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

 6 months to
23 Jun 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 359 276 301
Rank change year-on-year -83 +25 -99
Contract jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 306 286 312
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.60% 0.95% 0.72%
As % of the Operating Systems category 6.32% 6.85% 5.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 204 212 232
10th Percentile £385 £394 £350
25th Percentile £423 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £537 £520
Median % change year-on-year -8.24% +3.32% -12.01%
75th Percentile £558 £603 £600
90th Percentile £638 £675 £661
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -9.68% +2.86% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 0 2
10th Percentile £37.88 - £65.18
25th Percentile £41.71 - £67.31
Median hourly rate £68.38 - £72.75
75th Percentile £79.69 - £76.31
90th Percentile £92.50 - £77.33
UK excluding London median hourly rate £60.33 - £72.75
% change year-on-year - - +3.93%

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 4,840 4,177 5,870
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.53% 13.94% 13.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,094 2,721 3,863
10th Percentile £190 £200 £188
25th Percentile £313 £313 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £465 £475
Median % change year-on-year -0.54% -2.11% -5.00%
75th Percentile £575 £585 £588
90th Percentile £650 £675 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £450 £455
% change year-on-year - -1.10% -1.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 331 209 434
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.47 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.00 £17.44 £16.06
Median hourly rate £28.00 £22.00 £24.18
Median % change year-on-year +27.27% -9.02% -47.43%
75th Percentile £64.38 £41.25 £63.75
90th Percentile £70.23 £68.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.08 £18.87 £27.50
% change year-on-year +43.51% -31.38% -30.56%

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 June 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 June 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 June 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 -87 259 £490 -10.95% 43
UK excluding London -52 202 £488 -9.68% 33
Work from Home -66 80 £488 -8.02% 10
North of England -45 74 £500 +11.11% 8
London -85 66 £488 -11.36% 12
Yorkshire -30 44 £518 +8.95% 3
South East -49 41 £439 -20.27% 7
South West -19 35 £534 -13.21% 10
East of England -2 28 £478 -0.93% 4
North West -34 28 £465 +18.32% 4
Midlands -54 12 £515 -4.58% 4
Scotland -33 11 £463 -1.23%
West Midlands -63 7 £484 -11.34% 1
East Midlands -14 5 £530 +4.74% 3
North East -35 2 £400 -30.43% 1
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 16 (5.23%) nginx
2 13 (4.25%) Tomcat
3 11 (3.59%) Apache
3 11 (3.59%) Confluence
4 8 (2.61%) WebLogic
5 5 (1.63%) SAS
5 5 (1.63%) WebSphere
6 4 (1.31%) Microsoft Exchange
7 3 (0.98%) IBM HTTP Server
7 3 (0.98%) JBoss
7 3 (0.98%) SharePoint
7 3 (0.98%) WebSphere Application Server
8 2 (0.65%) Documentum
8 2 (0.65%) OpenStack
8 2 (0.65%) Oracle HTTP Server
8 2 (0.65%) WebSphere Portal
9 1 (0.33%) Red Hat Fuse
9 1 (0.33%) Traefik
Applications
1 4 (1.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.33%) FLEXCUBE
1 1 (0.33%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (0.33%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 86 (28.10%) AWS
2 68 (22.22%) Azure
3 43 (14.05%) OpenShift
4 28 (9.15%) GCP
5 22 (7.19%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 20 (6.54%) GitHub
7 13 (4.25%) Amazon EC2
7 13 (4.25%) Amazon EKS
7 13 (4.25%) Amazon S3
8 12 (3.92%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 10 (3.27%) AWS CloudFormation
9 10 (3.27%) Datadog
10 9 (2.94%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 7 (2.29%) GitHub Actions
11 7 (2.29%) Serverless
12 6 (1.96%) AWS Lambda
12 6 (1.96%) Azure Sentinel
12 6 (1.96%) Entra ID
13 5 (1.63%) AWS CloudTrail
13 5 (1.63%) Azure Stack
Communications & Networking
1 41 (13.40%) Firewall
2 35 (11.44%) DNS
3 31 (10.13%) SAN
4 13 (4.25%) SSL
4 13 (4.25%) VLAN
5 12 (3.92%) DHCP
6 11 (3.59%) VPN
7 10 (3.27%) Network Security
8 9 (2.94%) HTTP
8 9 (2.94%) Kerberos
9 6 (1.96%) iSCSI
9 6 (1.96%) TCP/IP
9 6 (1.96%) VSAN
9 6 (1.96%) WAN
10 5 (1.63%) SSH
11 4 (1.31%) Fibre Channel
11 4 (1.31%) NAS
12 3 (0.98%) FTP
12 3 (0.98%) VoIP
13 2 (0.65%) InfiniBand
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (6.54%) PostgreSQL
2 19 (6.21%) Oracle Database
3 11 (3.59%) MongoDB
4 10 (3.27%) MySQL
4 10 (3.27%) SQL Server
5 8 (2.61%) Elasticsearch
6 7 (2.29%) GIS
6 7 (2.29%) SAP HANA
7 5 (1.63%) Data Warehouse
8 4 (1.31%) Oracle Database 12c
8 4 (1.31%) Redis
8 4 (1.31%) Relational Database
9 3 (0.98%) Amazon RDS
10 2 (0.65%) Data Lake
10 2 (0.65%) Oracle Exadata
11 1 (0.33%) BusinessObjects
11 1 (0.33%) Db2
11 1 (0.33%) IBM InfoSphere
11 1 (0.33%) Oracle Reports
11 1 (0.33%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 50 (16.34%) Jenkins
2 45 (14.71%) GitLab
3 35 (11.44%) Git
4 18 (5.88%) JIRA
5 6 (1.96%) Artifactory
6 5 (1.63%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 4 (1.31%) Sonatype Nexus
8 3 (0.98%) Introscope
9 2 (0.65%) Robot Framework
10 1 (0.33%) Ant
10 1 (0.33%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.33%) Cucumber
10 1 (0.33%) GoCD
10 1 (0.33%) Maven
10 1 (0.33%) PVCS
General
1 61 (19.93%) Social Skills
2 34 (11.11%) Finance
3 30 (9.80%) Public Sector
4 29 (9.48%) Documentation Skills
5 24 (7.84%) Banking
6 19 (6.21%) Analytical Skills
7 9 (2.94%) Aerospace
7 9 (2.94%) Legal
8 5 (1.63%) Military
8 5 (1.63%) Retail
9 4 (1.31%) Publishing
10 2 (0.65%) Aviation
10 2 (0.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (0.65%) Law
10 2 (0.65%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.65%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.33%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.33%) International Banking
11 1 (0.33%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 52 (16.99%) Linux Engineer
2 38 (12.42%) Senior
3 30 (9.80%) DevOps Engineer
4 26 (8.50%) Administrator
4 26 (8.50%) Lead
5 25 (8.17%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 21 (6.86%) Linux Administrator
6 21 (6.86%) Platform Engineer
7 17 (5.56%) Architect
8 16 (5.23%) Software Engineer
9 15 (4.90%) Senior Linux Engineer
10 13 (4.25%) Cloud Engineer
11 12 (3.92%) Security Engineer
12 10 (3.27%) AWS Engineer
13 9 (2.94%) Lead Software Engineer
14 8 (2.61%) Systems Administrator
15 7 (2.29%) Security Architect
15 7 (2.29%) Support Engineer
15 7 (2.29%) Unix Engineer
16 6 (1.96%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (6.54%) Middleware
2 18 (5.88%) LDAP
3 10 (3.27%) REST
3 10 (3.27%) YAML
4 9 (2.94%) Spring
5 7 (2.29%) EJB
5 7 (2.29%) Kafka
6 6 (1.96%) Elastic Stack
6 6 (1.96%) OpenLayers
6 6 (1.96%) Spring Boot
7 5 (1.63%) OAuth
7 5 (1.63%) Vue
8 4 (1.31%) .NET
8 4 (1.31%) Celery
8 4 (1.31%) Django
8 4 (1.31%) Java EE
8 4 (1.31%) Java SE
8 4 (1.31%) JSON
8 4 (1.31%) JSP
8 4 (1.31%) React
Miscellaneous
1 39 (12.75%) Data Centre
2 37 (12.09%) Cloud Native
3 24 (7.84%) Management Information System
4 21 (6.86%) Security Posture
5 17 (5.56%) Hybrid Cloud
6 13 (4.25%) Onboarding
7 12 (3.92%) Clustering
8 11 (3.59%) Enterprise Software
8 11 (3.59%) Legacy Systems
8 11 (3.59%) Replication
9 9 (2.94%) Linux Command Line
9 9 (2.94%) PKI
10 8 (2.61%) Legacy Applications
10 8 (2.61%) Product Ownership
11 7 (2.29%) Public Cloud
12 6 (1.96%) FlexPod
12 6 (1.96%) Mainframe
13 5 (1.63%) CMDB
13 5 (1.63%) Data Protection Act
13 5 (1.63%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 306 (100.00%) Linux
2 106 (34.64%) Windows
3 52 (16.99%) Windows Server
4 49 (16.01%) Ubuntu
5 38 (12.42%) CentOS
6 25 (8.17%) Solaris
7 23 (7.52%) Unix
8 17 (5.56%) Windows Server 2019
9 14 (4.58%) VMS
10 12 (3.92%) AIX
10 12 (3.92%) Oracle Linux
10 12 (3.92%) SUSE
11 11 (3.59%) Windows Server 2008
12 10 (3.27%) Windows Server 2016
13 9 (2.94%) Rocky
14 8 (2.61%) CoreOS
15 7 (2.29%) Windows Server 2012
16 6 (1.96%) Data ONTAP
17 5 (1.63%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
17 5 (1.63%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 107 (34.97%) CI/CD
2 102 (33.33%) DevOps
3 57 (18.63%) Infrastructure as Code
4 55 (17.97%) Agile
5 52 (16.99%) Problem-Solving
6 46 (15.03%) ITIL
7 44 (14.38%) Containerisation
7 44 (14.38%) Migration
8 42 (13.73%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 42 (13.73%) Platform Engineering
9 41 (13.40%) Change Management
9 41 (13.40%) Configuration Management
9 41 (13.40%) Continuous Improvement
10 34 (11.11%) Observability
10 34 (11.11%) Performance Tuning
11 32 (10.46%) High Availability
11 32 (10.46%) Roadmaps
12 31 (10.13%) Runbook
12 31 (10.13%) Software Engineering
13 26 (8.50%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 123 (40.20%) Python
2 78 (25.49%) Bash
3 65 (21.24%) PowerShell
4 35 (11.44%) Shell Script
5 31 (10.13%) Java
6 25 (8.17%) SQL
7 18 (5.88%) Perl
8 13 (4.25%) PL/SQL
9 12 (3.92%) JavaScript
10 11 (3.59%) MATLAB
11 8 (2.61%) Ruby
12 7 (2.29%) Go
13 5 (1.63%) Bicep
14 4 (1.31%) C#
14 4 (1.31%) Korn
15 3 (0.98%) C
15 3 (0.98%) Groovy
15 3 (0.98%) Jython
16 2 (0.65%) C++
17 1 (0.33%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 138 (45.10%) Security Cleared
2 104 (33.99%) SC Cleared
3 35 (11.44%) Degree
4 27 (8.82%) RHCE
5 26 (8.50%) DV Cleared
6 22 (7.19%) CISSP
7 17 (5.56%) Azure Certification
8 15 (4.90%) AWS Certification
9 13 (4.25%) OCP
9 13 (4.25%) Oracle Certification
10 9 (2.94%) Computer Science Degree
11 7 (2.29%) CISM
12 6 (1.96%) CompTIA Security+
13 5 (1.63%) RHCA
14 4 (1.31%) RHCSA
14 4 (1.31%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
15 3 (0.98%) Microsoft Certification
15 3 (0.98%) TOGAF Certification
15 3 (0.98%) VCAP
16 2 (0.65%) ISSAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (4.58%) SLA
2 7 (2.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (2.29%) NIST
3 5 (1.63%) GRC
3 5 (1.63%) QA
4 4 (1.31%) SOC 2
5 3 (0.98%) HIPAA
5 3 (0.98%) NCSC
6 2 (0.65%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (0.65%) Disclosure Scotland
6 2 (0.65%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.33%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 1 (0.33%) ISO 15022
7 1 (0.33%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.33%) OpenSCAP
7 1 (0.33%) PMO
7 1 (0.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 53 (17.32%) Docker
2 50 (16.34%) VMware Infrastructure
3 35 (11.44%) Active Directory
4 34 (11.11%) Virtual Machines
5 19 (6.21%) NFS
6 17 (5.56%) VMware ESXi
6 17 (5.56%) vSphere
7 11 (3.59%) Oracle RAC
8 10 (3.27%) Hyper-V
9 6 (1.96%) Corosync
9 6 (1.96%) VMware NSX
10 3 (0.98%) Ceph
10 3 (0.98%) Firmware
10 3 (0.98%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 3 (0.98%) Veritas Volume Manager
11 2 (0.65%) Citrix Hypervisor
11 2 (0.65%) KVM
11 2 (0.65%) Samba
11 2 (0.65%) Squid
11 2 (0.65%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 129 (42.16%) Ansible
2 83 (27.12%) Kubernetes
3 80 (26.14%) Terraform
4 30 (9.80%) Red Hat Satellite
5 25 (8.17%) Grafana
5 25 (8.17%) Puppet
6 19 (6.21%) Prometheus
7 18 (5.88%) Progress Chef
8 14 (4.58%) Oracle RMAN
9 13 (4.25%) Podman
10 12 (3.92%) Failover Clustering
11 11 (3.59%) Check_MK
12 8 (2.61%) Packer
13 7 (2.29%) Pacemaker
13 7 (2.29%) vCenter Server
14 6 (1.96%) Argo
14 6 (1.96%) SnapMirror
14 6 (1.96%) vMotion
15 5 (1.63%) Single Sign-On
15 5 (1.63%) vRealize
Vendors
1 184 (60.13%) Red Hat
2 74 (24.18%) VMware
3 51 (16.67%) Oracle
4 39 (12.75%) Microsoft
5 26 (8.50%) Google
6 22 (7.19%) IBM
7 16 (5.23%) Splunk
8 14 (4.58%) Dell
9 13 (4.25%) Cisco
10 12 (3.92%) NetApp
11 11 (3.59%) ServiceNow
12 10 (3.27%) HP
13 9 (2.94%) Tenable
14 8 (2.61%) SAP
15 7 (2.29%) Qualys
16 6 (1.96%) Commvault
16 6 (1.96%) Rapid7
16 6 (1.96%) Veritas
17 5 (1.63%) CrowdStrike
17 5 (1.63%) Okta
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