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

6 months to
2 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 363 304 275
Rank change year-on-year -59 -29 -49
Contract jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 343 280 336
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.64% 0.85% 0.86%
As % of the Operating Systems category 6.70% 6.30% 6.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 230 200 253
10th Percentile £399 £363 £351
25th Percentile £425 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £520
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +0.96% -12.61%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £672
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -3.80% -1.00% -4.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 0 2
10th Percentile £36.75 - £65.18
25th Percentile £41.11 - £67.31
Median hourly rate £60.33 - £72.75
75th Percentile £76.51 - £76.31
90th Percentile £80.00 - £77.33
UK excluding London median hourly rate £60.33 - £72.75
% change year-on-year - - +0.34%

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 5,120 4,443 5,474
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.60% 13.42% 13.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,240 2,854 3,648
10th Percentile £193 £200 £200
25th Percentile £319 £313 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £472 £463 £475
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% -2.63% -5.00%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £588
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £455 £450 £470
% change year-on-year +1.11% -4.26% +4.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 349 258 344
10th Percentile £15.30 £15.50 £12.50
25th Percentile £17.60 £18.13 £17.69
Median hourly rate £25.77 £24.00 £28.75
Median % change year-on-year +7.38% -16.52% -32.35%
75th Percentile £65.00 £56.88 £65.00
90th Percentile £71.60 £67.30 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £26.44 £22.53 £47.50
% change year-on-year +17.35% -52.57% +37.68%

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 2 August 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 2 August 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 2 August 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 -42 304 £500 -6.89% 67
UK excluding London -36 221 £500 -3.80% 46
London -39 96 £497 -9.64% 28
Work from Home -80 84 £488 -7.14% 22
North of England -43 74 £500 +24.38% 9
South East -49 51 £455 -17.27% 15
North West -39 39 £478 +21.50% 7
South West -11 37 £534 -2.95% 13
Yorkshire -30 35 £500 - 2
East of England +11 28 £525 +8.81% 1
Midlands -54 16 £500 -7.41% 6
Scotland -26 14 £500 - 3
East Midlands -8 8 £530 +11.58% 1
West Midlands -67 8 £466 -15.48% 4
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 17 (4.96%) nginx
2 15 (4.37%) Confluence
3 10 (2.92%) Apache
3 10 (2.92%) JBoss
3 10 (2.92%) Tomcat
4 7 (2.04%) WebLogic
5 6 (1.75%) SharePoint
5 6 (1.75%) WebSphere
6 5 (1.46%) Microsoft Exchange
7 3 (0.87%) IBM HTTP Server
7 3 (0.87%) OpenStack
7 3 (0.87%) SAS
7 3 (0.87%) WebSphere Application Server
8 2 (0.58%) Documentum
8 2 (0.58%) Oracle HTTP Server
8 2 (0.58%) Red Hat Fuse
8 2 (0.58%) WebSphere Portal
9 1 (0.29%) Apache Airflow
9 1 (0.29%) Traefik
Applications
1 4 (1.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.29%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.29%) FLEXCUBE
1 1 (0.29%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (0.29%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 109 (31.78%) AWS
2 83 (24.20%) Azure
3 42 (12.24%) OpenShift
4 33 (9.62%) GCP
5 28 (8.16%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 24 (7.00%) GitHub
7 20 (5.83%) Amazon EC2
8 18 (5.25%) Amazon S3
9 17 (4.96%) Datadog
10 16 (4.66%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 16 (4.66%) Amazon EKS
10 16 (4.66%) AWS CloudFormation
10 16 (4.66%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 15 (4.37%) Serverless
12 12 (3.50%) AWS Lambda
12 12 (3.50%) GitHub Actions
13 11 (3.21%) Azure Monitor
13 11 (3.21%) Entra ID
14 10 (2.92%) AWS CloudTrail
14 10 (2.92%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 52 (15.16%) Firewall
2 47 (13.70%) DNS
3 40 (11.66%) SAN
4 18 (5.25%) VLAN
5 16 (4.66%) DHCP
5 16 (4.66%) TCP/IP
6 15 (4.37%) Network Security
6 15 (4.37%) SSL
7 13 (3.79%) Kerberos
7 13 (3.79%) VPN
8 8 (2.33%) SSH
9 6 (1.75%) HTTP
9 6 (1.75%) iSCSI
9 6 (1.75%) VSAN
9 6 (1.75%) WAN
10 5 (1.46%) VoIP
11 4 (1.17%) NAS
12 3 (0.87%) FTP
12 3 (0.87%) Intrusion Detection
12 3 (0.87%) OpenVPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (8.45%) PostgreSQL
2 24 (7.00%) Oracle Database
3 16 (4.66%) SQL Server
4 11 (3.21%) MySQL
5 10 (2.92%) MongoDB
6 9 (2.62%) Amazon RDS
7 7 (2.04%) Oracle Database 12c
7 7 (2.04%) SAP HANA
8 5 (1.46%) Data Lake
8 5 (1.46%) Elasticsearch
9 4 (1.17%) GIS
9 4 (1.17%) Redis
9 4 (1.17%) Relational Database
10 3 (0.87%) Big Data
10 3 (0.87%) Data Warehouse
10 3 (0.87%) Hadoop
11 2 (0.58%) Azure SQL Database
11 2 (0.58%) SQLite
11 2 (0.58%) Sybase ASE
12 1 (0.29%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 47 (13.70%) Jenkins
2 38 (11.08%) Git
3 35 (10.20%) GitLab
4 19 (5.54%) JIRA
5 8 (2.33%) Sonatype Nexus
6 6 (1.75%) Artifactory
6 6 (1.75%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 3 (0.87%) Bitbucket
7 3 (0.87%) Introscope
7 3 (0.87%) Toad
8 2 (0.58%) Cucumber
8 2 (0.58%) Maven
8 2 (0.58%) Robot Framework
8 2 (0.58%) Zephyr
9 1 (0.29%) Ant
9 1 (0.29%) PVCS
General
1 64 (18.66%) Social Skills
2 46 (13.41%) Finance
3 31 (9.04%) Public Sector
4 28 (8.16%) Analytical Skills
5 27 (7.87%) Banking
6 24 (7.00%) Documentation Skills
7 11 (3.21%) Legal
8 6 (1.75%) Military
9 5 (1.46%) Aerospace
9 5 (1.46%) Publishing
9 5 (1.46%) Retail
10 4 (1.17%) Manufacturing
11 3 (0.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (0.58%) Aviation
12 2 (0.58%) Financial Institution
12 2 (0.58%) Law
12 2 (0.58%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.58%) Telecoms
13 1 (0.29%) Investment Banking
13 1 (0.29%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 70 (20.41%) Linux Engineer
2 48 (13.99%) Senior
3 34 (9.91%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 29 (8.45%) Cloud Engineer
5 26 (7.58%) DevOps Engineer
6 24 (7.00%) Architect
7 21 (6.12%) Administrator
7 21 (6.12%) Platform Engineer
8 18 (5.25%) Lead
9 16 (4.66%) Senior Linux Engineer
10 15 (4.37%) Security Engineer
10 15 (4.37%) Software Engineer
11 14 (4.08%) AWS Engineer
11 14 (4.08%) Linux Administrator
12 13 (3.79%) Unix Engineer
13 10 (2.92%) Systems Engineer
14 9 (2.62%) Azure Engineer
14 9 (2.62%) Lead Software Engineer
14 9 (2.62%) Linux Systems Engineer
14 9 (2.62%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (4.37%) Middleware
2 12 (3.50%) REST
3 11 (3.21%) LDAP
4 8 (2.33%) Kafka
4 8 (2.33%) Spring
5 7 (2.04%) Elastic Stack
6 6 (1.75%) Azure Blueprints
6 6 (1.75%) Vue
7 5 (1.46%) ARM Templates
7 5 (1.46%) JSON
7 5 (1.46%) OAuth
7 5 (1.46%) Spring Boot
8 4 (1.17%) .NET
8 4 (1.17%) Celery
8 4 (1.17%) Django
8 4 (1.17%) Jakarta EE
8 4 (1.17%) JWT
8 4 (1.17%) RabbitMQ
8 4 (1.17%) React
8 4 (1.17%) WebSphere MQ
Miscellaneous
1 48 (13.99%) Cloud Native
2 29 (8.45%) Security Posture
3 27 (7.87%) Data Centre
4 23 (6.71%) Replication
5 19 (5.54%) Clustering
6 18 (5.25%) Hybrid Cloud
7 17 (4.96%) Management Information System
8 16 (4.66%) Onboarding
9 13 (3.79%) Linux Command Line
10 12 (3.50%) Legacy Systems
10 12 (3.50%) PKI
11 10 (2.92%) Enterprise Software
12 9 (2.62%) Product Ownership
13 7 (2.04%) Mainframe
13 7 (2.04%) Virtual Team
14 6 (1.75%) Data Protection Act
14 6 (1.75%) Enterprise Cloud
14 6 (1.75%) Enterprise Storage
14 6 (1.75%) FlexPod
14 6 (1.75%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 343 (100.00%) Linux
2 123 (35.86%) Windows
3 62 (18.08%) Windows Server
4 41 (11.95%) Ubuntu
5 35 (10.20%) CentOS
6 34 (9.91%) Unix
7 26 (7.58%) Solaris
8 17 (4.96%) Rocky
9 15 (4.37%) VMS
10 14 (4.08%) Oracle Linux
10 14 (4.08%) Windows Server 2019
11 13 (3.79%) AIX
11 13 (3.79%) SUSE
12 8 (2.33%) CoreOS
12 8 (2.33%) Windows Server 2008
13 7 (2.04%) Windows Server 2012
13 7 (2.04%) Windows Server 2016
14 6 (1.75%) Data ONTAP
14 6 (1.75%) HPUX
15 5 (1.46%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 107 (31.20%) CI/CD
2 103 (30.03%) DevOps
3 68 (19.83%) Infrastructure as Code
4 61 (17.78%) Migration
5 59 (17.20%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 57 (16.62%) ITIL
7 56 (16.33%) Agile
8 53 (15.45%) Configuration Management
9 48 (13.99%) Platform Engineering
10 47 (13.70%) Change Management
10 47 (13.70%) Containerisation
11 46 (13.41%) Problem-Solving
12 44 (12.83%) Continuous Improvement
13 40 (11.66%) High Availability
14 39 (11.37%) Observability
14 39 (11.37%) Performance Tuning
15 35 (10.20%) Runbook
16 31 (9.04%) Cloud Security
16 31 (9.04%) Software Engineering
17 29 (8.45%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 133 (38.78%) Python
2 92 (26.82%) Bash
3 88 (25.66%) PowerShell
4 38 (11.08%) Java
5 26 (7.58%) SQL
6 25 (7.29%) Shell Script
7 15 (4.37%) Perl
8 13 (3.79%) JavaScript
9 9 (2.62%) Bicep
9 9 (2.62%) PL/SQL
10 7 (2.04%) C
10 7 (2.04%) Korn
11 6 (1.75%) C++
11 6 (1.75%) Go
12 5 (1.46%) Groovy
13 4 (1.17%) C#
13 4 (1.17%) MATLAB
14 3 (0.87%) Jython
14 3 (0.87%) Search Processing Language
15 1 (0.29%) R
Qualifications
1 155 (45.19%) Security Cleared
2 120 (34.99%) SC Cleared
3 36 (10.50%) Degree
4 28 (8.16%) DV Cleared
5 25 (7.29%) CISSP
6 24 (7.00%) AWS Certification
7 21 (6.12%) Azure Certification
8 18 (5.25%) RHCE
9 10 (2.92%) Computer Science Degree
10 9 (2.62%) OCP
10 9 (2.62%) Oracle Certification
11 7 (2.04%) CISM
12 6 (1.75%) CompTIA Security+
13 5 (1.46%) Microsoft Certification
13 5 (1.46%) RHCSA
14 3 (0.87%) RHCA
15 2 (0.58%) BPSS Clearance
15 2 (0.58%) ISSAP
15 2 (0.58%) PMI Certification
15 2 (0.58%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (2.62%) SLA
2 7 (2.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (1.75%) NIST
3 6 (1.75%) QA
4 5 (1.46%) Disclosure Scotland
4 5 (1.46%) GRC
4 5 (1.46%) NCSC
5 4 (1.17%) SOC 2
6 3 (0.87%) HIPAA
6 3 (0.87%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.58%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (0.58%) ISO 15022
7 2 (0.58%) ISO 20022
8 1 (0.29%) Data Quality
8 1 (0.29%) OpenSCAP
8 1 (0.29%) PMO
8 1 (0.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 60 (17.49%) Docker
2 49 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
3 39 (11.37%) Virtual Machines
4 36 (10.50%) Active Directory
5 19 (5.54%) NFS
6 17 (4.96%) VMware ESXi
7 15 (4.37%) vSphere
8 14 (4.08%) Hyper-V
9 10 (2.92%) Oracle RAC
10 6 (1.75%) Corosync
11 4 (1.17%) Ceph
12 3 (0.87%) Firmware
12 3 (0.87%) Veritas Volume Manager
13 2 (0.58%) Citrix Hypervisor
13 2 (0.58%) KVM
13 2 (0.58%) Samba
13 2 (0.58%) Slurm Workload Manager
13 2 (0.58%) Squid
13 2 (0.58%) SRDF
13 2 (0.58%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 130 (37.90%) Ansible
2 95 (27.70%) Kubernetes
3 89 (25.95%) Terraform
4 30 (8.75%) Progress Chef
4 30 (8.75%) Puppet
5 27 (7.87%) Red Hat Satellite
6 24 (7.00%) Grafana
7 20 (5.83%) Prometheus
8 16 (4.66%) Failover Clustering
9 13 (3.79%) NetBackup
9 13 (3.79%) Oracle RMAN
10 8 (2.33%) Packer
11 7 (2.04%) Pacemaker
11 7 (2.04%) Podman
11 7 (2.04%) systemd
11 7 (2.04%) vCenter Server
12 6 (1.75%) SELinux
12 6 (1.75%) Single Sign-On
12 6 (1.75%) SnapMirror
13 5 (1.46%) WSUS
Vendors
1 185 (53.94%) Red Hat
2 66 (19.24%) VMware
3 58 (16.91%) Microsoft
4 57 (16.62%) Oracle
5 30 (8.75%) Google
6 21 (6.12%) IBM
7 20 (5.83%) Splunk
8 19 (5.54%) NetApp
8 19 (5.54%) ServiceNow
9 15 (4.37%) Cisco
10 12 (3.50%) Veeam
11 10 (2.92%) HP
12 9 (2.62%) Dell
12 9 (2.62%) SAP
12 9 (2.62%) Tenable
13 7 (2.04%) Qualys
13 7 (2.04%) Rapid7
14 6 (1.75%) Databricks
14 6 (1.75%) McAfee
14 6 (1.75%) SaltStack