Red Hat Contracts in the Thames Valley

Red Hat
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 31 October 2024, 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
31 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 114 94 128
Rank change year-on-year -20 +34 +9
Contract jobs citing Red Hat 16 48 62
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.75% 1.81% 1.56%
As % of the Vendors category 1.51% 3.43% 3.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 32 44
10th Percentile £379 £308 £367
25th Percentile £395 £471 £508
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% - +22.22%
75th Percentile £500 £628 £589
90th Percentile £680 £699 £689
South East median daily rate £553 £550 £550
% change year-on-year +0.45% - +22.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £92.50
Median hourly rate - - £95.00
75th Percentile - - £97.50
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate - - £81.25
% change year-on-year - - +103.13%

All Vendors
Thames Valley

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 requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in the Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 1,057 1,398 1,904
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 49.42% 52.62% 48.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 633 906 1,345
10th Percentile £278 £209 £266
25th Percentile £413 £386 £365
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% +2.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £600
90th Percentile £700 £688 £675
South East median daily rate £515 £513 £500
% change year-on-year +0.49% +2.50% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 55 41
10th Percentile £14.50 £14.80 £11.36
25th Percentile £20.88 £18.73 £13.25
Median hourly rate £56.75 £45.21 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year +25.51% +165.94% -10.53%
75th Percentile £60.95 £64.27 £24.00
90th Percentile £64.97 £74.08 £67.36
South East median hourly rate £57.25 £45.21 £22.84
% change year-on-year +26.63% +97.94% +1.74%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Red Hat in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Daily rate trend for Red Hat in the Thames Valley

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Red Hat in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 31 October 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Red Hat in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Hourly rate trend for Red Hat in the Thames Valley

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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 within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 31 October 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 -7 12 £450 -28.00% 5
Buckinghamshire -2 3 £650 +22.64% 3
Oxfordshire +5 1 - - 1
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South East

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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:

Application Platforms
1 6 (37.50%) Apache
2 5 (31.25%) Red Hat Fuse
3 4 (25.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (6.25%) nginx
Applications
1 2 (12.50%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 5 (31.25%) OpenShift
2 2 (12.50%) AWS
2 2 (12.50%) Azure
3 1 (6.25%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (6.25%) Azure AKS
3 1 (6.25%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 5 (31.25%) DNS
1 5 (31.25%) SMTP
1 5 (31.25%) Telnet
2 3 (18.75%) DHCP
2 3 (18.75%) FTP
2 3 (18.75%) tcpdump
3 1 (6.25%) Internet
3 1 (6.25%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (31.25%) Oracle Database
2 1 (6.25%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 5 (31.25%) Jenkins
2 4 (25.00%) Subversion
3 2 (12.50%) Toad
3 2 (12.50%) VisualAge
4 1 (6.25%) Eclipse
4 1 (6.25%) Git
General
1 1 (6.25%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (31.25%) Developer
2 4 (25.00%) Administrator
2 4 (25.00%) Linux Administrator
3 3 (18.75%) Linux Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Architect
4 1 (6.25%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Infrastructure Architect
4 1 (6.25%) Integration Developer
4 1 (6.25%) IT Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) IT Manager
4 1 (6.25%) IT Project Manager
4 1 (6.25%) IT Support
4 1 (6.25%) IT Support Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Kubernetes Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Linux Systems Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Project Manager
4 1 (6.25%) Support Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Systems Administrator
4 1 (6.25%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (31.25%) ActiveMQ
1 5 (31.25%) Apache Camel
1 5 (31.25%) Apache CXF
1 5 (31.25%) Hibernate
1 5 (31.25%) J2EE
1 5 (31.25%) JSP
1 5 (31.25%) LDAP
1 5 (31.25%) Spring
2 2 (12.50%) SOAP
2 2 (12.50%) Web Services
3 1 (6.25%) .NET
3 1 (6.25%) LAMP
3 1 (6.25%) LEMP Stack
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.25%) Data Centre
1 1 (6.25%) Mainframe
1 1 (6.25%) Private Cloud
1 1 (6.25%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 10 (62.50%) Linux
2 8 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (31.25%) Unix
4 4 (25.00%) CentOS
4 4 (25.00%) Ubuntu
5 1 (6.25%) SUSE
5 1 (6.25%) Windows
5 1 (6.25%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (31.25%) Continuous Integration
2 4 (25.00%) Configuration Management
2 4 (25.00%) Containerisation
2 4 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
2 4 (25.00%) SOA
3 3 (18.75%) Performance Monitoring
3 3 (18.75%) Release Management
3 3 (18.75%) Root Cause Analysis
3 3 (18.75%) Server Building
3 3 (18.75%) Server Management
3 3 (18.75%) Server Migrations
3 3 (18.75%) Task Automation
3 3 (18.75%) Vulnerability Management
4 2 (12.50%) DevOps
5 1 (6.25%) Architectural Design
5 1 (6.25%) High Availability
5 1 (6.25%) Mentoring
5 1 (6.25%) PRINCE2
5 1 (6.25%) Process Improvement
5 1 (6.25%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 6 (37.50%) Java
2 5 (31.25%) JavaScript
2 5 (31.25%) Shell Script
3 4 (25.00%) Bash
3 4 (25.00%) Python
4 3 (18.75%) SQL
5 2 (12.50%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 7 (43.75%) Security Cleared
2 6 (37.50%) SC Cleared
3 1 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (6.25%) Degree
3 1 (6.25%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 5 (31.25%) NFS
1 5 (31.25%) Samba
2 4 (25.00%) Docker
3 3 (18.75%) KVM
3 3 (18.75%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (6.25%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 7 (43.75%) Ansible
2 3 (18.75%) Progress Chef
2 3 (18.75%) Puppet
2 3 (18.75%) yum
3 2 (12.50%) Kubernetes
4 1 (6.25%) Grafana
4 1 (6.25%) Istio
4 1 (6.25%) Prometheus
4 1 (6.25%) Rancher
4 1 (6.25%) SafeCom
4 1 (6.25%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (37.50%) Oracle
1 6 (37.50%) VMware
2 5 (31.25%) IBM
3 3 (18.75%) HP
4 1 (6.25%) Dell
4 1 (6.25%) Microsoft
4 1 (6.25%) Veritas