Red Hat Enterprise Linux Job Trends in Cheltenham

Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
Gloucestershire > Cheltenham

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Cheltenham requiring Red Hat Enterprise Linux skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 22 38 -
Rank change year-on-year +16 - -
Permanent jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 7 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Cheltenham 4.65% 2.60% -
As % of the Operating Systems category 27.27% 9.21% -
Number of salaries quoted 4 2 0
10th Percentile £47,000 £51,750 -
25th Percentile £48,125 £58,125 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,250 £70,000 -
Median % change year-on-year -19.64% - -
75th Percentile £62,813 £80,625 -
90th Percentile £67,875 £86,250 -
Gloucestershire median annual salary £56,250 £69,000 £57,475
% change year-on-year -18.48% +20.05% -0.04%

All Operating Systems
Cheltenham

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

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 22 76 74
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cheltenham 17.05% 28.25% 18.73%
Number of salaries quoted 16 34 32
10th Percentile £44,375 £31,450 £24,125
25th Percentile £51,563 £44,063 £31,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £56,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.14% +17.89%
75th Percentile £75,000 £69,688 £72,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £82,200 £78,500
Gloucestershire median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -9.09%

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheltenham

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Cheltenham.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux job vacancy trend in Cheltenham

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Salary Trend in Cheltenham

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cheltenham citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cheltenham citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Salary Histogram in Cheltenham

Salary distribution for jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux in Cheltenham over the 6 months to 30 October 2025.

Salary histogram for Red Hat Enterprise Linux in Cheltenham

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheltenham by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 6 (100.00%) AWS
2 5 (83.33%) OpenShift
3 3 (50.00%) Azure
4 1 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (16.67%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (50.00%) VSAN
2 2 (33.33%) DHCP
2 2 (33.33%) DNS
2 2 (33.33%) LAN
2 2 (33.33%) TCP/IP
2 2 (33.33%) WAN
3 1 (16.67%) Firewall
3 1 (16.67%) VLAN
3 1 (16.67%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) MongoDB
1 1 (16.67%) MySQL
1 1 (16.67%) Oracle Database
1 1 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (66.67%) Git
2 1 (16.67%) GitLab
2 1 (16.67%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (33.33%) Organisational Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Administrator
2 2 (33.33%) Linux Administrator
2 2 (33.33%) Virtualisation Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) DBA
3 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Linux Systems Administrator
3 1 (16.67%) Oracle DBA
3 1 (16.67%) Unix Administrator
3 1 (16.67%) Unix Linux Systems Administrator
3 1 (16.67%) Unix Systems Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (16.67%) Clustering
2 1 (16.67%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 6 (100.00%) Linux
2 5 (83.33%) CentOS
3 4 (66.67%) Windows
3 4 (66.67%) Windows Server
4 3 (50.00%) CoreOS
5 2 (33.33%) Windows Server 2016
5 2 (33.33%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (16.67%) Ubuntu
6 1 (16.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) ITIL
1 4 (66.67%) Time Management
2 2 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (33.33%) DevOps
2 2 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (16.67%) CI/CD
3 1 (16.67%) Containerisation
3 1 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (16.67%) Identity Management
3 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Automation
3 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (16.67%) RBAC
3 1 (16.67%) Tech Ops
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) Python
2 5 (83.33%) Bash
3 3 (50.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) DV Cleared
1 3 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
2 1 (16.67%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 3 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (33.33%) Hyper-V
3 1 (16.67%) Docker
3 1 (16.67%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (16.67%) VMware NSX
3 1 (16.67%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) Ansible
2 2 (33.33%) McAfee ePO
2 2 (33.33%) Puppet
2 2 (33.33%) SCVMM
3 1 (16.67%) Data Guard
3 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
3 1 (16.67%) Nagios
3 1 (16.67%) Terraform
3 1 (16.67%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) Red Hat
2 2 (33.33%) McAfee
3 1 (16.67%) Cisco
3 1 (16.67%) Fortinet
3 1 (16.67%) Oracle
3 1 (16.67%) Palo Alto
3 1 (16.67%) VMware