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

 6 months to
29 Jun 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 364 278 300
Rank change year-on-year -86 +22 -100
Contract jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 308 281 314
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.60% 0.92% 0.72%
As % of the Operating Systems category 6.33% 6.66% 5.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 201 207 235
10th Percentile £363 £392 £350
25th Percentile £415 £417 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £525 £520
Median % change year-on-year -6.29% +0.96% -12.16%
75th Percentile £563 £600 £598
90th Percentile £638 £675 £658
UK excluding London median daily rate £484 £531 £527
% change year-on-year -8.95% +0.85% +0.29%
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 - - +3.93%

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 4,862 4,219 5,910
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.51% 13.81% 13.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,101 2,739 3,890
10th Percentile £190 £200 £190
25th Percentile £313 £313 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £465 £475
Median % change year-on-year -0.43% -2.21% -5.00%
75th Percentile £575 £581 £588
90th Percentile £650 £675 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £450 £463
% change year-on-year - -2.70% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 333 216 436
10th Percentile £14.70 £15.50 £12.75
25th Percentile £18.50 £17.41 £16.25
Median hourly rate £26.66 £22.25 £24.93
Median % change year-on-year +19.82% -10.74% -41.35%
75th Percentile £63.75 £42.56 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.18 £66.25 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £26.22 £18.87 £31.25
% change year-on-year +38.95% -39.62% -6.72%

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 29 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 29 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 29 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 -68 262 £488 -9.22% 39
UK excluding London -49 205 £484 -8.95% 29
Work from Home -80 78 £488 -7.14% 9
North of England -44 71 £500 +16.96% 8
London -74 68 £481 -12.50% 12
Yorkshire -29 41 £515 +8.42% 2
South East -50 41 £439 -20.27% 7
South West -15 37 £534 -13.21% 7
North West -36 28 £465 +18.32% 5
East of England -2 27 £478 -0.93% 4
Midlands -54 15 £501 -6.80% 3
Scotland -26 13 £463 -1.23%
East Midlands -6 8 £530 +4.74% 2
West Midlands -62 7 £484 -10.43% 1
North East -36 2 £400 -30.43% 1
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 16 (5.19%) nginx
2 13 (4.22%) Tomcat
3 11 (3.57%) Apache
3 11 (3.57%) Confluence
4 8 (2.60%) WebLogic
5 6 (1.95%) Microsoft Exchange
5 6 (1.95%) WebSphere
6 4 (1.30%) SAS
7 3 (0.97%) IBM HTTP Server
7 3 (0.97%) JBoss
7 3 (0.97%) SharePoint
7 3 (0.97%) WebSphere Application Server
8 2 (0.65%) Documentum
8 2 (0.65%) OpenStack
8 2 (0.65%) Oracle HTTP Server
8 2 (0.65%) WebSphere Portal
9 1 (0.32%) Red Hat Fuse
9 1 (0.32%) Traefik
Applications
1 4 (1.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.32%) FLEXCUBE
1 1 (0.32%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (0.32%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 89 (28.90%) AWS
2 70 (22.73%) Azure
3 43 (13.96%) OpenShift
4 28 (9.09%) GCP
5 24 (7.79%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 22 (7.14%) GitHub
7 16 (5.19%) Amazon S3
8 15 (4.87%) Amazon EC2
9 13 (4.22%) Amazon EKS
10 12 (3.90%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 11 (3.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 11 (3.57%) Datadog
12 10 (3.25%) AWS CloudFormation
13 9 (2.92%) Entra ID
13 9 (2.92%) GitHub Actions
14 8 (2.60%) Azure AKS
14 8 (2.60%) Azure Monitor
14 8 (2.60%) IaaS
14 8 (2.60%) Serverless
15 7 (2.27%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 44 (14.29%) Firewall
2 38 (12.34%) DNS
3 34 (11.04%) SAN
4 14 (4.55%) DHCP
4 14 (4.55%) VLAN
5 13 (4.22%) SSL
6 11 (3.57%) Network Security
6 11 (3.57%) VPN
7 9 (2.92%) HTTP
8 8 (2.60%) Kerberos
9 6 (1.95%) iSCSI
9 6 (1.95%) TCP/IP
9 6 (1.95%) VSAN
9 6 (1.95%) WAN
10 5 (1.62%) SSH
10 5 (1.62%) VoIP
11 4 (1.30%) Fibre Channel
11 4 (1.30%) NAS
12 3 (0.97%) FTP
13 2 (0.65%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (7.47%) PostgreSQL
2 18 (5.84%) Oracle Database
3 13 (4.22%) SQL Server
4 11 (3.57%) MongoDB
5 10 (3.25%) MySQL
6 8 (2.60%) Elasticsearch
7 7 (2.27%) GIS
7 7 (2.27%) SAP HANA
8 6 (1.95%) Amazon RDS
9 5 (1.62%) Data Lake
10 4 (1.30%) Data Warehouse
10 4 (1.30%) Oracle Database 12c
10 4 (1.30%) Redis
10 4 (1.30%) Relational Database
11 2 (0.65%) Azure SQL Database
12 1 (0.32%) BusinessObjects
12 1 (0.32%) Db2
12 1 (0.32%) Oracle Exadata
12 1 (0.32%) Oracle Reports
12 1 (0.32%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 50 (16.23%) Jenkins
2 43 (13.96%) GitLab
3 34 (11.04%) Git
4 18 (5.84%) JIRA
5 6 (1.95%) Artifactory
6 5 (1.62%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 4 (1.30%) Sonatype Nexus
8 3 (0.97%) Introscope
9 2 (0.65%) Robot Framework
10 1 (0.32%) Ant
10 1 (0.32%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.32%) Cucumber
10 1 (0.32%) GoCD
10 1 (0.32%) Maven
10 1 (0.32%) PVCS
General
1 58 (18.83%) Social Skills
2 34 (11.04%) Finance
3 32 (10.39%) Public Sector
4 26 (8.44%) Documentation Skills
5 24 (7.79%) Banking
6 19 (6.17%) Analytical Skills
7 9 (2.92%) Legal
8 8 (2.60%) Aerospace
9 5 (1.62%) Military
9 5 (1.62%) Retail
10 4 (1.30%) Manufacturing
10 4 (1.30%) Publishing
11 2 (0.65%) Aviation
11 2 (0.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.65%) Law
11 2 (0.65%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.32%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.32%) International Banking
12 1 (0.32%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.32%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 52 (16.88%) Linux Engineer
2 41 (13.31%) Senior
3 30 (9.74%) DevOps Engineer
4 28 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 23 (7.47%) Administrator
5 23 (7.47%) Lead
6 21 (6.82%) Platform Engineer
7 19 (6.17%) Cloud Engineer
7 19 (6.17%) Linux Administrator
8 16 (5.19%) Architect
8 16 (5.19%) Software Engineer
9 15 (4.87%) Senior Linux Engineer
10 12 (3.90%) Security Engineer
11 10 (3.25%) AWS Engineer
12 9 (2.92%) Lead Software Engineer
13 7 (2.27%) Azure Engineer
13 7 (2.27%) Security Architect
13 7 (2.27%) Support Engineer
13 7 (2.27%) Systems Administrator
13 7 (2.27%) Unix Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (6.17%) Middleware
2 16 (5.19%) LDAP
3 11 (3.57%) REST
4 9 (2.92%) Spring
5 7 (2.27%) EJB
5 7 (2.27%) Kafka
5 7 (2.27%) YAML
6 6 (1.95%) Elastic Stack
6 6 (1.95%) OpenLayers
6 6 (1.95%) Spring Boot
7 5 (1.62%) JSON
7 5 (1.62%) OAuth
7 5 (1.62%) Vue
8 4 (1.30%) Azure Blueprints
8 4 (1.30%) Celery
8 4 (1.30%) Django
8 4 (1.30%) Java EE
8 4 (1.30%) Java SE
8 4 (1.30%) JWT
8 4 (1.30%) WebSphere MQ
Miscellaneous
1 37 (12.01%) Cloud Native
2 35 (11.36%) Data Centre
3 22 (7.14%) Management Information System
3 22 (7.14%) Security Posture
4 17 (5.52%) Hybrid Cloud
5 14 (4.55%) Clustering
6 13 (4.22%) Onboarding
7 12 (3.90%) Enterprise Software
7 12 (3.90%) Replication
8 11 (3.57%) Legacy Systems
8 11 (3.57%) PKI
9 9 (2.92%) Linux Command Line
10 8 (2.60%) Legacy Applications
10 8 (2.60%) Product Ownership
11 6 (1.95%) FlexPod
11 6 (1.95%) Mainframe
11 6 (1.95%) Public Cloud
12 5 (1.62%) CMDB
12 5 (1.62%) Data Protection Act
12 5 (1.62%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 308 (100.00%) Linux
2 111 (36.04%) Windows
3 56 (18.18%) Windows Server
4 47 (15.26%) Ubuntu
5 34 (11.04%) CentOS
6 25 (8.12%) Solaris
7 23 (7.47%) Unix
8 17 (5.52%) Windows Server 2019
9 15 (4.87%) VMS
10 12 (3.90%) AIX
10 12 (3.90%) Oracle Linux
10 12 (3.90%) SUSE
11 11 (3.57%) Windows Server 2008
12 10 (3.25%) Rocky
12 10 (3.25%) Windows Server 2016
13 8 (2.60%) CoreOS
14 7 (2.27%) Windows Server 2012
15 6 (1.95%) Data ONTAP
16 5 (1.62%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
16 5 (1.62%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 107 (34.74%) CI/CD
2 104 (33.77%) DevOps
3 61 (19.81%) Infrastructure as Code
4 56 (18.18%) Agile
5 52 (16.88%) Problem-Solving
6 47 (15.26%) Containerisation
6 47 (15.26%) ITIL
6 47 (15.26%) Migration
7 46 (14.94%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 44 (14.29%) Platform Engineering
9 42 (13.64%) Configuration Management
10 41 (13.31%) Change Management
11 38 (12.34%) Continuous Improvement
12 35 (11.36%) High Availability
13 33 (10.71%) Observability
13 33 (10.71%) Performance Tuning
14 32 (10.39%) Roadmaps
15 31 (10.06%) Runbook
15 31 (10.06%) Software Engineering
16 26 (8.44%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 121 (39.29%) Python
2 79 (25.65%) Bash
3 69 (22.40%) PowerShell
4 33 (10.71%) Shell Script
5 31 (10.06%) Java
6 27 (8.77%) SQL
7 15 (4.87%) Perl
8 13 (4.22%) PL/SQL
9 12 (3.90%) JavaScript
10 9 (2.92%) MATLAB
11 7 (2.27%) Go
12 5 (1.62%) Bicep
12 5 (1.62%) Ruby
13 4 (1.30%) C
13 4 (1.30%) C#
13 4 (1.30%) Korn
14 3 (0.97%) C++
14 3 (0.97%) Groovy
14 3 (0.97%) Jython
15 1 (0.32%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 142 (46.10%) Security Cleared
2 108 (35.06%) SC Cleared
3 36 (11.69%) Degree
4 26 (8.44%) DV Cleared
5 24 (7.79%) RHCE
6 22 (7.14%) CISSP
7 17 (5.52%) AWS Certification
7 17 (5.52%) Azure Certification
8 13 (4.22%) OCP
8 13 (4.22%) Oracle Certification
9 10 (3.25%) Computer Science Degree
10 7 (2.27%) CISM
11 6 (1.95%) CompTIA Security+
12 5 (1.62%) RHCA
13 4 (1.30%) RHCSA
13 4 (1.30%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 3 (0.97%) Microsoft Certification
14 3 (0.97%) TOGAF Certification
14 3 (0.97%) VCAP
15 2 (0.65%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (3.90%) SLA
2 7 (2.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (2.27%) NIST
3 5 (1.62%) GRC
3 5 (1.62%) QA
4 4 (1.30%) SOC 2
5 3 (0.97%) HIPAA
5 3 (0.97%) NCSC
6 2 (0.65%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (0.65%) Disclosure Scotland
6 2 (0.65%) ISO 15022
6 2 (0.65%) ISO 20022
6 2 (0.65%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.32%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 1 (0.32%) OpenSCAP
7 1 (0.32%) PMO
7 1 (0.32%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 56 (18.18%) Docker
2 50 (16.23%) VMware Infrastructure
3 37 (12.01%) Active Directory
3 37 (12.01%) Virtual Machines
4 19 (6.17%) NFS
5 17 (5.52%) VMware ESXi
5 17 (5.52%) vSphere
6 12 (3.90%) Hyper-V
7 10 (3.25%) Oracle RAC
8 6 (1.95%) Corosync
8 6 (1.95%) VMware NSX
9 3 (0.97%) Ceph
9 3 (0.97%) Firmware
9 3 (0.97%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 3 (0.97%) Veritas Volume Manager
10 2 (0.65%) Citrix Hypervisor
10 2 (0.65%) KVM
10 2 (0.65%) Samba
10 2 (0.65%) Squid
10 2 (0.65%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 125 (40.58%) Ansible
2 87 (28.25%) Kubernetes
3 82 (26.62%) Terraform
4 28 (9.09%) Red Hat Satellite
5 24 (7.79%) Grafana
6 22 (7.14%) Puppet
7 18 (5.84%) Progress Chef
7 18 (5.84%) Prometheus
8 14 (4.55%) Failover Clustering
9 13 (4.22%) Oracle RMAN
10 11 (3.57%) Podman
11 9 (2.92%) Check_MK
12 8 (2.60%) Packer
13 7 (2.27%) Pacemaker
13 7 (2.27%) vCenter Server
14 6 (1.95%) Argo
14 6 (1.95%) NetBackup
14 6 (1.95%) SnapMirror
14 6 (1.95%) vMotion
15 5 (1.62%) WSUS
Vendors
1 179 (58.12%) Red Hat
2 72 (23.38%) VMware
3 52 (16.88%) Oracle
4 41 (13.31%) Microsoft
5 26 (8.44%) Google
6 23 (7.47%) IBM
7 16 (5.19%) Splunk
8 15 (4.87%) Cisco
9 13 (4.22%) NetApp
10 12 (3.90%) Dell
10 12 (3.90%) ServiceNow
11 10 (3.25%) HP
12 9 (2.92%) Tenable
13 8 (2.60%) SAP
14 7 (2.27%) Qualys
15 6 (1.95%) Commvault
15 6 (1.95%) Databricks
15 6 (1.95%) Rapid7
15 6 (1.95%) Veritas
16 5 (1.62%) Okta
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