Red Hat Contracts in South Wales

Red Hat
Wales > South Wales

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South Wales 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 2 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
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 31 - 57
Rank change year-on-year - - +15
Contract jobs citing Red Hat 4 0 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Wales 1.65% - 0.19%
As % of the Vendors category 3.92% - 0.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - £525
75th Percentile - - £538
90th Percentile - - -
Wales median daily rate - - £525

All Vendors
South Wales

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 Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 102 131 239
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Wales 42.15% 39.10% 46.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 98 178
10th Percentile £180 £207 £199
25th Percentile £240 £434 £371
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £403 £515 £500
Median % change year-on-year -21.84% +3.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £475 £570 £565
90th Percentile £555 £625 £633
Wales median daily rate £409 £513 £475
% change year-on-year -20.24% +7.89% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 10 4
10th Percentile £12.97 £11.00 £16.26
25th Percentile £16.00 £11.95 £17.40
Median hourly rate £22.50 £72.00 £32.78
Median % change year-on-year -68.75% +119.65% +57.98%
75th Percentile £41.25 £87.35 £49.06
90th Percentile - £87.82 £49.63
Wales median hourly rate £21.76 £39.50 £24.53
% change year-on-year -44.92% +61.03% +9.02%

Red Hat
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for Red Hat in South Wales

Red Hat
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South Wales

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

Daily rate trend for Red Hat in South Wales

Red Hat
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in South Wales

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

Hourly rate trend for Red Hat in South Wales

Red Hat
Contract Job Locations in South Wales

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 Wales region over the 6 months to 2 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
Cardiff - 3 - - 3
Glamorgan - 1 - - 1
Red Hat
Wales

Red Hat
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Wales 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 3 (75.00%) Apache
1 3 (75.00%) JBoss
1 3 (75.00%) nginx
1 3 (75.00%) WebLogic
1 3 (75.00%) WebLogic Portal
1 3 (75.00%) WebSphere
2 1 (25.00%) Tomcat
2 1 (25.00%) WebSphere Application Server
Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) OpenShift
2 2 (50.00%) GitHub
3 1 (25.00%) AWS
3 1 (25.00%) Azure
3 1 (25.00%) Linode
3 1 (25.00%) OCI
3 1 (25.00%) PaaS
3 1 (25.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) SSL
2 1 (25.00%) DHCP
2 1 (25.00%) DNS
2 1 (25.00%) Firewall
2 1 (25.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (25.00%) VPN
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Administrator
1 2 (50.00%) Automation Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Web Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) JSON
1 1 (25.00%) JWT
1 1 (25.00%) Middleware
1 1 (25.00%) OAuth
1 1 (25.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) e-Learning
1 1 (25.00%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Linux
2 1 (25.00%) CentOS
2 1 (25.00%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) API Management
1 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (75.00%) Containerisation
1 3 (75.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 3 (75.00%) Microservices
2 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (25.00%) Analytics
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (25.00%) Data Analytics
3 1 (25.00%) Data Security
3 1 (25.00%) DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) Identity Management
3 1 (25.00%) Requirements Gathering
3 1 (25.00%) Roadmaps
3 1 (25.00%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Java
2 1 (25.00%) Bash
2 1 (25.00%) Shell Script
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (75.00%) QA
2 1 (25.00%) GDPR
2 1 (25.00%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) Docker
1 3 (75.00%) LXC
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Ansible
1 3 (75.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle Identity Management
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Oracle
2 1 (25.00%) IBM