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

6 months to
29 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 360 327 271
Rank change year-on-year -33 -56 -48
Contract jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 357 244 321
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.66% 0.74% 0.83%
As % of the Operating Systems category 6.79% 5.48% 5.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 240 167 235
10th Percentile £362 £338 £361
25th Percentile £437 £409 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £523
Median % change year-on-year -3.80% -0.53% -9.13%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £611
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 0 1
10th Percentile £37.13 - -
25th Percentile £41.41 - £63.75
Median hourly rate £56.17 - £67.50
75th Percentile £75.70 - £71.25
90th Percentile £79.88 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £56.17 - £67.50
% change year-on-year - - -6.90%

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 5,254 4,452 5,403
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.75% 13.51% 14.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,327 2,832 3,524
10th Percentile £192 £190 £200
25th Percentile £313 £308 £330
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £451 £475
Median % change year-on-year +4.11% -5.16% -5.00%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £584
90th Percentile £669 £675 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £450 £450
Number of hourly rates quoted 360 271 306
10th Percentile £14.50 £15.56 £12.75
25th Percentile £17.25 £18.51 £18.13
Median hourly rate £25.77 £25.15 £35.58
Median % change year-on-year +2.47% -29.32% -16.28%
75th Percentile £65.00 £57.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.00 £67.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £26.00 £25.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year +4.00% -47.37% +52.00%

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 29 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 29 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 29 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 -11 319 £500 -3.80% 159
UK excluding London -21 219 £500 - 96
London -23 115 £497 -9.64% 82
Work from Home -58 78 £475 -9.52% 63
North of England -48 65 £500 +24.84% 23
South East -46 49 £458 -16.82% 25
South West -6 45 £567 +3.14% 22
North West -46 37 £481 +22.39% 16
East of England +2 29 £525 +56.72% 12
Yorkshire -32 28 £523 +16.11% 4
Scotland -26 16 £488 -2.40% 8
Midlands -51 14 £530 -1.58% 6
East Midlands -10 8 £530 +21.84% 1
West Midlands -46 6 £568 -0.74% 5
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 12 (3.36%) JBoss
2 11 (3.08%) Apache
2 11 (3.08%) nginx
3 8 (2.24%) Confluence
3 8 (2.24%) WebSphere
4 7 (1.96%) SharePoint
4 7 (1.96%) Tomcat
5 6 (1.68%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (0.84%) IBM HTTP Server
6 3 (0.84%) OpenStack
6 3 (0.84%) SAS
6 3 (0.84%) WebSphere Application Server
7 2 (0.56%) Documentum
7 2 (0.56%) Oracle HTTP Server
7 2 (0.56%) WebLogic
7 2 (0.56%) WebSphere Portal
8 1 (0.28%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.28%) Red Hat Fuse
8 1 (0.28%) Traefik
Applications
1 4 (1.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.28%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.28%) FLEXCUBE
1 1 (0.28%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (0.28%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 102 (28.57%) AWS
2 83 (23.25%) Azure
3 42 (11.76%) OpenShift
4 32 (8.96%) GCP
5 23 (6.44%) GitHub
6 22 (6.16%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 18 (5.04%) Amazon EC2
7 18 (5.04%) AWS CloudFormation
7 18 (5.04%) Datadog
8 17 (4.76%) Amazon EKS
9 16 (4.48%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 15 (4.20%) Amazon S3
10 15 (4.20%) IaaS
10 15 (4.20%) Serverless
11 14 (3.92%) Azure Monitor
11 14 (3.92%) Entra ID
11 14 (3.92%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 13 (3.64%) GitHub Actions
13 12 (3.36%) AWS Lambda
13 12 (3.36%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 50 (14.01%) DNS
2 46 (12.89%) Firewall
3 39 (10.92%) SAN
4 24 (6.72%) TCP/IP
5 22 (6.16%) Kerberos
6 20 (5.60%) DHCP
7 18 (5.04%) VLAN
8 15 (4.20%) Network Security
8 15 (4.20%) SSL
9 13 (3.64%) VPN
10 9 (2.52%) SSH
11 6 (1.68%) VSAN
11 6 (1.68%) WAN
12 5 (1.40%) HTTP
12 5 (1.40%) VoIP
13 4 (1.12%) NAS
14 3 (0.84%) FTP
14 3 (0.84%) Intrusion Detection
14 3 (0.84%) iSCSI
14 3 (0.84%) OpenVPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (7.56%) Oracle Database
1 27 (7.56%) PostgreSQL
2 16 (4.48%) SQL Server
3 10 (2.80%) Amazon RDS
3 10 (2.80%) MySQL
4 8 (2.24%) SQLite
5 7 (1.96%) MongoDB
5 7 (1.96%) Oracle Database 12c
5 7 (1.96%) SAP HANA
6 6 (1.68%) Big Data
6 6 (1.68%) Hadoop
7 5 (1.40%) Elasticsearch
7 5 (1.40%) Relational Database
8 4 (1.12%) Data Lake
8 4 (1.12%) Data Warehouse
8 4 (1.12%) Redis
9 3 (0.84%) GIS
10 2 (0.56%) Azure SQL Database
10 2 (0.56%) Sybase ASE
11 1 (0.28%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 51 (14.29%) Jenkins
2 48 (13.45%) Git
3 38 (10.64%) GitLab
4 13 (3.64%) JIRA
5 7 (1.96%) Sonatype Nexus
6 6 (1.68%) Artifactory
7 3 (0.84%) Bitbucket
7 3 (0.84%) Introscope
7 3 (0.84%) Toad
8 2 (0.56%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 2 (0.56%) Cucumber
8 2 (0.56%) Maven
8 2 (0.56%) Zephyr
9 1 (0.28%) Ant
9 1 (0.28%) PVCS
9 1 (0.28%) Robot Framework
General
1 64 (17.93%) Social Skills
2 54 (15.13%) Finance
3 38 (10.64%) Analytical Skills
4 27 (7.56%) Banking
5 25 (7.00%) Documentation Skills
6 22 (6.16%) Public Sector
7 11 (3.08%) Legal
8 7 (1.96%) Aerospace
9 6 (1.68%) Military
9 6 (1.68%) Retail
10 5 (1.40%) Manufacturing
10 5 (1.40%) Publishing
11 3 (0.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (0.56%) Aviation
12 2 (0.56%) Investment Banking
12 2 (0.56%) Law
12 2 (0.56%) Telecoms
13 1 (0.28%) Corporate Banking
13 1 (0.28%) Local Government
13 1 (0.28%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 81 (22.69%) Linux Engineer
2 53 (14.85%) Senior
3 36 (10.08%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 31 (8.68%) DevOps Engineer
5 29 (8.12%) Cloud Engineer
6 25 (7.00%) Architect
7 24 (6.72%) Administrator
8 18 (5.04%) Linux Administrator
8 18 (5.04%) Platform Engineer
9 16 (4.48%) Lead
9 16 (4.48%) Security Engineer
9 16 (4.48%) Senior Linux Engineer
10 15 (4.20%) AWS Engineer
11 14 (3.92%) Systems Engineer
12 13 (3.64%) Automation Engineer
12 13 (3.64%) Linux Systems Engineer
12 13 (3.64%) Unix Engineer
13 12 (3.36%) Systems Administrator
14 11 (3.08%) Linux Systems Administrator
15 10 (2.80%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 87 (24.37%) Terraform
2 15 (4.20%) Middleware
3 14 (3.92%) REST
4 11 (3.08%) LDAP
5 10 (2.80%) Kafka
6 8 (2.24%) SPNEGO
7 7 (1.96%) Azure Blueprints
7 7 (1.96%) Elastic Stack
7 7 (1.96%) JSON
8 6 (1.68%) .NET
8 6 (1.68%) ARM Templates
8 6 (1.68%) WebSphere MQ
9 5 (1.40%) OAuth
9 5 (1.40%) OpenTofu
9 5 (1.40%) Vue
10 4 (1.12%) Celery
10 4 (1.12%) Django
10 4 (1.12%) JWT
10 4 (1.12%) React
10 4 (1.12%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 44 (12.32%) Cloud Native
2 28 (7.84%) Security Posture
3 25 (7.00%) Replication
4 22 (6.16%) Clustering
5 21 (5.88%) Data Centre
6 16 (4.48%) Enterprise Storage
6 16 (4.48%) Management Information System
7 15 (4.20%) Hybrid Cloud
7 15 (4.20%) Onboarding
7 15 (4.20%) PKI
8 13 (3.64%) Legacy Systems
8 13 (3.64%) Linux Command Line
9 11 (3.08%) Enterprise Cloud
10 9 (2.52%) Data Protection Act
10 9 (2.52%) Enterprise Software
10 9 (2.52%) Private Cloud
10 9 (2.52%) Virtual Team
11 8 (2.24%) Product Ownership
12 7 (1.96%) Cloud Security Posture
12 7 (1.96%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 357 (100.00%) Linux
2 130 (36.41%) Windows
3 69 (19.33%) Windows Server
4 44 (12.32%) Ubuntu
5 41 (11.48%) Unix
6 40 (11.20%) CentOS
7 26 (7.28%) Solaris
8 18 (5.04%) Rocky
9 16 (4.48%) AIX
10 14 (3.92%) Oracle Linux
11 13 (3.64%) SUSE
12 11 (3.08%) Windows Server 2019
13 10 (2.80%) VMS
14 7 (1.96%) Windows Server 2012
15 6 (1.68%) HPUX
15 6 (1.68%) Windows Server 2016
16 5 (1.40%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
16 5 (1.40%) Windows 10
16 5 (1.40%) Windows Server 2008
17 4 (1.12%) Alpine Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 116 (32.49%) CI/CD
2 112 (31.37%) DevOps
3 77 (21.57%) Infrastructure as Code
4 67 (18.77%) Configuration Management
5 66 (18.49%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 59 (16.53%) Containerisation
6 59 (16.53%) Migration
7 55 (15.41%) Agile
7 55 (15.41%) ITIL
8 53 (14.85%) Platform Engineering
9 50 (14.01%) Change Management
10 48 (13.45%) Problem-Solving
11 46 (12.89%) Continuous Improvement
12 43 (12.04%) Performance Tuning
13 42 (11.76%) Observability
14 37 (10.36%) High Availability
15 36 (10.08%) Runbook
16 33 (9.24%) Root Cause Analysis
17 32 (8.96%) Cloud Security
17 32 (8.96%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 150 (42.02%) Python
2 101 (28.29%) Bash
3 95 (26.61%) PowerShell
4 34 (9.52%) Java
5 25 (7.00%) SQL
6 24 (6.72%) Shell Script
7 22 (6.16%) Perl
8 13 (3.64%) C
8 13 (3.64%) C++
9 11 (3.08%) Bicep
9 11 (3.08%) Korn
10 8 (2.24%) PL/SQL
11 6 (1.68%) C#
11 6 (1.68%) Go
11 6 (1.68%) JavaScript
12 5 (1.40%) Groovy
13 4 (1.12%) MATLAB
14 3 (0.84%) Jython
15 2 (0.56%) Search Processing Language
16 1 (0.28%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 155 (43.42%) Security Cleared
2 116 (32.49%) SC Cleared
3 36 (10.08%) DV Cleared
4 32 (8.96%) Degree
5 25 (7.00%) AWS Certification
5 25 (7.00%) CISSP
6 22 (6.16%) Azure Certification
7 15 (4.20%) RHCE
8 10 (2.80%) Computer Science Degree
9 7 (1.96%) CompTIA Security+
10 6 (1.68%) CISM
10 6 (1.68%) Microsoft Certification
11 4 (1.12%) OCP
11 4 (1.12%) Oracle Certification
11 4 (1.12%) RHCSA
12 3 (0.84%) RHCA
13 2 (0.56%) BPSS Clearance
13 2 (0.56%) ISSAP
13 2 (0.56%) PMI Certification
13 2 (0.56%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (2.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 9 (2.52%) SLA
2 8 (2.24%) NIST
3 6 (1.68%) NCSC
3 6 (1.68%) QA
4 5 (1.40%) GRC
5 4 (1.12%) Disclosure Scotland
5 4 (1.12%) ISO 15022
5 4 (1.12%) ISO 20022
5 4 (1.12%) SOC 2
6 3 (0.84%) HIPAA
6 3 (0.84%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.28%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.28%) JSP 440
7 1 (0.28%) OpenSCAP
7 1 (0.28%) PMO
7 1 (0.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 61 (17.09%) Docker
2 48 (13.45%) VMware Infrastructure
3 41 (11.48%) Active Directory
4 34 (9.52%) Virtual Machines
5 19 (5.32%) VMware ESXi
6 16 (4.48%) NFS
7 15 (4.20%) Hyper-V
8 14 (3.92%) vSphere
9 9 (2.52%) Oracle RAC
10 6 (1.68%) Corosync
11 4 (1.12%) Ceph
11 4 (1.12%) Firmware
11 4 (1.12%) Veritas Volume Manager
12 3 (0.84%) KVM
12 3 (0.84%) VMware NSX
13 2 (0.56%) Slurm Workload Manager
13 2 (0.56%) Squid
14 1 (0.28%) OpenSSH
14 1 (0.28%) Samba
14 1 (0.28%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 128 (35.85%) Ansible
2 92 (25.77%) Kubernetes
3 41 (11.48%) Puppet
4 34 (9.52%) Progress Chef
5 27 (7.56%) Red Hat Satellite
6 26 (7.28%) Grafana
7 23 (6.44%) Prometheus
8 19 (5.32%) Failover Clustering
9 16 (4.48%) NetBackup
10 11 (3.08%) Oracle RMAN
11 8 (2.24%) Packer
11 8 (2.24%) vCenter Server
12 7 (1.96%) Pacemaker
12 7 (1.96%) Podman
12 7 (1.96%) systemd
13 6 (1.68%) SELinux
14 5 (1.40%) Nagios
14 5 (1.40%) SCCM
14 5 (1.40%) Tivoli
14 5 (1.40%) WSUS
Vendors
1 180 (50.42%) Red Hat
2 64 (17.93%) VMware
3 63 (17.65%) Microsoft
4 58 (16.25%) Oracle
5 26 (7.28%) Google
6 24 (6.72%) NetApp
7 22 (6.16%) Splunk
8 20 (5.60%) IBM
8 20 (5.60%) ServiceNow
9 18 (5.04%) Cisco
10 13 (3.64%) Veeam
11 12 (3.36%) SaltStack
12 10 (2.80%) Qualys
13 9 (2.52%) Rapid7
13 9 (2.52%) Tenable
14 8 (2.24%) HP
14 8 (2.24%) SAP
14 8 (2.24%) Veritas
15 6 (1.68%) Dell
15 6 (1.68%) McAfee