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 26 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 330 264 210
Rank change year-on-year -66 -54 +30
Contract jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 254 328 575
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.75% 0.89% 1.21%
As % of the Operating Systems category 5.47% 6.31% 7.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 170 216 396
10th Percentile £357 £354 £413
25th Percentile £425 £434 £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £582 £641 £650
90th Percentile £641 £688 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £520 £540
% change year-on-year -3.85% -3.61% -1.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 7
10th Percentile £65.70 - £48.83
25th Percentile £74.26 - £69.38
Median hourly rate £109.00 £112.00 £72.50
Median % change year-on-year -2.68% +54.48% +7.41%
75th Percentile £119.00 - £73.75
90th Percentile - - £74.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £109.00 - £72.50
% change year-on-year - - -0.68%

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 4,646 5,195 7,333
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 13.81% 14.09% 15.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,957 3,194 4,984
10th Percentile £185 £200 £185
25th Percentile £275 £325 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £490
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -3.06% -2.00%
75th Percentile £573 £575 £613
90th Percentile £650 £675 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £413 £445 £450
% change year-on-year -7.30% -1.11% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 342 234 353
10th Percentile £15.23 £16.25 £14.25
25th Percentile £18.87 £22.06 £17.72
Median hourly rate £24.25 £52.50 £33.50
Median % change year-on-year -53.81% +56.72% +36.73%
75th Percentile £41.31 £68.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £67.00 £70.00 £76.53
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.56 £55.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year -58.98% +100.00% +22.22%

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 26 October 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 26 October 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Red Hat Enterprise Linux in the UK

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Top 16 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 26 October 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 -29 218 £525 -4.55% 86
UK excluding London -52 143 £500 -3.85% 66
Work from Home -3 74 £525 +8.47% 77
London -35 73 £525 -12.50% 33
South East -5 43 £489 -16.07% 29
North of England 0 42 £550 +28.06% 12
North West -7 24 £550 +28.06% 10
South West -9 18 £550 -5.50% 15
Midlands -62 18 £473 -16.48% 4
Yorkshire -16 13 £500 +22.25%
West Midlands -49 12 £581 -0.02% 2
Scotland -27 11 £503 +8.65% 2
North East 0 8 £550 +34.47% 2
East of England -6 6 £373 -25.50% 3
East Midlands -15 6 £420 -19.23% 1
Northern Ireland - 5 £350 - 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 19 (7.48%) Apache
2 9 (3.54%) Documentum
2 9 (3.54%) JBoss
3 8 (3.15%) FileNet
3 8 (3.15%) Microsoft Exchange
4 6 (2.36%) SharePoint
4 6 (2.36%) Tomcat
5 4 (1.57%) Apache Spark
5 4 (1.57%) nginx
6 3 (1.18%) OpenStack
6 3 (1.18%) SAS
7 2 (0.79%) Confluence
7 2 (0.79%) NetWeaver
7 2 (0.79%) Oracle HTTP Server
7 2 (0.79%) WebLogic
8 1 (0.39%) CMS
8 1 (0.39%) IBM HTTP Server
8 1 (0.39%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.39%) SharePoint Server
8 1 (0.39%) WebSphere
Applications
1 3 (1.18%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (1.18%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.79%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 2 (0.79%) SAP S/4HANA
1 2 (0.79%) Teamcenter
2 1 (0.39%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.39%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 60 (23.62%) AWS
2 34 (13.39%) OpenShift
3 23 (9.06%) Azure
4 21 (8.27%) GitHub
5 17 (6.69%) Amazon EC2
5 17 (6.69%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 13 (5.12%) Amazon S3
6 13 (5.12%) Entra ID
7 12 (4.72%) GCP
8 10 (3.94%) AWS CloudFormation
9 9 (3.54%) Serverless
10 8 (3.15%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 8 (3.15%) Amazon SQS
11 7 (2.76%) Amazon ECS
11 7 (2.76%) AWS Fargate
11 7 (2.76%) Azure DevOps
12 6 (2.36%) SaaS
13 4 (1.57%) Amazon EKS
13 4 (1.57%) GitHub Actions
13 4 (1.57%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 33 (12.99%) Firewall
2 30 (11.81%) DNS
3 17 (6.69%) SAN
4 13 (5.12%) TCP/IP
5 10 (3.94%) VLAN
6 8 (3.15%) DHCP
6 8 (3.15%) SMTP
7 7 (2.76%) BGP
7 7 (2.76%) Internet
8 6 (2.36%) DKIM
8 6 (2.36%) DMARC
8 6 (2.36%) Software-Defined Networking
8 6 (2.36%) WebEx
9 5 (1.97%) Network Security
9 5 (1.97%) SSL
10 4 (1.57%) AMQP
10 4 (1.57%) NAS
10 4 (1.57%) VPN
10 4 (1.57%) VSAN
11 3 (1.18%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (7.48%) MongoDB
2 15 (5.91%) Oracle Database
3 13 (5.12%) Elasticsearch
3 13 (5.12%) MySQL
4 12 (4.72%) Relational Database
5 11 (4.33%) PostgreSQL
5 11 (4.33%) RDBMS
6 8 (3.15%) SQL Server
7 7 (2.76%) Amazon RDS
7 7 (2.76%) Data Warehouse
8 5 (1.97%) MariaDB
9 4 (1.57%) Big Data
9 4 (1.57%) Data Lake
9 4 (1.57%) Hadoop
9 4 (1.57%) InfluxDB
9 4 (1.57%) SAP HANA
10 3 (1.18%) Apache Cassandra
10 3 (1.18%) DB2
11 2 (0.79%) Oracle BI Publisher
11 2 (0.79%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 34 (13.39%) Jenkins
2 29 (11.42%) GitLab
3 27 (10.63%) Git
4 17 (6.69%) Sonatype Nexus
5 14 (5.51%) JIRA
6 9 (3.54%) Maven
6 9 (3.54%) TeamCity
7 6 (2.36%) Artifactory
7 6 (2.36%) SonarQube
8 5 (1.97%) Postman
9 4 (1.57%) Bitbucket
9 4 (1.57%) Bitbucket Server
9 4 (1.57%) CA Release Automation
9 4 (1.57%) MSI
9 4 (1.57%) Robot Framework
9 4 (1.57%) Subversion
9 4 (1.57%) Terragrunt
10 3 (1.18%) Gradle
10 3 (1.18%) Mockito
10 3 (1.18%) Vagrant
General
1 66 (25.98%) Social Skills
2 33 (12.99%) Finance
3 31 (12.20%) Public Sector
4 28 (11.02%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (3.94%) Documentation Skills
6 6 (2.36%) Financial Institution
6 6 (2.36%) Legal
7 5 (1.97%) Banking
7 5 (1.97%) Manufacturing
8 2 (0.79%) Aerospace
8 2 (0.79%) French Language
8 2 (0.79%) Front Office
9 1 (0.39%) Automotive
9 1 (0.39%) Back Office
9 1 (0.39%) Billing
9 1 (0.39%) Electronics
9 1 (0.39%) German Language
9 1 (0.39%) Military
9 1 (0.39%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.39%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 35 (13.78%) Linux Engineer
2 31 (12.20%) Administrator
3 23 (9.06%) DevOps Engineer
4 21 (8.27%) Senior
5 18 (7.09%) Architect
6 17 (6.69%) Developer
6 17 (6.69%) Platform Engineer
7 14 (5.51%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 13 (5.12%) Consultant
8 13 (5.12%) Linux Administrator
8 13 (5.12%) Systems Administrator
9 12 (4.72%) Integration Engineer
10 10 (3.94%) Site Engineer
10 10 (3.94%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 10 (3.94%) Support Engineer
11 9 (3.54%) Systems Engineer
12 8 (3.15%) Applications Engineer
12 8 (3.15%) Lead
12 8 (3.15%) Linux Systems Administrator
12 8 (3.15%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (5.51%) Kafka
2 10 (3.94%) Elastic Stack
2 10 (3.94%) Loki
3 9 (3.54%) Middleware
3 9 (3.54%) Spring Boot
4 8 (3.15%) Keycloak
4 8 (3.15%) REST
5 7 (2.76%) cloud-init
5 7 (2.76%) JSON
6 6 (2.36%) AWS CDK
6 6 (2.36%) Spring
6 6 (2.36%) XMPP
7 4 (1.57%) OpenTelemetry
7 4 (1.57%) RESTful
8 3 (1.18%) JAX-RS
8 3 (1.18%) LAMP
8 3 (1.18%) LDAP
8 3 (1.18%) Regular Expression
8 3 (1.18%) Spring Batch
8 3 (1.18%) Spring Security
Miscellaneous
1 20 (7.87%) Cloud Native
2 19 (7.48%) Data Centre
3 13 (5.12%) Clustering
3 13 (5.12%) PKI
3 13 (5.12%) Product Ownership
4 10 (3.94%) Enterprise Storage
4 10 (3.94%) Legacy Systems
4 10 (3.94%) Onboarding
5 8 (3.15%) Replication
6 7 (2.76%) Enterprise Software
6 7 (2.76%) Legacy Applications
6 7 (2.76%) Virtual Team
7 5 (1.97%) Hedge funds
7 5 (1.97%) Management Information System
8 4 (1.57%) Data Protection Act
8 4 (1.57%) Hybrid Cloud
8 4 (1.57%) Self-Motivation
9 3 (1.18%) Analytical Mindset
9 3 (1.18%) HP Storage
9 3 (1.18%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 254 (100.00%) Linux
2 78 (30.71%) Windows
3 40 (15.75%) Windows Server
4 37 (14.57%) CentOS
5 29 (11.42%) Unix
6 24 (9.45%) Ubuntu
7 18 (7.09%) Solaris
8 13 (5.12%) Windows Server 2019
9 9 (3.54%) Windows Server 2016
10 6 (2.36%) AIX
10 6 (2.36%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
11 5 (1.97%) OpenVMS
12 4 (1.57%) Oracle Linux
12 4 (1.57%) Windows Server 2012
13 3 (1.18%) Debian
13 3 (1.18%) SUSE
14 2 (0.79%) VMS
14 2 (0.79%) Windows 10
14 2 (0.79%) Windows Server 2008
15 1 (0.39%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (32.68%) CI/CD
2 63 (24.80%) DevOps
3 58 (22.83%) Agile
4 48 (18.90%) Infrastructure as Code
5 44 (17.32%) Containerisation
6 42 (16.54%) Problem-Solving
7 37 (14.57%) Migration
8 35 (13.78%) Observability
9 31 (12.20%) High Availability
10 28 (11.02%) Disaster Recovery
11 27 (10.63%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 21 (8.27%) Configuration Management
12 21 (8.27%) Microservices
13 19 (7.48%) Platform Engineering
13 19 (7.48%) Stakeholder Management
14 18 (7.09%) Infrastructure Automation
15 17 (6.69%) Deployment Automation
15 17 (6.69%) ITIL
15 17 (6.69%) Test Automation
16 16 (6.30%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 93 (36.61%) Python
2 83 (32.68%) Bash
3 39 (15.35%) PowerShell
4 33 (12.99%) Shell Script
5 29 (11.42%) Java
6 26 (10.24%) Perl
7 14 (5.51%) SQL
8 9 (3.54%) Go
8 9 (3.54%) Rust
9 7 (2.76%) PHP
10 6 (2.36%) JavaScript
11 5 (1.97%) Ruby
12 3 (1.18%) C
12 3 (1.18%) C++
12 3 (1.18%) Groovy
12 3 (1.18%) PL/SQL
12 3 (1.18%) VBScript
13 2 (0.79%) AWK
13 2 (0.79%) C#
13 2 (0.79%) sed
Qualifications
1 103 (40.55%) Security Cleared
2 77 (30.31%) SC Cleared
3 23 (9.06%) DV Cleared
4 12 (4.72%) RHCE
5 11 (4.33%) CCNP
5 11 (4.33%) Cisco Certification
5 11 (4.33%) Degree
6 10 (3.94%) BPSS Clearance
6 10 (3.94%) CCNA
7 9 (3.54%) CCDP
8 5 (1.97%) AWS Certification
8 5 (1.97%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (1.57%) RHCSA
10 3 (1.18%) SAP Certification
11 2 (0.79%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 2 (0.79%) TOGAF Certification
12 1 (0.39%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
12 1 (0.39%) CISM
12 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (0.39%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (2.76%) NCSC
1 7 (2.76%) QA
2 4 (1.57%) GDPR
2 4 (1.57%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 3 (1.18%) NIST
4 1 (0.39%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.39%) Def Stans
4 1 (0.39%) HL7
4 1 (0.39%) ISO 15022
4 1 (0.39%) ISO 20022
4 1 (0.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.39%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 52 (20.47%) VMware Infrastructure
2 39 (15.35%) Docker
3 31 (12.20%) Active Directory
4 10 (3.94%) vSphere
5 9 (3.54%) VMware ESXi
6 8 (3.15%) Virtual Machines
7 6 (2.36%) Dovecot
7 6 (2.36%) KVM
7 6 (2.36%) NFS
7 6 (2.36%) Postfix
8 5 (1.97%) Oracle RAC
8 5 (1.97%) Veritas Cluster Server
9 4 (1.57%) Hyper-V
9 4 (1.57%) Veritas File System
9 4 (1.57%) Veritas Volume Manager
10 3 (1.18%) GPFS
11 2 (0.79%) Apache ZooKeeper
11 2 (0.79%) VirtualBox
12 1 (0.39%) Firmware
12 1 (0.39%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 96 (37.80%) Ansible
2 67 (26.38%) Kubernetes
3 60 (23.62%) Terraform
4 28 (11.02%) Grafana
5 24 (9.45%) Red Hat Satellite
6 23 (9.06%) Prometheus
7 17 (6.69%) Argo
8 14 (5.51%) Progress Chef
9 12 (4.72%) Puppet
10 9 (3.54%) Kustomize
11 8 (3.15%) Nagios
11 8 (3.15%) SCOM
12 7 (2.76%) Jamf Pro
12 7 (2.76%) NetBackup
12 7 (2.76%) Packer
13 6 (2.36%) EMC NetWorker
13 6 (2.36%) EMC VPLEX
13 6 (2.36%) Kibana
13 6 (2.36%) Podman
14 5 (1.97%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 154 (60.63%) Red Hat
2 87 (34.25%) VMware
3 45 (17.72%) Oracle
4 29 (11.42%) Splunk
5 26 (10.24%) Microsoft
6 19 (7.48%) Cisco
7 13 (5.12%) Citrix
8 12 (4.72%) Dell
9 10 (3.94%) HP
10 8 (3.15%) CyberArk
10 8 (3.15%) IBM
10 8 (3.15%) Qualys
10 8 (3.15%) SAP
11 7 (2.76%) 3PAR
11 7 (2.76%) Okta
11 7 (2.76%) Veritas
12 6 (2.36%) Brocade
12 6 (2.36%) EMC
12 6 (2.36%) Isilon
12 6 (2.36%) NetApp