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 4 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 179 130 109
Rank change year-on-year -49 -21 +13
Contract jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 50 28 71
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.76% 0.81% 1.53%
As % of the Operating Systems category 6.51% 4.70% 8.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 23 51
10th Percentile £414 £369 £406
25th Percentile £431 £471 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £550 £570
Median % change year-on-year -16.36% -3.51% +1.33%
75th Percentile £525 £600 £603
90th Percentile £668 £630 £672
England median daily rate £500 £520 £532
% change year-on-year -3.80% -2.21% -11.42%

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 768 596 801
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 11.74% 17.26% 17.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 506 421 528
10th Percentile £204 £190 £203
25th Percentile £363 £250 £330
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £484 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year +1.79% +5.56% +5.88%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £586
90th Percentile £640 £638 £638
England median daily rate £469 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +4.22% -5.26% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 71 52 39
10th Percentile £16.00 £15.12 £16.25
25th Percentile £20.50 £16.95 £24.25
Median hourly rate £38.72 £18.87 £57.25
Median % change year-on-year +105.19% -67.04% +4.09%
75th Percentile £60.00 £28.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £67.47 £58.75 £70.75
England median hourly rate £33.32 £24.66 £49.00
% change year-on-year +35.10% -49.67% +11.43%

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 4 September 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 4 September 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 -26 33 £440 -8.81% 7
Berkshire -3 30 £437 -9.43% 5
Surrey -11 10 £458 -3.68% 4
Hampshire -40 7 £625 +8.70% 8
Buckinghamshire - 3 £484 -
West Sussex -24 1 £700 +12.00% 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 (4.00%) IBM HTTP Server
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 10 (20.00%) Azure
2 9 (18.00%) AWS
3 7 (14.00%) OpenShift
4 2 (4.00%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (4.00%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (2.00%) GitHub
5 1 (2.00%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (2.00%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 5 (10.00%) DNS
2 4 (8.00%) Firewall
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%) BIG-IP
4 1 (2.00%) DHCP
4 1 (2.00%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (20.00%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 9 (18.00%) Jenkins
2 4 (8.00%) GitLab
3 2 (4.00%) Introscope
3 2 (4.00%) JIRA
4 1 (2.00%) Git
General
1 7 (14.00%) Analytical Skills
1 7 (14.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 14 (28.00%) Architect
2 12 (24.00%) Linux Engineer
3 7 (14.00%) Cloud Architect
4 6 (12.00%) Platform Engineer
4 6 (12.00%) Senior
5 4 (8.00%) Cloud Engineer
6 3 (6.00%) Migration Architect
7 2 (4.00%) Azure Engineer
7 2 (4.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (4.00%) Integration Architect
7 2 (4.00%) Middleware Engineer
7 2 (4.00%) Monitoring Engineer
7 2 (4.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (4.00%) Senior Middleware Engineer
7 2 (4.00%) Solutions Architect
8 1 (2.00%) Administrator
8 1 (2.00%) Infrastructure Architect
8 1 (2.00%) Software Engineer
8 1 (2.00%) Systems Administrator
8 1 (2.00%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (10.00%) Terraform
2 2 (4.00%) JDBC
2 2 (4.00%) JMS
2 2 (4.00%) Kafka
2 2 (4.00%) Middleware
2 2 (4.00%) RabbitMQ
2 2 (4.00%) WebSphere MQ
3 1 (2.00%) .NET
3 1 (2.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (20.00%) Enterprise Cloud
2 4 (8.00%) Cloud Native
3 3 (6.00%) Onboarding
3 3 (6.00%) Product Ownership
4 2 (4.00%) Clustering
4 2 (4.00%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (4.00%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (4.00%) Operational Technology
4 2 (4.00%) SCADA
5 1 (2.00%) CMDB
5 1 (2.00%) Data Centre
5 1 (2.00%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (2.00%) IoT
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 4 (8.00%) Rocky
5 3 (6.00%) Oracle Linux
6 2 (4.00%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
6 2 (4.00%) Ubuntu
6 2 (4.00%) Unix
7 1 (2.00%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (40.00%) CI/CD
2 14 (28.00%) Migration
3 13 (26.00%) DevOps
4 12 (24.00%) Architectural Patterns
4 12 (24.00%) Platform Engineering
4 12 (24.00%) TOGAF
5 11 (22.00%) Problem-Solving
6 10 (20.00%) FinOps
6 10 (20.00%) ITIL
7 8 (16.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 7 (14.00%) Architectural Design
8 7 (14.00%) DevSecOps
8 7 (14.00%) Infrastructure as Code
8 7 (14.00%) Runbook
9 5 (10.00%) Analytics
9 5 (10.00%) Deployment Automation
9 5 (10.00%) Observability
10 4 (8.00%) Containerisation
10 4 (8.00%) Continuous Improvement
11 3 (6.00%) Security Hardening
Programming Languages
1 16 (32.00%) Bash
2 14 (28.00%) Python
3 13 (26.00%) PowerShell
4 2 (4.00%) Jython
4 2 (4.00%) Perl
4 2 (4.00%) Shell Script
5 1 (2.00%) C#
Qualifications
1 27 (54.00%) Security Cleared
2 22 (44.00%) SC Cleared
3 6 (12.00%) RHCE
4 4 (8.00%) DV Cleared
5 2 (4.00%) AWS Certification
6 1 (2.00%) RHCA
6 1 (2.00%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.00%) Disclosure Scotland
1 1 (2.00%) OpenSCAP
System Software
1 7 (14.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (12.00%) VMware ESXi
3 4 (8.00%) Docker
4 3 (6.00%) vSphere
5 1 (2.00%) Active Directory
5 1 (2.00%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (2.00%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 21 (42.00%) Kubernetes
2 18 (36.00%) Ansible
3 9 (18.00%) Red Hat Satellite
4 4 (8.00%) Grafana
4 4 (8.00%) Progress Chef
4 4 (8.00%) Prometheus
4 4 (8.00%) Puppet
5 3 (6.00%) Podman
6 2 (4.00%) CA Wily
6 2 (4.00%) Check_MK
6 2 (4.00%) SCOM
6 2 (4.00%) Tivoli
7 1 (2.00%) Packer
7 1 (2.00%) Rancher
7 1 (2.00%) SCCM
7 1 (2.00%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 30 (60.00%) Red Hat
2 15 (30.00%) Microsoft
2 15 (30.00%) VMware
3 13 (26.00%) Oracle
4 3 (6.00%) ServiceNow
5 2 (4.00%) AppDynamics
5 2 (4.00%) IBM
6 1 (2.00%) BeyondTrust
6 1 (2.00%) F5