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

6 months to
14 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 368 279 292
Rank change year-on-year -89 +13 -91
Contract jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 293 272 320
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.58% 0.92% 0.73%
As % of the Operating Systems category 6.13% 6.58% 5.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 191 200 236
10th Percentile £393 £393 £350
25th Percentile £425 £420 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £537 £520
Median % change year-on-year -6.93% +3.32% -13.33%
75th Percentile £575 £620 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £656
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £540 £528
% change year-on-year -7.41% +2.27% -3.34%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 0 2
10th Percentile £37.88 - £65.18
25th Percentile £41.71 - £67.31
Median hourly rate £68.38 - £72.75
75th Percentile £79.69 - £76.31
90th Percentile £92.50 - £77.33
UK excluding London median hourly rate £60.33 - £72.75
% change year-on-year - - +38.57%

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 4,779 4,134 5,872
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.54% 13.98% 13.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,046 2,698 3,883
10th Percentile £188 £200 £186
25th Percentile £316 £313 £310
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £465 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.08% -2.11% -5.00%
75th Percentile £575 £585 £588
90th Percentile £650 £675 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £450 £450
% change year-on-year - - -3.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 338 201 416
10th Percentile £14.50 £15.22 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.00 £17.44 £15.73
Median hourly rate £27.94 £22.00 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year +27.00% -7.56% -49.09%
75th Percentile £63.75 £41.25 £62.50
90th Percentile £70.07 £68.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £18.87 £24.18
% change year-on-year +45.73% -21.96% -40.43%

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 14 June 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 14 June 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 14 June 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 -75 247 £500 -9.09% 43
UK excluding London -67 192 £500 -7.41% 32
Work from Home -66 79 £500 -4.76% 9
North of England -40 71 £500 +11.11% 3
London -87 65 £488 -11.36% 12
Yorkshire -29 43 £515 +8.42% 1
South East -59 34 £455 -17.27% 14
South West -10 33 £525 -14.63% 11
East of England -2 29 £478 -20.33% 1
North West -35 26 £459 +16.79% 2
Scotland -36 12 £463 -1.23%
Midlands -59 12 £515 -4.58% 3
West Midlands -59 7 £484 -11.34%
East Midlands -20 5 £530 +4.74% 3
North East -33 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 (5.46%) nginx
2 13 (4.44%) Tomcat
3 11 (3.75%) Apache
4 10 (3.41%) Confluence
5 8 (2.73%) WebLogic
6 5 (1.71%) SAS
6 5 (1.71%) WebSphere
7 3 (1.02%) IBM HTTP Server
7 3 (1.02%) JBoss
7 3 (1.02%) Microsoft Exchange
7 3 (1.02%) SharePoint
7 3 (1.02%) WebSphere Application Server
8 2 (0.68%) Documentum
8 2 (0.68%) OpenStack
8 2 (0.68%) Oracle HTTP Server
8 2 (0.68%) WebSphere Portal
9 1 (0.34%) Red Hat Fuse
9 1 (0.34%) Traefik
Applications
1 4 (1.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.34%) FLEXCUBE
1 1 (0.34%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (0.34%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 84 (28.67%) AWS
2 64 (21.84%) Azure
3 42 (14.33%) OpenShift
4 27 (9.22%) GCP
5 20 (6.83%) GitHub
5 20 (6.83%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 13 (4.44%) Amazon EKS
7 12 (4.10%) Amazon EC2
7 12 (4.10%) Amazon S3
8 11 (3.75%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 9 (3.07%) AWS CloudFormation
9 9 (3.07%) Datadog
10 8 (2.73%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 7 (2.39%) GitHub Actions
12 6 (2.05%) Azure Sentinel
12 6 (2.05%) Entra ID
12 6 (2.05%) Serverless
13 5 (1.71%) AWS Lambda
13 5 (1.71%) Azure Stack
13 5 (1.71%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 39 (13.31%) Firewall
2 33 (11.26%) DNS
3 29 (9.90%) SAN
4 12 (4.10%) SSL
4 12 (4.10%) VLAN
5 11 (3.75%) DHCP
5 11 (3.75%) VPN
6 9 (3.07%) HTTP
6 9 (3.07%) Kerberos
7 8 (2.73%) Network Security
8 6 (2.05%) iSCSI
8 6 (2.05%) TCP/IP
8 6 (2.05%) VSAN
9 5 (1.71%) Fibre Channel
9 5 (1.71%) WAN
10 4 (1.37%) NAS
10 4 (1.37%) SSH
11 3 (1.02%) FTP
12 2 (0.68%) InfiniBand
12 2 (0.68%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (6.48%) Oracle Database
2 18 (6.14%) PostgreSQL
3 11 (3.75%) MongoDB
4 10 (3.41%) SQL Server
5 8 (2.73%) Elasticsearch
5 8 (2.73%) MySQL
6 7 (2.39%) GIS
6 7 (2.39%) SAP HANA
7 5 (1.71%) Data Warehouse
8 4 (1.37%) Oracle Database 12c
9 3 (1.02%) Amazon RDS
10 2 (0.68%) Data Lake
10 2 (0.68%) Oracle Exadata
10 2 (0.68%) Redis
10 2 (0.68%) Relational Database
11 1 (0.34%) BusinessObjects
11 1 (0.34%) Db2
11 1 (0.34%) IBM InfoSphere
11 1 (0.34%) MariaDB
11 1 (0.34%) OpenStack Swift
Development Applications
1 50 (17.06%) Jenkins
2 46 (15.70%) GitLab
3 38 (12.97%) Git
4 16 (5.46%) JIRA
5 6 (2.05%) Artifactory
6 5 (1.71%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 4 (1.37%) Sonatype Nexus
8 3 (1.02%) Introscope
9 2 (0.68%) Robot Framework
10 1 (0.34%) Ant
10 1 (0.34%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.34%) GoCD
10 1 (0.34%) Maven
10 1 (0.34%) PVCS
General
1 60 (20.48%) Social Skills
2 32 (10.92%) Finance
3 29 (9.90%) Public Sector
4 28 (9.56%) Documentation Skills
5 23 (7.85%) Banking
6 18 (6.14%) Analytical Skills
7 9 (3.07%) Aerospace
8 6 (2.05%) Legal
9 4 (1.37%) Publishing
9 4 (1.37%) Telecoms
10 3 (1.02%) Retail
11 2 (0.68%) Aviation
11 2 (0.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.68%) Law
11 2 (0.68%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.68%) Military
11 2 (0.68%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.34%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.34%) International Banking
12 1 (0.34%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 50 (17.06%) Linux Engineer
2 35 (11.95%) Senior
3 30 (10.24%) DevOps Engineer
4 26 (8.87%) Lead
5 25 (8.53%) Administrator
6 24 (8.19%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 20 (6.83%) Linux Administrator
7 20 (6.83%) Platform Engineer
8 19 (6.48%) Architect
9 16 (5.46%) Senior Linux Engineer
9 16 (5.46%) Software Engineer
10 12 (4.10%) Cloud Engineer
10 12 (4.10%) Security Engineer
11 10 (3.41%) AWS Engineer
12 9 (3.07%) Lead Software Engineer
13 7 (2.39%) Security Architect
13 7 (2.39%) Systems Administrator
13 7 (2.39%) Unix Engineer
14 6 (2.05%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 6 (2.05%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (7.17%) Middleware
2 18 (6.14%) LDAP
3 10 (3.41%) YAML
4 9 (3.07%) Spring
5 7 (2.39%) EJB
5 7 (2.39%) REST
6 6 (2.05%) Elastic Stack
6 6 (2.05%) Kafka
6 6 (2.05%) OpenLayers
6 6 (2.05%) Spring Boot
7 4 (1.37%) .NET
7 4 (1.37%) Azure Blueprints
7 4 (1.37%) Java EE
7 4 (1.37%) Java SE
7 4 (1.37%) JSON
7 4 (1.37%) JSP
8 3 (1.02%) JDBC
8 3 (1.02%) OAuth
8 3 (1.02%) OpenID
8 3 (1.02%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 40 (13.65%) Data Centre
2 35 (11.95%) Cloud Native
3 23 (7.85%) Management Information System
4 18 (6.14%) Security Posture
5 17 (5.80%) Hybrid Cloud
6 13 (4.44%) Onboarding
7 11 (3.75%) Clustering
7 11 (3.75%) Legacy Systems
8 10 (3.41%) Enterprise Software
8 10 (3.41%) Replication
9 8 (2.73%) Legacy Applications
9 8 (2.73%) Product Ownership
10 7 (2.39%) Linux Command Line
10 7 (2.39%) PKI
10 7 (2.39%) Public Cloud
11 6 (2.05%) Data Protection Act
11 6 (2.05%) FlexPod
12 5 (1.71%) CMDB
12 5 (1.71%) Mainframe
13 4 (1.37%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 293 (100.00%) Linux
2 102 (34.81%) Windows
3 50 (17.06%) Ubuntu
3 50 (17.06%) Windows Server
4 37 (12.63%) CentOS
5 24 (8.19%) Solaris
6 22 (7.51%) Unix
7 17 (5.80%) VMS
7 17 (5.80%) Windows Server 2019
8 12 (4.10%) Oracle Linux
9 11 (3.75%) AIX
9 11 (3.75%) SUSE
9 11 (3.75%) Windows Server 2008
9 11 (3.75%) Windows Server 2016
10 8 (2.73%) CoreOS
10 8 (2.73%) Rocky
11 7 (2.39%) Debian
11 7 (2.39%) Windows Server 2012
12 6 (2.05%) Data ONTAP
13 5 (1.71%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 104 (35.49%) CI/CD
2 101 (34.47%) DevOps
3 55 (18.77%) Infrastructure as Code
4 52 (17.75%) Agile
5 45 (15.36%) Problem-Solving
6 44 (15.02%) Containerisation
6 44 (15.02%) Migration
7 41 (13.99%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 41 (13.99%) Platform Engineering
8 40 (13.65%) Continuous Improvement
8 40 (13.65%) ITIL
9 39 (13.31%) Configuration Management
10 38 (12.97%) Change Management
11 33 (11.26%) Observability
11 33 (11.26%) Performance Tuning
12 32 (10.92%) Roadmaps
13 31 (10.58%) High Availability
14 29 (9.90%) Runbook
15 28 (9.56%) Software Engineering
16 26 (8.87%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 116 (39.59%) Python
2 74 (25.26%) Bash
3 63 (21.50%) PowerShell
4 34 (11.60%) Shell Script
5 31 (10.58%) Java
6 25 (8.53%) SQL
7 18 (6.14%) Perl
8 13 (4.44%) PL/SQL
9 11 (3.75%) JavaScript
9 11 (3.75%) MATLAB
10 8 (2.73%) Go
10 8 (2.73%) Ruby
11 5 (1.71%) Bicep
12 4 (1.37%) C#
12 4 (1.37%) Korn
13 3 (1.02%) C
13 3 (1.02%) Groovy
13 3 (1.02%) Jython
14 2 (0.68%) C++
15 1 (0.34%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 128 (43.69%) Security Cleared
2 98 (33.45%) SC Cleared
3 34 (11.60%) Degree
4 26 (8.87%) RHCE
5 24 (8.19%) DV Cleared
6 21 (7.17%) CISSP
7 16 (5.46%) Azure Certification
8 14 (4.78%) AWS Certification
9 13 (4.44%) OCP
9 13 (4.44%) Oracle Certification
10 9 (3.07%) Computer Science Degree
11 7 (2.39%) CISM
12 6 (2.05%) CompTIA Security+
13 5 (1.71%) RHCA
14 4 (1.37%) RHCSA
14 4 (1.37%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
15 3 (1.02%) Microsoft Certification
15 3 (1.02%) TOGAF Certification
15 3 (1.02%) VCAP
16 2 (0.68%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (4.78%) SLA
2 7 (2.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (2.39%) NIST
3 5 (1.71%) GRC
3 5 (1.71%) QA
4 4 (1.37%) SOC 2
5 3 (1.02%) HIPAA
5 3 (1.02%) NCSC
6 2 (0.68%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (0.68%) Disclosure Scotland
6 2 (0.68%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.34%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 1 (0.34%) ISO 15022
7 1 (0.34%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.34%) OpenSCAP
7 1 (0.34%) PMO
7 1 (0.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 49 (16.72%) Docker
1 49 (16.72%) VMware Infrastructure
2 34 (11.60%) Active Directory
2 34 (11.60%) Virtual Machines
3 19 (6.48%) NFS
4 17 (5.80%) vSphere
5 16 (5.46%) VMware ESXi
6 11 (3.75%) Oracle RAC
7 9 (3.07%) Hyper-V
8 6 (2.05%) Corosync
8 6 (2.05%) VMware NSX
9 4 (1.37%) Firmware
10 3 (1.02%) Ceph
10 3 (1.02%) QEMU
10 3 (1.02%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 3 (1.02%) Veritas Volume Manager
11 2 (0.68%) Citrix Hypervisor
11 2 (0.68%) KVM
11 2 (0.68%) Samba
11 2 (0.68%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 124 (42.32%) Ansible
2 81 (27.65%) Kubernetes
3 77 (26.28%) Terraform
4 25 (8.53%) Grafana
5 24 (8.19%) Puppet
5 24 (8.19%) Red Hat Satellite
6 19 (6.48%) Prometheus
7 17 (5.80%) Podman
7 17 (5.80%) Progress Chef
8 14 (4.78%) Oracle RMAN
9 11 (3.75%) Check_MK
9 11 (3.75%) Failover Clustering
10 7 (2.39%) Pacemaker
10 7 (2.39%) Packer
11 6 (2.05%) Argo
11 6 (2.05%) SnapMirror
11 6 (2.05%) vCenter Server
11 6 (2.05%) vMotion
12 5 (1.71%) Single Sign-On
12 5 (1.71%) vRealize
Vendors
1 172 (58.70%) Red Hat
2 68 (23.21%) VMware
3 52 (17.75%) Oracle
4 38 (12.97%) Microsoft
5 25 (8.53%) Google
6 22 (7.51%) IBM
7 16 (5.46%) Splunk
8 14 (4.78%) Dell
9 11 (3.75%) Cisco
9 11 (3.75%) NetApp
9 11 (3.75%) ServiceNow
10 10 (3.41%) HP
11 9 (3.07%) Tenable
12 8 (2.73%) SAP
13 7 (2.39%) NVIDIA
13 7 (2.39%) Qualys
14 6 (2.05%) Commvault
14 6 (2.05%) Rapid7
14 6 (2.05%) Veritas
15 5 (1.71%) TOWER Software