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

6 months to
27 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 364 219 297
Rank change year-on-year -145 +78 -95
Contract jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 272 350 332
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.62% 1.21% 0.75%
As % of the Operating Systems category 5.74% 8.40% 5.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 194 240 241
10th Percentile £400 £400 £350
25th Percentile £454 £475 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £560 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +1.82% -8.33%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £631
90th Percentile £675 £739 £703
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £551 £550
% change year-on-year -9.26% +0.18% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 0 5
10th Percentile £74.26 - £22.57
25th Percentile £74.68 - £25.18
Median hourly rate £90.00 - £52.50
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 - - -10.26%

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 4,740 4,166 5,980
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 10.75% 14.35% 13.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,102 2,785 3,999
10th Percentile £181 £200 £180
25th Percentile £300 £325 £281
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £457
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +3.94% -11.26%
75th Percentile £569 £600 £594
90th Percentile £660 £699 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £450 £438
% change year-on-year -5.56% +2.86% -7.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 337 161 409
10th Percentile £15.00 £16.67 £12.84
25th Percentile £17.69 £18.50 £15.50
Median hourly rate £23.50 £25.00 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.00% +13.64% -24.14%
75th Percentile £63.50 £63.75 £57.50
90th Percentile £72.80 £68.75 £68.65
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.81 £24.66 £20.00
% change year-on-year -7.50% +23.30% -24.53%

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 27 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 27 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 27 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 -157 216 £525 -7.89% 65
UK excluding London -93 187 £500 -9.26% 55
Work from Home -65 93 £500 -9.09% 30
North of England -76 57 £537 -7.81% 19
South East -41 48 £485 -11.82% 14
London -140 39 £525 -12.50% 14
Yorkshire -61 30 £500 -20.95% 6
South West -23 24 £588 -4.47% 13
North West -34 23 £550 - 10
East of England -17 20 £477 -20.58% 2
Midlands -70 20 £519 -5.85% 4
West Midlands -58 18 £539 -2.27% 3
Scotland -17 13 £463 -7.50% 2
North East -10 7 £550 -1.35% 3
Northern Ireland - 3 £375 -
East Midlands -35 2 £420 -21.79% 1
Wales - 2 - - 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 12 (4.41%) nginx
2 11 (4.04%) Confluence
3 10 (3.68%) Microsoft Exchange
4 9 (3.31%) Apache
4 9 (3.31%) SAS
4 9 (3.31%) SharePoint
5 8 (2.94%) WebLogic
6 7 (2.57%) Tomcat
7 3 (1.10%) IBM HTTP Server
7 3 (1.10%) JBoss
7 3 (1.10%) OpenStack
7 3 (1.10%) WebSphere
7 3 (1.10%) WebSphere Application Server
8 2 (0.74%) Oracle HTTP Server
8 2 (0.74%) WebSphere Portal
9 1 (0.37%) FileNet
9 1 (0.37%) Red Hat Fuse
9 1 (0.37%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 4 (1.47%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (1.47%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 60 (22.06%) AWS
2 57 (20.96%) Azure
3 40 (14.71%) OpenShift
4 17 (6.25%) GCP
5 16 (5.88%) Amazon EC2
6 15 (5.51%) Amazon S3
7 14 (5.15%) GitHub
8 10 (3.68%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 8 (2.94%) Entra ID
10 7 (2.57%) Azure Sentinel
11 6 (2.21%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 6 (2.21%) Microsoft 365
11 6 (2.21%) Nutanix
11 6 (2.21%) OCI
12 5 (1.84%) Amazon EKS
12 5 (1.84%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 5 (1.84%) IaaS
13 4 (1.47%) Azure DevOps
13 4 (1.47%) Azure Monitor
13 4 (1.47%) Azure Stack
Communications & Networking
1 39 (14.34%) Firewall
2 24 (8.82%) SAN
3 17 (6.25%) DNS
4 15 (5.51%) VLAN
5 10 (3.68%) Kerberos
5 10 (3.68%) VSAN
6 7 (2.57%) BGP
6 7 (2.57%) HTTP
6 7 (2.57%) Network Security
7 6 (2.21%) iSCSI
7 6 (2.21%) Software-Defined Networking
7 6 (2.21%) SSL
7 6 (2.21%) TCP/IP
7 6 (2.21%) VPN
7 6 (2.21%) WebEx
8 5 (1.84%) DHCP
8 5 (1.84%) Fibre Channel
9 4 (1.47%) DKIM
9 4 (1.47%) DMARC
9 4 (1.47%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (8.82%) Oracle Database
2 16 (5.88%) MongoDB
3 12 (4.41%) PostgreSQL
4 9 (3.31%) Data Warehouse
5 6 (2.21%) SQL Server
6 5 (1.84%) Elasticsearch
6 5 (1.84%) GIS
7 4 (1.47%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (1.47%) MariaDB
7 4 (1.47%) MySQL
7 4 (1.47%) Oracle Database 12c
8 3 (1.10%) Oracle Exadata
8 3 (1.10%) Oracle Reports
9 2 (0.74%) Data Lake
9 2 (0.74%) RDBMS
9 2 (0.74%) Relational Database
10 1 (0.37%) BusinessObjects
10 1 (0.37%) IBM InfoSphere
10 1 (0.37%) Metadata
10 1 (0.37%) OpenStack Swift
Development Applications
1 33 (12.13%) Jenkins
2 29 (10.66%) GitLab
3 28 (10.29%) Git
4 14 (5.15%) JIRA
5 6 (2.21%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 5 (1.84%) Artifactory
7 3 (1.10%) Introscope
7 3 (1.10%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (0.74%) Maven
8 2 (0.74%) Robot Framework
9 1 (0.37%) GoCD
9 1 (0.37%) Subversion
9 1 (0.37%) Terragrunt
General
1 78 (28.68%) Social Skills
2 31 (11.40%) Public Sector
3 28 (10.29%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (7.35%) Documentation Skills
5 16 (5.88%) Finance
6 15 (5.51%) Banking
7 8 (2.94%) Legal
8 6 (2.21%) Aerospace
9 5 (1.84%) Telecoms
10 2 (0.74%) Back Office
10 2 (0.74%) Financial Institution
10 2 (0.74%) Front Office
10 2 (0.74%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.74%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.37%) Automotive
11 1 (0.37%) Billing
11 1 (0.37%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.37%) Military
11 1 (0.37%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.37%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 35 (12.87%) Architect
2 32 (11.76%) Linux Engineer
3 31 (11.40%) Administrator
4 26 (9.56%) Platform Engineer
5 23 (8.46%) Senior
6 18 (6.62%) Lead
7 17 (6.25%) Linux Administrator
8 14 (5.15%) Software Engineer
9 12 (4.41%) DevOps Engineer
10 11 (4.04%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 11 (4.04%) Solutions Architect
11 9 (3.31%) DBA
11 9 (3.31%) Oracle DBA
11 9 (3.31%) Senior Linux Engineer
11 9 (3.31%) Systems Administrator
12 7 (2.57%) Security Engineer
12 7 (2.57%) Systems Engineer
13 6 (2.21%) Consultant
14 5 (1.84%) Developer
14 5 (1.84%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (6.99%) LDAP
2 16 (5.88%) Middleware
3 9 (3.31%) Loki
3 9 (3.31%) YAML
4 8 (2.94%) Spring
5 6 (2.21%) Spring Boot
5 6 (2.21%) XMPP
6 5 (1.84%) EJB
6 5 (1.84%) OpenLayers
6 5 (1.84%) REST
7 3 (1.10%) Elastic Stack
7 3 (1.10%) FastAPI
7 3 (1.10%) Flask
7 3 (1.10%) Java EE
7 3 (1.10%) Java SE
7 3 (1.10%) JDBC
7 3 (1.10%) JSP
7 3 (1.10%) Kafka
7 3 (1.10%) RabbitMQ
8 2 (0.74%) Oracle GoldenGate
Miscellaneous
1 33 (12.13%) Data Centre
2 24 (8.82%) Cloud Native
3 19 (6.99%) Product Ownership
4 12 (4.41%) Clustering
4 12 (4.41%) Hybrid Cloud
4 12 (4.41%) Management Information System
5 10 (3.68%) Onboarding
5 10 (3.68%) Public Cloud
6 9 (3.31%) Enterprise Software
7 8 (2.94%) Virtual Team
8 7 (2.57%) Data Protection Act
8 7 (2.57%) Legacy Systems
9 6 (2.21%) FlexPod
9 6 (2.21%) Legacy Applications
9 6 (2.21%) Replication
10 5 (1.84%) PKI
11 4 (1.47%) Enterprise Storage
11 4 (1.47%) Linux Command Line
11 4 (1.47%) NVMe
11 4 (1.47%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 272 (100.00%) Linux
2 98 (36.03%) Windows
3 51 (18.75%) Windows Server
4 46 (16.91%) Ubuntu
5 34 (12.50%) CentOS
6 22 (8.09%) Unix
7 16 (5.88%) VMS
8 15 (5.51%) Windows Server 2019
9 13 (4.78%) Solaris
9 13 (4.78%) Windows Server 2016
10 9 (3.31%) Oracle Linux
11 8 (2.94%) Windows Server 2008
12 7 (2.57%) Rocky
13 6 (2.21%) CoreOS
13 6 (2.21%) Data ONTAP
13 6 (2.21%) Debian
14 4 (1.47%) SUSE
15 3 (1.10%) AIX
15 3 (1.10%) OpenVMS
16 2 (0.74%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (32.35%) CI/CD
2 70 (25.74%) DevOps
3 62 (22.79%) Problem-Solving
4 46 (16.91%) Agile
5 43 (15.81%) Infrastructure as Code
6 40 (14.71%) Continuous Improvement
7 39 (14.34%) Containerisation
8 37 (13.60%) High Availability
9 36 (13.24%) Migration
10 35 (12.87%) Platform Engineering
11 27 (9.93%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 27 (9.93%) Performance Tuning
12 26 (9.56%) ITIL
12 26 (9.56%) SIEM
13 24 (8.82%) DevSecOps
13 24 (8.82%) Observability
13 24 (8.82%) Roadmaps
14 23 (8.46%) Disaster Recovery
14 23 (8.46%) ITSM
15 22 (8.09%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 100 (36.76%) Python
2 72 (26.47%) Bash
3 66 (24.26%) PowerShell
4 39 (14.34%) Shell Script
5 31 (11.40%) Perl
6 30 (11.03%) SQL
7 22 (8.09%) Java
8 10 (3.68%) PL/SQL
9 9 (3.31%) JavaScript
10 8 (2.94%) Go
10 8 (2.94%) Ruby
11 7 (2.57%) MATLAB
12 5 (1.84%) Korn
13 3 (1.10%) Jython
14 1 (0.37%) Bicep
14 1 (0.37%) C++
14 1 (0.37%) Groovy
14 1 (0.37%) Rust
14 1 (0.37%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 135 (49.63%) Security Cleared
2 99 (36.40%) SC Cleared
3 29 (10.66%) DV Cleared
4 23 (8.46%) Degree
5 16 (5.88%) RHCE
6 15 (5.51%) OCP
6 15 (5.51%) Oracle Certification
7 10 (3.68%) Azure Certification
8 9 (3.31%) CCDP
8 9 (3.31%) CCNA
8 9 (3.31%) CCNP
8 9 (3.31%) Cisco Certification
9 6 (2.21%) CISSP
10 4 (1.47%) BPSS Clearance
10 4 (1.47%) Computer Science Degree
10 4 (1.47%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 3 (1.10%) AWS Certification
11 3 (1.10%) CESG Certified Professional
11 3 (1.10%) TOGAF Certification
11 3 (1.10%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (2.94%) SLA
2 6 (2.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (2.21%) NIST
3 5 (1.84%) GDPR
3 5 (1.84%) NCSC
4 4 (1.47%) Cyber Essentials
4 4 (1.47%) QA
5 3 (1.10%) NIST 800
6 2 (0.74%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.37%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.37%) HL7
7 1 (0.37%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 1 (0.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 57 (20.96%) VMware Infrastructure
2 35 (12.87%) Active Directory
2 35 (12.87%) Docker
3 25 (9.19%) vSphere
4 20 (7.35%) Virtual Machines
5 17 (6.25%) VMware ESXi
6 11 (4.04%) Oracle RAC
7 8 (2.94%) NFS
8 7 (2.57%) Hyper-V
8 7 (2.57%) VMware NSX
9 5 (1.84%) Firmware
9 5 (1.84%) Postfix
9 5 (1.84%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 4 (1.47%) Ceph
10 4 (1.47%) QEMU
11 3 (1.10%) GPFS
12 2 (0.74%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 2 (0.74%) KVM
12 2 (0.74%) Samba
12 2 (0.74%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 107 (39.34%) Ansible
2 73 (26.84%) Kubernetes
3 44 (16.18%) Terraform
4 29 (10.66%) Red Hat Satellite
5 25 (9.19%) Grafana
6 16 (5.88%) Prometheus
6 16 (5.88%) Puppet
7 15 (5.51%) Oracle RMAN
8 14 (5.15%) Argo
8 14 (5.15%) Podman
9 11 (4.04%) SCOM
9 11 (4.04%) vCenter Server
10 9 (3.31%) Check_MK
10 9 (3.31%) Progress Chef
11 8 (2.94%) Data Guard
11 8 (2.94%) Kustomize
12 7 (2.57%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
13 6 (2.21%) SCCM
13 6 (2.21%) SnapMirror
13 6 (2.21%) vMotion
Vendors
1 174 (63.97%) Red Hat
2 90 (33.09%) VMware
3 45 (16.54%) Oracle
4 42 (15.44%) Microsoft
5 25 (9.19%) Splunk
6 24 (8.82%) Dell
7 23 (8.46%) Cisco
8 13 (4.78%) Citrix
8 13 (4.78%) IBM
9 11 (4.04%) NetApp
9 11 (4.04%) NVIDIA
10 10 (3.68%) Google
11 8 (2.94%) ServiceNow
12 7 (2.57%) Brocade
12 7 (2.57%) HP
12 7 (2.57%) Tenable
13 6 (2.21%) Broadcom
14 5 (1.84%) Fortinet
14 5 (1.84%) Symantec
15 4 (1.47%) Commvault