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

6 months to
24 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 360 223 300
Rank change year-on-year -137 +77 -94
Contract jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 260 350 329
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.59% 1.20% 0.74%
As % of the Operating Systems category 5.48% 8.40% 5.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 186 239 239
10th Percentile £400 £400 £350
25th Percentile £454 £475 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £560 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +1.82% -8.33%
75th Percentile £604 £650 £631
90th Percentile £675 £740 £706
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £551 £550
% change year-on-year -9.26% +0.18% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 0 5
10th Percentile £74.26 - £22.57
25th Percentile £74.68 - £25.18
Median hourly rate £90.00 - £52.50
75th Percentile £113.50 - £71.25
90th Percentile £119.00 - £75.30
UK excluding London median hourly rate £82.50 - £52.50
% change year-on-year - - -10.26%

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 4,747 4,166 5,979
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 10.83% 14.30% 13.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,120 2,772 3,992
10th Percentile £181 £200 £180
25th Percentile £300 £320 £281
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £457
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +3.94% -11.26%
75th Percentile £564 £589 £594
90th Percentile £655 £699 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £415 £450 £432
% change year-on-year -7.78% +4.11% -9.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 333 157 410
10th Percentile £15.00 £16.60 £12.86
25th Percentile £17.69 £18.51 £15.50
Median hourly rate £22.81 £28.00 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.54% +27.27% -24.14%
75th Percentile £60.00 £63.75 £57.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.50 £24.66 £20.00
% change year-on-year -8.76% +23.30% -24.53%

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 24 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 24 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 24 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 -167 205 £525 -7.89% 59
UK excluding London -88 181 £500 -9.26% 50
Work from Home -66 91 £500 -9.09% 28
North of England -82 54 £525 -9.87% 16
South East -42 47 £485 -11.82% 13
London -136 33 £525 -12.50% 13
Yorkshire -68 29 £500 -20.95% 4
South West -29 24 £588 -4.47% 10
North West -39 21 £550 - 9
Midlands -69 20 £519 -5.85% 4
East of England -14 19 £478 -20.33% 4
West Midlands -60 18 £539 -2.27% 3
Scotland -15 12 £463 -7.50% 3
North East -15 7 £550 -1.35% 3
Northern Ireland - 3 £375 -
East Midlands -35 2 £420 -23.88% 1
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 12 (4.62%) nginx
2 11 (4.23%) Confluence
3 9 (3.46%) Apache
3 9 (3.46%) Microsoft Exchange
3 9 (3.46%) SAS
4 8 (3.08%) WebLogic
5 7 (2.69%) SharePoint
5 7 (2.69%) Tomcat
6 3 (1.15%) JBoss
6 3 (1.15%) OpenStack
7 2 (0.77%) IBM HTTP Server
7 2 (0.77%) WebSphere
7 2 (0.77%) WebSphere Application Server
8 1 (0.38%) FileNet
8 1 (0.38%) Oracle HTTP Server
8 1 (0.38%) Red Hat Fuse
8 1 (0.38%) SharePoint Server
8 1 (0.38%) WebSphere Portal
Applications
1 4 (1.54%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (1.54%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 58 (22.31%) AWS
2 50 (19.23%) Azure
3 40 (15.38%) OpenShift
4 17 (6.54%) GCP
5 16 (6.15%) Amazon EC2
6 15 (5.77%) Amazon S3
7 14 (5.38%) GitHub
8 10 (3.85%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 7 (2.69%) Azure Sentinel
9 7 (2.69%) Entra ID
10 6 (2.31%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 6 (2.31%) Nutanix
10 6 (2.31%) OCI
11 5 (1.92%) Amazon EKS
11 5 (1.92%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 5 (1.92%) IaaS
11 5 (1.92%) Microsoft 365
12 4 (1.54%) Azure DevOps
13 3 (1.15%) MinIO
13 3 (1.15%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 34 (13.08%) Firewall
2 22 (8.46%) SAN
3 13 (5.00%) DNS
4 11 (4.23%) VLAN
5 9 (3.46%) Kerberos
6 7 (2.69%) BGP
7 6 (2.31%) HTTP
7 6 (2.31%) iSCSI
7 6 (2.31%) Software-Defined Networking
7 6 (2.31%) WebEx
8 5 (1.92%) Fibre Channel
8 5 (1.92%) SSL
9 4 (1.54%) DHCP
9 4 (1.54%) DKIM
9 4 (1.54%) DMARC
9 4 (1.54%) Network Security
9 4 (1.54%) SMTP
9 4 (1.54%) VSAN
10 3 (1.15%) LAN
10 3 (1.15%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (8.85%) Oracle Database
2 15 (5.77%) MongoDB
3 10 (3.85%) PostgreSQL
4 9 (3.46%) Data Warehouse
5 5 (1.92%) Elasticsearch
5 5 (1.92%) GIS
5 5 (1.92%) SQL Server
6 4 (1.54%) Amazon RDS
6 4 (1.54%) MariaDB
7 3 (1.15%) MySQL
7 3 (1.15%) Oracle Database 12c
7 3 (1.15%) Oracle Exadata
7 3 (1.15%) Oracle Reports
8 2 (0.77%) Data Lake
8 2 (0.77%) RDBMS
8 2 (0.77%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.38%) BusinessObjects
9 1 (0.38%) IBM InfoSphere
9 1 (0.38%) Metadata
9 1 (0.38%) OpenStack Swift
Development Applications
1 32 (12.31%) Jenkins
2 28 (10.77%) Git
2 28 (10.77%) GitLab
3 13 (5.00%) JIRA
4 6 (2.31%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 5 (1.92%) Artifactory
6 3 (1.15%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (0.77%) Introscope
7 2 (0.77%) Maven
7 2 (0.77%) Robot Framework
8 1 (0.38%) GoCD
8 1 (0.38%) Subversion
8 1 (0.38%) Terragrunt
General
1 77 (29.62%) Social Skills
2 30 (11.54%) Public Sector
3 28 (10.77%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (7.69%) Documentation Skills
5 16 (6.15%) Finance
6 15 (5.77%) Banking
7 8 (3.08%) Legal
8 6 (2.31%) Aerospace
9 5 (1.92%) Telecoms
10 2 (0.77%) Back Office
10 2 (0.77%) Financial Institution
10 2 (0.77%) Front Office
10 2 (0.77%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.77%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.38%) Automotive
11 1 (0.38%) Billing
11 1 (0.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.38%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.38%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.38%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 35 (13.46%) Architect
2 31 (11.92%) Linux Engineer
3 30 (11.54%) Administrator
4 26 (10.00%) Platform Engineer
5 20 (7.69%) Senior
6 18 (6.92%) Lead
7 16 (6.15%) Linux Administrator
8 14 (5.38%) Software Engineer
9 12 (4.62%) DevOps Engineer
10 11 (4.23%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 11 (4.23%) Solutions Architect
11 9 (3.46%) Systems Administrator
12 8 (3.08%) DBA
12 8 (3.08%) Oracle DBA
12 8 (3.08%) Senior Linux Engineer
13 7 (2.69%) Security Engineer
13 7 (2.69%) Systems Engineer
14 6 (2.31%) Consultant
15 5 (1.92%) Developer
15 5 (1.92%) Linux Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (6.92%) LDAP
2 15 (5.77%) Middleware
3 9 (3.46%) Loki
3 9 (3.46%) YAML
4 8 (3.08%) Spring
5 6 (2.31%) Spring Boot
5 6 (2.31%) XMPP
6 5 (1.92%) EJB
6 5 (1.92%) OpenLayers
6 5 (1.92%) REST
7 3 (1.15%) Elastic Stack
7 3 (1.15%) FastAPI
7 3 (1.15%) Flask
7 3 (1.15%) Java EE
7 3 (1.15%) Java SE
7 3 (1.15%) JSP
8 2 (0.77%) OpenID
8 2 (0.77%) Oracle GoldenGate
8 2 (0.77%) RabbitMQ
8 2 (0.77%) Regular Expression
Miscellaneous
1 33 (12.69%) Data Centre
2 24 (9.23%) Cloud Native
3 19 (7.31%) Product Ownership
4 12 (4.62%) Management Information System
5 10 (3.85%) Hybrid Cloud
5 10 (3.85%) Onboarding
5 10 (3.85%) Public Cloud
6 8 (3.08%) Virtual Team
7 7 (2.69%) Clustering
7 7 (2.69%) Data Protection Act
7 7 (2.69%) Enterprise Software
7 7 (2.69%) Legacy Systems
8 6 (2.31%) FlexPod
8 6 (2.31%) Legacy Applications
9 5 (1.92%) PKI
10 4 (1.54%) Analytical Mindset
10 4 (1.54%) EMC VMAX
10 4 (1.54%) Enterprise Storage
10 4 (1.54%) NVMe
10 4 (1.54%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 260 (100.00%) Linux
2 90 (34.62%) Windows
3 48 (18.46%) Windows Server
4 42 (16.15%) Ubuntu
5 33 (12.69%) CentOS
6 21 (8.08%) Unix
7 15 (5.77%) Windows Server 2019
8 13 (5.00%) Solaris
8 13 (5.00%) Windows Server 2016
9 11 (4.23%) VMS
10 8 (3.08%) Windows Server 2008
11 7 (2.69%) Oracle Linux
11 7 (2.69%) Rocky
12 6 (2.31%) CoreOS
12 6 (2.31%) Data ONTAP
12 6 (2.31%) Debian
13 3 (1.15%) AIX
13 3 (1.15%) OpenVMS
14 2 (0.77%) Windows Server 2012
15 1 (0.38%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (33.46%) CI/CD
2 68 (26.15%) DevOps
3 62 (23.85%) Problem-Solving
4 45 (17.31%) Agile
5 43 (16.54%) Infrastructure as Code
6 40 (15.38%) Continuous Improvement
7 39 (15.00%) Containerisation
8 34 (13.08%) Platform Engineering
9 32 (12.31%) High Availability
10 29 (11.15%) Migration
11 27 (10.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 26 (10.00%) SIEM
13 24 (9.23%) DevSecOps
13 24 (9.23%) Observability
14 23 (8.85%) ITIL
14 23 (8.85%) ITSM
14 23 (8.85%) Roadmaps
15 22 (8.46%) Performance Tuning
15 22 (8.46%) Software Engineering
16 21 (8.08%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 97 (37.31%) Python
2 69 (26.54%) Bash
3 60 (23.08%) PowerShell
4 38 (14.62%) Shell Script
5 30 (11.54%) Perl
6 29 (11.15%) SQL
7 22 (8.46%) Java
8 10 (3.85%) PL/SQL
9 9 (3.46%) JavaScript
10 8 (3.08%) Go
10 8 (3.08%) Ruby
11 7 (2.69%) MATLAB
12 5 (1.92%) Korn
13 2 (0.77%) Jython
14 1 (0.38%) Bicep
14 1 (0.38%) C++
14 1 (0.38%) Groovy
14 1 (0.38%) Rust
14 1 (0.38%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 131 (50.38%) Security Cleared
2 97 (37.31%) SC Cleared
3 29 (11.15%) DV Cleared
4 22 (8.46%) Degree
5 16 (6.15%) RHCE
6 15 (5.77%) OCP
6 15 (5.77%) Oracle Certification
7 9 (3.46%) CCDP
7 9 (3.46%) CCNA
7 9 (3.46%) CCNP
7 9 (3.46%) Cisco Certification
8 7 (2.69%) Azure Certification
9 6 (2.31%) CISSP
10 4 (1.54%) BPSS Clearance
10 4 (1.54%) Computer Science Degree
11 3 (1.15%) AWS Certification
11 3 (1.15%) CESG Certified Professional
11 3 (1.15%) CISM
11 3 (1.15%) RHCSA
11 3 (1.15%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (2.69%) SLA
2 6 (2.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (2.31%) NIST
3 5 (1.92%) GDPR
3 5 (1.92%) NCSC
4 4 (1.54%) Cyber Essentials
5 3 (1.15%) NIST 800
5 3 (1.15%) QA
6 2 (0.77%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.38%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.38%) HL7
7 1 (0.38%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 1 (0.38%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 52 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 35 (13.46%) Docker
3 33 (12.69%) Active Directory
4 19 (7.31%) vSphere
5 14 (5.38%) Virtual Machines
6 11 (4.23%) Oracle RAC
6 11 (4.23%) VMware ESXi
7 7 (2.69%) NFS
8 5 (1.92%) Postfix
8 5 (1.92%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 5 (1.92%) VMware NSX
9 4 (1.54%) QEMU
10 3 (1.15%) Ceph
10 3 (1.15%) GPFS
10 3 (1.15%) Hyper-V
11 2 (0.77%) Citrix Hypervisor
11 2 (0.77%) Firmware
11 2 (0.77%) KVM
11 2 (0.77%) Lustre
11 2 (0.77%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 103 (39.62%) Ansible
2 73 (28.08%) Kubernetes
3 44 (16.92%) Terraform
4 29 (11.15%) Red Hat Satellite
5 25 (9.62%) Grafana
6 16 (6.15%) Prometheus
6 16 (6.15%) Puppet
7 14 (5.38%) Argo
7 14 (5.38%) Oracle RMAN
7 14 (5.38%) Podman
8 11 (4.23%) SCOM
9 9 (3.46%) Check_MK
9 9 (3.46%) Progress Chef
10 8 (3.08%) Data Guard
10 8 (3.08%) Kustomize
11 7 (2.69%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
12 6 (2.31%) SCCM
12 6 (2.31%) SnapMirror
13 5 (1.92%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 5 (1.92%) Dell DRAC
Vendors
1 171 (65.77%) Red Hat
2 84 (32.31%) VMware
3 42 (16.15%) Oracle
4 41 (15.77%) Microsoft
5 25 (9.62%) Splunk
6 22 (8.46%) Cisco
7 20 (7.69%) Dell
8 13 (5.00%) Citrix
9 12 (4.62%) IBM
10 11 (4.23%) NetApp
10 11 (4.23%) NVIDIA
11 10 (3.85%) Google
12 8 (3.08%) ServiceNow
13 7 (2.69%) Brocade
13 7 (2.69%) HP
13 7 (2.69%) Tenable
14 6 (2.31%) Broadcom
15 5 (1.92%) Fortinet
15 5 (1.92%) Symantec
16 4 (1.54%) Commvault