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 12 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 146 160 132
Rank change year-on-year +14 -28 +65
Permanent jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 11 20 10
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 0.27% 0.57% 0.41%
As % of the Operating Systems category 2.68% 3.40% 2.18%
Number of salaries quoted 11 16 6
10th Percentile - £52,000 £42,188
25th Percentile £41,250 £55,313 £43,906
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,500 £57,500 £54,750
Median % change year-on-year -24.35% +5.02% +15.26%
75th Percentile £51,063 £61,250 £66,375
90th Percentile £53,750 £90,000 £70,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -

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 410 589 459
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 9.94% 16.76% 18.69%
Number of salaries quoted 302 333 341
10th Percentile £27,000 £26,250 £25,750
25th Percentile £30,750 £30,000 £28,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £50,000 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +25.00% -11.11%
75th Percentile £52,438 £57,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £44,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% - -4.76%

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
Salary Histogram in the East of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux in the East of England over the 6 months to 12 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Red Hat Enterprise Linux in the East of England

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 12 January 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 +13 11 £43,500 -24.35% 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (27.27%) Microsoft Exchange
1 3 (27.27%) Skype for Business
Cloud Services
1 11 (100.00%) Cohesity
Communications & Networking
1 8 (72.73%) SAN
2 3 (27.27%) Skype
2 3 (27.27%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (27.27%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (27.27%) GitLab
General
1 1 (9.09%) Advertising
1 1 (9.09%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (72.73%) Linux Engineer
2 7 (63.64%) Linux Support
2 7 (63.64%) Linux Support Engineer
2 7 (63.64%) Support Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Wintel Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Wintel Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (27.27%) Blackberry
1 3 (27.27%) PKI
1 3 (27.27%) RSA SecurID
Operating Systems
1 11 (100.00%) Linux
2 8 (72.73%) Debian
2 8 (72.73%) Solaris
2 8 (72.73%) Unix
3 3 (27.27%) Windows
3 3 (27.27%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (63.64%) Service Delivery
2 3 (27.27%) Service Management
3 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 8 (72.73%) Bash
1 8 (72.73%) Korn
1 8 (72.73%) Python
2 3 (27.27%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 11 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 6 (54.55%) DV Cleared
3 5 (45.45%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (90.91%) SLA
System Software
1 8 (72.73%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (27.27%) Active Directory
2 3 (27.27%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 11 (100.00%) Ansible
2 3 (27.27%) SCOM
2 3 (27.27%) WSUS
Vendors
1 11 (100.00%) VMware
2 8 (72.73%) NetApp
3 3 (27.27%) HP
3 3 (27.27%) Microsoft
3 3 (27.27%) Red Hat