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

6 months to
21 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 357 295 282
Rank change year-on-year -62 -13 -68
Contract jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 336 280 332
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.64% 0.86% 0.80%
As % of the Operating Systems category 6.63% 6.38% 5.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 225 201 248
10th Percentile £375 £363 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £525 £520
Median % change year-on-year -5.90% +0.96% -9.57%
75th Percentile £575 £589 £600
90th Percentile £645 £675 £672
UK excluding London median daily rate £494 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -1.20% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 0 2
10th Percentile £36.75 - £65.18
25th Percentile £41.11 - £67.31
Median hourly rate £60.33 - £72.75
75th Percentile £76.51 - £76.31
90th Percentile £80.00 - £77.33
UK excluding London median hourly rate £60.33 - £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 5,066 4,388 5,728
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.61% 13.47% 13.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,216 2,821 3,773
10th Percentile £191 £200 £190
25th Percentile £319 £313 £324
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £468 £463 £475
Median % change year-on-year +1.08% -2.63% -5.00%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £588
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £450 £463
% change year-on-year - -2.70% +2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 340 248 401
10th Percentile £15.73 £15.50 £12.75
25th Percentile £18.50 £18.10 £16.25
Median hourly rate £26.00 £23.00 £24.50
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% -6.12% -42.35%
75th Percentile £63.75 £54.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.02 £67.30 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £26.58 £21.90 £31.00
% change year-on-year +21.37% -29.35% +3.33%

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 21 July 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 21 July 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 21 July 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 -23 291 £494 -5.90% 44
UK excluding London -39 223 £494 -1.20% 35
Work from Home -74 87 £486 -7.52% 11
London -57 83 £488 -11.36% 16
North of England -47 75 £500 +23.92% 9
South East -52 50 £455 -17.27% 9
North West -32 38 £478 +21.50% 7
South West -13 37 £534 -2.95% 7
Yorkshire -39 37 £500 +5.26% 1
East of England +2 27 £500 +3.63% 2
Scotland -30 17 £450 -3.90% 2
Midlands -41 16 £501 -6.80% 4
East Midlands -6 8 £530 +4.74% 1
West Midlands -53 8 £484 -9.93% 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 19 (5.65%) nginx
2 14 (4.17%) Confluence
3 13 (3.87%) Tomcat
4 11 (3.27%) Apache
5 8 (2.38%) WebLogic
6 7 (2.08%) JBoss
7 6 (1.79%) Microsoft Exchange
7 6 (1.79%) SharePoint
7 6 (1.79%) WebSphere
8 3 (0.89%) IBM HTTP Server
8 3 (0.89%) OpenStack
8 3 (0.89%) SAS
8 3 (0.89%) WebSphere Application Server
9 2 (0.60%) Documentum
9 2 (0.60%) Oracle HTTP Server
9 2 (0.60%) Red Hat Fuse
9 2 (0.60%) WebSphere Portal
10 1 (0.30%) Apache Airflow
10 1 (0.30%) Traefik
Applications
1 4 (1.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.30%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.30%) FLEXCUBE
1 1 (0.30%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (0.30%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 108 (32.14%) AWS
2 79 (23.51%) Azure
3 45 (13.39%) OpenShift
4 32 (9.52%) GCP
5 27 (8.04%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 24 (7.14%) GitHub
7 19 (5.65%) Amazon EC2
8 17 (5.06%) Amazon S3
9 16 (4.76%) Amazon EKS
9 16 (4.76%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 15 (4.46%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 15 (4.46%) AWS CloudFormation
10 15 (4.46%) Datadog
10 15 (4.46%) Serverless
11 12 (3.57%) AWS Lambda
12 11 (3.27%) Azure Monitor
12 11 (3.27%) Entra ID
12 11 (3.27%) GitHub Actions
13 10 (2.98%) Azure AKS
14 9 (2.68%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 51 (15.18%) Firewall
2 44 (13.10%) DNS
3 39 (11.61%) SAN
4 17 (5.06%) VLAN
5 15 (4.46%) DHCP
5 15 (4.46%) TCP/IP
6 14 (4.17%) Network Security
6 14 (4.17%) SSL
7 13 (3.87%) VPN
8 10 (2.98%) Kerberos
9 9 (2.68%) HTTP
10 8 (2.38%) SSH
11 6 (1.79%) iSCSI
11 6 (1.79%) VSAN
11 6 (1.79%) WAN
12 5 (1.49%) VoIP
13 4 (1.19%) Fibre Channel
13 4 (1.19%) NAS
14 3 (0.89%) Intrusion Detection
14 3 (0.89%) OpenVPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (8.63%) PostgreSQL
2 24 (7.14%) Oracle Database
3 15 (4.46%) SQL Server
4 11 (3.27%) MongoDB
4 11 (3.27%) MySQL
5 9 (2.68%) Amazon RDS
6 8 (2.38%) Elasticsearch
7 7 (2.08%) GIS
7 7 (2.08%) Oracle Database 12c
7 7 (2.08%) SAP HANA
8 5 (1.49%) Data Lake
9 4 (1.19%) Redis
9 4 (1.19%) Relational Database
10 3 (0.89%) Data Warehouse
11 2 (0.60%) Azure SQL Database
11 2 (0.60%) SQLite
11 2 (0.60%) Sybase ASE
12 1 (0.30%) IBM InfoSphere
12 1 (0.30%) MariaDB
12 1 (0.30%) OpenStack Swift
Development Applications
1 44 (13.10%) Jenkins
2 34 (10.12%) GitLab
3 33 (9.82%) Git
4 18 (5.36%) JIRA
5 6 (1.79%) Artifactory
6 5 (1.49%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 5 (1.49%) Sonatype Nexus
7 3 (0.89%) Introscope
7 3 (0.89%) Toad
8 2 (0.60%) Robot Framework
9 1 (0.30%) Ant
9 1 (0.30%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.30%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.30%) Maven
9 1 (0.30%) PVCS
General
1 60 (17.86%) Social Skills
2 40 (11.90%) Finance
3 35 (10.42%) Public Sector
4 27 (8.04%) Banking
5 22 (6.55%) Analytical Skills
6 21 (6.25%) Documentation Skills
7 11 (3.27%) Legal
8 5 (1.49%) Aerospace
8 5 (1.49%) Military
8 5 (1.49%) Retail
9 4 (1.19%) Manufacturing
9 4 (1.19%) Publishing
10 3 (0.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.60%) Aviation
11 2 (0.60%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.60%) Law
11 2 (0.60%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.60%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.30%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.30%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 61 (18.15%) Linux Engineer
2 46 (13.69%) Senior
3 31 (9.23%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 28 (8.33%) Cloud Engineer
4 28 (8.33%) DevOps Engineer
5 24 (7.14%) Architect
5 24 (7.14%) Platform Engineer
6 21 (6.25%) Administrator
7 18 (5.36%) Lead
8 16 (4.76%) Senior Linux Engineer
9 15 (4.46%) Security Engineer
9 15 (4.46%) Software Engineer
10 14 (4.17%) AWS Engineer
10 14 (4.17%) Linux Administrator
11 13 (3.87%) Unix Engineer
12 9 (2.68%) Lead Software Engineer
13 8 (2.38%) Azure Engineer
13 8 (2.38%) DBA
14 7 (2.08%) Automation Engineer
14 7 (2.08%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (4.76%) Middleware
2 12 (3.57%) REST
3 10 (2.98%) LDAP
4 9 (2.68%) Spring
5 8 (2.38%) Kafka
6 7 (2.08%) EJB
6 7 (2.08%) Elastic Stack
7 6 (1.79%) Azure Blueprints
7 6 (1.79%) OpenLayers
7 6 (1.79%) Spring Boot
7 6 (1.79%) Vue
8 5 (1.49%) ARM Templates
8 5 (1.49%) Jakarta EE
8 5 (1.49%) JSON
8 5 (1.49%) OAuth
9 4 (1.19%) Celery
9 4 (1.19%) Django
9 4 (1.19%) Java SE
9 4 (1.19%) React
9 4 (1.19%) WebSphere MQ
Miscellaneous
1 47 (13.99%) Cloud Native
2 29 (8.63%) Security Posture
3 28 (8.33%) Data Centre
4 20 (5.95%) Replication
5 19 (5.65%) Hybrid Cloud
6 17 (5.06%) Management Information System
7 16 (4.76%) Clustering
7 16 (4.76%) Onboarding
8 15 (4.46%) Legacy Systems
9 13 (3.87%) Enterprise Software
9 13 (3.87%) Linux Command Line
10 12 (3.57%) PKI
11 9 (2.68%) Product Ownership
12 8 (2.38%) Legacy Applications
13 7 (2.08%) Mainframe
14 6 (1.79%) Data Protection Act
14 6 (1.79%) Enterprise Cloud
14 6 (1.79%) FlexPod
14 6 (1.79%) Public Cloud
15 5 (1.49%) Enterprise Storage
Operating Systems
1 336 (100.00%) Linux
2 126 (37.50%) Windows
3 61 (18.15%) Windows Server
4 41 (12.20%) Ubuntu
5 33 (9.82%) CentOS
6 30 (8.93%) Solaris
6 30 (8.93%) Unix
7 17 (5.06%) Windows Server 2019
8 15 (4.46%) VMS
9 14 (4.17%) Rocky
10 13 (3.87%) AIX
10 13 (3.87%) Oracle Linux
10 13 (3.87%) SUSE
11 11 (3.27%) Windows Server 2008
12 10 (2.98%) Windows Server 2016
13 8 (2.38%) CoreOS
14 7 (2.08%) Windows Server 2012
15 6 (1.79%) Data ONTAP
15 6 (1.79%) HPUX
16 5 (1.49%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 110 (32.74%) CI/CD
2 106 (31.55%) DevOps
3 68 (20.24%) Infrastructure as Code
4 60 (17.86%) Agile
4 60 (17.86%) Migration
5 54 (16.07%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 53 (15.77%) ITIL
7 50 (14.88%) Containerisation
7 50 (14.88%) Platform Engineering
8 47 (13.99%) Configuration Management
9 46 (13.69%) Change Management
9 46 (13.69%) Problem-Solving
10 40 (11.90%) Continuous Improvement
11 39 (11.61%) High Availability
11 39 (11.61%) Observability
12 37 (11.01%) Performance Tuning
13 33 (9.82%) Runbook
14 31 (9.23%) Cloud Security
15 30 (8.93%) Roadmaps
15 30 (8.93%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 135 (40.18%) Python
2 94 (27.98%) Bash
3 85 (25.30%) PowerShell
4 40 (11.90%) Java
5 30 (8.93%) SQL
6 27 (8.04%) Shell Script
7 13 (3.87%) Perl
8 12 (3.57%) JavaScript
8 12 (3.57%) PL/SQL
9 9 (2.68%) Bicep
10 7 (2.08%) Korn
11 6 (1.79%) Go
12 4 (1.19%) C
12 4 (1.19%) C#
12 4 (1.19%) MATLAB
13 3 (0.89%) C++
13 3 (0.89%) Groovy
13 3 (0.89%) Jython
13 3 (0.89%) Search Processing Language
14 1 (0.30%) ActionScript
Qualifications
1 152 (45.24%) Security Cleared
2 117 (34.82%) SC Cleared
3 35 (10.42%) Degree
4 29 (8.63%) DV Cleared
5 25 (7.44%) CISSP
6 24 (7.14%) AWS Certification
7 21 (6.25%) Azure Certification
8 18 (5.36%) RHCE
9 9 (2.68%) Computer Science Degree
9 9 (2.68%) OCP
9 9 (2.68%) Oracle Certification
10 7 (2.08%) CISM
11 6 (1.79%) CompTIA Security+
12 5 (1.49%) Microsoft Certification
12 5 (1.49%) RHCSA
13 4 (1.19%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 3 (0.89%) RHCA
14 3 (0.89%) VCAP
15 2 (0.60%) BPSS Clearance
15 2 (0.60%) NCDA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (2.68%) SLA
2 8 (2.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (2.08%) NIST
4 6 (1.79%) NCSC
5 5 (1.49%) Disclosure Scotland
5 5 (1.49%) GRC
5 5 (1.49%) QA
6 4 (1.19%) SOC 2
7 3 (0.89%) HIPAA
7 3 (0.89%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.60%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (0.60%) ISO 15022
8 2 (0.60%) ISO 20022
9 1 (0.30%) Data Quality
9 1 (0.30%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 1 (0.30%) OpenSCAP
9 1 (0.30%) PMO
9 1 (0.30%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 62 (18.45%) Docker
2 54 (16.07%) VMware Infrastructure
3 39 (11.61%) Virtual Machines
4 35 (10.42%) Active Directory
5 20 (5.95%) VMware ESXi
6 19 (5.65%) NFS
7 15 (4.46%) vSphere
8 13 (3.87%) Hyper-V
9 12 (3.57%) Oracle RAC
10 6 (1.79%) Corosync
10 6 (1.79%) VMware NSX
11 4 (1.19%) Ceph
12 3 (0.89%) Firmware
12 3 (0.89%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 3 (0.89%) Veritas Volume Manager
13 2 (0.60%) Citrix Hypervisor
13 2 (0.60%) KVM
13 2 (0.60%) Samba
13 2 (0.60%) Squid
13 2 (0.60%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 129 (38.39%) Ansible
2 95 (28.27%) Kubernetes
3 90 (26.79%) Terraform
4 26 (7.74%) Grafana
5 25 (7.44%) Progress Chef
6 24 (7.14%) Red Hat Satellite
7 22 (6.55%) Puppet
8 18 (5.36%) Prometheus
9 15 (4.46%) Oracle RMAN
10 14 (4.17%) Failover Clustering
11 10 (2.98%) NetBackup
12 8 (2.38%) Packer
13 7 (2.08%) Pacemaker
13 7 (2.08%) Podman
13 7 (2.08%) vCenter Server
14 6 (1.79%) SELinux
14 6 (1.79%) Single Sign-On
14 6 (1.79%) SnapMirror
14 6 (1.79%) systemd
14 6 (1.79%) vMotion
Vendors
1 182 (54.17%) Red Hat
2 71 (21.13%) VMware
3 59 (17.56%) Oracle
4 58 (17.26%) Microsoft
5 28 (8.33%) Google
6 24 (7.14%) IBM
7 19 (5.65%) NetApp
8 18 (5.36%) ServiceNow
9 17 (5.06%) Splunk
10 16 (4.76%) Cisco
11 10 (2.98%) HP
12 9 (2.68%) Dell
12 9 (2.68%) SAP
12 9 (2.68%) Tenable
13 8 (2.38%) Veeam
14 7 (2.08%) Qualys
15 6 (1.79%) Commvault
15 6 (1.79%) Databricks
15 6 (1.79%) McAfee
15 6 (1.79%) Rapid7