Red Hat Contracts in the UK excluding London

Red Hat
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring knowledge or experience of Red Hat products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Red Hat over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two 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
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 188 169 240
Rank change year-on-year -19 +71 -37
Contract jobs citing Red Hat 235 319 306
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.10% 1.41% 1.01%
As % of the Vendors category 2.61% 3.13% 2.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 163 239 204
10th Percentile £340 £400 £400
25th Percentile £425 £450 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £530 £543
Median % change year-on-year -1.89% -2.30% +14.21%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £638
90th Percentile £670 £700 £700
UK median daily rate £510 £585 £575
% change year-on-year -12.82% +1.74% +15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 12 10
10th Percentile £60.50 £25.75 £43.30
25th Percentile £66.88 £27.06 £49.06
Median hourly rate £74.22 £37.50 £78.50
Median % change year-on-year +97.92% -52.23% +98.73%
75th Percentile £74.86 £53.75 £83.44
90th Percentile £76.25 - £84.08
UK median hourly rate £74.22 £37.50 £57.50
% change year-on-year +97.92% -34.78% +45.57%

All Vendors
UK excluding London

Red Hat falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 8,987 10,207 12,372
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 42.14% 44.98% 40.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,356 6,960 8,400
10th Percentile £211 £205 £189
25th Percentile £375 £363 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +7.95%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £660
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -1.90% - +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,004 428 636
10th Percentile £12.00 £14.25 £11.36
25th Percentile £14.41 £17.72 £14.25
Median hourly rate £21.50 £37.50 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -42.67% +92.31% +8.33%
75th Percentile £59.95 £59.41 £41.53
90th Percentile £70.00 £70.08 £57.50
UK median hourly rate £22.56 £42.50 £21.64
% change year-on-year -46.92% +96.40% +5.56%

Red Hat
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Red Hat as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Red Hat in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Red Hat in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Red Hat in the UK excluding London

Red Hat
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Red Hat in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Red Hat in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Red Hat in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Red Hat in the UK excluding London

Red Hat
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Red Hat in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Red Hat in the UK excluding London

Red Hat
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 excluding London region over the 6 months to 12 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
South East +23 100 £538 -2.27% 27
Midlands +60 60 £576 +26.75% 29
South West +4 43 £570 -5.00% 14
West Midlands +49 39 £608 +95.97% 25
Scotland +8 28 £340 -32.00% 20
East Midlands +20 21 £498 -5.14% 4
East of England -27 21 £550 -18.09% 10
North West -7 7 £528 -4.00% 21
North of England -14 7 £528 -1.54% 29
Wales +8 1 - -
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UK

Red Hat
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 15 (6.38%) Apache
2 11 (4.68%) IIS
3 7 (2.98%) JBoss
4 5 (2.13%) Tomcat
5 3 (1.28%) Confluence
6 2 (0.85%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.43%) nginx
7 1 (0.43%) OpenEdge
7 1 (0.43%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (1.70%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.85%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (2.55%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.43%) MFGPRO
2 1 (0.43%) Sage 50
2 1 (0.43%) SAP BRIM
2 1 (0.43%) SAP Hybris
2 1 (0.43%) SAP PSCD
2 1 (0.43%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 25 (10.64%) OpenShift
2 24 (10.21%) AWS
3 23 (9.79%) Azure
4 8 (3.40%) GitHub
5 6 (2.55%) Serverless
6 5 (2.13%) Amazon EC2
7 4 (1.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 4 (1.70%) Amazon OpenSearch
7 4 (1.70%) Amazon S3
7 4 (1.70%) AWS CloudFormation
7 4 (1.70%) AWS CodeBuild
7 4 (1.70%) AWS CodeCommit
7 4 (1.70%) AWS CodePipeline
8 3 (1.28%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (0.85%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (0.85%) Azure Stack
9 2 (0.85%) Datadog
10 1 (0.43%) Amazon EKS
10 1 (0.43%) Azure AKS
10 1 (0.43%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 26 (11.06%) SAN
2 17 (7.23%) TCP/IP
3 15 (6.38%) Intrusion Detection
4 14 (5.96%) Network Security
5 10 (4.26%) DNS
6 8 (3.40%) Firewall
7 6 (2.55%) DHCP
8 4 (1.70%) H.323
8 4 (1.70%) HTTP
8 4 (1.70%) NAS
9 3 (1.28%) Wireless
10 2 (0.85%) Fibre Channel
10 2 (0.85%) Skype
10 2 (0.85%) VPN
11 1 (0.43%) Internet
11 1 (0.43%) IPv4
11 1 (0.43%) OSPF
11 1 (0.43%) Remote Desktop
11 1 (0.43%) VLAN
11 1 (0.43%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (9.36%) PostgreSQL
2 17 (7.23%) SQL Server
3 14 (5.96%) Big Data
4 11 (4.68%) MongoDB
5 10 (4.26%) Elasticsearch
6 7 (2.98%) RDBMS
6 7 (2.98%) Relational Database
7 6 (2.55%) MySQL
8 4 (1.70%) Amazon Aurora
8 4 (1.70%) Amazon RDS
8 4 (1.70%) InfluxDB
8 4 (1.70%) Informix
9 3 (1.28%) Oracle Database
10 2 (0.85%) DynamoDB
11 1 (0.43%) Apache Cassandra
11 1 (0.43%) Couchbase
11 1 (0.43%) NoSQL
11 1 (0.43%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 32 (13.62%) GitLab
2 27 (11.49%) Git
3 11 (4.68%) Jenkins
3 11 (4.68%) JIRA
4 9 (3.83%) Artifactory
5 6 (2.55%) SonarQube
5 6 (2.55%) TeamCity
6 5 (2.13%) Bitbucket Server
6 5 (2.13%) CA Release Automation
6 5 (2.13%) Sonatype Nexus
7 4 (1.70%) Bitbucket
8 3 (1.28%) JUnit
9 2 (0.85%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 2 (0.85%) Gradle
9 2 (0.85%) Maven
9 2 (0.85%) Subversion
10 1 (0.43%) Cucumber
10 1 (0.43%) Gerrit
10 1 (0.43%) IntelliJ
10 1 (0.43%) Oracle APEX
General
1 28 (11.91%) Public Sector
2 24 (10.21%) Analytical Skills
2 24 (10.21%) Social Skills
3 7 (2.98%) Telecoms
4 5 (2.13%) Finance
4 5 (2.13%) Legal
5 2 (0.85%) Advertising
5 2 (0.85%) Banking
5 2 (0.85%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (0.85%) Military
6 1 (0.43%) Aerospace
6 1 (0.43%) Billing
Job Titles
1 46 (19.57%) Linux Engineer
2 34 (14.47%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 25 (10.64%) Support Engineer
4 24 (10.21%) Linux Systems Administrator
5 21 (8.94%) Systems Administrator
6 18 (7.66%) Developer
7 17 (7.23%) Linux Support
8 15 (6.38%) Architect
8 15 (6.38%) Python Developer
9 14 (5.96%) Administrator
10 13 (5.53%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
10 13 (5.53%) Senior
11 12 (5.11%) Infrastructure Support
11 12 (5.11%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
11 12 (5.11%) Linux Support Engineer
12 11 (4.68%) Linux Administrator
13 10 (4.26%) 3rd Line Support
13 10 (4.26%) DevOps Engineer
14 8 (3.40%) 3rd Line Engineer
14 8 (3.40%) Database Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (9.36%) Apache NiFi
2 20 (8.51%) YAML
3 7 (2.98%) REST
4 6 (2.55%) Spring Boot
5 5 (2.13%) Elastic Stack
6 4 (1.70%) AWS CDK
7 2 (0.85%) .NET
7 2 (0.85%) EJB
7 2 (0.85%) Java EE
7 2 (0.85%) JMS
7 2 (0.85%) Kafka
7 2 (0.85%) Web Services
8 1 (0.43%) CSS
8 1 (0.43%) HTML
8 1 (0.43%) IBM Integration Bus
8 1 (0.43%) jQuery
8 1 (0.43%) Middleware
8 1 (0.43%) Node.js
8 1 (0.43%) Spring
8 1 (0.43%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 26 (11.06%) Linux Command Line
2 22 (9.36%) Management Information System
3 16 (6.81%) Cyber Defence
3 16 (6.81%) Distributed Applications
3 16 (6.81%) PKI
4 14 (5.96%) Clustering
5 11 (4.68%) SCADA
6 10 (4.26%) Replication
7 9 (3.83%) Data Centre
8 5 (2.13%) Cloud Native
8 5 (2.13%) Grid Computing
9 4 (1.70%) Fat Client
9 4 (1.70%) IVR
9 4 (1.70%) Thin Client
10 3 (1.28%) Cyber Threat
10 3 (1.28%) Greenfield Project
11 2 (0.85%) CMDB
11 2 (0.85%) Operational Technology
12 1 (0.43%) Security Operations Centre
12 1 (0.43%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 193 (82.13%) Linux
2 115 (48.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 77 (32.77%) Windows
4 31 (13.19%) Ubuntu
5 30 (12.77%) Solaris
5 30 (12.77%) Windows Server
6 29 (12.34%) Unix
7 26 (11.06%) Debian
8 15 (6.38%) Windows Server 2016
9 14 (5.96%) CentOS
10 12 (5.11%) Android
10 12 (5.11%) Apple iOS
11 11 (4.68%) Windows Server 2012
12 10 (4.26%) Windows Server 2019
13 6 (2.55%) Windows Server 2008
14 5 (2.13%) Windows 10
15 4 (1.70%) Rocky
16 3 (1.28%) SUSE
16 3 (1.28%) VMS
17 1 (0.43%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (15.74%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 32 (13.62%) Infrastructure as Code
3 31 (13.19%) DevOps
4 29 (12.34%) Configuration Management
5 28 (11.91%) High Availability
5 28 (11.91%) ITIL
5 28 (11.91%) Migration
6 27 (11.49%) Agile
7 26 (11.06%) Data Engineering
8 21 (8.94%) Information Security
9 20 (8.51%) Change Management
10 19 (8.09%) Software Engineering
10 19 (8.09%) Storage Management
11 18 (7.66%) Cybersecurity
11 18 (7.66%) Disaster Recovery
11 18 (7.66%) Task Automation
12 17 (7.23%) CI/CD
12 17 (7.23%) Performance Tuning
12 17 (7.23%) Security Operations
12 17 (7.23%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 46 (19.57%) Python
2 37 (15.74%) PowerShell
3 32 (13.62%) Bash
4 24 (10.21%) Shell Script
5 12 (5.11%) SQL
6 9 (3.83%) Perl
7 5 (2.13%) Java
8 4 (1.70%) TypeScript
9 3 (1.28%) C
10 2 (0.85%) AWK
10 2 (0.85%) Bourne shell
10 2 (0.85%) Korn
10 2 (0.85%) Rust
11 1 (0.43%) C#
11 1 (0.43%) C++
11 1 (0.43%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 160 (68.09%) Security Cleared
2 109 (46.38%) SC Cleared
3 57 (24.26%) DV Cleared
4 14 (5.96%) Degree
4 14 (5.96%) RHCE
5 9 (3.83%) MCSE
5 9 (3.83%) Microsoft Certification
6 8 (3.40%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (2.55%) MCSA
7 6 (2.55%) RHCT
8 5 (2.13%) RHCSA
9 1 (0.43%) GIAC
9 1 (0.43%) Linux+ Certification
9 1 (0.43%) LPIC
9 1 (0.43%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (5.96%) Actionable Recommendations
2 10 (4.26%) QA
3 7 (2.98%) SLA
4 2 (0.85%) GDPR
System Software
1 60 (25.53%) VMware Infrastructure
2 30 (12.77%) Hyper-V
3 29 (12.34%) Active Directory
4 28 (11.91%) Docker
5 23 (9.79%) Virtual Machines
6 15 (6.38%) vSphere
7 14 (5.96%) KVM
8 12 (5.11%) VMware ESXi
9 5 (2.13%) VMware NSX
10 2 (0.85%) Ceph
10 2 (0.85%) Veritas Cluster Server
11 1 (0.43%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 1 (0.43%) Terminal Services
11 1 (0.43%) Virtual Servers
11 1 (0.43%) Xen
Systems Management
1 80 (34.04%) Ansible
2 41 (17.45%) Terraform
3 38 (16.17%) Red Hat Satellite
4 36 (15.32%) Kubernetes
5 19 (8.09%) Progress Chef
6 16 (6.81%) Puppet
7 13 (5.53%) Salt
8 12 (5.11%) SCOM
9 9 (3.83%) Grafana
10 7 (2.98%) Rancher
10 7 (2.98%) Tivoli Identity Manager
10 7 (2.98%) WSUS
11 6 (2.55%) Kibana
11 6 (2.55%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 6 (2.55%) SCCM
12 5 (2.13%) Istio
12 5 (2.13%) Nessus
12 5 (2.13%) SCSM
12 5 (2.13%) SELinux
12 5 (2.13%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 95 (40.43%) VMware
2 42 (17.87%) Microsoft
3 24 (10.21%) Oracle
4 12 (5.11%) SolarWinds
5 11 (4.68%) Dell
5 11 (4.68%) SaltStack
6 9 (3.83%) HP
7 8 (3.40%) IBM
8 7 (2.98%) Citrix
8 7 (2.98%) Splunk
9 6 (2.55%) Atlassian
9 6 (2.55%) Veritas
10 5 (2.13%) AppDynamics
11 4 (1.70%) Avaya
11 4 (1.70%) Commvault
11 4 (1.70%) Veeam
11 4 (1.70%) Verint
12 2 (0.85%) Adobe
12 2 (0.85%) EMC
12 2 (0.85%) Sun