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 17 November 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
17 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 298 246 177
Rank change year-on-year -52 -69 +76
Contract jobs citing Red Hat 307 373 675
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.87% 1.03% 1.44%
As % of the Vendors category 1.84% 2.29% 3.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 210 233 516
10th Percentile £357 £370 £400
25th Percentile £425 £455 £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.79% -2.27% -
75th Percentile £600 £653 £670
90th Percentile £660 £810 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £513 £525 £528
% change year-on-year -2.38% -0.47% +0.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 9 3
10th Percentile £51.25 £63.88 £20.56
25th Percentile £57.50 £68.00 £20.66
Median hourly rate £68.00 £74.00 £22.28
Median % change year-on-year -8.11% +232.21% -69.49%
75th Percentile - £75.00 £24.45
90th Percentile £69.99 £112.00 £24.89
UK excluding London median hourly rate £68.00 £74.00 £22.28
% change year-on-year -8.11% +232.21% -70.69%

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 16,682 16,311 21,309
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 47.51% 44.95% 45.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,492 9,586 13,695
10th Percentile £286 £300 £259
25th Percentile £405 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -1.55%
75th Percentile £612 £625 £638
90th Percentile £700 £720 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.60% - +1.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 859 511 685
10th Percentile £15.30 £15.62 £14.93
25th Percentile £18.06 £18.63 £20.00
Median hourly rate £25.00 £30.45 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -17.90% -31.57% +76.24%
75th Percentile £40.33 £63.15 £63.75
90th Percentile £70.00 £74.00 £76.53
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.08 £28.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -21.16% -37.08% +102.27%

Red Hat
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Red Hat relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Red Hat job vacancy trend 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

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Red Hat over the 6 months to 17 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Red Hat in the UK

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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
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Red Hat over the 6 months to 17 November 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Red Hat in the UK

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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 within the UK over the 6 months to 17 November 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 -67 282 £525 -4.55% 130
UK excluding London -55 211 £513 -2.38% 81
Work from Home +7 99 £525 +5.00% 71
London -26 79 £550 -6.38% 65
South East -3 72 £485 -14.91% 34
North of England -11 63 £525 +1.45% 13
South West -21 37 £599 +14.10% 12
Yorkshire -28 29 £520 +0.97% 1
Midlands -53 22 £450 -24.53% 9
North West -16 20 £550 +10.00% 9
North East +9 17 £550 - 3
West Midlands -52 13 £563 -10.71% 9
East Midlands -14 9 £420 -19.23%
East of England -19 8 £373 -25.50% 8
Scotland -25 7 £500 +5.26% 2
Northern Ireland - 5 £350 - 6

Red Hat
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 18 (5.86%) Confluence
2 13 (4.23%) Microsoft Exchange
3 12 (3.91%) Apache
4 7 (2.28%) SharePoint
5 6 (1.95%) JBoss
6 4 (1.30%) nginx
7 3 (0.98%) Tomcat
7 3 (0.98%) WebSphere
7 3 (0.98%) WebSphere Application Server
8 2 (0.65%) Apache Airflow
8 2 (0.65%) Apache Spark
8 2 (0.65%) Appian
8 2 (0.65%) Mattermost
8 2 (0.65%) OpenStack
8 2 (0.65%) Skype for Business
9 1 (0.33%) SharePoint Server
9 1 (0.33%) WebLogic
Applications
1 3 (0.98%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (0.98%) Maximo
2 1 (0.33%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 98 (31.92%) OpenShift
2 59 (19.22%) Azure
3 55 (17.92%) AWS
4 41 (13.36%) GitHub
5 22 (7.17%) GCP
6 17 (5.54%) Amazon EKS
7 11 (3.58%) Amazon EC2
8 10 (3.26%) Amazon S3
8 10 (3.26%) CloudBees
8 10 (3.26%) SaaS
9 8 (2.61%) IaaS
10 7 (2.28%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 6 (1.95%) Azure Monitor
11 6 (1.95%) Entra ID
11 6 (1.95%) GitHub Actions
12 5 (1.63%) Azure AKS
12 5 (1.63%) IBM Cloud
13 4 (1.30%) Azure DevOps
13 4 (1.30%) Cohesity
13 4 (1.30%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 38 (12.38%) DNS
2 32 (10.42%) Firewall
3 22 (7.17%) SAN
4 21 (6.84%) TCP/IP
5 10 (3.26%) DHCP
6 9 (2.93%) Internet
6 9 (2.93%) VLAN
7 8 (2.61%) BGP
7 8 (2.61%) Software-Defined Networking
7 8 (2.61%) SSL
7 8 (2.61%) WebEx
8 6 (1.95%) DKIM
8 6 (1.95%) DMARC
8 6 (1.95%) Network Security
8 6 (1.95%) SMTP
9 5 (1.63%) Skype
9 5 (1.63%) VPN
9 5 (1.63%) VSAN
10 4 (1.30%) NAS
11 3 (0.98%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (8.14%) PostgreSQL
2 15 (4.89%) MongoDB
3 12 (3.91%) Oracle Database
4 10 (3.26%) Elasticsearch
5 9 (2.93%) Relational Database
6 7 (2.28%) RDBMS
6 7 (2.28%) Redis
7 6 (1.95%) MySQL
8 5 (1.63%) SQL Server
9 3 (0.98%) Amazon Aurora
9 3 (0.98%) Amazon RDS
9 3 (0.98%) Apache Cassandra
9 3 (0.98%) Oracle Exadata
10 2 (0.65%) Big Data
10 2 (0.65%) Delta Lake
10 2 (0.65%) Hadoop
10 2 (0.65%) InfluxDB
10 2 (0.65%) MariaDB
10 2 (0.65%) Oracle BI Publisher
10 2 (0.65%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 61 (19.87%) Jenkins
2 33 (10.75%) Git
3 30 (9.77%) GitLab
4 24 (7.82%) JIRA
5 14 (4.56%) SonarQube
6 13 (4.23%) Sonatype Nexus
7 9 (2.93%) Artifactory
7 9 (2.93%) TeamCity
8 5 (1.63%) Subversion
9 4 (1.30%) Bitbucket Server
9 4 (1.30%) CA Release Automation
9 4 (1.30%) Gradle
9 4 (1.30%) Maven
9 4 (1.30%) Postman
9 4 (1.30%) Visual Studio Code
10 3 (0.98%) Log4j
10 3 (0.98%) Mockito
10 3 (0.98%) Oracle APEX
10 3 (0.98%) Poetry
10 3 (0.98%) PyCharm
General
1 82 (26.71%) Social Skills
2 33 (10.75%) Finance
3 32 (10.42%) Public Sector
4 24 (7.82%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (2.93%) Banking
6 7 (2.28%) Documentation Skills
6 7 (2.28%) Financial Institution
7 6 (1.95%) Legal
8 5 (1.63%) Aerospace
8 5 (1.63%) Manufacturing
9 4 (1.30%) Telecoms
10 3 (0.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.65%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (0.65%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.33%) Automotive
12 1 (0.33%) Aviation
12 1 (0.33%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.33%) Law
Job Titles
1 33 (10.75%) Administrator
1 33 (10.75%) DevOps Engineer
2 30 (9.77%) Developer
2 30 (9.77%) Linux Engineer
3 29 (9.45%) Senior
4 27 (8.79%) Platform Engineer
5 24 (7.82%) Architect
6 21 (6.84%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 21 (6.84%) Support Engineer
7 15 (4.89%) Linux Administrator
8 14 (4.56%) Automation Engineer
8 14 (4.56%) Full-Stack Developer
9 12 (3.91%) Data Engineer
9 12 (3.91%) Product Engineer
9 12 (3.91%) Products Support Engineer
9 12 (3.91%) Software Support Engineer
10 11 (3.58%) Systems Administrator
11 10 (3.26%) Consultant
11 10 (3.26%) Data Protection Engineer
12 9 (2.93%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (8.47%) React
2 21 (6.84%) Middleware
3 20 (6.51%) Elastic Stack
4 18 (5.86%) Spring
5 17 (5.54%) Keycloak
6 16 (5.21%) AngularJS
6 16 (5.21%) CSS
6 16 (5.21%) HTML
7 15 (4.89%) Kafka
7 15 (4.89%) Node.js
7 15 (4.89%) REST
8 12 (3.91%) Loki
9 10 (3.26%) Spring Boot
9 10 (3.26%) Vue
10 8 (2.61%) Ruby on Rails
10 8 (2.61%) XMPP
11 7 (2.28%) Apache NiFi
11 7 (2.28%) ARM Templates
11 7 (2.28%) YAML
12 6 (1.95%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 35 (11.40%) Cloud Native
2 27 (8.79%) Product Ownership
3 15 (4.89%) Data Centre
4 13 (4.23%) Onboarding
5 12 (3.91%) Private Cloud
6 11 (3.58%) Clustering
7 10 (3.26%) Enterprise Storage
7 10 (3.26%) Hybrid Cloud
8 9 (2.93%) Legacy Systems
9 8 (2.61%) Hedge funds
9 8 (2.61%) Virtual Team
10 7 (2.28%) Enterprise Software
11 6 (1.95%) Management Information System
11 6 (1.95%) Replication
12 5 (1.63%) Data Protection Act
12 5 (1.63%) Linux Command Line
13 4 (1.30%) PKI
14 3 (0.98%) Analytical Mindset
14 3 (0.98%) HP Storage
14 3 (0.98%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 221 (71.99%) Linux
2 157 (51.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 69 (22.48%) Windows
4 36 (11.73%) Windows Server
5 29 (9.45%) Ubuntu
6 28 (9.12%) Unix
7 22 (7.17%) CentOS
8 16 (5.21%) Solaris
9 11 (3.58%) Windows Server 2016
10 7 (2.28%) Oracle Linux
10 7 (2.28%) Windows Server 2012
10 7 (2.28%) Windows Server 2019
11 6 (1.95%) AIX
12 5 (1.63%) Debian
12 5 (1.63%) OpenVMS
13 4 (1.30%) Mac OS
14 3 (0.98%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
14 3 (0.98%) Windows 10
15 1 (0.33%) Rocky
15 1 (0.33%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 128 (41.69%) CI/CD
2 95 (30.94%) DevOps
3 69 (22.48%) Containerisation
4 67 (21.82%) Problem-Solving
5 65 (21.17%) Infrastructure as Code
6 58 (18.89%) Migration
7 50 (16.29%) Agile
8 46 (14.98%) Configuration Management
9 38 (12.38%) Platform Engineering
10 37 (12.05%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 33 (10.75%) High Availability
11 33 (10.75%) Scrum
12 31 (10.10%) ITIL
12 31 (10.10%) Software Engineering
13 29 (9.45%) Disaster Recovery
13 29 (9.45%) Microservices
14 27 (8.79%) Observability
15 22 (7.17%) User Stories
16 20 (6.51%) Continuous Improvement
16 20 (6.51%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 129 (42.02%) Python
2 103 (33.55%) Bash
3 48 (15.64%) PowerShell
4 42 (13.68%) JavaScript
5 40 (13.03%) Shell Script
6 39 (12.70%) Java
7 36 (11.73%) SQL
8 30 (9.77%) Perl
9 18 (5.86%) C
10 13 (4.23%) C++
11 12 (3.91%) Ada
12 11 (3.58%) C#
12 11 (3.58%) TypeScript
13 8 (2.61%) Ruby
14 6 (1.95%) Bicep
15 4 (1.30%) Groovy
15 4 (1.30%) PL/SQL
16 2 (0.65%) AWK
16 2 (0.65%) sed
17 1 (0.33%) Go
Qualifications
1 132 (43.00%) Security Cleared
2 111 (36.16%) SC Cleared
3 23 (7.49%) DV Cleared
4 19 (6.19%) Degree
5 12 (3.91%) Computer Science Degree
6 11 (3.58%) Cisco Certification
7 9 (2.93%) CCDP
7 9 (2.93%) CCNA
7 9 (2.93%) CCNP
8 8 (2.61%) Microsoft Certification
9 7 (2.28%) BPSS Clearance
10 6 (1.95%) CISSP
10 6 (1.95%) RHCE
11 5 (1.63%) Azure Certification
11 5 (1.63%) RHCSA
12 4 (1.30%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
13 3 (0.98%) CISM
13 3 (0.98%) MCSE
14 2 (0.65%) CCIE
14 2 (0.65%) JNCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (4.89%) QA
2 6 (1.95%) NIST
3 5 (1.63%) GDPR
3 5 (1.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (1.30%) NIST 800
4 4 (1.30%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.33%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.33%) HL7
5 1 (0.33%) ISO 9001
5 1 (0.33%) NCSC
System Software
1 58 (18.89%) Docker
1 58 (18.89%) VMware Infrastructure
2 28 (9.12%) Active Directory
3 22 (7.17%) vSphere
4 10 (3.26%) VMware NSX
5 8 (2.61%) KVM
6 7 (2.28%) VMware ESXi
7 6 (1.95%) Dovecot
7 6 (1.95%) NFS
7 6 (1.95%) Postfix
8 5 (1.63%) Hyper-V
9 4 (1.30%) Oracle RAC
9 4 (1.30%) Veritas Cluster Server
9 4 (1.30%) Veritas File System
9 4 (1.30%) Veritas Volume Manager
10 3 (0.98%) GPFS
10 3 (0.98%) Virtual Machines
11 2 (0.65%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 125 (40.72%) Kubernetes
2 116 (37.79%) Ansible
3 67 (21.82%) Terraform
4 49 (15.96%) Argo
5 32 (10.42%) Prometheus
6 31 (10.10%) Red Hat Satellite
7 30 (9.77%) Grafana
8 20 (6.51%) NetBackup
9 16 (5.21%) Puppet
10 13 (4.23%) Istio
11 12 (3.91%) Progress Chef
12 10 (3.26%) Kustomize
12 10 (3.26%) vCenter Server
13 7 (2.28%) SCOM
14 6 (1.95%) EMC NetWorker
14 6 (1.95%) EMC VPLEX
14 6 (1.95%) Packer
15 5 (1.63%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 5 (1.63%) Kibana
15 5 (1.63%) Podman
Vendors
1 94 (30.62%) VMware
2 39 (12.70%) Microsoft
3 34 (11.07%) Splunk
4 23 (7.49%) Cisco
5 22 (7.17%) Oracle
6 19 (6.19%) Veritas
7 18 (5.86%) Commvault
8 15 (4.89%) Dell
9 11 (3.58%) IBM
10 10 (3.26%) Citrix
11 9 (2.93%) HP
12 8 (2.61%) Pure Storage
13 7 (2.28%) 3PAR
13 7 (2.28%) EMC
13 7 (2.28%) NetApp
14 6 (1.95%) Broadcom
14 6 (1.95%) Brocade
14 6 (1.95%) Cloudera
14 6 (1.95%) Google
14 6 (1.95%) Isilon