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 16 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 530 494 521
Rank change year-on-year -36 +27 +22
Permanent jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 155 137 319
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.19% 0.35% 0.38%
As % of the Operating Systems category 3.16% 2.15% 2.62%
Number of salaries quoted 130 108 238
10th Percentile £46,250 £52,500 £37,675
25th Percentile £51,250 £55,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,750 £70,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.93% +27.27% -15.38%
75th Percentile £72,500 £80,313 £71,000
90th Percentile £88,750 £96,250 £102,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £67,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -7.41% +22.73% -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 4,909 6,379 12,183
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 6.04% 16.29% 14.48%
Number of salaries quoted 3,696 4,032 9,818
10th Percentile £27,694 £27,000 £25,759
25th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -14.29%
75th Percentile £68,750 £65,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £80,000
UK median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year - - -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 16 May 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 16 May 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 0 73 £58,750 -22.95% 18
South East +2 47 £67,500 +17.39% 15
North West +14 18 £55,000 -26.54% 4
North of England -31 18 £55,000 -21.43% 15
South West -40 15 £75,000 +4.18% 16
East of England -23 1 £70,000 -1.75% 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 19 (12.26%) Microsoft Exchange
2 11 (7.10%) Apache
3 8 (5.16%) SharePoint
4 6 (3.87%) Confluence
5 5 (3.23%) Apache Spark
6 4 (2.58%) OpenStack
7 3 (1.94%) CMS
7 3 (1.94%) WordPress
8 2 (1.29%) IIS
8 2 (1.29%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.65%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (0.65%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (2.58%) FLEXCUBE
2 1 (0.65%) Oracle 11i
2 1 (0.65%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.65%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.65%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 43 (27.74%) AWS
2 32 (20.65%) Azure
3 13 (8.39%) Microsoft 365
4 10 (6.45%) AWS CloudFormation
5 9 (5.81%) SaaS
6 8 (5.16%) OpenShift
7 7 (4.52%) Amazon EKS
7 7 (4.52%) AWS Lambda
7 7 (4.52%) GCP
7 7 (4.52%) Serverless
8 6 (3.87%) Datadog
9 5 (3.23%) Azure Stack
10 4 (2.58%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 4 (2.58%) Amazon EC2
10 4 (2.58%) Amazon S3
10 4 (2.58%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 3 (1.94%) CloudFront
11 3 (1.94%) GitHub
11 3 (1.94%) GitHub Actions
11 3 (1.94%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 51 (32.90%) DNS
2 30 (19.35%) Firewall
2 30 (19.35%) SAN
3 20 (12.90%) LAN
4 18 (11.61%) TCP/IP
5 17 (10.97%) HTTP
6 11 (7.10%) WAN
7 10 (6.45%) iSCSI
7 10 (6.45%) NAS
8 8 (5.16%) NetScaler
8 8 (5.16%) Remote Desktop
8 8 (5.16%) Wireshark
9 6 (3.87%) DHCP
10 5 (3.23%) AMQP
10 5 (3.23%) Multicast
11 4 (2.58%) VSAN
12 3 (1.94%) VoIP
13 2 (1.29%) PBX
13 2 (1.29%) SNMP
13 2 (1.29%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (9.68%) SQL Server
2 10 (6.45%) MySQL
2 10 (6.45%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (4.52%) Oracle Database
4 5 (3.23%) Big Data
4 5 (3.23%) Cloudera CDH
4 5 (3.23%) Hadoop
5 4 (2.58%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (2.58%) Elasticsearch
5 4 (2.58%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.65%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.65%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.65%) Oracle Database 12c
6 1 (0.65%) Power BI
6 1 (0.65%) RDBMS
6 1 (0.65%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.65%) SAP HANA
6 1 (0.65%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (0.65%) Sybase ASE
6 1 (0.65%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 18 (11.61%) Git
2 11 (7.10%) GitLab
3 9 (5.81%) JIRA
4 7 (4.52%) Jenkins
5 6 (3.87%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 5 (3.23%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.65%) git-flow
7 1 (0.65%) Maven
7 1 (0.65%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 48 (30.97%) Social Skills
2 39 (25.16%) Finance
3 19 (12.26%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (9.03%) Banking
5 12 (7.74%) Organisational Skills
6 8 (5.16%) Aerospace
6 8 (5.16%) Documentation Skills
7 7 (4.52%) Front Office
8 6 (3.87%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (2.58%) Mandarin Language
10 3 (1.94%) Military
11 2 (1.29%) Advertising
12 1 (0.65%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.65%) Public Sector
12 1 (0.65%) Retail
12 1 (0.65%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 32 (20.65%) Linux Engineer
2 29 (18.71%) Administrator
3 18 (11.61%) Linux Administrator
3 18 (11.61%) Linux Support
3 18 (11.61%) Senior
3 18 (11.61%) Systems Administrator
4 17 (10.97%) Support Engineer
5 16 (10.32%) Applications Architect
5 16 (10.32%) Architect
6 14 (9.03%) Linux Support Engineer
7 11 (7.10%) Linux Systems Administrator
8 10 (6.45%) Lead
8 10 (6.45%) Security Architect
8 10 (6.45%) Senior Linux Engineer
9 7 (4.52%) 3rd Line Engineer
9 7 (4.52%) 3rd Line Support
9 7 (4.52%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
9 7 (4.52%) Developer
10 6 (3.87%) C++ Developer
10 6 (3.87%) DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (10.32%) Regular Expression
2 14 (9.03%) LDAP
3 12 (7.74%) XMPP
4 9 (5.81%) WebSockets
5 6 (3.87%) Middleware
5 6 (3.87%) REST
6 5 (3.23%) AngularJS
6 5 (3.23%) ARM Templates
6 5 (3.23%) FIX Protocol
6 5 (3.23%) gRPC
6 5 (3.23%) Material-UI
6 5 (3.23%) Node.js
6 5 (3.23%) OpenAPI
6 5 (3.23%) RabbitMQ
6 5 (3.23%) React
6 5 (3.23%) Spring
6 5 (3.23%) Spring Boot
6 5 (3.23%) Swagger
7 4 (2.58%) JSON Schema
7 4 (2.58%) web3js
Miscellaneous
1 21 (13.55%) Data Centre
2 16 (10.32%) Cloud Native
3 15 (9.68%) PKI
4 14 (9.03%) Management Information System
5 8 (5.16%) Clustering
6 6 (3.87%) Enterprise Storage
7 5 (3.23%) Derivative
7 5 (3.23%) Hybrid Cloud
7 5 (3.23%) Onboarding
7 5 (3.23%) Operational Technology
7 5 (3.23%) Replication
7 5 (3.23%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (2.58%) Blockchain
8 4 (2.58%) Web3
9 3 (1.94%) Security Posture
10 2 (1.29%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 1 (0.65%) Data Protection Act
11 1 (0.65%) Equities
11 1 (0.65%) Fixed Income
11 1 (0.65%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 155 (100.00%) Linux
2 63 (40.65%) Windows
3 56 (36.13%) Windows Server
4 39 (25.16%) CentOS
5 22 (14.19%) Unix
6 19 (12.26%) Ubuntu
7 10 (6.45%) Windows Server 2019
8 9 (5.81%) Debian
9 7 (4.52%) AIX
10 6 (3.87%) Windows Server 2016
11 5 (3.23%) Oracle Linux
12 4 (2.58%) CoreOS
12 4 (2.58%) Solaris
13 3 (1.94%) VMS
14 2 (1.29%) Amazon Linux
14 2 (1.29%) Rocky
14 2 (1.29%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (29.68%) DevOps
2 41 (26.45%) Problem-Solving
3 34 (21.94%) CI/CD
4 31 (20.00%) SIEM
5 29 (18.71%) ITIL
6 26 (16.77%) High Availability
7 24 (15.48%) Infrastructure as Code
8 23 (14.84%) Configuration Management
9 20 (12.90%) Platform Engineering
10 18 (11.61%) Agile
11 17 (10.97%) Containerisation
11 17 (10.97%) Disaster Recovery
12 16 (10.32%) Cybersecurity
13 15 (9.68%) Observability
14 13 (8.39%) Antivirus Management
14 13 (8.39%) Application Security
14 13 (8.39%) Roadmaps
14 13 (8.39%) Time Management
15 12 (7.74%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 12 (7.74%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 52 (33.55%) Python
2 48 (30.97%) Bash
3 26 (16.77%) PowerShell
4 25 (16.13%) SQL
5 14 (9.03%) PHP
6 12 (7.74%) Perl
7 11 (7.10%) Korn
7 11 (7.10%) Shell Script
8 9 (5.81%) Java
9 6 (3.87%) C++
10 5 (3.23%) JavaScript
11 4 (2.58%) PL/SQL
12 2 (1.29%) C
13 1 (0.65%) Groovy
13 1 (0.65%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 52 (33.55%) Security Cleared
2 33 (21.29%) DV Cleared
3 17 (10.97%) Degree
4 14 (9.03%) SC Cleared
5 12 (7.74%) RHCSA
6 6 (3.87%) AWS Certification
7 5 (3.23%) BPSS Clearance
7 5 (3.23%) ITIL Certification
8 4 (2.58%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (2.58%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (2.58%) Postgraduate
8 4 (2.58%) RHCE
9 3 (1.94%) CCNA
9 3 (1.94%) MCSE
10 2 (1.29%) Azure Certification
11 1 (0.65%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 1 (0.65%) CCSP
11 1 (0.65%) CISSP
11 1 (0.65%) Computer Science Degree
11 1 (0.65%) Dell Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (6.45%) SLA
2 2 (1.29%) NIST
3 1 (0.65%) GDPR
3 1 (0.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.65%) QA
3 1 (0.65%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 44 (28.39%) Active Directory
2 42 (27.10%) VMware Infrastructure
3 34 (21.94%) Docker
4 31 (20.00%) vSphere
5 11 (7.10%) Hyper-V
6 8 (5.16%) Citrix Hypervisor
7 5 (3.23%) Veritas Cluster Server
8 4 (2.58%) Oracle RAC
9 3 (1.94%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 3 (1.94%) Virtual Machines
10 2 (1.29%) Samba
11 1 (0.65%) KVM
11 1 (0.65%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 43 (27.74%) Kubernetes
2 42 (27.10%) Ansible
3 34 (21.94%) Terraform
4 21 (13.55%) Nagios
5 19 (12.26%) Puppet
6 8 (5.16%) WSUS
7 7 (4.52%) Podman
8 5 (3.23%) Data Guard
8 5 (3.23%) Grafana
8 5 (3.23%) ZABBIX
9 4 (2.58%) Argo
9 4 (2.58%) McAfee ePO
9 4 (2.58%) Oracle RMAN
9 4 (2.58%) SCVMM
10 3 (1.94%) Docker Swarm
10 3 (1.94%) Red Hat Satellite
11 2 (1.29%) Progress Chef
11 2 (1.29%) Prometheus
12 1 (0.65%) Packer
12 1 (0.65%) Red Hat Spacewalk
Vendors
1 107 (69.03%) Red Hat
2 72 (46.45%) VMware
3 33 (21.29%) Microsoft
4 19 (12.26%) McAfee
5 12 (7.74%) Oracle
6 10 (6.45%) Dell
6 10 (6.45%) SolarWinds
7 8 (5.16%) Citrix
7 8 (5.16%) NetApp
8 7 (4.52%) Splunk
9 6 (3.87%) Google
10 5 (3.23%) SaltStack
10 5 (3.23%) Symantec
11 4 (2.58%) IBM
11 4 (2.58%) Mirantis
12 3 (1.94%) Pure Storage
12 3 (1.94%) Veeam
13 2 (1.29%) Atlassian
13 2 (1.29%) CyberArk
13 2 (1.29%) D-Link