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

6 months to
14 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 350 306 264
Rank change year-on-year -44 -42 -38
Contract jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 344 267 328
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.64% 0.81% 0.84%
As % of the Operating Systems category 6.64% 6.13% 6.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 234 194 247
10th Percentile £372 £358 £356
25th Percentile £437 £411 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £522
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +0.57% -10.77%
75th Percentile £588 £597 £600
90th Percentile £668 £675 £672
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £509 £525
% change year-on-year -1.72% -3.10% -3.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 0 2
10th Percentile £36.44 - £65.18
25th Percentile £40.80 - £67.31
Median hourly rate £51.02 - £72.75
75th Percentile £75.00 - £76.31
90th Percentile £80.50 - £77.33
UK excluding London median hourly rate £51.02 - £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 5,181 4,353 5,464
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.70% 13.22% 14.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,277 2,780 3,621
10th Percentile £193 £191 £200
25th Percentile £319 £311 £331
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £460 £475
Median % change year-on-year +3.26% -3.16% -5.00%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £588
90th Percentile £663 £675 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £457 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +1.44% -5.26% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 360 262 334
10th Percentile £14.50 £15.50 £12.44
25th Percentile £17.60 £18.19 £17.69
Median hourly rate £26.00 £24.58 £30.50
Median % change year-on-year +5.78% -19.41% -24.36%
75th Percentile £65.00 £57.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £72.55 £67.90 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.00 £23.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year +21.74% -48.89% +63.64%

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 14 August 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 14 August 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 14 August 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 -22 309 £500 -4.76% 70
UK excluding London -34 217 £500 -1.72% 43
London -34 104 £500 -9.09% 33
Work from Home -65 78 £484 -7.90% 21
North of England -37 73 £500 +24.38% 12
South East -52 50 £455 -17.27% 9
North West -25 40 £482 +22.65% 10
South West -18 39 £543 -1.36% 15
Yorkshire -27 33 £500 +5.26% 1
East of England +5 28 £525 +56.72% 1
Scotland -26 13 £500 - 5
Midlands -55 13 £530 -1.58% 2
East Midlands -16 8 £530 +14.59%
West Midlands -64 5 £508 -7.94% 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 13 (3.78%) nginx
2 12 (3.49%) Apache
3 11 (3.20%) JBoss
4 10 (2.91%) Confluence
5 8 (2.33%) Tomcat
6 7 (2.03%) WebSphere
7 6 (1.74%) SharePoint
8 5 (1.45%) Microsoft Exchange
9 3 (0.87%) IBM HTTP Server
9 3 (0.87%) OpenStack
9 3 (0.87%) SAS
9 3 (0.87%) WebLogic
9 3 (0.87%) WebSphere Application Server
10 2 (0.58%) Documentum
10 2 (0.58%) Oracle HTTP Server
10 2 (0.58%) WebSphere Portal
11 1 (0.29%) Apache Airflow
11 1 (0.29%) Red Hat Fuse
11 1 (0.29%) Traefik
Applications
1 4 (1.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.29%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.29%) FLEXCUBE
1 1 (0.29%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (0.29%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 107 (31.10%) AWS
2 85 (24.71%) Azure
3 41 (11.92%) OpenShift
4 34 (9.88%) GCP
5 27 (7.85%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 23 (6.69%) GitHub
7 20 (5.81%) Amazon EC2
8 19 (5.52%) Datadog
9 17 (4.94%) Amazon EKS
9 17 (4.94%) Amazon S3
9 17 (4.94%) AWS CloudFormation
9 17 (4.94%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 16 (4.65%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 15 (4.36%) Serverless
12 14 (4.07%) IaaS
13 13 (3.78%) Azure Monitor
13 13 (3.78%) Entra ID
14 12 (3.49%) AWS Lambda
14 12 (3.49%) GitHub Actions
15 11 (3.20%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 49 (14.24%) Firewall
2 47 (13.66%) DNS
3 37 (10.76%) SAN
4 17 (4.94%) DHCP
4 17 (4.94%) VLAN
5 16 (4.65%) TCP/IP
6 15 (4.36%) Kerberos
6 15 (4.36%) SSL
7 14 (4.07%) Network Security
8 13 (3.78%) VPN
9 9 (2.62%) SSH
10 6 (1.74%) iSCSI
10 6 (1.74%) VSAN
10 6 (1.74%) WAN
11 5 (1.45%) HTTP
11 5 (1.45%) VoIP
12 4 (1.16%) NAS
13 3 (0.87%) FTP
13 3 (0.87%) Intrusion Detection
13 3 (0.87%) OpenVPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (7.27%) Oracle Database
2 24 (6.98%) PostgreSQL
3 16 (4.65%) SQL Server
4 11 (3.20%) MySQL
5 9 (2.62%) Amazon RDS
6 7 (2.03%) MongoDB
6 7 (2.03%) Oracle Database 12c
6 7 (2.03%) SAP HANA
7 5 (1.45%) Big Data
7 5 (1.45%) Elasticsearch
7 5 (1.45%) Hadoop
8 4 (1.16%) Data Lake
8 4 (1.16%) Data Warehouse
8 4 (1.16%) Redis
8 4 (1.16%) Relational Database
9 3 (0.87%) GIS
10 2 (0.58%) Azure SQL Database
10 2 (0.58%) SQLite
10 2 (0.58%) Sybase ASE
11 1 (0.29%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 49 (14.24%) Jenkins
2 42 (12.21%) Git
3 37 (10.76%) GitLab
4 14 (4.07%) JIRA
5 7 (2.03%) Sonatype Nexus
6 6 (1.74%) Artifactory
7 3 (0.87%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 3 (0.87%) Bitbucket
7 3 (0.87%) Introscope
7 3 (0.87%) Toad
8 2 (0.58%) Cucumber
8 2 (0.58%) Maven
8 2 (0.58%) Robot Framework
8 2 (0.58%) Zephyr
9 1 (0.29%) Ant
9 1 (0.29%) PVCS
General
1 66 (19.19%) Social Skills
2 52 (15.12%) Finance
3 33 (9.59%) Analytical Skills
4 30 (8.72%) Banking
5 26 (7.56%) Public Sector
6 24 (6.98%) Documentation Skills
7 11 (3.20%) Legal
8 6 (1.74%) Military
9 5 (1.45%) Aerospace
9 5 (1.45%) Publishing
9 5 (1.45%) Retail
10 4 (1.16%) Manufacturing
11 3 (0.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (0.58%) Aviation
12 2 (0.58%) Financial Institution
12 2 (0.58%) Investment Banking
12 2 (0.58%) Law
12 2 (0.58%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.58%) Telecoms
13 1 (0.29%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 73 (21.22%) Linux Engineer
2 51 (14.83%) Senior
3 35 (10.17%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 31 (9.01%) Cloud Engineer
5 28 (8.14%) DevOps Engineer
6 22 (6.40%) Administrator
7 21 (6.10%) Architect
8 20 (5.81%) Platform Engineer
9 17 (4.94%) Lead
9 17 (4.94%) Security Engineer
10 16 (4.65%) Linux Administrator
10 16 (4.65%) Senior Linux Engineer
11 14 (4.07%) AWS Engineer
12 13 (3.78%) Systems Engineer
12 13 (3.78%) Unix Engineer
13 12 (3.49%) Linux Systems Engineer
13 12 (3.49%) Software Engineer
14 10 (2.91%) Systems Administrator
15 9 (2.62%) Azure Engineer
15 9 (2.62%) Linux Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (4.07%) Middleware
1 14 (4.07%) REST
2 11 (3.20%) LDAP
3 9 (2.62%) Kafka
4 7 (2.03%) Elastic Stack
4 7 (2.03%) JSON
5 6 (1.74%) Azure Blueprints
6 5 (1.45%) .NET
6 5 (1.45%) ARM Templates
6 5 (1.45%) OAuth
6 5 (1.45%) Vue
6 5 (1.45%) WebSphere MQ
7 4 (1.16%) Celery
7 4 (1.16%) Django
7 4 (1.16%) JWT
7 4 (1.16%) RabbitMQ
7 4 (1.16%) React
7 4 (1.16%) Spring
7 4 (1.16%) XML
7 4 (1.16%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 48 (13.95%) Cloud Native
2 29 (8.43%) Security Posture
3 23 (6.69%) Replication
4 21 (6.10%) Clustering
4 21 (6.10%) Data Centre
5 18 (5.23%) Management Information System
6 17 (4.94%) Hybrid Cloud
7 16 (4.65%) Onboarding
8 13 (3.78%) Linux Command Line
8 13 (3.78%) PKI
9 11 (3.20%) Legacy Systems
10 9 (2.62%) Data Protection Act
10 9 (2.62%) Enterprise Software
10 9 (2.62%) Product Ownership
10 9 (2.62%) Virtual Team
11 8 (2.33%) Enterprise Cloud
11 8 (2.33%) Private Cloud
12 7 (2.03%) Mainframe
13 6 (1.74%) Enterprise Storage
13 6 (1.74%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 344 (100.00%) Linux
2 123 (35.76%) Windows
3 61 (17.73%) Windows Server
4 42 (12.21%) Ubuntu
5 39 (11.34%) Unix
6 38 (11.05%) CentOS
7 24 (6.98%) Solaris
8 18 (5.23%) Rocky
9 14 (4.07%) Oracle Linux
10 13 (3.78%) AIX
10 13 (3.78%) SUSE
11 12 (3.49%) VMS
11 12 (3.49%) Windows Server 2019
12 6 (1.74%) HPUX
12 6 (1.74%) Windows Server 2008
12 6 (1.74%) Windows Server 2016
13 5 (1.45%) CoreOS
13 5 (1.45%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
13 5 (1.45%) Windows 10
13 5 (1.45%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 114 (33.14%) CI/CD
2 113 (32.85%) DevOps
3 75 (21.80%) Infrastructure as Code
4 62 (18.02%) Configuration Management
4 62 (18.02%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 60 (17.44%) Agile
6 58 (16.86%) Migration
7 57 (16.57%) ITIL
8 50 (14.53%) Containerisation
9 48 (13.95%) Change Management
9 48 (13.95%) Platform Engineering
10 44 (12.79%) Continuous Improvement
10 44 (12.79%) Observability
11 43 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
12 42 (12.21%) Performance Tuning
13 40 (11.63%) High Availability
14 37 (10.76%) Runbook
15 34 (9.88%) Cloud Security
16 32 (9.30%) Infrastructure Automation
17 31 (9.01%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 143 (41.57%) Python
2 96 (27.91%) Bash
3 92 (26.74%) PowerShell
4 35 (10.17%) Java
5 25 (7.27%) Shell Script
6 24 (6.98%) SQL
7 15 (4.36%) Perl
8 11 (3.20%) C
8 11 (3.20%) C++
9 10 (2.91%) Bicep
10 8 (2.33%) JavaScript
10 8 (2.33%) PL/SQL
11 7 (2.03%) Go
11 7 (2.03%) Korn
12 5 (1.45%) C#
12 5 (1.45%) Groovy
13 4 (1.16%) MATLAB
14 3 (0.87%) Jython
14 3 (0.87%) Search Processing Language
15 1 (0.29%) R
Qualifications
1 151 (43.90%) Security Cleared
2 115 (33.43%) SC Cleared
3 34 (9.88%) Degree
4 30 (8.72%) DV Cleared
5 26 (7.56%) AWS Certification
5 26 (7.56%) CISSP
6 24 (6.98%) Azure Certification
7 18 (5.23%) RHCE
8 11 (3.20%) Computer Science Degree
9 7 (2.03%) CompTIA Security+
10 6 (1.74%) CISM
10 6 (1.74%) OCP
10 6 (1.74%) Oracle Certification
11 5 (1.45%) Microsoft Certification
11 5 (1.45%) RHCSA
12 3 (0.87%) RHCA
13 2 (0.58%) GIAC
13 2 (0.58%) ISSAP
13 2 (0.58%) PMI Certification
13 2 (0.58%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (2.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 9 (2.62%) SLA
2 7 (2.03%) NIST
3 6 (1.74%) QA
4 5 (1.45%) GRC
4 5 (1.45%) NCSC
5 4 (1.16%) Disclosure Scotland
5 4 (1.16%) SOC 2
6 3 (0.87%) HIPAA
6 3 (0.87%) ISO 15022
6 3 (0.87%) ISO 20022
6 3 (0.87%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.29%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.29%) OpenSCAP
7 1 (0.29%) PMO
7 1 (0.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 62 (18.02%) Docker
2 47 (13.66%) VMware Infrastructure
3 39 (11.34%) Active Directory
4 36 (10.47%) Virtual Machines
5 16 (4.65%) NFS
5 16 (4.65%) VMware ESXi
6 14 (4.07%) Hyper-V
7 13 (3.78%) vSphere
8 9 (2.62%) Oracle RAC
9 6 (1.74%) Corosync
10 4 (1.16%) Ceph
11 3 (0.87%) Firmware
11 3 (0.87%) Veritas Volume Manager
12 2 (0.58%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 2 (0.58%) KVM
12 2 (0.58%) Samba
12 2 (0.58%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 2 (0.58%) Squid
12 2 (0.58%) SRDF
12 2 (0.58%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 128 (37.21%) Ansible
2 95 (27.62%) Kubernetes
3 92 (26.74%) Terraform
4 38 (11.05%) Puppet
5 36 (10.47%) Progress Chef
6 26 (7.56%) Red Hat Satellite
7 25 (7.27%) Grafana
8 21 (6.10%) Prometheus
9 18 (5.23%) Failover Clustering
10 13 (3.78%) NetBackup
11 12 (3.49%) Oracle RMAN
12 8 (2.33%) Packer
13 7 (2.03%) Pacemaker
13 7 (2.03%) Podman
13 7 (2.03%) systemd
13 7 (2.03%) vCenter Server
14 6 (1.74%) SELinux
15 5 (1.45%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
15 5 (1.45%) Tivoli
15 5 (1.45%) WSUS
Vendors
1 179 (52.03%) Red Hat
2 62 (18.02%) VMware
3 59 (17.15%) Microsoft
4 55 (15.99%) Oracle
5 28 (8.14%) Google
6 22 (6.40%) Splunk
7 20 (5.81%) IBM
7 20 (5.81%) ServiceNow
8 17 (4.94%) Cisco
9 16 (4.65%) NetApp
10 12 (3.49%) Veeam
11 11 (3.20%) SaltStack
12 10 (2.91%) HP
13 9 (2.62%) Dell
14 8 (2.33%) Qualys
14 8 (2.33%) SAP
15 7 (2.03%) Rapid7
15 7 (2.03%) Tenable
16 6 (1.74%) McAfee
17 5 (1.45%) TOWER Software