Red Hat Contract Job Trends in West Sussex

Red Hat
South East > West Sussex

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in West Sussex 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 25 October 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
25 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 31 24 43
Rank change year-on-year -7 +19 +10
Contract jobs citing Red Hat 2 3 2
As % of all contract jobs in West Sussex 0.93% 2.27% 0.71%
As % of the Vendors category 1.63% 3.57% 1.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 1
10th Percentile £281 £411 -
25th Percentile £283 £428 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £285 £460 £450
Median % change year-on-year -38.04% +2.22% +6.57%
75th Percentile £288 £476 £475
90th Percentile £289 £483 -
South East median daily rate £500 £535 £550
% change year-on-year -6.54% -2.73% -0.90%

All Vendors
West Sussex

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 in West Sussex.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 123 84 162
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Sussex 56.94% 63.64% 57.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 95 63 122
10th Percentile £200 £176 £200
25th Percentile £205 £369 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £450 £491
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% -8.27% +1.15%
75th Percentile £526 £528 £518
90th Percentile £638 £635 £678
South East median daily rate £500 £515 £513
% change year-on-year -2.91% +0.49% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 2 2
10th Percentile - - £13.26
25th Percentile £15.50 £27.00 £14.78
Median hourly rate £16.02 £28.00 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -42.78% +60.00% -17.84%
75th Percentile £20.69 £29.00 £20.41
90th Percentile - - £22.04
South East median hourly rate £20.00 £57.65 £45.21
% change year-on-year -65.31% +27.51% +100.93%

Red Hat
Job Vacancy Trend in West Sussex

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Red Hat relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in West Sussex.

Red Hat job vacancy trend in West Sussex

Red Hat
Daily Rate Trend in West Sussex

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Sussex citing Red Hat.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Sussex citing Red Hat

Red Hat
Contract Job Locations in West Sussex

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 West Sussex region over the 6 months to 25 October 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
Burgess Hill -6 2 £285 -28.75% 1
Red Hat
South East

Red Hat
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Sussex by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (100.00%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Computing
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Git
1 2 (100.00%) IntelliJ
1 2 (100.00%) JUnit
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Lead
1 2 (100.00%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 2 (100.00%) High Availability
1 2 (100.00%) Microservices
1 2 (100.00%) RAD
1 2 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 2 (100.00%) TDD
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 2 (100.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (100.00%) Degree
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Splunk