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 29 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 545 481 489
Rank change year-on-year -64 +8 +7
Permanent jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 192 168 320
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.21% 0.39% 0.42%
As % of the Operating Systems category 3.32% 2.57% 3.21%
Number of salaries quoted 152 128 243
10th Percentile £46,250 £51,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £56,250 £55,000 £41,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £70,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +21.74% -8.73%
75th Percentile £77,500 £81,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £101,250 £100,000 £102,500
UK median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -3.57% +21.74% -8.73%

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 5,777 6,543 9,975
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 6.40% 15.06% 13.14%
Number of salaries quoted 4,384 4,357 7,476
10th Percentile £28,000 £26,875 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,500 £31,250 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £42,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -11.58% -9.52%
75th Percentile £67,500 £63,750 £63,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £81,250 £83,750
UK median annual salary £45,000 £42,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year +5.88% -10.53% -9.52%

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 29 July 2026.

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 29 July 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
London -34 70 £67,500 -15.63% 26
South East -19 56 £67,500 +10.66% 10
North of England -22 37 £97,500 +50.00% 9
North West +3 27 £47,500 -36.56% 7
South West -45 18 £75,000 +20.00% 6
Midlands -40 6 £75,000 +30.43% 5
East Midlands -28 5 £75,000 +30.43% 1
East of England -28 5 £55,000 +4.76% 1
Yorkshire -36 5 £97,500 +50.00% 1
North East -48 5 £97,500 +77.27% 1
West Midlands -32 1 - - 4
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 17 (8.85%) Microsoft Exchange
2 9 (4.69%) Apache
2 9 (4.69%) Confluence
3 8 (4.17%) OpenStack
4 5 (2.60%) SharePoint
5 4 (2.08%) Apache Spark
6 2 (1.04%) JBoss
7 1 (0.52%) CMS
7 1 (0.52%) nginx
7 1 (0.52%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (0.52%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 12 (6.25%) FLEXCUBE
Cloud Services
1 62 (32.29%) AWS
2 41 (21.35%) Azure
3 20 (10.42%) GitHub
4 15 (7.81%) Microsoft 365
5 11 (5.73%) OpenShift
6 9 (4.69%) AWS CloudFormation
7 7 (3.65%) Azure Stack
7 7 (3.65%) Datadog
8 6 (3.13%) Amazon EKS
8 6 (3.13%) AWS Lambda
8 6 (3.13%) Serverless
9 5 (2.60%) GCP
10 4 (2.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 4 (2.08%) Amazon EC2
10 4 (2.08%) Amazon S3
10 4 (2.08%) Nutanix
10 4 (2.08%) SaaS
10 4 (2.08%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 3 (1.56%) GitHub Actions
11 3 (1.56%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 51 (26.56%) DNS
2 38 (19.79%) Firewall
3 31 (16.15%) SAN
4 20 (10.42%) LAN
5 16 (8.33%) TCP/IP
6 12 (6.25%) HTTP
6 12 (6.25%) WAN
7 11 (5.73%) Remote Desktop
8 10 (5.21%) iSCSI
9 9 (4.69%) NAS
10 8 (4.17%) NetScaler
10 8 (4.17%) Wireshark
11 6 (3.13%) DHCP
12 5 (2.60%) VSAN
13 4 (2.08%) AMQP
13 4 (2.08%) Kerberos
14 3 (1.56%) VoIP
14 3 (1.56%) VPN
15 2 (1.04%) Network Security
15 2 (1.04%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (8.33%) SQL Server
2 13 (6.77%) Oracle Database
3 10 (5.21%) MySQL
4 9 (4.69%) PostgreSQL
5 8 (4.17%) MongoDB
6 6 (3.13%) Elasticsearch
6 6 (3.13%) Hadoop
7 4 (2.08%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (2.08%) Big Data
7 4 (2.08%) Cloudera CDH
8 1 (0.52%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 42 (21.88%) Git
2 28 (14.58%) GitLab
3 26 (13.54%) Jenkins
4 21 (10.94%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 14 (7.29%) JIRA
6 3 (1.56%) Bitbucket
7 2 (1.04%) Artifactory
7 2 (1.04%) Maven
8 1 (0.52%) Eclipse
8 1 (0.52%) git-flow
8 1 (0.52%) Robot Framework
8 1 (0.52%) Selenium
8 1 (0.52%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.52%) TeamCity
General
1 73 (38.02%) Social Skills
2 35 (18.23%) Finance
3 32 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (10.42%) Banking
5 19 (9.90%) Public Sector
6 12 (6.25%) Documentation Skills
7 11 (5.73%) Organisational Skills
8 10 (5.21%) Aerospace
9 5 (2.60%) Manufacturing
10 4 (2.08%) Influencing Skills
10 4 (2.08%) Mandarin Language
11 3 (1.56%) Front Office
11 3 (1.56%) Military
11 3 (1.56%) Telecoms
12 2 (1.04%) Advertising
13 1 (0.52%) Law
13 1 (0.52%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 31 (16.15%) Senior
2 29 (15.10%) Linux Engineer
3 27 (14.06%) Administrator
4 23 (11.98%) Systems Administrator
5 22 (11.46%) DevOps Engineer
6 20 (10.42%) Applications Architect
6 20 (10.42%) Architect
7 17 (8.85%) Principal DevOps Engineer
7 17 (8.85%) Principal Engineer
8 16 (8.33%) Lead
9 14 (7.29%) Security Architect
10 13 (6.77%) DBA
11 12 (6.25%) Oracle DBA
11 12 (6.25%) Senior DBA
11 12 (6.25%) Senior Oracle DBA
12 11 (5.73%) Linux Administrator
13 10 (5.21%) Linux Systems Administrator
13 10 (5.21%) Support Engineer
14 9 (4.69%) Linux Support
14 9 (4.69%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (11.98%) LDAP
1 23 (11.98%) Regular Expression
2 19 (9.90%) XMPP
3 8 (4.17%) JSON
3 8 (4.17%) WebSockets
4 7 (3.65%) ARM Templates
4 7 (3.65%) JSON Schema
4 7 (3.65%) XML
5 5 (2.60%) RabbitMQ
5 5 (2.60%) React
6 4 (2.08%) AngularJS
6 4 (2.08%) gRPC
6 4 (2.08%) Material-UI
6 4 (2.08%) Node.js
6 4 (2.08%) OpenAPI
6 4 (2.08%) REST
6 4 (2.08%) Spring
6 4 (2.08%) Spring Boot
6 4 (2.08%) Swagger
6 4 (2.08%) web3js
Miscellaneous
1 33 (17.19%) Cloud Native
2 19 (9.90%) Data Centre
3 17 (8.85%) PKI
4 14 (7.29%) Management Information System
5 7 (3.65%) Social Media
6 6 (3.13%) Enterprise Storage
6 6 (3.13%) Security Posture
7 5 (2.60%) Hybrid Cloud
7 5 (2.60%) Manufacturing Execution System
7 5 (2.60%) Operational Technology
7 5 (2.60%) Replication
8 4 (2.08%) Blockchain
8 4 (2.08%) Onboarding
8 4 (2.08%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (2.08%) Web3
9 3 (1.56%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (1.56%) Enterprise Cloud
9 3 (1.56%) Fixed Income
9 3 (1.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 2 (1.04%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 192 (100.00%) Linux
2 77 (40.10%) Windows
3 68 (35.42%) Windows Server
4 55 (28.65%) CentOS
5 26 (13.54%) Unix
6 21 (10.94%) Ubuntu
7 18 (9.38%) AIX
8 13 (6.77%) Debian
8 13 (6.77%) Windows Server 2019
9 12 (6.25%) Oracle Linux
10 8 (4.17%) Rocky
11 5 (2.60%) CoreOS
11 5 (2.60%) OpenVMS
11 5 (2.60%) Windows Server 2016
12 3 (1.56%) VMS
13 2 (1.04%) Amazon Linux
13 2 (1.04%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (38.02%) DevOps
2 59 (30.73%) CI/CD
3 41 (21.35%) Infrastructure as Code
4 40 (20.83%) ITIL
4 40 (20.83%) SIEM
5 39 (20.31%) High Availability
6 38 (19.79%) Platform Engineering
6 38 (19.79%) Problem-Solving
7 32 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
8 31 (16.15%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 30 (15.63%) Configuration Management
9 30 (15.63%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 26 (13.54%) Continuous Improvement
11 24 (12.50%) Agile
11 24 (12.50%) Cybersecurity
12 23 (11.98%) Disaster Recovery
13 21 (10.94%) Microservices
14 20 (10.42%) Observability
14 20 (10.42%) Roadmaps
15 19 (9.90%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 56 (29.17%) Bash
2 52 (27.08%) Python
3 34 (17.71%) PowerShell
4 32 (16.67%) SQL
5 21 (10.94%) Shell Script
6 18 (9.38%) Korn
7 17 (8.85%) Java
8 12 (6.25%) PL/SQL
9 10 (5.21%) PHP
10 7 (3.65%) JavaScript
11 4 (2.08%) Perl
12 2 (1.04%) C
13 1 (0.52%) C#
13 1 (0.52%) C++
13 1 (0.52%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 86 (44.79%) Security Cleared
2 60 (31.25%) DV Cleared
3 33 (17.19%) SC Cleared
4 22 (11.46%) Degree
5 11 (5.73%) RHCSA
6 7 (3.65%) Cisco Certification
7 6 (3.13%) Microsoft Certification
8 5 (2.60%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (2.08%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 4 (2.08%) CCSP
9 4 (2.08%) CISM
9 4 (2.08%) CISSP
9 4 (2.08%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 4 (2.08%) Postgraduate
9 4 (2.08%) RHCE
10 3 (1.56%) CCNA
10 3 (1.56%) Dell Certification
10 3 (1.56%) MCSA
10 3 (1.56%) MCSE
11 2 (1.04%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (2.60%) NIST
1 5 (2.60%) SLA
2 4 (2.08%) GDPR
2 4 (2.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (2.08%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 56 (29.17%) Active Directory
1 56 (29.17%) Docker
2 36 (18.75%) vSphere
3 31 (16.15%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (7.29%) Hyper-V
5 12 (6.25%) Oracle RAC
6 9 (4.69%) Virtual Machines
7 8 (4.17%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 5 (2.60%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 3 (1.56%) VMware ESXi
10 2 (1.04%) Samba
10 2 (1.04%) Xen
11 1 (0.52%) KVM
11 1 (0.52%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 68 (35.42%) Kubernetes
2 59 (30.73%) Ansible
3 56 (29.17%) Terraform
4 30 (15.63%) Nagios
5 24 (12.50%) Puppet
6 13 (6.77%) Data Guard
7 12 (6.25%) Oracle RMAN
8 11 (5.73%) ZABBIX
9 8 (4.17%) WSUS
10 7 (3.65%) Grafana
10 7 (3.65%) Podman
11 5 (2.60%) Docker Swarm
11 5 (2.60%) McAfee ePO
11 5 (2.60%) Prometheus
11 5 (2.60%) Red Hat Satellite
11 5 (2.60%) SCVMM
12 4 (2.08%) Argo
13 2 (1.04%) FlexNet
13 2 (1.04%) Progress Chef
13 2 (1.04%) Rancher
Vendors
1 115 (59.90%) Red Hat
2 65 (33.85%) VMware
3 42 (21.88%) Microsoft
4 25 (13.02%) McAfee
5 20 (10.42%) Oracle
6 14 (7.29%) Splunk
7 12 (6.25%) IBM
7 12 (6.25%) NetApp
8 11 (5.73%) Dell
9 9 (4.69%) SolarWinds
10 8 (4.17%) Citrix
11 6 (3.13%) ServiceNow
12 5 (2.60%) Google
12 5 (2.60%) Veeam
13 4 (2.08%) CyberArk
13 4 (2.08%) Ivanti
13 4 (2.08%) Qualys
13 4 (2.08%) Rapid7
13 4 (2.08%) SaltStack
13 4 (2.08%) Tenable