Red Hat Enterprise Linux Contracts in the South West

Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West requiring Red Hat Enterprise Linux skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Red Hat Enterprise Linux over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 89 148 136
Rank change year-on-year +59 -12 +27
Contract jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 22 9 31
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 1.31% 0.28% 0.85%
As % of the Operating Systems category 6.94% 1.82% 4.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 5 30
10th Percentile £546 £408 £428
25th Percentile £598 £425 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £615 £600 £563
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% +6.67% +4.65%
75th Percentile £663 £650 £644
90th Percentile £775 £725 £700
England median daily rate £551 £525 £625
% change year-on-year +4.95% -16.00% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £72.75 -
England median hourly rate - £60.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year - +14.29% +118.75%

All Operating Systems
South West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 317 495 719
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 18.89% 15.47% 19.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 221 357 520
10th Percentile £200 £170 £166
25th Percentile £250 £245 £274
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +7.50% - +13.64%
75th Percentile £623 £588 £613
90th Percentile £700 £700 £675
England median daily rate £475 £463 £513
% change year-on-year +2.70% -9.76% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 69 85
10th Percentile £18.13 £14.00 £17.18
25th Percentile £18.51 £40.00 £49.68
Median hourly rate £66.50 £60.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.83% -7.69% +21.51%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £70.30
90th Percentile - - £78.00
England median hourly rate £24.18 £22.00 £38.00
% change year-on-year +9.91% -42.11% +76.74%

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Red Hat Enterprise Linux in the South West

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for Red Hat Enterprise Linux in the South West

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

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

Daily rate histogram for Red Hat Enterprise Linux in the South West

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for Red Hat Enterprise Linux in the South West

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 West 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
Gloucestershire +34 18 £615 -18.00% 7
Wiltshire +32 2 £630 +5.00% 2
Bristol +18 2 £508 - 3
Red Hat Enterprise Linux
England

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 (9.09%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 17 (77.27%) AWS
1 17 (77.27%) OpenShift
2 15 (68.18%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 15 (68.18%) DHCP
1 15 (68.18%) DNS
1 15 (68.18%) HTTP
1 15 (68.18%) TCP/IP
2 2 (9.09%) Firewall
2 2 (9.09%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (9.09%) MySQL
1 2 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (9.09%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (4.55%) Bitbucket
1 1 (4.55%) Git
General
1 2 (9.09%) Social Skills
2 1 (4.55%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (31.82%) DevOps Engineer
2 6 (27.27%) Automation Engineer
2 6 (27.27%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (9.09%) Support Engineer
3 2 (9.09%) Technical Engineer
3 2 (9.09%) Technical Support
3 2 (9.09%) Technical Support Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) Applications Developer
4 1 (4.55%) Developer
4 1 (4.55%) Linux Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (9.09%) LAMP
2 1 (4.55%) REST
2 1 (4.55%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 2 (9.09%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 22 (100.00%) Linux
2 17 (77.27%) Windows
2 17 (77.27%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (68.18%) Containerisation
2 14 (63.64%) Service Management
3 7 (31.82%) DevOps
4 6 (27.27%) Incident Management
4 6 (27.27%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 5 (22.73%) Technical Leadership
6 2 (9.09%) CI/CD
7 1 (4.55%) Agile
7 1 (4.55%) Configuration Management
7 1 (4.55%) Deployment Automation
7 1 (4.55%) Infrastructure Automation
7 1 (4.55%) Problem-Solving
7 1 (4.55%) Release Management
7 1 (4.55%) Reverse Engineering
7 1 (4.55%) Task Automation
7 1 (4.55%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 18 (81.82%) Python
2 17 (77.27%) Bash
3 15 (68.18%) Java
3 15 (68.18%) PowerShell
4 2 (9.09%) PHP
4 2 (9.09%) SQL
5 1 (4.55%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 18 (81.82%) Security Cleared
2 12 (54.55%) DV Cleared
3 4 (18.18%) SC Cleared
4 1 (4.55%) CCNP
4 1 (4.55%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (4.55%) OCA
4 1 (4.55%) Oracle Certification
4 1 (4.55%) RHCA
4 1 (4.55%) RHCE
4 1 (4.55%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 16 (72.73%) Docker
2 15 (68.18%) Hyper-V
2 15 (68.18%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 19 (86.36%) Kubernetes
2 16 (72.73%) Ansible
2 16 (72.73%) Puppet
3 15 (68.18%) Terraform
4 1 (4.55%) Progress Chef
4 1 (4.55%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 17 (77.27%) Red Hat
1 17 (77.27%) VMware
2 3 (13.64%) Oracle
3 1 (4.55%) Cisco