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 27 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 351 249 226
Rank change year-on-year -102 -23 +2
Contract jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 253 349 471
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.68% 1.04% 1.08%
As % of the Operating Systems category 5.31% 7.39% 7.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 174 224 329
10th Percentile £359 £410 £400
25th Percentile £441 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £582 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.97% +5.86% -6.14%
75th Percentile £608 £688 £638
90th Percentile £675 £750 £722
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £565 £543
% change year-on-year -7.08% +4.05% -1.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 2 3
10th Percentile £69.98 - £21.69
25th Percentile £74.82 - £23.00
Median hourly rate £97.00 £112.00 £25.18
Median % change year-on-year -13.39% +344.80% -65.27%
75th Percentile £119.00 - £39.47
90th Percentile - - £48.04
UK excluding London median hourly rate £97.00 - £25.18
% change year-on-year - - -65.51%

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 4,765 4,725 6,524
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.82% 14.04% 14.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,106 2,954 4,446
10th Percentile £175 £200 £181
25th Percentile £268 £313 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% - -7.32%
75th Percentile £560 £588 £600
90th Percentile £665 £688 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £413 £425 £430
% change year-on-year -2.94% -1.16% -4.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 354 176 320
10th Percentile £15.38 £16.13 £14.16
25th Percentile £18.87 £20.94 £17.72
Median hourly rate £25.15 £37.75 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -33.38% +16.15% +34.02%
75th Percentile £62.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £73.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £26.09
% change year-on-year -22.62% +24.57% +18.59%

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 27 December 2025.

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 27 December 2025.

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 27 December 2025. 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 -96 213 £535 -10.83% 167
UK excluding London -66 159 £525 -7.08% 146
Work from Home -41 72 £540 +4.35% 78
London -73 58 £525 -12.50% 35
South East -8 49 £485 -15.65% 38
North of England -66 31 £550 -12.35% 29
Midlands -41 28 £545 +0.83% 25
West Midlands -28 22 £581 +14.73% 12
South West -11 21 £550 -7.02% 16
North West -17 19 £550 - 13
East of England -13 12 £475 -20.83% 29
Scotland -22 10 £514 +2.75% 5
Yorkshire -60 9 £500 -31.03% 16
North East -6 6 £550 -
East Midlands -20 6 £420 -23.39% 12
Northern Ireland - 6 £375 - 1
Wales - 2 - - 6

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 8 (3.16%) Apache
2 7 (2.77%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (2.77%) SharePoint
3 6 (2.37%) SAS
4 5 (1.98%) JBoss
4 5 (1.98%) Tomcat
5 4 (1.58%) nginx
6 3 (1.19%) WebLogic
7 2 (0.79%) Confluence
7 2 (0.79%) NetWeaver
7 2 (0.79%) OpenStack
7 2 (0.79%) Oracle HTTP Server
8 1 (0.40%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.40%) CMS
8 1 (0.40%) Documentum
8 1 (0.40%) FileNet
8 1 (0.40%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 4 (1.58%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (1.58%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.79%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 2 (0.79%) SAP S/4HANA
1 2 (0.79%) Teamcenter
2 1 (0.40%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.40%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 46 (18.18%) AWS
2 38 (15.02%) OpenShift
3 36 (14.23%) Azure
4 15 (5.93%) Amazon S3
4 15 (5.93%) GitHub
5 14 (5.53%) Amazon EC2
6 12 (4.74%) Entra ID
7 11 (4.35%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 9 (3.56%) GCP
9 8 (3.16%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 8 (3.16%) SaaS
10 6 (2.37%) Amazon ECS
10 6 (2.37%) AWS CloudFormation
10 6 (2.37%) AWS Fargate
10 6 (2.37%) Azure Sentinel
10 6 (2.37%) OCI
11 5 (1.98%) Azure DevOps
11 5 (1.98%) npm
12 4 (1.58%) IaaS
13 3 (1.19%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 32 (12.65%) Firewall
2 29 (11.46%) DNS
3 17 (6.72%) SAN
4 12 (4.74%) SMTP
4 12 (4.74%) VLAN
5 10 (3.95%) DKIM
5 10 (3.95%) DMARC
6 8 (3.16%) TCP/IP
7 7 (2.77%) DHCP
7 7 (2.77%) SSL
8 6 (2.37%) BGP
8 6 (2.37%) Internet
8 6 (2.37%) Software-Defined Networking
8 6 (2.37%) WebEx
9 5 (1.98%) AMQP
9 5 (1.98%) Kerberos
9 5 (1.98%) VSAN
10 4 (1.58%) LAN
10 4 (1.58%) Network Security
11 3 (1.19%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (8.30%) Oracle Database
2 20 (7.91%) MongoDB
3 9 (3.56%) RDBMS
3 9 (3.56%) Relational Database
4 8 (3.16%) Amazon RDS
5 7 (2.77%) Data Warehouse
5 7 (2.77%) MySQL
5 7 (2.77%) SQL Server
6 6 (2.37%) Elasticsearch
6 6 (2.37%) PostgreSQL
7 4 (1.58%) MariaDB
8 3 (1.19%) Apache Cassandra
8 3 (1.19%) InfluxDB
8 3 (1.19%) Oracle Reports
9 2 (0.79%) DB2
9 2 (0.79%) GIS
9 2 (0.79%) Oracle BI Publisher
9 2 (0.79%) Oracle Exadata
9 2 (0.79%) SAP HANA
10 1 (0.40%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 25 (9.88%) Git
2 20 (7.91%) GitLab
2 20 (7.91%) Jenkins
3 11 (4.35%) JIRA
4 8 (3.16%) Maven
5 7 (2.77%) Sonatype Nexus
5 7 (2.77%) TeamCity
6 5 (1.98%) Subversion
7 4 (1.58%) SonarQube
7 4 (1.58%) Terragrunt
8 3 (1.19%) Artifactory
8 3 (1.19%) Mockito
9 2 (0.79%) Bitbucket
9 2 (0.79%) Bitbucket Server
9 2 (0.79%) CA Release Automation
9 2 (0.79%) Gradle
9 2 (0.79%) Oracle APEX
10 1 (0.40%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 1 (0.40%) Eclipse
General
1 78 (30.83%) Social Skills
2 29 (11.46%) Analytical Skills
3 26 (10.28%) Public Sector
4 22 (8.70%) Finance
5 16 (6.32%) Documentation Skills
6 7 (2.77%) Legal
7 6 (2.37%) Banking
8 5 (1.98%) Financial Institution
8 5 (1.98%) Manufacturing
9 4 (1.58%) Aerospace
9 4 (1.58%) Telecoms
10 3 (1.19%) Back Office
10 3 (1.19%) Front Office
11 1 (0.40%) Automotive
11 1 (0.40%) Billing
11 1 (0.40%) Electronics
11 1 (0.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.40%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.40%) Military
11 1 (0.40%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 36 (14.23%) Administrator
2 32 (12.65%) Architect
3 27 (10.67%) Linux Engineer
4 16 (6.32%) DevOps Engineer
4 16 (6.32%) Platform Engineer
5 15 (5.93%) Senior
6 14 (5.53%) Lead
6 14 (5.53%) Linux Administrator
7 13 (5.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 12 (4.74%) Systems Administrator
9 11 (4.35%) Applications Engineer
9 11 (4.35%) Developer
9 11 (4.35%) Support Engineer
10 10 (3.95%) Consultant
10 10 (3.95%) Site Engineer
10 10 (3.95%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 7 (2.77%) Infrastructure Support
11 7 (2.77%) Solutions Architect
11 7 (2.77%) Storage and Backup Administrator
11 7 (2.77%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (4.35%) Loki
2 10 (3.95%) LDAP
3 9 (3.56%) Kafka
3 9 (3.56%) Middleware
4 8 (3.16%) REST
5 7 (2.77%) Keycloak
5 7 (2.77%) Spring Boot
6 6 (2.37%) AWS CDK
6 6 (2.37%) cloud-init
6 6 (2.37%) Elastic Stack
6 6 (2.37%) Spring
6 6 (2.37%) XMPP
7 3 (1.19%) ActiveMQ
7 3 (1.19%) JAX-RS
7 3 (1.19%) Regular Expression
7 3 (1.19%) SAP Basis
7 3 (1.19%) Spring Batch
7 3 (1.19%) Spring Security
7 3 (1.19%) YAML
8 2 (0.79%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 21 (8.30%) Cloud Native
2 20 (7.91%) Data Centre
3 15 (5.93%) Clustering
4 14 (5.53%) Product Ownership
5 11 (4.35%) Onboarding
6 9 (3.56%) Enterprise Storage
6 9 (3.56%) PKI
7 8 (3.16%) Virtual Team
8 7 (2.77%) Legacy Systems
9 6 (2.37%) Public Cloud
10 5 (1.98%) Enterprise Software
10 5 (1.98%) Hedge funds
10 5 (1.98%) Legacy Applications
10 5 (1.98%) Management Information System
10 5 (1.98%) Replication
11 4 (1.58%) Client/Server
11 4 (1.58%) Data Protection Act
11 4 (1.58%) Hybrid Cloud
11 4 (1.58%) Linux Command Line
11 4 (1.58%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 253 (100.00%) Linux
2 81 (32.02%) Windows
3 44 (17.39%) Windows Server
4 32 (12.65%) CentOS
4 32 (12.65%) Ubuntu
5 29 (11.46%) Unix
6 14 (5.53%) Solaris
7 12 (4.74%) Windows Server 2019
8 11 (4.35%) Windows Server 2016
9 5 (1.98%) OpenVMS
9 5 (1.98%) Oracle Linux
10 4 (1.58%) VMS
10 4 (1.58%) Windows Server 2012
11 3 (1.19%) AIX
11 3 (1.19%) Debian
11 3 (1.19%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
12 2 (0.79%) Mac OS
12 2 (0.79%) Windows Server 2008
13 1 (0.40%) SUSE
13 1 (0.40%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (30.83%) CI/CD
2 55 (21.74%) DevOps
3 54 (21.34%) Problem-Solving
4 47 (18.58%) Infrastructure as Code
5 45 (17.79%) Containerisation
6 36 (14.23%) High Availability
7 35 (13.83%) Agile
8 30 (11.86%) Disaster Recovery
9 29 (11.46%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 27 (10.67%) Migration
10 27 (10.67%) Observability
11 25 (9.88%) ITIL
12 24 (9.49%) SIEM
13 22 (8.70%) Continuous Improvement
13 22 (8.70%) DevSecOps
14 20 (7.91%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 20 (7.91%) Stakeholder Management
15 19 (7.51%) Patch Management
16 18 (7.11%) Infrastructure Automation
16 18 (7.11%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 93 (36.76%) Python
2 83 (32.81%) Bash
3 44 (17.39%) PowerShell
4 39 (15.42%) Shell Script
5 28 (11.07%) Perl
6 21 (8.30%) SQL
7 20 (7.91%) Java
8 10 (3.95%) Go
9 5 (1.98%) PL/SQL
10 4 (1.58%) JavaScript
11 3 (1.19%) Korn
11 3 (1.19%) Ruby
11 3 (1.19%) VBScript
12 2 (0.79%) C++
12 2 (0.79%) MATLAB
12 2 (0.79%) Rust
13 1 (0.40%) C
13 1 (0.40%) C#
13 1 (0.40%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 114 (45.06%) Security Cleared
2 82 (32.41%) SC Cleared
3 25 (9.88%) DV Cleared
4 12 (4.74%) Degree
4 12 (4.74%) RHCE
5 10 (3.95%) CCNP
5 10 (3.95%) Cisco Certification
6 9 (3.56%) BPSS Clearance
6 9 (3.56%) CCDP
6 9 (3.56%) CCNA
7 4 (1.58%) AWS Certification
7 4 (1.58%) RHCSA
8 3 (1.19%) Azure Certification
8 3 (1.19%) CESG Certified Professional
8 3 (1.19%) CISSP
8 3 (1.19%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (1.19%) OCP
8 3 (1.19%) Oracle Certification
8 3 (1.19%) SAP Certification
9 2 (0.79%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (3.56%) GDPR
2 7 (2.77%) NCSC
3 6 (2.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (2.37%) NIST
4 4 (1.58%) QA
4 4 (1.58%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 3 (1.19%) NIST 800
6 2 (0.79%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.79%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (0.79%) SLA
7 1 (0.40%) Def Stans
7 1 (0.40%) HL7
7 1 (0.40%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 45 (17.79%) VMware Infrastructure
2 39 (15.42%) Docker
3 30 (11.86%) Active Directory
4 11 (4.35%) VMware ESXi
4 11 (4.35%) vSphere
5 10 (3.95%) Postfix
6 8 (3.16%) KVM
6 8 (3.16%) Virtual Machines
7 7 (2.77%) Oracle RAC
8 6 (2.37%) Dovecot
9 4 (1.58%) NFS
9 4 (1.58%) QEMU
9 4 (1.58%) Veritas File System
9 4 (1.58%) Veritas Volume Manager
10 3 (1.19%) Hyper-V
10 3 (1.19%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 2 (0.79%) Ceph
11 2 (0.79%) Firmware
11 2 (0.79%) GPFS
11 2 (0.79%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 92 (36.36%) Ansible
2 66 (26.09%) Kubernetes
3 41 (16.21%) Terraform
4 36 (14.23%) Red Hat Satellite
5 26 (10.28%) Grafana
6 23 (9.09%) Prometheus
7 14 (5.53%) Argo
8 12 (4.74%) SCOM
9 11 (4.35%) Podman
10 10 (3.95%) Kustomize
11 8 (3.16%) Data Guard
11 8 (3.16%) Puppet
12 7 (2.77%) EMC NetWorker
12 7 (2.77%) EMC VPLEX
12 7 (2.77%) NetBackup
12 7 (2.77%) Progress Chef
12 7 (2.77%) SCCM
13 6 (2.37%) Jamf Pro
13 6 (2.37%) Packer
13 6 (2.37%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 164 (64.82%) Red Hat
2 87 (34.39%) VMware
3 41 (16.21%) Splunk
4 40 (15.81%) Oracle
5 28 (11.07%) Microsoft
6 20 (7.91%) Cisco
7 19 (7.51%) Dell
8 13 (5.14%) Citrix
9 11 (4.35%) CyberArk
10 9 (3.56%) HP
10 9 (3.56%) NVIDIA
11 8 (3.16%) Brocade
11 8 (3.16%) Qualys
11 8 (3.16%) Veritas
12 7 (2.77%) 3PAR
12 7 (2.77%) Broadcom
12 7 (2.77%) EMC
12 7 (2.77%) Isilon
12 7 (2.77%) NetApp
12 7 (2.77%) Okta