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

6 months to
10 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 350 311 285
Rank change year-on-year -39 -26 -73
Contract jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 359 248 313
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.66% 0.75% 0.82%
As % of the Operating Systems category 6.74% 5.56% 5.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 239 168 228
10th Percentile £388 £334 £362
25th Percentile £449 £409 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £520
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% -1.92% -9.57%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £613
90th Percentile £688 £675 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £520
% change year-on-year - -3.85% -5.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 0 0
10th Percentile £37.88 - -
25th Percentile £41.71 - -
Median hourly rate £52.54 - -
75th Percentile £71.95 - -
90th Percentile £79.63 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £52.54 - -

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 5,326 4,458 5,392
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.77% 13.51% 14.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,359 2,851 3,485
10th Percentile £190 £190 £200
25th Percentile £313 £306 £331
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +4.42% -5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £584
90th Percentile £675 £675 £685
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £447 £450
% change year-on-year +0.67% -0.67% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 388 266 280
10th Percentile £14.10 £15.50 £15.22
25th Percentile £17.19 £18.59 £19.91
Median hourly rate £25.77 £25.15 £48.03
Median % change year-on-year +2.47% -47.64% +6.75%
75th Percentile £65.22 £58.75 £68.19
90th Percentile £74.43 £67.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £26.00 £25.15 £51.25
% change year-on-year +3.38% -50.93% +18.84%

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 10 September 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 10 September 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Red Hat Enterprise Linux in the UK

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Top 15 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 10 September 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 -14 322 £500 -1.96% 99
UK excluding London -36 220 £500 - 64
London -31 117 £500 -1.96% 42
Work from Home -67 77 £475 -9.52% 26
North of England -51 63 £500 +24.69% 11
South East -45 49 £460 -14.42% 19
South West -7 47 £567 +3.14% 13
North West -41 38 £489 +24.30% 9
East of England -3 30 £525 +29.63% 21
Yorkshire -35 25 £538 +13.16% 1
Scotland -44 16 £488 -2.40% 2
Midlands -59 14 £530 -1.30% 3
East Midlands -14 8 £530 +26.19%
West Midlands -51 6 £568 -0.74% 3
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 11 (3.06%) JBoss
1 11 (3.06%) nginx
2 10 (2.79%) Apache
3 9 (2.51%) SharePoint
4 8 (2.23%) Confluence
5 7 (1.95%) Tomcat
5 7 (1.95%) WebSphere
6 6 (1.67%) Microsoft Exchange
7 3 (0.84%) SAS
8 2 (0.56%) Documentum
8 2 (0.56%) IBM HTTP Server
8 2 (0.56%) OpenStack
8 2 (0.56%) Oracle HTTP Server
8 2 (0.56%) WebLogic
8 2 (0.56%) WebSphere Application Server
8 2 (0.56%) WebSphere Portal
9 1 (0.28%) Apache Airflow
9 1 (0.28%) Red Hat Fuse
9 1 (0.28%) Traefik
Applications
1 4 (1.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.28%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.28%) FLEXCUBE
1 1 (0.28%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (0.28%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 106 (29.53%) AWS
2 83 (23.12%) Azure
3 42 (11.70%) OpenShift
4 33 (9.19%) GCP
5 23 (6.41%) GitHub
6 22 (6.13%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 19 (5.29%) Amazon EC2
7 19 (5.29%) Amazon EKS
7 19 (5.29%) AWS CloudFormation
7 19 (5.29%) Datadog
8 17 (4.74%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 16 (4.46%) Serverless
10 15 (4.18%) Amazon S3
10 15 (4.18%) Entra ID
10 15 (4.18%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 14 (3.90%) Azure Monitor
11 14 (3.90%) IaaS
12 13 (3.62%) AWS Lambda
12 13 (3.62%) GitHub Actions
13 12 (3.34%) AWS CloudTrail
Communications & Networking
1 50 (13.93%) DNS
2 46 (12.81%) Firewall
3 39 (10.86%) SAN
4 24 (6.69%) TCP/IP
5 22 (6.13%) Kerberos
6 21 (5.85%) DHCP
7 17 (4.74%) VLAN
8 16 (4.46%) Network Security
9 15 (4.18%) SSL
10 12 (3.34%) VPN
11 8 (2.23%) SSH
12 7 (1.95%) VoIP
13 6 (1.67%) VSAN
13 6 (1.67%) WAN
14 5 (1.39%) HTTP
14 5 (1.39%) NAS
15 3 (0.84%) FTP
15 3 (0.84%) Intrusion Detection
15 3 (0.84%) iSCSI
15 3 (0.84%) OpenVPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (7.52%) PostgreSQL
2 25 (6.96%) Oracle Database
3 16 (4.46%) SQL Server
4 10 (2.79%) Amazon RDS
4 10 (2.79%) MySQL
5 8 (2.23%) SQLite
6 7 (1.95%) MongoDB
6 7 (1.95%) SAP HANA
7 6 (1.67%) Big Data
7 6 (1.67%) Hadoop
7 6 (1.67%) Relational Database
8 5 (1.39%) Elasticsearch
9 4 (1.11%) Data Lake
9 4 (1.11%) Data Warehouse
9 4 (1.11%) Oracle Database 12c
9 4 (1.11%) Redis
10 3 (0.84%) GIS
11 2 (0.56%) Azure SQL Database
11 2 (0.56%) Sybase ASE
12 1 (0.28%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 51 (14.21%) Jenkins
2 46 (12.81%) Git
3 40 (11.14%) GitLab
4 15 (4.18%) JIRA
5 7 (1.95%) Sonatype Nexus
6 5 (1.39%) Artifactory
7 3 (0.84%) Bitbucket
7 3 (0.84%) Cucumber
7 3 (0.84%) Toad
8 2 (0.56%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 2 (0.56%) Introscope
8 2 (0.56%) JMeter
8 2 (0.56%) Locust
8 2 (0.56%) Maven
8 2 (0.56%) Robot Framework
8 2 (0.56%) TestCafe
8 2 (0.56%) Zephyr
9 1 (0.28%) Ant
9 1 (0.28%) Newman
9 1 (0.28%) PVCS
General
1 66 (18.38%) Social Skills
2 57 (15.88%) Finance
3 38 (10.58%) Analytical Skills
4 26 (7.24%) Documentation Skills
5 25 (6.96%) Banking
6 20 (5.57%) Public Sector
7 11 (3.06%) Legal
8 7 (1.95%) Aerospace
9 6 (1.67%) Military
9 6 (1.67%) Retail
10 5 (1.39%) Manufacturing
10 5 (1.39%) Publishing
11 3 (0.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (0.84%) Law
11 3 (0.84%) Telecoms
12 2 (0.56%) Aviation
12 2 (0.56%) Investment Banking
13 1 (0.28%) Financial Institution
13 1 (0.28%) Local Government
13 1 (0.28%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 81 (22.56%) Linux Engineer
2 54 (15.04%) Senior
3 34 (9.47%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 32 (8.91%) DevOps Engineer
5 31 (8.64%) Cloud Engineer
6 26 (7.24%) Architect
7 24 (6.69%) Administrator
8 18 (5.01%) Linux Administrator
8 18 (5.01%) Security Engineer
9 17 (4.74%) Platform Engineer
9 17 (4.74%) Senior Linux Engineer
10 16 (4.46%) Lead
11 15 (4.18%) AWS Engineer
11 15 (4.18%) Systems Engineer
12 14 (3.90%) Automation Engineer
12 14 (3.90%) Linux Systems Engineer
13 13 (3.62%) Systems Administrator
13 13 (3.62%) Unix Engineer
14 12 (3.34%) Linux Systems Administrator
15 11 (3.06%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 87 (24.23%) Terraform
2 15 (4.18%) Middleware
2 15 (4.18%) REST
3 11 (3.06%) LDAP
4 10 (2.79%) Kafka
5 8 (2.23%) Azure Blueprints
5 8 (2.23%) SPNEGO
6 7 (1.95%) ARM Templates
6 7 (1.95%) JSON
7 6 (1.67%) .NET
7 6 (1.67%) Elastic Stack
7 6 (1.67%) WebSphere MQ
8 5 (1.39%) OAuth
8 5 (1.39%) React
8 5 (1.39%) Vue
9 4 (1.11%) Celery
9 4 (1.11%) Django
9 4 (1.11%) JWT
9 4 (1.11%) OpenTofu
9 4 (1.11%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 44 (12.26%) Cloud Native
2 29 (8.08%) Security Posture
3 26 (7.24%) Replication
4 22 (6.13%) Clustering
5 21 (5.85%) Data Centre
6 17 (4.74%) Management Information System
6 17 (4.74%) Onboarding
7 16 (4.46%) Enterprise Storage
8 14 (3.90%) Hybrid Cloud
8 14 (3.90%) Linux Command Line
9 13 (3.62%) Legacy Systems
9 13 (3.62%) PKI
10 12 (3.34%) Data Protection Act
10 12 (3.34%) Enterprise Cloud
11 10 (2.79%) Virtual Team
12 9 (2.51%) Private Cloud
13 8 (2.23%) Cloud Security Posture
13 8 (2.23%) Enterprise Software
13 8 (2.23%) Legacy Applications
13 8 (2.23%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 359 (100.00%) Linux
2 137 (38.16%) Windows
3 74 (20.61%) Windows Server
4 41 (11.42%) CentOS
4 41 (11.42%) Ubuntu
4 41 (11.42%) Unix
5 26 (7.24%) Solaris
6 21 (5.85%) Rocky
7 15 (4.18%) AIX
8 13 (3.62%) SUSE
9 12 (3.34%) Oracle Linux
10 11 (3.06%) Windows Server 2019
11 8 (2.23%) VMS
12 7 (1.95%) Windows Server 2012
13 6 (1.67%) HPUX
13 6 (1.67%) Windows Server 2016
14 5 (1.39%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
14 5 (1.39%) Windows 10
14 5 (1.39%) Windows Server 2008
15 4 (1.11%) Alpine Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 124 (34.54%) CI/CD
2 113 (31.48%) DevOps
3 77 (21.45%) Infrastructure as Code
4 66 (18.38%) Configuration Management
5 64 (17.83%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 61 (16.99%) Containerisation
6 61 (16.99%) Migration
7 55 (15.32%) ITIL
8 54 (15.04%) Agile
9 53 (14.76%) Platform Engineering
10 51 (14.21%) Change Management
11 49 (13.65%) Problem-Solving
12 46 (12.81%) Continuous Improvement
13 41 (11.42%) Observability
14 40 (11.14%) Performance Tuning
15 36 (10.03%) Runbook
16 35 (9.75%) High Availability
16 35 (9.75%) Infrastructure Automation
17 34 (9.47%) Cloud Security
18 33 (9.19%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 153 (42.62%) Python
2 105 (29.25%) Bash
3 99 (27.58%) PowerShell
4 37 (10.31%) Java
5 26 (7.24%) SQL
6 24 (6.69%) Shell Script
7 22 (6.13%) Perl
8 13 (3.62%) C
8 13 (3.62%) C++
9 12 (3.34%) Bicep
10 10 (2.79%) Korn
11 8 (2.23%) PL/SQL
12 7 (1.95%) Go
13 6 (1.67%) C#
13 6 (1.67%) JavaScript
14 5 (1.39%) Groovy
15 4 (1.11%) MATLAB
16 2 (0.56%) Jython
16 2 (0.56%) Search Processing Language
17 1 (0.28%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 154 (42.90%) Security Cleared
2 114 (31.75%) SC Cleared
3 39 (10.86%) DV Cleared
4 34 (9.47%) Degree
5 27 (7.52%) AWS Certification
5 27 (7.52%) CISSP
6 24 (6.69%) Azure Certification
7 15 (4.18%) RHCE
8 10 (2.79%) Computer Science Degree
9 7 (1.95%) CompTIA Security+
9 7 (1.95%) Microsoft Certification
10 6 (1.67%) CISM
11 4 (1.11%) RHCSA
12 3 (0.84%) RHCA
13 2 (0.56%) GIAC
13 2 (0.56%) ISSAP
13 2 (0.56%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 2 (0.56%) MOS
13 2 (0.56%) VCAP
13 2 (0.56%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (2.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 9 (2.51%) SLA
2 8 (2.23%) NIST
3 6 (1.67%) NCSC
3 6 (1.67%) QA
4 5 (1.39%) GRC
5 4 (1.11%) Disclosure Scotland
5 4 (1.11%) ISO 15022
5 4 (1.11%) ISO 20022
5 4 (1.11%) SOC 2
6 3 (0.84%) HIPAA
6 3 (0.84%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.28%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.28%) JSP 440
7 1 (0.28%) OpenSCAP
7 1 (0.28%) PMO
System Software
1 68 (18.94%) Docker
2 46 (12.81%) VMware Infrastructure
3 43 (11.98%) Active Directory
4 33 (9.19%) Virtual Machines
5 24 (6.69%) VMware ESXi
6 18 (5.01%) vSphere
7 15 (4.18%) NFS
8 13 (3.62%) Hyper-V
9 8 (2.23%) Oracle RAC
10 6 (1.67%) Corosync
11 4 (1.11%) Ceph
11 4 (1.11%) Firmware
11 4 (1.11%) Veritas Volume Manager
12 3 (0.84%) KVM
12 3 (0.84%) VMware NSX
13 2 (0.56%) GPFS
13 2 (0.56%) Slurm Workload Manager
13 2 (0.56%) Squid
14 1 (0.28%) OpenSSH
14 1 (0.28%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 129 (35.93%) Ansible
2 95 (26.46%) Kubernetes
3 39 (10.86%) Puppet
4 34 (9.47%) Progress Chef
5 27 (7.52%) Red Hat Satellite
6 25 (6.96%) Grafana
7 23 (6.41%) Prometheus
8 19 (5.29%) Failover Clustering
9 16 (4.46%) NetBackup
10 10 (2.79%) Podman
10 10 (2.79%) vCenter Server
11 8 (2.23%) Oracle RMAN
11 8 (2.23%) Packer
12 7 (1.95%) Pacemaker
13 6 (1.67%) Check_MK
13 6 (1.67%) systemd
14 5 (1.39%) Nagios
14 5 (1.39%) SCCM
14 5 (1.39%) SELinux
14 5 (1.39%) WSUS
Vendors
1 181 (50.42%) Red Hat
2 64 (17.83%) Microsoft
3 63 (17.55%) VMware
4 55 (15.32%) Oracle
5 27 (7.52%) Google
6 25 (6.96%) NetApp
7 22 (6.13%) Splunk
8 21 (5.85%) IBM
9 19 (5.29%) ServiceNow
10 17 (4.74%) Cisco
11 14 (3.90%) Veeam
12 11 (3.06%) SaltStack
13 10 (2.79%) Qualys
14 9 (2.51%) Rapid7
14 9 (2.51%) Tenable
15 8 (2.23%) SAP
16 7 (1.95%) HP
16 7 (1.95%) Veritas
17 6 (1.67%) McAfee
18 5 (1.39%) Dell