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

6 months to
4 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 360 317 286
Rank change year-on-year -43 -31 -67
Contract jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 356 239 317
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.66% 0.74% 0.83%
As % of the Operating Systems category 6.79% 5.48% 5.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 240 164 230
10th Percentile £390 £333 £362
25th Percentile £447 £408 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £517 £520
Median % change year-on-year -3.36% -0.50% -9.57%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £607
90th Percentile £688 £675 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £520
% change year-on-year - -3.85% -5.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 0 1
10th Percentile £37.13 - -
25th Percentile £41.41 - £63.75
Median hourly rate £56.17 - £67.50
75th Percentile £75.70 - £71.25
90th Percentile £79.88 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £56.17 - £67.50
% change year-on-year - - -6.90%

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 5,246 4,363 5,368
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.78% 13.50% 14.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,323 2,781 3,503
10th Percentile £190 £190 £200
25th Percentile £313 £306 £331
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +4.44% -5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £582
90th Percentile £675 £675 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £450 £450
Number of hourly rates quoted 367 264 293
10th Percentile £14.50 £15.77 £13.85
25th Percentile £17.25 £18.74 £18.27
Median hourly rate £25.77 £25.15 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.47% -37.13% -9.03%
75th Percentile £65.22 £58.70 £67.50
90th Percentile £74.46 £67.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £26.66 £25.15 £49.00
% change year-on-year +6.00% -48.67% +22.00%

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 4 September 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 4 September 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 4 September 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 -9 320 £500 -3.80% 158
UK excluding London -14 218 £500 - 90
London -38 116 £497 -2.55% 83
Work from Home -60 78 £475 -9.52% 55
North of England -56 63 £500 +24.69% 20
South East -49 50 £460 -16.36% 26
South West -12 45 £567 +3.14% 22
North West -33 38 £489 +24.30% 14
East of England +8 30 £525 +56.72% 9
Yorkshire -32 25 £550 +15.79% 3
Scotland -26 15 £488 -2.40% 9
Midlands -52 14 £530 -1.58% 5
East Midlands -17 8 £530 +21.84%
West Midlands -55 6 £568 -0.74% 5
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 11 (3.09%) JBoss
1 11 (3.09%) nginx
2 10 (2.81%) Apache
3 8 (2.25%) Confluence
4 7 (1.97%) SharePoint
4 7 (1.97%) Tomcat
4 7 (1.97%) WebSphere
5 6 (1.69%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (0.84%) SAS
7 2 (0.56%) Documentum
7 2 (0.56%) IBM HTTP Server
7 2 (0.56%) OpenStack
7 2 (0.56%) Oracle HTTP Server
7 2 (0.56%) WebLogic
7 2 (0.56%) WebSphere Application Server
7 2 (0.56%) WebSphere Portal
8 1 (0.28%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.28%) Red Hat Fuse
8 1 (0.28%) Traefik
Applications
1 4 (1.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.28%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.28%) FLEXCUBE
1 1 (0.28%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (0.28%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 105 (29.49%) AWS
2 83 (23.31%) Azure
3 40 (11.24%) OpenShift
4 33 (9.27%) GCP
5 24 (6.74%) GitHub
6 22 (6.18%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 19 (5.34%) AWS CloudFormation
8 18 (5.06%) Amazon EC2
8 18 (5.06%) Amazon EKS
8 18 (5.06%) Datadog
9 17 (4.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 16 (4.49%) Serverless
11 15 (4.21%) Amazon S3
11 15 (4.21%) Azure Monitor
11 15 (4.21%) Entra ID
11 15 (4.21%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 14 (3.93%) GitHub Actions
12 14 (3.93%) IaaS
13 13 (3.65%) AWS Lambda
14 12 (3.37%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 50 (14.04%) DNS
2 47 (13.20%) Firewall
3 38 (10.67%) SAN
4 24 (6.74%) TCP/IP
5 22 (6.18%) Kerberos
6 21 (5.90%) DHCP
7 17 (4.78%) VLAN
8 16 (4.49%) Network Security
9 15 (4.21%) SSL
10 13 (3.65%) VPN
11 8 (2.25%) SSH
12 7 (1.97%) VoIP
13 6 (1.69%) VSAN
13 6 (1.69%) WAN
14 5 (1.40%) HTTP
15 4 (1.12%) NAS
16 3 (0.84%) FTP
16 3 (0.84%) Intrusion Detection
16 3 (0.84%) OpenVPN
17 2 (0.56%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (7.58%) PostgreSQL
2 26 (7.30%) Oracle Database
3 16 (4.49%) SQL Server
4 10 (2.81%) Amazon RDS
4 10 (2.81%) MySQL
5 8 (2.25%) SQLite
6 7 (1.97%) MongoDB
6 7 (1.97%) SAP HANA
7 6 (1.69%) Big Data
7 6 (1.69%) Hadoop
8 5 (1.40%) Elasticsearch
8 5 (1.40%) Oracle Database 12c
8 5 (1.40%) Relational Database
9 4 (1.12%) Data Lake
9 4 (1.12%) Data Warehouse
9 4 (1.12%) Redis
10 3 (0.84%) GIS
11 2 (0.56%) Azure SQL Database
11 2 (0.56%) Sybase ASE
12 1 (0.28%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 52 (14.61%) Jenkins
2 46 (12.92%) Git
3 40 (11.24%) GitLab
4 15 (4.21%) JIRA
5 7 (1.97%) Sonatype Nexus
6 5 (1.40%) Artifactory
7 3 (0.84%) Bitbucket
7 3 (0.84%) Cucumber
7 3 (0.84%) Toad
8 2 (0.56%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 2 (0.56%) Introscope
8 2 (0.56%) JMeter
8 2 (0.56%) Locust
8 2 (0.56%) Maven
8 2 (0.56%) Robot Framework
8 2 (0.56%) TestCafe
8 2 (0.56%) Zephyr
9 1 (0.28%) Ant
9 1 (0.28%) Newman
9 1 (0.28%) PVCS
General
1 65 (18.26%) Social Skills
2 55 (15.45%) Finance
3 38 (10.67%) Analytical Skills
4 26 (7.30%) Documentation Skills
5 25 (7.02%) Banking
6 20 (5.62%) Public Sector
7 11 (3.09%) Legal
8 7 (1.97%) Aerospace
9 6 (1.69%) Military
9 6 (1.69%) Retail
10 5 (1.40%) Manufacturing
10 5 (1.40%) Publishing
11 3 (0.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (0.84%) Telecoms
12 2 (0.56%) Aviation
12 2 (0.56%) Investment Banking
12 2 (0.56%) Law
13 1 (0.28%) Financial Institution
13 1 (0.28%) Local Government
13 1 (0.28%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 82 (23.03%) Linux Engineer
2 54 (15.17%) Senior
3 35 (9.83%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 31 (8.71%) Cloud Engineer
4 31 (8.71%) DevOps Engineer
5 26 (7.30%) Architect
6 24 (6.74%) Administrator
7 18 (5.06%) Linux Administrator
7 18 (5.06%) Security Engineer
8 17 (4.78%) Platform Engineer
8 17 (4.78%) Senior Linux Engineer
9 16 (4.49%) Lead
10 15 (4.21%) AWS Engineer
10 15 (4.21%) Systems Engineer
11 14 (3.93%) Automation Engineer
11 14 (3.93%) Linux Systems Engineer
12 13 (3.65%) Systems Administrator
12 13 (3.65%) Unix Engineer
13 12 (3.37%) Linux Systems Administrator
14 10 (2.81%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 86 (24.16%) Terraform
2 15 (4.21%) Middleware
3 14 (3.93%) REST
4 11 (3.09%) LDAP
5 10 (2.81%) Kafka
6 8 (2.25%) Azure Blueprints
6 8 (2.25%) SPNEGO
7 7 (1.97%) ARM Templates
7 7 (1.97%) Elastic Stack
7 7 (1.97%) JSON
8 6 (1.69%) .NET
8 6 (1.69%) WebSphere MQ
9 5 (1.40%) OAuth
9 5 (1.40%) Vue
10 4 (1.12%) Celery
10 4 (1.12%) Django
10 4 (1.12%) JWT
10 4 (1.12%) OpenTofu
10 4 (1.12%) React
10 4 (1.12%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 44 (12.36%) Cloud Native
2 29 (8.15%) Security Posture
3 26 (7.30%) Replication
4 22 (6.18%) Clustering
5 21 (5.90%) Data Centre
6 17 (4.78%) Management Information System
7 16 (4.49%) Onboarding
8 15 (4.21%) Enterprise Storage
9 14 (3.93%) Hybrid Cloud
10 13 (3.65%) Legacy Systems
10 13 (3.65%) Linux Command Line
10 13 (3.65%) PKI
11 12 (3.37%) Enterprise Cloud
12 10 (2.81%) Data Protection Act
13 9 (2.53%) Private Cloud
13 9 (2.53%) Virtual Team
14 8 (2.25%) Cloud Security Posture
14 8 (2.25%) Enterprise Software
14 8 (2.25%) Product Ownership
15 7 (1.97%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 356 (100.00%) Linux
2 135 (37.92%) Windows
3 72 (20.22%) Windows Server
4 42 (11.80%) Ubuntu
5 41 (11.52%) CentOS
5 41 (11.52%) Unix
6 26 (7.30%) Solaris
7 21 (5.90%) Rocky
8 15 (4.21%) AIX
9 13 (3.65%) Oracle Linux
9 13 (3.65%) SUSE
10 11 (3.09%) Windows Server 2019
11 8 (2.25%) VMS
12 7 (1.97%) Windows Server 2012
13 6 (1.69%) HPUX
13 6 (1.69%) Windows Server 2016
14 5 (1.40%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
14 5 (1.40%) Windows 10
14 5 (1.40%) Windows Server 2008
15 4 (1.12%) Alpine Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 121 (33.99%) CI/CD
2 113 (31.74%) DevOps
3 77 (21.63%) Infrastructure as Code
4 66 (18.54%) Configuration Management
5 64 (17.98%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 60 (16.85%) Containerisation
7 59 (16.57%) Migration
8 55 (15.45%) ITIL
9 54 (15.17%) Agile
10 52 (14.61%) Change Management
10 52 (14.61%) Platform Engineering
11 48 (13.48%) Problem-Solving
12 45 (12.64%) Continuous Improvement
13 41 (11.52%) Observability
14 40 (11.24%) Performance Tuning
15 36 (10.11%) Runbook
16 35 (9.83%) High Availability
17 34 (9.55%) Cloud Security
17 34 (9.55%) Infrastructure Automation
18 32 (8.99%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 150 (42.13%) Python
2 105 (29.49%) Bash
3 97 (27.25%) PowerShell
4 36 (10.11%) Java
5 24 (6.74%) SQL
6 23 (6.46%) Shell Script
7 22 (6.18%) Perl
8 13 (3.65%) C
8 13 (3.65%) C++
9 12 (3.37%) Bicep
10 10 (2.81%) Korn
11 8 (2.25%) PL/SQL
12 6 (1.69%) C#
12 6 (1.69%) Go
12 6 (1.69%) JavaScript
13 5 (1.40%) Groovy
14 4 (1.12%) MATLAB
15 2 (0.56%) Jython
15 2 (0.56%) Search Processing Language
16 1 (0.28%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 153 (42.98%) Security Cleared
2 113 (31.74%) SC Cleared
3 37 (10.39%) DV Cleared
4 32 (8.99%) Degree
5 27 (7.58%) AWS Certification
5 27 (7.58%) CISSP
6 24 (6.74%) Azure Certification
7 15 (4.21%) RHCE
8 10 (2.81%) Computer Science Degree
9 7 (1.97%) CompTIA Security+
9 7 (1.97%) Microsoft Certification
10 6 (1.69%) CISM
11 4 (1.12%) RHCSA
12 3 (0.84%) RHCA
13 2 (0.56%) GIAC
13 2 (0.56%) ISSAP
13 2 (0.56%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 2 (0.56%) MOS
13 2 (0.56%) VCAP
13 2 (0.56%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (2.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 9 (2.53%) SLA
2 8 (2.25%) NIST
3 7 (1.97%) QA
4 6 (1.69%) NCSC
5 5 (1.40%) GRC
6 4 (1.12%) Disclosure Scotland
6 4 (1.12%) ISO 15022
6 4 (1.12%) ISO 20022
6 4 (1.12%) SOC 2
7 3 (0.84%) HIPAA
7 3 (0.84%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.28%) Data Quality
8 1 (0.28%) JSP 440
8 1 (0.28%) OpenSCAP
8 1 (0.28%) PMO
System Software
1 66 (18.54%) Docker
2 46 (12.92%) VMware Infrastructure
3 41 (11.52%) Active Directory
4 32 (8.99%) Virtual Machines
5 23 (6.46%) VMware ESXi
6 17 (4.78%) vSphere
7 14 (3.93%) Hyper-V
7 14 (3.93%) NFS
8 8 (2.25%) Oracle RAC
9 6 (1.69%) Corosync
10 4 (1.12%) Ceph
10 4 (1.12%) Firmware
10 4 (1.12%) Veritas Volume Manager
11 3 (0.84%) KVM
11 3 (0.84%) VMware NSX
12 2 (0.56%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 2 (0.56%) Squid
13 1 (0.28%) GPFS
13 1 (0.28%) oVirt
13 1 (0.28%) RHEV
Systems Management
1 128 (35.96%) Ansible
2 93 (26.12%) Kubernetes
3 39 (10.96%) Puppet
4 34 (9.55%) Progress Chef
5 27 (7.58%) Red Hat Satellite
6 26 (7.30%) Grafana
7 24 (6.74%) Prometheus
8 19 (5.34%) Failover Clustering
9 16 (4.49%) NetBackup
10 10 (2.81%) Podman
11 9 (2.53%) Oracle RMAN
11 9 (2.53%) vCenter Server
12 8 (2.25%) Packer
13 7 (1.97%) Pacemaker
14 6 (1.69%) Check_MK
14 6 (1.69%) systemd
15 5 (1.40%) Nagios
15 5 (1.40%) SCCM
15 5 (1.40%) SELinux
15 5 (1.40%) WSUS
Vendors
1 178 (50.00%) Red Hat
2 64 (17.98%) Microsoft
3 63 (17.70%) VMware
4 56 (15.73%) Oracle
5 26 (7.30%) Google
6 24 (6.74%) NetApp
7 22 (6.18%) Splunk
8 20 (5.62%) IBM
9 19 (5.34%) ServiceNow
10 17 (4.78%) Cisco
11 14 (3.93%) Veeam
12 11 (3.09%) SaltStack
13 10 (2.81%) Qualys
14 9 (2.53%) Rapid7
14 9 (2.53%) Tenable
15 8 (2.25%) SAP
16 7 (1.97%) HP
16 7 (1.97%) Veritas
17 6 (1.69%) McAfee
18 5 (1.40%) Dell