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 24 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 361 293 296
Rank change year-on-year -68 +3 -79
Contract jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 333 283 334
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.63% 0.87% 0.82%
As % of the Operating Systems category 6.55% 6.43% 5.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 223 200 251
10th Percentile £369 £363 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £520
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +0.96% -11.11%
75th Percentile £575 £589 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £672
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 0 2
10th Percentile £36.75 - £65.18
25th Percentile £41.11 - £67.31
Median hourly rate £60.33 - £72.75
75th Percentile £76.51 - £76.31
90th Percentile £80.00 - £77.33
UK excluding London median hourly rate £60.33 - £72.75
% change year-on-year - - +0.34%

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 5,082 4,401 5,693
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.63% 13.47% 13.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,223 2,842 3,754
10th Percentile £193 £200 £190
25th Percentile £319 £313 £324
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £468 £463 £475
Median % change year-on-year +1.08% -2.63% -5.00%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £588
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £450 £463
% change year-on-year - -2.70% +2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 342 247 393
10th Percentile £15.76 £15.50 £12.75
25th Percentile £17.94 £18.10 £16.32
Median hourly rate £26.00 £23.00 £24.18
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% -4.88% -43.11%
75th Percentile £63.75 £54.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.20 £67.40 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £26.47 £21.59 £31.13
% change year-on-year +22.60% -30.63% -0.40%

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 24 July 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 24 July 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 24 July 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 -48 294 £497 -5.33% 63
UK excluding London -42 221 £500 - 41
London -72 85 £488 -11.36% 34
Work from Home -73 85 £488 -7.14% 16
North of England -39 76 £500 +23.92% 11
South East -46 50 £455 -17.27% 10
North West -29 39 £478 +21.50% 9
South West -15 37 £534 -2.95% 7
Yorkshire -31 37 £500 +5.26% 1
East of England +7 29 £513 +6.22% 2
Midlands -52 15 £515 -4.10% 5
Scotland -27 13 £500 +5.93% 5
East Midlands -5 8 £530 +4.74% 1
West Midlands -67 7 £467 -13.55% 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 17 (5.11%) nginx
2 15 (4.50%) Confluence
3 11 (3.30%) Tomcat
4 10 (3.00%) Apache
5 8 (2.40%) JBoss
6 7 (2.10%) WebLogic
7 6 (1.80%) Microsoft Exchange
7 6 (1.80%) SharePoint
7 6 (1.80%) WebSphere
8 3 (0.90%) IBM HTTP Server
8 3 (0.90%) OpenStack
8 3 (0.90%) SAS
8 3 (0.90%) WebSphere Application Server
9 2 (0.60%) Documentum
9 2 (0.60%) Oracle HTTP Server
9 2 (0.60%) Red Hat Fuse
9 2 (0.60%) WebSphere Portal
10 1 (0.30%) Apache Airflow
10 1 (0.30%) Traefik
Applications
1 4 (1.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.30%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.30%) FLEXCUBE
1 1 (0.30%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (0.30%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 105 (31.53%) AWS
2 79 (23.72%) Azure
3 44 (13.21%) OpenShift
4 32 (9.61%) GCP
5 27 (8.11%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 24 (7.21%) GitHub
7 19 (5.71%) Amazon EC2
8 17 (5.11%) Amazon S3
9 16 (4.80%) Amazon EKS
9 16 (4.80%) Datadog
9 16 (4.80%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 15 (4.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 15 (4.50%) AWS CloudFormation
10 15 (4.50%) Serverless
11 12 (3.60%) AWS Lambda
12 11 (3.30%) Azure Monitor
12 11 (3.30%) Entra ID
12 11 (3.30%) GitHub Actions
13 10 (3.00%) Azure AKS
14 9 (2.70%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 52 (15.62%) Firewall
2 45 (13.51%) DNS
3 38 (11.41%) SAN
4 18 (5.41%) VLAN
5 15 (4.50%) DHCP
5 15 (4.50%) TCP/IP
6 14 (4.20%) Network Security
6 14 (4.20%) SSL
7 13 (3.90%) VPN
8 11 (3.30%) Kerberos
9 8 (2.40%) SSH
10 7 (2.10%) HTTP
11 6 (1.80%) iSCSI
11 6 (1.80%) VSAN
11 6 (1.80%) WAN
12 5 (1.50%) VoIP
13 4 (1.20%) NAS
14 3 (0.90%) FTP
14 3 (0.90%) Intrusion Detection
14 3 (0.90%) OpenVPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (8.71%) PostgreSQL
2 24 (7.21%) Oracle Database
3 15 (4.50%) SQL Server
4 11 (3.30%) MySQL
5 10 (3.00%) MongoDB
6 9 (2.70%) Amazon RDS
7 7 (2.10%) Oracle Database 12c
7 7 (2.10%) SAP HANA
8 6 (1.80%) Elasticsearch
9 5 (1.50%) Data Lake
9 5 (1.50%) GIS
10 4 (1.20%) Redis
10 4 (1.20%) Relational Database
11 3 (0.90%) Data Warehouse
12 2 (0.60%) Azure SQL Database
12 2 (0.60%) SQLite
12 2 (0.60%) Sybase ASE
13 1 (0.30%) Big Data
13 1 (0.30%) Hadoop
13 1 (0.30%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 45 (13.51%) Jenkins
2 35 (10.51%) GitLab
3 34 (10.21%) Git
4 19 (5.71%) JIRA
5 6 (1.80%) Artifactory
5 6 (1.80%) Sonatype Nexus
6 5 (1.50%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 3 (0.90%) Introscope
7 3 (0.90%) Toad
8 2 (0.60%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.60%) Cucumber
8 2 (0.60%) Robot Framework
9 1 (0.30%) Ant
9 1 (0.30%) Maven
9 1 (0.30%) PVCS
9 1 (0.30%) Zephyr
General
1 61 (18.32%) Social Skills
2 41 (12.31%) Finance
3 32 (9.61%) Public Sector
4 27 (8.11%) Banking
5 24 (7.21%) Analytical Skills
6 22 (6.61%) Documentation Skills
7 11 (3.30%) Legal
8 6 (1.80%) Military
9 5 (1.50%) Aerospace
9 5 (1.50%) Retail
10 4 (1.20%) Manufacturing
10 4 (1.20%) Publishing
11 3 (0.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (0.60%) Aviation
12 2 (0.60%) Financial Institution
12 2 (0.60%) Law
12 2 (0.60%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.60%) Telecoms
13 1 (0.30%) Investment Banking
13 1 (0.30%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 62 (18.62%) Linux Engineer
2 47 (14.11%) Senior
3 32 (9.61%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 28 (8.41%) Cloud Engineer
4 28 (8.41%) DevOps Engineer
5 24 (7.21%) Architect
6 21 (6.31%) Administrator
6 21 (6.31%) Platform Engineer
7 18 (5.41%) Lead
8 16 (4.80%) Senior Linux Engineer
9 15 (4.50%) Security Engineer
9 15 (4.50%) Software Engineer
10 14 (4.20%) AWS Engineer
10 14 (4.20%) Linux Administrator
11 13 (3.90%) Unix Engineer
12 9 (2.70%) Lead Software Engineer
13 8 (2.40%) Azure Engineer
13 8 (2.40%) DBA
14 7 (2.10%) Automation Engineer
14 7 (2.10%) NetApp Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (4.50%) Middleware
2 13 (3.90%) REST
3 10 (3.00%) LDAP
4 8 (2.40%) Kafka
4 8 (2.40%) Spring
5 7 (2.10%) Elastic Stack
6 6 (1.80%) Azure Blueprints
6 6 (1.80%) Vue
7 5 (1.50%) ARM Templates
7 5 (1.50%) EJB
7 5 (1.50%) JSON
7 5 (1.50%) OAuth
7 5 (1.50%) Spring Boot
8 4 (1.20%) .NET
8 4 (1.20%) Celery
8 4 (1.20%) Django
8 4 (1.20%) Jakarta EE
8 4 (1.20%) JWT
8 4 (1.20%) OpenLayers
8 4 (1.20%) WebSphere MQ
Miscellaneous
1 47 (14.11%) Cloud Native
2 29 (8.71%) Security Posture
3 25 (7.51%) Data Centre
4 22 (6.61%) Replication
5 18 (5.41%) Hybrid Cloud
6 17 (5.11%) Clustering
6 17 (5.11%) Management Information System
7 16 (4.80%) Onboarding
8 13 (3.90%) Legacy Systems
8 13 (3.90%) Linux Command Line
9 12 (3.60%) Enterprise Software
9 12 (3.60%) PKI
10 9 (2.70%) Product Ownership
11 7 (2.10%) Mainframe
12 6 (1.80%) Data Protection Act
12 6 (1.80%) Enterprise Cloud
12 6 (1.80%) FlexPod
12 6 (1.80%) Legacy Applications
12 6 (1.80%) Public Cloud
13 5 (1.50%) Enterprise Storage
Operating Systems
1 333 (100.00%) Linux
2 123 (36.94%) Windows
3 61 (18.32%) Windows Server
4 40 (12.01%) Ubuntu
5 34 (10.21%) CentOS
6 30 (9.01%) Unix
7 28 (8.41%) Solaris
8 15 (4.50%) Rocky
8 15 (4.50%) VMS
8 15 (4.50%) Windows Server 2019
9 13 (3.90%) AIX
9 13 (3.90%) Oracle Linux
9 13 (3.90%) SUSE
10 9 (2.70%) Windows Server 2008
11 8 (2.40%) CoreOS
11 8 (2.40%) Windows Server 2016
12 7 (2.10%) Windows Server 2012
13 6 (1.80%) Data ONTAP
13 6 (1.80%) HPUX
14 5 (1.50%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 108 (32.43%) CI/CD
2 103 (30.93%) DevOps
3 65 (19.52%) Infrastructure as Code
4 60 (18.02%) Migration
5 57 (17.12%) Agile
6 56 (16.82%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 54 (16.22%) ITIL
8 48 (14.41%) Configuration Management
8 48 (14.41%) Containerisation
9 46 (13.81%) Change Management
9 46 (13.81%) Platform Engineering
10 45 (13.51%) Problem-Solving
11 41 (12.31%) Continuous Improvement
12 40 (12.01%) High Availability
13 39 (11.71%) Observability
14 38 (11.41%) Performance Tuning
15 33 (9.91%) Runbook
16 31 (9.31%) Cloud Security
16 31 (9.31%) Software Engineering
17 28 (8.41%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 131 (39.34%) Python
2 92 (27.63%) Bash
3 85 (25.53%) PowerShell
4 38 (11.41%) Java
5 27 (8.11%) SQL
6 26 (7.81%) Shell Script
7 13 (3.90%) JavaScript
8 11 (3.30%) Perl
9 10 (3.00%) PL/SQL
10 9 (2.70%) Bicep
11 7 (2.10%) Go
11 7 (2.10%) Korn
12 4 (1.20%) C
12 4 (1.20%) C#
12 4 (1.20%) Groovy
12 4 (1.20%) MATLAB
13 3 (0.90%) C++
13 3 (0.90%) Jython
13 3 (0.90%) Search Processing Language
14 1 (0.30%) ActionScript 2.0
Qualifications
1 152 (45.65%) Security Cleared
2 117 (35.14%) SC Cleared
3 35 (10.51%) Degree
4 28 (8.41%) DV Cleared
5 25 (7.51%) CISSP
6 24 (7.21%) AWS Certification
7 21 (6.31%) Azure Certification
8 18 (5.41%) RHCE
9 9 (2.70%) Computer Science Degree
9 9 (2.70%) OCP
9 9 (2.70%) Oracle Certification
10 7 (2.10%) CISM
11 6 (1.80%) CompTIA Security+
12 5 (1.50%) Microsoft Certification
12 5 (1.50%) RHCSA
13 3 (0.90%) RHCA
14 2 (0.60%) BPSS Clearance
14 2 (0.60%) ISSAP
14 2 (0.60%) PMI Certification
14 2 (0.60%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (2.70%) SLA
2 7 (2.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (1.80%) NIST
4 5 (1.50%) GRC
4 5 (1.50%) NCSC
4 5 (1.50%) QA
5 4 (1.20%) Disclosure Scotland
5 4 (1.20%) SOC 2
6 3 (0.90%) HIPAA
6 3 (0.90%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.60%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (0.60%) ISO 15022
7 2 (0.60%) ISO 20022
8 1 (0.30%) Data Quality
8 1 (0.30%) OpenSCAP
8 1 (0.30%) PMO
8 1 (0.30%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 60 (18.02%) Docker
2 50 (15.02%) VMware Infrastructure
3 39 (11.71%) Virtual Machines
4 36 (10.81%) Active Directory
5 19 (5.71%) NFS
6 18 (5.41%) VMware ESXi
7 15 (4.50%) vSphere
8 13 (3.90%) Hyper-V
9 11 (3.30%) Oracle RAC
10 6 (1.80%) Corosync
11 4 (1.20%) Ceph
12 3 (0.90%) Firmware
12 3 (0.90%) Veritas Volume Manager
13 2 (0.60%) Citrix Hypervisor
13 2 (0.60%) KVM
13 2 (0.60%) Samba
13 2 (0.60%) Slurm Workload Manager
13 2 (0.60%) Squid
13 2 (0.60%) SRDF
13 2 (0.60%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 128 (38.44%) Ansible
2 94 (28.23%) Kubernetes
3 89 (26.73%) Terraform
4 25 (7.51%) Progress Chef
4 25 (7.51%) Red Hat Satellite
5 23 (6.91%) Grafana
5 23 (6.91%) Puppet
6 19 (5.71%) Prometheus
7 14 (4.20%) Failover Clustering
7 14 (4.20%) Oracle RMAN
8 12 (3.60%) NetBackup
9 8 (2.40%) Packer
10 7 (2.10%) Pacemaker
10 7 (2.10%) Podman
10 7 (2.10%) vCenter Server
11 6 (1.80%) SELinux
11 6 (1.80%) Single Sign-On
11 6 (1.80%) SnapMirror
11 6 (1.80%) systemd
12 5 (1.50%) Nagios
Vendors
1 181 (54.35%) Red Hat
2 66 (19.82%) VMware
3 58 (17.42%) Microsoft
4 56 (16.82%) Oracle
5 29 (8.71%) Google
6 22 (6.61%) IBM
7 18 (5.41%) NetApp
7 18 (5.41%) ServiceNow
7 18 (5.41%) Splunk
8 12 (3.60%) Cisco
9 10 (3.00%) HP
9 10 (3.00%) Veeam
10 9 (2.70%) Dell
10 9 (2.70%) SAP
10 9 (2.70%) Tenable
11 7 (2.10%) Qualys
12 6 (1.80%) Databricks
12 6 (1.80%) McAfee
12 6 (1.80%) Rapid7
13 5 (1.50%) TOWER Software