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 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 81 82 102
Rank change year-on-year +1 +20 +31
Contract jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 14 29 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 1.00% 1.49% 1.08%
As % of the Operating Systems category 6.86% 10.86% 7.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 22 9
10th Percentile £493 £311 £290
25th Percentile £537 £525 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £576 £650
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% -11.38% +8.33%
75th Percentile £551 £632 £700
90th Percentile - £672 £715
England median daily rate £550 £533 £625
% change year-on-year +3.29% -14.80% +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 - £72.75 £52.50
% change year-on-year - +38.57% +0.96%

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 204 267 334
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 14.59% 13.72% 14.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 143 176 211
10th Percentile £150 £185 £169
25th Percentile £200 £262 £275
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £438 £450
Median % change year-on-year -8.57% -2.78% +8.11%
75th Percentile £507 £575 £591
90th Percentile £638 £681 £694
England median daily rate £468 £475 £510
% change year-on-year -1.58% -6.86% +2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 18 9
10th Percentile £15.36 £15.16 £13.16
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 £19.63 £23.75 £18.75
90th Percentile £24.19 £72.50 £32.75
England median hourly rate £20.00 £22.50 £43.75
% change year-on-year -11.11% -48.57% +103.49%

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 30 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 30 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 -14 8 £551 -9.30%
Shropshire -2 3 £539 +79.50% 4
Herefordshire - 2 £400 -
Staffordshire - 1 £495 - 2
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 (21.43%) AWS
1 3 (21.43%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 2 (14.29%) Firewall
Development Applications
1 3 (21.43%) GitLab
General
1 3 (21.43%) Social Skills
2 1 (7.14%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (14.29%) Linux Engineer
1 2 (14.29%) Operations Engineer
2 1 (7.14%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (7.14%) Wintel Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 8 (57.14%) CSOC
Operating Systems
1 14 (100.00%) Linux
2 8 (57.14%) VMS
2 8 (57.14%) Windows
3 1 (7.14%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (57.14%) Event Correlation
1 8 (57.14%) SIEM
2 4 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (21.43%) Agile
3 3 (21.43%) Cost Optimisation
3 3 (21.43%) Cost Reduction
3 3 (21.43%) DevOps
3 3 (21.43%) Process Improvement
3 3 (21.43%) Software Engineering
4 1 (7.14%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (7.14%) Infrastructure Transformation
4 1 (7.14%) Security Management
4 1 (7.14%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (7.14%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 13 (92.86%) Security Cleared
2 11 (78.57%) SC Cleared
3 2 (14.29%) RHCE
3 2 (14.29%) RHCSA
System Software
1 2 (14.29%) Hyper-V
1 2 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (28.57%) Ansible
2 3 (21.43%) Opsview
2 3 (21.43%) Terraform
3 2 (14.29%) SELinux
Vendors
1 11 (78.57%) Red Hat
2 8 (57.14%) Cisco
2 8 (57.14%) F5
2 8 (57.14%) Fortinet
2 8 (57.14%) Palo Alto
2 8 (57.14%) ServiceNow
2 8 (57.14%) SolarWinds
2 8 (57.14%) Splunk
3 3 (21.43%) PagerDuty
4 2 (14.29%) VMware