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

6 months to
17 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 364 284 300
Rank change year-on-year -80 +16 -101
Contract jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 294 273 317
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.58% 0.92% 0.73%
As % of the Operating Systems category 6.16% 6.57% 5.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 192 201 236
10th Percentile £394 £393 £350
25th Percentile £425 £420 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £537 £520
Median % change year-on-year -6.89% +3.27% -13.33%
75th Percentile £569 £623 £597
90th Percentile £649 £688 £656
UK excluding London median daily rate £497 £540 £528
% change year-on-year -7.96% +2.27% +0.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 0 2
10th Percentile £37.88 - £65.18
25th Percentile £41.71 - £67.31
Median hourly rate £68.38 - £72.75
75th Percentile £79.69 - £76.31
90th Percentile £92.50 - £77.33
UK excluding London median hourly rate £60.33 - £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 4,775 4,154 5,825
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.49% 14.00% 13.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,052 2,705 3,843
10th Percentile £189 £200 £188
25th Percentile £313 £313 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £465 £475
Median % change year-on-year -0.54% -2.11% -5.00%
75th Percentile £575 £585 £588
90th Percentile £650 £675 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £450 £450
% change year-on-year - - -2.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 331 209 420
10th Percentile £14.50 £15.31 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.13 £17.44 £15.85
Median hourly rate £29.48 £21.90 £23.98
Median % change year-on-year +34.61% -8.65% -49.53%
75th Percentile £64.38 £41.25 £62.50
90th Percentile £70.23 £68.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.94 £18.87 £25.25
% change year-on-year +48.07% -25.27% -37.02%

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 17 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 17 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 17 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 -77 247 £494 -10.18% 67
UK excluding London -56 192 £497 -7.96% 61
Work from Home -70 78 £500 -4.76% 29
North of England -39 72 £500 +11.11% 9
London -72 65 £488 -11.36% 16
Yorkshire -35 43 £515 +8.42% 3
South West -12 34 £525 -14.63% 16
South East -53 32 £450 -18.18% 17
East of England -1 29 £478 -20.33% 5
North West -32 27 £465 +18.32% 5
Scotland -29 12 £463 -1.23% 3
Midlands -60 12 £515 -4.58% 6
West Midlands -60 7 £484 -11.34% 1
East Midlands -17 5 £530 +4.74% 5
North East -32 2 £400 -30.43% 1
Wales - 1 £475 - 3

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 (5.44%) nginx
2 13 (4.42%) Tomcat
3 11 (3.74%) Apache
4 10 (3.40%) Confluence
5 8 (2.72%) WebLogic
6 5 (1.70%) SAS
6 5 (1.70%) WebSphere
7 3 (1.02%) IBM HTTP Server
7 3 (1.02%) JBoss
7 3 (1.02%) Microsoft Exchange
7 3 (1.02%) SharePoint
7 3 (1.02%) WebSphere Application Server
8 2 (0.68%) Documentum
8 2 (0.68%) OpenStack
8 2 (0.68%) Oracle HTTP Server
8 2 (0.68%) WebSphere Portal
9 1 (0.34%) Red Hat Fuse
9 1 (0.34%) Traefik
Applications
1 4 (1.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.34%) FLEXCUBE
1 1 (0.34%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (0.34%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 85 (28.91%) AWS
2 66 (22.45%) Azure
3 42 (14.29%) OpenShift
4 28 (9.52%) GCP
5 21 (7.14%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 20 (6.80%) GitHub
7 13 (4.42%) Amazon EKS
8 12 (4.08%) Amazon EC2
8 12 (4.08%) Amazon S3
8 12 (4.08%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 9 (3.06%) AWS CloudFormation
9 9 (3.06%) Datadog
10 8 (2.72%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 7 (2.38%) GitHub Actions
12 6 (2.04%) Azure Sentinel
12 6 (2.04%) Entra ID
12 6 (2.04%) Serverless
13 5 (1.70%) AWS Lambda
13 5 (1.70%) Azure Stack
13 5 (1.70%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 39 (13.27%) Firewall
2 33 (11.22%) DNS
3 30 (10.20%) SAN
4 13 (4.42%) SSL
5 12 (4.08%) VLAN
6 11 (3.74%) DHCP
6 11 (3.74%) VPN
7 9 (3.06%) HTTP
7 9 (3.06%) Kerberos
7 9 (3.06%) Network Security
8 6 (2.04%) iSCSI
8 6 (2.04%) TCP/IP
8 6 (2.04%) VSAN
9 5 (1.70%) Fibre Channel
9 5 (1.70%) SSH
9 5 (1.70%) WAN
10 4 (1.36%) NAS
11 3 (1.02%) FTP
12 2 (0.68%) InfiniBand
12 2 (0.68%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (6.46%) Oracle Database
2 18 (6.12%) PostgreSQL
3 11 (3.74%) MongoDB
4 9 (3.06%) SQL Server
5 8 (2.72%) Elasticsearch
5 8 (2.72%) MySQL
6 7 (2.38%) GIS
6 7 (2.38%) SAP HANA
7 5 (1.70%) Data Warehouse
8 4 (1.36%) Oracle Database 12c
9 3 (1.02%) Amazon RDS
10 2 (0.68%) Data Lake
10 2 (0.68%) Oracle Exadata
10 2 (0.68%) Redis
10 2 (0.68%) Relational Database
11 1 (0.34%) BusinessObjects
11 1 (0.34%) Db2
11 1 (0.34%) IBM InfoSphere
11 1 (0.34%) MariaDB
11 1 (0.34%) OpenStack Swift
Development Applications
1 50 (17.01%) Jenkins
2 46 (15.65%) GitLab
3 38 (12.93%) Git
4 16 (5.44%) JIRA
5 6 (2.04%) Artifactory
6 5 (1.70%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 4 (1.36%) Sonatype Nexus
8 3 (1.02%) Introscope
9 2 (0.68%) Robot Framework
10 1 (0.34%) Ant
10 1 (0.34%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.34%) GoCD
10 1 (0.34%) Maven
10 1 (0.34%) PVCS
General
1 60 (20.41%) Social Skills
2 33 (11.22%) Finance
3 30 (10.20%) Public Sector
4 29 (9.86%) Documentation Skills
5 23 (7.82%) Banking
6 18 (6.12%) Analytical Skills
7 9 (3.06%) Aerospace
8 7 (2.38%) Legal
9 4 (1.36%) Publishing
9 4 (1.36%) Telecoms
10 3 (1.02%) Military
10 3 (1.02%) Retail
11 2 (0.68%) Aviation
11 2 (0.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.68%) Law
11 2 (0.68%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.68%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.34%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.34%) International Banking
12 1 (0.34%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 50 (17.01%) Linux Engineer
2 36 (12.24%) Senior
3 30 (10.20%) DevOps Engineer
4 26 (8.84%) Administrator
4 26 (8.84%) Lead
5 25 (8.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 21 (7.14%) Linux Administrator
7 20 (6.80%) Platform Engineer
8 18 (6.12%) Architect
9 16 (5.44%) Senior Linux Engineer
9 16 (5.44%) Software Engineer
10 12 (4.08%) Cloud Engineer
10 12 (4.08%) Security Engineer
11 10 (3.40%) AWS Engineer
12 9 (3.06%) Lead Software Engineer
13 8 (2.72%) Systems Administrator
14 7 (2.38%) Security Architect
14 7 (2.38%) Unix Engineer
15 6 (2.04%) Consultant
15 6 (2.04%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (6.80%) Middleware
2 18 (6.12%) LDAP
3 10 (3.40%) YAML
4 9 (3.06%) Spring
5 7 (2.38%) EJB
5 7 (2.38%) Kafka
5 7 (2.38%) REST
6 6 (2.04%) Elastic Stack
6 6 (2.04%) OpenLayers
6 6 (2.04%) Spring Boot
7 4 (1.36%) .NET
7 4 (1.36%) Azure Blueprints
7 4 (1.36%) Java EE
7 4 (1.36%) Java SE
7 4 (1.36%) JSON
7 4 (1.36%) JSP
8 3 (1.02%) OAuth
8 3 (1.02%) OpenID
8 3 (1.02%) RabbitMQ
8 3 (1.02%) WebSphere MQ
Miscellaneous
1 39 (13.27%) Data Centre
2 36 (12.24%) Cloud Native
3 24 (8.16%) Management Information System
4 19 (6.46%) Security Posture
5 17 (5.78%) Hybrid Cloud
6 13 (4.42%) Onboarding
7 11 (3.74%) Clustering
7 11 (3.74%) Enterprise Software
7 11 (3.74%) Legacy Systems
7 11 (3.74%) Replication
8 8 (2.72%) Legacy Applications
8 8 (2.72%) PKI
8 8 (2.72%) Product Ownership
9 7 (2.38%) Linux Command Line
9 7 (2.38%) Public Cloud
10 6 (2.04%) Data Protection Act
10 6 (2.04%) FlexPod
11 5 (1.70%) CMDB
11 5 (1.70%) Mainframe
12 4 (1.36%) Enterprise Storage
Operating Systems
1 294 (100.00%) Linux
2 103 (35.03%) Windows
3 50 (17.01%) Ubuntu
3 50 (17.01%) Windows Server
4 37 (12.59%) CentOS
5 24 (8.16%) Solaris
6 22 (7.48%) Unix
7 17 (5.78%) VMS
8 16 (5.44%) Windows Server 2019
9 12 (4.08%) Oracle Linux
10 11 (3.74%) AIX
10 11 (3.74%) SUSE
10 11 (3.74%) Windows Server 2008
11 10 (3.40%) Windows Server 2016
12 8 (2.72%) CoreOS
12 8 (2.72%) Rocky
13 7 (2.38%) Debian
13 7 (2.38%) Windows Server 2012
14 6 (2.04%) Data ONTAP
15 5 (1.70%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 105 (35.71%) CI/CD
2 101 (34.35%) DevOps
3 55 (18.71%) Infrastructure as Code
4 52 (17.69%) Agile
5 45 (15.31%) Containerisation
5 45 (15.31%) Problem-Solving
6 44 (14.97%) Migration
7 42 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 41 (13.95%) Platform Engineering
9 40 (13.61%) Continuous Improvement
10 39 (13.27%) Change Management
10 39 (13.27%) Configuration Management
10 39 (13.27%) ITIL
11 34 (11.56%) Observability
11 34 (11.56%) Performance Tuning
12 32 (10.88%) High Availability
12 32 (10.88%) Roadmaps
13 29 (9.86%) Runbook
14 28 (9.52%) Software Engineering
15 26 (8.84%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 118 (40.14%) Python
2 76 (25.85%) Bash
3 64 (21.77%) PowerShell
4 34 (11.56%) Shell Script
5 31 (10.54%) Java
6 25 (8.50%) SQL
7 18 (6.12%) Perl
8 13 (4.42%) PL/SQL
9 11 (3.74%) JavaScript
9 11 (3.74%) MATLAB
10 8 (2.72%) Go
10 8 (2.72%) Ruby
11 5 (1.70%) Bicep
12 4 (1.36%) C#
12 4 (1.36%) Korn
13 3 (1.02%) C
13 3 (1.02%) Groovy
13 3 (1.02%) Jython
14 2 (0.68%) C++
15 1 (0.34%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 128 (43.54%) Security Cleared
2 97 (32.99%) SC Cleared
3 35 (11.90%) Degree
4 26 (8.84%) RHCE
5 25 (8.50%) DV Cleared
6 22 (7.48%) CISSP
7 17 (5.78%) Azure Certification
8 15 (5.10%) AWS Certification
9 13 (4.42%) OCP
9 13 (4.42%) Oracle Certification
10 9 (3.06%) Computer Science Degree
11 7 (2.38%) CISM
12 6 (2.04%) CompTIA Security+
13 5 (1.70%) RHCA
14 4 (1.36%) RHCSA
14 4 (1.36%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
15 3 (1.02%) Microsoft Certification
15 3 (1.02%) TOGAF Certification
15 3 (1.02%) VCAP
16 2 (0.68%) ISSAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (4.76%) SLA
2 7 (2.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (2.38%) NIST
3 5 (1.70%) GRC
3 5 (1.70%) QA
4 4 (1.36%) SOC 2
5 3 (1.02%) HIPAA
5 3 (1.02%) NCSC
6 2 (0.68%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (0.68%) Disclosure Scotland
6 2 (0.68%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.34%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 1 (0.34%) ISO 15022
7 1 (0.34%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.34%) OpenSCAP
7 1 (0.34%) PMO
7 1 (0.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 51 (17.35%) Docker
2 48 (16.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 34 (11.56%) Active Directory
4 33 (11.22%) Virtual Machines
5 19 (6.46%) NFS
6 17 (5.78%) vSphere
7 16 (5.44%) VMware ESXi
8 11 (3.74%) Oracle RAC
9 9 (3.06%) Hyper-V
10 6 (2.04%) Corosync
10 6 (2.04%) VMware NSX
11 4 (1.36%) Firmware
12 3 (1.02%) Ceph
12 3 (1.02%) QEMU
12 3 (1.02%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 3 (1.02%) Veritas Volume Manager
13 2 (0.68%) Citrix Hypervisor
13 2 (0.68%) KVM
13 2 (0.68%) Samba
13 2 (0.68%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 123 (41.84%) Ansible
2 82 (27.89%) Kubernetes
3 78 (26.53%) Terraform
4 25 (8.50%) Grafana
5 24 (8.16%) Puppet
6 23 (7.82%) Red Hat Satellite
7 19 (6.46%) Prometheus
8 18 (6.12%) Progress Chef
9 17 (5.78%) Podman
10 14 (4.76%) Oracle RMAN
11 11 (3.74%) Check_MK
11 11 (3.74%) Failover Clustering
12 7 (2.38%) Pacemaker
12 7 (2.38%) Packer
13 6 (2.04%) Argo
13 6 (2.04%) SnapMirror
13 6 (2.04%) vCenter Server
13 6 (2.04%) vMotion
14 5 (1.70%) Single Sign-On
14 5 (1.70%) vRealize
Vendors
1 174 (59.18%) Red Hat
2 66 (22.45%) VMware
3 51 (17.35%) Oracle
4 38 (12.93%) Microsoft
5 26 (8.84%) Google
6 22 (7.48%) IBM
7 16 (5.44%) Splunk
8 14 (4.76%) Dell
9 12 (4.08%) Cisco
10 11 (3.74%) NetApp
10 11 (3.74%) ServiceNow
11 10 (3.40%) HP
12 9 (3.06%) Tenable
13 8 (2.72%) SAP
14 7 (2.38%) NVIDIA
14 7 (2.38%) Qualys
15 6 (2.04%) Commvault
15 6 (2.04%) Rapid7
15 6 (2.04%) Veritas
16 5 (1.70%) TOWER Software