Red Hat Contracts with Work from Home Options

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UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 257 189 266
Rank change year-on-year -68 +77 -23
Contract jobs citing Red Hat 84 309 440
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.57% 1.29% 1.00%
As % of the Vendors category 1.34% 2.94% 2.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 248 294
10th Percentile £348 £418 £404
25th Percentile £422 £454 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £560 £550
Median % change year-on-year -15.18% +1.82% +10.00%
75th Percentile £550 £700 £640
90th Percentile £587 £828 £719
UK median daily rate £510 £585 £575
% change year-on-year -12.82% +1.74% +15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 9
10th Percentile - - £23.90
25th Percentile - £51.25 £35.00
Median hourly rate - £52.50 £48.58
Median % change year-on-year - +8.07% +22.99%
75th Percentile - £53.75 £63.00
90th Percentile - £58.25 £82.80
UK median hourly rate £74.22 £37.50 £57.50
% change year-on-year +97.92% -34.78% +45.57%

All Vendors
Work from Home

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 with a remote or hybrid options requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 6,268 10,513 17,342
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 42.48% 44.03% 39.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,982 7,074 11,904
10th Percentile £325 £325 £350
25th Percentile £425 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - +7.69%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £631
90th Percentile £720 £743 £725
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -1.90% - +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 206 248 250
10th Percentile £13.50 £17.50 £13.45
25th Percentile £16.53 £24.94 £20.00
Median hourly rate £27.62 £52.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -47.40% +31.25% +53.85%
75th Percentile £51.25 £66.00 £57.09
90th Percentile £71.25 £79.20 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £22.56 £42.50 £21.64
% change year-on-year -46.92% +96.40% +5.56%

Red Hat
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Red Hat as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Red Hat trend for jobs with a WFH option

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Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Red Hat.

Red Hat daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Red Hat over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Red Hat daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Red Hat.

Red Hat hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 6 (7.14%) JBoss
2 5 (5.95%) Confluence
2 5 (5.95%) Tomcat
3 4 (4.76%) Apache
3 4 (4.76%) nginx
4 1 (1.19%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (1.19%) OpenEdge
4 1 (1.19%) Red Hat Fuse
4 1 (1.19%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (1.19%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (3.57%) Temenos T24
2 1 (1.19%) MFGPRO
2 1 (1.19%) Sage 50
Cloud Services
1 25 (29.76%) AWS
2 14 (16.67%) Azure
3 11 (13.10%) OpenShift
4 6 (7.14%) Amazon EC2
4 6 (7.14%) Amazon S3
4 6 (7.14%) IaaS
5 5 (5.95%) Amazon EKS
5 5 (5.95%) AWS CloudFormation
5 5 (5.95%) AWS Lambda
5 5 (5.95%) Serverless
5 5 (5.95%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 4 (4.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 4 (4.76%) Amazon OpenSearch
7 3 (3.57%) AWS CodeBuild
7 3 (3.57%) AWS CodeCommit
7 3 (3.57%) AWS CodePipeline
7 3 (3.57%) Cloud Computing
8 2 (2.38%) Amazon ECR
8 2 (2.38%) PaaS
8 2 (2.38%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (15.48%) TCP/IP
2 10 (11.90%) SAN
3 9 (10.71%) Firewall
4 6 (7.14%) DNS
5 2 (2.38%) DHCP
5 2 (2.38%) Kerberos
5 2 (2.38%) LAN
5 2 (2.38%) SD-WAN
5 2 (2.38%) SSL
5 2 (2.38%) WAN
6 1 (1.19%) Intrusion Detection
6 1 (1.19%) Skype
6 1 (1.19%) Unified Communications
6 1 (1.19%) VPN
6 1 (1.19%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (8.33%) Relational Database
1 7 (8.33%) SQL Server
2 6 (7.14%) Amazon RDS
2 6 (7.14%) RDBMS
3 5 (5.95%) Elasticsearch
3 5 (5.95%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (4.76%) Amazon Aurora
4 4 (4.76%) MongoDB
5 3 (3.57%) InfluxDB
5 3 (3.57%) Informix
6 2 (2.38%) MySQL
7 1 (1.19%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (1.19%) Metadata
7 1 (1.19%) Oracle BI Publisher
7 1 (1.19%) Oracle Database
7 1 (1.19%) Oracle Exadata
7 1 (1.19%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 7 (8.33%) Git
1 7 (8.33%) Jenkins
1 7 (8.33%) JIRA
2 4 (4.76%) SonarQube
2 4 (4.76%) Sonatype Nexus
3 3 (3.57%) Bitbucket Server
3 3 (3.57%) CA Release Automation
3 3 (3.57%) TeamCity
4 2 (2.38%) Bitbucket
4 2 (2.38%) GitLab
5 1 (1.19%) Cucumber
5 1 (1.19%) EasyMock
5 1 (1.19%) JUnit
5 1 (1.19%) Maven
5 1 (1.19%) Mockito
5 1 (1.19%) Oracle APEX
5 1 (1.19%) Postman
5 1 (1.19%) Selenium
5 1 (1.19%) Subversion
5 1 (1.19%) TestNG
General
1 18 (21.43%) Social Skills
2 11 (13.10%) Finance
3 4 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (4.76%) Public Sector
4 3 (3.57%) Banking
5 2 (2.38%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.19%) Back Office
6 1 (1.19%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 16 (19.05%) Developer
2 10 (11.90%) Python Developer
3 9 (10.71%) Linux Engineer
4 8 (9.52%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 7 (8.33%) Administrator
5 7 (8.33%) Applications Support
5 7 (8.33%) Linux Support
6 6 (7.14%) Architect
7 5 (5.95%) Consultant
7 5 (5.95%) Linux Administrator
7 5 (5.95%) Linux Specialist
7 5 (5.95%) Senior
7 5 (5.95%) Support Engineer
7 5 (5.95%) Vulnerability Specialist
8 4 (4.76%) AWS DevOps
8 4 (4.76%) Backend Developer
8 4 (4.76%) Linux Systems Administrator
8 4 (4.76%) Systems Administrator
8 4 (4.76%) Unix Specialist
9 3 (3.57%) IT Support Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (8.33%) Elastic Stack
1 7 (8.33%) Spring Boot
2 5 (5.95%) YAML
3 3 (3.57%) AWS CDK
3 3 (3.57%) IBM Integration Bus
3 3 (3.57%) Kafka
3 3 (3.57%) Middleware
4 2 (2.38%) CSS
4 2 (2.38%) HTML
4 2 (2.38%) REST
4 2 (2.38%) Swagger
5 1 (1.19%) Ajax
5 1 (1.19%) FIX Protocol
5 1 (1.19%) Guice
5 1 (1.19%) JSON
5 1 (1.19%) LDAP
5 1 (1.19%) OAuth
5 1 (1.19%) RESTful
5 1 (1.19%) SAP Basis
5 1 (1.19%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 5 (5.95%) Linux Command Line
1 5 (5.95%) SCADA
2 4 (4.76%) Cloud Native
2 4 (4.76%) Data Centre
3 3 (3.57%) Distributed Applications
3 3 (3.57%) Greenfield Project
3 3 (3.57%) Replication
4 2 (2.38%) Management Information System
4 2 (2.38%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.19%) Client/Server
5 1 (1.19%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (1.19%) FMCG
5 1 (1.19%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.19%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.19%) PKI
5 1 (1.19%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 76 (90.48%) Linux
2 42 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 20 (23.81%) Ubuntu
4 18 (21.43%) Windows
5 15 (17.86%) Unix
6 12 (14.29%) Debian
7 7 (8.33%) CentOS
8 6 (7.14%) Windows Server
9 5 (5.95%) Rocky
9 5 (5.95%) Solaris
10 1 (1.19%) Android
10 1 (1.19%) Apple iOS
10 1 (1.19%) HPUX
10 1 (1.19%) Windows 10
10 1 (1.19%) Windows Mobile
10 1 (1.19%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (1.19%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (1.19%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (22.62%) Agile
2 17 (20.24%) ITIL
3 16 (19.05%) DevOps
4 15 (17.86%) Configuration Management
5 13 (15.48%) Customer Service
5 13 (15.48%) Infrastructure as Code
6 11 (13.10%) Roadmaps
6 11 (13.10%) Software Engineering
7 10 (11.90%) Data Modelling
7 10 (11.90%) Migration
8 9 (10.71%) CI/CD
8 9 (10.71%) Data Engineering
8 9 (10.71%) High Availability
8 9 (10.71%) Matrix Organization
8 9 (10.71%) Prototyping
8 9 (10.71%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
9 8 (9.52%) Microservices
9 8 (9.52%) Runbook
10 7 (8.33%) Infrastructure Automation
10 7 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 27 (32.14%) Python
2 15 (17.86%) Bash
3 9 (10.71%) PowerShell
4 8 (9.52%) Perl
4 8 (9.52%) Shell Script
4 8 (9.52%) SQL
5 5 (5.95%) Java
6 3 (3.57%) PL/SQL
6 3 (3.57%) TypeScript
7 1 (1.19%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.19%) PHP
7 1 (1.19%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 25 (29.76%) SC Cleared
1 25 (29.76%) Security Cleared
2 11 (13.10%) DV Cleared
3 7 (8.33%) Degree
4 3 (3.57%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.19%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.19%) CEH
5 1 (1.19%) CISSP
5 1 (1.19%) MCSE
5 1 (1.19%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.19%) RHCE
5 1 (1.19%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.38%) PCI DSS
1 2 (2.38%) QA
1 2 (2.38%) SLA
2 1 (1.19%) GDPR
System Software
1 13 (15.48%) Docker
1 13 (15.48%) VMware Infrastructure
2 9 (10.71%) Active Directory
3 5 (5.95%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (4.76%) vSphere
5 3 (3.57%) VMware NSX
6 2 (2.38%) Ceph
6 2 (2.38%) Veritas Cluster Server
6 2 (2.38%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 30 (35.71%) Ansible
2 15 (17.86%) Terraform
3 12 (14.29%) Kubernetes
4 11 (13.10%) Progress Chef
5 9 (10.71%) Puppet
6 7 (8.33%) Red Hat Satellite
7 5 (5.95%) Grafana
8 4 (4.76%) Salt
9 3 (3.57%) Kibana
9 3 (3.57%) Packer
10 2 (2.38%) Pacemaker
10 2 (2.38%) Podman
10 2 (2.38%) Prometheus
10 2 (2.38%) SELinux
11 1 (1.19%) Kustomize
11 1 (1.19%) Nagios
11 1 (1.19%) Opsview
11 1 (1.19%) WSUS
Vendors
1 28 (33.33%) VMware
2 12 (14.29%) Microsoft
3 9 (10.71%) Oracle
4 6 (7.14%) Qualys
5 5 (5.95%) SaltStack
6 4 (4.76%) Splunk
7 3 (3.57%) AppDynamics
7 3 (3.57%) Atlassian
7 3 (3.57%) Commvault
7 3 (3.57%) IBM
7 3 (3.57%) SolarWinds
7 3 (3.57%) Temenos
8 2 (2.38%) Cisco
8 2 (2.38%) Confluent
8 2 (2.38%) Sun
9 1 (1.19%) ArcSight
9 1 (1.19%) Palo Alto
9 1 (1.19%) Progress
9 1 (1.19%) SAP
9 1 (1.19%) ServiceNow