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

6 months to
16 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 456 476 420
Rank change year-on-year +20 -56 +37
Permanent jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 145 213 270
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.28% 0.41% 0.62%
As % of the Operating Systems category 3.09% 2.72% 3.51%
Number of salaries quoted 98 136 214
10th Percentile £46,213 £40,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £46,250 £49,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,000 £65,465 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.40% +0.71% +12.07%
75th Percentile £87,500 £81,250 £85,000
90th Percentile £111,000 £90,000 £101,750
UK median annual salary £67,750 £65,465 £64,000
% change year-on-year +3.49% +2.29% +10.34%

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 4,690 7,828 7,691
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 9.13% 15.21% 17.67%
Number of salaries quoted 3,597 4,598 6,420
10th Percentile £27,000 £28,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £36,250 £34,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.00% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £68,250
90th Percentile £85,100 £87,500 £88,750
UK median annual salary £43,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -13.00% - -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 16 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 16 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 +66 90 £85,000 - 24
South East +16 23 £52,500 +16.67% 19
East of England +18 12 £43,000 -25.22% 2
North of England +4 8 £60,000 -8.35% 3
South West -12 8 £55,000 -26.67% 8
North West +21 6 £60,000 -8.35% 2
Midlands +11 3 £55,000 +37.50% 4
East Midlands -11 2 £57,500 +43.75% 2
Yorkshire -23 2 £65,000 -0.71% 1
West Midlands +20 1 £52,500 -19.80% 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 (15.17%) Tomcat
2 20 (13.79%) WebSphere
3 16 (11.03%) WebSphere Application Server
4 12 (8.28%) Microsoft Exchange
5 8 (5.52%) Apache
6 5 (3.45%) Confluence
6 5 (3.45%) IIS
7 3 (2.07%) JBoss
7 3 (2.07%) Skype for Business
8 2 (1.38%) Apache Spark
8 2 (1.38%) nginx
8 2 (1.38%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.69%) Oracle 11i
1 1 (0.69%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.69%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (0.69%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 53 (36.55%) AWS
2 22 (15.17%) Azure
3 15 (10.34%) OpenShift
4 12 (8.28%) GitHub
5 11 (7.59%) Cohesity
6 10 (6.90%) Microsoft 365
7 9 (6.21%) Amazon EKS
7 9 (6.21%) AWS Lambda
7 9 (6.21%) Serverless
8 8 (5.52%) Amazon EC2
8 8 (5.52%) Amazon S3
8 8 (5.52%) AWS CloudFormation
8 8 (5.52%) SaaS
9 7 (4.83%) Route 53
10 6 (4.14%) Amazon ECR
10 6 (4.14%) GCP
10 6 (4.14%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 2 (1.38%) AWS CodeDeploy
11 2 (1.38%) Azure DevOps
12 1 (0.69%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 20 (13.79%) Firewall
2 17 (11.72%) DNS
2 17 (11.72%) SAN
2 17 (11.72%) SSL
3 16 (11.03%) LAN
4 15 (10.34%) WAN
5 14 (9.66%) TCP/IP
6 12 (8.28%) Multicast
7 8 (5.52%) DHCP
8 7 (4.83%) Fibre Channel
8 7 (4.83%) VSAN
9 5 (3.45%) iSCSI
9 5 (3.45%) Remote Desktop
10 4 (2.76%) HTTP
11 3 (2.07%) Skype
12 2 (1.38%) Cisco IOS
12 2 (1.38%) NAS
12 2 (1.38%) SNMP
12 2 (1.38%) VLAN
12 2 (1.38%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (16.55%) PostgreSQL
1 24 (16.55%) SQL Server
2 18 (12.41%) DB2
3 9 (6.21%) MySQL
4 7 (4.83%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (3.45%) Oracle Database
6 4 (2.76%) MongoDB
7 3 (2.07%) Big Data
8 2 (1.38%) Cloudera CDH
8 2 (1.38%) Hadoop
9 1 (0.69%) Oracle Database 12c
9 1 (0.69%) Power BI
9 1 (0.69%) RDBMS
9 1 (0.69%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 22 (15.17%) Git
2 16 (11.03%) GitLab
3 9 (6.21%) Jenkins
4 8 (5.52%) JIRA
5 6 (4.14%) Bitbucket
6 5 (3.45%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 3 (2.07%) Ant
7 3 (2.07%) Artifactory
7 3 (2.07%) Maven
7 3 (2.07%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 59 (40.69%) Finance
2 34 (23.45%) Social Skills
3 23 (15.86%) Banking
4 12 (8.28%) Front Office
5 10 (6.90%) Investment Banking
6 9 (6.21%) Organisational Skills
7 5 (3.45%) Presentation Skills
8 4 (2.76%) Advertising
8 4 (2.76%) Analytical Skills
9 3 (2.07%) Aerospace
10 2 (1.38%) Electronics
10 2 (1.38%) Financial Institution
10 2 (1.38%) Military
10 2 (1.38%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.69%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.69%) Retail
Job Titles
1 42 (28.97%) Linux Engineer
2 36 (24.83%) Administrator
3 32 (22.07%) Linux Support
4 25 (17.24%) Linux Administrator
5 20 (13.79%) Support Engineer
6 17 (11.72%) Applications Support
6 17 (11.72%) Infrastructure Support
6 17 (11.72%) Linux Support Engineer
7 16 (11.03%) Systems Administrator
8 15 (10.34%) Unix Support
9 12 (8.28%) C++ Developer
9 12 (8.28%) Developer
9 12 (8.28%) DevOps Engineer
9 12 (8.28%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 11 (7.59%) Cisco Engineer
10 11 (7.59%) Linux Systems Administrator
11 10 (6.90%) Linux DevOps Engineer
11 10 (6.90%) Linux/Unix DevOps
11 10 (6.90%) VMware Engineer
12 9 (6.21%) Linux Scripter
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (12.41%) LDAP
2 16 (11.03%) LAPP Stack
2 16 (11.03%) WebSphere MQ
3 12 (8.28%) FIX Protocol
4 9 (6.21%) Kafka
5 8 (5.52%) Middleware
6 3 (2.07%) Elastic Stack
6 3 (2.07%) LAMP
7 2 (1.38%) AngularJS
7 2 (1.38%) gRPC
7 2 (1.38%) Material-UI
7 2 (1.38%) Node.js
7 2 (1.38%) OpenAPI
7 2 (1.38%) RabbitMQ
7 2 (1.38%) React
7 2 (1.38%) REST
7 2 (1.38%) Spring
7 2 (1.38%) Spring Boot
7 2 (1.38%) Swagger
8 1 (0.69%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 25 (17.24%) Management Information System
2 19 (13.10%) Linux Command Line
3 12 (8.28%) Derivative
3 12 (8.28%) Hybrid Cloud
4 9 (6.21%) Cloud Native
4 9 (6.21%) Clustering
5 7 (4.83%) Data Centre
6 5 (3.45%) Replication
6 5 (3.45%) Virtual Team
7 4 (2.76%) Driving Licence
7 4 (2.76%) Onboarding
7 4 (2.76%) Video on Demand
7 4 (2.76%) Video\Live Streaming
8 3 (2.07%) Blackberry
8 3 (2.07%) PKI
8 3 (2.07%) RSA SecurID
9 2 (1.38%) Enterprise Cloud
9 2 (1.38%) FPGA
10 1 (0.69%) Distributed Systems
10 1 (0.69%) Manufacturing Execution System
Operating Systems
1 145 (100.00%) Linux
2 57 (39.31%) Windows
3 36 (24.83%) Unix
4 27 (18.62%) CentOS
5 25 (17.24%) Windows Server
6 21 (14.48%) Windows Server 2019
7 12 (8.28%) Solaris
8 11 (7.59%) Debian
9 9 (6.21%) Ubuntu
10 8 (5.52%) Windows Server 2016
11 5 (3.45%) Windows 10
11 5 (3.45%) Windows Server 2012
12 4 (2.76%) Oracle Linux
13 2 (1.38%) AIX
13 2 (1.38%) CoreOS
14 1 (0.69%) OpenVMS
14 1 (0.69%) SUSE
14 1 (0.69%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (28.28%) ITIL
2 32 (22.07%) DevOps
3 26 (17.93%) Change Management
4 22 (15.17%) Containerisation
4 22 (15.17%) Root Cause Analysis
5 21 (14.48%) Infrastructure as Code
5 21 (14.48%) Low Latency
6 19 (13.10%) Release Management
7 17 (11.72%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 17 (11.72%) Problem-Solving
8 16 (11.03%) User Acceptance Testing
9 15 (10.34%) Disaster Recovery
10 14 (9.66%) Incident Response
11 12 (8.28%) Concurrent Programming
11 12 (8.28%) SOA
11 12 (8.28%) Systems Analysis
11 12 (8.28%) Unit Testing
12 11 (7.59%) Configuration Management
12 11 (7.59%) Continuous Improvement
12 11 (7.59%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 74 (51.03%) Python
2 49 (33.79%) Bash
3 21 (14.48%) PowerShell
4 13 (8.97%) C++
4 13 (8.97%) Korn
5 10 (6.90%) Perl
6 8 (5.52%) SQL
7 7 (4.83%) Java
8 6 (4.14%) Shell Script
9 4 (2.76%) PHP
10 3 (2.07%) Groovy
11 2 (1.38%) JavaScript
12 1 (0.69%) C#
12 1 (0.69%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 30 (20.69%) Degree
2 26 (17.93%) Security Cleared
3 24 (16.55%) AWS Certification
4 21 (14.48%) ITIL Certification
5 18 (12.41%) DV Cleared
6 12 (8.28%) SC Cleared
7 7 (4.83%) Microsoft Certification
8 6 (4.14%) RHCE
8 6 (4.14%) RHCSA
9 5 (3.45%) MCSE
9 5 (3.45%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 4 (2.76%) CCNA
10 4 (2.76%) Cisco Certification
11 3 (2.07%) Computer Science Degree
12 2 (1.38%) Dell Certification
12 2 (1.38%) MCSA
13 1 (0.69%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (21.38%) SLA
2 10 (6.90%) QA
3 2 (1.38%) Def Stans
4 1 (0.69%) ISO 20022
4 1 (0.69%) SEPA
System Software
1 42 (28.97%) VMware Infrastructure
2 24 (16.55%) Active Directory
3 16 (11.03%) vSphere
4 15 (10.34%) Docker
5 11 (7.59%) NFS
6 8 (5.52%) Hyper-V
7 5 (3.45%) Citrix Hypervisor
7 5 (3.45%) Veritas Cluster Server
8 4 (2.76%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (1.38%) Postfix
10 1 (0.69%) Apache ZooKeeper
10 1 (0.69%) Dovecot
10 1 (0.69%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 61 (42.07%) Ansible
2 33 (22.76%) Kubernetes
3 23 (15.86%) Terraform
4 12 (8.28%) Puppet
5 8 (5.52%) WSUS
6 6 (4.14%) Nagios
6 6 (4.14%) Podman
6 6 (4.14%) Progress Chef
6 6 (4.14%) Red Hat Satellite
7 5 (3.45%) SCOM
8 3 (2.07%) McAfee ePO
8 3 (2.07%) SCCM
8 3 (2.07%) SCVMM
9 2 (1.38%) Data Guard
9 2 (1.38%) Grafana
9 2 (1.38%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
9 2 (1.38%) Red Hat Spacewalk
10 1 (0.69%) Microsoft Intune
10 1 (0.69%) Prometheus
10 1 (0.69%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 93 (64.14%) Red Hat
2 57 (39.31%) VMware
3 21 (14.48%) Cisco
3 21 (14.48%) Microsoft
4 19 (13.10%) IBM
5 16 (11.03%) Oracle
6 12 (8.28%) Commvault
7 11 (7.59%) ServiceNow
8 10 (6.90%) Dell
9 8 (5.52%) NetApp
9 8 (5.52%) Pure Storage
10 7 (4.83%) HP
11 6 (4.14%) Splunk
12 5 (3.45%) Atlassian
12 5 (3.45%) Symantec
13 3 (2.07%) McAfee
14 2 (1.38%) Fujitsu
14 2 (1.38%) Google
14 2 (1.38%) Juniper
14 2 (1.38%) SolarWinds