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 11 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
11 Oct 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 364 322 286
Rank change year-on-year -42 -36 -76
Contract jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 363 246 313
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.67% 0.74% 0.83%
As % of the Operating Systems category 6.86% 5.41% 5.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 236 164 209
10th Percentile £397 £352 £352
25th Percentile £450 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £523
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% -2.39% -5.43%
75th Percentile £625 £586 £638
90th Percentile £708 £657 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £489 £520
% change year-on-year +2.35% -6.06% -0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 2 2
10th Percentile £36.75 £64.45 -
25th Percentile £41.71 £71.12 -
Median hourly rate £52.54 £87.00 £112.00
Median % change year-on-year -39.61% -22.32% +57.19%
75th Percentile £68.75 £102.62 -
90th Percentile - £109.15 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £52.54 £87.00 -
% change year-on-year -39.61% - -

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 5,292 4,550 5,329
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.70% 13.74% 14.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,339 2,910 3,295
10th Percentile £193 £185 £200
25th Percentile £313 £281 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £450 £473
Median % change year-on-year +4.44% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £575
90th Percentile £675 £653 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £425 £445
% change year-on-year +5.88% -4.49% -1.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 403 308 251
10th Percentile £14.10 £15.45 £16.25
25th Percentile £17.25 £18.86 £23.11
Median hourly rate £25.77 £25.08 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.77% -54.41% +25.46%
75th Percentile £65.00 £43.75 £68.75
90th Percentile £74.32 £67.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.77 £23.50 £57.50
% change year-on-year +9.66% -59.13% +35.29%

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 11 October 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 11 October 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 11 October 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 -19 329 £513 -1.39% 149
UK excluding London -11 223 £500 +2.35% 101
London -39 122 £513 -2.38% 56
Work from Home -55 80 £453 -13.71% 62
North of England -45 59 £500 +1.63% 20
South East -53 52 £500 +1.63% 26
East of England +10 40 £600 +48.15% 14
South West -8 37 £560 +1.73% 18
North West -27 36 £482 +19.90% 12
Yorkshire -19 22 £600 +20.00% 6
Scotland -22 17 £475 -5.00% 13
Midlands -43 17 £525 -0.71% 7
West Midlands -52 9 £525 -9.70% 5
East Midlands -5 8 £530 +26.19% 2
North East -40 2 £626 +8.87% 2
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 14 (3.86%) Confluence
2 12 (3.31%) JBoss
3 11 (3.03%) nginx
4 9 (2.48%) Apache
5 7 (1.93%) SharePoint
6 6 (1.65%) Tomcat
7 5 (1.38%) Microsoft Exchange
7 5 (1.38%) WebSphere
8 2 (0.55%) Documentum
8 2 (0.55%) OpenStack
8 2 (0.55%) Traefik
8 2 (0.55%) WebLogic
9 1 (0.28%) Apache Airflow
9 1 (0.28%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 4 (1.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.28%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.28%) FLEXCUBE
1 1 (0.28%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (0.28%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 106 (29.20%) AWS
2 86 (23.69%) Azure
3 48 (13.22%) OpenShift
4 39 (10.74%) GCP
5 25 (6.89%) GitHub
5 25 (6.89%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 21 (5.79%) Datadog
7 20 (5.51%) Amazon EC2
7 20 (5.51%) Amazon EKS
8 18 (4.96%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 18 (4.96%) AWS CloudFormation
8 18 (4.96%) Entra ID
9 17 (4.68%) Amazon S3
10 16 (4.41%) GitHub Actions
10 16 (4.41%) Serverless
11 15 (4.13%) Azure DevOps
11 15 (4.13%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 15 (4.13%) IaaS
12 13 (3.58%) Amazon ECS
12 13 (3.58%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 44 (12.12%) DNS
1 44 (12.12%) Firewall
2 39 (10.74%) SAN
3 31 (8.54%) TCP/IP
4 22 (6.06%) SSL
5 21 (5.79%) Kerberos
5 21 (5.79%) Network Security
6 20 (5.51%) DHCP
7 13 (3.58%) VLAN
8 10 (2.75%) BGP
8 10 (2.75%) HTTP
9 9 (2.48%) SSH
10 8 (2.20%) HSRP
10 8 (2.20%) OSPF
10 8 (2.20%) VRRP
11 7 (1.93%) VoIP
11 7 (1.93%) VPN
12 5 (1.38%) LAN
12 5 (1.38%) WAN
12 5 (1.38%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (7.99%) PostgreSQL
2 24 (6.61%) Oracle Database
3 18 (4.96%) SQL Server
4 12 (3.31%) Amazon RDS
5 11 (3.03%) MySQL
6 9 (2.48%) SQLite
7 8 (2.20%) MongoDB
8 6 (1.65%) Big Data
8 6 (1.65%) Hadoop
8 6 (1.65%) Redis
8 6 (1.65%) Relational Database
9 5 (1.38%) Data Lake
9 5 (1.38%) SAP HANA
10 4 (1.10%) Elasticsearch
11 3 (0.83%) GIS
11 3 (0.83%) Metadata
11 3 (0.83%) NoSQL
11 3 (0.83%) Oracle Database 12c
12 2 (0.55%) Azure SQL Database
12 2 (0.55%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 59 (16.25%) Jenkins
2 58 (15.98%) Git
3 45 (12.40%) GitLab
4 19 (5.23%) JIRA
5 9 (2.48%) Sonatype Nexus
6 5 (1.38%) Artifactory
6 5 (1.38%) Bitbucket
7 4 (1.10%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 4 (1.10%) Cucumber
7 4 (1.10%) Zephyr
8 3 (0.83%) JMeter
8 3 (0.83%) Locust
8 3 (0.83%) Maven
8 3 (0.83%) Robot Framework
8 3 (0.83%) TestCafe
8 3 (0.83%) Toad
9 2 (0.55%) Gerrit
10 1 (0.28%) Gradle
10 1 (0.28%) Newman
10 1 (0.28%) Tricentis qTest
General
1 69 (19.01%) Social Skills
2 61 (16.80%) Finance
3 38 (10.47%) Analytical Skills
4 26 (7.16%) Banking
5 24 (6.61%) Documentation Skills
6 17 (4.68%) Public Sector
7 9 (2.48%) Legal
8 6 (1.65%) Manufacturing
8 6 (1.65%) Military
8 6 (1.65%) Retail
9 5 (1.38%) Aerospace
9 5 (1.38%) Investment Banking
9 5 (1.38%) Publishing
10 4 (1.10%) Law
10 4 (1.10%) Telecoms
11 3 (0.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (0.55%) Aviation
12 2 (0.55%) Financial Institution
13 1 (0.28%) Organisational Skills
13 1 (0.28%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 77 (21.21%) Linux Engineer
2 48 (13.22%) Senior
3 39 (10.74%) DevOps Engineer
3 39 (10.74%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 32 (8.82%) Cloud Engineer
5 23 (6.34%) Architect
6 20 (5.51%) Administrator
7 19 (5.23%) Security Engineer
8 18 (4.96%) Platform Engineer
9 16 (4.41%) Automation Engineer
9 16 (4.41%) AWS Engineer
10 14 (3.86%) Linux Administrator
10 14 (3.86%) Linux Systems Engineer
10 14 (3.86%) Senior Linux Engineer
10 14 (3.86%) Systems Engineer
11 13 (3.58%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
12 12 (3.31%) Network Engineer
13 11 (3.03%) Systems Administrator
14 10 (2.75%) Linux Systems Administrator
14 10 (2.75%) Unix Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 96 (26.45%) Terraform
2 22 (6.06%) REST
3 15 (4.13%) Middleware
4 14 (3.86%) LDAP
5 12 (3.31%) Kafka
6 8 (2.20%) Azure Blueprints
6 8 (2.20%) JSON
6 8 (2.20%) SPNEGO
7 7 (1.93%) ARM Templates
8 6 (1.65%) Elastic Stack
9 5 (1.38%) Keycloak
9 5 (1.38%) OAuth
9 5 (1.38%) React
9 5 (1.38%) Vue
10 4 (1.10%) Celery
10 4 (1.10%) Django
10 4 (1.10%) Node.js
10 4 (1.10%) WebSphere MQ
10 4 (1.10%) XML
10 4 (1.10%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 44 (12.12%) Cloud Native
2 29 (7.99%) Security Posture
3 24 (6.61%) Onboarding
4 22 (6.06%) Replication
5 18 (4.96%) Enterprise Storage
6 17 (4.68%) Data Centre
7 16 (4.41%) Management Information System
8 15 (4.13%) PKI
9 13 (3.58%) Clustering
10 12 (3.31%) Data Protection Act
10 12 (3.31%) Enterprise Cloud
10 12 (3.31%) Hybrid Cloud
10 12 (3.31%) Legacy Systems
11 11 (3.03%) Linux Command Line
12 9 (2.48%) Virtual Team
13 8 (2.20%) Cloud Security Posture
13 8 (2.20%) Mainframe
13 8 (2.20%) Private Cloud
13 8 (2.20%) Product Ownership
13 8 (2.20%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 363 (100.00%) Linux
2 143 (39.39%) Windows
3 79 (21.76%) Windows Server
4 46 (12.67%) CentOS
5 45 (12.40%) Ubuntu
6 41 (11.29%) Unix
7 27 (7.44%) Solaris
8 24 (6.61%) Rocky
9 16 (4.41%) AIX
10 10 (2.75%) SUSE
10 10 (2.75%) Windows Server 2012
11 8 (2.20%) Oracle Linux
12 7 (1.93%) Windows 10
12 7 (1.93%) Windows Server 2019
13 5 (1.38%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
13 5 (1.38%) Windows Server 2008
14 4 (1.10%) Alpine Linux
14 4 (1.10%) HPUX
15 3 (0.83%) VMS
15 3 (0.83%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 129 (35.54%) CI/CD
2 125 (34.44%) DevOps
3 82 (22.59%) Infrastructure as Code
4 71 (19.56%) Configuration Management
5 69 (19.01%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 66 (18.18%) Containerisation
7 64 (17.63%) Migration
8 57 (15.70%) ITIL
8 57 (15.70%) Problem-Solving
9 54 (14.88%) Change Management
10 53 (14.60%) Platform Engineering
11 50 (13.77%) Agile
12 48 (13.22%) Infrastructure Automation
13 47 (12.95%) Observability
14 45 (12.40%) Continuous Improvement
15 36 (9.92%) Cloud Security
16 35 (9.64%) Performance Tuning
16 35 (9.64%) Runbook
17 33 (9.09%) Root Cause Analysis
18 30 (8.26%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 158 (43.53%) Python
2 119 (32.78%) Bash
3 93 (25.62%) PowerShell
4 41 (11.29%) Java
5 31 (8.54%) SQL
6 23 (6.34%) Shell Script
7 22 (6.06%) Perl
8 13 (3.58%) C
8 13 (3.58%) C++
9 11 (3.03%) Bicep
10 10 (2.75%) Korn
11 9 (2.48%) Go
11 9 (2.48%) Groovy
12 7 (1.93%) PL/SQL
13 6 (1.65%) JavaScript
14 3 (0.83%) MATLAB
15 2 (0.55%) C#
15 2 (0.55%) Search Processing Language
16 1 (0.28%) ActionScript
16 1 (0.28%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 153 (42.15%) Security Cleared
2 98 (27.00%) SC Cleared
3 49 (13.50%) DV Cleared
4 33 (9.09%) Degree
5 28 (7.71%) AWS Certification
6 25 (6.89%) CISSP
7 21 (5.79%) Azure Certification
8 16 (4.41%) RHCE
9 9 (2.48%) Computer Science Degree
10 7 (1.93%) Cisco Certification
10 7 (1.93%) Microsoft Certification
11 6 (1.65%) CCNA
11 6 (1.65%) CCNP
11 6 (1.65%) CISM
11 6 (1.65%) RHCSA
12 5 (1.38%) CompTIA Security+
13 3 (0.83%) MOS
13 3 (0.83%) RHCA
14 2 (0.55%) ISSAP
14 2 (0.55%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (2.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 10 (2.75%) NIST
2 7 (1.93%) QA
3 6 (1.65%) SLA
4 5 (1.38%) 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 (0.83%) GRC
6 3 (0.83%) HIPAA
6 3 (0.83%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.28%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.28%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.28%) JSP 440
7 1 (0.28%) OpenSCAP
7 1 (0.28%) PMO
System Software
1 80 (22.04%) Docker
2 50 (13.77%) Active Directory
3 49 (13.50%) VMware Infrastructure
4 26 (7.16%) Virtual Machines
5 19 (5.23%) vSphere
6 16 (4.41%) NFS
7 15 (4.13%) VMware ESXi
8 10 (2.75%) Hyper-V
9 7 (1.93%) Oracle RAC
10 6 (1.65%) KVM
11 5 (1.38%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 3 (0.83%) Corosync
12 3 (0.83%) GPFS
12 3 (0.83%) Veritas Volume Manager
13 2 (0.55%) Ceph
13 2 (0.55%) Squid
14 1 (0.28%) OpenSSH
14 1 (0.28%) oVirt
14 1 (0.28%) RHEV
14 1 (0.28%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 126 (34.71%) Ansible
2 105 (28.93%) Kubernetes
3 43 (11.85%) Puppet
4 33 (9.09%) Grafana
4 33 (9.09%) Progress Chef
5 30 (8.26%) Prometheus
6 26 (7.16%) Red Hat Satellite
7 18 (4.96%) NetBackup
8 13 (3.58%) Nagios
9 12 (3.31%) Failover Clustering
10 8 (2.20%) Packer
10 8 (2.20%) Podman
11 7 (1.93%) SCCM
12 6 (1.65%) Oracle RMAN
12 6 (1.65%) systemd
13 5 (1.38%) Data Guard
13 5 (1.38%) Single Sign-On
13 5 (1.38%) WSUS
14 4 (1.10%) vCenter Server
14 4 (1.10%) yum
Vendors
1 171 (47.11%) Red Hat
2 65 (17.91%) VMware
3 63 (17.36%) Microsoft
4 54 (14.88%) Oracle
5 32 (8.82%) Google
6 29 (7.99%) NetApp
7 26 (7.16%) Splunk
8 24 (6.61%) Cisco
9 22 (6.06%) IBM
10 20 (5.51%) ServiceNow
11 14 (3.86%) Veeam
12 11 (3.03%) SaltStack
13 10 (2.75%) Qualys
14 9 (2.48%) Rapid7
14 9 (2.48%) SolarWinds
14 9 (2.48%) Tenable
14 9 (2.48%) Veritas
15 8 (2.20%) EMC
16 7 (1.93%) McAfee
17 6 (1.65%) SAP
176 Red Hat Enterprise Linux jobs Nationwide