Red Hat Enterprise Linux Contracts

Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Red Hat Enterprise Linux skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Red Hat Enterprise Linux over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 240 327 202
Rank change year-on-year +87 -125 +79
Contract jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 328 291 782
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.12% 0.67% 1.31%
As % of the Operating Systems category 8.05% 5.01% 8.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 234 220 590
10th Percentile £400 £350 £413
25th Percentile £457 £431 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £600
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% +4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £600 £676
90th Percentile £738 £651 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £530 £550
% change year-on-year +3.77% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 12
10th Percentile - £33.00 -
25th Percentile - £44.73 £51.25
Median hourly rate - £60.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year - +14.29% -16.67%
75th Percentile - £72.94 £74.50
90th Percentile - £75.98 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £60.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year - +14.29% +15.38%

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 4,075 5,812 9,696
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 13.94% 13.33% 16.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,687 3,913 6,831
10th Percentile £200 £183 £190
25th Percentile £319 £300 £331
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £468 £505
Median % change year-on-year +1.50% -7.33% +1.00%
75th Percentile £594 £588 £638
90th Percentile £699 £700 £719
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £450 £475
% change year-on-year - -5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 177 397 416
10th Percentile £16.25 £12.75 £14.25
25th Percentile £18.13 £15.50 £17.75
Median hourly rate £24.18 £22.00 £39.30
Median % change year-on-year +9.91% -44.02% +74.67%
75th Percentile £62.50 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.00 £22.00 £31.25
% change year-on-year +4.55% -29.60% +56.25%

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Red Hat Enterprise Linux in the UK

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

Daily rate trend for Red Hat Enterprise Linux in the UK

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Red Hat Enterprise Linux in the UK

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

Hourly rate trend for Red Hat Enterprise Linux in the UK

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Top 16 Contract 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 30 April 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 +68 262 £560 +6.67% 102
UK excluding London +42 173 £550 +3.77% 82
Work from Home +83 116 £542 +14.11% 118
London +42 96 £600 +17.65% 31
North of England +73 65 £550 +18.92% 25
Yorkshire +43 35 £700 +51.35% 11
Scotland +14 35 £477 -10.17% 10
South East -6 32 £550 - 15
North West +24 25 £447 +27.57% 13
South West +58 22 £615 +2.50% 14
Midlands +16 15 £540 +3.35% 11
West Midlands +20 13 £546 -0.82% 7
North East - 5 £558 - 1
East of England +17 4 £600 +65.52% 5
East Midlands -1 2 £506 +39.59% 3
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 3

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 33 (10.06%) Confluence
2 21 (6.40%) Apache Spark
3 20 (6.10%) nginx
4 16 (4.88%) Apache
4 16 (4.88%) JBoss
5 12 (3.66%) Traefik
6 7 (2.13%) Microsoft Exchange
7 6 (1.83%) OpenStack
7 6 (1.83%) Tomcat
8 5 (1.52%) Documentum
8 5 (1.52%) FileNet
8 5 (1.52%) WebLogic
9 4 (1.22%) SharePoint
9 4 (1.22%) WebSphere
10 2 (0.61%) CMS
10 2 (0.61%) WebSphere Application Server
11 1 (0.30%) SAS
11 1 (0.30%) Skype for Business
11 1 (0.30%) WinCC
Cloud Services
1 121 (36.89%) AWS
2 79 (24.09%) Azure
3 43 (13.11%) OpenShift
4 40 (12.20%) AWS CloudFormation
5 25 (7.62%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 25 (7.62%) Amazon ECS
5 25 (7.62%) GitHub
6 21 (6.40%) Azure DevOps
7 20 (6.10%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 19 (5.79%) Cloud Computing
8 19 (5.79%) Slack
9 18 (5.49%) AWS Fargate
10 17 (5.18%) Amazon EC2
10 17 (5.18%) Amazon S3
11 16 (4.88%) Entra ID
12 15 (4.57%) GCP
13 12 (3.66%) Serverless
14 9 (2.74%) Azure Monitor
14 9 (2.74%) Google Kubernetes Engine
15 7 (2.13%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 63 (19.21%) DNS
2 45 (13.72%) TCP/IP
3 40 (12.20%) DHCP
4 27 (8.23%) HTTP
5 21 (6.40%) Firewall
6 11 (3.35%) SAN
7 9 (2.74%) NAS
7 9 (2.74%) VPN
8 6 (1.83%) FTP
9 4 (1.22%) SMTP
9 4 (1.22%) tcpdump
9 4 (1.22%) Telnet
10 3 (0.91%) BIG-IP
10 3 (0.91%) Network Security
10 3 (0.91%) VSAN
11 2 (0.61%) Ethernet
11 2 (0.61%) SDH
11 2 (0.61%) SSH
11 2 (0.61%) VLAN
11 2 (0.61%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (15.24%) MongoDB
2 42 (12.80%) PostgreSQL
3 34 (10.37%) Elasticsearch
4 33 (10.06%) MySQL
5 30 (9.15%) SQL Server
6 22 (6.71%) Apache Cassandra
7 18 (5.49%) Hadoop
8 15 (4.57%) Relational Database
9 14 (4.27%) Big Data
10 9 (2.74%) RDBMS
11 5 (1.52%) NoSQL
11 5 (1.52%) Oracle Database
12 4 (1.22%) Data Lake
12 4 (1.22%) Oracle Exadata
13 3 (0.91%) Data Warehouse
13 3 (0.91%) InfluxDB
13 3 (0.91%) MariaDB
13 3 (0.91%) Power BI
13 3 (0.91%) SAP HANA
13 3 (0.91%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 76 (23.17%) Jenkins
2 61 (18.60%) GitLab
3 53 (16.16%) Git
4 46 (14.02%) JIRA
5 23 (7.01%) Cucumber
6 19 (5.79%) Jasmine
6 19 (5.79%) JUnit
7 18 (5.49%) SonarQube
8 16 (4.88%) Sonatype Nexus
9 14 (4.27%) TeamCity
10 13 (3.96%) Artifactory
11 10 (3.05%) Bitbucket Server
11 10 (3.05%) CA Release Automation
12 5 (1.52%) Bitbucket
12 5 (1.52%) Subversion
13 4 (1.22%) Gradle
14 3 (0.91%) Eclipse
14 3 (0.91%) git-flow
15 2 (0.61%) HP UFT
15 2 (0.61%) LoadRunner
General
1 66 (20.12%) Social Skills
2 57 (17.38%) Finance
3 38 (11.59%) Public Sector
4 33 (10.06%) Banking
5 26 (7.93%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (2.13%) Military
7 6 (1.83%) Telecoms
8 4 (1.22%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (1.22%) Electronics
8 4 (1.22%) Manufacturing
8 4 (1.22%) Marketing
9 3 (0.91%) Financial Institution
9 3 (0.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (0.91%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (0.91%) Law
9 3 (0.91%) Legal
10 2 (0.61%) Back Office
10 2 (0.61%) Front Office
10 2 (0.61%) German Language
11 1 (0.30%) Retail
Job Titles
1 64 (19.51%) DevOps Engineer
2 58 (17.68%) Senior
3 41 (12.50%) Linux Engineer
4 28 (8.54%) Lead
5 27 (8.23%) Senior DevOps
6 26 (7.93%) Architect
6 26 (7.93%) Developer
7 21 (6.40%) Java Developer
7 21 (6.40%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 19 (5.79%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 16 (4.88%) AWS Engineer
9 16 (4.88%) Azure Engineer
9 16 (4.88%) Kubernetes Engineer
9 16 (4.88%) Senior Developer
10 15 (4.57%) Platform Engineer
10 15 (4.57%) Senior Java Developer
11 14 (4.27%) AWS DevOps
12 12 (3.66%) Administrator
12 12 (3.66%) Infrastructure Architect
13 11 (3.35%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (10.67%) Spring Boot
2 26 (7.93%) Spring
3 24 (7.32%) cloud-init
4 21 (6.40%) Kafka
4 21 (6.40%) Spring Security
5 20 (6.10%) RESTful
5 20 (6.10%) Spring Batch
6 18 (5.49%) Swagger
7 17 (5.18%) Elastic Stack
7 17 (5.18%) OpenAPI
8 15 (4.57%) OpenTelemetry
9 14 (4.27%) Keycloak
10 11 (3.35%) LDAP
11 8 (2.44%) .NET
11 8 (2.44%) RabbitMQ
12 5 (1.52%) Middleware
12 5 (1.52%) REST
13 4 (1.22%) IBM Integration Bus
13 4 (1.22%) LAMP
13 4 (1.22%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 22 (6.71%) Data Centre
2 18 (5.49%) Replication
3 17 (5.18%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 16 (4.88%) PKI
5 13 (3.96%) Enterprise Storage
6 11 (3.35%) Cloud Native
6 11 (3.35%) Clustering
7 10 (3.05%) CSOC
7 10 (3.05%) Public Cloud
8 8 (2.44%) Client/Server
9 7 (2.13%) Data Protection Act
9 7 (2.13%) Enterprise Software
9 7 (2.13%) Mainframe
10 6 (1.83%) Private Cloud
11 4 (1.22%) EMC VMAX
12 3 (0.91%) Derivative
12 3 (0.91%) Hedge funds
12 3 (0.91%) Onboarding
13 2 (0.61%) Credit Derivative
13 2 (0.61%) Interest Rate Derivative
Operating Systems
1 328 (100.00%) Linux
2 116 (35.37%) Windows
3 59 (17.99%) Windows Server
4 56 (17.07%) Unix
5 40 (12.20%) CentOS
6 26 (7.93%) Solaris
7 12 (3.66%) AIX
7 12 (3.66%) HPUX
7 12 (3.66%) VMS
8 10 (3.05%) Ubuntu
9 9 (2.74%) Rocky
10 6 (1.83%) Windows Server 2019
11 5 (1.52%) SUSE
12 4 (1.22%) Amazon Linux
12 4 (1.22%) Oracle Linux
13 3 (0.91%) Mac OS
14 2 (0.61%) Data ONTAP
15 1 (0.30%) Alpine Linux
15 1 (0.30%) Windows 10
15 1 (0.30%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 132 (40.24%) CI/CD
2 130 (39.63%) DevOps
3 71 (21.65%) Containerisation
4 65 (19.82%) Infrastructure as Code
5 56 (17.07%) Agile
6 54 (16.46%) High Availability
7 53 (16.16%) Continuous Integration
7 53 (16.16%) Microservices
8 45 (13.72%) Problem-Solving
9 41 (12.50%) Observability
10 40 (12.20%) Migration
11 36 (10.98%) Software Engineering
12 34 (10.37%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 31 (9.45%) Test Automation
14 30 (9.15%) Service Management
15 28 (8.54%) Technical Leadership
16 27 (8.23%) TDD
17 26 (7.93%) Cloud Security
18 25 (7.62%) BDD
19 24 (7.32%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 128 (39.02%) Python
2 113 (34.45%) Bash
3 52 (15.85%) Java
4 51 (15.55%) SQL
5 39 (11.89%) PowerShell
6 27 (8.23%) Go
7 24 (7.32%) Perl
8 13 (3.96%) Shell Script
9 8 (2.44%) VBScript
10 7 (2.13%) Ruby
11 6 (1.83%) C#
11 6 (1.83%) Groovy
11 6 (1.83%) Rust
12 5 (1.52%) JavaScript
12 5 (1.52%) PHP
13 4 (1.22%) C++
14 2 (0.61%) PL/SQL
14 2 (0.61%) VB
15 1 (0.30%) Korn
15 1 (0.30%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 142 (43.29%) Security Cleared
2 104 (31.71%) SC Cleared
3 39 (11.89%) DV Cleared
4 15 (4.57%) AWS Certification
5 11 (3.35%) Degree
5 11 (3.35%) RHCE
6 6 (1.83%) CISSP
7 5 (1.52%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 4 (1.22%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (1.22%) CISM
8 4 (1.22%) RHCSA
9 3 (0.91%) Azure Certification
9 3 (0.91%) Cisco Certification
9 3 (0.91%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (0.91%) RHCA
10 2 (0.61%) CCNA
10 2 (0.61%) CompTIA Security+
10 2 (0.61%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.61%) Oracle Certification
11 1 (0.30%) CASP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (4.57%) NCSC
2 8 (2.44%) Disclosure Scotland
2 8 (2.44%) GDPR
3 7 (2.13%) PCI DSS
4 6 (1.83%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 5 (1.52%) NIST
6 4 (1.22%) Accessibility
7 3 (0.91%) QA
8 2 (0.61%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (0.61%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 99 (30.18%) Docker
2 62 (18.90%) VMware Infrastructure
3 32 (9.76%) Active Directory
4 17 (5.18%) Hyper-V
5 15 (4.57%) VMware ESXi
6 14 (4.27%) vSphere
7 9 (2.74%) NFS
8 7 (2.13%) Oracle RAC
8 7 (2.13%) Veritas Cluster Server
9 4 (1.22%) Samba
9 4 (1.22%) Virtual Machines
10 3 (0.91%) Apache ZooKeeper
10 3 (0.91%) vCloud
10 3 (0.91%) VMware NSX
10 3 (0.91%) VMware Workstation
11 2 (0.61%) Veritas File System
11 2 (0.61%) Veritas Volume Manager
12 1 (0.30%) Gluster
12 1 (0.30%) VirtualBox
12 1 (0.30%) Xen
Systems Management
1 144 (43.90%) Kubernetes
2 126 (38.41%) Terraform
3 117 (35.67%) Ansible
4 42 (12.80%) Grafana
5 37 (11.28%) Puppet
6 34 (10.37%) Packer
7 26 (7.93%) Prometheus
8 21 (6.40%) Kibana
9 20 (6.10%) Progress Chef
10 19 (5.79%) Argo
10 19 (5.79%) Consul
11 16 (4.88%) ZABBIX
12 15 (4.57%) HAProxy
12 15 (4.57%) Istio
12 15 (4.57%) Rancher
13 14 (4.27%) Jamf Pro
13 14 (4.27%) linkerd
14 9 (2.74%) Red Hat Satellite
15 8 (2.44%) Data Guard
16 7 (2.13%) SELinux
Vendors
1 146 (44.51%) Red Hat
2 92 (28.05%) VMware
3 53 (16.16%) Splunk
4 42 (12.80%) Oracle
5 22 (6.71%) ServiceNow
6 21 (6.40%) HP
7 20 (6.10%) Microsoft
8 19 (5.79%) AppDynamics
8 19 (5.79%) IBM
9 17 (5.18%) Cisco
9 17 (5.18%) SolarWinds
10 16 (4.88%) F5
11 14 (4.27%) Okta
11 14 (4.27%) Veritas
12 12 (3.66%) Apple
12 12 (3.66%) Dell
12 12 (3.66%) ESET
12 12 (3.66%) Google
12 12 (3.66%) Palo Alto
13 11 (3.35%) EMC