Red Hat Contract Job Trends in Southampton

Red Hat
Hampshire > Southampton

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Southampton 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 14 December 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
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 16 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Red Hat 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Southampton 1.78% - -
As % of the Vendors category 5.88% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £460 - -
25th Percentile £475 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - -
75th Percentile £525 - -
90th Percentile £540 - -
Hampshire median daily rate £580 £575 £575
% change year-on-year +0.87% - -9.80%

All Vendors
Southampton

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 Southampton.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 51 57 79
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Southampton 30.18% 39.04% 50.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 33 60
10th Percentile £224 £250 £324
25th Percentile £352 £356 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £400 £525
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -23.81% -
75th Percentile £550 £500 £636
90th Percentile £615 £628 £650
Hampshire median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 3
10th Percentile £15.70 - £29.60
25th Percentile £18.25 - £33.50
Median hourly rate £25.00 - £40.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +77.78%
75th Percentile £27.50 - £50.00
90th Percentile - - £56.00
Hampshire median hourly rate £21.00 £61.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year -65.85% +11.82% +133.69%

Red Hat
Job Vacancy Trend in Southampton

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

Red Hat job vacancy trend in Southampton

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Daily Rate Trend in Southampton

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

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

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Hourly Rate Trend in Southampton

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

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

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Southampton 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon ECR
1 1 (33.33%) GitHub
1 1 (33.33%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) Firewall
1 1 (33.33%) HTTPS
1 1 (33.33%) SSL
1 1 (33.33%) VSAN
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) DevOps Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Linux/Unix DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Ubuntu Engineer
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
2 2 (66.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (66.67%) Ubuntu
3 1 (33.33%) CentOS
3 1 (33.33%) Windows
3 1 (33.33%) Windows Server
3 1 (33.33%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (33.33%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
1 2 (66.67%) DevOps
1 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Automation
1 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
2 1 (33.33%) Converged Infrastructure
2 1 (33.33%) Proactive Maintenance
2 1 (33.33%) Proactive Monitoring
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) RBAC
2 1 (33.33%) Secure Coding
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) QA
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
1 1 (33.33%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Ansible
1 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes
1 2 (66.67%) Terraform
2 1 (33.33%) Podman
2 1 (33.33%) Rsyslog
2 1 (33.33%) SCOM
2 1 (33.33%) VxRail
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) EMC
1 1 (33.33%) VMware