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 26 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 361 326 286
Rank change year-on-year -35 -40 -65
Contract jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 347 242 329
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.65% 0.74% 0.85%
As % of the Operating Systems category 6.65% 5.51% 6.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 233 167 243
10th Percentile £369 £337 £356
25th Percentile £437 £408 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £520
Median % change year-on-year -3.80% -0.05% -11.49%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £685
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 0 2
10th Percentile £36.75 - £65.18
25th Percentile £41.11 - £67.31
Median hourly rate £52.00 - £72.75
75th Percentile £71.25 - £76.31
90th Percentile £80.00 - £77.33
UK excluding London median hourly rate £52.00 - £72.75
% change year-on-year - - +0.34%

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 5,216 4,393 5,428
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.72% 13.43% 13.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,305 2,796 3,553
10th Percentile £193 £190 £200
25th Percentile £313 £306 £326
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +4.22% -5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £585
90th Percentile £669 £675 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £447 £450
% change year-on-year +0.67% -0.67% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 356 270 323
10th Percentile £14.50 £15.56 £12.43
25th Percentile £17.25 £18.51 £17.85
Median hourly rate £25.77 £25.08 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.77% -16.42% -29.41%
75th Percentile £63.75 £57.09 £65.00
90th Percentile £72.83 £67.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.81 £24.33 £39.25
% change year-on-year +6.06% -38.01% +27.02%

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 26 August 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 26 August 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Red Hat Enterprise Linux in the UK

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Top 15 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 26 August 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 -9 310 £500 -4.76% 55
UK excluding London -19 214 £500 - 42
London -27 111 £500 -9.09% 21
Work from Home -67 74 £475 -9.52% 20
North of England -52 65 £500 +24.84% 7
South East -49 49 £458 -16.82% 9
South West -13 42 £560 +1.73% 13
North West -37 37 £481 +22.39% 6
East of England +1 29 £525 +56.72% 7
Yorkshire -28 28 £523 +22.87% 1
Scotland -25 15 £488 -2.40% 4
Midlands -56 13 £530 -1.85% 3
East Midlands -10 8 £530 +17.78%
West Midlands -67 5 £560 -2.06% 3
Wales - 1 £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 12 (3.46%) JBoss
2 11 (3.17%) nginx
3 10 (2.88%) Apache
4 8 (2.31%) Confluence
4 8 (2.31%) WebSphere
5 7 (2.02%) SharePoint
5 7 (2.02%) Tomcat
6 6 (1.73%) Microsoft Exchange
7 3 (0.86%) IBM HTTP Server
7 3 (0.86%) OpenStack
7 3 (0.86%) SAS
7 3 (0.86%) WebSphere Application Server
8 2 (0.58%) Documentum
8 2 (0.58%) Oracle HTTP Server
8 2 (0.58%) WebLogic
8 2 (0.58%) WebSphere Portal
9 1 (0.29%) Apache Airflow
9 1 (0.29%) Red Hat Fuse
9 1 (0.29%) Traefik
Applications
1 4 (1.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.29%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.29%) FLEXCUBE
1 1 (0.29%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (0.29%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 101 (29.11%) AWS
2 81 (23.34%) Azure
3 40 (11.53%) OpenShift
4 31 (8.93%) GCP
5 22 (6.34%) GitHub
5 22 (6.34%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 18 (5.19%) Amazon EC2
6 18 (5.19%) AWS CloudFormation
6 18 (5.19%) Datadog
7 17 (4.90%) Amazon EKS
8 16 (4.61%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 15 (4.32%) Amazon S3
9 15 (4.32%) Serverless
10 14 (4.03%) Azure Monitor
10 14 (4.03%) Entra ID
10 14 (4.03%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 14 (4.03%) IaaS
11 12 (3.46%) AWS Lambda
11 12 (3.46%) GitHub Actions
12 11 (3.17%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 49 (14.12%) DNS
2 46 (13.26%) Firewall
3 35 (10.09%) SAN
4 20 (5.76%) DHCP
4 20 (5.76%) TCP/IP
5 19 (5.48%) Kerberos
6 18 (5.19%) VLAN
7 15 (4.32%) Network Security
7 15 (4.32%) SSL
8 13 (3.75%) VPN
9 9 (2.59%) SSH
10 6 (1.73%) VSAN
10 6 (1.73%) WAN
11 5 (1.44%) HTTP
11 5 (1.44%) VoIP
12 4 (1.15%) NAS
13 3 (0.86%) FTP
13 3 (0.86%) Intrusion Detection
13 3 (0.86%) OpenVPN
14 2 (0.58%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (7.49%) Oracle Database
2 24 (6.92%) PostgreSQL
3 16 (4.61%) SQL Server
4 10 (2.88%) Amazon RDS
4 10 (2.88%) MySQL
5 7 (2.02%) MongoDB
5 7 (2.02%) Oracle Database 12c
5 7 (2.02%) SAP HANA
6 6 (1.73%) Big Data
6 6 (1.73%) Hadoop
7 5 (1.44%) Elasticsearch
7 5 (1.44%) Relational Database
7 5 (1.44%) SQLite
8 4 (1.15%) Data Lake
8 4 (1.15%) Data Warehouse
8 4 (1.15%) Redis
9 3 (0.86%) GIS
10 2 (0.58%) Azure SQL Database
10 2 (0.58%) Sybase ASE
11 1 (0.29%) OpenStack Swift
Development Applications
1 46 (13.26%) Jenkins
2 43 (12.39%) Git
3 36 (10.37%) GitLab
4 12 (3.46%) JIRA
5 7 (2.02%) Sonatype Nexus
6 5 (1.44%) Artifactory
7 3 (0.86%) Bitbucket
7 3 (0.86%) Introscope
7 3 (0.86%) Toad
8 2 (0.58%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 2 (0.58%) Cucumber
8 2 (0.58%) Maven
8 2 (0.58%) Zephyr
9 1 (0.29%) Ant
9 1 (0.29%) PVCS
9 1 (0.29%) Robot Framework
General
1 62 (17.87%) Social Skills
2 52 (14.99%) Finance
3 36 (10.37%) Analytical Skills
4 27 (7.78%) Banking
5 25 (7.20%) Documentation Skills
6 22 (6.34%) Public Sector
7 11 (3.17%) Legal
8 7 (2.02%) Aerospace
9 6 (1.73%) Military
10 5 (1.44%) Publishing
10 5 (1.44%) Retail
11 4 (1.15%) Manufacturing
12 3 (0.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 2 (0.58%) Aviation
13 2 (0.58%) Investment Banking
13 2 (0.58%) Law
13 2 (0.58%) Telecoms
14 1 (0.29%) Financial Institution
14 1 (0.29%) Pharmaceutical
14 1 (0.29%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 78 (22.48%) Linux Engineer
2 53 (15.27%) Senior
3 36 (10.37%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 30 (8.65%) DevOps Engineer
5 29 (8.36%) Cloud Engineer
6 25 (7.20%) Architect
7 23 (6.63%) Administrator
8 18 (5.19%) Platform Engineer
9 17 (4.90%) Linux Administrator
10 16 (4.61%) Lead
10 16 (4.61%) Security Engineer
10 16 (4.61%) Senior Linux Engineer
11 15 (4.32%) AWS Engineer
12 14 (4.03%) Systems Engineer
13 13 (3.75%) Linux Systems Engineer
13 13 (3.75%) Unix Engineer
14 12 (3.46%) Automation Engineer
15 11 (3.17%) Systems Administrator
16 10 (2.88%) Linux Systems Administrator
16 10 (2.88%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 85 (24.50%) Terraform
2 15 (4.32%) Middleware
3 13 (3.75%) REST
4 11 (3.17%) LDAP
5 10 (2.88%) Kafka
6 7 (2.02%) Azure Blueprints
6 7 (2.02%) Elastic Stack
6 7 (2.02%) JSON
7 6 (1.73%) .NET
7 6 (1.73%) ARM Templates
7 6 (1.73%) WebSphere MQ
8 5 (1.44%) OAuth
8 5 (1.44%) OpenTofu
8 5 (1.44%) SPNEGO
8 5 (1.44%) Vue
9 4 (1.15%) Celery
9 4 (1.15%) Django
9 4 (1.15%) JWT
9 4 (1.15%) React
9 4 (1.15%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 43 (12.39%) Cloud Native
2 28 (8.07%) Security Posture
3 25 (7.20%) Replication
4 22 (6.34%) Clustering
5 20 (5.76%) Data Centre
6 16 (4.61%) Management Information System
7 15 (4.32%) Hybrid Cloud
7 15 (4.32%) Onboarding
7 15 (4.32%) PKI
8 13 (3.75%) Linux Command Line
9 12 (3.46%) Enterprise Storage
9 12 (3.46%) Legacy Systems
10 11 (3.17%) Enterprise Cloud
11 9 (2.59%) Data Protection Act
11 9 (2.59%) Enterprise Software
11 9 (2.59%) Virtual Team
12 8 (2.31%) Private Cloud
12 8 (2.31%) Product Ownership
13 7 (2.02%) Cloud Security Posture
13 7 (2.02%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 347 (100.00%) Linux
2 126 (36.31%) Windows
3 68 (19.60%) Windows Server
4 44 (12.68%) Ubuntu
5 40 (11.53%) CentOS
6 38 (10.95%) Unix
7 25 (7.20%) Solaris
8 18 (5.19%) Rocky
9 15 (4.32%) AIX
10 14 (4.03%) Oracle Linux
11 13 (3.75%) SUSE
12 11 (3.17%) Windows Server 2019
13 10 (2.88%) VMS
14 7 (2.02%) Windows Server 2012
15 6 (1.73%) HPUX
15 6 (1.73%) Windows Server 2016
16 5 (1.44%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
16 5 (1.44%) Windows 10
16 5 (1.44%) Windows Server 2008
17 4 (1.15%) Alpine Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 110 (31.70%) CI/CD
2 108 (31.12%) DevOps
3 75 (21.61%) Infrastructure as Code
4 65 (18.73%) Configuration Management
4 65 (18.73%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 57 (16.43%) Migration
6 54 (15.56%) Agile
6 54 (15.56%) Containerisation
6 54 (15.56%) ITIL
7 49 (14.12%) Change Management
7 49 (14.12%) Platform Engineering
8 45 (12.97%) Problem-Solving
9 44 (12.68%) Continuous Improvement
10 43 (12.39%) Performance Tuning
11 41 (11.82%) Observability
12 37 (10.66%) High Availability
13 35 (10.09%) Runbook
14 32 (9.22%) Cloud Security
14 32 (9.22%) Root Cause Analysis
15 30 (8.65%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 143 (41.21%) Python
2 97 (27.95%) Bash
3 92 (26.51%) PowerShell
4 34 (9.80%) Java
5 23 (6.63%) Shell Script
5 23 (6.63%) SQL
6 17 (4.90%) Perl
7 12 (3.46%) C
7 12 (3.46%) C++
8 11 (3.17%) Bicep
9 8 (2.31%) Korn
9 8 (2.31%) PL/SQL
10 6 (1.73%) C#
10 6 (1.73%) Go
10 6 (1.73%) JavaScript
11 5 (1.44%) Groovy
12 4 (1.15%) MATLAB
13 3 (0.86%) Jython
14 2 (0.58%) Search Processing Language
15 1 (0.29%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 151 (43.52%) Security Cleared
2 114 (32.85%) SC Cleared
3 33 (9.51%) DV Cleared
4 32 (9.22%) Degree
5 25 (7.20%) AWS Certification
5 25 (7.20%) CISSP
6 22 (6.34%) Azure Certification
7 15 (4.32%) RHCE
8 10 (2.88%) Computer Science Degree
9 7 (2.02%) CompTIA Security+
10 6 (1.73%) CISM
10 6 (1.73%) Microsoft Certification
11 4 (1.15%) OCP
11 4 (1.15%) Oracle Certification
11 4 (1.15%) RHCSA
12 3 (0.86%) RHCA
13 2 (0.58%) GIAC
13 2 (0.58%) ISSAP
13 2 (0.58%) PMI Certification
13 2 (0.58%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (2.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 9 (2.59%) SLA
2 7 (2.02%) NIST
3 6 (1.73%) QA
4 5 (1.44%) GRC
4 5 (1.44%) NCSC
5 4 (1.15%) Disclosure Scotland
5 4 (1.15%) ISO 15022
5 4 (1.15%) ISO 20022
5 4 (1.15%) SOC 2
6 3 (0.86%) HIPAA
6 3 (0.86%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.29%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.29%) OpenSCAP
7 1 (0.29%) PMO
7 1 (0.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 59 (17.00%) Docker
2 47 (13.54%) VMware Infrastructure
3 41 (11.82%) Active Directory
4 34 (9.80%) Virtual Machines
5 19 (5.48%) VMware ESXi
6 15 (4.32%) Hyper-V
7 14 (4.03%) NFS
7 14 (4.03%) vSphere
8 8 (2.31%) Oracle RAC
9 6 (1.73%) Corosync
10 4 (1.15%) Ceph
10 4 (1.15%) Firmware
11 3 (0.86%) KVM
11 3 (0.86%) Veritas Volume Manager
11 3 (0.86%) VMware NSX
12 2 (0.58%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 2 (0.58%) Squid
13 1 (0.29%) OpenSSH
13 1 (0.29%) oVirt
13 1 (0.29%) Samba
Systems Management
1 124 (35.73%) Ansible
2 89 (25.65%) Kubernetes
3 39 (11.24%) Puppet
4 33 (9.51%) Progress Chef
5 27 (7.78%) Red Hat Satellite
6 25 (7.20%) Grafana
7 22 (6.34%) Prometheus
8 19 (5.48%) Failover Clustering
9 15 (4.32%) NetBackup
10 11 (3.17%) Oracle RMAN
11 8 (2.31%) Packer
11 8 (2.31%) vCenter Server
12 7 (2.02%) Pacemaker
12 7 (2.02%) Podman
12 7 (2.02%) systemd
13 6 (1.73%) SELinux
14 5 (1.44%) Nagios
14 5 (1.44%) SCCM
14 5 (1.44%) Tivoli
14 5 (1.44%) WSUS
Vendors
1 176 (50.72%) Red Hat
2 63 (18.16%) Microsoft
2 63 (18.16%) VMware
3 56 (16.14%) Oracle
4 25 (7.20%) Google
5 21 (6.05%) Splunk
6 20 (5.76%) NetApp
7 19 (5.48%) IBM
7 19 (5.48%) ServiceNow
8 18 (5.19%) Cisco
9 13 (3.75%) Veeam
10 11 (3.17%) SaltStack
11 10 (2.88%) Qualys
12 9 (2.59%) Rapid7
12 9 (2.59%) Tenable
13 8 (2.31%) HP
13 8 (2.31%) SAP
14 6 (1.73%) Dell
14 6 (1.73%) McAfee
14 6 (1.73%) Veritas