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

6 months to
11 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 366 279 300
Rank change year-on-year -87 +21 -89
Contract jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 295 272 320
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.59% 0.93% 0.73%
As % of the Operating Systems category 6.18% 6.63% 5.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 191 200 236
10th Percentile £385 £393 £350
25th Percentile £425 £420 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £537 £520
Median % change year-on-year -8.05% +3.32% -13.33%
75th Percentile £559 £620 £600
90th Percentile £638 £688 £656
UK excluding London median daily rate £493 £540 £528
% change year-on-year -8.70% +2.27% -3.74%
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 - - +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 4,775 4,100 5,877
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.57% 13.96% 13.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,039 2,690 3,912
10th Percentile £188 £200 £185
25th Percentile £315 £313 £309
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £465 £470
Median % change year-on-year -1.08% -1.12% -5.95%
75th Percentile £575 £585 £588
90th Percentile £650 £675 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £450 £450
% change year-on-year - - -2.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 341 194 409
10th Percentile £14.50 £15.15 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.00 £17.33 £15.50
Median hourly rate £31.00 £21.95 £22.52
Median % change year-on-year +41.23% -2.53% -50.02%
75th Percentile £63.75 £41.25 £62.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £68.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.74 £18.87 £24.18
% change year-on-year +52.31% -21.96% -40.43%

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 11 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 11 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 11 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 -74 247 £492 -10.55% 40
UK excluding London -50 195 £493 -8.70% 31
Work from Home -67 81 £500 -4.76% 15
North of England -50 71 £500 +11.48% 4
London -82 63 £481 -12.50% 10
Yorkshire -30 43 £515 +3.00% 1
South East -52 37 £456 -17.09% 12
South West -9 33 £525 -14.63% 10
East of England +1 28 £478 -20.33% 2
North West -38 26 £459 +16.79% 3
Scotland -29 13 £463 -1.23%
Midlands -68 12 £515 -4.58% 3
West Midlands -65 7 £484 -11.34%
East Midlands -24 5 £530 +4.74% 3
North East -28 2 £400 -30.43%
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 (5.42%) nginx
2 13 (4.41%) Tomcat
3 11 (3.73%) Apache
4 10 (3.39%) Confluence
5 8 (2.71%) WebLogic
6 5 (1.69%) SAS
6 5 (1.69%) WebSphere
7 3 (1.02%) IBM HTTP Server
7 3 (1.02%) JBoss
7 3 (1.02%) Microsoft Exchange
7 3 (1.02%) OpenStack
7 3 (1.02%) SharePoint
7 3 (1.02%) WebSphere Application Server
8 2 (0.68%) Documentum
8 2 (0.68%) Oracle HTTP Server
8 2 (0.68%) WebSphere Portal
9 1 (0.34%) Red Hat Fuse
9 1 (0.34%) Traefik
Applications
1 4 (1.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.34%) FLEXCUBE
1 1 (0.34%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (0.34%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 83 (28.14%) AWS
2 63 (21.36%) Azure
3 43 (14.58%) OpenShift
4 26 (8.81%) GCP
5 20 (6.78%) GitHub
6 19 (6.44%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 13 (4.41%) Amazon EKS
8 11 (3.73%) Amazon EC2
8 11 (3.73%) Amazon S3
8 11 (3.73%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 8 (2.71%) AWS CloudFormation
9 8 (2.71%) Datadog
10 7 (2.37%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 7 (2.37%) GitHub Actions
11 6 (2.03%) Azure Sentinel
12 5 (1.69%) Azure Monitor
12 5 (1.69%) Azure Stack
12 5 (1.69%) Entra ID
12 5 (1.69%) Nutanix
12 5 (1.69%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 38 (12.88%) Firewall
2 33 (11.19%) DNS
3 29 (9.83%) SAN
4 13 (4.41%) VLAN
5 12 (4.07%) SSL
6 11 (3.73%) DHCP
6 11 (3.73%) VPN
7 9 (3.05%) HTTP
7 9 (3.05%) Kerberos
8 8 (2.71%) Network Security
9 7 (2.37%) TCP/IP
10 6 (2.03%) iSCSI
10 6 (2.03%) VSAN
11 5 (1.69%) Fibre Channel
12 4 (1.36%) NAS
12 4 (1.36%) WAN
13 3 (1.02%) FTP
13 3 (1.02%) SSH
14 2 (0.68%) InfiniBand
14 2 (0.68%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (6.44%) Oracle Database
2 16 (5.42%) PostgreSQL
3 11 (3.73%) MongoDB
4 10 (3.39%) SQL Server
5 8 (2.71%) Elasticsearch
6 7 (2.37%) GIS
6 7 (2.37%) SAP HANA
7 6 (2.03%) MySQL
8 5 (1.69%) Data Warehouse
9 4 (1.36%) Oracle Database 12c
10 3 (1.02%) Amazon RDS
11 2 (0.68%) Data Lake
11 2 (0.68%) Oracle Exadata
12 1 (0.34%) BusinessObjects
12 1 (0.34%) Db2
12 1 (0.34%) IBM InfoSphere
12 1 (0.34%) MariaDB
12 1 (0.34%) OpenStack Swift
12 1 (0.34%) Oracle Reports
12 1 (0.34%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 49 (16.61%) Jenkins
2 46 (15.59%) GitLab
3 37 (12.54%) Git
4 15 (5.08%) JIRA
5 6 (2.03%) Artifactory
6 5 (1.69%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 4 (1.36%) Sonatype Nexus
8 3 (1.02%) Introscope
9 2 (0.68%) Robot Framework
10 1 (0.34%) Ant
10 1 (0.34%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.34%) GoCD
10 1 (0.34%) Maven
10 1 (0.34%) PVCS
General
1 61 (20.68%) Social Skills
2 32 (10.85%) Finance
3 29 (9.83%) Public Sector
4 27 (9.15%) Documentation Skills
5 24 (8.14%) Banking
6 18 (6.10%) Analytical Skills
7 9 (3.05%) Aerospace
8 6 (2.03%) Legal
9 4 (1.36%) Publishing
9 4 (1.36%) Telecoms
10 2 (0.68%) Aviation
10 2 (0.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (0.68%) Law
10 2 (0.68%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.68%) Military
10 2 (0.68%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.34%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.34%) International Banking
11 1 (0.34%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.34%) Retail
Job Titles
1 50 (16.95%) Linux Engineer
2 33 (11.19%) Senior
3 28 (9.49%) DevOps Engineer
4 26 (8.81%) Administrator
4 26 (8.81%) Lead
5 24 (8.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 20 (6.78%) Architect
6 20 (6.78%) Linux Administrator
6 20 (6.78%) Platform Engineer
7 16 (5.42%) Senior Linux Engineer
7 16 (5.42%) Software Engineer
8 12 (4.07%) Security Engineer
9 11 (3.73%) Cloud Engineer
10 10 (3.39%) AWS Engineer
11 9 (3.05%) Lead Software Engineer
12 7 (2.37%) Security Architect
12 7 (2.37%) Systems Administrator
12 7 (2.37%) Unix Engineer
13 6 (2.03%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 6 (2.03%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (7.12%) Middleware
2 17 (5.76%) LDAP
3 9 (3.05%) Spring
3 9 (3.05%) YAML
4 7 (2.37%) EJB
5 6 (2.03%) Elastic Stack
5 6 (2.03%) Kafka
5 6 (2.03%) OpenLayers
5 6 (2.03%) Spring Boot
6 4 (1.36%) .NET
6 4 (1.36%) Azure Blueprints
6 4 (1.36%) Java EE
6 4 (1.36%) Java SE
6 4 (1.36%) JSP
6 4 (1.36%) REST
7 3 (1.02%) FastAPI
7 3 (1.02%) Flask
7 3 (1.02%) JDBC
7 3 (1.02%) JSON
7 3 (1.02%) WebSphere MQ
Miscellaneous
1 40 (13.56%) Data Centre
2 32 (10.85%) Cloud Native
3 23 (7.80%) Management Information System
4 16 (5.42%) Hybrid Cloud
4 16 (5.42%) Security Posture
5 12 (4.07%) Clustering
5 12 (4.07%) Onboarding
6 11 (3.73%) Legacy Systems
7 10 (3.39%) Enterprise Software
7 10 (3.39%) Replication
8 8 (2.71%) Legacy Applications
8 8 (2.71%) Product Ownership
9 7 (2.37%) PKI
9 7 (2.37%) Public Cloud
10 6 (2.03%) Data Protection Act
10 6 (2.03%) FlexPod
10 6 (2.03%) Linux Command Line
11 5 (1.69%) CMDB
11 5 (1.69%) Mainframe
12 4 (1.36%) Enterprise Storage
Operating Systems
1 295 (100.00%) Linux
2 102 (34.58%) Windows
3 49 (16.61%) Windows Server
4 47 (15.93%) Ubuntu
5 36 (12.20%) CentOS
6 24 (8.14%) Solaris
7 22 (7.46%) Unix
8 18 (6.10%) VMS
9 16 (5.42%) Windows Server 2019
10 12 (4.07%) Oracle Linux
11 11 (3.73%) AIX
11 11 (3.73%) SUSE
11 11 (3.73%) Windows Server 2008
11 11 (3.73%) Windows Server 2016
12 8 (2.71%) CoreOS
12 8 (2.71%) Rocky
13 7 (2.37%) Debian
13 7 (2.37%) Windows Server 2012
14 6 (2.03%) Data ONTAP
15 5 (1.69%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 100 (33.90%) CI/CD
2 97 (32.88%) DevOps
3 51 (17.29%) Infrastructure as Code
4 49 (16.61%) Agile
5 48 (16.27%) Problem-Solving
6 44 (14.92%) ITIL
7 43 (14.58%) Migration
8 41 (13.90%) Containerisation
8 41 (13.90%) Platform Engineering
9 40 (13.56%) Continuous Improvement
9 40 (13.56%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 38 (12.88%) Change Management
10 38 (12.88%) Configuration Management
11 35 (11.86%) Performance Tuning
12 33 (11.19%) Observability
13 32 (10.85%) High Availability
13 32 (10.85%) Roadmaps
14 29 (9.83%) Runbook
15 26 (8.81%) Software Engineering
16 25 (8.47%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 114 (38.64%) Python
2 76 (25.76%) Bash
3 63 (21.36%) PowerShell
4 35 (11.86%) Shell Script
5 31 (10.51%) Java
6 25 (8.47%) SQL
7 18 (6.10%) Perl
8 13 (4.41%) PL/SQL
9 11 (3.73%) JavaScript
9 11 (3.73%) MATLAB
10 9 (3.05%) Go
11 8 (2.71%) Ruby
12 5 (1.69%) Bicep
12 5 (1.69%) Korn
13 4 (1.36%) C#
14 3 (1.02%) C
14 3 (1.02%) Groovy
14 3 (1.02%) Jython
15 2 (0.68%) C++
16 1 (0.34%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 131 (44.41%) Security Cleared
2 101 (34.24%) SC Cleared
3 33 (11.19%) Degree
4 26 (8.81%) RHCE
5 24 (8.14%) DV Cleared
6 20 (6.78%) CISSP
7 15 (5.08%) Azure Certification
8 13 (4.41%) AWS Certification
8 13 (4.41%) OCP
8 13 (4.41%) Oracle Certification
9 9 (3.05%) Computer Science Degree
10 6 (2.03%) CISM
11 5 (1.69%) CompTIA Security+
11 5 (1.69%) RHCA
12 4 (1.36%) RHCSA
12 4 (1.36%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 3 (1.02%) Microsoft Certification
13 3 (1.02%) TOGAF Certification
13 3 (1.02%) VCAP
14 2 (0.68%) VCP6
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (4.75%) SLA
2 6 (2.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (2.03%) NIST
3 5 (1.69%) GRC
3 5 (1.69%) QA
4 3 (1.02%) HIPAA
4 3 (1.02%) NCSC
4 3 (1.02%) SOC 2
5 2 (0.68%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (0.68%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.34%) HMG Security Policy Framework
6 1 (0.34%) ISO 15022
6 1 (0.34%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.34%) OpenSCAP
6 1 (0.34%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.34%) PMO
6 1 (0.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 49 (16.61%) VMware Infrastructure
2 46 (15.59%) Docker
3 35 (11.86%) Virtual Machines
4 34 (11.53%) Active Directory
5 19 (6.44%) NFS
6 17 (5.76%) vSphere
7 16 (5.42%) VMware ESXi
8 11 (3.73%) Oracle RAC
9 9 (3.05%) Hyper-V
10 6 (2.03%) Corosync
10 6 (2.03%) VMware NSX
11 4 (1.36%) Ceph
11 4 (1.36%) Firmware
12 3 (1.02%) KVM
12 3 (1.02%) QEMU
12 3 (1.02%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 3 (1.02%) Veritas Volume Manager
13 2 (0.68%) Citrix Hypervisor
13 2 (0.68%) Samba
13 2 (0.68%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 124 (42.03%) Ansible
2 78 (26.44%) Kubernetes
3 73 (24.75%) Terraform
4 27 (9.15%) Red Hat Satellite
5 25 (8.47%) Grafana
6 23 (7.80%) Puppet
7 19 (6.44%) Prometheus
8 17 (5.76%) Podman
8 17 (5.76%) Progress Chef
9 14 (4.75%) Oracle RMAN
10 11 (3.73%) Check_MK
10 11 (3.73%) Failover Clustering
11 7 (2.37%) Pacemaker
12 6 (2.03%) Argo
12 6 (2.03%) Packer
12 6 (2.03%) SnapMirror
12 6 (2.03%) vCenter Server
12 6 (2.03%) vMotion
13 5 (1.69%) Single Sign-On
13 5 (1.69%) vRealize
Vendors
1 176 (59.66%) Red Hat
2 71 (24.07%) VMware
3 52 (17.63%) Oracle
4 38 (12.88%) Microsoft
5 24 (8.14%) Google
6 22 (7.46%) IBM
7 16 (5.42%) Splunk
8 14 (4.75%) Dell
9 11 (3.73%) Cisco
9 11 (3.73%) NetApp
10 10 (3.39%) HP
10 10 (3.39%) ServiceNow
11 9 (3.05%) Tenable
12 8 (2.71%) SAP
13 7 (2.37%) NVIDIA
13 7 (2.37%) Qualys
14 6 (2.03%) Commvault
14 6 (2.03%) Rapid7
14 6 (2.03%) Veritas
15 5 (1.69%) TOWER Software