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 9 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 333 259 208
Rank change year-on-year -74 -51 +31
Contract jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 258 333 561
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.75% 0.92% 1.19%
As % of the Operating Systems category 5.50% 6.51% 7.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 176 216 391
10th Percentile £358 £379 £400
25th Percentile £425 £454 £465
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £650
90th Percentile £669 £688 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.69% +0.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 2 9
10th Percentile £67.13 - £24.31
25th Percentile £81.82 - £51.25
Median hourly rate £114.00 £112.00 £72.50
Median % change year-on-year +1.79% +54.48% +7.41%
75th Percentile £119.00 - £73.75
90th Percentile - - £74.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £114.00 - £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 4,693 5,112 7,192
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 13.57% 14.10% 15.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,015 3,143 4,875
10th Percentile £185 £200 £181
25th Percentile £270 £326 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £480
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -1.04% -5.37%
75th Percentile £575 £580 £613
90th Percentile £658 £679 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £413 £450 £440
% change year-on-year -8.33% +2.27% -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 355 214 365
10th Percentile £15.50 £16.25 £15.25
25th Percentile £18.87 £22.31 £18.38
Median hourly rate £24.00 £50.00 £33.50
Median % change year-on-year -52.00% +49.25% +34.00%
75th Percentile £41.85 £68.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £67.00 £70.00 £75.92
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.50 £52.50 £27.50
% change year-on-year -57.14% +90.91% +22.22%

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 9 November 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
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux over the 6 months to 9 November 2025.

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 9 November 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 -54 223 £525 -7.33% 167
UK excluding London -57 146 £500 -4.76% 125
Work from Home -8 78 £525 +5.00% 65
London -27 75 £525 -12.50% 89
South East -18 43 £485 -16.38% 89
North of England -14 38 £550 - 5
South West -8 23 £550 -5.50% 9
North West -3 20 £550 +22.22% 5
Midlands -57 18 £440 -22.85% 9
Yorkshire -19 15 £500 -14.16%
West Midlands -54 12 £581 -0.11% 8
Scotland -30 11 £503 +5.79% 1
East of England -9 8 £450 -18.18% 6
North East -8 6 £550 -
East Midlands -16 6 £420 -19.23%
Northern Ireland - 5 £350 - 8

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 19 (7.36%) Apache
2 9 (3.49%) JBoss
3 8 (3.10%) Microsoft Exchange
4 6 (2.33%) Documentum
4 6 (2.33%) SharePoint
4 6 (2.33%) Tomcat
5 5 (1.94%) FileNet
6 4 (1.55%) Apache Spark
6 4 (1.55%) nginx
6 4 (1.55%) SAS
7 3 (1.16%) Confluence
7 3 (1.16%) WebLogic
8 2 (0.78%) NetWeaver
8 2 (0.78%) Oracle HTTP Server
9 1 (0.39%) Anypoint
9 1 (0.39%) CMS
9 1 (0.39%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.39%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.39%) SharePoint Server
9 1 (0.39%) WebSphere
Applications
1 4 (1.55%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (1.55%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.78%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 2 (0.78%) SAP S/4HANA
1 2 (0.78%) Teamcenter
2 1 (0.39%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.39%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 61 (23.64%) AWS
2 37 (14.34%) OpenShift
3 25 (9.69%) Azure
4 19 (7.36%) GitHub
5 17 (6.59%) Amazon EC2
6 16 (6.20%) Amazon S3
7 15 (5.81%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 13 (5.04%) Entra ID
8 13 (5.04%) GCP
9 10 (3.88%) AWS CloudFormation
10 9 (3.49%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 7 (2.71%) Amazon ECS
11 7 (2.71%) AWS Fargate
11 7 (2.71%) Azure DevOps
12 6 (2.33%) SaaS
12 6 (2.33%) Serverless
13 5 (1.94%) Amazon SQS
13 5 (1.94%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 5 (1.94%) npm
14 4 (1.55%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 37 (14.34%) Firewall
2 32 (12.40%) DNS
3 17 (6.59%) SAN
4 13 (5.04%) TCP/IP
5 11 (4.26%) VLAN
6 9 (3.49%) DHCP
7 8 (3.10%) SMTP
8 7 (2.71%) BGP
9 6 (2.33%) DKIM
9 6 (2.33%) DMARC
9 6 (2.33%) Internet
9 6 (2.33%) Software-Defined Networking
9 6 (2.33%) SSL
9 6 (2.33%) WebEx
10 5 (1.94%) AMQP
10 5 (1.94%) Network Security
11 4 (1.55%) NAS
11 4 (1.55%) VPN
11 4 (1.55%) VSAN
12 3 (1.16%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (8.91%) MongoDB
2 17 (6.59%) Oracle Database
3 12 (4.65%) MySQL
3 12 (4.65%) RDBMS
3 12 (4.65%) Relational Database
4 11 (4.26%) Elasticsearch
4 11 (4.26%) PostgreSQL
5 8 (3.10%) Data Warehouse
5 8 (3.10%) SQL Server
6 7 (2.71%) Amazon RDS
7 5 (1.94%) MariaDB
8 4 (1.55%) Big Data
8 4 (1.55%) Data Lake
8 4 (1.55%) Hadoop
8 4 (1.55%) InfluxDB
9 3 (1.16%) Apache Cassandra
10 2 (0.78%) DB2
10 2 (0.78%) Oracle BI Publisher
10 2 (0.78%) Oracle Exadata
10 2 (0.78%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 33 (12.79%) Jenkins
2 29 (11.24%) Git
3 24 (9.30%) GitLab
4 17 (6.59%) Sonatype Nexus
5 15 (5.81%) JIRA
6 10 (3.88%) Maven
7 9 (3.49%) TeamCity
8 6 (2.33%) SonarQube
9 5 (1.94%) Artifactory
9 5 (1.94%) Postman
9 5 (1.94%) Subversion
10 4 (1.55%) Bitbucket
10 4 (1.55%) Bitbucket Server
10 4 (1.55%) CA Release Automation
10 4 (1.55%) MSI
10 4 (1.55%) Robot Framework
10 4 (1.55%) Terragrunt
11 3 (1.16%) Gradle
11 3 (1.16%) Mockito
11 3 (1.16%) Vagrant
General
1 67 (25.97%) Social Skills
2 33 (12.79%) Finance
3 31 (12.02%) Analytical Skills
4 28 (10.85%) Public Sector
5 8 (3.10%) Documentation Skills
6 6 (2.33%) Financial Institution
6 6 (2.33%) Legal
7 5 (1.94%) Banking
7 5 (1.94%) Manufacturing
8 2 (0.78%) Aerospace
8 2 (0.78%) French Language
8 2 (0.78%) Front Office
8 2 (0.78%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.39%) Automotive
9 1 (0.39%) Back Office
9 1 (0.39%) Electronics
9 1 (0.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.39%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.39%) Military
9 1 (0.39%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 38 (14.73%) Linux Engineer
2 34 (13.18%) Administrator
3 21 (8.14%) DevOps Engineer
4 20 (7.75%) Senior
5 19 (7.36%) Architect
6 16 (6.20%) Linux Administrator
6 16 (6.20%) Platform Engineer
7 14 (5.43%) Systems Administrator
8 13 (5.04%) Developer
8 13 (5.04%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 12 (4.65%) Consultant
10 11 (4.26%) Integration Engineer
10 11 (4.26%) Lead
10 11 (4.26%) Support Engineer
10 11 (4.26%) Systems Engineer
11 10 (3.88%) Applications Engineer
11 10 (3.88%) Linux Systems Administrator
11 10 (3.88%) Site Engineer
11 10 (3.88%) Site Reliability Engineer
12 7 (2.71%) Senior Linux Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (5.43%) Kafka
2 11 (4.26%) Loki
3 10 (3.88%) Elastic Stack
4 9 (3.49%) Middleware
4 9 (3.49%) Spring Boot
5 8 (3.10%) Keycloak
5 8 (3.10%) REST
6 7 (2.71%) cloud-init
7 6 (2.33%) AWS CDK
7 6 (2.33%) JSON
7 6 (2.33%) Spring
7 6 (2.33%) XMPP
8 4 (1.55%) OpenTelemetry
8 4 (1.55%) RESTful
9 3 (1.16%) ARM Templates
9 3 (1.16%) JAX-RS
9 3 (1.16%) LDAP
9 3 (1.16%) Regular Expression
9 3 (1.16%) Spring Batch
9 3 (1.16%) Spring Security
Miscellaneous
1 20 (7.75%) Data Centre
2 18 (6.98%) Cloud Native
3 15 (5.81%) Clustering
4 13 (5.04%) PKI
4 13 (5.04%) Product Ownership
5 10 (3.88%) Enterprise Storage
5 10 (3.88%) Legacy Systems
5 10 (3.88%) Onboarding
6 8 (3.10%) Virtual Team
7 7 (2.71%) Legacy Applications
7 7 (2.71%) Replication
8 6 (2.33%) Enterprise Software
8 6 (2.33%) Hybrid Cloud
9 5 (1.94%) Hedge funds
9 5 (1.94%) Management Information System
9 5 (1.94%) Self-Motivation
10 4 (1.55%) Data Protection Act
10 4 (1.55%) Linux Command Line
10 4 (1.55%) Public Cloud
11 3 (1.16%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 258 (100.00%) Linux
2 80 (31.01%) Windows
3 43 (16.67%) Windows Server
4 39 (15.12%) CentOS
5 30 (11.63%) Unix
6 26 (10.08%) Ubuntu
7 18 (6.98%) Solaris
8 14 (5.43%) Windows Server 2019
9 10 (3.88%) Windows Server 2016
10 6 (2.33%) AIX
10 6 (2.33%) Oracle Linux
10 6 (2.33%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
11 5 (1.94%) OpenVMS
12 4 (1.55%) Windows Server 2012
13 3 (1.16%) Debian
14 2 (0.78%) Mac OS
14 2 (0.78%) SUSE
14 2 (0.78%) Windows 10
14 2 (0.78%) Windows Server 2008
15 1 (0.39%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 85 (32.95%) CI/CD
2 64 (24.81%) DevOps
3 57 (22.09%) Agile
4 51 (19.77%) Infrastructure as Code
5 46 (17.83%) Containerisation
6 45 (17.44%) Problem-Solving
7 37 (14.34%) Migration
8 35 (13.57%) Observability
9 33 (12.79%) High Availability
10 28 (10.85%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 27 (10.47%) Disaster Recovery
12 22 (8.53%) Configuration Management
12 22 (8.53%) Microservices
12 22 (8.53%) Stakeholder Management
13 21 (8.14%) Continuous Improvement
14 20 (7.75%) Patch Management
15 19 (7.36%) ITIL
15 19 (7.36%) Platform Engineering
16 18 (6.98%) Infrastructure Automation
16 18 (6.98%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 89 (34.50%) Python
2 88 (34.11%) Bash
3 36 (13.95%) PowerShell
4 33 (12.79%) Shell Script
5 28 (10.85%) Perl
6 27 (10.47%) Java
7 18 (6.98%) SQL
8 9 (3.49%) Go
9 7 (2.71%) PHP
10 6 (2.33%) JavaScript
10 6 (2.33%) Rust
11 3 (1.16%) C++
11 3 (1.16%) Groovy
11 3 (1.16%) PL/SQL
11 3 (1.16%) VBScript
12 2 (0.78%) AWK
12 2 (0.78%) C
12 2 (0.78%) C#
12 2 (0.78%) sed
13 1 (0.39%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 107 (41.47%) Security Cleared
2 79 (30.62%) SC Cleared
3 26 (10.08%) DV Cleared
4 11 (4.26%) CCNP
4 11 (4.26%) Cisco Certification
5 10 (3.88%) CCNA
5 10 (3.88%) Degree
6 9 (3.49%) BPSS Clearance
6 9 (3.49%) CCDP
7 8 (3.10%) RHCE
8 5 (1.94%) AWS Certification
9 4 (1.55%) RHCSA
10 3 (1.16%) Computer Science Degree
10 3 (1.16%) SAP Certification
11 2 (0.78%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 2 (0.78%) TOGAF Certification
12 1 (0.39%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
12 1 (0.39%) CISM
12 1 (0.39%) CISSP
12 1 (0.39%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (3.10%) QA
2 7 (2.71%) NCSC
3 5 (1.94%) GDPR
4 4 (1.55%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 3 (1.16%) NIST
6 1 (0.39%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.39%) Def Stans
6 1 (0.39%) HL7
6 1 (0.39%) ISO 15022
6 1 (0.39%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.39%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 55 (21.32%) VMware Infrastructure
2 42 (16.28%) Docker
3 31 (12.02%) Active Directory
4 12 (4.65%) vSphere
5 10 (3.88%) VMware ESXi
6 7 (2.71%) KVM
6 7 (2.71%) Virtual Machines
7 6 (2.33%) Dovecot
7 6 (2.33%) NFS
7 6 (2.33%) Oracle RAC
7 6 (2.33%) Postfix
8 5 (1.94%) Veritas Cluster Server
9 4 (1.55%) Hyper-V
9 4 (1.55%) Veritas File System
9 4 (1.55%) Veritas Volume Manager
10 3 (1.16%) GPFS
11 2 (0.78%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 2 (0.78%) VirtualBox
11 2 (0.78%) VMware NSX
12 1 (0.39%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 99 (38.37%) Ansible
2 71 (27.52%) Kubernetes
3 60 (23.26%) Terraform
4 30 (11.63%) Grafana
5 29 (11.24%) Red Hat Satellite
6 24 (9.30%) Prometheus
7 17 (6.59%) Argo
8 14 (5.43%) Puppet
9 13 (5.04%) Progress Chef
10 11 (4.26%) SCOM
11 10 (3.88%) Kustomize
12 8 (3.10%) Nagios
13 7 (2.71%) Jamf Pro
13 7 (2.71%) NetBackup
13 7 (2.71%) Packer
13 7 (2.71%) Podman
14 6 (2.33%) EMC NetWorker
14 6 (2.33%) EMC VPLEX
14 6 (2.33%) Kibana
14 6 (2.33%) SCCM
Vendors
1 161 (62.40%) Red Hat
2 90 (34.88%) VMware
3 45 (17.44%) Oracle
4 29 (11.24%) Splunk
5 27 (10.47%) Microsoft
6 20 (7.75%) Cisco
7 15 (5.81%) Dell
8 13 (5.04%) Citrix
9 10 (3.88%) HP
10 8 (3.10%) CyberArk
10 8 (3.10%) Qualys
10 8 (3.10%) Veritas
11 7 (2.71%) 3PAR
11 7 (2.71%) IBM
11 7 (2.71%) NetApp
11 7 (2.71%) Okta
12 6 (2.33%) Brocade
12 6 (2.33%) EMC
12 6 (2.33%) Isilon
12 6 (2.33%) MuleSoft