Red Hat Enterprise Linux Job Trends in the City of London

Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Red Hat Enterprise Linux skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 118 159 160
Rank change year-on-year +41 +1 +87
Permanent jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 13 8 7
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 0.62% 0.30% 0.25%
As % of the Operating Systems category 6.95% 1.58% 1.46%
Number of salaries quoted 11 5 7
10th Percentile £53,750 £49,250 £70,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £65,000 £72,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £70,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -17.86% -17.65% +10.03%
75th Percentile £115,000 £80,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £125,000 £80,750 £98,000
Central London median annual salary £57,500 £70,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year -17.86% -17.65% +21.43%

All Operating Systems
City of 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 permanent job vacancies requiring operating system skills in the City of London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 187 505 478
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 8.89% 18.63% 16.93%
Number of salaries quoted 156 346 430
10th Percentile £31,375 £37,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £47,125 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £61,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -1.64% -6.15%
75th Percentile £84,063 £80,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £108,750 £99,000
Central London median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Red Hat Enterprise Linux job vacancy trend in the City of London

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Salary Trend in the City of London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Salary Histogram in the City of London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux in the City of London over the 6 months to 1 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Red Hat Enterprise Linux in the City of London

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (15.38%) Apache
1 2 (15.38%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 2 (15.38%) AWS
2 1 (7.69%) AWS CodeDeploy
2 1 (7.69%) Azure
2 1 (7.69%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 3 (23.08%) Multicast
2 2 (15.38%) DHCP
2 2 (15.38%) DNS
2 2 (15.38%) LAN
2 2 (15.38%) NAS
2 2 (15.38%) SAN
2 2 (15.38%) SNMP
2 2 (15.38%) TCP/IP
2 2 (15.38%) WAN
Development Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Git
1 1 (7.69%) GitLab
General
1 7 (53.85%) Finance
2 4 (30.77%) Social Skills
3 3 (23.08%) Front Office
4 1 (7.69%) Advertising
4 1 (7.69%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (46.15%) Administrator
2 5 (38.46%) Linux Administrator
3 3 (23.08%) C++ Developer
3 3 (23.08%) Developer
4 2 (15.38%) Linux Engineer
4 2 (15.38%) Senior
4 2 (15.38%) Senior Linux Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Cloud Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) DevOps Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) DevOps Engineer - Fintech
5 1 (7.69%) Lead
5 1 (7.69%) Systems Administrator
5 1 (7.69%) Systems Manager
5 1 (7.69%) Team Leader
5 1 (7.69%) Unix Administrator
5 1 (7.69%) Unix Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (23.08%) FIX Protocol
2 2 (15.38%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 3 (23.08%) Derivative
2 2 (15.38%) FPGA
Operating Systems
1 13 (100.00%) Linux
2 3 (23.08%) CentOS
3 2 (15.38%) Oracle Linux
4 1 (7.69%) AIX
4 1 (7.69%) Debian
4 1 (7.69%) Solaris
4 1 (7.69%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (38.46%) Low Latency
2 4 (30.77%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 4 (30.77%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (23.08%) Concurrent Programming
3 3 (23.08%) SOA
3 3 (23.08%) Systems Analysis
3 3 (23.08%) Unit Testing
4 2 (15.38%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (15.38%) Fintech
4 2 (15.38%) Infrastructure as Code
5 1 (7.69%) CI/CD
5 1 (7.69%) Collaborative Culture
5 1 (7.69%) Collaborative Engineering
5 1 (7.69%) Containerisation
5 1 (7.69%) Deployment Automation
5 1 (7.69%) Incident Response
5 1 (7.69%) Product Strategy
5 1 (7.69%) Resource Allocation
5 1 (7.69%) Root Cause Analysis
5 1 (7.69%) Security Hardening
Programming Languages
1 4 (30.77%) Python
2 3 (23.08%) Bash
2 3 (23.08%) C++
3 2 (15.38%) Java
3 2 (15.38%) Perl
4 1 (7.69%) Shell Script
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.69%) QA
System Software
1 2 (15.38%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (7.69%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (46.15%) Ansible
2 3 (23.08%) Red Hat Satellite
3 2 (15.38%) Red Hat Spacewalk
3 2 (15.38%) Terraform
4 1 (7.69%) Podman
4 1 (7.69%) Progress Chef
4 1 (7.69%) Puppet
Vendors
1 12 (92.31%) Red Hat
2 2 (15.38%) Dell
2 2 (15.38%) HP
2 2 (15.38%) Oracle
2 2 (15.38%) VMware