Red Hat Contract Job Trends in Surrey

Red Hat
South East > Surrey

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Surrey 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 23 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
23 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 48 41 70
Rank change year-on-year -7 +29 +3
Contract jobs citing Red Hat 3 11 5
As % of all contract jobs in Surrey 0.77% 2.30% 0.69%
As % of the Vendors category 1.41% 4.51% 1.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 5 2
10th Percentile £440 - £395
25th Percentile £444 £321 £421
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £350 £465
Median % change year-on-year +35.71% -24.73% +9.41%
75th Percentile £506 £364 £508
90th Percentile £510 £443 £533
South East median daily rate £485 £573 £525
% change year-on-year -15.28% +9.05% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £55.00 - -
South East median hourly rate £55.00 - £21.00
% change year-on-year - - -74.15%

All Vendors
Surrey

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 Surrey.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 213 244 371
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Surrey 54.62% 50.94% 51.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 157 169 296
10th Percentile £204 £203 £186
25th Percentile £208 £260 £302
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £425 £500
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -15.00% -
75th Percentile £584 £525 £600
90th Percentile £682 £589 £675
South East median daily rate £500 £525 £513
% change year-on-year -4.76% +2.32% +2.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 8 11
10th Percentile £18.24 £23.01 £37.50
25th Percentile £27.75 £24.18 £43.55
Median hourly rate £65.00 £25.84 £63.00
Median % change year-on-year +151.55% -58.98% +40.00%
75th Percentile £90.09 £56.75 £76.53
90th Percentile - £73.85 -
South East median hourly rate £20.79 £54.87 £52.50
% change year-on-year -62.11% +4.52% +81.41%

Red Hat
Job Vacancy Trend in Surrey

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

Red Hat job vacancy trend in Surrey

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Daily Rate Trend in Surrey

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

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

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Hourly Rate Trend in Surrey

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

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

Red Hat
Contract Job Locations in Surrey

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 Surrey region over the 6 months to 23 November 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
Camberley +2 2 £475 - 1
Guildford -3 1 - -
Red Hat
South East

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Surrey 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%) OpenShift
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) SonarQube
General
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Banking
2 1 (33.33%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Administrator
1 2 (66.67%) Systems Administrator
2 1 (33.33%) Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Java Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Linux Administrator
2 1 (33.33%) Linux Systems Administrator
2 1 (33.33%) Senior
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) AngularJS
1 1 (33.33%) Quarkus
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Linux
1 2 (66.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (33.33%) Unix
2 1 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Patch Management
1 2 (66.67%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Agile
2 1 (33.33%) AI
2 1 (33.33%) Collaborative Working
2 1 (33.33%) DevSecOps
2 1 (33.33%) Front End Development
2 1 (33.33%) Generative AI
2 1 (33.33%) Process Improvement
2 1 (33.33%) Scrum
2 1 (33.33%) SDLC
2 1 (33.33%) Server Management
2 1 (33.33%) Server Patching
2 1 (33.33%) Software Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Sprint Planning
2 1 (33.33%) Sprint Review
2 1 (33.33%) Test Automation
2 1 (33.33%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Perl
1 2 (66.67%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) QA
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) GPFS
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Ansible
1 2 (66.67%) BladeLogic
2 1 (33.33%) Argo
2 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Dell
1 2 (66.67%) HP
1 2 (66.67%) IBM
1 2 (66.67%) Mellanox
1 2 (66.67%) Solarflare