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

6 months to
5 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 356 220 277
Rank change year-on-year -136 +57 -77
Contract jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 268 353 359
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.63% 1.17% 0.82%
As % of the Operating Systems category 5.52% 8.20% 5.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 191 234 258
10th Percentile £400 £401 £350
25th Percentile £456 £476 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £570 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.89% +3.64% -5.17%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £631
90th Percentile £675 £738 £703
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £551 £533
% change year-on-year -9.26% +3.47% -3.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 2 4
10th Percentile £74.26 - £22.13
25th Percentile £74.68 - £24.09
Median hourly rate £90.00 £112.00 £38.84
Median % change year-on-year -19.64% +188.36% -41.15%
75th Percentile £113.50 - £59.81
90th Percentile £119.00 - £70.73
UK excluding London median hourly rate £82.50 - £38.84
% change year-on-year - - -42.88%

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 4,858 4,307 6,055
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.41% 14.23% 13.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,203 2,761 4,054
10th Percentile £178 £200 £180
25th Percentile £275 £317 £275
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £458
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +3.71% -10.63%
75th Percentile £568 £589 £588
90th Percentile £668 £699 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £413 £436 £425
% change year-on-year -5.44% +2.65% -10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 352 149 393
10th Percentile £15.02 £16.25 £14.00
25th Percentile £17.91 £20.30 £16.25
Median hourly rate £23.25 £29.00 £23.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.83% +23.40% -14.55%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £60.75
90th Percentile £68.68 £69.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.69 £27.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year -17.48% +22.22% -15.03%

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 March 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 March 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Red Hat Enterprise Linux in the UK

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Top 17 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 March 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 -139 218 £525 -9.72% 43
UK excluding London -93 175 £500 -9.26% 39
Work from Home -50 88 £513 -6.82% 18
North of England -65 50 £525 -14.63% 4
South East -42 49 £484 -12.05% 27
London -125 47 £525 -12.50% 9
Yorkshire -75 24 £500 -23.08% 3
South West -29 22 £563 -8.54% 4
North West -31 22 £550 - 1
Midlands -70 20 £493 -10.57% 1
East of England -13 18 £477 -20.58% 3
West Midlands -61 17 £537 -2.54% 1
Scotland -8 10 £450 -10.00% 3
North East -9 7 £550 -
Northern Ireland - 4 £375 -
East Midlands -32 3 £420 -21.79%
Wales - 2 - -

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 13 (4.85%) nginx
2 11 (4.10%) Confluence
3 10 (3.73%) Apache
3 10 (3.73%) WebLogic
4 9 (3.36%) Microsoft Exchange
4 9 (3.36%) Tomcat
5 7 (2.61%) SharePoint
6 6 (2.24%) SAS
7 2 (0.75%) JBoss
7 2 (0.75%) NetWeaver
7 2 (0.75%) OpenStack
7 2 (0.75%) Oracle HTTP Server
8 1 (0.37%) FileNet
8 1 (0.37%) Red Hat Fuse
8 1 (0.37%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 4 (1.49%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (1.49%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.75%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 57 (21.27%) AWS
2 48 (17.91%) Azure
3 45 (16.79%) OpenShift
4 19 (7.09%) GCP
5 15 (5.60%) Amazon EC2
5 15 (5.60%) GitHub
6 14 (5.22%) Amazon S3
7 12 (4.48%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 9 (3.36%) Entra ID
9 7 (2.61%) Azure Sentinel
9 7 (2.61%) OCI
10 6 (2.24%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 5 (1.87%) Amazon EKS
11 5 (1.87%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 5 (1.87%) IaaS
11 5 (1.87%) Microsoft 365
11 5 (1.87%) Nutanix
12 4 (1.49%) npm
13 3 (1.12%) AWS Fargate
13 3 (1.12%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 33 (12.31%) Firewall
2 21 (7.84%) SAN
3 15 (5.60%) DNS
4 11 (4.10%) VLAN
5 7 (2.61%) BGP
5 7 (2.61%) HTTP
6 6 (2.24%) Kerberos
6 6 (2.24%) Software-Defined Networking
6 6 (2.24%) WebEx
7 5 (1.87%) Fibre Channel
7 5 (1.87%) Network Security
8 4 (1.49%) AMQP
8 4 (1.49%) DKIM
8 4 (1.49%) DMARC
8 4 (1.49%) iSCSI
8 4 (1.49%) SMTP
8 4 (1.49%) SSL
8 4 (1.49%) TCP/IP
8 4 (1.49%) VSAN
9 3 (1.12%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (7.84%) Oracle Database
2 16 (5.97%) MongoDB
3 10 (3.73%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (2.24%) Amazon RDS
4 6 (2.24%) Data Warehouse
5 5 (1.87%) Elasticsearch
5 5 (1.87%) GIS
5 5 (1.87%) MySQL
5 5 (1.87%) SQL Server
6 4 (1.49%) MariaDB
6 4 (1.49%) RDBMS
6 4 (1.49%) Relational Database
7 3 (1.12%) DB2
7 3 (1.12%) Oracle Exadata
7 3 (1.12%) Oracle Reports
8 2 (0.75%) Data Lake
8 2 (0.75%) SAP HANA
9 1 (0.37%) IBM InfoSphere
9 1 (0.37%) Metadata
9 1 (0.37%) Oracle Database 12c
Development Applications
1 32 (11.94%) Jenkins
2 29 (10.82%) GitLab
3 27 (10.07%) Git
4 15 (5.60%) JIRA
5 7 (2.61%) Maven
6 6 (2.24%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 6 (2.24%) Sonatype Nexus
7 3 (1.12%) Artifactory
7 3 (1.12%) Terragrunt
8 2 (0.75%) Gradle
8 2 (0.75%) Robot Framework
8 2 (0.75%) Subversion
9 1 (0.37%) GoCD
9 1 (0.37%) Mockito
9 1 (0.37%) TeamCity
General
1 78 (29.10%) Social Skills
2 29 (10.82%) Analytical Skills
2 29 (10.82%) Public Sector
3 20 (7.46%) Documentation Skills
4 19 (7.09%) Finance
5 13 (4.85%) Banking
6 8 (2.99%) Legal
7 6 (2.24%) Aerospace
8 4 (1.49%) Financial Institution
8 4 (1.49%) Telecoms
9 3 (1.12%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.75%) Back Office
10 2 (0.75%) Front Office
10 2 (0.75%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.37%) Billing
11 1 (0.37%) Electronics
11 1 (0.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.37%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.37%) Military
11 1 (0.37%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 34 (12.69%) Architect
2 33 (12.31%) Administrator
3 25 (9.33%) Linux Engineer
4 24 (8.96%) Platform Engineer
5 18 (6.72%) Lead
5 18 (6.72%) Linux Administrator
6 16 (5.97%) DevOps Engineer
7 15 (5.60%) Senior
8 12 (4.48%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 11 (4.10%) Software Engineer
10 10 (3.73%) Consultant
10 10 (3.73%) Systems Administrator
11 9 (3.36%) Developer
11 9 (3.36%) Support Engineer
12 8 (2.99%) Solutions Architect
12 8 (2.99%) Systems Engineer
13 7 (2.61%) Security Engineer
14 6 (2.24%) DBA
14 6 (2.24%) Oracle DBA
15 5 (1.87%) Senior Linux Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (6.72%) LDAP
2 17 (6.34%) Middleware
3 10 (3.73%) Loki
4 9 (3.36%) Spring
4 9 (3.36%) YAML
5 7 (2.61%) Spring Boot
6 6 (2.24%) XMPP
7 5 (1.87%) EJB
7 5 (1.87%) OpenLayers
7 5 (1.87%) REST
8 4 (1.49%) Kafka
8 4 (1.49%) Keycloak
8 4 (1.49%) Regular Expression
9 3 (1.12%) cloud-init
9 3 (1.12%) Flask
9 3 (1.12%) Java EE
9 3 (1.12%) Java SE
9 3 (1.12%) JSP
9 3 (1.12%) OpenID
9 3 (1.12%) SAP Basis
Miscellaneous
1 35 (13.06%) Data Centre
2 26 (9.70%) Cloud Native
3 18 (6.72%) Product Ownership
4 12 (4.48%) Management Information System
4 12 (4.48%) Onboarding
5 11 (4.10%) Clustering
6 10 (3.73%) Hybrid Cloud
7 9 (3.36%) Enterprise Software
7 9 (3.36%) Legacy Systems
8 8 (2.99%) Legacy Applications
8 8 (2.99%) Virtual Team
9 7 (2.61%) PKI
9 7 (2.61%) Public Cloud
10 6 (2.24%) FlexPod
10 6 (2.24%) Security Posture
11 5 (1.87%) Data Protection Act
12 4 (1.49%) Analytical Mindset
12 4 (1.49%) NVMe
13 3 (1.12%) Cyber Defence
13 3 (1.12%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 268 (100.00%) Linux
2 85 (31.72%) Windows
3 44 (16.42%) Windows Server
4 41 (15.30%) CentOS
4 41 (15.30%) Ubuntu
5 26 (9.70%) Unix
6 17 (6.34%) Solaris
7 12 (4.48%) Windows Server 2019
8 10 (3.73%) VMS
8 10 (3.73%) Windows Server 2016
9 8 (2.99%) Windows Server 2008
10 6 (2.24%) CoreOS
10 6 (2.24%) Data ONTAP
11 5 (1.87%) Debian
12 4 (1.49%) OpenVMS
12 4 (1.49%) Rocky
13 3 (1.12%) Oracle Linux
13 3 (1.12%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
14 2 (0.75%) AIX
14 2 (0.75%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (33.58%) CI/CD
2 67 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 66 (24.63%) DevOps
4 43 (16.04%) Infrastructure as Code
5 42 (15.67%) Containerisation
6 40 (14.93%) Agile
7 36 (13.43%) Continuous Improvement
8 35 (13.06%) High Availability
9 31 (11.57%) Migration
10 30 (11.19%) Platform Engineering
11 29 (10.82%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 27 (10.07%) SIEM
13 26 (9.70%) DevSecOps
14 25 (9.33%) Disaster Recovery
14 25 (9.33%) ITIL
15 23 (8.58%) ITSM
15 23 (8.58%) Observability
16 21 (7.84%) Roadmaps
16 21 (7.84%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 19 (7.09%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 99 (36.94%) Python
2 78 (29.10%) Bash
3 57 (21.27%) PowerShell
4 41 (15.30%) Shell Script
5 30 (11.19%) Perl
6 27 (10.07%) SQL
7 25 (9.33%) Java
8 10 (3.73%) Go
8 10 (3.73%) PL/SQL
9 9 (3.36%) JavaScript
10 8 (2.99%) Ruby
11 7 (2.61%) MATLAB
12 6 (2.24%) Korn
13 1 (0.37%) C#
13 1 (0.37%) C++
13 1 (0.37%) Groovy
13 1 (0.37%) Rust
13 1 (0.37%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 129 (48.13%) Security Cleared
2 94 (35.07%) SC Cleared
3 28 (10.45%) DV Cleared
4 22 (8.21%) Degree
5 20 (7.46%) RHCE
6 14 (5.22%) OCP
6 14 (5.22%) Oracle Certification
7 10 (3.73%) CCDP
7 10 (3.73%) CCNA
7 10 (3.73%) CCNP
7 10 (3.73%) Cisco Certification
8 7 (2.61%) Azure Certification
9 6 (2.24%) CISSP
10 5 (1.87%) AWS Certification
10 5 (1.87%) BPSS Clearance
10 5 (1.87%) RHCSA
11 4 (1.49%) Computer Science Degree
12 3 (1.12%) CESG Certified Professional
12 3 (1.12%) SAP Certification
12 3 (1.12%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (2.61%) SLA
2 6 (2.24%) GDPR
2 6 (2.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (2.24%) NIST
3 5 (1.87%) NCSC
4 4 (1.49%) Cyber Essentials
5 3 (1.12%) NIST 800
6 2 (0.75%) Disclosure Scotland
6 2 (0.75%) QA
7 1 (0.37%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.37%) Def Stans
7 1 (0.37%) HL7
7 1 (0.37%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 1 (0.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 53 (19.78%) VMware Infrastructure
2 37 (13.81%) Docker
3 32 (11.94%) Active Directory
4 19 (7.09%) vSphere
5 13 (4.85%) Oracle RAC
5 13 (4.85%) Virtual Machines
5 13 (4.85%) VMware ESXi
6 7 (2.61%) NFS
7 5 (1.87%) Postfix
7 5 (1.87%) VMware NSX
8 4 (1.49%) QEMU
8 4 (1.49%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 3 (1.12%) GPFS
9 3 (1.12%) KVM
10 2 (0.75%) Ceph
10 2 (0.75%) Citrix Hypervisor
10 2 (0.75%) Firmware
10 2 (0.75%) Lustre
10 2 (0.75%) SRDF
11 1 (0.37%) Samba
Systems Management
1 109 (40.67%) Ansible
2 78 (29.10%) Kubernetes
3 51 (19.03%) Terraform
4 34 (12.69%) Red Hat Satellite
5 24 (8.96%) Grafana
6 17 (6.34%) Prometheus
7 16 (5.97%) Podman
8 15 (5.60%) Puppet
9 14 (5.22%) Argo
10 12 (4.48%) Oracle RMAN
11 11 (4.10%) SCOM
12 9 (3.36%) Check_MK
12 9 (3.36%) Progress Chef
13 8 (2.99%) Data Guard
13 8 (2.99%) Kustomize
14 7 (2.61%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
15 6 (2.24%) SCCM
15 6 (2.24%) SnapMirror
16 5 (1.87%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 5 (1.87%) vRealize
Vendors
1 172 (64.18%) Red Hat
2 93 (34.70%) VMware
3 42 (15.67%) Oracle
4 38 (14.18%) Microsoft
5 31 (11.57%) Splunk
6 22 (8.21%) Cisco
7 19 (7.09%) Dell
8 14 (5.22%) Citrix
9 12 (4.48%) IBM
10 11 (4.10%) NetApp
10 11 (4.10%) NVIDIA
11 10 (3.73%) Google
12 9 (3.36%) Tenable
13 8 (2.99%) Brocade
14 7 (2.61%) ServiceNow
14 7 (2.61%) Symantec
15 6 (2.24%) SAP
16 5 (1.87%) Fortinet
16 5 (1.87%) HP
16 5 (1.87%) Qualys