Red Hat Enterprise Linux Contract Job Trends

Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Red Hat Enterprise Linux skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 367 271 300
Rank change year-on-year -96 +29 -89
Contract jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 301 274 313
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.61% 0.95% 0.73%
As % of the Operating Systems category 6.29% 6.83% 5.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 196 202 233
10th Percentile £400 £400 £350
25th Percentile £425 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £541 £520
Median % change year-on-year -7.58% +4.04% -13.33%
75th Percentile £575 £623 £600
90th Percentile £638 £693 £670
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £542 £538
% change year-on-year -7.79% +0.88% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 0 2
10th Percentile £38.25 - £65.18
25th Percentile £41.71 - £67.31
Median hourly rate £74.26 - £72.75
75th Percentile £83.75 - £76.31
90th Percentile £92.50 - £77.33
UK excluding London median hourly rate £61.42 - £72.75
% change year-on-year - - +38.57%

All Operating Systems
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 4,786 4,013 5,763
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.75% 13.87% 13.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,048 2,631 3,873
10th Percentile £188 £200 £185
25th Percentile £314 £313 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £467 £470
Median % change year-on-year -1.45% -0.74% -6.00%
75th Percentile £575 £586 £588
90th Percentile £650 £675 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £450 £450
% change year-on-year - - -3.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 348 187 400
10th Percentile £14.85 £15.12 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.19 £17.33 £15.50
Median hourly rate £32.50 £22.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +47.73% -2.22% -47.06%
75th Percentile £65.00 £49.63 £61.60
90th Percentile £72.60 £68.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £32.50 £18.94 £22.79
% change year-on-year +71.64% -16.92% -40.81%

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux job vacancy trend in the UK

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux over the 6 months to 5 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Red Hat Enterprise Linux in the UK

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux over the 6 months to 5 June 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Red Hat Enterprise Linux in the UK

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Top 16 Contract Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 5 June 2026. 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
England -68 252 £500 -9.09% 51
UK excluding London -54 202 £500 -7.79% 40
Work from Home -58 83 £500 -5.66% 18
North of England -48 71 £500 +1.63% 7
London -82 59 £488 -15.22% 13
Yorkshire -26 43 £515 -0.72% 3
South East -54 39 £460 -16.36% 14
South West -13 35 £543 -11.79% 11
East of England -3 28 £478 -20.33% 5
North West -31 26 £459 +16.79% 3
Midlands -53 14 £501 -7.31% 3
Scotland -24 13 £463 -2.01%
West Midlands -59 10 £493 -8.75%
East Midlands -22 4 £530 +4.74% 3
North East -28 2 £400 -30.43% 1
Wales - 2 £475 -

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 16 (5.32%) nginx
2 13 (4.32%) Tomcat
3 11 (3.65%) Apache
4 10 (3.32%) Confluence
5 8 (2.66%) WebLogic
6 5 (1.66%) SAS
6 5 (1.66%) WebSphere
7 4 (1.33%) Microsoft Exchange
8 3 (1.00%) IBM HTTP Server
8 3 (1.00%) JBoss
8 3 (1.00%) OpenStack
8 3 (1.00%) SharePoint
8 3 (1.00%) WebSphere Application Server
9 2 (0.66%) Documentum
9 2 (0.66%) Oracle HTTP Server
9 2 (0.66%) WebSphere Portal
10 1 (0.33%) Red Hat Fuse
10 1 (0.33%) Traefik
Applications
1 4 (1.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.33%) FLEXCUBE
1 1 (0.33%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (0.33%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 84 (27.91%) AWS
2 71 (23.59%) Azure
3 44 (14.62%) OpenShift
4 26 (8.64%) GCP
5 20 (6.64%) GitHub
6 19 (6.31%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 14 (4.65%) Amazon EC2
7 14 (4.65%) Amazon S3
8 12 (3.99%) Amazon EKS
9 11 (3.65%) Azure Sentinel
9 11 (3.65%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 8 (2.66%) AWS CloudFormation
11 7 (2.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 7 (2.33%) GitHub Actions
11 7 (2.33%) IaaS
12 5 (1.66%) Azure Monitor
12 5 (1.66%) Datadog
12 5 (1.66%) Entra ID
12 5 (1.66%) Nutanix
12 5 (1.66%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 36 (11.96%) Firewall
2 29 (9.63%) DNS
3 28 (9.30%) SAN
4 12 (3.99%) VLAN
5 10 (3.32%) DHCP
6 9 (2.99%) HTTP
6 9 (2.99%) Kerberos
6 9 (2.99%) SSL
7 8 (2.66%) Network Security
7 8 (2.66%) VPN
8 7 (2.33%) TCP/IP
8 7 (2.33%) VSAN
9 6 (1.99%) iSCSI
10 5 (1.66%) Fibre Channel
10 5 (1.66%) WAN
11 4 (1.33%) NAS
12 3 (1.00%) FTP
12 3 (1.00%) SSH
13 2 (0.66%) Internet
13 2 (0.66%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (7.64%) Oracle Database
2 16 (5.32%) PostgreSQL
3 11 (3.65%) MongoDB
4 10 (3.32%) SQL Server
5 8 (2.66%) Elasticsearch
6 7 (2.33%) GIS
6 7 (2.33%) SAP HANA
7 6 (1.99%) Amazon RDS
7 6 (1.99%) MySQL
8 5 (1.66%) Data Warehouse
9 4 (1.33%) Oracle Database 12c
9 4 (1.33%) Oracle Reports
10 2 (0.66%) Data Lake
10 2 (0.66%) MariaDB
10 2 (0.66%) Oracle Exadata
11 1 (0.33%) IBM InfoSphere
11 1 (0.33%) OpenStack Swift
11 1 (0.33%) RDBMS
11 1 (0.33%) Relational Database
11 1 (0.33%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 47 (15.61%) Jenkins
2 45 (14.95%) GitLab
3 38 (12.62%) Git
4 16 (5.32%) JIRA
5 6 (1.99%) Artifactory
6 5 (1.66%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 4 (1.33%) Sonatype Nexus
8 3 (1.00%) Introscope
9 2 (0.66%) Maven
9 2 (0.66%) Robot Framework
10 1 (0.33%) Ant
10 1 (0.33%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.33%) GoCD
10 1 (0.33%) PVCS
General
1 66 (21.93%) Social Skills
2 32 (10.63%) Finance
3 30 (9.97%) Public Sector
4 26 (8.64%) Documentation Skills
5 24 (7.97%) Banking
6 18 (5.98%) Analytical Skills
7 9 (2.99%) Aerospace
8 6 (1.99%) Legal
9 4 (1.33%) Telecoms
10 2 (0.66%) Aviation
10 2 (0.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (0.66%) Law
10 2 (0.66%) Military
10 2 (0.66%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.33%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.33%) International Banking
11 1 (0.33%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.33%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.33%) Publishing
11 1 (0.33%) Retail
Job Titles
1 49 (16.28%) Linux Engineer
2 33 (10.96%) Senior
3 27 (8.97%) Administrator
4 26 (8.64%) Architect
4 26 (8.64%) Lead
5 24 (7.97%) DevOps Engineer
6 23 (7.64%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 20 (6.64%) Linux Administrator
7 20 (6.64%) Platform Engineer
8 16 (5.32%) Senior Linux Engineer
8 16 (5.32%) Software Engineer
9 12 (3.99%) Security Engineer
10 11 (3.65%) Cloud Engineer
11 9 (2.99%) AWS Engineer
11 9 (2.99%) Lead Software Engineer
12 8 (2.66%) DBA
12 8 (2.66%) Oracle DBA
13 7 (2.33%) Security Architect
13 7 (2.33%) Systems Administrator
13 7 (2.33%) Unix Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (6.98%) Middleware
2 18 (5.98%) LDAP
3 9 (2.99%) Spring
3 9 (2.99%) YAML
4 7 (2.33%) EJB
5 6 (1.99%) Elastic Stack
5 6 (1.99%) Kafka
5 6 (1.99%) OpenLayers
5 6 (1.99%) Spring Boot
6 5 (1.66%) REST
7 4 (1.33%) .NET
7 4 (1.33%) Azure Blueprints
7 4 (1.33%) Java EE
7 4 (1.33%) Java SE
7 4 (1.33%) JSP
8 3 (1.00%) FastAPI
8 3 (1.00%) JDBC
8 3 (1.00%) JSON
8 3 (1.00%) RabbitMQ
8 3 (1.00%) WebSphere MQ
Miscellaneous
1 40 (13.29%) Data Centre
2 35 (11.63%) Cloud Native
3 23 (7.64%) Management Information System
4 16 (5.32%) Security Posture
5 13 (4.32%) Hybrid Cloud
5 13 (4.32%) Onboarding
6 12 (3.99%) Clustering
7 10 (3.32%) Enterprise Software
7 10 (3.32%) Legacy Systems
7 10 (3.32%) Replication
8 8 (2.66%) Legacy Applications
8 8 (2.66%) Product Ownership
9 7 (2.33%) PKI
9 7 (2.33%) Public Cloud
10 6 (1.99%) Data Protection Act
10 6 (1.99%) FlexPod
10 6 (1.99%) Linux Command Line
11 5 (1.66%) CMDB
11 5 (1.66%) Mainframe
12 4 (1.33%) Enterprise Storage
Operating Systems
1 301 (100.00%) Linux
2 111 (36.88%) Windows
3 51 (16.94%) Windows Server
4 47 (15.61%) Ubuntu
5 37 (12.29%) CentOS
6 23 (7.64%) Solaris
7 22 (7.31%) Unix
8 18 (5.98%) VMS
9 16 (5.32%) Windows Server 2019
10 11 (3.65%) Oracle Linux
10 11 (3.65%) Windows Server 2008
10 11 (3.65%) Windows Server 2016
11 10 (3.32%) AIX
11 10 (3.32%) SUSE
12 8 (2.66%) CoreOS
12 8 (2.66%) Rocky
13 7 (2.33%) Debian
13 7 (2.33%) Windows Server 2012
14 6 (1.99%) Data ONTAP
15 5 (1.66%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 101 (33.55%) CI/CD
2 97 (32.23%) DevOps
3 51 (16.94%) Problem-Solving
4 50 (16.61%) Infrastructure as Code
5 48 (15.95%) Agile
6 42 (13.95%) ITIL
6 42 (13.95%) Migration
7 39 (12.96%) Continuous Improvement
8 38 (12.62%) Containerisation
8 38 (12.62%) Performance Tuning
9 37 (12.29%) Change Management
9 37 (12.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 36 (11.96%) Platform Engineering
11 34 (11.30%) Configuration Management
11 34 (11.30%) High Availability
12 32 (10.63%) Roadmaps
13 30 (9.97%) Observability
13 30 (9.97%) Runbook
14 29 (9.63%) SIEM
15 26 (8.64%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 116 (38.54%) Python
2 73 (24.25%) Bash
3 69 (22.92%) PowerShell
4 37 (12.29%) Shell Script
5 32 (10.63%) Java
6 29 (9.63%) SQL
7 18 (5.98%) Perl
8 13 (4.32%) PL/SQL
9 11 (3.65%) JavaScript
9 11 (3.65%) MATLAB
10 9 (2.99%) Go
11 8 (2.66%) Ruby
12 5 (1.66%) Bicep
12 5 (1.66%) Korn
13 4 (1.33%) C#
14 3 (1.00%) C
14 3 (1.00%) Groovy
14 3 (1.00%) Jython
15 2 (0.66%) C++
16 1 (0.33%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 134 (44.52%) Security Cleared
2 100 (33.22%) SC Cleared
3 32 (10.63%) Degree
4 27 (8.97%) DV Cleared
5 24 (7.97%) RHCE
6 19 (6.31%) CISSP
7 18 (5.98%) Azure Certification
8 16 (5.32%) OCP
8 16 (5.32%) Oracle Certification
9 13 (4.32%) AWS Certification
10 9 (2.99%) Computer Science Degree
11 6 (1.99%) CISM
12 5 (1.66%) RHCA
13 4 (1.33%) CompTIA Security+
13 4 (1.33%) RHCSA
13 4 (1.33%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 3 (1.00%) Microsoft Certification
14 3 (1.00%) TOGAF Certification
14 3 (1.00%) VCAP
15 2 (0.66%) NCDA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (4.65%) SLA
2 8 (2.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (2.33%) NIST
4 5 (1.66%) QA
5 4 (1.33%) GRC
6 3 (1.00%) Cyber Essentials
6 3 (1.00%) GDPR
6 3 (1.00%) HIPAA
6 3 (1.00%) NCSC
6 3 (1.00%) SOC 2
7 2 (0.66%) Disclosure Scotland
8 1 (0.33%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 1 (0.33%) ISO 15022
8 1 (0.33%) ISO 20022
8 1 (0.33%) NIST 800
8 1 (0.33%) OpenSCAP
8 1 (0.33%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.33%) PMO
8 1 (0.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 51 (16.94%) VMware Infrastructure
2 45 (14.95%) Docker
3 37 (12.29%) Virtual Machines
4 36 (11.96%) Active Directory
5 18 (5.98%) NFS
6 17 (5.65%) VMware ESXi
6 17 (5.65%) vSphere
7 11 (3.65%) Oracle RAC
8 9 (2.99%) Hyper-V
9 6 (1.99%) Corosync
9 6 (1.99%) VMware NSX
10 4 (1.33%) Ceph
10 4 (1.33%) Firmware
11 3 (1.00%) KVM
11 3 (1.00%) QEMU
11 3 (1.00%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 3 (1.00%) Veritas Volume Manager
12 2 (0.66%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 2 (0.66%) Samba
12 2 (0.66%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 123 (40.86%) Ansible
2 72 (23.92%) Kubernetes
3 70 (23.26%) Terraform
4 26 (8.64%) Red Hat Satellite
5 23 (7.64%) Grafana
6 20 (6.64%) Puppet
7 17 (5.65%) Oracle RMAN
7 17 (5.65%) Podman
7 17 (5.65%) Progress Chef
8 16 (5.32%) Prometheus
9 12 (3.99%) Check_MK
10 11 (3.65%) Failover Clustering
11 7 (2.33%) Pacemaker
11 7 (2.33%) vCenter Server
12 6 (1.99%) Argo
12 6 (1.99%) Data Guard
12 6 (1.99%) Packer
12 6 (1.99%) SnapMirror
12 6 (1.99%) vMotion
13 5 (1.66%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 178 (59.14%) Red Hat
2 75 (24.92%) VMware
3 56 (18.60%) Oracle
4 44 (14.62%) Microsoft
5 24 (7.97%) Google
6 23 (7.64%) Splunk
7 22 (7.31%) IBM
8 14 (4.65%) Dell
9 12 (3.99%) Cisco
10 11 (3.65%) NetApp
11 10 (3.32%) ServiceNow
11 10 (3.32%) Tenable
12 9 (2.99%) HP
13 8 (2.66%) SAP
14 7 (2.33%) NVIDIA
14 7 (2.33%) Qualys
15 6 (1.99%) Broadcom
15 6 (1.99%) Commvault
15 6 (1.99%) Rapid7
15 6 (1.99%) Veritas