Red Hat Contracts in the South East

Red Hat
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East requiring knowledge or experience of Red Hat products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Red Hat over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within Red Hat, Inc.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 123 113 145
Rank change year-on-year -10 +32 +11
Contract jobs citing Red Hat 36 93 77
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 1.20% 1.67% 1.33%
As % of the Vendors category 2.28% 3.53% 2.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 73 49
10th Percentile £456 £392 £410
25th Percentile £500 £463 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £675 £560 £638
90th Percentile £678 £646 £750
England median daily rate £550 £525 £600
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
10th Percentile - - £48.78
25th Percentile - £20.50 £49.19
Median hourly rate - £21.00 £50.75
Median % change year-on-year - -58.62% -36.56%
75th Percentile - £21.50 £52.69
90th Percentile - - £53.33
England median hourly rate £68.00 £68.22 £50.75
% change year-on-year -0.32% +34.42% -19.79%

All Vendors
South East

Red Hat falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 1,580 2,634 2,867
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 52.49% 47.39% 49.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,056 1,606 1,967
10th Percentile £250 £213 £205
25th Percentile £406 £378 £364
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.80% - +2.56%
75th Percentile £613 £600 £609
90th Percentile £675 £688 £700
England median daily rate £525 £518 £538
% change year-on-year +1.30% -3.58% +2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 91 182 126
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.00 £18.08
25th Percentile £16.95 £17.24 £22.04
Median hourly rate £24.66 £48.75 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -49.42% +8.33% +130.53%
75th Percentile £59.44 £61.30 £63.00
90th Percentile £71.25 £65.00 £75.38
England median hourly rate £27.13 £22.50 £39.55
% change year-on-year +20.56% -43.11% +88.33%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Red Hat as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Red Hat in the South East

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Red Hat in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Red Hat in the South East

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Red Hat in the South East over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Red Hat in the South East

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Red Hat in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Red Hat in the South East

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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 within the South East region over the 6 months to 1 May 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 +14 18 £500 -4.76% 8
Berkshire +26 16 £550 +29.41% 6
Hampshire +24 16 £575 +10.05% 13
Oxfordshire +2 2 £488 -7.14% 3
West Sussex +2 2 £550 +15.79% 2
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England

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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 4 (11.11%) Apache
2 2 (5.56%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 13 (36.11%) OpenShift
2 9 (25.00%) Azure
3 7 (19.44%) Microsoft 365
3 7 (19.44%) SaaS
4 4 (11.11%) AWS
5 3 (8.33%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 13 (36.11%) DNS
2 11 (30.56%) DHCP
3 4 (11.11%) Firewall
3 4 (11.11%) FTP
3 4 (11.11%) SMTP
3 4 (11.11%) TCP/IP
3 4 (11.11%) tcpdump
3 4 (11.11%) Telnet
4 2 (5.56%) BGP
4 2 (5.56%) BIG-IP
4 2 (5.56%) Ethernet VPN
4 2 (5.56%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 2 (5.56%) Fibre Channel
4 2 (5.56%) IPv6
4 2 (5.56%) OSPF
4 2 (5.56%) SAN
4 2 (5.56%) Spanning Tree
4 2 (5.56%) SSL
4 2 (5.56%) TACACS
4 2 (5.56%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (5.56%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (5.56%) Oracle Database
2 2 (5.56%) Oracle Database 12c
2 2 (5.56%) RDBMS
2 2 (5.56%) Relational Database
3 1 (2.78%) Redis
Development Applications
1 7 (19.44%) Git
2 2 (5.56%) Bitbucket Server
2 2 (5.56%) CA Release Automation
2 2 (5.56%) GitLab
2 2 (5.56%) Jenkins
2 2 (5.56%) JIRA
2 2 (5.56%) SonarQube
2 2 (5.56%) Sonatype Nexus
2 2 (5.56%) Subversion
2 2 (5.56%) TeamCity
General
1 6 (16.67%) Social Skills
2 2 (5.56%) Documentation Skills
2 2 (5.56%) Military
2 2 (5.56%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 10 (27.78%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 8 (22.22%) Administrator
3 7 (19.44%) Linux Administrator
3 7 (19.44%) Senior
3 7 (19.44%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 6 (16.67%) Linux Engineer
5 4 (11.11%) Lead
6 2 (5.56%) Architect
6 2 (5.56%) Cloud Engineer
6 2 (5.56%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (5.56%) Network Engineer
6 2 (5.56%) Oracle Architect
6 2 (5.56%) Unix Administrator
7 1 (2.78%) AWS Engineer
7 1 (2.78%) DBA
7 1 (2.78%) DevOps Engineer
7 1 (2.78%) Platform Engineer
7 1 (2.78%) Ruby Engineer
7 1 (2.78%) Solaris Administrator
7 1 (2.78%) Unix Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (11.11%) LDAP
1 4 (11.11%) YAML
2 3 (8.33%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (5.56%) Spring Boot
4 1 (2.78%) Kafka
4 1 (2.78%) Keycloak
Miscellaneous
1 7 (19.44%) Hybrid Cloud
1 7 (19.44%) Public Cloud
2 4 (11.11%) Data Centre
2 4 (11.11%) Enterprise Storage
3 2 (5.56%) Onboarding
3 2 (5.56%) PKI
4 1 (2.78%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 34 (94.44%) Linux
2 22 (61.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 17 (47.22%) Windows
4 14 (38.89%) Windows Server
5 11 (30.56%) CentOS
6 10 (27.78%) Ubuntu
6 10 (27.78%) Windows Server 2016
7 6 (16.67%) Solaris
8 5 (13.89%) Windows Server 2019
9 4 (11.11%) Unix
10 2 (5.56%) AIX
10 2 (5.56%) HPUX
10 2 (5.56%) Oracle Linux
10 2 (5.56%) VMS
10 2 (5.56%) Windows 10
10 2 (5.56%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (2.78%) Fedora
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (38.89%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 11 (30.56%) DevSecOps
2 11 (30.56%) High Availability
3 8 (22.22%) Agile
4 7 (19.44%) Application Packaging
4 7 (19.44%) Change Control
5 6 (16.67%) CI/CD
5 6 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (16.67%) Root Cause Analysis
5 6 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
6 5 (13.89%) DevOps
6 5 (13.89%) Performance Tuning
6 5 (13.89%) Vulnerability Management
7 4 (11.11%) ITIL
7 4 (11.11%) Performance Monitoring
7 4 (11.11%) Runbook
7 4 (11.11%) Server Migrations
8 3 (8.33%) Load Balancing
8 3 (8.33%) Migration
8 3 (8.33%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (25.00%) Bash
1 9 (25.00%) PowerShell
2 7 (19.44%) Python
3 4 (11.11%) Perl
4 2 (5.56%) SQL
5 1 (2.78%) Korn
5 1 (2.78%) Ruby
5 1 (2.78%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 25 (69.44%) Security Cleared
2 14 (38.89%) SC Cleared
3 11 (30.56%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.56%) GDPR
1 2 (5.56%) QA
System Software
1 11 (30.56%) vSphere
2 10 (27.78%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (11.11%) NFS
3 4 (11.11%) Samba
4 3 (8.33%) Active Directory
5 2 (5.56%) Ceph
5 2 (5.56%) Docker
5 2 (5.56%) Hyper-V
5 2 (5.56%) Oracle RAC
5 2 (5.56%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 19 (52.78%) Ansible
2 10 (27.78%) Kubernetes
3 8 (22.22%) Terraform
4 7 (19.44%) Nessus
4 7 (19.44%) vCenter Server
5 6 (16.67%) yum
6 4 (11.11%) NetBackup
6 4 (11.11%) Progress Chef
7 2 (5.56%) Argo
7 2 (5.56%) Data Guard
7 2 (5.56%) Kibana
7 2 (5.56%) Oracle RMAN
7 2 (5.56%) Oracle ZFS
7 2 (5.56%) Puppet
7 2 (5.56%) Red Hat Satellite
7 2 (5.56%) SELinux
8 1 (2.78%) Grafana
8 1 (2.78%) Packer
8 1 (2.78%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 22 (61.11%) VMware
2 10 (27.78%) HP
3 7 (19.44%) Microsoft
4 6 (16.67%) Dell
4 6 (16.67%) Veritas
5 4 (11.11%) 3PAR
5 4 (11.11%) Oracle
6 3 (8.33%) F5
6 3 (8.33%) Splunk
7 2 (5.56%) AppDynamics
7 2 (5.56%) Cisco
7 2 (5.56%) SolarWinds
7 2 (5.56%) Symantec
8 1 (2.78%) Juniper