Red Hat Enterprise Linux Contracts

Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Red Hat Enterprise Linux skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Red Hat Enterprise Linux over the 6 months leading up to 18 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 259 318 209
Rank change year-on-year +59 -109 +71
Contract jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 300 270 743
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.02% 0.63% 1.31%
As % of the Operating Systems category 7.32% 4.76% 8.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 219 202 560
10th Percentile £400 £350 £413
25th Percentile £448 £427 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £513 £600
Median % change year-on-year +7.32% -14.58% +4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £600 £688
90th Percentile £728 £661 £798
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £530 £550
% change year-on-year +3.77% -3.64% +1.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 9
10th Percentile - £65.18 £49.56
25th Percentile - £67.31 £51.25
Median hourly rate - £72.75 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year - +38.57% +7.14%
75th Percentile - £76.31 £53.75
90th Percentile - £77.33 £57.90
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £72.75 £52.32
% change year-on-year - +39.06% +14.98%

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 4,100 5,668 9,202
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 13.93% 13.30% 16.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,693 3,828 6,430
10th Percentile £200 £185 £190
25th Percentile £313 £300 £331
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £467 £470 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.74% -6.00% -
75th Percentile £588 £588 £638
90th Percentile £688 £700 £719
UK excluding London median daily rate £448 £450 £473
% change year-on-year -0.56% -4.76% +11.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 178 392 404
10th Percentile £15.25 £12.75 £13.97
25th Percentile £17.53 £15.44 £17.72
Median hourly rate £22.53 £22.00 £38.50
Median % change year-on-year +2.41% -42.86% +71.11%
75th Percentile £56.88 £60.75 £64.50
90th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.90 £22.50 £29.30
% change year-on-year -2.67% -23.21% +46.50%

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Red Hat Enterprise Linux in the UK

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

Daily rate trend for Red Hat Enterprise Linux in the UK

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux over the 6 months to 18 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Red Hat Enterprise Linux in the UK

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

Hourly rate trend for Red Hat Enterprise Linux in the UK

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Top 16 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 6 months to 18 May 2025. 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 +58 236 £551 +5.96% 205
UK excluding London +26 151 £550 +3.77% 178
Work from Home +77 108 £537 +13.05% 117
London +51 89 £595 +16.67% 69
North of England +58 50 £500 +0.25% 32
Scotland +8 30 £472 -4.65% 12
South East -8 28 £550 - 61
North West +31 26 £492 -4.00% 16
South West +49 21 £615 +2.50% 21
Yorkshire +30 20 £519 +12.16% 13
Midlands +7 16 £540 +8.43% 27
West Midlands +8 14 £540 -1.82% 10
East of England +16 4 £600 +36.36% 20
North East - 4 £570 - 3
East Midlands -1 2 £506 +12.69% 15
Northern Ireland - 2 £350 - 8

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

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

Application Platforms
1 24 (8.00%) Confluence
2 21 (7.00%) Apache Spark
3 17 (5.67%) JBoss
4 15 (5.00%) Apache
5 10 (3.33%) Documentum
5 10 (3.33%) FileNet
6 9 (3.00%) nginx
7 6 (2.00%) Microsoft Exchange
7 6 (2.00%) Tomcat
8 5 (1.67%) OpenStack
8 5 (1.67%) WebLogic
9 4 (1.33%) SharePoint
9 4 (1.33%) WebSphere
10 3 (1.00%) Traefik
11 2 (0.67%) CMS
11 2 (0.67%) WebSphere Application Server
12 1 (0.33%) IBM HTTP Server
12 1 (0.33%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 1 (0.33%) SAS
12 1 (0.33%) Skype for Business
Cloud Services
1 106 (35.33%) AWS
2 71 (23.67%) Azure
3 44 (14.67%) OpenShift
4 24 (8.00%) AWS CloudFormation
5 23 (7.67%) Amazon EC2
6 20 (6.67%) GitHub
7 17 (5.67%) Amazon S3
7 17 (5.67%) GCP
8 16 (5.33%) Serverless
9 15 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
10 13 (4.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 13 (4.33%) Amazon ECS
10 13 (4.33%) Slack
11 12 (4.00%) Cloud Computing
12 11 (3.67%) Amazon SQS
12 11 (3.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 10 (3.33%) Google Kubernetes Engine
14 7 (2.33%) AWS Fargate
14 7 (2.33%) Azure Monitor
14 7 (2.33%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 50 (16.67%) DNS
2 37 (12.33%) DHCP
3 35 (11.67%) TCP/IP
4 23 (7.67%) HTTP
5 21 (7.00%) Firewall
6 12 (4.00%) SAN
7 9 (3.00%) NAS
8 8 (2.67%) VPN
9 4 (1.33%) FTP
9 4 (1.33%) VSAN
10 2 (0.67%) BIG-IP
10 2 (0.67%) Kerberos
10 2 (0.67%) LAN
10 2 (0.67%) Network Security
10 2 (0.67%) SMTP
10 2 (0.67%) SSH
10 2 (0.67%) SSL
10 2 (0.67%) tcpdump
10 2 (0.67%) Telnet
10 2 (0.67%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (11.67%) Elasticsearch
2 33 (11.00%) PostgreSQL
3 30 (10.00%) MongoDB
4 29 (9.67%) SQL Server
5 24 (8.00%) MySQL
6 19 (6.33%) Hadoop
7 15 (5.00%) Big Data
7 15 (5.00%) Relational Database
8 14 (4.67%) Apache Cassandra
9 9 (3.00%) RDBMS
10 5 (1.67%) Data Lake
10 5 (1.67%) Oracle Database
11 4 (1.33%) Data Warehouse
11 4 (1.33%) Oracle Exadata
12 3 (1.00%) InfluxDB
12 3 (1.00%) MariaDB
12 3 (1.00%) NoSQL
12 3 (1.00%) Oracle Database 12c
12 3 (1.00%) Power BI
12 3 (1.00%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 55 (18.33%) Jenkins
2 46 (15.33%) GitLab
3 44 (14.67%) Git
4 37 (12.33%) JIRA
5 17 (5.67%) SonarQube
6 16 (5.33%) Sonatype Nexus
7 14 (4.67%) Cucumber
7 14 (4.67%) TeamCity
8 12 (4.00%) Artifactory
8 12 (4.00%) Jasmine
8 12 (4.00%) JUnit
9 10 (3.33%) Bitbucket Server
9 10 (3.33%) CA Release Automation
10 5 (1.67%) Bitbucket
10 5 (1.67%) Subversion
11 3 (1.00%) Eclipse
11 3 (1.00%) Gradle
12 2 (0.67%) HP UFT
12 2 (0.67%) LoadRunner
12 2 (0.67%) Maven
General
1 69 (23.00%) Social Skills
2 56 (18.67%) Finance
3 35 (11.67%) Banking
4 33 (11.00%) Public Sector
5 28 (9.33%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (2.00%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (1.67%) Telecoms
8 4 (1.33%) Electronics
8 4 (1.33%) Financial Institution
8 4 (1.33%) Manufacturing
8 4 (1.33%) Marketing
8 4 (1.33%) Military
9 3 (1.00%) Front Office
9 3 (1.00%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (1.00%) Law
9 3 (1.00%) Legal
10 2 (0.67%) Back Office
10 2 (0.67%) French Language
10 2 (0.67%) German Language
11 1 (0.33%) Retail
Job Titles
1 47 (15.67%) DevOps Engineer
1 47 (15.67%) Linux Engineer
2 39 (13.00%) Senior
3 24 (8.00%) Architect
4 23 (7.67%) Developer
5 22 (7.33%) Lead
6 17 (5.67%) Kubernetes Engineer
7 16 (5.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 15 (5.00%) AWS Engineer
8 15 (5.00%) Senior DevOps
9 14 (4.67%) AWS DevOps
9 14 (4.67%) Java Developer
10 13 (4.33%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 12 (4.00%) Azure Engineer
11 12 (4.00%) Consultant
11 12 (4.00%) Infrastructure Architect
11 12 (4.00%) Platform Engineer
12 10 (3.33%) Administrator
12 10 (3.33%) Senior Developer
12 10 (3.33%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (9.00%) Spring Boot
2 18 (6.00%) Spring
3 17 (5.67%) Elastic Stack
4 16 (5.33%) OpenTelemetry
5 14 (4.67%) Spring Batch
5 14 (4.67%) Spring Security
6 13 (4.33%) RESTful
7 12 (4.00%) OpenAPI
7 12 (4.00%) Swagger
8 11 (3.67%) cloud-init
9 10 (3.33%) Kafka
9 10 (3.33%) LDAP
10 8 (2.67%) .NET
11 7 (2.33%) RabbitMQ
12 6 (2.00%) Middleware
13 4 (1.33%) HTML
13 4 (1.33%) IBM Integration Bus
13 4 (1.33%) LAMP
13 4 (1.33%) OAuth
13 4 (1.33%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 22 (7.33%) Data Centre
2 18 (6.00%) Replication
3 13 (4.33%) Enterprise Storage
4 12 (4.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 10 (3.33%) CSOC
6 9 (3.00%) Clustering
7 8 (2.67%) Cloud Native
7 8 (2.67%) Public Cloud
8 7 (2.33%) Data Protection Act
8 7 (2.33%) Enterprise Software
8 7 (2.33%) Mainframe
9 6 (2.00%) Client/Server
9 6 (2.00%) Private Cloud
10 5 (1.67%) PKI
11 4 (1.33%) EMC VMAX
11 4 (1.33%) Legacy Systems
12 3 (1.00%) Derivative
12 3 (1.00%) Hedge funds
12 3 (1.00%) Management Information System
13 2 (0.67%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 300 (100.00%) Linux
2 114 (38.00%) Windows
3 55 (18.33%) Windows Server
4 44 (14.67%) Unix
5 26 (8.67%) Solaris
6 25 (8.33%) CentOS
7 13 (4.33%) AIX
8 12 (4.00%) HPUX
8 12 (4.00%) VMS
9 9 (3.00%) Rocky
10 8 (2.67%) Ubuntu
11 5 (1.67%) SUSE
11 5 (1.67%) Windows Server 2019
12 4 (1.33%) Amazon Linux
12 4 (1.33%) Oracle Linux
13 3 (1.00%) Mac OS
14 2 (0.67%) Data ONTAP
15 1 (0.33%) Alpine Linux
15 1 (0.33%) CoreOS
15 1 (0.33%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 104 (34.67%) DevOps
2 103 (34.33%) CI/CD
3 62 (20.67%) Containerisation
4 53 (17.67%) Agile
5 50 (16.67%) High Availability
6 48 (16.00%) Infrastructure as Code
7 46 (15.33%) Microservices
8 45 (15.00%) Problem-Solving
9 43 (14.33%) Migration
10 34 (11.33%) Continuous Integration
11 33 (11.00%) Observability
12 30 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 30 (10.00%) Service Management
13 27 (9.00%) Software Engineering
14 25 (8.33%) Test Automation
15 24 (8.00%) Disaster Recovery
16 23 (7.67%) Performance Tuning
17 20 (6.67%) Deployment Automation
17 20 (6.67%) Technical Leadership
18 18 (6.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 111 (37.00%) Python
2 89 (29.67%) Bash
3 50 (16.67%) Java
4 39 (13.00%) PowerShell
4 39 (13.00%) SQL
5 23 (7.67%) Perl
6 16 (5.33%) Shell Script
7 12 (4.00%) Go
8 11 (3.67%) Ruby
9 10 (3.33%) Rust
10 7 (2.33%) Groovy
11 6 (2.00%) C#
11 6 (2.00%) VBScript
12 5 (1.67%) C++
13 4 (1.33%) JavaScript
13 4 (1.33%) PHP
14 2 (0.67%) VB
15 1 (0.33%) C
15 1 (0.33%) PL/SQL
15 1 (0.33%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 112 (37.33%) Security Cleared
2 80 (26.67%) SC Cleared
3 29 (9.67%) DV Cleared
4 13 (4.33%) RHCE
5 9 (3.00%) Degree
6 6 (2.00%) CISSP
7 5 (1.67%) AWS Certification
7 5 (1.67%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 4 (1.33%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (1.33%) CISM
8 4 (1.33%) RHCSA
9 3 (1.00%) Azure Certification
9 3 (1.00%) Cisco Certification
9 3 (1.00%) Computer Science Degree
10 2 (0.67%) CCNA
10 2 (0.67%) CompTIA Security+
10 2 (0.67%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.67%) Oracle Certification
11 1 (0.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.33%) CASP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (2.67%) GDPR
2 6 (2.00%) Disclosure Scotland
2 6 (2.00%) PCI DSS
2 6 (2.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 5 (1.67%) NCSC
3 5 (1.67%) NIST
4 3 (1.00%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.00%) QA
5 2 (0.67%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (0.67%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.33%) ISO 15022
6 1 (0.33%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 84 (28.00%) Docker
2 60 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 30 (10.00%) Active Directory
4 17 (5.67%) Hyper-V
5 16 (5.33%) VMware ESXi
6 12 (4.00%) vSphere
7 8 (2.67%) Oracle RAC
8 7 (2.33%) NFS
8 7 (2.33%) Veritas Cluster Server
9 4 (1.33%) Virtual Machines
10 3 (1.00%) Apache ZooKeeper
10 3 (1.00%) vCloud
10 3 (1.00%) VMware NSX
10 3 (1.00%) VMware Workstation
11 2 (0.67%) Samba
11 2 (0.67%) Veritas File System
11 2 (0.67%) Veritas Volume Manager
12 1 (0.33%) Firmware
12 1 (0.33%) Gluster
12 1 (0.33%) KVM
Systems Management
1 117 (39.00%) Ansible
1 117 (39.00%) Kubernetes
2 104 (34.67%) Terraform
3 35 (11.67%) Puppet
4 30 (10.00%) Grafana
5 21 (7.00%) Kibana
6 20 (6.67%) Argo
7 19 (6.33%) Progress Chef
8 18 (6.00%) Packer
9 13 (4.33%) Prometheus
10 9 (3.00%) Data Guard
10 9 (3.00%) Red Hat Satellite
11 8 (2.67%) SELinux
12 7 (2.33%) Consul
13 6 (2.00%) Failover Clustering
13 6 (2.00%) HAProxy
14 5 (1.67%) EMC NetWorker
14 5 (1.67%) NetBackup
14 5 (1.67%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
14 5 (1.67%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 146 (48.67%) Red Hat
2 86 (28.67%) VMware
3 47 (15.67%) Oracle
4 41 (13.67%) Splunk
5 22 (7.33%) Microsoft
5 22 (7.33%) ServiceNow
6 21 (7.00%) IBM
7 19 (6.33%) AppDynamics
8 17 (5.67%) Cisco
8 17 (5.67%) HP
8 17 (5.67%) SolarWinds
9 14 (4.67%) Veritas
10 13 (4.33%) Dell
10 13 (4.33%) F5
11 12 (4.00%) Dynatrace
11 12 (4.00%) Google
12 11 (3.67%) EMC
12 11 (3.67%) Palo Alto
13 10 (3.33%) SAP
13 10 (3.33%) Sun