Red Hat Enterprise Linux Job Trends in the East of England

Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
England > East of England

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

6 months to
6 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 164 147 194
Rank change year-on-year -17 +47 -2
Permanent jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 1 20 7
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 0.020% 0.66% 0.14%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.26% 4.26% 0.77%
Number of salaries quoted 1 16 3
10th Percentile - £52,500 £42,650
25th Percentile £67,500 £56,250 £44,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £60,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% +26.32% +5.56%
75th Percentile £72,500 £79,063 £59,375
90th Percentile - £90,000 £64,250
England median annual salary £57,500 £70,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -17.86% +27.27% -14.25%

All Operating Systems
East of England

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 East of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 384 470 906
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 7.66% 15.47% 18.46%
Number of salaries quoted 267 301 792
10th Percentile £26,500 £26,000 £25,000
25th Percentile £29,875 £30,000 £26,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £47,500 £37,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.79% +26.67% -16.67%
75th Percentile £54,375 £58,086 £57,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £68,750 £72,375
England median annual salary £44,720 £51,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year -13.17% +8.42% -9.52%

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Red Hat Enterprise Linux job vacancy trend in the East of England

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Salary Trend in the East of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux within the East of England region over the 6 months to 6 March 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Hertfordshire -21 1 £70,000 +16.67% 2
Red Hat Enterprise Linux
England

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) SAN
1 1 (100.00%) SNMP
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Project Roadmap
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (100.00%) Server Management
1 1 (100.00%) SFIA
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (100.00%) VMware