Red Hat Enterprise Linux Contracts in the UK excluding London

Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Red Hat Enterprise Linux skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Red Hat Enterprise Linux over the 6 months to 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 228 172 272
Rank change year-on-year -56 +100 -69
Contract jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 181 353 276
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.88% 1.48% 0.89%
As % of the Operating Systems category 5.54% 7.61% 4.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 140 251 189
10th Percentile £355 £378 £400
25th Percentile £434 £457 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% +0.09% +22.11%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £638
90th Percentile £656 £700 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -12.50% +4.35% +21.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 11 2
10th Percentile £32.89 - £17.20
25th Percentile £44.47 £51.25 £27.25
Median hourly rate £67.50 £52.50 £45.50
Median % change year-on-year +28.57% +15.38% -17.27%
75th Percentile £74.63 £74.50 £64.75
90th Percentile £76.65 - £75.40
UK median hourly rate £67.50 £52.50 £63.00
% change year-on-year +28.57% -16.67% +9.57%

All Operating Systems
UK excluding London

Red Hat Enterprise Linux is in the Operating Systems category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 3,269 4,636 5,970
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.82% 19.39% 19.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,170 3,238 3,902
10th Percentile £175 £163 £150
25th Percentile £258 £250 £203
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £425
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +11.76% +6.25%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £538
90th Percentile £675 £676 £638
UK median daily rate £468 £504 £500
% change year-on-year -7.14% +0.80% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 320 339 465
10th Percentile £12.25 £13.29 £12.78
25th Percentile £14.24 £17.49 £15.00
Median hourly rate £22.50 £30.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +50.00% +21.21%
75th Percentile £61.60 £61.25 £48.75
90th Percentile £70.00 £73.72 £63.25
UK median hourly rate £22.15 £39.60 £22.50
% change year-on-year -44.07% +76.00% +26.62%

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Red Hat Enterprise Linux in the UK excluding London

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Red Hat Enterprise Linux in the UK excluding London

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Red Hat Enterprise Linux in the UK excluding London

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Red Hat Enterprise Linux in the UK excluding London

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Red Hat Enterprise Linux in the UK excluding London

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 3 May 2024. 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
South East +15 81 £550 -8.33% 8
Scotland -34 29 £521 +4.10% 6
Midlands +28 27 £499 -23.23% 3
East of England -5 16 £440 -5.63% 6
North of England -20 16 £474 -24.20% 3
East Midlands +32 14 £430 -40.66% 1
West Midlands +11 12 £550 -15.38% 2
South West -2 10 £600 +6.67% 12
North West -28 9 £513 -18.00% 2
Yorkshire +13 7 £463 -13.75% 1
Wales +22 4 £700 +43.59% 1
Red Hat Enterprise Linux
UK

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 15 (8.29%) Apache
2 12 (6.63%) Tomcat
3 9 (4.97%) IIS
3 9 (4.97%) nginx
4 8 (4.42%) Confluence
5 6 (3.31%) JBoss
5 6 (3.31%) SAS
6 3 (1.66%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (1.10%) Traefik
8 1 (0.55%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.55%) OpenEdge
8 1 (0.55%) SharePoint
Applications
1 8 (4.42%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (1.66%) Sage X3
2 2 (1.10%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
2 2 (1.10%) RMDS
3 1 (0.55%) MFGPRO
3 1 (0.55%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.55%) Sage 50
3 1 (0.55%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.55%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 40 (22.10%) AWS
2 35 (19.34%) Azure
3 20 (11.05%) OpenShift
4 18 (9.94%) Amazon EC2
4 18 (9.94%) Azure DevOps
5 16 (8.84%) Amazon S3
6 12 (6.63%) AWS CloudFormation
7 9 (4.97%) AWS Lambda
7 9 (4.97%) Serverless
7 9 (4.97%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 8 (4.42%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 8 (4.42%) Route 53
9 7 (3.87%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 6 (3.31%) IaaS
11 5 (2.76%) Amazon ECS
11 5 (2.76%) AWS Fargate
12 4 (2.21%) Amazon ELB
12 4 (2.21%) AWS KMS
13 3 (1.66%) GCP
13 3 (1.66%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 18 (9.94%) DNS
2 17 (9.39%) TCP/IP
3 16 (8.84%) SAN
4 12 (6.63%) DHCP
5 10 (5.52%) Fibre Channel
6 8 (4.42%) H.323
6 8 (4.42%) HTTP
6 8 (4.42%) WAN
7 6 (3.31%) Firewall
7 6 (3.31%) iSCSI
7 6 (3.31%) LAN
8 4 (2.21%) Remote Desktop
9 3 (1.66%) Cisco IOS
9 3 (1.66%) Wireless
10 2 (1.10%) Kerberos
11 1 (0.55%) LTE
11 1 (0.55%) Multicast
11 1 (0.55%) Network Security
11 1 (0.55%) VPN
11 1 (0.55%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (8.84%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (6.63%) Elasticsearch
3 11 (6.08%) MongoDB
3 11 (6.08%) RDBMS
3 11 (6.08%) Relational Database
4 10 (5.52%) MySQL
5 9 (4.97%) SQL Server
6 6 (3.31%) Amazon RDS
7 5 (2.76%) DB2
7 5 (2.76%) InfluxDB
7 5 (2.76%) Oracle Database
8 3 (1.66%) Amazon Aurora
9 2 (1.10%) Informix
9 2 (1.10%) Redis
10 1 (0.55%) Ingres
10 1 (0.55%) MariaDB
10 1 (0.55%) Oracle BI Publisher
10 1 (0.55%) Oracle Exadata
10 1 (0.55%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 26 (14.36%) GitLab
2 22 (12.15%) Git
3 21 (11.60%) Jenkins
4 16 (8.84%) JIRA
5 9 (4.97%) Artifactory
6 8 (4.42%) Selenium
7 7 (3.87%) Sonatype Nexus
8 6 (3.31%) Bitbucket Server
8 6 (3.31%) Robot Framework
9 5 (2.76%) CA Release Automation
9 5 (2.76%) SonarQube
9 5 (2.76%) TeamCity
10 2 (1.10%) Bitbucket
10 2 (1.10%) Oracle APEX
10 2 (1.10%) Subversion
11 1 (0.55%) Cucumber
11 1 (0.55%) Gerrit
11 1 (0.55%) Postman
11 1 (0.55%) Terragrunt
General
1 28 (15.47%) Analytical Skills
1 28 (15.47%) Social Skills
2 17 (9.39%) Public Sector
3 11 (6.08%) Finance
4 10 (5.52%) Telecoms
5 8 (4.42%) Banking
6 7 (3.87%) Legal
7 5 (2.76%) Billing
8 3 (1.66%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.10%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.10%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.55%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.55%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.55%) Local Government
10 1 (0.55%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 30 (16.57%) Linux Engineer
2 25 (13.81%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 20 (11.05%) Administrator
4 17 (9.39%) DevOps Engineer
4 17 (9.39%) Systems Administrator
5 16 (8.84%) Platform Engineer
6 15 (8.29%) Linux Systems Administrator
7 12 (6.63%) Linux Administrator
7 12 (6.63%) Support Engineer
8 11 (6.08%) Cloud Engineer
9 9 (4.97%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 9 (4.97%) Developer
10 8 (4.42%) Analyst
10 8 (4.42%) Architect
10 8 (4.42%) Consultant
10 8 (4.42%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
11 7 (3.87%) ArcSight Consultant
11 7 (3.87%) Cybersecurity Consultant
11 7 (3.87%) Security Consultant
12 6 (3.31%) C Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (4.97%) AWS CDK
2 6 (3.31%) Flash
2 6 (3.31%) POSIX
3 5 (2.76%) Elastic Stack
3 5 (2.76%) RabbitMQ
3 5 (2.76%) Spring Boot
4 3 (1.66%) EDI
4 3 (1.66%) Middleware
4 3 (1.66%) YAML
5 2 (1.10%) cloud-init
5 2 (1.10%) Django
5 2 (1.10%) HornetQ
5 2 (1.10%) pytest
5 2 (1.10%) VCL
5 2 (1.10%) Web Services
6 1 (0.55%) Apache NiFi
6 1 (0.55%) OAuth2
6 1 (0.55%) Oracle GoldenGate
6 1 (0.55%) React
6 1 (0.55%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 23 (12.71%) Client/Server
2 13 (7.18%) Linux Command Line
3 11 (6.08%) PKI
4 9 (4.97%) Management Information System
5 8 (4.42%) IVR
6 7 (3.87%) Clustering
7 6 (3.31%) Data Centre
8 5 (2.76%) Enterprise Storage
9 4 (2.21%) Greenfield Project
9 4 (2.21%) NVMe
9 4 (2.21%) Replication
10 3 (1.66%) CCTV
10 3 (1.66%) Cloud Native
10 3 (1.66%) Public Cloud
10 3 (1.66%) Self-Motivation
10 3 (1.66%) Smart Meter
11 1 (0.55%) Cyber Threat
11 1 (0.55%) Security Operations Centre
11 1 (0.55%) Security Posture
11 1 (0.55%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 181 (100.00%) Linux
2 85 (46.96%) Windows
3 50 (27.62%) Windows Server
4 37 (20.44%) Unix
5 19 (10.50%) Ubuntu
6 15 (8.29%) Windows Server 2019
7 14 (7.73%) CentOS
8 10 (5.52%) Solaris
9 9 (4.97%) VMS
10 8 (4.42%) Windows Server 2016
11 6 (3.31%) Windows Server 2012
12 4 (2.21%) Data ONTAP
13 3 (1.66%) AIX
13 3 (1.66%) Android
13 3 (1.66%) Debian
13 3 (1.66%) Mac OS
13 3 (1.66%) SUSE
13 3 (1.66%) Windows Server 2008
14 2 (1.10%) Alpine Linux
15 1 (0.55%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (24.86%) DevOps
2 37 (20.44%) Agile
3 27 (14.92%) Infrastructure as Code
4 26 (14.36%) CI/CD
5 24 (13.26%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 21 (11.60%) High Availability
6 21 (11.60%) SIEM
7 20 (11.05%) Containerisation
7 20 (11.05%) Cybersecurity
8 18 (9.94%) Application Packaging
8 18 (9.94%) Application Virtualisation
8 18 (9.94%) Migration
8 18 (9.94%) Problem-Solving
8 18 (9.94%) Scrum
9 17 (9.39%) Roadmaps
10 15 (8.29%) Scaled Agile Framework
11 14 (7.73%) Project Delivery
12 13 (7.18%) Capacity Management
13 12 (6.63%) Continuous Integration
13 12 (6.63%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 73 (40.33%) Python
2 37 (20.44%) PowerShell
3 36 (19.89%) Bash
4 23 (12.71%) Shell Script
5 21 (11.60%) SQL
6 18 (9.94%) VBScript
7 16 (8.84%) Java
8 11 (6.08%) Perl
9 8 (4.42%) C
10 7 (3.87%) C#
11 6 (3.31%) PL/SQL
11 6 (3.31%) ProC
12 5 (2.76%) Groovy
13 3 (1.66%) TypeScript
14 2 (1.10%) C++
14 2 (1.10%) Go
14 2 (1.10%) JavaScript
14 2 (1.10%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 95 (52.49%) Security Cleared
2 50 (27.62%) SC Cleared
3 44 (24.31%) DV Cleared
4 7 (3.87%) RHCE
5 6 (3.31%) Degree
6 3 (1.66%) RHCSA
7 2 (1.10%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.55%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.55%) HNC
8 1 (0.55%) Linux+ Certification
8 1 (0.55%) LPIC
8 1 (0.55%) MCSE
8 1 (0.55%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (3.87%) NIST
2 4 (2.21%) SLA
3 3 (1.66%) Disclosure Scotland
4 2 (1.10%) GDPR
4 2 (1.10%) NCSC
5 1 (0.55%) Accessibility
System Software
1 51 (28.18%) VMware Infrastructure
2 23 (12.71%) Docker
3 21 (11.60%) Active Directory
4 15 (8.29%) vSphere
5 13 (7.18%) VMware NSX
6 12 (6.63%) VMware ESXi
7 10 (5.52%) Virtual Machines
8 8 (4.42%) Hyper-V
9 7 (3.87%) NFS
10 5 (2.76%) KVM
11 4 (2.21%) GPFS
11 4 (2.21%) Virtual Servers
11 4 (2.21%) VMware Server
12 2 (1.10%) Varnish
13 1 (0.55%) Oracle RAC
13 1 (0.55%) Terminal Services
13 1 (0.55%) Xen
Systems Management
1 45 (24.86%) Ansible
2 44 (24.31%) Kubernetes
3 19 (10.50%) Terraform
4 18 (9.94%) Packer
5 13 (7.18%) Red Hat Satellite
6 11 (6.08%) Kibana
6 11 (6.08%) vCenter Server
7 10 (5.52%) Grafana
7 10 (5.52%) SCCM
8 9 (4.97%) Puppet
8 9 (4.97%) vRealize
9 8 (4.42%) Progress Chef
10 5 (2.76%) HAProxy
11 4 (2.21%) Prometheus
11 4 (2.21%) Rancher
11 4 (2.21%) Veritas Storage Foundation
12 3 (1.66%) Microsoft Intune
12 3 (1.66%) NetBackup
12 3 (1.66%) PaperCut
12 3 (1.66%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 79 (43.65%) Red Hat
2 68 (37.57%) VMware
3 20 (11.05%) Microsoft
3 20 (11.05%) Oracle
4 14 (7.73%) ArcSight
4 14 (7.73%) Veritas
5 10 (5.52%) Splunk
5 10 (5.52%) Veeam
6 9 (4.97%) HP
6 9 (4.97%) NetApp
7 8 (4.42%) Avaya
7 8 (4.42%) IBM
7 8 (4.42%) Nimble Storage
8 7 (3.87%) Atlassian
8 7 (3.87%) Verint
9 6 (3.31%) Cisco
9 6 (3.31%) SolarWinds
10 5 (2.76%) 3PAR
10 5 (2.76%) Arqiva
10 5 (2.76%) Dell