Red Hat Contracts with Work from Home Options

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The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 20 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
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 261 197 260
Rank change year-on-year -64 +63 -21
Contract jobs citing Red Hat 80 304 437
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.54% 1.23% 0.98%
As % of the Vendors category 1.29% 2.84% 2.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 247 293
10th Percentile £350 £425 £401
25th Percentile £444 £457 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £560 £550
Median % change year-on-year -15.18% +1.82% +14.58%
75th Percentile £550 £700 £638
90th Percentile - £817 £700
UK median daily rate £510 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -15.00% +4.35% +15.12%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 9
10th Percentile - - £23.90
25th Percentile - £51.25 £35.00
Median hourly rate - £52.50 £48.58
Median % change year-on-year - +8.07% -16.24%
75th Percentile - £53.75 £63.00
90th Percentile - £58.25 £82.80
UK median hourly rate £74.44 £43.25 £63.00
% change year-on-year +72.12% -31.35% +48.24%

All Vendors
Work from Home

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 WFH option and 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 6,217 10,720 17,528
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 42.22% 43.26% 39.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,944 7,222 11,936
10th Percentile £323 £330 £345
25th Percentile £425 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - +10.53%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £625
90th Percentile £725 £745 £725
UK median daily rate £514 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.10% - +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 206 248 257
10th Percentile £13.31 £17.50 £14.44
25th Percentile £16.50 £25.71 £19.81
Median hourly rate £28.50 £52.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -45.71% +31.25% +53.85%
75th Percentile £52.56 £67.50 £56.25
90th Percentile £70.00 £80.25 £74.25
UK median hourly rate £21.50 £40.55 £21.50
% change year-on-year -46.97% +88.58% -2.27%

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Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Red Hat trend for jobs with a WFH option

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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.

Red Hat daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Red Hat daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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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.

Red Hat hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

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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 7 (8.75%) JBoss
1 7 (8.75%) Tomcat
2 6 (7.50%) Confluence
3 5 (6.25%) Apache
3 5 (6.25%) nginx
4 1 (1.25%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (1.25%) OpenEdge
4 1 (1.25%) Red Hat Fuse
4 1 (1.25%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (1.25%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (3.75%) Temenos T24
2 1 (1.25%) MFGPRO
2 1 (1.25%) Sage 50
Cloud Services
1 25 (31.25%) AWS
2 18 (22.50%) Azure
3 11 (13.75%) OpenShift
4 9 (11.25%) IaaS
5 6 (7.50%) AWS CloudFormation
6 5 (6.25%) Amazon EC2
6 5 (6.25%) Amazon EKS
6 5 (6.25%) Amazon S3
6 5 (6.25%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 4 (5.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
7 4 (5.00%) AWS Lambda
7 4 (5.00%) Serverless
8 3 (3.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 3 (3.75%) Amazon SQS
8 3 (3.75%) Cloud Computing
9 2 (2.50%) Amazon ElastiCache
9 2 (2.50%) GitHub
9 2 (2.50%) PaaS
9 2 (2.50%) Route 53
9 2 (2.50%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 15 (18.75%) TCP/IP
2 12 (15.00%) SAN
3 9 (11.25%) Firewall
4 6 (7.50%) DNS
5 2 (2.50%) DHCP
5 2 (2.50%) LAN
5 2 (2.50%) SD-WAN
5 2 (2.50%) WAN
6 1 (1.25%) Intrusion Detection
6 1 (1.25%) Kerberos
6 1 (1.25%) Skype
6 1 (1.25%) SSL
6 1 (1.25%) Unified Communications
6 1 (1.25%) VPN
6 1 (1.25%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (10.00%) Relational Database
2 7 (8.75%) RDBMS
2 7 (8.75%) SQL Server
3 6 (7.50%) Amazon RDS
4 5 (6.25%) Elasticsearch
4 5 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (5.00%) Amazon Aurora
6 3 (3.75%) MongoDB
7 2 (2.50%) InfluxDB
7 2 (2.50%) Informix
7 2 (2.50%) MySQL
7 2 (2.50%) Oracle BI Publisher
7 2 (2.50%) Oracle Database
8 1 (1.25%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (1.25%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 8 (10.00%) JIRA
2 7 (8.75%) Jenkins
3 5 (6.25%) Git
3 5 (6.25%) SonarQube
4 4 (5.00%) Sonatype Nexus
5 3 (3.75%) Bitbucket
5 3 (3.75%) Bitbucket Server
5 3 (3.75%) CA Release Automation
5 3 (3.75%) TeamCity
6 2 (2.50%) Cucumber
6 2 (2.50%) EasyMock
6 2 (2.50%) GitLab
6 2 (2.50%) JUnit
6 2 (2.50%) Maven
6 2 (2.50%) Mockito
6 2 (2.50%) Oracle APEX
6 2 (2.50%) Postman
6 2 (2.50%) Selenium
6 2 (2.50%) TestNG
7 1 (1.25%) Subversion
General
1 20 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 11 (13.75%) Finance
3 6 (7.50%) Public Sector
4 4 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (3.75%) Banking
6 2 (2.50%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.25%) Back Office
7 1 (1.25%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 17 (21.25%) Developer
2 12 (15.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 12 (15.00%) Linux Engineer
2 12 (15.00%) Python Developer
3 8 (10.00%) Administrator
4 7 (8.75%) Applications Support
4 7 (8.75%) Senior
5 6 (7.50%) Linux Administrator
5 6 (7.50%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
5 6 (7.50%) Linux Support
6 5 (6.25%) AWS Engineer
6 5 (6.25%) Backend Developer
6 5 (6.25%) Cloud Engineer
6 5 (6.25%) Linux Systems Administrator
6 5 (6.25%) Support Engineer
6 5 (6.25%) Systems Administrator
6 5 (6.25%) Vulnerability Specialist
7 4 (5.00%) Automation Engineer
7 4 (5.00%) Python Engineer
7 4 (5.00%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (10.00%) Elastic Stack
2 6 (7.50%) Spring Boot
3 4 (5.00%) Middleware
3 4 (5.00%) Swagger
3 4 (5.00%) YAML
4 3 (3.75%) CSS
4 3 (3.75%) HTML
4 3 (3.75%) IBM Integration Bus
4 3 (3.75%) Kafka
4 3 (3.75%) REST
4 3 (3.75%) Spring
5 2 (2.50%) AWS CDK
5 2 (2.50%) Gherkin
5 2 (2.50%) Guice
5 2 (2.50%) JAX-RS
5 2 (2.50%) Mustache
5 2 (2.50%) OAuth
5 2 (2.50%) OAuth2
5 2 (2.50%) RESTful
5 2 (2.50%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 5 (6.25%) Data Centre
1 5 (6.25%) Linux Command Line
2 3 (3.75%) Cloud Native
2 3 (3.75%) Distributed Applications
2 3 (3.75%) Greenfield Project
2 3 (3.75%) Onboarding
3 2 (2.50%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (2.50%) Management Information System
3 2 (2.50%) Public Cloud
3 2 (2.50%) Replication
4 1 (1.25%) Client/Server
4 1 (1.25%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (1.25%) FMCG
4 1 (1.25%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.25%) PKI
4 1 (1.25%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 70 (87.50%) Linux
2 37 (46.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 22 (27.50%) Ubuntu
4 17 (21.25%) Windows
5 14 (17.50%) Debian
6 13 (16.25%) Unix
7 8 (10.00%) Windows Server
8 7 (8.75%) CentOS
9 4 (5.00%) Rocky
9 4 (5.00%) Solaris
10 1 (1.25%) Android
10 1 (1.25%) Apple iOS
10 1 (1.25%) HPUX
10 1 (1.25%) Windows 10
10 1 (1.25%) Windows Mobile
10 1 (1.25%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (1.25%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (1.25%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (23.75%) Agile
2 16 (20.00%) ITIL
3 15 (18.75%) Customer Service
4 14 (17.50%) Configuration Management
5 12 (15.00%) Data Modelling
6 11 (13.75%) Data Engineering
6 11 (13.75%) DevOps
6 11 (13.75%) Matrix Organization
6 11 (13.75%) Prototyping
6 11 (13.75%) Roadmaps
6 11 (13.75%) Software Engineering
6 11 (13.75%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
7 10 (12.50%) CI/CD
7 10 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 9 (11.25%) High Availability
8 9 (11.25%) Migration
9 8 (10.00%) Runbook
10 7 (8.75%) Infrastructure as Code
10 7 (8.75%) Infrastructure Automation
10 7 (8.75%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 30 (37.50%) Python
2 16 (20.00%) Bash
3 11 (13.75%) PowerShell
4 7 (8.75%) Perl
5 6 (7.50%) Shell Script
6 5 (6.25%) SQL
7 4 (5.00%) Java
8 2 (2.50%) JavaScript
8 2 (2.50%) TypeScript
9 1 (1.25%) PHP
9 1 (1.25%) PL/SQL
9 1 (1.25%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 22 (27.50%) SC Cleared
1 22 (27.50%) Security Cleared
2 11 (13.75%) DV Cleared
3 7 (8.75%) Degree
4 3 (3.75%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.25%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.25%) CEH
5 1 (1.25%) CISSP
5 1 (1.25%) MCSE
5 1 (1.25%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.25%) RHCE
5 1 (1.25%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (2.50%) QA
1 2 (2.50%) SLA
2 1 (1.25%) GDPR
2 1 (1.25%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 17 (21.25%) Docker
2 12 (15.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (10.00%) Active Directory
4 4 (5.00%) vSphere
5 3 (3.75%) VMware NSX
6 2 (2.50%) Ceph
6 2 (2.50%) Veritas Cluster Server
6 2 (2.50%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (2.50%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 29 (36.25%) Ansible
2 19 (23.75%) Kubernetes
3 13 (16.25%) Terraform
4 8 (10.00%) Progress Chef
4 8 (10.00%) Red Hat Satellite
5 6 (7.50%) Puppet
6 3 (3.75%) Grafana
6 3 (3.75%) Kibana
6 3 (3.75%) Packer
7 2 (2.50%) Kustomize
7 2 (2.50%) Pacemaker
7 2 (2.50%) Podman
7 2 (2.50%) Salt
7 2 (2.50%) SELinux
8 1 (1.25%) Nagios
8 1 (1.25%) Opsview
8 1 (1.25%) Prometheus
8 1 (1.25%) WSUS
Vendors
1 30 (37.50%) VMware
2 14 (17.50%) Microsoft
3 8 (10.00%) Oracle
4 6 (7.50%) Qualys
5 4 (5.00%) Atlassian
5 4 (5.00%) Splunk
6 3 (3.75%) AppDynamics
6 3 (3.75%) IBM
6 3 (3.75%) SolarWinds
6 3 (3.75%) Temenos
7 2 (2.50%) Cisco
7 2 (2.50%) Commvault
7 2 (2.50%) SaltStack
7 2 (2.50%) Sun
8 1 (1.25%) ArcSight
8 1 (1.25%) Google
8 1 (1.25%) Progress
8 1 (1.25%) ServiceNow
8 1 (1.25%) Symantec
8 1 (1.25%) Veritas