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 1 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 344 324 293
Rank change year-on-year -20 -31 -71
Contract jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 356 243 324
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.66% 0.74% 0.84%
As % of the Operating Systems category 6.80% 5.50% 5.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 238 166 237
10th Percentile £384 £338 £359
25th Percentile £442 £408 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £517 £520
Median % change year-on-year -3.36% -0.50% -9.57%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £610
90th Percentile £688 £675 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £521
% change year-on-year - -4.03% -5.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 0 1
10th Percentile £37.13 - -
25th Percentile £41.41 - £63.75
Median hourly rate £56.17 - £67.50
75th Percentile £75.70 - £71.25
90th Percentile £79.88 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £56.17 - £67.50
% change year-on-year - - -6.90%

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 5,234 4,422 5,433
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.76% 13.50% 14.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,318 2,811 3,542
10th Percentile £190 £190 £200
25th Percentile £313 £308 £330
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £468 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +3.94% -5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £584
90th Percentile £669 £675 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £450 £450
Number of hourly rates quoted 364 269 306
10th Percentile £14.50 £15.55 £12.75
25th Percentile £17.25 £18.51 £18.13
Median hourly rate £25.77 £25.15 £35.58
Median % change year-on-year +2.47% -29.32% -16.28%
75th Percentile £65.00 £57.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.00 £67.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.84 £25.15 £47.50
% change year-on-year +2.74% -47.05% +37.68%

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 1 September 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 1 September 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Red Hat Enterprise Linux in the UK

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Top 15 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 1 September 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 -14 318 £500 -3.80% 150
UK excluding London -18 218 £500 - 86
London -24 115 £497 -9.64% 79
Work from Home -51 78 £475 -9.52% 59
North of England -50 63 £500 +24.84% 21
South East -39 51 £460 -16.36% 21
South West -5 45 £567 +3.14% 22
North West -43 37 £481 +22.39% 15
East of England +2 28 £563 +67.91% 9
Yorkshire -27 26 £538 +19.44% 4
Scotland -24 16 £488 -2.40% 8
Midlands -58 14 £530 -1.58% 5
East Midlands -10 8 £530 +21.84% 1
West Midlands -57 6 £568 -0.74% 4
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 12 (3.37%) JBoss
2 11 (3.09%) Apache
2 11 (3.09%) nginx
3 8 (2.25%) Confluence
3 8 (2.25%) WebSphere
4 7 (1.97%) SharePoint
4 7 (1.97%) Tomcat
5 6 (1.69%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (0.84%) IBM HTTP Server
6 3 (0.84%) OpenStack
6 3 (0.84%) SAS
6 3 (0.84%) WebSphere Application Server
7 2 (0.56%) Documentum
7 2 (0.56%) Oracle HTTP Server
7 2 (0.56%) WebLogic
7 2 (0.56%) WebSphere Portal
8 1 (0.28%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.28%) Red Hat Fuse
8 1 (0.28%) Traefik
Applications
1 4 (1.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.28%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.28%) FLEXCUBE
1 1 (0.28%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (0.28%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 101 (28.37%) AWS
2 82 (23.03%) Azure
3 40 (11.24%) OpenShift
4 31 (8.71%) GCP
5 23 (6.46%) GitHub
6 22 (6.18%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 18 (5.06%) Amazon EC2
7 18 (5.06%) AWS CloudFormation
7 18 (5.06%) Datadog
8 17 (4.78%) Amazon EKS
9 16 (4.49%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 15 (4.21%) Amazon S3
10 15 (4.21%) IaaS
10 15 (4.21%) Serverless
11 14 (3.93%) Azure Monitor
11 14 (3.93%) Entra ID
11 14 (3.93%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 13 (3.65%) GitHub Actions
13 12 (3.37%) AWS Lambda
13 12 (3.37%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 49 (13.76%) DNS
2 46 (12.92%) Firewall
3 38 (10.67%) SAN
4 24 (6.74%) TCP/IP
5 22 (6.18%) Kerberos
6 20 (5.62%) DHCP
7 18 (5.06%) VLAN
8 15 (4.21%) Network Security
8 15 (4.21%) SSL
9 13 (3.65%) VPN
10 9 (2.53%) SSH
11 6 (1.69%) VSAN
11 6 (1.69%) WAN
12 5 (1.40%) HTTP
12 5 (1.40%) VoIP
13 4 (1.12%) NAS
14 3 (0.84%) FTP
14 3 (0.84%) Intrusion Detection
14 3 (0.84%) iSCSI
14 3 (0.84%) OpenVPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (7.58%) Oracle Database
1 27 (7.58%) PostgreSQL
2 16 (4.49%) SQL Server
3 10 (2.81%) Amazon RDS
3 10 (2.81%) MySQL
4 8 (2.25%) SQLite
5 7 (1.97%) MongoDB
5 7 (1.97%) Oracle Database 12c
5 7 (1.97%) SAP HANA
6 6 (1.69%) Big Data
6 6 (1.69%) Hadoop
7 5 (1.40%) Elasticsearch
7 5 (1.40%) Relational Database
8 4 (1.12%) Data Lake
8 4 (1.12%) Data Warehouse
8 4 (1.12%) Redis
9 3 (0.84%) GIS
10 2 (0.56%) Azure SQL Database
10 2 (0.56%) Sybase ASE
11 1 (0.28%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 51 (14.33%) Jenkins
2 48 (13.48%) Git
3 38 (10.67%) GitLab
4 13 (3.65%) JIRA
5 7 (1.97%) Sonatype Nexus
6 6 (1.69%) Artifactory
7 3 (0.84%) Bitbucket
7 3 (0.84%) Introscope
7 3 (0.84%) Toad
8 2 (0.56%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 2 (0.56%) Cucumber
8 2 (0.56%) Maven
8 2 (0.56%) Zephyr
9 1 (0.28%) Ant
9 1 (0.28%) PVCS
General
1 64 (17.98%) Social Skills
2 54 (15.17%) Finance
3 38 (10.67%) Analytical Skills
4 26 (7.30%) Banking
5 25 (7.02%) Documentation Skills
6 21 (5.90%) Public Sector
7 11 (3.09%) Legal
8 7 (1.97%) Aerospace
9 6 (1.69%) Military
9 6 (1.69%) Retail
10 5 (1.40%) Manufacturing
10 5 (1.40%) Publishing
11 3 (0.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (0.56%) Aviation
12 2 (0.56%) Investment Banking
12 2 (0.56%) Law
12 2 (0.56%) Telecoms
13 1 (0.28%) Corporate Banking
13 1 (0.28%) Local Government
13 1 (0.28%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 83 (23.31%) Linux Engineer
2 55 (15.45%) Senior
3 35 (9.83%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 31 (8.71%) DevOps Engineer
5 29 (8.15%) Cloud Engineer
6 25 (7.02%) Architect
7 24 (6.74%) Administrator
8 18 (5.06%) Linux Administrator
8 18 (5.06%) Platform Engineer
9 17 (4.78%) Senior Linux Engineer
10 16 (4.49%) Lead
10 16 (4.49%) Security Engineer
11 15 (4.21%) AWS Engineer
11 15 (4.21%) Systems Engineer
12 14 (3.93%) Linux Systems Engineer
13 13 (3.65%) Automation Engineer
13 13 (3.65%) Systems Administrator
13 13 (3.65%) Unix Engineer
14 12 (3.37%) Linux Systems Administrator
15 10 (2.81%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 84 (23.60%) Terraform
2 15 (4.21%) Middleware
3 14 (3.93%) REST
4 10 (2.81%) Kafka
4 10 (2.81%) LDAP
5 8 (2.25%) SPNEGO
6 7 (1.97%) Azure Blueprints
6 7 (1.97%) Elastic Stack
6 7 (1.97%) JSON
7 6 (1.69%) .NET
7 6 (1.69%) ARM Templates
7 6 (1.69%) WebSphere MQ
8 5 (1.40%) OAuth
8 5 (1.40%) Vue
9 4 (1.12%) Celery
9 4 (1.12%) Django
9 4 (1.12%) JWT
9 4 (1.12%) OpenTofu
9 4 (1.12%) React
9 4 (1.12%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 44 (12.36%) Cloud Native
2 28 (7.87%) Security Posture
3 25 (7.02%) Replication
4 22 (6.18%) Clustering
5 21 (5.90%) Data Centre
6 16 (4.49%) Enterprise Storage
6 16 (4.49%) Management Information System
6 16 (4.49%) Onboarding
7 14 (3.93%) Hybrid Cloud
8 13 (3.65%) Legacy Systems
8 13 (3.65%) Linux Command Line
8 13 (3.65%) PKI
9 11 (3.09%) Enterprise Cloud
10 9 (2.53%) Data Protection Act
10 9 (2.53%) Private Cloud
10 9 (2.53%) Virtual Team
11 8 (2.25%) Enterprise Software
11 8 (2.25%) Product Ownership
12 7 (1.97%) Legacy Applications
12 7 (1.97%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 356 (100.00%) Linux
2 131 (36.80%) Windows
3 70 (19.66%) Windows Server
4 44 (12.36%) Ubuntu
5 41 (11.52%) Unix
6 39 (10.96%) CentOS
7 26 (7.30%) Solaris
8 21 (5.90%) Rocky
9 16 (4.49%) AIX
10 14 (3.93%) Oracle Linux
11 13 (3.65%) SUSE
12 11 (3.09%) Windows Server 2019
13 9 (2.53%) VMS
14 7 (1.97%) Windows Server 2012
15 6 (1.69%) HPUX
15 6 (1.69%) Windows Server 2016
16 5 (1.40%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
16 5 (1.40%) Windows 10
16 5 (1.40%) Windows Server 2008
17 4 (1.12%) Alpine Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 119 (33.43%) CI/CD
2 112 (31.46%) DevOps
3 76 (21.35%) Infrastructure as Code
4 67 (18.82%) Configuration Management
5 65 (18.26%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 59 (16.57%) Containerisation
7 58 (16.29%) Migration
8 55 (15.45%) ITIL
9 54 (15.17%) Agile
10 52 (14.61%) Platform Engineering
11 50 (14.04%) Change Management
12 49 (13.76%) Problem-Solving
13 46 (12.92%) Continuous Improvement
14 41 (11.52%) Observability
14 41 (11.52%) Performance Tuning
15 37 (10.39%) High Availability
16 36 (10.11%) Runbook
17 33 (9.27%) Root Cause Analysis
18 32 (8.99%) Cloud Security
18 32 (8.99%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 149 (41.85%) Python
2 104 (29.21%) Bash
3 94 (26.40%) PowerShell
4 34 (9.55%) Java
5 25 (7.02%) SQL
6 24 (6.74%) Shell Script
7 22 (6.18%) Perl
8 13 (3.65%) C
8 13 (3.65%) C++
9 11 (3.09%) Bicep
9 11 (3.09%) Korn
10 8 (2.25%) PL/SQL
11 6 (1.69%) C#
11 6 (1.69%) Go
11 6 (1.69%) JavaScript
12 5 (1.40%) Groovy
13 4 (1.12%) MATLAB
14 3 (0.84%) Jython
15 2 (0.56%) Search Processing Language
16 1 (0.28%) R
Qualifications
1 155 (43.54%) Security Cleared
2 115 (32.30%) SC Cleared
3 37 (10.39%) DV Cleared
4 31 (8.71%) Degree
5 25 (7.02%) AWS Certification
5 25 (7.02%) CISSP
6 22 (6.18%) Azure Certification
7 15 (4.21%) RHCE
8 10 (2.81%) Computer Science Degree
9 7 (1.97%) CompTIA Security+
10 6 (1.69%) CISM
10 6 (1.69%) Microsoft Certification
11 4 (1.12%) RHCSA
12 3 (0.84%) RHCA
13 2 (0.56%) BPSS Clearance
13 2 (0.56%) GIAC
13 2 (0.56%) ISSAP
13 2 (0.56%) OCP
13 2 (0.56%) VCAP
13 2 (0.56%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (2.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 9 (2.53%) SLA
2 8 (2.25%) NIST
3 6 (1.69%) NCSC
3 6 (1.69%) QA
4 5 (1.40%) GRC
5 4 (1.12%) Disclosure Scotland
5 4 (1.12%) ISO 15022
5 4 (1.12%) ISO 20022
5 4 (1.12%) SOC 2
6 3 (0.84%) HIPAA
6 3 (0.84%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.28%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.28%) JSP 440
7 1 (0.28%) OpenSCAP
7 1 (0.28%) PMO
7 1 (0.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 64 (17.98%) Docker
2 47 (13.20%) VMware Infrastructure
3 40 (11.24%) Active Directory
4 33 (9.27%) Virtual Machines
5 22 (6.18%) VMware ESXi
6 16 (4.49%) vSphere
7 15 (4.21%) Hyper-V
7 15 (4.21%) NFS
8 9 (2.53%) Oracle RAC
9 6 (1.69%) Corosync
10 4 (1.12%) Ceph
10 4 (1.12%) Firmware
10 4 (1.12%) Veritas Volume Manager
11 3 (0.84%) KVM
11 3 (0.84%) VMware NSX
12 2 (0.56%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 2 (0.56%) Squid
13 1 (0.28%) OpenSSH
13 1 (0.28%) RHEV
13 1 (0.28%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 128 (35.96%) Ansible
2 90 (25.28%) Kubernetes
3 41 (11.52%) Puppet
4 34 (9.55%) Progress Chef
5 28 (7.87%) Red Hat Satellite
6 27 (7.58%) Grafana
7 24 (6.74%) Prometheus
8 19 (5.34%) Failover Clustering
9 16 (4.49%) NetBackup
10 11 (3.09%) Oracle RMAN
11 10 (2.81%) Podman
12 8 (2.25%) Packer
12 8 (2.25%) vCenter Server
13 7 (1.97%) Pacemaker
13 7 (1.97%) systemd
14 6 (1.69%) Check_MK
14 6 (1.69%) SELinux
15 5 (1.40%) Nagios
15 5 (1.40%) Tivoli
15 5 (1.40%) WSUS
Vendors
1 179 (50.28%) Red Hat
2 65 (18.26%) VMware
3 62 (17.42%) Microsoft
4 58 (16.29%) Oracle
5 25 (7.02%) Google
6 23 (6.46%) NetApp
7 22 (6.18%) Splunk
8 20 (5.62%) IBM
9 19 (5.34%) ServiceNow
10 18 (5.06%) Cisco
11 13 (3.65%) Veeam
12 12 (3.37%) SaltStack
13 10 (2.81%) Qualys
14 9 (2.53%) Rapid7
14 9 (2.53%) Tenable
15 8 (2.25%) HP
15 8 (2.25%) SAP
15 8 (2.25%) Veritas
16 6 (1.69%) Dell
16 6 (1.69%) McAfee