Red Hat
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for knowledge and experience of Red Hat products and/or services. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Red Hat over the 6 months to 12 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 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
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 306 212 268
Rank change year-on-year -94 +56 -15
Contract jobs citing Red Hat 302 729 954
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.70% 1.25% 1.09%
As % of the Vendors category 1.65% 2.92% 2.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 227 562 623
10th Percentile £350 £425 £400
25th Percentile £425 £488 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £586 £575
Median % change year-on-year -11.26% +1.91% +17.95%
75th Percentile £585 £688 £663
90th Percentile £680 £798 £740
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £545 £525
% change year-on-year -3.67% +3.81% +20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 17 19
10th Percentile £60.95 £25.75 £23.90
25th Percentile £68.38 £28.70 £44.88
Median hourly rate £74.44 £52.50 £63.00
Median % change year-on-year +41.79% -16.67% +31.94%
75th Percentile £75.21 £61.25 £69.05
90th Percentile £76.58 £74.50 £83.80
UK excluding London median hourly rate £74.44 £50.75 £69.05
% change year-on-year +46.68% -26.50% +51.76%

All Vendors
UK

Red Hat is in the Vendor Products and Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 18,343 25,004 35,035
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 42.65% 42.98% 39.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,366 16,721 23,290
10th Percentile £263 £270 £294
25th Percentile £405 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% - +10.53%
75th Percentile £630 £644 £638
90th Percentile £738 £743 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £465
% change year-on-year - +7.53% +9.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,115 686 885
10th Percentile £12.13 £15.23 £12.11
25th Percentile £14.48 £18.77 £15.25
Median hourly rate £22.00 £42.50 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -48.24% +97.67% -4.10%
75th Percentile £57.50 £65.00 £47.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £63.15
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.46 £37.50 £19.00
% change year-on-year -42.77% +97.37% +2.65%

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

Red Hat
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

Red Hat
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Red Hat over the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Red Hat in the UK

Red Hat
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

Red Hat
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Red Hat over the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Red Hat in the UK

Red Hat
Top 14 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 12 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 -63 268 £525 -12.86% 180
UK excluding London -21 192 £525 -3.67% 142
London -86 94 £510 -18.40% 68
South East +30 89 £525 -8.70% 18
Work from Home -63 85 £500 -10.47% 75
Midlands +50 35 £550 +21.03% 25
Scotland -6 21 £340 -32.00% 19
East of England -20 19 £550 -21.43% 13
West Midlands +28 18 £585 +98.31% 18
East Midlands +31 16 £535 +9.24% 7
South West -13 16 £526 -8.48% 26
North West -3 13 £583 -2.92% 16
North of England -10 13 £583 +5.91% 27
Wales +15 1 - -

Red Hat
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 25 (8.28%) Apache
2 20 (6.62%) Tomcat
3 17 (5.63%) nginx
4 16 (5.30%) JBoss
5 14 (4.64%) OpenStack
6 13 (4.30%) IIS
7 10 (3.31%) Confluence
8 8 (2.65%) Microsoft Exchange
9 6 (1.99%) MQSeries
10 1 (0.33%) OpenEdge
10 1 (0.33%) Red Hat Fuse
10 1 (0.33%) SAS
10 1 (0.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (1.99%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.66%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 9 (2.98%) Temenos T24
2 7 (2.32%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (0.99%) Global One
3 3 (0.99%) Sage X3
4 2 (0.66%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
4 2 (0.66%) RMDS
5 1 (0.33%) MFGPRO
5 1 (0.33%) Sage 50
Cloud Services
1 65 (21.52%) AWS
2 57 (18.87%) Azure
3 31 (10.26%) OpenShift
4 16 (5.30%) GitHub
5 15 (4.97%) Amazon S3
6 13 (4.30%) Amazon EC2
6 13 (4.30%) Slack
7 11 (3.64%) AWS CloudFormation
7 11 (3.64%) Route 53
7 11 (3.64%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 10 (3.31%) Amazon EKS
8 10 (3.31%) IaaS
9 7 (2.32%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 7 (2.32%) AWS Lambda
9 7 (2.32%) Microsoft 365
9 7 (2.32%) Serverless
10 6 (1.99%) Amazon ECR
10 6 (1.99%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 6 (1.99%) Azure DevOps
10 6 (1.99%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 40 (13.25%) SAN
2 31 (10.26%) TCP/IP
3 28 (9.27%) Firewall
4 23 (7.62%) DNS
5 15 (4.97%) Network Security
6 12 (3.97%) Intrusion Detection
7 10 (3.31%) HTTP
8 9 (2.98%) NAS
8 9 (2.98%) VPN
9 7 (2.32%) DHCP
9 7 (2.32%) InfiniBand
9 7 (2.32%) Wireless
10 6 (1.99%) H.323
10 6 (1.99%) WAN
11 4 (1.32%) FTP
11 4 (1.32%) HTTPS
11 4 (1.32%) IPsec
11 4 (1.32%) LAN
11 4 (1.32%) SSL
11 4 (1.32%) tcpdump
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (11.92%) SQL Server
2 28 (9.27%) PostgreSQL
3 25 (8.28%) Elasticsearch
4 19 (6.29%) MySQL
5 17 (5.63%) Amazon RDS
5 17 (5.63%) Relational Database
6 16 (5.30%) RDBMS
7 10 (3.31%) Big Data
7 10 (3.31%) MongoDB
7 10 (3.31%) Oracle Database
8 6 (1.99%) Amazon Aurora
9 4 (1.32%) Data Warehouse
10 3 (0.99%) InfluxDB
10 3 (0.99%) Informix
11 2 (0.66%) Oracle BI Publisher
12 1 (0.33%) Apache Cassandra
12 1 (0.33%) Couchbase
12 1 (0.33%) Metadata
12 1 (0.33%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 32 (10.60%) Jenkins
2 21 (6.95%) GitLab
3 20 (6.62%) Git
4 15 (4.97%) JIRA
5 14 (4.64%) SonarQube
6 11 (3.64%) Bitbucket
7 8 (2.65%) Artifactory
8 6 (1.99%) Maven
8 6 (1.99%) Sonatype Nexus
8 6 (1.99%) TeamCity
9 5 (1.66%) Bitbucket Server
9 5 (1.66%) CA Release Automation
10 4 (1.32%) Cucumber
10 4 (1.32%) JUnit
11 3 (0.99%) EasyMock
11 3 (0.99%) Mockito
11 3 (0.99%) Oracle APEX
11 3 (0.99%) Postman
11 3 (0.99%) Selenium
11 3 (0.99%) TestNG
General
1 45 (14.90%) Social Skills
2 38 (12.58%) Finance
3 31 (10.26%) Analytical Skills
4 23 (7.62%) Public Sector
5 15 (4.97%) Banking
6 10 (3.31%) Telecoms
7 7 (2.32%) Legal
8 3 (0.99%) Manufacturing
9 2 (0.66%) Advertising
9 2 (0.66%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (0.66%) Electronics
9 2 (0.66%) Marketing
9 2 (0.66%) Military
9 2 (0.66%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.33%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.33%) Back Office
10 1 (0.33%) Front Office
10 1 (0.33%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.33%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 55 (18.21%) Linux Engineer
2 32 (10.60%) Developer
3 31 (10.26%) Support Engineer
4 29 (9.60%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 20 (6.62%) Architect
5 20 (6.62%) Python Developer
6 18 (5.96%) DevOps Engineer
6 18 (5.96%) Senior
7 16 (5.30%) Administrator
7 16 (5.30%) Analyst
8 15 (4.97%) Cloud Engineer
8 15 (4.97%) Linux Systems Administrator
8 15 (4.97%) Systems Administrator
9 13 (4.30%) AWS Engineer
10 12 (3.97%) Applications Support
10 12 (3.97%) Lead
10 12 (3.97%) Linux Administrator
10 12 (3.97%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
11 11 (3.64%) Linux Support
12 10 (3.31%) 3rd Line Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (8.94%) Elastic Stack
2 16 (5.30%) Apache NiFi
3 11 (3.64%) REST
4 10 (3.31%) Spring Boot
4 10 (3.31%) YAML
5 9 (2.98%) IBM Integration Bus
6 7 (2.32%) CSS
6 7 (2.32%) FIX Protocol
6 7 (2.32%) HTML
6 7 (2.32%) Middleware
6 7 (2.32%) Swagger
7 6 (1.99%) Kafka
8 5 (1.66%) LDAP
8 5 (1.66%) Spring
9 4 (1.32%) HTML5
9 4 (1.32%) Laravel
10 3 (0.99%) Gherkin
10 3 (0.99%) Guice
10 3 (0.99%) JAX-RS
10 3 (0.99%) Mustache
Miscellaneous
1 26 (8.61%) Data Centre
2 24 (7.95%) Onboarding
3 22 (7.28%) Linux Command Line
3 22 (7.28%) Management Information System
4 16 (5.30%) Distributed Applications
5 15 (4.97%) PKI
6 13 (4.30%) Clustering
7 12 (3.97%) Cyber Defence
8 11 (3.64%) Replication
9 7 (2.32%) Public Cloud
10 6 (1.99%) IVR
11 5 (1.66%) Enterprise Storage
12 4 (1.32%) Cloud Native
12 4 (1.32%) Fat Client
12 4 (1.32%) Greenfield Project
12 4 (1.32%) Hybrid Cloud
12 4 (1.32%) Thin Client
13 3 (0.99%) CCTV
13 3 (0.99%) Cyber Threat
13 3 (0.99%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 231 (76.49%) Linux
2 137 (45.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 90 (29.80%) Windows
4 45 (14.90%) Unix
5 43 (14.24%) Windows Server
6 36 (11.92%) Debian
7 35 (11.59%) Ubuntu
8 34 (11.26%) CentOS
9 21 (6.95%) Solaris
9 21 (6.95%) Windows Server 2019
10 19 (6.29%) Windows Server 2016
11 14 (4.64%) Windows Server 2012
12 12 (3.97%) Android
13 9 (2.98%) Apple iOS
13 9 (2.98%) Windows Server 2008
14 5 (1.66%) Windows 10
15 3 (0.99%) Mac OS
15 3 (0.99%) SUSE
15 3 (0.99%) VMS
16 1 (0.33%) Windows Mobile
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (17.22%) Agile
2 42 (13.91%) ITIL
3 41 (13.58%) CI/CD
3 41 (13.58%) DevOps
4 38 (12.58%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 32 (10.60%) Migration
6 31 (10.26%) High Availability
7 29 (9.60%) Infrastructure as Code
8 26 (8.61%) Customer Service
8 26 (8.61%) Data Engineering
8 26 (8.61%) Disaster Recovery
9 25 (8.28%) Configuration Management
10 24 (7.95%) Change Management
11 22 (7.28%) Software Engineering
12 21 (6.95%) Roadmaps
13 19 (6.29%) Cybersecurity
14 18 (5.96%) Data Modelling
15 17 (5.63%) Analytics
15 17 (5.63%) Information Security
15 17 (5.63%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 86 (28.48%) Python
2 48 (15.89%) Shell Script
3 44 (14.57%) Bash
4 41 (13.58%) PowerShell
5 24 (7.95%) SQL
6 17 (5.63%) Perl
7 13 (4.30%) Java
8 6 (1.99%) Korn
9 5 (1.66%) MATLAB
10 4 (1.32%) PHP
10 4 (1.32%) T-SQL
11 3 (0.99%) C++
11 3 (0.99%) JavaScript
11 3 (0.99%) TypeScript
12 2 (0.66%) AWK
12 2 (0.66%) Bourne shell
12 2 (0.66%) VBScript
13 1 (0.33%) C
13 1 (0.33%) C#
13 1 (0.33%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 133 (44.04%) Security Cleared
2 96 (31.79%) SC Cleared
3 51 (16.89%) DV Cleared
4 24 (7.95%) Degree
5 13 (4.30%) Computer Science Degree
6 12 (3.97%) RHCE
7 10 (3.31%) Microsoft Certification
8 9 (2.98%) MCSE
9 6 (1.99%) MCSA
9 6 (1.99%) RHCT
10 4 (1.32%) RHCSA
11 1 (0.33%) Azure Certification
11 1 (0.33%) CEH
11 1 (0.33%) CISSP
11 1 (0.33%) GIAC
11 1 (0.33%) Linux+ Certification
11 1 (0.33%) LPIC
11 1 (0.33%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.33%) RHCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (4.64%) QA
2 10 (3.31%) Actionable Recommendations
3 7 (2.32%) SLA
4 5 (1.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.66%) GDPR
5 2 (0.66%) NIST
6 1 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.33%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 64 (21.19%) VMware Infrastructure
2 45 (14.90%) Active Directory
3 32 (10.60%) Docker
4 23 (7.62%) Hyper-V
5 18 (5.96%) Virtual Machines
6 17 (5.63%) KVM
6 17 (5.63%) vSphere
7 11 (3.64%) VMware ESXi
8 5 (1.66%) Firmware
9 4 (1.32%) Samba
9 4 (1.32%) Virtual Servers
9 4 (1.32%) VMware NSX
10 3 (0.99%) Ceph
11 2 (0.66%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 2 (0.66%) Varnish
11 2 (0.66%) Veritas Cluster Server
12 1 (0.33%) Terminal Services
12 1 (0.33%) Xen
Systems Management
1 93 (30.79%) Ansible
2 54 (17.88%) Kubernetes
3 43 (14.24%) Terraform
4 28 (9.27%) Red Hat Satellite
5 22 (7.28%) Grafana
6 19 (6.29%) Kibana
7 18 (5.96%) Prometheus
8 13 (4.30%) logstash
9 11 (3.64%) Progress Chef
10 9 (2.98%) Puppet
11 8 (2.65%) WSUS
12 7 (2.32%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
12 7 (2.32%) Packer
13 5 (1.66%) Dell DRAC
13 5 (1.66%) Istio
13 5 (1.66%) NetBackup
13 5 (1.66%) Rancher
13 5 (1.66%) SCCM
13 5 (1.66%) Single Sign-On
13 5 (1.66%) Tivoli Identity Manager
Vendors
1 112 (37.09%) VMware
2 54 (17.88%) Microsoft
3 40 (13.25%) Oracle
4 20 (6.62%) Dell
5 19 (6.29%) HP
6 16 (5.30%) IBM
7 14 (4.64%) Citrix
8 13 (4.30%) Amdocs
8 13 (4.30%) SolarWinds
9 10 (3.31%) Cisco
10 9 (2.98%) Temenos
11 8 (2.65%) Bloomberg
11 8 (2.65%) NetApp
11 8 (2.65%) Nimble Storage
11 8 (2.65%) Qualys
11 8 (2.65%) Veritas
12 7 (2.32%) Splunk
12 7 (2.32%) Veeam
13 6 (1.99%) Avaya
13 6 (1.99%) Verint