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 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 455 504 413
Rank change year-on-year +49 -91 +41
Permanent jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 153 224 278
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.32% 0.39% 0.62%
As % of the Operating Systems category 3.26% 2.71% 3.50%
Number of salaries quoted 104 149 219
10th Percentile £46,250 £40,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £46,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,750 £65,465 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.49% +0.71% +8.33%
75th Percentile £87,500 £81,250 £85,000
90th Percentile £103,750 £95,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £66,250 £65,465 £63,000
% change year-on-year +1.20% +3.91% +5.00%

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 4,691 8,258 7,940
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 9.95% 14.42% 17.57%
Number of salaries quoted 3,588 4,848 6,631
10th Percentile £27,000 £28,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £36,250 £34,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £88,750
UK median annual salary £42,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -15.00% - -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 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 2 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 +85 91 £85,000 - 22
South East +18 25 £60,500 +34.44% 23
East of England +26 12 £43,000 -22.52% 2
North of England +30 11 £65,000 -0.71% 1
South West -15 7 £56,250 -25.00% 6
North West +46 6 £60,000 -8.35%
Midlands +38 6 £57,500 +43.75% 6
East Midlands +17 5 £57,500 +43.75% 1
Yorkshire -6 5 £65,000 -0.71% 1
West Midlands +47 1 £52,500 -19.80% 5
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 (14.38%) Tomcat
2 20 (13.07%) WebSphere
3 16 (10.46%) WebSphere Application Server
4 15 (9.80%) Microsoft Exchange
5 9 (5.88%) Apache
6 5 (3.27%) IIS
7 4 (2.61%) Confluence
8 3 (1.96%) JBoss
8 3 (1.96%) Skype for Business
9 2 (1.31%) Apache Spark
9 2 (1.31%) nginx
10 1 (0.65%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 61 (39.87%) AWS
2 27 (17.65%) Azure
3 16 (10.46%) OpenShift
4 13 (8.50%) GitHub
4 13 (8.50%) Microsoft 365
5 11 (7.19%) Cohesity
6 9 (5.88%) Amazon EKS
6 9 (5.88%) AWS Lambda
6 9 (5.88%) Serverless
7 8 (5.23%) Amazon EC2
7 8 (5.23%) Amazon S3
7 8 (5.23%) AWS CloudFormation
8 7 (4.58%) Route 53
8 7 (4.58%) SaaS
9 6 (3.92%) Amazon ECR
9 6 (3.92%) GCP
9 6 (3.92%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 4 (2.61%) Azure DevOps
11 2 (1.31%) AWS CodeDeploy
12 1 (0.65%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 22 (14.38%) Firewall
2 21 (13.73%) SAN
3 18 (11.76%) DNS
4 17 (11.11%) SSL
5 15 (9.80%) LAN
5 15 (9.80%) WAN
6 13 (8.50%) TCP/IP
7 11 (7.19%) DHCP
7 11 (7.19%) Multicast
8 9 (5.88%) Fibre Channel
9 7 (4.58%) iSCSI
9 7 (4.58%) Remote Desktop
9 7 (4.58%) VSAN
10 3 (1.96%) Skype
11 2 (1.31%) AMQP
11 2 (1.31%) Cisco IOS
11 2 (1.31%) HTTP
11 2 (1.31%) Intrusion Detection
11 2 (1.31%) NAS
11 2 (1.31%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (16.34%) PostgreSQL
1 25 (16.34%) SQL Server
2 18 (11.76%) DB2
3 10 (6.54%) MySQL
4 7 (4.58%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (1.96%) Big Data
5 3 (1.96%) MongoDB
5 3 (1.96%) Oracle Database
6 2 (1.31%) Cloudera CDH
6 2 (1.31%) Hadoop
6 2 (1.31%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 23 (15.03%) Git
2 16 (10.46%) GitLab
3 9 (5.88%) Jenkins
4 7 (4.58%) JIRA
5 5 (3.27%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 5 (3.27%) Bitbucket
6 3 (1.96%) Ant
6 3 (1.96%) Artifactory
6 3 (1.96%) Maven
6 3 (1.96%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 56 (36.60%) Finance
2 36 (23.53%) Social Skills
3 22 (14.38%) Banking
4 11 (7.19%) Front Office
4 11 (7.19%) Organisational Skills
5 10 (6.54%) Investment Banking
6 4 (2.61%) Advertising
6 4 (2.61%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (2.61%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (1.96%) Aerospace
8 2 (1.31%) Electronics
8 2 (1.31%) Financial Institution
8 2 (1.31%) Military
8 2 (1.31%) Retail
8 2 (1.31%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.65%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 43 (28.10%) Linux Engineer
2 37 (24.18%) Administrator
3 30 (19.61%) Linux Support
4 25 (16.34%) Linux Administrator
5 19 (12.42%) Support Engineer
6 17 (11.11%) Applications Support
6 17 (11.11%) Systems Administrator
7 16 (10.46%) Infrastructure Support
7 16 (10.46%) Linux Support Engineer
8 14 (9.15%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 14 (9.15%) Unix Support
9 13 (8.50%) Senior
10 12 (7.84%) Cisco Engineer
10 12 (7.84%) DevOps Engineer
11 11 (7.19%) C++ Developer
11 11 (7.19%) Developer
11 11 (7.19%) VMware Engineer
12 10 (6.54%) Linux DevOps Engineer
12 10 (6.54%) Linux Systems Administrator
12 10 (6.54%) Linux/Unix DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (11.76%) LDAP
2 16 (10.46%) LAPP Stack
2 16 (10.46%) WebSphere MQ
3 11 (7.19%) FIX Protocol
4 9 (5.88%) Kafka
5 8 (5.23%) Middleware
6 3 (1.96%) Elastic Stack
6 3 (1.96%) LAMP
7 2 (1.31%) AngularJS
7 2 (1.31%) gRPC
7 2 (1.31%) Material-UI
7 2 (1.31%) Node.js
7 2 (1.31%) OpenAPI
7 2 (1.31%) RabbitMQ
7 2 (1.31%) React
7 2 (1.31%) REST
7 2 (1.31%) Spring
7 2 (1.31%) Spring Boot
7 2 (1.31%) Swagger
8 1 (0.65%) Regular Expression
Miscellaneous
1 27 (17.65%) Management Information System
2 20 (13.07%) Linux Command Line
3 15 (9.80%) Hybrid Cloud
4 11 (7.19%) Cloud Native
4 11 (7.19%) Derivative
5 9 (5.88%) Data Centre
6 7 (4.58%) Clustering
7 5 (3.27%) Driving Licence
7 5 (3.27%) Virtual Team
8 4 (2.61%) Onboarding
8 4 (2.61%) Video on Demand
8 4 (2.61%) Video\Live Streaming
9 3 (1.96%) Blackberry
9 3 (1.96%) PKI
9 3 (1.96%) Replication
9 3 (1.96%) RSA SecurID
10 2 (1.31%) Enterprise Cloud
10 2 (1.31%) FPGA
11 1 (0.65%) Distributed Systems
11 1 (0.65%) Manufacturing Execution System
Operating Systems
1 153 (100.00%) Linux
2 63 (41.18%) Windows
3 36 (23.53%) Unix
4 30 (19.61%) CentOS
5 28 (18.30%) Windows Server
6 24 (15.69%) Windows Server 2019
7 13 (8.50%) Solaris
8 11 (7.19%) Debian
9 9 (5.88%) Ubuntu
10 8 (5.23%) Oracle Linux
10 8 (5.23%) Windows Server 2016
11 6 (3.92%) Windows 10
12 5 (3.27%) Windows Server 2012
13 4 (2.61%) AIX
13 4 (2.61%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
14 3 (1.96%) CoreOS
15 2 (1.31%) HPUX
15 2 (1.31%) VMS
16 1 (0.65%) OpenVMS
16 1 (0.65%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (31.37%) ITIL
2 35 (22.88%) DevOps
3 25 (16.34%) Change Management
3 25 (16.34%) Containerisation
3 25 (16.34%) Root Cause Analysis
4 21 (13.73%) Infrastructure as Code
5 20 (13.07%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 20 (13.07%) Low Latency
6 19 (12.42%) Release Management
7 16 (10.46%) Disaster Recovery
7 16 (10.46%) User Acceptance Testing
8 15 (9.80%) Incident Response
8 15 (9.80%) Problem-Solving
9 13 (8.50%) Time Management
10 12 (7.84%) Continuous Improvement
10 12 (7.84%) Cybersecurity
11 11 (7.19%) Agile
11 11 (7.19%) CI/CD
11 11 (7.19%) Concurrent Programming
11 11 (7.19%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 74 (48.37%) Python
2 53 (34.64%) Bash
3 24 (15.69%) PowerShell
4 17 (11.11%) Korn
5 12 (7.84%) C++
6 9 (5.88%) Perl
7 8 (5.23%) Shell Script
8 7 (4.58%) Java
9 6 (3.92%) SQL
10 4 (2.61%) PHP
11 3 (1.96%) Groovy
12 2 (1.31%) JavaScript
13 1 (0.65%) C#
Qualifications
1 34 (22.22%) Degree
2 28 (18.30%) Security Cleared
3 26 (16.99%) AWS Certification
4 20 (13.07%) ITIL Certification
5 19 (12.42%) DV Cleared
6 13 (8.50%) SC Cleared
7 8 (5.23%) Microsoft Certification
8 6 (3.92%) MCSE
8 6 (3.92%) RHCE
8 6 (3.92%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 5 (3.27%) CCNA
9 5 (3.27%) Cisco Certification
9 5 (3.27%) Computer Science Degree
9 5 (3.27%) RHCSA
10 3 (1.96%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 3 (1.96%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
11 2 (1.31%) Dell Certification
11 2 (1.31%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 2 (1.31%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (19.61%) SLA
2 10 (6.54%) QA
3 2 (1.31%) Def Stans
4 1 (0.65%) ISO 20022
4 1 (0.65%) SEPA
System Software
1 43 (28.10%) VMware Infrastructure
2 29 (18.95%) Active Directory
3 18 (11.76%) Docker
4 17 (11.11%) vSphere
5 12 (7.84%) NFS
6 11 (7.19%) Hyper-V
7 7 (4.58%) Citrix Hypervisor
7 7 (4.58%) VMware ESXi
8 4 (2.61%) Veritas Cluster Server
8 4 (2.61%) Virtual Machines
9 2 (1.31%) Postfix
10 1 (0.65%) Apache ZooKeeper
10 1 (0.65%) Dovecot
10 1 (0.65%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 66 (43.14%) Ansible
2 39 (25.49%) Kubernetes
3 26 (16.99%) Terraform
4 13 (8.50%) Puppet
5 11 (7.19%) WSUS
6 9 (5.88%) Red Hat Satellite
7 8 (5.23%) SCOM
8 6 (3.92%) Grafana
8 6 (3.92%) Nagios
8 6 (3.92%) Progress Chef
8 6 (3.92%) SCCM
9 5 (3.27%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
9 5 (3.27%) Podman
10 3 (1.96%) McAfee ePO
10 3 (1.96%) SCVMM
11 2 (1.31%) EMC NetWorker
11 2 (1.31%) Red Hat Spacewalk
11 2 (1.31%) ZABBIX
12 1 (0.65%) Data Guard
12 1 (0.65%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 98 (64.05%) Red Hat
2 62 (40.52%) VMware
3 28 (18.30%) Microsoft
4 23 (15.03%) Cisco
5 22 (14.38%) IBM
6 21 (13.73%) Oracle
7 15 (9.80%) Commvault
8 12 (7.84%) Dell
9 11 (7.19%) ServiceNow
10 8 (5.23%) NetApp
10 8 (5.23%) Pure Storage
10 8 (5.23%) Splunk
11 7 (4.58%) HP
12 4 (2.61%) Atlassian
12 4 (2.61%) Symantec
13 3 (1.96%) McAfee
14 2 (1.31%) EMC
14 2 (1.31%) Google
14 2 (1.31%) Juniper
14 2 (1.31%) SAP