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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 331 278 209
Rank change year-on-year -53 -69 +52
Contract jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 246 319 604
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.75% 0.83% 1.23%
As % of the Operating Systems category 5.52% 5.85% 7.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 166 224 423
10th Percentile £336 £357 £414
25th Percentile £411 £436 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £520 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.92% -9.57% -2.54%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £675
90th Percentile £675 £688 £798
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £520 £550
% change year-on-year -3.85% -5.45% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 10
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £51.25
Median hourly rate - - £71.25
75th Percentile - - £73.75
90th Percentile - - £73.88
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £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 4,457 5,457 7,637
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 13.53% 14.17% 15.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,848 3,486 5,192
10th Percentile £188 £200 £185
25th Percentile £300 £326 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £575 £576 £625
90th Percentile £673 £675 £709
UK excluding London median daily rate £435 £450 £450
% change year-on-year -3.33% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 278 274 366
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.53 £15.25
25th Percentile £18.87 £20.07 £18.50
Median hourly rate £25.15 £49.75 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -49.45% +4.74% +98.66%
75th Percentile £58.75 £68.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £67.00 £70.00 £76.53
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £52.75 £45.88
% change year-on-year -52.32% +14.97% +108.55%

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 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 18 September 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
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 18 September 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 -33 196 £517 -1.45% 62
UK excluding London -46 131 £500 -3.85% 51
Work from Home +15 76 £525 +10.53% 31
London -14 69 £510 -2.39% 23
North of England +14 37 £471 +4.67% 8
South East -13 32 £525 -9.09% 15
Scotland -26 20 £500 +11.11% 5
North West -3 19 £373 -13.27% 3
Midlands -46 19 £537 +3.27% 2
Yorkshire -3 15 £500 -7.75% 1
West Midlands -31 14 £572 +0.31%
South West +1 13 £550 -5.50% 14
Northern Ireland - 6 £350 -
East Midlands -12 5 £420 -15.83% 2
East of England +6 4 £405 -7.43% 6
North East +1 3 £575 +40.59% 4

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 28 (11.38%) Apache
2 13 (5.28%) JBoss
3 11 (4.47%) Documentum
4 10 (4.07%) FileNet
4 10 (4.07%) Tomcat
5 7 (2.85%) nginx
6 6 (2.44%) WebLogic
7 5 (2.03%) Apache Spark
7 5 (2.03%) OpenStack
8 4 (1.63%) Confluence
9 3 (1.22%) WebSphere
10 2 (0.81%) Microsoft Exchange
10 2 (0.81%) Oracle HTTP Server
10 2 (0.81%) SAS
10 2 (0.81%) WebSphere Application Server
11 1 (0.41%) Anypoint
11 1 (0.41%) CMS
11 1 (0.41%) IBM HTTP Server
11 1 (0.41%) NetWeaver
11 1 (0.41%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 2 (0.81%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 2 (0.81%) Teamcenter
2 1 (0.41%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.41%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.41%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 70 (28.46%) AWS
2 28 (11.38%) OpenShift
3 25 (10.16%) Azure
4 22 (8.94%) Amazon EC2
5 19 (7.72%) GitHub
6 17 (6.91%) Amazon S3
7 16 (6.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 12 (4.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 12 (4.88%) AWS CloudFormation
9 11 (4.47%) GCP
9 11 (4.47%) Serverless
10 10 (4.07%) Amazon SQS
11 9 (3.66%) Amazon ECS
12 7 (2.85%) AWS KMS
13 6 (2.44%) Azure DevOps
13 6 (2.44%) SaaS
14 5 (2.03%) AWS Fargate
14 5 (2.03%) Entra ID
14 5 (2.03%) Google Kubernetes Engine
15 4 (1.63%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 28 (11.38%) DNS
2 22 (8.94%) Firewall
3 19 (7.72%) SAN
4 13 (5.28%) TCP/IP
5 8 (3.25%) SMTP
6 7 (2.85%) DHCP
6 7 (2.85%) Internet
7 6 (2.44%) DKIM
7 6 (2.44%) DMARC
8 5 (2.03%) SSL
9 4 (1.63%) NAS
9 4 (1.63%) VPN
9 4 (1.63%) VSAN
10 3 (1.22%) AMQP
10 3 (1.22%) VLAN
11 2 (0.81%) HTTP
11 2 (0.81%) HTTPS
11 2 (0.81%) Intrusion Detection
11 2 (0.81%) LAN
11 2 (0.81%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (8.13%) MongoDB
2 18 (7.32%) Elasticsearch
3 15 (6.10%) MySQL
3 15 (6.10%) Oracle Database
4 14 (5.69%) SQL Server
5 12 (4.88%) PostgreSQL
6 11 (4.47%) Relational Database
7 10 (4.07%) RDBMS
8 7 (2.85%) Big Data
9 5 (2.03%) Amazon RDS
9 5 (2.03%) Data Lake
9 5 (2.03%) Data Warehouse
9 5 (2.03%) Hadoop
9 5 (2.03%) InfluxDB
10 4 (1.63%) MariaDB
10 4 (1.63%) SAP HANA
11 3 (1.22%) Apache Cassandra
11 3 (1.22%) DB2
12 2 (0.81%) GIS
12 2 (0.81%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 40 (16.26%) Jenkins
2 35 (14.23%) GitLab
3 28 (11.38%) Git
4 20 (8.13%) Sonatype Nexus
5 17 (6.91%) JIRA
6 10 (4.07%) TeamCity
7 9 (3.66%) Maven
7 9 (3.66%) SonarQube
8 8 (3.25%) Artifactory
8 8 (3.25%) Bitbucket
9 5 (2.03%) Bitbucket Server
9 5 (2.03%) CA Release Automation
9 5 (2.03%) Postman
10 4 (1.63%) Gradle
10 4 (1.63%) MSI
10 4 (1.63%) Robot Framework
10 4 (1.63%) Subversion
11 3 (1.22%) Mockito
11 3 (1.22%) Vagrant
12 2 (0.81%) Oracle APEX
General
1 66 (26.83%) Social Skills
2 44 (17.89%) Finance
3 25 (10.16%) Analytical Skills
3 25 (10.16%) Public Sector
4 13 (5.28%) Documentation Skills
5 12 (4.88%) Banking
6 6 (2.44%) Financial Institution
7 3 (1.22%) Front Office
7 3 (1.22%) Manufacturing
8 2 (0.81%) Back Office
8 2 (0.81%) French Language
8 2 (0.81%) German Language
8 2 (0.81%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (0.81%) Law
8 2 (0.81%) Legal
9 1 (0.41%) Aerospace
9 1 (0.41%) Electronics
9 1 (0.41%) Military
9 1 (0.41%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 32 (13.01%) Linux Engineer
2 30 (12.20%) DevOps Engineer
3 26 (10.57%) Administrator
4 25 (10.16%) Architect
5 20 (8.13%) Senior
6 18 (7.32%) Developer
7 16 (6.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 15 (6.10%) Consultant
9 12 (4.88%) Integration Engineer
9 12 (4.88%) Systems Administrator
10 11 (4.47%) Infrastructure Architect
10 11 (4.47%) Linux Administrator
11 10 (4.07%) AWS Engineer
11 10 (4.07%) Solutions Architect
12 9 (3.66%) AWS DevOps
13 8 (3.25%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 8 (3.25%) Documentum Developer
13 8 (3.25%) Support Engineer
13 8 (3.25%) Systems Engineer
13 8 (3.25%) Technical Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (4.88%) Kafka
1 12 (4.88%) Middleware
2 10 (4.07%) REST
2 10 (4.07%) Spring Boot
3 9 (3.66%) Elastic Stack
4 7 (2.85%) .NET
4 7 (2.85%) JSON
5 6 (2.44%) Keycloak
5 6 (2.44%) LAMP
5 6 (2.44%) OAuth
5 6 (2.44%) Spring
6 5 (2.03%) cloud-init
6 5 (2.03%) HTML
6 5 (2.03%) OpenTelemetry
7 4 (1.63%) AWS CDK
7 4 (1.63%) CSS
7 4 (1.63%) IBM Integration Bus
7 4 (1.63%) RESTful
8 3 (1.22%) Apache NiFi
8 3 (1.22%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 22 (8.94%) Data Centre
2 16 (6.50%) Replication
3 15 (6.10%) Cloud Native
4 12 (4.88%) Clustering
5 11 (4.47%) PKI
6 10 (4.07%) Enterprise Storage
7 9 (3.66%) Legacy Systems
8 7 (2.85%) Mainframe
8 7 (2.85%) Onboarding
9 6 (2.44%) Enterprise Software
10 5 (2.03%) Hedge funds
10 5 (2.03%) Legacy Applications
10 5 (2.03%) Management Information System
11 4 (1.63%) Client/Server
11 4 (1.63%) Self-Motivation
12 3 (1.22%) Data Protection Act
12 3 (1.22%) HP Storage
12 3 (1.22%) Hybrid Cloud
12 3 (1.22%) Linux Command Line
12 3 (1.22%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 246 (100.00%) Linux
2 81 (32.93%) Windows
3 36 (14.63%) CentOS
4 29 (11.79%) Unix
4 29 (11.79%) Windows Server
5 27 (10.98%) Solaris
6 17 (6.91%) Ubuntu
7 11 (4.47%) Windows Server 2019
8 9 (3.66%) HPUX
9 7 (2.85%) AIX
10 6 (2.44%) Windows Server 2016
11 5 (2.03%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
12 4 (1.63%) SUSE
12 4 (1.63%) Windows Server 2012
13 3 (1.22%) Debian
13 3 (1.22%) OpenVMS
13 3 (1.22%) Oracle Linux
13 3 (1.22%) VMS
14 2 (0.81%) Data ONTAP
15 1 (0.41%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (33.33%) DevOps
2 74 (30.08%) CI/CD
3 64 (26.02%) Agile
4 43 (17.48%) Infrastructure as Code
5 39 (15.85%) Migration
6 37 (15.04%) Disaster Recovery
6 37 (15.04%) High Availability
7 36 (14.63%) Problem-Solving
8 30 (12.20%) Containerisation
9 26 (10.57%) Observability
10 22 (8.94%) Capacity Planning
10 22 (8.94%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 21 (8.54%) Configuration Management
11 21 (8.54%) Infrastructure Automation
12 20 (8.13%) Deployment Automation
12 20 (8.13%) Microservices
13 18 (7.32%) Continuous Integration
13 18 (7.32%) ITIL
14 16 (6.50%) Change Management
14 16 (6.50%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 82 (33.33%) Python
2 64 (26.02%) Bash
3 32 (13.01%) Shell Script
4 31 (12.60%) PowerShell
5 28 (11.38%) Java
6 20 (8.13%) Perl
7 19 (7.72%) SQL
8 11 (4.47%) PHP
8 11 (4.47%) Rust
9 8 (3.25%) JavaScript
10 7 (2.85%) Go
11 6 (2.44%) Ruby
12 4 (1.63%) C#
12 4 (1.63%) VBScript
13 3 (1.22%) C
13 3 (1.22%) C++
13 3 (1.22%) PL/SQL
14 2 (0.81%) AWK
14 2 (0.81%) Groovy
14 2 (0.81%) sed
Qualifications
1 81 (32.93%) Security Cleared
2 61 (24.80%) SC Cleared
3 21 (8.54%) DV Cleared
4 13 (5.28%) RHCE
5 10 (4.07%) BPSS Clearance
6 5 (2.03%) AWS Certification
6 5 (2.03%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (2.03%) Degree
7 4 (1.63%) RHCSA
8 3 (1.22%) CCNP
8 3 (1.22%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (1.22%) CISM
8 3 (1.22%) CISSP
8 3 (1.22%) SAP Certification
8 3 (1.22%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 2 (0.81%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (0.81%) Oracle Certification
9 2 (0.81%) TOGAF Certification
10 1 (0.41%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
10 1 (0.41%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (2.85%) QA
2 5 (2.03%) NCSC
3 4 (1.63%) GDPR
3 4 (1.63%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 3 (1.22%) Disclosure Scotland
5 2 (0.81%) NIST
6 1 (0.41%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.41%) Def Stans
6 1 (0.41%) ISO 15022
6 1 (0.41%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.41%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 44 (17.89%) VMware Infrastructure
2 39 (15.85%) Docker
3 23 (9.35%) Active Directory
4 9 (3.66%) Virtual Machines
4 9 (3.66%) VMware ESXi
5 7 (2.85%) KVM
5 7 (2.85%) NFS
6 6 (2.44%) Dovecot
6 6 (2.44%) Oracle RAC
6 6 (2.44%) Postfix
6 6 (2.44%) vSphere
7 5 (2.03%) Veritas Cluster Server
8 4 (1.63%) GPFS
8 4 (1.63%) Hyper-V
8 4 (1.63%) Veritas File System
8 4 (1.63%) Veritas Volume Manager
9 3 (1.22%) Apache ZooKeeper
10 2 (0.81%) vCloud
10 2 (0.81%) VirtualBox
10 2 (0.81%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 94 (38.21%) Ansible
2 69 (28.05%) Terraform
3 55 (22.36%) Kubernetes
4 20 (8.13%) Grafana
5 19 (7.72%) Red Hat Satellite
6 17 (6.91%) Progress Chef
7 15 (6.10%) Prometheus
8 13 (5.28%) Puppet
9 12 (4.88%) Kibana
10 11 (4.47%) Argo
11 9 (3.66%) Nagios
12 7 (2.85%) EMC NetWorker
12 7 (2.85%) EMC VPLEX
13 6 (2.44%) NetBackup
14 5 (2.03%) Data Guard
14 5 (2.03%) Jamf Pro
14 5 (2.03%) Packer
14 5 (2.03%) Podman
15 4 (1.63%) QRadar
15 4 (1.63%) WMI
Vendors
1 126 (51.22%) Red Hat
2 69 (28.05%) VMware
3 48 (19.51%) Oracle
4 25 (10.16%) Splunk
5 22 (8.94%) IBM
6 21 (8.54%) Microsoft
7 13 (5.28%) Cisco
7 13 (5.28%) HP
8 11 (4.47%) Dell
9 10 (4.07%) AppDynamics
10 9 (3.66%) Qualys
10 9 (3.66%) SAP
11 8 (3.25%) Brocade
11 8 (3.25%) CyberArk
11 8 (3.25%) Dynatrace
11 8 (3.25%) EMC
11 8 (3.25%) NetApp
11 8 (3.25%) Veritas
12 7 (2.85%) 3PAR
12 7 (2.85%) Isilon