Red Hat Job Trends in the City of London

Red Hat
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 13 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
13 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 140 120 160
Rank change year-on-year -20 +40 +37
Permanent jobs citing Red Hat 17 20 14
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 0.42% 0.99% 0.44%
As % of the Vendors category 1.55% 2.13% 1.13%
Number of salaries quoted 13 18 9
10th Percentile - £37,325 -
25th Percentile - £52,500 £70,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £73,750 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -25.42% -7.81% +33.33%
75th Percentile £90,000 £88,750 £93,750
90th Percentile £94,000 £100,000 £102,500
Central London median annual salary £55,000 £73,750 £80,000
% change year-on-year -25.42% -7.81% +28.00%

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 1,097 939 1,234
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 27.12% 46.39% 38.85%
Number of salaries quoted 753 697 977
10th Percentile £36,350 £39,050 £37,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £48,500 £47,500
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 £90,750 £87,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £105,300
Central London median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% -7.14% +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 13 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 (11.76%) Confluence
2 1 (5.88%) Apache
2 1 (5.88%) nginx
Applications
1 2 (11.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 5 (29.41%) Azure
2 3 (17.65%) AWS
2 3 (17.65%) Entra ID
3 1 (5.88%) GCP
3 1 (5.88%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 6 (35.29%) WAN
2 5 (29.41%) LAN
3 4 (23.53%) Firewall
4 3 (17.65%) WLAN
5 2 (11.76%) DHCP
5 2 (11.76%) DNS
5 2 (11.76%) TCP/IP
6 1 (5.88%) BGP
6 1 (5.88%) Ethernet VPN
6 1 (5.88%) MPLS
6 1 (5.88%) NAS
6 1 (5.88%) Network Security
6 1 (5.88%) OSPF
6 1 (5.88%) SAN
6 1 (5.88%) SNMP
6 1 (5.88%) VPN
6 1 (5.88%) VSAN
6 1 (5.88%) VXLAN
Development Applications
1 4 (23.53%) GitLab
2 2 (11.76%) JIRA
3 1 (5.88%) Git
General
1 6 (35.29%) Finance
2 3 (17.65%) Retail
3 2 (11.76%) Social Skills
4 1 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (5.88%) Banking
4 1 (5.88%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (5.88%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (58.82%) Administrator
1 10 (58.82%) Linux Administrator
2 4 (23.53%) Linux Systems Administrator
2 4 (23.53%) Systems Administrator
3 3 (17.65%) Principal Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) Platform Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Collaboration Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Engineering Manager
5 1 (5.88%) Linux Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Network Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Senior
5 1 (5.88%) Senior Linux Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Virtualisation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.88%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 3 (17.65%) Data Centre
2 2 (11.76%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (5.88%) Cloud Native
3 1 (5.88%) FPGA
Operating Systems
1 17 (100.00%) Linux
2 9 (52.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (17.65%) Ubuntu
4 2 (11.76%) CentOS
4 2 (11.76%) Unix
5 1 (5.88%) CoreOS
5 1 (5.88%) Oracle Linux
5 1 (5.88%) Windows
5 1 (5.88%) Windows Server
5 1 (5.88%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (5.88%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (23.53%) Fintech
1 4 (23.53%) Infrastructure as Code
1 4 (23.53%) Load Balancing
1 4 (23.53%) Technical Leadership
2 3 (17.65%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 3 (17.65%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (11.76%) CI/CD
3 2 (11.76%) Infrastructure Transformation
3 2 (11.76%) Roadmaps
4 1 (5.88%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (5.88%) DevOps
4 1 (5.88%) Mentoring
4 1 (5.88%) Observability
4 1 (5.88%) Process Improvement
4 1 (5.88%) RBAC
4 1 (5.88%) Root Cause Analysis
4 1 (5.88%) Runbook
4 1 (5.88%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 1 (5.88%) Time Management
4 1 (5.88%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 3 (17.65%) Python
2 2 (11.76%) Bash
2 2 (11.76%) PowerShell
3 1 (5.88%) Java
3 1 (5.88%) Perl
Qualifications
1 1 (5.88%) CCIE
1 1 (5.88%) CCNP
1 1 (5.88%) Cisco Certification
System Software
1 4 (23.53%) Active Directory
1 4 (23.53%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (5.88%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 8 (47.06%) Ansible
2 5 (29.41%) Terraform
3 2 (11.76%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (5.88%) Kubernetes
4 1 (5.88%) McAfee ePO
4 1 (5.88%) Puppet
4 1 (5.88%) Red Hat Satellite
4 1 (5.88%) Red Hat Spacewalk
4 1 (5.88%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 6 (35.29%) VMware
2 2 (11.76%) Microsoft
2 2 (11.76%) Zscaler
3 1 (5.88%) Cisco
3 1 (5.88%) Dell
3 1 (5.88%) HP
3 1 (5.88%) McAfee
3 1 (5.88%) Oracle