Red Hat
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 7 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
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 301 214 256
Rank change year-on-year -87 +42 -2
Contract jobs citing Red Hat 304 722 966
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.71% 1.24% 1.10%
As % of the Vendors category 1.67% 2.90% 2.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 230 555 626
10th Percentile £350 £425 £400
25th Percentile £426 £483 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £585 £572
Median % change year-on-year -10.26% +2.27% +19.17%
75th Percentile £588 £688 £663
90th Percentile £676 £798 £747
UK excluding London median daily rate £527 £545 £513
% change year-on-year -3.39% +6.34% +17.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 17 18
10th Percentile £60.95 £25.75 £23.66
25th Percentile £68.38 £28.70 £46.25
Median hourly rate £74.44 £52.50 £63.00
Median % change year-on-year +41.79% -16.67% +31.94%
75th Percentile £75.21 £61.25 £69.05
90th Percentile £76.58 £74.50 £83.83
UK excluding London median hourly rate £74.44 £50.75 £69.05
% change year-on-year +46.68% -26.50% +51.76%

All Vendors
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 18,246 24,927 35,101
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 42.60% 42.91% 39.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,291 16,680 23,333
10th Percentile £263 £271 £293
25th Percentile £405 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% - +10.53%
75th Percentile £630 £645 £635
90th Percentile £738 £743 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £465
% change year-on-year - +7.53% +9.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,108 691 877
10th Percentile £12.09 £15.21 £12.00
25th Percentile £14.48 £18.79 £15.04
Median hourly rate £22.00 £42.50 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -48.24% +97.67% -2.27%
75th Percentile £57.50 £65.00 £47.25
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £61.26
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.46 £37.50 £18.70
% change year-on-year -42.77% +100.53% +1.08%

Red Hat
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Red Hat as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Red Hat in the UK

Red Hat
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Red Hat in the UK

Red Hat
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Red Hat over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Red Hat in the UK

Red Hat
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Red Hat in the UK

Red Hat
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Red Hat over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Red Hat in the UK

Red Hat
Top 14 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 7 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
England -69 271 £525 -12.50% 188
UK excluding London -5 190 £527 -3.39% 149
London -83 98 £510 -18.40% 73
South East +35 91 £525 -5.83% 20
Work from Home -50 87 £500 -10.23% 75
Midlands +53 35 £550 +21.03% 27
Scotland -2 20 £340 -32.00% 20
West Midlands +36 18 £585 +98.31% 23
East of England -22 18 £550 -21.43% 15
East Midlands +29 16 £535 +9.24% 4
South West -11 14 £550 -4.35% 23
North West -2 13 £583 -2.92% 14
North of England -9 13 £583 +5.91% 25
Wales +16 1 - -

Red Hat
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 25 (8.22%) Apache
2 20 (6.58%) Tomcat
3 17 (5.59%) nginx
4 16 (5.26%) JBoss
4 16 (5.26%) OpenStack
5 13 (4.28%) IIS
6 10 (3.29%) Confluence
7 7 (2.30%) Microsoft Exchange
8 6 (1.97%) MQSeries
9 1 (0.33%) OpenEdge
9 1 (0.33%) Red Hat Fuse
9 1 (0.33%) SAS
9 1 (0.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (1.97%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 9 (2.96%) Temenos T24
2 7 (2.30%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (0.99%) Global One
3 3 (0.99%) Sage X3
4 2 (0.66%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
4 2 (0.66%) RMDS
5 1 (0.33%) MFGPRO
5 1 (0.33%) Sage 50
Cloud Services
1 65 (21.38%) AWS
2 58 (19.08%) Azure
3 31 (10.20%) OpenShift
4 17 (5.59%) GitHub
5 15 (4.93%) Amazon S3
5 15 (4.93%) Slack
6 12 (3.95%) Amazon EC2
7 11 (3.62%) AWS CloudFormation
7 11 (3.62%) Route 53
7 11 (3.62%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 10 (3.29%) Amazon EKS
8 10 (3.29%) IaaS
9 7 (2.30%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 7 (2.30%) AWS Lambda
9 7 (2.30%) Microsoft 365
9 7 (2.30%) Serverless
10 6 (1.97%) Amazon ECR
10 6 (1.97%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 6 (1.97%) Azure DevOps
10 6 (1.97%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 42 (13.82%) SAN
2 33 (10.86%) TCP/IP
3 27 (8.88%) Firewall
4 23 (7.57%) DNS
5 15 (4.93%) Network Security
6 12 (3.95%) Intrusion Detection
7 10 (3.29%) HTTP
8 9 (2.96%) NAS
9 8 (2.63%) VPN
10 7 (2.30%) DHCP
10 7 (2.30%) InfiniBand
11 6 (1.97%) H.323
11 6 (1.97%) WAN
11 6 (1.97%) Wireless
12 4 (1.32%) FTP
12 4 (1.32%) HTTPS
12 4 (1.32%) IPsec
12 4 (1.32%) LAN
12 4 (1.32%) SSL
12 4 (1.32%) tcpdump
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (12.17%) SQL Server
2 29 (9.54%) PostgreSQL
3 27 (8.88%) Elasticsearch
4 20 (6.58%) MySQL
5 17 (5.59%) Amazon RDS
5 17 (5.59%) Relational Database
6 16 (5.26%) RDBMS
7 11 (3.62%) Oracle Database
8 10 (3.29%) Big Data
8 10 (3.29%) MongoDB
9 6 (1.97%) Amazon Aurora
10 4 (1.32%) Data Warehouse
11 3 (0.99%) InfluxDB
11 3 (0.99%) Informix
12 2 (0.66%) Oracle BI Publisher
13 1 (0.33%) Apache Cassandra
13 1 (0.33%) Couchbase
13 1 (0.33%) Metadata
13 1 (0.33%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 35 (11.51%) Jenkins
2 22 (7.24%) GitLab
3 21 (6.91%) Git
4 14 (4.61%) JIRA
4 14 (4.61%) SonarQube
5 11 (3.62%) Bitbucket
6 8 (2.63%) Artifactory
7 6 (1.97%) Maven
7 6 (1.97%) Sonatype Nexus
7 6 (1.97%) TeamCity
8 5 (1.64%) Bitbucket Server
8 5 (1.64%) CA Release Automation
9 4 (1.32%) Cucumber
9 4 (1.32%) JUnit
10 3 (0.99%) EasyMock
10 3 (0.99%) Mockito
10 3 (0.99%) Oracle APEX
10 3 (0.99%) Postman
10 3 (0.99%) Selenium
10 3 (0.99%) TestNG
General
1 43 (14.14%) Social Skills
2 39 (12.83%) Finance
3 30 (9.87%) Analytical Skills
4 23 (7.57%) Public Sector
5 17 (5.59%) Banking
6 10 (3.29%) Telecoms
7 7 (2.30%) Legal
8 3 (0.99%) Manufacturing
9 2 (0.66%) Advertising
9 2 (0.66%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (0.66%) Electronics
9 2 (0.66%) Investment Banking
9 2 (0.66%) Marketing
9 2 (0.66%) Military
9 2 (0.66%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.33%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.33%) Back Office
10 1 (0.33%) Front Office
10 1 (0.33%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 53 (17.43%) Linux Engineer
2 34 (11.18%) Developer
3 31 (10.20%) Support Engineer
4 29 (9.54%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 22 (7.24%) Python Developer
6 21 (6.91%) Architect
7 19 (6.25%) DevOps Engineer
7 19 (6.25%) Senior
8 16 (5.26%) Administrator
8 16 (5.26%) Analyst
9 15 (4.93%) Cloud Engineer
9 15 (4.93%) Linux Systems Administrator
9 15 (4.93%) Systems Administrator
10 14 (4.61%) Lead
11 13 (4.28%) AWS Engineer
12 12 (3.95%) Applications Support
12 12 (3.95%) Linux Administrator
12 12 (3.95%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
13 11 (3.62%) Solutions Architect
14 10 (3.29%) 3rd Line Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (9.54%) Elastic Stack
2 16 (5.26%) Apache NiFi
3 11 (3.62%) REST
4 10 (3.29%) Spring Boot
4 10 (3.29%) YAML
5 9 (2.96%) IBM Integration Bus
6 7 (2.30%) CSS
6 7 (2.30%) FIX Protocol
6 7 (2.30%) HTML
6 7 (2.30%) Middleware
6 7 (2.30%) Swagger
7 6 (1.97%) Kafka
8 5 (1.64%) LDAP
8 5 (1.64%) Spring
9 4 (1.32%) .NET
9 4 (1.32%) HTML5
9 4 (1.32%) Laravel
10 3 (0.99%) Gherkin
10 3 (0.99%) Guice
10 3 (0.99%) Mustache
Miscellaneous
1 26 (8.55%) Data Centre
2 25 (8.22%) Onboarding
3 22 (7.24%) Linux Command Line
3 22 (7.24%) Management Information System
4 16 (5.26%) Distributed Applications
5 14 (4.61%) PKI
6 12 (3.95%) Clustering
6 12 (3.95%) Cyber Defence
7 11 (3.62%) Replication
8 7 (2.30%) Public Cloud
9 6 (1.97%) IVR
10 5 (1.64%) Enterprise Storage
11 4 (1.32%) Cloud Native
11 4 (1.32%) Fat Client
11 4 (1.32%) Greenfield Project
11 4 (1.32%) Hybrid Cloud
11 4 (1.32%) Thin Client
12 3 (0.99%) CCTV
12 3 (0.99%) Cyber Threat
12 3 (0.99%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 234 (76.97%) Linux
2 140 (46.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 89 (29.28%) Windows
4 44 (14.47%) Unix
5 42 (13.82%) Windows Server
6 38 (12.50%) Debian
7 37 (12.17%) Ubuntu
8 35 (11.51%) CentOS
9 21 (6.91%) Windows Server 2019
10 19 (6.25%) Solaris
10 19 (6.25%) Windows Server 2016
11 13 (4.28%) Windows Server 2012
12 12 (3.95%) Android
13 9 (2.96%) Apple iOS
13 9 (2.96%) Windows Server 2008
14 3 (0.99%) Mac OS
14 3 (0.99%) SUSE
14 3 (0.99%) VMS
14 3 (0.99%) Windows 10
15 1 (0.33%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (18.42%) Agile
2 44 (14.47%) CI/CD
2 44 (14.47%) DevOps
3 42 (13.82%) ITIL
4 37 (12.17%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 32 (10.53%) Migration
6 31 (10.20%) Infrastructure as Code
7 30 (9.87%) High Availability
8 27 (8.88%) Data Engineering
9 26 (8.55%) Configuration Management
9 26 (8.55%) Customer Service
9 26 (8.55%) Disaster Recovery
10 22 (7.24%) Change Management
10 22 (7.24%) Software Engineering
11 21 (6.91%) Roadmaps
12 20 (6.58%) Data Modelling
13 19 (6.25%) Cybersecurity
13 19 (6.25%) Observability
14 17 (5.59%) Prototyping
14 17 (5.59%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 91 (29.93%) Python
2 50 (16.45%) Shell Script
3 45 (14.80%) Bash
4 39 (12.83%) PowerShell
5 24 (7.89%) SQL
6 18 (5.92%) Perl
7 13 (4.28%) Java
8 7 (2.30%) Korn
9 5 (1.64%) MATLAB
10 4 (1.32%) PHP
10 4 (1.32%) T-SQL
11 3 (0.99%) C++
11 3 (0.99%) JavaScript
11 3 (0.99%) Ruby
11 3 (0.99%) TypeScript
12 2 (0.66%) AWK
12 2 (0.66%) Bourne shell
12 2 (0.66%) VBScript
13 1 (0.33%) C
13 1 (0.33%) C#
Qualifications
1 131 (43.09%) Security Cleared
2 95 (31.25%) SC Cleared
3 51 (16.78%) DV Cleared
4 23 (7.57%) Degree
5 13 (4.28%) Computer Science Degree
6 11 (3.62%) RHCE
7 9 (2.96%) Microsoft Certification
8 8 (2.63%) MCSE
9 6 (1.97%) MCSA
9 6 (1.97%) RHCT
10 4 (1.32%) RHCSA
11 1 (0.33%) Azure Certification
11 1 (0.33%) CEH
11 1 (0.33%) CISSP
11 1 (0.33%) GIAC
11 1 (0.33%) Linux+ Certification
11 1 (0.33%) LPIC
11 1 (0.33%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.33%) RHCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (4.61%) QA
2 10 (3.29%) Actionable Recommendations
3 6 (1.97%) SLA
4 5 (1.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.66%) GDPR
5 2 (0.66%) NIST
6 1 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.33%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 63 (20.72%) VMware Infrastructure
2 43 (14.14%) Active Directory
3 31 (10.20%) Docker
4 21 (6.91%) Hyper-V
5 20 (6.58%) Virtual Machines
6 17 (5.59%) vSphere
7 16 (5.26%) KVM
8 10 (3.29%) VMware ESXi
9 5 (1.64%) Firmware
10 4 (1.32%) Samba
10 4 (1.32%) Virtual Servers
10 4 (1.32%) VMware NSX
11 3 (0.99%) Ceph
12 2 (0.66%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 2 (0.66%) Varnish
12 2 (0.66%) Veritas Cluster Server
13 1 (0.33%) Terminal Services
13 1 (0.33%) Xen
Systems Management
1 95 (31.25%) Ansible
2 53 (17.43%) Kubernetes
3 43 (14.14%) Terraform
4 28 (9.21%) Red Hat Satellite
5 24 (7.89%) Grafana
6 21 (6.91%) Kibana
7 20 (6.58%) Prometheus
8 15 (4.93%) logstash
9 11 (3.62%) Progress Chef
9 11 (3.62%) Puppet
10 7 (2.30%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 7 (2.30%) Packer
11 6 (1.97%) Data Guard
11 6 (1.97%) WSUS
12 5 (1.64%) Dell DRAC
12 5 (1.64%) Istio
12 5 (1.64%) NetBackup
12 5 (1.64%) SELinux
12 5 (1.64%) Single Sign-On
13 4 (1.32%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 111 (36.51%) VMware
2 54 (17.76%) Microsoft
3 41 (13.49%) Oracle
4 18 (5.92%) Dell
4 18 (5.92%) HP
5 15 (4.93%) Amdocs
5 15 (4.93%) IBM
6 14 (4.61%) Citrix
7 13 (4.28%) SolarWinds
8 9 (2.96%) Cisco
8 9 (2.96%) Temenos
9 8 (2.63%) Bloomberg
9 8 (2.63%) NetApp
9 8 (2.63%) Nimble Storage
9 8 (2.63%) Qualys
9 8 (2.63%) Veritas
10 7 (2.30%) Splunk
10 7 (2.30%) Veeam
11 6 (1.97%) Avaya
11 6 (1.97%) Verint