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 5 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 142 133 139
Rank change year-on-year -9 +6 +13
Contract jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 43 43 71
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 1.01% 1.08% 1.37%
As % of the Operating Systems category 5.96% 6.34% 7.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 26 49
10th Percentile £393 £432 £400
25th Percentile £450 £478 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £484 £560 £530
Median % change year-on-year -13.62% +5.66% -7.83%
75th Percentile £557 £602 £623
90th Percentile £604 £713 £675
England median daily rate £525 £582 £550
% change year-on-year -9.83% +5.86% -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 £114.00 £112.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year +1.79% +60.00% -3.45%

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 721 678 997
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 16.89% 16.99% 19.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 490 452 657
10th Percentile £190 £200 £160
25th Percentile £233 £278 £208
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 £439 £400
Median % change year-on-year -1.99% +9.69% -15.79%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £575
90th Percentile £607 £660 £638
England median daily rate £450 £475 £480
% change year-on-year -5.26% -1.04% -6.34%
Number of hourly rates quoted 81 31 81
10th Percentile £12.50 £16.32 £17.25
25th Percentile £15.50 £41.50 £24.00
Median hourly rate £20.18 £60.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -66.64% +10.00% +193.33%
75th Percentile £25.15 £70.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £71.25 £76.53
England median hourly rate £25.00 £60.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year -58.33% +84.62% +30.00%

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 5 December 2025.

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 5 December 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
Berkshire +14 23 £483 +1.58% 4
Thames Valley +12 23 £483 +1.58% 6
Hampshire -13 15 £588 +0.77% 3
Surrey +1 3 £475 - 4
West Sussex - 2 £575 -
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 (4.65%) Apache
1 2 (4.65%) JBoss
2 1 (2.33%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (2.33%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (2.33%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 10 (23.26%) OpenShift
2 3 (6.98%) AWS
2 3 (6.98%) Azure
3 1 (2.33%) Akamai
3 1 (2.33%) Amazon ECR
3 1 (2.33%) GitHub
3 1 (2.33%) Nutanix
3 1 (2.33%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (18.60%) SAN
2 4 (9.30%) Firewall
3 2 (4.65%) DHCP
3 2 (4.65%) DNS
4 1 (2.33%) Cisco IOS
4 1 (2.33%) HTTPS
4 1 (2.33%) NAS
4 1 (2.33%) SSL
4 1 (2.33%) TCP/IP
4 1 (2.33%) VLAN
4 1 (2.33%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.65%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (4.65%) Jenkins
1 2 (4.65%) MSI
1 2 (4.65%) Robot Framework
1 2 (4.65%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (2.33%) Git
2 1 (2.33%) Subversion
General
1 18 (41.86%) Social Skills
2 7 (16.28%) Public Sector
3 3 (6.98%) Finance
4 2 (4.65%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (2.33%) Back Office
5 1 (2.33%) Banking
5 1 (2.33%) Electronics
5 1 (2.33%) Front Office
5 1 (2.33%) Military
Job Titles
1 10 (23.26%) Administrator
2 8 (18.60%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 7 (16.28%) Backup Administrator
3 7 (16.28%) Storage Administrator
3 7 (16.28%) Storage and Backup Administrator
4 6 (13.95%) Infrastructure Support
4 6 (13.95%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
4 6 (13.95%) Support Engineer
5 5 (11.63%) Site Engineer
5 5 (11.63%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 3 (6.98%) HP Storage Administrator
6 3 (6.98%) Integration Engineer
6 3 (6.98%) Linux Engineer
6 3 (6.98%) Senior
7 2 (4.65%) DevOps Engineer
7 2 (4.65%) Linux Administrator
7 2 (4.65%) Linux Specialist
7 2 (4.65%) Systems Administrator
7 2 (4.65%) Technical Specialist
7 2 (4.65%) VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (18.60%) Loki
2 2 (4.65%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (2.33%) JSON
3 1 (2.33%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 8 (18.60%) Cloud Native
1 8 (18.60%) Virtual Team
2 7 (16.28%) Enterprise Storage
3 3 (6.98%) HP Storage
4 2 (4.65%) Clustering
4 2 (4.65%) Data Centre
4 2 (4.65%) Management Information System
4 2 (4.65%) PKI
5 1 (2.33%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (2.33%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (2.33%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 43 (100.00%) Linux
2 14 (32.56%) Windows
3 8 (18.60%) Windows Server 2019
4 6 (13.95%) Windows Server 2016
5 5 (11.63%) Windows Server
6 4 (9.30%) Windows Server 2012
7 2 (4.65%) CentOS
7 2 (4.65%) Ubuntu
7 2 (4.65%) Unix
8 1 (2.33%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (32.56%) ITIL
2 12 (27.91%) Agile
2 12 (27.91%) Problem-Solving
3 11 (25.58%) CI/CD
4 9 (20.93%) DevSecOps
4 9 (20.93%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 9 (20.93%) Infrastructure Management
5 8 (18.60%) Architectural Design
5 8 (18.60%) Disaster Recovery
5 8 (18.60%) Infrastructure as Code
5 8 (18.60%) Observability
5 8 (18.60%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 6 (13.95%) Stakeholder Management
7 5 (11.63%) DevOps
8 4 (9.30%) Patch Management
9 3 (6.98%) Continuous Improvement
9 3 (6.98%) High Availability
9 3 (6.98%) Project Delivery
9 3 (6.98%) Roadmaps
9 3 (6.98%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 16 (37.21%) Python
2 11 (25.58%) Bash
3 9 (20.93%) Shell Script
4 4 (9.30%) PowerShell
5 3 (6.98%) Java
5 3 (6.98%) Perl
6 2 (4.65%) PHP
7 1 (2.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 25 (58.14%) Security Cleared
2 17 (39.53%) SC Cleared
3 6 (13.95%) DV Cleared
4 2 (4.65%) Degree
4 2 (4.65%) TOGAF Certification
5 1 (2.33%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.65%) QA
2 1 (2.33%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.33%) Def Stans
2 1 (2.33%) GDPR
System Software
1 13 (30.23%) VMware Infrastructure
2 10 (23.26%) vSphere
3 4 (9.30%) Active Directory
4 2 (4.65%) GPFS
4 2 (4.65%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (4.65%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (2.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 18 (41.86%) Ansible
2 11 (25.58%) Kubernetes
3 10 (23.26%) Red Hat Satellite
4 8 (18.60%) Argo
4 8 (18.60%) Grafana
4 8 (18.60%) Kustomize
4 8 (18.60%) Prometheus
5 6 (13.95%) NetBackup
6 4 (9.30%) Terraform
7 2 (4.65%) BladeLogic
7 2 (4.65%) SCOM
7 2 (4.65%) WMI
8 1 (2.33%) Podman
8 1 (2.33%) Rsyslog
8 1 (2.33%) SCCM
8 1 (2.33%) SELinux
8 1 (2.33%) vCenter Server
8 1 (2.33%) WhatsUp Gold
Vendors
1 35 (81.40%) Red Hat
2 24 (55.81%) VMware
3 9 (20.93%) HP
4 8 (18.60%) Veritas
5 7 (16.28%) 3PAR
6 6 (13.95%) NetApp
6 6 (13.95%) Nimble Storage
7 5 (11.63%) Dell
8 4 (9.30%) Microsoft
9 3 (6.98%) CyberArk
10 2 (4.65%) IBM
10 2 (4.65%) Mellanox
10 2 (4.65%) ServiceNow
10 2 (4.65%) Solarflare
11 1 (2.33%) Cisco
11 1 (2.33%) Citrix
11 1 (2.33%) Fortinet
11 1 (2.33%) Oracle
11 1 (2.33%) SolarWinds
11 1 (2.33%) Symantec