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 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 127 113 118
Rank change year-on-year -14 +5 +52
Contract jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 36 94 100
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 1.09% 1.65% 1.70%
As % of the Operating Systems category 6.14% 9.31% 8.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 72 73
10th Percentile £393 £417 £402
25th Percentile £415 £501 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £573 £575
Median % change year-on-year -3.93% -0.43% +13.58%
75th Percentile £600 £603 £625
90th Percentile £675 £650 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £625
% change year-on-year - -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 - £72.75 £71.25
% change year-on-year - +2.11% +1.79%

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 586 1,010 1,159
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 17.82% 17.78% 19.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 407 639 785
10th Percentile £198 £203 £194
25th Percentile £315 £331 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year +3.16% +5.56% -
75th Percentile £600 £590 £575
90th Percentile £650 £650 £643
England median daily rate £464 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -2.37% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 66 69
10th Percentile £14.57 £15.94 £16.30
25th Percentile £15.50 £17.77 £21.25
Median hourly rate £18.82 £47.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -60.38% -13.64% +223.53%
75th Percentile £28.00 £69.92 £66.00
90th Percentile £58.21 £71.88 £74.00
England median hourly rate £20.00 £25.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -20.00% -41.18% +93.18%

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 6 July 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 6 July 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 +21 18 £421 -22.13% 18
Berkshire +29 16 £475 -21.16% 14
Hampshire -9 15 £575 -0.86% 2
Buckinghamshire +6 2 £421 -11.71% 2
West Sussex +5 2 £550 +7.32% 1
Surrey +9 1 £475 +18.75%
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 6 (16.67%) Apache
2 2 (5.56%) JBoss
2 2 (5.56%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (2.78%) Anypoint
Cloud Services
1 6 (16.67%) Azure
2 5 (13.89%) AWS
3 3 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (8.33%) OpenShift
4 2 (5.56%) Azure Monitor
4 2 (5.56%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 7 (19.44%) SAN
2 6 (16.67%) DHCP
2 6 (16.67%) DNS
3 4 (11.11%) TCP/IP
4 2 (5.56%) Firewall
5 1 (2.78%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (2.78%) Network Security
5 1 (2.78%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.56%) Elasticsearch
1 2 (5.56%) Oracle Database
1 2 (5.56%) Oracle Database 12c
1 2 (5.56%) RDBMS
1 2 (5.56%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (16.67%) Sonatype Nexus
2 5 (13.89%) Git
3 4 (11.11%) MSI
3 4 (11.11%) Robot Framework
4 2 (5.56%) Bitbucket Server
4 2 (5.56%) CA Release Automation
4 2 (5.56%) Jenkins
4 2 (5.56%) JIRA
4 2 (5.56%) SonarQube
4 2 (5.56%) Subversion
4 2 (5.56%) TeamCity
General
1 9 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (11.11%) Documentation Skills
2 4 (11.11%) Public Sector
3 1 (2.78%) Finance
Job Titles
1 11 (30.56%) Administrator
2 8 (22.22%) Integration Engineer
3 7 (19.44%) Backup Administrator
3 7 (19.44%) Storage Administrator
3 7 (19.44%) Storage and Backup Administrator
4 4 (11.11%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 4 (11.11%) Lead
4 4 (11.11%) Linux Administrator
4 4 (11.11%) Linux Engineer
5 3 (8.33%) HP Storage Administrator
6 2 (5.56%) Architect
6 2 (5.56%) Azure Engineer
6 2 (5.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (5.56%) Oracle Architect
7 1 (2.78%) Analyst
7 1 (2.78%) Applications Packager
7 1 (2.78%) Linux Systems Administrator
7 1 (2.78%) Security Analyst
7 1 (2.78%) Systems Administrator
7 1 (2.78%) Systems Integrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.56%) Elastic Stack
1 2 (5.56%) JSON
1 2 (5.56%) Spring Boot
2 1 (2.78%) Middleware
2 1 (2.78%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (30.56%) Enterprise Storage
2 4 (11.11%) Data Centre
2 4 (11.11%) PKI
3 3 (8.33%) HP Storage
4 2 (5.56%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.78%) Client/Server
5 1 (2.78%) Clustering
5 1 (2.78%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (2.78%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 36 (100.00%) Linux
2 22 (61.11%) Windows
3 12 (33.33%) Windows Server 2019
4 9 (25.00%) Windows Server
5 7 (19.44%) CentOS
6 4 (11.11%) Windows Server 2012
6 4 (11.11%) Windows Server 2016
7 3 (8.33%) VMS
8 2 (5.56%) Solaris
8 2 (5.56%) Unix
9 1 (2.78%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (30.56%) DevOps
1 11 (30.56%) Problem-Solving
2 10 (27.78%) High Availability
2 10 (27.78%) ITIL
3 8 (22.22%) Agile
3 8 (22.22%) Disaster Recovery
4 7 (19.44%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 7 (19.44%) Stakeholder Management
4 7 (19.44%) Technical Leadership
5 6 (16.67%) Batch Scripting
5 6 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
5 6 (16.67%) Deployment Automation
6 5 (13.89%) Test Automation
6 5 (13.89%) Web Development
7 4 (11.11%) DevSecOps
7 4 (11.11%) Patch Management
7 4 (11.11%) Prototyping
7 4 (11.11%) Workflow
8 3 (8.33%) CI/CD
8 3 (8.33%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 11 (30.56%) Python
2 9 (25.00%) PowerShell
3 7 (19.44%) Shell Script
4 6 (16.67%) PHP
5 5 (13.89%) Perl
6 4 (11.11%) Bash
7 2 (5.56%) SQL
8 1 (2.78%) Ruby
8 1 (2.78%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 27 (75.00%) Security Cleared
2 14 (38.89%) SC Cleared
3 11 (30.56%) DV Cleared
4 2 (5.56%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.56%) GDPR
1 2 (5.56%) QA
System Software
1 10 (27.78%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (16.67%) Active Directory
3 4 (11.11%) vSphere
4 3 (8.33%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (8.33%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (5.56%) Docker
5 2 (5.56%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (2.78%) GPFS
Systems Management
1 15 (41.67%) Ansible
2 10 (27.78%) NetBackup
3 6 (16.67%) Terraform
4 4 (11.11%) WMI
5 2 (5.56%) Data Guard
5 2 (5.56%) Kibana
5 2 (5.56%) Kubernetes
5 2 (5.56%) Oracle RMAN
5 2 (5.56%) Progress Chef
5 2 (5.56%) Red Hat Satellite
5 2 (5.56%) SELinux
5 2 (5.56%) yum
6 1 (2.78%) BladeLogic
6 1 (2.78%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 25 (69.44%) Red Hat
2 17 (47.22%) VMware
3 13 (36.11%) HP
3 13 (36.11%) Veritas
4 11 (30.56%) 3PAR
5 8 (22.22%) Dell
6 6 (16.67%) Microsoft
6 6 (16.67%) NetApp
6 6 (16.67%) Nimble Storage
7 2 (5.56%) AppDynamics
7 2 (5.56%) IBM
7 2 (5.56%) Oracle
7 2 (5.56%) SolarWinds
7 2 (5.56%) Splunk
7 2 (5.56%) Symantec
8 1 (2.78%) ArcSight
8 1 (2.78%) Mellanox
8 1 (2.78%) MuleSoft
8 1 (2.78%) Solarflare
8 1 (2.78%) Sun