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

6 months to
3 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 375 237 324
Rank change year-on-year -138 +87 -126
Contract jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 269 329 283
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.57% 1.12% 0.65%
As % of the Operating Systems category 5.73% 8.02% 4.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 185 235 214
10th Percentile £400 £400 £350
25th Percentile £449 £457 £436
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -12.50%
75th Percentile £588 £650 £600
90th Percentile £667 £738 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -9.09% +3.77% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 0 3
10th Percentile £40.50 - £32.89
25th Percentile £74.47 - £44.47
Median hourly rate £80.00 - £67.50
75th Percentile £90.00 - £74.63
90th Percentile £92.50 - £76.65
UK excluding London median hourly rate £76.09 - £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 4,691 4,103 5,811
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.90% 14.01% 13.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,048 2,705 3,915
10th Percentile £185 £200 £185
25th Percentile £313 £319 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £465
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +2.15% -7.74%
75th Percentile £575 £589 £588
90th Percentile £658 £699 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £450 £450
% change year-on-year -5.56% - -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 322 182 399
10th Percentile £16.01 £16.12 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.74 £18.10 £15.50
Median hourly rate £42.60 £24.09 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +76.85% +9.50% -44.02%
75th Percentile £67.25 £62.25 £60.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £68.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £22.88 £22.00
% change year-on-year +107.65% +3.98% -26.67%

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 3 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 3 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 3 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 -140 213 £500 -9.99% 70
UK excluding London -81 188 £500 -9.09% 51
Work from Home -63 82 £500 -7.75% 19
North of England -74 54 £500 -9.09% 8
South East -47 42 £475 -13.64% 13
London -120 37 £500 -15.97% 26
Yorkshire -50 34 £500 -28.57% 4
South West -16 30 £550 -10.57% 19
East of England -19 22 £478 -20.33% 5
Midlands -65 20 £537 -0.56% 3
North West -47 18 £497 +0.20% 3
West Midlands -54 18 £540 -1.01% 1
Scotland -27 14 £463 -3.04%
Northern Ireland +4 3 £375 - 1
Wales - 3 £475 - 2
North East -23 2 £400 -29.20% 1
East Midlands -33 2 £530 +4.74% 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 (5.20%) nginx
2 11 (4.09%) Apache
2 11 (4.09%) Confluence
2 11 (4.09%) Tomcat
3 9 (3.35%) WebLogic
4 6 (2.23%) SAS
5 4 (1.49%) Microsoft Exchange
5 4 (1.49%) WebSphere
6 3 (1.12%) IBM HTTP Server
6 3 (1.12%) JBoss
6 3 (1.12%) SharePoint
6 3 (1.12%) WebSphere Application Server
7 2 (0.74%) Documentum
7 2 (0.74%) OpenStack
7 2 (0.74%) Oracle HTTP Server
7 2 (0.74%) WebSphere Portal
8 1 (0.37%) FileNet
8 1 (0.37%) Red Hat Fuse
8 1 (0.37%) Traefik
Cloud Services
1 63 (23.42%) AWS
2 61 (22.68%) Azure
3 40 (14.87%) OpenShift
4 16 (5.95%) GitHub
5 15 (5.58%) GCP
6 14 (5.20%) Amazon EC2
7 13 (4.83%) Amazon S3
8 9 (3.35%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 7 (2.60%) Azure Sentinel
10 6 (2.23%) Amazon EKS
11 5 (1.86%) Azure Monitor
11 5 (1.86%) IaaS
11 5 (1.86%) Nutanix
11 5 (1.86%) OCI
12 4 (1.49%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 4 (1.49%) Azure DevOps
12 4 (1.49%) Azure Stack
12 4 (1.49%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 4 (1.49%) Microsoft 365
13 3 (1.12%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 27 (10.04%) Firewall
2 25 (9.29%) SAN
3 18 (6.69%) DNS
4 9 (3.35%) HTTP
4 9 (3.35%) Kerberos
4 9 (3.35%) VSAN
5 8 (2.97%) VLAN
6 7 (2.60%) SSL
6 7 (2.60%) TCP/IP
6 7 (2.60%) VPN
7 6 (2.23%) iSCSI
8 5 (1.86%) Fibre Channel
8 5 (1.86%) Network Security
9 4 (1.49%) DHCP
9 4 (1.49%) DKIM
9 4 (1.49%) DMARC
9 4 (1.49%) SMTP
9 4 (1.49%) WAN
10 3 (1.12%) LAN
10 3 (1.12%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (7.81%) Oracle Database
2 13 (4.83%) MongoDB
2 13 (4.83%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (2.97%) SQL Server
4 7 (2.60%) Elasticsearch
5 6 (2.23%) Data Warehouse
5 6 (2.23%) SAP HANA
6 5 (1.86%) GIS
7 4 (1.49%) MySQL
7 4 (1.49%) Oracle Database 12c
8 3 (1.12%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (1.12%) MariaDB
8 3 (1.12%) Oracle Exadata
8 3 (1.12%) Oracle Reports
9 2 (0.74%) Data Lake
9 2 (0.74%) RDBMS
9 2 (0.74%) Relational Database
10 1 (0.37%) BusinessObjects
10 1 (0.37%) Metadata
10 1 (0.37%) OpenStack Swift
Development Applications
1 37 (13.75%) GitLab
2 34 (12.64%) Jenkins
3 32 (11.90%) Git
4 15 (5.58%) JIRA
5 6 (2.23%) Artifactory
5 6 (2.23%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 4 (1.49%) Sonatype Nexus
7 3 (1.12%) Introscope
7 3 (1.12%) Maven
8 2 (0.74%) Robot Framework
9 1 (0.37%) Ant
9 1 (0.37%) GoCD
9 1 (0.37%) PVCS
General
1 60 (22.30%) Social Skills
2 27 (10.04%) Public Sector
3 23 (8.55%) Documentation Skills
4 22 (8.18%) Finance
5 18 (6.69%) Banking
6 16 (5.95%) Analytical Skills
7 8 (2.97%) Aerospace
8 4 (1.49%) Legal
8 4 (1.49%) Telecoms
9 2 (0.74%) Back Office
9 2 (0.74%) Financial Institution
9 2 (0.74%) Front Office
9 2 (0.74%) Military
9 2 (0.74%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.37%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 39 (14.50%) Linux Engineer
2 30 (11.15%) Architect
3 27 (10.04%) Administrator
3 27 (10.04%) Senior
4 22 (8.18%) Lead
5 20 (7.43%) DevOps Engineer
6 18 (6.69%) Platform Engineer
7 16 (5.95%) Linux Administrator
7 16 (5.95%) Software Engineer
8 15 (5.58%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 12 (4.46%) Senior Linux Engineer
10 10 (3.72%) Systems Administrator
11 8 (2.97%) Lead Software Engineer
12 7 (2.60%) DBA
12 7 (2.60%) Oracle DBA
12 7 (2.60%) Security Engineer
12 7 (2.60%) Solutions Architect
12 7 (2.60%) Unix Engineer
13 5 (1.86%) Consultant
13 5 (1.86%) Migration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (7.43%) LDAP
2 18 (6.69%) Middleware
3 9 (3.35%) YAML
4 8 (2.97%) Spring
5 6 (2.23%) EJB
5 6 (2.23%) REST
5 6 (2.23%) Spring Boot
6 5 (1.86%) OpenLayers
7 4 (1.49%) .NET
7 4 (1.49%) JSP
7 4 (1.49%) Kafka
8 3 (1.12%) Elastic Stack
8 3 (1.12%) FastAPI
8 3 (1.12%) Flask
8 3 (1.12%) Java EE
8 3 (1.12%) Java SE
8 3 (1.12%) JDBC
8 3 (1.12%) RabbitMQ
9 2 (0.74%) Apache NiFi
9 2 (0.74%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 36 (13.38%) Data Centre
2 18 (6.69%) Cloud Native
3 15 (5.58%) Management Information System
4 14 (5.20%) Clustering
5 12 (4.46%) Onboarding
6 11 (4.09%) Hybrid Cloud
7 9 (3.35%) Legacy Systems
8 8 (2.97%) Enterprise Software
8 8 (2.97%) Product Ownership
8 8 (2.97%) Replication
9 7 (2.60%) Legacy Applications
9 7 (2.60%) Public Cloud
10 6 (2.23%) FlexPod
10 6 (2.23%) PKI
11 5 (1.86%) Data Protection Act
11 5 (1.86%) Security Posture
12 4 (1.49%) EMC VMAX
12 4 (1.49%) Enterprise Storage
12 4 (1.49%) Linux Command Line
12 4 (1.49%) NVMe
Operating Systems
1 269 (100.00%) Linux
2 93 (34.57%) Windows
3 43 (15.99%) Ubuntu
4 40 (14.87%) Windows Server
5 36 (13.38%) CentOS
6 22 (8.18%) Unix
7 19 (7.06%) Solaris
8 18 (6.69%) VMS
9 15 (5.58%) Windows Server 2019
10 11 (4.09%) Windows Server 2016
11 10 (3.72%) Oracle Linux
12 9 (3.35%) Windows Server 2008
13 8 (2.97%) CoreOS
13 8 (2.97%) Rocky
13 8 (2.97%) SUSE
14 7 (2.60%) Debian
15 6 (2.23%) AIX
15 6 (2.23%) Data ONTAP
16 4 (1.49%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
16 4 (1.49%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (29.37%) CI/CD
2 76 (28.25%) DevOps
3 54 (20.07%) Problem-Solving
4 40 (14.87%) Infrastructure as Code
5 39 (14.50%) Migration
6 37 (13.75%) Agile
7 36 (13.38%) High Availability
8 34 (12.64%) Containerisation
8 34 (12.64%) Continuous Improvement
9 33 (12.27%) Platform Engineering
10 31 (11.52%) Performance Tuning
11 30 (11.15%) ITIL
12 27 (10.04%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 27 (10.04%) SIEM
13 25 (9.29%) Software Engineering
14 23 (8.55%) Configuration Management
14 23 (8.55%) RBAC
14 23 (8.55%) Roadmaps
15 22 (8.18%) Disaster Recovery
16 21 (7.81%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 93 (34.57%) Python
2 55 (20.45%) PowerShell
3 54 (20.07%) Bash
4 37 (13.75%) Shell Script
5 29 (10.78%) SQL
6 25 (9.29%) Java
7 21 (7.81%) Perl
8 11 (4.09%) PL/SQL
9 10 (3.72%) JavaScript
10 9 (3.35%) Go
10 9 (3.35%) MATLAB
11 8 (2.97%) Ruby
12 5 (1.86%) Korn
13 4 (1.49%) C#
14 3 (1.12%) Jython
15 2 (0.74%) C++
16 1 (0.37%) Bicep
16 1 (0.37%) C
16 1 (0.37%) Rust
16 1 (0.37%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 128 (47.58%) Security Cleared
2 96 (35.69%) SC Cleared
3 27 (10.04%) DV Cleared
4 22 (8.18%) RHCE
5 21 (7.81%) Degree
6 16 (5.95%) OCP
6 16 (5.95%) Oracle Certification
7 11 (4.09%) Azure Certification
8 10 (3.72%) CISSP
9 8 (2.97%) Computer Science Degree
10 5 (1.86%) CompTIA Security+
10 5 (1.86%) RHCA
11 4 (1.49%) BPSS Clearance
11 4 (1.49%) RHCSA
11 4 (1.49%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 3 (1.12%) AWS Certification
12 3 (1.12%) CESG Certified Professional
12 3 (1.12%) CISM
12 3 (1.12%) TOGAF Certification
12 3 (1.12%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (3.72%) SLA
2 7 (2.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (1.86%) NIST
4 4 (1.49%) Cyber Essentials
4 4 (1.49%) GDPR
4 4 (1.49%) GRC
4 4 (1.49%) NCSC
5 3 (1.12%) NIST 800
5 3 (1.12%) 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 48 (17.84%) VMware Infrastructure
2 34 (12.64%) Docker
3 31 (11.52%) Active Directory
4 28 (10.41%) Virtual Machines
5 19 (7.06%) VMware ESXi
6 18 (6.69%) vSphere
7 10 (3.72%) NFS
7 10 (3.72%) Oracle RAC
8 8 (2.97%) Hyper-V
9 6 (2.23%) Corosync
9 6 (2.23%) VMware NSX
10 5 (1.86%) Postfix
11 4 (1.49%) Ceph
11 4 (1.49%) Firmware
11 4 (1.49%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 3 (1.12%) GPFS
12 3 (1.12%) QEMU
13 2 (0.74%) KVM
13 2 (0.74%) Lustre
13 2 (0.74%) Samba
Systems Management
1 108 (40.15%) Ansible
2 60 (22.30%) Kubernetes
3 47 (17.47%) Terraform
4 24 (8.92%) Red Hat Satellite
5 18 (6.69%) Grafana
6 17 (6.32%) Puppet
7 16 (5.95%) Oracle RMAN
7 16 (5.95%) Podman
8 11 (4.09%) Check_MK
9 10 (3.72%) Failover Clustering
9 10 (3.72%) Progress Chef
9 10 (3.72%) Prometheus
9 10 (3.72%) vCenter Server
10 6 (2.23%) Argo
10 6 (2.23%) Data Guard
10 6 (2.23%) Pacemaker
10 6 (2.23%) SnapMirror
10 6 (2.23%) vMotion
11 5 (1.86%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 5 (1.86%) vRealize
Vendors
1 159 (59.11%) Red Hat
2 74 (27.51%) VMware
3 48 (17.84%) Oracle
4 39 (14.50%) Microsoft
5 24 (8.92%) Splunk
6 21 (7.81%) Dell
7 17 (6.32%) IBM
8 16 (5.95%) Cisco
9 10 (3.72%) Google
9 10 (3.72%) HP
9 10 (3.72%) NetApp
10 8 (2.97%) NVIDIA
11 7 (2.60%) Brocade
11 7 (2.60%) SAP
11 7 (2.60%) ServiceNow
12 6 (2.23%) Broadcom
12 6 (2.23%) Commvault
12 6 (2.23%) Tenable
13 5 (1.86%) Fortinet
14 4 (1.49%) Veritas