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

6 months to
9 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 376 227 294
Rank change year-on-year -149 +67 -84
Contract jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 275 347 327
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.60% 1.19% 0.74%
As % of the Operating Systems category 5.74% 8.45% 5.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 195 245 241
10th Percentile £400 £396 £350
25th Percentile £452 £463 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £551 £535
Median % change year-on-year -4.72% +2.99% -10.83%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £625
90th Percentile £675 £738 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 0 5
10th Percentile £74.34 - £22.57
25th Percentile £75.00 - £25.18
Median hourly rate £85.00 - £52.50
75th Percentile £92.50 - £71.25
90th Percentile £119.00 - £75.30
UK excluding London median hourly rate £80.00 - £52.50
% change year-on-year - - -16.09%

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 4,794 4,107 5,963
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 10.47% 14.05% 13.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,134 2,739 3,991
10th Percentile £181 £200 £181
25th Percentile £300 £325 £290
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £463
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +2.70% -9.76%
75th Percentile £570 £600 £594
90th Percentile £657 £699 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £450 £448
% change year-on-year -5.56% +0.56% -5.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 338 173 408
10th Percentile £15.50 £16.63 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.00 £18.13 £15.50
Median hourly rate £25.52 £24.66 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.47% +12.09% -24.91%
75th Percentile £65.00 £63.75 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £68.14 £68.63
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.21 £24.42 £20.00
% change year-on-year +3.21% +22.10% -24.53%

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 April 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 9 April 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 9 April 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 -165 219 £525 -7.61% 65
UK excluding London -83 192 £500 -9.09% 55
Work from Home -62 91 £500 -9.09% 30
North of England -79 61 £525 -5.83% 19
South East -45 44 £475 -13.64% 14
London -125 38 £525 -12.50% 14
Yorkshire -63 31 £500 -20.95% 6
North West -31 26 £550 +23.18% 10
South West -24 25 £588 -4.47% 13
East of England -17 24 £477 -20.58% 2
Midlands -66 20 £530 -3.81% 4
West Midlands -59 17 £539 -2.27% 3
Scotland -10 13 £463 -7.50% 2
North East -14 7 £550 -1.35% 3
East Midlands -36 3 £420 -21.79% 1
Northern Ireland - 3 £375 -
Wales - 2 - - 1

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 12 (4.36%) nginx
2 11 (4.00%) Confluence
3 10 (3.64%) Microsoft Exchange
4 9 (3.27%) SharePoint
4 9 (3.27%) WebLogic
5 8 (2.91%) Apache
5 8 (2.91%) Tomcat
6 7 (2.55%) SAS
7 3 (1.09%) IBM HTTP Server
7 3 (1.09%) OpenStack
7 3 (1.09%) WebSphere
7 3 (1.09%) WebSphere Application Server
8 2 (0.73%) JBoss
8 2 (0.73%) Oracle HTTP Server
8 2 (0.73%) WebSphere Portal
9 1 (0.36%) FileNet
9 1 (0.36%) Red Hat Fuse
9 1 (0.36%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 3 (1.09%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (1.09%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 62 (22.55%) AWS
2 58 (21.09%) Azure
3 37 (13.45%) OpenShift
4 17 (6.18%) GCP
5 16 (5.82%) Amazon EC2
6 15 (5.45%) Amazon S3
7 14 (5.09%) GitHub
8 9 (3.27%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 7 (2.55%) Azure Sentinel
9 7 (2.55%) Entra ID
10 6 (2.18%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 6 (2.18%) Amazon EKS
11 5 (1.82%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 5 (1.82%) IaaS
11 5 (1.82%) Microsoft 365
11 5 (1.82%) Nutanix
11 5 (1.82%) OCI
12 4 (1.45%) Azure DevOps
12 4 (1.45%) Azure Monitor
12 4 (1.45%) Azure Stack
Communications & Networking
1 37 (13.45%) Firewall
2 25 (9.09%) SAN
3 17 (6.18%) DNS
4 15 (5.45%) VLAN
5 10 (3.64%) VSAN
6 8 (2.91%) HTTP
6 8 (2.91%) Kerberos
6 8 (2.91%) Network Security
7 7 (2.55%) BGP
8 6 (2.18%) DHCP
8 6 (2.18%) iSCSI
8 6 (2.18%) Software-Defined Networking
8 6 (2.18%) SSL
8 6 (2.18%) TCP/IP
8 6 (2.18%) VPN
8 6 (2.18%) WebEx
9 5 (1.82%) Fibre Channel
10 4 (1.45%) DKIM
10 4 (1.45%) DMARC
10 4 (1.45%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (8.00%) Oracle Database
2 15 (5.45%) MongoDB
3 13 (4.73%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (2.55%) Data Warehouse
5 6 (2.18%) Elasticsearch
5 6 (2.18%) SQL Server
6 5 (1.82%) GIS
7 4 (1.45%) MySQL
7 4 (1.45%) Oracle Database 12c
8 3 (1.09%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (1.09%) MariaDB
8 3 (1.09%) Oracle Exadata
8 3 (1.09%) Oracle Reports
9 2 (0.73%) Data Lake
9 2 (0.73%) RDBMS
9 2 (0.73%) Relational Database
10 1 (0.36%) BusinessObjects
10 1 (0.36%) IBM InfoSphere
10 1 (0.36%) Metadata
10 1 (0.36%) OpenStack Swift
Development Applications
1 33 (12.00%) Jenkins
2 31 (11.27%) Git
3 30 (10.91%) GitLab
4 14 (5.09%) JIRA
5 6 (2.18%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 5 (1.82%) Artifactory
7 3 (1.09%) Introscope
7 3 (1.09%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (0.73%) Maven
8 2 (0.73%) Robot Framework
9 1 (0.36%) GoCD
9 1 (0.36%) PVCS
9 1 (0.36%) Subversion
General
1 72 (26.18%) Social Skills
2 28 (10.18%) Public Sector
3 27 (9.82%) Analytical Skills
4 23 (8.36%) Documentation Skills
5 19 (6.91%) Finance
6 17 (6.18%) Banking
7 10 (3.64%) Legal
8 8 (2.91%) Aerospace
9 5 (1.82%) Telecoms
10 2 (0.73%) Back Office
10 2 (0.73%) Financial Institution
10 2 (0.73%) Front Office
10 2 (0.73%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.73%) Military
10 2 (0.73%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.36%) Billing
11 1 (0.36%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.36%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.36%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.36%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 36 (13.09%) Linux Engineer
2 34 (12.36%) Administrator
3 31 (11.27%) Architect
4 27 (9.82%) Platform Engineer
5 25 (9.09%) Senior
6 21 (7.64%) Lead
6 21 (7.64%) Linux Administrator
7 18 (6.55%) Software Engineer
8 13 (4.73%) DevOps Engineer
9 12 (4.36%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 11 (4.00%) Senior Linux Engineer
10 11 (4.00%) Systems Administrator
11 9 (3.27%) DBA
11 9 (3.27%) Oracle DBA
12 8 (2.91%) Lead Software Engineer
12 8 (2.91%) Solutions Architect
13 7 (2.55%) Security Engineer
14 6 (2.18%) Consultant
14 6 (2.18%) Systems Engineer
15 5 (1.82%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (7.64%) LDAP
2 18 (6.55%) Middleware
3 9 (3.27%) YAML
4 8 (2.91%) Spring
5 6 (2.18%) Spring Boot
5 6 (2.18%) XMPP
6 5 (1.82%) EJB
6 5 (1.82%) Loki
6 5 (1.82%) OpenLayers
6 5 (1.82%) REST
7 4 (1.45%) .NET
8 3 (1.09%) FastAPI
8 3 (1.09%) Flask
8 3 (1.09%) Java EE
8 3 (1.09%) Java SE
8 3 (1.09%) JDBC
8 3 (1.09%) JSP
8 3 (1.09%) Kafka
8 3 (1.09%) RabbitMQ
9 2 (0.73%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 36 (13.09%) Data Centre
2 21 (7.64%) Cloud Native
3 19 (6.91%) Product Ownership
4 14 (5.09%) Management Information System
5 13 (4.73%) Clustering
6 12 (4.36%) Hybrid Cloud
7 9 (3.27%) Enterprise Software
7 9 (3.27%) Legacy Systems
7 9 (3.27%) Public Cloud
8 8 (2.91%) Onboarding
9 7 (2.55%) Replication
10 6 (2.18%) Data Protection Act
10 6 (2.18%) FlexPod
10 6 (2.18%) Legacy Applications
11 5 (1.82%) Analytical Mindset
11 5 (1.82%) PKI
11 5 (1.82%) Virtual Team
12 4 (1.45%) EMC VMAX
12 4 (1.45%) Linux Command Line
12 4 (1.45%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 275 (100.00%) Linux
2 98 (35.64%) Windows
3 51 (18.55%) Windows Server
4 45 (16.36%) Ubuntu
5 36 (13.09%) CentOS
6 23 (8.36%) Unix
7 17 (6.18%) VMS
8 16 (5.82%) Solaris
9 14 (5.09%) Windows Server 2019
10 11 (4.00%) Oracle Linux
10 11 (4.00%) Windows Server 2016
11 8 (2.91%) Windows Server 2008
12 7 (2.55%) Rocky
13 6 (2.18%) CoreOS
13 6 (2.18%) Data ONTAP
13 6 (2.18%) Debian
13 6 (2.18%) SUSE
14 5 (1.82%) AIX
15 4 (1.45%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
16 3 (1.09%) OpenVMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (30.55%) CI/CD
2 71 (25.82%) DevOps
3 63 (22.91%) Problem-Solving
4 41 (14.91%) Agile
4 41 (14.91%) Continuous Improvement
4 41 (14.91%) Infrastructure as Code
5 39 (14.18%) High Availability
6 38 (13.82%) Containerisation
6 38 (13.82%) Platform Engineering
7 35 (12.73%) Migration
8 29 (10.55%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 27 (9.82%) ITIL
9 27 (9.82%) Performance Tuning
10 26 (9.45%) SIEM
10 26 (9.45%) Software Engineering
11 24 (8.73%) Roadmaps
12 23 (8.36%) ITSM
13 22 (8.00%) DevSecOps
13 22 (8.00%) Disaster Recovery
14 21 (7.64%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 102 (37.09%) Python
2 69 (25.09%) Bash
3 65 (23.64%) PowerShell
4 40 (14.55%) Shell Script
5 31 (11.27%) Perl
5 31 (11.27%) SQL
6 21 (7.64%) Java
7 11 (4.00%) PL/SQL
8 9 (3.27%) JavaScript
8 9 (3.27%) MATLAB
9 8 (2.91%) Ruby
10 7 (2.55%) Go
11 5 (1.82%) Korn
12 4 (1.45%) C#
13 3 (1.09%) Jython
14 1 (0.36%) Bicep
14 1 (0.36%) C++
14 1 (0.36%) Groovy
14 1 (0.36%) Rust
14 1 (0.36%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 132 (48.00%) Security Cleared
2 98 (35.64%) SC Cleared
3 29 (10.55%) DV Cleared
4 22 (8.00%) Degree
5 17 (6.18%) RHCE
6 16 (5.82%) OCP
6 16 (5.82%) Oracle Certification
7 10 (3.64%) Azure Certification
8 9 (3.27%) CCDP
8 9 (3.27%) CCNA
8 9 (3.27%) CCNP
8 9 (3.27%) Cisco Certification
9 8 (2.91%) CISSP
10 4 (1.45%) BPSS Clearance
10 4 (1.45%) Computer Science Degree
10 4 (1.45%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 3 (1.09%) CESG Certified Professional
11 3 (1.09%) CompTIA Security+
11 3 (1.09%) TOGAF Certification
11 3 (1.09%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (3.64%) SLA
2 6 (2.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (2.18%) NIST
3 5 (1.82%) GDPR
4 4 (1.45%) Cyber Essentials
4 4 (1.45%) NCSC
4 4 (1.45%) QA
5 3 (1.09%) NIST 800
6 2 (0.73%) Disclosure Scotland
6 2 (0.73%) GRC
7 1 (0.36%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.36%) HL7
7 1 (0.36%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 1 (0.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 54 (19.64%) VMware Infrastructure
2 37 (13.45%) Active Directory
2 37 (13.45%) Docker
3 23 (8.36%) Virtual Machines
3 23 (8.36%) vSphere
4 20 (7.27%) VMware ESXi
5 12 (4.36%) Oracle RAC
6 8 (2.91%) NFS
7 7 (2.55%) Hyper-V
7 7 (2.55%) VMware NSX
8 5 (1.82%) Firmware
8 5 (1.82%) Postfix
8 5 (1.82%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 4 (1.45%) Ceph
9 4 (1.45%) QEMU
10 3 (1.09%) GPFS
11 2 (0.73%) Citrix Hypervisor
11 2 (0.73%) KVM
11 2 (0.73%) Lustre
11 2 (0.73%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 105 (38.18%) Ansible
2 65 (23.64%) Kubernetes
3 46 (16.73%) Terraform
4 27 (9.82%) Red Hat Satellite
5 22 (8.00%) Grafana
6 17 (6.18%) Puppet
7 16 (5.82%) Oracle RMAN
8 15 (5.45%) Podman
9 13 (4.73%) Prometheus
10 11 (4.00%) Check_MK
10 11 (4.00%) vCenter Server
11 10 (3.64%) Argo
12 9 (3.27%) Progress Chef
13 8 (2.91%) Data Guard
14 7 (2.55%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
14 7 (2.55%) SCOM
15 6 (2.18%) SnapMirror
15 6 (2.18%) vMotion
16 5 (1.82%) Failover Clustering
16 5 (1.82%) vRealize
Vendors
1 173 (62.91%) Red Hat
2 87 (31.64%) VMware
3 46 (16.73%) Oracle
4 43 (15.64%) Microsoft
5 24 (8.73%) Dell
6 23 (8.36%) Cisco
6 23 (8.36%) Splunk
7 16 (5.82%) IBM
8 12 (4.36%) Citrix
9 11 (4.00%) NetApp
10 10 (3.64%) Google
11 9 (3.27%) HP
11 9 (3.27%) NVIDIA
12 7 (2.55%) Brocade
12 7 (2.55%) ServiceNow
12 7 (2.55%) Tenable
13 6 (2.18%) Broadcom
14 5 (1.82%) Commvault
14 5 (1.82%) Fortinet
15 4 (1.45%) Veritas