Red Hat Contract Job Trends in Telford

Red Hat
Shropshire > Telford

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Telford 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 September 2026, 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 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 86 40 -
Rank change year-on-year -46 - -
Contract jobs citing Red Hat 2 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in Telford 0.25% 0.55% -
As % of the Vendors category 0.58% 0.93% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £468 - -
25th Percentile £475 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - -
75th Percentile £525 - -
90th Percentile £533 - -
Shropshire median daily rate £500 - -

All Vendors
Telford

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 Telford.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 344 107 64
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Telford 43.82% 58.79% 65.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 298 86 60
10th Percentile £360 £338 £284
25th Percentile £413 £448 £338
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £464 £517 £427
Median % change year-on-year -10.15% +21.02% -20.93%
75th Percentile £534 £540 £516
90th Percentile £622 £552 £567
Shropshire median daily rate £461 £515 £420
% change year-on-year -10.53% +22.62% -22.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 0 0
10th Percentile £14.30 - -
25th Percentile £51.25 - -
Median hourly rate £52.50 - -
75th Percentile £53.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Shropshire median hourly rate £52.50 - -

Red Hat
Job Vacancy Trend in Telford

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

Red Hat job vacancy trend in Telford

Red Hat
Daily Rate Trend in Telford

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

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

Red Hat
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Telford 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 2 (100.00%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) DHCP
1 1 (50.00%) DNS
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
1 1 (50.00%) Network Security
1 1 (50.00%) TCP/IP
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Linux Engineer
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 2 (100.00%) SUSE
1 2 (100.00%) Unix
2 1 (50.00%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Management
1 2 (100.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Change Management
2 1 (50.00%) Configuration Management
2 1 (50.00%) ITIL
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Optimisation
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (50.00%) Problem Management
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Service Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Service Management
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (50.00%) Task Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Virtual Infrastructure
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Google