Red Hat Enterprise Linux Contracts with Work from Home Options

Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 273 189 296
Rank change year-on-year -84 +107 -25
Contract jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 68 313 371
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.46% 1.26% 0.83%
As % of the Operating Systems category 4.43% 9.36% 6.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 249 265
10th Percentile £322 £413 £402
25th Percentile £400 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -17.39% +4.55% +18.92%
75th Percentile £519 £676 £633
90th Percentile £600 £810 £688
UK median daily rate £513 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -14.58% +4.35% +20.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 5
10th Percentile - - £27.20
25th Percentile - £51.25 £35.00
Median hourly rate - £52.50 £63.00
Median % change year-on-year - -16.67% +3.70%
75th Percentile - £53.75 -
90th Percentile - - £74.70
UK median hourly rate £72.75 £52.50 £63.00
% change year-on-year +38.57% -16.67% +8.62%

All Operating Systems
Work from Home

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 with a WFH option and a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 1,534 3,345 5,370
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 10.42% 13.50% 12.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,075 2,356 3,808
10th Percentile £225 £244 £300
25th Percentile £350 £406 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £520 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.65% +4.00% +8.11%
75th Percentile £588 £633 £613
90th Percentile £683 £725 £688
UK median daily rate £466 £503 £500
% change year-on-year -7.33% +0.57% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 105 141
10th Percentile £12.75 £19.00 £15.00
25th Percentile £14.20 £25.71 £20.00
Median hourly rate £16.85 £52.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -67.91% +16.67% +28.57%
75th Percentile £37.85 £67.50 £62.15
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £68.25
UK median hourly rate £22.15 £39.05 £22.50
% change year-on-year -43.28% +73.56% +28.57%

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux trend for jobs with a WFH option

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 10 (14.71%) Confluence
2 6 (8.82%) JBoss
3 5 (7.35%) Apache
3 5 (7.35%) Tomcat
4 3 (4.41%) nginx
4 3 (4.41%) OpenStack
5 1 (1.47%) IIS
5 1 (1.47%) OpenEdge
5 1 (1.47%) SAS
Business Applications
1 3 (4.41%) Temenos T24
2 1 (1.47%) MFGPRO
2 1 (1.47%) Sage 50
2 1 (1.47%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 29 (42.65%) AWS
2 18 (26.47%) Azure
3 12 (17.65%) Amazon EC2
3 12 (17.65%) Amazon S3
3 12 (17.65%) IaaS
3 12 (17.65%) OpenShift
4 11 (16.18%) AWS CloudFormation
4 11 (16.18%) AWS Lambda
4 11 (16.18%) Serverless
5 9 (13.24%) PaaS
5 9 (13.24%) SaaS
6 8 (11.76%) Cloud Computing
7 7 (10.29%) Amazon OpenSearch
7 7 (10.29%) Nutanix
8 6 (8.82%) GCP
8 6 (8.82%) Rubrik
9 5 (7.35%) Amazon ECS
10 4 (5.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 4 (5.88%) AWS Fargate
10 4 (5.88%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 11 (16.18%) DNS
1 11 (16.18%) Firewall
2 8 (11.76%) DHCP
2 8 (11.76%) SAN
3 7 (10.29%) Kerberos
3 7 (10.29%) NAS
4 6 (8.82%) TCP/IP
4 6 (8.82%) VLAN
5 2 (2.94%) LAN
5 2 (2.94%) WAN
6 1 (1.47%) Fibre Channel
6 1 (1.47%) Network Security
6 1 (1.47%) Remote Desktop
6 1 (1.47%) SD-WAN
6 1 (1.47%) SSL
6 1 (1.47%) Unified Communications
6 1 (1.47%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (16.18%) Elasticsearch
2 8 (11.76%) Relational Database
3 7 (10.29%) RDBMS
3 7 (10.29%) SQL Server
4 6 (8.82%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (7.35%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (7.35%) InfluxDB
6 2 (2.94%) Amazon Aurora
6 2 (2.94%) Informix
6 2 (2.94%) MongoDB
6 2 (2.94%) Oracle BI Publisher
6 2 (2.94%) Oracle Database
6 2 (2.94%) Redis
7 1 (1.47%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (1.47%) Metadata
7 1 (1.47%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 20 (29.41%) Jenkins
2 14 (20.59%) Git
3 13 (19.12%) JIRA
4 9 (13.24%) GitLab
4 9 (13.24%) TeamCity
5 5 (7.35%) Artifactory
6 4 (5.88%) Sonatype Nexus
7 3 (4.41%) Bitbucket Server
7 3 (4.41%) CA Release Automation
7 3 (4.41%) SonarQube
8 2 (2.94%) Oracle APEX
8 2 (2.94%) Selenium
9 1 (1.47%) Maven
9 1 (1.47%) Subversion
General
1 17 (25.00%) Finance
2 12 (17.65%) Social Skills
3 10 (14.71%) Public Sector
4 4 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (4.41%) Banking
6 1 (1.47%) Billing
6 1 (1.47%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.47%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (1.47%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 10 (14.71%) DevOps Engineer
2 9 (13.24%) AWS Engineer
3 8 (11.76%) Administrator
3 8 (11.76%) AWS DevOps
3 8 (11.76%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 7 (10.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 7 (10.29%) Linux Engineer
5 6 (8.82%) Senior
6 5 (7.35%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 5 (7.35%) Linux Administrator
6 5 (7.35%) Platform Engineer
7 4 (5.88%) Architect
7 4 (5.88%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
7 4 (5.88%) Linux Systems Administrator
7 4 (5.88%) Python Engineer
7 4 (5.88%) Storage Engineer
7 4 (5.88%) Support Engineer
7 4 (5.88%) Systems Administrator
7 4 (5.88%) Unix Specialist
7 4 (5.88%) VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (11.76%) AWS CDK
2 7 (10.29%) LDAP
3 6 (8.82%) Elastic Stack
4 4 (5.88%) Middleware
5 3 (4.41%) HTML
5 3 (4.41%) IBM Integration Bus
5 3 (4.41%) RabbitMQ
5 3 (4.41%) Spring Boot
6 2 (2.94%) CSS
6 2 (2.94%) OAuth
6 2 (2.94%) OAuth2
6 2 (2.94%) pytest
6 2 (2.94%) RESTful
6 2 (2.94%) Swagger
6 2 (2.94%) YAML
7 1 (1.47%) Kafka
7 1 (1.47%) React
7 1 (1.47%) REST
7 1 (1.47%) SOAP
7 1 (1.47%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 8 (11.76%) Replication
2 7 (10.29%) Clustering
3 4 (5.88%) Linux Command Line
4 3 (4.41%) Cloud Native
4 3 (4.41%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (2.94%) Data Centre
5 2 (2.94%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.47%) Client/Server
6 1 (1.47%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (1.47%) FMCG
6 1 (1.47%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.47%) PKI
6 1 (1.47%) Private Cloud
6 1 (1.47%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.47%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 68 (100.00%) Linux
2 19 (27.94%) Windows
3 15 (22.06%) Unix
4 12 (17.65%) Windows Server
5 10 (14.71%) Ubuntu
6 9 (13.24%) Solaris
7 7 (10.29%) Oracle Linux
8 6 (8.82%) CentOS
9 2 (2.94%) Alpine Linux
10 1 (1.47%) Apple iOS
10 1 (1.47%) HPUX
10 1 (1.47%) Rocky
10 1 (1.47%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (32.35%) DevOps
2 19 (27.94%) Infrastructure as Code
3 16 (23.53%) Agile
4 14 (20.59%) CI/CD
5 11 (16.18%) Disaster Recovery
6 10 (14.71%) Continuous Improvement
6 10 (14.71%) High Availability
6 10 (14.71%) Vulnerability Management
7 9 (13.24%) Continuous Integration
7 9 (13.24%) Deployment Automation
8 8 (11.76%) Roadmaps
9 7 (10.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 7 (10.29%) Migration
9 7 (10.29%) Observability
9 7 (10.29%) Performance Tuning
10 6 (8.82%) Data Security
10 6 (8.82%) Root Cause Analysis
10 6 (8.82%) Scrum
10 6 (8.82%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 6 (8.82%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 32 (47.06%) Python
2 19 (27.94%) Bash
3 14 (20.59%) PowerShell
4 9 (13.24%) Shell Script
5 5 (7.35%) SQL
6 4 (5.88%) Groovy
6 4 (5.88%) Perl
7 3 (4.41%) JavaScript
7 3 (4.41%) TypeScript
8 1 (1.47%) C
8 1 (1.47%) C++
8 1 (1.47%) Java
8 1 (1.47%) PL/SQL
8 1 (1.47%) ProC
Qualifications
1 14 (20.59%) Security Cleared
2 12 (17.65%) SC Cleared
3 4 (5.88%) Degree
4 2 (2.94%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.47%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.47%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.47%) RHCE
5 1 (1.47%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (10.29%) GDPR
2 6 (8.82%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 2 (2.94%) SLA
4 1 (1.47%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.47%) PCI DSS
4 1 (1.47%) QA
System Software
1 16 (23.53%) Docker
2 15 (22.06%) Active Directory
2 15 (22.06%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (7.35%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (4.41%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (4.41%) vSphere
5 2 (2.94%) VMware NSX
6 1 (1.47%) Hyper-V
6 1 (1.47%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 34 (50.00%) Ansible
2 22 (32.35%) Kubernetes
3 16 (23.53%) Terraform
4 13 (19.12%) Grafana
5 11 (16.18%) Kibana
6 8 (11.76%) Progress Chef
7 6 (8.82%) EMC NetWorker
7 6 (8.82%) Netcool
7 6 (8.82%) Prometheus
7 6 (8.82%) Red Hat Satellite
7 6 (8.82%) Tivoli
7 6 (8.82%) Tivoli Storage Manager
8 5 (7.35%) Puppet
9 3 (4.41%) logstash
10 2 (2.94%) Salt
11 1 (1.47%) Jamf Pro
11 1 (1.47%) Packer
11 1 (1.47%) SELinux
11 1 (1.47%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 37 (54.41%) Red Hat
2 22 (32.35%) VMware
3 18 (26.47%) Oracle
4 11 (16.18%) Qualys
5 10 (14.71%) Splunk
6 9 (13.24%) IBM
6 9 (13.24%) Microsoft
7 8 (11.76%) ServiceNow
8 7 (10.29%) Cisco
8 7 (10.29%) CyberArk
8 7 (10.29%) Dell
8 7 (10.29%) HP
9 6 (8.82%) EMC
9 6 (8.82%) Isilon
9 6 (8.82%) Serena
10 3 (4.41%) AppDynamics
10 3 (4.41%) Atlassian
10 3 (4.41%) SolarWinds
10 3 (4.41%) Temenos
11 2 (2.94%) Citrix