendors
Shropshire

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 Shropshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 361 121 67
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Shropshire 43.49% 58.45% 62.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 308 89 61
10th Percentile £360 £345 £298
25th Percentile £413 £447 £338
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £461 £515 £420
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% +22.62% -22.22%
75th Percentile £529 £540 £515
90th Percentile £620 £552 £567
West Midlands median daily rate £469 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -6.20% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 0 0
10th Percentile £13.20 - -
25th Percentile £14.30 - -
Median hourly rate £52.50 - -
75th Percentile £53.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £21.50 £30.00 £31.50
% change year-on-year -28.33% -4.76% +40.00%

Red Hat
Job Vacancy Trend in Shropshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Red Hat relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Shropshire.

Red Hat job vacancy trend in Shropshire

Red Hat
Daily Rate Trend in Shropshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Shropshire citing Red Hat.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Shropshire citing Red Hat

Red Hat
Hourly Rate Trend in Shropshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Shropshire citing Red Hat.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Shropshire citing Red Hat

Red Hat
Contract Job Locations in Shropshire

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 Shropshire region over the 6 months to 19 September 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
Telford -46 2 £500 - 3
Red Hat
West Midlands

Red Hat
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Shropshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) DHCP
1 1 (50.00%) DNS
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
1 1 (50.00%) Network Security
1 1 (50.00%) TCP/IP
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Linux Engineer
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 2 (100.00%) SUSE
1 2 (100.00%) Unix
2 1 (50.00%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Management
1 2 (100.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Change Management
2 1 (50.00%) Configuration Management
2 1 (50.00%) ITIL
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Optimisation
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (50.00%) Problem Management
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Service Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Service Management
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (50.00%) Task Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Virtual Infrastructure
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Google