Red Hat Job Trends in the East of England

Red Hat
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the East of England 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 19 January 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
19 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 145 161 144
Rank change year-on-year +16 -17 +25
Permanent jobs citing Red Hat 11 22 12
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 0.26% 0.63% 0.43%
As % of the Vendors category 1.04% 1.59% 1.08%
Number of salaries quoted 10 13 7
10th Percentile £46,160 £47,900 £53,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £52,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £58,438 £60,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £59,775 - £66,000
England median annual salary £69,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +6.15% +8.33% -6.45%

All Vendors
East of England

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 East of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 1,059 1,384 1,114
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 25.09% 39.90% 39.70%
Number of salaries quoted 605 545 882
10th Percentile £27,000 £26,000 £25,750
25th Percentile £31,250 £33,199 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +5.26% -
75th Percentile £60,000 £60,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £76,250 £72,500 £73,750
England median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -4.35%

Red Hat
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Red Hat job vacancy trend in the East of England

Red Hat
Salary Trend in the East of England

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

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

Red Hat
Salary Histogram in the East of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Red Hat in the East of England over the 6 months to 19 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Red Hat in the East of England

Red Hat
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 within the East of England region over the 6 months to 19 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 +3 11 £55,000 -4.35% 2
Red Hat
England

Red Hat
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 3 (27.27%) Cohesity
Communications & Networking
1 3 (27.27%) Ethernet
1 3 (27.27%) InfiniBand
1 3 (27.27%) Skype
1 3 (27.27%) VSAN
2 1 (9.09%) SAN
2 1 (9.09%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (27.27%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (27.27%) GitLab
General
1 4 (36.36%) Social Skills
2 1 (9.09%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 5 (45.45%) Linux Engineer
2 3 (27.27%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 3 (27.27%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Senior
3 2 (18.18%) Server Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Virtualisation Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Wintel Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Network Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Senior Linux Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Senior Network 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
2 2 (18.18%) Data Centre
3 1 (9.09%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 10 (90.91%) Linux
1 10 (90.91%) Windows
2 5 (45.45%) Windows Server
3 3 (27.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (36.36%) Presales
1 4 (36.36%) Stakeholder Management
2 3 (27.27%) Batch Scheduling
2 3 (27.27%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 2 (18.18%) AI
3 2 (18.18%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (18.18%) Customer Service
3 2 (18.18%) Information Security
3 2 (18.18%) IT Strategy
3 2 (18.18%) Mentoring
3 2 (18.18%) Proactive Monitoring
3 2 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (18.18%) Virtual Environments
4 1 (9.09%) Network Design
4 1 (9.09%) Network Monitoring
4 1 (9.09%) Observability
4 1 (9.09%) Roadmaps
4 1 (9.09%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 4 (36.36%) Bash
1 4 (36.36%) Python
2 3 (27.27%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 10 (90.91%) Security Cleared
2 7 (63.64%) SC Cleared
3 5 (45.45%) DV Cleared
3 5 (45.45%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (18.18%) SLA
System Software
1 8 (72.73%) Active Directory
2 5 (45.45%) vSphere
3 3 (27.27%) Lustre
3 3 (27.27%) Slurm Workload Manager
4 2 (18.18%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (18.18%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (18.18%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (72.73%) Ansible
2 3 (27.27%) SCOM
2 3 (27.27%) WSUS
3 2 (18.18%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 7 (63.64%) Microsoft
2 6 (54.55%) VMware
3 3 (27.27%) EMC
3 3 (27.27%) HP
3 3 (27.27%) IBM
3 3 (27.27%) Mellanox
3 3 (27.27%) NetApp
4 2 (18.18%) NVIDIA
5 1 (9.09%) Cisco
5 1 (9.09%) Juniper