Red Hat Enterprise Linux Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 189 264 203
Rank change year-on-year +75 -61 +104
Contract jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 115 81 319
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.16% 0.53% 1.23%
As % of the Operating Systems category 9.77% 5.07% 9.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 86 50 254
10th Percentile £410 £350 £413
25th Percentile £437 £402 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £541 £475 £554
Median % change year-on-year +13.89% -14.18% +0.64%
75th Percentile £597 £525 £675
90th Percentile £716 £600 £775
UK median daily rate £550 £524 £600
% change year-on-year +5.06% -12.75% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £51.25
Median hourly rate - £25.18 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year - -52.04% -16.67%
75th Percentile - - £53.75
90th Percentile - - £67.10
UK median hourly rate - £60.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year - +14.29% -16.67%

All Operating Systems
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 1,177 1,597 3,543
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 11.88% 10.41% 13.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 792 1,113 2,503
10th Percentile £288 £218 £250
25th Percentile £388 £350 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £520
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -8.65% +4.00%
75th Percentile £581 £588 £625
90th Percentile £675 £680 £718
UK median daily rate £475 £469 £505
% change year-on-year +1.28% -7.13% +1.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 49 101
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.15 £19.00
25th Percentile £32.19 £14.27 £40.00
Median hourly rate £62.50 £18.30 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +241.53% -68.17% +35.29%
75th Percentile £68.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £68.53 £73.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £24.18 £22.00 £39.30
% change year-on-year +9.91% -44.02% +74.67%

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 11 (9.57%) Apache Spark
2 10 (8.70%) Confluence
3 7 (6.09%) nginx
4 6 (5.22%) JBoss
5 5 (4.35%) Traefik
6 4 (3.48%) Microsoft Exchange
7 3 (2.61%) Apache
7 3 (2.61%) WebLogic
8 2 (1.74%) Documentum
8 2 (1.74%) FileNet
8 2 (1.74%) OpenStack
8 2 (1.74%) SharePoint
9 1 (0.87%) Skype for Business
9 1 (0.87%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.87%) WebSphere
9 1 (0.87%) WebSphere Application Server
Cloud Services
1 34 (29.57%) AWS
2 18 (15.65%) Azure
3 16 (13.91%) AWS CloudFormation
4 12 (10.43%) Amazon ECS
5 11 (9.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 11 (9.57%) GitHub
5 11 (9.57%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 10 (8.70%) AWS Fargate
7 9 (7.83%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 9 (7.83%) OpenShift
8 8 (6.96%) Amazon S3
9 7 (6.09%) Amazon EC2
9 7 (6.09%) Azure DevOps
9 7 (6.09%) Entra ID
10 6 (5.22%) Cloud Computing
10 6 (5.22%) Slack
11 5 (4.35%) Serverless
12 4 (3.48%) Azure Monitor
12 4 (3.48%) IaaS
12 4 (3.48%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 20 (17.39%) DNS
2 17 (14.78%) TCP/IP
3 11 (9.57%) DHCP
4 9 (7.83%) Firewall
5 7 (6.09%) HTTP
6 4 (3.48%) NAS
7 3 (2.61%) SAN
8 2 (1.74%) FTP
8 2 (1.74%) SMTP
8 2 (1.74%) SSH
8 2 (1.74%) tcpdump
8 2 (1.74%) Telnet
9 1 (0.87%) Intrusion Detection
9 1 (0.87%) Kerberos
9 1 (0.87%) Skype
9 1 (0.87%) VLAN
9 1 (0.87%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (15.65%) PostgreSQL
2 17 (14.78%) Elasticsearch
3 16 (13.91%) MongoDB
4 11 (9.57%) Hadoop
5 9 (7.83%) Big Data
5 9 (7.83%) MySQL
6 7 (6.09%) SQL Server
7 6 (5.22%) Apache Cassandra
8 4 (3.48%) Data Lake
8 4 (3.48%) Relational Database
9 3 (2.61%) Data Warehouse
9 3 (2.61%) InfluxDB
9 3 (2.61%) RDBMS
10 2 (1.74%) MariaDB
10 2 (1.74%) Power BI
10 2 (1.74%) SAP HANA
11 1 (0.87%) Amazon RDS
11 1 (0.87%) CockroachDB
11 1 (0.87%) Oracle Exadata
11 1 (0.87%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 24 (20.87%) Jenkins
2 22 (19.13%) GitLab
3 17 (14.78%) Git
4 14 (12.17%) JIRA
5 7 (6.09%) Artifactory
6 6 (5.22%) Cucumber
6 6 (5.22%) Jasmine
6 6 (5.22%) JUnit
7 5 (4.35%) SonarQube
8 4 (3.48%) TeamCity
9 3 (2.61%) Bitbucket Server
9 3 (2.61%) CA Release Automation
9 3 (2.61%) Eclipse
9 3 (2.61%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (0.87%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.87%) Spinnaker
General
1 27 (23.48%) Social Skills
2 19 (16.52%) Finance
3 12 (10.43%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (10.43%) Banking
4 11 (9.57%) Public Sector
5 3 (2.61%) Financial Institution
6 2 (1.74%) Back Office
6 2 (1.74%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (1.74%) Front Office
6 2 (1.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (1.74%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (0.87%) Investment Banking
7 1 (0.87%) Retail
Job Titles
1 26 (22.61%) Senior
2 19 (16.52%) DevOps Engineer
3 17 (14.78%) Linux Engineer
4 12 (10.43%) Senior DevOps
5 10 (8.70%) Kubernetes Engineer
5 10 (8.70%) Lead
6 9 (7.83%) AWS Engineer
7 8 (6.96%) Platform Engineer
7 8 (6.96%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 7 (6.09%) Azure Engineer
9 6 (5.22%) Architect
9 6 (5.22%) Cloud Engineer
10 5 (4.35%) Developer
10 5 (4.35%) Python Engineer
11 4 (3.48%) AWS DevOps
11 4 (3.48%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 4 (3.48%) Java Developer
11 4 (3.48%) Senior Developer
11 4 (3.48%) Senior Java Developer
12 3 (2.61%) Unix Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (9.57%) cloud-init
2 9 (7.83%) OpenTelemetry
2 9 (7.83%) Spring Boot
3 7 (6.09%) Kafka
3 7 (6.09%) Keycloak
3 7 (6.09%) LDAP
3 7 (6.09%) Spring
4 6 (5.22%) OpenAPI
4 6 (5.22%) RESTful
4 6 (5.22%) Swagger
5 5 (4.35%) Elastic Stack
5 5 (4.35%) Spring Batch
5 5 (4.35%) Spring Security
6 3 (2.61%) AWS CDK
6 3 (2.61%) IBM Integration Bus
6 3 (2.61%) Middleware
7 2 (1.74%) Murex MxML
7 2 (1.74%) pytest
7 2 (1.74%) REST
7 2 (1.74%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (6.96%) PKI
2 7 (6.09%) Data Centre
3 6 (5.22%) CSOC
3 6 (5.22%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 6 (5.22%) Enterprise Storage
4 4 (3.48%) Cloud Native
5 3 (2.61%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (2.61%) Onboarding
5 3 (2.61%) Public Cloud
5 3 (2.61%) Replication
6 2 (1.74%) Clustering
6 2 (1.74%) Credit Derivative
6 2 (1.74%) Derivative
6 2 (1.74%) Fixed Income
6 2 (1.74%) Interest Rate Derivative
7 1 (0.87%) Blackberry
7 1 (0.87%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.87%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.87%) Private Cloud
7 1 (0.87%) RSA SecurID
Operating Systems
1 115 (100.00%) Linux
2 35 (30.43%) Windows
3 22 (19.13%) Unix
4 16 (13.91%) CentOS
5 15 (13.04%) Windows Server
6 9 (7.83%) Solaris
7 7 (6.09%) AIX
7 7 (6.09%) Ubuntu
8 6 (5.22%) VMS
9 4 (3.48%) HPUX
9 4 (3.48%) Windows Server 2019
10 3 (2.61%) SUSE
11 2 (1.74%) Amazon Linux
12 1 (0.87%) Data ONTAP
12 1 (0.87%) Oracle Linux
12 1 (0.87%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (40.00%) CI/CD
2 38 (33.04%) DevOps
3 28 (24.35%) Infrastructure as Code
4 22 (19.13%) Agile
5 20 (17.39%) Containerisation
5 20 (17.39%) Continuous Integration
5 20 (17.39%) Microservices
6 19 (16.52%) Observability
6 19 (16.52%) Problem-Solving
7 16 (13.91%) High Availability
7 16 (13.91%) Migration
8 13 (11.30%) Test Automation
9 12 (10.43%) Cloud Security
10 11 (9.57%) Software Engineering
10 11 (9.57%) Technical Leadership
11 10 (8.70%) ITIL
11 10 (8.70%) Platform Engineering
12 9 (7.83%) Batch Processing
13 8 (6.96%) Secrets Management
13 8 (6.96%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 40 (34.78%) Python
2 34 (29.57%) Bash
3 11 (9.57%) Go
4 10 (8.70%) SQL
5 8 (6.96%) Java
5 8 (6.96%) PowerShell
6 6 (5.22%) Perl
7 3 (2.61%) C++
7 3 (2.61%) Groovy
7 3 (2.61%) Shell Script
8 2 (1.74%) Ruby
8 2 (1.74%) Rust
9 1 (0.87%) C#
9 1 (0.87%) JavaScript
9 1 (0.87%) PHP
9 1 (0.87%) VB
9 1 (0.87%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 45 (39.13%) Security Cleared
2 43 (37.39%) SC Cleared
3 7 (6.09%) AWS Certification
4 3 (2.61%) CISM
4 3 (2.61%) CISSP
4 3 (2.61%) DV Cleared
4 3 (2.61%) RHCE
5 2 (1.74%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (1.74%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.74%) Degree
5 2 (1.74%) Oracle Certification
5 2 (1.74%) RHCA
5 2 (1.74%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 1 (0.87%) CASP
6 1 (0.87%) CCDE
6 1 (0.87%) CCNP
6 1 (0.87%) CISA
6 1 (0.87%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (0.87%) OCA
6 1 (0.87%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (6.09%) Disclosure Scotland
1 7 (6.09%) NCSC
2 2 (1.74%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (1.74%) NIST
3 1 (0.87%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (0.87%) GDPR
3 1 (0.87%) QA
3 1 (0.87%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 20 (17.39%) Docker
2 13 (11.30%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (7.83%) Active Directory
4 4 (3.48%) vSphere
5 3 (2.61%) Veritas Cluster Server
5 3 (2.61%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (2.61%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (1.74%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 2 (1.74%) NFS
6 2 (1.74%) Oracle RAC
6 2 (1.74%) Samba
7 1 (0.87%) Gluster
7 1 (0.87%) GlusterFS
7 1 (0.87%) KVM
Systems Management
1 44 (38.26%) Kubernetes
1 44 (38.26%) Terraform
2 40 (34.78%) Ansible
3 24 (20.87%) Grafana
4 13 (11.30%) Packer
5 12 (10.43%) Argo
6 11 (9.57%) Prometheus
7 10 (8.70%) Consul
8 9 (7.83%) Progress Chef
9 7 (6.09%) Istio
9 7 (6.09%) Jamf Pro
9 7 (6.09%) Kibana
9 7 (6.09%) linkerd
9 7 (6.09%) Rancher
9 7 (6.09%) ZABBIX
10 6 (5.22%) HAProxy
10 6 (5.22%) Puppet
11 5 (4.35%) NetBackup
11 5 (4.35%) Red Hat Satellite
12 3 (2.61%) yum
Vendors
1 51 (44.35%) Red Hat
2 28 (24.35%) VMware
3 22 (19.13%) Splunk
4 12 (10.43%) HP
5 11 (9.57%) Oracle
6 9 (7.83%) ServiceNow
7 8 (6.96%) Cisco
8 7 (6.09%) Microsoft
8 7 (6.09%) Okta
8 7 (6.09%) Palo Alto
8 7 (6.09%) SolarWinds
8 7 (6.09%) Veritas
9 6 (5.22%) Dynatrace
9 6 (5.22%) F5
9 6 (5.22%) Fortinet
9 6 (5.22%) IBM
10 5 (4.35%) Apple
10 5 (4.35%) Dell
10 5 (4.35%) ESET
11 4 (3.48%) 3PAR