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

6 months to
19 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 533 465 513
Rank change year-on-year -68 +48 -3
Permanent jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 143 148 322
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.19% 0.40% 0.39%
As % of the Operating Systems category 2.92% 2.45% 2.61%
Number of salaries quoted 114 114 240
10th Percentile £46,250 £52,500 £38,750
25th Percentile £51,250 £56,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,750 £70,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.07% +27.27% -15.38%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £73,125
90th Percentile £108,750 £96,250 £102,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £69,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -17.27% +26.36% -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 4,896 6,043 12,333
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 6.34% 16.20% 14.95%
Number of salaries quoted 3,674 4,051 10,070
10th Percentile £27,500 £27,250 £25,750
25th Percentile £31,250 £33,225 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £47,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% -14.29%
75th Percentile £67,500 £67,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £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 19 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 19 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 +3 72 £57,500 -28.13% 26
South East -28 45 £67,500 +17.39% 17
North West -13 16 £56,000 -25.20% 5
North of England -66 16 £56,000 -20.00% 15
South West -56 8 £55,000 -23.60% 23
East of England -46 1 £70,000 +14.29% 7
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 17 (11.89%) Microsoft Exchange
2 13 (9.09%) Apache
3 8 (5.59%) SharePoint
4 7 (4.90%) Confluence
4 7 (4.90%) Tomcat
5 6 (4.20%) Apache Spark
6 5 (3.50%) IIS
7 4 (2.80%) OpenStack
8 3 (2.10%) CMS
8 3 (2.10%) WordPress
9 2 (1.40%) nginx
9 2 (1.40%) WebSphere
9 2 (1.40%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 1 (0.70%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (2.10%) FLEXCUBE
2 1 (0.70%) Oracle 11i
2 1 (0.70%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.70%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.70%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 34 (23.78%) AWS
2 26 (18.18%) Azure
3 14 (9.79%) SaaS
4 12 (8.39%) OpenShift
5 11 (7.69%) AWS CloudFormation
6 8 (5.59%) AWS Lambda
6 8 (5.59%) GCP
6 8 (5.59%) Serverless
7 6 (4.20%) Amazon EKS
7 6 (4.20%) Datadog
7 6 (4.20%) Microsoft 365
8 3 (2.10%) Azure Stack
8 3 (2.10%) GitHub
8 3 (2.10%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (1.40%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 2 (1.40%) Amazon EC2
9 2 (1.40%) Amazon ECS
9 2 (1.40%) Amazon S3
9 2 (1.40%) AWS CloudTrail
9 2 (1.40%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 49 (34.27%) DNS
2 24 (16.78%) Firewall
3 23 (16.08%) SAN
4 16 (11.19%) LAN
5 15 (10.49%) HTTP
5 15 (10.49%) TCP/IP
6 11 (7.69%) WAN
7 10 (6.99%) Multicast
8 9 (6.29%) NAS
9 7 (4.90%) DHCP
10 6 (4.20%) AMQP
10 6 (4.20%) iSCSI
10 6 (4.20%) NetScaler
10 6 (4.20%) Remote Desktop
10 6 (4.20%) Wireshark
11 4 (2.80%) VSAN
12 3 (2.10%) SNMP
12 3 (2.10%) SSL
13 2 (1.40%) PBX
13 2 (1.40%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (10.49%) SQL Server
2 11 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (6.29%) MySQL
4 7 (4.90%) Big Data
4 7 (4.90%) Oracle Database
5 6 (4.20%) Cloudera CDH
5 6 (4.20%) Hadoop
6 5 (3.50%) MongoDB
7 4 (2.80%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (1.40%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (1.40%) DB2
9 1 (0.70%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.70%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.70%) Oracle Database 12c
9 1 (0.70%) Power BI
9 1 (0.70%) RDBMS
9 1 (0.70%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.70%) SAP HANA
9 1 (0.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (0.70%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 16 (11.19%) Git
2 10 (6.99%) JIRA
3 9 (6.29%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 8 (5.59%) GitLab
4 8 (5.59%) Jenkins
5 6 (4.20%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.70%) git-flow
6 1 (0.70%) Maven
6 1 (0.70%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 46 (32.17%) Social Skills
2 33 (23.08%) Finance
3 14 (9.79%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (8.39%) Front Office
5 11 (7.69%) Banking
6 10 (6.99%) Organisational Skills
7 8 (5.59%) Aerospace
8 6 (4.20%) Documentation Skills
8 6 (4.20%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (2.80%) Advertising
9 4 (2.80%) Mandarin Language
10 2 (1.40%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.70%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.70%) Public Sector
11 1 (0.70%) Retail
Job Titles
1 32 (22.38%) Linux Engineer
2 28 (19.58%) Administrator
3 23 (16.08%) Linux Support
4 20 (13.99%) Linux Administrator
4 20 (13.99%) Support Engineer
5 17 (11.89%) Linux Support Engineer
6 16 (11.19%) Senior
7 14 (9.79%) Systems Administrator
8 12 (8.39%) Applications Architect
8 12 (8.39%) Architect
8 12 (8.39%) Developer
9 11 (7.69%) C++ Developer
10 10 (6.99%) Lead
11 9 (6.29%) Linux Systems Administrator
11 9 (6.29%) Senior Linux Engineer
12 8 (5.59%) Linux Specialist
12 8 (5.59%) Security Architect
12 8 (5.59%) Support Specialist
13 7 (4.90%) 3rd Line Support
13 7 (4.90%) Unix Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (10.49%) LDAP
2 13 (9.09%) Regular Expression
3 10 (6.99%) FIX Protocol
4 8 (5.59%) XMPP
5 7 (4.90%) Middleware
5 7 (4.90%) REST
6 6 (4.20%) AngularJS
6 6 (4.20%) gRPC
6 6 (4.20%) Kafka
6 6 (4.20%) Material-UI
6 6 (4.20%) Node.js
6 6 (4.20%) OpenAPI
6 6 (4.20%) RabbitMQ
6 6 (4.20%) React
6 6 (4.20%) Spring
6 6 (4.20%) Spring Boot
6 6 (4.20%) Swagger
7 5 (3.50%) WebSockets
8 4 (2.80%) JSON
8 4 (2.80%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 15 (10.49%) Data Centre
2 14 (9.79%) Management Information System
3 13 (9.09%) PKI
4 10 (6.99%) Cloud Native
4 10 (6.99%) Derivative
5 9 (6.29%) Clustering
6 6 (4.20%) Enterprise Storage
6 6 (4.20%) Onboarding
7 5 (3.50%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (2.80%) Blockchain
8 4 (2.80%) Hybrid Cloud
8 4 (2.80%) Replication
8 4 (2.80%) Video on Demand
8 4 (2.80%) Video\Live Streaming
8 4 (2.80%) Web3
9 3 (2.10%) Linux Command Line
9 3 (2.10%) Security Posture
10 2 (1.40%) Distributed Systems
10 2 (1.40%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 2 (1.40%) FPGA
Operating Systems
1 143 (100.00%) Linux
2 55 (38.46%) Windows
3 47 (32.87%) Windows Server
4 42 (29.37%) CentOS
5 16 (11.19%) Ubuntu
6 15 (10.49%) Unix
7 10 (6.99%) Debian
7 10 (6.99%) Windows Server 2019
8 9 (6.29%) Windows Server 2016
9 5 (3.50%) AIX
9 5 (3.50%) Oracle Linux
9 5 (3.50%) Windows Server 2012
10 4 (2.80%) Solaris
11 3 (2.10%) CoreOS
11 3 (2.10%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (28.67%) Problem-Solving
2 34 (23.78%) DevOps
3 26 (18.18%) CI/CD
3 26 (18.18%) Configuration Management
4 24 (16.78%) Infrastructure as Code
4 24 (16.78%) ITIL
4 24 (16.78%) SIEM
5 23 (16.08%) High Availability
6 21 (14.69%) Agile
7 17 (11.89%) Platform Engineering
8 16 (11.19%) Containerisation
9 15 (10.49%) Disaster Recovery
10 12 (8.39%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 12 (8.39%) Low Latency
11 11 (7.69%) Application Security
11 11 (7.69%) Migration
11 11 (7.69%) Time Management
12 10 (6.99%) Change Management
12 10 (6.99%) Systems Analysis
12 10 (6.99%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 57 (39.86%) Python
2 44 (30.77%) Bash
3 26 (18.18%) PowerShell
4 20 (13.99%) SQL
5 18 (12.59%) Perl
6 14 (9.79%) PHP
7 13 (9.09%) Shell Script
8 11 (7.69%) C++
9 10 (6.99%) Java
10 8 (5.59%) Korn
11 6 (4.20%) JavaScript
12 3 (2.10%) PL/SQL
13 2 (1.40%) C
14 1 (0.70%) Groovy
14 1 (0.70%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 43 (30.07%) Security Cleared
2 32 (22.38%) DV Cleared
3 13 (9.09%) Degree
4 11 (7.69%) SC Cleared
5 8 (5.59%) AWS Certification
5 8 (5.59%) RHCSA
6 7 (4.90%) ITIL Certification
7 4 (2.80%) Postgraduate
7 4 (2.80%) RHCE
8 3 (2.10%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.70%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 1 (0.70%) CCSP
9 1 (0.70%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.70%) CISM
9 1 (0.70%) CISSP
9 1 (0.70%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.70%) Linux+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (6.29%) SLA
2 2 (1.40%) NIST
3 1 (0.70%) GDPR
3 1 (0.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.70%) QA
3 1 (0.70%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 40 (27.97%) Active Directory
2 35 (24.48%) VMware Infrastructure
3 31 (21.68%) Docker
4 27 (18.88%) vSphere
5 6 (4.20%) Citrix Hypervisor
5 6 (4.20%) Hyper-V
6 5 (3.50%) Veritas Cluster Server
7 3 (2.10%) Oracle RAC
7 3 (2.10%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 3 (2.10%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (1.40%) Samba
9 1 (0.70%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 1 (0.70%) KVM
Systems Management
1 49 (34.27%) Ansible
2 42 (29.37%) Kubernetes
3 23 (16.08%) Terraform
4 15 (10.49%) Nagios
4 15 (10.49%) Puppet
5 7 (4.90%) WSUS
6 5 (3.50%) Data Guard
6 5 (3.50%) Grafana
6 5 (3.50%) Podman
6 5 (3.50%) Progress Chef
6 5 (3.50%) Red Hat Satellite
7 4 (2.80%) Argo
7 4 (2.80%) McAfee ePO
7 4 (2.80%) SCVMM
7 4 (2.80%) ZABBIX
8 3 (2.10%) Oracle RMAN
9 2 (1.40%) Prometheus
9 2 (1.40%) Red Hat Spacewalk
10 1 (0.70%) Docker Swarm
10 1 (0.70%) Packer
Vendors
1 93 (65.03%) Red Hat
2 62 (43.36%) VMware
3 21 (14.69%) Microsoft
4 17 (11.89%) McAfee
5 16 (11.19%) Oracle
6 8 (5.59%) Dell
7 7 (4.90%) Google
8 6 (4.20%) Citrix
8 6 (4.20%) NetApp
8 6 (4.20%) SaltStack
9 5 (3.50%) Atlassian
9 5 (3.50%) IBM
9 5 (3.50%) SolarWinds
9 5 (3.50%) Splunk
9 5 (3.50%) Symantec
10 4 (2.80%) Mirantis
11 3 (2.10%) Pure Storage
11 3 (2.10%) ServiceNow
12 2 (1.40%) CyberArk
12 2 (1.40%) D-Link