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

 6 months to
27 May 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 361 264 307
Rank change year-on-year -97 +43 -98
Contract jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 285 280 295
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.58% 0.98% 0.69%
As % of the Operating Systems category 6.00% 7.08% 5.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 185 211 220
10th Percentile £400 £400 £350
25th Percentile £425 £448 £434
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £520
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +5.77% -13.33%
75th Percentile £588 £631 £603
90th Percentile £655 £738 £673
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £550 £547
% change year-on-year -9.09% +0.64% -0.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 0 2
10th Percentile £40.86 - £65.18
25th Percentile £46.37 - £67.31
Median hourly rate £74.47 - £72.75
75th Percentile £85.63 - £76.31
90th Percentile £92.50 - £77.33
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 - £72.75
% change year-on-year - - +38.57%

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 4,747 3,957 5,734
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.74% 13.85% 13.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,029 2,607 3,886
10th Percentile £185 £200 £185
25th Percentile £313 £313 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £459 £467 £470
Median % change year-on-year -1.61% -0.74% -6.00%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £588
90th Percentile £650 £688 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £450 £450
% change year-on-year - - -3.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 345 172 401
10th Percentile £15.55 £15.23 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.25 £17.44 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.22 £21.95 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +60.46% -2.44% -47.06%
75th Percentile £65.00 £54.06 £60.75
90th Percentile £74.00 £68.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £34.57 £19.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year +81.92% -15.56% -28.00%

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 27 May 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 27 May 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 27 May 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 -106 233 £500 -10.71% 54
UK excluding London -58 198 £500 -9.09% 44
Work from Home -68 78 £500 -6.89% 12
North of England -51 62 £500 -1.94% 11
London -106 45 £488 -18.75% 13
South East -42 43 £479 -12.86% 12
Yorkshire -28 41 £508 -5.58% 6
South West -15 34 £543 -11.79% 16
East of England -4 28 £478 -20.33% 4
North West -44 19 £494 +11.64% 4
Scotland -18 14 £463 -2.32%
Midlands -72 14 £501 -7.31% 1
West Midlands -65 10 £493 -8.75%
East Midlands -29 4 £530 +4.74% 1
North East -25 2 £400 -30.43% 1
Wales - 2 £475 -
Northern Ireland +1 1 £375 +7.14%

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 15 (5.26%) nginx
2 12 (4.21%) Tomcat
3 11 (3.86%) Apache
4 10 (3.51%) Confluence
5 8 (2.81%) WebLogic
6 6 (2.11%) SAS
7 4 (1.40%) Microsoft Exchange
7 4 (1.40%) WebSphere
8 3 (1.05%) IBM HTTP Server
8 3 (1.05%) JBoss
8 3 (1.05%) OpenStack
8 3 (1.05%) SharePoint
8 3 (1.05%) WebSphere Application Server
9 2 (0.70%) Documentum
9 2 (0.70%) Oracle HTTP Server
9 2 (0.70%) WebSphere Portal
10 1 (0.35%) Red Hat Fuse
10 1 (0.35%) Traefik
Applications
1 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.35%) FLEXCUBE
1 1 (0.35%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (0.35%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 69 (24.21%) AWS
2 61 (21.40%) Azure
3 44 (15.44%) OpenShift
4 18 (6.32%) GitHub
5 16 (5.61%) GCP
6 14 (4.91%) Amazon EC2
6 14 (4.91%) Amazon S3
7 12 (4.21%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 9 (3.16%) Amazon EKS
9 7 (2.46%) AWS CloudFormation
9 7 (2.46%) Azure Sentinel
9 7 (2.46%) IaaS
10 6 (2.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 5 (1.75%) Azure Monitor
11 5 (1.75%) Azure Stack
11 5 (1.75%) GitHub Actions
11 5 (1.75%) Nutanix
12 4 (1.40%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 4 (1.40%) MinIO
12 4 (1.40%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 30 (10.53%) Firewall
2 28 (9.82%) SAN
3 26 (9.12%) DNS
4 12 (4.21%) VLAN
5 10 (3.51%) Kerberos
6 9 (3.16%) DHCP
6 9 (3.16%) HTTP
7 8 (2.81%) SSL
7 8 (2.81%) TCP/IP
8 7 (2.46%) Network Security
8 7 (2.46%) VPN
8 7 (2.46%) VSAN
9 6 (2.11%) iSCSI
10 5 (1.75%) Fibre Channel
10 5 (1.75%) WAN
11 4 (1.40%) NAS
12 3 (1.05%) SSH
13 2 (0.70%) FTP
13 2 (0.70%) InfiniBand
13 2 (0.70%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (8.07%) Oracle Database
2 16 (5.61%) PostgreSQL
3 12 (4.21%) MongoDB
4 10 (3.51%) SQL Server
5 7 (2.46%) Elasticsearch
5 7 (2.46%) SAP HANA
6 6 (2.11%) Data Warehouse
6 6 (2.11%) GIS
6 6 (2.11%) MySQL
7 4 (1.40%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (1.40%) Oracle Database 12c
7 4 (1.40%) Oracle Reports
8 3 (1.05%) Oracle Exadata
9 2 (0.70%) Data Lake
9 2 (0.70%) MariaDB
10 1 (0.35%) IBM InfoSphere
10 1 (0.35%) OpenStack Swift
10 1 (0.35%) RDBMS
10 1 (0.35%) Relational Database
10 1 (0.35%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 45 (15.79%) Jenkins
2 44 (15.44%) GitLab
3 38 (13.33%) Git
4 16 (5.61%) JIRA
5 6 (2.11%) Artifactory
6 5 (1.75%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 4 (1.40%) Sonatype Nexus
8 3 (1.05%) Introscope
9 2 (0.70%) Maven
9 2 (0.70%) Robot Framework
10 1 (0.35%) Ant
10 1 (0.35%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.35%) GoCD
10 1 (0.35%) PVCS
General
1 63 (22.11%) Social Skills
2 30 (10.53%) Public Sector
3 26 (9.12%) Documentation Skills
4 24 (8.42%) Finance
5 21 (7.37%) Banking
6 17 (5.96%) Analytical Skills
7 9 (3.16%) Aerospace
8 5 (1.75%) Legal
9 4 (1.40%) Telecoms
10 2 (0.70%) Aviation
10 2 (0.70%) Military
10 2 (0.70%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.35%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.35%) Front Office
11 1 (0.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.35%) International Banking
11 1 (0.35%) Law
11 1 (0.35%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.35%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.35%) Retail
Job Titles
1 46 (16.14%) Linux Engineer
2 29 (10.18%) Administrator
2 29 (10.18%) Senior
3 25 (8.77%) Lead
4 23 (8.07%) Architect
4 23 (8.07%) DevOps Engineer
5 22 (7.72%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 20 (7.02%) Linux Administrator
6 20 (7.02%) Platform Engineer
7 16 (5.61%) Software Engineer
8 15 (5.26%) Senior Linux Engineer
9 9 (3.16%) Lead Software Engineer
10 8 (2.81%) AWS Engineer
10 8 (2.81%) DBA
10 8 (2.81%) Oracle DBA
10 8 (2.81%) Systems Administrator
11 7 (2.46%) Security Engineer
11 7 (2.46%) Unix Engineer
12 6 (2.11%) Solutions Architect
13 5 (1.75%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (7.02%) Middleware
2 18 (6.32%) LDAP
3 9 (3.16%) YAML
4 8 (2.81%) Spring
5 7 (2.46%) EJB
6 6 (2.11%) Kafka
6 6 (2.11%) OpenLayers
7 5 (1.75%) Elastic Stack
7 5 (1.75%) REST
7 5 (1.75%) Spring Boot
8 4 (1.40%) .NET
8 4 (1.40%) Java EE
8 4 (1.40%) JSP
9 3 (1.05%) FastAPI
9 3 (1.05%) Flask
9 3 (1.05%) Java SE
9 3 (1.05%) JDBC
9 3 (1.05%) Keycloak
9 3 (1.05%) RabbitMQ
10 2 (0.70%) Oracle GoldenGate
Miscellaneous
1 40 (14.04%) Data Centre
2 22 (7.72%) Cloud Native
3 15 (5.26%) Management Information System
4 13 (4.56%) Clustering
4 13 (4.56%) Hybrid Cloud
4 13 (4.56%) Onboarding
5 10 (3.51%) Enterprise Software
5 10 (3.51%) Legacy Systems
5 10 (3.51%) Replication
6 8 (2.81%) Product Ownership
6 8 (2.81%) Public Cloud
7 7 (2.46%) Legacy Applications
7 7 (2.46%) PKI
8 6 (2.11%) Data Protection Act
8 6 (2.11%) FlexPod
8 6 (2.11%) Linux Command Line
8 6 (2.11%) Security Posture
9 4 (1.40%) EMC VMAX
9 4 (1.40%) Enterprise Storage
9 4 (1.40%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 285 (100.00%) Linux
2 96 (33.68%) Windows
3 43 (15.09%) Ubuntu
3 43 (15.09%) Windows Server
4 36 (12.63%) CentOS
5 22 (7.72%) Unix
6 21 (7.37%) Solaris
7 18 (6.32%) VMS
8 16 (5.61%) Windows Server 2019
9 11 (3.86%) Oracle Linux
9 11 (3.86%) Windows Server 2016
10 10 (3.51%) SUSE
10 10 (3.51%) Windows Server 2008
11 9 (3.16%) AIX
11 9 (3.16%) Rocky
12 8 (2.81%) CoreOS
13 7 (2.46%) Debian
14 6 (2.11%) Data ONTAP
14 6 (2.11%) Windows Server 2012
15 5 (1.75%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (31.58%) CI/CD
2 80 (28.07%) DevOps
3 52 (18.25%) Problem-Solving
4 44 (15.44%) Infrastructure as Code
5 42 (14.74%) Agile
5 42 (14.74%) Migration
6 39 (13.68%) ITIL
6 39 (13.68%) Performance Tuning
7 38 (13.33%) Containerisation
8 37 (12.98%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 36 (12.63%) Continuous Improvement
10 35 (12.28%) High Availability
10 35 (12.28%) Platform Engineering
11 28 (9.82%) Change Management
11 28 (9.82%) Runbook
12 27 (9.47%) Configuration Management
13 26 (9.12%) Software Engineering
14 24 (8.42%) Root Cause Analysis
15 23 (8.07%) Disaster Recovery
16 22 (7.72%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 99 (34.74%) Python
2 63 (22.11%) Bash
3 56 (19.65%) PowerShell
4 39 (13.68%) Shell Script
5 29 (10.18%) SQL
6 23 (8.07%) Java
7 18 (6.32%) Perl
8 13 (4.56%) PL/SQL
9 11 (3.86%) JavaScript
9 11 (3.86%) MATLAB
10 9 (3.16%) Go
11 8 (2.81%) Ruby
12 6 (2.11%) Korn
13 4 (1.40%) C#
14 3 (1.05%) Groovy
14 3 (1.05%) Jython
15 2 (0.70%) C
16 1 (0.35%) Bicep
16 1 (0.35%) C++
16 1 (0.35%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 134 (47.02%) Security Cleared
2 100 (35.09%) SC Cleared
3 30 (10.53%) DV Cleared
4 25 (8.77%) RHCE
5 24 (8.42%) Degree
6 16 (5.61%) OCP
6 16 (5.61%) Oracle Certification
7 11 (3.86%) Azure Certification
8 9 (3.16%) CISSP
8 9 (3.16%) Computer Science Degree
9 5 (1.75%) CompTIA Security+
9 5 (1.75%) RHCA
10 4 (1.40%) RHCSA
10 4 (1.40%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 3 (1.05%) AWS Certification
11 3 (1.05%) CISM
11 3 (1.05%) TOGAF Certification
11 3 (1.05%) VCAP
12 2 (0.70%) BPSS Clearance
12 2 (0.70%) NCDA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (4.91%) SLA
2 4 (1.40%) GRC
2 4 (1.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (1.40%) NCSC
2 4 (1.40%) QA
3 3 (1.05%) Cyber Essentials
3 3 (1.05%) GDPR
3 3 (1.05%) NIST
4 2 (0.70%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.35%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.35%) HMG Security Policy Framework
5 1 (0.35%) NIST 800
5 1 (0.35%) OpenSCAP
5 1 (0.35%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.35%) PMO
5 1 (0.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.35%) SOC 2
System Software
1 51 (17.89%) VMware Infrastructure
2 39 (13.68%) Docker
3 37 (12.98%) Active Directory
4 33 (11.58%) Virtual Machines
5 18 (6.32%) vSphere
6 17 (5.96%) VMware ESXi
7 16 (5.61%) NFS
8 11 (3.86%) Oracle RAC
9 9 (3.16%) Hyper-V
10 6 (2.11%) Corosync
10 6 (2.11%) VMware NSX
11 4 (1.40%) Ceph
11 4 (1.40%) Firmware
11 4 (1.40%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 3 (1.05%) KVM
12 3 (1.05%) QEMU
13 2 (0.70%) Citrix Hypervisor
13 2 (0.70%) Samba
13 2 (0.70%) SRDF
13 2 (0.70%) Veritas Volume Manager
Systems Management
1 116 (40.70%) Ansible
2 64 (22.46%) Kubernetes
3 55 (19.30%) Terraform
4 27 (9.47%) Red Hat Satellite
5 21 (7.37%) Grafana
5 21 (7.37%) Puppet
6 17 (5.96%) Oracle RMAN
6 17 (5.96%) Podman
7 14 (4.91%) Prometheus
8 12 (4.21%) Check_MK
9 11 (3.86%) Failover Clustering
10 10 (3.51%) Progress Chef
11 8 (2.81%) vCenter Server
12 7 (2.46%) Data Guard
12 7 (2.46%) Pacemaker
13 6 (2.11%) Argo
13 6 (2.11%) Packer
13 6 (2.11%) SnapMirror
13 6 (2.11%) vMotion
14 5 (1.75%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 173 (60.70%) Red Hat
2 77 (27.02%) VMware
3 50 (17.54%) Oracle
4 40 (14.04%) Microsoft
5 19 (6.67%) IBM
5 19 (6.67%) Splunk
6 16 (5.61%) Dell
7 13 (4.56%) Cisco
7 13 (4.56%) Google
8 11 (3.86%) NetApp
9 9 (3.16%) HP
10 8 (2.81%) NVIDIA
10 8 (2.81%) SAP
10 8 (2.81%) ServiceNow
11 6 (2.11%) Broadcom
11 6 (2.11%) Commvault
12 5 (1.75%) Brocade
12 5 (1.75%) Tenable
12 5 (1.75%) Veritas
13 4 (1.40%) Fortinet
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