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 23 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
23 Dec 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 353 251 232
Rank change year-on-year -102 -19 -7
Contract jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 252 338 471
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.68% 1.00% 1.08%
As % of the Operating Systems category 5.27% 7.13% 7.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 172 217 328
10th Percentile £358 £407 £400
25th Percentile £428 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.83% +4.55% -6.38%
75th Percentile £608 £688 £638
90th Percentile £675 £750 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £550 £543
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.29% -1.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 2 3
10th Percentile £69.98 - £21.69
25th Percentile £74.82 - £23.00
Median hourly rate £97.00 £112.00 £25.18
Median % change year-on-year -13.39% +344.80% -65.27%
75th Percentile £119.00 - £39.47
90th Percentile - - £48.04
UK excluding London median hourly rate £97.00 - £25.18
% change year-on-year - - -65.51%

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 4,780 4,740 6,529
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.92% 14.04% 15.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,112 2,964 4,445
10th Percentile £175 £200 £180
25th Percentile £263 £313 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% - -7.32%
75th Percentile £563 £588 £600
90th Percentile £660 £688 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £410 £425 £430
% change year-on-year -3.53% -1.16% -4.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 358 176 318
10th Percentile £15.45 £16.13 £14.23
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.00 £17.73
Median hourly rate £25.15 £41.00 £32.25
Median % change year-on-year -38.66% +27.13% +34.26%
75th Percentile £62.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £73.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £37.75 £27.00
% change year-on-year -33.38% +39.81% +22.73%

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 23 December 2025.

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 23 December 2025.

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 23 December 2025. 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 -87 214 £536 -9.95% 150
UK excluding London -53 158 £525 -4.55% 140
Work from Home -48 72 £540 +4.35% 64
London -69 60 £525 -12.50% 28
South East -4 49 £485 -15.65% 39
North of England -64 29 £550 -12.35% 27
Midlands -37 28 £545 +9.82% 22
South West 0 23 £550 - 20
West Midlands -27 22 £581 +25.70% 12
North West -24 20 £550 - 13
Scotland -22 11 £514 +2.75% 7
East of England -16 10 £454 -24.33% 20
North East -9 6 £550 - 2
East Midlands -17 6 £420 -23.39% 10
Yorkshire -62 6 £500 -31.03% 12
Northern Ireland - 6 £375 - 2
Wales - 2 - - 6

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 8 (3.17%) Apache
2 7 (2.78%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (2.78%) SharePoint
3 6 (2.38%) JBoss
4 5 (1.98%) SAS
4 5 (1.98%) Tomcat
5 4 (1.59%) nginx
6 3 (1.19%) WebLogic
7 2 (0.79%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.79%) Confluence
7 2 (0.79%) NetWeaver
7 2 (0.79%) OpenStack
7 2 (0.79%) Oracle HTTP Server
8 1 (0.40%) CMS
8 1 (0.40%) Documentum
8 1 (0.40%) FileNet
8 1 (0.40%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 4 (1.59%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (1.59%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.79%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 2 (0.79%) SAP S/4HANA
1 2 (0.79%) Teamcenter
2 1 (0.40%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.40%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 49 (19.44%) AWS
2 39 (15.48%) OpenShift
3 35 (13.89%) Azure
4 16 (6.35%) Amazon S3
4 16 (6.35%) GitHub
5 14 (5.56%) Amazon EC2
6 12 (4.76%) Entra ID
7 11 (4.37%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 10 (3.97%) GCP
9 8 (3.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 8 (3.17%) SaaS
10 7 (2.78%) AWS CloudFormation
11 6 (2.38%) Amazon ECS
11 6 (2.38%) AWS Fargate
11 6 (2.38%) Azure Sentinel
12 5 (1.98%) Azure DevOps
12 5 (1.98%) npm
12 5 (1.98%) OCI
13 4 (1.59%) IaaS
14 3 (1.19%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 33 (13.10%) Firewall
2 31 (12.30%) DNS
3 17 (6.75%) SAN
4 12 (4.76%) SMTP
4 12 (4.76%) VLAN
5 10 (3.97%) DKIM
5 10 (3.97%) DMARC
6 9 (3.57%) DHCP
7 8 (3.17%) TCP/IP
8 7 (2.78%) SSL
9 6 (2.38%) BGP
9 6 (2.38%) Internet
9 6 (2.38%) Software-Defined Networking
9 6 (2.38%) WebEx
10 5 (1.98%) AMQP
10 5 (1.98%) VSAN
11 4 (1.59%) Kerberos
11 4 (1.59%) LAN
11 4 (1.59%) Network Security
12 3 (1.19%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (9.13%) MongoDB
2 20 (7.94%) Oracle Database
3 10 (3.97%) RDBMS
3 10 (3.97%) Relational Database
4 8 (3.17%) Amazon RDS
4 8 (3.17%) Elasticsearch
4 8 (3.17%) MySQL
5 7 (2.78%) Data Warehouse
5 7 (2.78%) PostgreSQL
5 7 (2.78%) SQL Server
6 4 (1.59%) MariaDB
7 3 (1.19%) Apache Cassandra
7 3 (1.19%) InfluxDB
7 3 (1.19%) Oracle Reports
8 2 (0.79%) Data Lake
8 2 (0.79%) DB2
8 2 (0.79%) GIS
8 2 (0.79%) Hadoop
8 2 (0.79%) Oracle BI Publisher
8 2 (0.79%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 24 (9.52%) Git
2 20 (7.94%) Jenkins
3 18 (7.14%) GitLab
4 12 (4.76%) JIRA
5 8 (3.17%) Maven
5 8 (3.17%) Sonatype Nexus
5 8 (3.17%) TeamCity
6 5 (1.98%) SonarQube
6 5 (1.98%) Subversion
7 4 (1.59%) Terragrunt
8 3 (1.19%) Artifactory
8 3 (1.19%) Bitbucket Server
8 3 (1.19%) CA Release Automation
8 3 (1.19%) Mockito
9 2 (0.79%) Bitbucket
9 2 (0.79%) Gradle
9 2 (0.79%) Oracle APEX
10 1 (0.40%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 1 (0.40%) Eclipse
10 1 (0.40%) Snyk
General
1 75 (29.76%) Social Skills
2 29 (11.51%) Analytical Skills
3 26 (10.32%) Public Sector
4 25 (9.92%) Finance
5 11 (4.37%) Documentation Skills
6 7 (2.78%) Banking
6 7 (2.78%) Legal
7 5 (1.98%) Financial Institution
7 5 (1.98%) Manufacturing
8 4 (1.59%) Telecoms
9 3 (1.19%) Back Office
9 3 (1.19%) Front Office
10 2 (0.79%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.40%) Automotive
11 1 (0.40%) Billing
11 1 (0.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.40%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.40%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.40%) Military
11 1 (0.40%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 33 (13.10%) Administrator
2 31 (12.30%) Architect
3 29 (11.51%) Linux Engineer
4 17 (6.75%) DevOps Engineer
4 17 (6.75%) Platform Engineer
5 15 (5.95%) Senior
6 13 (5.16%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 12 (4.76%) Linux Administrator
8 11 (4.37%) Applications Engineer
8 11 (4.37%) Developer
8 11 (4.37%) Lead
8 11 (4.37%) Support Engineer
8 11 (4.37%) Systems Administrator
9 10 (3.97%) Site Engineer
9 10 (3.97%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 9 (3.57%) Consultant
11 8 (3.17%) Systems Engineer
12 7 (2.78%) Backup Administrator
12 7 (2.78%) Infrastructure Support
12 7 (2.78%) Storage Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (4.37%) Kafka
1 11 (4.37%) Loki
2 8 (3.17%) LDAP
2 8 (3.17%) REST
2 8 (3.17%) Spring Boot
3 7 (2.78%) Elastic Stack
3 7 (2.78%) Keycloak
3 7 (2.78%) Middleware
4 6 (2.38%) AWS CDK
4 6 (2.38%) cloud-init
4 6 (2.38%) Spring
4 6 (2.38%) XMPP
5 3 (1.19%) ActiveMQ
5 3 (1.19%) JAX-RS
5 3 (1.19%) Regular Expression
5 3 (1.19%) SAP Basis
5 3 (1.19%) Spring Batch
5 3 (1.19%) Spring Security
6 2 (0.79%) jQuery
6 2 (0.79%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 21 (8.33%) Cloud Native
2 16 (6.35%) Data Centre
3 15 (5.95%) Clustering
4 14 (5.56%) Product Ownership
5 11 (4.37%) Onboarding
6 9 (3.57%) Enterprise Storage
6 9 (3.57%) PKI
7 8 (3.17%) Legacy Systems
7 8 (3.17%) Virtual Team
8 5 (1.98%) Enterprise Software
8 5 (1.98%) Hedge funds
8 5 (1.98%) Legacy Applications
8 5 (1.98%) Public Cloud
8 5 (1.98%) Replication
9 4 (1.59%) Client/Server
9 4 (1.59%) Data Protection Act
9 4 (1.59%) Hybrid Cloud
9 4 (1.59%) Linux Command Line
9 4 (1.59%) Self-Motivation
10 3 (1.19%) Acoustics
Operating Systems
1 252 (100.00%) Linux
2 84 (33.33%) Windows
3 45 (17.86%) Windows Server
4 29 (11.51%) Unix
5 28 (11.11%) CentOS
5 28 (11.11%) Ubuntu
6 14 (5.56%) Solaris
7 12 (4.76%) Windows Server 2019
8 11 (4.37%) Windows Server 2016
9 5 (1.98%) OpenVMS
9 5 (1.98%) Oracle Linux
10 4 (1.59%) VMS
10 4 (1.59%) Windows Server 2012
11 3 (1.19%) AIX
11 3 (1.19%) Debian
11 3 (1.19%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
12 2 (0.79%) Mac OS
12 2 (0.79%) Windows Server 2008
13 1 (0.40%) Windows 10
13 1 (0.40%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (30.95%) CI/CD
2 54 (21.43%) DevOps
3 52 (20.63%) Problem-Solving
4 48 (19.05%) Infrastructure as Code
5 46 (18.25%) Containerisation
6 37 (14.68%) High Availability
7 36 (14.29%) Agile
8 30 (11.90%) Disaster Recovery
9 29 (11.51%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 28 (11.11%) Migration
10 28 (11.11%) Observability
11 25 (9.92%) ITIL
12 24 (9.52%) SIEM
13 22 (8.73%) DevSecOps
13 22 (8.73%) Stakeholder Management
14 20 (7.94%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 19 (7.54%) Microservices
15 19 (7.54%) Patch Management
15 19 (7.54%) Platform Engineering
16 18 (7.14%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 91 (36.11%) Python
2 85 (33.73%) Bash
3 45 (17.86%) PowerShell
4 37 (14.68%) Shell Script
5 26 (10.32%) Perl
6 21 (8.33%) Java
7 20 (7.94%) SQL
8 10 (3.97%) Go
9 4 (1.59%) JavaScript
9 4 (1.59%) PL/SQL
10 3 (1.19%) Korn
10 3 (1.19%) VBScript
11 2 (0.79%) C++
11 2 (0.79%) Rust
12 1 (0.40%) C
12 1 (0.40%) C#
12 1 (0.40%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 112 (44.44%) Security Cleared
2 81 (32.14%) SC Cleared
3 25 (9.92%) DV Cleared
4 12 (4.76%) Degree
5 10 (3.97%) CCNP
5 10 (3.97%) Cisco Certification
6 9 (3.57%) BPSS Clearance
6 9 (3.57%) CCDP
6 9 (3.57%) CCNA
6 9 (3.57%) RHCE
7 4 (1.59%) AWS Certification
7 4 (1.59%) RHCSA
8 3 (1.19%) Azure Certification
8 3 (1.19%) CESG Certified Professional
8 3 (1.19%) CISSP
8 3 (1.19%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (1.19%) OCP
8 3 (1.19%) Oracle Certification
8 3 (1.19%) SAP Certification
9 2 (0.79%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (3.57%) GDPR
2 7 (2.78%) NCSC
3 6 (2.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (2.38%) NIST
4 4 (1.59%) QA
4 4 (1.59%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 3 (1.19%) NIST 800
6 2 (0.79%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.79%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.40%) Def Stans
7 1 (0.40%) HL7
7 1 (0.40%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 46 (18.25%) VMware Infrastructure
2 40 (15.87%) Docker
3 30 (11.90%) Active Directory
4 11 (4.37%) VMware ESXi
4 11 (4.37%) vSphere
5 10 (3.97%) Postfix
6 8 (3.17%) KVM
6 8 (3.17%) Virtual Machines
7 6 (2.38%) Dovecot
7 6 (2.38%) Oracle RAC
8 4 (1.59%) Hyper-V
8 4 (1.59%) NFS
8 4 (1.59%) QEMU
8 4 (1.59%) Veritas File System
8 4 (1.59%) Veritas Volume Manager
9 3 (1.19%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 2 (0.79%) Ceph
10 2 (0.79%) Firmware
10 2 (0.79%) GPFS
10 2 (0.79%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 88 (34.92%) Ansible
2 68 (26.98%) Kubernetes
3 43 (17.06%) Terraform
4 34 (13.49%) Red Hat Satellite
5 26 (10.32%) Grafana
6 22 (8.73%) Prometheus
7 15 (5.95%) Argo
8 12 (4.76%) SCOM
9 10 (3.97%) Kustomize
10 9 (3.57%) Podman
11 8 (3.17%) Progress Chef
12 7 (2.78%) Data Guard
12 7 (2.78%) EMC NetWorker
12 7 (2.78%) EMC VPLEX
12 7 (2.78%) NetBackup
12 7 (2.78%) SCCM
13 6 (2.38%) Jamf Pro
13 6 (2.38%) Packer
13 6 (2.38%) vCenter Server
14 5 (1.98%) Puppet
Vendors
1 162 (64.29%) Red Hat
2 86 (34.13%) VMware
3 42 (16.67%) Splunk
4 39 (15.48%) Oracle
5 28 (11.11%) Microsoft
6 20 (7.94%) Cisco
7 17 (6.75%) Dell
8 13 (5.16%) Citrix
9 11 (4.37%) CyberArk
10 9 (3.57%) HP
11 8 (3.17%) Brocade
11 8 (3.17%) Qualys
11 8 (3.17%) Veritas
12 7 (2.78%) 3PAR
12 7 (2.78%) Broadcom
12 7 (2.78%) EMC
12 7 (2.78%) Isilon
12 7 (2.78%) NetApp
12 7 (2.78%) Okta
12 7 (2.78%) ServiceNow
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