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

 6 months to
15 Oct 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 367 329 282
Rank change year-on-year -38 -47 -69
Contract jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 367 243 309
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.66% 0.73% 0.82%
As % of the Operating Systems category 6.85% 5.32% 5.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 237 163 205
10th Percentile £397 £352 £351
25th Percentile £450 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £523
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% -2.39% -5.00%
75th Percentile £625 £591 £645
90th Percentile £708 £658 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £489 £520
% change year-on-year +2.35% -6.06% -0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 2 2
10th Percentile £36.75 £64.45 -
25th Percentile £41.71 £71.12 -
Median hourly rate £52.54 £87.00 £112.00
Median % change year-on-year -39.61% -22.32% +57.19%
75th Percentile £68.75 £102.62 -
90th Percentile - £109.15 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £52.54 £87.00 -
% change year-on-year -39.61% - -

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 5,360 4,565 5,302
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.69% 13.75% 14.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,387 2,924 3,268
10th Percentile £193 £185 £200
25th Percentile £313 £275 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £450 £470
Median % change year-on-year +4.44% -4.31% -5.00%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £575
90th Percentile £675 £650 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £420 £444
% change year-on-year +7.14% -5.41% -1.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 413 311 249
10th Percentile £14.10 £15.33 £16.30
25th Percentile £17.25 £18.87 £23.13
Median hourly rate £25.77 £25.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.08% -54.55% +21.04%
75th Percentile £65.00 £43.75 £68.75
90th Percentile £74.26 £67.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.77 £23.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year +12.04% -60.00% +35.29%

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 15 October 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 15 October 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 15 October 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 -22 330 £513 -1.39% 152
UK excluding London -9 224 £500 +2.35% 105
London -35 123 £513 -0.97% 56
Work from Home -68 81 £453 -13.71% 72
North of England -40 61 £500 +1.63% 28
South East -56 51 £500 +1.63% 25
East of England +9 40 £600 +48.15% 11
North West -26 37 £481 +19.65% 17
South West -16 36 £567 +3.14% 20
Yorkshire -30 23 £550 +10.00% 9
Scotland -18 18 £482 -3.70% 13
Midlands -46 17 £525 -0.71% 6
West Midlands -46 9 £525 -9.70% 4
East Midlands -7 8 £530 +26.19% 2
North East -37 2 £626 +8.87% 2
Wales - 1 £475 - 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 16 (4.36%) Confluence
2 12 (3.27%) JBoss
3 11 (3.00%) nginx
4 9 (2.45%) Apache
5 7 (1.91%) SharePoint
5 7 (1.91%) Tomcat
6 6 (1.63%) WebSphere
7 5 (1.36%) Microsoft Exchange
8 2 (0.54%) Documentum
8 2 (0.54%) OpenStack
8 2 (0.54%) Traefik
8 2 (0.54%) WebLogic
9 1 (0.27%) Apache Airflow
9 1 (0.27%) Red Hat Fuse
9 1 (0.27%) SAS
Applications
1 5 (1.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.27%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.27%) FLEXCUBE
1 1 (0.27%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (0.27%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 108 (29.43%) AWS
2 87 (23.71%) Azure
3 49 (13.35%) OpenShift
4 41 (11.17%) GCP
5 25 (6.81%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 24 (6.54%) GitHub
7 21 (5.72%) Datadog
8 20 (5.45%) Amazon EC2
8 20 (5.45%) Amazon EKS
9 19 (5.18%) Entra ID
10 18 (4.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 18 (4.90%) AWS CloudFormation
11 17 (4.63%) Amazon S3
12 16 (4.36%) Serverless
13 15 (4.09%) GitHub Actions
13 15 (4.09%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 15 (4.09%) IaaS
14 14 (3.81%) Azure DevOps
15 13 (3.54%) Amazon ECS
15 13 (3.54%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 44 (11.99%) DNS
1 44 (11.99%) Firewall
2 40 (10.90%) SAN
3 31 (8.45%) TCP/IP
4 22 (5.99%) SSL
5 21 (5.72%) Kerberos
5 21 (5.72%) Network Security
6 20 (5.45%) DHCP
7 13 (3.54%) VLAN
8 10 (2.72%) BGP
8 10 (2.72%) HTTP
9 9 (2.45%) SSH
10 8 (2.18%) HSRP
10 8 (2.18%) OSPF
10 8 (2.18%) VRRP
11 7 (1.91%) VoIP
11 7 (1.91%) VPN
12 5 (1.36%) LAN
12 5 (1.36%) WAN
12 5 (1.36%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (7.90%) PostgreSQL
2 24 (6.54%) Oracle Database
3 18 (4.90%) SQL Server
4 12 (3.27%) Amazon RDS
5 11 (3.00%) MySQL
6 9 (2.45%) SQLite
7 8 (2.18%) MongoDB
8 6 (1.63%) Big Data
8 6 (1.63%) Hadoop
8 6 (1.63%) Redis
8 6 (1.63%) Relational Database
9 5 (1.36%) Data Lake
10 4 (1.09%) Elasticsearch
10 4 (1.09%) NoSQL
10 4 (1.09%) SAP HANA
11 3 (0.82%) GIS
11 3 (0.82%) Metadata
11 3 (0.82%) Oracle Database 12c
12 2 (0.54%) InfluxDB
12 2 (0.54%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 59 (16.08%) Git
1 59 (16.08%) Jenkins
2 44 (11.99%) GitLab
3 21 (5.72%) JIRA
4 9 (2.45%) Sonatype Nexus
5 5 (1.36%) Artifactory
5 5 (1.36%) Bitbucket
5 5 (1.36%) Cucumber
6 4 (1.09%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 4 (1.09%) Zephyr
7 3 (0.82%) JMeter
7 3 (0.82%) Locust
7 3 (0.82%) Maven
7 3 (0.82%) Robot Framework
7 3 (0.82%) TestCafe
7 3 (0.82%) Toad
8 2 (0.54%) Gerrit
9 1 (0.27%) Gradle
9 1 (0.27%) Newman
9 1 (0.27%) Tricentis qTest
General
1 71 (19.35%) Social Skills
2 63 (17.17%) Finance
3 38 (10.35%) Analytical Skills
4 27 (7.36%) Banking
5 24 (6.54%) Documentation Skills
6 17 (4.63%) Public Sector
7 10 (2.72%) Legal
8 6 (1.63%) Manufacturing
8 6 (1.63%) Military
8 6 (1.63%) Retail
9 5 (1.36%) Aerospace
9 5 (1.36%) Investment Banking
9 5 (1.36%) Publishing
10 4 (1.09%) Law
10 4 (1.09%) Telecoms
11 3 (0.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (0.54%) Aviation
12 2 (0.54%) Financial Institution
12 2 (0.54%) Organisational Skills
13 1 (0.27%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 77 (20.98%) Linux Engineer
2 50 (13.62%) Senior
3 39 (10.63%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 38 (10.35%) DevOps Engineer
5 32 (8.72%) Cloud Engineer
6 23 (6.27%) Architect
7 21 (5.72%) Administrator
8 19 (5.18%) Platform Engineer
8 19 (5.18%) Security Engineer
9 16 (4.36%) Automation Engineer
9 16 (4.36%) AWS Engineer
10 15 (4.09%) Linux Administrator
11 14 (3.81%) Linux Systems Engineer
11 14 (3.81%) Senior Linux Engineer
11 14 (3.81%) Systems Engineer
12 13 (3.54%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
13 12 (3.27%) Network Engineer
14 11 (3.00%) Storage Engineer
14 11 (3.00%) Systems Administrator
15 10 (2.72%) Linux Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 97 (26.43%) Terraform
2 23 (6.27%) REST
3 16 (4.36%) Middleware
4 14 (3.81%) LDAP
5 12 (3.27%) Kafka
6 9 (2.45%) Azure Blueprints
7 8 (2.18%) JSON
7 8 (2.18%) SPNEGO
8 7 (1.91%) ARM Templates
9 6 (1.63%) Elastic Stack
10 5 (1.36%) Keycloak
10 5 (1.36%) Node.js
10 5 (1.36%) OAuth
10 5 (1.36%) React
10 5 (1.36%) Vue
11 4 (1.09%) Django
11 4 (1.09%) JWT
11 4 (1.09%) WebSphere MQ
11 4 (1.09%) XML
11 4 (1.09%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 45 (12.26%) Cloud Native
2 30 (8.17%) Security Posture
3 25 (6.81%) Onboarding
4 22 (5.99%) Replication
5 19 (5.18%) Enterprise Storage
6 17 (4.63%) Data Centre
6 17 (4.63%) Management Information System
7 15 (4.09%) PKI
8 13 (3.54%) Clustering
9 12 (3.27%) Data Protection Act
9 12 (3.27%) Enterprise Cloud
9 12 (3.27%) Hybrid Cloud
9 12 (3.27%) Legacy Systems
10 11 (3.00%) Linux Command Line
11 9 (2.45%) Mainframe
11 9 (2.45%) Virtual Team
12 8 (2.18%) Cloud Security Posture
12 8 (2.18%) Private Cloud
12 8 (2.18%) Product Ownership
12 8 (2.18%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 367 (100.00%) Linux
2 145 (39.51%) Windows
3 81 (22.07%) Windows Server
4 46 (12.53%) CentOS
4 46 (12.53%) Ubuntu
5 42 (11.44%) Unix
6 27 (7.36%) Solaris
7 24 (6.54%) Rocky
8 16 (4.36%) AIX
9 10 (2.72%) SUSE
9 10 (2.72%) Windows Server 2012
10 8 (2.18%) Oracle Linux
11 7 (1.91%) Windows 10
11 7 (1.91%) Windows Server 2019
12 5 (1.36%) Alpine Linux
12 5 (1.36%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
12 5 (1.36%) Windows Server 2008
13 4 (1.09%) HPUX
14 3 (0.82%) VMS
14 3 (0.82%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 128 (34.88%) CI/CD
2 125 (34.06%) DevOps
3 82 (22.34%) Infrastructure as Code
4 72 (19.62%) Configuration Management
5 70 (19.07%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 66 (17.98%) Containerisation
7 65 (17.71%) Migration
8 57 (15.53%) ITIL
8 57 (15.53%) Problem-Solving
9 54 (14.71%) Change Management
9 54 (14.71%) Platform Engineering
10 51 (13.90%) Agile
11 49 (13.35%) Infrastructure Automation
12 48 (13.08%) Observability
13 46 (12.53%) Continuous Improvement
14 37 (10.08%) Cloud Security
15 36 (9.81%) Performance Tuning
16 35 (9.54%) Runbook
17 34 (9.26%) Root Cause Analysis
18 31 (8.45%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 161 (43.87%) Python
2 121 (32.97%) Bash
3 94 (25.61%) PowerShell
4 42 (11.44%) Java
5 32 (8.72%) SQL
6 23 (6.27%) Perl
6 23 (6.27%) Shell Script
7 13 (3.54%) C
7 13 (3.54%) C++
8 12 (3.27%) Bicep
9 10 (2.72%) Korn
10 9 (2.45%) Go
10 9 (2.45%) Groovy
11 7 (1.91%) JavaScript
11 7 (1.91%) PL/SQL
12 3 (0.82%) MATLAB
13 2 (0.54%) C#
13 2 (0.54%) Search Processing Language
14 1 (0.27%) ActionScript
14 1 (0.27%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 151 (41.14%) Security Cleared
2 95 (25.89%) SC Cleared
3 50 (13.62%) DV Cleared
4 33 (8.99%) Degree
5 29 (7.90%) AWS Certification
6 26 (7.08%) CISSP
7 21 (5.72%) Azure Certification
8 15 (4.09%) RHCE
9 9 (2.45%) Computer Science Degree
10 8 (2.18%) Microsoft Certification
11 7 (1.91%) Cisco Certification
11 7 (1.91%) CISM
12 6 (1.63%) CCNA
12 6 (1.63%) CCNP
13 5 (1.36%) CompTIA Security+
13 5 (1.36%) RHCSA
14 3 (0.82%) ISSAP
14 3 (0.82%) MOS
15 2 (0.54%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
15 2 (0.54%) RHCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (3.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 11 (3.00%) NIST
2 7 (1.91%) QA
3 6 (1.63%) SLA
4 5 (1.36%) NCSC
4 5 (1.36%) SOC 2
5 4 (1.09%) Disclosure Scotland
5 4 (1.09%) HIPAA
5 4 (1.09%) ISO 15022
5 4 (1.09%) ISO 20022
6 3 (0.82%) GRC
6 3 (0.82%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.27%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.27%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.27%) JSP 440
7 1 (0.27%) PMO
System Software
1 82 (22.34%) Docker
2 50 (13.62%) Active Directory
2 50 (13.62%) VMware Infrastructure
3 28 (7.63%) Virtual Machines
4 20 (5.45%) vSphere
5 17 (4.63%) NFS
6 15 (4.09%) VMware ESXi
7 10 (2.72%) Hyper-V
8 7 (1.91%) KVM
8 7 (1.91%) Oracle RAC
9 5 (1.36%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 4 (1.09%) GPFS
11 3 (0.82%) Corosync
11 3 (0.82%) Veritas Volume Manager
12 2 (0.54%) Ceph
12 2 (0.54%) Squid
13 1 (0.27%) OpenSSH
13 1 (0.27%) oVirt
13 1 (0.27%) RHEV
13 1 (0.27%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 127 (34.60%) Ansible
2 107 (29.16%) Kubernetes
3 43 (11.72%) Puppet
4 34 (9.26%) Grafana
5 33 (8.99%) Progress Chef
6 30 (8.17%) Prometheus
7 25 (6.81%) Red Hat Satellite
8 18 (4.90%) NetBackup
9 13 (3.54%) Nagios
10 11 (3.00%) Failover Clustering
11 8 (2.18%) Podman
12 7 (1.91%) Packer
12 7 (1.91%) SCCM
13 6 (1.63%) Oracle RMAN
13 6 (1.63%) systemd
14 5 (1.36%) Data Guard
14 5 (1.36%) Single Sign-On
14 5 (1.36%) WSUS
15 4 (1.09%) vCenter Server
15 4 (1.09%) yum
Vendors
1 171 (46.59%) Red Hat
2 66 (17.98%) VMware
3 64 (17.44%) Microsoft
4 54 (14.71%) Oracle
5 34 (9.26%) Google
6 30 (8.17%) NetApp
7 28 (7.63%) Splunk
8 24 (6.54%) Cisco
8 24 (6.54%) IBM
9 19 (5.18%) ServiceNow
10 14 (3.81%) Veeam
11 11 (3.00%) Qualys
11 11 (3.00%) SaltStack
12 10 (2.72%) Rapid7
12 10 (2.72%) Tenable
12 10 (2.72%) Veritas
13 9 (2.45%) EMC
13 9 (2.45%) SolarWinds
14 7 (1.91%) McAfee
14 7 (1.91%) Okta
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