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 15 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
15 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 309 211 263
Rank change year-on-year -98 +52 -3
Contract jobs citing Red Hat 285 719 953
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.67% 1.26% 1.09%
As % of the Vendors category 1.57% 2.93% 2.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 210 558 623
10th Percentile £349 £425 £400
25th Percentile £425 £488 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £511 £586 £575
Median % change year-on-year -12.80% +1.91% +17.95%
75th Percentile £588 £697 £663
90th Percentile £688 £798 £740
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £545 £525
% change year-on-year -3.67% +3.81% +19.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 14 19
10th Percentile £60.95 £25.75 £23.90
25th Percentile £68.38 £27.80 £44.88
Median hourly rate £74.44 £43.25 £63.00
Median % change year-on-year +72.12% -31.35% +38.46%
75th Percentile £75.21 £53.75 £69.05
90th Percentile £76.58 £59.00 £83.80
UK excluding London median hourly rate £74.44 £37.50 £69.05
% change year-on-year +98.51% -45.69% +56.93%

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 18,099 24,537 34,976
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 42.53% 42.97% 39.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,226 16,419 23,278
10th Percentile £263 £270 £298
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 £644 £638
90th Percentile £738 £741 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £465
% change year-on-year - +7.53% +9.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,109 666 888
10th Percentile £12.10 £15.23 £12.04
25th Percentile £14.48 £18.71 £15.25
Median hourly rate £21.50 £42.50 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -49.41% +97.67% -3.00%
75th Percentile £56.49 £65.00 £47.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.38 £63.63
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.46 £37.50 £19.00
% change year-on-year -42.77% +97.37% +2.70%

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 15 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 15 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 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 -81 253 £525 -13.93% 217
UK excluding London -34 180 £525 -3.67% 173
London -75 92 £510 -18.40% 84
South East +24 82 £527 -8.43% 22
Work from Home -57 78 £475 -14.72% 100
Midlands +50 33 £550 +21.03% 28
Scotland -2 21 £340 -32.00% 24
East of England -12 19 £550 -21.43% 13
West Midlands +29 17 £605 +105.08% 24
East Midlands +24 16 £535 +9.24% 4
South West -8 16 £526 -8.48% 30
North West -10 9 £528 -12.00% 21
North of England -17 9 £528 -4.00% 38
Wales +18 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 24 (8.42%) Apache
2 19 (6.67%) Tomcat
3 16 (5.61%) JBoss
4 14 (4.91%) nginx
5 13 (4.56%) OpenStack
6 12 (4.21%) IIS
7 10 (3.51%) Confluence
8 6 (2.11%) MQSeries
9 5 (1.75%) Microsoft Exchange
10 1 (0.35%) OpenEdge
10 1 (0.35%) Red Hat Fuse
10 1 (0.35%) SAS
10 1 (0.35%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (1.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.70%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 9 (3.16%) Temenos T24
2 7 (2.46%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (1.05%) Global One
4 2 (0.70%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
4 2 (0.70%) RMDS
5 1 (0.35%) MFGPRO
5 1 (0.35%) Sage 50
Cloud Services
1 63 (22.11%) AWS
2 52 (18.25%) Azure
3 30 (10.53%) OpenShift
4 16 (5.61%) GitHub
5 15 (5.26%) Amazon S3
6 13 (4.56%) Amazon EC2
6 13 (4.56%) Slack
7 11 (3.86%) Route 53
7 11 (3.86%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 10 (3.51%) Amazon EKS
8 10 (3.51%) AWS CloudFormation
8 10 (3.51%) IaaS
9 7 (2.46%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 7 (2.46%) AWS Lambda
9 7 (2.46%) Serverless
10 6 (2.11%) Amazon ECR
10 6 (2.11%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 6 (2.11%) Cloud Computing
11 5 (1.75%) Azure DevOps
11 5 (1.75%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 32 (11.23%) SAN
2 27 (9.47%) TCP/IP
3 25 (8.77%) Firewall
4 22 (7.72%) DNS
5 15 (5.26%) Network Security
6 12 (4.21%) Intrusion Detection
7 9 (3.16%) HTTP
7 9 (3.16%) NAS
8 8 (2.81%) VPN
9 6 (2.11%) DHCP
10 5 (1.75%) H.323
11 4 (1.40%) FTP
11 4 (1.40%) HTTPS
11 4 (1.40%) IPsec
11 4 (1.40%) SSL
11 4 (1.40%) tcpdump
11 4 (1.40%) Wireless
11 4 (1.40%) Wireshark
12 3 (1.05%) InfiniBand
12 3 (1.05%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (11.58%) SQL Server
2 28 (9.82%) PostgreSQL
3 25 (8.77%) Elasticsearch
4 17 (5.96%) Amazon RDS
4 17 (5.96%) Relational Database
5 16 (5.61%) MySQL
5 16 (5.61%) RDBMS
6 10 (3.51%) Big Data
6 10 (3.51%) MongoDB
6 10 (3.51%) Oracle Database
7 6 (2.11%) Amazon Aurora
8 4 (1.40%) Data Warehouse
9 3 (1.05%) InfluxDB
9 3 (1.05%) Informix
10 2 (0.70%) Oracle BI Publisher
11 1 (0.35%) Apache Cassandra
11 1 (0.35%) Couchbase
11 1 (0.35%) Metadata
11 1 (0.35%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 32 (11.23%) Jenkins
2 21 (7.37%) GitLab
3 20 (7.02%) Git
4 15 (5.26%) JIRA
5 14 (4.91%) SonarQube
6 11 (3.86%) Bitbucket
7 8 (2.81%) Artifactory
8 6 (2.11%) Maven
8 6 (2.11%) Sonatype Nexus
8 6 (2.11%) TeamCity
9 5 (1.75%) Bitbucket Server
9 5 (1.75%) CA Release Automation
10 4 (1.40%) Cucumber
10 4 (1.40%) JUnit
11 3 (1.05%) EasyMock
11 3 (1.05%) Mockito
11 3 (1.05%) Oracle APEX
11 3 (1.05%) Postman
11 3 (1.05%) Selenium
11 3 (1.05%) TestNG
General
1 41 (14.39%) Social Skills
2 37 (12.98%) Finance
3 28 (9.82%) Analytical Skills
4 23 (8.07%) Public Sector
5 15 (5.26%) Banking
6 8 (2.81%) Telecoms
7 6 (2.11%) Legal
8 2 (0.70%) Advertising
8 2 (0.70%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (0.70%) Military
9 1 (0.35%) Aerospace
9 1 (0.35%) Back Office
9 1 (0.35%) Electronics
9 1 (0.35%) Front Office
9 1 (0.35%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.35%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.35%) Marketing
9 1 (0.35%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 54 (18.95%) Linux Engineer
2 30 (10.53%) Support Engineer
3 29 (10.18%) Developer
3 29 (10.18%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 19 (6.67%) Architect
5 18 (6.32%) DevOps Engineer
6 17 (5.96%) Python Developer
6 17 (5.96%) Senior
7 16 (5.61%) Administrator
8 15 (5.26%) Analyst
8 15 (5.26%) Linux Systems Administrator
8 15 (5.26%) Systems Administrator
9 14 (4.91%) Cloud Engineer
10 13 (4.56%) AWS Engineer
11 12 (4.21%) Applications Support
11 12 (4.21%) Linux Administrator
11 12 (4.21%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
12 11 (3.86%) Lead
13 10 (3.51%) 3rd Line Support
13 10 (3.51%) Linux Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (9.47%) Elastic Stack
2 16 (5.61%) Apache NiFi
3 11 (3.86%) REST
4 10 (3.51%) Spring Boot
5 9 (3.16%) IBM Integration Bus
5 9 (3.16%) YAML
6 7 (2.46%) CSS
6 7 (2.46%) HTML
6 7 (2.46%) Middleware
6 7 (2.46%) Swagger
7 6 (2.11%) FIX Protocol
7 6 (2.11%) Kafka
8 5 (1.75%) LDAP
8 5 (1.75%) Spring
9 4 (1.40%) HTML5
9 4 (1.40%) Laravel
10 3 (1.05%) Gherkin
10 3 (1.05%) Guice
10 3 (1.05%) JAX-RS
10 3 (1.05%) Mustache
Miscellaneous
1 24 (8.42%) Data Centre
2 21 (7.37%) Linux Command Line
2 21 (7.37%) Management Information System
3 19 (6.67%) Onboarding
4 16 (5.61%) Distributed Applications
5 15 (5.26%) PKI
6 13 (4.56%) Clustering
7 12 (4.21%) Cyber Defence
8 11 (3.86%) Replication
9 5 (1.75%) IVR
9 5 (1.75%) Public Cloud
10 4 (1.40%) Cloud Native
10 4 (1.40%) Fat Client
10 4 (1.40%) Greenfield Project
10 4 (1.40%) Thin Client
11 3 (1.05%) Cyber Threat
11 3 (1.05%) Hybrid Cloud
12 2 (0.70%) Data Protection Act
12 2 (0.70%) Enterprise Storage
12 2 (0.70%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 220 (77.19%) Linux
2 130 (45.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 82 (28.77%) Windows
4 45 (15.79%) Unix
5 42 (14.74%) Windows Server
6 33 (11.58%) CentOS
6 33 (11.58%) Debian
7 29 (10.18%) Ubuntu
8 21 (7.37%) Solaris
9 17 (5.96%) Windows Server 2016
10 15 (5.26%) Windows Server 2019
11 9 (3.16%) Android
11 9 (3.16%) Apple iOS
11 9 (3.16%) Windows Server 2012
12 6 (2.11%) Windows Server 2008
13 4 (1.40%) Windows 10
14 3 (1.05%) SUSE
14 3 (1.05%) VMS
15 1 (0.35%) AIX
15 1 (0.35%) Windows Mobile
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (17.19%) Agile
2 41 (14.39%) CI/CD
3 40 (14.04%) DevOps
4 37 (12.98%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 33 (11.58%) ITIL
6 31 (10.88%) High Availability
6 31 (10.88%) Migration
7 29 (10.18%) Infrastructure as Code
8 24 (8.42%) Data Engineering
9 23 (8.07%) Change Management
9 23 (8.07%) Configuration Management
9 23 (8.07%) Customer Service
9 23 (8.07%) Disaster Recovery
10 22 (7.72%) Software Engineering
11 19 (6.67%) Cybersecurity
11 19 (6.67%) Roadmaps
12 17 (5.96%) Analytics
12 17 (5.96%) Information Security
12 17 (5.96%) Observability
13 16 (5.61%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 81 (28.42%) Python
2 46 (16.14%) Shell Script
3 44 (15.44%) Bash
4 40 (14.04%) PowerShell
5 20 (7.02%) SQL
6 17 (5.96%) Perl
7 13 (4.56%) Java
8 6 (2.11%) Korn
9 4 (1.40%) PHP
9 4 (1.40%) T-SQL
10 3 (1.05%) C++
10 3 (1.05%) JavaScript
10 3 (1.05%) TypeScript
11 2 (0.70%) AWK
11 2 (0.70%) Bourne shell
11 2 (0.70%) VBScript
12 1 (0.35%) C
12 1 (0.35%) C#
12 1 (0.35%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.35%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 124 (43.51%) Security Cleared
2 87 (30.53%) SC Cleared
3 49 (17.19%) DV Cleared
4 21 (7.37%) Degree
5 13 (4.56%) Computer Science Degree
6 11 (3.86%) RHCE
7 9 (3.16%) MCSE
7 9 (3.16%) Microsoft Certification
8 6 (2.11%) MCSA
8 6 (2.11%) RHCT
9 4 (1.40%) RHCSA
10 1 (0.35%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.35%) CEH
10 1 (0.35%) CISSP
10 1 (0.35%) GIAC
10 1 (0.35%) Linux+ Certification
10 1 (0.35%) LPIC
10 1 (0.35%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (4.91%) QA
2 10 (3.51%) Actionable Recommendations
3 7 (2.46%) SLA
4 3 (1.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.70%) GDPR
5 2 (0.70%) NIST
6 1 (0.35%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 64 (22.46%) VMware Infrastructure
2 37 (12.98%) Active Directory
3 32 (11.23%) Docker
4 23 (8.07%) Hyper-V
5 18 (6.32%) Virtual Machines
6 17 (5.96%) KVM
7 16 (5.61%) vSphere
8 11 (3.86%) VMware ESXi
9 4 (1.40%) Samba
9 4 (1.40%) Virtual Servers
9 4 (1.40%) VMware NSX
10 2 (0.70%) Ceph
10 2 (0.70%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 2 (0.70%) Varnish
10 2 (0.70%) Veritas Cluster Server
11 1 (0.35%) Firmware
11 1 (0.35%) Terminal Services
11 1 (0.35%) Xen
Systems Management
1 93 (32.63%) Ansible
2 53 (18.60%) Kubernetes
3 43 (15.09%) Terraform
4 29 (10.18%) Red Hat Satellite
5 22 (7.72%) Grafana
6 19 (6.67%) Kibana
7 18 (6.32%) Prometheus
8 13 (4.56%) logstash
9 11 (3.86%) Progress Chef
10 9 (3.16%) Puppet
11 8 (2.81%) WSUS
12 7 (2.46%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
12 7 (2.46%) Packer
13 5 (1.75%) Data Guard
13 5 (1.75%) Istio
13 5 (1.75%) Rancher
13 5 (1.75%) SCOM
13 5 (1.75%) SELinux
13 5 (1.75%) Single Sign-On
13 5 (1.75%) Tivoli Identity Manager
Vendors
1 106 (37.19%) VMware
2 49 (17.19%) Microsoft
3 40 (14.04%) Oracle
4 16 (5.61%) IBM
5 15 (5.26%) Dell
6 14 (4.91%) Citrix
7 13 (4.56%) Amdocs
7 13 (4.56%) SolarWinds
8 11 (3.86%) HP
9 9 (3.16%) Temenos
10 8 (2.81%) Bloomberg
10 8 (2.81%) Qualys
11 7 (2.46%) Cisco
11 7 (2.46%) Splunk
12 6 (2.11%) Refinitiv
12 6 (2.11%) Veritas
13 5 (1.75%) AppDynamics
13 5 (1.75%) Avaya
13 5 (1.75%) NetApp
13 5 (1.75%) Verint