Red Hat Enterprise Linux Contract Job Trends in Southampton

Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
Hampshire > Southampton

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Southampton requiring Red Hat Enterprise Linux skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 19 - 28
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2 0 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Southampton 1.57% - 0.57%
As % of the Operating Systems category 16.67% - 2.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - £525
75th Percentile - - £538
90th Percentile - - -
Hampshire median daily rate £550 £584 £606
% change year-on-year -5.74% -3.71% +5.39%

All Operating Systems
Southampton

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 Southampton.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 12 30 43
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Southampton 9.45% 18.07% 24.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 23 36
10th Percentile £419 £239 £223
25th Percentile £456 £313 £270
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £360 £525
Median % change year-on-year +38.89% -31.43% -
75th Percentile £538 £450 £637
90th Percentile £550 £633 £650
Hampshire median daily rate £525 £540 £513
% change year-on-year -2.82% +5.41% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - £22.40
25th Percentile - - £24.13
Median hourly rate - - £27.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +61.63%
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
Hampshire median hourly rate £25.15 £70.00 £58.59
% change year-on-year -64.07% +19.47% +166.32%

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in Southampton

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

Job vacancy trend for Red Hat Enterprise Linux in Southampton

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Daily Rate Trend in Southampton

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Southampton citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Southampton citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Hourly Rate Trend in Southampton

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Southampton citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Southampton citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Southampton 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon ECR
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub
1 1 (50.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
1 1 (50.00%) HTTPS
1 1 (50.00%) SSL
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Linux/Unix DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Ubuntu Engineer
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
2 1 (50.00%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Proactive Maintenance
2 1 (50.00%) Proactive Monitoring
2 1 (50.00%) RBAC
2 1 (50.00%) Secure Coding
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Ansible
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
2 1 (50.00%) Podman
2 1 (50.00%) Rsyslog
2 1 (50.00%) SCOM
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Red Hat