Red Hat Contract Job Trends

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 18 September 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
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 317 256 187
Rank change year-on-year -61 -69 +77
Contract jobs citing Red Hat 264 353 678
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.80% 0.92% 1.38%
As % of the Vendors category 1.69% 2.08% 3.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 166 221 505
10th Percentile £350 £363 £413
25th Percentile £418 £450 £483
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £515 £575
Median % change year-on-year -0.97% -10.43% +4.55%
75th Percentile £583 £610 £700
90th Percentile £653 £738 £810
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £515 £550
% change year-on-year -2.91% -6.36% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 6 4
10th Percentile - £69.50 -
25th Percentile - - £51.25
Median hourly rate £68.00 £74.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -8.11% +40.95% -28.08%
75th Percentile - £74.44 £53.75
90th Percentile - £74.72 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £68.00 £74.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year -8.11% +40.95% -32.26%

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 15,579 17,006 21,896
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 47.28% 44.16% 44.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,565 10,199 14,188
10th Percentile £275 £281 £263
25th Percentile £400 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -0.94%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £700 £731 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £478 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -4.40% - +3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 796 678 648
10th Percentile £14.72 £14.26 £15.21
25th Percentile £17.45 £15.62 £18.63
Median hourly rate £25.15 £30.00 £43.90
Median % change year-on-year -16.17% -31.66% +83.61%
75th Percentile £43.75 £63.75 £64.50
90th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £75.08
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.28 £30.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -29.07% -29.41% +112.50%

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

Red Hat
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Red Hat.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Red Hat

Red Hat
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for Red Hat in the UK

Red Hat
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Red Hat.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Red Hat

Red Hat
Top 17 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 within the UK over the 6 months to 18 September 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 -41 235 £511 -1.68% 90
UK excluding London -47 174 £500 -2.91% 79
Work from Home +39 100 £525 +10.53% 39
London +3 73 £550 +6.28% 29
South East +8 60 £500 -1.96% 17
North of England +5 49 £513 -0.49% 12
South West -11 23 £488 -7.14% 35
North West -3 22 £447 +2.17% 11
Midlands -51 20 £498 -14.96% 4
Yorkshire -17 18 £513 -0.49%
West Midlands -41 12 £563 -10.71%
Scotland -25 9 £513 +24.24% 3
North East - 9 £550 - 1
East of England -2 8 £350 -36.36% 2
East Midlands -7 8 £435 -12.65% 4
Northern Ireland - 6 £350 - 4
Wales +5 1 - - 2

Red Hat
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 12 (4.55%) Confluence
2 9 (3.41%) Apache
2 9 (3.41%) JBoss
2 9 (3.41%) Mattermost
2 9 (3.41%) Skype for Business
3 4 (1.52%) nginx
3 4 (1.52%) Tomcat
3 4 (1.52%) WebSphere
4 3 (1.14%) OpenStack
4 3 (1.14%) WebSphere Application Server
5 2 (0.76%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.76%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.76%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.38%) Appian
6 1 (0.38%) IBM HTTP Server
6 1 (0.38%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (0.38%) WebLogic
6 1 (0.38%) WebLogic Portal
Business Applications
1 1 (0.38%) Distributed Ledger
1 1 (0.38%) Maximo
1 1 (0.38%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 66 (25.00%) OpenShift
2 47 (17.80%) AWS
3 41 (15.53%) Azure
4 24 (9.09%) Amazon EKS
5 20 (7.58%) GitHub
6 14 (5.30%) Amazon EC2
7 12 (4.55%) GCP
8 9 (3.41%) AWS CloudFormation
8 9 (3.41%) SaaS
9 8 (3.03%) CloudBees
10 7 (2.65%) Amazon S3
11 5 (1.89%) IBM Cloud
12 4 (1.52%) Azure AKS
12 4 (1.52%) Azure Monitor
12 4 (1.52%) Cloud Computing
12 4 (1.52%) IaaS
12 4 (1.52%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 3 (1.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 3 (1.14%) Azure DevOps
13 3 (1.14%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 34 (12.88%) DNS
2 27 (10.23%) TCP/IP
3 26 (9.85%) SAN
4 25 (9.47%) Firewall
5 15 (5.68%) Internet
6 9 (3.41%) HTTP
6 9 (3.41%) Skype
6 9 (3.41%) Softphone
6 9 (3.41%) Unified Communications
6 9 (3.41%) WebEx
7 8 (3.03%) DHCP
8 7 (2.65%) SSL
9 6 (2.27%) DKIM
9 6 (2.27%) DMARC
9 6 (2.27%) SMTP
9 6 (2.27%) VSAN
10 4 (1.52%) BGP
10 4 (1.52%) Ethernet VPN
10 4 (1.52%) NAS
11 3 (1.14%) Fibre Channel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (6.44%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (5.30%) Oracle Database
3 11 (4.17%) Elasticsearch
4 10 (3.79%) MongoDB
5 9 (3.41%) Amazon Aurora
5 9 (3.41%) Amazon RDS
6 8 (3.03%) Relational Database
7 7 (2.65%) RDBMS
8 6 (2.27%) MySQL
9 5 (1.89%) Redis
10 4 (1.52%) SQL Server
11 3 (1.14%) Apache Cassandra
11 3 (1.14%) InfluxDB
11 3 (1.14%) Oracle Exadata
12 2 (0.76%) Big Data
12 2 (0.76%) GIS
12 2 (0.76%) Hadoop
12 2 (0.76%) NoSQL
12 2 (0.76%) Oracle BI Publisher
12 2 (0.76%) Oracle Database 12c
Development Applications
1 61 (23.11%) Jenkins
2 26 (9.85%) Git
3 25 (9.47%) GitLab
4 21 (7.95%) JIRA
5 14 (5.30%) Sonatype Nexus
6 11 (4.17%) SonarQube
7 10 (3.79%) TeamCity
8 6 (2.27%) Artifactory
9 5 (1.89%) Bitbucket Server
9 5 (1.89%) CA Release Automation
9 5 (1.89%) Gradle
9 5 (1.89%) Maven
9 5 (1.89%) Subversion
10 4 (1.52%) Postman
10 4 (1.52%) Visual Studio Code
11 3 (1.14%) Bitbucket
11 3 (1.14%) Log4j
11 3 (1.14%) Oracle APEX
11 3 (1.14%) Poetry
11 3 (1.14%) PyCharm
General
1 59 (22.35%) Social Skills
2 39 (14.77%) Finance
3 21 (7.95%) Public Sector
4 10 (3.79%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (3.79%) Documentation Skills
5 9 (3.41%) Banking
6 7 (2.65%) Financial Institution
7 5 (1.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (1.89%) Law
7 5 (1.89%) Telecoms
8 3 (1.14%) Manufacturing
8 3 (1.14%) Military
9 2 (0.76%) Aerospace
9 2 (0.76%) French Language
9 2 (0.76%) Front Office
10 1 (0.38%) Back Office
10 1 (0.38%) Legal
10 1 (0.38%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 36 (13.64%) Linux Engineer
2 35 (13.26%) DevOps Engineer
3 29 (10.98%) Senior
3 29 (10.98%) Support Engineer
4 27 (10.23%) Administrator
5 20 (7.58%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 18 (6.82%) Developer
7 17 (6.44%) Architect
8 16 (6.06%) Platform Engineer
9 12 (4.55%) Analyst
9 12 (4.55%) Product Engineer
9 12 (4.55%) Products Support Engineer
9 12 (4.55%) Software Support Engineer
10 11 (4.17%) Consultant
10 11 (4.17%) Operations Engineer
11 10 (3.79%) Automation Engineer
11 10 (3.79%) Linux Administrator
12 9 (3.41%) Data Engineer
12 9 (3.41%) Kubernetes Engineer
12 9 (3.41%) Messaging Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (9.47%) Elastic Stack
2 21 (7.95%) Middleware
3 17 (6.44%) React
4 15 (5.68%) Kafka
4 15 (5.68%) Keycloak
5 11 (4.17%) REST
5 11 (4.17%) Spring Boot
6 9 (3.41%) Spring
6 9 (3.41%) XMPP
7 8 (3.03%) YAML
8 7 (2.65%) JSON
9 6 (2.27%) HTML
10 5 (1.89%) ARM Templates
10 5 (1.89%) CSS
10 5 (1.89%) LDAP
10 5 (1.89%) OAuth
10 5 (1.89%) RESTful
11 4 (1.52%) AngularJS
11 4 (1.52%) Loki
11 4 (1.52%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 13 (4.92%) Cloud Native
1 13 (4.92%) Management Information System
1 13 (4.92%) Private Cloud
2 12 (4.55%) Data Centre
3 11 (4.17%) Product Ownership
4 9 (3.41%) Enterprise Storage
4 9 (3.41%) Legacy Systems
5 8 (3.03%) Clustering
5 8 (3.03%) Hedge funds
5 8 (3.03%) Onboarding
6 6 (2.27%) Replication
7 5 (1.89%) Hybrid Cloud
7 5 (1.89%) Public Cloud
8 4 (1.52%) Data Protection Act
8 4 (1.52%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (1.52%) Linux Command Line
8 4 (1.52%) PKI
8 4 (1.52%) Security Posture
9 3 (1.14%) HP Storage
10 2 (0.76%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 207 (78.41%) Linux
2 126 (47.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 54 (20.45%) Windows
4 29 (10.98%) Ubuntu
5 25 (9.47%) CentOS
5 25 (9.47%) Unix
5 25 (9.47%) Windows Server
6 19 (7.20%) Solaris
7 15 (5.68%) Windows Server 2016
8 8 (3.03%) Windows Server 2019
9 7 (2.65%) Oracle Linux
9 7 (2.65%) Windows Server 2012
10 5 (1.89%) AIX
10 5 (1.89%) Debian
11 3 (1.14%) Amazon Linux
11 3 (1.14%) Mac OS
11 3 (1.14%) OpenVMS
11 3 (1.14%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
11 3 (1.14%) Windows 10
12 2 (0.76%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 91 (34.47%) CI/CD
2 79 (29.92%) DevOps
3 58 (21.97%) Infrastructure as Code
4 53 (20.08%) Problem-Solving
5 52 (19.70%) Migration
6 46 (17.42%) Containerisation
7 44 (16.67%) Configuration Management
8 33 (12.50%) Agile
9 32 (12.12%) ITIL
10 30 (11.36%) Disaster Recovery
11 29 (10.98%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 27 (10.23%) High Availability
13 25 (9.47%) Platform Engineering
14 23 (8.71%) Microservices
15 22 (8.33%) Deployment Automation
15 22 (8.33%) Problem Management
15 22 (8.33%) Scrum
15 22 (8.33%) Software Engineering
16 21 (7.95%) Continuous Integration
17 19 (7.20%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 96 (36.36%) Python
2 67 (25.38%) Bash
3 43 (16.29%) PowerShell
4 42 (15.91%) Shell Script
5 40 (15.15%) SQL
6 32 (12.12%) JavaScript
7 30 (11.36%) Java
8 24 (9.09%) Perl
9 19 (7.20%) C
10 14 (5.30%) C++
11 12 (4.55%) Ada
11 12 (4.55%) C#
12 6 (2.27%) Ruby
13 4 (1.52%) Bicep
13 4 (1.52%) PL/SQL
14 3 (1.14%) Groovy
15 2 (0.76%) AWK
15 2 (0.76%) sed
16 1 (0.38%) COBOL
16 1 (0.38%) PHP
Qualifications
1 79 (29.92%) Security Cleared
2 66 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 16 (6.06%) DV Cleared
4 10 (3.79%) RHCE
5 9 (3.41%) BPSS Clearance
5 9 (3.41%) ITIL Certification
6 8 (3.03%) Degree
7 7 (2.65%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (1.89%) RHCSA
9 3 (1.14%) AWS Certification
9 3 (1.14%) Azure Certification
9 3 (1.14%) CISSP
9 3 (1.14%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.76%) CCIE
10 2 (0.76%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (0.76%) IBM Certification
10 2 (0.76%) JNCIE
10 2 (0.76%) TOGAF Certification
10 2 (0.76%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 1 (0.38%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (2.65%) QA
2 4 (1.52%) GDPR
2 4 (1.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 2 (0.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (0.76%) NIST
4 1 (0.38%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (0.38%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (0.38%) ISO 15022
4 1 (0.38%) ISO 20022
4 1 (0.38%) ISO 9001
4 1 (0.38%) NIST 800
4 1 (0.38%) WCAG
System Software
1 43 (16.29%) Docker
2 34 (12.88%) VMware Infrastructure
3 22 (8.33%) Active Directory
4 9 (3.41%) KVM
5 8 (3.03%) Hyper-V
6 6 (2.27%) Dovecot
6 6 (2.27%) NFS
6 6 (2.27%) Postfix
6 6 (2.27%) vSphere
7 5 (1.89%) Virtual Machines
7 5 (1.89%) VMware ESXi
8 4 (1.52%) Oracle RAC
8 4 (1.52%) Veritas Cluster Server
8 4 (1.52%) Veritas File System
8 4 (1.52%) Veritas Volume Manager
9 3 (1.14%) GPFS
10 2 (0.76%) Ceph
11 1 (0.38%) LXC
11 1 (0.38%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 99 (37.50%) Ansible
2 92 (34.85%) Kubernetes
3 56 (21.21%) Terraform
4 28 (10.61%) Prometheus
5 24 (9.09%) Grafana
6 19 (7.20%) Progress Chef
6 19 (7.20%) Red Hat Satellite
7 18 (6.82%) Puppet
8 17 (6.44%) Argo
9 14 (5.30%) NetBackup
10 12 (4.55%) Istio
11 11 (4.17%) SCOM
12 7 (2.65%) EMC NetWorker
12 7 (2.65%) EMC VPLEX
13 6 (2.27%) Kibana
13 6 (2.27%) Nagios
14 5 (1.89%) Data Guard
14 5 (1.89%) Packer
15 4 (1.52%) QRadar
16 3 (1.14%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 67 (25.38%) VMware
2 33 (12.50%) Splunk
3 32 (12.12%) Microsoft
4 29 (10.98%) Oracle
5 23 (8.71%) Cisco
6 16 (6.06%) Veritas
7 15 (5.68%) Dell
8 14 (5.30%) IBM
9 13 (4.92%) Commvault
10 10 (3.79%) HP
11 8 (3.03%) EMC
12 7 (2.65%) 3PAR
12 7 (2.65%) Brocade
12 7 (2.65%) Isilon
12 7 (2.65%) NetApp
13 6 (2.27%) AppDynamics
13 6 (2.27%) Broadcom
13 6 (2.27%) Cloudera
13 6 (2.27%) Nimble Storage
14 5 (1.89%) Qualys