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 5 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 138 115 132
Rank change year-on-year -23 +17 +15
Contract jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 43 64 83
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 1.12% 1.54% 1.55%
As % of the Operating Systems category 6.31% 8.53% 7.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 43 58
10th Percentile £393 £458 £387
25th Percentile £453 £498 £501
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £580 £563
Median % change year-on-year -16.38% +3.11% +2.27%
75th Percentile £571 £608 £636
90th Percentile £600 £674 £679
England median daily rate £525 £561 £575
% change year-on-year -6.42% -2.43% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £104.50 - -
Median hourly rate £109.00 - -
75th Percentile £113.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £114.00 £112.00 £72.50
% change year-on-year +1.79% +54.48% +3.57%

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 681 750 1,041
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 17.71% 18.04% 19.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 467 495 686
10th Percentile £189 £200 £170
25th Percentile £219 £317 £210
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £450 £425
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% +5.88% -7.41%
75th Percentile £537 £584 £575
90th Percentile £600 £650 £650
England median daily rate £450 £475 £488
% change year-on-year -5.26% -2.56% -3.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 74 35 79
10th Percentile £12.50 £23.85 £18.25
25th Percentile £15.50 £36.79 £24.17
Median hourly rate £18.87 £62.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -69.81% +13.64% +223.53%
75th Percentile £25.00 £70.00 £68.69
90th Percentile £52.01 £72.25 £76.53
England median hourly rate £23.25 £57.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year -59.57% +43.75% +60.00%

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 5 November 2025.

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 5 November 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
Berkshire +20 24 £483 -5.85% 13
Thames Valley +16 24 £483 -10.65% 19
Hampshire -22 16 £575 -1.37%
West Sussex - 2 £575 - 2
Surrey -2 1 £475 -5.00% 4
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 5 (11.63%) Apache
2 2 (4.65%) JBoss
2 2 (4.65%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (2.33%) Anypoint
Applications
1 1 (2.33%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (2.33%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 10 (23.26%) OpenShift
2 2 (4.65%) AWS
2 2 (4.65%) Azure
3 1 (2.33%) Amazon ECR
3 1 (2.33%) GitHub
3 1 (2.33%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 8 (18.60%) SAN
2 3 (6.98%) Firewall
3 2 (4.65%) DHCP
3 2 (4.65%) DNS
4 1 (2.33%) Cisco IOS
4 1 (2.33%) HTTPS
4 1 (2.33%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (2.33%) NAS
4 1 (2.33%) SSL
4 1 (2.33%) VoIP
4 1 (2.33%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (9.30%) MSI
1 4 (9.30%) Robot Framework
1 4 (9.30%) Sonatype Nexus
2 2 (4.65%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.33%) Git
3 1 (2.33%) Subversion
General
1 17 (39.53%) Social Skills
2 8 (18.60%) Public Sector
3 2 (4.65%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (4.65%) Finance
4 1 (2.33%) Back Office
4 1 (2.33%) Electronics
4 1 (2.33%) Front Office
4 1 (2.33%) Military
Job Titles
1 9 (20.93%) Administrator
1 9 (20.93%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 7 (16.28%) Backup Administrator
2 7 (16.28%) Integration Engineer
2 7 (16.28%) Storage Administrator
2 7 (16.28%) Storage and Backup Administrator
3 6 (13.95%) Infrastructure Support
3 6 (13.95%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
3 6 (13.95%) Support Engineer
4 5 (11.63%) Site Engineer
4 5 (11.63%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 4 (9.30%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 3 (6.98%) HP Storage Administrator
6 3 (6.98%) Linux Engineer
7 2 (4.65%) DevOps Engineer
7 2 (4.65%) Linux Administrator
7 2 (4.65%) Linux Specialist
7 2 (4.65%) Senior
7 2 (4.65%) Technical Specialist
8 1 (2.33%) Ubuntu Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (18.60%) Loki
2 2 (4.65%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (4.65%) JSON
2 2 (4.65%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 8 (18.60%) Cloud Native
1 8 (18.60%) Virtual Team
2 7 (16.28%) Enterprise Storage
3 4 (9.30%) PKI
4 3 (6.98%) HP Storage
5 2 (4.65%) Data Centre
5 2 (4.65%) Management Information System
6 1 (2.33%) Clustering
6 1 (2.33%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (2.33%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (2.33%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (2.33%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 43 (100.00%) Linux
2 16 (37.21%) Windows
3 10 (23.26%) Windows Server 2019
4 6 (13.95%) CentOS
4 6 (13.95%) Windows Server
4 6 (13.95%) Windows Server 2016
5 4 (9.30%) Windows Server 2012
6 3 (6.98%) Ubuntu
7 1 (2.33%) Solaris
7 1 (2.33%) Unix
7 1 (2.33%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (37.21%) Agile
2 14 (32.56%) ITIL
3 13 (30.23%) Problem-Solving
4 11 (25.58%) CI/CD
5 9 (20.93%) DevSecOps
5 9 (20.93%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 9 (20.93%) Infrastructure Management
6 8 (18.60%) Architectural Design
6 8 (18.60%) DevOps
6 8 (18.60%) Disaster Recovery
6 8 (18.60%) Infrastructure as Code
6 8 (18.60%) Observability
6 8 (18.60%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 6 (13.95%) Stakeholder Management
8 5 (11.63%) Batch Scripting
8 5 (11.63%) Continuous Improvement
9 4 (9.30%) Deployment Automation
9 4 (9.30%) High Availability
9 4 (9.30%) Patch Management
9 4 (9.30%) Prototyping
Programming Languages
1 16 (37.21%) Python
2 10 (23.26%) Bash
3 9 (20.93%) Shell Script
4 6 (13.95%) PowerShell
5 5 (11.63%) PHP
6 3 (6.98%) Java
7 2 (4.65%) Perl
7 2 (4.65%) SQL
Qualifications
1 27 (62.79%) Security Cleared
2 17 (39.53%) SC Cleared
3 8 (18.60%) DV Cleared
4 2 (4.65%) Degree
4 2 (4.65%) TOGAF Certification
5 1 (2.33%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.65%) QA
2 1 (2.33%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.33%) Def Stans
2 1 (2.33%) GDPR
System Software
1 14 (32.56%) VMware Infrastructure
2 10 (23.26%) vSphere
3 5 (11.63%) Active Directory
4 4 (9.30%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (4.65%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (2.33%) Docker
6 1 (2.33%) GPFS
Systems Management
1 21 (48.84%) Ansible
2 11 (25.58%) Kubernetes
3 9 (20.93%) Red Hat Satellite
4 8 (18.60%) Argo
4 8 (18.60%) Grafana
4 8 (18.60%) Kustomize
4 8 (18.60%) Prometheus
5 6 (13.95%) NetBackup
5 6 (13.95%) Terraform
6 4 (9.30%) WMI
7 2 (4.65%) SCOM
8 1 (2.33%) BladeLogic
8 1 (2.33%) Podman
8 1 (2.33%) Rsyslog
8 1 (2.33%) SCCM
8 1 (2.33%) SELinux
8 1 (2.33%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 31 (72.09%) Red Hat
2 25 (58.14%) VMware
3 8 (18.60%) HP
3 8 (18.60%) Veritas
4 7 (16.28%) 3PAR
4 7 (16.28%) Microsoft
5 6 (13.95%) NetApp
5 6 (13.95%) Nimble Storage
6 4 (9.30%) Dell
7 2 (4.65%) CyberArk
7 2 (4.65%) IBM
7 2 (4.65%) ServiceNow
8 1 (2.33%) Cisco
8 1 (2.33%) Citrix
8 1 (2.33%) Mellanox
8 1 (2.33%) MuleSoft
8 1 (2.33%) Oracle
8 1 (2.33%) Solarflare
8 1 (2.33%) SolarWinds
8 1 (2.33%) Symantec