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

 6 months to
2 Oct 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 355 327 282
Rank change year-on-year -28 -45 -81
Contract jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 366 237 315
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.67% 0.72% 0.83%
As % of the Operating Systems category 6.80% 5.27% 5.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 239 158 215
10th Percentile £399 £334 £354
25th Percentile £449 £410 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £501 £520
Median % change year-on-year -0.25% -3.61% -7.14%
75th Percentile £600 £595 £634
90th Percentile £701 £660 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £487 £520
% change year-on-year +2.62% -6.30% -3.97%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 0 2
10th Percentile £36.75 - -
25th Percentile £41.71 - -
Median hourly rate £52.54 - £112.00
75th Percentile £68.75 - -
90th Percentile £74.68 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £52.54 - -

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 5,382 4,495 5,355
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.80% 13.57% 14.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,397 2,859 3,345
10th Percentile £193 £185 £200
25th Percentile £313 £282 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +4.44% -5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £575
90th Percentile £675 £660 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £425 £450
% change year-on-year +5.88% -5.56% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 406 299 254
10th Percentile £14.10 £15.50 £16.08
25th Percentile £17.25 £18.87 £21.85
Median hourly rate £26.00 £25.15 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +3.38% -52.10% +20.00%
75th Percentile £65.00 £55.30 £69.45
90th Percentile £74.32 £67.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £32.29 £25.15 £56.20
% change year-on-year +28.39% -55.25% +39.93%

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 2 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 2 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 2 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 -10 333 £500 -2.44% 189
UK excluding London -4 225 £500 +2.62% 123
London -33 123 £506 -0.74% 80
Work from Home -66 79 £464 -11.62% 65
North of England -44 60 £500 +1.63% 29
South East -47 48 £484 -4.02% 29
South West -7 42 £534 -2.95% 23
East of England +11 40 £556 +37.35% 19
North West -26 39 £482 +24.47% 17
Yorkshire -27 20 £600 +20.00% 10
Midlands -50 18 £525 -0.71% 11
Scotland -29 16 £475 -5.00% 10
East Midlands -9 9 £530 +26.19% 1
West Midlands -42 9 £525 -9.70% 10
North East -43 2 £626 +8.87% 2
Wales - 1 £475 - 3

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 (3.55%) Confluence
2 12 (3.28%) JBoss
3 11 (3.01%) nginx
4 9 (2.46%) Apache
5 7 (1.91%) SharePoint
6 6 (1.64%) Tomcat
7 5 (1.37%) Microsoft Exchange
7 5 (1.37%) WebSphere
8 2 (0.55%) Documentum
8 2 (0.55%) OpenStack
8 2 (0.55%) Traefik
8 2 (0.55%) WebLogic
9 1 (0.27%) Apache Airflow
9 1 (0.27%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 4 (1.09%) 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
1 110 (30.05%) AWS
2 85 (23.22%) Azure
3 45 (12.30%) OpenShift
4 38 (10.38%) GCP
5 25 (6.83%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 24 (6.56%) GitHub
7 21 (5.74%) Amazon EKS
7 21 (5.74%) Datadog
8 20 (5.46%) Amazon EC2
8 20 (5.46%) AWS CloudFormation
9 18 (4.92%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 18 (4.92%) Entra ID
10 17 (4.64%) Amazon S3
11 16 (4.37%) Serverless
12 15 (4.10%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 15 (4.10%) IaaS
13 14 (3.83%) Azure DevOps
13 14 (3.83%) GitHub Actions
14 13 (3.55%) Amazon ECS
14 13 (3.55%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 45 (12.30%) DNS
2 43 (11.75%) Firewall
3 39 (10.66%) SAN
4 30 (8.20%) TCP/IP
5 21 (5.74%) DHCP
5 21 (5.74%) Kerberos
5 21 (5.74%) SSL
6 19 (5.19%) Network Security
7 13 (3.55%) VLAN
8 9 (2.46%) BGP
8 9 (2.46%) HTTP
8 9 (2.46%) SSH
9 8 (2.19%) VoIP
10 7 (1.91%) HSRP
10 7 (1.91%) OSPF
10 7 (1.91%) VPN
10 7 (1.91%) VRRP
11 5 (1.37%) Reverse Proxy
11 5 (1.37%) WAN
12 4 (1.09%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (8.20%) PostgreSQL
2 23 (6.28%) Oracle Database
3 17 (4.64%) SQL Server
4 12 (3.28%) Amazon RDS
4 12 (3.28%) MySQL
5 9 (2.46%) MongoDB
5 9 (2.46%) SQLite
6 8 (2.19%) SAP HANA
7 6 (1.64%) Big Data
7 6 (1.64%) Hadoop
7 6 (1.64%) Redis
7 6 (1.64%) Relational Database
8 5 (1.37%) Data Lake
9 4 (1.09%) Elasticsearch
10 3 (0.82%) GIS
10 3 (0.82%) Metadata
10 3 (0.82%) NoSQL
10 3 (0.82%) Oracle Database 12c
11 2 (0.55%) Azure SQL Database
11 2 (0.55%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 56 (15.30%) Git
1 56 (15.30%) Jenkins
2 44 (12.02%) GitLab
3 18 (4.92%) JIRA
4 9 (2.46%) Sonatype Nexus
5 5 (1.37%) Artifactory
5 5 (1.37%) Bitbucket
6 4 (1.09%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 4 (1.09%) Cucumber
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 (0.55%) Gerrit
9 1 (0.27%) Ant
9 1 (0.27%) Gradle
9 1 (0.27%) Tricentis qTest
General
1 67 (18.31%) Social Skills
2 62 (16.94%) Finance
3 39 (10.66%) Analytical Skills
4 28 (7.65%) Banking
5 25 (6.83%) Documentation Skills
6 19 (5.19%) Public Sector
7 10 (2.73%) Legal
8 7 (1.91%) Military
9 6 (1.64%) Manufacturing
9 6 (1.64%) Retail
10 5 (1.37%) Aerospace
10 5 (1.37%) Investment Banking
10 5 (1.37%) Publishing
11 4 (1.09%) Law
11 4 (1.09%) Telecoms
12 3 (0.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 2 (0.55%) Aviation
13 2 (0.55%) Financial Institution
14 1 (0.27%) Local Government
14 1 (0.27%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 79 (21.58%) Linux Engineer
2 53 (14.48%) Senior
3 41 (11.20%) DevOps Engineer
4 40 (10.93%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 32 (8.74%) Cloud Engineer
6 23 (6.28%) Architect
7 21 (5.74%) Administrator
8 19 (5.19%) Security Engineer
9 18 (4.92%) Platform Engineer
10 17 (4.64%) AWS Engineer
11 16 (4.37%) Automation Engineer
11 16 (4.37%) Senior Linux Engineer
12 15 (4.10%) Linux Administrator
13 14 (3.83%) Linux Systems Engineer
13 14 (3.83%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
13 14 (3.83%) Systems Engineer
14 13 (3.55%) Systems Administrator
15 12 (3.28%) Linux Systems Administrator
15 12 (3.28%) Unix Engineer
16 11 (3.01%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 97 (26.50%) Terraform
2 22 (6.01%) REST
3 14 (3.83%) LDAP
4 13 (3.55%) Kafka
4 13 (3.55%) Middleware
5 8 (2.19%) Azure Blueprints
5 8 (2.19%) JSON
5 8 (2.19%) SPNEGO
6 7 (1.91%) ARM Templates
7 6 (1.64%) Elastic Stack
7 6 (1.64%) Keycloak
8 5 (1.37%) OAuth
8 5 (1.37%) React
8 5 (1.37%) Vue
9 4 (1.09%) Celery
9 4 (1.09%) Django
9 4 (1.09%) Node.js
9 4 (1.09%) WebSphere MQ
9 4 (1.09%) XML
9 4 (1.09%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 45 (12.30%) Cloud Native
2 29 (7.92%) Security Posture
3 24 (6.56%) Replication
4 21 (5.74%) Onboarding
5 19 (5.19%) Data Centre
6 17 (4.64%) Enterprise Storage
7 16 (4.37%) Management Information System
7 16 (4.37%) PKI
8 15 (4.10%) Clustering
9 14 (3.83%) Legacy Systems
10 12 (3.28%) Enterprise Cloud
10 12 (3.28%) Hybrid Cloud
11 11 (3.01%) Linux Command Line
12 10 (2.73%) Data Protection Act
12 10 (2.73%) Virtual Team
13 8 (2.19%) Cloud Security Posture
13 8 (2.19%) Private Cloud
13 8 (2.19%) Product Ownership
14 7 (1.91%) Legacy Applications
14 7 (1.91%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 366 (100.00%) Linux
2 144 (39.34%) Windows
3 79 (21.58%) Windows Server
4 46 (12.57%) CentOS
5 45 (12.30%) Ubuntu
6 44 (12.02%) Unix
7 29 (7.92%) Solaris
8 22 (6.01%) Rocky
9 19 (5.19%) AIX
10 12 (3.28%) SUSE
11 10 (2.73%) Windows Server 2012
12 8 (2.19%) Oracle Linux
13 7 (1.91%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
13 7 (1.91%) Windows 10
13 7 (1.91%) Windows Server 2019
14 6 (1.64%) HPUX
15 5 (1.37%) Windows Server 2008
16 4 (1.09%) Alpine Linux
17 3 (0.82%) VMS
17 3 (0.82%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 129 (35.25%) CI/CD
2 125 (34.15%) DevOps
3 83 (22.68%) Infrastructure as Code
4 71 (19.40%) Configuration Management
5 69 (18.85%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 66 (18.03%) Migration
7 64 (17.49%) Containerisation
8 59 (16.12%) ITIL
9 57 (15.57%) Change Management
9 57 (15.57%) Problem-Solving
10 53 (14.48%) Platform Engineering
11 51 (13.93%) Agile
12 47 (12.84%) Observability
13 45 (12.30%) Continuous Improvement
14 44 (12.02%) Infrastructure Automation
15 36 (9.84%) Cloud Security
15 36 (9.84%) Runbook
16 35 (9.56%) Root Cause Analysis
17 34 (9.29%) Performance Tuning
18 32 (8.74%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 157 (42.90%) Python
2 117 (31.97%) Bash
3 93 (25.41%) PowerShell
4 41 (11.20%) Java
5 30 (8.20%) SQL
6 23 (6.28%) Shell Script
7 21 (5.74%) Perl
8 13 (3.55%) C
8 13 (3.55%) C++
9 11 (3.01%) Bicep
10 10 (2.73%) Korn
11 9 (2.46%) Go
11 9 (2.46%) Groovy
12 7 (1.91%) PL/SQL
13 6 (1.64%) JavaScript
14 3 (0.82%) C#
14 3 (0.82%) MATLAB
15 2 (0.55%) Search Processing Language
16 1 (0.27%) Kusto Query Language
16 1 (0.27%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 153 (41.80%) Security Cleared
2 103 (28.14%) SC Cleared
3 44 (12.02%) DV Cleared
4 34 (9.29%) Degree
5 28 (7.65%) AWS Certification
6 27 (7.38%) CISSP
7 21 (5.74%) Azure Certification
8 18 (4.92%) RHCE
9 9 (2.46%) Computer Science Degree
10 7 (1.91%) CompTIA Security+
10 7 (1.91%) Microsoft Certification
11 6 (1.64%) Cisco Certification
11 6 (1.64%) CISM
11 6 (1.64%) RHCSA
12 5 (1.37%) CCNA
12 5 (1.37%) CCNP
13 3 (0.82%) MOS
13 3 (0.82%) RHCA
14 2 (0.55%) GIAC
14 2 (0.55%) ISSAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (2.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 10 (2.73%) NIST
2 7 (1.91%) QA
3 6 (1.64%) SLA
4 5 (1.37%) GRC
4 5 (1.37%) NCSC
5 4 (1.09%) Disclosure Scotland
5 4 (1.09%) ISO 15022
5 4 (1.09%) ISO 20022
5 4 (1.09%) SOC 2
6 3 (0.82%) HIPAA
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%) OpenSCAP
7 1 (0.27%) PMO
System Software
1 77 (21.04%) Docker
2 49 (13.39%) Active Directory
3 47 (12.84%) VMware Infrastructure
4 25 (6.83%) Virtual Machines
5 19 (5.19%) vSphere
6 17 (4.64%) VMware ESXi
7 16 (4.37%) NFS
8 10 (2.73%) Hyper-V
9 7 (1.91%) Oracle RAC
10 6 (1.64%) Corosync
11 4 (1.09%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 4 (1.09%) Veritas Volume Manager
12 3 (0.82%) GPFS
12 3 (0.82%) KVM
13 2 (0.55%) Ceph
13 2 (0.55%) Squid
14 1 (0.27%) oVirt
14 1 (0.27%) Veritas Cluster Server
14 1 (0.27%) Virtual Desktop
14 1 (0.27%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 128 (34.97%) Ansible
2 101 (27.60%) Kubernetes
3 44 (12.02%) Puppet
4 34 (9.29%) Progress Chef
5 33 (9.02%) Grafana
6 31 (8.47%) Prometheus
7 26 (7.10%) Red Hat Satellite
8 18 (4.92%) NetBackup
9 15 (4.10%) Failover Clustering
10 12 (3.28%) Nagios
11 8 (2.19%) Packer
11 8 (2.19%) Podman
12 7 (1.91%) Pacemaker
12 7 (1.91%) SCCM
13 6 (1.64%) Oracle RMAN
13 6 (1.64%) systemd
13 6 (1.64%) WSUS
14 5 (1.37%) Single Sign-On
15 4 (1.09%) Oracle ZFS
15 4 (1.09%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 171 (46.72%) Red Hat
2 65 (17.76%) Microsoft
2 65 (17.76%) VMware
3 54 (14.75%) Oracle
4 31 (8.47%) Google
5 28 (7.65%) NetApp
6 25 (6.83%) Splunk
7 24 (6.56%) Cisco
8 20 (5.46%) ServiceNow
9 19 (5.19%) IBM
10 14 (3.83%) Veeam
11 11 (3.01%) SaltStack
12 10 (2.73%) Qualys
13 9 (2.46%) Rapid7
13 9 (2.46%) SAP
13 9 (2.46%) Tenable
13 9 (2.46%) Veritas
14 8 (2.19%) SolarWinds
15 7 (1.91%) EMC
15 7 (1.91%) HP
213 Red Hat Enterprise Linux jobs Nationwide