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 8 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 525 463 501
Rank change year-on-year -62 +38 -11
Permanent jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 136 143 306
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.18% 0.39% 0.39%
As % of the Operating Systems category 2.75% 2.57% 2.56%
Number of salaries quoted 110 108 226
10th Percentile £46,250 £52,500 £39,375
25th Percentile £51,250 £59,063 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £70,996 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.49% +29.08% -15.38%
75th Percentile £75,000 £85,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £112,750 £96,250 £102,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £70,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -14.29% +27.27% -15.38%

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 4,954 5,572 11,967
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 6.74% 15.24% 15.09%
Number of salaries quoted 3,756 4,009 9,924
10th Percentile £27,206 £27,500 £25,750
25th Percentile £31,250 £34,000 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +11.11% -14.29%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £88,750 £80,000
UK median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% +11.11% -14.29%

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 8 April 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 8 April 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 -1 73 £61,250 -25.76% 14
South East -19 40 £67,500 +12.50% 14
North West -30 12 £57,000 -23.87% 10
North of England -61 12 £57,000 -21.31% 19
South West -42 9 £57,500 -20.13% 13
East of England -49 1 £70,000 +7.69% 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 16 (11.76%) Microsoft Exchange
2 12 (8.82%) Apache
3 9 (6.62%) Tomcat
4 8 (5.88%) SharePoint
5 7 (5.15%) Confluence
6 5 (3.68%) Apache Spark
6 5 (3.68%) IIS
7 4 (2.94%) OpenStack
7 4 (2.94%) WebSphere
7 4 (2.94%) WebSphere Application Server
8 3 (2.21%) CMS
8 3 (2.21%) WordPress
9 2 (1.47%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (0.74%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (2.21%) FLEXCUBE
2 1 (0.74%) Oracle 11i
2 1 (0.74%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.74%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.74%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 35 (25.74%) AWS
2 26 (19.12%) Azure
3 14 (10.29%) SaaS
4 12 (8.82%) OpenShift
5 11 (8.09%) AWS CloudFormation
6 8 (5.88%) AWS Lambda
6 8 (5.88%) Serverless
7 7 (5.15%) GCP
8 6 (4.41%) Amazon EKS
8 6 (4.41%) Datadog
9 5 (3.68%) Microsoft 365
10 3 (2.21%) Amazon EC2
10 3 (2.21%) Amazon S3
10 3 (2.21%) Azure Stack
10 3 (2.21%) GitHub
10 3 (2.21%) GitHub Actions
10 3 (2.21%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 2 (1.47%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 2 (1.47%) Amazon ECR
11 2 (1.47%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 45 (33.09%) DNS
2 21 (15.44%) Firewall
3 20 (14.71%) SAN
4 16 (11.76%) LAN
5 15 (11.03%) HTTP
5 15 (11.03%) TCP/IP
6 11 (8.09%) Multicast
6 11 (8.09%) WAN
7 7 (5.15%) DHCP
7 7 (5.15%) NAS
8 5 (3.68%) AMQP
8 5 (3.68%) iSCSI
8 5 (3.68%) Remote Desktop
8 5 (3.68%) SSL
8 5 (3.68%) VSAN
9 4 (2.94%) NetScaler
9 4 (2.94%) Wireshark
10 3 (2.21%) SNMP
10 3 (2.21%) VPN
11 2 (1.47%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (11.03%) SQL Server
2 12 (8.82%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (5.88%) MySQL
4 7 (5.15%) Oracle Database
5 6 (4.41%) Big Data
6 5 (3.68%) Cloudera CDH
6 5 (3.68%) Hadoop
6 5 (3.68%) MongoDB
7 4 (2.94%) DB2
7 4 (2.94%) Elasticsearch
8 3 (2.21%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.74%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.74%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.74%) Oracle Database 12c
9 1 (0.74%) RDBMS
9 1 (0.74%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.74%) SAP HANA
9 1 (0.74%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (0.74%) Sybase ASE
9 1 (0.74%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 16 (11.76%) Git
2 10 (7.35%) JIRA
3 9 (6.62%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 9 (6.62%) GitLab
3 9 (6.62%) Jenkins
4 6 (4.41%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.74%) git-flow
5 1 (0.74%) Maven
5 1 (0.74%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 43 (31.62%) Social Skills
2 33 (24.26%) Finance
3 13 (9.56%) Analytical Skills
3 13 (9.56%) Banking
4 12 (8.82%) Front Office
5 9 (6.62%) Organisational Skills
6 6 (4.41%) Documentation Skills
6 6 (4.41%) Presentation Skills
7 5 (3.68%) Aerospace
8 4 (2.94%) Advertising
8 4 (2.94%) Mandarin Language
9 3 (2.21%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.74%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.74%) Public Sector
10 1 (0.74%) Retail
Job Titles
1 31 (22.79%) Linux Engineer
2 27 (19.85%) Administrator
3 25 (18.38%) Linux Support
4 21 (15.44%) Support Engineer
5 20 (14.71%) Linux Administrator
6 18 (13.24%) Linux Support Engineer
7 15 (11.03%) Senior
8 13 (9.56%) Systems Administrator
9 12 (8.82%) C++ Developer
9 12 (8.82%) Developer
10 10 (7.35%) Applications Architect
10 10 (7.35%) Architect
10 10 (7.35%) Lead
11 9 (6.62%) Linux Systems Administrator
12 8 (5.88%) Infrastructure Support
12 8 (5.88%) Linux Specialist
12 8 (5.88%) Senior Linux Engineer
12 8 (5.88%) Support Specialist
12 8 (5.88%) Unix Support
13 7 (5.15%) 3rd Line Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (11.03%) LDAP
2 11 (8.09%) FIX Protocol
3 10 (7.35%) Regular Expression
4 7 (5.15%) Middleware
5 6 (4.41%) Kafka
5 6 (4.41%) REST
5 6 (4.41%) XMPP
6 5 (3.68%) AngularJS
6 5 (3.68%) gRPC
6 5 (3.68%) Material-UI
6 5 (3.68%) Node.js
6 5 (3.68%) OpenAPI
6 5 (3.68%) RabbitMQ
6 5 (3.68%) React
6 5 (3.68%) Spring
6 5 (3.68%) Spring Boot
6 5 (3.68%) Swagger
6 5 (3.68%) WebSockets
7 4 (2.94%) web3js
7 4 (2.94%) WebSphere MQ
Miscellaneous
1 14 (10.29%) Data Centre
1 14 (10.29%) Management Information System
2 11 (8.09%) Derivative
2 11 (8.09%) PKI
3 9 (6.62%) Clustering
4 8 (5.88%) Cloud Native
5 6 (4.41%) Enterprise Storage
6 5 (3.68%) Linux Command Line
6 5 (3.68%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (2.94%) Blockchain
7 4 (2.94%) Hybrid Cloud
7 4 (2.94%) Onboarding
7 4 (2.94%) Replication
7 4 (2.94%) Video on Demand
7 4 (2.94%) Video\Live Streaming
7 4 (2.94%) Web3
8 2 (1.47%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (1.47%) FPGA
8 2 (1.47%) Security Posture
9 1 (0.74%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 136 (100.00%) Linux
2 51 (37.50%) Windows
3 43 (31.62%) Windows Server
4 42 (30.88%) CentOS
5 17 (12.50%) Unix
6 16 (11.76%) Ubuntu
7 10 (7.35%) Windows Server 2019
8 9 (6.62%) Debian
8 9 (6.62%) Windows Server 2016
9 5 (3.68%) Oracle Linux
9 5 (3.68%) Windows Server 2012
10 4 (2.94%) AIX
10 4 (2.94%) Solaris
11 3 (2.21%) CoreOS
11 3 (2.21%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (30.15%) Problem-Solving
2 35 (25.74%) DevOps
3 27 (19.85%) CI/CD
4 25 (18.38%) Configuration Management
4 25 (18.38%) ITIL
5 24 (17.65%) Infrastructure as Code
6 20 (14.71%) Agile
6 20 (14.71%) High Availability
7 19 (13.97%) SIEM
8 16 (11.76%) Disaster Recovery
9 15 (11.03%) Containerisation
9 15 (11.03%) Platform Engineering
10 12 (8.82%) Change Management
10 12 (8.82%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 12 (8.82%) Low Latency
11 11 (8.09%) Concurrent Programming
11 11 (8.09%) Migration
11 11 (8.09%) SOA
11 11 (8.09%) Systems Analysis
11 11 (8.09%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 57 (41.91%) Python
2 42 (30.88%) Bash
3 26 (19.12%) PowerShell
4 20 (14.71%) SQL
5 18 (13.24%) Perl
6 14 (10.29%) PHP
7 12 (8.82%) C++
7 12 (8.82%) Shell Script
8 8 (5.88%) Java
9 7 (5.15%) Korn
10 5 (3.68%) JavaScript
11 3 (2.21%) PL/SQL
12 2 (1.47%) C
13 1 (0.74%) Groovy
13 1 (0.74%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 37 (27.21%) Security Cleared
2 28 (20.59%) DV Cleared
3 14 (10.29%) Degree
4 10 (7.35%) AWS Certification
5 9 (6.62%) ITIL Certification
5 9 (6.62%) SC Cleared
6 8 (5.88%) RHCSA
7 4 (2.94%) Postgraduate
7 4 (2.94%) RHCE
8 1 (0.74%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 1 (0.74%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.74%) CCSP
8 1 (0.74%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.74%) CISM
8 1 (0.74%) CISSP
8 1 (0.74%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.74%) Linux+ Certification
8 1 (0.74%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (8.09%) SLA
2 2 (1.47%) NIST
3 1 (0.74%) GDPR
3 1 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.74%) QA
3 1 (0.74%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 36 (26.47%) Active Directory
2 35 (25.74%) VMware Infrastructure
3 30 (22.06%) Docker
4 24 (17.65%) vSphere
5 5 (3.68%) Citrix Hypervisor
5 5 (3.68%) Hyper-V
5 5 (3.68%) Veritas Cluster Server
6 3 (2.21%) Oracle RAC
6 3 (2.21%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 3 (2.21%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (1.47%) Samba
8 1 (0.74%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 1 (0.74%) KVM
8 1 (0.74%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.74%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 49 (36.03%) Ansible
2 40 (29.41%) Kubernetes
3 23 (16.91%) Terraform
4 15 (11.03%) Nagios
5 14 (10.29%) Puppet
6 7 (5.15%) WSUS
7 5 (3.68%) Data Guard
7 5 (3.68%) Grafana
7 5 (3.68%) Podman
7 5 (3.68%) Progress Chef
7 5 (3.68%) Red Hat Satellite
8 4 (2.94%) Argo
8 4 (2.94%) McAfee ePO
8 4 (2.94%) SCVMM
8 4 (2.94%) ZABBIX
9 3 (2.21%) Oracle RMAN
10 2 (1.47%) Prometheus
10 2 (1.47%) Red Hat Spacewalk
11 1 (0.74%) Docker Swarm
11 1 (0.74%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 87 (63.97%) Red Hat
2 58 (42.65%) VMware
3 16 (11.76%) McAfee
3 16 (11.76%) Microsoft
3 16 (11.76%) Oracle
4 7 (5.15%) Dell
4 7 (5.15%) IBM
5 6 (4.41%) Google
6 5 (3.68%) Atlassian
6 5 (3.68%) SaltStack
6 5 (3.68%) SolarWinds
6 5 (3.68%) Splunk
6 5 (3.68%) Symantec
7 4 (2.94%) Citrix
7 4 (2.94%) Mirantis
7 4 (2.94%) NetApp
7 4 (2.94%) ServiceNow
8 3 (2.21%) Pure Storage
9 2 (1.47%) CyberArk
9 2 (1.47%) HP