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

6 months to
2 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 367 282 300
Rank change year-on-year -85 +18 -96
Contract jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 310 281 313
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.60% 0.91% 0.72%
As % of the Operating Systems category 6.29% 6.63% 5.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 204 207 235
10th Percentile £360 £391 £350
25th Percentile £415 £415 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £486 £525 £520
Median % change year-on-year -7.52% +0.96% -12.16%
75th Percentile £552 £600 £598
90th Percentile £638 £675 £658
UK excluding London median daily rate £483 £522 £525
% change year-on-year -7.54% -0.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 0 2
10th Percentile £37.50 - £65.18
25th Percentile £41.71 - £67.31
Median hourly rate £62.50 - £72.75
75th Percentile £78.75 - £76.31
90th Percentile £90.00 - £77.33
UK excluding London median hourly rate £60.33 - £72.75
% change year-on-year - - +3.93%

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 4,928 4,241 5,905
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.58% 13.70% 13.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,148 2,752 3,889
10th Percentile £190 £200 £190
25th Percentile £313 £313 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £465 £475
Median % change year-on-year +0.05% -2.16% -5.00%
75th Percentile £575 £580 £588
90th Percentile £650 £675 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £450 £463
% change year-on-year - -2.70% +0.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 334 218 434
10th Percentile £14.80 £15.50 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.00 £17.44 £16.25
Median hourly rate £26.22 £22.25 £24.93
Median % change year-on-year +17.84% -10.74% -41.35%
75th Percentile £63.75 £43.35 £64.69
90th Percentile £70.00 £66.15 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £26.00 £18.87 £31.25
% change year-on-year +37.78% -39.62% -6.72%

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 July 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 July 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 July 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 -73 266 £486 -9.59% 59
UK excluding London -61 206 £483 -7.54% 49
Work from Home -77 80 £488 -7.14% 16
North of England -50 71 £500 +23.46% 10
London -80 71 £481 -12.50% 17
South East -45 42 £440 -20.00% 13
Yorkshire -26 40 £518 +8.95% 2
South West -13 37 £534 -13.21% 12
North West -44 29 £470 +19.59% 8
East of England +4 27 £477 -1.24% 3
Midlands -46 15 £501 -6.80% 4
Scotland -26 13 £463 -1.23% 7
East Midlands -12 8 £530 +4.74% 1
West Midlands -61 7 £484 -10.18% 3
North East -30 2 £400 -30.43%
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 16 (5.16%) nginx
2 13 (4.19%) Tomcat
3 11 (3.55%) Apache
3 11 (3.55%) Confluence
4 8 (2.58%) WebLogic
5 6 (1.94%) Microsoft Exchange
5 6 (1.94%) WebSphere
6 3 (0.97%) IBM HTTP Server
6 3 (0.97%) JBoss
6 3 (0.97%) SAS
6 3 (0.97%) SharePoint
6 3 (0.97%) WebSphere Application Server
7 2 (0.65%) Documentum
7 2 (0.65%) OpenStack
7 2 (0.65%) Oracle HTTP Server
7 2 (0.65%) WebSphere Portal
8 1 (0.32%) Red Hat Fuse
8 1 (0.32%) Traefik
Applications
1 4 (1.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.32%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.32%) FLEXCUBE
1 1 (0.32%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (0.32%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 91 (29.35%) AWS
2 70 (22.58%) Azure
3 43 (13.87%) OpenShift
4 28 (9.03%) GCP
5 25 (8.06%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 22 (7.10%) GitHub
7 17 (5.48%) Amazon EC2
7 17 (5.48%) Amazon S3
8 13 (4.19%) Amazon EKS
8 13 (4.19%) Datadog
9 12 (3.87%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 12 (3.87%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 10 (3.23%) AWS CloudFormation
11 9 (2.90%) Azure Monitor
11 9 (2.90%) Entra ID
11 9 (2.90%) GitHub Actions
11 9 (2.90%) Serverless
12 8 (2.58%) AWS Lambda
12 8 (2.58%) Azure AKS
12 8 (2.58%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 43 (13.87%) Firewall
2 38 (12.26%) DNS
3 34 (10.97%) SAN
4 14 (4.52%) DHCP
4 14 (4.52%) VLAN
5 13 (4.19%) SSL
6 11 (3.55%) Network Security
6 11 (3.55%) VPN
7 9 (2.90%) HTTP
8 7 (2.26%) Kerberos
9 6 (1.94%) iSCSI
9 6 (1.94%) TCP/IP
9 6 (1.94%) VSAN
9 6 (1.94%) WAN
10 5 (1.61%) SSH
10 5 (1.61%) VoIP
11 4 (1.29%) Fibre Channel
11 4 (1.29%) NAS
12 3 (0.97%) FTP
13 2 (0.65%) InfiniBand
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (7.42%) PostgreSQL
2 18 (5.81%) Oracle Database
3 13 (4.19%) SQL Server
4 11 (3.55%) MongoDB
5 10 (3.23%) MySQL
6 8 (2.58%) Elasticsearch
7 7 (2.26%) Amazon RDS
7 7 (2.26%) GIS
7 7 (2.26%) SAP HANA
8 5 (1.61%) Data Lake
9 4 (1.29%) Oracle Database 12c
9 4 (1.29%) Redis
9 4 (1.29%) Relational Database
10 3 (0.97%) Data Warehouse
11 2 (0.65%) Azure SQL Database
12 1 (0.32%) BusinessObjects
12 1 (0.32%) IBM InfoSphere
12 1 (0.32%) MariaDB
12 1 (0.32%) OpenStack Swift
12 1 (0.32%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 49 (15.81%) Jenkins
2 42 (13.55%) GitLab
3 33 (10.65%) Git
4 18 (5.81%) JIRA
5 6 (1.94%) Artifactory
6 5 (1.61%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 4 (1.29%) Sonatype Nexus
8 3 (0.97%) Introscope
9 2 (0.65%) Robot Framework
10 1 (0.32%) Ant
10 1 (0.32%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.32%) Cucumber
10 1 (0.32%) GoCD
10 1 (0.32%) Maven
10 1 (0.32%) PVCS
General
1 58 (18.71%) Social Skills
2 35 (11.29%) Finance
3 32 (10.32%) Public Sector
4 27 (8.71%) Documentation Skills
5 24 (7.74%) Banking
6 18 (5.81%) Analytical Skills
7 9 (2.90%) Legal
8 7 (2.26%) Aerospace
9 5 (1.61%) Military
9 5 (1.61%) Retail
10 4 (1.29%) Manufacturing
10 4 (1.29%) Publishing
11 2 (0.65%) Aviation
11 2 (0.65%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.65%) Law
11 2 (0.65%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.32%) International Banking
12 1 (0.32%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.32%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 53 (17.10%) Linux Engineer
2 41 (13.23%) Senior
3 30 (9.68%) DevOps Engineer
4 29 (9.35%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 22 (7.10%) Administrator
5 22 (7.10%) Lead
6 21 (6.77%) Platform Engineer
7 20 (6.45%) Cloud Engineer
8 18 (5.81%) Linux Administrator
9 17 (5.48%) Architect
10 16 (5.16%) Software Engineer
11 15 (4.84%) Senior Linux Engineer
12 12 (3.87%) Security Engineer
13 10 (3.23%) AWS Engineer
14 9 (2.90%) Lead Software Engineer
15 8 (2.58%) Unix Engineer
16 7 (2.26%) Azure Engineer
16 7 (2.26%) Security Architect
16 7 (2.26%) Support Engineer
17 6 (1.94%) AWS DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (6.13%) Middleware
2 14 (4.52%) LDAP
3 11 (3.55%) REST
4 9 (2.90%) Spring
5 7 (2.26%) EJB
5 7 (2.26%) Elastic Stack
5 7 (2.26%) Kafka
6 6 (1.94%) OpenLayers
6 6 (1.94%) Spring Boot
6 6 (1.94%) YAML
7 5 (1.61%) JSON
7 5 (1.61%) OAuth
7 5 (1.61%) Vue
8 4 (1.29%) Azure Blueprints
8 4 (1.29%) Django
8 4 (1.29%) Java EE
8 4 (1.29%) Java SE
8 4 (1.29%) JWT
8 4 (1.29%) React
8 4 (1.29%) WebSphere MQ
Miscellaneous
1 38 (12.26%) Cloud Native
2 32 (10.32%) Data Centre
3 23 (7.42%) Security Posture
4 21 (6.77%) Management Information System
5 17 (5.48%) Hybrid Cloud
6 15 (4.84%) Onboarding
7 14 (4.52%) Clustering
8 13 (4.19%) Replication
9 12 (3.87%) Enterprise Software
9 12 (3.87%) Legacy Systems
10 11 (3.55%) PKI
11 9 (2.90%) Linux Command Line
12 8 (2.58%) Legacy Applications
12 8 (2.58%) Product Ownership
13 6 (1.94%) Data Protection Act
13 6 (1.94%) FlexPod
13 6 (1.94%) Mainframe
14 5 (1.61%) CMDB
14 5 (1.61%) Public Cloud
14 5 (1.61%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 310 (100.00%) Linux
2 114 (36.77%) Windows
3 58 (18.71%) Windows Server
4 45 (14.52%) Ubuntu
5 34 (10.97%) CentOS
6 26 (8.39%) Solaris
7 25 (8.06%) Unix
8 17 (5.48%) Windows Server 2019
9 15 (4.84%) VMS
10 12 (3.87%) AIX
10 12 (3.87%) Oracle Linux
10 12 (3.87%) SUSE
11 11 (3.55%) Rocky
11 11 (3.55%) Windows Server 2008
12 10 (3.23%) Windows Server 2016
13 8 (2.58%) CoreOS
14 7 (2.26%) Windows Server 2012
15 6 (1.94%) Data ONTAP
16 5 (1.61%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
16 5 (1.61%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 106 (34.19%) CI/CD
2 102 (32.90%) DevOps
3 61 (19.68%) Infrastructure as Code
4 55 (17.74%) Agile
5 51 (16.45%) Problem-Solving
6 50 (16.13%) Migration
7 48 (15.48%) ITIL
8 47 (15.16%) Containerisation
9 46 (14.84%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 45 (14.52%) Platform Engineering
11 43 (13.87%) Configuration Management
12 42 (13.55%) Change Management
13 37 (11.94%) Continuous Improvement
14 35 (11.29%) High Availability
15 34 (10.97%) Observability
16 32 (10.32%) Performance Tuning
16 32 (10.32%) Roadmaps
17 31 (10.00%) Runbook
17 31 (10.00%) Software Engineering
18 28 (9.03%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 122 (39.35%) Python
2 81 (26.13%) Bash
3 72 (23.23%) PowerShell
4 32 (10.32%) Shell Script
5 31 (10.00%) Java
6 26 (8.39%) SQL
7 14 (4.52%) Perl
8 12 (3.87%) JavaScript
8 12 (3.87%) PL/SQL
9 8 (2.58%) MATLAB
10 7 (2.26%) Go
11 5 (1.61%) Bicep
11 5 (1.61%) Korn
12 4 (1.29%) C
12 4 (1.29%) C#
12 4 (1.29%) Ruby
13 3 (0.97%) C++
13 3 (0.97%) Groovy
13 3 (0.97%) Jython
14 1 (0.32%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 144 (46.45%) Security Cleared
2 111 (35.81%) SC Cleared
3 36 (11.61%) Degree
4 26 (8.39%) DV Cleared
5 22 (7.10%) CISSP
5 22 (7.10%) RHCE
6 17 (5.48%) AWS Certification
6 17 (5.48%) Azure Certification
7 12 (3.87%) OCP
7 12 (3.87%) Oracle Certification
8 10 (3.23%) Computer Science Degree
9 7 (2.26%) CISM
10 6 (1.94%) CompTIA Security+
11 5 (1.61%) RHCA
12 4 (1.29%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 3 (0.97%) Microsoft Certification
13 3 (0.97%) RHCSA
13 3 (0.97%) TOGAF Certification
13 3 (0.97%) VCAP
14 2 (0.65%) NCDA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (3.87%) SLA
2 7 (2.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (2.26%) NIST
3 5 (1.61%) GRC
3 5 (1.61%) QA
4 4 (1.29%) SOC 2
5 3 (0.97%) HIPAA
5 3 (0.97%) NCSC
5 3 (0.97%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.65%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (0.65%) Disclosure Scotland
6 2 (0.65%) ISO 15022
6 2 (0.65%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.32%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 1 (0.32%) OpenSCAP
7 1 (0.32%) PMO
7 1 (0.32%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 56 (18.06%) Docker
2 50 (16.13%) VMware Infrastructure
3 38 (12.26%) Virtual Machines
4 35 (11.29%) Active Directory
5 19 (6.13%) NFS
6 17 (5.48%) VMware ESXi
6 17 (5.48%) vSphere
7 12 (3.87%) Hyper-V
8 9 (2.90%) Oracle RAC
9 6 (1.94%) Corosync
9 6 (1.94%) VMware NSX
10 3 (0.97%) Ceph
10 3 (0.97%) Firmware
10 3 (0.97%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 3 (0.97%) Veritas Volume Manager
11 2 (0.65%) Citrix Hypervisor
11 2 (0.65%) KVM
11 2 (0.65%) Samba
11 2 (0.65%) Squid
11 2 (0.65%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 125 (40.32%) Ansible
2 87 (28.06%) Kubernetes
3 82 (26.45%) Terraform
4 27 (8.71%) Red Hat Satellite
5 24 (7.74%) Grafana
6 21 (6.77%) Puppet
7 18 (5.81%) Progress Chef
8 17 (5.48%) Prometheus
9 14 (4.52%) Failover Clustering
10 12 (3.87%) Oracle RMAN
11 10 (3.23%) Podman
12 8 (2.58%) Check_MK
12 8 (2.58%) Packer
13 7 (2.26%) NetBackup
13 7 (2.26%) Pacemaker
13 7 (2.26%) vCenter Server
14 6 (1.94%) Argo
14 6 (1.94%) SnapMirror
14 6 (1.94%) vMotion
15 5 (1.61%) vRealize
Vendors
1 175 (56.45%) Red Hat
2 71 (22.90%) VMware
3 52 (16.77%) Oracle
4 43 (13.87%) Microsoft
5 26 (8.39%) Google
6 23 (7.42%) IBM
7 16 (5.16%) Splunk
8 15 (4.84%) Cisco
9 14 (4.52%) NetApp
10 13 (4.19%) ServiceNow
11 10 (3.23%) Dell
11 10 (3.23%) HP
12 9 (2.90%) Tenable
13 8 (2.58%) SAP
14 7 (2.26%) Qualys
15 6 (1.94%) Commvault
15 6 (1.94%) Databricks
15 6 (1.94%) McAfee
15 6 (1.94%) Rapid7
15 6 (1.94%) Veritas