Red Hat Enterprise Linux Contracts

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Red Hat Enterprise Linux skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Red Hat Enterprise Linux over the 3 months to 29 June 2017 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

Note that daily and hourly rates are treated separately in these statistics. When calculating contractor rate percentiles, daily rates are never derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) UK
Location	3 months to 29 Jun 2017	Same period 2016	Same period 2015
Rank	174	133	186
Rank change year-on-year	-41	+53
Contract jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux	681	1023	726
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK	1.45%	1.90%	1.30%
As % of the Operating Systems category	6.92%	8.25%	5.85%
Number of daily rates quoted	462	677	451
UK median daily rate	£468	£425	£413
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	+10.00%	+3.03%
10th Percentile	£363	£278	£300
90th Percentile	£590	£565	£550
UK excluding London median daily rate	£438	£400	£400
% change year-on-year	+9.56%	-
Number of hourly rates quoted	1	10	12
UK median hourly rate	£32.50	£36.00	£27.84
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	-9.72%	+29.33%
UK excluding London median hourly rate	-	£36.00	£35.75
% change year-on-year	-	+0.69%

Red Hat Enterprise Linux is in the operating system skills category. The next table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract Operating System Skills UK
Contract job vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills	9847	12406	12400
As % of all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK	20.90%	23.10%	22.12%
Number of daily rates quoted	13072	17892	16653
UK median daily rate	£408	£390	£350
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	+4.48%	+11.42%
10th Percentile	£168	£200	£163
90th Percentile	£575	£550	£538
UK excluding London median daily rate	£375	£363	£348
% change year-on-year	+3.44%	+4.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted	1319	1596	2572
UK median hourly rate	£16.00	£17.50	£17.00
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	-8.57%	+2.94%
10th Percentile	£10.50	£11.10	£10.50
90th Percentile	£48.75	£43.00	£40.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£15.50	£17.50	£16.50
% change year-on-year	-11.42%	+6.06%

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux as a percentage of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Red Hat Enterprise Linux in the UK

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in contract jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

Contractor daily rate trend for Red Hat Enterprise Linux in the UK

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Contractor Daily Rate Histogram

The daily rate distribution of IT jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux over the 3 months to 29 June 2017.

Contractor daily rate histogram for Red Hat Enterprise Linux in the UK

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for contractor hourly rates quoted in IT jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

Contractor hourly rate trend for Red Hat Enterprise Linux in the UK

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Top 10 Contract 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 3 months to 29 June 2017. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Year	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Median Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Median Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Job Vacancies
England	-45	614	£475	+11.76%	75
UK excluding London	-40	385	£438	+9.56%	60
London	-32	285	£513	+7.89%	26
South East	-22	158	£425	-2.01%	15
East of England	+27	68	£500	+47.05%	3
North of England	-72	60	£450	+24.13%	21
Scotland	+12	53	£425	+6.25%	8
South West	+6	20	£400	-5.88%	6
Midlands	-17	17	£550	+29.41%	4
Wales	-10	9	£463	+17.46%	2

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Top 30 Co-occurring IT Skills

For the 6 months to 29 June 2017, IT contractor jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number co-occurrences and its proportion to all contract ads with a requirement for Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

1	1421 (100.00%)	Linux
2	930 (65.45%)	Red Hat
3	613 (43.14%)	DevOps
4	507 (35.68%)	Puppet
5	458 (32.23%)	Unix
6	421 (29.63%)	Python
7	394 (27.73%)	Jenkins
8	383 (26.95%)	Ansible
9	380 (26.74%)	VMware
10	362 (25.48%)	Agile Software Development
11	356 (25.05%)	Java
12	338 (23.79%)	Windows
13	330 (23.22%)	Bash Shell
14	317 (22.31%)	Git (software)
15	315 (22.17%)	Configuration Management

16	313 (22.03%)	Amazon AWS
17	302 (21.25%)	Perl
18	301 (21.18%)	CentOS
19	298 (20.97%)	Security Cleared
20	286 (20.13%)	Oracle
21	264 (18.58%)	Opscode Chef
22	254 (17.87%)	SC Cleared
23	251 (17.66%)	Continuous Integration
23	251 (17.66%)	Docker
24	230 (16.19%)	Finance
25	198 (13.93%)	VMware Infrastructure
26	196 (13.79%)	Solaris
27	195 (13.72%)	Open Source
28	189 (13.30%)	Ruby
29	184 (12.95%)	Shell Script

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Co-occurring IT Skills by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
Applications
Business Applications
Cloud Services
Communications & Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
Development Applications
General
Job Titles
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
Miscellaneous
Operating Systems
Processes & Methodologies
Programming Languages
Qualifications
Quality Assurance & Compliance
System Software
Systems Management
Vendors

Application Platforms
1	149 (10.49%)	Apache
2	120 (8.44%)	JBoss
3	115 (8.09%)	Tomcat
4	106 (7.46%)	Confluence
5	87 (6.12%)	WebSphere
6	75 (5.28%)	WebLogic
7	72 (5.07%)	OpenStack
8	41 (2.89%)	IIS
9	37 (2.60%)	nginx
10	35 (2.46%)	Oracle SOA Suite
11	34 (2.39%)	Apache Spark
12	25 (1.76%)	Apache Solr
12	25 (1.76%)	WebSphere Application Server
13	19 (1.34%)	Elasticsearch
14	18 (1.27%)	SharePoint
15	13 (0.91%)	Skype for Business
16	12 (0.84%)	Apache Geronimo
16	12 (0.84%)	Apache TomEE
17	10 (0.70%)	Cloud Foundry
17	10 (0.70%)	SharePoint 2013

Applications
1	6 (0.42%)	Microsoft Excel
1	6 (0.42%)	Microsoft PowerPoint
2	4 (0.28%)	Microsoft Office
3	2 (0.14%)	MS Visio
4	1 (0.070%)	Microsoft Project

Business Applications
1	11 (0.77%)	Oracle EBS
1	11 (0.77%)	SAP Oil and Gas
2	7 (0.49%)	Oracle Applications
3	6 (0.42%)	Oracle 11i
4	5 (0.35%)	ION MarketView
5	3 (0.21%)	IBM Operational Decision Manager
6	1 (0.070%)	Infor M3
6	1 (0.070%)	LatentZero
6	1 (0.070%)	Oracle Retail
6	1 (0.070%)	Remedy ITSM
6	1 (0.070%)	SAP CRM
6	1 (0.070%)	Sentinel
6	1 (0.070%)	thinkFolio

Cloud Services
1	313 (22.03%)	Amazon AWS
2	125 (8.80%)	Microsoft Azure
3	71 (5.00%)	AWS CloudFormation
4	69 (4.86%)	OpenShift
5	55 (3.87%)	PaaS
6	50 (3.52%)	GitHub
7	30 (2.11%)	IaaS
8	29 (2.04%)	Amazon EC2
8	29 (2.04%)	Amazon S3
9	24 (1.69%)	AWS Lambda
9	24 (1.69%)	Slack
10	23 (1.62%)	Trello
11	21 (1.48%)	Cloud Computing
12	16 (1.13%)	Route 53
13	14 (0.99%)	Datadog
14	13 (0.91%)	Amazon CloudWatch
14	13 (0.91%)	Google Cloud Platform
15	11 (0.77%)	Amazon ELB
15	11 (0.77%)	SaaS
16	10 (0.70%)	Virtual Private Cloud

Communications & Networking
1	150 (10.56%)	TCP/IP
2	147 (10.34%)	SAN
3	142 (9.99%)	DNS
4	116 (8.16%)	HTTP
5	108 (7.60%)	Firewall
6	106 (7.46%)	SSL
7	105 (7.39%)	LDAP
8	56 (3.94%)	NAS
9	55 (3.87%)	Kerberos
10	54 (3.80%)	DHCP
11	40 (2.81%)	SSH
12	37 (2.60%)	Internet
13	36 (2.53%)	VPN
14	29 (2.04%)	SMTP
15	28 (1.97%)	WAN
16	22 (1.55%)	Network Security
16	22 (1.55%)	PuTTY
17	21 (1.48%)	Ethernet
18	20 (1.41%)	Cisco Nexus
18	20 (1.41%)	LAN

Database & Business Intelligence
1	134 (9.43%)	MySQL
2	99 (6.97%)	PostgreSQL
3	98 (6.90%)	MongoDB
3	98 (6.90%)	SQL Server
4	96 (6.76%)	Hadoop
5	89 (6.26%)	Oracle Database
6	87 (6.12%)	Relational Database
7	58 (4.08%)	NoSQL
8	50 (3.52%)	Oracle Database 11g
9	48 (3.38%)	Apache Hive
10	46 (3.24%)	Impala
11	43 (3.03%)	Big Data
12	42 (2.96%)	Oracle Database 10g
13	40 (2.81%)	Apache Cassandra
14	36 (2.53%)	BusinessObjects
14	36 (2.53%)	Redis
15	32 (2.25%)	RDBMS
15	32 (2.25%)	SQL Server 2012
16	27 (1.90%)	SQL Server 2008
17	25 (1.76%)	Oracle Reports

Development Applications
1	394 (27.73%)	Jenkins
2	317 (22.31%)	Git (software)
3	123 (8.66%)	JIRA
4	72 (5.07%)	Sonatype Nexus
5	71 (5.00%)	Subversion
6	60 (4.22%)	Maven
7	54 (3.80%)	GitLab
8	45 (3.17%)	Ant
9	42 (2.96%)	Team Foundation Server
9	42 (2.96%)	Vagrant
10	39 (2.74%)	Oracle APEX
10	39 (2.74%)	TeamCity
11	33 (2.32%)	Selenium
12	27 (1.90%)	Artifactory
13	25 (1.76%)	Cucumber
13	25 (1.76%)	Eclipse
14	23 (1.62%)	Bitbucket
14	23 (1.62%)	JUnit
15	21 (1.48%)	HP UFT
16	20 (1.41%)	SpecFlow

General
1	230 (16.19%)	Finance
2	119 (8.37%)	Banking
3	45 (3.17%)	Telecoms
4	37 (2.60%)	Investment Banking
5	15 (1.06%)	Law
6	11 (0.77%)	Electronics
6	11 (0.77%)	Manufacturing
6	11 (0.77%)	Marketing
7	7 (0.49%)	Financial Institution
7	7 (0.49%)	Legal
8	5 (0.35%)	Advertising
8	5 (0.35%)	Retail
9	4 (0.28%)	Local Government
10	3 (0.21%)	Publishing
11	2 (0.14%)	Automotive
11	2 (0.14%)	Avionics
11	2 (0.14%)	Front Office
11	2 (0.14%)	Military
11	2 (0.14%)	Pharmaceutical
12	1 (0.070%)	Retail Banking

Job Titles
1	358 (25.19%)	DevOps Engineer
2	229 (16.12%)	Administrator
3	207 (14.57%)	Linux Engineer
4	142 (9.99%)	Linux Administrator
5	139 (9.78%)	Systems Administrator
6	110 (7.74%)	Linux/Unix DevOps
7	95 (6.69%)	AWS Engineer
7	95 (6.69%)	Linux Systems Administrator
8	91 (6.40%)	AWS DevOps
9	85 (5.98%)	Developer
10	79 (5.56%)	Linux DevOps Engineer
11	74 (5.21%)	Architect
12	73 (5.14%)	Consultant
13	70 (4.93%)	AWS DevOps Engineer
14	64 (4.50%)	Unix Administrator
15	60 (4.22%)	Infrastructure Engineer
16	57 (4.01%)	Unix Engineer
17	55 (3.87%)	Cloud Engineer
18	46 (3.24%)	Systems Engineer
19	45 (3.17%)	Analyst

Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1	111 (7.81%)	Middleware
2	106 (7.46%)	Web Services
3	65 (4.57%)	Node.js
4	60 (4.22%)	.NET
5	58 (4.08%)	J2EE
6	49 (3.45%)	REST
7	48 (3.38%)	Elastic Stack
8	46 (3.24%)	RESTful
9	43 (3.03%)	Software Packaging
10	42 (2.96%)	Sensu
11	38 (2.67%)	Java EE
12	34 (2.39%)	LAMP
12	34 (2.39%)	XML
13	30 (2.11%)	Spring
14	29 (2.04%)	HTML
15	22 (1.55%)	JMS
15	22 (1.55%)	SOAP
16	21 (1.48%)	CSS
16	21 (1.48%)	WebSphere MQ
17	20 (1.41%)	ActiveMQ

Miscellaneous
1	93 (6.54%)	Analytical Skills
2	86 (6.05%)	Data Centre
3	77 (5.42%)	Clustering
4	39 (2.74%)	Public Cloud
5	36 (2.53%)	Management Information System
6	34 (2.39%)	Computer Science
7	33 (2.32%)	Replication
8	30 (2.11%)	Enterprise Software
9	29 (2.04%)	Enterprise Storage
10	28 (1.97%)	Linux Command Line
10	28 (1.97%)	Private Cloud
11	27 (1.90%)	Smart Meter
12	15 (1.06%)	PKI
13	14 (0.99%)	Greenfield Project
14	11 (0.77%)	Client/Server
14	11 (0.77%)	EMC VNX
14	11 (0.77%)	VxBlock/Vblock
15	10 (0.70%)	Mainframe
16	7 (0.49%)	CMDB
16	7 (0.49%)	Derivative

Operating Systems
1	1421 (100.00%)	Linux
2	458 (32.23%)	Unix
3	338 (23.79%)	Windows
4	301 (21.18%)	CentOS
5	196 (13.79%)	Solaris
6	169 (11.89%)	Windows Server
7	149 (10.49%)	AIX
8	145 (10.20%)	Ubuntu
9	98 (6.90%)	Windows Server 2012
10	91 (6.40%)	Windows Server 2008
11	72 (5.07%)	Debian
12	53 (3.73%)	SUSE
13	27 (1.90%)	Oracle Linux
14	24 (1.69%)	HPUX
14	24 (1.69%)	Windows Server 2003
15	23 (1.62%)	Windows 7
16	20 (1.41%)	SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
17	15 (1.06%)	Windows 10
18	13 (0.91%)	Fedora
19	11 (0.77%)	Mac OS X

Processes & Methodologies
1	613 (43.14%)	DevOps
2	362 (25.48%)	Agile Software Development
3	315 (22.17%)	Configuration Management
4	251 (17.66%)	Continuous Integration
5	195 (13.72%)	Open Source
6	167 (11.75%)	Scrum
7	151 (10.63%)	Test Automation
8	111 (7.81%)	Migration
9	105 (7.39%)	ITIL
9	105 (7.39%)	Kanban
10	99 (6.97%)	Continuous Delivery
11	92 (6.47%)	Software Engineering
12	90 (6.33%)	Microservices
13	88 (6.19%)	TDD
14	81 (5.70%)	Performance Tuning
15	71 (5.00%)	Mentoring
16	65 (4.57%)	High Availability
17	60 (4.22%)	Load Balancing
18	57 (4.01%)	Disaster Recovery
18	57 (4.01%)	Project Management

Programming Languages
1	421 (29.63%)	Python
2	356 (25.05%)	Java
3	330 (23.22%)	Bash Shell
4	302 (21.25%)	Perl
5	189 (13.30%)	Ruby
6	184 (12.95%)	Shell Script
7	159 (11.19%)	SQL
8	113 (7.95%)	PowerShell
9	110 (7.74%)	JavaScript
10	55 (3.87%)	Korn
11	52 (3.66%)	C
12	30 (2.11%)	C#
13	27 (1.90%)	PHP
14	25 (1.76%)	PL/SQL
14	25 (1.76%)	VBScript
15	21 (1.48%)	F#
16	19 (1.34%)	Go
16	19 (1.34%)	R
17	17 (1.20%)	Scala
18	16 (1.13%)	Groovy

Qualifications
1	298 (20.97%)	Security Cleared
2	254 (17.87%)	SC Cleared
3	67 (4.71%)	RHCE
4	47 (3.31%)	RHCSA
5	34 (2.39%)	CISSP
6	32 (2.25%)	Degree
7	30 (2.11%)	DV Cleared
8	24 (1.69%)	Microsoft Certification
9	23 (1.62%)	Cisco Certification
10	15 (1.06%)	VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11	14 (0.99%)	Oracle Certification
12	13 (0.91%)	Computer Science Degree
13	12 (0.84%)	OCP
14	11 (0.77%)	MCSE
15	10 (0.70%)	BPSS Clearance
15	10 (0.70%)	ISEB
15	10 (0.70%)	ISEB Practitioner
15	10 (0.70%)	ISTQB Foundation Certification
15	10 (0.70%)	RHCA
16	9 (0.63%)	AWS Certification

Quality Assurance & Compliance
1	26 (1.83%)	Disclosure Scotland
2	24 (1.69%)	QA
3	19 (1.34%)	SLA
4	14 (0.99%)	JSP 440
5	12 (0.84%)	ISO/IEC 27001
5	12 (0.84%)	PCI DSS
6	3 (0.21%)	Sarbanes-Oxley
7	2 (0.14%)	Data Quality
7	2 (0.14%)	ECSS
7	2 (0.14%)	ISO 22301
8	1 (0.070%)	ISO/IEC 20000
8	1 (0.070%)	MiFID
8	1 (0.070%)	PMO
8	1 (0.070%)	Solvency II

System Software
1	251 (17.66%)	Docker
2	198 (13.93%)	VMware Infrastructure
3	146 (10.27%)	Active Directory
4	57 (4.01%)	Virtual Machines
5	53 (3.73%)	Veritas Cluster Server
6	52 (3.66%)	vSphere
7	50 (3.52%)	VMware ESXi
8	44 (3.10%)	NFS
9	36 (2.53%)	HDFS
10	32 (2.25%)	Hyper-V
11	27 (1.90%)	Apache ZooKeeper
12	23 (1.62%)	Oracle RAC
13	22 (1.55%)	KVM
14	21 (1.48%)	Apache Flume
14	21 (1.48%)	vCloud
15	20 (1.41%)	Veritas File System
16	19 (1.34%)	GPFS
17	18 (1.27%)	Virtual Servers
18	16 (1.13%)	Oracle Clusterware
19	15 (1.06%)	Xen

Systems Management
1	507 (35.68%)	Puppet
2	383 (26.95%)	Ansible
3	264 (18.58%)	Opscode Chef
4	132 (9.29%)	Kubernetes
5	97 (6.83%)	Terraform
6	77 (5.42%)	Nagios
7	65 (4.57%)	Red Hat Satellite
8	58 (4.08%)	ZABBIX
9	55 (3.87%)	NetBackup
10	50 (3.52%)	vRealize
11	32 (2.25%)	Tivoli Storage Manager
12	31 (2.18%)	SELinux
13	30 (2.11%)	Dollar Universe
14	28 (1.97%)	EMC NetWorker
14	28 (1.97%)	Graphite
15	26 (1.83%)	Rancher
15	26 (1.83%)	vCenter Server
16	24 (1.69%)	Packer
17	23 (1.62%)	Salt
18	22 (1.55%)	SCOM

Vendors
1	930 (65.45%)	Red Hat
2	380 (26.74%)	VMware
3	286 (20.13%)	Oracle
4	136 (9.57%)	Microsoft
5	118 (8.30%)	HP
6	109 (7.67%)	IBM
7	89 (6.26%)	EMC
8	87 (6.12%)	Cisco
9	71 (5.00%)	Veritas
10	67 (4.71%)	Splunk
11	55 (3.87%)	TIBCO
12	54 (3.80%)	NetApp
13	53 (3.73%)	Atlassian
14	48 (3.38%)	Cloudera
15	38 (2.67%)	Sun
16	36 (2.53%)	Symantec
17	35 (2.46%)	Brocade
18	28 (1.97%)	SaltStack
19	27 (1.90%)	AppDynamics
20	25 (1.76%)	Google