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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 203 168 267
Rank change year-on-year -35 +99 -36
Contract jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 209 334 285
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.00% 1.47% 0.93%
As % of the Operating Systems category 6.30% 7.70% 4.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 162 233 203
10th Percentile £350 £380 £400
25th Percentile £456 £456 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £542 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.55% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £635
90th Percentile £650 £686 £698
UK median daily rate £520 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -13.33% +4.35% +17.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 8 1
10th Percentile £65.18 - -
25th Percentile £67.31 £51.25 £77.50
Median hourly rate £72.75 £52.50 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year +38.57% -34.38% +55.34%
75th Percentile £76.31 £73.75 £82.50
90th Percentile £77.33 £73.98 -
UK median hourly rate £72.75 £52.50 £63.00
% change year-on-year +38.57% -16.67% +8.15%

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 3,315 4,337 5,798
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.92% 19.04% 19.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,200 2,980 3,831
10th Percentile £175 £165 £150
25th Percentile £275 £250 £208
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £465 £425
Median % change year-on-year -3.12% +9.29% +6.25%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £540
90th Percentile £675 £675 £638
UK median daily rate £470 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -6.00% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 332 307 432
10th Percentile £12.26 £13.29 £12.55
25th Percentile £14.40 £17.50 £15.04
Median hourly rate £22.79 £38.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -40.81% +92.50% +21.21%
75th Percentile £63.75 £65.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £70.00 £74.05 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £22.50 £42.50 £22.00
% change year-on-year -47.06% +93.18% +25.71%

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 1 June 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
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 1 June 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 +22 100 £550 -7.76% 19
Midlands +43 45 £550 -15.38% 3
West Midlands +20 29 £576 -14.67% 2
South West +10 29 £593 +3.04% 12
Scotland -28 29 £420 -16.00% 4
East Midlands +25 16 £449 -38.07% 1
East of England -21 14 £470 -1.05% 4
North of England -16 13 £513 -10.87% 6
Yorkshire +11 7 £463 -11.90%
North West -12 6 £520 -16.76% 5
Wales +20 4 £700 +43.59% 2
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 9 (4.31%) Apache
2 7 (3.35%) Tomcat
3 6 (2.87%) JBoss
4 5 (2.39%) Confluence
4 5 (2.39%) IIS
4 5 (2.39%) nginx
5 2 (0.96%) SAS
5 2 (0.96%) Traefik
6 1 (0.48%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.48%) OpenEdge
6 1 (0.48%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (1.91%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.48%) MFGPRO
1 1 (0.48%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.48%) Sage 50
1 1 (0.48%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (0.48%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 36 (17.22%) AWS
2 31 (14.83%) Azure
3 19 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
3 19 (9.09%) OpenShift
4 16 (7.66%) Amazon EC2
5 15 (7.18%) Amazon S3
6 12 (5.74%) AWS CloudFormation
7 9 (4.31%) AWS Lambda
7 9 (4.31%) Serverless
8 8 (3.83%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 8 (3.83%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 7 (3.35%) Route 53
10 6 (2.87%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 6 (2.87%) IaaS
11 5 (2.39%) Amazon ECS
11 5 (2.39%) AWS Fargate
12 4 (1.91%) Amazon ELB
12 4 (1.91%) AWS KMS
13 3 (1.44%) GCP
14 2 (0.96%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 17 (8.13%) DNS
2 13 (6.22%) TCP/IP
3 12 (5.74%) DHCP
4 11 (5.26%) SAN
5 7 (3.35%) Fibre Channel
6 4 (1.91%) Firewall
6 4 (1.91%) H.323
6 4 (1.91%) HTTP
6 4 (1.91%) LAN
6 4 (1.91%) Remote Desktop
6 4 (1.91%) WAN
7 2 (0.96%) iSCSI
7 2 (0.96%) Kerberos
8 1 (0.48%) LTE
8 1 (0.48%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (7.66%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (5.74%) Elasticsearch
3 11 (5.26%) MongoDB
3 11 (5.26%) RDBMS
3 11 (5.26%) Relational Database
4 9 (4.31%) SQL Server
5 6 (2.87%) MySQL
6 5 (2.39%) InfluxDB
7 4 (1.91%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (1.91%) Oracle Database
8 3 (1.44%) DB2
9 2 (0.96%) Amazon Aurora
9 2 (0.96%) Informix
9 2 (0.96%) Redis
10 1 (0.48%) Oracle Exadata
10 1 (0.48%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 33 (15.79%) Git
1 33 (15.79%) GitLab
2 21 (10.05%) Jenkins
3 13 (6.22%) JIRA
4 9 (4.31%) Artifactory
5 8 (3.83%) Selenium
6 6 (2.87%) Bitbucket Server
6 6 (2.87%) Robot Framework
6 6 (2.87%) Sonatype Nexus
7 5 (2.39%) CA Release Automation
7 5 (2.39%) SonarQube
7 5 (2.39%) TeamCity
8 2 (0.96%) Subversion
9 1 (0.48%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.48%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.48%) Gerrit
9 1 (0.48%) Oracle APEX
9 1 (0.48%) Postman
General
1 26 (12.44%) Social Skills
2 24 (11.48%) Analytical Skills
3 23 (11.00%) Public Sector
4 7 (3.35%) Finance
5 6 (2.87%) Telecoms
6 5 (2.39%) Billing
6 5 (2.39%) Legal
7 4 (1.91%) Banking
8 2 (0.96%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.48%) Aerospace
9 1 (0.48%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.48%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 37 (17.70%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 37 (17.70%) Linux Engineer
2 21 (10.05%) Support Engineer
3 19 (9.09%) Systems Administrator
4 18 (8.61%) Administrator
5 17 (8.13%) Linux Systems Administrator
5 17 (8.13%) Platform Engineer
6 16 (7.66%) Architect
6 16 (7.66%) DevOps Engineer
7 14 (6.70%) Infrastructure Support
7 14 (6.70%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
8 13 (6.22%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
8 13 (6.22%) Linux Support
9 12 (5.74%) Linux Support Engineer
10 10 (4.78%) Cloud Engineer
10 10 (4.78%) Linux Administrator
11 8 (3.83%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 8 (3.83%) Consultant
12 7 (3.35%) Developer
12 7 (3.35%) Security Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (8.13%) YAML
2 9 (4.31%) AWS CDK
3 5 (2.39%) Elastic Stack
3 5 (2.39%) Spring Boot
4 4 (1.91%) RabbitMQ
5 3 (1.44%) Middleware
6 2 (0.96%) cloud-init
6 2 (0.96%) Flash
6 2 (0.96%) POSIX
6 2 (0.96%) pytest
7 1 (0.48%) .NET
7 1 (0.48%) Apache NiFi
7 1 (0.48%) HornetQ
7 1 (0.48%) Kafka
7 1 (0.48%) LDAP
7 1 (0.48%) Node.js
7 1 (0.48%) Oracle GoldenGate
7 1 (0.48%) React
7 1 (0.48%) VCL
7 1 (0.48%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 23 (11.00%) Client/Server
2 18 (8.61%) Linux Command Line
3 11 (5.26%) PKI
3 11 (5.26%) SCADA
4 10 (4.78%) Clustering
5 6 (2.87%) Management Information System
6 5 (2.39%) Replication
7 4 (1.91%) IVR
8 3 (1.44%) Cloud Native
8 3 (1.44%) Data Centre
8 3 (1.44%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (1.44%) Grid Computing
8 3 (1.44%) Public Cloud
8 3 (1.44%) Smart Meter
9 2 (0.96%) NVMe
9 2 (0.96%) Virtual Team
10 1 (0.48%) Cyber Threat
10 1 (0.48%) IBM Storwize
10 1 (0.48%) Security Operations Centre
10 1 (0.48%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 209 (100.00%) Linux
2 91 (43.54%) Windows
3 52 (24.88%) Windows Server
4 33 (15.79%) Unix
5 16 (7.66%) Ubuntu
6 15 (7.18%) CentOS
7 13 (6.22%) Solaris
8 11 (5.26%) Windows Server 2019
9 9 (4.31%) VMS
10 7 (3.35%) Windows Server 2016
11 4 (1.91%) AIX
12 3 (1.44%) SUSE
13 2 (0.96%) Alpine Linux
13 2 (0.96%) Data ONTAP
13 2 (0.96%) Debian
13 2 (0.96%) Rocky
14 1 (0.48%) Fedora
14 1 (0.48%) HPUX
14 1 (0.48%) Windows Server 2012
14 1 (0.48%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (25.84%) DevOps
2 49 (23.44%) Infrastructure as Code
3 36 (17.22%) Agile
3 36 (17.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 26 (12.44%) CI/CD
5 23 (11.00%) Containerisation
6 22 (10.53%) High Availability
6 22 (10.53%) SIEM
7 21 (10.05%) Migration
8 20 (9.57%) Application Packaging
8 20 (9.57%) Application Virtualisation
8 20 (9.57%) Cybersecurity
9 19 (9.09%) Configuration Management
10 18 (8.61%) Scrum
11 17 (8.13%) Virtual Infrastructure
12 16 (7.66%) Infrastructure Automation
12 16 (7.66%) Scaled Agile Framework
13 14 (6.70%) Project Delivery
13 14 (6.70%) Validation
14 13 (6.22%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 67 (32.06%) Python
2 53 (25.36%) PowerShell
3 33 (15.79%) Bash
4 25 (11.96%) Shell Script
5 20 (9.57%) VBScript
6 12 (5.74%) SQL
7 11 (5.26%) Java
8 9 (4.31%) Perl
9 7 (3.35%) C
9 7 (3.35%) C#
10 6 (2.87%) ProC
11 5 (2.39%) Groovy
11 5 (2.39%) PL/SQL
12 3 (1.44%) TypeScript
13 2 (0.96%) C++
13 2 (0.96%) Go
13 2 (0.96%) Ruby
14 1 (0.48%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 133 (63.64%) Security Cleared
2 83 (39.71%) SC Cleared
3 47 (22.49%) DV Cleared
4 11 (5.26%) RHCE
5 6 (2.87%) Degree
6 4 (1.91%) RHCSA
7 2 (0.96%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (0.96%) MCSE
7 2 (0.96%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.48%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.48%) HNC
8 1 (0.48%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.48%) Linux+ Certification
8 1 (0.48%) LPIC
8 1 (0.48%) VERITAS Certified Professional (VCP)
8 1 (0.48%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (3.35%) NIST
1 7 (3.35%) SLA
2 3 (1.44%) Disclosure Scotland
3 2 (0.96%) GDPR
3 2 (0.96%) NCSC
4 1 (0.48%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.48%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 70 (33.49%) VMware Infrastructure
2 24 (11.48%) Docker
2 24 (11.48%) Virtual Machines
3 18 (8.61%) Active Directory
4 14 (6.70%) vSphere
5 13 (6.22%) Hyper-V
5 13 (6.22%) VMware NSX
6 12 (5.74%) VMware ESXi
7 8 (3.83%) KVM
8 4 (1.91%) VMware Server
9 3 (1.44%) NFS
9 3 (1.44%) Virtual Servers
10 2 (0.96%) GPFS
11 1 (0.48%) Oracle RAC
11 1 (0.48%) Terminal Services
11 1 (0.48%) Varnish
11 1 (0.48%) Xen
Systems Management
1 62 (29.67%) Ansible
2 43 (20.57%) Kubernetes
3 31 (14.83%) Terraform
4 21 (10.05%) Progress Chef
4 21 (10.05%) Puppet
5 19 (9.09%) Red Hat Satellite
6 18 (8.61%) Packer
7 13 (6.22%) Salt
8 12 (5.74%) vCenter Server
9 11 (5.26%) Kibana
10 10 (4.78%) Grafana
10 10 (4.78%) SCCM
11 9 (4.31%) vRealize
12 4 (1.91%) HAProxy
12 4 (1.91%) Prometheus
12 4 (1.91%) Rancher
12 4 (1.91%) SELinux
13 3 (1.44%) SCOM
13 3 (1.44%) SCSM
13 3 (1.44%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 107 (51.20%) Red Hat
2 85 (40.67%) VMware
3 21 (10.05%) Microsoft
4 19 (9.09%) Oracle
5 15 (7.18%) ArcSight
6 11 (5.26%) SaltStack
6 11 (5.26%) Veritas
7 9 (4.31%) Splunk
8 7 (3.35%) Veeam
9 6 (2.87%) IBM
9 6 (2.87%) SolarWinds
10 5 (2.39%) AppDynamics
10 5 (2.39%) Arqiva
11 4 (1.91%) Atlassian
11 4 (1.91%) Avaya
11 4 (1.91%) Verint
12 3 (1.44%) Dell
12 3 (1.44%) EMC
12 3 (1.44%) NetApp
13 2 (0.96%) Cisco