Red Hat Enterprise Linux Contracts

Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with 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 15 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
15 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 320 203 284
Rank change year-on-year -117 +81 -1
Contract jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 272 752 851
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.64% 1.32% 0.97%
As % of the Operating Systems category 4.81% 8.12% 6.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 202 567 582
10th Percentile £351 £418 £413
25th Percentile £436 £481 £468
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% +4.35% +21.05%
75th Percentile £600 £688 £663
90th Percentile £662 £798 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £540 £550 £549
% change year-on-year -1.82% +0.27% +21.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 9 6
10th Percentile £65.18 £49.56 £16.25
25th Percentile £67.31 £51.25 £25.25
Median hourly rate £72.75 £52.50 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year +38.57% +7.14% -14.78%
75th Percentile £76.31 £53.75 £63.00
90th Percentile £77.33 £57.90 £72.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £72.75 £52.32 £45.50
% change year-on-year +39.06% +14.98% -17.27%

All Operating Systems
UK

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 requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 5,658 9,258 13,082
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 13.30% 16.21% 14.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,818 6,479 8,883
10th Percentile £185 £190 £175
25th Percentile £300 £331 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £501 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.09% +0.10% +11.11%
75th Percentile £588 £638 £613
90th Percentile £700 £719 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £475 £425
% change year-on-year -5.26% +11.76% +6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 390 404 604
10th Percentile £12.73 £14.25 £13.38
25th Percentile £15.31 £17.97 £16.08
Median hourly rate £22.00 £38.50 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -42.86% +67.39% +29.50%
75th Percentile £60.56 £64.50 £52.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.50 £29.30 £20.00
% change year-on-year -23.21% +46.50% +21.21%

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Red Hat Enterprise Linux in the UK

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Red Hat Enterprise Linux in the UK

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux over the 6 months to 15 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Red Hat Enterprise Linux in the UK

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Red Hat Enterprise Linux in the UK

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Top 15 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 Enterprise Linux within the UK over the 6 months to 15 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 -100 229 £520 -16.80% 84
UK excluding London -61 171 £540 -1.82% 54
London -81 86 £510 -20.93% 36
South East +11 77 £550 -10.20% 14
Work from Home -74 71 £475 -16.67% 34
Scotland -26 28 £511 +2.25% 6
Midlands +29 25 £499 -23.23% 4
East Midlands +26 14 £430 -40.66% 2
North of England -22 14 £499 -20.20% 9
East of England -10 13 £440 -12.00% 6
West Midlands +4 11 £550 -15.38% 2
South West 0 11 £600 +6.67% 13
Yorkshire +12 7 £463 -13.75% 2
North West -19 7 £513 -18.00% 5
Wales +25 4 £700 +43.59%

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
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 22 (8.09%) Apache
2 18 (6.62%) Tomcat
3 17 (6.25%) OpenStack
4 15 (5.51%) JBoss
5 14 (5.15%) nginx
6 13 (4.78%) Confluence
7 7 (2.57%) IIS
8 5 (1.84%) SAS
9 4 (1.47%) Microsoft Exchange
10 2 (0.74%) Apache Spark
10 2 (0.74%) Traefik
11 1 (0.37%) Jupyter
11 1 (0.37%) OpenEdge
11 1 (0.37%) SharePoint
11 1 (0.37%) WebSphere
Applications
1 5 (1.84%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 9 (3.31%) Temenos T24
2 4 (1.47%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (1.10%) Global One
4 2 (0.74%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
4 2 (0.74%) RMDS
5 1 (0.37%) MFGPRO
5 1 (0.37%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.37%) Sage 50
Cloud Services
1 82 (30.15%) AWS
2 73 (26.84%) Azure
3 24 (8.82%) Amazon EC2
4 23 (8.46%) OpenShift
5 22 (8.09%) Amazon S3
6 20 (7.35%) Azure DevOps
7 18 (6.62%) IaaS
8 17 (6.25%) AWS CloudFormation
9 15 (5.51%) Serverless
10 14 (5.15%) AWS Lambda
10 14 (5.15%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 13 (4.78%) Route 53
11 13 (4.78%) Slack
12 10 (3.68%) GCP
12 10 (3.68%) PaaS
13 9 (3.31%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 9 (3.31%) Cloud Computing
13 9 (3.31%) SaaS
14 8 (2.94%) Amazon ECS
14 8 (2.94%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 32 (11.76%) DNS
2 21 (7.72%) SAN
3 20 (7.35%) Firewall
3 20 (7.35%) TCP/IP
4 18 (6.62%) DHCP
5 10 (3.68%) NAS
6 9 (3.31%) Kerberos
7 8 (2.94%) Fibre Channel
8 6 (2.21%) LAN
8 6 (2.21%) VLAN
8 6 (2.21%) WAN
9 5 (1.84%) H.323
9 5 (1.84%) HTTP
10 4 (1.47%) iSCSI
10 4 (1.47%) Remote Desktop
10 4 (1.47%) SSL
11 2 (0.74%) Multicast
12 1 (0.37%) LTE
12 1 (0.37%) Network Security
12 1 (0.37%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (12.50%) SQL Server
2 29 (10.66%) Relational Database
3 28 (10.29%) Elasticsearch
3 28 (10.29%) RDBMS
4 22 (8.09%) PostgreSQL
5 13 (4.78%) MongoDB
5 13 (4.78%) MySQL
6 12 (4.41%) Oracle Database
7 11 (4.04%) Amazon RDS
8 7 (2.57%) DB2
9 5 (1.84%) InfluxDB
10 4 (1.47%) Redis
11 3 (1.10%) Amazon Aurora
11 3 (1.10%) SAP HANA
12 2 (0.74%) Informix
12 2 (0.74%) MariaDB
12 2 (0.74%) NoSQL
12 2 (0.74%) Oracle BI Publisher
12 2 (0.74%) Oracle Exadata
13 1 (0.37%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 56 (20.59%) Jenkins
2 36 (13.24%) Git
3 35 (12.87%) GitLab
4 22 (8.09%) JIRA
5 11 (4.04%) Artifactory
5 11 (4.04%) TeamCity
6 10 (3.68%) Selenium
6 10 (3.68%) Sonatype Nexus
7 6 (2.21%) Bitbucket Server
7 6 (2.21%) Robot Framework
8 5 (1.84%) CA Release Automation
8 5 (1.84%) SonarQube
9 3 (1.10%) Oracle APEX
10 2 (0.74%) Bitbucket
10 2 (0.74%) Jaeger
10 2 (0.74%) Maven
10 2 (0.74%) Subversion
11 1 (0.37%) Cucumber
11 1 (0.37%) Postman
11 1 (0.37%) Terragrunt
General
1 43 (15.81%) Finance
2 42 (15.44%) Social Skills
3 36 (13.24%) Analytical Skills
4 28 (10.29%) Public Sector
5 22 (8.09%) Banking
6 8 (2.94%) Telecoms
7 6 (2.21%) Legal
8 5 (1.84%) Billing
8 5 (1.84%) Investment Banking
9 2 (0.74%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.37%) Advertising
10 1 (0.37%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.37%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.37%) Front Office
10 1 (0.37%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.37%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 42 (15.44%) Linux Engineer
2 38 (13.97%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 31 (11.40%) DevOps Engineer
4 23 (8.46%) Support Engineer
5 22 (8.09%) Administrator
6 20 (7.35%) Architect
7 17 (6.25%) Platform Engineer
7 17 (6.25%) Systems Administrator
8 15 (5.51%) Linux Systems Administrator
9 14 (5.15%) Consultant
9 14 (5.15%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
10 13 (4.78%) AWS Engineer
10 13 (4.78%) Linux Administrator
11 11 (4.04%) AWS DevOps
11 11 (4.04%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 11 (4.04%) Cloud Engineer
11 11 (4.04%) Senior
12 10 (3.68%) Linux Support
13 9 (3.31%) Developer
13 9 (3.31%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (8.46%) Elastic Stack
2 17 (6.25%) Middleware
3 9 (3.31%) AWS CDK
3 9 (3.31%) HTML
3 9 (3.31%) IBM Integration Bus
4 8 (2.94%) LDAP
5 7 (2.57%) HTML5
6 5 (1.84%) Kafka
6 5 (1.84%) RabbitMQ
6 5 (1.84%) Spring Boot
6 5 (1.84%) YAML
7 4 (1.47%) Flash
7 4 (1.47%) JSON
7 4 (1.47%) POSIX
7 4 (1.47%) pytest
8 3 (1.10%) Web Services
9 2 (0.74%) CSS
9 2 (0.74%) HornetQ
9 2 (0.74%) OAuth2
9 2 (0.74%) VCL
Miscellaneous
1 23 (8.46%) Client/Server
2 21 (7.72%) Onboarding
3 19 (6.99%) Linux Command Line
4 15 (5.51%) Clustering
5 11 (4.04%) Data Centre
5 11 (4.04%) PKI
6 10 (3.68%) Management Information System
6 10 (3.68%) Replication
7 5 (1.84%) IVR
8 4 (1.47%) NVMe
8 4 (1.47%) Public Cloud
9 3 (1.10%) Cloud Native
9 3 (1.10%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (1.10%) Smart Meter
10 2 (0.74%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (0.74%) Distributed Systems
10 2 (0.74%) Enterprise Storage
10 2 (0.74%) LPAR
10 2 (0.74%) Private Cloud
11 1 (0.37%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 272 (100.00%) Linux
2 110 (40.44%) Windows
3 67 (24.63%) Windows Server
4 62 (22.79%) Unix
5 35 (12.87%) CentOS
6 17 (6.25%) Solaris
7 16 (5.88%) Ubuntu
8 11 (4.04%) Windows Server 2019
9 10 (3.68%) VMS
10 7 (2.57%) Oracle Linux
11 6 (2.21%) Windows Server 2016
12 4 (1.47%) AIX
12 4 (1.47%) Alpine Linux
12 4 (1.47%) Data ONTAP
13 3 (1.10%) Debian
13 3 (1.10%) SUSE
13 3 (1.10%) zOS
14 2 (0.74%) Rocky
15 1 (0.37%) Fedora
15 1 (0.37%) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (26.47%) DevOps
2 58 (21.32%) Agile
2 58 (21.32%) CI/CD
3 54 (19.85%) Infrastructure as Code
4 40 (14.71%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 28 (10.29%) High Availability
6 26 (9.56%) Containerisation
7 24 (8.82%) Cybersecurity
7 24 (8.82%) Observability
8 22 (8.09%) Migration
9 21 (7.72%) SIEM
10 19 (6.99%) Continuous Integration
10 19 (6.99%) Performance Tuning
10 19 (6.99%) Problem-Solving
10 19 (6.99%) Scrum
11 18 (6.62%) Application Packaging
11 18 (6.62%) Application Virtualisation
11 18 (6.62%) Runbook
12 16 (5.88%) Deployment Automation
13 15 (5.51%) Scaled Agile Framework
Programming Languages
1 112 (41.18%) Python
2 57 (20.96%) PowerShell
3 49 (18.01%) Bash
4 48 (17.65%) Shell Script
5 34 (12.50%) SQL
6 18 (6.62%) Perl
6 18 (6.62%) VBScript
7 17 (6.25%) Java
8 10 (3.68%) Groovy
9 7 (2.57%) C
9 7 (2.57%) C#
9 7 (2.57%) PL/SQL
10 6 (2.21%) ProC
11 5 (1.84%) Korn
12 3 (1.10%) C++
12 3 (1.10%) Go
12 3 (1.10%) JavaScript
12 3 (1.10%) Ruby
12 3 (1.10%) TypeScript
13 1 (0.37%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 120 (44.12%) Security Cleared
2 72 (26.47%) SC Cleared
3 48 (17.65%) DV Cleared
4 9 (3.31%) Degree
5 8 (2.94%) RHCE
6 4 (1.47%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (1.10%) RHCSA
8 1 (0.37%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.37%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.37%) HNC
8 1 (0.37%) Linux+ Certification
8 1 (0.37%) LPIC
8 1 (0.37%) MCSE
8 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (3.31%) NIST
2 8 (2.94%) GDPR
3 7 (2.57%) SLA
4 6 (2.21%) QA
4 6 (2.21%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 3 (1.10%) Disclosure Scotland
6 2 (0.74%) NCSC
7 1 (0.37%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.37%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 72 (26.47%) VMware Infrastructure
2 45 (16.54%) Docker
3 38 (13.97%) Active Directory
4 23 (8.46%) Virtual Machines
5 15 (5.51%) vSphere
6 14 (5.15%) Hyper-V
7 13 (4.78%) VMware ESXi
7 13 (4.78%) VMware NSX
8 10 (3.68%) KVM
9 5 (1.84%) NFS
10 4 (1.47%) GPFS
10 4 (1.47%) Virtual Servers
10 4 (1.47%) VMware Server
11 2 (0.74%) Varnish
12 1 (0.37%) Firmware
12 1 (0.37%) Oracle RAC
12 1 (0.37%) Terminal Services
12 1 (0.37%) Xen
Systems Management
1 89 (32.72%) Ansible
2 68 (25.00%) Kubernetes
3 37 (13.60%) Terraform
4 31 (11.40%) Grafana
5 27 (9.93%) Kibana
6 25 (9.19%) Prometheus
7 21 (7.72%) Packer
8 16 (5.88%) logstash
9 15 (5.51%) Puppet
10 14 (5.15%) Red Hat Satellite
11 13 (4.78%) Progress Chef
12 11 (4.04%) vCenter Server
13 9 (3.31%) vRealize
14 7 (2.57%) SCCM
15 6 (2.21%) Data Guard
15 6 (2.21%) EMC NetWorker
15 6 (2.21%) Netcool
15 6 (2.21%) Tivoli
15 6 (2.21%) Tivoli Storage Manager
16 5 (1.84%) HAProxy
Vendors
1 130 (47.79%) Red Hat
2 95 (34.93%) VMware
3 55 (20.22%) Oracle
4 36 (13.24%) Microsoft
5 24 (8.82%) IBM
6 18 (6.62%) Splunk
7 17 (6.25%) CyberArk
8 14 (5.15%) ArcSight
9 13 (4.78%) Amdocs
9 13 (4.78%) Dell
9 13 (4.78%) Qualys
10 12 (4.41%) Cisco
10 12 (4.41%) HP
10 12 (4.41%) Veritas
11 10 (3.68%) EMC
12 9 (3.31%) NetApp
12 9 (3.31%) Temenos
13 8 (2.94%) ServiceNow
13 8 (2.94%) Sybase
14 7 (2.57%) AppDynamics