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 12 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
12 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 120 108 142
Rank change year-on-year -12 +34 +14
Contract jobs citing Red Hat 33 89 75
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 1.10% 1.61% 1.33%
As % of the Vendors category 2.09% 3.43% 2.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 71 47
10th Percentile £438 £390 £419
25th Percentile £500 £447 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £560
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -6.25% +1.82%
75th Percentile £644 £574 £638
90th Percentile £685 £650 £750
England median daily rate £550 £525 £603
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.86% +2.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £48.78
25th Percentile - - £49.19
Median hourly rate - - £50.75
75th Percentile - - £52.69
90th Percentile - - £53.33
England median hourly rate £68.00 £74.44 £50.75
% change year-on-year -8.65% +46.68% -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 1,576 2,596 2,779
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 52.48% 47.05% 49.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,054 1,592 1,900
10th Percentile £233 £213 £205
25th Percentile £400 £388 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.50% - +3.63%
75th Percentile £603 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £688 £700
England median daily rate £525 £518 £535
% change year-on-year +1.35% -3.18% +1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 87 183 132
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.00 £16.28
25th Percentile £16.95 £16.87 £20.23
Median hourly rate £24.66 £50.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -50.68% +11.11% +130.53%
75th Percentile £59.44 £61.30 £62.63
90th Percentile £72.25 £66.62 £75.00
England median hourly rate £26.73 £22.50 £38.50
% change year-on-year +18.78% -41.56% +79.91%

Red Hat
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 12 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 12 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 +13 17 £550 +4.76% 20
Berkshire +23 15 £550 +29.41% 8
Hampshire +27 14 £550 +5.26% 21
West Sussex +3 2 £550 +15.79% 4
Oxfordshire 0 2 £488 -7.14% 5
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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 2 (6.06%) Apache
1 2 (6.06%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 12 (36.36%) OpenShift
2 8 (24.24%) Azure
3 4 (12.12%) AWS
3 4 (12.12%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (12.12%) SaaS
4 3 (9.09%) GitHub
5 1 (3.03%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (33.33%) DNS
2 9 (27.27%) DHCP
3 4 (12.12%) Firewall
3 4 (12.12%) TCP/IP
4 2 (6.06%) BGP
4 2 (6.06%) BIG-IP
4 2 (6.06%) Ethernet VPN
4 2 (6.06%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 2 (6.06%) Fibre Channel
4 2 (6.06%) FTP
4 2 (6.06%) IPv6
4 2 (6.06%) OSPF
4 2 (6.06%) SAN
4 2 (6.06%) SMTP
4 2 (6.06%) Spanning Tree
4 2 (6.06%) SSL
4 2 (6.06%) TACACS
4 2 (6.06%) tcpdump
4 2 (6.06%) Telnet
4 2 (6.06%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (6.06%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (6.06%) Oracle Database
2 2 (6.06%) Oracle Database 12c
2 2 (6.06%) RDBMS
2 2 (6.06%) Relational Database
3 1 (3.03%) Redis
Development Applications
1 7 (21.21%) Git
2 3 (9.09%) Jenkins
3 2 (6.06%) Bitbucket Server
3 2 (6.06%) CA Release Automation
3 2 (6.06%) GitLab
3 2 (6.06%) JIRA
3 2 (6.06%) SonarQube
3 2 (6.06%) Sonatype Nexus
3 2 (6.06%) Subversion
3 2 (6.06%) TeamCity
4 1 (3.03%) Cypress.io
General
1 8 (24.24%) Social Skills
2 2 (6.06%) Documentation Skills
2 2 (6.06%) Military
2 2 (6.06%) Telecoms
3 1 (3.03%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (21.21%) Administrator
1 7 (21.21%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 6 (18.18%) Linux Administrator
2 6 (18.18%) Linux Engineer
3 5 (15.15%) Senior
4 4 (12.12%) Lead
4 4 (12.12%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (6.06%) Architect
5 2 (6.06%) Cloud Engineer
5 2 (6.06%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (6.06%) Oracle Architect
5 2 (6.06%) Platform Engineer
5 2 (6.06%) Unix Administrator
6 1 (3.03%) AWS Engineer
6 1 (3.03%) DBA
6 1 (3.03%) Developer
6 1 (3.03%) Network Engineer
6 1 (3.03%) Ruby Engineer
6 1 (3.03%) Solaris Administrator
6 1 (3.03%) Unix DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (12.12%) YAML
2 3 (9.09%) Elastic Stack
2 3 (9.09%) Spring Boot
3 2 (6.06%) LDAP
3 2 (6.06%) React
4 1 (3.03%) Apollo GraphQL
4 1 (3.03%) GraphQL
4 1 (3.03%) Kafka
4 1 (3.03%) Keycloak
4 1 (3.03%) Middleware
4 1 (3.03%) Playwright
4 1 (3.03%) RESTful
4 1 (3.03%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 4 (12.12%) Data Centre
1 4 (12.12%) Enterprise Storage
1 4 (12.12%) Hybrid Cloud
1 4 (12.12%) Public Cloud
2 2 (6.06%) Onboarding
2 2 (6.06%) PKI
3 1 (3.03%) Derivative
3 1 (3.03%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 29 (87.88%) Linux
2 20 (60.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 14 (42.42%) Windows
4 11 (33.33%) Windows Server
5 8 (24.24%) CentOS
6 7 (21.21%) Ubuntu
6 7 (21.21%) Windows Server 2016
7 6 (18.18%) Solaris
8 5 (15.15%) Windows Server 2019
9 4 (12.12%) Unix
10 2 (6.06%) AIX
10 2 (6.06%) HPUX
10 2 (6.06%) Oracle Linux
10 2 (6.06%) VMS
10 2 (6.06%) Windows 10
10 2 (6.06%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (3.03%) Fedora
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (36.36%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 11 (33.33%) High Availability
3 9 (27.27%) DevSecOps
4 8 (24.24%) Problem-Solving
5 7 (21.21%) CI/CD
6 6 (18.18%) Agile
6 6 (18.18%) DevOps
6 6 (18.18%) Technical Leadership
7 4 (12.12%) Application Packaging
7 4 (12.12%) Change Control
7 4 (12.12%) ITIL
7 4 (12.12%) Migration
7 4 (12.12%) Performance Tuning
7 4 (12.12%) Root Cause Analysis
7 4 (12.12%) Runbook
7 4 (12.12%) Vulnerability Management
8 3 (9.09%) Infrastructure as Code
8 3 (9.09%) Microservices
8 3 (9.09%) Performance Monitoring
8 3 (9.09%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (27.27%) Bash
2 8 (24.24%) PowerShell
2 8 (24.24%) Python
3 4 (12.12%) Perl
4 3 (9.09%) SQL
5 1 (3.03%) C#
5 1 (3.03%) Java
5 1 (3.03%) JavaScript
5 1 (3.03%) Korn
5 1 (3.03%) Ruby
5 1 (3.03%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 20 (60.61%) Security Cleared
2 12 (36.36%) SC Cleared
3 8 (24.24%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.06%) GDPR
1 2 (6.06%) QA
2 1 (3.03%) Accessibility
2 1 (3.03%) WCAG
System Software
1 8 (24.24%) VMware Infrastructure
1 8 (24.24%) vSphere
2 2 (6.06%) Active Directory
2 2 (6.06%) Ceph
2 2 (6.06%) Docker
2 2 (6.06%) Hyper-V
2 2 (6.06%) NFS
2 2 (6.06%) Oracle RAC
2 2 (6.06%) Samba
2 2 (6.06%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 17 (51.52%) Ansible
2 8 (24.24%) Kubernetes
3 5 (15.15%) Terraform
4 4 (12.12%) Nessus
4 4 (12.12%) NetBackup
4 4 (12.12%) Progress Chef
4 4 (12.12%) vCenter Server
4 4 (12.12%) yum
5 2 (6.06%) Argo
5 2 (6.06%) Data Guard
5 2 (6.06%) Kibana
5 2 (6.06%) Oracle RMAN
5 2 (6.06%) Oracle ZFS
5 2 (6.06%) Puppet
5 2 (6.06%) Red Hat Satellite
5 2 (6.06%) SELinux
6 1 (3.03%) Grafana
6 1 (3.03%) Packer
6 1 (3.03%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 18 (54.55%) VMware
2 8 (24.24%) HP
3 6 (18.18%) Dell
3 6 (18.18%) Veritas
4 4 (12.12%) 3PAR
4 4 (12.12%) Microsoft
4 4 (12.12%) Oracle
5 3 (9.09%) Splunk
6 2 (6.06%) AppDynamics
6 2 (6.06%) Cisco
6 2 (6.06%) F5
6 2 (6.06%) SolarWinds
6 2 (6.06%) Symantec