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 8 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 367 223 280
Rank change year-on-year -144 +57 -81
Contract jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 267 355 349
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.63% 1.18% 0.78%
As % of the Operating Systems category 5.56% 8.28% 5.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 190 234 249
10th Percentile £400 £400 £350
25th Percentile £455 £475 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £566 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.20% +2.86% -5.98%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £631
90th Percentile £675 £738 £703
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £551 £545
% change year-on-year -9.26% +1.10% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 2 5
10th Percentile £74.26 - £22.57
25th Percentile £74.68 - £25.18
Median hourly rate £90.00 £112.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.64% +113.33% -20.45%
75th Percentile £113.50 - £71.25
90th Percentile £119.00 - £75.30
UK excluding London median hourly rate £82.50 - £52.50
% change year-on-year - - -22.79%

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 4,806 4,285 6,105
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.34% 14.25% 13.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,160 2,755 4,071
10th Percentile £180 £200 £180
25th Percentile £275 £316 £280
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £445 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -6.32% +5.56% -12.20%
75th Percentile £565 £594 £588
90th Percentile £663 £699 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £413 £438 £425
% change year-on-year -5.71% +2.94% -10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 354 156 414
10th Percentile £15.00 £16.38 £13.29
25th Percentile £17.76 £19.63 £15.54
Median hourly rate £22.91 £28.71 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -20.21% +27.58% -15.03%
75th Percentile £59.50 £65.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.54 £24.83 £22.50
% change year-on-year -9.23% +10.36% -13.46%

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 8 March 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 8 March 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 8 March 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 -141 215 £525 -8.70% 49
UK excluding London -84 178 £500 -9.26% 47
Work from Home -58 88 £500 -9.09% 18
North of England -64 52 £525 -13.58% 5
South East -41 49 £484 -12.05% 27
London -119 42 £525 -12.50% 13
Yorkshire -69 26 £500 -20.95% 3
South West -18 22 £563 -8.54% 7
North West -29 22 £550 - 2
Midlands -77 20 £493 -10.57% 1
East of England -13 18 £477 -20.58% 2
West Midlands -63 17 £537 -2.54% 1
Scotland -9 11 £450 -7.79% 7
North East -8 7 £550 -
Northern Ireland - 4 £375 -
East Midlands -32 3 £420 -21.79%
Wales - 2 - -

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 (4.87%) nginx
2 11 (4.12%) Confluence
3 10 (3.75%) Apache
3 10 (3.75%) WebLogic
4 9 (3.37%) Microsoft Exchange
4 9 (3.37%) Tomcat
5 7 (2.62%) SharePoint
6 6 (2.25%) SAS
7 3 (1.12%) JBoss
7 3 (1.12%) OpenStack
8 2 (0.75%) NetWeaver
8 2 (0.75%) Oracle HTTP Server
9 1 (0.37%) FileNet
9 1 (0.37%) IBM HTTP Server
9 1 (0.37%) Red Hat Fuse
9 1 (0.37%) SharePoint Server
9 1 (0.37%) WebSphere
9 1 (0.37%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 4 (1.50%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (1.50%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.75%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 57 (21.35%) AWS
2 48 (17.98%) Azure
3 45 (16.85%) OpenShift
4 19 (7.12%) GCP
5 15 (5.62%) Amazon EC2
5 15 (5.62%) GitHub
6 14 (5.24%) Amazon S3
7 12 (4.49%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 9 (3.37%) Entra ID
9 7 (2.62%) Azure Sentinel
9 7 (2.62%) OCI
10 6 (2.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 6 (2.25%) Nutanix
11 5 (1.87%) Amazon EKS
11 5 (1.87%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 5 (1.87%) IaaS
11 5 (1.87%) Microsoft 365
12 4 (1.50%) npm
13 3 (1.12%) AWS Fargate
13 3 (1.12%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 33 (12.36%) Firewall
2 22 (8.24%) SAN
3 15 (5.62%) DNS
4 12 (4.49%) VLAN
5 7 (2.62%) BGP
5 7 (2.62%) HTTP
6 6 (2.25%) Kerberos
6 6 (2.25%) Software-Defined Networking
6 6 (2.25%) WebEx
7 5 (1.87%) Fibre Channel
7 5 (1.87%) iSCSI
7 5 (1.87%) Network Security
8 4 (1.50%) AMQP
8 4 (1.50%) DKIM
8 4 (1.50%) DMARC
8 4 (1.50%) SMTP
8 4 (1.50%) SSL
8 4 (1.50%) TCP/IP
8 4 (1.50%) VSAN
9 3 (1.12%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (7.49%) Oracle Database
2 16 (5.99%) MongoDB
3 10 (3.75%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (2.25%) Amazon RDS
4 6 (2.25%) Data Warehouse
5 5 (1.87%) Elasticsearch
5 5 (1.87%) GIS
5 5 (1.87%) MySQL
5 5 (1.87%) SQL Server
6 4 (1.50%) MariaDB
6 4 (1.50%) RDBMS
6 4 (1.50%) Relational Database
7 3 (1.12%) DB2
7 3 (1.12%) Oracle Exadata
7 3 (1.12%) Oracle Reports
8 2 (0.75%) Data Lake
8 2 (0.75%) Oracle Database 12c
8 2 (0.75%) SAP HANA
9 1 (0.37%) Metadata
9 1 (0.37%) OpenStack Swift
Development Applications
1 31 (11.61%) Jenkins
2 29 (10.86%) Git
3 28 (10.49%) GitLab
4 14 (5.24%) JIRA
5 6 (2.25%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 6 (2.25%) Maven
6 5 (1.87%) Sonatype Nexus
7 4 (1.50%) Artifactory
8 3 (1.12%) Terragrunt
9 2 (0.75%) Robot Framework
9 2 (0.75%) Subversion
10 1 (0.37%) GoCD
10 1 (0.37%) Gradle
10 1 (0.37%) Introscope
10 1 (0.37%) Mockito
10 1 (0.37%) TeamCity
General
1 76 (28.46%) Social Skills
2 31 (11.61%) Public Sector
3 28 (10.49%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (7.49%) Documentation Skills
5 18 (6.74%) Finance
6 14 (5.24%) Banking
7 8 (3.00%) Legal
8 6 (2.25%) Aerospace
9 5 (1.87%) Telecoms
10 3 (1.12%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.75%) Back Office
11 2 (0.75%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.75%) Front Office
11 2 (0.75%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.37%) Automotive
12 1 (0.37%) Electronics
12 1 (0.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.37%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.37%) Military
12 1 (0.37%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 34 (12.73%) Architect
2 31 (11.61%) Administrator
3 25 (9.36%) Linux Engineer
3 25 (9.36%) Platform Engineer
4 18 (6.74%) Lead
5 17 (6.37%) Linux Administrator
6 15 (5.62%) DevOps Engineer
6 15 (5.62%) Senior
7 12 (4.49%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 11 (4.12%) Software Engineer
9 10 (3.75%) Consultant
10 9 (3.37%) Systems Administrator
11 8 (3.00%) Developer
11 8 (3.00%) Solutions Architect
11 8 (3.00%) Support Engineer
11 8 (3.00%) Systems Engineer
12 7 (2.62%) DBA
12 7 (2.62%) Oracle DBA
12 7 (2.62%) Security Engineer
13 5 (1.87%) Applications Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (6.74%) LDAP
1 18 (6.74%) Middleware
2 9 (3.37%) Loki
2 9 (3.37%) Spring
2 9 (3.37%) YAML
3 7 (2.62%) Spring Boot
4 6 (2.25%) XMPP
5 5 (1.87%) EJB
5 5 (1.87%) OpenLayers
5 5 (1.87%) REST
6 4 (1.50%) Kafka
6 4 (1.50%) Regular Expression
7 3 (1.12%) AWS CDK
7 3 (1.12%) cloud-init
7 3 (1.12%) FastAPI
7 3 (1.12%) Flask
7 3 (1.12%) Java EE
7 3 (1.12%) Java SE
7 3 (1.12%) JSP
7 3 (1.12%) Keycloak
Miscellaneous
1 35 (13.11%) Data Centre
2 26 (9.74%) Cloud Native
3 18 (6.74%) Product Ownership
4 12 (4.49%) Management Information System
4 12 (4.49%) Onboarding
5 10 (3.75%) Clustering
5 10 (3.75%) Hybrid Cloud
6 8 (3.00%) Enterprise Software
6 8 (3.00%) Legacy Applications
6 8 (3.00%) Legacy Systems
6 8 (3.00%) Virtual Team
7 7 (2.62%) PKI
7 7 (2.62%) Public Cloud
8 6 (2.25%) FlexPod
9 5 (1.87%) Data Protection Act
9 5 (1.87%) Security Posture
10 4 (1.50%) Analytical Mindset
10 4 (1.50%) NVMe
11 3 (1.12%) Cyber Defence
11 3 (1.12%) EMC VMAX
Operating Systems
1 267 (100.00%) Linux
2 86 (32.21%) Windows
3 44 (16.48%) Windows Server
4 42 (15.73%) Ubuntu
5 39 (14.61%) CentOS
6 25 (9.36%) Unix
7 15 (5.62%) Solaris
8 12 (4.49%) Windows Server 2019
9 11 (4.12%) VMS
10 10 (3.75%) Windows Server 2016
11 8 (3.00%) Windows Server 2008
12 6 (2.25%) CoreOS
12 6 (2.25%) Data ONTAP
13 5 (1.87%) Debian
13 5 (1.87%) Rocky
14 4 (1.50%) OpenVMS
14 4 (1.50%) Oracle Linux
15 3 (1.12%) AIX
15 3 (1.12%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
16 2 (0.75%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 91 (34.08%) CI/CD
2 69 (25.84%) DevOps
3 66 (24.72%) Problem-Solving
4 42 (15.73%) Containerisation
4 42 (15.73%) Infrastructure as Code
5 40 (14.98%) Agile
6 37 (13.86%) Continuous Improvement
7 36 (13.48%) High Availability
8 31 (11.61%) Platform Engineering
9 29 (10.86%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 28 (10.49%) Migration
11 27 (10.11%) SIEM
12 26 (9.74%) DevSecOps
13 25 (9.36%) ITIL
14 24 (8.99%) Disaster Recovery
15 23 (8.61%) ITSM
15 23 (8.61%) Observability
16 22 (8.24%) Roadmaps
17 21 (7.87%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 20 (7.49%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 98 (36.70%) Python
2 75 (28.09%) Bash
3 56 (20.97%) PowerShell
4 40 (14.98%) Shell Script
5 30 (11.24%) Perl
6 28 (10.49%) SQL
7 25 (9.36%) Java
8 10 (3.75%) PL/SQL
9 9 (3.37%) Go
10 8 (3.00%) JavaScript
10 8 (3.00%) Ruby
11 7 (2.62%) MATLAB
12 6 (2.25%) Korn
13 1 (0.37%) C++
13 1 (0.37%) Groovy
13 1 (0.37%) Jython
13 1 (0.37%) Rust
13 1 (0.37%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 129 (48.31%) Security Cleared
2 95 (35.58%) SC Cleared
3 27 (10.11%) DV Cleared
4 22 (8.24%) Degree
5 18 (6.74%) RHCE
6 15 (5.62%) OCP
6 15 (5.62%) Oracle Certification
7 10 (3.75%) CCDP
7 10 (3.75%) CCNA
7 10 (3.75%) CCNP
7 10 (3.75%) Cisco Certification
8 7 (2.62%) Azure Certification
9 6 (2.25%) CISSP
10 5 (1.87%) AWS Certification
10 5 (1.87%) BPSS Clearance
11 4 (1.50%) Computer Science Degree
12 3 (1.12%) CESG Certified Professional
12 3 (1.12%) CISM
12 3 (1.12%) RHCSA
12 3 (1.12%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (2.62%) SLA
2 6 (2.25%) GDPR
2 6 (2.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (2.25%) NIST
3 5 (1.87%) NCSC
4 4 (1.50%) Cyber Essentials
5 3 (1.12%) NIST 800
6 2 (0.75%) Disclosure Scotland
6 2 (0.75%) QA
6 2 (0.75%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.37%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.37%) Def Stans
7 1 (0.37%) HL7
7 1 (0.37%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 52 (19.48%) VMware Infrastructure
2 37 (13.86%) Docker
3 32 (11.99%) Active Directory
4 19 (7.12%) vSphere
5 15 (5.62%) Virtual Machines
6 13 (4.87%) VMware ESXi
7 12 (4.49%) Oracle RAC
8 8 (3.00%) NFS
9 5 (1.87%) Postfix
9 5 (1.87%) VMware NSX
10 4 (1.50%) QEMU
10 4 (1.50%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 3 (1.12%) GPFS
12 2 (0.75%) Ceph
12 2 (0.75%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 2 (0.75%) Firmware
12 2 (0.75%) KVM
12 2 (0.75%) Lustre
12 2 (0.75%) Samba
12 2 (0.75%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 106 (39.70%) Ansible
2 77 (28.84%) Kubernetes
3 49 (18.35%) Terraform
4 33 (12.36%) Red Hat Satellite
5 25 (9.36%) Grafana
6 16 (5.99%) Podman
6 16 (5.99%) Prometheus
7 15 (5.62%) Puppet
8 13 (4.87%) Argo
8 13 (4.87%) Oracle RMAN
9 11 (4.12%) SCOM
10 9 (3.37%) Check_MK
11 8 (3.00%) Data Guard
11 8 (3.00%) Kustomize
11 8 (3.00%) Progress Chef
12 7 (2.62%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
13 6 (2.25%) SCCM
13 6 (2.25%) SnapMirror
14 5 (1.87%) vCenter Server
14 5 (1.87%) vRealize
Vendors
1 168 (62.92%) Red Hat
2 91 (34.08%) VMware
3 42 (15.73%) Oracle
4 38 (14.23%) Microsoft
5 31 (11.61%) Splunk
6 23 (8.61%) Cisco
7 20 (7.49%) Dell
8 14 (5.24%) Citrix
9 12 (4.49%) IBM
10 11 (4.12%) NetApp
10 11 (4.12%) NVIDIA
11 10 (3.75%) Google
12 9 (3.37%) Tenable
13 8 (3.00%) Brocade
14 7 (2.62%) ServiceNow
14 7 (2.62%) Symantec
15 6 (2.25%) HP
16 5 (1.87%) Fortinet
16 5 (1.87%) Qualys
16 5 (1.87%) SAP