Red Hat Enterprise Linux Contract Job Trends in Wiltshire

Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
South West > Wiltshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Wiltshire requiring Red Hat Enterprise Linux skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 69 46 67
Rank change year-on-year -23 +21 +27
Contract jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2 3 12
As % of all contract jobs in Wiltshire 0.29% 0.70% 1.39%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.96% 3.45% 7.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 8
10th Percentile £466 - £452
25th Percentile £491 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £583 £465
Median % change year-on-year -7.80% +25.38% -15.45%
75th Percentile £591 £592 £475
90th Percentile £619 £597 £530
South West median daily rate £563 £615 £605
% change year-on-year -8.54% +1.65% +10.00%

All Operating Systems
Wiltshire

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 Wiltshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 102 87 156
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wiltshire 14.76% 20.42% 18.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 83 75 130
10th Percentile £234 £206 £212
25th Percentile £509 £220 £447
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.82% +10.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £646 £609 £575
90th Percentile £715 £725 £675
South West median daily rate £450 £475 £488
% change year-on-year -5.26% -2.56% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £12.50 - -
75th Percentile £15.66 - -
90th Percentile £25.15 - -
South West median hourly rate £40.00 £67.50 £52.21
% change year-on-year -40.74% +29.30% -19.68%

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in Wiltshire

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

Red Hat Enterprise Linux job vacancy trend in Wiltshire

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Daily Rate Trend in Wiltshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Wiltshire citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Wiltshire citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Daily Rate Histogram in Wiltshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux in Wiltshire over the 6 months to 1 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Red Hat Enterprise Linux in Wiltshire

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Hourly Rate Trend in Wiltshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Wiltshire citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Wiltshire citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Contract Job Locations in Wiltshire

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 Wiltshire region over the 6 months to 1 February 2026. 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
Corsham -18 2 £538 -7.80% 1
Red Hat Enterprise Linux
South West

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Wiltshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (50.00%) Git
2 1 (50.00%) GitLab
2 1 (50.00%) GoCD
2 1 (50.00%) Maven
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Linux DevOps Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Linux Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Linux/Unix DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Python Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server
2 1 (50.00%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Change Management
2 1 (50.00%) Collaborative Working
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (50.00%) Deployment Automation
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Operational Stability
2 1 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Bash
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) DV Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (50.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Ansible
2 1 (50.00%) FreeIPA
2 1 (50.00%) SCOM
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Citrix
1 1 (50.00%) TOWER Software
1 1 (50.00%) VMware