Red Hat Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

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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 15 August 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
15 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 188 246 203
Rank change year-on-year +58 -43 +52
Contract jobs citing Red Hat 125 87 257
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.24% 0.67% 1.19%
As % of the Vendors category 2.70% 1.54% 2.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 74 66 196
10th Percentile £400 £356 £378
25th Percentile £428 £450 £487
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £475 £558
Median % change year-on-year +13.05% -14.80% +1.36%
75th Percentile £619 £560 £703
90th Percentile £684 £644 £810
UK median daily rate £525 £511 £575
% change year-on-year +2.74% -11.13% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £51.25
Median hourly rate £68.00 - £52.50
75th Percentile - - £53.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £68.00 £74.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year -8.11% +40.95% -22.22%

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 4,629 5,634 9,576
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 46.00% 43.34% 44.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,860 3,579 6,285
10th Percentile £325 £325 £325
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.44% -0.95% -2.78%
75th Percentile £616 £624 £650
90th Percentile £725 £724 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 153 141 229
10th Percentile £14.20 £16.00 £16.40
25th Percentile £19.07 £21.19 £22.50
Median hourly rate £35.89 £45.00 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.24% -8.16% +22.50%
75th Percentile £65.00 £64.50 £66.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £85.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £29.00 £39.60
% change year-on-year -13.28% -26.77% +80.00%

Red Hat
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

Red Hat
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 15 August 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 (4.80%) Confluence
1 6 (4.80%) JBoss
2 4 (3.20%) Tomcat
3 3 (2.40%) Apache
4 2 (1.60%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.60%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.60%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (1.60%) nginx
4 2 (1.60%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.80%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (0.80%) Skype for Business
5 1 (0.80%) WebSphere
5 1 (0.80%) WebSphere Application Server
Business Applications
1 1 (0.80%) Distributed Ledger
Cloud Services
1 38 (30.40%) OpenShift
2 33 (26.40%) AWS
3 17 (13.60%) Amazon EKS
4 13 (10.40%) Amazon EC2
4 13 (10.40%) Azure
5 12 (9.60%) AWS CloudFormation
5 12 (9.60%) GitHub
6 5 (4.00%) IaaS
6 5 (4.00%) SaaS
7 4 (3.20%) Cloud Computing
7 4 (3.20%) CloudBees
7 4 (3.20%) GCP
8 3 (2.40%) Amazon S3
8 3 (2.40%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (2.40%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (2.40%) Kong
8 3 (2.40%) PaaS
9 2 (1.60%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (1.60%) Serverless
10 1 (0.80%) IBM Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 21 (16.80%) DNS
2 18 (14.40%) TCP/IP
3 13 (10.40%) Internet
4 11 (8.80%) Firewall
4 11 (8.80%) HTTP
5 6 (4.80%) SAN
6 4 (3.20%) SSL
7 3 (2.40%) DHCP
7 3 (2.40%) DKIM
7 3 (2.40%) DMARC
7 3 (2.40%) NAS
7 3 (2.40%) SMTP
8 2 (1.60%) 3GPP
8 2 (1.60%) Anycast
8 2 (1.60%) BGP
8 2 (1.60%) Ethernet VPN
8 2 (1.60%) Radio Access Network
8 2 (1.60%) Software-Defined Networking
8 2 (1.60%) SSH
8 2 (1.60%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (12.00%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (8.80%) Amazon Aurora
2 11 (8.80%) Amazon RDS
3 9 (7.20%) Redis
4 6 (4.80%) Elasticsearch
5 5 (4.00%) Relational Database
5 5 (4.00%) SQL Server
6 4 (3.20%) RDBMS
7 3 (2.40%) Apache Cassandra
7 3 (2.40%) Hazelcast
7 3 (2.40%) MongoDB
7 3 (2.40%) MySQL
7 3 (2.40%) NoSQL
7 3 (2.40%) Oracle Database
8 2 (1.60%) Big Data
8 2 (1.60%) Delta Lake
8 2 (1.60%) InfluxDB
8 2 (1.60%) Oracle BI Publisher
8 2 (1.60%) Oracle Exadata
8 2 (1.60%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 42 (33.60%) Jenkins
2 16 (12.80%) Git
3 12 (9.60%) JIRA
4 8 (6.40%) GitLab
5 7 (5.60%) SonarQube
6 5 (4.00%) Sonatype Nexus
7 4 (3.20%) Bitbucket Server
7 4 (3.20%) CA Release Automation
7 4 (3.20%) TeamCity
8 3 (2.40%) Eclipse
8 3 (2.40%) Maven
9 2 (1.60%) IntelliJ
9 2 (1.60%) JUnit
9 2 (1.60%) MLflow
9 2 (1.60%) Oracle APEX
9 2 (1.60%) Poetry
9 2 (1.60%) PyCharm
9 2 (1.60%) Visual Studio Code
10 1 (0.80%) Artifactory
10 1 (0.80%) Bitbucket
General
1 28 (22.40%) Social Skills
2 25 (20.00%) Finance
3 7 (5.60%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (5.60%) Banking
4 5 (4.00%) Documentation Skills
4 5 (4.00%) Law
5 4 (3.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (3.20%) Investment Banking
5 4 (3.20%) Public Sector
6 2 (1.60%) Back Office
6 2 (1.60%) French Language
6 2 (1.60%) Front Office
6 2 (1.60%) Telecoms
7 1 (0.80%) Aerospace
7 1 (0.80%) Financial Institution
7 1 (0.80%) Legal
7 1 (0.80%) Military
7 1 (0.80%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 26 (20.80%) Linux Engineer
2 25 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 22 (17.60%) Senior
4 11 (8.80%) Senior DevOps
4 11 (8.80%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 10 (8.00%) Architect
5 10 (8.00%) Platform Engineer
6 9 (7.20%) Kubernetes Engineer
6 9 (7.20%) Product Engineer
6 9 (7.20%) Products Support Engineer
6 9 (7.20%) Software Support Engineer
6 9 (7.20%) Support Engineer
7 8 (6.40%) Linux Support
7 8 (6.40%) Linux Support Engineer
8 6 (4.80%) AWS Engineer
9 5 (4.00%) Data Engineer
9 5 (4.00%) Server Engineer
10 4 (3.20%) Administrator
10 4 (3.20%) Consultant
10 4 (3.20%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (19.20%) Elastic Stack
2 14 (11.20%) Keycloak
2 14 (11.20%) Middleware
3 12 (9.60%) Kafka
4 6 (4.80%) Spring
4 6 (4.80%) YAML
5 5 (4.00%) LDAP
5 5 (4.00%) React
6 4 (3.20%) AngularJS
6 4 (3.20%) Spring Boot
7 3 (2.40%) ActiveMQ
7 3 (2.40%) J2EE
7 3 (2.40%) JSON
7 3 (2.40%) OAuth
7 3 (2.40%) REST
8 2 (1.60%) Ajax
8 2 (1.60%) jQuery
8 2 (1.60%) Murex MxML
8 2 (1.60%) NumPy
8 2 (1.60%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 12 (9.60%) Data Centre
2 9 (7.20%) Product Ownership
3 7 (5.60%) Cloud Native
3 7 (5.60%) Private Cloud
4 3 (2.40%) Enterprise Storage
4 3 (2.40%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (2.40%) Linux Command Line
4 3 (2.40%) Public Cloud
4 3 (2.40%) Replication
5 2 (1.60%) Clustering
5 2 (1.60%) Credit Derivative
5 2 (1.60%) CSOC
5 2 (1.60%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (1.60%) Derivative
5 2 (1.60%) Fixed Income
5 2 (1.60%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (1.60%) Interest Rate Derivative
5 2 (1.60%) Legacy Applications
5 2 (1.60%) Management Information System
5 2 (1.60%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 94 (75.20%) Linux
2 55 (44.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 26 (20.80%) Windows
4 13 (10.40%) Ubuntu
4 13 (10.40%) Windows Server
5 7 (5.60%) Unix
6 5 (4.00%) Amazon Linux
7 4 (3.20%) Solaris
7 4 (3.20%) Windows Server 2016
8 3 (2.40%) Windows Server 2019
9 2 (1.60%) AIX
9 2 (1.60%) CentOS
9 2 (1.60%) Debian
9 2 (1.60%) Oracle Linux
9 2 (1.60%) VMS
9 2 (1.60%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.80%) Data ONTAP
10 1 (0.80%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (35.20%) DevOps
2 43 (34.40%) Infrastructure as Code
3 39 (31.20%) CI/CD
4 26 (20.80%) Configuration Management
4 26 (20.80%) Containerisation
4 26 (20.80%) Migration
5 25 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
6 17 (13.60%) Agile
6 17 (13.60%) Platform Engineering
7 16 (12.80%) Continuous Integration
7 16 (12.80%) Deployment Automation
8 15 (12.00%) Scrum
9 14 (11.20%) Microservices
10 13 (10.40%) High Availability
10 13 (10.40%) Software Engineering
11 12 (9.60%) ITIL
11 12 (9.60%) Validation
12 10 (8.00%) Cost Management
13 9 (7.20%) Disaster Recovery
13 9 (7.20%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 42 (33.60%) Python
2 34 (27.20%) Bash
3 17 (13.60%) JavaScript
4 15 (12.00%) SQL
5 14 (11.20%) Shell Script
6 13 (10.40%) Java
6 13 (10.40%) PowerShell
7 12 (9.60%) C++
8 11 (8.80%) C
9 9 (7.20%) Ada
9 9 (7.20%) Perl
10 5 (4.00%) C#
11 2 (1.60%) Groovy
11 2 (1.60%) Ruby
12 1 (0.80%) AWK
12 1 (0.80%) COBOL
12 1 (0.80%) Go
12 1 (0.80%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.80%) sed
Qualifications
1 49 (39.20%) SC Cleared
1 49 (39.20%) Security Cleared
2 6 (4.80%) Computer Science Degree
2 6 (4.80%) Degree
2 6 (4.80%) DV Cleared
3 3 (2.40%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (1.60%) CCIE
4 2 (1.60%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (1.60%) CISSP
4 2 (1.60%) JNCIE
5 1 (0.80%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.80%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (0.80%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.80%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (0.80%) OCP
5 1 (0.80%) Oracle Certification
5 1 (0.80%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.40%) Disclosure Scotland
1 3 (2.40%) QA
2 2 (1.60%) NIST
3 1 (0.80%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (0.80%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (0.80%) ISO 15022
3 1 (0.80%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 28 (22.40%) Docker
2 7 (5.60%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (4.80%) Active Directory
4 3 (2.40%) Dovecot
4 3 (2.40%) Postfix
5 2 (1.60%) KVM
5 2 (1.60%) Oracle RAC
5 2 (1.60%) Veritas Cluster Server
5 2 (1.60%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.80%) GPFS
6 1 (0.80%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.80%) NFS
6 1 (0.80%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 57 (45.60%) Ansible
2 50 (40.00%) Kubernetes
3 37 (29.60%) Terraform
4 25 (20.00%) Prometheus
5 24 (19.20%) Grafana
6 18 (14.40%) Progress Chef
7 15 (12.00%) Puppet
8 14 (11.20%) Istio
9 10 (8.00%) Argo
10 8 (6.40%) NetBackup
11 6 (4.80%) Packer
11 6 (4.80%) Red Hat Satellite
12 4 (3.20%) Kibana
12 4 (3.20%) SELinux
13 3 (2.40%) Control-M
13 3 (2.40%) Nagios
13 3 (2.40%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
13 3 (2.40%) Rundeck
13 3 (2.40%) yum
14 2 (1.60%) Data Guard
Vendors
1 23 (18.40%) VMware
2 18 (14.40%) Splunk
3 11 (8.80%) Oracle
4 9 (7.20%) Veritas
5 7 (5.60%) Commvault
6 6 (4.80%) Cisco
6 6 (4.80%) Dell
6 6 (4.80%) HP
6 6 (4.80%) Microsoft
7 4 (3.20%) AppDynamics
7 4 (3.20%) ServiceNow
8 3 (2.40%) 3PAR
8 3 (2.40%) Broadcom
8 3 (2.40%) EMC
8 3 (2.40%) Palo Alto
8 3 (2.40%) SolarWinds
9 2 (1.60%) Brocade
9 2 (1.60%) Fortinet
9 2 (1.60%) Isilon
9 2 (1.60%) Wind River