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 23 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
23 Sep 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 346 327 278
Rank change year-on-year -19 -49 -68
Contract jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 377 237 317
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.69% 0.72% 0.84%
As % of the Operating Systems category 7.02% 5.37% 5.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 249 159 221
10th Percentile £399 £335 £356
25th Percentile £449 £410 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £503 £513
Median % change year-on-year -0.50% -1.95% -8.89%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £624
90th Percentile £693 £665 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £487 £516
% change year-on-year +2.62% -5.62% -6.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 0 2
10th Percentile £36.75 - -
25th Percentile £41.71 - -
Median hourly rate £52.54 - £112.00
75th Percentile £68.75 - -
90th Percentile £78.88 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £52.54 - -

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 5,370 4,411 5,321
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.79% 13.49% 14.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,375 2,811 3,378
10th Percentile £190 £188 £200
25th Percentile £313 £300 £326
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +4.44% -5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £575
90th Percentile £675 £673 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £432 £450
% change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 408 290 256
10th Percentile £14.35 £15.50 £16.13
25th Percentile £17.44 £18.87 £21.66
Median hourly rate £27.33 £25.15 £54.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.67% -53.43% +15.66%
75th Percentile £65.42 £57.50 £69.77
90th Percentile £74.78 £67.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £57.25
% change year-on-year +29.22% -56.07% +24.78%

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 23 September 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 23 September 2026.

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 23 September 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 +13 345 £500 -2.44% 166
UK excluding London -9 235 £500 +2.62% 111
London -29 123 £500 -3.38% 63
Work from Home -61 78 £481 -8.38% 51
North of England -47 65 £500 +11.11% 22
South East -42 52 £472 -10.14% 27
South West -6 45 £551 +0.18% 17
East of England +8 41 £513 +26.54% 23
North West -25 41 £489 +33.74% 19
Yorkshire -36 23 £600 +20.00% 2
Midlands -48 17 £525 +6.06% 13
Scotland -24 14 £488 -2.40% 7
West Midlands -42 9 £525 -9.70% 12
East Midlands -16 8 £530 +26.19% 1
North East -39 2 £626 +8.87% 1
Wales - 1 £475 - 3

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 (3.45%) Confluence
2 12 (3.18%) JBoss
2 12 (3.18%) nginx
3 9 (2.39%) Apache
3 9 (2.39%) SharePoint
4 7 (1.86%) Tomcat
5 6 (1.59%) Microsoft Exchange
5 6 (1.59%) WebSphere
6 3 (0.80%) WebLogic
7 2 (0.53%) Documentum
7 2 (0.53%) OpenStack
7 2 (0.53%) Traefik
8 1 (0.27%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.27%) IBM HTTP Server
8 1 (0.27%) Oracle HTTP Server
8 1 (0.27%) Red Hat Fuse
8 1 (0.27%) SAS
8 1 (0.27%) WebSphere Application Server
8 1 (0.27%) WebSphere Portal
Applications
1 4 (1.06%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.27%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.27%) FLEXCUBE
1 1 (0.27%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (0.27%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 109 (28.91%) AWS
2 88 (23.34%) Azure
3 46 (12.20%) OpenShift
4 36 (9.55%) GCP
5 23 (6.10%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 21 (5.57%) Datadog
6 21 (5.57%) GitHub
7 19 (5.04%) Amazon EKS
7 19 (5.04%) AWS CloudFormation
8 18 (4.77%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 18 (4.77%) Amazon EC2
9 17 (4.51%) Entra ID
10 16 (4.24%) Serverless
11 15 (3.98%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 14 (3.71%) Amazon S3
12 14 (3.71%) Azure Monitor
13 13 (3.45%) Amazon ECS
13 13 (3.45%) AWS Lambda
13 13 (3.45%) GitHub Actions
13 13 (3.45%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 49 (13.00%) DNS
2 47 (12.47%) Firewall
3 39 (10.34%) SAN
4 31 (8.22%) TCP/IP
5 22 (5.84%) DHCP
5 22 (5.84%) Kerberos
6 21 (5.57%) SSL
7 19 (5.04%) Network Security
8 17 (4.51%) VLAN
9 12 (3.18%) VPN
10 9 (2.39%) HTTP
11 8 (2.12%) SSH
12 7 (1.86%) BGP
12 7 (1.86%) VoIP
13 6 (1.59%) VSAN
13 6 (1.59%) WAN
14 5 (1.33%) HSRP
14 5 (1.33%) NAS
14 5 (1.33%) OSPF
14 5 (1.33%) VRRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (7.96%) PostgreSQL
2 25 (6.63%) Oracle Database
3 16 (4.24%) SQL Server
4 11 (2.92%) MySQL
5 10 (2.65%) Amazon RDS
6 9 (2.39%) SQLite
7 8 (2.12%) MongoDB
8 7 (1.86%) SAP HANA
9 6 (1.59%) Big Data
9 6 (1.59%) Hadoop
9 6 (1.59%) Redis
9 6 (1.59%) Relational Database
10 5 (1.33%) Elasticsearch
11 4 (1.06%) Data Lake
11 4 (1.06%) Oracle Database 12c
12 3 (0.80%) GIS
13 2 (0.53%) Data Warehouse
13 2 (0.53%) InfluxDB
13 2 (0.53%) NoSQL
13 2 (0.53%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 58 (15.38%) Jenkins
2 53 (14.06%) Git
3 45 (11.94%) GitLab
4 18 (4.77%) JIRA
5 9 (2.39%) Sonatype Nexus
6 5 (1.33%) Artifactory
6 5 (1.33%) Bitbucket
7 4 (1.06%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 4 (1.06%) Cucumber
7 4 (1.06%) Zephyr
8 3 (0.80%) Toad
9 2 (0.53%) Gerrit
9 2 (0.53%) JMeter
9 2 (0.53%) Locust
9 2 (0.53%) Maven
9 2 (0.53%) Robot Framework
9 2 (0.53%) TestCafe
10 1 (0.27%) Introscope
10 1 (0.27%) Newman
10 1 (0.27%) Tricentis qTest
General
1 68 (18.04%) Social Skills
2 59 (15.65%) Finance
3 39 (10.34%) Analytical Skills
4 27 (7.16%) Documentation Skills
5 26 (6.90%) Banking
6 21 (5.57%) Public Sector
7 11 (2.92%) Legal
8 8 (2.12%) Aerospace
8 8 (2.12%) Military
9 6 (1.59%) Retail
10 5 (1.33%) Manufacturing
10 5 (1.33%) Publishing
11 4 (1.06%) Law
12 3 (0.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 3 (0.80%) Investment Banking
12 3 (0.80%) Telecoms
13 2 (0.53%) Aviation
13 2 (0.53%) Financial Institution
14 1 (0.27%) Local Government
14 1 (0.27%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 81 (21.49%) Linux Engineer
2 55 (14.59%) Senior
3 39 (10.34%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 38 (10.08%) DevOps Engineer
5 31 (8.22%) Cloud Engineer
6 24 (6.37%) Administrator
6 24 (6.37%) Architect
7 18 (4.77%) Linux Administrator
7 18 (4.77%) Platform Engineer
7 18 (4.77%) Security Engineer
8 17 (4.51%) AWS Engineer
9 16 (4.24%) Senior Linux Engineer
10 15 (3.98%) Automation Engineer
10 15 (3.98%) Lead
11 14 (3.71%) Linux Systems Engineer
11 14 (3.71%) Systems Engineer
12 13 (3.45%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
12 13 (3.45%) Systems Administrator
13 12 (3.18%) Linux Systems Administrator
13 12 (3.18%) Unix Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 91 (24.14%) Terraform
2 18 (4.77%) REST
3 16 (4.24%) Middleware
4 14 (3.71%) LDAP
5 12 (3.18%) Kafka
6 8 (2.12%) Azure Blueprints
6 8 (2.12%) SPNEGO
7 7 (1.86%) ARM Templates
7 7 (1.86%) JSON
8 6 (1.59%) .NET
8 6 (1.59%) Elastic Stack
9 5 (1.33%) OAuth
9 5 (1.33%) React
9 5 (1.33%) Vue
9 5 (1.33%) WebSphere MQ
10 4 (1.06%) Celery
10 4 (1.06%) Django
10 4 (1.06%) Node.js
10 4 (1.06%) OpenTofu
10 4 (1.06%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 43 (11.41%) Cloud Native
2 29 (7.69%) Security Posture
3 27 (7.16%) Replication
4 21 (5.57%) Clustering
4 21 (5.57%) Data Centre
5 19 (5.04%) Onboarding
6 18 (4.77%) Management Information System
7 15 (3.98%) Enterprise Storage
8 14 (3.71%) Hybrid Cloud
8 14 (3.71%) Linux Command Line
8 14 (3.71%) PKI
9 13 (3.45%) Legacy Systems
10 12 (3.18%) Enterprise Cloud
11 11 (2.92%) Data Protection Act
12 10 (2.65%) Virtual Team
13 8 (2.12%) Cloud Security Posture
13 8 (2.12%) Enterprise Software
13 8 (2.12%) Legacy Applications
13 8 (2.12%) Private Cloud
14 7 (1.86%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 377 (100.00%) Linux
2 147 (38.99%) Windows
3 79 (20.95%) Windows Server
4 48 (12.73%) CentOS
5 45 (11.94%) Ubuntu
6 43 (11.41%) Unix
7 30 (7.96%) Solaris
8 21 (5.57%) Rocky
9 19 (5.04%) AIX
10 15 (3.98%) SUSE
11 10 (2.65%) Oracle Linux
11 10 (2.65%) Windows Server 2012
12 9 (2.39%) Windows Server 2019
13 8 (2.12%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
13 8 (2.12%) VMS
14 7 (1.86%) Windows 10
15 6 (1.59%) HPUX
15 6 (1.59%) Windows Server 2008
16 5 (1.33%) Windows Server 2016
17 4 (1.06%) Alpine Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 127 (33.69%) CI/CD
2 120 (31.83%) DevOps
3 80 (21.22%) Infrastructure as Code
4 70 (18.57%) Configuration Management
5 68 (18.04%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 67 (17.77%) Migration
7 65 (17.24%) Containerisation
8 59 (15.65%) ITIL
9 58 (15.38%) Change Management
10 56 (14.85%) Problem-Solving
11 54 (14.32%) Platform Engineering
12 49 (13.00%) Agile
13 44 (11.67%) Observability
14 43 (11.41%) Continuous Improvement
15 41 (10.88%) Infrastructure Automation
16 38 (10.08%) Performance Tuning
17 37 (9.81%) Runbook
18 36 (9.55%) Root Cause Analysis
19 35 (9.28%) Cloud Security
20 34 (9.02%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 158 (41.91%) Python
2 114 (30.24%) Bash
3 97 (25.73%) PowerShell
4 40 (10.61%) Java
5 29 (7.69%) SQL
6 25 (6.63%) Shell Script
7 22 (5.84%) Perl
8 13 (3.45%) C
8 13 (3.45%) C++
9 11 (2.92%) Bicep
10 10 (2.65%) Korn
11 9 (2.39%) Go
11 9 (2.39%) Groovy
12 8 (2.12%) PL/SQL
13 6 (1.59%) C#
13 6 (1.59%) JavaScript
14 5 (1.33%) MATLAB
15 2 (0.53%) Search Processing Language
16 1 (0.27%) Kusto Query Language
16 1 (0.27%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 163 (43.24%) Security Cleared
2 113 (29.97%) SC Cleared
3 42 (11.14%) DV Cleared
4 34 (9.02%) Degree
5 28 (7.43%) AWS Certification
6 27 (7.16%) CISSP
7 24 (6.37%) Azure Certification
8 18 (4.77%) RHCE
9 9 (2.39%) Computer Science Degree
10 7 (1.86%) CompTIA Security+
10 7 (1.86%) Microsoft Certification
11 6 (1.59%) CISM
11 6 (1.59%) RHCSA
12 4 (1.06%) Cisco Certification
13 3 (0.80%) CCNA
13 3 (0.80%) CCNP
13 3 (0.80%) RHCA
14 2 (0.53%) ISSAP
14 2 (0.53%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 2 (0.53%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (2.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 9 (2.39%) NIST
2 9 (2.39%) SLA
3 8 (2.12%) QA
4 6 (1.59%) NCSC
5 5 (1.33%) GRC
6 4 (1.06%) Disclosure Scotland
6 4 (1.06%) ISO 15022
6 4 (1.06%) ISO 20022
6 4 (1.06%) SOC 2
7 3 (0.80%) HIPAA
7 3 (0.80%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.27%) Data Quality
8 1 (0.27%) JSP 440
8 1 (0.27%) OpenSCAP
8 1 (0.27%) PMO
System Software
1 76 (20.16%) Docker
2 51 (13.53%) VMware Infrastructure
3 49 (13.00%) Active Directory
4 33 (8.75%) Virtual Machines
5 24 (6.37%) VMware ESXi
6 23 (6.10%) vSphere
7 16 (4.24%) NFS
8 14 (3.71%) Hyper-V
9 8 (2.12%) Oracle RAC
10 6 (1.59%) Corosync
11 5 (1.33%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 4 (1.06%) Firmware
12 4 (1.06%) Veritas Volume Manager
13 3 (0.80%) Ceph
13 3 (0.80%) KVM
13 3 (0.80%) VMware NSX
14 2 (0.53%) GPFS
14 2 (0.53%) Squid
15 1 (0.27%) oVirt
15 1 (0.27%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 131 (34.75%) Ansible
2 99 (26.26%) Kubernetes
3 41 (10.88%) Puppet
4 34 (9.02%) Progress Chef
5 31 (8.22%) Grafana
6 29 (7.69%) Prometheus
6 29 (7.69%) Red Hat Satellite
7 19 (5.04%) Failover Clustering
7 19 (5.04%) NetBackup
8 10 (2.65%) Nagios
8 10 (2.65%) Podman
8 10 (2.65%) vCenter Server
9 8 (2.12%) Oracle RMAN
9 8 (2.12%) Packer
10 7 (1.86%) Pacemaker
10 7 (1.86%) SCCM
11 6 (1.59%) Check_MK
11 6 (1.59%) systemd
11 6 (1.59%) WSUS
12 5 (1.33%) SELinux
Vendors
1 180 (47.75%) Red Hat
2 71 (18.83%) VMware
3 64 (16.98%) Microsoft
4 57 (15.12%) Oracle
5 30 (7.96%) Google
6 27 (7.16%) NetApp
7 25 (6.63%) Splunk
8 22 (5.84%) Cisco
9 21 (5.57%) ServiceNow
10 20 (5.31%) IBM
11 14 (3.71%) Veeam
12 11 (2.92%) SaltStack
13 10 (2.65%) Qualys
13 10 (2.65%) Veritas
14 9 (2.39%) Rapid7
14 9 (2.39%) Tenable
15 8 (2.12%) SAP
16 7 (1.86%) HP
16 7 (1.86%) McAfee
17 6 (1.59%) Dell
181 Red Hat Enterprise Linux jobs Nationwide