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 16 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 338 254 211
Rank change year-on-year -84 -43 +25
Contract jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 258 355 556
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.73% 0.97% 1.18%
As % of the Operating Systems category 5.39% 6.87% 7.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 175 231 389
10th Percentile £358 £380 £400
25th Percentile £425 £456 £465
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £645
90th Percentile £670 £706 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -7.41% +2.86% -3.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 2 9
10th Percentile £67.13 - £24.31
25th Percentile £81.82 - £51.25
Median hourly rate £114.00 £112.00 £72.50
Median % change year-on-year +1.79% +54.48% -
75th Percentile £119.00 - £73.75
90th Percentile - - £74.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £114.00 - £72.50
% change year-on-year - - -0.68%

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 4,787 5,166 7,191
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 13.56% 14.12% 15.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,080 3,172 4,880
10th Percentile £185 £200 £181
25th Percentile £270 £326 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £480
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -1.04% -5.88%
75th Percentile £575 £584 £613
90th Percentile £660 £688 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £410 £450 £440
% change year-on-year -8.89% +2.27% -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 365 219 358
10th Percentile £15.50 £16.25 £14.96
25th Percentile £18.87 £22.80 £18.50
Median hourly rate £24.00 £52.50 £35.92
Median % change year-on-year -54.29% +46.16% +43.68%
75th Percentile £43.75 £68.46 £65.00
90th Percentile £67.00 £70.00 £76.53
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.58 £52.50 £28.75
% change year-on-year -57.00% +82.61% +27.78%

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 16 November 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 16 November 2025.

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 16 November 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 -64 225 £525 -8.70% 93
UK excluding London -65 150 £500 -7.41% 51
Work from Home -17 78 £538 +5.13% 39
London -44 73 £525 -12.50% 56
South East -19 43 £485 -16.38% 25
North of England -31 38 £550 -10.57% 4
South West -9 23 £550 -5.50% 5
Midlands -63 22 £537 -5.79% 11
North West -15 20 £550 +10.00% 3
West Midlands -46 16 £581 -0.17% 11
Yorkshire -43 15 £500 -29.82%
Scotland -34 11 £503 +4.80% 2
East of England -10 8 £450 -18.18% 4
North East -8 6 £550 - 1
East Midlands -16 6 £420 -19.23%
Northern Ireland - 5 £350 - 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 18 (6.98%) Apache
2 8 (3.10%) JBoss
2 8 (3.10%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (2.33%) SharePoint
3 6 (2.33%) Tomcat
4 4 (1.55%) Documentum
4 4 (1.55%) nginx
4 4 (1.55%) SAS
5 3 (1.16%) Apache Spark
5 3 (1.16%) Confluence
5 3 (1.16%) FileNet
5 3 (1.16%) WebLogic
6 2 (0.78%) NetWeaver
6 2 (0.78%) Oracle HTTP Server
7 1 (0.39%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.39%) CMS
7 1 (0.39%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.39%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.39%) SharePoint Server
7 1 (0.39%) WebSphere
Applications
1 4 (1.55%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (1.55%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.78%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 2 (0.78%) SAP S/4HANA
1 2 (0.78%) Teamcenter
2 1 (0.39%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.39%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 57 (22.09%) AWS
2 36 (13.95%) OpenShift
3 25 (9.69%) Azure
4 19 (7.36%) GitHub
5 15 (5.81%) Amazon S3
6 14 (5.43%) Amazon EC2
6 14 (5.43%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 13 (5.04%) Entra ID
8 12 (4.65%) GCP
9 9 (3.49%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 9 (3.49%) AWS CloudFormation
10 7 (2.71%) Amazon ECS
10 7 (2.71%) AWS Fargate
10 7 (2.71%) Azure DevOps
11 6 (2.33%) SaaS
12 5 (1.94%) npm
13 4 (1.55%) GitHub Actions
13 4 (1.55%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 4 (1.55%) OCI
13 4 (1.55%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 36 (13.95%) Firewall
2 32 (12.40%) DNS
3 17 (6.59%) SAN
4 13 (5.04%) TCP/IP
5 11 (4.26%) SMTP
5 11 (4.26%) VLAN
6 9 (3.49%) DHCP
6 9 (3.49%) DKIM
6 9 (3.49%) DMARC
7 7 (2.71%) BGP
8 6 (2.33%) Internet
8 6 (2.33%) Software-Defined Networking
8 6 (2.33%) SSL
8 6 (2.33%) WebEx
9 5 (1.94%) AMQP
9 5 (1.94%) Network Security
10 4 (1.55%) NAS
10 4 (1.55%) VPN
10 4 (1.55%) VSAN
11 3 (1.16%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (8.91%) MongoDB
2 18 (6.98%) Oracle Database
3 12 (4.65%) MySQL
3 12 (4.65%) RDBMS
3 12 (4.65%) Relational Database
4 10 (3.88%) Elasticsearch
4 10 (3.88%) PostgreSQL
5 8 (3.10%) SQL Server
6 7 (2.71%) Amazon RDS
6 7 (2.71%) Data Warehouse
7 5 (1.94%) MariaDB
8 4 (1.55%) InfluxDB
9 3 (1.16%) Apache Cassandra
9 3 (1.16%) Big Data
9 3 (1.16%) Data Lake
9 3 (1.16%) Hadoop
10 2 (0.78%) DB2
10 2 (0.78%) Oracle BI Publisher
10 2 (0.78%) Oracle Exadata
10 2 (0.78%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 32 (12.40%) Jenkins
2 28 (10.85%) Git
3 22 (8.53%) GitLab
4 16 (6.20%) Sonatype Nexus
5 14 (5.43%) JIRA
6 10 (3.88%) Maven
7 9 (3.49%) TeamCity
8 6 (2.33%) SonarQube
9 5 (1.94%) Artifactory
9 5 (1.94%) Postman
9 5 (1.94%) Subversion
10 4 (1.55%) Bitbucket
10 4 (1.55%) Bitbucket Server
10 4 (1.55%) CA Release Automation
10 4 (1.55%) MSI
10 4 (1.55%) Robot Framework
10 4 (1.55%) Terragrunt
11 3 (1.16%) Gradle
11 3 (1.16%) Mockito
11 3 (1.16%) Vagrant
General
1 71 (27.52%) Social Skills
2 34 (13.18%) Finance
3 30 (11.63%) Analytical Skills
4 28 (10.85%) Public Sector
5 8 (3.10%) Documentation Skills
6 6 (2.33%) Banking
6 6 (2.33%) Financial Institution
6 6 (2.33%) Legal
7 5 (1.94%) Manufacturing
8 2 (0.78%) Aerospace
8 2 (0.78%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.39%) Automotive
9 1 (0.39%) Back Office
9 1 (0.39%) Billing
9 1 (0.39%) Electronics
9 1 (0.39%) Front Office
9 1 (0.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.39%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.39%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.39%) Military
Job Titles
1 35 (13.57%) Linux Engineer
2 34 (13.18%) Administrator
3 22 (8.53%) Architect
4 21 (8.14%) DevOps Engineer
5 20 (7.75%) Senior
6 16 (6.20%) Linux Administrator
6 16 (6.20%) Platform Engineer
7 14 (5.43%) Systems Administrator
8 13 (5.04%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 12 (4.65%) Consultant
9 12 (4.65%) Developer
10 11 (4.26%) Integration Engineer
10 11 (4.26%) Lead
10 11 (4.26%) Support Engineer
11 10 (3.88%) Applications Engineer
11 10 (3.88%) Linux Systems Administrator
11 10 (3.88%) Site Engineer
11 10 (3.88%) Site Reliability Engineer
12 9 (3.49%) Systems Engineer
13 7 (2.71%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (5.43%) Kafka
2 11 (4.26%) Loki
3 9 (3.49%) Elastic Stack
3 9 (3.49%) REST
3 9 (3.49%) Spring Boot
4 8 (3.10%) Keycloak
4 8 (3.10%) Middleware
5 7 (2.71%) cloud-init
6 6 (2.33%) AWS CDK
6 6 (2.33%) JSON
6 6 (2.33%) Spring
6 6 (2.33%) XMPP
7 5 (1.94%) LDAP
8 4 (1.55%) RESTful
9 3 (1.16%) ActiveMQ
9 3 (1.16%) ARM Templates
9 3 (1.16%) LAMP
9 3 (1.16%) OpenTelemetry
9 3 (1.16%) SAP Basis
9 3 (1.16%) Spring Security
Miscellaneous
1 20 (7.75%) Data Centre
2 18 (6.98%) Cloud Native
3 15 (5.81%) Clustering
4 13 (5.04%) PKI
4 13 (5.04%) Product Ownership
5 11 (4.26%) Onboarding
6 10 (3.88%) Enterprise Storage
7 9 (3.49%) Legacy Systems
8 8 (3.10%) Virtual Team
9 7 (2.71%) Legacy Applications
9 7 (2.71%) Replication
10 6 (2.33%) Enterprise Software
10 6 (2.33%) Hybrid Cloud
11 5 (1.94%) Hedge funds
11 5 (1.94%) Self-Motivation
12 4 (1.55%) Data Protection Act
12 4 (1.55%) Linux Command Line
12 4 (1.55%) Public Cloud
13 3 (1.16%) Client/Server
13 3 (1.16%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 258 (100.00%) Linux
2 84 (32.56%) Windows
3 44 (17.05%) Windows Server
4 42 (16.28%) CentOS
5 30 (11.63%) Unix
6 29 (11.24%) Ubuntu
7 18 (6.98%) Solaris
8 14 (5.43%) Windows Server 2019
9 10 (3.88%) Windows Server 2016
10 6 (2.33%) AIX
10 6 (2.33%) Oracle Linux
10 6 (2.33%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
11 5 (1.94%) OpenVMS
12 4 (1.55%) Windows Server 2012
13 3 (1.16%) Debian
14 2 (0.78%) Mac OS
14 2 (0.78%) SUSE
14 2 (0.78%) Windows 10
14 2 (0.78%) Windows Server 2008
15 1 (0.39%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (32.17%) CI/CD
2 63 (24.42%) DevOps
3 54 (20.93%) Agile
4 50 (19.38%) Infrastructure as Code
5 45 (17.44%) Containerisation
5 45 (17.44%) Problem-Solving
6 36 (13.95%) High Availability
6 36 (13.95%) Migration
7 34 (13.18%) Observability
8 28 (10.85%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 27 (10.47%) Disaster Recovery
10 22 (8.53%) Configuration Management
11 21 (8.14%) Continuous Improvement
11 21 (8.14%) Microservices
11 21 (8.14%) Stakeholder Management
12 20 (7.75%) Patch Management
13 19 (7.36%) Platform Engineering
14 18 (6.98%) Infrastructure Automation
14 18 (6.98%) ITIL
15 17 (6.59%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 95 (36.82%) Python
2 90 (34.88%) Bash
3 40 (15.50%) PowerShell
4 33 (12.79%) Shell Script
5 28 (10.85%) Perl
6 25 (9.69%) Java
7 18 (6.98%) SQL
8 9 (3.49%) Go
9 7 (2.71%) PHP
10 6 (2.33%) JavaScript
11 4 (1.55%) Rust
12 3 (1.16%) C++
12 3 (1.16%) PL/SQL
12 3 (1.16%) VBScript
13 2 (0.78%) AWK
13 2 (0.78%) C
13 2 (0.78%) C#
13 2 (0.78%) Groovy
13 2 (0.78%) sed
14 1 (0.39%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 106 (41.09%) Security Cleared
2 78 (30.23%) SC Cleared
3 26 (10.08%) DV Cleared
4 11 (4.26%) CCNP
4 11 (4.26%) Cisco Certification
5 10 (3.88%) CCNA
5 10 (3.88%) Degree
6 9 (3.49%) BPSS Clearance
6 9 (3.49%) CCDP
7 8 (3.10%) RHCE
8 5 (1.94%) AWS Certification
9 4 (1.55%) RHCSA
10 3 (1.16%) Computer Science Degree
10 3 (1.16%) SAP Certification
11 2 (0.78%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 2 (0.78%) TOGAF Certification
12 1 (0.39%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
12 1 (0.39%) CISM
12 1 (0.39%) CISSP
12 1 (0.39%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (3.10%) QA
2 7 (2.71%) NCSC
3 5 (1.94%) GDPR
4 4 (1.55%) NIST
4 4 (1.55%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 2 (0.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.39%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.39%) Def Stans
6 1 (0.39%) HL7
6 1 (0.39%) ISO 15022
6 1 (0.39%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.39%) NIST 800
6 1 (0.39%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 55 (21.32%) VMware Infrastructure
2 42 (16.28%) Docker
3 31 (12.02%) Active Directory
4 12 (4.65%) vSphere
5 10 (3.88%) VMware ESXi
6 9 (3.49%) Postfix
7 7 (2.71%) KVM
7 7 (2.71%) Virtual Machines
8 6 (2.33%) Dovecot
8 6 (2.33%) NFS
8 6 (2.33%) Oracle RAC
9 5 (1.94%) Veritas Cluster Server
10 4 (1.55%) Hyper-V
10 4 (1.55%) Veritas File System
10 4 (1.55%) Veritas Volume Manager
11 3 (1.16%) GPFS
12 2 (0.78%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 2 (0.78%) VirtualBox
12 2 (0.78%) VMware NSX
13 1 (0.39%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 94 (36.43%) Ansible
2 69 (26.74%) Kubernetes
3 56 (21.71%) Terraform
4 29 (11.24%) Grafana
4 29 (11.24%) Red Hat Satellite
5 24 (9.30%) Prometheus
6 16 (6.20%) Argo
7 14 (5.43%) Puppet
8 13 (5.04%) Progress Chef
9 11 (4.26%) SCOM
10 10 (3.88%) Kustomize
11 8 (3.10%) Nagios
12 7 (2.71%) Jamf Pro
12 7 (2.71%) NetBackup
12 7 (2.71%) Packer
13 6 (2.33%) EMC NetWorker
13 6 (2.33%) EMC VPLEX
13 6 (2.33%) Kibana
13 6 (2.33%) Podman
13 6 (2.33%) SCCM
Vendors
1 157 (60.85%) Red Hat
2 90 (34.88%) VMware
3 44 (17.05%) Oracle
4 33 (12.79%) Splunk
5 25 (9.69%) Microsoft
6 20 (7.75%) Cisco
7 15 (5.81%) Dell
8 13 (5.04%) Citrix
9 10 (3.88%) HP
10 9 (3.49%) CyberArk
11 8 (3.10%) Qualys
11 8 (3.10%) Veritas
12 7 (2.71%) 3PAR
12 7 (2.71%) IBM
12 7 (2.71%) NetApp
12 7 (2.71%) Okta
13 6 (2.33%) Broadcom
13 6 (2.33%) MuleSoft
13 6 (2.33%) Nimble Storage
13 6 (2.33%) ServiceNow