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 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 329 266 219
Rank change year-on-year -63 -47 +16
Contract jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 264 334 497
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.72% 0.97% 1.12%
As % of the Operating Systems category 5.53% 6.92% 7.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 182 215 351
10th Percentile £358 £407 £400
25th Percentile £426 £468 £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -6.78%
75th Percentile £604 £688 £638
90th Percentile £675 £750 £722
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 2 7
10th Percentile £69.98 - £23.44
25th Percentile £74.82 - £38.22
Median hourly rate £97.00 £112.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.39% +60.00% -3.45%
75th Percentile £119.00 - £73.75
90th Percentile - - £74.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £97.00 - £70.00
% change year-on-year - - -4.11%

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 4,774 4,828 6,703
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 13.10% 13.96% 15.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,095 3,008 4,569
10th Percentile £175 £200 £181
25th Percentile £263 £320 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% - -7.32%
75th Percentile £560 £588 £603
90th Percentile £660 £688 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £402 £431 £438
% change year-on-year -6.73% -1.49% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 364 187 335
10th Percentile £15.50 £16.29 £14.25
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.75 £17.72
Median hourly rate £25.15 £49.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -48.67% +63.33% +23.71%
75th Percentile £62.50 £67.14 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £73.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.11 £50.00 £25.18
% change year-on-year -49.78% +98.57% +14.45%

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 14 December 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 14 December 2025.

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 14 December 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 -71 226 £525 -11.02% 41
UK excluding London -53 158 £525 -4.55% 38
Work from Home -24 75 £540 +4.35% 14
London -53 68 £525 -12.50% 22
South East +12 49 £485 -15.28% 17
North of England -57 29 £550 -12.35%
Midlands -36 28 £545 +9.82% 3
South West -4 26 £550 - 8
West Midlands -35 22 £581 +25.70% 1
North West -18 20 £550 -
Scotland -25 10 £514 +2.75% 6
East of England -17 8 £450 -25.00% 1
North East -10 6 £550 -
East Midlands -18 6 £420 -23.39% 2
Yorkshire -65 6 £500 -31.03%
Northern Ireland - 6 £375 -
Wales - 2 - - 4

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 (4.92%) Apache
2 8 (3.03%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (2.65%) SharePoint
4 6 (2.27%) JBoss
4 6 (2.27%) Tomcat
5 5 (1.89%) SAS
6 4 (1.52%) Confluence
6 4 (1.52%) nginx
7 3 (1.14%) WebLogic
8 2 (0.76%) Apache Spark
8 2 (0.76%) NetWeaver
8 2 (0.76%) OpenStack
8 2 (0.76%) Oracle HTTP Server
9 1 (0.38%) CMS
9 1 (0.38%) Documentum
9 1 (0.38%) FileNet
9 1 (0.38%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 4 (1.52%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (1.52%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.76%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 2 (0.76%) SAP S/4HANA
1 2 (0.76%) Teamcenter
2 1 (0.38%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.38%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 54 (20.45%) AWS
2 39 (14.77%) OpenShift
3 37 (14.02%) Azure
4 16 (6.06%) Amazon S3
4 16 (6.06%) GitHub
5 14 (5.30%) Amazon EC2
6 13 (4.92%) Entra ID
7 12 (4.55%) GCP
7 12 (4.55%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 8 (3.03%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 8 (3.03%) AWS CloudFormation
8 8 (3.03%) SaaS
9 7 (2.65%) Amazon ECS
9 7 (2.65%) AWS Fargate
10 6 (2.27%) Azure Sentinel
10 6 (2.27%) npm
10 6 (2.27%) OCI
11 5 (1.89%) Azure DevOps
12 4 (1.52%) IaaS
13 3 (1.14%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 35 (13.26%) Firewall
2 31 (11.74%) DNS
3 17 (6.44%) SAN
4 12 (4.55%) SMTP
4 12 (4.55%) VLAN
5 10 (3.79%) DKIM
5 10 (3.79%) DMARC
6 9 (3.41%) TCP/IP
7 8 (3.03%) DHCP
8 7 (2.65%) BGP
8 7 (2.65%) SSL
9 6 (2.27%) AMQP
9 6 (2.27%) Internet
9 6 (2.27%) Software-Defined Networking
9 6 (2.27%) WebEx
10 5 (1.89%) VSAN
11 4 (1.52%) Kerberos
11 4 (1.52%) LAN
11 4 (1.52%) Network Security
11 4 (1.52%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (9.09%) MongoDB
2 23 (8.71%) Oracle Database
3 12 (4.55%) MySQL
3 12 (4.55%) RDBMS
3 12 (4.55%) Relational Database
4 9 (3.41%) PostgreSQL
5 8 (3.03%) Amazon RDS
5 8 (3.03%) Elasticsearch
5 8 (3.03%) SQL Server
6 7 (2.65%) Data Warehouse
6 7 (2.65%) MariaDB
7 4 (1.52%) InfluxDB
8 3 (1.14%) Apache Cassandra
8 3 (1.14%) Oracle Exadata
8 3 (1.14%) Oracle Reports
9 2 (0.76%) Big Data
9 2 (0.76%) DB2
9 2 (0.76%) GIS
9 2 (0.76%) Hadoop
9 2 (0.76%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 24 (9.09%) Git
2 22 (8.33%) Jenkins
3 19 (7.20%) GitLab
4 14 (5.30%) JIRA
5 10 (3.79%) Sonatype Nexus
6 9 (3.41%) Maven
7 8 (3.03%) TeamCity
8 5 (1.89%) SonarQube
8 5 (1.89%) Subversion
9 4 (1.52%) Artifactory
9 4 (1.52%) Bitbucket
9 4 (1.52%) Terragrunt
10 3 (1.14%) Bitbucket Server
10 3 (1.14%) CA Release Automation
10 3 (1.14%) Mockito
10 3 (1.14%) Vagrant
11 2 (0.76%) Gradle
11 2 (0.76%) Oracle APEX
12 1 (0.38%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 1 (0.38%) Robot Framework
General
1 80 (30.30%) Social Skills
2 29 (10.98%) Analytical Skills
3 27 (10.23%) Finance
4 26 (9.85%) Public Sector
5 11 (4.17%) Documentation Skills
6 7 (2.65%) Banking
6 7 (2.65%) Legal
7 5 (1.89%) Financial Institution
7 5 (1.89%) Manufacturing
8 2 (0.76%) Aerospace
8 2 (0.76%) Back Office
8 2 (0.76%) Front Office
9 1 (0.38%) Automotive
9 1 (0.38%) Billing
9 1 (0.38%) Electronics
9 1 (0.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.38%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.38%) Military
9 1 (0.38%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.38%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 38 (14.39%) Administrator
2 30 (11.36%) Linux Engineer
3 29 (10.98%) Architect
4 18 (6.82%) DevOps Engineer
5 17 (6.44%) Platform Engineer
6 15 (5.68%) Linux Administrator
6 15 (5.68%) Senior
6 15 (5.68%) Systems Administrator
7 12 (4.55%) Lead
7 12 (4.55%) Support Engineer
8 11 (4.17%) Applications Engineer
8 11 (4.17%) Developer
8 11 (4.17%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 10 (3.79%) Site Engineer
9 10 (3.79%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 9 (3.41%) Consultant
10 9 (3.41%) Linux Systems Administrator
10 9 (3.41%) Systems Engineer
11 8 (3.03%) DBA
12 7 (2.65%) Storage Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (4.55%) Kafka
2 11 (4.17%) Loki
3 9 (3.41%) REST
4 8 (3.03%) Keycloak
4 8 (3.03%) LDAP
4 8 (3.03%) Spring Boot
5 7 (2.65%) cloud-init
5 7 (2.65%) Elastic Stack
6 6 (2.27%) AWS CDK
6 6 (2.27%) Middleware
6 6 (2.27%) Spring
6 6 (2.27%) XMPP
7 4 (1.52%) JSON
8 3 (1.14%) ActiveMQ
8 3 (1.14%) JAX-RS
8 3 (1.14%) LAMP
8 3 (1.14%) Regular Expression
8 3 (1.14%) SAP Basis
8 3 (1.14%) Spring Batch
8 3 (1.14%) Spring Security
Miscellaneous
1 20 (7.58%) Cloud Native
2 19 (7.20%) Data Centre
3 17 (6.44%) Clustering
4 14 (5.30%) Product Ownership
5 12 (4.55%) Onboarding
6 11 (4.17%) PKI
7 9 (3.41%) Enterprise Storage
8 8 (3.03%) Legacy Systems
8 8 (3.03%) Virtual Team
9 7 (2.65%) Replication
10 6 (2.27%) Hybrid Cloud
11 5 (1.89%) Enterprise Software
11 5 (1.89%) Hedge funds
11 5 (1.89%) Legacy Applications
11 5 (1.89%) Public Cloud
12 4 (1.52%) Client/Server
12 4 (1.52%) Linux Command Line
12 4 (1.52%) Self-Motivation
13 3 (1.14%) Analytical Mindset
13 3 (1.14%) Cyber Defence
Operating Systems
1 264 (100.00%) Linux
2 89 (33.71%) Windows
3 46 (17.42%) Windows Server
4 37 (14.02%) CentOS
5 32 (12.12%) Unix
6 29 (10.98%) Ubuntu
7 15 (5.68%) Solaris
8 12 (4.55%) Windows Server 2019
9 10 (3.79%) Windows Server 2016
10 5 (1.89%) OpenVMS
10 5 (1.89%) Oracle Linux
11 4 (1.52%) Windows Server 2012
12 3 (1.14%) AIX
12 3 (1.14%) Debian
12 3 (1.14%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
13 2 (0.76%) Mac OS
13 2 (0.76%) Windows Server 2008
14 1 (0.38%) SUSE
14 1 (0.38%) VMS
14 1 (0.38%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 81 (30.68%) CI/CD
2 56 (21.21%) DevOps
3 51 (19.32%) Problem-Solving
4 49 (18.56%) Infrastructure as Code
5 46 (17.42%) Containerisation
6 42 (15.91%) High Availability
7 41 (15.53%) Agile
8 30 (11.36%) Disaster Recovery
8 30 (11.36%) Migration
8 30 (11.36%) Observability
9 28 (10.61%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 25 (9.47%) ITIL
11 24 (9.09%) SIEM
12 22 (8.33%) Stakeholder Management
13 20 (7.58%) DevSecOps
14 19 (7.20%) Continuous Improvement
14 19 (7.20%) Microservices
14 19 (7.20%) Patch Management
14 19 (7.20%) Platform Engineering
14 19 (7.20%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 97 (36.74%) Python
2 94 (35.61%) Bash
3 47 (17.80%) PowerShell
4 39 (14.77%) Shell Script
5 28 (10.61%) Perl
6 23 (8.71%) SQL
7 22 (8.33%) Java
8 10 (3.79%) Go
9 6 (2.27%) JavaScript
10 4 (1.52%) PL/SQL
11 3 (1.14%) Korn
11 3 (1.14%) PHP
11 3 (1.14%) VBScript
12 2 (0.76%) AWK
12 2 (0.76%) C
12 2 (0.76%) C++
12 2 (0.76%) Rust
12 2 (0.76%) sed
13 1 (0.38%) C#
13 1 (0.38%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 116 (43.94%) Security Cleared
2 81 (30.68%) SC Cleared
3 29 (10.98%) DV Cleared
4 12 (4.55%) Degree
5 11 (4.17%) CCNP
5 11 (4.17%) Cisco Certification
6 10 (3.79%) CCNA
7 9 (3.41%) BPSS Clearance
7 9 (3.41%) CCDP
7 9 (3.41%) RHCE
8 4 (1.52%) AWS Certification
8 4 (1.52%) RHCSA
9 3 (1.14%) Azure Certification
9 3 (1.14%) CESG Certified Professional
9 3 (1.14%) CISSP
9 3 (1.14%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (1.14%) OCP
9 3 (1.14%) Oracle Certification
9 3 (1.14%) SAP Certification
10 2 (0.76%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (3.41%) GDPR
2 8 (3.03%) NCSC
2 8 (3.03%) QA
3 6 (2.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (2.27%) NIST
4 4 (1.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 3 (1.14%) NIST 800
6 2 (0.76%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.76%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.38%) Def Stans
7 1 (0.38%) HL7
7 1 (0.38%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 49 (18.56%) VMware Infrastructure
2 44 (16.67%) Docker
3 30 (11.36%) Active Directory
4 12 (4.55%) VMware ESXi
5 11 (4.17%) vSphere
6 10 (3.79%) Postfix
7 8 (3.03%) KVM
7 8 (3.03%) Virtual Machines
8 7 (2.65%) Oracle RAC
9 6 (2.27%) Dovecot
9 6 (2.27%) NFS
10 4 (1.52%) GPFS
10 4 (1.52%) Hyper-V
10 4 (1.52%) Veritas File System
10 4 (1.52%) Veritas Volume Manager
11 3 (1.14%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 2 (0.76%) Ceph
12 2 (0.76%) VirtualBox
12 2 (0.76%) VMware NSX
13 1 (0.38%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 88 (33.33%) Ansible
2 69 (26.14%) Kubernetes
3 47 (17.80%) Terraform
4 35 (13.26%) Red Hat Satellite
5 29 (10.98%) Grafana
6 24 (9.09%) Prometheus
7 15 (5.68%) Argo
8 13 (4.92%) Progress Chef
9 12 (4.55%) SCOM
10 10 (3.79%) Kustomize
11 9 (3.41%) Puppet
12 8 (3.03%) Data Guard
12 8 (3.03%) Nagios
13 7 (2.65%) EMC NetWorker
13 7 (2.65%) EMC VPLEX
13 7 (2.65%) Jamf Pro
13 7 (2.65%) NetBackup
13 7 (2.65%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
13 7 (2.65%) Packer
14 6 (2.27%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 169 (64.02%) Red Hat
2 90 (34.09%) VMware
3 43 (16.29%) Oracle
3 43 (16.29%) Splunk
4 30 (11.36%) Microsoft
5 21 (7.95%) Cisco
6 17 (6.44%) Dell
7 13 (4.92%) Citrix
8 11 (4.17%) CyberArk
9 9 (3.41%) HP
10 8 (3.03%) Okta
10 8 (3.03%) Qualys
10 8 (3.03%) Veritas
11 7 (2.65%) 3PAR
11 7 (2.65%) Broadcom
11 7 (2.65%) Brocade
11 7 (2.65%) Isilon
11 7 (2.65%) NetApp
11 7 (2.65%) ServiceNow
11 7 (2.65%) Tenable