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 15 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 350 285 294
Rank change year-on-year -65 +9 -78
Contract jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 331 293 329
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.63% 0.90% 0.77%
As % of the Operating Systems category 6.54% 6.67% 5.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 222 209 245
10th Percentile £366 £366 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £525 £520
Median % change year-on-year -5.90% +0.96% -11.26%
75th Percentile £567 £600 £596
90th Percentile £638 £675 £668
UK excluding London median daily rate £489 £508 £525
% change year-on-year -3.69% -3.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 0 2
10th Percentile £36.75 - £65.18
25th Percentile £41.11 - £67.31
Median hourly rate £60.33 - £72.75
75th Percentile £76.51 - £76.31
90th Percentile £80.00 - £77.33
UK excluding London median hourly rate £60.33 - £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 5,065 4,391 5,867
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.63% 13.53% 13.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,231 2,833 3,828
10th Percentile £190 £200 £190
25th Percentile £319 £313 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £465 £475
Median % change year-on-year - -2.11% -5.00%
75th Percentile £575 £577 £588
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £450 £463
% change year-on-year - -2.70% +2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 342 239 437
10th Percentile £15.53 £15.50 £12.75
25th Percentile £18.31 £18.10 £16.25
Median hourly rate £26.00 £23.00 £24.86
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% -7.46% -41.52%
75th Percentile £63.75 £54.25 £63.75
90th Percentile £70.00 £67.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £26.00 £21.59 £31.13
% change year-on-year +20.43% -30.63% +6.23%

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 15 July 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 15 July 2026.

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 15 July 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 -59 285 £497 -5.33% 56
UK excluding London -49 221 £489 -3.69% 48
Work from Home -85 83 £488 -7.14% 23
London -67 79 £491 -10.77% 13
North of England -49 74 £500 +24.38% 11
South East -50 49 £455 -17.27% 11
Yorkshire -39 38 £508 +6.84% 1
South West -10 37 £534 -2.95% 12
North West -34 35 £478 +21.50% 10
East of England +3 27 £483 - 5
Scotland -23 17 £450 -3.90% 4
Midlands -50 16 £501 -6.80% 4
East Midlands -6 8 £530 +4.74% 1
West Midlands -65 8 £484 -9.93% 3
North East -40 1 £400 -30.43%
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 18 (5.44%) nginx
2 13 (3.93%) Confluence
2 13 (3.93%) Tomcat
3 10 (3.02%) Apache
4 8 (2.42%) WebLogic
5 6 (1.81%) Microsoft Exchange
5 6 (1.81%) WebSphere
6 5 (1.51%) JBoss
6 5 (1.51%) SharePoint
7 3 (0.91%) IBM HTTP Server
7 3 (0.91%) OpenStack
7 3 (0.91%) SAS
7 3 (0.91%) WebSphere Application Server
8 2 (0.60%) Documentum
8 2 (0.60%) Oracle HTTP Server
8 2 (0.60%) Red Hat Fuse
8 2 (0.60%) WebSphere Portal
9 1 (0.30%) Apache Airflow
9 1 (0.30%) Traefik
Applications
1 4 (1.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.30%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.30%) FLEXCUBE
1 1 (0.30%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (0.30%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 103 (31.12%) AWS
2 78 (23.56%) Azure
3 45 (13.60%) OpenShift
4 29 (8.76%) GCP
5 26 (7.85%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 23 (6.95%) GitHub
7 18 (5.44%) Amazon EC2
8 17 (5.14%) Amazon S3
9 14 (4.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 14 (4.23%) Datadog
10 13 (3.93%) Amazon EKS
10 13 (3.93%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 13 (3.93%) Serverless
11 12 (3.63%) AWS CloudFormation
12 11 (3.32%) GitHub Actions
13 10 (3.02%) AWS Lambda
13 10 (3.02%) Azure Monitor
13 10 (3.02%) Entra ID
14 8 (2.42%) AWS CloudTrail
14 8 (2.42%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 49 (14.80%) Firewall
2 44 (13.29%) DNS
3 38 (11.48%) SAN
4 16 (4.83%) VLAN
5 15 (4.53%) DHCP
6 13 (3.93%) Network Security
6 13 (3.93%) SSL
6 13 (3.93%) TCP/IP
6 13 (3.93%) VPN
7 9 (2.72%) HTTP
8 8 (2.42%) Kerberos
9 7 (2.11%) SSH
10 6 (1.81%) iSCSI
10 6 (1.81%) VSAN
10 6 (1.81%) WAN
11 5 (1.51%) NAS
11 5 (1.51%) VoIP
12 4 (1.21%) Fibre Channel
13 3 (0.91%) BGP
13 3 (0.91%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (8.46%) PostgreSQL
2 22 (6.65%) Oracle Database
3 15 (4.53%) SQL Server
4 11 (3.32%) MongoDB
5 10 (3.02%) MySQL
6 8 (2.42%) Amazon RDS
6 8 (2.42%) Elasticsearch
7 7 (2.11%) GIS
7 7 (2.11%) SAP HANA
8 6 (1.81%) Oracle Database 12c
9 5 (1.51%) Data Lake
10 4 (1.21%) Redis
10 4 (1.21%) Relational Database
11 3 (0.91%) Data Warehouse
12 2 (0.60%) Azure SQL Database
13 1 (0.30%) BusinessObjects
13 1 (0.30%) MariaDB
13 1 (0.30%) OpenStack Swift
13 1 (0.30%) SQLite
13 1 (0.30%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 45 (13.60%) Jenkins
2 36 (10.88%) GitLab
3 32 (9.67%) Git
4 18 (5.44%) JIRA
5 6 (1.81%) Artifactory
5 6 (1.81%) Sonatype Nexus
6 5 (1.51%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 3 (0.91%) Introscope
8 2 (0.60%) Robot Framework
8 2 (0.60%) Toad
9 1 (0.30%) Ant
9 1 (0.30%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.30%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.30%) GoCD
9 1 (0.30%) Maven
9 1 (0.30%) PVCS
General
1 60 (18.13%) Social Skills
2 37 (11.18%) Finance
3 35 (10.57%) Public Sector
4 26 (7.85%) Banking
5 23 (6.95%) Documentation Skills
6 20 (6.04%) Analytical Skills
7 10 (3.02%) Legal
8 5 (1.51%) Aerospace
8 5 (1.51%) Military
8 5 (1.51%) Retail
9 4 (1.21%) Manufacturing
9 4 (1.21%) Publishing
10 2 (0.60%) Aviation
10 2 (0.60%) Financial Institution
10 2 (0.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (0.60%) Law
10 2 (0.60%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (0.60%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.30%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.30%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 59 (17.82%) Linux Engineer
2 45 (13.60%) Senior
3 32 (9.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 29 (8.76%) DevOps Engineer
5 26 (7.85%) Cloud Engineer
6 25 (7.55%) Architect
7 23 (6.95%) Platform Engineer
8 22 (6.65%) Administrator
9 19 (5.74%) Lead
10 16 (4.83%) Senior Linux Engineer
11 15 (4.53%) Linux Administrator
11 15 (4.53%) Software Engineer
12 13 (3.93%) Unix Engineer
13 12 (3.63%) AWS Engineer
13 12 (3.63%) Security Engineer
14 9 (2.72%) Lead Software Engineer
15 8 (2.42%) Azure Engineer
16 7 (2.11%) DBA
16 7 (2.11%) Security Architect
16 7 (2.11%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (4.83%) Middleware
2 12 (3.63%) REST
3 11 (3.32%) LDAP
4 9 (2.72%) Spring
5 7 (2.11%) EJB
5 7 (2.11%) Elastic Stack
5 7 (2.11%) Kafka
6 6 (1.81%) OpenLayers
6 6 (1.81%) Spring Boot
6 6 (1.81%) Vue
7 5 (1.51%) Azure Blueprints
7 5 (1.51%) JSON
7 5 (1.51%) OAuth
8 4 (1.21%) .NET
8 4 (1.21%) Celery
8 4 (1.21%) Django
8 4 (1.21%) Java EE
8 4 (1.21%) Java SE
8 4 (1.21%) JSP
8 4 (1.21%) WebSphere MQ
Miscellaneous
1 44 (13.29%) Cloud Native
2 30 (9.06%) Data Centre
3 25 (7.55%) Security Posture
4 19 (5.74%) Hybrid Cloud
5 18 (5.44%) Replication
6 16 (4.83%) Management Information System
6 16 (4.83%) Onboarding
7 15 (4.53%) Clustering
7 15 (4.53%) Legacy Systems
8 13 (3.93%) Enterprise Software
9 12 (3.63%) Linux Command Line
9 12 (3.63%) PKI
10 9 (2.72%) Product Ownership
11 8 (2.42%) Legacy Applications
12 7 (2.11%) Mainframe
13 6 (1.81%) Data Protection Act
13 6 (1.81%) FlexPod
13 6 (1.81%) Public Cloud
14 5 (1.51%) CMDB
14 5 (1.51%) Enterprise Storage
Operating Systems
1 331 (100.00%) Linux
2 123 (37.16%) Windows
3 61 (18.43%) Windows Server
4 42 (12.69%) Ubuntu
5 35 (10.57%) CentOS
6 31 (9.37%) Unix
7 30 (9.06%) Solaris
8 17 (5.14%) Windows Server 2019
9 15 (4.53%) VMS
10 13 (3.93%) AIX
10 13 (3.93%) Oracle Linux
10 13 (3.93%) Rocky
10 13 (3.93%) SUSE
11 11 (3.32%) Windows Server 2008
12 10 (3.02%) Windows Server 2016
13 8 (2.42%) CoreOS
14 7 (2.11%) Windows Server 2012
15 6 (1.81%) Data ONTAP
15 6 (1.81%) HPUX
16 5 (1.51%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 107 (32.33%) CI/CD
2 102 (30.82%) DevOps
3 67 (20.24%) Infrastructure as Code
4 59 (17.82%) Migration
5 57 (17.22%) Agile
6 52 (15.71%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 50 (15.11%) ITIL
8 49 (14.80%) Containerisation
8 49 (14.80%) Platform Engineering
9 47 (14.20%) Problem-Solving
10 46 (13.90%) Configuration Management
11 44 (13.29%) Change Management
12 40 (12.08%) Continuous Improvement
13 39 (11.78%) High Availability
14 37 (11.18%) Observability
15 36 (10.88%) Performance Tuning
16 33 (9.97%) Runbook
17 32 (9.67%) Roadmaps
18 30 (9.06%) Software Engineering
19 27 (8.16%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 130 (39.27%) Python
2 88 (26.59%) Bash
3 81 (24.47%) PowerShell
4 35 (10.57%) Java
5 28 (8.46%) Shell Script
5 28 (8.46%) SQL
6 12 (3.63%) JavaScript
6 12 (3.63%) Perl
6 12 (3.63%) PL/SQL
7 6 (1.81%) Bicep
7 6 (1.81%) Go
7 6 (1.81%) Korn
8 5 (1.51%) MATLAB
9 4 (1.21%) C
9 4 (1.21%) C#
10 3 (0.91%) C++
10 3 (0.91%) Groovy
10 3 (0.91%) Jython
10 3 (0.91%) Search Processing Language
11 1 (0.30%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 151 (45.62%) Security Cleared
2 116 (35.05%) SC Cleared
3 34 (10.27%) Degree
4 29 (8.76%) DV Cleared
5 22 (6.65%) CISSP
6 20 (6.04%) AWS Certification
6 20 (6.04%) RHCE
7 18 (5.44%) Azure Certification
8 9 (2.72%) Computer Science Degree
8 9 (2.72%) OCP
8 9 (2.72%) Oracle Certification
9 7 (2.11%) CISM
10 6 (1.81%) CompTIA Security+
11 4 (1.21%) Microsoft Certification
11 4 (1.21%) RHCA
11 4 (1.21%) RHCSA
11 4 (1.21%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 3 (0.91%) VCAP
13 2 (0.60%) ISSAP
13 2 (0.60%) NCDA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (2.72%) SLA
2 8 (2.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (2.11%) NIST
4 6 (1.81%) NCSC
5 5 (1.51%) Disclosure Scotland
5 5 (1.51%) GRC
5 5 (1.51%) QA
6 4 (1.21%) SOC 2
7 3 (0.91%) HIPAA
7 3 (0.91%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.60%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (0.60%) ISO 15022
8 2 (0.60%) ISO 20022
9 1 (0.30%) Data Quality
9 1 (0.30%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 1 (0.30%) OpenSCAP
9 1 (0.30%) PMO
9 1 (0.30%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 58 (17.52%) Docker
2 54 (16.31%) VMware Infrastructure
3 39 (11.78%) Virtual Machines
4 35 (10.57%) Active Directory
5 20 (6.04%) VMware ESXi
6 19 (5.74%) NFS
7 16 (4.83%) vSphere
8 13 (3.93%) Hyper-V
9 11 (3.32%) Oracle RAC
10 6 (1.81%) Corosync
10 6 (1.81%) VMware NSX
11 4 (1.21%) Ceph
12 3 (0.91%) Firmware
12 3 (0.91%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 3 (0.91%) Veritas Volume Manager
13 2 (0.60%) Citrix Hypervisor
13 2 (0.60%) KVM
13 2 (0.60%) Samba
13 2 (0.60%) Squid
13 2 (0.60%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 131 (39.58%) Ansible
2 91 (27.49%) Kubernetes
3 86 (25.98%) Terraform
4 25 (7.55%) Grafana
5 24 (7.25%) Red Hat Satellite
6 23 (6.95%) Progress Chef
7 22 (6.65%) Puppet
8 18 (5.44%) Prometheus
9 14 (4.23%) Failover Clustering
9 14 (4.23%) Oracle RMAN
10 9 (2.72%) NetBackup
11 8 (2.42%) Packer
11 8 (2.42%) Podman
12 7 (2.11%) Pacemaker
12 7 (2.11%) vCenter Server
13 6 (1.81%) SELinux
13 6 (1.81%) SnapMirror
13 6 (1.81%) vMotion
14 5 (1.51%) Check_MK
14 5 (1.51%) systemd
Vendors
1 178 (53.78%) Red Hat
2 72 (21.75%) VMware
3 57 (17.22%) Oracle
4 55 (16.62%) Microsoft
5 27 (8.16%) Google
6 24 (7.25%) IBM
7 18 (5.44%) Splunk
8 17 (5.14%) NetApp
9 16 (4.83%) ServiceNow
10 15 (4.53%) Cisco
11 10 (3.02%) HP
12 9 (2.72%) Dell
12 9 (2.72%) Tenable
13 8 (2.42%) SAP
14 7 (2.11%) Qualys
14 7 (2.11%) Veeam
15 6 (1.81%) Commvault
15 6 (1.81%) Databricks
15 6 (1.81%) McAfee
15 6 (1.81%) Rapid7