Red Hat Contracts in the UK excluding London

Red Hat
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 182 207 208
Rank change year-on-year +25 +1 +31
Contract jobs citing Red Hat 162 207 294
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.27% 1.00% 1.22%
As % of the Vendors category 2.60% 2.34% 2.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 107 155 223
10th Percentile £400 £339 £400
25th Percentile £460 £400 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year +3.71% -2.78% +5.37%
75th Percentile £623 £579 £638
90th Percentile £680 £650 £700
UK median daily rate £550 £524 £575
% change year-on-year +5.01% -8.91% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 6 16
10th Percentile £67.40 £22.84 £25.75
25th Percentile - £32.89 £28.40
Median hourly rate £68.00 £68.22 £50.75
Median % change year-on-year -0.32% +34.42% -26.50%
75th Percentile - £74.44 £64.56
90th Percentile £69.50 £75.97 £74.50
UK median hourly rate £68.00 £68.22 £52.50
% change year-on-year -0.32% +29.94% -16.67%

All Vendors
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 6,222 8,861 10,677
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 48.74% 42.66% 44.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,963 5,339 7,359
10th Percentile £215 £205 £205
25th Percentile £369 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +7.53%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £663 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £515 £517 £525
% change year-on-year -0.39% -1.52% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 431 940 476
10th Percentile £14.20 £11.79 £14.31
25th Percentile £16.95 £14.16 £17.74
Median hourly rate £24.18 £21.46 £38.50
Median % change year-on-year +12.67% -44.26% +106.79%
75th Percentile £58.63 £58.70 £63.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £70.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £26.45 £22.30 £43.75
% change year-on-year +18.61% -49.03% +108.14%

Red Hat
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Red Hat in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Red Hat in the UK excluding London

Red Hat
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Red Hat in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Red Hat in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Red Hat in the UK excluding London

Red Hat
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Red Hat in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Red Hat in the UK excluding London

Red Hat
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 within the UK excluding London 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
South West +72 39 £615 +17.14% 111
South East -10 36 £550 +4.76% 190
North of England +30 34 £403 -18.43% 190
North West +17 22 £393 -17.26% 92
Scotland +13 22 £522 +46.08% 42
Midlands +2 15 £550 - 184
East of England +21 13 £465 -15.45% 123
Yorkshire +18 11 £405 -22.86% 71
West Midlands +7 11 £551 -5.81% 99
Wales +4 4 - - 19
East Midlands -2 4 £544 +1.59% 75
North East - 1 £550 - 27
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 20
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UK

Red Hat
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 (7.41%) JBoss
2 9 (5.56%) Apache
3 8 (4.94%) Microsoft Exchange
4 6 (3.70%) Skype for Business
5 5 (3.09%) Mattermost
6 4 (2.47%) Confluence
7 3 (1.85%) nginx
7 3 (1.85%) WebLogic
7 3 (1.85%) WebLogic Portal
7 3 (1.85%) WebSphere
8 2 (1.23%) SharePoint
9 1 (0.62%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.62%) WebSphere Application Server
Business Applications
1 1 (0.62%) Distributed Ledger
Cloud Services
1 49 (30.25%) AWS
1 49 (30.25%) Azure
2 43 (26.54%) OpenShift
3 8 (4.94%) Microsoft 365
3 8 (4.94%) SaaS
4 7 (4.32%) GCP
5 6 (3.70%) GitHub
6 5 (3.09%) OCI
7 3 (1.85%) Amazon EKS
7 3 (1.85%) Cloud Computing
7 3 (1.85%) PaaS
8 2 (1.23%) Amazon EC2
8 2 (1.23%) Entra ID
8 2 (1.23%) IaaS
8 2 (1.23%) Nutanix
9 1 (0.62%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (0.62%) Cohesity
9 1 (0.62%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (0.62%) Linode
9 1 (0.62%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 35 (21.60%) DNS
2 31 (19.14%) DHCP
2 31 (19.14%) TCP/IP
3 15 (9.26%) HTTP
4 13 (8.02%) Firewall
5 12 (7.41%) SAN
6 11 (6.79%) NAS
7 6 (3.70%) Skype
8 5 (3.09%) LAN
8 5 (3.09%) Softphone
8 5 (3.09%) Unified Communications
8 5 (3.09%) WAN
8 5 (3.09%) WebEx
9 4 (2.47%) FTP
9 4 (2.47%) SMTP
9 4 (2.47%) SSL
9 4 (2.47%) tcpdump
9 4 (2.47%) Telnet
10 3 (1.85%) Fibre Channel
10 3 (1.85%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (6.17%) SQL Server
2 9 (5.56%) Elasticsearch
3 8 (4.94%) RDBMS
3 8 (4.94%) Relational Database
4 4 (2.47%) Oracle Exadata
4 4 (2.47%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (1.85%) Oracle Database
6 2 (1.23%) Big Data
6 2 (1.23%) MySQL
6 2 (1.23%) Oracle Database 12c
7 1 (0.62%) Apache Accumulo
7 1 (0.62%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.62%) InfluxDB
7 1 (0.62%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.62%) Redis
Development Applications
1 18 (11.11%) Git
2 15 (9.26%) JIRA
3 14 (8.64%) Jenkins
4 10 (6.17%) SonarQube
5 9 (5.56%) Bitbucket Server
5 9 (5.56%) CA Release Automation
5 9 (5.56%) Sonatype Nexus
5 9 (5.56%) TeamCity
6 6 (3.70%) GitLab
7 4 (2.47%) Artifactory
8 3 (1.85%) Eclipse
8 3 (1.85%) Subversion
9 1 (0.62%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.62%) Snyk
General
1 31 (19.14%) Social Skills
2 13 (8.02%) Finance
3 6 (3.70%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (3.70%) Legal
4 5 (3.09%) Law
5 4 (2.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (1.85%) Banking
6 3 (1.85%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (1.85%) Public Sector
7 2 (1.23%) Military
7 2 (1.23%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.62%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 35 (21.60%) Linux Engineer
2 20 (12.35%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 16 (9.88%) Administrator
4 15 (9.26%) DevOps Engineer
5 14 (8.64%) Support Engineer
6 13 (8.02%) Senior
7 9 (5.56%) Product Engineer
7 9 (5.56%) Products Support Engineer
7 9 (5.56%) Software Support Engineer
8 8 (4.94%) Architect
8 8 (4.94%) Automation Engineer
8 8 (4.94%) Lead
8 8 (4.94%) Linux Administrator
9 7 (4.32%) Linux Support
9 7 (4.32%) Linux Support Engineer
9 7 (4.32%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
10 5 (3.09%) Database Engineer
10 5 (3.09%) Messaging Engineer
10 5 (3.09%) Operations Engineer
10 5 (3.09%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (7.41%) Elastic Stack
1 12 (7.41%) Middleware
2 11 (6.79%) LDAP
3 9 (5.56%) Spring Boot
4 5 (3.09%) XMPP
4 5 (3.09%) YAML
5 2 (1.23%) Kafka
5 2 (1.23%) REST
6 1 (0.62%) Apache NiFi
6 1 (0.62%) JSON
6 1 (0.62%) JWT
6 1 (0.62%) Keycloak
6 1 (0.62%) LAMP
6 1 (0.62%) OAuth
6 1 (0.62%) Redfish
6 1 (0.62%) Spring
6 1 (0.62%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 12 (7.41%) Public Cloud
2 10 (6.17%) Hybrid Cloud
3 9 (5.56%) Data Centre
4 8 (4.94%) CSOC
5 6 (3.70%) Clustering
5 6 (3.70%) Enterprise Storage
6 5 (3.09%) Management Information System
6 5 (3.09%) Replication
7 4 (2.47%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (2.47%) Distributed Computing
7 4 (2.47%) Product Ownership
8 3 (1.85%) Linux Command Line
8 3 (1.85%) PKI
9 2 (1.23%) Onboarding
9 2 (1.23%) Virtual Team
10 1 (0.62%) Blockchain
10 1 (0.62%) Derivative
10 1 (0.62%) EMC VMAX
10 1 (0.62%) Private Cloud
10 1 (0.62%) RSA SecurID
Operating Systems
1 152 (93.83%) Linux
2 95 (58.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 72 (44.44%) Windows
4 47 (29.01%) Windows Server
5 31 (19.14%) Ubuntu
6 16 (9.88%) CentOS
7 14 (8.64%) Solaris
8 13 (8.02%) Unix
9 11 (6.79%) AIX
9 11 (6.79%) Windows Server 2016
10 10 (6.17%) VMS
11 6 (3.70%) Amazon Linux
11 6 (3.70%) Windows Server 2019
12 4 (2.47%) HPUX
13 3 (1.85%) Oracle Linux
14 2 (1.23%) Debian
14 2 (1.23%) Windows 10
14 2 (1.23%) Windows Server 2012
15 1 (0.62%) Data ONTAP
15 1 (0.62%) Fedora
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (19.75%) Containerisation
1 32 (19.75%) DevOps
2 29 (17.90%) Problem-Solving
3 28 (17.28%) CI/CD
3 28 (17.28%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 25 (15.43%) ITIL
5 23 (14.20%) High Availability
5 23 (14.20%) Problem Management
6 19 (11.73%) Performance Tuning
7 16 (9.88%) Agile
7 16 (9.88%) Incident Management
7 16 (9.88%) Service Management
8 15 (9.26%) Continuous Integration
8 15 (9.26%) Software Engineering
9 14 (8.64%) Disaster Recovery
9 14 (8.64%) Microservices
10 13 (8.02%) Task Automation
11 12 (7.41%) DevSecOps
11 12 (7.41%) Migration
11 12 (7.41%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 60 (37.04%) Python
2 45 (27.78%) Bash
3 34 (20.99%) PowerShell
4 26 (16.05%) Shell Script
5 23 (14.20%) Java
6 20 (12.35%) Perl
7 14 (8.64%) C++
8 12 (7.41%) SQL
9 11 (6.79%) Ada
9 11 (6.79%) C
9 11 (6.79%) JavaScript
10 6 (3.70%) Ruby
11 2 (1.23%) Korn
12 1 (0.62%) ActionScript
12 1 (0.62%) ActionScript 2.0
12 1 (0.62%) C-shell
12 1 (0.62%) Groovy
12 1 (0.62%) PHP
Qualifications
1 72 (44.44%) Security Cleared
2 45 (27.78%) SC Cleared
3 28 (17.28%) DV Cleared
4 7 (4.32%) RHCE
5 5 (3.09%) ITIL Certification
6 3 (1.85%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (1.85%) Degree
7 2 (1.23%) AWS Certification
7 2 (1.23%) RHCSA
7 2 (1.23%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 1 (0.62%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.62%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.62%) CISSP
8 1 (0.62%) CompTIA Security+
8 1 (0.62%) IBM Certification
8 1 (0.62%) Linux+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.70%) QA
2 4 (2.47%) Disclosure Scotland
2 4 (2.47%) GDPR
3 2 (1.23%) NIST
4 1 (0.62%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.62%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (0.62%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.62%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (0.62%) SLA
System Software
1 44 (27.16%) VMware Infrastructure
2 43 (26.54%) Docker
3 23 (14.20%) Active Directory
4 20 (12.35%) Hyper-V
5 16 (9.88%) vSphere
6 7 (4.32%) Oracle RAC
6 7 (4.32%) VMware ESXi
7 5 (3.09%) NFS
7 5 (3.09%) Samba
8 4 (2.47%) VMware NSX
9 3 (1.85%) KVM
9 3 (1.85%) LXC
10 2 (1.23%) Ceph
10 2 (1.23%) Veritas Cluster Server
11 1 (0.62%) Firmware
11 1 (0.62%) Virtual Machines
11 1 (0.62%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 73 (45.06%) Ansible
2 54 (33.33%) Kubernetes
3 35 (21.60%) Terraform
4 26 (16.05%) Puppet
5 16 (9.88%) Progress Chef
6 9 (5.56%) Kibana
6 9 (5.56%) vCenter Server
7 8 (4.94%) SELinux
8 7 (4.32%) Data Guard
8 7 (4.32%) Nessus
9 6 (3.70%) SCOM
9 6 (3.70%) yum
10 5 (3.09%) Failover Clustering
10 5 (3.09%) NetBackup
10 5 (3.09%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 4 (2.47%) Microsoft Clustering
11 4 (2.47%) Nagios
11 4 (2.47%) Oracle Flashback
11 4 (2.47%) Red Hat Satellite
12 3 (1.85%) Grafana
Vendors
1 72 (44.44%) VMware
2 28 (17.28%) Splunk
3 22 (13.58%) Microsoft
4 19 (11.73%) Oracle
5 17 (10.49%) Cisco
6 13 (8.02%) Dell
6 13 (8.02%) HP
7 12 (7.41%) F5
7 12 (7.41%) NetApp
8 10 (6.17%) AppDynamics
8 10 (6.17%) ServiceNow
8 10 (6.17%) SolarWinds
9 9 (5.56%) Palo Alto
10 8 (4.94%) Fortinet
10 8 (4.94%) Veritas
11 6 (3.70%) IBM
12 5 (3.09%) Google
13 4 (2.47%) 3PAR
13 4 (2.47%) Dynatrace
14 3 (1.85%) Cloudera