Red Hat Job Trends in the City of London

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Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the City of London requiring knowledge or experience of Red Hat products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Red Hat over the 6 months leading up to 3 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT labour market in general and are not representative of salaries within Red Hat, Inc.

6 months to
3 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 137 124 165
Rank change year-on-year -13 +41 +36
Permanent jobs citing Red Hat 19 16 13
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 0.48% 0.77% 0.41%
As % of the Vendors category 1.76% 1.68% 1.06%
Number of salaries quoted 14 14 8
10th Percentile £52,375 £35,425 £70,000
25th Percentile - £51,563 £71,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £76,250 £86,250
Median % change year-on-year -27.87% -11.59% +43.75%
75th Percentile £90,000 £89,688 £94,688
90th Percentile £92,100 £100,000 £105,000
Central London median annual salary £55,000 £76,250 £86,250
% change year-on-year -27.87% -11.59% +43.75%

All Vendors
City of 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 permanent job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in the City of London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 1,080 955 1,232
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 27.42% 46.09% 38.63%
Number of salaries quoted 740 702 987
10th Percentile £36,250 £39,505 £37,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £48,500 £48,209
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% -7.14% +3.70%
75th Percentile £90,000 £91,250 £87,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £114,750 £105,950
Central London median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +7.69% -3.70% -

Red Hat
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Red Hat job vacancy trend in the City of London

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Salary Trend in the City of London

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

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

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Salary Histogram in the City of London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Red Hat in the City of London over the 6 months to 3 May 2026.

Salary histogram for Red Hat in the City of London

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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 (10.53%) Apache
1 2 (10.53%) nginx
2 1 (5.26%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (5.26%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (10.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 5 (26.32%) Azure
2 3 (15.79%) AWS
2 3 (15.79%) Entra ID
3 1 (5.26%) dbt
3 1 (5.26%) GCP
3 1 (5.26%) GitHub
3 1 (5.26%) OpenShift
3 1 (5.26%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 6 (31.58%) LAN
1 6 (31.58%) WAN
2 3 (15.79%) DHCP
2 3 (15.79%) DNS
2 3 (15.79%) Firewall
2 3 (15.79%) TCP/IP
2 3 (15.79%) WLAN
3 2 (10.53%) NAS
3 2 (10.53%) SAN
3 2 (10.53%) SNMP
4 1 (5.26%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.26%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (5.26%) Power BI
1 1 (5.26%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (15.79%) GitLab
2 1 (5.26%) Git
2 1 (5.26%) JIRA
General
1 7 (36.84%) Finance
2 4 (21.05%) Social Skills
3 3 (15.79%) Retail
4 1 (5.26%) Advertising
4 1 (5.26%) Banking
4 1 (5.26%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (5.26%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (57.89%) Administrator
1 11 (57.89%) Linux Administrator
2 4 (21.05%) Linux Systems Administrator
2 4 (21.05%) Systems Administrator
3 3 (15.79%) Principal Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) Linux Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) Platform Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) Senior
4 2 (10.53%) Senior Linux Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Cloud Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Collaboration Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Data Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Engineering Manager
5 1 (5.26%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Virtualisation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (10.53%) LDAP
2 1 (5.26%) AngularJS
2 1 (5.26%) CSS
2 1 (5.26%) HTML
2 1 (5.26%) Node.js
2 1 (5.26%) React
2 1 (5.26%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.53%) Cloud Native
1 2 (10.53%) Data Centre
1 2 (10.53%) Enterprise Software
1 2 (10.53%) FPGA
Operating Systems
1 18 (94.74%) Linux
2 11 (57.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (15.79%) CentOS
3 3 (15.79%) Ubuntu
4 2 (10.53%) Oracle Linux
5 1 (5.26%) CoreOS
5 1 (5.26%) Unix
5 1 (5.26%) Windows
5 1 (5.26%) Windows Server
5 1 (5.26%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (5.26%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (26.32%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (21.05%) Fintech
2 4 (21.05%) Infrastructure as Code
2 4 (21.05%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 3 (15.79%) Load Balancing
3 3 (15.79%) Technical Leadership
4 2 (10.53%) CI/CD
4 2 (10.53%) DevOps
4 2 (10.53%) Infrastructure Transformation
4 2 (10.53%) Roadmaps
5 1 (5.26%) Analytics
5 1 (5.26%) Continuous Improvement
5 1 (5.26%) Data Engineering
5 1 (5.26%) Data Visualisation
5 1 (5.26%) Mentoring
5 1 (5.26%) Microservices
5 1 (5.26%) Process Improvement
5 1 (5.26%) Root Cause Analysis
5 1 (5.26%) Visualisation
5 1 (5.26%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (26.32%) Python
2 3 (15.79%) Java
3 2 (10.53%) Bash
3 2 (10.53%) Perl
4 1 (5.26%) JavaScript
4 1 (5.26%) PowerShell
4 1 (5.26%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 1 (5.26%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (5.26%) Degree
1 1 (5.26%) SC Cleared
1 1 (5.26%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 5 (26.32%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (21.05%) Active Directory
3 1 (5.26%) Docker
3 1 (5.26%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 9 (47.37%) Ansible
2 4 (21.05%) Terraform
3 3 (15.79%) Red Hat Satellite
4 2 (10.53%) Red Hat Spacewalk
4 2 (10.53%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (5.26%) Argo
5 1 (5.26%) Kubernetes
5 1 (5.26%) McAfee ePO
5 1 (5.26%) Puppet
5 1 (5.26%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 7 (36.84%) VMware
2 2 (10.53%) Dell
2 2 (10.53%) HP
2 2 (10.53%) Microsoft
2 2 (10.53%) Oracle
2 2 (10.53%) Zscaler
3 1 (5.26%) McAfee