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 30 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
30 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 334 271 284
Rank change year-on-year -63 +13 -83
Contract jobs citing Red Hat 362 288 343
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.71% 0.94% 0.79%
As % of the Vendors category 1.72% 1.99% 1.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 234 199 239
10th Percentile £400 £393 £340
25th Percentile £427 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £529 £510
Median % change year-on-year -5.39% +3.63% -11.30%
75th Percentile £550 £616 £585
90th Percentile £622 £675 £672
UK excluding London median daily rate £483 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -3.45% -4.76% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 11 7
10th Percentile £60.60 - £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% +97.33%
75th Percentile - - £74.72
90th Percentile £72.56 - £76.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £70.00 £68.00 £74.00
% change year-on-year +2.94% -8.11% +97.33%

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 21,000 14,497 18,478
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 40.92% 47.38% 42.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,095 8,886 11,472
10th Percentile £313 £281 £270
25th Percentile £413 £402 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £515
Median % change year-on-year - -2.91% -1.90%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £625
90th Percentile £700 £715 £734
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £480 £500
% change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,085 687 1,156
10th Percentile £15.75 £14.84 £12.28
25th Percentile £19.03 £17.30 £14.72
Median hourly rate £33.99 £25.15 £24.19
Median % change year-on-year +35.15% +3.99% -40.35%
75th Percentile £62.00 £53.63 £59.95
90th Percentile £80.79 £68.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £32.50 £22.82 £23.50
% change year-on-year +42.45% -2.91% -27.24%

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 30 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 30 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 30 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 -57 312 £500 -6.89% 23
UK excluding London -37 253 £483 -3.45% 19
Work from Home -55 106 £500 -6.89% 10
North of England -17 104 £500 +24.38% 4
South East -38 77 £450 -16.04% 6
London -111 59 £538 -7.33% 8
Yorkshire -16 55 £500 +10.50%
South West -27 36 £525 -4.55% 4
North West -45 26 £453 +15.27% 1
Midlands -51 23 £467 -13.55% 1
North East - 23 £511 - 3
East of England -15 20 £435 -6.45%
West Midlands -44 20 £467 -14.34%
Scotland -26 4 £425 -11.27% 3
East Midlands -18 3 £488 -9.22% 1
Wales -16 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 (7.46%) nginx
2 26 (7.18%) Confluence
3 15 (4.14%) Tomcat
4 10 (2.76%) Apache
5 7 (1.93%) Microsoft Exchange
5 7 (1.93%) WebLogic
6 4 (1.10%) WebSphere
6 4 (1.10%) WebSphere Application Server
7 3 (0.83%) IIS
7 3 (0.83%) JBoss
7 3 (0.83%) SAS
7 3 (0.83%) SharePoint
8 2 (0.55%) IBM HTTP Server
8 2 (0.55%) Oracle HTTP Server
8 2 (0.55%) WebSphere Portal
9 1 (0.28%) Camunda
9 1 (0.28%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.28%) Oracle Coherence
9 1 (0.28%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.55%) Maximo
2 1 (0.28%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 138 (38.12%) OpenShift
2 82 (22.65%) AWS
3 61 (16.85%) Azure
4 37 (10.22%) GitHub
5 26 (7.18%) GCP
6 24 (6.63%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 15 (4.14%) Amazon S3
8 14 (3.87%) Serverless
9 13 (3.59%) Amazon EC2
9 13 (3.59%) AWS Lambda
10 12 (3.31%) Amazon EKS
10 12 (3.31%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 11 (3.04%) GitHub Actions
12 10 (2.76%) AWS CloudFormation
13 9 (2.49%) Route 53
14 8 (2.21%) CloudBees
15 6 (1.66%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 6 (1.66%) Datadog
16 5 (1.38%) Amazon OpenSearch
16 5 (1.38%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 53 (14.64%) DNS
2 43 (11.88%) Firewall
3 33 (9.12%) SAN
4 16 (4.42%) TCP/IP
5 14 (3.87%) VPN
6 12 (3.31%) DHCP
7 10 (2.76%) HTTP
8 9 (2.49%) OpenVPN
9 8 (2.21%) NAS
10 7 (1.93%) SSL
10 7 (1.93%) VLAN
10 7 (1.93%) VoIP
10 7 (1.93%) WAN
11 5 (1.38%) iSCSI
11 5 (1.38%) VSAN
12 4 (1.10%) Kerberos
13 3 (0.83%) FCoE
13 3 (0.83%) Fibre Channel
13 3 (0.83%) FTP
14 2 (0.55%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (4.97%) Elasticsearch
2 14 (3.87%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (3.87%) SQL Server
3 11 (3.04%) Oracle Database
4 7 (1.93%) SAP HANA
5 6 (1.66%) Data Warehouse
5 6 (1.66%) MongoDB
5 6 (1.66%) MySQL
6 5 (1.38%) GIS
7 3 (0.83%) Data Lake
8 2 (0.55%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (0.55%) CockroachDB
8 2 (0.55%) NoSQL
9 1 (0.28%) BusinessObjects
9 1 (0.28%) Db2
9 1 (0.28%) IBM InfoSphere
9 1 (0.28%) Oracle Database 12c
9 1 (0.28%) Oracle Reports
9 1 (0.28%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 67 (18.51%) Jenkins
2 43 (11.88%) SonarQube
3 33 (9.12%) JIRA
4 30 (8.29%) GitLab
5 23 (6.35%) Git
6 7 (1.93%) Bitbucket
6 7 (1.93%) Sonatype Nexus
7 5 (1.38%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 3 (0.83%) Artifactory
9 2 (0.55%) Cucumber
9 2 (0.55%) Gatling
9 2 (0.55%) Introscope
9 2 (0.55%) Robot Framework
9 2 (0.55%) Selenium
10 1 (0.28%) Ant
10 1 (0.28%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.28%) Gradle
10 1 (0.28%) Maven
10 1 (0.28%) Mockito
10 1 (0.28%) Subversion
General
1 74 (20.44%) Social Skills
2 40 (11.05%) Public Sector
3 35 (9.67%) Finance
4 32 (8.84%) Documentation Skills
5 23 (6.35%) Banking
6 15 (4.14%) Analytical Skills
7 8 (2.21%) Aerospace
8 6 (1.66%) Telecoms
9 5 (1.38%) Military
10 3 (0.83%) Retail
11 2 (0.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.55%) Law
11 2 (0.55%) Legal
11 2 (0.55%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.55%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.28%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.28%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.28%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 48 (13.26%) Architect
2 46 (12.71%) Linux Engineer
3 28 (7.73%) Senior
4 26 (7.18%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 26 (7.18%) Software Engineer
5 24 (6.63%) Administrator
5 24 (6.63%) Developer
6 22 (6.08%) DevOps Engineer
6 22 (6.08%) Lead
7 16 (4.42%) Java Engineer
7 16 (4.42%) Linux Administrator
7 16 (4.42%) Platform Engineer
8 15 (4.14%) Cloud Engineer
8 15 (4.14%) Java Developer
9 14 (3.87%) Analyst
10 13 (3.59%) Solutions Architect
11 11 (3.04%) Consultant
11 11 (3.04%) SC Cleared Java Developer
11 11 (3.04%) Security Engineer
12 10 (2.76%) Asset Management Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (9.94%) AngularJS
2 33 (9.12%) Quarkus
3 19 (5.25%) LDAP
3 19 (5.25%) YAML
4 16 (4.42%) OpenTelemetry
5 14 (3.87%) Middleware
6 12 (3.31%) Node.js
7 11 (3.04%) Elastic Stack
7 11 (3.04%) Spring
8 10 (2.76%) OpenID
9 9 (2.49%) REST
9 9 (2.49%) Spring Boot
10 8 (2.21%) Express.js
10 8 (2.21%) Kafka
11 6 (1.66%) EJB
12 5 (1.38%) CSS
12 5 (1.38%) HTML
12 5 (1.38%) OpenLayers
12 5 (1.38%) React
13 3 (0.83%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 46 (12.71%) Cloud Native
2 37 (10.22%) Data Centre
3 33 (9.12%) Hybrid Cloud
4 17 (4.70%) Management Information System
5 14 (3.87%) Security Posture
6 12 (3.31%) Enterprise Software
7 11 (3.04%) Clustering
7 11 (3.04%) Data Protection Act
7 11 (3.04%) Public Cloud
8 10 (2.76%) Enterprise Storage
8 10 (2.76%) Legacy Systems
8 10 (2.76%) Replication
9 8 (2.21%) Legacy Applications
10 6 (1.66%) EMC VMAX
10 6 (1.66%) FlexPod
10 6 (1.66%) Linux Command Line
11 5 (1.38%) Onboarding
11 5 (1.38%) PKI
12 4 (1.10%) Virtual Team
13 3 (0.83%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 223 (61.60%) Linux
2 177 (48.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 72 (19.89%) Windows
4 33 (9.12%) Windows Server
5 20 (5.52%) CentOS
5 20 (5.52%) Solaris
6 18 (4.97%) Windows Server 2019
7 16 (4.42%) Unix
8 15 (4.14%) SUSE
8 15 (4.14%) Ubuntu
9 11 (3.04%) Windows Server 2008
10 10 (2.76%) AIX
11 9 (2.49%) Data ONTAP
11 9 (2.49%) VMS
11 9 (2.49%) Windows Server 2016
12 8 (2.21%) CoreOS
12 8 (2.21%) Oracle Linux
13 5 (1.38%) HPUX
14 3 (0.83%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
15 2 (0.55%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 125 (34.53%) CI/CD
2 117 (32.32%) DevOps
3 80 (22.10%) Agile
4 71 (19.61%) Containerisation
5 62 (17.13%) Problem-Solving
6 58 (16.02%) Test Automation
7 56 (15.47%) Migration
8 53 (14.64%) Software Engineering
9 52 (14.36%) DevSecOps
10 50 (13.81%) Scrum
11 42 (11.60%) Continuous Improvement
11 42 (11.60%) RBAC
12 40 (11.05%) Observability
13 39 (10.77%) Infrastructure as Code
13 39 (10.77%) Roadmaps
13 39 (10.77%) SDLC
14 38 (10.50%) High Availability
15 37 (10.22%) Front End Development
15 37 (10.22%) ITIL
16 36 (9.94%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 115 (31.77%) Python
2 78 (21.55%) Bash
3 64 (17.68%) Java
4 51 (14.09%) PowerShell
5 28 (7.73%) Shell Script
6 17 (4.70%) SQL
7 15 (4.14%) Perl
8 13 (3.59%) JavaScript
9 9 (2.49%) PL/SQL
10 8 (2.21%) MATLAB
11 6 (1.66%) Ruby
12 5 (1.38%) Bicep
12 5 (1.38%) Go
13 3 (0.83%) Korn
13 3 (0.83%) R
13 3 (0.83%) TypeScript
14 2 (0.55%) Groovy
14 2 (0.55%) Jython
14 2 (0.55%) Rust
15 1 (0.28%) C
Qualifications
1 163 (45.03%) Security Cleared
2 124 (34.25%) SC Cleared
3 32 (8.84%) DV Cleared
4 28 (7.73%) RHCE
5 24 (6.63%) Degree
6 20 (5.52%) Azure Certification
6 20 (5.52%) CISSP
7 17 (4.70%) OCP
7 17 (4.70%) Oracle Certification
8 14 (3.87%) AWS Certification
9 10 (2.76%) RHCSA
10 6 (1.66%) LFCS
11 5 (1.38%) CompTIA Security+
12 4 (1.10%) Cisco Certification
12 4 (1.10%) CISM
12 4 (1.10%) LPIC
12 4 (1.10%) RHCA
13 3 (0.83%) BPSS Clearance
13 3 (0.83%) CCNP
13 3 (0.83%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (9.67%) QA
2 10 (2.76%) SLA
3 8 (2.21%) Accessibility
4 5 (1.38%) GRC
5 4 (1.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (1.10%) NCSC
5 4 (1.10%) NIST
6 2 (0.55%) NIST 800
6 2 (0.55%) PMO
7 1 (0.28%) Disclosure Scotland
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 56 (15.47%) VMware Infrastructure
2 43 (11.88%) Docker
3 29 (8.01%) Active Directory
4 22 (6.08%) vSphere
5 19 (5.25%) Virtual Machines
6 18 (4.97%) NFS
7 13 (3.59%) VMware NSX
8 11 (3.04%) Squid
8 11 (3.04%) VMware ESXi
9 8 (2.21%) Oracle RAC
10 6 (1.66%) Corosync
10 6 (1.66%) Hyper-V
10 6 (1.66%) SRDF
11 3 (0.83%) Dovecot
11 3 (0.83%) EMC RecoverPoint
11 3 (0.83%) KVM
11 3 (0.83%) Postfix
11 3 (0.83%) Veritas Volume Manager
12 2 (0.55%) Ceph
12 2 (0.55%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 144 (39.78%) Kubernetes
2 118 (32.60%) Ansible
3 86 (23.76%) Terraform
4 63 (17.40%) Argo
5 55 (15.19%) Grafana
6 37 (10.22%) Prometheus
7 29 (8.01%) Red Hat Satellite
8 21 (5.80%) Single Sign-On
9 19 (5.25%) Puppet
10 16 (4.42%) vCenter Server
11 15 (4.14%) Progress Chef
12 14 (3.87%) NetBackup
13 12 (3.31%) Podman
14 10 (2.76%) Failover Clustering
15 9 (2.49%) FortiGate
15 9 (2.49%) SnapMirror
16 8 (2.21%) Check_MK
16 8 (2.21%) Oracle RMAN
17 7 (1.93%) Consul
17 7 (1.93%) Pacemaker
Vendors
1 81 (22.38%) VMware
2 50 (13.81%) Oracle
3 48 (13.26%) Microsoft
4 27 (7.46%) IBM
5 23 (6.35%) Google
6 21 (5.80%) Cisco
7 19 (5.25%) Pure Storage
8 18 (4.97%) Dell
9 17 (4.70%) Splunk
10 16 (4.42%) SAP
11 14 (3.87%) Veritas
12 12 (3.31%) NetApp
13 11 (3.04%) Commvault
14 9 (2.49%) Dynatrace
15 8 (2.21%) MathWorks
15 8 (2.21%) Siemens
16 7 (1.93%) Atlassian
16 7 (1.93%) HP
17 6 (1.66%) Brocade
17 6 (1.66%) ServiceNow