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

 6 months to
26 Sep 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 352 320 285
Rank change year-on-year -32 -35 -70
Contract jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 370 240 322
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.67% 0.73% 0.84%
As % of the Operating Systems category 6.87% 5.37% 5.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 243 162 221
10th Percentile £394 £335 £356
25th Percentile £449 £410 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £501 £513
Median % change year-on-year -0.25% -2.20% -8.89%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £624
90th Percentile £698 £660 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £483 £513
% change year-on-year +3.63% -5.85% -6.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 0 2
10th Percentile £37.13 - -
25th Percentile £41.71 - -
Median hourly rate £56.43 - £112.00
75th Percentile £68.75 - -
90th Percentile £78.34 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £56.43 - -

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 5,383 4,472 5,428
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.81% 13.52% 14.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,394 2,850 3,416
10th Percentile £190 £186 £200
25th Percentile £313 £285 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +4.44% -5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £575
90th Percentile £675 £663 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £425 £450
% change year-on-year +5.88% -5.56% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 405 297 258
10th Percentile £14.10 £15.50 £16.18
25th Percentile £17.25 £18.87 £21.85
Median hourly rate £26.00 £25.15 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +3.38% -52.10% +14.43%
75th Percentile £65.22 £55.85 £69.45
90th Percentile £74.54 £67.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £56.75
% change year-on-year +29.22% -55.68% +29.70%

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 26 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 26 September 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 26 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 -2 339 £500 -1.96% 181
UK excluding London -8 230 £500 +3.63% 111
London -31 121 £516 +1.23% 81
Work from Home -45 79 £478 -8.95% 51
North of England -43 62 £500 +11.11% 20
South East -51 51 £472 -6.35% 29
South West -9 44 £543 -1.36% 22
East of England +4 42 £513 +26.54% 19
North West -22 39 £482 +31.96% 17
Yorkshire -33 22 £600 +20.00% 2
Midlands -44 17 £525 +6.06% 12
Scotland -27 13 £488 -2.40% 6
West Midlands -47 9 £525 -9.70% 11
East Midlands -12 8 £530 +26.19% 1
North East -40 2 £626 +8.87% 1
Wales - 1 £475 - 3

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 13 (3.51%) Confluence
2 12 (3.24%) JBoss
2 12 (3.24%) nginx
3 9 (2.43%) Apache
4 8 (2.16%) SharePoint
5 7 (1.89%) Tomcat
6 6 (1.62%) Microsoft Exchange
7 5 (1.35%) WebSphere
8 3 (0.81%) WebLogic
9 2 (0.54%) Documentum
9 2 (0.54%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.54%) Traefik
10 1 (0.27%) Apache Airflow
10 1 (0.27%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 4 (1.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.27%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.27%) FLEXCUBE
1 1 (0.27%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (0.27%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 107 (28.92%) AWS
2 81 (21.89%) Azure
3 46 (12.43%) OpenShift
4 37 (10.00%) GCP
5 23 (6.22%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 22 (5.95%) GitHub
7 21 (5.68%) Datadog
8 20 (5.41%) AWS CloudFormation
9 19 (5.14%) Amazon EKS
10 18 (4.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 18 (4.86%) Amazon EC2
11 16 (4.32%) Entra ID
11 16 (4.32%) Serverless
12 15 (4.05%) Amazon S3
12 15 (4.05%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 14 (3.78%) GitHub Actions
13 14 (3.78%) IaaS
14 13 (3.51%) Amazon ECS
14 13 (3.51%) AWS Lambda
14 13 (3.51%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 46 (12.43%) DNS
2 43 (11.62%) Firewall
3 38 (10.27%) SAN
4 31 (8.38%) TCP/IP
5 22 (5.95%) DHCP
6 21 (5.68%) SSL
7 20 (5.41%) Kerberos
8 18 (4.86%) Network Security
9 13 (3.51%) VLAN
10 10 (2.70%) HTTP
11 9 (2.43%) BGP
12 8 (2.16%) SSH
12 8 (2.16%) VoIP
12 8 (2.16%) VPN
13 7 (1.89%) HSRP
13 7 (1.89%) OSPF
13 7 (1.89%) VRRP
14 6 (1.62%) WAN
15 5 (1.35%) LAN
16 4 (1.08%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (7.57%) PostgreSQL
2 24 (6.49%) Oracle Database
3 16 (4.32%) SQL Server
4 10 (2.70%) Amazon RDS
4 10 (2.70%) MySQL
5 9 (2.43%) SQLite
6 7 (1.89%) MongoDB
6 7 (1.89%) SAP HANA
7 6 (1.62%) Big Data
7 6 (1.62%) Hadoop
7 6 (1.62%) Redis
7 6 (1.62%) Relational Database
8 5 (1.35%) Elasticsearch
9 4 (1.08%) Data Lake
9 4 (1.08%) Oracle Database 12c
10 3 (0.81%) GIS
11 2 (0.54%) Azure SQL Database
11 2 (0.54%) InfluxDB
11 2 (0.54%) NoSQL
11 2 (0.54%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 57 (15.41%) Jenkins
2 53 (14.32%) Git
3 44 (11.89%) GitLab
4 18 (4.86%) JIRA
5 9 (2.43%) Sonatype Nexus
6 5 (1.35%) Artifactory
6 5 (1.35%) Bitbucket
7 4 (1.08%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 4 (1.08%) Cucumber
7 4 (1.08%) Zephyr
8 3 (0.81%) JMeter
8 3 (0.81%) Locust
8 3 (0.81%) Robot Framework
8 3 (0.81%) TestCafe
8 3 (0.81%) Toad
9 2 (0.54%) Gerrit
9 2 (0.54%) Maven
10 1 (0.27%) Ant
10 1 (0.27%) Newman
10 1 (0.27%) Tricentis qTest
General
1 66 (17.84%) Social Skills
2 62 (16.76%) Finance
3 39 (10.54%) Analytical Skills
4 27 (7.30%) Documentation Skills
5 26 (7.03%) Banking
6 20 (5.41%) Public Sector
7 11 (2.97%) Legal
8 8 (2.16%) Aerospace
9 7 (1.89%) Military
10 6 (1.62%) Retail
11 5 (1.35%) Manufacturing
11 5 (1.35%) Publishing
12 4 (1.08%) Law
12 4 (1.08%) Telecoms
13 3 (0.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 3 (0.81%) Investment Banking
14 2 (0.54%) Aviation
14 2 (0.54%) Financial Institution
15 1 (0.27%) Local Government
15 1 (0.27%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 81 (21.89%) Linux Engineer
2 53 (14.32%) Senior
3 40 (10.81%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 39 (10.54%) DevOps Engineer
5 31 (8.38%) Cloud Engineer
6 23 (6.22%) Administrator
6 23 (6.22%) Architect
7 19 (5.14%) Platform Engineer
7 19 (5.14%) Security Engineer
8 17 (4.59%) AWS Engineer
8 17 (4.59%) Linux Administrator
9 16 (4.32%) Automation Engineer
9 16 (4.32%) Senior Linux Engineer
10 14 (3.78%) Lead
10 14 (3.78%) Linux Systems Engineer
10 14 (3.78%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
10 14 (3.78%) Systems Engineer
11 13 (3.51%) Systems Administrator
12 12 (3.24%) Linux Systems Administrator
12 12 (3.24%) Unix Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 92 (24.86%) Terraform
2 18 (4.86%) REST
3 15 (4.05%) Middleware
4 13 (3.51%) LDAP
5 11 (2.97%) Kafka
6 8 (2.16%) Azure Blueprints
6 8 (2.16%) SPNEGO
7 7 (1.89%) ARM Templates
7 7 (1.89%) JSON
8 6 (1.62%) .NET
8 6 (1.62%) Elastic Stack
9 5 (1.35%) OAuth
9 5 (1.35%) React
9 5 (1.35%) Vue
10 4 (1.08%) Celery
10 4 (1.08%) JWT
10 4 (1.08%) Keycloak
10 4 (1.08%) Node.js
10 4 (1.08%) OpenTofu
10 4 (1.08%) WebSphere MQ
Miscellaneous
1 43 (11.62%) Cloud Native
2 29 (7.84%) Security Posture
3 21 (5.68%) Data Centre
3 21 (5.68%) Replication
4 20 (5.41%) Onboarding
5 18 (4.86%) Management Information System
6 16 (4.32%) Enterprise Storage
7 15 (4.05%) Clustering
8 14 (3.78%) Legacy Systems
8 14 (3.78%) PKI
9 13 (3.51%) Hybrid Cloud
10 12 (3.24%) Enterprise Cloud
11 11 (2.97%) Linux Command Line
12 10 (2.70%) Data Protection Act
12 10 (2.70%) Virtual Team
13 8 (2.16%) Cloud Security Posture
13 8 (2.16%) Legacy Applications
13 8 (2.16%) Private Cloud
14 7 (1.89%) Mainframe
14 7 (1.89%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 370 (100.00%) Linux
2 144 (38.92%) Windows
3 78 (21.08%) Windows Server
4 49 (13.24%) CentOS
5 43 (11.62%) Ubuntu
5 43 (11.62%) Unix
6 30 (8.11%) Solaris
7 22 (5.95%) Rocky
8 19 (5.14%) AIX
9 11 (2.97%) SUSE
10 10 (2.70%) Windows Server 2012
11 9 (2.43%) Oracle Linux
12 8 (2.16%) Windows Server 2019
13 7 (1.89%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
13 7 (1.89%) Windows 10
14 6 (1.62%) HPUX
14 6 (1.62%) Windows Server 2008
15 4 (1.08%) Alpine Linux
15 4 (1.08%) Windows Server 2016
16 3 (0.81%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 127 (34.32%) CI/CD
2 121 (32.70%) DevOps
3 80 (21.62%) Infrastructure as Code
4 71 (19.19%) Configuration Management
5 70 (18.92%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 65 (17.57%) Containerisation
7 61 (16.49%) Migration
8 57 (15.41%) ITIL
8 57 (15.41%) Problem-Solving
9 56 (15.14%) Change Management
10 54 (14.59%) Platform Engineering
11 48 (12.97%) Agile
12 45 (12.16%) Observability
13 43 (11.62%) Continuous Improvement
13 43 (11.62%) Infrastructure Automation
14 36 (9.73%) Runbook
15 35 (9.46%) Cloud Security
16 33 (8.92%) Performance Tuning
16 33 (8.92%) Root Cause Analysis
17 31 (8.38%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 156 (42.16%) Python
2 112 (30.27%) Bash
3 91 (24.59%) PowerShell
4 40 (10.81%) Java
5 30 (8.11%) SQL
6 24 (6.49%) Shell Script
7 21 (5.68%) Perl
8 13 (3.51%) C
8 13 (3.51%) C++
9 11 (2.97%) Bicep
10 10 (2.70%) Korn
11 9 (2.43%) Go
11 9 (2.43%) Groovy
12 8 (2.16%) PL/SQL
13 6 (1.62%) C#
13 6 (1.62%) JavaScript
14 5 (1.35%) MATLAB
15 2 (0.54%) Search Processing Language
16 1 (0.27%) Kusto Query Language
16 1 (0.27%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 160 (43.24%) Security Cleared
2 110 (29.73%) SC Cleared
3 44 (11.89%) DV Cleared
4 34 (9.19%) Degree
5 28 (7.57%) AWS Certification
6 27 (7.30%) CISSP
7 21 (5.68%) Azure Certification
8 18 (4.86%) RHCE
9 9 (2.43%) Computer Science Degree
10 7 (1.89%) CompTIA Security+
10 7 (1.89%) Microsoft Certification
11 6 (1.62%) Cisco Certification
11 6 (1.62%) CISM
11 6 (1.62%) RHCSA
12 5 (1.35%) CCNA
12 5 (1.35%) CCNP
13 3 (0.81%) MOS
13 3 (0.81%) RHCA
14 2 (0.54%) GIAC
14 2 (0.54%) ISSAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (2.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 9 (2.43%) NIST
3 8 (2.16%) QA
3 8 (2.16%) SLA
4 5 (1.35%) GRC
4 5 (1.35%) NCSC
5 4 (1.08%) Disclosure Scotland
5 4 (1.08%) ISO 15022
5 4 (1.08%) ISO 20022
5 4 (1.08%) SOC 2
6 3 (0.81%) HIPAA
6 3 (0.81%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.27%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.27%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.27%) JSP 440
7 1 (0.27%) OpenSCAP
7 1 (0.27%) PMO
System Software
1 75 (20.27%) Docker
2 51 (13.78%) Active Directory
3 49 (13.24%) VMware Infrastructure
4 27 (7.30%) Virtual Machines
5 19 (5.14%) vSphere
6 18 (4.86%) VMware ESXi
7 15 (4.05%) NFS
8 10 (2.70%) Hyper-V
9 8 (2.16%) Oracle RAC
10 6 (1.62%) Corosync
11 4 (1.08%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 4 (1.08%) Veritas Volume Manager
12 3 (0.81%) KVM
13 2 (0.54%) Ceph
13 2 (0.54%) GPFS
13 2 (0.54%) Squid
14 1 (0.27%) Firmware
14 1 (0.27%) OpenSSH
14 1 (0.27%) oVirt
14 1 (0.27%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 126 (34.05%) Ansible
2 98 (26.49%) Kubernetes
3 42 (11.35%) Puppet
4 34 (9.19%) Progress Chef
5 31 (8.38%) Grafana
6 29 (7.84%) Prometheus
7 28 (7.57%) Red Hat Satellite
8 19 (5.14%) NetBackup
9 15 (4.05%) Failover Clustering
10 12 (3.24%) Nagios
11 10 (2.70%) Podman
12 8 (2.16%) Oracle RMAN
12 8 (2.16%) Packer
13 7 (1.89%) Pacemaker
13 7 (1.89%) SCCM
14 6 (1.62%) Check_MK
14 6 (1.62%) systemd
14 6 (1.62%) WSUS
15 5 (1.35%) Single Sign-On
16 4 (1.08%) Oracle ZFS
Vendors
1 177 (47.84%) Red Hat
2 68 (18.38%) VMware
3 66 (17.84%) Microsoft
4 55 (14.86%) Oracle
5 31 (8.38%) Google
6 28 (7.57%) NetApp
7 25 (6.76%) Cisco
7 25 (6.76%) Splunk
8 20 (5.41%) ServiceNow
9 19 (5.14%) IBM
10 14 (3.78%) Veeam
11 11 (2.97%) SaltStack
12 10 (2.70%) Qualys
12 10 (2.70%) Veritas
13 9 (2.43%) Rapid7
13 9 (2.43%) Tenable
14 8 (2.16%) SAP
14 8 (2.16%) SolarWinds
15 7 (1.89%) EMC
15 7 (1.89%) HP
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