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 3 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 209 250 209
Rank change year-on-year +41 -41 +89
Contract jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 101 85 258
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.99% 0.65% 1.15%
As % of the Operating Systems category 8.88% 5.66% 8.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 71 67 189
10th Percentile £400 £343 £345
25th Percentile £416 £417 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% -13.64% -3.85%
75th Percentile £575 £539 £675
90th Percentile £650 £624 £810
UK median daily rate £525 £520 £598
% change year-on-year +0.96% -12.97% +0.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 8
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £51.25
Median hourly rate - - £61.25
75th Percentile - - £73.75
90th Percentile - - £74.13
UK median hourly rate - £72.75 £71.25
% change year-on-year - +2.11% +13.10%

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 1,138 1,502 2,878
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 11.15% 11.41% 12.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 712 1,027 2,017
10th Percentile £289 £250 £240
25th Percentile £375 £391 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £482 £500 £515
Median % change year-on-year -3.65% -2.91% -1.90%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £638
90th Percentile £662 £675 £738
UK median daily rate £463 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -2.63% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 28 111
10th Percentile £15.66 £12.75 £20.00
25th Percentile £52.63 £13.24 £25.71
Median hourly rate £65.00 £17.85 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +264.25% -66.01% +2.44%
75th Percentile £67.00 £65.00 £66.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £67.88 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £24.00 £27.25 £42.50
% change year-on-year -11.93% -35.88% +88.89%

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 3 August 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 8 (7.92%) Documentum
1 8 (7.92%) FileNet
2 7 (6.93%) Apache Spark
2 7 (6.93%) JBoss
3 6 (5.94%) Apache
4 4 (3.96%) Confluence
4 4 (3.96%) Tomcat
5 3 (2.97%) WebLogic
6 2 (1.98%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (1.98%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.99%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.99%) nginx
7 1 (0.99%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.99%) Skype for Business
7 1 (0.99%) WebSphere
7 1 (0.99%) WebSphere Application Server
Cloud Services
1 37 (36.63%) AWS
2 11 (10.89%) Amazon EC2
3 9 (8.91%) GitHub
3 9 (8.91%) OpenShift
4 8 (7.92%) Amazon S3
4 8 (7.92%) Amazon SQS
4 8 (7.92%) Serverless
5 7 (6.93%) Azure
5 7 (6.93%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 6 (5.94%) GCP
7 5 (4.95%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 3 (2.97%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 3 (2.97%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (2.97%) Azure Monitor
8 3 (2.97%) IaaS
8 3 (2.97%) SaaS
9 2 (1.98%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (1.98%) AWS KMS
9 2 (1.98%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (1.98%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 8 (7.92%) Firewall
2 6 (5.94%) DNS
3 5 (4.95%) SAN
4 3 (2.97%) DHCP
4 3 (2.97%) DKIM
4 3 (2.97%) DMARC
4 3 (2.97%) Internet
4 3 (2.97%) NAS
4 3 (2.97%) SMTP
5 2 (1.98%) TCP/IP
5 2 (1.98%) VSAN
6 1 (0.99%) HTTP
6 1 (0.99%) HTTPS
6 1 (0.99%) Multicast
6 1 (0.99%) Skype
6 1 (0.99%) SSL
6 1 (0.99%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (13.86%) Elasticsearch
2 9 (8.91%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (6.93%) Big Data
3 7 (6.93%) Data Lake
3 7 (6.93%) Hadoop
3 7 (6.93%) MySQL
4 6 (5.94%) Data Warehouse
5 5 (4.95%) Relational Database
5 5 (4.95%) SQL Server
6 4 (3.96%) MongoDB
6 4 (3.96%) RDBMS
7 3 (2.97%) Oracle Database
8 2 (1.98%) InfluxDB
8 2 (1.98%) MariaDB
8 2 (1.98%) Oracle BI Publisher
8 2 (1.98%) Oracle Exadata
8 2 (1.98%) Power BI
8 2 (1.98%) SAP HANA
9 1 (0.99%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.99%) NonStop SQL
Development Applications
1 16 (15.84%) GitLab
2 15 (14.85%) Jenkins
3 11 (10.89%) Git
4 10 (9.90%) JIRA
5 6 (5.94%) SonarQube
6 4 (3.96%) Artifactory
6 4 (3.96%) Bitbucket
6 4 (3.96%) Bitbucket Server
6 4 (3.96%) CA Release Automation
6 4 (3.96%) Sonatype Nexus
6 4 (3.96%) TeamCity
7 3 (2.97%) Eclipse
8 2 (1.98%) Oracle APEX
8 2 (1.98%) Snyk
8 2 (1.98%) Vagrant
General
1 34 (33.66%) Social Skills
2 22 (21.78%) Finance
3 14 (13.86%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (8.91%) Banking
5 8 (7.92%) Public Sector
6 2 (1.98%) Back Office
6 2 (1.98%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (1.98%) French Language
6 2 (1.98%) Front Office
6 2 (1.98%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (0.99%) Aerospace
7 1 (0.99%) Financial Institution
7 1 (0.99%) Investment Banking
7 1 (0.99%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 17 (16.83%) Linux Engineer
2 11 (10.89%) Senior
3 9 (8.91%) Developer
4 8 (7.92%) DevOps Engineer
5 7 (6.93%) Cloud Engineer
5 7 (6.93%) Documentum Developer
5 7 (6.93%) Kubernetes Engineer
6 6 (5.94%) Administrator
6 6 (5.94%) Architect
7 5 (4.95%) Platform Engineer
7 5 (4.95%) Systems Administrator
7 5 (4.95%) Systems Engineer
8 4 (3.96%) AWS Engineer
8 4 (3.96%) Consultant
8 4 (3.96%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 4 (3.96%) Python Engineer
9 3 (2.97%) AWS Architect
9 3 (2.97%) Azure Engineer
9 3 (2.97%) Linux Systems Engineer
9 3 (2.97%) Storage Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (6.93%) OpenTelemetry
2 5 (4.95%) Elastic Stack
2 5 (4.95%) LDAP
2 5 (4.95%) REST
3 4 (3.96%) Middleware
3 4 (3.96%) Spring Boot
4 3 (2.97%) IBM Integration Bus
4 3 (2.97%) JSON
4 3 (2.97%) LAMP
4 3 (2.97%) RESTful
5 2 (1.98%) Ajax
5 2 (1.98%) CSS
5 2 (1.98%) HTML
5 2 (1.98%) jQuery
5 2 (1.98%) Murex MxML
5 2 (1.98%) OAuth
5 2 (1.98%) OAuth2
5 2 (1.98%) SOAP
5 2 (1.98%) XML
5 2 (1.98%) Zend Framework
Miscellaneous
1 9 (8.91%) Data Centre
2 5 (4.95%) Cloud Native
2 5 (4.95%) Enterprise Storage
3 3 (2.97%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (2.97%) Onboarding
3 3 (2.97%) Public Cloud
3 3 (2.97%) Replication
4 2 (1.98%) Clustering
4 2 (1.98%) Credit Derivative
4 2 (1.98%) CSOC
4 2 (1.98%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (1.98%) Derivative
4 2 (1.98%) Fixed Income
4 2 (1.98%) Interest Rate Derivative
4 2 (1.98%) Legacy Applications
4 2 (1.98%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (0.99%) Data Structures
5 1 (0.99%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (0.99%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (0.99%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 101 (100.00%) Linux
2 33 (32.67%) Windows
3 10 (9.90%) Unix
4 8 (7.92%) CentOS
5 7 (6.93%) Windows Server
6 6 (5.94%) Ubuntu
7 5 (4.95%) Solaris
8 4 (3.96%) AIX
9 3 (2.97%) VMS
9 3 (2.97%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (1.98%) Debian
11 1 (0.99%) Amazon Linux
11 1 (0.99%) Data ONTAP
11 1 (0.99%) HPUX
11 1 (0.99%) Oracle Linux
11 1 (0.99%) Rocky
11 1 (0.99%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.99%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (27.72%) Agile
2 26 (25.74%) CI/CD
3 24 (23.76%) DevOps
4 21 (20.79%) Problem-Solving
5 17 (16.83%) Migration
6 16 (15.84%) Infrastructure as Code
7 14 (13.86%) High Availability
8 13 (12.87%) Microservices
9 11 (10.89%) Configuration Management
9 11 (10.89%) Containerisation
10 10 (9.90%) Continuous Integration
10 10 (9.90%) Deployment Automation
10 10 (9.90%) ITIL
11 9 (8.91%) Disaster Recovery
11 9 (8.91%) Infrastructure Automation
11 9 (8.91%) Stakeholder Management
11 9 (8.91%) Test Automation
12 8 (7.92%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 8 (7.92%) Observability
13 7 (6.93%) Batch Processing
Programming Languages
1 24 (23.76%) Python
2 18 (17.82%) Bash
3 10 (9.90%) Java
4 8 (7.92%) Perl
4 8 (7.92%) Rust
5 7 (6.93%) PowerShell
5 7 (6.93%) SQL
6 5 (4.95%) JavaScript
6 5 (4.95%) Shell Script
7 3 (2.97%) C++
7 3 (2.97%) PHP
7 3 (2.97%) Ruby
8 1 (0.99%) AWK
8 1 (0.99%) COBOL
8 1 (0.99%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.99%) sed
8 1 (0.99%) VB
8 1 (0.99%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 33 (32.67%) SC Cleared
1 33 (32.67%) Security Cleared
2 4 (3.96%) BPSS Clearance
2 4 (3.96%) DV Cleared
3 3 (2.97%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (2.97%) Degree
4 2 (1.98%) CISM
4 2 (1.98%) CISSP
4 2 (1.98%) Oracle Certification
4 2 (1.98%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 1 (0.99%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.99%) CCDE
5 1 (0.99%) CCNP
5 1 (0.99%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (0.99%) OCA
5 1 (0.99%) OCP
5 1 (0.99%) RHCA
5 1 (0.99%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (5.94%) QA
2 5 (4.95%) Disclosure Scotland
3 2 (1.98%) NIST
4 1 (0.99%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.99%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (0.99%) ISO 15022
4 1 (0.99%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 14 (13.86%) Docker
1 14 (13.86%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (5.94%) Active Directory
3 3 (2.97%) Dovecot
3 3 (2.97%) Postfix
3 3 (2.97%) Veritas Cluster Server
3 3 (2.97%) vSphere
4 2 (1.98%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 2 (1.98%) KVM
4 2 (1.98%) Oracle RAC
4 2 (1.98%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (1.98%) VirtualBox
5 1 (0.99%) GPFS
5 1 (0.99%) NFS
5 1 (0.99%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 40 (39.60%) Ansible
2 33 (32.67%) Terraform
3 18 (17.82%) Kubernetes
4 11 (10.89%) Grafana
4 11 (10.89%) Progress Chef
5 9 (8.91%) Argo
6 6 (5.94%) Nagios
6 6 (5.94%) Puppet
7 5 (4.95%) Red Hat Satellite
8 4 (3.96%) Kibana
8 4 (3.96%) NetBackup
8 4 (3.96%) SELinux
9 3 (2.97%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 3 (2.97%) Prometheus
9 3 (2.97%) Salt
9 3 (2.97%) yum
10 2 (1.98%) Consul
10 2 (1.98%) EMC NetWorker
10 2 (1.98%) Icinga
10 2 (1.98%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 57 (56.44%) Red Hat
2 24 (23.76%) VMware
3 20 (19.80%) Oracle
4 11 (10.89%) Splunk
5 8 (7.92%) IBM
6 7 (6.93%) HP
7 6 (5.94%) Dynatrace
7 6 (5.94%) Veritas
8 5 (4.95%) Cisco
8 5 (4.95%) Dell
8 5 (4.95%) Microsoft
9 4 (3.96%) AppDynamics
9 4 (3.96%) ServiceNow
10 3 (2.97%) 3PAR
10 3 (2.97%) Broadcom
10 3 (2.97%) Commvault
10 3 (2.97%) Google
10 3 (2.97%) Palo Alto
10 3 (2.97%) SolarWinds
11 2 (1.98%) Brocade