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

6 months to
27 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 351 232 270
Rank change year-on-year -119 +38 -64
Contract jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 267 358 375
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.64% 1.17% 0.85%
As % of the Operating Systems category 5.54% 8.16% 6.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 189 235 266
10th Percentile £400 £404 £378
25th Percentile £456 £475 £465
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £570 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.89% +3.64% -4.35%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £636
90th Percentile £675 £738 £711
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £551 £535
% change year-on-year -9.26% +2.99% -2.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 2 4
10th Percentile £74.26 - £22.13
25th Percentile £74.68 - £24.09
Median hourly rate £90.00 £112.00 £38.84
Median % change year-on-year -19.64% +188.36% -41.15%
75th Percentile £113.50 - £59.81
90th Percentile £119.00 - £70.73
UK excluding London median hourly rate £82.50 - £38.84
% change year-on-year - - -42.88%

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 4,819 4,388 6,143
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.60% 14.32% 13.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,190 2,794 4,120
10th Percentile £178 £200 £180
25th Percentile £275 £317 £280
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £465
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +2.15% -9.27%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £594
90th Percentile £675 £698 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £420 £430 £430
% change year-on-year -2.33% - -9.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 351 150 384
10th Percentile £15.00 £16.24 £14.00
25th Percentile £18.12 £20.94 £16.53
Median hourly rate £23.50 £29.89 £25.06
Median % change year-on-year -21.38% +19.29% -6.05%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £61.70
90th Percentile £68.75 £68.88 £71.90
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.69 £27.75 £25.00
% change year-on-year -18.23% +11.00% -5.96%

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 February 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 February 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 February 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 -134 217 £525 -9.72% 44
UK excluding London -79 173 £500 -9.26% 38
Work from Home -47 87 £525 -4.55% 14
South East -28 49 £483 -12.27% 26
London -120 48 £525 -12.50% 12
North of England -73 47 £537 -12.68% 5
South West -24 23 £563 -8.54% 4
Yorkshire -76 22 £500 -25.93% 2
North West -26 21 £550 - 3
Midlands -60 21 £485 -11.98% 1
East of England -17 17 £478 -20.33% 2
West Midlands -53 17 £537 -2.54% 1
Scotland -5 10 £450 -9.73% 2
North East -15 7 £550 -
East Midlands -27 4 £420 -21.79%
Northern Ireland - 4 £375 -
Wales - 2 - -

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 (4.87%) nginx
2 11 (4.12%) Confluence
3 10 (3.75%) Apache
3 10 (3.75%) WebLogic
4 9 (3.37%) Microsoft Exchange
4 9 (3.37%) Tomcat
5 7 (2.62%) SharePoint
6 6 (2.25%) SAS
7 2 (0.75%) JBoss
7 2 (0.75%) NetWeaver
7 2 (0.75%) OpenStack
7 2 (0.75%) Oracle HTTP Server
8 1 (0.37%) FileNet
8 1 (0.37%) Red Hat Fuse
8 1 (0.37%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 4 (1.50%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (1.50%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.37%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 2 (0.75%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.37%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 56 (20.97%) AWS
2 48 (17.98%) Azure
3 43 (16.10%) OpenShift
4 18 (6.74%) GCP
5 16 (5.99%) GitHub
6 15 (5.62%) Amazon EC2
7 14 (5.24%) Amazon S3
8 12 (4.49%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 9 (3.37%) Entra ID
10 7 (2.62%) Azure Sentinel
10 7 (2.62%) OCI
11 6 (2.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 5 (1.87%) Amazon EKS
12 5 (1.87%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 5 (1.87%) IaaS
12 5 (1.87%) Microsoft 365
12 5 (1.87%) Nutanix
13 4 (1.50%) npm
14 3 (1.12%) AWS Fargate
14 3 (1.12%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 33 (12.36%) Firewall
2 20 (7.49%) SAN
3 16 (5.99%) DNS
4 11 (4.12%) VLAN
5 7 (2.62%) BGP
5 7 (2.62%) HTTP
6 6 (2.25%) Kerberos
6 6 (2.25%) Software-Defined Networking
6 6 (2.25%) WebEx
7 5 (1.87%) Fibre Channel
7 5 (1.87%) Network Security
7 5 (1.87%) SMTP
7 5 (1.87%) TCP/IP
8 4 (1.50%) AMQP
8 4 (1.50%) DKIM
8 4 (1.50%) DMARC
8 4 (1.50%) iSCSI
8 4 (1.50%) SSL
8 4 (1.50%) VSAN
9 3 (1.12%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (7.49%) Oracle Database
2 16 (5.99%) MongoDB
3 10 (3.75%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (2.25%) Amazon RDS
4 6 (2.25%) Data Warehouse
4 6 (2.25%) MySQL
4 6 (2.25%) SQL Server
5 5 (1.87%) Elasticsearch
5 5 (1.87%) GIS
6 4 (1.50%) MariaDB
6 4 (1.50%) RDBMS
6 4 (1.50%) Relational Database
7 3 (1.12%) DB2
7 3 (1.12%) Oracle Exadata
7 3 (1.12%) Oracle Reports
8 2 (0.75%) Data Lake
8 2 (0.75%) SAP HANA
9 1 (0.37%) Apache Cassandra
9 1 (0.37%) IBM InfoSphere
9 1 (0.37%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 32 (11.99%) Jenkins
2 29 (10.86%) GitLab
3 28 (10.49%) Git
4 15 (5.62%) JIRA
5 7 (2.62%) Maven
6 6 (2.25%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 6 (2.25%) Sonatype Nexus
7 3 (1.12%) Artifactory
7 3 (1.12%) Subversion
7 3 (1.12%) Terragrunt
8 2 (0.75%) Gradle
8 2 (0.75%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.37%) GoCD
9 1 (0.37%) Mockito
9 1 (0.37%) Robot Framework
General
1 80 (29.96%) Social Skills
2 29 (10.86%) Analytical Skills
3 28 (10.49%) Public Sector
4 21 (7.87%) Documentation Skills
5 19 (7.12%) Finance
6 12 (4.49%) Banking
7 8 (3.00%) Legal
8 6 (2.25%) Aerospace
9 4 (1.50%) Financial Institution
9 4 (1.50%) Manufacturing
9 4 (1.50%) Telecoms
10 2 (0.75%) Back Office
10 2 (0.75%) Front Office
10 2 (0.75%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.37%) Automotive
11 1 (0.37%) Billing
11 1 (0.37%) Electronics
11 1 (0.37%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.37%) Military
11 1 (0.37%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 34 (12.73%) Architect
2 33 (12.36%) Administrator
3 24 (8.99%) Linux Engineer
3 24 (8.99%) Platform Engineer
4 18 (6.74%) Lead
4 18 (6.74%) Linux Administrator
5 16 (5.99%) DevOps Engineer
6 14 (5.24%) Senior
7 13 (4.87%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 11 (4.12%) Software Engineer
8 11 (4.12%) Support Engineer
9 10 (3.75%) Systems Administrator
10 9 (3.37%) Consultant
10 9 (3.37%) Developer
11 8 (3.00%) Solutions Architect
11 8 (3.00%) Systems Engineer
12 7 (2.62%) Infrastructure Support
12 7 (2.62%) Security Engineer
13 6 (2.25%) Applications Engineer
13 6 (2.25%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (6.37%) LDAP
1 17 (6.37%) Middleware
2 10 (3.75%) Loki
3 9 (3.37%) Spring
3 9 (3.37%) YAML
4 7 (2.62%) Spring Boot
5 6 (2.25%) REST
5 6 (2.25%) XMPP
6 5 (1.87%) EJB
6 5 (1.87%) OpenLayers
7 4 (1.50%) Kafka
7 4 (1.50%) Keycloak
7 4 (1.50%) Regular Expression
8 3 (1.12%) cloud-init
8 3 (1.12%) FastAPI
8 3 (1.12%) Flask
8 3 (1.12%) Java EE
8 3 (1.12%) Java SE
8 3 (1.12%) JSP
8 3 (1.12%) SAP Basis
Miscellaneous
1 35 (13.11%) Data Centre
2 26 (9.74%) Cloud Native
3 18 (6.74%) Product Ownership
4 12 (4.49%) Clustering
4 12 (4.49%) Management Information System
4 12 (4.49%) Onboarding
5 10 (3.75%) Legacy Systems
6 9 (3.37%) Hybrid Cloud
7 8 (3.00%) Enterprise Software
7 8 (3.00%) Legacy Applications
7 8 (3.00%) Virtual Team
8 7 (2.62%) Public Cloud
9 6 (2.25%) Security Posture
10 5 (1.87%) Data Protection Act
10 5 (1.87%) FlexPod
10 5 (1.87%) PKI
11 4 (1.50%) Analytical Mindset
11 4 (1.50%) NVMe
12 3 (1.12%) Cyber Defence
12 3 (1.12%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 267 (100.00%) Linux
2 85 (31.84%) Windows
3 44 (16.48%) Windows Server
4 40 (14.98%) Ubuntu
5 39 (14.61%) CentOS
6 26 (9.74%) Unix
7 18 (6.74%) Solaris
8 12 (4.49%) Windows Server 2019
9 10 (3.75%) Windows Server 2016
10 9 (3.37%) VMS
11 8 (3.00%) Windows Server 2008
12 5 (1.87%) CoreOS
12 5 (1.87%) Data ONTAP
12 5 (1.87%) Debian
12 5 (1.87%) OpenVMS
13 4 (1.50%) Rocky
14 3 (1.12%) Oracle Linux
14 3 (1.12%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
15 2 (0.75%) AIX
15 2 (0.75%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 91 (34.08%) CI/CD
2 69 (25.84%) Problem-Solving
3 66 (24.72%) DevOps
4 42 (15.73%) Containerisation
4 42 (15.73%) Infrastructure as Code
5 39 (14.61%) Agile
6 36 (13.48%) Continuous Improvement
6 36 (13.48%) High Availability
7 31 (11.61%) Migration
8 29 (10.86%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 29 (10.86%) Platform Engineering
9 28 (10.49%) DevSecOps
10 27 (10.11%) SIEM
11 26 (9.74%) ITIL
12 25 (9.36%) Disaster Recovery
13 23 (8.61%) ITSM
14 22 (8.24%) Observability
15 21 (7.87%) Roadmaps
15 21 (7.87%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 19 (7.12%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 99 (37.08%) Python
2 78 (29.21%) Bash
3 56 (20.97%) PowerShell
4 39 (14.61%) Shell Script
5 31 (11.61%) Perl
6 27 (10.11%) SQL
7 25 (9.36%) Java
8 10 (3.75%) Go
8 10 (3.75%) PL/SQL
9 9 (3.37%) JavaScript
10 8 (3.00%) Ruby
11 7 (2.62%) MATLAB
12 5 (1.87%) Korn
13 1 (0.37%) C#
13 1 (0.37%) C++
13 1 (0.37%) Groovy
13 1 (0.37%) Rust
13 1 (0.37%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 127 (47.57%) Security Cleared
2 93 (34.83%) SC Cleared
3 27 (10.11%) DV Cleared
4 21 (7.87%) Degree
5 20 (7.49%) RHCE
6 12 (4.49%) OCP
6 12 (4.49%) Oracle Certification
7 10 (3.75%) CCDP
7 10 (3.75%) CCNA
7 10 (3.75%) CCNP
7 10 (3.75%) Cisco Certification
8 7 (2.62%) Azure Certification
9 6 (2.25%) CISSP
10 5 (1.87%) AWS Certification
10 5 (1.87%) BPSS Clearance
10 5 (1.87%) RHCSA
11 4 (1.50%) Computer Science Degree
12 3 (1.12%) CESG Certified Professional
12 3 (1.12%) SAP Certification
12 3 (1.12%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (2.62%) GDPR
1 7 (2.62%) SLA
2 6 (2.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (2.25%) NIST
3 5 (1.87%) NCSC
4 4 (1.50%) Cyber Essentials
5 3 (1.12%) NIST 800
6 2 (0.75%) Disclosure Scotland
6 2 (0.75%) QA
6 2 (0.75%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.37%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.37%) Def Stans
7 1 (0.37%) HL7
7 1 (0.37%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 51 (19.10%) VMware Infrastructure
2 37 (13.86%) Docker
3 32 (11.99%) Active Directory
4 18 (6.74%) vSphere
5 14 (5.24%) VMware ESXi
6 12 (4.49%) Oracle RAC
7 11 (4.12%) Virtual Machines
8 7 (2.62%) NFS
9 5 (1.87%) Postfix
9 5 (1.87%) VMware NSX
10 4 (1.50%) QEMU
10 4 (1.50%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 3 (1.12%) GPFS
11 3 (1.12%) KVM
12 2 (0.75%) Ceph
12 2 (0.75%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 2 (0.75%) Lustre
12 2 (0.75%) SRDF
12 2 (0.75%) Veritas File System
12 2 (0.75%) Veritas Volume Manager
Systems Management
1 108 (40.45%) Ansible
2 76 (28.46%) Kubernetes
3 48 (17.98%) Terraform
4 37 (13.86%) Red Hat Satellite
5 23 (8.61%) Grafana
6 16 (5.99%) Podman
6 16 (5.99%) Prometheus
7 14 (5.24%) Puppet
8 13 (4.87%) Argo
9 11 (4.12%) Oracle RMAN
9 11 (4.12%) SCOM
10 9 (3.37%) Check_MK
11 8 (3.00%) Data Guard
11 8 (3.00%) Kustomize
11 8 (3.00%) Progress Chef
12 6 (2.25%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
12 6 (2.25%) SCCM
13 5 (1.87%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 5 (1.87%) Dell DRAC
13 5 (1.87%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 173 (64.79%) Red Hat
2 93 (34.83%) VMware
3 42 (15.73%) Oracle
4 38 (14.23%) Microsoft
5 32 (11.99%) Splunk
6 22 (8.24%) Cisco
7 19 (7.12%) Dell
8 14 (5.24%) Citrix
9 12 (4.49%) IBM
10 11 (4.12%) NVIDIA
11 10 (3.75%) NetApp
12 9 (3.37%) Google
12 9 (3.37%) Tenable
13 8 (3.00%) Brocade
14 7 (2.62%) CyberArk
14 7 (2.62%) Symantec
15 6 (2.25%) Qualys
15 6 (2.25%) SAP
15 6 (2.25%) ServiceNow
16 5 (1.87%) HP