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

6 months to
20 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 349 310 276
Rank change year-on-year -39 -34 -51
Contract jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 351 257 329
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.66% 0.78% 0.85%
As % of the Operating Systems category 6.74% 5.87% 6.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 241 185 246
10th Percentile £393 £353 £356
25th Percentile £440 £410 £449
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £521
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +0.77% -11.84%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £680
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £503 £525
% change year-on-year -0.50% -4.29% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 0 2
10th Percentile £36.44 - £65.18
25th Percentile £40.80 - £67.31
Median hourly rate £51.02 - £72.75
75th Percentile £75.00 - £76.31
90th Percentile £80.50 - £77.33
UK excluding London median hourly rate £51.02 - £72.75
% change year-on-year - - +0.34%

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 5,205 4,377 5,414
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.73% 13.33% 13.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,302 2,793 3,578
10th Percentile £193 £190 £200
25th Percentile £315 £308 £332
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £471 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +4.61% -5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £588
90th Percentile £663 £675 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £450 £470
% change year-on-year - -4.26% +4.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 354 263 329
10th Percentile £14.50 £15.51 £12.41
25th Percentile £17.50 £18.45 £17.00
Median hourly rate £26.00 £25.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -9.09% -31.25%
75th Percentile £65.00 £57.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £72.85 £67.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.00 £24.00 £38.25
% change year-on-year +16.67% -37.25% +39.09%

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 20 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 20 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 20 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 -28 314 £500 -4.76% 111
UK excluding London -45 217 £500 -0.50% 67
London -26 110 £500 -9.09% 55
Work from Home -75 79 £486 -7.52% 41
North of England -31 71 £500 +24.38% 17
South East -35 51 £455 -17.27% 16
South West -10 39 £551 +0.18% 19
North West -20 39 £483 +22.90% 12
Yorkshire -29 32 £508 +6.84% 2
East of England +5 28 £525 +56.72% 6
Scotland -29 14 £488 -2.40% 6
Midlands -60 13 £530 -1.58% 2
East Midlands -13 8 £530 +14.59%
West Midlands -63 5 £560 -2.06% 2
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 13 (3.70%) nginx
2 12 (3.42%) JBoss
3 11 (3.13%) Apache
4 9 (2.56%) Tomcat
5 8 (2.28%) Confluence
6 7 (1.99%) Microsoft Exchange
6 7 (1.99%) WebSphere
7 6 (1.71%) SharePoint
8 3 (0.85%) IBM HTTP Server
8 3 (0.85%) OpenStack
8 3 (0.85%) SAS
8 3 (0.85%) WebLogic
8 3 (0.85%) WebSphere Application Server
9 2 (0.57%) Documentum
9 2 (0.57%) Oracle HTTP Server
9 2 (0.57%) WebSphere Portal
10 1 (0.28%) Apache Airflow
10 1 (0.28%) Red Hat Fuse
10 1 (0.28%) Traefik
Applications
1 4 (1.14%) 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
1 104 (29.63%) AWS
2 85 (24.22%) Azure
3 44 (12.54%) OpenShift
4 35 (9.97%) GCP
5 23 (6.55%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 22 (6.27%) GitHub
7 18 (5.13%) AWS CloudFormation
7 18 (5.13%) Datadog
8 17 (4.84%) Amazon EC2
9 16 (4.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 16 (4.56%) Amazon EKS
9 16 (4.56%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 15 (4.27%) Serverless
11 14 (3.99%) Amazon S3
11 14 (3.99%) Azure Monitor
11 14 (3.99%) Entra ID
11 14 (3.99%) IaaS
12 12 (3.42%) AWS Lambda
12 12 (3.42%) GitHub Actions
13 11 (3.13%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 50 (14.25%) Firewall
2 48 (13.68%) DNS
3 39 (11.11%) SAN
4 19 (5.41%) DHCP
5 18 (5.13%) Kerberos
5 18 (5.13%) TCP/IP
6 17 (4.84%) VLAN
7 15 (4.27%) Network Security
7 15 (4.27%) SSL
8 13 (3.70%) VPN
9 9 (2.56%) SSH
10 6 (1.71%) HTTP
10 6 (1.71%) iSCSI
10 6 (1.71%) VSAN
10 6 (1.71%) WAN
11 5 (1.42%) VoIP
12 4 (1.14%) NAS
13 3 (0.85%) FTP
13 3 (0.85%) Intrusion Detection
13 3 (0.85%) OpenVPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (7.41%) Oracle Database
1 26 (7.41%) PostgreSQL
2 19 (5.41%) SQL Server
3 11 (3.13%) MySQL
4 9 (2.56%) Amazon RDS
5 7 (1.99%) Oracle Database 12c
5 7 (1.99%) SAP HANA
6 6 (1.71%) Big Data
6 6 (1.71%) Elasticsearch
6 6 (1.71%) Hadoop
6 6 (1.71%) MongoDB
7 4 (1.14%) Data Lake
7 4 (1.14%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (1.14%) GIS
7 4 (1.14%) Redis
7 4 (1.14%) Relational Database
7 4 (1.14%) SQLite
8 2 (0.57%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (0.57%) Sybase ASE
9 1 (0.28%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 49 (13.96%) Jenkins
2 42 (11.97%) Git
3 34 (9.69%) GitLab
4 12 (3.42%) JIRA
5 7 (1.99%) Sonatype Nexus
6 5 (1.42%) Artifactory
7 3 (0.85%) Bitbucket
7 3 (0.85%) Introscope
7 3 (0.85%) Toad
8 2 (0.57%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 2 (0.57%) Cucumber
8 2 (0.57%) Maven
8 2 (0.57%) Robot Framework
8 2 (0.57%) Zephyr
9 1 (0.28%) Ant
9 1 (0.28%) PVCS
General
1 65 (18.52%) Social Skills
2 53 (15.10%) Finance
3 35 (9.97%) Analytical Skills
4 30 (8.55%) Banking
5 25 (7.12%) Public Sector
6 24 (6.84%) Documentation Skills
7 11 (3.13%) Legal
8 7 (1.99%) Aerospace
9 6 (1.71%) Military
10 5 (1.42%) Publishing
10 5 (1.42%) Retail
11 4 (1.14%) Manufacturing
12 3 (0.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 2 (0.57%) Aviation
13 2 (0.57%) Financial Institution
13 2 (0.57%) Investment Banking
13 2 (0.57%) Law
13 2 (0.57%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (0.57%) Telecoms
14 1 (0.28%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 78 (22.22%) Linux Engineer
2 55 (15.67%) Senior
3 37 (10.54%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 31 (8.83%) Cloud Engineer
5 28 (7.98%) DevOps Engineer
6 23 (6.55%) Administrator
7 22 (6.27%) Architect
8 21 (5.98%) Platform Engineer
9 18 (5.13%) Security Engineer
10 17 (4.84%) Lead
10 17 (4.84%) Linux Administrator
10 17 (4.84%) Senior Linux Engineer
11 14 (3.99%) AWS Engineer
11 14 (3.99%) Systems Engineer
12 13 (3.70%) Linux Systems Engineer
12 13 (3.70%) Unix Engineer
13 11 (3.13%) Automation Engineer
13 11 (3.13%) Software Engineer
13 11 (3.13%) Systems Administrator
14 10 (2.85%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 88 (25.07%) Terraform
2 15 (4.27%) Middleware
3 13 (3.70%) REST
4 11 (3.13%) LDAP
5 9 (2.56%) Kafka
6 7 (1.99%) Azure Blueprints
6 7 (1.99%) Elastic Stack
7 6 (1.71%) ARM Templates
7 6 (1.71%) JSON
8 5 (1.42%) .NET
8 5 (1.42%) OAuth
8 5 (1.42%) OpenTofu
8 5 (1.42%) Vue
8 5 (1.42%) WebSphere MQ
9 4 (1.14%) Celery
9 4 (1.14%) Jakarta EE
9 4 (1.14%) JWT
9 4 (1.14%) React
9 4 (1.14%) SPNEGO
9 4 (1.14%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 47 (13.39%) Cloud Native
2 29 (8.26%) Security Posture
3 24 (6.84%) Replication
4 22 (6.27%) Clustering
5 20 (5.70%) Data Centre
6 18 (5.13%) Management Information System
7 17 (4.84%) Hybrid Cloud
8 16 (4.56%) Onboarding
9 15 (4.27%) PKI
10 13 (3.70%) Linux Command Line
11 12 (3.42%) Legacy Systems
12 11 (3.13%) Enterprise Storage
13 9 (2.56%) Data Protection Act
13 9 (2.56%) Enterprise Cloud
13 9 (2.56%) Enterprise Software
13 9 (2.56%) Virtual Team
14 8 (2.28%) Private Cloud
14 8 (2.28%) Product Ownership
15 7 (1.99%) Cloud Security Posture
15 7 (1.99%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 351 (100.00%) Linux
2 128 (36.47%) Windows
3 66 (18.80%) Windows Server
4 43 (12.25%) Ubuntu
5 41 (11.68%) CentOS
6 39 (11.11%) Unix
7 26 (7.41%) Solaris
8 17 (4.84%) Rocky
9 14 (3.99%) AIX
9 14 (3.99%) Oracle Linux
10 13 (3.70%) SUSE
10 13 (3.70%) Windows Server 2019
11 12 (3.42%) VMS
12 7 (1.99%) Windows Server 2008
12 7 (1.99%) Windows Server 2012
12 7 (1.99%) Windows Server 2016
13 6 (1.71%) HPUX
14 5 (1.42%) CoreOS
14 5 (1.42%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
14 5 (1.42%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 114 (32.48%) DevOps
2 113 (32.19%) CI/CD
3 77 (21.94%) Infrastructure as Code
4 65 (18.52%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 64 (18.23%) Configuration Management
6 60 (17.09%) Migration
7 57 (16.24%) Agile
7 57 (16.24%) ITIL
8 53 (15.10%) Containerisation
9 51 (14.53%) Platform Engineering
10 49 (13.96%) Change Management
11 45 (12.82%) Problem-Solving
12 44 (12.54%) Continuous Improvement
13 43 (12.25%) Performance Tuning
14 41 (11.68%) Observability
15 40 (11.40%) High Availability
16 37 (10.54%) Runbook
17 34 (9.69%) Cloud Security
18 31 (8.83%) Test Automation
19 30 (8.55%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 146 (41.60%) Python
2 99 (28.21%) Bash
3 94 (26.78%) PowerShell
4 35 (9.97%) Java
5 24 (6.84%) Shell Script
5 24 (6.84%) SQL
6 16 (4.56%) Perl
7 11 (3.13%) Bicep
7 11 (3.13%) C
7 11 (3.13%) C++
8 9 (2.56%) Korn
8 9 (2.56%) PL/SQL
9 7 (1.99%) JavaScript
10 6 (1.71%) Go
11 5 (1.42%) C#
11 5 (1.42%) Groovy
12 4 (1.14%) MATLAB
13 3 (0.85%) Jython
14 2 (0.57%) Search Processing Language
15 1 (0.28%) R
Qualifications
1 153 (43.59%) Security Cleared
2 116 (33.05%) SC Cleared
3 33 (9.40%) Degree
4 32 (9.12%) DV Cleared
5 26 (7.41%) AWS Certification
5 26 (7.41%) CISSP
6 24 (6.84%) Azure Certification
7 18 (5.13%) RHCE
8 10 (2.85%) Computer Science Degree
9 7 (1.99%) CompTIA Security+
10 6 (1.71%) CISM
10 6 (1.71%) Microsoft Certification
10 6 (1.71%) OCP
10 6 (1.71%) Oracle Certification
11 5 (1.42%) RHCSA
12 3 (0.85%) RHCA
13 2 (0.57%) GIAC
13 2 (0.57%) ISSAP
13 2 (0.57%) VCAP
13 2 (0.57%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (2.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 9 (2.56%) SLA
2 7 (1.99%) NIST
3 6 (1.71%) QA
4 5 (1.42%) GRC
4 5 (1.42%) NCSC
5 4 (1.14%) Disclosure Scotland
5 4 (1.14%) SOC 2
6 3 (0.85%) HIPAA
6 3 (0.85%) ISO 15022
6 3 (0.85%) ISO 20022
6 3 (0.85%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.28%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.28%) OpenSCAP
7 1 (0.28%) PMO
7 1 (0.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 62 (17.66%) Docker
2 51 (14.53%) VMware Infrastructure
3 42 (11.97%) Active Directory
4 36 (10.26%) Virtual Machines
5 19 (5.41%) VMware ESXi
6 16 (4.56%) NFS
6 16 (4.56%) vSphere
7 14 (3.99%) Hyper-V
8 10 (2.85%) Oracle RAC
9 6 (1.71%) Corosync
10 4 (1.14%) Ceph
11 3 (0.85%) Firmware
11 3 (0.85%) Veritas Volume Manager
12 2 (0.57%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 2 (0.57%) KVM
12 2 (0.57%) Samba
12 2 (0.57%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 2 (0.57%) Squid
12 2 (0.57%) SRDF
12 2 (0.57%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 127 (36.18%) Ansible
2 93 (26.50%) Kubernetes
3 40 (11.40%) Puppet
4 36 (10.26%) Progress Chef
5 27 (7.69%) Red Hat Satellite
6 24 (6.84%) Grafana
7 21 (5.98%) Prometheus
8 19 (5.41%) Failover Clustering
9 14 (3.99%) NetBackup
10 13 (3.70%) Oracle RMAN
11 8 (2.28%) Packer
12 7 (1.99%) Pacemaker
12 7 (1.99%) Podman
12 7 (1.99%) systemd
12 7 (1.99%) vCenter Server
13 6 (1.71%) SELinux
14 5 (1.42%) Nagios
14 5 (1.42%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
14 5 (1.42%) Tivoli
14 5 (1.42%) WSUS
Vendors
1 184 (52.42%) Red Hat
2 67 (19.09%) VMware
3 65 (18.52%) Microsoft
4 56 (15.95%) Oracle
5 29 (8.26%) Google
6 21 (5.98%) Splunk
7 20 (5.70%) Cisco
7 20 (5.70%) IBM
7 20 (5.70%) NetApp
8 19 (5.41%) ServiceNow
9 12 (3.42%) Veeam
10 11 (3.13%) SaltStack
11 10 (2.85%) HP
12 9 (2.56%) Dell
12 9 (2.56%) Qualys
13 8 (2.28%) Rapid7
13 8 (2.28%) SAP
13 8 (2.28%) Tenable
14 6 (1.71%) McAfee
14 6 (1.71%) Veritas