Red Hat Contracts in the Thames Valley

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South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 1 May 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 84 98 97
Rank change year-on-year +14 -1 +42
Contract jobs citing Red Hat 18 47 54
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 1.19% 1.75% 1.84%
As % of the Vendors category 2.27% 3.65% 3.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 39 34
10th Percentile £413 £385 £433
25th Percentile £475 £500 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +15.79%
75th Percentile £675 £555 £623
90th Percentile £695 £624 £700
South East median daily rate £550 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £48.50
Median hourly rate - - £49.00
75th Percentile - - £49.50
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate - £21.00 £50.75
% change year-on-year - -58.62% -36.56%

All Vendors
Thames Valley

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 the Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 794 1,287 1,417
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 52.55% 47.92% 48.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 495 799 975
10th Percentile £350 £205 £300
25th Percentile £441 £363 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £520
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -3.75% +3.90%
75th Percentile £627 £600 £619
90th Percentile £695 £688 £706
South East median daily rate £514 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +2.80% - +2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 71 47
10th Percentile - £16.25 £18.08
25th Percentile £14.20 £22.59 £23.50
Median hourly rate £24.66 £52.50 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -53.03% +7.14% +276.92%
75th Percentile £46.30 £61.60 £66.21
90th Percentile £67.50 £63.29 £80.25
South East median hourly rate £24.66 £48.75 £45.00
% change year-on-year -49.42% +8.33% +130.53%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Red Hat in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Daily rate trend for Red Hat in the Thames Valley

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

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

Daily rate histogram for Red Hat in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Hourly rate trend for Red Hat in the Thames Valley

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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 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 +26 16 £550 +29.41% 24
Oxfordshire +2 2 £488 -7.14% 12
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South East

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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 (22.22%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 2 (11.11%) GitHub
1 2 (11.11%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 10 (55.56%) DNS
2 8 (44.44%) DHCP
3 4 (22.22%) FTP
3 4 (22.22%) SMTP
3 4 (22.22%) TCP/IP
3 4 (22.22%) tcpdump
3 4 (22.22%) Telnet
4 2 (11.11%) BGP
4 2 (11.11%) BIG-IP
4 2 (11.11%) Ethernet VPN
4 2 (11.11%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 2 (11.11%) Fibre Channel
4 2 (11.11%) IPv6
4 2 (11.11%) OSPF
4 2 (11.11%) SAN
4 2 (11.11%) Spanning Tree
4 2 (11.11%) SSL
4 2 (11.11%) TACACS
4 2 (11.11%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.11%) Oracle Database
1 2 (11.11%) Oracle Database 12c
Development Applications
1 2 (11.11%) Git
1 2 (11.11%) GitLab
General
1 3 (16.67%) Social Skills
2 2 (11.11%) Documentation Skills
2 2 (11.11%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (33.33%) Administrator
2 5 (27.78%) Linux Administrator
3 4 (22.22%) Lead
4 3 (16.67%) Linux Engineer
5 2 (11.11%) Architect
5 2 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (11.11%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (11.11%) Oracle Architect
5 2 (11.11%) Unix Administrator
6 1 (5.56%) Cloud Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) DBA
6 1 (5.56%) Network Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) Solaris Administrator
6 1 (5.56%) Unix DBA
6 1 (5.56%) Unix Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (22.22%) LDAP
2 2 (11.11%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (22.22%) Data Centre
1 4 (22.22%) Enterprise Storage
2 2 (11.11%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 16 (88.89%) Linux
2 15 (83.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (22.22%) Windows
3 4 (22.22%) Windows Server
3 4 (22.22%) Windows Server 2019
4 2 (11.11%) AIX
4 2 (11.11%) CentOS
4 2 (11.11%) HPUX
4 2 (11.11%) Solaris
4 2 (11.11%) Ubuntu
4 2 (11.11%) Unix
4 2 (11.11%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (50.00%) High Availability
2 6 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 6 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
3 5 (27.78%) Performance Tuning
3 5 (27.78%) Vulnerability Management
4 4 (22.22%) DevSecOps
4 4 (22.22%) ITIL
4 4 (22.22%) Performance Monitoring
4 4 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (22.22%) Server Migrations
4 4 (22.22%) Technical Leadership
5 2 (11.11%) BCP
5 2 (11.11%) Business Continuity
5 2 (11.11%) CI/CD
5 2 (11.11%) Configuration Management
5 2 (11.11%) Database Migration
5 2 (11.11%) Infrastructure Automation
5 2 (11.11%) Load Balancing
5 2 (11.11%) Runbook
5 2 (11.11%) Server Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (22.22%) Bash
2 2 (11.11%) Python
3 1 (5.56%) Korn
3 1 (5.56%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 13 (72.22%) Security Cleared
2 10 (55.56%) SC Cleared
3 3 (16.67%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 4 (22.22%) NFS
1 4 (22.22%) Samba
2 2 (11.11%) Ceph
2 2 (11.11%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (5.56%) Active Directory
3 1 (5.56%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (38.89%) Ansible
2 6 (33.33%) yum
3 4 (22.22%) NetBackup
4 2 (11.11%) Argo
4 2 (11.11%) Data Guard
4 2 (11.11%) Oracle RMAN
4 2 (11.11%) Oracle ZFS
4 2 (11.11%) Progress Chef
4 2 (11.11%) Puppet
Vendors
1 10 (55.56%) VMware
2 9 (50.00%) HP
3 6 (33.33%) Dell
4 4 (22.22%) 3PAR
4 4 (22.22%) Veritas
5 2 (11.11%) Cisco
5 2 (11.11%) F5
5 2 (11.11%) Oracle