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

6 months to
17 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 364 255 329
Rank change year-on-year -109 +74 -125
Contract jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 276 301 273
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.57% 1.02% 0.64%
As % of the Operating Systems category 5.88% 7.35% 4.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 184 220 204
10th Percentile £390 £400 £350
25th Percentile £434 £449 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £520
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +5.77% -13.33%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £600
90th Percentile £652 £738 £660
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -9.09% +3.77% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 0 2
10th Percentile £40.74 - £65.18
25th Percentile £61.25 - £67.31
Median hourly rate £77.50 - £72.75
75th Percentile £87.50 - £76.31
90th Percentile £92.50 - £77.33
UK excluding London median hourly rate £74.47 - £72.75
% change year-on-year - - +39.06%

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 4,696 4,097 5,656
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.76% 13.95% 13.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,028 2,691 3,820
10th Percentile £185 £200 £185
25th Percentile £313 £313 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £456 £467 £469
Median % change year-on-year -2.25% -0.53% -6.20%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £588
90th Percentile £657 £688 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £445 £447 £450
% change year-on-year -0.50% -0.61% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 325 178 392
10th Percentile £15.75 £15.25 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.25 £17.53 £15.44
Median hourly rate £47.50 £22.53 £22.08
Median % change year-on-year +110.83% +2.06% -43.47%
75th Percentile £67.25 £56.88 £60.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £68.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.10 £21.90 £22.50
% change year-on-year +105.95% -2.67% -24.11%

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 17 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 17 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 17 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 -121 223 £500 -9.26% 64
UK excluding London -65 194 £500 -9.09% 53
Work from Home -56 77 £500 -6.89% 133
North of England -61 57 £500 -1.94% 15
South East -45 43 £475 -13.64% 14
London -108 41 £500 -15.97% 18
Yorkshire -42 37 £500 -6.98% 8
South West -21 32 £543 -11.79% 16
East of England -5 26 £480 -19.96% 2
North West -45 18 £497 +1.02% 4
Midlands -65 17 £530 -1.85% 3
Scotland -15 14 £463 -2.01%
West Midlands -61 13 £550 +1.85% 1
East Midlands -22 4 £530 +4.74% 2
Wales - 3 £475 - 2
Northern Ireland +2 2 £375 +7.14% 1
North East -22 2 £400 -29.82% 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 15 (5.43%) nginx
2 12 (4.35%) Tomcat
3 11 (3.99%) Apache
4 9 (3.26%) Confluence
5 8 (2.90%) WebLogic
6 6 (2.17%) SAS
7 4 (1.45%) Microsoft Exchange
7 4 (1.45%) WebSphere
8 3 (1.09%) IBM HTTP Server
8 3 (1.09%) JBoss
8 3 (1.09%) OpenStack
8 3 (1.09%) WebSphere Application Server
9 2 (0.72%) Documentum
9 2 (0.72%) Oracle HTTP Server
9 2 (0.72%) SharePoint
9 2 (0.72%) WebSphere Portal
10 1 (0.36%) FileNet
10 1 (0.36%) Red Hat Fuse
10 1 (0.36%) Traefik
Business Applications
1 1 (0.36%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 65 (23.55%) AWS
2 62 (22.46%) Azure
3 43 (15.58%) OpenShift
4 16 (5.80%) GitHub
5 14 (5.07%) GCP
6 12 (4.35%) Amazon EC2
7 11 (3.99%) Amazon S3
8 9 (3.26%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 7 (2.54%) Amazon EKS
9 7 (2.54%) Azure Sentinel
10 5 (1.81%) Azure Monitor
10 5 (1.81%) Azure Stack
10 5 (1.81%) IaaS
10 5 (1.81%) Nutanix
11 4 (1.45%) AWS CloudFormation
11 4 (1.45%) Azure DevOps
11 4 (1.45%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 4 (1.45%) MinIO
11 4 (1.45%) OCI
12 3 (1.09%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 29 (10.51%) Firewall
2 28 (10.14%) SAN
3 22 (7.97%) DNS
4 11 (3.99%) VLAN
5 10 (3.62%) Kerberos
6 9 (3.26%) HTTP
6 9 (3.26%) VSAN
7 8 (2.90%) DHCP
7 8 (2.90%) TCP/IP
8 7 (2.54%) SSL
8 7 (2.54%) VPN
9 6 (2.17%) iSCSI
9 6 (2.17%) Network Security
10 5 (1.81%) Fibre Channel
11 4 (1.45%) NAS
11 4 (1.45%) WAN
12 3 (1.09%) LAN
12 3 (1.09%) SSH
13 2 (0.72%) InfiniBand
13 2 (0.72%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (7.61%) Oracle Database
2 15 (5.43%) PostgreSQL
3 11 (3.99%) MongoDB
4 8 (2.90%) SQL Server
5 7 (2.54%) Elasticsearch
5 7 (2.54%) SAP HANA
6 6 (2.17%) Data Warehouse
6 6 (2.17%) GIS
7 5 (1.81%) MySQL
8 4 (1.45%) Oracle Database 12c
9 3 (1.09%) Amazon RDS
9 3 (1.09%) MariaDB
9 3 (1.09%) Oracle Exadata
9 3 (1.09%) Oracle Reports
10 2 (0.72%) Data Lake
11 1 (0.36%) BusinessObjects
11 1 (0.36%) IBM InfoSphere
11 1 (0.36%) OpenStack Swift
11 1 (0.36%) RDBMS
11 1 (0.36%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 43 (15.58%) GitLab
2 38 (13.77%) Jenkins
3 34 (12.32%) Git
4 14 (5.07%) JIRA
5 6 (2.17%) Artifactory
6 5 (1.81%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 4 (1.45%) Sonatype Nexus
8 3 (1.09%) Introscope
9 2 (0.72%) Maven
9 2 (0.72%) Robot Framework
10 1 (0.36%) Ant
10 1 (0.36%) GoCD
10 1 (0.36%) PVCS
General
1 62 (22.46%) Social Skills
2 28 (10.14%) Documentation Skills
2 28 (10.14%) Public Sector
3 21 (7.61%) Finance
4 18 (6.52%) Banking
5 16 (5.80%) Analytical Skills
6 9 (3.26%) Aerospace
7 5 (1.81%) Legal
8 4 (1.45%) Telecoms
9 2 (0.72%) Back Office
9 2 (0.72%) Front Office
9 2 (0.72%) Military
9 2 (0.72%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.36%) Aviation
10 1 (0.36%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.36%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.36%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 43 (15.58%) Linux Engineer
2 30 (10.87%) Administrator
3 29 (10.51%) Senior
4 25 (9.06%) Architect
5 23 (8.33%) Lead
6 22 (7.97%) DevOps Engineer
7 20 (7.25%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 19 (6.88%) Linux Administrator
8 19 (6.88%) Platform Engineer
9 16 (5.80%) Software Engineer
10 14 (5.07%) Senior Linux Engineer
11 10 (3.62%) Systems Administrator
12 9 (3.26%) Lead Software Engineer
13 7 (2.54%) DBA
13 7 (2.54%) Oracle DBA
13 7 (2.54%) Security Engineer
13 7 (2.54%) Solutions Architect
13 7 (2.54%) Unix Engineer
14 5 (1.81%) Azure Engineer
14 5 (1.81%) Migration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (7.25%) LDAP
1 20 (7.25%) Middleware
2 9 (3.26%) YAML
3 8 (2.90%) Spring
4 7 (2.54%) EJB
5 6 (2.17%) OpenLayers
6 5 (1.81%) Kafka
6 5 (1.81%) REST
6 5 (1.81%) Spring Boot
7 4 (1.45%) .NET
7 4 (1.45%) Elastic Stack
7 4 (1.45%) Java EE
7 4 (1.45%) JSP
8 3 (1.09%) FastAPI
8 3 (1.09%) Flask
8 3 (1.09%) Java SE
8 3 (1.09%) JDBC
8 3 (1.09%) RabbitMQ
9 2 (0.72%) Apache NiFi
9 2 (0.72%) Keycloak
Miscellaneous
1 38 (13.77%) Data Centre
2 21 (7.61%) Cloud Native
3 15 (5.43%) Management Information System
4 14 (5.07%) Clustering
5 12 (4.35%) Hybrid Cloud
5 12 (4.35%) Onboarding
6 10 (3.62%) Legacy Systems
7 9 (3.26%) Enterprise Software
7 9 (3.26%) Replication
8 7 (2.54%) Legacy Applications
8 7 (2.54%) PKI
8 7 (2.54%) Product Ownership
8 7 (2.54%) Public Cloud
9 6 (2.17%) Data Protection Act
9 6 (2.17%) FlexPod
10 5 (1.81%) Security Posture
11 4 (1.45%) EMC VMAX
11 4 (1.45%) Enterprise Storage
11 4 (1.45%) Linux Command Line
11 4 (1.45%) NVMe
Operating Systems
1 276 (100.00%) Linux
2 93 (33.70%) Windows
3 42 (15.22%) Ubuntu
3 42 (15.22%) Windows Server
4 36 (13.04%) CentOS
5 21 (7.61%) Solaris
6 20 (7.25%) Unix
7 18 (6.52%) VMS
8 16 (5.80%) Windows Server 2019
9 11 (3.99%) Windows Server 2016
10 10 (3.62%) Oracle Linux
10 10 (3.62%) Windows Server 2008
11 9 (3.26%) Rocky
11 9 (3.26%) SUSE
12 8 (2.90%) CoreOS
13 7 (2.54%) AIX
13 7 (2.54%) Debian
14 6 (2.17%) Data ONTAP
15 5 (1.81%) Windows Server 2012
16 4 (1.45%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (29.71%) CI/CD
2 78 (28.26%) DevOps
3 53 (19.20%) Problem-Solving
4 40 (14.49%) Infrastructure as Code
4 40 (14.49%) Migration
5 39 (14.13%) Agile
6 37 (13.41%) Containerisation
7 36 (13.04%) High Availability
7 36 (13.04%) ITIL
8 35 (12.68%) Continuous Improvement
8 35 (12.68%) Performance Tuning
9 34 (12.32%) Platform Engineering
10 31 (11.23%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 25 (9.06%) Configuration Management
11 25 (9.06%) Software Engineering
12 24 (8.70%) Runbook
13 23 (8.33%) Change Management
13 23 (8.33%) Disaster Recovery
14 22 (7.97%) RBAC
15 21 (7.61%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 93 (33.70%) Python
2 56 (20.29%) Bash
3 51 (18.48%) PowerShell
4 37 (13.41%) Shell Script
5 29 (10.51%) SQL
6 24 (8.70%) Java
7 20 (7.25%) Perl
8 12 (4.35%) PL/SQL
9 11 (3.99%) JavaScript
9 11 (3.99%) MATLAB
10 9 (3.26%) Go
11 8 (2.90%) Ruby
12 5 (1.81%) Korn
13 4 (1.45%) C#
14 3 (1.09%) Jython
15 1 (0.36%) Bicep
15 1 (0.36%) C++
15 1 (0.36%) Groovy
15 1 (0.36%) Rust
15 1 (0.36%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 136 (49.28%) Security Cleared
2 101 (36.59%) SC Cleared
3 30 (10.87%) DV Cleared
4 24 (8.70%) RHCE
5 23 (8.33%) Degree
6 16 (5.80%) OCP
6 16 (5.80%) Oracle Certification
7 11 (3.99%) Azure Certification
8 9 (3.26%) CISSP
8 9 (3.26%) Computer Science Degree
9 5 (1.81%) CompTIA Security+
9 5 (1.81%) RHCA
10 4 (1.45%) RHCSA
10 4 (1.45%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 3 (1.09%) AWS Certification
11 3 (1.09%) BPSS Clearance
11 3 (1.09%) CISM
11 3 (1.09%) TOGAF Certification
11 3 (1.09%) VCAP
12 2 (0.72%) VCP6
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (4.71%) SLA
2 5 (1.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (1.45%) Cyber Essentials
3 4 (1.45%) GDPR
3 4 (1.45%) GRC
3 4 (1.45%) NCSC
4 3 (1.09%) NIST
4 3 (1.09%) QA
5 2 (0.72%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.36%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.36%) HMG Security Policy Framework
6 1 (0.36%) NIST 800
6 1 (0.36%) OpenSCAP
6 1 (0.36%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.36%) SOC 2
System Software
1 51 (18.48%) VMware Infrastructure
2 36 (13.04%) Docker
3 34 (12.32%) Active Directory
4 30 (10.87%) Virtual Machines
5 19 (6.88%) VMware ESXi
6 18 (6.52%) vSphere
7 14 (5.07%) NFS
8 10 (3.62%) Oracle RAC
9 9 (3.26%) Hyper-V
10 6 (2.17%) Corosync
10 6 (2.17%) VMware NSX
11 4 (1.45%) Ceph
11 4 (1.45%) Firmware
11 4 (1.45%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 3 (1.09%) GPFS
12 3 (1.09%) KVM
12 3 (1.09%) QEMU
13 2 (0.72%) Lustre
13 2 (0.72%) Samba
13 2 (0.72%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 114 (41.30%) Ansible
2 61 (22.10%) Kubernetes
3 49 (17.75%) Terraform
4 27 (9.78%) Red Hat Satellite
5 19 (6.88%) Grafana
6 18 (6.52%) Podman
7 17 (6.16%) Puppet
8 16 (5.80%) Oracle RMAN
9 13 (4.71%) Check_MK
10 12 (4.35%) Prometheus
11 11 (3.99%) Failover Clustering
12 10 (3.62%) vCenter Server
13 9 (3.26%) Progress Chef
14 7 (2.54%) Pacemaker
15 6 (2.17%) Argo
15 6 (2.17%) Data Guard
15 6 (2.17%) SnapMirror
15 6 (2.17%) vMotion
16 5 (1.81%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
16 5 (1.81%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 169 (61.23%) Red Hat
2 79 (28.62%) VMware
3 47 (17.03%) Oracle
4 39 (14.13%) Microsoft
5 21 (7.61%) Splunk
6 19 (6.88%) IBM
7 18 (6.52%) Dell
8 15 (5.43%) Cisco
9 10 (3.62%) Google
9 10 (3.62%) HP
9 10 (3.62%) NetApp
10 8 (2.90%) NVIDIA
10 8 (2.90%) SAP
11 7 (2.54%) ServiceNow
12 6 (2.17%) Broadcom
12 6 (2.17%) Brocade
12 6 (2.17%) Commvault
12 6 (2.17%) Tenable
13 5 (1.81%) Fortinet
14 4 (1.45%) Veritas