Red Hat Contract Job Trends in the South West

Red Hat
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 6 October 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
6 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 91 73 69
Rank change year-on-year -18 -4 +65
Contract jobs citing Red Hat 32 63 94
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 1.64% 2.48% 2.93%
As % of the Vendors category 3.76% 5.51% 7.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 43 69
10th Percentile £68 £450 £449
25th Percentile £69 £469 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -8.70% +12.20%
75th Percentile £612 £606 £650
90th Percentile £650 £684 £725
England median daily rate £513 £525 £598
% change year-on-year -2.38% -12.13% +6.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 5 0
Median hourly rate £68.00 £74.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -8.11% - -
England median hourly rate £68.00 £74.22 £52.50
% change year-on-year -8.38% +41.37% -32.26%

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 851 1,143 1,271
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 43.62% 45.00% 39.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 491 662 855
10th Percentile £220 £221 £275
25th Percentile £350 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -
75th Percentile £619 £633 £638
90th Percentile £675 £700 £700
England median daily rate £507 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.43% - -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 117 94 109
10th Percentile £14.42 £27.58 £19.85
25th Percentile £18.51 £58.81 £46.92
Median hourly rate £21.46 £70.00 £56.49
Median % change year-on-year -69.34% +23.92% +2.71%
75th Percentile £38.94 - £65.98
90th Percentile £68.00 £74.31 £80.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £43.84
% change year-on-year -28.14% -20.16% +82.65%

Red Hat
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Red Hat job vacancy trend in the South West

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Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

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

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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 6 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Red Hat in the South West

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Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

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

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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 6 October 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 +9 22 £310 -34.74% 16
Wiltshire -22 5 £550 -5.74% 1
Gloucestershire +11 4 £500 -9.09% 13
Devon +4 1 £475 +2.70% 1
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England

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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 4 (12.50%) Apache
2 1 (3.13%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 1 (3.13%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 7 (21.88%) OpenShift
2 5 (15.63%) Azure
3 4 (12.50%) AWS
3 4 (12.50%) GCP
4 3 (9.38%) GitHub
5 1 (3.13%) Azure AKS
5 1 (3.13%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 1 (3.13%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (3.13%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (3.13%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.25%) Firewall
2 1 (3.13%) SAN
2 1 (3.13%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (6.25%) MongoDB
3 1 (3.13%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 4 (12.50%) GitLab
2 3 (9.38%) Artifactory
2 3 (9.38%) Git
3 1 (3.13%) CircleCI
3 1 (3.13%) Jenkins
General
1 4 (12.50%) Social Skills
2 2 (6.25%) Aerospace
2 2 (6.25%) Law
3 1 (3.13%) Aviation
3 1 (3.13%) Banking
3 1 (3.13%) Finance
3 1 (3.13%) Military
Job Titles
1 18 (56.25%) Product Engineer
1 18 (56.25%) Products Support Engineer
1 18 (56.25%) Software Support Engineer
1 18 (56.25%) Support Engineer
2 9 (28.13%) Linux Engineer
3 8 (25.00%) Linux Support
3 8 (25.00%) Linux Support Engineer
4 4 (12.50%) Developer
4 4 (12.50%) DevOps Engineer
5 3 (9.38%) Full-Stack Developer
6 1 (3.13%) Administrator
6 1 (3.13%) Applications Engineer
6 1 (3.13%) Applications Specialist
6 1 (3.13%) Azure Engineer
6 1 (3.13%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (3.13%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (3.13%) Linux Administrator
6 1 (3.13%) Linux Systems Administrator
6 1 (3.13%) Systems Administrator
6 1 (3.13%) Wintel Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (50.00%) Middleware
2 5 (15.63%) REST
3 3 (9.38%) AngularJS
3 3 (9.38%) Apache NiFi
3 3 (9.38%) CSS
3 3 (9.38%) HTML
3 3 (9.38%) Node.js
3 3 (9.38%) React
3 3 (9.38%) Ruby on Rails
3 3 (9.38%) Spring
3 3 (9.38%) Vue
4 2 (6.25%) Kafka
5 1 (3.13%) ARM Templates
5 1 (3.13%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (3.13%) LAMP
5 1 (3.13%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 4 (12.50%) Cloud Native
2 2 (6.25%) Onboarding
2 2 (6.25%) PKI
3 1 (3.13%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (3.13%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 24 (75.00%) Linux
2 18 (56.25%) Ubuntu
3 4 (12.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (12.50%) Windows
4 1 (3.13%) Solaris
4 1 (3.13%) Windows 10
4 1 (3.13%) Windows Server
4 1 (3.13%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (3.13%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (65.63%) Software Engineering
2 8 (25.00%) CI/CD
2 8 (25.00%) DevOps
3 6 (18.75%) Containerisation
4 5 (15.63%) Computer Science
5 4 (12.50%) Agile
5 4 (12.50%) Microservices
5 4 (12.50%) Workflow
6 3 (9.38%) Code Quality
6 3 (9.38%) Full-Stack Development
6 3 (9.38%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (9.38%) User Experience
6 3 (9.38%) Web Development
7 2 (6.25%) Capacity Planning
7 2 (6.25%) Continuous Improvement
7 2 (6.25%) Decision-Making
8 1 (3.13%) Analytics
8 1 (3.13%) High Availability
8 1 (3.13%) SIEM
8 1 (3.13%) Software Deployment
Programming Languages
1 21 (65.63%) JavaScript
2 19 (59.38%) C
2 19 (59.38%) Shell Script
3 18 (56.25%) Ada
3 18 (56.25%) C++
4 6 (18.75%) Python
5 4 (12.50%) Java
5 4 (12.50%) PowerShell
6 3 (9.38%) Ruby
6 3 (9.38%) TypeScript
7 1 (3.13%) Bicep
7 1 (3.13%) PHP
7 1 (3.13%) SQL
Qualifications
1 18 (56.25%) Security Cleared
2 15 (46.88%) SC Cleared
3 5 (15.63%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (15.63%) Degree
4 4 (12.50%) DV Cleared
5 1 (3.13%) Azure Certification
5 1 (3.13%) CISM
5 1 (3.13%) CISSP
5 1 (3.13%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
5 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (12.50%) QA
2 1 (3.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (3.13%) NIST
2 1 (3.13%) NIST 800
System Software
1 4 (12.50%) Docker
2 1 (3.13%) Hyper-V
2 1 (3.13%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 9 (28.13%) Kubernetes
2 5 (15.63%) Ansible
2 5 (15.63%) Terraform
3 3 (9.38%) Argo
4 1 (3.13%) Grafana
4 1 (3.13%) Podman
4 1 (3.13%) Prometheus
4 1 (3.13%) Red Hat Satellite
4 1 (3.13%) yum
Vendors
1 3 (9.38%) Google
2 2 (6.25%) Microsoft
2 2 (6.25%) VMware
3 1 (3.13%) IBM
3 1 (3.13%) Oracle
3 1 (3.13%) Twitter