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 9 June 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
9 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 312 260 303
Rank change year-on-year -52 +43 -101
Contract jobs citing Red Hat 372 292 329
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.75% 1.00% 0.76%
As % of the Vendors category 1.84% 2.09% 1.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 240 191 236
10th Percentile £400 £393 £340
25th Percentile £449 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £540 £511
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +5.78% -12.88%
75th Percentile £550 £624 £585
90th Percentile £621 £700 £672
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £510 £520
% change year-on-year -1.94% -1.95% -0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 11 5
10th Percentile £54.50 - £59.60
25th Percentile £61.25 - £65.00
Median hourly rate £70.00 £68.00 £74.44
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -8.65% +98.51%
75th Percentile - - £75.00
90th Percentile £84.80 - £76.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.50 £68.00 £74.44
% change year-on-year -0.74% -8.65% +98.51%

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 20,204 13,941 18,318
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 40.67% 47.62% 42.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,713 8,584 11,394
10th Percentile £313 £280 £267
25th Percentile £413 £404 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £501 £514
Median % change year-on-year -0.10% -2.63% -2.10%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £625
90th Percentile £700 £713 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £481 £500
% change year-on-year +3.95% -3.80% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,037 620 1,132
10th Percentile £15.29 £14.84 £12.13
25th Percentile £18.50 £17.34 £14.48
Median hourly rate £32.50 £26.45 £23.22
Median % change year-on-year +22.87% +13.93% -45.70%
75th Percentile £60.00 £55.06 £58.49
90th Percentile £78.63 £70.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.27 £22.94 £21.75
% change year-on-year +31.97% +5.46% -45.04%

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 9 June 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 9 June 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 9 June 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 -60 319 £500 -9.09% 54
UK excluding London -29 259 £500 -1.94% 44
Work from Home -61 105 £500 -6.89% 20
North of England -20 103 £500 +23.92% 11
South East -13 77 £480 -12.73% 17
Yorkshire -16 62 £500 +10.50% 2
London -101 61 £550 -8.33% 9
South West -28 38 £525 -14.63% 8
North West -37 25 £453 +13.96% 2
East of England -19 24 £475 +10.47% 1
Midlands -61 17 £501 -8.17% 6
North East - 16 £513 - 7
West Midlands -57 14 £501 -9.00% 4
Scotland -20 6 £425 -11.27% 1
East Midlands -30 3 £488 -9.22% 2
Wales -13 2 £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 (7.26%) nginx
2 26 (6.99%) Confluence
3 15 (4.03%) Tomcat
4 14 (3.76%) Apache
5 7 (1.88%) WebLogic
6 5 (1.34%) Microsoft Exchange
7 4 (1.08%) OpenStack
7 4 (1.08%) WebSphere
7 4 (1.08%) WebSphere Application Server
8 3 (0.81%) IIS
8 3 (0.81%) JBoss
8 3 (0.81%) SAS
8 3 (0.81%) SharePoint
9 2 (0.54%) Camunda
9 2 (0.54%) IBM HTTP Server
9 2 (0.54%) Oracle HTTP Server
9 2 (0.54%) WebSphere Portal
10 1 (0.27%) Apache Spark
10 1 (0.27%) Oracle Coherence
10 1 (0.27%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (1.34%) Maximo
2 1 (0.27%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 141 (37.90%) OpenShift
2 84 (22.58%) AWS
3 67 (18.01%) Azure
4 41 (11.02%) GitHub
5 23 (6.18%) GCP
6 21 (5.65%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 15 (4.03%) GitHub Actions
8 14 (3.76%) Amazon S3
9 12 (3.23%) Amazon EC2
9 12 (3.23%) Amazon EKS
9 12 (3.23%) Serverless
10 11 (2.96%) AWS Lambda
10 11 (2.96%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 9 (2.42%) Route 53
12 8 (2.15%) AWS CloudFormation
12 8 (2.15%) Azure DevOps
12 8 (2.15%) CloudBees
13 6 (1.61%) Azure AKS
14 5 (1.34%) Azure Monitor
14 5 (1.34%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 48 (12.90%) DNS
2 41 (11.02%) Firewall
3 29 (7.80%) SAN
4 17 (4.57%) TCP/IP
5 16 (4.30%) VPN
6 10 (2.69%) HTTP
7 9 (2.42%) OpenVPN
8 8 (2.15%) DHCP
8 8 (2.15%) NAS
8 8 (2.15%) VLAN
8 8 (2.15%) VSAN
9 6 (1.61%) SSL
10 5 (1.34%) iSCSI
10 5 (1.34%) Kerberos
11 4 (1.08%) WAN
12 3 (0.81%) FCoE
12 3 (0.81%) Fibre Channel
12 3 (0.81%) FTP
13 2 (0.54%) BIG-IP
13 2 (0.54%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (5.11%) PostgreSQL
2 18 (4.84%) Elasticsearch
3 11 (2.96%) Oracle Database
3 11 (2.96%) SQL Server
4 7 (1.88%) MySQL
4 7 (1.88%) SAP HANA
5 6 (1.61%) MongoDB
6 5 (1.34%) Data Warehouse
6 5 (1.34%) GIS
7 4 (1.08%) Redis
8 3 (0.81%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (0.81%) Data Lake
9 2 (0.54%) CockroachDB
9 2 (0.54%) NoSQL
9 2 (0.54%) Oracle Reports
9 2 (0.54%) Relational Database
10 1 (0.27%) Apache Hive
10 1 (0.27%) BusinessObjects
10 1 (0.27%) Db2
10 1 (0.27%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 70 (18.82%) Jenkins
2 44 (11.83%) GitLab
3 34 (9.14%) SonarQube
4 32 (8.60%) JIRA
5 29 (7.80%) Git
6 7 (1.88%) Artifactory
6 7 (1.88%) Bitbucket
6 7 (1.88%) Sonatype Nexus
7 5 (1.34%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 4 (1.08%) Cucumber
9 2 (0.54%) Ant
9 2 (0.54%) Cypress.io
9 2 (0.54%) Gatling
9 2 (0.54%) Gradle
9 2 (0.54%) Introscope
9 2 (0.54%) JUnit
9 2 (0.54%) Maven
9 2 (0.54%) Mockito
9 2 (0.54%) Robot Framework
9 2 (0.54%) Selenium
General
1 73 (19.62%) Social Skills
2 39 (10.48%) Public Sector
3 35 (9.41%) Finance
4 34 (9.14%) Documentation Skills
5 23 (6.18%) Banking
6 14 (3.76%) Analytical Skills
7 11 (2.96%) Aerospace
8 5 (1.34%) Telecoms
9 3 (0.81%) Military
9 3 (0.81%) Retail
10 2 (0.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (0.54%) Law
10 2 (0.54%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.54%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.27%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.27%) Legal
11 1 (0.27%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.27%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 51 (13.71%) Architect
2 45 (12.10%) Linux Engineer
3 36 (9.68%) DevOps Engineer
4 31 (8.33%) Software Engineer
5 30 (8.06%) Administrator
6 29 (7.80%) Senior
7 25 (6.72%) Lead
8 24 (6.45%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 22 (5.91%) Developer
10 18 (4.84%) Linux Administrator
11 15 (4.03%) Platform Engineer
12 12 (3.23%) Cloud Engineer
12 12 (3.23%) Consultant
12 12 (3.23%) Java Developer
12 12 (3.23%) Security Engineer
13 11 (2.96%) Java Engineer
13 11 (2.96%) Solutions Architect
14 9 (2.42%) Senior Linux Engineer
15 8 (2.15%) Analyst
15 8 (2.15%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (8.06%) YAML
2 29 (7.80%) AngularJS
3 24 (6.45%) LDAP
3 24 (6.45%) Quarkus
4 17 (4.57%) Middleware
5 16 (4.30%) OpenTelemetry
6 14 (3.76%) REST
7 13 (3.49%) Node.js
7 13 (3.49%) Spring
8 12 (3.23%) Kafka
9 11 (2.96%) Elastic Stack
9 11 (2.96%) Spring Boot
10 10 (2.69%) OpenID
11 8 (2.15%) Express.js
12 7 (1.88%) Apache NiFi
12 7 (1.88%) JSON
12 7 (1.88%) XML
13 6 (1.61%) EJB
13 6 (1.61%) HTML
13 6 (1.61%) React
Miscellaneous
1 49 (13.17%) Cloud Native
2 39 (10.48%) Data Centre
3 36 (9.68%) Hybrid Cloud
4 19 (5.11%) Management Information System
5 14 (3.76%) Enterprise Software
6 13 (3.49%) Security Posture
7 12 (3.23%) Public Cloud
8 11 (2.96%) Data Protection Act
9 10 (2.69%) Enterprise Storage
10 9 (2.42%) Clustering
10 9 (2.42%) Legacy Systems
10 9 (2.42%) Replication
11 8 (2.15%) Legacy Applications
12 7 (1.88%) Onboarding
13 6 (1.61%) EMC VMAX
13 6 (1.61%) FlexPod
14 5 (1.34%) Private Cloud
15 4 (1.08%) Distributed Systems
15 4 (1.08%) Linux Command Line
15 4 (1.08%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 226 (60.75%) Linux
2 179 (48.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 72 (19.35%) Windows
4 31 (8.33%) Windows Server
5 28 (7.53%) CentOS
6 24 (6.45%) Ubuntu
7 18 (4.84%) Solaris
8 16 (4.30%) Windows Server 2019
9 15 (4.03%) Unix
10 11 (2.96%) VMS
10 11 (2.96%) Windows Server 2008
11 10 (2.69%) Windows Server 2016
12 9 (2.42%) Data ONTAP
13 8 (2.15%) AIX
13 8 (2.15%) CoreOS
14 7 (1.88%) Oracle Linux
14 7 (1.88%) SUSE
15 4 (1.08%) HPUX
16 3 (0.81%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
17 2 (0.54%) OpenVMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 143 (38.44%) DevOps
2 142 (38.17%) CI/CD
3 79 (21.24%) Containerisation
4 70 (18.82%) Agile
5 61 (16.40%) Migration
6 60 (16.13%) Problem-Solving
7 57 (15.32%) Software Engineering
8 53 (14.25%) RBAC
9 51 (13.71%) Test Automation
10 46 (12.37%) Continuous Improvement
10 46 (12.37%) DevSecOps
11 45 (12.10%) Observability
12 42 (11.29%) Infrastructure as Code
13 40 (10.75%) Roadmaps
13 40 (10.75%) Scrum
14 39 (10.48%) High Availability
14 39 (10.48%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 38 (10.22%) ITIL
16 34 (9.14%) Disaster Recovery
17 33 (8.87%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 133 (35.75%) Python
2 83 (22.31%) Bash
3 55 (14.78%) Java
4 54 (14.52%) PowerShell
5 33 (8.87%) Shell Script
6 20 (5.38%) SQL
7 18 (4.84%) Perl
8 13 (3.49%) JavaScript
9 11 (2.96%) MATLAB
10 9 (2.42%) PL/SQL
10 9 (2.42%) Ruby
11 8 (2.15%) Bicep
12 7 (1.88%) Go
13 4 (1.08%) Korn
14 3 (0.81%) R
14 3 (0.81%) TypeScript
15 2 (0.54%) Groovy
15 2 (0.54%) Jython
15 2 (0.54%) Rust
16 1 (0.27%) C
Qualifications
1 172 (46.24%) Security Cleared
2 131 (35.22%) SC Cleared
3 38 (10.22%) DV Cleared
4 31 (8.33%) RHCE
5 26 (6.99%) Degree
6 21 (5.65%) Azure Certification
6 21 (5.65%) CISSP
7 19 (5.11%) OCP
7 19 (5.11%) Oracle Certification
8 11 (2.96%) AWS Certification
8 11 (2.96%) RHCSA
9 7 (1.88%) CISM
10 6 (1.61%) LFCS
11 5 (1.34%) Computer Science Degree
11 5 (1.34%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
11 5 (1.34%) Microsoft Certification
12 4 (1.08%) Cisco Certification
12 4 (1.08%) CompTIA Security+
12 4 (1.08%) LPIC
12 4 (1.08%) RHCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (7.80%) QA
2 13 (3.49%) SLA
3 8 (2.15%) Accessibility
3 8 (2.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 8 (2.15%) NCSC
4 7 (1.88%) NIST
5 5 (1.34%) NIST 800
6 4 (1.08%) GRC
7 2 (0.54%) PMO
8 1 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.27%) Disclosure Scotland
8 1 (0.27%) GDPR
8 1 (0.27%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.27%) OpenSCAP
8 1 (0.27%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.27%) SOC 2
System Software
1 58 (15.59%) VMware Infrastructure
2 41 (11.02%) Docker
3 33 (8.87%) Active Directory
4 25 (6.72%) vSphere
5 21 (5.65%) Virtual Machines
6 18 (4.84%) NFS
7 15 (4.03%) VMware NSX
8 14 (3.76%) VMware ESXi
9 11 (2.96%) Squid
10 8 (2.15%) Oracle RAC
11 6 (1.61%) Corosync
11 6 (1.61%) KVM
11 6 (1.61%) SRDF
12 3 (0.81%) Ceph
12 3 (0.81%) Dovecot
12 3 (0.81%) EMC RecoverPoint
12 3 (0.81%) Hyper-V
12 3 (0.81%) Postfix
12 3 (0.81%) Veritas Volume Manager
13 2 (0.54%) Citrix Hypervisor
Systems Management
1 150 (40.32%) Kubernetes
2 138 (37.10%) Ansible
3 95 (25.54%) Terraform
4 61 (16.40%) Grafana
5 58 (15.59%) Argo
6 43 (11.56%) Prometheus
7 29 (7.80%) Red Hat Satellite
8 23 (6.18%) Single Sign-On
9 20 (5.38%) Puppet
9 20 (5.38%) vCenter Server
10 15 (4.03%) Podman
11 14 (3.76%) Progress Chef
12 13 (3.49%) NetBackup
13 12 (3.23%) Check_MK
14 9 (2.42%) FortiGate
14 9 (2.42%) Oracle RMAN
14 9 (2.42%) SnapMirror
15 7 (1.88%) Consul
15 7 (1.88%) Failover Clustering
15 7 (1.88%) Pacemaker
Vendors
1 89 (23.92%) VMware
2 43 (11.56%) Oracle
3 41 (11.02%) Microsoft
4 24 (6.45%) IBM
5 22 (5.91%) Splunk
6 21 (5.65%) Dell
6 21 (5.65%) Google
7 19 (5.11%) Pure Storage
8 18 (4.84%) Cisco
9 14 (3.76%) Veritas
10 12 (3.23%) NetApp
11 11 (2.96%) Commvault
12 10 (2.69%) SAP
13 9 (2.42%) Dynatrace
14 7 (1.88%) Atlassian
14 7 (1.88%) NVIDIA
15 6 (1.61%) Brocade
15 6 (1.61%) HP
15 6 (1.61%) ServiceNow
16 5 (1.34%) EMC