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 June 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 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 270 284 202
Rank change year-on-year +14 -82 +55
Contract jobs citing Red Hat 288 343 735
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.94% 0.79% 1.32%
As % of the Vendors category 1.98% 1.86% 3.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 199 239 564
10th Percentile £393 £340 £425
25th Percentile £425 £425 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £529 £510 £575
Median % change year-on-year +3.63% -11.30% -
75th Percentile £616 £585 £700
90th Percentile £675 £672 £798
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% +2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 7 13
10th Percentile - £61.40 £25.75
25th Percentile - £68.75 £27.50
Median hourly rate £68.00 £74.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -8.11% +97.33% -40.48%
75th Percentile - £74.72 £53.75
90th Percentile - £76.00 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £68.00 £74.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -8.11% +97.33% -52.38%

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 14,545 18,473 24,333
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 47.45% 42.79% 43.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,891 11,458 16,111
10th Percentile £281 £270 £270
25th Percentile £400 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% -1.90% -
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £715 £734 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £479 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -4.25% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 698 1,167 650
10th Percentile £14.75 £12.28 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.30 £14.84 £18.93
Median hourly rate £25.15 £24.18 £39.80
Median % change year-on-year +4.01% -39.25% +80.91%
75th Percentile £53.50 £59.76 £63.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.63 £22.53 £29.30
% change year-on-year +0.44% -23.11% +50.18%

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

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Daily Rate Histogram

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

Hourly rate histogram for Red Hat in the UK

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Top 16 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 June 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 +16 246 £537 +3.27% 640
UK excluding London -8 174 £500 -4.76% 437
Work from Home +76 116 £537 +13.05% 313
London +53 84 £580 +16.00% 278
South East +2 48 £536 -2.55% 65
North of England +47 44 £402 -23.86% 110
South West +25 34 £550 -1.79% 67
North West +33 25 £393 -25.57% 53
Yorkshire - 19 £453 - 30
Scotland -4 18 £479 +40.88% 40
Midlands -41 14 £540 -7.22% 92
East of England +15 9 £465 -15.45% 21
West Midlands -30 9 £545 -10.29% 55
East Midlands -12 5 £537 +13.41% 37
Wales +12 4 - - 2
Northern Ireland - 3 £350 - 43

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 18 (6.25%) JBoss
2 11 (3.82%) Confluence
3 10 (3.47%) Microsoft Exchange
3 10 (3.47%) Skype for Business
4 9 (3.13%) Mattermost
5 7 (2.43%) Apache
5 7 (2.43%) WebSphere
6 5 (1.74%) nginx
6 5 (1.74%) SharePoint
7 4 (1.39%) Tomcat
7 4 (1.39%) WebLogic
7 4 (1.39%) WebSphere Application Server
8 3 (1.04%) OpenStack
8 3 (1.04%) WebLogic Portal
9 1 (0.35%) IBM HTTP Server
9 1 (0.35%) Oracle SOA Suite
Business Applications
1 1 (0.35%) Distributed Ledger
Cloud Services
1 81 (28.13%) AWS
2 71 (24.65%) OpenShift
3 69 (23.96%) Azure
4 27 (9.38%) GitHub
5 21 (7.29%) Amazon EKS
6 18 (6.25%) GCP
7 13 (4.51%) Amazon EC2
8 12 (4.17%) AWS CloudFormation
9 8 (2.78%) Amazon S3
9 8 (2.78%) IaaS
9 8 (2.78%) Nutanix
10 5 (1.74%) Azure DevOps
10 5 (1.74%) Cloud Computing
10 5 (1.74%) OCI
11 4 (1.39%) Azure AKS
11 4 (1.39%) Azure Monitor
11 4 (1.39%) PaaS
12 3 (1.04%) GitHub Actions
12 3 (1.04%) IBM Cloud
12 3 (1.04%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 52 (18.06%) TCP/IP
2 48 (16.67%) DNS
3 28 (9.72%) DHCP
3 28 (9.72%) Firewall
4 25 (8.68%) SAN
5 19 (6.60%) HTTP
6 11 (3.82%) NAS
7 10 (3.47%) Skype
7 10 (3.47%) VSAN
8 9 (3.13%) Internet
8 9 (3.13%) Softphone
8 9 (3.13%) Unified Communications
8 9 (3.13%) WebEx
9 5 (1.74%) Fibre Channel
9 5 (1.74%) SSL
9 5 (1.74%) VPN
10 4 (1.39%) LAN
10 4 (1.39%) Network Security
11 3 (1.04%) FTP
11 3 (1.04%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (6.94%) PostgreSQL
2 17 (5.90%) Elasticsearch
2 17 (5.90%) Relational Database
2 17 (5.90%) SQL Server
3 12 (4.17%) RDBMS
4 10 (3.47%) Amazon Aurora
4 10 (3.47%) Amazon RDS
5 9 (3.13%) Oracle Database
6 8 (2.78%) Redis
7 7 (2.43%) MySQL
8 6 (2.08%) Oracle Exadata
9 4 (1.39%) MongoDB
10 3 (1.04%) Apache Cassandra
10 3 (1.04%) Hazelcast
11 2 (0.69%) Big Data
11 2 (0.69%) CockroachDB
11 2 (0.69%) MariaDB
11 2 (0.69%) Oracle Database 12c
12 1 (0.35%) Amazon Redshift
12 1 (0.35%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 54 (18.75%) Jenkins
2 37 (12.85%) Git
3 33 (11.46%) JIRA
4 18 (6.25%) TeamCity
5 15 (5.21%) Sonatype Nexus
6 13 (4.51%) GitLab
6 13 (4.51%) SonarQube
7 12 (4.17%) Bitbucket Server
7 12 (4.17%) CA Release Automation
8 9 (3.13%) Subversion
9 7 (2.43%) Artifactory
10 5 (1.74%) Maven
11 4 (1.39%) Bitbucket
11 4 (1.39%) Postman
12 3 (1.04%) Eclipse
12 3 (1.04%) Log4j
13 2 (0.69%) Gradle
13 2 (0.69%) IntelliJ
13 2 (0.69%) JUnit
14 1 (0.35%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 63 (21.88%) Social Skills
2 58 (20.14%) Finance
3 26 (9.03%) Banking
4 14 (4.86%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (3.13%) Public Sector
6 6 (2.08%) Investment Banking
6 6 (2.08%) Law
6 6 (2.08%) Telecoms
7 5 (1.74%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (1.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (1.39%) Legal
9 3 (1.04%) Front Office
9 3 (1.04%) Military
10 2 (0.69%) Back Office
10 2 (0.69%) French Language
11 1 (0.35%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.35%) Marketing
11 1 (0.35%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 52 (18.06%) Linux Engineer
2 38 (13.19%) DevOps Engineer
3 37 (12.85%) Senior
4 25 (8.68%) Administrator
5 22 (7.64%) Support Engineer
6 18 (6.25%) Architect
7 16 (5.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 14 (4.86%) Linux Administrator
8 14 (4.86%) Platform Engineer
9 13 (4.51%) Lead
9 13 (4.51%) Senior DevOps
9 13 (4.51%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 11 (3.82%) Product Engineer
10 11 (3.82%) Products Support Engineer
10 11 (3.82%) Software Support Engineer
11 10 (3.47%) Analyst
11 10 (3.47%) Cloud Engineer
12 9 (3.13%) Developer
12 9 (3.13%) Messaging Engineer
12 9 (3.13%) Messaging Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (11.11%) Elastic Stack
2 20 (6.94%) Middleware
3 15 (5.21%) Kafka
4 14 (4.86%) Spring Boot
5 12 (4.17%) LDAP
6 11 (3.82%) Spring
7 10 (3.47%) YAML
8 9 (3.13%) React
8 9 (3.13%) REST
8 9 (3.13%) XMPP
9 5 (1.74%) JSON
9 5 (1.74%) Keycloak
10 4 (1.39%) AngularJS
10 4 (1.39%) OAuth
11 3 (1.04%) ActiveMQ
11 3 (1.04%) J2EE
11 3 (1.04%) JDBC
11 3 (1.04%) JMS
11 3 (1.04%) JNDI
11 3 (1.04%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 24 (8.33%) Data Centre
2 14 (4.86%) Clustering
3 13 (4.51%) Replication
4 12 (4.17%) Private Cloud
5 11 (3.82%) Public Cloud
6 10 (3.47%) Enterprise Storage
7 9 (3.13%) Data Protection Act
7 9 (3.13%) Management Information System
8 8 (2.78%) Hybrid Cloud
9 6 (2.08%) Cloud Native
9 6 (2.08%) CSOC
9 6 (2.08%) Product Ownership
10 4 (1.39%) EMC VMAX
10 4 (1.39%) Legacy Systems
10 4 (1.39%) PKI
11 3 (1.04%) Linux Command Line
11 3 (1.04%) Onboarding
12 2 (0.69%) Distributed Computing
12 2 (0.69%) Distributed Systems
12 2 (0.69%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 245 (85.07%) Linux
2 148 (51.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 89 (30.90%) Windows
4 48 (16.67%) Windows Server
5 32 (11.11%) Ubuntu
6 31 (10.76%) Unix
7 25 (8.68%) Solaris
8 22 (7.64%) CentOS
9 13 (4.51%) AIX
10 11 (3.82%) Windows Server 2016
11 8 (2.78%) VMS
12 7 (2.43%) Amazon Linux
12 7 (2.43%) Debian
12 7 (2.43%) Windows Server 2019
13 6 (2.08%) Oracle Linux
14 3 (1.04%) SUSE
14 3 (1.04%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
14 3 (1.04%) Windows 10
14 3 (1.04%) Windows Server 2012
15 1 (0.35%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (30.21%) DevOps
2 73 (25.35%) CI/CD
3 69 (23.96%) Problem-Solving
4 58 (20.14%) Containerisation
5 47 (16.32%) Migration
6 45 (15.63%) Infrastructure as Code
7 44 (15.28%) High Availability
8 34 (11.81%) Agile
8 34 (11.81%) Configuration Management
8 34 (11.81%) ITIL
9 30 (10.42%) Microservices
10 29 (10.07%) Continuous Integration
10 29 (10.07%) Deployment Automation
10 29 (10.07%) Problem Management
11 28 (9.72%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 24 (8.33%) Disaster Recovery
13 23 (7.99%) Observability
14 22 (7.64%) Platform Engineering
14 22 (7.64%) Software Engineering
15 21 (7.29%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 100 (34.72%) Python
2 65 (22.57%) Bash
3 46 (15.97%) PowerShell
4 37 (12.85%) Java
4 37 (12.85%) SQL
5 34 (11.81%) Perl
6 33 (11.46%) Shell Script
7 22 (7.64%) JavaScript
8 17 (5.90%) C++
9 14 (4.86%) C
10 13 (4.51%) Ada
11 9 (3.13%) Ruby
12 7 (2.43%) C#
13 3 (1.04%) Bicep
14 2 (0.69%) AWK
14 2 (0.69%) sed
15 1 (0.35%) ActionScript 2.0
15 1 (0.35%) Go
15 1 (0.35%) Groovy
15 1 (0.35%) Korn
Qualifications
1 82 (28.47%) Security Cleared
2 63 (21.88%) SC Cleared
3 25 (8.68%) DV Cleared
4 12 (4.17%) Degree
5 11 (3.82%) RHCE
6 9 (3.13%) ITIL Certification
7 8 (2.78%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (1.74%) AWS Certification
8 5 (1.74%) Azure Certification
9 4 (1.39%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (1.39%) CISSP
9 4 (1.39%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (1.39%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 3 (1.04%) CompTIA Security+
10 3 (1.04%) IBM Certification
10 3 (1.04%) RHCSA
11 2 (0.69%) CCNA
11 2 (0.69%) Cisco Certification
12 1 (0.35%) OCP
12 1 (0.35%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (3.13%) GDPR
2 8 (2.78%) QA
3 6 (2.08%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 3 (1.04%) Disclosure Scotland
4 3 (1.04%) NIST
5 2 (0.69%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.35%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.35%) ISO 15022
6 1 (0.35%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.35%) ISO 9001
6 1 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.35%) SLA
6 1 (0.35%) WCAG
System Software
1 70 (24.31%) Docker
2 52 (18.06%) VMware Infrastructure
3 37 (12.85%) Active Directory
4 17 (5.90%) VMware ESXi
5 14 (4.86%) Hyper-V
6 12 (4.17%) Veritas Cluster Server
7 11 (3.82%) vSphere
8 8 (2.78%) Oracle RAC
9 7 (2.43%) VMware NSX
10 6 (2.08%) NFS
11 5 (1.74%) Virtual Machines
12 3 (1.04%) Ceph
12 3 (1.04%) GPFS
12 3 (1.04%) Lustre
12 3 (1.04%) LXC
13 2 (0.69%) KVM
13 2 (0.69%) Samba
13 2 (0.69%) Veritas File System
13 2 (0.69%) Veritas Volume Manager
14 1 (0.35%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 111 (38.54%) Ansible
2 103 (35.76%) Kubernetes
3 55 (19.10%) Terraform
4 38 (13.19%) Puppet
5 31 (10.76%) Progress Chef
6 28 (9.72%) Prometheus
7 25 (8.68%) Grafana
8 15 (5.21%) Red Hat Satellite
9 13 (4.51%) Kibana
10 10 (3.47%) SCOM
11 9 (3.13%) Nagios
12 8 (2.78%) Data Guard
12 8 (2.78%) SELinux
13 7 (2.43%) EMC NetWorker
13 7 (2.43%) Failover Clustering
13 7 (2.43%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
14 6 (2.08%) QRadar
14 6 (2.08%) Tivoli
15 5 (1.74%) Control-M
15 5 (1.74%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 99 (34.38%) VMware
2 55 (19.10%) Splunk
3 42 (14.58%) Microsoft
4 38 (13.19%) Oracle
5 25 (8.68%) Cisco
6 22 (7.64%) Dell
7 20 (6.94%) IBM
8 19 (6.60%) ServiceNow
9 16 (5.56%) AppDynamics
10 13 (4.51%) Veritas
11 12 (4.17%) EMC
11 12 (4.17%) SolarWinds
12 11 (3.82%) HP
12 11 (3.82%) NetApp
13 10 (3.47%) F5
14 9 (3.13%) Google
15 8 (2.78%) Dynatrace
16 7 (2.43%) Palo Alto
17 6 (2.08%) CyberArk
17 6 (2.08%) SaltStack