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 13 July 2026, 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
13 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 344 286 286
Rank change year-on-year -58 0 -87
Contract jobs citing Red Hat 356 299 352
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.68% 0.91% 0.82%
As % of the Vendors category 1.64% 1.93% 1.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 225 202 244
10th Percentile £400 £377 £343
25th Percentile £425 £418 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £510
Median % change year-on-year -3.80% +1.91% -11.30%
75th Percentile £555 £600 £588
90th Percentile £638 £675 £674
UK excluding London median daily rate £483 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -3.50% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 11 7
10th Percentile £61.10 - £61.40
25th Percentile £62.50 - £68.75
Median hourly rate £70.00 £68.00 £74.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -8.11% +51.02%
75th Percentile - - £74.72
90th Percentile - - £76.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £70.00 £68.00 £74.00
% change year-on-year +2.94% -8.11% +71.10%

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 21,707 15,531 18,485
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 41.20% 47.52% 43.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,493 9,513 11,510
10th Percentile £313 £281 £270
25th Percentile £413 £402 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year +0.10% -2.44% -2.38%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £625
90th Percentile £700 £715 £730
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £480 £500
% change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,110 741 1,118
10th Percentile £15.99 £14.75 £12.50
25th Percentile £19.25 £17.30 £15.00
Median hourly rate £34.61 £25.15 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +37.62% +0.60% -38.27%
75th Percentile £63.94 £53.50 £60.75
90th Percentile £83.00 £68.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £32.50 £22.63 £24.31
% change year-on-year +43.61% -6.91% -21.58%

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

Red Hat
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Red Hat over the 6 months to 13 July 2026.

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
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Red Hat over the 6 months to 13 July 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Red Hat in the UK

Red Hat
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 13 July 2026. 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 -78 305 £500 -4.76% 65
UK excluding London -49 250 £483 -3.50% 58
Work from Home -72 103 £500 -6.54% 21
North of England -30 98 £500 +24.61% 15
South East -51 81 £450 -14.85% 8
London -87 62 £550 -7.56% 19
Yorkshire -26 46 £500 +10.50% 2
South West -29 34 £525 - 19
North West -52 27 £453 +15.27% 12
North East -12 25 £511 -9.11% 1
Midlands -39 23 £467 -13.07% 5
West Midlands -52 20 £467 -9.53% 4
East of England -13 17 £350 -24.32% 1
Scotland -22 10 £450 -6.05% 8
East Midlands -17 3 £488 -9.22% 1
Wales -17 1 £475 -

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 27 (7.58%) nginx
2 26 (7.30%) Confluence
3 15 (4.21%) Tomcat
4 10 (2.81%) Apache
5 7 (1.97%) Microsoft Exchange
5 7 (1.97%) WebLogic
6 5 (1.40%) JBoss
7 4 (1.12%) WebSphere
7 4 (1.12%) WebSphere Application Server
8 3 (0.84%) IIS
8 3 (0.84%) SAS
8 3 (0.84%) SharePoint
9 2 (0.56%) IBM HTTP Server
9 2 (0.56%) Oracle HTTP Server
9 2 (0.56%) Red Hat Fuse
9 2 (0.56%) WebSphere Portal
10 1 (0.28%) Apache Airflow
10 1 (0.28%) OpenStack
10 1 (0.28%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.28%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 138 (38.76%) OpenShift
2 84 (23.60%) AWS
3 62 (17.42%) Azure
4 37 (10.39%) GitHub
5 26 (7.30%) GCP
6 24 (6.74%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 16 (4.49%) Serverless
8 15 (4.21%) Amazon S3
9 13 (3.65%) Amazon EC2
9 13 (3.65%) AWS Lambda
10 12 (3.37%) Amazon EKS
10 12 (3.37%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 11 (3.09%) AWS CloudFormation
11 11 (3.09%) GitHub Actions
12 9 (2.53%) Route 53
13 8 (2.25%) CloudBees
14 7 (1.97%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 6 (1.69%) Datadog
16 5 (1.40%) Amazon OpenSearch
17 4 (1.12%) AWS CloudTrail
Communications & Networking
1 55 (15.45%) DNS
2 47 (13.20%) Firewall
3 33 (9.27%) SAN
4 18 (5.06%) TCP/IP
5 14 (3.93%) VPN
6 12 (3.37%) DHCP
7 10 (2.81%) HTTP
8 9 (2.53%) OpenVPN
9 8 (2.25%) NAS
10 7 (1.97%) SSL
10 7 (1.97%) VLAN
10 7 (1.97%) VoIP
10 7 (1.97%) WAN
11 5 (1.40%) iSCSI
11 5 (1.40%) VSAN
12 4 (1.12%) Kerberos
13 3 (0.84%) BGP
13 3 (0.84%) FCoE
13 3 (0.84%) FTP
13 3 (0.84%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (5.06%) Elasticsearch
2 16 (4.49%) SQL Server
3 15 (4.21%) PostgreSQL
4 11 (3.09%) Oracle Database
5 7 (1.97%) SAP HANA
6 6 (1.69%) Data Warehouse
6 6 (1.69%) MongoDB
7 5 (1.40%) GIS
7 5 (1.40%) MySQL
8 3 (0.84%) Data Lake
9 2 (0.56%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (0.56%) CockroachDB
9 2 (0.56%) NoSQL
10 1 (0.28%) BusinessObjects
10 1 (0.28%) Db2
10 1 (0.28%) IBM InfoSphere
10 1 (0.28%) Oracle Database 12c
10 1 (0.28%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 62 (17.42%) Jenkins
2 45 (12.64%) SonarQube
3 33 (9.27%) JIRA
4 25 (7.02%) GitLab
5 19 (5.34%) Git
6 8 (2.25%) Sonatype Nexus
7 7 (1.97%) Bitbucket
8 5 (1.40%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 3 (0.84%) Artifactory
10 2 (0.56%) Gatling
10 2 (0.56%) Introscope
10 2 (0.56%) Robot Framework
10 2 (0.56%) Selenium
11 1 (0.28%) Cucumber
11 1 (0.28%) PVCS
11 1 (0.28%) Subversion
General
1 76 (21.35%) Social Skills
2 40 (11.24%) Finance
3 38 (10.67%) Public Sector
4 27 (7.58%) Documentation Skills
5 26 (7.30%) Banking
6 17 (4.78%) Analytical Skills
7 6 (1.69%) Aerospace
7 6 (1.69%) Military
7 6 (1.69%) Telecoms
8 4 (1.12%) Financial Institution
9 3 (0.84%) Retail
10 2 (0.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (0.56%) Law
10 2 (0.56%) Legal
10 2 (0.56%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.56%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.28%) Aviation
11 1 (0.28%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.28%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 52 (14.61%) Architect
2 47 (13.20%) Linux Engineer
3 27 (7.58%) Senior
4 26 (7.30%) Developer
4 26 (7.30%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 23 (6.46%) Software Engineer
6 21 (5.90%) Administrator
7 20 (5.62%) DevOps Engineer
8 18 (5.06%) Platform Engineer
9 17 (4.78%) Lead
10 16 (4.49%) Java Developer
10 16 (4.49%) Java Engineer
10 16 (4.49%) Solutions Architect
11 15 (4.21%) Cloud Engineer
12 14 (3.93%) Analyst
13 13 (3.65%) Linux Administrator
14 11 (3.09%) SC Cleared Java Developer
14 11 (3.09%) Security Engineer
15 10 (2.81%) Asset Management Analyst
16 9 (2.53%) Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (10.67%) AngularJS
2 35 (9.83%) Quarkus
3 16 (4.49%) OpenTelemetry
4 15 (4.21%) LDAP
5 11 (3.09%) Middleware
6 10 (2.81%) Elastic Stack
6 10 (2.81%) Node.js
6 10 (2.81%) Spring
6 10 (2.81%) YAML
7 9 (2.53%) OpenID
7 9 (2.53%) REST
8 8 (2.25%) Express.js
8 8 (2.25%) Kafka
8 8 (2.25%) Spring Boot
9 6 (1.69%) EJB
10 5 (1.40%) OpenLayers
11 4 (1.12%) CSS
11 4 (1.12%) HTML
11 4 (1.12%) React
12 3 (0.84%) JSP
Miscellaneous
1 47 (13.20%) Cloud Native
2 32 (8.99%) Data Centre
3 29 (8.15%) Hybrid Cloud
4 16 (4.49%) Management Information System
5 14 (3.93%) Data Protection Act
5 14 (3.93%) Security Posture
6 12 (3.37%) Public Cloud
7 11 (3.09%) Clustering
7 11 (3.09%) Enterprise Software
8 10 (2.81%) Enterprise Storage
8 10 (2.81%) Legacy Systems
8 10 (2.81%) Replication
9 8 (2.25%) Legacy Applications
10 7 (1.97%) Onboarding
11 6 (1.69%) EMC VMAX
11 6 (1.69%) FlexPod
11 6 (1.69%) Linux Command Line
12 5 (1.40%) PKI
13 4 (1.12%) Virtual Team
14 3 (0.84%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 221 (62.08%) Linux
2 174 (48.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 75 (21.07%) Windows
4 35 (9.83%) Windows Server
5 20 (5.62%) Solaris
6 19 (5.34%) Unix
7 18 (5.06%) Windows Server 2019
8 15 (4.21%) SUSE
9 13 (3.65%) CentOS
10 11 (3.09%) Windows Server 2008
11 10 (2.81%) AIX
11 10 (2.81%) Ubuntu
12 9 (2.53%) Data ONTAP
12 9 (2.53%) VMS
12 9 (2.53%) Windows Server 2016
13 8 (2.25%) CoreOS
13 8 (2.25%) Oracle Linux
14 5 (1.40%) HPUX
15 3 (0.84%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
16 2 (0.56%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 117 (32.87%) CI/CD
2 109 (30.62%) DevOps
3 81 (22.75%) Agile
4 67 (18.82%) Containerisation
5 60 (16.85%) Problem-Solving
5 60 (16.85%) Test Automation
6 56 (15.73%) Migration
7 52 (14.61%) DevSecOps
7 52 (14.61%) Scrum
7 52 (14.61%) Software Engineering
8 45 (12.64%) Observability
9 41 (11.52%) SDLC
10 40 (11.24%) High Availability
11 39 (10.96%) Continuous Improvement
11 39 (10.96%) Front End Development
12 37 (10.39%) Infrastructure as Code
12 37 (10.39%) Roadmaps
13 36 (10.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 36 (10.11%) ITIL
14 35 (9.83%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 107 (30.06%) Python
2 81 (22.75%) Bash
3 67 (18.82%) Java
4 53 (14.89%) PowerShell
5 25 (7.02%) Shell Script
6 16 (4.49%) SQL
7 14 (3.93%) JavaScript
8 11 (3.09%) Perl
9 9 (2.53%) PL/SQL
10 5 (1.40%) Go
10 5 (1.40%) MATLAB
11 3 (0.84%) Bicep
11 3 (0.84%) Korn
12 2 (0.56%) Groovy
12 2 (0.56%) Jython
12 2 (0.56%) Ruby
12 2 (0.56%) Rust
13 1 (0.28%) C
13 1 (0.28%) R
13 1 (0.28%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 156 (43.82%) Security Cleared
2 118 (33.15%) SC Cleared
3 30 (8.43%) DV Cleared
4 26 (7.30%) Degree
5 24 (6.74%) RHCE
6 18 (5.06%) Azure Certification
6 18 (5.06%) CISSP
7 14 (3.93%) AWS Certification
7 14 (3.93%) OCP
7 14 (3.93%) Oracle Certification
8 10 (2.81%) RHCSA
9 6 (1.69%) LFCS
10 5 (1.40%) Cisco Certification
10 5 (1.40%) CompTIA Security+
11 4 (1.12%) Computer Science Degree
11 4 (1.12%) LPIC
12 3 (0.84%) NCDA
12 3 (0.84%) NCIE
12 3 (0.84%) RHCA
12 3 (0.84%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (10.39%) QA
2 8 (2.25%) Accessibility
3 7 (1.97%) SLA
4 6 (1.69%) GRC
5 3 (0.84%) Disclosure Scotland
5 3 (0.84%) NCSC
6 2 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.56%) NIST
6 2 (0.56%) PMO
7 1 (0.28%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.28%) OpenSCAP
7 1 (0.28%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.28%) SOC 2
System Software
1 61 (17.13%) VMware Infrastructure
2 44 (12.36%) Docker
3 28 (7.87%) Active Directory
4 23 (6.46%) vSphere
5 19 (5.34%) Virtual Machines
6 18 (5.06%) NFS
7 13 (3.65%) VMware ESXi
7 13 (3.65%) VMware NSX
8 11 (3.09%) Squid
9 8 (2.25%) Oracle RAC
10 6 (1.69%) Corosync
10 6 (1.69%) Hyper-V
10 6 (1.69%) SRDF
11 3 (0.84%) Dovecot
11 3 (0.84%) EMC RecoverPoint
11 3 (0.84%) KVM
11 3 (0.84%) Postfix
11 3 (0.84%) Veritas Volume Manager
12 2 (0.56%) Ceph
12 2 (0.56%) Citrix Hypervisor
Systems Management
1 142 (39.89%) Kubernetes
2 111 (31.18%) Ansible
3 85 (23.88%) Terraform
4 63 (17.70%) Argo
5 54 (15.17%) Grafana
6 36 (10.11%) Prometheus
7 26 (7.30%) Red Hat Satellite
8 20 (5.62%) Single Sign-On
9 16 (4.49%) Progress Chef
9 16 (4.49%) Puppet
9 16 (4.49%) vCenter Server
10 14 (3.93%) NetBackup
11 10 (2.81%) Failover Clustering
12 9 (2.53%) FortiGate
12 9 (2.53%) Podman
12 9 (2.53%) SnapMirror
13 8 (2.25%) Oracle RMAN
14 7 (1.97%) Consul
14 7 (1.97%) Pacemaker
15 5 (1.40%) WSUS
Vendors
1 85 (23.88%) VMware
2 53 (14.89%) Oracle
3 49 (13.76%) Microsoft
4 25 (7.02%) IBM
5 24 (6.74%) Cisco
6 23 (6.46%) Google
7 19 (5.34%) Pure Storage
8 17 (4.78%) Splunk
9 16 (4.49%) SAP
10 15 (4.21%) Dell
11 14 (3.93%) NetApp
11 14 (3.93%) Veritas
12 11 (3.09%) Commvault
13 9 (2.53%) Dynatrace
14 8 (2.25%) MathWorks
14 8 (2.25%) Siemens
15 7 (1.97%) Atlassian
15 7 (1.97%) HP
16 6 (1.69%) Brocade
16 6 (1.69%) ServiceNow