Red Hat Enterprise Linux Contract Job Trends in the South East

Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Red Hat Enterprise Linux skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 163 124 122
Rank change year-on-year -39 -2 +10
Contract jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 43 29 81
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.74% 0.98% 1.48%
As % of the Operating Systems category 5.83% 5.62% 8.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 24 64
10th Percentile £402 £406 £400
25th Percentile £414 £509 £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% - -10.20%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £595
90th Percentile £639 £693 £638
England median daily rate £500 £551 £520
% change year-on-year -9.26% +5.96% -16.80%

All Operating Systems
South East

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 the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 737 516 967
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 12.62% 17.35% 17.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 502 368 642
10th Percentile £200 £200 £200
25th Percentile £319 £325 £280
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £468 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -6.40% +11.11% -4.18%
75th Percentile £569 £595 £575
90th Percentile £650 £675 £638
England median daily rate £450 £475 £468
% change year-on-year -5.26% +1.50% -8.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 36 56
10th Percentile £15.37 £14.20 £15.94
25th Percentile £23.11 £16.95 £17.69
Median hourly rate £47.54 £28.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +69.79% -41.05% -9.52%
75th Percentile £56.25 £58.75 £62.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £63.13 £71.88
England median hourly rate £47.50 £21.90 £22.00
% change year-on-year +116.89% -0.45% -41.21%

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Red Hat Enterprise Linux job vacancy trend in the South East

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux in the South East over the 6 months to 13 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Red Hat Enterprise Linux in the South East

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 13 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
Thames Valley -22 31 £450 -18.18% 7
Berkshire -8 26 £420 -30.08% 6
Hampshire -29 10 £594 +7.95% 2
Buckinghamshire -32 5 £475 +12.96%
Surrey - 2 £475 - 1
West Sussex -18 1 £700 +27.27% 1
Red Hat Enterprise Linux
England

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 (6.98%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (4.65%) IBM HTTP Server
2 2 (4.65%) Oracle HTTP Server
2 2 (4.65%) WebSphere
2 2 (4.65%) WebSphere Application Server
2 2 (4.65%) WebSphere Portal
Cloud Services
1 8 (18.60%) Azure
2 6 (13.95%) OpenShift
3 5 (11.63%) AWS
4 3 (6.98%) Amazon EC2
4 3 (6.98%) Amazon S3
4 3 (6.98%) Azure Storage
5 2 (4.65%) IaaS
5 2 (4.65%) PaaS
6 1 (2.33%) Akamai
6 1 (2.33%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (2.33%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (2.33%) GitHub
6 1 (2.33%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (2.33%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (2.33%) Nutanix
6 1 (2.33%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (11.63%) Firewall
2 3 (6.98%) DNS
2 3 (6.98%) TCP/IP
3 2 (4.65%) HTTP
3 2 (4.65%) SAN
3 2 (4.65%) SSL
4 1 (2.33%) DHCP
4 1 (2.33%) iSCSI
4 1 (2.33%) Remote Desktop
4 1 (2.33%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (11.63%) Oracle Database
2 4 (9.30%) SQL Server
3 3 (6.98%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (6.98%) Oracle Reports
4 2 (4.65%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (2.33%) MySQL
5 1 (2.33%) Oracle Database 12c
Development Applications
1 6 (13.95%) Jenkins
2 3 (6.98%) GitLab
3 2 (4.65%) Introscope
3 2 (4.65%) JIRA
3 2 (4.65%) Robot Framework
General
1 5 (11.63%) Public Sector
1 5 (11.63%) Social Skills
2 2 (4.65%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (2.33%) Back Office
3 1 (2.33%) Banking
3 1 (2.33%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (2.33%) Finance
3 1 (2.33%) Front Office
3 1 (2.33%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (20.93%) Linux Engineer
2 7 (16.28%) Senior
3 4 (9.30%) DBA
3 4 (9.30%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 4 (9.30%) Oracle DBA
3 4 (9.30%) Platform Engineer
4 2 (4.65%) Administrator
4 2 (4.65%) Architect
4 2 (4.65%) Automation Specialist
4 2 (4.65%) Compliance Specialist
4 2 (4.65%) Linux Systems Engineer
4 2 (4.65%) Middleware Engineer
4 2 (4.65%) Senior Middleware Engineer
4 2 (4.65%) Server Specialist
4 2 (4.65%) Systems Engineer
4 2 (4.65%) VMware Engineer
4 2 (4.65%) Windows Engineer
4 2 (4.65%) Windows Systems Engineer
5 1 (2.33%) Oracle Production DBA
5 1 (2.33%) Technology Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (6.98%) Middleware
2 2 (4.65%) JDBC
2 2 (4.65%) JMS
2 2 (4.65%) Kafka
2 2 (4.65%) Oracle GoldenGate
2 2 (4.65%) RabbitMQ
2 2 (4.65%) WebSphere MQ
3 1 (2.33%) .NET
3 1 (2.33%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (9.30%) Cloud Native
2 3 (6.98%) Clustering
2 3 (6.98%) Onboarding
3 2 (4.65%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (4.65%) Management Information System
3 2 (4.65%) PKI
4 1 (2.33%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (2.33%) CMDB
4 1 (2.33%) Data Centre
4 1 (2.33%) Enterprise Storage
4 1 (2.33%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (2.33%) HP Storage
4 1 (2.33%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 43 (100.00%) Linux
2 12 (27.91%) Windows
3 7 (16.28%) Windows Server
4 3 (6.98%) Unix
5 2 (4.65%) CentOS
5 2 (4.65%) Oracle Linux
5 2 (4.65%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
5 2 (4.65%) Ubuntu
5 2 (4.65%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (2.33%) OpenVMS
6 1 (2.33%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (2.33%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (32.56%) DevOps
1 14 (32.56%) ITIL
2 12 (27.91%) CI/CD
3 10 (23.26%) Problem-Solving
4 9 (20.93%) DevSecOps
5 8 (18.60%) Architectural Design
5 8 (18.60%) Runbook
6 7 (16.28%) Platform Engineering
7 6 (13.95%) Agile
7 6 (13.95%) High Availability
7 6 (13.95%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 5 (11.63%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 5 (11.63%) Migration
8 5 (11.63%) Performance Tuning
9 4 (9.30%) Proactive Monitoring
9 4 (9.30%) Security Management
9 4 (9.30%) Task Automation
10 3 (6.98%) Deployment Automation
10 3 (6.98%) Patch Management
10 3 (6.98%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 12 (27.91%) PowerShell
2 11 (25.58%) Python
3 10 (23.26%) Bash
4 5 (11.63%) Shell Script
5 3 (6.98%) Korn
5 3 (6.98%) Perl
5 3 (6.98%) SQL
6 2 (4.65%) Jython
7 1 (2.33%) C#
7 1 (2.33%) Java
Qualifications
1 30 (69.77%) Security Cleared
2 23 (53.49%) SC Cleared
3 7 (16.28%) DV Cleared
4 5 (11.63%) RHCE
5 4 (9.30%) Degree
6 3 (6.98%) Azure Certification
6 3 (6.98%) OCP
6 3 (6.98%) Oracle Certification
7 1 (2.33%) RHCA
7 1 (2.33%) RHCSA
7 1 (2.33%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.98%) GDPR
2 2 (4.65%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (2.33%) OpenSCAP
System Software
1 10 (23.26%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (16.28%) Active Directory
3 4 (9.30%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (4.65%) Oracle RAC
5 1 (2.33%) Citrix Hypervisor
5 1 (2.33%) Docker
5 1 (2.33%) GPFS
5 1 (2.33%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (2.33%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 14 (32.56%) Ansible
2 10 (23.26%) Red Hat Satellite
3 5 (11.63%) Kubernetes
3 5 (11.63%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 5 (11.63%) Oracle RMAN
4 3 (6.98%) Data Guard
5 2 (4.65%) CA Wily
5 2 (4.65%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (4.65%) Nessus
5 2 (4.65%) systemd
5 2 (4.65%) Terraform
5 2 (4.65%) Tivoli
6 1 (2.33%) BladeLogic
6 1 (2.33%) NetBackup
6 1 (2.33%) Packer
6 1 (2.33%) SCCM
6 1 (2.33%) SCOM
6 1 (2.33%) vCenter Server
6 1 (2.33%) WhatsUp Gold
Vendors
1 36 (83.72%) Red Hat
2 18 (41.86%) VMware
3 10 (23.26%) Microsoft
4 8 (18.60%) Oracle
5 3 (6.98%) Dell
5 3 (6.98%) IBM
5 3 (6.98%) Tenable
6 2 (4.65%) AppDynamics
6 2 (4.65%) Broadcom
6 2 (4.65%) HP
6 2 (4.65%) ServiceNow
6 2 (4.65%) Snow
6 2 (4.65%) Sophos
7 1 (2.33%) CrowdStrike
7 1 (2.33%) CyberArk
7 1 (2.33%) Mellanox
7 1 (2.33%) Nimble Storage
7 1 (2.33%) Okta
7 1 (2.33%) Solarflare
7 1 (2.33%) Zscaler