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

 6 months to
29 Sep 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 360 327 285
Rank change year-on-year -33 -42 -73
Contract jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 365 237 313
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.67% 0.73% 0.83%
As % of the Operating Systems category 6.82% 5.36% 5.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 238 159 214
10th Percentile £398 £335 £354
25th Percentile £449 £410 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £503 £520
Median % change year-on-year -0.50% -3.37% -5.88%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £625
90th Percentile £702 £660 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £487 £513
% change year-on-year +2.62% -4.93% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 0 2
10th Percentile £36.75 - -
25th Percentile £41.71 - -
Median hourly rate £52.54 - £112.00
75th Percentile £68.75 - -
90th Percentile £74.68 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £52.54 - -

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 5,354 4,419 5,323
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.80% 13.55% 14.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,381 2,820 3,321
10th Percentile £193 £185 £200
25th Percentile £313 £280 £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 £662 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £425 £450
% change year-on-year +5.88% -5.56% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 404 295 255
10th Percentile £14.10 £15.50 £16.10
25th Percentile £17.25 £18.87 £21.53
Median hourly rate £26.00 £25.15 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +3.38% -52.10% +19.02%
75th Percentile £65.00 £57.50 £69.22
90th Percentile £74.00 £67.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £32.29 £25.15 £56.20
% change year-on-year +28.39% -55.25% +32.23%

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 29 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 29 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 29 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 -21 333 £500 -2.91% 143
UK excluding London -8 226 £500 +2.62% 94
London -37 120 £520 +1.96% 58
Work from Home -54 79 £478 -8.95% 45
North of England -47 61 £500 +11.11% 17
South East -51 49 £472 -6.35% 25
East of England +11 42 £513 +26.54% 14
South West -11 42 £534 -2.95% 20
North West -28 39 £482 +31.96% 13
Yorkshire -33 21 £550 +10.00% 3
Midlands -40 17 £525 -0.71% 10
Scotland -29 14 £488 -2.40% 5
West Midlands -46 9 £525 -9.70% 9
East Midlands -13 8 £530 +26.19% 1
North East -41 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 (3.56%) Confluence
2 12 (3.29%) JBoss
3 11 (3.01%) nginx
4 9 (2.47%) Apache
5 7 (1.92%) SharePoint
6 6 (1.64%) Tomcat
7 5 (1.37%) Microsoft Exchange
7 5 (1.37%) WebSphere
8 2 (0.55%) Documentum
8 2 (0.55%) OpenStack
8 2 (0.55%) Traefik
8 2 (0.55%) WebLogic
9 1 (0.27%) Apache Airflow
9 1 (0.27%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 4 (1.10%) 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
1 109 (29.86%) AWS
2 83 (22.74%) Azure
3 47 (12.88%) OpenShift
4 39 (10.68%) GCP
5 23 (6.30%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 22 (6.03%) GitHub
7 21 (5.75%) Datadog
8 20 (5.48%) AWS CloudFormation
9 19 (5.21%) Amazon EKS
10 18 (4.93%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 18 (4.93%) Amazon EC2
11 17 (4.66%) Entra ID
12 16 (4.38%) Serverless
13 15 (4.11%) Amazon S3
13 15 (4.11%) Google Kubernetes Engine
14 14 (3.84%) GitHub Actions
14 14 (3.84%) IaaS
15 13 (3.56%) Amazon ECS
15 13 (3.56%) AWS Lambda
15 13 (3.56%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 45 (12.33%) DNS
2 43 (11.78%) Firewall
3 39 (10.68%) SAN
4 30 (8.22%) TCP/IP
5 21 (5.75%) DHCP
5 21 (5.75%) Kerberos
5 21 (5.75%) SSL
6 18 (4.93%) Network Security
7 13 (3.56%) VLAN
8 9 (2.47%) BGP
8 9 (2.47%) HTTP
8 9 (2.47%) SSH
9 8 (2.19%) VoIP
10 7 (1.92%) HSRP
10 7 (1.92%) OSPF
10 7 (1.92%) VPN
10 7 (1.92%) VRRP
11 5 (1.37%) WAN
12 4 (1.10%) LAN
12 4 (1.10%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (7.67%) PostgreSQL
2 23 (6.30%) Oracle Database
3 16 (4.38%) SQL Server
4 10 (2.74%) Amazon RDS
4 10 (2.74%) MySQL
5 9 (2.47%) SQLite
6 7 (1.92%) MongoDB
6 7 (1.92%) SAP HANA
7 6 (1.64%) Big Data
7 6 (1.64%) Hadoop
7 6 (1.64%) Redis
7 6 (1.64%) Relational Database
8 4 (1.10%) Data Lake
8 4 (1.10%) Elasticsearch
9 3 (0.82%) GIS
9 3 (0.82%) Metadata
9 3 (0.82%) Oracle Database 12c
10 2 (0.55%) InfluxDB
10 2 (0.55%) NoSQL
10 2 (0.55%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 57 (15.62%) Jenkins
2 53 (14.52%) Git
3 44 (12.05%) GitLab
4 18 (4.93%) JIRA
5 9 (2.47%) Sonatype Nexus
6 5 (1.37%) Artifactory
6 5 (1.37%) Bitbucket
7 4 (1.10%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 4 (1.10%) Cucumber
7 4 (1.10%) Zephyr
8 3 (0.82%) JMeter
8 3 (0.82%) Locust
8 3 (0.82%) Robot Framework
8 3 (0.82%) TestCafe
8 3 (0.82%) Toad
9 2 (0.55%) Gerrit
9 2 (0.55%) Maven
10 1 (0.27%) Ant
10 1 (0.27%) PVCS
10 1 (0.27%) Tricentis qTest
General
1 65 (17.81%) Social Skills
2 63 (17.26%) Finance
3 39 (10.68%) Analytical Skills
4 28 (7.67%) Banking
5 27 (7.40%) Documentation Skills
6 19 (5.21%) Public Sector
7 11 (3.01%) Legal
8 7 (1.92%) Aerospace
8 7 (1.92%) Military
9 6 (1.64%) Retail
10 5 (1.37%) Investment Banking
10 5 (1.37%) Manufacturing
10 5 (1.37%) Publishing
11 4 (1.10%) Law
11 4 (1.10%) Telecoms
12 3 (0.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 2 (0.55%) Aviation
13 2 (0.55%) Financial Institution
14 1 (0.27%) Local Government
14 1 (0.27%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 80 (21.92%) Linux Engineer
2 53 (14.52%) Senior
3 40 (10.96%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 39 (10.68%) DevOps Engineer
5 31 (8.49%) Cloud Engineer
6 23 (6.30%) Administrator
6 23 (6.30%) Architect
7 19 (5.21%) Security Engineer
8 18 (4.93%) Platform Engineer
9 17 (4.66%) AWS Engineer
9 17 (4.66%) Linux Administrator
10 16 (4.38%) Automation Engineer
10 16 (4.38%) Senior Linux Engineer
11 14 (3.84%) Linux Systems Engineer
11 14 (3.84%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
11 14 (3.84%) Systems Engineer
12 13 (3.56%) Systems Administrator
13 12 (3.29%) Linux Systems Administrator
13 12 (3.29%) Unix Engineer
14 11 (3.01%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 92 (25.21%) Terraform
2 20 (5.48%) REST
3 15 (4.11%) Middleware
4 14 (3.84%) LDAP
5 11 (3.01%) Kafka
6 8 (2.19%) Azure Blueprints
6 8 (2.19%) SPNEGO
7 7 (1.92%) ARM Templates
7 7 (1.92%) JSON
8 6 (1.64%) Elastic Stack
9 5 (1.37%) OAuth
9 5 (1.37%) React
9 5 (1.37%) Vue
10 4 (1.10%) Celery
10 4 (1.10%) Django
10 4 (1.10%) JWT
10 4 (1.10%) Node.js
10 4 (1.10%) OpenTofu
10 4 (1.10%) WebSphere MQ
10 4 (1.10%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 43 (11.78%) Cloud Native
2 29 (7.95%) Security Posture
3 21 (5.75%) Data Centre
3 21 (5.75%) Onboarding
3 21 (5.75%) Replication
4 18 (4.93%) Management Information System
5 17 (4.66%) Enterprise Storage
6 15 (4.11%) Clustering
7 14 (3.84%) Legacy Systems
7 14 (3.84%) PKI
8 13 (3.56%) Hybrid Cloud
9 12 (3.29%) Enterprise Cloud
10 11 (3.01%) Linux Command Line
11 10 (2.74%) Data Protection Act
11 10 (2.74%) Virtual Team
12 8 (2.19%) Cloud Security Posture
12 8 (2.19%) Private Cloud
13 7 (1.92%) Legacy Applications
13 7 (1.92%) Mainframe
13 7 (1.92%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 365 (100.00%) Linux
2 143 (39.18%) Windows
3 78 (21.37%) Windows Server
4 48 (13.15%) CentOS
5 43 (11.78%) Unix
6 42 (11.51%) Ubuntu
7 29 (7.95%) Solaris
8 22 (6.03%) Rocky
9 19 (5.21%) AIX
10 11 (3.01%) SUSE
11 10 (2.74%) Windows Server 2012
12 8 (2.19%) Oracle Linux
13 7 (1.92%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
13 7 (1.92%) Windows 10
13 7 (1.92%) Windows Server 2019
14 6 (1.64%) HPUX
15 5 (1.37%) Windows Server 2008
16 4 (1.10%) Alpine Linux
17 3 (0.82%) VMS
17 3 (0.82%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 124 (33.97%) CI/CD
2 121 (33.15%) DevOps
3 80 (21.92%) Infrastructure as Code
4 71 (19.45%) Configuration Management
4 71 (19.45%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 62 (16.99%) Containerisation
5 62 (16.99%) Migration
6 58 (15.89%) Problem-Solving
7 57 (15.62%) ITIL
8 56 (15.34%) Change Management
9 53 (14.52%) Platform Engineering
10 48 (13.15%) Agile
11 45 (12.33%) Observability
12 44 (12.05%) Infrastructure Automation
13 43 (11.78%) Continuous Improvement
14 36 (9.86%) Runbook
15 35 (9.59%) Cloud Security
16 33 (9.04%) Performance Tuning
16 33 (9.04%) Root Cause Analysis
17 30 (8.22%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 155 (42.47%) Python
2 113 (30.96%) Bash
3 92 (25.21%) PowerShell
4 39 (10.68%) Java
5 29 (7.95%) SQL
6 24 (6.58%) Shell Script
7 21 (5.75%) Perl
8 13 (3.56%) C
8 13 (3.56%) C++
9 11 (3.01%) Bicep
10 10 (2.74%) Korn
11 9 (2.47%) Go
11 9 (2.47%) Groovy
12 7 (1.92%) PL/SQL
13 6 (1.64%) JavaScript
14 5 (1.37%) MATLAB
15 3 (0.82%) C#
16 2 (0.55%) Search Processing Language
17 1 (0.27%) Kusto Query Language
17 1 (0.27%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 154 (42.19%) Security Cleared
2 104 (28.49%) SC Cleared
3 44 (12.05%) DV Cleared
4 33 (9.04%) Degree
5 28 (7.67%) AWS Certification
6 27 (7.40%) CISSP
7 21 (5.75%) Azure Certification
8 18 (4.93%) RHCE
9 9 (2.47%) Computer Science Degree
10 7 (1.92%) CompTIA Security+
10 7 (1.92%) Microsoft Certification
11 6 (1.64%) Cisco Certification
11 6 (1.64%) CISM
11 6 (1.64%) RHCSA
12 5 (1.37%) CCNA
12 5 (1.37%) CCNP
13 3 (0.82%) MOS
13 3 (0.82%) RHCA
14 2 (0.55%) BPSS Clearance
14 2 (0.55%) ISSAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (2.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 10 (2.74%) NIST
2 8 (2.19%) SLA
3 7 (1.92%) QA
4 5 (1.37%) GRC
4 5 (1.37%) NCSC
5 4 (1.10%) Disclosure Scotland
5 4 (1.10%) ISO 15022
5 4 (1.10%) ISO 20022
5 4 (1.10%) SOC 2
6 3 (0.82%) HIPAA
6 3 (0.82%) 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 (20.55%) Docker
2 51 (13.97%) Active Directory
3 48 (13.15%) VMware Infrastructure
4 27 (7.40%) Virtual Machines
5 19 (5.21%) vSphere
6 17 (4.66%) VMware ESXi
7 16 (4.38%) NFS
8 10 (2.74%) Hyper-V
9 7 (1.92%) Oracle RAC
10 6 (1.64%) Corosync
11 4 (1.10%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 4 (1.10%) Veritas Volume Manager
12 3 (0.82%) GPFS
12 3 (0.82%) KVM
13 2 (0.55%) Ceph
13 2 (0.55%) Squid
14 1 (0.27%) oVirt
14 1 (0.27%) RHEV
14 1 (0.27%) Virtual Desktop
14 1 (0.27%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 126 (34.52%) Ansible
2 99 (27.12%) Kubernetes
3 42 (11.51%) Puppet
4 34 (9.32%) Progress Chef
5 31 (8.49%) Grafana
6 29 (7.95%) Prometheus
7 28 (7.67%) Red Hat Satellite
8 19 (5.21%) NetBackup
9 15 (4.11%) Failover Clustering
10 12 (3.29%) Nagios
11 10 (2.74%) Podman
12 8 (2.19%) Packer
13 7 (1.92%) Pacemaker
13 7 (1.92%) SCCM
14 6 (1.64%) Check_MK
14 6 (1.64%) Oracle RMAN
14 6 (1.64%) systemd
14 6 (1.64%) WSUS
15 5 (1.37%) Single Sign-On
16 4 (1.10%) Oracle ZFS
Vendors
1 175 (47.95%) Red Hat
2 67 (18.36%) VMware
3 64 (17.53%) Microsoft
4 53 (14.52%) Oracle
5 31 (8.49%) Google
6 28 (7.67%) NetApp
7 25 (6.85%) Splunk
8 24 (6.58%) Cisco
9 20 (5.48%) ServiceNow
10 19 (5.21%) IBM
11 14 (3.84%) Veeam
12 11 (3.01%) SaltStack
13 10 (2.74%) Qualys
13 10 (2.74%) Veritas
14 9 (2.47%) Rapid7
14 9 (2.47%) Tenable
15 8 (2.19%) SAP
15 8 (2.19%) SolarWinds
16 7 (1.92%) EMC
16 7 (1.92%) HP
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