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

6 months to
24 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 376 261 309
Rank change year-on-year -115 +48 -110
Contract jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 281 283 279
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.58% 0.98% 0.66%
As % of the Operating Systems category 5.97% 7.11% 4.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 182 213 210
10th Percentile £400 £400 £350
25th Percentile £431 £445 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £520
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +5.77% -13.33%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £600
90th Percentile £657 £738 £664
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £550 £528
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.17% -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 0 2
10th Percentile £40.98 - £65.18
25th Percentile £51.02 - £67.31
Median hourly rate £74.68 - £72.75
75th Percentile £86.25 - £76.31
90th Percentile £92.50 - £77.33
UK excluding London median hourly rate £68.38 - £72.75
% change year-on-year - - +38.57%

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 4,707 3,983 5,712
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.68% 13.82% 13.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,011 2,622 3,870
10th Percentile £185 £200 £185
25th Percentile £313 £313 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £457 £465 £465
Median % change year-on-year -1.83% - -7.05%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £588
90th Percentile £650 £688 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £450 £450
% change year-on-year -0.06% - -4.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 335 170 401
10th Percentile £15.67 £15.21 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.25 £17.44 £15.50
Median hourly rate £37.50 £22.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +70.45% -2.22% -44.16%
75th Percentile £65.00 £55.00 £60.75
90th Percentile £74.00 £68.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.93 £20.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year +84.64% -11.11% -28.00%

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 24 May 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 24 May 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 24 May 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 -104 228 £500 -10.71% 53
UK excluding London -43 196 £500 -9.09% 44
Work from Home -71 78 £500 -6.89% 10
North of England -60 59 £500 -1.94% 13
South East -42 43 £479 -12.86% 9
London -102 43 £488 -18.75% 11
Yorkshire -34 40 £500 -6.98% 6
South West -15 34 £543 -11.79% 19
East of England -9 28 £478 -20.33% 3
North West -46 17 £500 +12.99% 6
Scotland -19 14 £463 -2.32%
Midlands -73 14 £501 -7.31% 1
West Midlands -67 10 £493 -8.75%
East Midlands -26 4 £530 +4.74% 1
Wales - 3 £475 -
North East -28 2 £400 -30.43% 1
Northern Ireland 0 1 £375 +7.14%

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 15 (5.34%) nginx
2 12 (4.27%) Tomcat
3 11 (3.91%) Apache
4 10 (3.56%) Confluence
5 8 (2.85%) WebLogic
6 6 (2.14%) SAS
7 4 (1.42%) Microsoft Exchange
7 4 (1.42%) WebSphere
8 3 (1.07%) IBM HTTP Server
8 3 (1.07%) JBoss
8 3 (1.07%) OpenStack
8 3 (1.07%) SharePoint
8 3 (1.07%) WebSphere Application Server
9 2 (0.71%) Documentum
9 2 (0.71%) Oracle HTTP Server
9 2 (0.71%) WebSphere Portal
10 1 (0.36%) FileNet
10 1 (0.36%) Red Hat Fuse
10 1 (0.36%) Traefik
Applications
1 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.36%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 67 (23.84%) AWS
2 60 (21.35%) Azure
3 44 (15.66%) OpenShift
4 17 (6.05%) GitHub
5 15 (5.34%) GCP
6 14 (4.98%) Amazon EC2
7 13 (4.63%) Amazon S3
8 11 (3.91%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 8 (2.85%) Amazon EKS
10 7 (2.49%) Azure Sentinel
11 6 (2.14%) AWS CloudFormation
11 6 (2.14%) IaaS
12 5 (1.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 5 (1.78%) Azure Monitor
12 5 (1.78%) Azure Stack
12 5 (1.78%) Nutanix
13 4 (1.42%) GitHub Actions
13 4 (1.42%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 4 (1.42%) MinIO
13 4 (1.42%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 30 (10.68%) Firewall
2 28 (9.96%) SAN
3 24 (8.54%) DNS
4 12 (4.27%) VLAN
5 10 (3.56%) Kerberos
6 9 (3.20%) DHCP
6 9 (3.20%) HTTP
7 8 (2.85%) TCP/IP
7 8 (2.85%) VSAN
8 7 (2.49%) Network Security
8 7 (2.49%) SSL
8 7 (2.49%) VPN
9 6 (2.14%) iSCSI
10 5 (1.78%) Fibre Channel
10 5 (1.78%) WAN
11 4 (1.42%) NAS
12 3 (1.07%) LAN
12 3 (1.07%) SSH
13 2 (0.71%) InfiniBand
13 2 (0.71%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (7.83%) Oracle Database
2 15 (5.34%) PostgreSQL
3 11 (3.91%) MongoDB
4 9 (3.20%) SQL Server
5 7 (2.49%) Elasticsearch
5 7 (2.49%) SAP HANA
6 6 (2.14%) Data Warehouse
6 6 (2.14%) GIS
7 5 (1.78%) MySQL
8 4 (1.42%) Amazon RDS
8 4 (1.42%) Oracle Database 12c
8 4 (1.42%) Oracle Reports
9 3 (1.07%) MariaDB
9 3 (1.07%) Oracle Exadata
10 2 (0.71%) Data Lake
11 1 (0.36%) DB2
11 1 (0.36%) IBM InfoSphere
11 1 (0.36%) OpenStack Swift
11 1 (0.36%) RDBMS
11 1 (0.36%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 44 (15.66%) GitLab
2 43 (15.30%) Jenkins
3 36 (12.81%) Git
4 16 (5.69%) JIRA
5 6 (2.14%) Artifactory
6 5 (1.78%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 4 (1.42%) Sonatype Nexus
8 3 (1.07%) Introscope
9 2 (0.71%) Maven
9 2 (0.71%) Robot Framework
10 1 (0.36%) Ant
10 1 (0.36%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.36%) GoCD
10 1 (0.36%) PVCS
General
1 61 (21.71%) Social Skills
2 29 (10.32%) Public Sector
3 26 (9.25%) Documentation Skills
4 22 (7.83%) Finance
5 20 (7.12%) Banking
6 17 (6.05%) Analytical Skills
7 9 (3.20%) Aerospace
8 5 (1.78%) Legal
9 4 (1.42%) Telecoms
10 2 (0.71%) Aviation
10 2 (0.71%) Military
10 2 (0.71%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.36%) Back Office
11 1 (0.36%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.36%) Front Office
11 1 (0.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.36%) Law
11 1 (0.36%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.36%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.36%) Retail
Job Titles
1 44 (15.66%) Linux Engineer
2 29 (10.32%) Administrator
2 29 (10.32%) Senior
3 24 (8.54%) Lead
4 23 (8.19%) Architect
5 22 (7.83%) DevOps Engineer
5 22 (7.83%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 20 (7.12%) Linux Administrator
6 20 (7.12%) Platform Engineer
7 16 (5.69%) Software Engineer
8 15 (5.34%) Senior Linux Engineer
9 9 (3.20%) Lead Software Engineer
10 8 (2.85%) Systems Administrator
11 7 (2.49%) DBA
11 7 (2.49%) Oracle DBA
11 7 (2.49%) Security Engineer
11 7 (2.49%) Unix Engineer
12 6 (2.14%) AWS Engineer
12 6 (2.14%) Solutions Architect
13 5 (1.78%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (7.12%) Middleware
2 19 (6.76%) LDAP
3 9 (3.20%) YAML
4 8 (2.85%) Spring
5 7 (2.49%) EJB
6 6 (2.14%) OpenLayers
7 5 (1.78%) Elastic Stack
7 5 (1.78%) Kafka
7 5 (1.78%) REST
7 5 (1.78%) Spring Boot
8 4 (1.42%) .NET
8 4 (1.42%) Java EE
8 4 (1.42%) JSP
9 3 (1.07%) FastAPI
9 3 (1.07%) Flask
9 3 (1.07%) Java SE
9 3 (1.07%) JDBC
9 3 (1.07%) RabbitMQ
10 2 (0.71%) Apache NiFi
10 2 (0.71%) Keycloak
Miscellaneous
1 40 (14.23%) Data Centre
2 21 (7.47%) Cloud Native
3 15 (5.34%) Management Information System
4 13 (4.63%) Clustering
5 12 (4.27%) Hybrid Cloud
5 12 (4.27%) Onboarding
6 10 (3.56%) Enterprise Software
6 10 (3.56%) Legacy Systems
6 10 (3.56%) Replication
7 7 (2.49%) Legacy Applications
7 7 (2.49%) Product Ownership
7 7 (2.49%) Public Cloud
8 6 (2.14%) Data Protection Act
8 6 (2.14%) FlexPod
8 6 (2.14%) PKI
8 6 (2.14%) Security Posture
9 5 (1.78%) Linux Command Line
10 4 (1.42%) EMC VMAX
10 4 (1.42%) Enterprise Storage
10 4 (1.42%) NVMe
Operating Systems
1 281 (100.00%) Linux
2 94 (33.45%) Windows
3 42 (14.95%) Ubuntu
3 42 (14.95%) Windows Server
4 36 (12.81%) CentOS
5 21 (7.47%) Solaris
6 20 (7.12%) Unix
7 18 (6.41%) VMS
8 16 (5.69%) Windows Server 2019
9 11 (3.91%) Windows Server 2016
10 10 (3.56%) Oracle Linux
10 10 (3.56%) SUSE
10 10 (3.56%) Windows Server 2008
11 9 (3.20%) Rocky
12 8 (2.85%) CoreOS
13 7 (2.49%) AIX
13 7 (2.49%) Debian
14 6 (2.14%) Data ONTAP
14 6 (2.14%) Windows Server 2012
15 5 (1.78%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (30.96%) CI/CD
2 79 (28.11%) DevOps
3 52 (18.51%) Problem-Solving
4 42 (14.95%) Infrastructure as Code
4 42 (14.95%) Migration
5 41 (14.59%) Agile
6 37 (13.17%) Performance Tuning
7 36 (12.81%) Containerisation
7 36 (12.81%) Continuous Improvement
7 36 (12.81%) ITIL
8 35 (12.46%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 35 (12.46%) Platform Engineering
9 33 (11.74%) High Availability
10 28 (9.96%) Runbook
11 27 (9.61%) Configuration Management
12 26 (9.25%) Change Management
12 26 (9.25%) Software Engineering
13 23 (8.19%) Disaster Recovery
13 23 (8.19%) Root Cause Analysis
14 21 (7.47%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 97 (34.52%) Python
2 61 (21.71%) Bash
3 54 (19.22%) PowerShell
4 38 (13.52%) Shell Script
5 29 (10.32%) SQL
6 24 (8.54%) Java
7 18 (6.41%) Perl
8 12 (4.27%) PL/SQL
9 11 (3.91%) JavaScript
9 11 (3.91%) MATLAB
10 9 (3.20%) Go
11 8 (2.85%) Ruby
12 6 (2.14%) Korn
13 4 (1.42%) C#
14 3 (1.07%) Jython
15 2 (0.71%) Groovy
16 1 (0.36%) Bicep
16 1 (0.36%) C++
16 1 (0.36%) Rust
16 1 (0.36%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 134 (47.69%) Security Cleared
2 99 (35.23%) SC Cleared
3 31 (11.03%) DV Cleared
4 25 (8.90%) RHCE
5 22 (7.83%) Degree
6 16 (5.69%) OCP
6 16 (5.69%) Oracle Certification
7 11 (3.91%) Azure Certification
8 9 (3.20%) CISSP
8 9 (3.20%) Computer Science Degree
9 5 (1.78%) CompTIA Security+
9 5 (1.78%) RHCA
10 4 (1.42%) RHCSA
10 4 (1.42%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 3 (1.07%) AWS Certification
11 3 (1.07%) CISM
11 3 (1.07%) TOGAF Certification
11 3 (1.07%) VCAP
12 2 (0.71%) BPSS Clearance
12 2 (0.71%) NCDA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (4.63%) SLA
2 5 (1.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (1.42%) Cyber Essentials
3 4 (1.42%) GRC
3 4 (1.42%) NCSC
3 4 (1.42%) QA
4 3 (1.07%) GDPR
4 3 (1.07%) NIST
5 2 (0.71%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.36%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.36%) HMG Security Policy Framework
6 1 (0.36%) NIST 800
6 1 (0.36%) OpenSCAP
6 1 (0.36%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.36%) PMO
6 1 (0.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.36%) SOC 2
System Software
1 51 (18.15%) VMware Infrastructure
2 37 (13.17%) Docker
3 36 (12.81%) Active Directory
4 32 (11.39%) Virtual Machines
5 18 (6.41%) VMware ESXi
5 18 (6.41%) vSphere
6 15 (5.34%) NFS
7 10 (3.56%) Oracle RAC
8 9 (3.20%) Hyper-V
9 6 (2.14%) Corosync
9 6 (2.14%) VMware NSX
10 4 (1.42%) Ceph
10 4 (1.42%) Firmware
10 4 (1.42%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 3 (1.07%) KVM
11 3 (1.07%) QEMU
12 2 (0.71%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 2 (0.71%) GPFS
12 2 (0.71%) Lustre
12 2 (0.71%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 114 (40.57%) Ansible
2 62 (22.06%) Kubernetes
3 52 (18.51%) Terraform
4 27 (9.61%) Red Hat Satellite
5 20 (7.12%) Grafana
6 19 (6.76%) Puppet
7 17 (6.05%) Podman
8 16 (5.69%) Oracle RMAN
9 13 (4.63%) Check_MK
9 13 (4.63%) Prometheus
10 11 (3.91%) Failover Clustering
11 9 (3.20%) Progress Chef
11 9 (3.20%) vCenter Server
12 7 (2.49%) Pacemaker
13 6 (2.14%) Argo
13 6 (2.14%) Data Guard
13 6 (2.14%) SnapMirror
13 6 (2.14%) vMotion
14 5 (1.78%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
14 5 (1.78%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 171 (60.85%) Red Hat
2 78 (27.76%) VMware
3 49 (17.44%) Oracle
4 39 (13.88%) Microsoft
5 20 (7.12%) Splunk
6 19 (6.76%) IBM
7 16 (5.69%) Dell
8 14 (4.98%) Cisco
9 12 (4.27%) Google
10 11 (3.91%) NetApp
11 9 (3.20%) HP
12 8 (2.85%) NVIDIA
12 8 (2.85%) SAP
12 8 (2.85%) ServiceNow
13 6 (2.14%) Broadcom
13 6 (2.14%) Commvault
13 6 (2.14%) Tenable
14 5 (1.78%) Brocade
14 5 (1.78%) Fortinet
15 4 (1.42%) Veritas