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 16 August 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
16 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 91 90 82
Rank change year-on-year -1 -8 +58
Contract jobs citing Red Hat 24 30 63
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 1.42% 1.32% 2.25%
As % of the Vendors category 2.53% 2.67% 4.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 21 35
10th Percentile £362 £338 £306
25th Percentile £398 £450 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £527 £511 £561
Median % change year-on-year +3.08% -8.84% +1.92%
75th Percentile £575 £623 £694
90th Percentile £700 £650 £735
South East median daily rate £527 £528 £550
% change year-on-year -0.24% -4.00% -4.35%

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 950 1,124 1,416
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 56.38% 49.34% 50.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 564 658 942
10th Percentile £295 £248 £260
25th Percentile £403 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £525 £520
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% +0.96% +4.00%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £625
90th Percentile £675 £716 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 54 50
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.50 £14.00
25th Percentile £14.20 £19.72 £18.08
Median hourly rate £18.00 £48.79 £32.31
Median % change year-on-year -63.11% +51.00% +90.06%
75th Percentile £36.89 £61.60 £61.72
90th Percentile £67.50 £73.03 £67.75
South East median hourly rate £18.87 £57.35 £45.00
% change year-on-year -67.10% +27.44% +125.00%

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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 16 August 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 16 August 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 +8 17 £500 +11.11% 3
Buckinghamshire +3 6 £535 -4.46%
Oxfordshire -10 1 £363 -27.50% 2
Red Hat
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 1 (4.17%) Appian
Cloud Services
1 3 (12.50%) OpenShift
2 2 (8.33%) Azure
2 2 (8.33%) GitHub
3 1 (4.17%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 14 (58.33%) SAN
2 6 (25.00%) TCP/IP
3 5 (20.83%) DNS
4 3 (12.50%) DHCP
5 2 (8.33%) BGP
5 2 (8.33%) Ethernet VPN
5 2 (8.33%) Fibre Channel
5 2 (8.33%) IPv6
5 2 (8.33%) OSPF
5 2 (8.33%) Spanning Tree
5 2 (8.33%) TACACS
5 2 (8.33%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.33%) Oracle Database
1 2 (8.33%) Oracle Database 12c
2 1 (4.17%) UniData
Development Applications
1 3 (12.50%) GitLab
2 1 (4.17%) Cucumber
2 1 (4.17%) Cypress.io
2 1 (4.17%) Git
2 1 (4.17%) Robot Framework
2 1 (4.17%) Selenium
2 1 (4.17%) SonarQube
General
1 6 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (16.67%) Public Sector
3 3 (12.50%) Telecoms
4 2 (8.33%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (4.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 9 (37.50%) Administrator
2 7 (29.17%) Backup Administrator
2 7 (29.17%) Storage Administrator
2 7 (29.17%) Storage and Backup Administrator
3 6 (25.00%) Developer
4 4 (16.67%) Python Developer
4 4 (16.67%) Senior
4 4 (16.67%) Senior Developer
5 3 (12.50%) HP Storage Administrator
5 3 (12.50%) Senior Python Developer
6 2 (8.33%) Architect
6 2 (8.33%) Lead
6 2 (8.33%) Linux Administrator
6 2 (8.33%) Oracle Architect
7 1 (4.17%) Head of Development
7 1 (4.17%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 1 (4.17%) Linux Engineer
7 1 (4.17%) Network Engineer
7 1 (4.17%) Senior Software Developer
7 1 (4.17%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (8.33%) YAML
2 1 (4.17%) Apollo GraphQL
2 1 (4.17%) GraphQL
2 1 (4.17%) Jinja
2 1 (4.17%) JSON
2 1 (4.17%) NETCONF
2 1 (4.17%) Playwright
2 1 (4.17%) React
2 1 (4.17%) RESTful
2 1 (4.17%) Spring
2 1 (4.17%) Spring Boot
2 1 (4.17%) XML
2 1 (4.17%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 9 (37.50%) Enterprise Storage
2 3 (12.50%) HP Storage
3 2 (8.33%) Data Centre
3 2 (8.33%) Management Information System
3 2 (8.33%) Onboarding
4 1 (4.17%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (4.17%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 19 (79.17%) Linux
2 15 (62.50%) Windows
3 13 (54.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 9 (37.50%) Windows Server 2016
5 7 (29.17%) Windows Server
6 6 (25.00%) Windows Server 2019
7 5 (20.83%) Debian
7 5 (20.83%) Ubuntu
8 4 (16.67%) Windows Server 2012
9 2 (8.33%) VMS
10 1 (4.17%) Rocky
10 1 (4.17%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (50.00%) ITIL
2 7 (29.17%) Disaster Recovery
3 6 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (20.83%) Agile
4 5 (20.83%) Data Modelling
4 5 (20.83%) High Availability
4 5 (20.83%) Stakeholder Management
5 4 (16.67%) Data Engineering
6 3 (12.50%) CI/CD
6 3 (12.50%) DevOps
6 3 (12.50%) DevSecOps
6 3 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 3 (12.50%) Technical Leadership
6 3 (12.50%) TOGAF
7 2 (8.33%) Business Continuity
7 2 (8.33%) Customer Service
7 2 (8.33%) Database Migration
7 2 (8.33%) Decision-Making
7 2 (8.33%) Infrastructure Automation
7 2 (8.33%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 7 (29.17%) Shell Script
2 6 (25.00%) Python
3 1 (4.17%) Bash
3 1 (4.17%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 15 (62.50%) Security Cleared
2 12 (50.00%) SC Cleared
3 4 (16.67%) DV Cleared
4 2 (8.33%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.17%) Accessibility
1 1 (4.17%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (8.33%) Ceph
1 2 (8.33%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (4.17%) Active Directory
2 1 (4.17%) Docker
2 1 (4.17%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (33.33%) NetBackup
2 3 (12.50%) Ansible
3 2 (8.33%) Argo
3 2 (8.33%) Data Guard
3 2 (8.33%) Oracle RMAN
3 2 (8.33%) yum
Vendors
1 10 (41.67%) HP
1 10 (41.67%) VMware
2 9 (37.50%) 3PAR
2 9 (37.50%) Veritas
3 7 (29.17%) Dell
4 6 (25.00%) NetApp
4 6 (25.00%) Nimble Storage
5 3 (12.50%) Cisco
6 2 (8.33%) Microsoft
6 2 (8.33%) Oracle
7 1 (4.17%) Remedy
7 1 (4.17%) Veracode