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 13 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 549 481 465
Rank change year-on-year -68 -16 -4
Permanent jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 195 169 315
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.21% 0.39% 0.43%
As % of the Operating Systems category 3.31% 2.57% 3.36%
Number of salaries quoted 146 127 236
10th Percentile £46,250 £51,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £56,563 £55,000 £41,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £70,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +16.67% -7.69%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,750 £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% -11.54%

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 5,893 6,571 9,377
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 6.26% 15.01% 12.91%
Number of salaries quoted 4,435 4,374 6,791
10th Percentile £28,250 £26,750 £26,250
25th Percentile £32,000 £31,250 £33,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £41,500 £48,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.43% -13.54% -8.57%
75th Percentile £67,500 £62,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £45,000 £42,000 £48,500
% change year-on-year +7.14% -13.40% -7.62%

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 13 August 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 13 August 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 -67 66 £75,000 -6.25% 38
South East +2 57 £67,500 +9.76% 11
North of England -26 40 £97,500 +50.00% 13
North West +21 30 £47,500 -36.56% 11
South West -41 20 £75,000 +22.45% 16
Midlands -41 7 £75,000 +30.43% 2
East Midlands -29 5 £75,000 +30.43%
Yorkshire -30 5 £97,500 +50.00% 1
East of England -31 5 £55,000 +4.76% 1
North East -53 5 £97,500 +77.27% 1
West Midlands -29 2 - - 2
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 14 (7.18%) Microsoft Exchange
2 9 (4.62%) Apache
2 9 (4.62%) Confluence
3 8 (4.10%) OpenStack
4 5 (2.56%) Apache Spark
5 2 (1.03%) JBoss
5 2 (1.03%) nginx
5 2 (1.03%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.51%) Oracle HTTP Server
6 1 (0.51%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (0.51%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 11 (5.64%) FLEXCUBE
Cloud Services
1 65 (33.33%) AWS
2 44 (22.56%) Azure
3 20 (10.26%) GitHub
4 15 (7.69%) Microsoft 365
5 12 (6.15%) OpenShift
6 10 (5.13%) AWS CloudFormation
7 7 (3.59%) Amazon EKS
7 7 (3.59%) AWS Lambda
7 7 (3.59%) Datadog
7 7 (3.59%) Serverless
8 6 (3.08%) Azure Stack
8 6 (3.08%) GCP
9 5 (2.56%) Nutanix
10 4 (2.05%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 4 (2.05%) Amazon EC2
10 4 (2.05%) Amazon S3
10 4 (2.05%) SaaS
10 4 (2.05%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 3 (1.54%) CloudFront
11 3 (1.54%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 46 (23.59%) DNS
2 38 (19.49%) Firewall
3 28 (14.36%) SAN
4 18 (9.23%) LAN
5 14 (7.18%) TCP/IP
6 12 (6.15%) WAN
7 11 (5.64%) HTTP
7 11 (5.64%) Remote Desktop
8 10 (5.13%) iSCSI
9 9 (4.62%) NAS
10 8 (4.10%) NetScaler
10 8 (4.10%) Wireshark
11 6 (3.08%) DHCP
12 5 (2.56%) AMQP
12 5 (2.56%) Kerberos
12 5 (2.56%) VSAN
13 3 (1.54%) VoIP
13 3 (1.54%) VPN
14 2 (1.03%) PBX
14 2 (1.03%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (8.72%) SQL Server
2 12 (6.15%) Oracle Database
3 10 (5.13%) MySQL
4 9 (4.62%) MongoDB
4 9 (4.62%) PostgreSQL
5 7 (3.59%) Elasticsearch
5 7 (3.59%) Hadoop
6 6 (3.08%) Big Data
7 5 (2.56%) Cloudera CDH
8 4 (2.05%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.51%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.51%) GIS
Development Applications
1 40 (20.51%) Git
2 27 (13.85%) GitLab
2 27 (13.85%) Jenkins
3 21 (10.77%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 14 (7.18%) JIRA
5 3 (1.54%) Bitbucket
6 2 (1.03%) Artifactory
6 2 (1.03%) Maven
7 1 (0.51%) Eclipse
7 1 (0.51%) git-flow
7 1 (0.51%) Robot Framework
7 1 (0.51%) Selenium
7 1 (0.51%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.51%) TeamCity
General
1 73 (37.44%) Social Skills
2 33 (16.92%) Finance
3 30 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (10.26%) Public Sector
5 17 (8.72%) Banking
6 11 (5.64%) Aerospace
6 11 (5.64%) Documentation Skills
6 11 (5.64%) Organisational Skills
7 6 (3.08%) Manufacturing
8 5 (2.56%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (2.05%) Mandarin Language
10 3 (1.54%) Front Office
10 3 (1.54%) Military
10 3 (1.54%) Telecoms
11 2 (1.03%) Advertising
12 1 (0.51%) Law
12 1 (0.51%) Police
12 1 (0.51%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 32 (16.41%) Senior
2 30 (15.38%) Linux Engineer
3 26 (13.33%) Administrator
4 23 (11.79%) DevOps Engineer
5 22 (11.28%) Systems Administrator
6 20 (10.26%) Applications Architect
6 20 (10.26%) Architect
7 17 (8.72%) Lead
7 17 (8.72%) Principal DevOps Engineer
7 17 (8.72%) Principal Engineer
8 14 (7.18%) Security Architect
9 12 (6.15%) DBA
10 11 (5.64%) Linux Administrator
10 11 (5.64%) Oracle DBA
10 11 (5.64%) Senior DBA
10 11 (5.64%) Senior Oracle DBA
11 10 (5.13%) Linux Systems Administrator
12 9 (4.62%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 9 (4.62%) Senior Linux Engineer
12 9 (4.62%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (12.31%) LDAP
2 23 (11.79%) Regular Expression
3 19 (9.74%) XMPP
4 8 (4.10%) JSON
5 7 (3.59%) JSON Schema
5 7 (3.59%) XML
6 6 (3.08%) ARM Templates
6 6 (3.08%) RabbitMQ
6 6 (3.08%) React
6 6 (3.08%) WebSockets
7 5 (2.56%) AngularJS
7 5 (2.56%) gRPC
7 5 (2.56%) Material-UI
7 5 (2.56%) Node.js
7 5 (2.56%) OpenAPI
7 5 (2.56%) REST
7 5 (2.56%) Spring
7 5 (2.56%) Spring Boot
7 5 (2.56%) Swagger
8 4 (2.05%) web3js
Miscellaneous
1 34 (17.44%) Cloud Native
2 17 (8.72%) Data Centre
3 14 (7.18%) Management Information System
3 14 (7.18%) PKI
4 7 (3.59%) Hybrid Cloud
4 7 (3.59%) Security Posture
4 7 (3.59%) Social Media
5 6 (3.08%) Enterprise Storage
5 6 (3.08%) Onboarding
6 5 (2.56%) Manufacturing Execution System
6 5 (2.56%) Operational Technology
6 5 (2.56%) Replication
7 4 (2.05%) Blockchain
7 4 (2.05%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (2.05%) Web3
8 3 (1.54%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (1.54%) Enterprise Cloud
8 3 (1.54%) Fixed Income
8 3 (1.54%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 2 (1.03%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 195 (100.00%) Linux
2 77 (39.49%) Windows
3 68 (34.87%) Windows Server
4 58 (29.74%) CentOS
5 27 (13.85%) Unix
6 21 (10.77%) Ubuntu
7 19 (9.74%) AIX
8 14 (7.18%) Debian
9 12 (6.15%) Rocky
9 12 (6.15%) Windows Server 2019
10 11 (5.64%) Oracle Linux
11 5 (2.56%) CoreOS
11 5 (2.56%) OpenVMS
11 5 (2.56%) Windows Server 2016
12 3 (1.54%) Solaris
12 3 (1.54%) VMS
13 2 (1.03%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (37.95%) DevOps
2 60 (30.77%) CI/CD
3 42 (21.54%) Infrastructure as Code
4 41 (21.03%) ITIL
5 39 (20.00%) Platform Engineering
6 38 (19.49%) High Availability
7 37 (18.97%) Problem-Solving
7 37 (18.97%) SIEM
8 32 (16.41%) Configuration Management
8 32 (16.41%) Technical Leadership
9 31 (15.90%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 30 (15.38%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 28 (14.36%) Continuous Improvement
12 26 (13.33%) Cybersecurity
13 24 (12.31%) Agile
14 22 (11.28%) Disaster Recovery
14 22 (11.28%) Microservices
15 21 (10.77%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 21 (10.77%) Roadmaps
16 20 (10.26%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 58 (29.74%) Bash
2 55 (28.21%) Python
3 35 (17.95%) PowerShell
4 27 (13.85%) SQL
5 24 (12.31%) Shell Script
6 20 (10.26%) Java
7 19 (9.74%) Korn
8 12 (6.15%) PL/SQL
9 8 (4.10%) JavaScript
9 8 (4.10%) PHP
10 4 (2.05%) Perl
11 2 (1.03%) C
12 1 (0.51%) C#
12 1 (0.51%) C++
12 1 (0.51%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 91 (46.67%) Security Cleared
2 63 (32.31%) DV Cleared
3 35 (17.95%) SC Cleared
4 22 (11.28%) Degree
5 11 (5.64%) RHCSA
6 8 (4.10%) Cisco Certification
7 6 (3.08%) Microsoft Certification
7 6 (3.08%) RHCE
8 5 (2.56%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 5 (2.56%) BPSS Clearance
8 5 (2.56%) CCSP
8 5 (2.56%) CISM
8 5 (2.56%) CISSP
9 4 (2.05%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 4 (2.05%) Postgraduate
10 3 (1.54%) Azure Certification
10 3 (1.54%) CCNA
10 3 (1.54%) Dell Certification
10 3 (1.54%) MCSA
10 3 (1.54%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.08%) NIST
2 5 (2.56%) GDPR
2 5 (2.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (2.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 5 (2.56%) SLA
3 1 (0.51%) QA
System Software
1 58 (29.74%) Docker
2 55 (28.21%) Active Directory
3 36 (18.46%) vSphere
4 30 (15.38%) VMware Infrastructure
5 14 (7.18%) Hyper-V
6 12 (6.15%) Oracle RAC
7 11 (5.64%) Virtual Machines
8 8 (4.10%) Citrix Hypervisor
9 6 (3.08%) VMware ESXi
10 5 (2.56%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 2 (1.03%) Samba
11 2 (1.03%) Xen
12 1 (0.51%) KVM
12 1 (0.51%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 68 (34.87%) Kubernetes
2 65 (33.33%) Ansible
3 57 (29.23%) Terraform
4 27 (13.85%) Puppet
5 26 (13.33%) Nagios
6 12 (6.15%) Data Guard
6 12 (6.15%) Oracle RMAN
7 11 (5.64%) ZABBIX
8 8 (4.10%) Podman
9 7 (3.59%) Grafana
10 6 (3.08%) Red Hat Satellite
11 5 (2.56%) McAfee ePO
11 5 (2.56%) Prometheus
11 5 (2.56%) SCVMM
11 5 (2.56%) WSUS
12 4 (2.05%) Argo
12 4 (2.05%) Docker Swarm
13 2 (1.03%) FlexNet
13 2 (1.03%) Progress Chef
13 2 (1.03%) Rancher
Vendors
1 120 (61.54%) Red Hat
2 65 (33.33%) VMware
3 42 (21.54%) Microsoft
4 22 (11.28%) McAfee
5 21 (10.77%) Oracle
6 14 (7.18%) Splunk
7 13 (6.67%) IBM
8 12 (6.15%) NetApp
9 11 (5.64%) Dell
10 9 (4.62%) Citrix
11 7 (3.59%) ServiceNow
11 7 (3.59%) SolarWinds
12 6 (3.08%) Google
13 5 (2.56%) CyberArk
13 5 (2.56%) Ivanti
13 5 (2.56%) Qualys
13 5 (2.56%) Rapid7
13 5 (2.56%) SaltStack
13 5 (2.56%) Veeam
13 5 (2.56%) Veracode