Red Hat
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for knowledge and experience of Red Hat products and/or services. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Red Hat over the 6 months to 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 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
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 293 210 243
Rank change year-on-year -83 +33 +9
Contract jobs citing Red Hat 330 744 1,012
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.76% 1.24% 1.14%
As % of the Vendors category 1.78% 2.89% 2.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 251 572 658
10th Percentile £350 £425 £400
25th Percentile £413 £475 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £575 £571
Median % change year-on-year -9.13% +0.74% +18.91%
75th Percentile £584 £675 £663
90th Percentile £673 £798 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £540 £508
% change year-on-year -2.78% +6.40% +17.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 17 18
10th Percentile £22.84 £25.75 £23.66
25th Percentile £32.89 £28.70 £46.25
Median hourly rate £68.22 £52.50 £63.00
Median % change year-on-year +29.94% -16.67% +26.00%
75th Percentile £74.44 £61.25 £69.05
90th Percentile £75.97 £74.50 £83.83
UK excluding London median hourly rate £68.22 £50.75 £69.05
% change year-on-year +34.42% -26.50% +44.61%

All Vendors
UK

Red Hat is in the Vendor Products and Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 18,551 25,723 35,349
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 42.59% 42.90% 39.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,490 17,234 23,476
10th Percentile £263 £270 £288
25th Percentile £402 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% - +10.53%
75th Percentile £628 £650 £631
90th Percentile £738 £743 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £463
% change year-on-year - +8.11% +8.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,101 707 893
10th Percentile £12.13 £15.25 £11.50
25th Percentile £14.48 £19.00 £15.00
Median hourly rate £22.15 £42.50 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -47.88% +102.38% -6.50%
75th Percentile £57.33 £65.00 £45.75
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £60.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.46 £37.50 £18.69
% change year-on-year -42.77% +100.70% -0.48%

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
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

Red Hat
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Red Hat over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Red Hat in the UK

Red Hat
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

Red Hat
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Red Hat over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Red Hat in the UK

Red Hat
Top 15 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 26 April 2024. 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 -56 291 £525 -12.50% 187
UK excluding London 0 208 £525 -2.78% 155
London -72 101 £510 -18.40% 72
Work from Home -54 99 £521 -5.23% 95
South East +37 94 £527 -4.27% 17
Midlands +47 35 £550 +28.74% 29
North of England 0 24 £475 -13.24% 32
North West +1 23 £450 -18.18% 19
East of England -9 22 £535 -23.57% 14
Scotland -11 22 £358 -28.50% 26
West Midlands +41 18 £585 +88.71% 25
East Midlands +31 16 £535 +9.24% 4
South West -8 12 £550 -4.35% 18
Wales +16 1 - - 1
Yorkshire +13 1 £525 - 1

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 36 (10.91%) Apache
2 31 (9.39%) Tomcat
3 24 (7.27%) IIS
4 20 (6.06%) OpenStack
5 17 (5.15%) nginx
6 15 (4.55%) JBoss
7 12 (3.64%) Confluence
8 6 (1.82%) Microsoft Exchange
8 6 (1.82%) MQSeries
9 1 (0.30%) CMS
9 1 (0.30%) OpenEdge
9 1 (0.30%) Red Hat Fuse
9 1 (0.30%) SAS
9 1 (0.30%) SharePoint
Applications
1 16 (4.85%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 9 (2.73%) Temenos T24
2 7 (2.12%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (0.91%) Global One
3 3 (0.91%) Sage X3
4 2 (0.61%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
4 2 (0.61%) RMDS
5 1 (0.30%) MFGPRO
5 1 (0.30%) Sage 50
Cloud Services
1 64 (19.39%) AWS
2 60 (18.18%) Azure
3 33 (10.00%) OpenShift
4 17 (5.15%) GitHub
4 17 (5.15%) Slack
5 12 (3.64%) Amazon S3
6 11 (3.33%) Amazon EC2
6 11 (3.33%) AWS CloudFormation
6 11 (3.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 10 (3.03%) IaaS
8 9 (2.73%) Route 53
9 8 (2.42%) Amazon EKS
10 7 (2.12%) AWS Lambda
10 7 (2.12%) Azure DevOps
10 7 (2.12%) Microsoft 365
10 7 (2.12%) Serverless
11 6 (1.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 6 (1.82%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 5 (1.52%) Azure AKS
12 5 (1.52%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 44 (13.33%) SAN
1 44 (13.33%) TCP/IP
2 31 (9.39%) Firewall
3 24 (7.27%) DNS
4 20 (6.06%) HTTP
5 16 (4.85%) H.323
6 15 (4.55%) Network Security
7 12 (3.64%) Intrusion Detection
8 11 (3.33%) InfiniBand
9 9 (2.73%) NAS
10 8 (2.42%) VPN
11 7 (2.12%) DHCP
12 6 (1.82%) WAN
12 6 (1.82%) Wireless
13 4 (1.21%) FTP
13 4 (1.21%) HTTPS
13 4 (1.21%) IPsec
13 4 (1.21%) LAN
13 4 (1.21%) tcpdump
13 4 (1.21%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (11.82%) SQL Server
2 29 (8.79%) Elasticsearch
2 29 (8.79%) PostgreSQL
3 22 (6.67%) MySQL
4 17 (5.15%) Relational Database
5 16 (4.85%) RDBMS
6 15 (4.55%) Amazon RDS
7 12 (3.64%) Oracle Database
8 10 (3.03%) Big Data
8 10 (3.03%) MongoDB
9 6 (1.82%) Amazon Aurora
10 4 (1.21%) Data Warehouse
11 3 (0.91%) InfluxDB
11 3 (0.91%) Informix
12 2 (0.61%) Oracle BI Publisher
13 1 (0.30%) Ingres
13 1 (0.30%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 35 (10.61%) Jenkins
2 23 (6.97%) GitLab
3 22 (6.67%) Git
4 16 (4.85%) JIRA
5 12 (3.64%) SonarQube
6 11 (3.33%) Bitbucket
7 8 (2.42%) Artifactory
8 6 (1.82%) Maven
8 6 (1.82%) Sonatype Nexus
8 6 (1.82%) TeamCity
9 5 (1.52%) Bitbucket Server
9 5 (1.52%) CA Release Automation
10 3 (0.91%) Cucumber
10 3 (0.91%) EasyMock
10 3 (0.91%) JUnit
10 3 (0.91%) Mockito
10 3 (0.91%) Oracle APEX
10 3 (0.91%) Postman
10 3 (0.91%) Selenium
10 3 (0.91%) TestNG
General
1 42 (12.73%) Finance
1 42 (12.73%) Social Skills
2 37 (11.21%) Analytical Skills
3 26 (7.88%) Public Sector
4 23 (6.97%) Telecoms
5 19 (5.76%) Banking
6 14 (4.24%) Legal
7 5 (1.52%) Manufacturing
8 4 (1.21%) Electronics
8 4 (1.21%) Marketing
8 4 (1.21%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (0.91%) Investment Banking
10 2 (0.61%) Advertising
10 2 (0.61%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (0.61%) Military
11 1 (0.30%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.30%) Back Office
11 1 (0.30%) French Language
11 1 (0.30%) Local Government
11 1 (0.30%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 55 (16.67%) Linux Engineer
2 35 (10.61%) Developer
3 33 (10.00%) Support Engineer
4 30 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 23 (6.97%) Architect
5 23 (6.97%) Python Developer
6 18 (5.45%) Administrator
6 18 (5.45%) Senior
7 17 (5.15%) Consultant
7 17 (5.15%) DevOps Engineer
7 17 (5.15%) Linux Systems Administrator
7 17 (5.15%) Systems Administrator
8 16 (4.85%) Analyst
8 16 (4.85%) Lead
9 15 (4.55%) Cloud Engineer
10 14 (4.24%) Applications Support
10 14 (4.24%) Linux Administrator
11 12 (3.64%) AWS Engineer
11 12 (3.64%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
12 11 (3.33%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (9.39%) Elastic Stack
2 16 (4.85%) Apache NiFi
3 11 (3.33%) REST
4 10 (3.03%) YAML
5 9 (2.73%) IBM Integration Bus
5 9 (2.73%) Spring Boot
6 8 (2.42%) Middleware
7 7 (2.12%) CSS
7 7 (2.12%) FIX Protocol
7 7 (2.12%) HTML
7 7 (2.12%) Swagger
8 5 (1.52%) LDAP
9 4 (1.21%) HTML5
9 4 (1.21%) Kafka
9 4 (1.21%) Spring
10 3 (0.91%) EDI
10 3 (0.91%) Gherkin
10 3 (0.91%) Guice
10 3 (0.91%) JAX-RS
10 3 (0.91%) Mustache
Miscellaneous
1 29 (8.79%) Management Information System
2 28 (8.48%) Onboarding
3 27 (8.18%) Data Centre
4 22 (6.67%) Linux Command Line
5 17 (5.15%) IVR
6 16 (4.85%) Distributed Applications
7 14 (4.24%) PKI
8 12 (3.64%) Cyber Defence
9 11 (3.33%) Clustering
9 11 (3.33%) Replication
10 8 (2.42%) Public Cloud
11 5 (1.52%) Enterprise Storage
11 5 (1.52%) Greenfield Project
12 4 (1.21%) Cloud Native
12 4 (1.21%) Fat Client
12 4 (1.21%) Hybrid Cloud
12 4 (1.21%) Thin Client
13 3 (0.91%) CCTV
13 3 (0.91%) Cyber Threat
13 3 (0.91%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 257 (77.88%) Linux
2 159 (48.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 105 (31.82%) Windows
4 45 (13.64%) Windows Server
5 43 (13.03%) Unix
6 40 (12.12%) Debian
6 40 (12.12%) Ubuntu
7 37 (11.21%) CentOS
8 22 (6.67%) Windows Server 2019
9 20 (6.06%) Windows Server 2016
10 17 (5.15%) Solaris
11 13 (3.94%) Windows Server 2012
12 12 (3.64%) Android
13 9 (2.73%) Apple iOS
13 9 (2.73%) Windows Server 2008
14 4 (1.21%) Mac OS
14 4 (1.21%) Windows 10
15 3 (0.91%) SUSE
15 3 (0.91%) VMS
16 1 (0.30%) Windows Mobile
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (17.88%) Agile
2 48 (14.55%) CI/CD
3 43 (13.03%) DevOps
4 42 (12.73%) ITIL
5 38 (11.52%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 35 (10.61%) Infrastructure as Code
7 31 (9.39%) Migration
8 28 (8.48%) Configuration Management
8 28 (8.48%) Data Engineering
8 28 (8.48%) High Availability
9 27 (8.18%) Change Management
9 27 (8.18%) Customer Service
10 26 (7.88%) Disaster Recovery
11 23 (6.97%) Capacity Management
11 23 (6.97%) Roadmaps
12 21 (6.36%) Data Modelling
12 21 (6.36%) Software Engineering
13 19 (5.76%) Cybersecurity
13 19 (5.76%) Observability
13 19 (5.76%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 102 (30.91%) Python
2 51 (15.45%) Bash
2 51 (15.45%) Shell Script
3 40 (12.12%) PowerShell
4 26 (7.88%) SQL
5 20 (6.06%) Perl
6 12 (3.64%) Java
7 9 (2.73%) MATLAB
8 8 (2.42%) Korn
9 5 (1.52%) Ruby
10 4 (1.21%) PHP
10 4 (1.21%) T-SQL
11 3 (0.91%) C
11 3 (0.91%) C++
11 3 (0.91%) JavaScript
11 3 (0.91%) TypeScript
12 2 (0.61%) AWK
12 2 (0.61%) Bourne shell
12 2 (0.61%) Go
12 2 (0.61%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 136 (41.21%) Security Cleared
2 100 (30.30%) SC Cleared
3 50 (15.15%) DV Cleared
4 22 (6.67%) Degree
5 12 (3.64%) Computer Science Degree
6 10 (3.03%) RHCE
7 8 (2.42%) Microsoft Certification
8 7 (2.12%) MCSE
9 6 (1.82%) MCSA
9 6 (1.82%) RHCT
10 4 (1.21%) RHCSA
11 3 (0.91%) RHCA
12 2 (0.61%) Azure Certification
13 1 (0.30%) CEH
13 1 (0.30%) CISSP
13 1 (0.30%) GIAC
13 1 (0.30%) Linux+ Certification
13 1 (0.30%) LPIC
13 1 (0.30%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (4.24%) QA
2 10 (3.03%) Actionable Recommendations
3 5 (1.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (1.52%) SLA
4 2 (0.61%) GDPR
4 2 (0.61%) NIST
5 1 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 66 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 47 (14.24%) Active Directory
3 31 (9.39%) Docker
4 23 (6.97%) Virtual Machines
5 21 (6.36%) Hyper-V
6 18 (5.45%) vSphere
7 15 (4.55%) KVM
8 12 (3.64%) VMware ESXi
9 10 (3.03%) Firmware
10 5 (1.52%) Ceph
10 5 (1.52%) VMware NSX
11 4 (1.21%) Samba
11 4 (1.21%) Virtual Servers
12 2 (0.61%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 2 (0.61%) Varnish
12 2 (0.61%) Veritas Cluster Server
13 1 (0.30%) Terminal Services
13 1 (0.30%) Virtual Desktop
13 1 (0.30%) Xen
Systems Management
1 99 (30.00%) Ansible
2 52 (15.76%) Kubernetes
3 43 (13.03%) Terraform
4 31 (9.39%) Red Hat Satellite
5 24 (7.27%) Grafana
6 22 (6.67%) Kibana
7 19 (5.76%) Prometheus
8 17 (5.15%) logstash
9 12 (3.64%) Puppet
10 11 (3.33%) Progress Chef
11 9 (2.73%) Dell DRAC
12 7 (2.12%) Data Guard
12 7 (2.12%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
12 7 (2.12%) Packer
13 5 (1.52%) Istio
13 5 (1.52%) NetBackup
13 5 (1.52%) SELinux
13 5 (1.52%) vCenter Server
13 5 (1.52%) vRealize
13 5 (1.52%) WSUS
Vendors
1 115 (34.85%) VMware
2 68 (20.61%) Microsoft
3 43 (13.03%) Oracle
4 22 (6.67%) Dell
5 18 (5.45%) HP
6 17 (5.15%) Avaya
7 16 (4.85%) Amdocs
8 15 (4.55%) IBM
9 14 (4.24%) Citrix
10 13 (3.94%) SolarWinds
10 13 (3.94%) Verint
11 9 (2.73%) Cisco
11 9 (2.73%) Isilon
11 9 (2.73%) NetApp
11 9 (2.73%) Temenos
12 8 (2.42%) Bloomberg
12 8 (2.42%) Nimble Storage
12 8 (2.42%) Qualys
12 8 (2.42%) Veritas
13 7 (2.12%) Veeam