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 30 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 362 267 300
Rank change year-on-year -95 +33 -95
Contract jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 303 278 310
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.62% 0.96% 0.72%
As % of the Operating Systems category 6.30% 6.96% 5.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 198 207 232
10th Percentile £400 £400 £350
25th Percentile £425 £432 £437
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £524
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +5.01% -12.71%
75th Percentile £581 £625 £611
90th Percentile £652 £700 £672
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 0 2
10th Percentile £38.25 - £65.18
25th Percentile £41.71 - £67.31
Median hourly rate £74.26 - £72.75
75th Percentile £83.75 - £76.31
90th Percentile £92.50 - £77.33
UK excluding London median hourly rate £61.42 - £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 4,806 3,993 5,778
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.78% 13.83% 13.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,074 2,634 3,897
10th Percentile £188 £200 £185
25th Percentile £314 £313 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £459 £467 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.71% -1.68% -5.00%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £588
90th Percentile £650 £688 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £450 £450
% change year-on-year - - -3.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 347 177 406
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.12 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.25 £17.44 £15.50
Median hourly rate £34.13 £22.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +55.14% -2.22% -48.99%
75th Percentile £65.00 £49.75 £61.56
90th Percentile £72.80 £68.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £33.25 £18.94 £22.50
% change year-on-year +75.60% -15.84% -43.18%

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 30 May 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 30 May 2026.

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 30 May 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 -91 251 £500 -9.09% 41
UK excluding London -42 205 £500 -9.09% 34
Work from Home -78 83 £500 -6.89% 9
North of England -51 69 £500 - 8
London -87 57 £488 -15.22% 10
Yorkshire -42 41 £508 -5.58% 3
South East -50 41 £475 -13.64% 12
South West -18 36 £546 -11.18% 11
East of England -6 28 £478 -20.33% 2
North West -41 26 £459 +16.79% 4
Scotland -21 14 £463 -2.32%
Midlands -62 14 £501 -7.31% 1
West Midlands -72 10 £493 -8.75%
East Midlands -21 4 £530 +4.74% 1
North East -25 2 £400 -30.43% 1
Wales - 2 £475 -
Northern Ireland +4 1 £375 +7.14%

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 15 (4.95%) nginx
2 12 (3.96%) Tomcat
3 11 (3.63%) Apache
4 10 (3.30%) Confluence
5 8 (2.64%) WebLogic
6 6 (1.98%) SAS
7 5 (1.65%) WebSphere
8 4 (1.32%) Microsoft Exchange
9 3 (0.99%) IBM HTTP Server
9 3 (0.99%) JBoss
9 3 (0.99%) OpenStack
9 3 (0.99%) SharePoint
9 3 (0.99%) WebSphere Application Server
10 2 (0.66%) Documentum
10 2 (0.66%) Oracle HTTP Server
10 2 (0.66%) WebSphere Portal
11 1 (0.33%) Red Hat Fuse
11 1 (0.33%) Traefik
Applications
1 4 (1.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.33%) FLEXCUBE
1 1 (0.33%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (0.33%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 84 (27.72%) AWS
2 72 (23.76%) Azure
3 44 (14.52%) OpenShift
4 26 (8.58%) GCP
5 20 (6.60%) GitHub
6 19 (6.27%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 15 (4.95%) Amazon EC2
7 15 (4.95%) Amazon S3
8 12 (3.96%) Amazon EKS
9 11 (3.63%) Azure Sentinel
9 11 (3.63%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 8 (2.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 8 (2.64%) AWS CloudFormation
11 7 (2.31%) GitHub Actions
11 7 (2.31%) IaaS
12 5 (1.65%) Azure Monitor
12 5 (1.65%) Azure Stack
12 5 (1.65%) Entra ID
12 5 (1.65%) Nutanix
12 5 (1.65%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 37 (12.21%) Firewall
2 28 (9.24%) DNS
2 28 (9.24%) SAN
3 11 (3.63%) VLAN
4 10 (3.30%) Kerberos
5 9 (2.97%) DHCP
5 9 (2.97%) HTTP
5 9 (2.97%) SSL
6 8 (2.64%) VPN
7 7 (2.31%) Network Security
7 7 (2.31%) TCP/IP
7 7 (2.31%) VSAN
8 6 (1.98%) iSCSI
9 5 (1.65%) Fibre Channel
9 5 (1.65%) WAN
10 4 (1.32%) NAS
11 3 (0.99%) FTP
11 3 (0.99%) SSH
12 2 (0.66%) Internet
12 2 (0.66%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (7.92%) Oracle Database
2 16 (5.28%) PostgreSQL
3 12 (3.96%) MongoDB
4 10 (3.30%) SQL Server
5 7 (2.31%) Elasticsearch
5 7 (2.31%) SAP HANA
6 6 (1.98%) Amazon RDS
6 6 (1.98%) Data Warehouse
6 6 (1.98%) GIS
6 6 (1.98%) MySQL
7 4 (1.32%) Oracle Database 12c
7 4 (1.32%) Oracle Reports
8 3 (0.99%) Oracle Exadata
9 2 (0.66%) Data Lake
9 2 (0.66%) MariaDB
10 1 (0.33%) IBM InfoSphere
10 1 (0.33%) OpenStack Swift
10 1 (0.33%) RDBMS
10 1 (0.33%) Relational Database
10 1 (0.33%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 47 (15.51%) Jenkins
2 45 (14.85%) GitLab
3 38 (12.54%) Git
4 16 (5.28%) JIRA
5 6 (1.98%) Artifactory
6 5 (1.65%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 4 (1.32%) Sonatype Nexus
8 3 (0.99%) Introscope
9 2 (0.66%) Maven
9 2 (0.66%) Robot Framework
10 1 (0.33%) Ant
10 1 (0.33%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.33%) GoCD
10 1 (0.33%) PVCS
General
1 66 (21.78%) Social Skills
2 32 (10.56%) Finance
3 30 (9.90%) Public Sector
4 26 (8.58%) Documentation Skills
5 23 (7.59%) Banking
6 19 (6.27%) Analytical Skills
7 9 (2.97%) Aerospace
8 5 (1.65%) Legal
9 4 (1.32%) Telecoms
10 2 (0.66%) Aviation
10 2 (0.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (0.66%) Law
10 2 (0.66%) Military
10 2 (0.66%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.33%) Back Office
11 1 (0.33%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.33%) Front Office
11 1 (0.33%) International Banking
11 1 (0.33%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.33%) Retail
Job Titles
1 48 (15.84%) Linux Engineer
2 32 (10.56%) Senior
3 29 (9.57%) Administrator
4 27 (8.91%) Architect
5 26 (8.58%) Lead
6 24 (7.92%) DevOps Engineer
7 22 (7.26%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 20 (6.60%) Linux Administrator
8 20 (6.60%) Platform Engineer
9 16 (5.28%) Software Engineer
10 15 (4.95%) Senior Linux Engineer
11 12 (3.96%) Security Engineer
12 11 (3.63%) Cloud Engineer
13 9 (2.97%) AWS Engineer
13 9 (2.97%) Lead Software Engineer
14 8 (2.64%) DBA
14 8 (2.64%) Oracle DBA
14 8 (2.64%) Systems Administrator
15 7 (2.31%) Security Architect
15 7 (2.31%) Unix Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (6.93%) Middleware
2 18 (5.94%) LDAP
3 9 (2.97%) Spring
3 9 (2.97%) YAML
4 7 (2.31%) EJB
5 6 (1.98%) Elastic Stack
5 6 (1.98%) Kafka
5 6 (1.98%) OpenLayers
5 6 (1.98%) Spring Boot
6 5 (1.65%) REST
7 4 (1.32%) .NET
7 4 (1.32%) Azure Blueprints
7 4 (1.32%) Java EE
7 4 (1.32%) JSP
8 3 (0.99%) FastAPI
8 3 (0.99%) Java SE
8 3 (0.99%) JDBC
8 3 (0.99%) JSON
8 3 (0.99%) Keycloak
8 3 (0.99%) WebSphere MQ
Miscellaneous
1 40 (13.20%) Data Centre
2 35 (11.55%) Cloud Native
3 23 (7.59%) Management Information System
4 16 (5.28%) Security Posture
5 13 (4.29%) Clustering
5 13 (4.29%) Hybrid Cloud
5 13 (4.29%) Onboarding
6 10 (3.30%) Enterprise Software
6 10 (3.30%) Legacy Systems
6 10 (3.30%) Replication
7 8 (2.64%) Product Ownership
7 8 (2.64%) Public Cloud
8 7 (2.31%) Legacy Applications
8 7 (2.31%) PKI
9 6 (1.98%) Data Protection Act
9 6 (1.98%) FlexPod
9 6 (1.98%) Linux Command Line
10 5 (1.65%) CMDB
11 4 (1.32%) Enterprise Storage
11 4 (1.32%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 303 (100.00%) Linux
2 110 (36.30%) Windows
3 49 (16.17%) Windows Server
4 47 (15.51%) Ubuntu
5 37 (12.21%) CentOS
6 23 (7.59%) Unix
7 22 (7.26%) Solaris
8 18 (5.94%) VMS
9 16 (5.28%) Windows Server 2019
10 11 (3.63%) Oracle Linux
10 11 (3.63%) Windows Server 2016
11 10 (3.30%) AIX
11 10 (3.30%) SUSE
11 10 (3.30%) Windows Server 2008
12 8 (2.64%) CoreOS
12 8 (2.64%) Rocky
13 7 (2.31%) Debian
13 7 (2.31%) Windows Server 2012
14 6 (1.98%) Data ONTAP
15 5 (1.65%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 100 (33.00%) CI/CD
2 96 (31.68%) DevOps
3 53 (17.49%) Problem-Solving
4 51 (16.83%) Infrastructure as Code
5 49 (16.17%) Agile
6 43 (14.19%) Migration
7 41 (13.53%) ITIL
8 39 (12.87%) Containerisation
8 39 (12.87%) Performance Tuning
9 38 (12.54%) Continuous Improvement
10 37 (12.21%) Change Management
10 37 (12.21%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 36 (11.88%) Platform Engineering
12 35 (11.55%) High Availability
13 34 (11.22%) Configuration Management
14 31 (10.23%) Roadmaps
15 30 (9.90%) Observability
16 29 (9.57%) Runbook
16 29 (9.57%) SIEM
17 26 (8.58%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 113 (37.29%) Python
2 73 (24.09%) Bash
3 68 (22.44%) PowerShell
4 39 (12.87%) Shell Script
5 31 (10.23%) Java
6 30 (9.90%) SQL
7 18 (5.94%) Perl
8 14 (4.62%) PL/SQL
9 11 (3.63%) JavaScript
9 11 (3.63%) MATLAB
10 9 (2.97%) Go
11 8 (2.64%) Ruby
12 6 (1.98%) Korn
13 5 (1.65%) Bicep
14 4 (1.32%) C#
15 3 (0.99%) C
15 3 (0.99%) Groovy
15 3 (0.99%) Jython
16 2 (0.66%) C++
17 1 (0.33%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 137 (45.21%) Security Cleared
2 100 (33.00%) SC Cleared
3 32 (10.56%) Degree
4 29 (9.57%) DV Cleared
5 24 (7.92%) RHCE
6 18 (5.94%) Azure Certification
6 18 (5.94%) CISSP
7 16 (5.28%) OCP
7 16 (5.28%) Oracle Certification
8 13 (4.29%) AWS Certification
9 9 (2.97%) Computer Science Degree
10 5 (1.65%) CISM
10 5 (1.65%) RHCA
11 4 (1.32%) CompTIA Security+
11 4 (1.32%) RHCSA
11 4 (1.32%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 3 (0.99%) Microsoft Certification
12 3 (0.99%) TOGAF Certification
12 3 (0.99%) VCAP
13 2 (0.66%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (4.62%) SLA
2 7 (2.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (1.98%) NIST
4 5 (1.65%) QA
5 4 (1.32%) GRC
6 3 (0.99%) Cyber Essentials
6 3 (0.99%) GDPR
6 3 (0.99%) HIPAA
6 3 (0.99%) NCSC
6 3 (0.99%) SOC 2
7 2 (0.66%) Disclosure Scotland
8 1 (0.33%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 1 (0.33%) ISO 15022
8 1 (0.33%) ISO 20022
8 1 (0.33%) NIST 800
8 1 (0.33%) OpenSCAP
8 1 (0.33%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.33%) PMO
8 1 (0.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 51 (16.83%) VMware Infrastructure
2 47 (15.51%) Docker
3 36 (11.88%) Active Directory
3 36 (11.88%) Virtual Machines
4 18 (5.94%) vSphere
5 17 (5.61%) NFS
5 17 (5.61%) VMware ESXi
6 11 (3.63%) Oracle RAC
7 9 (2.97%) Hyper-V
8 6 (1.98%) Corosync
8 6 (1.98%) VMware NSX
9 4 (1.32%) Ceph
9 4 (1.32%) Firmware
10 3 (0.99%) KVM
10 3 (0.99%) QEMU
10 3 (0.99%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 3 (0.99%) Veritas Volume Manager
11 2 (0.66%) Citrix Hypervisor
11 2 (0.66%) Samba
11 2 (0.66%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 123 (40.59%) Ansible
2 74 (24.42%) Kubernetes
3 70 (23.10%) Terraform
4 26 (8.58%) Red Hat Satellite
5 23 (7.59%) Grafana
6 21 (6.93%) Puppet
7 18 (5.94%) Progress Chef
8 17 (5.61%) Oracle RMAN
8 17 (5.61%) Podman
9 16 (5.28%) Prometheus
10 12 (3.96%) Check_MK
11 11 (3.63%) Failover Clustering
12 8 (2.64%) vCenter Server
13 7 (2.31%) Data Guard
13 7 (2.31%) Pacemaker
14 6 (1.98%) Argo
14 6 (1.98%) Packer
14 6 (1.98%) SnapMirror
14 6 (1.98%) vMotion
15 5 (1.65%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 182 (60.07%) Red Hat
2 77 (25.41%) VMware
3 55 (18.15%) Oracle
4 45 (14.85%) Microsoft
5 24 (7.92%) Google
6 23 (7.59%) Splunk
7 20 (6.60%) IBM
8 16 (5.28%) Dell
9 13 (4.29%) Cisco
10 11 (3.63%) NetApp
11 9 (2.97%) HP
11 9 (2.97%) ServiceNow
11 9 (2.97%) Tenable
12 8 (2.64%) SAP
13 7 (2.31%) NVIDIA
14 6 (1.98%) Broadcom
14 6 (1.98%) Commvault
14 6 (1.98%) Qualys
14 6 (1.98%) Veritas
15 5 (1.65%) Brocade