Red Hat Enterprise Linux Contracts

Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Red Hat Enterprise Linux skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Red Hat Enterprise Linux over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 325 206 280
Rank change year-on-year -119 +74 +2
Contract jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 284 760 841
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.66% 1.31% 0.96%
As % of the Operating Systems category 4.96% 8.03% 6.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 212 570 571
10th Percentile £356 £413 £416
25th Percentile £434 £481 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% +4.35% +21.05%
75th Percentile £600 £686 £663
90th Percentile £655 £798 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £530 £550 £548
% change year-on-year -3.64% +0.46% +21.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 12 5
10th Percentile £65.18 - £15.10
25th Percentile £67.31 £51.25 £22.00
Median hourly rate £72.75 £52.50 £63.00
Median % change year-on-year +38.57% -16.67% +9.57%
75th Percentile £76.31 £74.50 -
90th Percentile £77.33 - £74.70
UK excluding London median hourly rate £72.75 £52.50 £45.50
% change year-on-year +38.57% +15.38% -17.27%

All Operating Systems
UK

Red Hat Enterprise Linux is in the Operating Systems category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 5,729 9,462 13,097
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 13.31% 16.31% 15.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,874 6,626 8,882
10th Percentile £185 £190 £175
25th Percentile £300 £340 £342
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £468 £510 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.24% +2.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £588 £638 £613
90th Percentile £700 £719 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £475 £425
% change year-on-year -5.26% +11.76% +6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 390 418 613
10th Percentile £12.73 £13.89 £13.38
25th Percentile £15.31 £17.72 £15.93
Median hourly rate £22.00 £38.50 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -42.86% +67.39% +29.58%
75th Percentile £60.00 £64.50 £52.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.50 £29.30 £20.00
% change year-on-year -23.21% +46.50% +21.21%

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Red Hat Enterprise Linux in the UK

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

Daily rate trend for Red Hat Enterprise Linux in the UK

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Red Hat Enterprise Linux in the UK

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

Hourly rate trend for Red Hat Enterprise Linux in the UK

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Top 15 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 Enterprise Linux within the UK over the 6 months to 9 May 2024. 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 -91 239 £525 -16.00% 68
UK excluding London -60 177 £530 -3.64% 43
London -93 91 £510 -20.47% 31
South East +26 81 £550 -9.84% 10
Work from Home -69 76 £475 -15.18% 24
Scotland -33 29 £513 +2.50% 5
Midlands +34 27 £499 -23.23% 3
East Midlands +35 14 £430 -40.66% 1
North of England -18 14 £499 -20.20% 4
East of England -16 13 £440 -5.63% 6
West Midlands +8 12 £550 -15.38% 2
South West -3 11 £600 +6.67% 12
Yorkshire +11 7 £463 -13.75% 1
North West -27 7 £513 -18.00% 2
Wales +21 4 £700 +43.59% 1

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
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 23 (8.10%) Apache
2 19 (6.69%) Tomcat
3 18 (6.34%) OpenStack
4 17 (5.99%) nginx
5 15 (5.28%) Confluence
5 15 (5.28%) JBoss
6 8 (2.82%) IIS
7 7 (2.46%) Microsoft Exchange
8 6 (2.11%) SAS
9 2 (0.70%) Apache Spark
9 2 (0.70%) Traefik
10 1 (0.35%) Jupyter
10 1 (0.35%) OpenEdge
10 1 (0.35%) SharePoint
10 1 (0.35%) WebSphere
Applications
1 6 (2.11%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 9 (3.17%) Temenos T24
2 4 (1.41%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (1.06%) Global One
3 3 (1.06%) Sage X3
4 2 (0.70%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
4 2 (0.70%) RMDS
5 1 (0.35%) MFGPRO
5 1 (0.35%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.35%) Sage 50
Cloud Services
1 84 (29.58%) AWS
2 78 (27.46%) Azure
3 24 (8.45%) Amazon EC2
4 23 (8.10%) OpenShift
5 22 (7.75%) Amazon S3
6 20 (7.04%) Azure DevOps
6 20 (7.04%) IaaS
7 17 (5.99%) AWS CloudFormation
8 15 (5.28%) Serverless
9 14 (4.93%) AWS Lambda
9 14 (4.93%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 13 (4.58%) Route 53
10 13 (4.58%) Slack
11 12 (4.23%) GCP
11 12 (4.23%) PaaS
12 11 (3.87%) Cloud Computing
12 11 (3.87%) SaaS
13 10 (3.52%) Nutanix
14 9 (3.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 9 (3.17%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 34 (11.97%) DNS
2 28 (9.86%) SAN
3 25 (8.80%) Firewall
4 23 (8.10%) TCP/IP
5 20 (7.04%) DHCP
6 12 (4.23%) NAS
7 11 (3.87%) Kerberos
8 9 (3.17%) Fibre Channel
8 9 (3.17%) WAN
9 8 (2.82%) VLAN
10 7 (2.46%) LAN
11 6 (2.11%) H.323
11 6 (2.11%) HTTP
12 5 (1.76%) iSCSI
13 4 (1.41%) Remote Desktop
13 4 (1.41%) SSL
14 3 (1.06%) Cisco IOS
14 3 (1.06%) Wireless
15 2 (0.70%) Multicast
15 2 (0.70%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (13.03%) SQL Server
2 29 (10.21%) Elasticsearch
3 28 (9.86%) Relational Database
4 27 (9.51%) RDBMS
5 23 (8.10%) PostgreSQL
6 17 (5.99%) MySQL
7 13 (4.58%) MongoDB
7 13 (4.58%) Oracle Database
8 11 (3.87%) Amazon RDS
9 7 (2.46%) DB2
10 5 (1.76%) InfluxDB
11 4 (1.41%) Redis
12 3 (1.06%) Amazon Aurora
12 3 (1.06%) SAP HANA
13 2 (0.70%) Informix
13 2 (0.70%) MariaDB
13 2 (0.70%) NoSQL
13 2 (0.70%) Oracle BI Publisher
13 2 (0.70%) Oracle Exadata
14 1 (0.35%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 59 (20.77%) Jenkins
2 39 (13.73%) Git
3 36 (12.68%) GitLab
4 24 (8.45%) JIRA
5 13 (4.58%) TeamCity
6 11 (3.87%) Artifactory
7 10 (3.52%) Selenium
7 10 (3.52%) Sonatype Nexus
8 6 (2.11%) Bitbucket Server
8 6 (2.11%) Robot Framework
9 5 (1.76%) CA Release Automation
9 5 (1.76%) SonarQube
10 3 (1.06%) Oracle APEX
11 2 (0.70%) Bitbucket
11 2 (0.70%) Jaeger
11 2 (0.70%) Maven
11 2 (0.70%) Subversion
12 1 (0.35%) Postman
12 1 (0.35%) Terragrunt
12 1 (0.35%) Vagrant
General
1 46 (16.20%) Finance
2 45 (15.85%) Social Skills
3 39 (13.73%) Analytical Skills
4 26 (9.15%) Public Sector
5 25 (8.80%) Banking
6 9 (3.17%) Telecoms
7 7 (2.46%) Legal
8 6 (2.11%) Investment Banking
9 5 (1.76%) Billing
10 2 (0.70%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (0.70%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.35%) Advertising
11 1 (0.35%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.35%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.35%) Front Office
11 1 (0.35%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.35%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.35%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 44 (15.49%) Linux Engineer
2 38 (13.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 31 (10.92%) DevOps Engineer
4 25 (8.80%) Support Engineer
5 22 (7.75%) Administrator
6 21 (7.39%) Architect
7 17 (5.99%) Platform Engineer
7 17 (5.99%) Systems Administrator
8 15 (5.28%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
8 15 (5.28%) Linux Systems Administrator
9 13 (4.58%) AWS Engineer
9 13 (4.58%) Consultant
9 13 (4.58%) Linux Administrator
10 11 (3.87%) AWS DevOps
10 11 (3.87%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 11 (3.87%) Cloud Engineer
10 11 (3.87%) Lead
10 11 (3.87%) Linux Support
10 11 (3.87%) Senior
11 10 (3.52%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (8.45%) Elastic Stack
2 16 (5.63%) Middleware
3 10 (3.52%) LDAP
4 9 (3.17%) AWS CDK
4 9 (3.17%) IBM Integration Bus
5 8 (2.82%) HTML
6 6 (2.11%) HTML5
7 5 (1.76%) Flash
7 5 (1.76%) Kafka
7 5 (1.76%) POSIX
7 5 (1.76%) RabbitMQ
7 5 (1.76%) Spring Boot
7 5 (1.76%) YAML
8 4 (1.41%) JSON
8 4 (1.41%) pytest
9 3 (1.06%) EDI
9 3 (1.06%) Web Services
10 2 (0.70%) CSS
10 2 (0.70%) Swagger
10 2 (0.70%) VCL
Miscellaneous
1 23 (8.10%) Client/Server
2 20 (7.04%) Onboarding
3 19 (6.69%) Linux Command Line
4 17 (5.99%) Clustering
5 12 (4.23%) Data Centre
5 12 (4.23%) Replication
6 11 (3.87%) Management Information System
6 11 (3.87%) PKI
7 6 (2.11%) IVR
8 5 (1.76%) Enterprise Storage
9 4 (1.41%) NVMe
9 4 (1.41%) Public Cloud
10 3 (1.06%) CCTV
10 3 (1.06%) Cloud Native
10 3 (1.06%) Greenfield Project
10 3 (1.06%) Self-Motivation
10 3 (1.06%) Smart Meter
11 2 (0.70%) Data Protection Act
11 2 (0.70%) LPAR
11 2 (0.70%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 284 (100.00%) Linux
2 119 (41.90%) Windows
3 71 (25.00%) Windows Server
4 62 (21.83%) Unix
5 36 (12.68%) CentOS
6 19 (6.69%) Solaris
6 19 (6.69%) Ubuntu
7 16 (5.63%) Windows Server 2019
8 10 (3.52%) VMS
9 9 (3.17%) Oracle Linux
10 8 (2.82%) Windows Server 2016
11 6 (2.11%) Windows Server 2012
12 4 (1.41%) AIX
12 4 (1.41%) Alpine Linux
12 4 (1.41%) Data ONTAP
13 3 (1.06%) Android
13 3 (1.06%) Debian
13 3 (1.06%) SUSE
13 3 (1.06%) Windows Server 2008
13 3 (1.06%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (26.76%) DevOps
2 60 (21.13%) Agile
2 60 (21.13%) CI/CD
3 57 (20.07%) Infrastructure as Code
4 41 (14.44%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 30 (10.56%) High Availability
6 26 (9.15%) Containerisation
7 25 (8.80%) Observability
8 24 (8.45%) Cybersecurity
9 23 (8.10%) Migration
9 23 (8.10%) Problem-Solving
10 21 (7.39%) Continuous Integration
10 21 (7.39%) SIEM
11 20 (7.04%) Performance Tuning
12 19 (6.69%) Disaster Recovery
12 19 (6.69%) Scrum
13 18 (6.34%) Application Packaging
13 18 (6.34%) Application Virtualisation
13 18 (6.34%) Deployment Automation
13 18 (6.34%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 118 (41.55%) Python
2 59 (20.77%) PowerShell
3 52 (18.31%) Bash
4 51 (17.96%) Shell Script
5 39 (13.73%) SQL
6 19 (6.69%) Perl
7 18 (6.34%) Java
7 18 (6.34%) VBScript
8 10 (3.52%) Groovy
9 7 (2.46%) C
9 7 (2.46%) C#
9 7 (2.46%) PL/SQL
10 6 (2.11%) Korn
10 6 (2.11%) ProC
11 4 (1.41%) Ruby
12 3 (1.06%) C++
12 3 (1.06%) Go
12 3 (1.06%) JavaScript
12 3 (1.06%) TypeScript
13 1 (0.35%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 121 (42.61%) Security Cleared
2 73 (25.70%) SC Cleared
3 48 (16.90%) DV Cleared
4 11 (3.87%) Degree
5 8 (2.82%) RHCE
6 4 (1.41%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (1.06%) RHCSA
8 1 (0.35%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.35%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.35%) HNC
8 1 (0.35%) Linux+ Certification
8 1 (0.35%) LPIC
8 1 (0.35%) MCSE
8 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (3.52%) GDPR
2 9 (3.17%) NIST
3 8 (2.82%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 7 (2.46%) SLA
5 6 (2.11%) QA
6 3 (1.06%) Disclosure Scotland
7 2 (0.70%) NCSC
8 1 (0.35%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.35%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 74 (26.06%) VMware Infrastructure
2 47 (16.55%) Docker
3 42 (14.79%) Active Directory
4 24 (8.45%) Virtual Machines
5 16 (5.63%) vSphere
6 14 (4.93%) Hyper-V
7 13 (4.58%) VMware ESXi
7 13 (4.58%) VMware NSX
8 10 (3.52%) KVM
9 6 (2.11%) NFS
10 4 (1.41%) GPFS
10 4 (1.41%) Virtual Servers
10 4 (1.41%) VMware Server
11 2 (0.70%) Varnish
12 1 (0.35%) Firmware
12 1 (0.35%) Oracle RAC
12 1 (0.35%) Terminal Services
12 1 (0.35%) Xen
Systems Management
1 93 (32.75%) Ansible
2 70 (24.65%) Kubernetes
3 39 (13.73%) Terraform
4 32 (11.27%) Grafana
5 28 (9.86%) Kibana
6 26 (9.15%) Prometheus
7 21 (7.39%) Packer
8 17 (5.99%) logstash
9 16 (5.63%) Puppet
10 14 (4.93%) Red Hat Satellite
11 13 (4.58%) Progress Chef
12 11 (3.87%) vCenter Server
13 10 (3.52%) SCCM
14 9 (3.17%) vRealize
15 8 (2.82%) EMC NetWorker
15 8 (2.82%) Netcool
15 8 (2.82%) Tivoli
15 8 (2.82%) Tivoli Storage Manager
16 7 (2.46%) Data Guard
17 5 (1.76%) HAProxy
Vendors
1 139 (48.94%) Red Hat
2 100 (35.21%) VMware
3 57 (20.07%) Oracle
4 38 (13.38%) Microsoft
5 26 (9.15%) IBM
6 20 (7.04%) HP
6 20 (7.04%) Splunk
7 18 (6.34%) CyberArk
8 17 (5.99%) Cisco
9 16 (5.63%) Dell
10 15 (5.28%) Qualys
11 14 (4.93%) ArcSight
11 14 (4.93%) Veritas
12 13 (4.58%) Amdocs
13 12 (4.23%) EMC
13 12 (4.23%) NetApp
14 10 (3.52%) ServiceNow
14 10 (3.52%) Veeam
15 9 (3.17%) Temenos
16 8 (2.82%) Sybase