Red Hat Enterprise Linux Contracts in the Thames Valley

Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Red Hat Enterprise Linux skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Red Hat Enterprise Linux over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 85 122 110
Rank change year-on-year +37 -12 +35
Contract jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 17 23 41
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 1.13% 0.86% 1.40%
As % of the Operating Systems category 8.10% 5.88% 9.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 21 30
10th Percentile £401 £400 £448
25th Percentile £415 £500 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £610
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -13.93% +19.02%
75th Percentile £675 £600 £623
90th Percentile £698 £650 £688
South East median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% +17.65%

All Operating Systems
Thames Valley

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 the Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 210 391 442
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 13.90% 14.56% 15.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 142 281 318
10th Percentile £213 £193 £213
25th Percentile £329 £213 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £425 £500
Median % change year-on-year +11.76% -15.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £584
90th Percentile £700 £608 £675
South East median daily rate £500 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 26 16
10th Percentile - £16.25 £18.08
25th Percentile - £19.13 £19.52
Median hourly rate £14.20 £38.75 £48.70
Median % change year-on-year -63.35% -20.43% +143.50%
75th Percentile £18.58 £57.13 £62.97
90th Percentile £23.63 £61.60 £78.19
South East median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £53.00
% change year-on-year -41.05% -10.38% +165.00%

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Red Hat Enterprise Linux in the Thames Valley

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Red Hat Enterprise Linux in the Thames Valley

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Red Hat Enterprise Linux in the Thames Valley

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Red Hat Enterprise Linux in the Thames Valley

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Berkshire +29 14 £550 - 11
Buckinghamshire +17 2 £421 - 4
Oxfordshire 0 1 £475 -9.52% 4
Red Hat Enterprise Linux
South East

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (23.53%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 2 (11.76%) Azure
1 2 (11.76%) Azure DevOps
1 2 (11.76%) Azure Monitor
1 2 (11.76%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 8 (47.06%) DHCP
1 8 (47.06%) DNS
2 4 (23.53%) FTP
2 4 (23.53%) SMTP
2 4 (23.53%) TCP/IP
2 4 (23.53%) tcpdump
2 4 (23.53%) Telnet
3 2 (11.76%) BIG-IP
3 2 (11.76%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
3 2 (11.76%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.76%) Oracle Database
1 2 (11.76%) Oracle Database 12c
Development Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Git
General
1 2 (11.76%) Documentation Skills
1 2 (11.76%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (29.41%) Administrator
1 5 (29.41%) Linux Administrator
2 4 (23.53%) Lead
3 3 (17.65%) Linux Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) Architect
4 2 (11.76%) Azure Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) Oracle Architect
5 1 (5.88%) Solaris Administrator
5 1 (5.88%) Unix Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (23.53%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 4 (23.53%) Data Centre
1 4 (23.53%) Enterprise Storage
Operating Systems
1 17 (100.00%) Linux
2 4 (23.53%) Windows
2 4 (23.53%) Windows Server
2 4 (23.53%) Windows Server 2019
3 2 (11.76%) VMS
4 1 (5.88%) AIX
4 1 (5.88%) CentOS
4 1 (5.88%) HPUX
4 1 (5.88%) Solaris
4 1 (5.88%) Ubuntu
4 1 (5.88%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (52.94%) High Availability
2 6 (35.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 6 (35.29%) Root Cause Analysis
3 5 (29.41%) Performance Tuning
3 5 (29.41%) Vulnerability Management
4 4 (23.53%) DevSecOps
4 4 (23.53%) ITIL
4 4 (23.53%) Performance Monitoring
4 4 (23.53%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (23.53%) Server Migrations
4 4 (23.53%) Technical Leadership
5 2 (11.76%) BCP
5 2 (11.76%) Business Continuity
5 2 (11.76%) Business Continuity Planning
5 2 (11.76%) Database Migration
5 2 (11.76%) DevOps
5 2 (11.76%) Infrastructure as Code
5 2 (11.76%) Load Balancing
6 1 (5.88%) Capacity Management
6 1 (5.88%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 3 (17.65%) Bash
2 2 (11.76%) Python
Qualifications
1 15 (88.24%) Security Cleared
2 12 (70.59%) SC Cleared
3 3 (17.65%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 4 (23.53%) NFS
1 4 (23.53%) Samba
2 2 (11.76%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (5.88%) Active Directory
3 1 (5.88%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (35.29%) Ansible
1 6 (35.29%) yum
2 4 (23.53%) NetBackup
3 2 (11.76%) Data Guard
3 2 (11.76%) Oracle RMAN
3 2 (11.76%) Terraform
4 1 (5.88%) Oracle ZFS
4 1 (5.88%) Progress Chef
4 1 (5.88%) Puppet
Vendors
1 15 (88.24%) Red Hat
2 10 (58.82%) VMware
3 9 (52.94%) HP
4 4 (23.53%) 3PAR
4 4 (23.53%) Dell
4 4 (23.53%) Veritas
5 2 (11.76%) F5
5 2 (11.76%) Oracle