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 2 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 472 463 411
Rank change year-on-year -9 -52 +37
Permanent jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 130 201 271
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.25% 0.41% 0.59%
As % of the Operating Systems category 2.87% 2.65% 3.53%
Number of salaries quoted 87 126 219
10th Percentile £42,750 £40,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £51,750 £49,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,232 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.48% +0.36% +8.33%
75th Percentile £87,500 £81,250 £85,000
90th Percentile £125,000 £90,000 £102,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - +4.00% +4.17%

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 4,527 7,598 7,674
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 8.69% 15.40% 16.78%
Number of salaries quoted 3,454 4,353 6,381
10th Percentile £27,000 £28,300 £27,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £36,250 £34,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.00% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £89,950 £87,500
UK median annual salary £44,000 £50,148 £50,000
% change year-on-year -12.26% +0.30% -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 2 January 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 2 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
London +60 82 £85,000 +3.03% 17
South East +7 18 £50,000 +11.11% 11
East of England +21 12 £43,000 -26.81% 2
South West -9 8 £55,000 -23.60% 4
North West +36 7 £60,000 -8.35% 1
North of England +3 7 £60,000 -8.35% 3
Midlands +5 1 - - 2
East Midlands -26 1 - - 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 22 (16.92%) Tomcat
2 19 (14.62%) WebSphere
3 16 (12.31%) WebSphere Application Server
4 8 (6.15%) Microsoft Exchange
5 7 (5.38%) Apache
6 5 (3.85%) Confluence
6 5 (3.85%) IIS
7 3 (2.31%) Apache Spark
7 3 (2.31%) Skype for Business
8 2 (1.54%) JBoss
8 2 (1.54%) nginx
8 2 (1.54%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.77%) Oracle 11i
1 1 (0.77%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.77%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (0.77%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 48 (36.92%) AWS
2 19 (14.62%) Azure
3 15 (11.54%) OpenShift
4 11 (8.46%) Cohesity
5 10 (7.69%) Amazon EKS
5 10 (7.69%) AWS Lambda
5 10 (7.69%) GitHub
5 10 (7.69%) Serverless
6 9 (6.92%) AWS CloudFormation
7 8 (6.15%) Amazon EC2
7 8 (6.15%) Amazon S3
7 8 (6.15%) SaaS
8 7 (5.38%) Route 53
9 6 (4.62%) Amazon ECR
9 6 (4.62%) GCP
9 6 (4.62%) Microsoft 365
9 6 (4.62%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 2 (1.54%) Azure DevOps
11 1 (0.77%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 1 (0.77%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 17 (13.08%) Firewall
1 17 (13.08%) SSL
2 15 (11.54%) DNS
3 14 (10.77%) LAN
3 14 (10.77%) SAN
4 13 (10.00%) TCP/IP
4 13 (10.00%) WAN
5 12 (9.23%) Multicast
6 7 (5.38%) VSAN
7 6 (4.62%) DHCP
7 6 (4.62%) Fibre Channel
8 4 (3.08%) HTTP
9 3 (2.31%) AMQP
9 3 (2.31%) iSCSI
9 3 (2.31%) Remote Desktop
9 3 (2.31%) Skype
10 2 (1.54%) Cisco IOS
10 2 (1.54%) NAS
10 2 (1.54%) SNMP
10 2 (1.54%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (16.92%) PostgreSQL
2 21 (16.15%) SQL Server
3 18 (13.85%) DB2
4 7 (5.38%) Amazon RDS
4 7 (5.38%) MySQL
5 5 (3.85%) Oracle Database
6 4 (3.08%) Big Data
6 4 (3.08%) MongoDB
7 3 (2.31%) Cloudera CDH
7 3 (2.31%) Hadoop
8 1 (0.77%) Oracle Database 12c
8 1 (0.77%) Power BI
8 1 (0.77%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.77%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.77%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 18 (13.85%) Git
2 14 (10.77%) GitLab
3 8 (6.15%) Jenkins
4 7 (5.38%) JIRA
5 6 (4.62%) Bitbucket
6 5 (3.85%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 2 (1.54%) Ant
7 2 (1.54%) Artifactory
7 2 (1.54%) Maven
7 2 (1.54%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 53 (40.77%) Finance
2 28 (21.54%) Social Skills
3 22 (16.92%) Banking
4 12 (9.23%) Front Office
5 10 (7.69%) Investment Banking
6 7 (5.38%) Organisational Skills
7 5 (3.85%) Presentation Skills
8 4 (3.08%) Advertising
8 4 (3.08%) Aerospace
8 4 (3.08%) Analytical Skills
9 2 (1.54%) Electronics
9 2 (1.54%) Financial Institution
9 2 (1.54%) Military
10 1 (0.77%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.77%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 37 (28.46%) Linux Engineer
2 33 (25.38%) Administrator
3 32 (24.62%) Linux Support
4 24 (18.46%) Linux Administrator
5 20 (15.38%) Support Engineer
6 17 (13.08%) Applications Support
6 17 (13.08%) Infrastructure Support
6 17 (13.08%) Linux Support Engineer
7 15 (11.54%) Unix Support
8 13 (10.00%) Systems Administrator
9 12 (9.23%) C++ Developer
9 12 (9.23%) Developer
10 10 (7.69%) DevOps Engineer
10 10 (7.69%) Linux Systems Administrator
11 9 (6.92%) Cisco Engineer
11 9 (6.92%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 9 (6.92%) Linux DevOps Engineer
11 9 (6.92%) Linux Specialist
11 9 (6.92%) Linux/Unix DevOps
11 9 (6.92%) VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (13.85%) LDAP
2 16 (12.31%) LAPP Stack
2 16 (12.31%) WebSphere MQ
3 12 (9.23%) FIX Protocol
4 8 (6.15%) Kafka
5 7 (5.38%) Middleware
6 3 (2.31%) AngularJS
6 3 (2.31%) gRPC
6 3 (2.31%) Material-UI
6 3 (2.31%) Node.js
6 3 (2.31%) OpenAPI
6 3 (2.31%) RabbitMQ
6 3 (2.31%) React
6 3 (2.31%) REST
6 3 (2.31%) Spring
6 3 (2.31%) Spring Boot
6 3 (2.31%) Swagger
7 2 (1.54%) Elastic Stack
7 2 (1.54%) LAMP
8 1 (0.77%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 22 (16.92%) Management Information System
2 19 (14.62%) Linux Command Line
3 12 (9.23%) Derivative
4 9 (6.92%) Clustering
5 8 (6.15%) Hybrid Cloud
6 7 (5.38%) Data Centre
7 6 (4.62%) Cloud Native
8 5 (3.85%) Replication
9 4 (3.08%) Onboarding
9 4 (3.08%) Video on Demand
9 4 (3.08%) Video\Live Streaming
9 4 (3.08%) Virtual Team
10 3 (2.31%) Blackberry
10 3 (2.31%) PKI
10 3 (2.31%) RSA SecurID
11 2 (1.54%) Driving Licence
11 2 (1.54%) FPGA
12 1 (0.77%) Distributed Systems
12 1 (0.77%) Enterprise Cloud
12 1 (0.77%) Manufacturing Execution System
Operating Systems
1 130 (100.00%) Linux
2 48 (36.92%) Windows
3 37 (28.46%) Unix
4 25 (19.23%) CentOS
5 22 (16.92%) Windows Server
6 17 (13.08%) Windows Server 2019
7 13 (10.00%) Debian
8 12 (9.23%) Solaris
9 9 (6.92%) Ubuntu
10 8 (6.15%) Windows Server 2016
11 5 (3.85%) Windows Server 2012
12 3 (2.31%) Windows 10
13 2 (1.54%) AIX
13 2 (1.54%) CoreOS
13 2 (1.54%) Oracle Linux
14 1 (0.77%) OpenVMS
14 1 (0.77%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (28.46%) ITIL
2 27 (20.77%) DevOps
3 25 (19.23%) Change Management
4 21 (16.15%) Infrastructure as Code
5 19 (14.62%) Root Cause Analysis
6 18 (13.85%) Containerisation
6 18 (13.85%) Low Latency
6 18 (13.85%) Problem-Solving
6 18 (13.85%) Release Management
7 16 (12.31%) User Acceptance Testing
8 14 (10.77%) Disaster Recovery
8 14 (10.77%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 12 (9.23%) Concurrent Programming
9 12 (9.23%) Configuration Management
9 12 (9.23%) SOA
9 12 (9.23%) Systems Analysis
9 12 (9.23%) Unit Testing
10 11 (8.46%) Continuous Improvement
10 11 (8.46%) Service Management
11 10 (7.69%) Collaborative Working
Programming Languages
1 71 (54.62%) Python
2 44 (33.85%) Bash
3 19 (14.62%) PowerShell
4 13 (10.00%) C++
5 11 (8.46%) Korn
5 11 (8.46%) Perl
6 7 (5.38%) Java
6 7 (5.38%) SQL
7 6 (4.62%) Shell Script
8 3 (2.31%) JavaScript
8 3 (2.31%) PHP
9 2 (1.54%) Groovy
10 1 (0.77%) C#
10 1 (0.77%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 28 (21.54%) Degree
2 26 (20.00%) Security Cleared
3 22 (16.92%) AWS Certification
4 21 (16.15%) ITIL Certification
5 18 (13.85%) DV Cleared
6 13 (10.00%) SC Cleared
7 4 (3.08%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (3.08%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (3.08%) RHCE
7 4 (3.08%) RHCSA
8 3 (2.31%) MCSE
8 3 (2.31%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 2 (1.54%) CCNA
9 2 (1.54%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.77%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.77%) Dell Certification
10 1 (0.77%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (23.85%) SLA
2 7 (5.38%) QA
3 2 (1.54%) Def Stans
4 1 (0.77%) ISO 20022
4 1 (0.77%) SEPA
System Software
1 38 (29.23%) VMware Infrastructure
2 19 (14.62%) Active Directory
3 13 (10.00%) Docker
3 13 (10.00%) vSphere
4 9 (6.92%) NFS
5 5 (3.85%) Hyper-V
5 5 (3.85%) Veritas Cluster Server
6 3 (2.31%) Citrix Hypervisor
7 2 (1.54%) Postfix
7 2 (1.54%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.77%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 1 (0.77%) Dovecot
8 1 (0.77%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.77%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 55 (42.31%) Ansible
2 27 (20.77%) Kubernetes
3 22 (16.92%) Terraform
4 12 (9.23%) Puppet
5 6 (4.62%) Nagios
5 6 (4.62%) Progress Chef
6 5 (3.85%) Podman
6 5 (3.85%) Red Hat Satellite
6 5 (3.85%) WSUS
7 3 (2.31%) McAfee ePO
7 3 (2.31%) SCOM
7 3 (2.31%) SCVMM
8 2 (1.54%) Data Guard
8 2 (1.54%) Grafana
8 2 (1.54%) Red Hat Spacewalk
9 1 (0.77%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.77%) NetBackup
9 1 (0.77%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.77%) SCCM
9 1 (0.77%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 85 (65.38%) Red Hat
2 50 (38.46%) VMware
3 18 (13.85%) IBM
4 16 (12.31%) Cisco
5 13 (10.00%) Microsoft
6 12 (9.23%) Oracle
7 11 (8.46%) ServiceNow
8 10 (7.69%) Commvault
9 8 (6.15%) NetApp
10 7 (5.38%) Dell
10 7 (5.38%) Pure Storage
11 6 (4.62%) HP
12 5 (3.85%) Atlassian
12 5 (3.85%) Symantec
13 4 (3.08%) Splunk
14 3 (2.31%) Google
14 3 (2.31%) McAfee
14 3 (2.31%) SaltStack
15 2 (1.54%) Mirantis
15 2 (1.54%) SolarWinds