Red Hat Enterprise Linux Contracts in England

Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Red Hat Enterprise Linux skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Red Hat Enterprise Linux over the 6 months to 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 319 226 279
Rank change year-on-year -93 +53 +3
Contract jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 229 564 700
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.63% 1.17% 1.00%
As % of the Operating Systems category 4.63% 7.21% 6.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 172 425 490
10th Percentile £356 £414 £425
25th Percentile £447 £516 £478
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year -16.80% +4.17% +26.32%
75th Percentile £600 £700 £675
90th Percentile £650 £798 £776
UK median daily rate £520 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -13.33% +4.35% +21.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 8 3
10th Percentile £65.18 £48.72 £12.80
25th Percentile £67.31 £51.25 £16.25
Median hourly rate £72.75 £52.32 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year +39.06% +117.98% -58.62%
75th Percentile £76.31 £53.75 £54.25
90th Percentile £77.33 £59.98 £71.20
UK median hourly rate £72.75 £52.50 £49.00
% change year-on-year +38.57% +7.14% -15.52%

All Operating Systems
England

Red Hat Enterprise Linux is in the Operating Systems category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 4,944 7,824 10,979
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.59% 16.24% 15.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,374 5,533 7,535
10th Percentile £185 £193 £175
25th Percentile £300 £325 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £471 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.10% +2.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £588 £638 £625
90th Percentile £700 £725 £700
UK median daily rate £469 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -6.20% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 362 370 532
10th Percentile £12.75 £13.89 £13.38
25th Percentile £14.83 £17.73 £15.93
Median hourly rate £22.00 £38.00 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -42.11% +72.73% +23.94%
75th Percentile £61.60 £64.88 £52.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £22.08 £39.05 £23.00
% change year-on-year -43.47% +69.78% +31.43%

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Red Hat Enterprise Linux in England

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux in England.

Daily rate trend for Red Hat Enterprise Linux in England

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux in England over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Red Hat Enterprise Linux in England

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux in England.

Hourly rate trend for Red Hat Enterprise Linux in England

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 16 May 2024. 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
London -85 85 £510 -21.54% 39
South East +7 77 £550 -10.20% 15
Midlands +25 26 £498 -23.38% 5
East Midlands +25 15 £449 -38.07% 2
North of England -17 14 £499 -13.26% 6
East of England -10 13 £440 +1.73% 5
West Midlands +11 11 £550 -15.38% 3
South West -8 11 £600 +6.67% 13
Yorkshire +6 7 £463 -13.75% 2
North West -19 7 £513 -18.00% 3
Red Hat Enterprise Linux
UK

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 19 (8.30%) Apache
2 17 (7.42%) OpenStack
3 15 (6.55%) Tomcat
4 12 (5.24%) JBoss
5 11 (4.80%) nginx
6 8 (3.49%) Confluence
7 6 (2.62%) IIS
8 4 (1.75%) Microsoft Exchange
9 2 (0.87%) Apache Spark
9 2 (0.87%) Traefik
10 1 (0.44%) OpenEdge
10 1 (0.44%) SharePoint
10 1 (0.44%) WebSphere
Applications
1 5 (2.18%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 6 (2.62%) Temenos T24
2 3 (1.31%) Global One
2 3 (1.31%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.87%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
3 2 (0.87%) RMDS
4 1 (0.44%) MFGPRO
4 1 (0.44%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.44%) Sage 50
Cloud Services
1 63 (27.51%) Azure
2 58 (25.33%) AWS
3 20 (8.73%) Azure DevOps
4 18 (7.86%) IaaS
5 15 (6.55%) Amazon EC2
6 14 (6.11%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 13 (5.68%) Amazon S3
7 13 (5.68%) Slack
8 12 (5.24%) Route 53
9 11 (4.80%) OpenShift
10 10 (4.37%) GCP
10 10 (4.37%) PaaS
11 9 (3.93%) Cloud Computing
11 9 (3.93%) SaaS
12 8 (3.49%) Nutanix
13 7 (3.06%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 7 (3.06%) AWS CloudFormation
13 7 (3.06%) GitHub
14 6 (2.62%) CloudFront
14 6 (2.62%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 29 (12.66%) DNS
2 20 (8.73%) TCP/IP
3 18 (7.86%) DHCP
4 17 (7.42%) SAN
5 16 (6.99%) Firewall
6 10 (4.37%) NAS
7 9 (3.93%) Kerberos
8 6 (2.62%) VLAN
9 5 (2.18%) H.323
9 5 (2.18%) HTTP
9 5 (2.18%) LAN
9 5 (2.18%) WAN
10 4 (1.75%) Fibre Channel
10 4 (1.75%) Remote Desktop
10 4 (1.75%) SSL
11 2 (0.87%) Multicast
12 1 (0.44%) LTE
12 1 (0.44%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (12.66%) SQL Server
2 23 (10.04%) RDBMS
2 23 (10.04%) Relational Database
3 22 (9.61%) Elasticsearch
4 17 (7.42%) PostgreSQL
5 12 (5.24%) MySQL
5 12 (5.24%) Oracle Database
6 11 (4.80%) MongoDB
7 8 (3.49%) Amazon RDS
8 4 (1.75%) Redis
9 3 (1.31%) DB2
9 3 (1.31%) SAP HANA
10 2 (0.87%) NoSQL
10 2 (0.87%) Oracle BI Publisher
11 1 (0.44%) Azure SQL Database
11 1 (0.44%) MariaDB
11 1 (0.44%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 49 (21.40%) Jenkins
2 35 (15.28%) Git
3 30 (13.10%) GitLab
4 17 (7.42%) JIRA
5 11 (4.80%) TeamCity
6 10 (4.37%) Selenium
7 9 (3.93%) Sonatype Nexus
8 6 (2.62%) Robot Framework
9 5 (2.18%) Artifactory
9 5 (2.18%) Bitbucket Server
9 5 (2.18%) CA Release Automation
9 5 (2.18%) SonarQube
10 3 (1.31%) Oracle APEX
11 2 (0.87%) Bitbucket
11 2 (0.87%) Jaeger
11 2 (0.87%) Maven
11 2 (0.87%) Subversion
12 1 (0.44%) Cucumber
12 1 (0.44%) Postman
12 1 (0.44%) Vagrant
General
1 36 (15.72%) Finance
2 31 (13.54%) Analytical Skills
3 23 (10.04%) Social Skills
4 19 (8.30%) Banking
5 17 (7.42%) Public Sector
6 8 (3.49%) Telecoms
7 6 (2.62%) Legal
8 5 (2.18%) Billing
9 2 (0.87%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.44%) Advertising
10 1 (0.44%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.44%) Front Office
10 1 (0.44%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.44%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 33 (14.41%) Linux Engineer
2 28 (12.23%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 24 (10.48%) DevOps Engineer
4 18 (7.86%) Architect
4 18 (7.86%) Support Engineer
5 17 (7.42%) Administrator
6 13 (5.68%) Systems Administrator
7 12 (5.24%) Consultant
8 11 (4.80%) Linux Systems Administrator
9 10 (4.37%) Platform Engineer
9 10 (4.37%) Senior
10 9 (3.93%) Lead
10 9 (3.93%) Linux Administrator
11 8 (3.49%) Cloud Engineer
11 8 (3.49%) Developer
11 8 (3.49%) Solutions Architect
11 8 (3.49%) VMware Architect
12 7 (3.06%) Analyst
12 7 (3.06%) ArcSight Consultant
12 7 (3.06%) Security Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (10.04%) Elastic Stack
2 12 (5.24%) Middleware
3 7 (3.06%) HTML
3 7 (3.06%) LDAP
4 6 (2.62%) IBM Integration Bus
5 5 (2.18%) HTML5
5 5 (2.18%) Spring Boot
5 5 (2.18%) YAML
6 4 (1.75%) JSON
6 4 (1.75%) Kafka
6 4 (1.75%) pytest
7 3 (1.31%) Web Services
8 2 (0.87%) cloud-init
8 2 (0.87%) Django
8 2 (0.87%) HornetQ
8 2 (0.87%) OAuth
8 2 (0.87%) OAuth2
8 2 (0.87%) RabbitMQ
8 2 (0.87%) RESTful
8 2 (0.87%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 19 (8.30%) Client/Server
1 19 (8.30%) Linux Command Line
1 19 (8.30%) Onboarding
2 11 (4.80%) Clustering
2 11 (4.80%) PKI
3 10 (4.37%) Management Information System
4 8 (3.49%) Data Centre
4 8 (3.49%) Replication
5 5 (2.18%) IVR
6 4 (1.75%) Public Cloud
7 3 (1.31%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (1.31%) Smart Meter
8 2 (0.87%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (0.87%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (0.87%) Enterprise Storage
8 2 (0.87%) LPAR
9 1 (0.44%) Derivative
9 1 (0.44%) Equities
9 1 (0.44%) Grid Computing
9 1 (0.44%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 229 (100.00%) Linux
2 100 (43.67%) Windows
3 60 (26.20%) Windows Server
4 48 (20.96%) Unix
5 33 (14.41%) CentOS
6 13 (5.68%) Solaris
7 10 (4.37%) VMS
7 10 (4.37%) Windows Server 2019
8 9 (3.93%) Ubuntu
9 6 (2.62%) Oracle Linux
9 6 (2.62%) Windows Server 2016
10 4 (1.75%) AIX
10 4 (1.75%) Alpine Linux
11 3 (1.31%) Debian
11 3 (1.31%) SUSE
11 3 (1.31%) zOS
12 1 (0.44%) Fedora
12 1 (0.44%) HPUX
12 1 (0.44%) Rocky
12 1 (0.44%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (25.76%) DevOps
2 49 (21.40%) CI/CD
3 48 (20.96%) Agile
4 43 (18.78%) Infrastructure as Code
5 34 (14.85%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 23 (10.04%) Cybersecurity
7 21 (9.17%) SIEM
8 20 (8.73%) Containerisation
9 19 (8.30%) Migration
10 18 (7.86%) Application Packaging
10 18 (7.86%) Application Virtualisation
10 18 (7.86%) High Availability
11 16 (6.99%) Deployment Automation
11 16 (6.99%) Observability
11 16 (6.99%) Performance Tuning
12 15 (6.55%) Continuous Integration
12 15 (6.55%) Problem-Solving
12 15 (6.55%) Runbook
12 15 (6.55%) Scaled Agile Framework
12 15 (6.55%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 93 (40.61%) Python
2 54 (23.58%) PowerShell
3 45 (19.65%) Shell Script
4 37 (16.16%) Bash
5 26 (11.35%) SQL
6 18 (7.86%) VBScript
7 14 (6.11%) Perl
8 11 (4.80%) Java
9 7 (3.06%) C
9 7 (3.06%) C#
9 7 (3.06%) PL/SQL
10 6 (2.62%) ProC
11 5 (2.18%) Groovy
11 5 (2.18%) Korn
12 3 (1.31%) C++
12 3 (1.31%) Go
12 3 (1.31%) Ruby
13 2 (0.87%) JavaScript
14 1 (0.44%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 101 (44.10%) Security Cleared
2 53 (23.14%) SC Cleared
3 47 (20.52%) DV Cleared
4 7 (3.06%) Degree
5 4 (1.75%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (1.75%) RHCE
6 3 (1.31%) RHCSA
7 1 (0.44%) HNC
7 1 (0.44%) Linux+ Certification
7 1 (0.44%) LPIC
7 1 (0.44%) MCSE
7 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (3.93%) NIST
2 8 (3.49%) GDPR
3 6 (2.62%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 3 (1.31%) QA
4 3 (1.31%) SLA
5 2 (0.87%) NCSC
6 1 (0.44%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 71 (31.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 39 (17.03%) Docker
3 34 (14.85%) Active Directory
4 23 (10.04%) Virtual Machines
5 14 (6.11%) Hyper-V
5 14 (6.11%) vSphere
6 13 (5.68%) VMware NSX
7 12 (5.24%) VMware ESXi
8 6 (2.62%) KVM
9 4 (1.75%) Virtual Servers
9 4 (1.75%) VMware Server
10 2 (0.87%) Varnish
11 1 (0.44%) Firmware
11 1 (0.44%) NFS
11 1 (0.44%) Oracle RAC
11 1 (0.44%) Terminal Services
11 1 (0.44%) Xen
Systems Management
1 77 (33.62%) Ansible
2 56 (24.45%) Kubernetes
3 30 (13.10%) Terraform
4 25 (10.92%) Prometheus
5 23 (10.04%) Grafana
6 21 (9.17%) Kibana
7 18 (7.86%) Packer
8 16 (6.99%) logstash
9 14 (6.11%) Puppet
10 12 (5.24%) Progress Chef
11 11 (4.80%) Red Hat Satellite
11 11 (4.80%) vCenter Server
12 9 (3.93%) vRealize
13 8 (3.49%) SCCM
14 6 (2.62%) Data Guard
14 6 (2.62%) EMC NetWorker
14 6 (2.62%) Netcool
14 6 (2.62%) Tivoli
14 6 (2.62%) Tivoli Storage Manager
15 5 (2.18%) HAProxy
Vendors
1 114 (49.78%) Red Hat
2 94 (41.05%) VMware
3 46 (20.09%) Oracle
4 34 (14.85%) Microsoft
5 17 (7.42%) IBM
5 17 (7.42%) Splunk
6 15 (6.55%) CyberArk
7 14 (6.11%) ArcSight
8 13 (5.68%) Amdocs
8 13 (5.68%) Dell
8 13 (5.68%) Qualys
9 12 (5.24%) HP
10 11 (4.80%) Cisco
11 8 (3.49%) Veritas
12 7 (3.06%) AppDynamics
12 7 (3.06%) ServiceNow
12 7 (3.06%) Veeam
13 6 (2.62%) Isilon
13 6 (2.62%) Serena
13 6 (2.62%) SolarWinds