Red Hat Enterprise Linux Job Trends in England

Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring Red Hat Enterprise Linux skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 463 486 410
Rank change year-on-year +23 -76 +26
Permanent jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 135 203 274
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.26% 0.41% 0.60%
As % of the Operating Systems category 2.94% 2.65% 3.54%
Number of salaries quoted 91 129 219
10th Percentile £42,750 £40,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £52,500 £49,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,465 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.93% +0.71% +8.33%
75th Percentile £88,750 £81,250 £85,000
90th Percentile £125,000 £90,000 £102,500
UK median annual salary £68,000 £65,232 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.24% +0.36% +8.33%

All Operating Systems
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 England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 4,599 7,673 7,738
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 8.73% 15.34% 16.83%
Number of salaries quoted 3,521 4,458 6,437
10th Percentile £27,000 £28,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £36,250 £34,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £44,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £88,750 £87,500
UK median annual salary £44,000 £50,048 £50,000
% change year-on-year -12.08% +0.10% -4.76%

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Red Hat Enterprise Linux job vacancy trend in England

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Salary Trend in England

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

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

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux in England over the 6 months to 27 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Red Hat Enterprise Linux in England

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Job Locations in 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 England region over the 6 months to 27 December 2025. 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
London +64 87 £85,000 +3.03% 31
South East +9 18 £50,000 +11.11% 38
East of England +22 12 £43,000 -26.81% 28
South West -26 8 £55,000 -23.60% 16
North West +20 7 £60,000 -8.35% 14
North of England +1 7 £60,000 -8.35% 31
Midlands +14 1 - - 25
East Midlands -14 1 - - 12
Red Hat Enterprise Linux
UK

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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 22 (16.30%) Tomcat
2 19 (14.07%) WebSphere
3 16 (11.85%) WebSphere Application Server
4 8 (5.93%) Microsoft Exchange
5 7 (5.19%) Apache
6 5 (3.70%) Confluence
6 5 (3.70%) IIS
7 3 (2.22%) Apache Spark
7 3 (2.22%) Skype for Business
8 2 (1.48%) JBoss
8 2 (1.48%) nginx
8 2 (1.48%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.74%) Oracle 11i
1 1 (0.74%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.74%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (0.74%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 49 (36.30%) AWS
2 21 (15.56%) Azure
3 15 (11.11%) OpenShift
4 11 (8.15%) Cohesity
5 10 (7.41%) Amazon EKS
5 10 (7.41%) AWS Lambda
5 10 (7.41%) GitHub
5 10 (7.41%) Serverless
6 9 (6.67%) AWS CloudFormation
7 8 (5.93%) Amazon EC2
7 8 (5.93%) Amazon S3
7 8 (5.93%) SaaS
8 7 (5.19%) GCP
8 7 (5.19%) Route 53
9 6 (4.44%) Amazon ECR
9 6 (4.44%) Microsoft 365
9 6 (4.44%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 2 (1.48%) AWS CodeDeploy
10 2 (1.48%) Azure DevOps
11 1 (0.74%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 17 (12.59%) Firewall
1 17 (12.59%) SSL
2 15 (11.11%) DNS
2 15 (11.11%) LAN
2 15 (11.11%) SAN
3 14 (10.37%) WAN
4 13 (9.63%) TCP/IP
5 12 (8.89%) Multicast
6 7 (5.19%) VSAN
7 6 (4.44%) DHCP
7 6 (4.44%) Fibre Channel
8 4 (2.96%) HTTP
9 3 (2.22%) AMQP
9 3 (2.22%) iSCSI
9 3 (2.22%) Remote Desktop
9 3 (2.22%) Skype
10 2 (1.48%) Cisco IOS
10 2 (1.48%) NAS
10 2 (1.48%) SNMP
10 2 (1.48%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (16.30%) PostgreSQL
1 22 (16.30%) SQL Server
2 18 (13.33%) DB2
3 7 (5.19%) Amazon RDS
3 7 (5.19%) MySQL
4 5 (3.70%) Oracle Database
5 4 (2.96%) Big Data
5 4 (2.96%) MongoDB
6 3 (2.22%) Cloudera CDH
6 3 (2.22%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.74%) Oracle Database 12c
7 1 (0.74%) Power BI
7 1 (0.74%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.74%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.74%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 19 (14.07%) Git
2 16 (11.85%) GitLab
3 8 (5.93%) Jenkins
4 7 (5.19%) JIRA
5 6 (4.44%) Bitbucket
6 5 (3.70%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 2 (1.48%) Ant
7 2 (1.48%) Artifactory
7 2 (1.48%) Maven
7 2 (1.48%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 57 (42.22%) Finance
2 31 (22.96%) Social Skills
3 23 (17.04%) Banking
4 12 (8.89%) Front Office
5 10 (7.41%) Investment Banking
6 7 (5.19%) Organisational Skills
7 5 (3.70%) Presentation Skills
8 4 (2.96%) Advertising
8 4 (2.96%) Aerospace
8 4 (2.96%) Analytical Skills
9 2 (1.48%) Electronics
9 2 (1.48%) Financial Institution
9 2 (1.48%) Military
9 2 (1.48%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.74%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 37 (27.41%) Linux Engineer
2 35 (25.93%) Administrator
3 32 (23.70%) Linux Support
4 26 (19.26%) Linux Administrator
5 20 (14.81%) Support Engineer
6 17 (12.59%) Applications Support
6 17 (12.59%) Infrastructure Support
6 17 (12.59%) Linux Support Engineer
7 15 (11.11%) Systems Administrator
7 15 (11.11%) Unix Support
8 12 (8.89%) C++ Developer
8 12 (8.89%) Developer
8 12 (8.89%) Linux Systems Administrator
9 11 (8.15%) DevOps Engineer
10 9 (6.67%) Cisco Engineer
10 9 (6.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 9 (6.67%) Linux DevOps Engineer
10 9 (6.67%) Linux Specialist
10 9 (6.67%) Linux/Unix DevOps
10 9 (6.67%) VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (13.33%) LDAP
2 16 (11.85%) LAPP Stack
2 16 (11.85%) WebSphere MQ
3 12 (8.89%) FIX Protocol
4 8 (5.93%) Kafka
5 7 (5.19%) Middleware
6 3 (2.22%) AngularJS
6 3 (2.22%) gRPC
6 3 (2.22%) Material-UI
6 3 (2.22%) Node.js
6 3 (2.22%) OpenAPI
6 3 (2.22%) RabbitMQ
6 3 (2.22%) React
6 3 (2.22%) REST
6 3 (2.22%) Spring
6 3 (2.22%) Spring Boot
6 3 (2.22%) Swagger
7 2 (1.48%) Elastic Stack
7 2 (1.48%) LAMP
8 1 (0.74%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 22 (16.30%) Management Information System
2 19 (14.07%) Linux Command Line
3 12 (8.89%) Derivative
4 9 (6.67%) Clustering
4 9 (6.67%) Hybrid Cloud
5 7 (5.19%) Data Centre
6 6 (4.44%) Cloud Native
7 5 (3.70%) Replication
7 5 (3.70%) Virtual Team
8 4 (2.96%) Onboarding
8 4 (2.96%) Video on Demand
8 4 (2.96%) Video\Live Streaming
9 3 (2.22%) Blackberry
9 3 (2.22%) PKI
9 3 (2.22%) RSA SecurID
10 2 (1.48%) Driving Licence
10 2 (1.48%) Enterprise Cloud
10 2 (1.48%) FPGA
11 1 (0.74%) Distributed Systems
11 1 (0.74%) Manufacturing Execution System
Operating Systems
1 135 (100.00%) Linux
2 48 (35.56%) Windows
3 37 (27.41%) Unix
4 26 (19.26%) CentOS
5 22 (16.30%) Windows Server
6 18 (13.33%) Windows Server 2019
7 13 (9.63%) Debian
8 12 (8.89%) Solaris
9 9 (6.67%) Ubuntu
10 8 (5.93%) Windows Server 2016
11 5 (3.70%) Windows Server 2012
12 3 (2.22%) Windows 10
13 2 (1.48%) AIX
13 2 (1.48%) CoreOS
13 2 (1.48%) Oracle Linux
14 1 (0.74%) OpenVMS
14 1 (0.74%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (28.15%) ITIL
2 29 (21.48%) DevOps
3 26 (19.26%) Change Management
4 21 (15.56%) Infrastructure as Code
4 21 (15.56%) Low Latency
4 21 (15.56%) Root Cause Analysis
5 20 (14.81%) Containerisation
6 18 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
6 18 (13.33%) Release Management
7 16 (11.85%) User Acceptance Testing
8 14 (10.37%) Disaster Recovery
8 14 (10.37%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 13 (9.63%) Incident Response
10 12 (8.89%) Concurrent Programming
10 12 (8.89%) Configuration Management
10 12 (8.89%) SOA
10 12 (8.89%) Systems Analysis
10 12 (8.89%) Unit Testing
11 11 (8.15%) Continuous Improvement
11 11 (8.15%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 72 (53.33%) Python
2 45 (33.33%) Bash
3 19 (14.07%) PowerShell
4 13 (9.63%) C++
5 11 (8.15%) Korn
5 11 (8.15%) Perl
6 8 (5.93%) Java
6 8 (5.93%) SQL
7 6 (4.44%) Shell Script
8 3 (2.22%) JavaScript
8 3 (2.22%) PHP
9 2 (1.48%) Groovy
10 1 (0.74%) C#
10 1 (0.74%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 29 (21.48%) Degree
2 26 (19.26%) Security Cleared
3 22 (16.30%) AWS Certification
4 21 (15.56%) ITIL Certification
5 18 (13.33%) DV Cleared
6 13 (9.63%) SC Cleared
7 5 (3.70%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (2.96%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (2.96%) RHCE
8 4 (2.96%) RHCSA
9 3 (2.22%) MCSE
9 3 (2.22%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 2 (1.48%) CCNA
10 2 (1.48%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (1.48%) Dell Certification
10 2 (1.48%) MCSA
11 1 (0.74%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (22.96%) SLA
2 10 (7.41%) QA
3 2 (1.48%) Def Stans
4 1 (0.74%) ISO 20022
4 1 (0.74%) SEPA
System Software
1 39 (28.89%) VMware Infrastructure
2 20 (14.81%) Active Directory
3 13 (9.63%) Docker
3 13 (9.63%) vSphere
4 9 (6.67%) NFS
5 6 (4.44%) Hyper-V
6 5 (3.70%) Veritas Cluster Server
7 3 (2.22%) Citrix Hypervisor
7 3 (2.22%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (1.48%) Postfix
9 1 (0.74%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 1 (0.74%) Dovecot
9 1 (0.74%) Virtual Machines
9 1 (0.74%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 56 (41.48%) Ansible
2 27 (20.00%) Kubernetes
3 23 (17.04%) Terraform
4 12 (8.89%) Puppet
5 6 (4.44%) Nagios
5 6 (4.44%) Progress Chef
5 6 (4.44%) WSUS
6 5 (3.70%) Podman
6 5 (3.70%) Red Hat Satellite
7 3 (2.22%) McAfee ePO
7 3 (2.22%) SCOM
7 3 (2.22%) SCVMM
8 2 (1.48%) Data Guard
8 2 (1.48%) Grafana
8 2 (1.48%) Red Hat Spacewalk
9 1 (0.74%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.74%) NetBackup
9 1 (0.74%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.74%) SCCM
9 1 (0.74%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 87 (64.44%) Red Hat
2 51 (37.78%) VMware
3 18 (13.33%) IBM
4 17 (12.59%) Cisco
5 14 (10.37%) Microsoft
6 12 (8.89%) Oracle
7 11 (8.15%) ServiceNow
8 10 (7.41%) Commvault
9 8 (5.93%) Dell
9 8 (5.93%) NetApp
10 7 (5.19%) HP
10 7 (5.19%) Pure Storage
11 5 (3.70%) Atlassian
11 5 (3.70%) Symantec
12 4 (2.96%) Splunk
13 3 (2.22%) Google
13 3 (2.22%) McAfee
13 3 (2.22%) SaltStack
14 2 (1.48%) Fujitsu
14 2 (1.48%) Juniper