Red Hat Enterprise Linux Contracts in the Thames Valley

Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 115 93 152
Rank change year-on-year -22 +59 -20
Contract jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 22 55 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.82% 1.91% 0.59%
As % of the Operating Systems category 6.40% 12.47% 3.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 42 12
10th Percentile £491 £335 £401
25th Percentile £501 £481 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £584 £574
Median % change year-on-year -5.78% +1.65% +20.89%
75th Percentile £600 £623 £588
90th Percentile £650 £688 £628
South East median daily rate £550 £586 £500
% change year-on-year -6.18% +17.25% +5.26%

All Operating Systems
Thames Valley

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 requiring operating system skills in the Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 344 441 569
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 12.83% 15.33% 15.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 241 306 385
10th Percentile £205 £200 £150
25th Percentile £263 £330 £226
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £475 £463
Median % change year-on-year -7.89% +2.70% +15.63%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £584
90th Percentile £608 £675 £650
South East median daily rate £475 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +5.56% - +10.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 14 21
10th Percentile £18.00 £18.08 -
25th Percentile £22.51 £18.19 £13.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £48.70 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.46% +143.50% -20.00%
75th Percentile £59.25 £67.66 £48.75
90th Percentile £61.60 £79.46 £67.50
South East median hourly rate £48.75 £57.50 £18.00
% change year-on-year -15.22% +219.44% -16.28%

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Red Hat Enterprise Linux in the Thames Valley

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Daily rate trend for Red Hat Enterprise Linux in the Thames Valley

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Red Hat Enterprise Linux in the Thames Valley

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Hourly rate trend for Red Hat Enterprise Linux in the Thames Valley

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 12 June 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
Berkshire -37 13 £550 -10.20% 2
Buckinghamshire +27 5 £476 +0.26% 1
Oxfordshire -3 4 £500 -
Red Hat Enterprise Linux
South East

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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:

Cloud Services
1 8 (36.36%) Azure
1 8 (36.36%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 4 (18.18%) Firewall
2 1 (4.55%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (13.64%) Oracle Database
1 3 (13.64%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (9.09%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 3 (13.64%) GitLab
1 3 (13.64%) Robot Framework
1 3 (13.64%) Selenium
General
1 7 (31.82%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (18.18%) Public Sector
3 3 (13.64%) Social Skills
4 1 (4.55%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (27.27%) Linux Engineer
2 4 (18.18%) Analyst
2 4 (18.18%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 4 (18.18%) Solutions Analyst
3 2 (9.09%) Applications Packager
3 2 (9.09%) Infrastructure Analyst
3 2 (9.09%) Migration Engineer
3 2 (9.09%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) Administrator
4 1 (4.55%) Architect
4 1 (4.55%) ArcSight Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) Database Specialist
4 1 (4.55%) IT Administrator
4 1 (4.55%) IT Systems Administrator
4 1 (4.55%) PostgreSQL Specialist
4 1 (4.55%) Storage Architect
4 1 (4.55%) Support Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) Systems Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 8 (36.36%) Client/Server
2 3 (13.64%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (9.09%) Linux Command Line
3 2 (9.09%) Virtual Team
4 1 (4.55%) Enterprise Storage
Operating Systems
1 22 (100.00%) Linux
2 11 (50.00%) Windows
3 9 (40.91%) Windows Server
4 2 (9.09%) CentOS
4 2 (9.09%) Unix
4 2 (9.09%) VMS
5 1 (4.55%) Solaris
5 1 (4.55%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (4.55%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (4.55%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (36.36%) Agile
1 8 (36.36%) Application Packaging
1 8 (36.36%) Application Virtualisation
1 8 (36.36%) DevOps
1 8 (36.36%) Scaled Agile Framework
2 6 (27.27%) Containerisation
3 5 (22.73%) Migration
3 5 (22.73%) Release Management
4 4 (18.18%) Deployment Automation
4 4 (18.18%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 4 (18.18%) Scrum
4 4 (18.18%) Security Hardening
5 3 (13.64%) Infrastructure Management
5 3 (13.64%) Test Automation
6 2 (9.09%) Disaster Recovery
6 2 (9.09%) Platform Engineering
6 2 (9.09%) SIEM
7 1 (4.55%) Customer Experience
7 1 (4.55%) ITSM
7 1 (4.55%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 10 (45.45%) Python
2 8 (36.36%) PowerShell
2 8 (36.36%) VBScript
3 3 (13.64%) Shell Script
4 2 (9.09%) Bash
Qualifications
1 17 (77.27%) Security Cleared
2 10 (45.45%) DV Cleared
3 7 (31.82%) SC Cleared
4 3 (13.64%) Degree
5 1 (4.55%) HNC
5 1 (4.55%) RHCE
5 1 (4.55%) RHCSA
System Software
1 10 (45.45%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (9.09%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (9.09%) vSphere
3 1 (4.55%) NFS
3 1 (4.55%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 6 (27.27%) Kubernetes
2 5 (22.73%) Ansible
3 4 (18.18%) SELinux
3 4 (18.18%) yum
4 2 (9.09%) Packer
4 2 (9.09%) vRealize
5 1 (4.55%) NetBackup
5 1 (4.55%) Terraform
Vendors
1 13 (59.09%) VMware
2 7 (31.82%) Red Hat
3 3 (13.64%) Oracle
4 2 (9.09%) ArcSight
5 1 (4.55%) 3PAR
5 1 (4.55%) Dell
5 1 (4.55%) HP
5 1 (4.55%) Microsoft
5 1 (4.55%) NetApp
5 1 (4.55%) Nimble Storage
5 1 (4.55%) SolarWinds
5 1 (4.55%) Veritas