Red Hat Enterprise Linux Contracts

Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Red Hat Enterprise Linux skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Red Hat Enterprise Linux over the 6 months leading up to 30 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 276 300 207
Rank change year-on-year +24 -93 +66
Contract jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 281 312 719
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.92% 0.72% 1.29%
As % of the Operating Systems category 6.66% 5.32% 8.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 207 234 529
10th Percentile £392 £350 £413
25th Percentile £417 £425 £465
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £520 £592
Median % change year-on-year +0.96% -12.16% +2.96%
75th Percentile £600 £599 £676
90th Percentile £675 £659 £798
UK excluding London median daily rate £531 £525 £525
% change year-on-year +1.14% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 12
10th Percentile - £65.18 -
25th Percentile - £67.31 £51.25
Median hourly rate - £72.75 £61.25
Median % change year-on-year - +18.78% -2.78%
75th Percentile - £76.31 £73.75
90th Percentile - £77.33 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £72.75 £70.00
% change year-on-year - +3.93% -6.67%

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 4,221 5,865 8,879
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 13.77% 13.59% 15.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,740 3,860 6,148
10th Percentile £200 £190 £190
25th Percentile £313 £313 £338
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.21% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £581 £588 £638
90th Percentile £675 £700 £715
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £463 £463
% change year-on-year -2.70% - +8.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 216 435 406
10th Percentile £15.50 £12.75 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.41 £16.25 £18.50
Median hourly rate £22.25 £25.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -11.00% -41.18% +88.89%
75th Percentile £42.56 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £66.25 £70.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £18.87 £31.25 £33.50
% change year-on-year -39.62% -6.72% +67.50%

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Red Hat Enterprise Linux in the UK

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

Daily rate trend for Red Hat Enterprise Linux in the UK

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux over the 6 months to 30 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Red Hat Enterprise Linux in the UK

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

Hourly rate trend for Red Hat Enterprise Linux in the UK

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Top 16 Contract 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 30 June 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 +14 214 £537 +2.53% 372
UK excluding London -11 143 £531 +1.14% 206
Work from Home +77 107 £525 +10.53% 134
London +45 79 £550 +7.84% 192
North of England +42 46 £428 -14.29% 48
Scotland +7 31 £468 +12.16% 13
South East -10 30 £550 -2.22% 63
North West +31 22 £393 -25.57% 17
Yorkshire +16 22 £475 +2.70% 30
South West +23 17 £615 +5.67% 32
Midlands -26 13 £537 -2.36% 25
West Midlands -12 11 £540 -5.26% 10
East of England +16 3 £483 -3.50% 19
Northern Ireland - 3 £350 - 5
East Midlands -15 2 £506 +12.69% 15
North East - 2 £575 - 1

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 24 (8.54%) Apache
2 20 (7.12%) JBoss
3 14 (4.98%) Apache Spark
4 13 (4.63%) Documentum
4 13 (4.63%) FileNet
5 12 (4.27%) Confluence
6 8 (2.85%) Microsoft Exchange
7 7 (2.49%) Tomcat
8 6 (2.14%) nginx
9 5 (1.78%) OpenStack
9 5 (1.78%) WebLogic
9 5 (1.78%) WebSphere
10 3 (1.07%) SharePoint
11 2 (0.71%) WebSphere Application Server
12 1 (0.36%) Anypoint
12 1 (0.36%) IBM HTTP Server
12 1 (0.36%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 1 (0.36%) SAS
12 1 (0.36%) Skype for Business
Cloud Services
1 97 (34.52%) AWS
2 61 (21.71%) Azure
3 37 (13.17%) OpenShift
4 25 (8.90%) Amazon EC2
5 20 (7.12%) GCP
5 20 (7.12%) GitHub
6 17 (6.05%) Serverless
7 16 (5.69%) Amazon S3
8 14 (4.98%) Amazon SQS
9 12 (4.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 12 (4.27%) AWS CloudFormation
10 10 (3.56%) Azure DevOps
10 10 (3.56%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 9 (3.20%) Azure Monitor
11 9 (3.20%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 8 (2.85%) AWS KMS
13 7 (2.49%) IaaS
14 6 (2.14%) Amazon ECS
15 5 (1.78%) OCI
16 4 (1.42%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 37 (13.17%) DNS
2 32 (11.39%) DHCP
3 29 (10.32%) TCP/IP
4 21 (7.47%) Firewall
5 15 (5.34%) SAN
6 11 (3.91%) HTTP
7 10 (3.56%) NAS
8 7 (2.49%) VSAN
9 6 (2.14%) VPN
10 4 (1.42%) VLAN
11 3 (1.07%) FTP
11 3 (1.07%) LAN
11 3 (1.07%) Network Security
11 3 (1.07%) WAN
12 2 (0.71%) iSCSI
12 2 (0.71%) SSH
13 1 (0.36%) Intrusion Detection
13 1 (0.36%) SMS
13 1 (0.36%) SMTP
13 1 (0.36%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (10.68%) Elasticsearch
2 26 (9.25%) SQL Server
3 19 (6.76%) Relational Database
4 16 (5.69%) PostgreSQL
5 15 (5.34%) MongoDB
5 15 (5.34%) MySQL
6 14 (4.98%) Big Data
7 13 (4.63%) Hadoop
7 13 (4.63%) RDBMS
8 7 (2.49%) Data Lake
8 7 (2.49%) Oracle Database
9 6 (2.14%) Data Warehouse
9 6 (2.14%) Oracle Exadata
10 5 (1.78%) MariaDB
11 3 (1.07%) Amazon RDS
11 3 (1.07%) Power BI
11 3 (1.07%) SAP HANA
12 2 (0.71%) Apache Cassandra
12 2 (0.71%) NoSQL
12 2 (0.71%) Redis
Development Applications
1 49 (17.44%) Jenkins
2 36 (12.81%) Git
3 34 (12.10%) GitLab
4 28 (9.96%) JIRA
5 25 (8.90%) Sonatype Nexus
6 17 (6.05%) SonarQube
7 13 (4.63%) TeamCity
8 12 (4.27%) Bitbucket Server
8 12 (4.27%) CA Release Automation
9 10 (3.56%) Artifactory
10 7 (2.49%) Bitbucket
11 5 (1.78%) Maven
11 5 (1.78%) Postman
12 4 (1.42%) Gradle
12 4 (1.42%) MSI
12 4 (1.42%) Robot Framework
13 3 (1.07%) Cucumber
13 3 (1.07%) Eclipse
13 3 (1.07%) Vagrant
14 2 (0.71%) Ant
General
1 69 (24.56%) Social Skills
2 61 (21.71%) Finance
3 29 (10.32%) Banking
4 28 (9.96%) Analytical Skills
5 16 (5.69%) Public Sector
6 8 (2.85%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (1.07%) Financial Institution
7 3 (1.07%) Front Office
7 3 (1.07%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (1.07%) Law
7 3 (1.07%) Legal
8 2 (0.71%) Back Office
8 2 (0.71%) French Language
8 2 (0.71%) German Language
9 1 (0.36%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.36%) Military
9 1 (0.36%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 49 (17.44%) Linux Engineer
2 32 (11.39%) DevOps Engineer
3 31 (11.03%) Senior
4 25 (8.90%) Architect
5 15 (5.34%) Developer
5 15 (5.34%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 14 (4.98%) Administrator
6 14 (4.98%) Consultant
7 13 (4.63%) AWS DevOps
8 12 (4.27%) AWS Engineer
8 12 (4.27%) Kubernetes Engineer
8 12 (4.27%) Lead
9 11 (3.91%) Azure Engineer
9 11 (3.91%) Infrastructure Architect
9 11 (3.91%) Solutions Architect
10 10 (3.56%) Cloud Engineer
10 10 (3.56%) Systems Engineer
11 9 (3.20%) Documentum Developer
11 9 (3.20%) Platform Engineer
12 8 (2.85%) Integration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (6.41%) Elastic Stack
2 17 (6.05%) Spring Boot
3 12 (4.27%) OpenTelemetry
4 8 (2.85%) .NET
4 8 (2.85%) Kafka
4 8 (2.85%) LDAP
4 8 (2.85%) Middleware
5 7 (2.49%) LAMP
6 6 (2.14%) Spring
7 5 (1.78%) JSON
7 5 (1.78%) RabbitMQ
8 4 (1.42%) HTML
8 4 (1.42%) IBM Integration Bus
8 4 (1.42%) OAuth
8 4 (1.42%) REST
8 4 (1.42%) XML
9 3 (1.07%) ASP.NET
9 3 (1.07%) CSS
9 3 (1.07%) RESTful
9 3 (1.07%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 29 (10.32%) Data Centre
2 18 (6.41%) Replication
3 14 (4.98%) Enterprise Storage
4 9 (3.20%) Cloud Native
5 8 (2.85%) Clustering
5 8 (2.85%) Data Protection Act
5 8 (2.85%) Public Cloud
6 7 (2.49%) Mainframe
6 7 (2.49%) PKI
7 6 (2.14%) CSOC
7 6 (2.14%) Private Cloud
8 5 (1.78%) Hybrid Cloud
8 5 (1.78%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (1.42%) EMC VMAX
9 4 (1.42%) Management Information System
10 3 (1.07%) Enterprise Software
10 3 (1.07%) Onboarding
11 2 (0.71%) CMDB
11 2 (0.71%) Legacy Applications
11 2 (0.71%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 281 (100.00%) Linux
2 111 (39.50%) Windows
3 44 (15.66%) Windows Server
4 35 (12.46%) Unix
5 28 (9.96%) CentOS
6 26 (9.25%) Solaris
7 14 (4.98%) AIX
8 12 (4.27%) Ubuntu
9 10 (3.56%) HPUX
10 9 (3.20%) Rocky
10 9 (3.20%) VMS
10 9 (3.20%) Windows Server 2019
11 6 (2.14%) SUSE
12 5 (1.78%) Oracle Linux
13 3 (1.07%) Amazon Linux
13 3 (1.07%) Debian
13 3 (1.07%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
14 2 (0.71%) Data ONTAP
15 1 (0.36%) CoreOS
15 1 (0.36%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 92 (32.74%) DevOps
2 73 (25.98%) CI/CD
3 60 (21.35%) Agile
4 48 (17.08%) High Availability
4 48 (17.08%) Problem-Solving
5 47 (16.73%) Migration
6 40 (14.23%) Infrastructure as Code
7 38 (13.52%) Containerisation
8 27 (9.61%) Deployment Automation
8 27 (9.61%) Microservices
8 27 (9.61%) Observability
9 24 (8.54%) Continuous Integration
9 24 (8.54%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 23 (8.19%) Performance Tuning
11 22 (7.83%) Disaster Recovery
12 21 (7.47%) Configuration Management
13 19 (6.76%) Service Management
14 18 (6.41%) ITIL
14 18 (6.41%) Software Engineering
14 18 (6.41%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 93 (33.10%) Python
2 64 (22.78%) Bash
3 37 (13.17%) Java
4 36 (12.81%) PowerShell
5 24 (8.54%) Perl
5 24 (8.54%) SQL
6 18 (6.41%) Shell Script
7 13 (4.63%) Rust
8 11 (3.91%) PHP
8 11 (3.91%) Ruby
9 6 (2.14%) JavaScript
10 5 (1.78%) C#
10 5 (1.78%) C++
11 4 (1.42%) Groovy
12 2 (0.71%) AWK
12 2 (0.71%) C
12 2 (0.71%) Go
12 2 (0.71%) sed
12 2 (0.71%) VBScript
13 1 (0.36%) VB
Qualifications
1 83 (29.54%) Security Cleared
2 58 (20.64%) SC Cleared
3 26 (9.25%) DV Cleared
4 11 (3.91%) RHCE
5 7 (2.49%) Degree
6 6 (2.14%) CISSP
6 6 (2.14%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 5 (1.78%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (1.42%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (1.42%) CISM
9 3 (1.07%) AWS Certification
9 3 (1.07%) Azure Certification
9 3 (1.07%) CCNA
9 3 (1.07%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (1.07%) RHCSA
10 2 (0.71%) CCNP
10 2 (0.71%) CompTIA Security+
10 2 (0.71%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.71%) Oracle Certification
11 1 (0.36%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (2.49%) QA
2 6 (2.14%) PCI DSS
3 5 (1.78%) Disclosure Scotland
3 5 (1.78%) GDPR
4 3 (1.07%) NIST
4 3 (1.07%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 2 (0.71%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.36%) ISO 15022
6 1 (0.36%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.36%) NCSC
System Software
1 63 (22.42%) Docker
2 60 (21.35%) VMware Infrastructure
3 36 (12.81%) Active Directory
4 15 (5.34%) VMware ESXi
5 14 (4.98%) vSphere
6 12 (4.27%) Veritas Cluster Server
7 10 (3.56%) Hyper-V
8 8 (2.85%) Oracle RAC
9 7 (2.49%) Virtual Machines
10 6 (2.14%) NFS
11 4 (1.42%) GPFS
11 4 (1.42%) VMware NSX
12 3 (1.07%) Apache ZooKeeper
12 3 (1.07%) vCloud
12 3 (1.07%) VMware Workstation
13 2 (0.71%) VirtualBox
14 1 (0.36%) KVM
14 1 (0.36%) Microsoft App-V
14 1 (0.36%) Samba
14 1 (0.36%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 111 (39.50%) Ansible
2 88 (31.32%) Terraform
3 80 (28.47%) Kubernetes
4 34 (12.10%) Puppet
5 26 (9.25%) Progress Chef
6 19 (6.76%) Kibana
7 17 (6.05%) Grafana
8 15 (5.34%) Argo
9 9 (3.20%) Data Guard
10 8 (2.85%) Red Hat Satellite
11 7 (2.49%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 7 (2.49%) Packer
11 7 (2.49%) SELinux
12 6 (2.14%) Failover Clustering
12 6 (2.14%) Nagios
12 6 (2.14%) vCenter Server
13 5 (1.78%) EMC NetWorker
13 5 (1.78%) NetBackup
13 5 (1.78%) Prometheus
13 5 (1.78%) yum
Vendors
1 148 (52.67%) Red Hat
2 90 (32.03%) VMware
3 50 (17.79%) Oracle
4 32 (11.39%) Splunk
5 31 (11.03%) Microsoft
6 23 (8.19%) IBM
7 20 (7.12%) AppDynamics
8 17 (6.05%) Cisco
9 16 (5.69%) ServiceNow
10 14 (4.98%) Dell
10 14 (4.98%) HP
10 14 (4.98%) Veritas
11 12 (4.27%) Dynatrace
11 12 (4.27%) Google
11 12 (4.27%) SolarWinds
12 10 (3.56%) Sun
13 9 (3.20%) EMC
14 7 (2.49%) F5
14 7 (2.49%) NetApp
14 7 (2.49%) Unisys