Red Hat Contracts in the UK excluding London

Red Hat
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for knowledge and experience of Red Hat products and/or services. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Red Hat over the 6 months to 11 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 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
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 211 181 236
Rank change year-on-year -30 +55 -51
Contract jobs citing Red Hat 192 301 316
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.94% 1.29% 1.04%
As % of the Vendors category 2.19% 2.88% 2.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 145 227 206
10th Percentile £344 £400 £389
25th Percentile £425 £460 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £545 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.67% +3.81% +20.00%
75th Percentile £584 £638 £625
90th Percentile £658 £700 £700
UK median daily rate £520 £585 £575
% change year-on-year -11.11% +1.74% +18.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 16 12
10th Percentile £60.95 £25.75 £46.25
25th Percentile £68.38 £28.40 £54.69
Median hourly rate £74.44 £50.75 £69.05
Median % change year-on-year +46.68% -26.50% +51.76%
75th Percentile £75.21 £64.56 £82.81
90th Percentile £76.58 £74.50 £83.98
UK median hourly rate £74.44 £52.50 £63.00
% change year-on-year +41.79% -16.67% +31.94%

All Vendors
UK excluding London

Red Hat is in the Vendor Products and Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services advertised in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 8,752 10,449 12,199
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 42.73% 44.72% 40.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,263 7,156 8,228
10th Percentile £206 £205 £185
25th Percentile £363 £363 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £465
Median % change year-on-year - +7.53% +9.41%
75th Percentile £600 £598 £575
90th Percentile £690 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -1.90% - +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 963 477 641
10th Percentile £11.84 £14.25 £10.77
25th Percentile £14.16 £17.72 £14.25
Median hourly rate £21.46 £37.50 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -42.77% +97.37% +2.70%
75th Percentile £59.94 £62.50 £36.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £56.70
UK median hourly rate £22.00 £42.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year -48.24% +97.67% -3.72%

Red Hat
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Red Hat as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Red Hat in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Red Hat in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Red Hat in the UK excluding London

Red Hat
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Red Hat in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Red Hat in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Red Hat in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Red Hat in the UK excluding London

Red Hat
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Red Hat in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Red Hat in the UK excluding London

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Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 11 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
South East +32 89 £525 -6.25% 17
Midlands +49 35 £550 +21.03% 21
Scotland -8 21 £340 -32.00% 17
East of England -15 19 £550 -21.43% 13
West Midlands +27 18 £585 +98.31% 15
East Midlands +29 16 £535 +9.24% 6
South West -13 16 £526 -8.48% 26
North of England 0 13 £583 +5.91% 25
North West -8 13 £583 -2.92% 15
Wales +15 1 - -
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UK

Red Hat
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 15 (7.81%) Apache
2 12 (6.25%) IIS
3 7 (3.65%) JBoss
3 7 (3.65%) Tomcat
4 6 (3.13%) nginx
5 5 (2.60%) Confluence
5 5 (2.60%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.52%) MQSeries
6 1 (0.52%) OpenEdge
6 1 (0.52%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (2.60%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.04%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 7 (3.65%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (1.56%) Sage X3
3 2 (1.04%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
3 2 (1.04%) RMDS
4 1 (0.52%) MFGPRO
4 1 (0.52%) Sage 50
4 1 (0.52%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 26 (13.54%) Azure
2 25 (13.02%) AWS
3 24 (12.50%) OpenShift
4 11 (5.73%) GitHub
5 7 (3.65%) Amazon EC2
6 6 (3.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 6 (3.13%) Amazon S3
7 5 (2.60%) Datadog
8 3 (1.56%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 3 (1.56%) AWS CloudFormation
8 3 (1.56%) AWS CodeBuild
8 3 (1.56%) AWS CodeCommit
8 3 (1.56%) AWS CodePipeline
8 3 (1.56%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (1.56%) CloudFront
8 3 (1.56%) Microsoft 365
8 3 (1.56%) Route 53
8 3 (1.56%) Serverless
8 3 (1.56%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 2 (1.04%) Azure Stack
Communications & Networking
1 35 (18.23%) SAN
2 24 (12.50%) TCP/IP
3 12 (6.25%) DNS
4 11 (5.73%) Intrusion Detection
4 11 (5.73%) Network Security
5 10 (5.21%) Firewall
6 6 (3.13%) HTTP
6 6 (3.13%) Wireless
7 5 (2.60%) DHCP
7 5 (2.60%) H.323
7 5 (2.60%) InfiniBand
8 4 (2.08%) NAS
8 4 (2.08%) VPN
8 4 (2.08%) WAN
9 3 (1.56%) Cisco IOS
10 2 (1.04%) Fibre Channel
10 2 (1.04%) LAN
10 2 (1.04%) Skype
11 1 (0.52%) Remote Desktop
11 1 (0.52%) tcpdump
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (10.42%) PostgreSQL
2 16 (8.33%) SQL Server
3 10 (5.21%) Big Data
4 9 (4.69%) Elasticsearch
4 9 (4.69%) MongoDB
4 9 (4.69%) MySQL
5 7 (3.65%) RDBMS
5 7 (3.65%) Relational Database
6 6 (3.13%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (2.08%) Oracle Database
8 3 (1.56%) Amazon Aurora
8 3 (1.56%) InfluxDB
8 3 (1.56%) Informix
9 1 (0.52%) Apache Cassandra
9 1 (0.52%) Couchbase
9 1 (0.52%) NoSQL
9 1 (0.52%) Oracle BI Publisher
Development Applications
1 18 (9.38%) GitLab
2 14 (7.29%) Git
3 12 (6.25%) JIRA
4 10 (5.21%) Jenkins
5 8 (4.17%) Artifactory
6 7 (3.65%) Bitbucket
6 7 (3.65%) SonarQube
7 6 (3.13%) TeamCity
8 5 (2.60%) Bitbucket Server
8 5 (2.60%) CA Release Automation
8 5 (2.60%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (1.04%) Oracle APEX
9 2 (1.04%) Subversion
10 1 (0.52%) Cucumber
10 1 (0.52%) Gerrit
10 1 (0.52%) IntelliJ
10 1 (0.52%) JMeter
10 1 (0.52%) JUnit
10 1 (0.52%) Maven
General
1 26 (13.54%) Social Skills
2 24 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
3 17 (8.85%) Public Sector
4 9 (4.69%) Telecoms
5 6 (3.13%) Finance
5 6 (3.13%) Legal
6 3 (1.56%) Manufacturing
7 2 (1.04%) Advertising
7 2 (1.04%) Banking
7 2 (1.04%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (1.04%) Electronics
7 2 (1.04%) Marketing
7 2 (1.04%) Military
7 2 (1.04%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.52%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 43 (22.40%) Linux Engineer
2 24 (12.50%) Developer
3 20 (10.42%) Python Developer
4 19 (9.90%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 17 (8.85%) Support Engineer
6 13 (6.77%) Linux Systems Administrator
6 13 (6.77%) Senior
6 13 (6.77%) Systems Administrator
7 12 (6.25%) Administrator
8 11 (5.73%) Cloud Engineer
9 10 (5.21%) 3rd Line Support
9 10 (5.21%) Analyst
10 9 (4.69%) DevOps Engineer
10 9 (4.69%) Linux Administrator
11 8 (4.17%) 3rd Line Engineer
11 8 (4.17%) Database Specialist
11 8 (4.17%) Platform Engineer
12 7 (3.65%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
13 6 (3.13%) Infrastructure Support
13 6 (3.13%) Platform Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (8.33%) Apache NiFi
2 6 (3.13%) Spring Boot
2 6 (3.13%) YAML
3 5 (2.60%) Elastic Stack
3 5 (2.60%) REST
4 3 (1.56%) AWS CDK
4 3 (1.56%) EDI
5 2 (1.04%) .NET
5 2 (1.04%) CSS
5 2 (1.04%) Django
5 2 (1.04%) HornetQ
5 2 (1.04%) HTML
5 2 (1.04%) Kafka
5 2 (1.04%) RabbitMQ
5 2 (1.04%) VCL
6 1 (0.52%) AngularJS
6 1 (0.52%) Node.js
6 1 (0.52%) OAuth2
6 1 (0.52%) React
6 1 (0.52%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 19 (9.90%) Linux Command Line
1 19 (9.90%) Management Information System
2 14 (7.29%) PKI
3 13 (6.77%) Clustering
3 13 (6.77%) Distributed Applications
4 12 (6.25%) Cyber Defence
4 12 (6.25%) Data Centre
5 11 (5.73%) Replication
6 5 (2.60%) Enterprise Storage
6 5 (2.60%) IVR
6 5 (2.60%) Onboarding
7 4 (2.08%) Cloud Native
7 4 (2.08%) Fat Client
7 4 (2.08%) Greenfield Project
7 4 (2.08%) Thin Client
8 3 (1.56%) CCTV
8 3 (1.56%) Cyber Threat
8 3 (1.56%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (1.04%) Operational Technology
10 1 (0.52%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 147 (76.56%) Linux
2 76 (39.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 54 (28.13%) Windows
4 35 (18.23%) Debian
5 34 (17.71%) Ubuntu
6 24 (12.50%) Unix
7 22 (11.46%) Windows Server
8 21 (10.94%) Solaris
9 16 (8.33%) Windows Server 2019
10 15 (7.81%) Windows Server 2016
11 14 (7.29%) Windows Server 2012
12 13 (6.77%) CentOS
13 11 (5.73%) Android
14 9 (4.69%) Windows Server 2008
15 8 (4.17%) Apple iOS
16 3 (1.56%) Mac OS
16 3 (1.56%) SUSE
16 3 (1.56%) VMS
16 3 (1.56%) Windows 10
17 1 (0.52%) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (18.23%) ITIL
2 33 (17.19%) Agile
3 28 (14.58%) Migration
4 27 (14.06%) High Availability
5 26 (13.54%) Data Engineering
6 24 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 21 (10.94%) DevOps
7 21 (10.94%) Disaster Recovery
8 20 (10.42%) Customer Service
9 19 (9.90%) Change Management
9 19 (9.90%) Configuration Management
10 18 (9.38%) Data Modelling
10 18 (9.38%) Roadmaps
11 17 (8.85%) Software Engineering
12 16 (8.33%) Information Security
12 16 (8.33%) Prototyping
12 16 (8.33%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
13 15 (7.81%) Capacity Management
13 15 (7.81%) CI/CD
13 15 (7.81%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 54 (28.13%) Python
2 33 (17.19%) Bash
3 20 (10.42%) Shell Script
4 18 (9.38%) PowerShell
5 14 (7.29%) SQL
6 9 (4.69%) Perl
7 5 (2.60%) MATLAB
8 3 (1.56%) Java
8 3 (1.56%) TypeScript
9 2 (1.04%) AWK
9 2 (1.04%) Bourne shell
9 2 (1.04%) JavaScript
9 2 (1.04%) Korn
10 1 (0.52%) C
10 1 (0.52%) C#
10 1 (0.52%) C++
10 1 (0.52%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 116 (60.42%) Security Cleared
2 81 (42.19%) SC Cleared
3 49 (25.52%) DV Cleared
4 16 (8.33%) Degree
5 11 (5.73%) RHCE
6 9 (4.69%) MCSE
6 9 (4.69%) Microsoft Certification
7 8 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
8 6 (3.13%) MCSA
8 6 (3.13%) RHCT
9 4 (2.08%) RHCSA
10 1 (0.52%) GIAC
10 1 (0.52%) Linux+ Certification
10 1 (0.52%) LPIC
10 1 (0.52%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (5.21%) Actionable Recommendations
2 7 (3.65%) QA
3 5 (2.60%) SLA
4 2 (1.04%) GDPR
System Software
1 41 (21.35%) VMware Infrastructure
2 37 (19.27%) Active Directory
3 18 (9.38%) Docker
4 17 (8.85%) Hyper-V
5 16 (8.33%) vSphere
6 12 (6.25%) KVM
7 10 (5.21%) VMware ESXi
8 9 (4.69%) Virtual Machines
9 5 (2.60%) Firmware
10 4 (2.08%) Virtual Servers
10 4 (2.08%) VMware NSX
11 2 (1.04%) Ceph
11 2 (1.04%) Varnish
11 2 (1.04%) Veritas Cluster Server
12 1 (0.52%) Samba
12 1 (0.52%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 1 (0.52%) Terminal Services
12 1 (0.52%) Xen
Systems Management
1 55 (28.65%) Ansible
2 30 (15.63%) Kubernetes
3 28 (14.58%) Terraform
4 23 (11.98%) Red Hat Satellite
5 8 (4.17%) Grafana
6 7 (3.65%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
6 7 (3.65%) WSUS
7 6 (3.13%) Kibana
7 6 (3.13%) Progress Chef
8 5 (2.60%) Dell DRAC
8 5 (2.60%) Istio
8 5 (2.60%) NetBackup
8 5 (2.60%) Rancher
8 5 (2.60%) SCOM
8 5 (2.60%) SELinux
8 5 (2.60%) Tivoli Identity Manager
9 4 (2.08%) Nessus
9 4 (2.08%) SCCM
9 4 (2.08%) vCenter Server
9 4 (2.08%) vRealize
Vendors
1 81 (42.19%) VMware
2 41 (21.35%) Microsoft
3 23 (11.98%) Oracle
4 16 (8.33%) Dell
4 16 (8.33%) HP
5 13 (6.77%) SolarWinds
6 8 (4.17%) Nimble Storage
6 8 (4.17%) Veritas
7 7 (3.65%) Cisco
7 7 (3.65%) Citrix
7 7 (3.65%) Splunk
7 7 (3.65%) Veeam
8 6 (3.13%) IBM
9 5 (2.60%) 3PAR
9 5 (2.60%) AppDynamics
9 5 (2.60%) Avaya
9 5 (2.60%) Isilon
9 5 (2.60%) NetApp
9 5 (2.60%) Verint
10 4 (2.08%) Atlassian