Red Hat Enterprise Linux Contracts in the West Midlands

Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 29 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 82 102 133
Rank change year-on-year +20 +31 -14
Contract jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 29 24 38
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 1.49% 1.08% 1.06%
As % of the Operating Systems category 10.86% 7.19% 5.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 9 23
10th Percentile £311 £290 £358
25th Percentile £525 £575 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £576 £650 £600
Median % change year-on-year -11.38% +8.33% +22.45%
75th Percentile £632 £700 £675
90th Percentile £672 £715 £695
England median daily rate £533 £625 £600
% change year-on-year -14.80% +4.17% +22.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £52.50 -
England median hourly rate £72.75 £52.50 £52.00
% change year-on-year +38.57% +0.96% -10.73%

All Operating Systems
West Midlands

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 advertised in the West Midlands with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 267 334 668
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 13.72% 14.97% 18.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 176 211 448
10th Percentile £185 £169 £150
25th Percentile £262 £275 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £450 £416
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +8.11% +11.00%
75th Percentile £575 £591 £538
90th Percentile £681 £694 £600
England median daily rate £475 £510 £500
% change year-on-year -6.86% +2.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 9 38
10th Percentile £15.16 £13.16 £11.95
25th Percentile £18.50 £15.25 £13.90
Median hourly rate £22.50 £16.94 £16.50
Median % change year-on-year +32.86% +2.64% +6.45%
75th Percentile £23.75 £18.75 £20.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £32.75 £23.75
England median hourly rate £22.50 £43.75 £21.50
% change year-on-year -48.57% +103.49% +22.86%

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Red Hat Enterprise Linux in the West Midlands

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Red Hat Enterprise Linux in the West Midlands

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 29 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Red Hat Enterprise Linux in the West Midlands

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Red Hat Enterprise Linux in the West Midlands

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands region over the 6 months to 29 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
Warwickshire +16 19 £608 - 2
Worcestershire +7 5 £550 -15.38%
Shropshire - 4 £300 -
Dudley 0 1 £425 +51.79%
Red Hat Enterprise Linux
England

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 1 (3.45%) OpenEdge
Business Applications
1 1 (3.45%) MFGPRO
1 1 (3.45%) Sage 50
Communications & Networking
1 9 (31.03%) DHCP
1 9 (31.03%) DNS
2 5 (17.24%) TCP/IP
3 4 (13.79%) Fibre Channel
3 4 (13.79%) LAN
3 4 (13.79%) Remote Desktop
3 4 (13.79%) SAN
3 4 (13.79%) WAN
Development Applications
1 11 (37.93%) Git
General
1 2 (6.90%) Public Sector
1 2 (6.90%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (27.59%) Architect
2 5 (17.24%) Administrator
2 5 (17.24%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 5 (17.24%) Principal Engineer
3 4 (13.79%) Server Administrator
3 4 (13.79%) VMWare Administrator
4 3 (10.34%) DevOps Specialist
4 3 (10.34%) Platform Engineer
5 2 (6.90%) Enterprise Architect
5 2 (6.90%) Enterprise Solutions Architect
5 2 (6.90%) Solutions Architect
5 2 (6.90%) Subject Matter Expert
5 2 (6.90%) VMware Specialist
6 1 (3.45%) DevOps Engineer
6 1 (3.45%) DevOps Platform Engineer
6 1 (3.45%) Platform Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (37.93%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (24.14%) SCADA
2 4 (13.79%) PKI
3 1 (3.45%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 29 (100.00%) Linux
2 21 (72.41%) Windows
3 9 (31.03%) Windows Server
4 6 (20.69%) Unix
5 4 (13.79%) CentOS
5 4 (13.79%) Ubuntu
6 1 (3.45%) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (75.86%) Infrastructure as Code
2 15 (51.72%) Virtual Infrastructure
3 11 (37.93%) Configuration Management
3 11 (37.93%) Infrastructure Automation
3 11 (37.93%) Validation
4 9 (31.03%) Cybersecurity
4 9 (31.03%) DevOps
5 6 (20.69%) Customer Requirements
6 5 (17.24%) Information Management
6 5 (17.24%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 5 (17.24%) Security Hardening
6 5 (17.24%) Security Monitoring
6 5 (17.24%) SIEM
6 5 (17.24%) Systems Engineering
6 5 (17.24%) Virtual Environments
6 5 (17.24%) Visualisation
7 4 (13.79%) Change Control
7 4 (13.79%) Load Balancing
7 4 (13.79%) Patch Management
7 4 (13.79%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 15 (51.72%) PowerShell
2 5 (17.24%) C#
2 5 (17.24%) Java
3 4 (13.79%) Bash
Qualifications
1 23 (79.31%) Security Cleared
2 16 (55.17%) SC Cleared
3 6 (20.69%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (17.24%) NIST
System Software
1 20 (68.97%) VMware Infrastructure
2 11 (37.93%) Virtual Machines
3 9 (31.03%) VMware ESXi
3 9 (31.03%) VMware NSX
4 4 (13.79%) Active Directory
4 4 (13.79%) VMware Server
4 4 (13.79%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 11 (37.93%) Ansible
1 11 (37.93%) Progress Chef
1 11 (37.93%) Puppet
1 11 (37.93%) Salt
1 11 (37.93%) Terraform
2 9 (31.03%) vCenter Server
3 5 (17.24%) SCCM
Vendors
1 20 (68.97%) Red Hat
1 20 (68.97%) VMware
2 9 (31.03%) SaltStack
3 5 (17.24%) Veeam
4 4 (13.79%) Microsoft
5 1 (3.45%) HP
5 1 (3.45%) Progress
5 1 (3.45%) QAD