Red Hat Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

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UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 1 May 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 208 246 210
Rank change year-on-year +38 -36 +58
Contract jobs citing Red Hat 96 99 307
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.97% 0.65% 1.19%
As % of the Vendors category 2.11% 1.52% 2.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 66 248
10th Percentile £416 £350 £423
25th Percentile £464 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £510 £550
Median % change year-on-year +7.84% -7.27% -
75th Percentile £633 £550 £654
90th Percentile £701 £563 £810
UK median daily rate £550 £524 £575
% change year-on-year +5.01% -8.91% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 1 6
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £51.25
Median hourly rate £68.00 £25.18 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +170.06% -52.04% -5.90%
75th Percentile - - £59.38
90th Percentile - - £68.63
UK median hourly rate £68.00 £68.22 £52.50
% change year-on-year -0.32% +29.94% -16.67%

All Vendors
Work from Home

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 with a remote or hybrid options requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 4,540 6,506 11,129
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 45.84% 42.40% 43.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,959 4,024 7,488
10th Percentile £325 £325 £330
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.10% - -
75th Percentile £625 £625 £650
90th Percentile £738 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £517 £525
% change year-on-year -0.39% -1.52% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 120 220 258
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.92 £17.87
25th Percentile £19.56 £16.93 £31.81
Median hourly rate £47.25 £32.31 £54.50
Median % change year-on-year +46.25% -40.72% +55.71%
75th Percentile £68.00 £60.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £86.00 £72.50 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £26.45 £22.30 £43.75
% change year-on-year +18.61% -49.03% +108.14%

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Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

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

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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.

Red Hat daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Red Hat daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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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.

Red Hat hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

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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 6 (6.25%) OpenStack
2 4 (4.17%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (3.13%) Apache
3 3 (3.13%) Confluence
3 3 (3.13%) JBoss
3 3 (3.13%) nginx
4 2 (2.08%) SharePoint
5 1 (1.04%) Skype for Business
5 1 (1.04%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 1 (1.04%) Distributed Ledger
1 1 (1.04%) iTrent
1 1 (1.04%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 28 (29.17%) AWS
2 16 (16.67%) Azure
2 16 (16.67%) OpenShift
3 11 (11.46%) Amazon EC2
3 11 (11.46%) AWS CloudFormation
4 9 (9.38%) Amazon EKS
5 5 (5.21%) GitHub
6 3 (3.13%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (3.13%) Cloud Computing
6 3 (3.13%) GCP
6 3 (3.13%) IaaS
6 3 (3.13%) Kong
7 2 (2.08%) Amazon SQS
7 2 (2.08%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (2.08%) PaaS
7 2 (2.08%) Serverless
8 1 (1.04%) Datadog
8 1 (1.04%) Linode
8 1 (1.04%) Pulumi
8 1 (1.04%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 23 (23.96%) TCP/IP
2 22 (22.92%) DNS
3 12 (12.50%) DHCP
4 9 (9.38%) HTTP
5 8 (8.33%) Firewall
6 7 (7.29%) Internet
7 4 (4.17%) SSH
8 3 (3.13%) NAS
9 2 (2.08%) BGP
9 2 (2.08%) Cisco Nexus
9 2 (2.08%) Ethernet VPN
9 2 (2.08%) FTP
9 2 (2.08%) Multicast
9 2 (2.08%) NX-OS
9 2 (2.08%) OSPF
9 2 (2.08%) SAN
9 2 (2.08%) SMTP
9 2 (2.08%) tcpdump
9 2 (2.08%) Telnet
9 2 (2.08%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (9.38%) Amazon Aurora
1 9 (9.38%) Amazon RDS
1 9 (9.38%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (6.25%) SQL Server
3 5 (5.21%) Relational Database
4 4 (4.17%) Elasticsearch
4 4 (4.17%) MySQL
4 4 (4.17%) Redis
5 3 (3.13%) Apache Cassandra
5 3 (3.13%) Hazelcast
5 3 (3.13%) RDBMS
6 2 (2.08%) CockroachDB
6 2 (2.08%) MariaDB
6 2 (2.08%) Oracle Database
7 1 (1.04%) InfluxDB
7 1 (1.04%) MongoDB
7 1 (1.04%) NoSQL
7 1 (1.04%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 21 (21.88%) Jenkins
2 12 (12.50%) Git
3 8 (8.33%) JIRA
4 5 (5.21%) Sonatype Nexus
5 3 (3.13%) Bitbucket Server
5 3 (3.13%) CA Release Automation
5 3 (3.13%) Eclipse
5 3 (3.13%) Maven
5 3 (3.13%) SonarQube
5 3 (3.13%) TeamCity
6 2 (2.08%) GitLab
6 2 (2.08%) Subversion
General
1 21 (21.88%) Finance
2 18 (18.75%) Social Skills
3 7 (7.29%) Banking
4 5 (5.21%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (5.21%) Law
5 4 (4.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (4.17%) Investment Banking
6 3 (3.13%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (3.13%) Telecoms
7 2 (2.08%) Back Office
7 2 (2.08%) Front Office
7 2 (2.08%) Public Sector
8 1 (1.04%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.04%) Legal
8 1 (1.04%) Retail
Job Titles
1 23 (23.96%) Linux Engineer
2 16 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
2 16 (16.67%) Senior
3 11 (11.46%) Lead
4 10 (10.42%) Senior DevOps
4 10 (10.42%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 8 (8.33%) Product Engineer
5 8 (8.33%) Products Support Engineer
5 8 (8.33%) Software Support Engineer
5 8 (8.33%) Support Engineer
6 7 (7.29%) Administrator
6 7 (7.29%) AWS Engineer
6 7 (7.29%) Linux Support
6 7 (7.29%) Linux Support Engineer
7 6 (6.25%) Architect
8 5 (5.21%) Server Engineer
9 4 (4.17%) AWS DevOps
9 4 (4.17%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 4 (4.17%) Linux Administrator
9 4 (4.17%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (15.63%) Elastic Stack
2 8 (8.33%) Middleware
3 5 (5.21%) Kafka
3 5 (5.21%) LDAP
4 4 (4.17%) Spring
5 3 (3.13%) ActiveMQ
5 3 (3.13%) AngularJS
5 3 (3.13%) J2EE
5 3 (3.13%) Spring Boot
6 2 (2.08%) Murex MxML
6 2 (2.08%) XML
7 1 (1.04%) Keycloak
7 1 (1.04%) Node.js
7 1 (1.04%) OpenTelemetry
7 1 (1.04%) REST
7 1 (1.04%) Web Services
7 1 (1.04%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (10.42%) Data Centre
2 6 (6.25%) CSOC
2 6 (6.25%) Linux Command Line
2 6 (6.25%) Private Cloud
2 6 (6.25%) Product Ownership
3 4 (4.17%) Enterprise Storage
3 4 (4.17%) Public Cloud
4 3 (3.13%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (3.13%) Replication
5 2 (2.08%) Clustering
5 2 (2.08%) Credit Derivative
5 2 (2.08%) Data Structures
5 2 (2.08%) Derivative
5 2 (2.08%) Fixed Income
5 2 (2.08%) Interest Rate Derivative
6 1 (1.04%) Blockchain
6 1 (1.04%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.04%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.04%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.04%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 83 (86.46%) Linux
2 51 (53.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 29 (30.21%) Windows
4 16 (16.67%) Windows Server
5 14 (14.58%) Ubuntu
6 9 (9.38%) Unix
7 7 (7.29%) Solaris
8 6 (6.25%) VMS
9 5 (5.21%) AIX
9 5 (5.21%) Amazon Linux
9 5 (5.21%) CentOS
10 4 (4.17%) Windows Server 2019
11 2 (2.08%) HPUX
11 2 (2.08%) SUSE
12 1 (1.04%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (32.29%) DevOps
2 24 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 23 (23.96%) Containerisation
3 23 (23.96%) Infrastructure as Code
4 17 (17.71%) Configuration Management
4 17 (17.71%) High Availability
5 12 (12.50%) CI/CD
5 12 (12.50%) Continuous Integration
5 12 (12.50%) Software Engineering
6 11 (11.46%) Deployment Automation
6 11 (11.46%) ITIL
7 10 (10.42%) Disaster Recovery
7 10 (10.42%) Technical Leadership
8 8 (8.33%) Infrastructure Automation
8 8 (8.33%) Mentoring
8 8 (8.33%) Migration
8 8 (8.33%) Performance Tuning
9 7 (7.29%) Cost Management
9 7 (7.29%) Microservices
9 7 (7.29%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 28 (29.17%) Python
2 21 (21.88%) Bash
3 15 (15.63%) Shell Script
4 11 (11.46%) C++
4 11 (11.46%) Perl
5 9 (9.38%) JavaScript
6 8 (8.33%) Ada
6 8 (8.33%) C
7 6 (6.25%) SQL
8 5 (5.21%) PowerShell
9 4 (4.17%) Java
10 2 (2.08%) Ruby
11 1 (1.04%) ActionScript
11 1 (1.04%) ActionScript 2.0
11 1 (1.04%) Go
11 1 (1.04%) Korn
11 1 (1.04%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 33 (34.38%) SC Cleared
1 33 (34.38%) Security Cleared
2 3 (3.13%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (3.13%) Degree
2 3 (3.13%) DV Cleared
2 3 (3.13%) RHCE
2 3 (3.13%) RHCSA
3 2 (2.08%) CCIE
3 2 (2.08%) CCIE Data Center
3 2 (2.08%) CCNP
3 2 (2.08%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (2.08%) CISSP
4 1 (1.04%) CISA
4 1 (1.04%) CISM
4 1 (1.04%) IBM Certification
4 1 (1.04%) Linux+ Certification
4 1 (1.04%) OCP
4 1 (1.04%) Oracle Certification
4 1 (1.04%) RHCA
4 1 (1.04%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.13%) Disclosure Scotland
2 2 (2.08%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (2.08%) NIST
3 1 (1.04%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (1.04%) GDPR
3 1 (1.04%) QA
System Software
1 30 (31.25%) Docker
2 15 (15.63%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (8.33%) Active Directory
4 5 (5.21%) vSphere
5 4 (4.17%) Veritas Cluster Server
6 3 (3.13%) NFS
6 3 (3.13%) Samba
7 2 (2.08%) Oracle RAC
7 2 (2.08%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (1.04%) Ceph
8 1 (1.04%) Gluster
8 1 (1.04%) GlusterFS
8 1 (1.04%) KVM
8 1 (1.04%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (1.04%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 46 (47.92%) Ansible
2 32 (33.33%) Kubernetes
3 26 (27.08%) Terraform
4 22 (22.92%) Progress Chef
5 18 (18.75%) Puppet
6 17 (17.71%) Prometheus
7 16 (16.67%) Grafana
8 6 (6.25%) Red Hat Satellite
9 5 (5.21%) Nagios
9 5 (5.21%) NetBackup
10 4 (4.17%) Istio
10 4 (4.17%) SELinux
11 3 (3.13%) Control-M
11 3 (3.13%) Failover Clustering
11 3 (3.13%) Kibana
11 3 (3.13%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 3 (3.13%) Rundeck
11 3 (3.13%) yum
12 2 (2.08%) Data Guard
12 2 (2.08%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 33 (34.38%) VMware
2 14 (14.58%) Splunk
3 10 (10.42%) HP
3 10 (10.42%) Oracle
4 8 (8.33%) Cisco
4 8 (8.33%) ServiceNow
5 7 (7.29%) Dell
5 7 (7.29%) Palo Alto
5 7 (7.29%) SolarWinds
5 7 (7.29%) Veritas
6 6 (6.25%) F5
6 6 (6.25%) Fortinet
7 4 (4.17%) 3PAR
7 4 (4.17%) Microsoft
8 3 (3.13%) AppDynamics
9 2 (2.08%) Bloomberg
9 2 (2.08%) Commvault
9 2 (2.08%) IBM
9 2 (2.08%) Murex
9 2 (2.08%) Sybase