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

6 months to
2 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 354 222 272
Rank change year-on-year -132 +50 -66
Contract jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 262 357 376
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.63% 1.18% 0.84%
As % of the Operating Systems category 5.51% 8.29% 6.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 186 237 267
10th Percentile £400 £400 £353
25th Percentile £456 £475 £464
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £565 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.08% +2.73% -5.17%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £631
90th Percentile £675 £738 £703
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £551 £530
% change year-on-year -9.26% +3.96% -3.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 2 4
10th Percentile £74.26 - £22.13
25th Percentile £74.68 - £24.09
Median hourly rate £90.00 £112.00 £38.84
Median % change year-on-year -19.64% +188.36% -41.15%
75th Percentile £113.50 - £59.81
90th Percentile £119.00 - £70.73
UK excluding London median hourly rate £82.50 - £38.84
% change year-on-year - - -42.88%

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 4,754 4,308 6,185
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.49% 14.27% 13.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,138 2,759 4,138
10th Percentile £176 £200 £180
25th Percentile £275 £317 £276
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £463
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +2.70% -9.76%
75th Percentile £569 £594 £588
90th Percentile £670 £699 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £413 £435 £425
% change year-on-year -4.97% +2.26% -10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 352 147 396
10th Percentile £15.02 £16.25 £14.00
25th Percentile £17.91 £20.94 £16.25
Median hourly rate £23.25 £30.78 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -24.46% +28.25% -12.73%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £60.94
90th Percentile £68.68 £69.25 £71.90
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.81 £28.00 £23.75
% change year-on-year -18.54% +17.89% -10.95%

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 2 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 2 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 2 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 -146 212 £525 -8.70% 44
UK excluding London -81 169 £500 -9.26% 39
Work from Home -54 87 £525 -4.55% 13
South East -32 47 £483 -12.27% 25
North of England -70 47 £537 -11.60% 7
London -123 47 £525 -12.50% 9
South West -21 22 £563 -8.54% 4
Yorkshire -73 22 £500 -23.08% 4
North West -32 21 £550 - 3
Midlands -67 20 £493 -10.57% 1
East of England -15 17 £478 -20.33% 2
West Midlands -58 17 £537 -2.54% 1
Scotland -8 10 £450 -9.73% 2
North East -10 7 £550 -
Northern Ireland - 4 £375 -
East Midlands -35 3 £420 -21.79%
Wales - 2 - -

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 (4.96%) nginx
2 11 (4.20%) Confluence
3 10 (3.82%) Apache
3 10 (3.82%) WebLogic
4 9 (3.44%) Microsoft Exchange
4 9 (3.44%) Tomcat
5 7 (2.67%) SharePoint
6 6 (2.29%) SAS
7 2 (0.76%) JBoss
7 2 (0.76%) NetWeaver
7 2 (0.76%) OpenStack
7 2 (0.76%) Oracle HTTP Server
8 1 (0.38%) FileNet
8 1 (0.38%) Red Hat Fuse
8 1 (0.38%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 4 (1.53%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (1.53%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.76%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 56 (21.37%) AWS
2 47 (17.94%) Azure
3 43 (16.41%) OpenShift
4 18 (6.87%) GCP
5 15 (5.73%) Amazon EC2
5 15 (5.73%) GitHub
6 14 (5.34%) Amazon S3
7 12 (4.58%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 9 (3.44%) Entra ID
9 7 (2.67%) Azure Sentinel
9 7 (2.67%) OCI
10 6 (2.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 5 (1.91%) Amazon EKS
11 5 (1.91%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 5 (1.91%) IaaS
11 5 (1.91%) Microsoft 365
11 5 (1.91%) Nutanix
12 4 (1.53%) npm
13 3 (1.15%) AWS Fargate
13 3 (1.15%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 33 (12.60%) Firewall
2 20 (7.63%) SAN
3 14 (5.34%) DNS
4 11 (4.20%) VLAN
5 7 (2.67%) BGP
5 7 (2.67%) HTTP
6 6 (2.29%) Kerberos
6 6 (2.29%) Software-Defined Networking
6 6 (2.29%) WebEx
7 5 (1.91%) Fibre Channel
7 5 (1.91%) Network Security
8 4 (1.53%) AMQP
8 4 (1.53%) DKIM
8 4 (1.53%) DMARC
8 4 (1.53%) iSCSI
8 4 (1.53%) SMTP
8 4 (1.53%) SSL
8 4 (1.53%) TCP/IP
8 4 (1.53%) VSAN
9 3 (1.15%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (7.63%) Oracle Database
2 16 (6.11%) MongoDB
3 10 (3.82%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (2.29%) Amazon RDS
4 6 (2.29%) Data Warehouse
5 5 (1.91%) Elasticsearch
5 5 (1.91%) GIS
5 5 (1.91%) MySQL
5 5 (1.91%) SQL Server
6 4 (1.53%) MariaDB
6 4 (1.53%) RDBMS
6 4 (1.53%) Relational Database
7 3 (1.15%) DB2
7 3 (1.15%) Oracle Exadata
7 3 (1.15%) Oracle Reports
8 2 (0.76%) Data Lake
8 2 (0.76%) SAP HANA
9 1 (0.38%) Apache Cassandra
9 1 (0.38%) IBM InfoSphere
9 1 (0.38%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 32 (12.21%) Jenkins
2 29 (11.07%) GitLab
3 27 (10.31%) Git
4 15 (5.73%) JIRA
5 7 (2.67%) Maven
6 6 (2.29%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 6 (2.29%) Sonatype Nexus
7 3 (1.15%) Artifactory
7 3 (1.15%) Terragrunt
8 2 (0.76%) Gradle
8 2 (0.76%) Subversion
9 1 (0.38%) GoCD
9 1 (0.38%) Mockito
9 1 (0.38%) Robot Framework
9 1 (0.38%) TeamCity
General
1 78 (29.77%) Social Skills
2 29 (11.07%) Analytical Skills
3 28 (10.69%) Public Sector
4 20 (7.63%) Documentation Skills
5 19 (7.25%) Finance
6 12 (4.58%) Banking
7 8 (3.05%) Legal
8 6 (2.29%) Aerospace
9 4 (1.53%) Financial Institution
9 4 (1.53%) Telecoms
10 3 (1.15%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.76%) Back Office
11 2 (0.76%) Front Office
11 2 (0.76%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.38%) Billing
12 1 (0.38%) Electronics
12 1 (0.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.38%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.38%) Military
12 1 (0.38%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 34 (12.98%) Architect
2 32 (12.21%) Administrator
3 24 (9.16%) Linux Engineer
3 24 (9.16%) Platform Engineer
4 18 (6.87%) Lead
5 17 (6.49%) Linux Administrator
6 16 (6.11%) DevOps Engineer
7 14 (5.34%) Senior
8 11 (4.20%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 11 (4.20%) Software Engineer
9 10 (3.82%) Systems Administrator
10 9 (3.44%) Consultant
10 9 (3.44%) Developer
10 9 (3.44%) Support Engineer
11 8 (3.05%) Solutions Architect
11 8 (3.05%) Systems Engineer
12 7 (2.67%) Security Engineer
13 5 (1.91%) DBA
13 5 (1.91%) Oracle DBA
13 5 (1.91%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (6.49%) LDAP
1 17 (6.49%) Middleware
2 10 (3.82%) Loki
3 9 (3.44%) Spring
3 9 (3.44%) YAML
4 7 (2.67%) Spring Boot
5 6 (2.29%) XMPP
6 5 (1.91%) EJB
6 5 (1.91%) OpenLayers
6 5 (1.91%) REST
7 4 (1.53%) Kafka
7 4 (1.53%) Keycloak
7 4 (1.53%) Regular Expression
8 3 (1.15%) cloud-init
8 3 (1.15%) FastAPI
8 3 (1.15%) Flask
8 3 (1.15%) Java EE
8 3 (1.15%) Java SE
8 3 (1.15%) JSP
8 3 (1.15%) SAP Basis
Miscellaneous
1 35 (13.36%) Data Centre
2 26 (9.92%) Cloud Native
3 18 (6.87%) Product Ownership
4 12 (4.58%) Management Information System
4 12 (4.58%) Onboarding
5 11 (4.20%) Clustering
6 9 (3.44%) Hybrid Cloud
6 9 (3.44%) Legacy Systems
7 8 (3.05%) Enterprise Software
7 8 (3.05%) Legacy Applications
7 8 (3.05%) Virtual Team
8 7 (2.67%) Public Cloud
9 6 (2.29%) Security Posture
10 5 (1.91%) Data Protection Act
10 5 (1.91%) FlexPod
10 5 (1.91%) PKI
11 4 (1.53%) Analytical Mindset
11 4 (1.53%) NVMe
12 3 (1.15%) Cyber Defence
12 3 (1.15%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 262 (100.00%) Linux
2 84 (32.06%) Windows
3 43 (16.41%) Windows Server
4 40 (15.27%) Ubuntu
5 39 (14.89%) CentOS
6 26 (9.92%) Unix
7 17 (6.49%) Solaris
8 12 (4.58%) Windows Server 2019
9 10 (3.82%) Windows Server 2016
10 9 (3.44%) VMS
11 8 (3.05%) Windows Server 2008
12 5 (1.91%) CoreOS
12 5 (1.91%) Data ONTAP
12 5 (1.91%) Debian
13 4 (1.53%) OpenVMS
13 4 (1.53%) Rocky
14 3 (1.15%) Oracle Linux
14 3 (1.15%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
15 2 (0.76%) AIX
15 2 (0.76%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (34.35%) CI/CD
2 67 (25.57%) Problem-Solving
3 65 (24.81%) DevOps
4 42 (16.03%) Containerisation
4 42 (16.03%) Infrastructure as Code
5 39 (14.89%) Agile
6 36 (13.74%) Continuous Improvement
7 34 (12.98%) High Availability
8 30 (11.45%) Migration
9 29 (11.07%) Platform Engineering
10 27 (10.31%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 27 (10.31%) SIEM
11 26 (9.92%) DevSecOps
12 24 (9.16%) Disaster Recovery
12 24 (9.16%) ITIL
13 23 (8.78%) ITSM
14 22 (8.40%) Observability
15 21 (8.02%) Roadmaps
15 21 (8.02%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 19 (7.25%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 98 (37.40%) Python
2 77 (29.39%) Bash
3 56 (21.37%) PowerShell
4 39 (14.89%) Shell Script
5 30 (11.45%) Perl
6 27 (10.31%) SQL
7 25 (9.54%) Java
8 10 (3.82%) Go
8 10 (3.82%) PL/SQL
9 9 (3.44%) JavaScript
10 8 (3.05%) Ruby
11 7 (2.67%) MATLAB
12 5 (1.91%) Korn
13 1 (0.38%) C#
13 1 (0.38%) C++
13 1 (0.38%) Groovy
13 1 (0.38%) Rust
13 1 (0.38%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 126 (48.09%) Security Cleared
2 92 (35.11%) SC Cleared
3 27 (10.31%) DV Cleared
4 21 (8.02%) Degree
5 20 (7.63%) RHCE
6 12 (4.58%) OCP
6 12 (4.58%) Oracle Certification
7 10 (3.82%) CCDP
7 10 (3.82%) CCNA
7 10 (3.82%) CCNP
7 10 (3.82%) Cisco Certification
8 7 (2.67%) Azure Certification
9 6 (2.29%) CISSP
10 5 (1.91%) AWS Certification
10 5 (1.91%) BPSS Clearance
10 5 (1.91%) RHCSA
11 4 (1.53%) Computer Science Degree
12 3 (1.15%) CESG Certified Professional
12 3 (1.15%) SAP Certification
12 3 (1.15%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (2.67%) SLA
2 6 (2.29%) GDPR
2 6 (2.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (2.29%) NIST
3 5 (1.91%) NCSC
4 4 (1.53%) Cyber Essentials
5 3 (1.15%) NIST 800
6 2 (0.76%) Disclosure Scotland
6 2 (0.76%) QA
7 1 (0.38%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.38%) Def Stans
7 1 (0.38%) HL7
7 1 (0.38%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 1 (0.38%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 50 (19.08%) VMware Infrastructure
2 37 (14.12%) Docker
3 31 (11.83%) Active Directory
4 18 (6.87%) vSphere
5 13 (4.96%) VMware ESXi
6 12 (4.58%) Oracle RAC
7 11 (4.20%) Virtual Machines
8 6 (2.29%) NFS
9 5 (1.91%) Postfix
9 5 (1.91%) VMware NSX
10 4 (1.53%) QEMU
10 4 (1.53%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 3 (1.15%) GPFS
11 3 (1.15%) KVM
12 2 (0.76%) Ceph
12 2 (0.76%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 2 (0.76%) Firmware
12 2 (0.76%) Lustre
12 2 (0.76%) SRDF
13 1 (0.38%) Samba
Systems Management
1 105 (40.08%) Ansible
2 76 (29.01%) Kubernetes
3 48 (18.32%) Terraform
4 34 (12.98%) Red Hat Satellite
5 23 (8.78%) Grafana
6 16 (6.11%) Podman
6 16 (6.11%) Prometheus
7 14 (5.34%) Puppet
8 13 (4.96%) Argo
9 11 (4.20%) Oracle RMAN
9 11 (4.20%) SCOM
10 9 (3.44%) Check_MK
11 8 (3.05%) Data Guard
11 8 (3.05%) Kustomize
11 8 (3.05%) Progress Chef
12 6 (2.29%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
12 6 (2.29%) SCCM
13 5 (1.91%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 5 (1.91%) Dell DRAC
13 5 (1.91%) vRealize
Vendors
1 169 (64.50%) Red Hat
2 90 (34.35%) VMware
3 41 (15.65%) Oracle
4 37 (14.12%) Microsoft
5 31 (11.83%) Splunk
6 22 (8.40%) Cisco
7 19 (7.25%) Dell
8 14 (5.34%) Citrix
9 12 (4.58%) IBM
10 11 (4.20%) NVIDIA
11 10 (3.82%) NetApp
12 9 (3.44%) Google
12 9 (3.44%) Tenable
13 8 (3.05%) Brocade
14 7 (2.67%) Symantec
15 6 (2.29%) SAP
15 6 (2.29%) ServiceNow
16 5 (1.91%) CyberArk
16 5 (1.91%) Fortinet
16 5 (1.91%) HP