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 12 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 145 118 139
Rank change year-on-year -27 +21 -12
Contract jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 44 41 68
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.93% 1.30% 1.25%
As % of the Operating Systems category 6.01% 7.43% 6.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 26 48
10th Percentile £402 £415 £400
25th Percentile £450 £478 £493
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £484 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -12.05% - -6.14%
75th Percentile £557 £630 £605
90th Percentile £612 £675 £638
England median daily rate £525 £595 £550
% change year-on-year -11.76% +8.18% -8.33%
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 £91.84 £112.00 £25.18
% change year-on-year -18.00% +344.80% -65.39%

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 732 552 1,015
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 15.51% 17.53% 18.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 513 365 667
10th Percentile £200 £200 £175
25th Percentile £263 £263 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £438 £425
Median % change year-on-year +2.86% +2.94% -15.00%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £575
90th Percentile £638 £650 £638
England median daily rate £449 £475 £457
% change year-on-year -5.38% +3.94% -12.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 67 24 86
10th Percentile £12.50 £21.40 £16.25
25th Percentile £15.50 £30.44 £23.72
Median hourly rate £20.79 £59.13 £54.78
Median % change year-on-year -64.84% +7.93% +129.25%
75th Percentile £48.75 £62.81 £69.66
90th Percentile £75.00 £73.88 £76.53
England median hourly rate £22.54 £42.75 £25.15
% change year-on-year -47.28% +70.00% -5.03%

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 12 February 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 12 February 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 -6 28 £483 +1.58% 3
Berkshire -1 27 £483 -5.85% 2
Hampshire -33 13 £565 -1.74% 2
Surrey -10 2 £475 - 1
West Sussex - 2 £613 -
Buckinghamshire -7 1 £450 +7.02% 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 2 (4.55%) JBoss
1 2 (4.55%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (2.27%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (2.27%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 12 (27.27%) OpenShift
2 6 (13.64%) Azure
3 5 (11.36%) AWS
4 3 (6.82%) Amazon EC2
4 3 (6.82%) Amazon S3
4 3 (6.82%) Azure Storage
5 2 (4.55%) IaaS
5 2 (4.55%) PaaS
6 1 (2.27%) Akamai
6 1 (2.27%) Amazon ECR
6 1 (2.27%) GitHub
6 1 (2.27%) Nutanix
6 1 (2.27%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (6.82%) Firewall
2 2 (4.55%) DHCP
2 2 (4.55%) DNS
3 1 (2.27%) Cisco IOS
3 1 (2.27%) SAN
3 1 (2.27%) TCP/IP
3 1 (2.27%) VLAN
3 1 (2.27%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.82%) Amazon RDS
1 3 (6.82%) Oracle Database
1 3 (6.82%) Oracle Reports
2 2 (4.55%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (4.55%) Jenkins
2 1 (2.27%) Git
2 1 (2.27%) Subversion
General
1 13 (29.55%) Social Skills
2 7 (15.91%) Public Sector
3 2 (4.55%) Finance
4 1 (2.27%) Back Office
4 1 (2.27%) Banking
4 1 (2.27%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (2.27%) Electronics
4 1 (2.27%) Front Office
4 1 (2.27%) Military
Job Titles
1 8 (18.18%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 6 (13.64%) Infrastructure Support
2 6 (13.64%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
2 6 (13.64%) Support Engineer
3 5 (11.36%) Site Engineer
3 5 (11.36%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 4 (9.09%) Linux Engineer
5 3 (6.82%) Administrator
5 3 (6.82%) DBA
5 3 (6.82%) Oracle DBA
5 3 (6.82%) Senior
5 3 (6.82%) Systems Engineer
6 2 (4.55%) Linux Specialist
6 2 (4.55%) Linux Systems Engineer
6 2 (4.55%) Technical Specialist
6 2 (4.55%) VMware Engineer
6 2 (4.55%) Windows Engineer
6 2 (4.55%) Windows Systems Engineer
7 1 (2.27%) Linux Administrator
7 1 (2.27%) Server Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (18.18%) Loki
2 2 (4.55%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (2.27%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 11 (25.00%) Cloud Native
2 8 (18.18%) Virtual Team
3 1 (2.27%) Clustering
3 1 (2.27%) Data Centre
3 1 (2.27%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (2.27%) Enterprise Storage
3 1 (2.27%) HP Storage
3 1 (2.27%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (2.27%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.27%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 44 (100.00%) Linux
2 6 (13.64%) Windows
3 3 (6.82%) Windows Server
4 2 (4.55%) Ubuntu
4 2 (4.55%) Unix
5 1 (2.27%) Solaris
5 1 (2.27%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (2.27%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (2.27%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (36.36%) DevSecOps
2 15 (34.09%) Architectural Design
2 15 (34.09%) ITIL
2 15 (34.09%) Problem-Solving
3 13 (29.55%) CI/CD
4 9 (20.45%) Agile
4 9 (20.45%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 8 (18.18%) Infrastructure as Code
5 8 (18.18%) Infrastructure Management
5 8 (18.18%) Observability
5 8 (18.18%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 5 (11.36%) DevOps
7 4 (9.09%) High Availability
7 4 (9.09%) Patch Management
7 4 (9.09%) Runbook
8 3 (6.82%) Performance Tuning
8 3 (6.82%) Project Delivery
8 3 (6.82%) Statistics
8 3 (6.82%) Task Automation
9 2 (4.55%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 13 (29.55%) Python
2 11 (25.00%) Bash
3 6 (13.64%) Shell Script
4 3 (6.82%) Java
4 3 (6.82%) SQL
5 2 (4.55%) Perl
5 2 (4.55%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 25 (56.82%) Security Cleared
2 18 (40.91%) SC Cleared
3 6 (13.64%) DV Cleared
4 3 (6.82%) Azure Certification
4 3 (6.82%) Degree
4 3 (6.82%) OCP
4 3 (6.82%) Oracle Certification
5 1 (2.27%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (2.27%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (9.09%) GDPR
2 1 (2.27%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (2.27%) Def Stans
2 1 (2.27%) QA
System Software
1 15 (34.09%) VMware Infrastructure
2 10 (22.73%) vSphere
3 4 (9.09%) Active Directory
3 4 (9.09%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (4.55%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (2.27%) GPFS
Systems Management
1 20 (45.45%) Ansible
2 17 (38.64%) Red Hat Satellite
3 10 (22.73%) Kubernetes
4 8 (18.18%) Argo
4 8 (18.18%) Grafana
4 8 (18.18%) Kustomize
4 8 (18.18%) Prometheus
5 3 (6.82%) Data Guard
5 3 (6.82%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
5 3 (6.82%) Oracle RMAN
6 2 (4.55%) systemd
7 1 (2.27%) BladeLogic
7 1 (2.27%) Nessus
7 1 (2.27%) NetBackup
7 1 (2.27%) Podman
7 1 (2.27%) SCCM
7 1 (2.27%) SCOM
7 1 (2.27%) SELinux
7 1 (2.27%) Terraform
7 1 (2.27%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 38 (86.36%) Red Hat
2 31 (70.45%) VMware
3 4 (9.09%) Microsoft
3 4 (9.09%) Oracle
4 3 (6.82%) CyberArk
5 2 (4.55%) Broadcom
5 2 (4.55%) Dell
5 2 (4.55%) HP
5 2 (4.55%) ServiceNow
5 2 (4.55%) Tenable
5 2 (4.55%) Veritas
6 1 (2.27%) Cisco
6 1 (2.27%) Citrix
6 1 (2.27%) Fortinet
6 1 (2.27%) IBM
6 1 (2.27%) Imperva
6 1 (2.27%) NetApp
6 1 (2.27%) SolarWinds
6 1 (2.27%) Sophos
6 1 (2.27%) Symantec