Red Hat Contract Job Trends in Stevenage

Red Hat
Hertfordshire > Stevenage

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Stevenage 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 5 November 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
5 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 36 34 29
Rank change year-on-year -2 -5 +10
Contract jobs citing Red Hat 3 3 19
As % of all contract jobs in Stevenage 1.29% 1.62% 7.48%
As % of the Vendors category 3.30% 3.53% 15.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 12
10th Percentile £387 - £405
25th Percentile £411 - £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +10.00% -
75th Percentile £452 - £569
90th Percentile £453 - £631
Hertfordshire median daily rate £373 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -29.05% +5.00% -10.71%

All Vendors
Stevenage

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 Stevenage.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 91 85 122
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Stevenage 39.22% 45.95% 48.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 38 40
10th Percentile £400 £333 £258
25th Percentile £500 £525 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £470
Median % change year-on-year - +17.02% +4.44%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £550
90th Percentile £800 £583 £576
Hertfordshire median daily rate £550 £550 £500
% change year-on-year - +10.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 24 44
10th Percentile £22.63 £55.85 £41.94
25th Percentile £39.50 - £42.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile - £95.00 £70.00
90th Percentile - £98.50 £84.36
Hertfordshire median hourly rate £19.08 £65.00 £61.25
% change year-on-year -70.64% +6.12% -2.43%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Stevenage

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

Red Hat job vacancy trend in Stevenage

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Daily Rate Trend in Stevenage

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

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

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Hourly Rate Trend in Stevenage

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

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

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Stevenage 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) SSL
General
1 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Administrator
1 3 (100.00%) Linux Administrator
2 2 (66.67%) Linux Engineer
2 2 (66.67%) Linux Systems Administrator
2 2 (66.67%) Linux Systems Engineer
2 2 (66.67%) Systems Administrator
2 2 (66.67%) Systems Engineer
3 1 (33.33%) Senior
3 1 (33.33%) Senior Linux Administrator
3 1 (33.33%) Senior Linux Engineer
3 1 (33.33%) Senior Linux Systems Administrator
3 1 (33.33%) Senior Linux Systems Engineer
3 1 (33.33%) Senior Systems Administrator
3 1 (33.33%) Senior Systems Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Clustering
2 1 (33.33%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
1 3 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (33.33%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Incident Management
1 1 (33.33%) Performance Monitoring
1 1 (33.33%) Process Improvement
1 1 (33.33%) Service Delivery
1 1 (33.33%) Service Management
1 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (33.33%) Workload Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Slurm Workload Manager
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) ServiceNow