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 23 November 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
23 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 307 232 185
Rank change year-on-year -75 -47 +62
Contract jobs citing Red Hat 310 366 662
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.87% 0.99% 1.42%
As % of the Vendors category 1.82% 2.20% 3.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 214 226 504
10th Percentile £357 £368 £400
25th Percentile £419 £455 £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.45% - -
75th Percentile £598 £660 £658
90th Percentile £652 £810 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £513 £533 £532
% change year-on-year -3.76% +0.19% +1.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 9 3
10th Percentile £51.63 £63.88 £20.56
25th Percentile £58.75 £68.00 £20.66
Median hourly rate £68.00 £74.00 £22.28
Median % change year-on-year -8.11% +232.21% -69.49%
75th Percentile £68.50 £75.00 £24.45
90th Percentile £73.83 £112.00 £24.89
UK excluding London median hourly rate £68.00 £74.00 £22.28
% change year-on-year -8.11% +232.21% -70.69%

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 17,000 16,606 21,092
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 47.58% 44.95% 45.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,713 9,773 13,503
10th Percentile £286 £300 £258
25th Percentile £405 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -1.45%
75th Percentile £611 £625 £638
90th Percentile £700 £717 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.60% - +1.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 879 533 682
10th Percentile £15.34 £15.49 £14.66
25th Percentile £18.36 £19.59 £20.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £30.41 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -17.31% -31.66% +73.08%
75th Percentile £42.63 £63.75 £63.75
90th Percentile £73.75 £75.00 £76.73
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.32 £27.50 £44.50
% change year-on-year -18.85% -38.20% +97.78%

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

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Red Hat over the 6 months to 23 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Red Hat in the UK

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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 23 November 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Red Hat in the UK

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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 23 November 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 -50 284 £525 -7.08% 101
UK excluding London -42 211 £513 -3.76% 79
Work from Home +16 96 £525 +5.00% 44
London -16 82 £550 -6.38% 46
South East +1 72 £485 -15.28% 33
North of England -11 61 £525 +1.45% 7
South West -27 37 £648 +13.68% 15
Yorkshire -26 27 £520 +0.97%
Midlands -53 23 £475 -21.81% 7
North West -14 20 £550 +10.00% 5
North East +11 17 £550 - 2
West Midlands -43 14 £563 -10.71% 7
East Midlands -9 9 £420 -13.31%
East of England -19 8 £373 -32.27% 4
Scotland -30 7 £500 +5.26% 2
Northern Ireland - 6 £363 - 6

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 18 (5.81%) Confluence
2 13 (4.19%) Apache
2 13 (4.19%) Microsoft Exchange
3 9 (2.90%) JBoss
4 7 (2.26%) SharePoint
5 5 (1.61%) Tomcat
6 4 (1.29%) nginx
7 3 (0.97%) WebSphere
7 3 (0.97%) WebSphere Application Server
8 2 (0.65%) Apache Airflow
8 2 (0.65%) Apache Spark
8 2 (0.65%) Appian
8 2 (0.65%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.32%) SharePoint Server
9 1 (0.32%) WebLogic
Applications
1 3 (0.97%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (0.97%) Maximo
2 1 (0.32%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 98 (31.61%) OpenShift
2 59 (19.03%) Azure
3 54 (17.42%) AWS
4 42 (13.55%) GitHub
5 22 (7.10%) GCP
6 16 (5.16%) Amazon EKS
7 11 (3.55%) Amazon EC2
8 10 (3.23%) Amazon S3
8 10 (3.23%) CloudBees
9 9 (2.90%) SaaS
10 8 (2.58%) IaaS
11 7 (2.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 6 (1.94%) Azure Monitor
12 6 (1.94%) Entra ID
12 6 (1.94%) GitHub Actions
13 5 (1.61%) Azure AKS
13 5 (1.61%) IBM Cloud
14 4 (1.29%) Azure DevOps
14 4 (1.29%) Cohesity
14 4 (1.29%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 38 (12.26%) DNS
2 31 (10.00%) Firewall
3 22 (7.10%) SAN
4 21 (6.77%) TCP/IP
5 10 (3.23%) DHCP
6 9 (2.90%) Internet
6 9 (2.90%) SSL
6 9 (2.90%) VLAN
7 8 (2.58%) BGP
7 8 (2.58%) Software-Defined Networking
8 6 (1.94%) DKIM
8 6 (1.94%) DMARC
8 6 (1.94%) Network Security
8 6 (1.94%) SMTP
8 6 (1.94%) VSAN
8 6 (1.94%) WebEx
9 5 (1.61%) VPN
10 4 (1.29%) NAS
11 3 (0.97%) HTTP
11 3 (0.97%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (8.39%) PostgreSQL
2 16 (5.16%) MongoDB
3 12 (3.87%) Oracle Database
4 10 (3.23%) Elasticsearch
5 9 (2.90%) Relational Database
6 7 (2.26%) MySQL
6 7 (2.26%) RDBMS
6 7 (2.26%) Redis
7 5 (1.61%) SQL Server
8 3 (0.97%) Amazon Aurora
8 3 (0.97%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (0.97%) Apache Cassandra
8 3 (0.97%) Oracle Exadata
9 2 (0.65%) Big Data
9 2 (0.65%) Delta Lake
9 2 (0.65%) Hadoop
9 2 (0.65%) InfluxDB
9 2 (0.65%) MariaDB
9 2 (0.65%) NoSQL
9 2 (0.65%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 60 (19.35%) Jenkins
2 33 (10.65%) Git
3 31 (10.00%) GitLab
4 24 (7.74%) JIRA
5 14 (4.52%) SonarQube
6 13 (4.19%) Sonatype Nexus
7 10 (3.23%) Artifactory
8 9 (2.90%) TeamCity
9 5 (1.61%) Subversion
10 4 (1.29%) Bitbucket Server
10 4 (1.29%) CA Release Automation
10 4 (1.29%) Gradle
10 4 (1.29%) Maven
10 4 (1.29%) Postman
10 4 (1.29%) Visual Studio Code
11 3 (0.97%) Log4j
11 3 (0.97%) Mockito
11 3 (0.97%) Oracle APEX
11 3 (0.97%) Poetry
11 3 (0.97%) PyCharm
General
1 83 (26.77%) Social Skills
2 32 (10.32%) Finance
2 32 (10.32%) Public Sector
3 24 (7.74%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (2.90%) Banking
4 9 (2.90%) Documentation Skills
5 7 (2.26%) Financial Institution
5 7 (2.26%) Legal
6 5 (1.61%) Aerospace
6 5 (1.61%) Manufacturing
7 4 (1.29%) Telecoms
8 3 (0.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (0.65%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (0.65%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.32%) Automotive
10 1 (0.32%) Aviation
10 1 (0.32%) Back Office
10 1 (0.32%) Front Office
10 1 (0.32%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.32%) Law
Job Titles
1 34 (10.97%) Administrator
1 34 (10.97%) Developer
2 33 (10.65%) DevOps Engineer
3 29 (9.35%) Linux Engineer
3 29 (9.35%) Senior
4 27 (8.71%) Platform Engineer
5 24 (7.74%) Architect
6 20 (6.45%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 19 (6.13%) Support Engineer
8 15 (4.84%) Full-Stack Developer
9 14 (4.52%) Automation Engineer
9 14 (4.52%) Linux Administrator
10 12 (3.87%) Data Engineer
10 12 (3.87%) Product Engineer
10 12 (3.87%) Products Support Engineer
10 12 (3.87%) Software Support Engineer
10 12 (3.87%) Systems Administrator
11 10 (3.23%) Consultant
11 10 (3.23%) Data Protection Engineer
12 9 (2.90%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (8.06%) React
2 20 (6.45%) Elastic Stack
2 20 (6.45%) Middleware
3 19 (6.13%) Keycloak
4 18 (5.81%) Spring
5 16 (5.16%) AngularJS
5 16 (5.16%) CSS
5 16 (5.16%) HTML
5 16 (5.16%) Node.js
6 15 (4.84%) Kafka
6 15 (4.84%) REST
7 12 (3.87%) Loki
8 10 (3.23%) Spring Boot
8 10 (3.23%) Vue
9 8 (2.58%) Apache NiFi
9 8 (2.58%) Ruby on Rails
10 7 (2.26%) ARM Templates
10 7 (2.26%) YAML
11 6 (1.94%) JSON
11 6 (1.94%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 33 (10.65%) Cloud Native
2 27 (8.71%) Product Ownership
3 13 (4.19%) Data Centre
3 13 (4.19%) Onboarding
4 12 (3.87%) Clustering
5 11 (3.55%) Private Cloud
6 10 (3.23%) Enterprise Software
6 10 (3.23%) Enterprise Storage
6 10 (3.23%) Hybrid Cloud
7 9 (2.90%) Legacy Systems
8 8 (2.58%) Hedge funds
8 8 (2.58%) Virtual Team
9 6 (1.94%) Replication
10 5 (1.61%) Linux Command Line
10 5 (1.61%) Management Information System
10 5 (1.61%) PKI
11 4 (1.29%) Data Protection Act
12 3 (0.97%) Analytical Mindset
12 3 (0.97%) HP Storage
12 3 (0.97%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 221 (71.29%) Linux
2 160 (51.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 72 (23.23%) Windows
4 40 (12.90%) Windows Server
5 29 (9.35%) Ubuntu
5 29 (9.35%) Unix
6 22 (7.10%) CentOS
7 17 (5.48%) Solaris
8 11 (3.55%) Windows Server 2016
9 7 (2.26%) Oracle Linux
9 7 (2.26%) Windows Server 2012
9 7 (2.26%) Windows Server 2019
10 6 (1.94%) AIX
11 5 (1.61%) Debian
11 5 (1.61%) OpenVMS
12 4 (1.29%) Mac OS
13 3 (0.97%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
13 3 (0.97%) Windows 10
14 1 (0.32%) SUSE
14 1 (0.32%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 128 (41.29%) CI/CD
2 96 (30.97%) DevOps
3 69 (22.26%) Containerisation
4 66 (21.29%) Problem-Solving
5 65 (20.97%) Infrastructure as Code
6 56 (18.06%) Migration
7 50 (16.13%) Agile
8 45 (14.52%) Configuration Management
9 39 (12.58%) Platform Engineering
10 37 (11.94%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 36 (11.61%) High Availability
12 33 (10.65%) Scrum
13 31 (10.00%) ITIL
14 30 (9.68%) Software Engineering
15 29 (9.35%) Disaster Recovery
15 29 (9.35%) Microservices
16 27 (8.71%) Observability
17 23 (7.42%) User Stories
18 20 (6.45%) Full-Stack Development
19 19 (6.13%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 131 (42.26%) Python
2 103 (33.23%) Bash
3 47 (15.16%) PowerShell
4 41 (13.23%) JavaScript
5 40 (12.90%) Java
5 40 (12.90%) Shell Script
6 33 (10.65%) Perl
6 33 (10.65%) SQL
7 18 (5.81%) C
8 13 (4.19%) C++
9 12 (3.87%) Ada
10 11 (3.55%) TypeScript
11 10 (3.23%) C#
12 8 (2.58%) Ruby
13 6 (1.94%) Bicep
14 4 (1.29%) Groovy
14 4 (1.29%) PL/SQL
15 2 (0.65%) AWK
15 2 (0.65%) sed
16 1 (0.32%) Go
Qualifications
1 139 (44.84%) Security Cleared
2 116 (37.42%) SC Cleared
3 25 (8.06%) DV Cleared
4 20 (6.45%) Degree
5 12 (3.87%) Computer Science Degree
6 11 (3.55%) Cisco Certification
7 9 (2.90%) CCDP
7 9 (2.90%) CCNA
7 9 (2.90%) CCNP
8 8 (2.58%) BPSS Clearance
9 7 (2.26%) Microsoft Certification
10 6 (1.94%) CISSP
10 6 (1.94%) RHCE
11 5 (1.61%) RHCSA
12 4 (1.29%) Azure Certification
12 4 (1.29%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
13 3 (0.97%) CISM
13 3 (0.97%) MCSE
14 2 (0.65%) IBM Certification
14 2 (0.65%) JNCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (4.52%) QA
2 6 (1.94%) GDPR
2 6 (1.94%) NIST
3 5 (1.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (1.29%) NIST 800
4 4 (1.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.32%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.32%) HL7
5 1 (0.32%) ISO 9001
5 1 (0.32%) NCSC
System Software
1 58 (18.71%) Docker
1 58 (18.71%) VMware Infrastructure
2 26 (8.39%) Active Directory
3 22 (7.10%) vSphere
4 10 (3.23%) VMware NSX
5 8 (2.58%) KVM
5 8 (2.58%) VMware ESXi
6 7 (2.26%) NFS
7 6 (1.94%) Dovecot
7 6 (1.94%) Postfix
8 5 (1.61%) Hyper-V
9 4 (1.29%) GPFS
9 4 (1.29%) Oracle RAC
9 4 (1.29%) Veritas Cluster Server
9 4 (1.29%) Veritas File System
9 4 (1.29%) Veritas Volume Manager
10 3 (0.97%) Virtual Machines
11 2 (0.65%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 1 (0.32%) Lustre
Systems Management
1 125 (40.32%) Kubernetes
2 119 (38.39%) Ansible
3 69 (22.26%) Terraform
4 49 (15.81%) Argo
5 32 (10.32%) Prometheus
5 32 (10.32%) Red Hat Satellite
6 30 (9.68%) Grafana
7 20 (6.45%) NetBackup
8 17 (5.48%) Puppet
9 13 (4.19%) Istio
9 13 (4.19%) Progress Chef
10 11 (3.55%) vCenter Server
11 10 (3.23%) Kustomize
12 7 (2.26%) EMC NetWorker
12 7 (2.26%) EMC VPLEX
13 6 (1.94%) Packer
13 6 (1.94%) Podman
13 6 (1.94%) SCOM
14 5 (1.61%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 5 (1.61%) Data Guard
Vendors
1 95 (30.65%) VMware
2 38 (12.26%) Microsoft
3 32 (10.32%) Splunk
4 22 (7.10%) Cisco
4 22 (7.10%) Oracle
5 19 (6.13%) Veritas
6 18 (5.81%) Commvault
7 17 (5.48%) Dell
8 12 (3.87%) IBM
9 10 (3.23%) Citrix
9 10 (3.23%) HP
10 8 (2.58%) EMC
10 8 (2.58%) Pure Storage
11 7 (2.26%) 3PAR
11 7 (2.26%) Brocade
11 7 (2.26%) Isilon
11 7 (2.26%) NetApp
12 6 (1.94%) Broadcom
12 6 (1.94%) Cloudera
12 6 (1.94%) Nimble Storage