Red Hat Enterprise Linux Contracts in the UK excluding London

Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Red Hat Enterprise Linux skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Red Hat Enterprise Linux over the 6 months leading up to 13 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 202 166 247
Rank change year-on-year -36 +81 -13
Contract jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 214 326 293
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.00% 1.44% 0.96%
As % of the Operating Systems category 6.31% 7.62% 5.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 162 222 209
10th Percentile £350 £378 £400
25th Percentile £440 £451 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £528 £549 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.74% +4.48% +10.53%
75th Percentile £599 £631 £625
90th Percentile £650 £676 £688
UK median daily rate £520 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -13.33% +4.35% +15.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 7 4
10th Percentile £65.18 - £29.73
25th Percentile £67.31 £51.25 £49.19
Median hourly rate £72.75 £52.50 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +38.57% -25.00% +35.92%
75th Percentile £76.31 £63.75 £80.63
90th Percentile £77.33 £73.75 £81.75
UK median hourly rate £72.75 £52.50 £61.50
% change year-on-year +38.57% -14.63% +5.58%

All Operating Systems
UK excluding London

Red Hat Enterprise Linux falls under the Operating Systems category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring operating system skills in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 3,391 4,276 5,788
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.90% 18.84% 19.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,208 2,930 3,824
10th Percentile £176 £165 £150
25th Percentile £275 £250 £208
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £463 £425
Median % change year-on-year -2.70% +8.82% +6.25%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £540
90th Percentile £672 £675 £638
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 341 307 426
10th Percentile £12.25 £13.29 £12.57
25th Percentile £15.25 £17.70 £15.05
Median hourly rate £24.18 £40.59 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -40.43% +102.95% +17.65%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £49.43
90th Percentile £70.00 £73.75 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £23.00 £46.75 £22.25
% change year-on-year -50.80% +110.11% +27.14%

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Red Hat Enterprise Linux in the UK excluding London

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Red Hat Enterprise Linux in the UK excluding London

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 13 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Red Hat Enterprise Linux in the UK excluding London

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Red Hat Enterprise Linux in the UK excluding London

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
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 Enterprise Linux within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 13 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 +25 100 £550 -6.18% 18
Midlands +38 49 £550 -18.52% 4
South West +12 32 £585 -0.43% 12
West Midlands +21 29 £576 -17.71% 2
Scotland -19 28 £418 -16.50% 5
East Midlands +24 20 £449 -38.07% 2
North of England -19 14 £513 -10.87% 7
East of England -21 14 £470 -1.05% 4
Yorkshire +8 8 £463 -11.90%
North West -16 6 £520 -16.76% 6
Wales +21 2 £700 +43.59% 2
Red Hat Enterprise Linux
UK

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
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 8 (3.74%) Apache
2 7 (3.27%) Tomcat
3 6 (2.80%) Confluence
3 6 (2.80%) JBoss
4 5 (2.34%) IIS
5 4 (1.87%) nginx
6 1 (0.47%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.47%) OpenEdge
6 1 (0.47%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.47%) Traefik
Applications
1 4 (1.87%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.47%) MFGPRO
1 1 (0.47%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.47%) Sage 50
1 1 (0.47%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (0.47%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 33 (15.42%) AWS
2 30 (14.02%) Azure
3 19 (8.88%) Azure DevOps
4 18 (8.41%) OpenShift
5 14 (6.54%) Amazon EC2
5 14 (6.54%) Amazon S3
6 12 (5.61%) AWS CloudFormation
7 10 (4.67%) Serverless
8 9 (4.21%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 9 (4.21%) AWS Lambda
9 5 (2.34%) Amazon ECS
9 5 (2.34%) AWS Fargate
9 5 (2.34%) IaaS
9 5 (2.34%) Route 53
9 5 (2.34%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 4 (1.87%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 4 (1.87%) Amazon ELB
10 4 (1.87%) AWS KMS
11 3 (1.40%) AWS CodeBuild
11 3 (1.40%) AWS CodeCommit
Communications & Networking
1 15 (7.01%) DNS
2 12 (5.61%) DHCP
2 12 (5.61%) TCP/IP
3 9 (4.21%) SAN
4 6 (2.80%) Firewall
5 5 (2.34%) Fibre Channel
6 4 (1.87%) H.323
6 4 (1.87%) HTTP
6 4 (1.87%) LAN
6 4 (1.87%) Remote Desktop
6 4 (1.87%) WAN
7 2 (0.93%) Kerberos
8 1 (0.47%) LTE
8 1 (0.47%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (7.48%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (6.07%) Elasticsearch
3 12 (5.61%) SQL Server
4 11 (5.14%) MongoDB
5 10 (4.67%) RDBMS
5 10 (4.67%) Relational Database
6 6 (2.80%) InfluxDB
7 5 (2.34%) MySQL
8 4 (1.87%) Oracle Database
9 3 (1.40%) Amazon Aurora
9 3 (1.40%) Amazon RDS
9 3 (1.40%) Informix
10 2 (0.93%) Redis
11 1 (0.47%) DB2
11 1 (0.47%) Oracle Exadata
11 1 (0.47%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 38 (17.76%) GitLab
2 31 (14.49%) Git
3 20 (9.35%) Jenkins
4 14 (6.54%) JIRA
5 9 (4.21%) Artifactory
6 8 (3.74%) Selenium
7 6 (2.80%) Bitbucket Server
7 6 (2.80%) Robot Framework
7 6 (2.80%) SonarQube
7 6 (2.80%) Sonatype Nexus
8 5 (2.34%) CA Release Automation
8 5 (2.34%) TeamCity
9 2 (0.93%) Subversion
10 1 (0.47%) Cucumber
10 1 (0.47%) Gerrit
10 1 (0.47%) Oracle APEX
10 1 (0.47%) Postman
General
1 27 (12.62%) Public Sector
2 24 (11.21%) Analytical Skills
3 23 (10.75%) Social Skills
4 6 (2.80%) Finance
4 6 (2.80%) Telecoms
5 5 (2.34%) Billing
5 5 (2.34%) Legal
6 3 (1.40%) Banking
7 1 (0.47%) Aerospace
7 1 (0.47%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (0.47%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 37 (17.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 34 (15.89%) Linux Engineer
3 24 (11.21%) Linux Systems Administrator
4 23 (10.75%) Systems Administrator
5 21 (9.81%) Administrator
5 21 (9.81%) Support Engineer
6 16 (7.48%) Architect
7 15 (7.01%) DevOps Engineer
8 14 (6.54%) Infrastructure Support
8 14 (6.54%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
8 14 (6.54%) Platform Engineer
9 13 (6.07%) Linux Administrator
9 13 (6.07%) Linux Support
10 12 (5.61%) Linux Support Engineer
11 11 (5.14%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
12 8 (3.74%) Cloud Engineer
13 7 (3.27%) AWS Engineer
13 7 (3.27%) Consultant
13 7 (3.27%) Developer
14 6 (2.80%) Security Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (7.94%) YAML
2 10 (4.67%) AWS CDK
3 5 (2.34%) Elastic Stack
3 5 (2.34%) Spring Boot
4 4 (1.87%) Middleware
5 3 (1.40%) RabbitMQ
6 2 (0.93%) pytest
7 1 (0.47%) .NET
7 1 (0.47%) Apache NiFi
7 1 (0.47%) cloud-init
7 1 (0.47%) IBM Integration Bus
7 1 (0.47%) Java EE
7 1 (0.47%) JSON
7 1 (0.47%) Kafka
7 1 (0.47%) LDAP
7 1 (0.47%) Node.js
7 1 (0.47%) Oracle GoldenGate
7 1 (0.47%) React
7 1 (0.47%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 21 (9.81%) Client/Server
1 21 (9.81%) Linux Command Line
2 11 (5.14%) SCADA
3 10 (4.67%) Clustering
3 10 (4.67%) PKI
4 6 (2.80%) Management Information System
5 5 (2.34%) Grid Computing
5 5 (2.34%) Replication
6 4 (1.87%) Cloud Native
6 4 (1.87%) IVR
7 3 (1.40%) Data Centre
7 3 (1.40%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (1.40%) Public Cloud
7 3 (1.40%) Smart Meter
7 3 (1.40%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.47%) Cyber Threat
8 1 (0.47%) IBM Storwize
8 1 (0.47%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.47%) Security Operations Centre
8 1 (0.47%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 214 (100.00%) Linux
2 91 (42.52%) Windows
3 52 (24.30%) Windows Server
4 29 (13.55%) Unix
5 16 (7.48%) Solaris
5 16 (7.48%) Ubuntu
6 15 (7.01%) CentOS
7 12 (5.61%) Windows Server 2019
8 8 (3.74%) VMS
9 7 (3.27%) Windows Server 2016
10 4 (1.87%) AIX
11 3 (1.40%) SUSE
12 2 (0.93%) Alpine Linux
12 2 (0.93%) Rocky
12 2 (0.93%) Windows Server 2012
13 1 (0.47%) Fedora
13 1 (0.47%) HPUX
13 1 (0.47%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (24.77%) DevOps
2 48 (22.43%) Infrastructure as Code
3 40 (18.69%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 35 (16.36%) Agile
5 24 (11.21%) CI/CD
6 23 (10.75%) Containerisation
6 23 (10.75%) Migration
7 21 (9.81%) SIEM
8 20 (9.35%) Application Packaging
8 20 (9.35%) Application Virtualisation
8 20 (9.35%) High Availability
9 19 (8.88%) Cybersecurity
10 18 (8.41%) Configuration Management
10 18 (8.41%) Scrum
11 17 (7.94%) Virtual Infrastructure
12 16 (7.48%) Scaled Agile Framework
13 15 (7.01%) Deployment Automation
14 14 (6.54%) Infrastructure Automation
14 14 (6.54%) Performance Tuning
14 14 (6.54%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 63 (29.44%) Python
2 52 (24.30%) PowerShell
3 31 (14.49%) Bash
4 28 (13.08%) Shell Script
5 20 (9.35%) VBScript
6 12 (5.61%) SQL
7 9 (4.21%) Java
8 7 (3.27%) C
8 7 (3.27%) C#
8 7 (3.27%) Perl
9 6 (2.80%) ProC
10 5 (2.34%) Groovy
10 5 (2.34%) PL/SQL
11 4 (1.87%) TypeScript
12 2 (0.93%) C++
13 1 (0.47%) Go
13 1 (0.47%) JavaScript
13 1 (0.47%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 137 (64.02%) Security Cleared
2 85 (39.72%) SC Cleared
3 49 (22.90%) DV Cleared
4 11 (5.14%) RHCE
5 7 (3.27%) Degree
6 4 (1.87%) RHCSA
7 3 (1.40%) MCSE
7 3 (1.40%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (0.93%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.47%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.47%) CCNA
9 1 (0.47%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.47%) HNC
9 1 (0.47%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.47%) Linux+ Certification
9 1 (0.47%) LPIC
9 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Certified Master
9 1 (0.47%) VERITAS Certified Professional (VCP)
9 1 (0.47%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (3.27%) NIST
1 7 (3.27%) SLA
2 3 (1.40%) Disclosure Scotland
3 2 (0.93%) GDPR
4 1 (0.47%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.47%) NCSC
4 1 (0.47%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.47%) QA
System Software
1 71 (33.18%) VMware Infrastructure
2 29 (13.55%) Docker
3 24 (11.21%) Virtual Machines
4 18 (8.41%) Active Directory
5 17 (7.94%) Hyper-V
6 13 (6.07%) VMware ESXi
6 13 (6.07%) VMware NSX
6 13 (6.07%) vSphere
7 8 (3.74%) KVM
8 4 (1.87%) VMware Server
9 1 (0.47%) NFS
9 1 (0.47%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.47%) Terminal Services
9 1 (0.47%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.47%) Xen
Systems Management
1 67 (31.31%) Ansible
2 45 (21.03%) Kubernetes
3 30 (14.02%) Terraform
4 25 (11.68%) Red Hat Satellite
5 21 (9.81%) Progress Chef
6 20 (9.35%) Puppet
7 16 (7.48%) Packer
8 13 (6.07%) Salt
8 13 (6.07%) SCCM
9 12 (5.61%) vCenter Server
10 11 (5.14%) Grafana
10 11 (5.14%) Kibana
11 8 (3.74%) vRealize
12 6 (2.80%) SELinux
13 5 (2.34%) SCOM
13 5 (2.34%) SCSM
14 4 (1.87%) Rancher
14 4 (1.87%) yum
15 3 (1.40%) Prometheus
16 2 (0.93%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 115 (53.74%) Red Hat
2 89 (41.59%) VMware
3 24 (11.21%) Microsoft
4 19 (8.88%) Oracle
5 14 (6.54%) ArcSight
6 11 (5.14%) SaltStack
7 8 (3.74%) Splunk
7 8 (3.74%) Veritas
8 7 (3.27%) Veeam
9 6 (2.80%) SolarWinds
10 5 (2.34%) AppDynamics
11 4 (1.87%) Arqiva
11 4 (1.87%) Atlassian
11 4 (1.87%) Avaya
11 4 (1.87%) IBM
11 4 (1.87%) Verint
12 3 (1.40%) Commvault
12 3 (1.40%) Dell
13 2 (0.93%) HP
14 1 (0.47%) Temenos