Red Hat Contracts in the South West

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England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 72 144 124
Rank change year-on-year +72 -20 +26
Contract jobs citing Red Hat 39 13 43
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 2.32% 0.41% 1.19%
As % of the Vendors category 5.09% 1.01% 2.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 6 38
10th Percentile £440 £450 £447
25th Percentile £488 £477 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £615 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year +17.14% -8.70% +15.00%
75th Percentile £624 £631 £638
90th Percentile £775 £713 £705
England median daily rate £550 £525 £600
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 4 1
10th Percentile £67.40 £60.95 -
25th Percentile - £68.38 £53.75
Median hourly rate £68.00 £74.44 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -8.65% +29.46% -16.73%
75th Percentile - £75.21 £61.25
90th Percentile £69.50 £76.58 -
England median hourly rate £68.00 £68.22 £50.75
% change year-on-year -0.32% +34.42% -19.79%

All Vendors
South West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 766 1,291 1,465
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 45.65% 40.36% 40.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 497 822 1,105
10th Percentile £220 £195 £243
25th Percentile £389 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £516 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.57% -2.29% +10.53%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £688 £725 £715
England median daily rate £525 £518 £538
% change year-on-year +1.30% -3.58% +2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 67 174 81
10th Percentile £18.13 £13.69 £17.75
25th Percentile £18.51 £29.69 £49.00
Median hourly rate £40.84 £47.50 £63.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.02% -24.60% +33.74%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £77.50 £83.75
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 West

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

Job vacancy trend for Red Hat in the South West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for Red Hat in the South West

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

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

Daily rate histogram for Red Hat in the South West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for Red Hat in the South West

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the South West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Red Hat in the South West over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Red Hat in the South West

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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 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
Bristol +35 21 £440 - 10
Gloucestershire +29 15 £615 +11.82% 20
Wiltshire +30 1 - - 1
Somerset - 1 - - 1
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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 (5.13%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 18 (46.15%) OpenShift
2 17 (43.59%) AWS
2 17 (43.59%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 16 (41.03%) DHCP
1 16 (41.03%) DNS
1 16 (41.03%) TCP/IP
2 15 (38.46%) HTTP
3 1 (2.56%) Kerberos
3 1 (2.56%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.56%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 3 (7.69%) GitLab
2 1 (2.56%) Artifactory
2 1 (2.56%) Git
2 1 (2.56%) Jenkins
General
1 4 (10.26%) Legal
2 3 (7.69%) Finance
3 2 (5.13%) Social Skills
4 1 (2.56%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.56%) Law
4 1 (2.56%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 13 (33.33%) Linux Engineer
2 9 (23.08%) Product Engineer
2 9 (23.08%) Products Support Engineer
2 9 (23.08%) Software Support Engineer
2 9 (23.08%) Support Engineer
3 8 (20.51%) DevOps Engineer
4 7 (17.95%) Linux Support
4 7 (17.95%) Linux Support Engineer
5 5 (12.82%) Automation Engineer
5 5 (12.82%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 3 (7.69%) Project Manager
7 1 (2.56%) Administrator
7 1 (2.56%) IT Manager
7 1 (2.56%) IT Project Manager
7 1 (2.56%) Linux Systems Administrator
7 1 (2.56%) Senior Linux Engineer
7 1 (2.56%) Senior Systems Engineer
7 1 (2.56%) Software Engineer
7 1 (2.56%) Systems Administrator
7 1 (2.56%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (28.21%) Middleware
2 1 (2.56%) Apache NiFi
2 1 (2.56%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (2.56%) LAMP
2 1 (2.56%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (2.56%) Clustering
1 1 (2.56%) Data Centre
1 1 (2.56%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 35 (89.74%) Linux
2 17 (43.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 16 (41.03%) Windows
4 15 (38.46%) Windows Server
5 11 (28.21%) Ubuntu
6 1 (2.56%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (53.85%) Containerisation
2 12 (30.77%) Service Management
2 12 (30.77%) Software Engineering
3 8 (20.51%) DevOps
4 6 (15.38%) CI/CD
4 6 (15.38%) Incident Management
4 6 (15.38%) Technical Leadership
5 5 (12.82%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 5 (12.82%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (10.26%) Infrastructure as Code
6 4 (10.26%) Task Automation
7 3 (7.69%) Collaborative Working
7 3 (7.69%) Project Management
8 2 (5.13%) Commercial Awareness
8 2 (5.13%) Configuration Management
8 2 (5.13%) High Availability
8 2 (5.13%) Project Delivery
9 1 (2.56%) Continuous Improvement
9 1 (2.56%) Infrastructure Management
9 1 (2.56%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 24 (61.54%) Python
2 22 (56.41%) Bash
3 16 (41.03%) PowerShell
4 15 (38.46%) Java
5 11 (28.21%) Ada
5 11 (28.21%) C
5 11 (28.21%) C++
5 11 (28.21%) JavaScript
5 11 (28.21%) Shell Script
6 1 (2.56%) Perl
6 1 (2.56%) PHP
6 1 (2.56%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 25 (64.10%) Security Cleared
2 13 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 12 (30.77%) DV Cleared
4 1 (2.56%) AWS Certification
4 1 (2.56%) CISSP
4 1 (2.56%) CompTIA Security+
4 1 (2.56%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.56%) Degree
4 1 (2.56%) Linux+ Certification
4 1 (2.56%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.56%) QA
System Software
1 21 (53.85%) Docker
2 18 (46.15%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (38.46%) Hyper-V
4 1 (2.56%) NFS
4 1 (2.56%) Samba
Systems Management
1 26 (66.67%) Ansible
2 24 (61.54%) Kubernetes
3 19 (48.72%) Terraform
4 17 (43.59%) Puppet
5 1 (2.56%) Nagios
5 1 (2.56%) Progress Chef
5 1 (2.56%) SELinux
5 1 (2.56%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 20 (51.28%) VMware
2 4 (10.26%) NetApp