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

6 months to
18 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 359 287 294
Rank change year-on-year -72 +7 -80
Contract jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 335 284 335
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.63% 0.87% 0.80%
As % of the Operating Systems category 6.56% 6.47% 5.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 224 204 250
10th Percentile £372 £364 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £427
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £525 £520
Median % change year-on-year -5.90% +0.96% -9.57%
75th Percentile £569 £589 £600
90th Percentile £638 £675 £672
UK excluding London median daily rate £497 £500 £527
% change year-on-year -0.60% -5.03% +0.29%
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 5,104 4,390 5,797
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.65% 13.49% 13.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,242 2,834 3,795
10th Percentile £191 £200 £190
25th Percentile £319 £313 £320
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £463 £475
Median % change year-on-year +0.54% -2.63% -5.00%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £588
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £450 £465
% change year-on-year - -3.23% +3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 347 245 418
10th Percentile £15.79 £15.50 £12.75
25th Percentile £18.50 £18.10 £16.25
Median hourly rate £26.00 £23.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% -8.00% -41.18%
75th Percentile £63.75 £54.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £67.60 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £26.47 £21.95 £31.25
% change year-on-year +20.59% -29.76% +6.66%

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 18 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 18 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 18 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 -57 289 £497 -5.33% 40
UK excluding London -47 222 £497 -0.60% 33
Work from Home -73 87 £486 -7.52% 9
London -55 82 £488 -11.36% 11
North of England -55 74 £500 +24.38% 10
South East -38 50 £455 -17.27% 9
Yorkshire -27 38 £508 +6.84% 2
South West -14 37 £534 -2.95% 7
North West -40 36 £478 +21.50% 7
East of England +5 27 £500 +3.63% 2
Scotland -25 17 £450 -3.90% 2
Midlands -49 16 £501 -6.80% 3
East Midlands -6 8 £530 +4.74% 1
West Midlands -60 8 £484 -9.93% 2
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 19 (5.67%) nginx
2 14 (4.18%) Confluence
3 13 (3.88%) Tomcat
4 10 (2.99%) Apache
5 8 (2.39%) WebLogic
6 6 (1.79%) JBoss
6 6 (1.79%) Microsoft Exchange
6 6 (1.79%) SharePoint
6 6 (1.79%) WebSphere
7 3 (0.90%) IBM HTTP Server
7 3 (0.90%) OpenStack
7 3 (0.90%) SAS
7 3 (0.90%) WebSphere Application Server
8 2 (0.60%) Documentum
8 2 (0.60%) Oracle HTTP Server
8 2 (0.60%) Red Hat Fuse
8 2 (0.60%) WebSphere Portal
9 1 (0.30%) Apache Airflow
9 1 (0.30%) Traefik
Applications
1 4 (1.19%) 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
1 106 (31.64%) AWS
2 78 (23.28%) Azure
3 45 (13.43%) OpenShift
4 30 (8.96%) GCP
5 27 (8.06%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 24 (7.16%) GitHub
7 19 (5.67%) Amazon EC2
8 17 (5.07%) Amazon S3
9 15 (4.48%) Datadog
10 14 (4.18%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 14 (4.18%) Amazon EKS
10 14 (4.18%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 14 (4.18%) Serverless
11 13 (3.88%) AWS CloudFormation
12 11 (3.28%) AWS Lambda
12 11 (3.28%) GitHub Actions
13 10 (2.99%) Azure Monitor
13 10 (2.99%) Entra ID
14 9 (2.69%) Azure AKS
15 8 (2.39%) AWS CloudTrail
Communications & Networking
1 50 (14.93%) Firewall
2 44 (13.13%) DNS
3 39 (11.64%) SAN
4 17 (5.07%) VLAN
5 15 (4.48%) DHCP
5 15 (4.48%) TCP/IP
6 13 (3.88%) Network Security
6 13 (3.88%) SSL
6 13 (3.88%) VPN
7 10 (2.99%) Kerberos
8 9 (2.69%) HTTP
9 8 (2.39%) SSH
10 6 (1.79%) iSCSI
10 6 (1.79%) VSAN
10 6 (1.79%) WAN
11 5 (1.49%) VoIP
12 4 (1.19%) Fibre Channel
12 4 (1.19%) NAS
13 3 (0.90%) FTP
13 3 (0.90%) OpenVPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (8.66%) PostgreSQL
2 24 (7.16%) Oracle Database
3 15 (4.48%) SQL Server
4 11 (3.28%) MongoDB
5 10 (2.99%) MySQL
6 9 (2.69%) Amazon RDS
7 8 (2.39%) Elasticsearch
8 7 (2.09%) GIS
8 7 (2.09%) Oracle Database 12c
8 7 (2.09%) SAP HANA
9 5 (1.49%) Data Lake
10 4 (1.19%) Redis
10 4 (1.19%) Relational Database
11 3 (0.90%) Data Warehouse
12 2 (0.60%) Azure SQL Database
12 2 (0.60%) SQLite
13 1 (0.30%) IBM InfoSphere
13 1 (0.30%) MariaDB
13 1 (0.30%) OpenStack Swift
13 1 (0.30%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 44 (13.13%) Jenkins
2 34 (10.15%) GitLab
3 33 (9.85%) Git
4 18 (5.37%) JIRA
5 6 (1.79%) Artifactory
6 5 (1.49%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 5 (1.49%) Sonatype Nexus
7 3 (0.90%) Introscope
7 3 (0.90%) Toad
8 2 (0.60%) Robot Framework
9 1 (0.30%) Ant
9 1 (0.30%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.30%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.30%) Maven
9 1 (0.30%) PVCS
General
1 62 (18.51%) Social Skills
2 38 (11.34%) Finance
3 35 (10.45%) Public Sector
4 27 (8.06%) Banking
5 22 (6.57%) Documentation Skills
6 21 (6.27%) Analytical Skills
7 10 (2.99%) Legal
8 5 (1.49%) Aerospace
8 5 (1.49%) Military
8 5 (1.49%) Retail
9 4 (1.19%) Manufacturing
9 4 (1.19%) Publishing
10 2 (0.60%) Aviation
10 2 (0.60%) Financial Institution
10 2 (0.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (0.60%) Law
10 2 (0.60%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (0.60%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.30%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.30%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 61 (18.21%) Linux Engineer
2 46 (13.73%) Senior
3 31 (9.25%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 28 (8.36%) DevOps Engineer
5 27 (8.06%) Cloud Engineer
6 25 (7.46%) Architect
7 24 (7.16%) Platform Engineer
8 21 (6.27%) Administrator
9 19 (5.67%) Lead
10 16 (4.78%) Senior Linux Engineer
11 15 (4.48%) Software Engineer
12 14 (4.18%) AWS Engineer
12 14 (4.18%) Linux Administrator
13 13 (3.88%) Security Engineer
13 13 (3.88%) Unix Engineer
14 9 (2.69%) Lead Software Engineer
15 8 (2.39%) Azure Engineer
15 8 (2.39%) DBA
16 7 (2.09%) Automation Engineer
16 7 (2.09%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (4.78%) Middleware
2 12 (3.58%) REST
3 10 (2.99%) LDAP
4 9 (2.69%) Spring
5 8 (2.39%) Kafka
6 7 (2.09%) EJB
6 7 (2.09%) Elastic Stack
7 6 (1.79%) OpenLayers
7 6 (1.79%) Spring Boot
7 6 (1.79%) Vue
8 5 (1.49%) Azure Blueprints
8 5 (1.49%) JSON
8 5 (1.49%) OAuth
9 4 (1.19%) ARM Templates
9 4 (1.19%) Celery
9 4 (1.19%) Django
9 4 (1.19%) Java EE
9 4 (1.19%) Java SE
9 4 (1.19%) JWT
9 4 (1.19%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 45 (13.43%) Cloud Native
2 28 (8.36%) Data Centre
3 27 (8.06%) Security Posture
4 20 (5.97%) Replication
5 19 (5.67%) Hybrid Cloud
6 16 (4.78%) Clustering
6 16 (4.78%) Management Information System
6 16 (4.78%) Onboarding
7 15 (4.48%) Legacy Systems
8 13 (3.88%) Enterprise Software
8 13 (3.88%) Linux Command Line
9 12 (3.58%) PKI
10 9 (2.69%) Product Ownership
11 8 (2.39%) Legacy Applications
12 7 (2.09%) Mainframe
13 6 (1.79%) Data Protection Act
13 6 (1.79%) Enterprise Cloud
13 6 (1.79%) FlexPod
13 6 (1.79%) Public Cloud
14 5 (1.49%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 335 (100.00%) Linux
2 124 (37.01%) Windows
3 61 (18.21%) Windows Server
4 42 (12.54%) Ubuntu
5 34 (10.15%) CentOS
6 30 (8.96%) Solaris
6 30 (8.96%) Unix
7 17 (5.07%) Windows Server 2019
8 15 (4.48%) VMS
9 14 (4.18%) Rocky
10 13 (3.88%) AIX
10 13 (3.88%) Oracle Linux
10 13 (3.88%) SUSE
11 11 (3.28%) Windows Server 2008
12 10 (2.99%) Windows Server 2016
13 8 (2.39%) CoreOS
14 7 (2.09%) Windows Server 2012
15 6 (1.79%) Data ONTAP
15 6 (1.79%) HPUX
16 5 (1.49%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 109 (32.54%) CI/CD
2 105 (31.34%) DevOps
3 66 (19.70%) Infrastructure as Code
4 60 (17.91%) Migration
5 58 (17.31%) Agile
6 54 (16.12%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 52 (15.52%) ITIL
8 50 (14.93%) Platform Engineering
9 49 (14.63%) Containerisation
10 47 (14.03%) Problem-Solving
11 46 (13.73%) Configuration Management
12 44 (13.13%) Change Management
13 41 (12.24%) Continuous Improvement
14 39 (11.64%) High Availability
14 39 (11.64%) Observability
15 36 (10.75%) Performance Tuning
16 33 (9.85%) Runbook
17 30 (8.96%) Roadmaps
17 30 (8.96%) Software Engineering
18 29 (8.66%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 135 (40.30%) Python
2 92 (27.46%) Bash
3 84 (25.07%) PowerShell
4 38 (11.34%) Java
5 29 (8.66%) SQL
6 26 (7.76%) Shell Script
7 13 (3.88%) Perl
8 12 (3.58%) JavaScript
8 12 (3.58%) PL/SQL
9 7 (2.09%) Bicep
9 7 (2.09%) Korn
10 6 (1.79%) Go
11 4 (1.19%) C
11 4 (1.19%) C#
11 4 (1.19%) MATLAB
12 3 (0.90%) C++
12 3 (0.90%) Groovy
12 3 (0.90%) Jython
12 3 (0.90%) Search Processing Language
13 1 (0.30%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 152 (45.37%) Security Cleared
2 117 (34.93%) SC Cleared
3 34 (10.15%) Degree
4 29 (8.66%) DV Cleared
5 23 (6.87%) CISSP
6 22 (6.57%) AWS Certification
7 19 (5.67%) Azure Certification
7 19 (5.67%) RHCE
8 9 (2.69%) Computer Science Degree
8 9 (2.69%) OCP
8 9 (2.69%) Oracle Certification
9 7 (2.09%) CISM
10 6 (1.79%) CompTIA Security+
11 4 (1.19%) Microsoft Certification
11 4 (1.19%) RHCSA
11 4 (1.19%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 3 (0.90%) RHCA
12 3 (0.90%) VCAP
13 2 (0.60%) BPSS Clearance
13 2 (0.60%) VCP6
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (2.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 8 (2.39%) SLA
2 7 (2.09%) NIST
3 6 (1.79%) NCSC
4 5 (1.49%) Disclosure Scotland
4 5 (1.49%) GRC
4 5 (1.49%) QA
5 4 (1.19%) 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%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 1 (0.30%) OpenSCAP
8 1 (0.30%) PMO
8 1 (0.30%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 60 (17.91%) Docker
2 54 (16.12%) VMware Infrastructure
3 39 (11.64%) Virtual Machines
4 34 (10.15%) Active Directory
5 20 (5.97%) VMware ESXi
6 19 (5.67%) NFS
7 15 (4.48%) vSphere
8 13 (3.88%) Hyper-V
9 12 (3.58%) Oracle RAC
10 6 (1.79%) Corosync
10 6 (1.79%) VMware NSX
11 4 (1.19%) Ceph
12 3 (0.90%) Firmware
12 3 (0.90%) Slurm Workload Manager
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%) Squid
13 2 (0.60%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 130 (38.81%) Ansible
2 93 (27.76%) Kubernetes
3 88 (26.27%) Terraform
4 26 (7.76%) Grafana
5 24 (7.16%) Progress Chef
5 24 (7.16%) Red Hat Satellite
6 23 (6.87%) Puppet
7 18 (5.37%) Prometheus
8 15 (4.48%) Oracle RMAN
9 14 (4.18%) Failover Clustering
10 10 (2.99%) NetBackup
11 8 (2.39%) Packer
12 7 (2.09%) Pacemaker
12 7 (2.09%) Podman
12 7 (2.09%) vCenter Server
13 6 (1.79%) SELinux
13 6 (1.79%) Single Sign-On
13 6 (1.79%) SnapMirror
13 6 (1.79%) systemd
13 6 (1.79%) vMotion
Vendors
1 180 (53.73%) Red Hat
2 71 (21.19%) VMware
3 59 (17.61%) Oracle
4 57 (17.01%) Microsoft
5 27 (8.06%) Google
6 24 (7.16%) IBM
7 19 (5.67%) NetApp
8 18 (5.37%) ServiceNow
8 18 (5.37%) Splunk
9 16 (4.78%) Cisco
10 10 (2.99%) HP
11 9 (2.69%) Dell
11 9 (2.69%) Tenable
12 8 (2.39%) SAP
12 8 (2.39%) Veeam
13 7 (2.09%) Qualys
14 6 (1.79%) Commvault
14 6 (1.79%) Databricks
14 6 (1.79%) McAfee
14 6 (1.79%) Rapid7