Red Hat Enterprise Linux Contracts in the South East

Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 127 124 140
Rank change year-on-year -3 +16 +30
Contract jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 32 82 82
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 1.06% 1.48% 1.41%
As % of the Operating Systems category 6.26% 8.36% 6.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 64 59
10th Percentile £408 £400 £410
25th Percentile £488 £494 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% +17.65%
75th Percentile £588 £595 £638
90th Percentile £688 £638 £690
England median daily rate £551 £525 £625
% change year-on-year +4.95% -16.00% +4.17%
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 - - -
England median hourly rate - £60.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year - +14.29% +118.75%

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 511 981 1,207
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 16.98% 17.65% 20.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 364 650 830
10th Percentile £205 £200 £197
25th Percentile £339 £268 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £588
90th Percentile £675 £638 £669
England median daily rate £475 £463 £513
% change year-on-year +2.70% -9.76% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 59 70
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.98 £18.08
25th Percentile £16.95 £17.69 £18.88
Median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £53.00
Median % change year-on-year -41.05% -10.38% +165.00%
75th Percentile £59.44 £62.25 £67.50
90th Percentile £63.25 £70.75 £75.00
England median hourly rate £24.18 £22.00 £38.00
% change year-on-year +9.91% -42.11% +76.74%

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Red Hat Enterprise Linux in the South East

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux in the South East.

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

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 1 May 2025.

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

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Red Hat Enterprise Linux in the South East

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 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
Thames Valley +37 17 £513 -2.38% 17
Berkshire +29 14 £550 - 11
Hampshire -1 13 £550 -5.17% 8
Buckinghamshire +17 2 £421 - 4
West Sussex +9 2 £550 +15.79% 3
Oxfordshire 0 1 £475 -9.52% 4
Red Hat Enterprise Linux
England

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 5 (15.63%) Apache
2 2 (6.25%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 10 (31.25%) Azure
2 8 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (12.50%) AWS
4 3 (9.38%) OpenShift
5 2 (6.25%) Azure Monitor
5 2 (6.25%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 11 (34.38%) DHCP
1 11 (34.38%) DNS
2 4 (12.50%) FTP
2 4 (12.50%) SMTP
2 4 (12.50%) TCP/IP
2 4 (12.50%) tcpdump
2 4 (12.50%) Telnet
3 2 (6.25%) BIG-IP
3 2 (6.25%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
3 2 (6.25%) Firewall
3 2 (6.25%) SSL
4 1 (3.13%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.25%) Elasticsearch
1 2 (6.25%) Oracle Database
1 2 (6.25%) Oracle Database 12c
1 2 (6.25%) RDBMS
1 2 (6.25%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (18.75%) Git
2 2 (6.25%) Bitbucket Server
2 2 (6.25%) CA Release Automation
2 2 (6.25%) Jenkins
2 2 (6.25%) JIRA
2 2 (6.25%) SonarQube
2 2 (6.25%) Sonatype Nexus
2 2 (6.25%) Subversion
2 2 (6.25%) TeamCity
General
1 4 (12.50%) Social Skills
2 2 (6.25%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (21.88%) Administrator
1 7 (21.88%) Linux Administrator
2 6 (18.75%) Applications Packager
2 6 (18.75%) DV Cleared Application Packager
2 6 (18.75%) Linux Engineer
3 4 (12.50%) Lead
4 2 (6.25%) Architect
4 2 (6.25%) Azure Engineer
4 2 (6.25%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (6.25%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (6.25%) Oracle Architect
5 1 (3.13%) Analyst
5 1 (3.13%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
5 1 (3.13%) Network Engineer
5 1 (3.13%) Platform Engineer
5 1 (3.13%) Ruby Engineer
5 1 (3.13%) Security Analyst
5 1 (3.13%) Solaris Administrator
5 1 (3.13%) Systems Integrator
5 1 (3.13%) Unix Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (12.50%) LDAP
2 2 (6.25%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (6.25%) Spring Boot
3 1 (3.13%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (18.75%) Client/Server
2 4 (12.50%) Data Centre
2 4 (12.50%) Enterprise Storage
3 1 (3.13%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 32 (100.00%) Linux
2 14 (43.75%) Windows
3 10 (31.25%) Windows Server
4 4 (12.50%) Windows Server 2019
5 3 (9.38%) CentOS
5 3 (9.38%) Solaris
5 3 (9.38%) Unix
6 2 (6.25%) VMS
7 1 (3.13%) AIX
7 1 (3.13%) Fedora
7 1 (3.13%) HPUX
7 1 (3.13%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (34.38%) DevOps
1 11 (34.38%) High Availability
2 6 (18.75%) Agile
2 6 (18.75%) Application Packaging
2 6 (18.75%) Application Virtualisation
2 6 (18.75%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 6 (18.75%) Root Cause Analysis
2 6 (18.75%) Scaled Agile Framework
2 6 (18.75%) Technical Leadership
3 5 (15.63%) Performance Tuning
3 5 (15.63%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (15.63%) Vulnerability Management
4 4 (12.50%) DevSecOps
4 4 (12.50%) ITIL
4 4 (12.50%) Performance Monitoring
4 4 (12.50%) Server Migrations
5 3 (9.38%) CI/CD
5 3 (9.38%) Infrastructure as Code
5 3 (9.38%) Load Balancing
5 3 (9.38%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 13 (40.63%) Python
2 7 (21.88%) Bash
2 7 (21.88%) PowerShell
3 6 (18.75%) VBScript
4 4 (12.50%) Perl
5 1 (3.13%) PHP
5 1 (3.13%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 25 (78.13%) Security Cleared
2 13 (40.63%) SC Cleared
3 12 (37.50%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.25%) GDPR
1 2 (6.25%) QA
System Software
1 9 (28.13%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (12.50%) NFS
2 4 (12.50%) Samba
3 3 (9.38%) Active Directory
3 3 (9.38%) vSphere
4 2 (6.25%) Docker
4 2 (6.25%) Oracle RAC
4 2 (6.25%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 11 (34.38%) Ansible
2 6 (18.75%) yum
3 4 (12.50%) NetBackup
4 3 (9.38%) Progress Chef
5 2 (6.25%) Data Guard
5 2 (6.25%) Kibana
5 2 (6.25%) Kubernetes
5 2 (6.25%) Oracle RMAN
5 2 (6.25%) Red Hat Satellite
5 2 (6.25%) SELinux
5 2 (6.25%) Terraform
6 1 (3.13%) Oracle ZFS
6 1 (3.13%) Puppet
Vendors
1 22 (68.75%) Red Hat
2 18 (56.25%) VMware
3 10 (31.25%) HP
4 6 (18.75%) Veritas
5 4 (12.50%) 3PAR
5 4 (12.50%) Dell
6 3 (9.38%) F5
7 2 (6.25%) AppDynamics
7 2 (6.25%) Oracle
7 2 (6.25%) SolarWinds
7 2 (6.25%) Splunk
7 2 (6.25%) Symantec
8 1 (3.13%) ArcSight
8 1 (3.13%) Juniper