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

6 months to
29 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 364 233 321
Rank change year-on-year -131 +88 -114
Contract jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 274 330 290
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.58% 1.13% 0.67%
As % of the Operating Systems category 5.84% 8.11% 5.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 189 237 219
10th Percentile £400 £400 £350
25th Percentile £449 £457 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -12.50%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £600
90th Percentile £675 £738 £651
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £550 £533
% change year-on-year -9.09% +3.29% -3.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 0 4
10th Percentile £43.88 - £33.00
25th Percentile £74.58 - £44.73
Median hourly rate £80.00 - £60.00
75th Percentile £92.50 - £72.94
90th Percentile - - £75.98
UK excluding London median hourly rate £77.50 - £60.00
% change year-on-year - - +14.29%

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 4,695 4,070 5,775
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.97% 13.95% 13.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,059 2,682 3,885
10th Percentile £185 £200 £184
25th Percentile £313 £319 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £470
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +1.06% -6.93%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £591
90th Percentile £660 £699 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £450 £450
% change year-on-year -5.56% - -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 327 178 394
10th Percentile £15.98 £16.25 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.93 £18.13 £15.31
Median hourly rate £41.94 £24.18 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +73.45% +9.91% -43.59%
75th Percentile £67.84 £62.50 £59.88
90th Percentile £75.00 £68.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.10 £23.00 £21.00
% change year-on-year +96.10% +9.52% -30.00%

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 April 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 April 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 29 April 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 -121 215 £500 -10.71% 53
UK excluding London -70 189 £500 -9.09% 39
Work from Home -62 88 £500 -7.96% 15
North of England -87 54 £500 -9.09% 4
South East -46 44 £475 -13.64% 12
London -130 38 £510 -15.00% 19
Yorkshire -65 34 £500 -20.95% 2
South West -25 29 £575 -6.50% 15
East of England -17 23 £478 -20.33% 4
Midlands -59 19 £534 -1.20% 4
North West -40 18 £497 +11.31% 1
West Midlands -54 17 £539 -1.28% 1
Scotland -19 14 £463 -3.04% 1
Northern Ireland +5 3 £375 -
Wales - 3 £475 -
North East -18 2 £400 -28.25% 1
East Midlands -38 2 £530 +4.74% 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 (5.11%) nginx
2 11 (4.01%) Confluence
2 11 (4.01%) Tomcat
3 10 (3.65%) Apache
4 9 (3.28%) WebLogic
5 7 (2.55%) SAS
6 4 (1.46%) Microsoft Exchange
6 4 (1.46%) WebSphere
7 3 (1.09%) IBM HTTP Server
7 3 (1.09%) JBoss
7 3 (1.09%) SharePoint
7 3 (1.09%) WebSphere Application Server
8 2 (0.73%) Documentum
8 2 (0.73%) OpenStack
8 2 (0.73%) Oracle HTTP Server
8 2 (0.73%) WebSphere Portal
9 1 (0.36%) FileNet
9 1 (0.36%) Red Hat Fuse
9 1 (0.36%) Traefik
Applications
1 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 65 (23.72%) AWS
2 63 (22.99%) Azure
3 41 (14.96%) OpenShift
4 16 (5.84%) GCP
4 16 (5.84%) GitHub
5 14 (5.11%) Amazon EC2
6 13 (4.74%) Amazon S3
7 9 (3.28%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 7 (2.55%) Azure Sentinel
9 6 (2.19%) Amazon EKS
10 5 (1.82%) Azure Monitor
10 5 (1.82%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 5 (1.82%) IaaS
10 5 (1.82%) Nutanix
10 5 (1.82%) OCI
11 4 (1.46%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 4 (1.46%) Azure DevOps
11 4 (1.46%) Azure Stack
11 4 (1.46%) Microsoft 365
12 3 (1.09%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 30 (10.95%) Firewall
2 25 (9.12%) SAN
3 19 (6.93%) DNS
4 10 (3.65%) Kerberos
4 10 (3.65%) VSAN
5 9 (3.28%) HTTP
6 8 (2.92%) SSL
6 8 (2.92%) VLAN
7 7 (2.55%) TCP/IP
7 7 (2.55%) VPN
8 6 (2.19%) iSCSI
9 5 (1.82%) DHCP
9 5 (1.82%) Fibre Channel
9 5 (1.82%) Network Security
10 4 (1.46%) DKIM
10 4 (1.46%) DMARC
10 4 (1.46%) SMTP
10 4 (1.46%) WAN
11 3 (1.09%) LAN
11 3 (1.09%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (8.76%) Oracle Database
2 13 (4.74%) MongoDB
2 13 (4.74%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (2.55%) Data Warehouse
3 7 (2.55%) Elasticsearch
3 7 (2.55%) SQL Server
4 5 (1.82%) GIS
4 5 (1.82%) SAP HANA
5 4 (1.46%) MySQL
5 4 (1.46%) Oracle Database 12c
6 3 (1.09%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (1.09%) MariaDB
6 3 (1.09%) Oracle Exadata
6 3 (1.09%) Oracle Reports
7 2 (0.73%) Data Lake
7 2 (0.73%) RDBMS
7 2 (0.73%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.36%) IBM InfoSphere
8 1 (0.36%) Metadata
8 1 (0.36%) OpenStack Swift
Development Applications
1 36 (13.14%) GitLab
2 34 (12.41%) Jenkins
3 33 (12.04%) Git
4 15 (5.47%) JIRA
5 6 (2.19%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 5 (1.82%) Artifactory
7 4 (1.46%) Sonatype Nexus
8 3 (1.09%) Introscope
8 3 (1.09%) Maven
9 2 (0.73%) Robot Framework
10 1 (0.36%) Ant
10 1 (0.36%) GoCD
10 1 (0.36%) PVCS
10 1 (0.36%) Subversion
General
1 64 (23.36%) Social Skills
2 27 (9.85%) Public Sector
3 23 (8.39%) Documentation Skills
4 22 (8.03%) Finance
5 18 (6.57%) Banking
6 17 (6.20%) Analytical Skills
7 8 (2.92%) Aerospace
8 4 (1.46%) Legal
8 4 (1.46%) Telecoms
9 2 (0.73%) Back Office
9 2 (0.73%) Financial Institution
9 2 (0.73%) Front Office
9 2 (0.73%) Military
9 2 (0.73%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.36%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.36%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.36%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 40 (14.60%) Linux Engineer
2 32 (11.68%) Architect
3 31 (11.31%) Administrator
4 28 (10.22%) Senior
5 24 (8.76%) Lead
6 19 (6.93%) Linux Administrator
7 18 (6.57%) DevOps Engineer
7 18 (6.57%) Platform Engineer
8 16 (5.84%) Software Engineer
9 14 (5.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 13 (4.74%) Senior Linux Engineer
11 12 (4.38%) Systems Administrator
12 9 (3.28%) DBA
12 9 (3.28%) Oracle DBA
13 8 (2.92%) Lead Software Engineer
13 8 (2.92%) Solutions Architect
14 7 (2.55%) Security Engineer
14 7 (2.55%) Unix Engineer
15 6 (2.19%) Systems Engineer
16 5 (1.82%) Migration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (7.30%) LDAP
2 18 (6.57%) Middleware
3 9 (3.28%) YAML
4 8 (2.92%) Spring
5 6 (2.19%) EJB
5 6 (2.19%) Spring Boot
6 5 (1.82%) OpenLayers
6 5 (1.82%) REST
7 4 (1.46%) .NET
7 4 (1.46%) JSP
7 4 (1.46%) Kafka
8 3 (1.09%) Elastic Stack
8 3 (1.09%) FastAPI
8 3 (1.09%) Flask
8 3 (1.09%) Java EE
8 3 (1.09%) Java SE
8 3 (1.09%) JDBC
8 3 (1.09%) RabbitMQ
9 2 (0.73%) Loki
9 2 (0.73%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 36 (13.14%) Data Centre
2 18 (6.57%) Cloud Native
3 15 (5.47%) Clustering
3 15 (5.47%) Management Information System
4 12 (4.38%) Hybrid Cloud
5 11 (4.01%) Onboarding
6 9 (3.28%) Legacy Systems
7 8 (2.92%) Enterprise Software
7 8 (2.92%) Product Ownership
7 8 (2.92%) Public Cloud
7 8 (2.92%) Replication
8 7 (2.55%) Legacy Applications
9 6 (2.19%) FlexPod
9 6 (2.19%) PKI
10 5 (1.82%) Data Protection Act
10 5 (1.82%) Security Posture
11 4 (1.46%) EMC VMAX
11 4 (1.46%) Enterprise Storage
11 4 (1.46%) Linux Command Line
11 4 (1.46%) NVMe
Operating Systems
1 274 (100.00%) Linux
2 93 (33.94%) Windows
3 43 (15.69%) Ubuntu
4 41 (14.96%) Windows Server
5 35 (12.77%) CentOS
6 23 (8.39%) Unix
7 20 (7.30%) Solaris
8 18 (6.57%) VMS
9 15 (5.47%) Windows Server 2019
10 12 (4.38%) Oracle Linux
10 12 (4.38%) Windows Server 2016
11 9 (3.28%) Windows Server 2008
12 8 (2.92%) AIX
12 8 (2.92%) CoreOS
12 8 (2.92%) Rocky
12 8 (2.92%) SUSE
13 7 (2.55%) Debian
14 6 (2.19%) Data ONTAP
15 4 (1.46%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
15 4 (1.46%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (29.20%) CI/CD
2 75 (27.37%) DevOps
3 55 (20.07%) Problem-Solving
4 41 (14.96%) Infrastructure as Code
5 39 (14.23%) Agile
5 39 (14.23%) Migration
6 36 (13.14%) Continuous Improvement
7 35 (12.77%) High Availability
8 34 (12.41%) Containerisation
9 33 (12.04%) Performance Tuning
10 32 (11.68%) ITIL
10 32 (11.68%) Platform Engineering
11 27 (9.85%) SIEM
12 25 (9.12%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 25 (9.12%) Roadmaps
13 24 (8.76%) Software Engineering
14 23 (8.39%) RBAC
15 22 (8.03%) Change Management
15 22 (8.03%) Configuration Management
15 22 (8.03%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 94 (34.31%) Python
2 56 (20.44%) Bash
3 54 (19.71%) PowerShell
4 37 (13.50%) Shell Script
5 30 (10.95%) SQL
6 25 (9.12%) Java
7 22 (8.03%) Perl
8 11 (4.01%) PL/SQL
9 10 (3.65%) JavaScript
10 9 (3.28%) Go
10 9 (3.28%) MATLAB
11 8 (2.92%) Ruby
12 5 (1.82%) Korn
13 4 (1.46%) C#
14 3 (1.09%) Jython
15 2 (0.73%) C++
16 1 (0.36%) Bicep
16 1 (0.36%) Groovy
16 1 (0.36%) Rust
16 1 (0.36%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 127 (46.35%) Security Cleared
2 96 (35.04%) SC Cleared
3 26 (9.49%) DV Cleared
4 22 (8.03%) RHCE
5 21 (7.66%) Degree
6 16 (5.84%) OCP
6 16 (5.84%) Oracle Certification
7 11 (4.01%) Azure Certification
8 10 (3.65%) CISSP
9 7 (2.55%) Computer Science Degree
10 5 (1.82%) CompTIA Security+
10 5 (1.82%) RHCA
11 4 (1.46%) BPSS Clearance
11 4 (1.46%) RHCSA
11 4 (1.46%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 3 (1.09%) AWS Certification
12 3 (1.09%) CESG Certified Professional
12 3 (1.09%) CISM
12 3 (1.09%) TOGAF Certification
12 3 (1.09%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (3.65%) SLA
2 7 (2.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (1.82%) GDPR
3 5 (1.82%) NIST
4 4 (1.46%) Cyber Essentials
4 4 (1.46%) GRC
4 4 (1.46%) NCSC
4 4 (1.46%) QA
5 3 (1.09%) NIST 800
6 2 (0.73%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.36%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.36%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.36%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 1 (0.36%) OpenSCAP
7 1 (0.36%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.36%) SOC 2
System Software
1 53 (19.34%) VMware Infrastructure
2 35 (12.77%) Docker
3 30 (10.95%) Active Directory
4 28 (10.22%) Virtual Machines
5 21 (7.66%) VMware ESXi
5 21 (7.66%) vSphere
6 12 (4.38%) Oracle RAC
7 10 (3.65%) NFS
8 8 (2.92%) Hyper-V
9 7 (2.55%) VMware NSX
10 6 (2.19%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 5 (1.82%) Corosync
11 5 (1.82%) Postfix
12 4 (1.46%) Ceph
12 4 (1.46%) Firmware
13 3 (1.09%) GPFS
13 3 (1.09%) QEMU
14 2 (0.73%) KVM
14 2 (0.73%) Lustre
14 2 (0.73%) Samba
Systems Management
1 111 (40.51%) Ansible
2 60 (21.90%) Kubernetes
3 47 (17.15%) Terraform
4 25 (9.12%) Red Hat Satellite
5 19 (6.93%) Grafana
6 17 (6.20%) Podman
6 17 (6.20%) Puppet
7 16 (5.84%) Oracle RMAN
8 11 (4.01%) Check_MK
8 11 (4.01%) Prometheus
8 11 (4.01%) vCenter Server
9 10 (3.65%) Progress Chef
10 9 (3.28%) Failover Clustering
11 8 (2.92%) Argo
11 8 (2.92%) Data Guard
12 7 (2.55%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
13 6 (2.19%) SCOM
13 6 (2.19%) SnapMirror
13 6 (2.19%) vMotion
14 5 (1.82%) vRealize
Vendors
1 164 (59.85%) Red Hat
2 79 (28.83%) VMware
3 51 (18.61%) Oracle
4 40 (14.60%) Microsoft
5 23 (8.39%) Splunk
6 21 (7.66%) Dell
7 17 (6.20%) Cisco
7 17 (6.20%) IBM
8 11 (4.01%) NetApp
9 10 (3.65%) Google
9 10 (3.65%) HP
9 10 (3.65%) ServiceNow
10 8 (2.92%) NVIDIA
11 7 (2.55%) Brocade
12 6 (2.19%) Broadcom
12 6 (2.19%) Commvault
12 6 (2.19%) SAP
12 6 (2.19%) Tenable
13 5 (1.82%) Fortinet
13 5 (1.82%) Veritas