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 18 July 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
18 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 279 284 202
Rank change year-on-year +5 -82 +63
Contract jobs citing Red Hat 298 353 728
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.91% 0.84% 1.31%
As % of the Vendors category 1.92% 1.94% 2.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 198 244 557
10th Percentile £374 £350 £413
25th Percentile £418 £446 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £511 £570
Median % change year-on-year +0.86% -10.44% -0.87%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £700
90th Percentile £660 £675 £798
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 7 10
10th Percentile - £61.40 £25.75
25th Percentile - £68.75 £26.49
Median hourly rate £68.00 £74.00 £50.75
Median % change year-on-year -8.11% +45.81% -19.44%
75th Percentile - £74.72 £53.75
90th Percentile - £76.00 £54.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £68.00 £74.00 £49.00
% change year-on-year -8.11% +51.02% -37.78%

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 15,531 18,187 24,484
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 47.63% 43.18% 43.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,478 11,373 16,100
10th Percentile £280 £275 £263
25th Percentile £401 £408 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% -
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £715 £731 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 775 1,049 663
10th Percentile £14.58 £12.75 £15.21
25th Percentile £17.04 £15.22 £18.82
Median hourly rate £25.15 £26.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.27% -35.00% +81.82%
75th Percentile £50.25 £61.30 £63.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.50 £25.00 £28.70
% change year-on-year -10.00% -12.89% +44.88%

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

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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 18 July 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 18 July 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Red Hat in the UK

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Top 17 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 18 July 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 +14 253 £525 +0.24% 171
UK excluding London -18 184 £500 -4.76% 132
Work from Home +80 124 £525 +10.53% 65
London +24 82 £600 +20.00% 58
South East +1 60 £527 -5.09% 40
North of England +48 49 £401 -24.01% 19
South West +15 28 £500 -6.98% 29
North West +28 26 £393 -24.46% 11
Yorkshire +14 19 £453 -27.60% 5
Scotland -16 18 £479 +40.88% 8
Midlands -50 16 £537 -7.73% 25
West Midlands -34 9 £516 -15.06% 11
East of England +1 8 £500 -9.09% 11
East Midlands -9 7 £537 +19.60% 12
Wales +9 4 - -
North East - 4 £563 - 3
Northern Ireland - 3 £350 - 7

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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 21 (7.05%) JBoss
2 10 (3.36%) Skype for Business
3 9 (3.02%) Confluence
3 9 (3.02%) Mattermost
4 8 (2.68%) Microsoft Exchange
5 7 (2.35%) WebSphere
6 6 (2.01%) Apache
7 5 (1.68%) nginx
7 5 (1.68%) OpenStack
8 4 (1.34%) Tomcat
8 4 (1.34%) WebLogic
8 4 (1.34%) WebSphere Application Server
9 3 (1.01%) SharePoint
9 3 (1.01%) WebLogic Portal
10 2 (0.67%) Apache Airflow
10 2 (0.67%) Apache Spark
11 1 (0.34%) IBM HTTP Server
11 1 (0.34%) Oracle SOA Suite
Business Applications
1 1 (0.34%) Distributed Ledger
Cloud Services
1 79 (26.51%) AWS
2 78 (26.17%) OpenShift
3 62 (20.81%) Azure
4 26 (8.72%) Amazon EKS
5 23 (7.72%) GitHub
6 18 (6.04%) GCP
7 15 (5.03%) Amazon EC2
8 14 (4.70%) AWS CloudFormation
9 10 (3.36%) Amazon S3
9 10 (3.36%) IaaS
10 6 (2.01%) PaaS
11 5 (1.68%) GitHub Actions
11 5 (1.68%) OCI
12 4 (1.34%) Azure AKS
12 4 (1.34%) Azure DevOps
12 4 (1.34%) Cloud Computing
12 4 (1.34%) SaaS
13 3 (1.01%) Azure Monitor
13 3 (1.01%) IBM Cloud
13 3 (1.01%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 41 (13.76%) DNS
1 41 (13.76%) TCP/IP
2 34 (11.41%) Firewall
3 31 (10.40%) SAN
4 20 (6.71%) DHCP
5 16 (5.37%) HTTP
6 11 (3.69%) Internet
6 11 (3.69%) VSAN
7 10 (3.36%) NAS
7 10 (3.36%) Skype
8 9 (3.02%) Softphone
8 9 (3.02%) Unified Communications
8 9 (3.02%) WebEx
9 8 (2.68%) SSL
10 5 (1.68%) VPN
11 4 (1.34%) BGP
11 4 (1.34%) Ethernet VPN
11 4 (1.34%) Fibre Channel
11 4 (1.34%) Network Security
12 3 (1.01%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (7.05%) PostgreSQL
2 20 (6.71%) Relational Database
3 19 (6.38%) Elasticsearch
4 17 (5.70%) SQL Server
5 15 (5.03%) RDBMS
6 12 (4.03%) Amazon Aurora
6 12 (4.03%) Amazon RDS
7 9 (3.02%) Oracle Database
7 9 (3.02%) Redis
8 7 (2.35%) MySQL
9 6 (2.01%) Oracle Exadata
10 4 (1.34%) MongoDB
11 3 (1.01%) Apache Cassandra
11 3 (1.01%) Big Data
11 3 (1.01%) Hazelcast
11 3 (1.01%) NoSQL
12 2 (0.67%) CockroachDB
12 2 (0.67%) Delta Lake
12 2 (0.67%) Hadoop
12 2 (0.67%) Oracle Database 12c
Development Applications
1 71 (23.83%) Jenkins
2 40 (13.42%) Git
3 34 (11.41%) JIRA
4 20 (6.71%) SonarQube
4 20 (6.71%) Sonatype Nexus
5 16 (5.37%) TeamCity
6 14 (4.70%) Bitbucket Server
6 14 (4.70%) CA Release Automation
7 13 (4.36%) GitLab
8 8 (2.68%) Artifactory
9 6 (2.01%) Bitbucket
10 5 (1.68%) Maven
11 4 (1.34%) Postman
11 4 (1.34%) Subversion
11 4 (1.34%) Visual Studio Code
12 3 (1.01%) Eclipse
12 3 (1.01%) Log4j
12 3 (1.01%) Poetry
12 3 (1.01%) PyCharm
13 2 (0.67%) IntelliJ
General
1 68 (22.82%) Social Skills
2 56 (18.79%) Finance
3 24 (8.05%) Banking
4 15 (5.03%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (4.03%) Public Sector
6 8 (2.68%) Telecoms
7 6 (2.01%) Documentation Skills
7 6 (2.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (2.01%) Investment Banking
7 6 (2.01%) Law
8 3 (1.01%) Front Office
8 3 (1.01%) Legal
8 3 (1.01%) Military
9 2 (0.67%) Back Office
9 2 (0.67%) French Language
10 1 (0.34%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.34%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.34%) Marketing
10 1 (0.34%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 51 (17.11%) Linux Engineer
2 43 (14.43%) DevOps Engineer
3 42 (14.09%) Senior
4 26 (8.72%) Administrator
5 22 (7.38%) Support Engineer
6 20 (6.71%) Architect
7 17 (5.70%) Platform Engineer
8 16 (5.37%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 15 (5.03%) Senior DevOps
9 15 (5.03%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 12 (4.03%) Lead
11 11 (3.69%) Kubernetes Engineer
11 11 (3.69%) Product Engineer
11 11 (3.69%) Products Support Engineer
11 11 (3.69%) Software Support Engineer
12 10 (3.36%) Analyst
13 9 (3.02%) Cloud Engineer
13 9 (3.02%) Developer
13 9 (3.02%) Linux Administrator
13 9 (3.02%) Messaging Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (13.42%) Elastic Stack
2 23 (7.72%) Middleware
3 17 (5.70%) Spring Boot
4 16 (5.37%) Kafka
5 12 (4.03%) React
6 11 (3.69%) Spring
6 11 (3.69%) YAML
7 10 (3.36%) Keycloak
8 9 (3.02%) XMPP
9 7 (2.35%) LDAP
10 5 (1.68%) JSON
11 4 (1.34%) AngularJS
11 4 (1.34%) OAuth
11 4 (1.34%) REST
12 3 (1.01%) Flask
12 3 (1.01%) J2EE
12 3 (1.01%) JDBC
12 3 (1.01%) NumPy
12 3 (1.01%) Pandas
12 3 (1.01%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 25 (8.39%) Data Centre
2 16 (5.37%) Enterprise Storage
3 15 (5.03%) Private Cloud
4 12 (4.03%) Management Information System
5 11 (3.69%) Public Cloud
6 9 (3.02%) Data Protection Act
6 9 (3.02%) Replication
7 8 (2.68%) Cloud Native
7 8 (2.68%) Clustering
7 8 (2.68%) Hybrid Cloud
8 6 (2.01%) Product Ownership
9 5 (1.68%) Linux Command Line
10 4 (1.34%) EMC VMAX
10 4 (1.34%) Legacy Systems
10 4 (1.34%) PKI
11 3 (1.01%) CSOC
11 3 (1.01%) HP Storage
11 3 (1.01%) Onboarding
12 2 (0.67%) Distributed Systems
12 2 (0.67%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 249 (83.56%) Linux
2 150 (50.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 94 (31.54%) Windows
4 45 (15.10%) Windows Server
5 32 (10.74%) Ubuntu
6 29 (9.73%) Unix
7 23 (7.72%) CentOS
8 20 (6.71%) Solaris
9 16 (5.37%) Windows Server 2016
10 13 (4.36%) AIX
11 11 (3.69%) Windows Server 2019
12 8 (2.68%) Oracle Linux
13 7 (2.35%) Amazon Linux
13 7 (2.35%) Debian
13 7 (2.35%) Windows Server 2012
14 5 (1.68%) VMS
15 3 (1.01%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
15 3 (1.01%) Windows 10
16 1 (0.34%) CoreOS
16 1 (0.34%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (29.87%) DevOps
2 80 (26.85%) CI/CD
3 75 (25.17%) Problem-Solving
4 57 (19.13%) Containerisation
4 57 (19.13%) Infrastructure as Code
5 56 (18.79%) Migration
6 42 (14.09%) High Availability
7 38 (12.75%) Configuration Management
7 38 (12.75%) ITIL
8 36 (12.08%) Agile
9 35 (11.74%) Deployment Automation
10 34 (11.41%) Continuous Integration
10 34 (11.41%) Microservices
11 28 (9.40%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 27 (9.06%) Disaster Recovery
13 26 (8.72%) Platform Engineering
13 26 (8.72%) Problem Management
14 25 (8.39%) Observability
15 22 (7.38%) Software Engineering
16 20 (6.71%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 102 (34.23%) Python
2 61 (20.47%) Bash
3 47 (15.77%) PowerShell
4 43 (14.43%) SQL
5 40 (13.42%) Shell Script
6 35 (11.74%) Java
7 30 (10.07%) Perl
8 25 (8.39%) JavaScript
9 17 (5.70%) C++
10 16 (5.37%) C
11 13 (4.36%) Ada
12 10 (3.36%) C#
13 9 (3.02%) Ruby
14 4 (1.34%) Groovy
15 3 (1.01%) Bicep
16 2 (0.67%) AWK
16 2 (0.67%) sed
17 1 (0.34%) ActionScript
17 1 (0.34%) COBOL
17 1 (0.34%) PHP
Qualifications
1 87 (29.19%) Security Cleared
2 72 (24.16%) SC Cleared
3 20 (6.71%) DV Cleared
4 12 (4.03%) Degree
5 11 (3.69%) RHCE
6 9 (3.02%) ITIL Certification
7 8 (2.68%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (1.68%) AWS Certification
8 5 (1.68%) Azure Certification
8 5 (1.68%) CISSP
9 4 (1.34%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (1.34%) Cisco Certification
9 4 (1.34%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (1.34%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 3 (1.01%) CompTIA Security+
10 3 (1.01%) IBM Certification
10 3 (1.01%) RHCSA
11 2 (0.67%) CCIE
11 2 (0.67%) CCNA
11 2 (0.67%) JNCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (3.36%) QA
2 6 (2.01%) GDPR
3 3 (1.01%) Disclosure Scotland
3 3 (1.01%) NIST
3 3 (1.01%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 2 (0.67%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.34%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (0.34%) ISO 15022
5 1 (0.34%) ISO 20022
5 1 (0.34%) ISO 9001
5 1 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.34%) SLA
5 1 (0.34%) WCAG
System Software
1 69 (23.15%) Docker
2 44 (14.77%) VMware Infrastructure
3 42 (14.09%) Active Directory
4 12 (4.03%) Veritas Cluster Server
4 12 (4.03%) VMware ESXi
4 12 (4.03%) vSphere
5 11 (3.69%) Hyper-V
6 8 (2.68%) Oracle RAC
7 6 (2.01%) VMware NSX
8 5 (1.68%) Virtual Machines
9 3 (1.01%) Ceph
9 3 (1.01%) GPFS
9 3 (1.01%) Lustre
9 3 (1.01%) LXC
9 3 (1.01%) NFS
10 2 (0.67%) KVM
11 1 (0.34%) Samba
11 1 (0.34%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 112 (37.58%) Kubernetes
2 110 (36.91%) Ansible
3 59 (19.80%) Terraform
4 34 (11.41%) Progress Chef
5 33 (11.07%) Puppet
6 31 (10.40%) Prometheus
7 28 (9.40%) Grafana
8 16 (5.37%) Kibana
9 11 (3.69%) Istio
9 11 (3.69%) SCOM
10 10 (3.36%) Argo
10 10 (3.36%) NetBackup
11 9 (3.02%) Nagios
12 8 (2.68%) Data Guard
12 8 (2.68%) Red Hat Satellite
12 8 (2.68%) SELinux
13 7 (2.35%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
14 6 (2.01%) Packer
15 4 (1.34%) Failover Clustering
15 4 (1.34%) Oracle Flashback
Vendors
1 87 (29.19%) VMware
2 51 (17.11%) Splunk
3 44 (14.77%) Microsoft
4 38 (12.75%) Oracle
5 24 (8.05%) Cisco
5 24 (8.05%) Dell
6 19 (6.38%) AppDynamics
6 19 (6.38%) Veritas
7 16 (5.37%) HP
8 15 (5.03%) IBM
9 14 (4.70%) NetApp
10 13 (4.36%) ServiceNow
11 10 (3.36%) 3PAR
11 10 (3.36%) EMC
12 9 (3.02%) Cloudera
12 9 (3.02%) Google
12 9 (3.02%) SolarWinds
13 8 (2.68%) Dynatrace
14 7 (2.35%) F5
15 6 (2.01%) Nimble Storage