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

 6 months to
7 May 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 373 223 308
Rank change year-on-year -150 +85 -97
Contract jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 272 327 289
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.57% 1.12% 0.67%
As % of the Operating Systems category 5.79% 8.00% 4.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 186 233 216
10th Percentile £393 £400 £356
25th Percentile £449 £457 £437
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £524
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +5.06% -12.75%
75th Percentile £588 £650 £600
90th Percentile £638 £738 £653
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £550 £533
% change year-on-year -9.09% +3.29% -3.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 0 3
10th Percentile £40.62 - £32.89
25th Percentile £66.12 - £44.47
Median hourly rate £78.75 - £67.50
75th Percentile £88.75 - £74.63
90th Percentile £92.50 - £76.65
UK excluding London median hourly rate £74.68 - £67.50
% change year-on-year - - +28.57%

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 4,696 4,085 5,798
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.85% 13.95% 13.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,038 2,682 3,907
10th Percentile £185 £200 £185
25th Percentile £313 £320 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £470
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +1.06% -6.84%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £588
90th Percentile £655 £696 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £430 £450 £450
% change year-on-year -4.44% - -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 320 184 398
10th Percentile £16.00 £16.15 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.54 £18.10 £15.50
Median hourly rate £47.50 £24.09 £22.08
Median % change year-on-year +97.18% +9.13% -42.66%
75th Percentile £67.40 £62.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £68.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £22.88 £22.50
% change year-on-year +107.65% +1.67% -24.11%

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 7 May 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 7 May 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 7 May 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 -136 217 £500 -10.71% 74
UK excluding London -83 189 £500 -9.09% 54
Work from Home -64 81 £500 -7.58% 13
North of England -68 55 £500 -9.09% 13
South East -30 43 £475 -13.64% 16
London -116 39 £500 -15.97% 26
Yorkshire -50 35 £500 -28.57% 7
South West -22 30 £550 -10.57% 16
East of England -15 22 £478 -20.33% 4
Midlands -70 20 £537 -0.56% 4
North West -47 18 £497 +0.20% 4
West Midlands -57 17 £545 +0.93% 1
Scotland -20 14 £463 -2.63%
East Midlands -30 3 £530 +4.74% 3
Wales - 3 £475 -
Northern Ireland +3 2 £375 - 1
North East -19 2 £400 -29.82% 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 14 (5.15%) nginx
2 11 (4.04%) Apache
2 11 (4.04%) Tomcat
3 10 (3.68%) Confluence
4 8 (2.94%) WebLogic
5 6 (2.21%) SAS
6 4 (1.47%) Microsoft Exchange
6 4 (1.47%) WebSphere
7 3 (1.10%) IBM HTTP Server
7 3 (1.10%) JBoss
7 3 (1.10%) OpenStack
7 3 (1.10%) SharePoint
7 3 (1.10%) WebSphere Application Server
8 2 (0.74%) Documentum
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%) Traefik
Cloud Services
1 63 (23.16%) AWS
1 63 (23.16%) Azure
2 45 (16.54%) OpenShift
3 17 (6.25%) GitHub
4 15 (5.51%) GCP
5 12 (4.41%) Amazon EC2
6 11 (4.04%) Amazon S3
7 9 (3.31%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 7 (2.57%) Azure Sentinel
9 6 (2.21%) Amazon EKS
10 5 (1.84%) Azure Monitor
10 5 (1.84%) Azure Stack
10 5 (1.84%) IaaS
10 5 (1.84%) Nutanix
10 5 (1.84%) OCI
11 4 (1.47%) Azure DevOps
11 4 (1.47%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 4 (1.47%) Microsoft 365
12 3 (1.10%) AWS CloudFormation
12 3 (1.10%) MinIO
Communications & Networking
1 28 (10.29%) Firewall
2 25 (9.19%) SAN
3 19 (6.99%) DNS
4 10 (3.68%) Kerberos
5 9 (3.31%) HTTP
5 9 (3.31%) VSAN
6 8 (2.94%) TCP/IP
6 8 (2.94%) VLAN
7 7 (2.57%) SSL
7 7 (2.57%) VPN
8 6 (2.21%) iSCSI
8 6 (2.21%) Network Security
9 5 (1.84%) DHCP
9 5 (1.84%) Fibre Channel
10 4 (1.47%) DKIM
10 4 (1.47%) DMARC
10 4 (1.47%) NAS
10 4 (1.47%) SMTP
10 4 (1.47%) WAN
11 3 (1.10%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (8.09%) Oracle Database
2 13 (4.78%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (3.68%) MongoDB
4 8 (2.94%) SQL Server
5 7 (2.57%) Elasticsearch
6 6 (2.21%) Data Warehouse
6 6 (2.21%) SAP HANA
7 5 (1.84%) GIS
8 4 (1.47%) MySQL
8 4 (1.47%) Oracle Database 12c
9 3 (1.10%) Amazon RDS
9 3 (1.10%) MariaDB
9 3 (1.10%) Oracle Exadata
9 3 (1.10%) Oracle Reports
10 2 (0.74%) Data Lake
10 2 (0.74%) RDBMS
10 2 (0.74%) Relational Database
11 1 (0.37%) BusinessObjects
11 1 (0.37%) Metadata
11 1 (0.37%) OpenStack Swift
Development Applications
1 40 (14.71%) GitLab
2 36 (13.24%) Jenkins
3 32 (11.76%) Git
4 14 (5.15%) JIRA
5 6 (2.21%) Artifactory
6 5 (1.84%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 4 (1.47%) Sonatype Nexus
8 3 (1.10%) Introscope
8 3 (1.10%) Maven
9 2 (0.74%) Robot Framework
10 1 (0.37%) Ant
10 1 (0.37%) GoCD
10 1 (0.37%) PVCS
General
1 61 (22.43%) Social Skills
2 26 (9.56%) Public Sector
3 23 (8.46%) Documentation Skills
4 22 (8.09%) Finance
5 19 (6.99%) Banking
6 17 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
7 8 (2.94%) Aerospace
8 5 (1.84%) Legal
9 4 (1.47%) Telecoms
10 2 (0.74%) Back Office
10 2 (0.74%) Front Office
10 2 (0.74%) Military
10 2 (0.74%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.37%) Aviation
11 1 (0.37%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.37%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 40 (14.71%) Linux Engineer
2 30 (11.03%) Architect
3 29 (10.66%) Senior
4 27 (9.93%) Administrator
5 23 (8.46%) Lead
6 21 (7.72%) DevOps Engineer
7 19 (6.99%) Platform Engineer
8 16 (5.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 16 (5.88%) Linux Administrator
9 15 (5.51%) Software Engineer
10 14 (5.15%) Senior Linux Engineer
11 10 (3.68%) Systems Administrator
12 8 (2.94%) Lead Software Engineer
13 7 (2.57%) DBA
13 7 (2.57%) Oracle DBA
13 7 (2.57%) Security Engineer
13 7 (2.57%) Solutions Architect
13 7 (2.57%) Unix Engineer
14 5 (1.84%) Developer
14 5 (1.84%) Migration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (7.72%) LDAP
2 18 (6.62%) Middleware
3 9 (3.31%) YAML
4 7 (2.57%) Spring
5 6 (2.21%) EJB
5 6 (2.21%) REST
6 5 (1.84%) OpenLayers
6 5 (1.84%) Spring Boot
7 4 (1.47%) .NET
7 4 (1.47%) Elastic Stack
7 4 (1.47%) JSP
7 4 (1.47%) Kafka
8 3 (1.10%) FastAPI
8 3 (1.10%) Flask
8 3 (1.10%) Java EE
8 3 (1.10%) Java SE
8 3 (1.10%) JDBC
8 3 (1.10%) RabbitMQ
9 2 (0.74%) JMS
9 2 (0.74%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 36 (13.24%) Data Centre
2 20 (7.35%) Cloud Native
3 15 (5.51%) Management Information System
4 14 (5.15%) Clustering
5 13 (4.78%) Onboarding
6 12 (4.41%) Hybrid Cloud
7 9 (3.31%) Legacy Systems
8 8 (2.94%) Enterprise Software
8 8 (2.94%) Product Ownership
8 8 (2.94%) Replication
9 7 (2.57%) Legacy Applications
9 7 (2.57%) Public Cloud
10 6 (2.21%) Data Protection Act
10 6 (2.21%) FlexPod
10 6 (2.21%) PKI
11 5 (1.84%) Security Posture
12 4 (1.47%) EMC VMAX
12 4 (1.47%) Enterprise Storage
12 4 (1.47%) NVMe
12 4 (1.47%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 272 (100.00%) Linux
2 95 (34.93%) Windows
3 44 (16.18%) Ubuntu
4 41 (15.07%) Windows Server
5 38 (13.97%) CentOS
6 20 (7.35%) Solaris
6 20 (7.35%) Unix
7 18 (6.62%) VMS
8 15 (5.51%) Windows Server 2019
9 11 (4.04%) Windows Server 2016
10 10 (3.68%) Oracle Linux
11 9 (3.31%) Rocky
11 9 (3.31%) SUSE
11 9 (3.31%) Windows Server 2008
12 8 (2.94%) CoreOS
13 7 (2.57%) AIX
13 7 (2.57%) Debian
14 6 (2.21%) Data ONTAP
15 5 (1.84%) Windows Server 2012
16 4 (1.47%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (30.15%) CI/CD
2 78 (28.68%) DevOps
3 54 (19.85%) Problem-Solving
4 40 (14.71%) Infrastructure as Code
5 39 (14.34%) Agile
5 39 (14.34%) Migration
6 37 (13.60%) Containerisation
6 37 (13.60%) High Availability
7 36 (13.24%) Continuous Improvement
8 34 (12.50%) Platform Engineering
9 32 (11.76%) ITIL
9 32 (11.76%) Performance Tuning
10 27 (9.93%) SIEM
11 26 (9.56%) Configuration Management
11 26 (9.56%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 24 (8.82%) Runbook
12 24 (8.82%) Software Engineering
13 23 (8.46%) Change Management
13 23 (8.46%) Disaster Recovery
13 23 (8.46%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 97 (35.66%) Python
2 56 (20.59%) PowerShell
3 55 (20.22%) Bash
4 34 (12.50%) Shell Script
5 28 (10.29%) SQL
6 24 (8.82%) Java
7 20 (7.35%) Perl
8 11 (4.04%) PL/SQL
9 10 (3.68%) JavaScript
10 9 (3.31%) Go
10 9 (3.31%) MATLAB
11 8 (2.94%) Ruby
12 5 (1.84%) Korn
13 4 (1.47%) C#
14 3 (1.10%) Jython
15 1 (0.37%) C
15 1 (0.37%) C++
15 1 (0.37%) Groovy
15 1 (0.37%) Rust
15 1 (0.37%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 128 (47.06%) Security Cleared
2 97 (35.66%) SC Cleared
3 26 (9.56%) DV Cleared
4 24 (8.82%) RHCE
5 23 (8.46%) Degree
6 16 (5.88%) OCP
6 16 (5.88%) Oracle Certification
7 11 (4.04%) Azure Certification
8 10 (3.68%) CISSP
9 9 (3.31%) Computer Science Degree
10 5 (1.84%) CompTIA Security+
10 5 (1.84%) RHCA
11 4 (1.47%) BPSS Clearance
11 4 (1.47%) RHCSA
11 4 (1.47%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 3 (1.10%) AWS Certification
12 3 (1.10%) CESG Certified Professional
12 3 (1.10%) CISM
12 3 (1.10%) TOGAF Certification
12 3 (1.10%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (3.68%) SLA
2 7 (2.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (1.84%) NIST
4 4 (1.47%) Cyber Essentials
4 4 (1.47%) GDPR
4 4 (1.47%) GRC
4 4 (1.47%) NCSC
5 3 (1.10%) NIST 800
5 3 (1.10%) QA
6 2 (0.74%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.37%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.37%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.37%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 1 (0.37%) OpenSCAP
7 1 (0.37%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.37%) SOC 2
System Software
1 50 (18.38%) VMware Infrastructure
2 36 (13.24%) Docker
3 32 (11.76%) Active Directory
4 30 (11.03%) Virtual Machines
5 19 (6.99%) VMware ESXi
6 18 (6.62%) vSphere
7 11 (4.04%) NFS
8 10 (3.68%) Oracle RAC
9 9 (3.31%) Hyper-V
10 6 (2.21%) Corosync
10 6 (2.21%) VMware NSX
11 5 (1.84%) Postfix
12 4 (1.47%) Ceph
12 4 (1.47%) Firmware
12 4 (1.47%) Slurm Workload Manager
13 3 (1.10%) GPFS
13 3 (1.10%) KVM
13 3 (1.10%) QEMU
14 2 (0.74%) Citrix Hypervisor
14 2 (0.74%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 112 (41.18%) Ansible
2 61 (22.43%) Kubernetes
3 48 (17.65%) Terraform
4 22 (8.09%) Red Hat Satellite
5 19 (6.99%) Grafana
6 16 (5.88%) Oracle RMAN
6 16 (5.88%) Podman
6 16 (5.88%) Puppet
7 11 (4.04%) Check_MK
7 11 (4.04%) Prometheus
8 10 (3.68%) Failover Clustering
8 10 (3.68%) vCenter Server
9 9 (3.31%) Progress Chef
10 6 (2.21%) Argo
10 6 (2.21%) Data Guard
10 6 (2.21%) Pacemaker
10 6 (2.21%) SnapMirror
10 6 (2.21%) vMotion
11 5 (1.84%) Single Sign-On
11 5 (1.84%) vRealize
Vendors
1 158 (58.09%) Red Hat
2 75 (27.57%) VMware
3 48 (17.65%) Oracle
4 39 (14.34%) Microsoft
5 24 (8.82%) Splunk
6 18 (6.62%) Dell
6 18 (6.62%) IBM
7 15 (5.51%) Cisco
8 10 (3.68%) Google
8 10 (3.68%) HP
8 10 (3.68%) NetApp
9 8 (2.94%) NVIDIA
10 7 (2.57%) SAP
10 7 (2.57%) ServiceNow
11 6 (2.21%) Broadcom
11 6 (2.21%) Brocade
11 6 (2.21%) Commvault
11 6 (2.21%) Tenable
12 5 (1.84%) Fortinet
13 4 (1.47%) Veritas
77 Red Hat Enterprise Linux jobs Nationwide