Red Hat Contracts

Red Hat
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of Red Hat products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Red Hat over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within Red Hat, Inc.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 265 303 216
Rank change year-on-year +38 -87 +35
Contract jobs citing Red Hat 287 331 741
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.98% 0.76% 1.24%
As % of the Vendors category 2.07% 1.79% 2.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 195 252 570
10th Percentile £400 £350 £425
25th Percentile £448 £413 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £521 £575
Median % change year-on-year +5.52% -9.35% -
75th Percentile £623 £583 £675
90th Percentile £695 £672 £798
UK excluding London median daily rate £547 £525 £540
% change year-on-year +4.24% -2.78% +5.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 6 17
10th Percentile £67.40 £22.84 £25.75
25th Percentile - £32.89 £28.70
Median hourly rate £68.00 £68.22 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -0.32% +29.94% -16.67%
75th Percentile - £74.44 £61.25
90th Percentile £69.50 £75.97 £74.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £68.00 £68.22 £50.75
% change year-on-year -0.32% +34.42% -26.50%

All Vendors
UK

Red Hat falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 13,870 18,503 25,530
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 47.44% 42.44% 42.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,703 11,477 17,115
10th Percentile £288 £263 £273
25th Percentile £406 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £518 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.48% -1.43% -
75th Percentile £619 £627 £650
90th Percentile £713 £738 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +7.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 569 1,097 689
10th Percentile £14.84 £12.08 £15.25
25th Percentile £18.13 £14.48 £19.06
Median hourly rate £27.13 £22.15 £43.75
Median % change year-on-year +22.46% -49.37% +108.33%
75th Percentile £57.50 £57.33 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £70.00 £75.15
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.18 £21.46 £38.50
% change year-on-year +12.67% -44.26% +107.55%

Red Hat
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Red Hat in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Red Hat in the UK

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Red Hat over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Red Hat in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Red Hat in the UK

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Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Red Hat over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Red Hat in the UK

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Top 17 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 within the UK over the 6 months to 30 April 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 +22 244 £550 +4.76% 198
UK excluding London +17 156 £547 +4.24% 155
London +38 103 £590 +15.69% 56
Work from Home +46 96 £550 +7.84% 146
South West +71 39 £615 +17.14% 26
South East -15 33 £550 +4.76% 33
North of England +35 31 £400 -15.74% 36
Scotland +9 22 £522 +46.08% 7
North West +7 19 £393 -12.67% 23
Midlands +4 15 £550 - 42
East of England +23 13 £465 -14.29% 9
Yorkshire +25 11 £405 -22.86% 11
West Midlands +9 11 £551 -5.81% 21
Wales +8 4 - - 1
East Midlands -2 4 £544 +1.59% 21
North East - 1 £550 - 2
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 4

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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 16 (5.57%) Confluence
2 14 (4.88%) JBoss
3 12 (4.18%) Microsoft Exchange
3 12 (4.18%) OpenStack
4 10 (3.48%) Apache
5 9 (3.14%) nginx
6 6 (2.09%) SharePoint
6 6 (2.09%) Skype for Business
7 5 (1.74%) Mattermost
8 4 (1.39%) Cloud Foundry
8 4 (1.39%) Tomcat
8 4 (1.39%) WebLogic
8 4 (1.39%) WebSphere
9 3 (1.05%) WebLogic Portal
10 1 (0.35%) WebSphere Application Server
10 1 (0.35%) WinCC
Applications
1 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (1.05%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.35%) Distributed Ledger
2 1 (0.35%) iTrent
2 1 (0.35%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 90 (31.36%) AWS
2 84 (29.27%) Azure
3 78 (27.18%) OpenShift
4 27 (9.41%) GitHub
5 21 (7.32%) GCP
6 14 (4.88%) AWS CloudFormation
7 13 (4.53%) Amazon EC2
8 12 (4.18%) Amazon EKS
9 11 (3.83%) IaaS
10 10 (3.48%) Microsoft 365
10 10 (3.48%) Nutanix
10 10 (3.48%) SaaS
11 8 (2.79%) Amazon S3
11 8 (2.79%) Cloud Computing
12 7 (2.44%) Azure DevOps
12 7 (2.44%) Azure Stack
12 7 (2.44%) PaaS
13 5 (1.74%) OCI
14 4 (1.39%) Azure Monitor
15 3 (1.05%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 61 (21.25%) TCP/IP
2 60 (20.91%) DNS
3 38 (13.24%) DHCP
4 26 (9.06%) HTTP
5 21 (7.32%) Firewall
5 21 (7.32%) SAN
6 15 (5.23%) NAS
7 8 (2.79%) VSAN
8 7 (2.44%) BGP
8 7 (2.44%) Ethernet VPN
8 7 (2.44%) Internet
8 7 (2.44%) OSPF
9 6 (2.09%) FTP
9 6 (2.09%) Skype
10 5 (1.74%) LAN
10 5 (1.74%) Multicast
10 5 (1.74%) Softphone
10 5 (1.74%) VXLAN
10 5 (1.74%) WAN
10 5 (1.74%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (6.62%) SQL Server
2 15 (5.23%) Elasticsearch
2 15 (5.23%) PostgreSQL
3 13 (4.53%) Relational Database
4 9 (3.14%) Amazon Aurora
4 9 (3.14%) Amazon RDS
4 9 (3.14%) MySQL
4 9 (3.14%) RDBMS
5 6 (2.09%) Oracle Database
6 4 (1.39%) Apache Cassandra
6 4 (1.39%) MongoDB
6 4 (1.39%) Oracle Exadata
6 4 (1.39%) Redis
7 3 (1.05%) Hazelcast
8 2 (0.70%) Big Data
8 2 (0.70%) CockroachDB
8 2 (0.70%) MariaDB
8 2 (0.70%) NoSQL
8 2 (0.70%) Oracle Database 12c
8 2 (0.70%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 42 (14.63%) Jenkins
2 40 (13.94%) Git
3 35 (12.20%) JIRA
4 19 (6.62%) TeamCity
5 15 (5.23%) GitLab
5 15 (5.23%) Sonatype Nexus
6 13 (4.53%) Subversion
7 11 (3.83%) SonarQube
8 10 (3.48%) Bitbucket Server
8 10 (3.48%) CA Release Automation
9 7 (2.44%) Artifactory
10 4 (1.39%) Bitbucket
10 4 (1.39%) Maven
11 3 (1.05%) Eclipse
12 1 (0.35%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 1 (0.35%) Cucumber
12 1 (0.35%) Gradle
12 1 (0.35%) Jasmine
12 1 (0.35%) JUnit
12 1 (0.35%) Serena SBM
General
1 58 (20.21%) Social Skills
2 57 (19.86%) Finance
3 28 (9.76%) Banking
4 11 (3.83%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (3.83%) Telecoms
5 8 (2.79%) Investment Banking
6 7 (2.44%) Documentation Skills
7 6 (2.09%) Law
7 6 (2.09%) Legal
7 6 (2.09%) Public Sector
8 5 (1.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.05%) Marketing
10 2 (0.70%) Back Office
10 2 (0.70%) Electronics
10 2 (0.70%) Front Office
10 2 (0.70%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.35%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.35%) Military
11 1 (0.35%) Retail
Job Titles
1 46 (16.03%) Linux Engineer
2 38 (13.24%) DevOps Engineer
3 36 (12.54%) Senior
4 28 (9.76%) Administrator
5 23 (8.01%) Architect
6 20 (6.97%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 19 (6.62%) Linux Administrator
8 18 (6.27%) Lead
9 16 (5.57%) Support Engineer
10 13 (4.53%) Senior DevOps
10 13 (4.53%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 11 (3.83%) Infrastructure Architect
12 10 (3.48%) Automation Engineer
12 10 (3.48%) Linux Support
13 9 (3.14%) Analyst
13 9 (3.14%) Cloud Engineer
13 9 (3.14%) Platform Engineer
13 9 (3.14%) Product Engineer
13 9 (3.14%) Products Support Engineer
13 9 (3.14%) Software Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (8.71%) Elastic Stack
2 15 (5.23%) Spring Boot
3 14 (4.88%) LDAP
4 13 (4.53%) Spring
5 12 (4.18%) Middleware
6 11 (3.83%) REST
7 8 (2.79%) Kafka
8 5 (1.74%) XMPP
8 5 (1.74%) YAML
9 3 (1.05%) ActiveMQ
9 3 (1.05%) AngularJS
9 3 (1.05%) FIX Protocol
9 3 (1.05%) J2EE
10 2 (0.70%) JSON
10 2 (0.70%) LAMP
10 2 (0.70%) Murex MxML
10 2 (0.70%) Node.js
10 2 (0.70%) XML
11 1 (0.35%) RESTful
11 1 (0.35%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 23 (8.01%) Data Centre
2 21 (7.32%) Public Cloud
3 16 (5.57%) Clustering
4 15 (5.23%) Replication
5 13 (4.53%) Hybrid Cloud
6 10 (3.48%) CSOC
7 9 (3.14%) Enterprise Storage
7 9 (3.14%) Linux Command Line
7 9 (3.14%) Private Cloud
8 8 (2.79%) Data Protection Act
9 7 (2.44%) Cloud Native
10 6 (2.09%) Management Information System
10 6 (2.09%) Product Ownership
11 4 (1.39%) Distributed Computing
11 4 (1.39%) EMC VMAX
12 3 (1.05%) Derivative
12 3 (1.05%) Eurex
12 3 (1.05%) Fixed Income
12 3 (1.05%) Onboarding
13 2 (0.70%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 241 (83.97%) Linux
2 146 (50.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 101 (35.19%) Windows
4 63 (21.95%) Windows Server
5 39 (13.59%) Ubuntu
6 35 (12.20%) CentOS
7 31 (10.80%) Unix
8 28 (9.76%) Solaris
9 14 (4.88%) AIX
10 11 (3.83%) VMS
11 10 (3.48%) Windows Server 2016
12 7 (2.44%) Amazon Linux
13 6 (2.09%) HPUX
14 5 (1.74%) Windows Server 2019
15 4 (1.39%) Debian
15 4 (1.39%) Oracle Linux
16 3 (1.05%) Rocky
16 3 (1.05%) SUSE
17 2 (0.70%) Fedora
17 2 (0.70%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (30.66%) DevOps
2 64 (22.30%) CI/CD
3 61 (21.25%) Problem-Solving
4 59 (20.56%) Containerisation
5 47 (16.38%) High Availability
6 34 (11.85%) Infrastructure as Code
7 30 (10.45%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 29 (10.10%) Agile
8 29 (10.10%) Disaster Recovery
8 29 (10.10%) ITIL
9 28 (9.76%) Configuration Management
9 28 (9.76%) Microservices
10 27 (9.41%) Continuous Integration
10 27 (9.41%) Problem Management
11 26 (9.06%) Migration
12 24 (8.36%) Deployment Automation
12 24 (8.36%) Software Engineering
13 22 (7.67%) Task Automation
14 20 (6.97%) Infrastructure Automation
15 19 (6.62%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 110 (38.33%) Python
2 81 (28.22%) Bash
3 41 (14.29%) Perl
4 39 (13.59%) PowerShell
5 37 (12.89%) Java
6 35 (12.20%) SQL
7 30 (10.45%) Shell Script
8 15 (5.23%) C++
9 13 (4.53%) JavaScript
10 11 (3.83%) Ada
10 11 (3.83%) C
11 6 (2.09%) Ruby
12 4 (1.39%) Scala
13 3 (1.05%) Go
13 3 (1.05%) Korn
14 2 (0.70%) C#
14 2 (0.70%) PL/SQL
15 1 (0.35%) PHP
15 1 (0.35%) T-SQL
15 1 (0.35%) VB
Qualifications
1 98 (34.15%) Security Cleared
2 72 (25.09%) SC Cleared
3 27 (9.41%) DV Cleared
4 13 (4.53%) RHCE
5 10 (3.48%) Degree
6 8 (2.79%) RHCSA
7 6 (2.09%) Cisco Certification
7 6 (2.09%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (1.74%) AWS Certification
8 5 (1.74%) ITIL Certification
9 4 (1.39%) CCIE
9 4 (1.39%) CCIE Data Center
9 4 (1.39%) CCNP
9 4 (1.39%) CISSP
9 4 (1.39%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 3 (1.05%) Azure Certification
10 3 (1.05%) CompTIA Security+
10 3 (1.05%) RHCA
11 2 (0.70%) CCNA
11 2 (0.70%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (4.18%) GDPR
2 9 (3.14%) QA
2 9 (3.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 4 (1.39%) Disclosure Scotland
3 4 (1.39%) NIST
4 2 (0.70%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (0.70%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.35%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (0.35%) SLA
System Software
1 88 (30.66%) Docker
2 80 (27.87%) VMware Infrastructure
3 33 (11.50%) Active Directory
4 23 (8.01%) vSphere
5 20 (6.97%) VMware ESXi
6 19 (6.62%) Hyper-V
7 9 (3.14%) NFS
8 8 (2.79%) Veritas Cluster Server
9 7 (2.44%) Oracle RAC
9 7 (2.44%) VMware NSX
10 5 (1.74%) KVM
10 5 (1.74%) Samba
11 4 (1.39%) Lustre
11 4 (1.39%) Veritas File System
11 4 (1.39%) Veritas Volume Manager
12 3 (1.05%) Ceph
12 3 (1.05%) LXC
13 2 (0.70%) Virtual Machines
14 1 (0.35%) Virtual Desktop
14 1 (0.35%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 133 (46.34%) Ansible
2 111 (38.68%) Kubernetes
3 72 (25.09%) Terraform
4 49 (17.07%) Puppet
5 39 (13.59%) Progress Chef
6 20 (6.97%) Grafana
7 19 (6.62%) Prometheus
8 17 (5.92%) Red Hat Satellite
9 11 (3.83%) Kibana
9 11 (3.83%) Nagios
9 11 (3.83%) vCenter Server
10 9 (3.14%) QRadar
11 8 (2.79%) SELinux
12 7 (2.44%) Data Guard
12 7 (2.44%) Failover Clustering
12 7 (2.44%) Nessus
12 7 (2.44%) Tivoli
12 7 (2.44%) VxRail
12 7 (2.44%) ZABBIX
13 6 (2.09%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 121 (42.16%) VMware
2 47 (16.38%) Splunk
3 42 (14.63%) Oracle
4 33 (11.50%) Microsoft
5 26 (9.06%) Cisco
6 24 (8.36%) ServiceNow
7 19 (6.62%) Dell
7 19 (6.62%) F5
8 18 (6.27%) SolarWinds
9 17 (5.92%) IBM
10 16 (5.57%) EMC
11 15 (5.23%) HP
11 15 (5.23%) NetApp
12 14 (4.88%) AppDynamics
13 13 (4.53%) Veritas
14 11 (3.83%) Palo Alto
15 10 (3.48%) Fortinet
15 10 (3.48%) Google
16 9 (3.14%) CyberArk
16 9 (3.14%) Qualys