Red Hat Enterprise Linux Contracts in the West Midlands

Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands requiring Red Hat Enterprise Linux skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Red Hat Enterprise Linux over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 84 102 113
Rank change year-on-year +18 +11 +15
Contract jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 13 9 26
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.97% 0.46% 1.09%
As % of the Operating Systems category 7.10% 3.67% 6.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 8 11
10th Percentile £521 £409 £295
25th Percentile £538 £497 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £546 £550 £650
Median % change year-on-year -0.82% -15.38% +40.54%
75th Percentile £551 £575 £700
90th Percentile £554 £650 -
England median daily rate £551 £525 £625
% change year-on-year +4.95% -16.00% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £51.25
Median hourly rate - - £52.50
75th Percentile - - £53.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate - £60.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year - +14.29% +118.75%

All Operating Systems
West Midlands

Red Hat Enterprise Linux falls under the Operating Systems category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring operating system skills in the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 183 245 410
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 13.61% 12.58% 17.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 125 163 275
10th Percentile £147 £182 £170
25th Percentile £190 £250 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £425 £505
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% -15.84% +24.69%
75th Percentile £525 £550 £559
90th Percentile £653 £695 £694
England median daily rate £475 £463 £513
% change year-on-year +2.70% -9.76% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 16 9
10th Percentile £15.22 £14.83 £14.71
25th Percentile £16.67 £18.50 £15.25
Median hourly rate £18.13 £22.50 £16.94
Median % change year-on-year -19.42% +32.86% +2.64%
75th Percentile £19.01 £23.75 £18.50
90th Percentile £20.00 £48.13 £25.75
England median hourly rate £24.18 £22.00 £38.00
% change year-on-year +9.91% -42.11% +76.74%

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Red Hat Enterprise Linux in the West Midlands

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Red Hat Enterprise Linux in the West Midlands

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Red Hat Enterprise Linux in the West Midlands

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Red Hat Enterprise Linux in the West Midlands

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Warwickshire +10 8 £551 +37.75%
Shropshire -1 3 £539 -
Herefordshire - 2 £400 - 3
Red Hat Enterprise Linux
England

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (23.08%) AWS
1 3 (23.08%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 2 (15.38%) Firewall
Development Applications
1 3 (23.08%) GitLab
General
1 3 (23.08%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (15.38%) Linux Engineer
1 2 (15.38%) Operations Engineer
2 1 (7.69%) DevOps Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 8 (61.54%) CSOC
Operating Systems
1 13 (100.00%) Linux
2 8 (61.54%) VMS
2 8 (61.54%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (61.54%) Event Correlation
1 8 (61.54%) SIEM
2 4 (30.77%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (23.08%) Agile
3 3 (23.08%) Cost Optimisation
3 3 (23.08%) Cost Reduction
3 3 (23.08%) DevOps
3 3 (23.08%) Process Improvement
3 3 (23.08%) Software Engineering
4 1 (7.69%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (7.69%) Infrastructure Transformation
4 1 (7.69%) Security Management
4 1 (7.69%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (7.69%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 12 (92.31%) Security Cleared
2 10 (76.92%) SC Cleared
3 2 (15.38%) RHCE
3 2 (15.38%) RHCSA
System Software
1 2 (15.38%) Hyper-V
1 2 (15.38%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (30.77%) Ansible
2 3 (23.08%) Opsview
2 3 (23.08%) Terraform
3 2 (15.38%) SELinux
Vendors
1 10 (76.92%) Red Hat
2 8 (61.54%) Cisco
2 8 (61.54%) F5
2 8 (61.54%) Fortinet
2 8 (61.54%) Palo Alto
2 8 (61.54%) ServiceNow
2 8 (61.54%) SolarWinds
2 8 (61.54%) Splunk
3 3 (23.08%) PagerDuty
4 2 (15.38%) VMware