Red Hat Contract Job Trends in South Yorkshire

Red Hat
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South Yorkshire 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 19 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
19 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 64 36 47
Rank change year-on-year -28 +11 +12
Contract jobs citing Red Hat 21 22 8
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 3.08% 4.74% 1.87%
As % of the Vendors category 5.65% 8.63% 4.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 15 2
10th Percentile £450 £463 £76
25th Percentile £506 £478 £113
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £515 £176
Median % change year-on-year +0.97% +192.20% -64.75%
75th Percentile £530 £566 £238
90th Percentile £537 £647 £275
Yorkshire median daily rate £520 £515 £465
% change year-on-year +0.97% +10.75% -7.00%

All Vendors
South Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 372 255 171
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 54.63% 54.96% 39.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 246 141 100
10th Percentile £302 £230 £211
25th Percentile £384 £464 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £534 £556
Median % change year-on-year -10.11% -3.87% +11.10%
75th Percentile £538 £590 £619
90th Percentile £635 £650 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £489 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.30% - +8.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 8 2
10th Percentile - £14.18 £18.65
25th Percentile £15.00 £18.81 £18.88
Median hourly rate £18.87 £21.00 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -10.14% +7.69% +25.81%
75th Percentile - £41.88 £19.88
90th Percentile - - £19.95
Yorkshire median hourly rate £30.29 £32.50 £22.00
% change year-on-year -6.80% +47.73% +17.49%

Red Hat
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Red Hat job vacancy trend in South Yorkshire

Red Hat
Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

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

Red Hat
Daily Rate Histogram in South Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Red Hat in South Yorkshire over the 6 months to 19 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Red Hat in South Yorkshire

Red Hat
Hourly Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

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

Red Hat
Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 19 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
Sheffield -21 21 £520 +0.97% 2
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Yorkshire

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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 14 (66.67%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 9 (42.86%) CloudBees
2 6 (28.57%) GitHub
3 4 (19.05%) Cohesity
4 1 (4.76%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 4 (19.05%) Firewall
1 4 (19.05%) TCP/IP
2 1 (4.76%) DNS
Development Applications
1 14 (66.67%) Jenkins
1 14 (66.67%) JIRA
2 9 (42.86%) GitLab
3 4 (19.05%) Postman
4 3 (14.29%) Git
General
1 4 (19.05%) Finance
2 1 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (4.76%) Banking
2 1 (4.76%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 12 (57.14%) Automation Engineer
2 9 (42.86%) Data Protection Engineer
3 8 (38.10%) Data Engineer
4 5 (23.81%) Senior
5 4 (19.05%) DevOps Engineer
5 4 (19.05%) Linux Engineer
6 3 (14.29%) Senior Linux Engineer
6 3 (14.29%) Senior Technical Engineer
6 3 (14.29%) Technical Engineer
7 2 (9.52%) DevOps Automation Engineer
7 2 (9.52%) Storage Engineer
8 1 (4.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 1 (4.76%) Integration Engineer
8 1 (4.76%) JIRA Engineer
8 1 (4.76%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
8 1 (4.76%) Linux/Unix DevOps
8 1 (4.76%) Python Engineer
8 1 (4.76%) Senior Integration Engineer
8 1 (4.76%) Senior Storage Engineer
8 1 (4.76%) Senior VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (9.52%) RESTful
2 1 (4.76%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (4.76%) OpenTelemetry
2 1 (4.76%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 12 (57.14%) Product Ownership
2 2 (9.52%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (4.76%) Enterprise Storage
3 1 (4.76%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 6 (28.57%) Linux
2 5 (23.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (19.05%) Unix
4 3 (14.29%) AIX
4 3 (14.29%) Solaris
4 3 (14.29%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
5 1 (4.76%) CentOS
5 1 (4.76%) Oracle Linux
5 1 (4.76%) SUSE
5 1 (4.76%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (90.48%) DevOps
2 17 (80.95%) Configuration Management
3 15 (71.43%) Data Protection
4 14 (66.67%) Scrum
5 13 (61.90%) User Stories
6 12 (57.14%) Backlog Refinement
6 12 (57.14%) Sprint Retrospective
6 12 (57.14%) Test Automation
7 11 (52.38%) CI/CD
8 6 (28.57%) Agile
9 3 (14.29%) Collaborative Working
9 3 (14.29%) Data Management
9 3 (14.29%) Translating Business Requirements
10 2 (9.52%) API Development
10 2 (9.52%) Backlog Management
10 2 (9.52%) Cybersecurity
10 2 (9.52%) Migration
10 2 (9.52%) Problem Management
11 1 (4.76%) Infrastructure Management
11 1 (4.76%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 19 (90.48%) Python
2 16 (76.19%) Bash
Qualifications
1 1 (4.76%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 4 (19.05%) Veritas Cluster Server
1 4 (19.05%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (4.76%) VMware NSX
2 1 (4.76%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 19 (90.48%) Ansible
2 13 (61.90%) NetBackup
3 8 (38.10%) Puppet
4 1 (4.76%) Argo
4 1 (4.76%) Grafana
4 1 (4.76%) Kubernetes
4 1 (4.76%) Terraform
4 1 (4.76%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 13 (61.90%) Commvault
2 9 (42.86%) Veritas
3 5 (23.81%) Microsoft
3 5 (23.81%) VMware
4 4 (19.05%) MuleSoft
5 1 (4.76%) Oracle
5 1 (4.76%) Pure Storage
5 1 (4.76%) Splunk