Red Hat Enterprise Linux Contracts in the UK excluding London

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 23 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 205 224 172
Rank change year-on-year +19 -52 +83
Contract jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 142 175 340
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.12% 0.86% 1.49%
As % of the Operating Systems category 6.46% 5.44% 7.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 115 136 243
10th Percentile £392 £353 £385
25th Percentile £432 £451 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £528 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% +1.85%
75th Percentile £623 £600 £638
90th Percentile £716 £650 £686
UK median daily rate £550 £516 £600
% change year-on-year +6.54% -13.96% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 8
10th Percentile - £65.18 £48.72
25th Percentile - £67.31 £51.25
Median hourly rate - £72.75 £52.32
Median % change year-on-year - +39.06% -34.61%
75th Percentile - £76.31 £53.75
90th Percentile - £77.33 £59.98
UK median hourly rate - £72.75 £52.50
% change year-on-year - +38.57% -16.67%

All Operating Systems
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 2,199 3,215 4,353
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 17.27% 15.87% 19.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,428 2,154 3,003
10th Percentile £178 £175 £163
25th Percentile £234 £263 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £450 £470
Median % change year-on-year -0.61% -4.26% +10.59%
75th Percentile £570 £575 £588
90th Percentile £625 £670 £675
UK median daily rate £465 £468 £500
% change year-on-year -0.64% -6.40% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 151 325 318
10th Percentile £15.12 £12.25 £13.29
25th Percentile £17.10 £14.27 £17.48
Median hourly rate £20.00 £22.50 £31.25
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% -28.00% +56.25%
75th Percentile £56.25 £62.50 £61.25
90th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £71.20
UK median hourly rate £22.00 £22.40 £40.00
% change year-on-year -1.79% -44.00% +77.78%

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 23 May 2025.

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
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 23 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
North of England +43 42 £510 +2.23% 88
Scotland +12 32 £474 -4.34% 22
South East -2 28 £550 - 116
North West +24 23 £443 -13.66% 35
South West +45 19 £615 +14.42% 55
Yorkshire +24 16 £538 +16.22% 43
Midlands +9 16 £540 +8.43% 60
West Midlands +16 14 £540 -1.82% 28
East of England +20 3 £600 +36.36% 45
North East - 3 £575 - 10
East Midlands -1 2 £506 +12.69% 27
Northern Ireland - 2 £350 - 11
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 12 (8.45%) JBoss
2 10 (7.04%) Apache
3 4 (2.82%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (2.82%) nginx
4 3 (2.11%) Confluence
4 3 (2.11%) Documentum
4 3 (2.11%) FileNet
4 3 (2.11%) Tomcat
4 3 (2.11%) WebLogic
5 2 (1.41%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.70%) SAS
6 1 (0.70%) Skype for Business
6 1 (0.70%) Traefik
6 1 (0.70%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.70%) WebSphere Application Server
Cloud Services
1 53 (37.32%) AWS
2 41 (28.87%) Azure
3 31 (21.83%) OpenShift
4 10 (7.04%) Amazon EC2
5 9 (6.34%) AWS CloudFormation
6 7 (4.93%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 7 (4.93%) Amazon ECS
6 7 (4.93%) Amazon S3
6 7 (4.93%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (3.52%) AWS KMS
7 5 (3.52%) Serverless
8 4 (2.82%) AWS CodeBuild
8 4 (2.82%) AWS CodePipeline
8 4 (2.82%) AWS Fargate
8 4 (2.82%) Entra ID
8 4 (2.82%) GitHub
8 4 (2.82%) OCI
8 4 (2.82%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 3 (2.11%) Amazon SQS
9 3 (2.11%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 30 (21.13%) DNS
2 27 (19.01%) DHCP
3 25 (17.61%) TCP/IP
4 16 (11.27%) HTTP
5 10 (7.04%) Firewall
6 7 (4.93%) SAN
7 5 (3.52%) NAS
8 2 (1.41%) FTP
8 2 (1.41%) SMTP
8 2 (1.41%) tcpdump
8 2 (1.41%) Telnet
9 1 (0.70%) Fibre Channel
9 1 (0.70%) iSCSI
9 1 (0.70%) LAN
9 1 (0.70%) Network Security
9 1 (0.70%) SNMP
9 1 (0.70%) SSL
9 1 (0.70%) VLAN
9 1 (0.70%) VPN
9 1 (0.70%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (9.15%) SQL Server
2 11 (7.75%) Elasticsearch
3 8 (5.63%) RDBMS
3 8 (5.63%) Relational Database
4 7 (4.93%) MongoDB
5 5 (3.52%) MySQL
6 4 (2.82%) Oracle Exadata
7 3 (2.11%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (2.11%) Oracle Database
7 3 (2.11%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (1.41%) Big Data
8 2 (1.41%) InfluxDB
8 2 (1.41%) Oracle Database 12c
8 2 (1.41%) Power BI
9 1 (0.70%) Amazon Aurora
9 1 (0.70%) Apache Accumulo
9 1 (0.70%) Apache Cassandra
9 1 (0.70%) DB2
9 1 (0.70%) Hadoop
9 1 (0.70%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 25 (17.61%) Jenkins
2 20 (14.08%) Git
3 12 (8.45%) GitLab
3 12 (8.45%) JIRA
4 10 (7.04%) SonarQube
4 10 (7.04%) Sonatype Nexus
5 9 (6.34%) Bitbucket Server
5 9 (6.34%) CA Release Automation
5 9 (6.34%) TeamCity
6 3 (2.11%) Eclipse
7 2 (1.41%) Artifactory
7 2 (1.41%) Bitbucket
7 2 (1.41%) Subversion
8 1 (0.70%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.70%) Jasmine
8 1 (0.70%) JUnit
8 1 (0.70%) MSI
8 1 (0.70%) Robot Framework
8 1 (0.70%) Selenium
General
1 31 (21.83%) Social Skills
2 17 (11.97%) Analytical Skills
2 17 (11.97%) Finance
3 12 (8.45%) Public Sector
4 8 (5.63%) Banking
5 3 (2.11%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (1.41%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (0.70%) Electronics
7 1 (0.70%) Manufacturing
7 1 (0.70%) Marketing
7 1 (0.70%) Military
7 1 (0.70%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 21 (14.79%) DevOps Engineer
2 20 (14.08%) Linux Engineer
3 15 (10.56%) Senior
4 14 (9.86%) Architect
5 11 (7.75%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 8 (5.63%) AWS Engineer
6 8 (5.63%) Infrastructure Architect
7 7 (4.93%) Automation Engineer
7 7 (4.93%) AWS DevOps
7 7 (4.93%) Platform Engineer
7 7 (4.93%) Solutions Architect
8 6 (4.23%) Administrator
8 6 (4.23%) Developer
8 6 (4.23%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
8 6 (4.23%) Lead
9 5 (3.52%) Database Engineer
9 5 (3.52%) Linux Administrator
10 4 (2.82%) Applications Packager
10 4 (2.82%) Senior Storage Engineer
10 4 (2.82%) Storage Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (7.04%) Spring Boot
2 9 (6.34%) Elastic Stack
3 5 (3.52%) LDAP
4 4 (2.82%) cloud-init
5 3 (2.11%) .NET
5 3 (2.11%) IBM Integration Bus
5 3 (2.11%) Middleware
5 3 (2.11%) OAuth
5 3 (2.11%) REST
6 2 (1.41%) AWS CDK
6 2 (1.41%) Kafka
6 2 (1.41%) Keycloak
6 2 (1.41%) LAMP
6 2 (1.41%) RESTful
6 2 (1.41%) SOAP
6 2 (1.41%) Spring
7 1 (0.70%) ARM Templates
7 1 (0.70%) OpenAPI
7 1 (0.70%) Redfish
7 1 (0.70%) Spring Batch
Miscellaneous
1 15 (10.56%) Data Centre
2 12 (8.45%) Replication
3 10 (7.04%) Enterprise Storage
4 8 (5.63%) CSOC
5 7 (4.93%) Mainframe
6 5 (3.52%) Client/Server
7 4 (2.82%) Clustering
7 4 (2.82%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (2.82%) PKI
8 1 (0.70%) Blackberry
8 1 (0.70%) Cloud Native
8 1 (0.70%) Derivative
8 1 (0.70%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 1 (0.70%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (0.70%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (0.70%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.70%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (0.70%) NVMe
8 1 (0.70%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.70%) RSA SecurID
Operating Systems
1 142 (100.00%) Linux
2 78 (54.93%) Windows
3 33 (23.24%) Windows Server
4 15 (10.56%) Solaris
5 14 (9.86%) Unix
6 10 (7.04%) CentOS
6 10 (7.04%) VMS
7 8 (5.63%) HPUX
8 6 (4.23%) AIX
8 6 (4.23%) Windows Server 2019
9 3 (2.11%) Ubuntu
10 2 (1.41%) Amazon Linux
10 2 (1.41%) Data ONTAP
11 1 (0.70%) Fedora
11 1 (0.70%) Mac OS
11 1 (0.70%) Oracle Linux
11 1 (0.70%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (33.10%) DevOps
2 29 (20.42%) CI/CD
3 27 (19.01%) Agile
3 27 (19.01%) High Availability
4 26 (18.31%) Problem-Solving
5 22 (15.49%) Containerisation
6 21 (14.79%) Service Management
7 19 (13.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 18 (12.68%) Disaster Recovery
9 16 (11.27%) Continuous Integration
9 16 (11.27%) Infrastructure as Code
10 15 (10.56%) Performance Tuning
11 14 (9.86%) Migration
12 13 (9.15%) Deployment Automation
12 13 (9.15%) Technical Leadership
13 12 (8.45%) ITIL
13 12 (8.45%) Microservices
14 11 (7.75%) SIEM
14 11 (7.75%) Software Engineering
15 10 (7.04%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 59 (41.55%) Python
2 38 (26.76%) Bash
3 26 (18.31%) PowerShell
4 23 (16.20%) Java
5 14 (9.86%) Perl
6 10 (7.04%) SQL
7 9 (6.34%) Shell Script
8 6 (4.23%) Ruby
9 5 (3.52%) PHP
10 4 (2.82%) Go
10 4 (2.82%) VBScript
11 3 (2.11%) C++
11 3 (2.11%) Groovy
11 3 (2.11%) Rust
12 1 (0.70%) Bicep
12 1 (0.70%) C-shell
Qualifications
1 60 (42.25%) Security Cleared
2 33 (23.24%) SC Cleared
3 23 (16.20%) DV Cleared
4 8 (5.63%) RHCE
5 3 (2.11%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.41%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.41%) CISM
6 2 (1.41%) CISSP
6 2 (1.41%) RHCSA
6 2 (1.41%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 1 (0.70%) CCNP
7 1 (0.70%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.70%) OCA
7 1 (0.70%) Oracle Certification
7 1 (0.70%) RHCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.23%) Disclosure Scotland
2 3 (2.11%) GDPR
2 3 (2.11%) NCSC
2 3 (2.11%) NIST
3 2 (1.41%) QA
4 1 (0.70%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.70%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (0.70%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.70%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 35 (24.65%) VMware Infrastructure
2 31 (21.83%) Docker
3 18 (12.68%) Active Directory
4 17 (11.97%) Hyper-V
5 7 (4.93%) Oracle RAC
5 7 (4.93%) VMware ESXi
6 5 (3.52%) vSphere
7 3 (2.11%) NFS
7 3 (2.11%) VMware NSX
8 2 (1.41%) Samba
8 2 (1.41%) Veritas Cluster Server
9 1 (0.70%) Firmware
9 1 (0.70%) GPFS
9 1 (0.70%) KVM
9 1 (0.70%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 50 (35.21%) Ansible
2 39 (27.46%) Kubernetes
3 36 (25.35%) Terraform
4 21 (14.79%) Puppet
5 14 (9.86%) Kibana
6 11 (7.75%) Progress Chef
7 7 (4.93%) Data Guard
7 7 (4.93%) SELinux
8 6 (4.23%) Grafana
9 5 (3.52%) NetBackup
9 5 (3.52%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 5 (3.52%) Packer
10 4 (2.82%) Failover Clustering
10 4 (2.82%) Microsoft Clustering
10 4 (2.82%) Oracle Flashback
10 4 (2.82%) yum
11 3 (2.11%) HAProxy
11 3 (2.11%) Opsview
11 3 (2.11%) Prometheus
11 3 (2.11%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 91 (64.08%) Red Hat
2 53 (37.32%) VMware
3 23 (16.20%) Splunk
4 20 (14.08%) Oracle
5 13 (9.15%) AppDynamics
5 13 (9.15%) IBM
6 12 (8.45%) Cisco
6 12 (8.45%) HP
7 11 (7.75%) Dell
8 10 (7.04%) ServiceNow
8 10 (7.04%) SolarWinds
9 9 (6.34%) F5
9 9 (6.34%) Microsoft
9 9 (6.34%) Palo Alto
9 9 (6.34%) Sun
9 9 (6.34%) Veritas
10 8 (5.63%) Fortinet
11 7 (4.93%) Dynatrace
11 7 (4.93%) Unisys
12 4 (2.82%) EMC