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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 294 206 280
Rank change year-on-year -88 +74 +26
Contract jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 314 728 852
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.73% 1.30% 0.97%
As % of the Operating Systems category 5.43% 8.02% 6.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 235 548 590
10th Percentile £350 £413 £406
25th Percentile £433 £475 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% +4.35% +17.95%
75th Percentile £600 £688 £663
90th Percentile £672 £798 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £542 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -1.55% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 9 5
10th Percentile £65.18 - £27.20
25th Percentile £67.31 £51.25 £35.00
Median hourly rate £72.75 £52.50 £63.00
Median % change year-on-year +38.57% -16.67% +8.15%
75th Percentile £76.31 £73.75 -
90th Percentile £77.33 £73.90 £74.70
UK excluding London median hourly rate £72.75 £52.50 £80.00
% change year-on-year +38.57% -34.38% +55.34%

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 5,784 9,075 12,888
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 13.43% 16.19% 14.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,888 6,324 8,810
10th Percentile £185 £190 £175
25th Percentile £300 £340 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.00% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £588 £638 £613
90th Percentile £700 £718 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £465 £425
% change year-on-year -3.12% +9.29% +6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 404 391 567
10th Percentile £12.75 £13.29 £13.00
25th Percentile £15.50 £18.06 £15.76
Median hourly rate £22.50 £42.50 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -47.06% +93.18% +25.71%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.00 £52.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.79 £38.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -40.81% +92.50% +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 1 June 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 1 June 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 -70 267 £529 -15.36% 82
UK excluding London -35 209 £542 -1.55% 51
South East +22 100 £550 -7.76% 19
London -87 87 £510 -21.54% 35
Work from Home -79 75 £475 -17.39% 34
Midlands +43 45 £550 -15.38% 3
West Midlands +20 29 £576 -14.67% 2
South West +10 29 £593 +3.04% 13
Scotland -28 29 £420 -16.00% 5
East Midlands +25 16 £449 -38.07% 1
East of England -21 14 £470 -1.05% 4
North of England -16 13 £513 -10.87% 6
Yorkshire +11 7 £463 -11.90%
North West -12 6 £520 -16.76% 5
Wales +20 4 £700 +43.59% 2

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 21 (6.69%) Apache
2 16 (5.10%) Tomcat
3 15 (4.78%) JBoss
3 15 (4.78%) OpenStack
4 13 (4.14%) nginx
5 10 (3.18%) Confluence
6 7 (2.23%) IIS
7 4 (1.27%) Microsoft Exchange
8 3 (0.96%) SAS
9 2 (0.64%) Apache Spark
9 2 (0.64%) Traefik
10 1 (0.32%) Jupyter
10 1 (0.32%) OpenEdge
10 1 (0.32%) SharePoint
10 1 (0.32%) WebSphere
Applications
1 4 (1.27%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 9 (2.87%) Temenos T24
2 4 (1.27%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.96%) Global One
4 1 (0.32%) MFGPRO
4 1 (0.32%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.32%) Sage 50
Cloud Services
1 81 (25.80%) AWS
2 68 (21.66%) Azure
3 25 (7.96%) Amazon EC2
4 24 (7.64%) Amazon S3
5 22 (7.01%) OpenShift
6 21 (6.69%) Azure DevOps
7 17 (5.41%) AWS CloudFormation
8 16 (5.10%) IaaS
9 15 (4.78%) Serverless
10 14 (4.46%) AWS Lambda
11 13 (4.14%) Slack
11 13 (4.14%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 12 (3.82%) Route 53
13 11 (3.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 9 (2.87%) GCP
15 8 (2.55%) Amazon ECS
15 8 (2.55%) Amazon OpenSearch
15 8 (2.55%) AWS KMS
15 8 (2.55%) Cloud Computing
15 8 (2.55%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 30 (9.55%) DNS
2 20 (6.37%) Firewall
3 19 (6.05%) SAN
4 18 (5.73%) TCP/IP
5 17 (5.41%) DHCP
6 12 (3.82%) Kerberos
7 8 (2.55%) NAS
7 8 (2.55%) SSL
8 7 (2.23%) Fibre Channel
9 5 (1.59%) LAN
9 5 (1.59%) VLAN
9 5 (1.59%) WAN
10 4 (1.27%) H.323
10 4 (1.27%) HTTP
10 4 (1.27%) Remote Desktop
11 2 (0.64%) iSCSI
12 1 (0.32%) LTE
12 1 (0.32%) Multicast
12 1 (0.32%) Network Security
12 1 (0.32%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (11.15%) SQL Server
2 30 (9.55%) Relational Database
3 29 (9.24%) RDBMS
4 26 (8.28%) Elasticsearch
5 19 (6.05%) PostgreSQL
6 13 (4.14%) MongoDB
7 9 (2.87%) Amazon RDS
7 9 (2.87%) MySQL
8 8 (2.55%) Oracle Database
9 5 (1.59%) DB2
9 5 (1.59%) InfluxDB
10 4 (1.27%) Redis
11 3 (0.96%) SAP HANA
12 2 (0.64%) Amazon Aurora
12 2 (0.64%) Informix
12 2 (0.64%) NoSQL
12 2 (0.64%) Oracle Exadata
13 1 (0.32%) Azure SQL Database
13 1 (0.32%) Data Warehouse
13 1 (0.32%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 60 (19.11%) Jenkins
2 48 (15.29%) Git
3 43 (13.69%) GitLab
4 20 (6.37%) JIRA
5 12 (3.82%) Artifactory
6 10 (3.18%) Selenium
6 10 (3.18%) TeamCity
7 9 (2.87%) Sonatype Nexus
8 6 (1.91%) Bitbucket Server
8 6 (1.91%) Robot Framework
9 5 (1.59%) CA Release Automation
9 5 (1.59%) SonarQube
10 2 (0.64%) Bitbucket
10 2 (0.64%) Jaeger
10 2 (0.64%) Maven
10 2 (0.64%) Oracle APEX
10 2 (0.64%) Subversion
11 1 (0.32%) Ant
11 1 (0.32%) Gerrit
11 1 (0.32%) Postman
General
1 41 (13.06%) Social Skills
2 35 (11.15%) Analytical Skills
2 35 (11.15%) Finance
2 35 (11.15%) Public Sector
3 17 (5.41%) Banking
4 7 (2.23%) Telecoms
5 5 (1.59%) Billing
5 5 (1.59%) Legal
6 2 (0.64%) Investment Banking
6 2 (0.64%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (0.32%) Advertising
7 1 (0.32%) Aerospace
7 1 (0.32%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (0.32%) Front Office
7 1 (0.32%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (0.32%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 49 (15.61%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 44 (14.01%) Linux Engineer
3 31 (9.87%) DevOps Engineer
4 28 (8.92%) Architect
5 27 (8.60%) Support Engineer
6 21 (6.69%) Administrator
7 20 (6.37%) Systems Administrator
8 19 (6.05%) Platform Engineer
9 18 (5.73%) Linux Systems Administrator
10 17 (5.41%) Linux Support
11 16 (5.10%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
12 14 (4.46%) AWS Engineer
12 14 (4.46%) Consultant
12 14 (4.46%) Infrastructure Support
12 14 (4.46%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
13 12 (3.82%) AWS DevOps
13 12 (3.82%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 12 (3.82%) Linux Administrator
13 12 (3.82%) Linux Support Engineer
14 10 (3.18%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (6.69%) Elastic Stack
1 21 (6.69%) YAML
2 18 (5.73%) Middleware
3 9 (2.87%) AWS CDK
3 9 (2.87%) HTML
3 9 (2.87%) IBM Integration Bus
4 8 (2.55%) HTML5
4 8 (2.55%) Kafka
5 7 (2.23%) LDAP
6 5 (1.59%) Spring Boot
7 4 (1.27%) JSON
7 4 (1.27%) pytest
7 4 (1.27%) RabbitMQ
8 2 (0.64%) cloud-init
8 2 (0.64%) Flash
8 2 (0.64%) Node.js
8 2 (0.64%) POSIX
8 2 (0.64%) Web Services
9 1 (0.32%) Apache NiFi
9 1 (0.32%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 24 (7.64%) Linux Command Line
2 23 (7.32%) Client/Server
3 22 (7.01%) Onboarding
4 15 (4.78%) Clustering
5 13 (4.14%) SCADA
6 11 (3.50%) Data Centre
6 11 (3.50%) PKI
6 11 (3.50%) Replication
7 9 (2.87%) Management Information System
8 4 (1.27%) IVR
9 3 (0.96%) Cloud Native
9 3 (0.96%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (0.96%) Grid Computing
9 3 (0.96%) Public Cloud
9 3 (0.96%) Smart Meter
10 2 (0.64%) Distributed Systems
10 2 (0.64%) LPAR
10 2 (0.64%) NVMe
10 2 (0.64%) Private Cloud
10 2 (0.64%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 314 (100.00%) Linux
2 127 (40.45%) Windows
3 69 (21.97%) Windows Server
4 65 (20.70%) Unix
5 37 (11.78%) CentOS
6 18 (5.73%) Solaris
7 16 (5.10%) Ubuntu
8 12 (3.82%) Windows Server 2019
9 10 (3.18%) VMS
10 7 (2.23%) Windows Server 2016
11 6 (1.91%) Oracle Linux
12 5 (1.59%) AIX
13 4 (1.27%) Alpine Linux
13 4 (1.27%) Rocky
14 3 (0.96%) SUSE
14 3 (0.96%) zOS
15 2 (0.64%) Data ONTAP
15 2 (0.64%) Debian
16 1 (0.32%) Apple iOS
16 1 (0.32%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (28.34%) DevOps
2 77 (24.52%) Infrastructure as Code
3 58 (18.47%) CI/CD
4 57 (18.15%) Agile
5 53 (16.88%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 31 (9.87%) Containerisation
7 29 (9.24%) Configuration Management
8 27 (8.60%) High Availability
9 25 (7.96%) Migration
10 24 (7.64%) Cybersecurity
11 22 (7.01%) SIEM
12 21 (6.69%) Infrastructure Automation
12 21 (6.69%) Performance Tuning
13 20 (6.37%) Application Packaging
13 20 (6.37%) Application Virtualisation
13 20 (6.37%) Observability
14 19 (6.05%) Platform Engineering
14 19 (6.05%) Problem-Solving
14 19 (6.05%) Scrum
14 19 (6.05%) Virtual Infrastructure
Programming Languages
1 108 (34.39%) Python
2 73 (23.25%) PowerShell
3 54 (17.20%) Shell Script
4 44 (14.01%) Bash
5 29 (9.24%) SQL
6 20 (6.37%) VBScript
7 15 (4.78%) Perl
8 14 (4.46%) Java
9 10 (3.18%) Groovy
10 7 (2.23%) C
10 7 (2.23%) C#
11 6 (1.91%) PL/SQL
11 6 (1.91%) ProC
12 4 (1.27%) Korn
13 3 (0.96%) C++
13 3 (0.96%) Go
13 3 (0.96%) TypeScript
14 2 (0.64%) JavaScript
14 2 (0.64%) PHP
14 2 (0.64%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 167 (53.18%) Security Cleared
2 111 (35.35%) SC Cleared
3 53 (16.88%) DV Cleared
4 11 (3.50%) Degree
4 11 (3.50%) RHCE
5 4 (1.27%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (1.27%) RHCSA
6 2 (0.64%) MCSE
6 2 (0.64%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.32%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.32%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.32%) HNC
7 1 (0.32%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.32%) Linux+ Certification
7 1 (0.32%) LPIC
7 1 (0.32%) VERITAS Certified Professional (VCP)
7 1 (0.32%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (2.87%) NIST
1 9 (2.87%) SLA
2 7 (2.23%) GDPR
3 6 (1.91%) PCI DSS
3 6 (1.91%) QA
4 5 (1.59%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 3 (0.96%) Disclosure Scotland
6 2 (0.64%) NCSC
7 1 (0.32%) Accessibility
System Software
1 90 (28.66%) VMware Infrastructure
2 48 (15.29%) Docker
3 42 (13.38%) Active Directory
4 37 (11.78%) Virtual Machines
5 17 (5.41%) Hyper-V
6 15 (4.78%) vSphere
7 13 (4.14%) VMware ESXi
7 13 (4.14%) VMware NSX
8 12 (3.82%) KVM
9 4 (1.27%) VMware Server
10 3 (0.96%) NFS
10 3 (0.96%) Virtual Servers
11 2 (0.64%) GPFS
12 1 (0.32%) Firmware
12 1 (0.32%) Oracle RAC
12 1 (0.32%) Terminal Services
12 1 (0.32%) Varnish
12 1 (0.32%) Xen
Systems Management
1 110 (35.03%) Ansible
2 67 (21.34%) Kubernetes
3 54 (17.20%) Terraform
4 33 (10.51%) Grafana
5 28 (8.92%) Progress Chef
5 28 (8.92%) Puppet
6 27 (8.60%) Prometheus
7 25 (7.96%) Kibana
7 25 (7.96%) Packer
8 19 (6.05%) Red Hat Satellite
9 16 (5.10%) Salt
10 14 (4.46%) logstash
11 12 (3.82%) vCenter Server
12 10 (3.18%) SCCM
13 9 (2.87%) vRealize
14 5 (1.59%) EMC NetWorker
14 5 (1.59%) Netcool
14 5 (1.59%) Tivoli
14 5 (1.59%) Tivoli Storage Manager
15 4 (1.27%) SELinux
Vendors
1 167 (53.18%) Red Hat
2 112 (35.67%) VMware
3 51 (16.24%) Oracle
4 40 (12.74%) Microsoft
5 21 (6.69%) IBM
6 17 (5.41%) CyberArk
7 16 (5.10%) Splunk
8 15 (4.78%) ArcSight
8 15 (4.78%) SaltStack
9 13 (4.14%) Amdocs
10 12 (3.82%) Qualys
11 11 (3.50%) Dell
11 11 (3.50%) Veritas
12 10 (3.18%) Cisco
12 10 (3.18%) HP
13 9 (2.87%) Temenos
14 8 (2.55%) EMC
15 7 (2.23%) AppDynamics
15 7 (2.23%) ServiceNow
15 7 (2.23%) Veeam