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 24 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 181 135 104
Rank change year-on-year -46 -31 +19
Contract jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 50 32 89
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.76% 0.93% 1.68%
As % of the Operating Systems category 6.06% 5.44% 9.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 26 69
10th Percentile £404 £393 £411
25th Percentile £414 £417 £501
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £550 £570
Median % change year-on-year -17.27% -3.51% +3.64%
75th Percentile £500 £600 £600
90th Percentile £600 £638 £650
England median daily rate £497 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -5.33% - -14.29%

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 825 588 926
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 12.55% 17.09% 17.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 547 407 594
10th Percentile £204 £193 £205
25th Percentile £357 £306 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £490 £475
Median % change year-on-year -3.06% +3.16% +5.56%
75th Percentile £574 £600 £595
90th Percentile £638 £650 £650
England median daily rate £463 £460 £475
% change year-on-year +0.54% -3.16% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 56 50 56
10th Percentile £16.00 £15.03 £16.32
25th Percentile £20.46 £16.95 £18.00
Median hourly rate £35.22 £18.87 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +86.65% -62.26% -9.09%
75th Percentile £53.75 £28.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £64.55 £61.18 £74.38
England median hourly rate £32.50 £23.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year +41.30% -8.00% -41.18%

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 24 July 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 24 July 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 -25 39 £437 +9.25% 1
Berkshire -10 34 £428 +6.88% 1
Hampshire -40 7 £600 +4.35% 5
Surrey -18 5 £455 -4.21% 1
Buckinghamshire - 5 £475 -
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 2 (4.00%) IBM HTTP Server
1 2 (4.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (4.00%) Oracle HTTP Server
1 2 (4.00%) WebSphere
1 2 (4.00%) WebSphere Application Server
1 2 (4.00%) WebSphere Portal
Cloud Services
1 9 (18.00%) Azure
2 8 (16.00%) OpenShift
3 4 (8.00%) AWS
4 1 (2.00%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (2.00%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (2.00%) GitHub
4 1 (2.00%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (2.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 5 (10.00%) Firewall
2 4 (8.00%) DNS
2 4 (8.00%) TCP/IP
3 2 (4.00%) BGP
3 2 (4.00%) HTTP
3 2 (4.00%) Intrusion Detection
3 2 (4.00%) SSL
3 2 (4.00%) VPN
4 1 (2.00%) iSCSI
4 1 (2.00%) Remote Desktop
4 1 (2.00%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (14.00%) Oracle Database
2 2 (4.00%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (4.00%) SQL Server
3 1 (2.00%) MySQL
3 1 (2.00%) Oracle Database 12c
Development Applications
1 9 (18.00%) Jenkins
2 3 (6.00%) GitLab
3 2 (4.00%) Introscope
3 2 (4.00%) JIRA
3 2 (4.00%) Robot Framework
General
1 9 (18.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (8.00%) Public Sector
4 1 (2.00%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 12 (24.00%) Linux Engineer
2 8 (16.00%) Architect
3 7 (14.00%) Platform Engineer
4 6 (12.00%) Senior
5 5 (10.00%) Cloud Architect
6 3 (6.00%) Cloud Engineer
7 2 (4.00%) Automation Specialist
7 2 (4.00%) Compliance Specialist
7 2 (4.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (4.00%) Middleware Engineer
7 2 (4.00%) Senior Middleware Engineer
7 2 (4.00%) Server Specialist
7 2 (4.00%) Solutions Architect
8 1 (2.00%) Integration Engineer
8 1 (2.00%) Lead Software Engineer
8 1 (2.00%) Oracle DBA
8 1 (2.00%) Senior Analyst
8 1 (2.00%) Senior Infrastructure Analyst
8 1 (2.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 1 (2.00%) Senior Oracle DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.00%) JDBC
1 2 (4.00%) JMS
1 2 (4.00%) Kafka
1 2 (4.00%) Middleware
1 2 (4.00%) Oracle GoldenGate
1 2 (4.00%) RabbitMQ
1 2 (4.00%) WebSphere MQ
2 1 (2.00%) .NET
2 1 (2.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (10.00%) Enterprise Cloud
2 4 (8.00%) Cloud Native
3 3 (6.00%) Onboarding
4 2 (4.00%) Clustering
4 2 (4.00%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (4.00%) Operational Technology
4 2 (4.00%) PKI
4 2 (4.00%) Product Ownership
4 2 (4.00%) SCADA
5 1 (2.00%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (2.00%) CMDB
5 1 (2.00%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (2.00%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (2.00%) IoT
5 1 (2.00%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 50 (100.00%) Linux
2 11 (22.00%) Windows
3 5 (10.00%) Windows Server
4 2 (4.00%) CentOS
4 2 (4.00%) Oracle Linux
4 2 (4.00%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
4 2 (4.00%) Ubuntu
4 2 (4.00%) Unix
4 2 (4.00%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (2.00%) OpenVMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (32.00%) CI/CD
1 16 (32.00%) ITIL
2 13 (26.00%) DevOps
3 12 (24.00%) Platform Engineering
3 12 (24.00%) Problem-Solving
4 11 (22.00%) Architectural Design
4 11 (22.00%) DevSecOps
4 11 (22.00%) Migration
5 9 (18.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 8 (16.00%) Runbook
7 7 (14.00%) Architectural Patterns
7 7 (14.00%) TOGAF
8 5 (10.00%) Agile
8 5 (10.00%) Deployment Automation
8 5 (10.00%) FinOps
8 5 (10.00%) High Availability
8 5 (10.00%) Infrastructure as Code
9 4 (8.00%) Observability
9 4 (8.00%) Security Management
10 3 (6.00%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 17 (34.00%) PowerShell
2 15 (30.00%) Bash
2 15 (30.00%) Python
3 3 (6.00%) Korn
4 2 (4.00%) Jython
4 2 (4.00%) Perl
5 1 (2.00%) C#
5 1 (2.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 32 (64.00%) Security Cleared
2 28 (56.00%) SC Cleared
3 8 (16.00%) RHCE
4 4 (8.00%) Degree
5 3 (6.00%) DV Cleared
6 2 (4.00%) AWS Certification
7 1 (2.00%) RHCA
7 1 (2.00%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.00%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (2.00%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (2.00%) OpenSCAP
System Software
1 8 (16.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (8.00%) Active Directory
3 2 (4.00%) Oracle RAC
3 2 (4.00%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (2.00%) Citrix Hypervisor
4 1 (2.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 19 (38.00%) Ansible
2 17 (34.00%) Kubernetes
3 12 (24.00%) Red Hat Satellite
4 5 (10.00%) Terraform
5 3 (6.00%) Progress Chef
5 3 (6.00%) Puppet
6 2 (4.00%) CA Wily
6 2 (4.00%) Grafana
6 2 (4.00%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (4.00%) Nessus
6 2 (4.00%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
6 2 (4.00%) Oracle RMAN
6 2 (4.00%) Prometheus
6 2 (4.00%) Tivoli
7 1 (2.00%) Packer
7 1 (2.00%) Rancher
7 1 (2.00%) SCOM
Vendors
1 36 (72.00%) Red Hat
2 17 (34.00%) VMware
3 15 (30.00%) Microsoft
4 9 (18.00%) Oracle
5 2 (4.00%) AppDynamics
5 2 (4.00%) IBM
5 2 (4.00%) ServiceNow
5 2 (4.00%) Snow
5 2 (4.00%) Sophos
5 2 (4.00%) Tenable
6 1 (2.00%) Broadcom
6 1 (2.00%) Dell