Red Hat Contract Job Trends in South London

Red Hat
London > South London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South London 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 3 March 2026, 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
3 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 46 33 44
Rank change year-on-year -13 +11 +13
Contract jobs citing Red Hat 6 1 2
As % of all contract jobs in South London 2.07% 0.48% 0.74%
As % of the Vendors category 5.31% 1.20% 1.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 2
10th Percentile £512 - £476
25th Percentile - - £497
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 - £538
Median % change year-on-year - - +7.50%
75th Percentile £542 - £572
90th Percentile £550 - £589
London median daily rate £530 £600 £588
% change year-on-year -11.67% +2.13% -2.08%

All Vendors
South London

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 South London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 113 83 111
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South London 38.97% 39.52% 41.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 76 51 80
10th Percentile £300 £380 £185
25th Percentile £413 £469 £231
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £600 £463
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +29.73% -7.50%
75th Percentile £538 - £579
90th Percentile £571 £675 £673
London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 4 9
10th Percentile £57.18 - £13.16
25th Percentile £61.13 - £13.42
Median hourly rate £67.70 £15.84 £38.16
Median % change year-on-year +327.40% -58.49% +20.93%
75th Percentile - £20.38 £46.86
90th Percentile - £28.55 £56.55
London median hourly rate £25.77 £34.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -24.21% +36.00% -

Red Hat
Job Vacancy Trend in South London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Red Hat relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in South London.

Red Hat job vacancy trend in South London

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Daily Rate Trend in South London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South London citing Red Hat.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South London citing Red Hat

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Hourly Rate Trend in South London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in South London citing Red Hat.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in South London citing Red Hat

Red Hat
Contract Job Locations in South London

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 London region over the 6 months to 3 March 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
Croydon - 6 £519 - 1
Red Hat
London

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South London 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 6 (100.00%) Confluence
1 6 (100.00%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 6 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 6 (100.00%) Amazon EKS
1 6 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 6 (100.00%) AWS
1 6 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 6 (100.00%) Route 53
1 6 (100.00%) Serverless
1 6 (100.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 6 (100.00%) DNS
1 6 (100.00%) Firewall
1 6 (100.00%) OpenVPN
1 6 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 6 (100.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (100.00%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 6 (100.00%) Bitbucket
1 6 (100.00%) JIRA
1 6 (100.00%) SonarQube
General
1 6 (100.00%) Documentation Skills
1 6 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (100.00%) Architect
2 5 (83.33%) Technical Architect
3 2 (33.33%) AWS Architect
3 2 (33.33%) Cloud Architect
4 1 (16.67%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (100.00%) LDAP
1 6 (100.00%) OpenID
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 6 (100.00%) DevOps
1 6 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 6 (100.00%) Roadmaps
Qualifications
1 6 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 6 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 6 (100.00%) Squid
Systems Management
1 6 (100.00%) Consul
1 6 (100.00%) FortiGate
1 6 (100.00%) Grafana
1 6 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 6 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 6 (100.00%) Single Sign-On
1 6 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (100.00%) Atlassian
1 6 (100.00%) Dynatrace