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 18 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 508 476 503
Rank change year-on-year -32 +27 -53
Permanent jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 116 185 271
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.19% 0.42% 0.41%
As % of the Operating Systems category 2.50% 2.70% 2.63%
Number of salaries quoted 85 110 211
10th Percentile £46,250 £46,125 £42,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £56,250 £46,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £69,000 £56,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +23.21% -6.67%
75th Percentile £87,500 £85,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £125,000 £101,500 £102,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -11.54% +13.04% -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 4,639 6,855 10,316
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 7.75% 15.48% 15.56%
Number of salaries quoted 3,508 3,844 8,748
10th Percentile £27,000 £28,250 £26,043
25th Percentile £31,250 £36,250 £31,552
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £52,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +10.53% -9.52%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £90,000 £82,500
UK median annual salary £45,000 £52,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year -14.29% +10.53% -9.52%

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 18 February 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 18 February 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 +24 78 £75,000 -9.09% 15
South East +8 17 £50,000 -13.04% 17
South West -14 10 £57,500 -20.13% 6
North West +11 8 £55,000 +18.92% 5
North of England -25 8 £55,000 - 6
East of England -3 2 £42,500 -26.09% 1
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 18 (15.52%) Tomcat
2 14 (12.07%) WebSphere
3 12 (10.34%) WebSphere Application Server
4 11 (9.48%) Apache
5 7 (6.03%) SharePoint
6 6 (5.17%) Confluence
6 6 (5.17%) Microsoft Exchange
7 5 (4.31%) Apache Spark
7 5 (4.31%) IIS
8 3 (2.59%) CMS
8 3 (2.59%) WordPress
9 2 (1.72%) nginx
10 1 (0.86%) JBoss
Business Applications
1 2 (1.72%) FLEXCUBE
2 1 (0.86%) Oracle 11i
2 1 (0.86%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.86%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.86%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 40 (34.48%) AWS
2 19 (16.38%) Azure
3 15 (12.93%) OpenShift
4 10 (8.62%) Amazon EKS
4 10 (8.62%) AWS Lambda
4 10 (8.62%) SaaS
4 10 (8.62%) Serverless
5 9 (7.76%) AWS CloudFormation
6 6 (5.17%) GCP
7 5 (4.31%) Amazon EC2
7 5 (4.31%) Amazon S3
7 5 (4.31%) Route 53
8 4 (3.45%) Amazon ECR
8 4 (3.45%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 2 (1.72%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (1.72%) Azure Stack
9 2 (1.72%) Cohesity
9 2 (1.72%) GitHub
10 1 (0.86%) OCI
10 1 (0.86%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 27 (23.28%) DNS
2 14 (12.07%) LAN
2 14 (12.07%) TCP/IP
3 13 (11.21%) SSL
4 12 (10.34%) Multicast
5 11 (9.48%) WAN
6 10 (8.62%) SAN
7 9 (7.76%) HTTP
8 8 (6.90%) DHCP
8 8 (6.90%) Firewall
9 7 (6.03%) VSAN
10 5 (4.31%) AMQP
11 2 (1.72%) Cisco IOS
11 2 (1.72%) Fibre Channel
11 2 (1.72%) NAS
11 2 (1.72%) SNMP
11 2 (1.72%) VoIP
12 1 (0.86%) VLAN
12 1 (0.86%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (13.79%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (12.07%) DB2
3 13 (11.21%) SQL Server
4 7 (6.03%) Oracle Database
5 6 (5.17%) Big Data
6 5 (4.31%) Amazon RDS
6 5 (4.31%) Cloudera CDH
6 5 (4.31%) Hadoop
6 5 (4.31%) MongoDB
7 4 (3.45%) MySQL
8 1 (0.86%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.86%) Oracle Database 12c
8 1 (0.86%) Power BI
8 1 (0.86%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.86%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.86%) SAP HANA
8 1 (0.86%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (0.86%) Sybase ASE
8 1 (0.86%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 14 (12.07%) Git
2 9 (7.76%) GitLab
3 8 (6.90%) JIRA
4 7 (6.03%) Jenkins
5 6 (5.17%) Bitbucket
6 5 (4.31%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (0.86%) Ant
7 1 (0.86%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.86%) Maven
7 1 (0.86%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 44 (37.93%) Finance
2 22 (18.97%) Social Skills
3 20 (17.24%) Banking
4 13 (11.21%) Front Office
5 8 (6.90%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (6.90%) Investment Banking
6 7 (6.03%) Organisational Skills
7 6 (5.17%) Presentation Skills
8 5 (4.31%) Aerospace
9 3 (2.59%) Advertising
10 2 (1.72%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (1.72%) Electronics
10 2 (1.72%) Financial Institution
10 2 (1.72%) Military
11 1 (0.86%) Public Sector
11 1 (0.86%) Retail
Job Titles
1 32 (27.59%) Administrator
2 31 (26.72%) Linux Support
3 28 (24.14%) Linux Engineer
4 23 (19.83%) Linux Administrator
5 21 (18.10%) Support Engineer
6 18 (15.52%) Linux Support Engineer
7 14 (12.07%) Infrastructure Support
8 13 (11.21%) Applications Support
8 13 (11.21%) C++ Developer
8 13 (11.21%) Developer
8 13 (11.21%) Unix Support
9 12 (10.34%) Systems Administrator
10 8 (6.90%) Linux Specialist
10 8 (6.90%) Senior
10 8 (6.90%) Support Specialist
11 7 (6.03%) Linux Systems Administrator
12 6 (5.17%) 3rd Line Engineer
12 6 (5.17%) 3rd Line Support
12 6 (5.17%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
12 6 (5.17%) DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (12.07%) LDAP
2 12 (10.34%) FIX Protocol
2 12 (10.34%) LAPP Stack
2 12 (10.34%) WebSphere MQ
3 8 (6.90%) Middleware
4 7 (6.03%) Kafka
5 6 (5.17%) REST
6 5 (4.31%) AngularJS
6 5 (4.31%) gRPC
6 5 (4.31%) Material-UI
6 5 (4.31%) Node.js
6 5 (4.31%) OpenAPI
6 5 (4.31%) RabbitMQ
6 5 (4.31%) React
6 5 (4.31%) Spring
6 5 (4.31%) Spring Boot
6 5 (4.31%) Swagger
7 3 (2.59%) WebSockets
8 2 (1.72%) ARM Templates
8 2 (1.72%) LAMP
Miscellaneous
1 14 (12.07%) Linux Command Line
2 12 (10.34%) Derivative
3 11 (9.48%) Management Information System
4 9 (7.76%) Clustering
5 8 (6.90%) Data Centre
6 6 (5.17%) PKI
7 5 (4.31%) Cloud Native
7 5 (4.31%) Replication
8 4 (3.45%) Onboarding
8 4 (3.45%) Video on Demand
8 4 (3.45%) Video\Live Streaming
9 2 (1.72%) Distributed Systems
9 2 (1.72%) FPGA
10 1 (0.86%) Equities
10 1 (0.86%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 1 (0.86%) Hybrid Cloud
10 1 (0.86%) Self-Motivation
10 1 (0.86%) SWIFT Messaging Network
10 1 (0.86%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 116 (100.00%) Linux
2 41 (35.34%) Windows
3 33 (28.45%) CentOS
4 27 (23.28%) Unix
5 24 (20.69%) Windows Server
6 13 (11.21%) Ubuntu
7 12 (10.34%) Windows Server 2019
8 11 (9.48%) Windows Server 2016
9 9 (7.76%) Debian
10 5 (4.31%) Solaris
10 5 (4.31%) Windows Server 2012
11 4 (3.45%) AIX
11 4 (3.45%) CoreOS
11 4 (3.45%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (25.86%) Problem-Solving
2 27 (23.28%) ITIL
3 20 (17.24%) Change Management
4 18 (15.52%) DevOps
5 17 (14.66%) Configuration Management
6 16 (13.79%) Infrastructure as Code
7 14 (12.07%) Agile
7 14 (12.07%) Low Latency
8 13 (11.21%) Release Management
8 13 (11.21%) User Acceptance Testing
9 12 (10.34%) Concurrent Programming
9 12 (10.34%) SOA
9 12 (10.34%) Systems Analysis
9 12 (10.34%) Unit Testing
10 11 (9.48%) Containerisation
10 11 (9.48%) Disaster Recovery
11 10 (8.62%) CI/CD
11 10 (8.62%) Collaborative Working
11 10 (8.62%) Root Cause Analysis
12 9 (7.76%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 64 (55.17%) Python
2 39 (33.62%) Bash
3 19 (16.38%) PowerShell
4 17 (14.66%) SQL
5 14 (12.07%) C++
5 14 (12.07%) Perl
6 10 (8.62%) PHP
7 8 (6.90%) Java
7 8 (6.90%) Shell Script
8 5 (4.31%) JavaScript
8 5 (4.31%) Korn
9 2 (1.72%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.86%) C#
10 1 (0.86%) Groovy
10 1 (0.86%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 21 (18.10%) Security Cleared
2 18 (15.52%) AWS Certification
2 18 (15.52%) Degree
3 17 (14.66%) ITIL Certification
4 15 (12.93%) DV Cleared
5 6 (5.17%) SC Cleared
6 5 (4.31%) RHCSA
7 3 (2.59%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (2.59%) RHCE
8 1 (0.86%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.86%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (16.38%) SLA
2 2 (1.72%) Def Stans
2 2 (1.72%) QA
3 1 (0.86%) ISO 20022
3 1 (0.86%) SEPA
System Software
1 31 (26.72%) VMware Infrastructure
2 19 (16.38%) Active Directory
3 12 (10.34%) Docker
4 9 (7.76%) vSphere
5 6 (5.17%) Hyper-V
6 5 (4.31%) Veritas Cluster Server
7 2 (1.72%) NFS
7 2 (1.72%) Oracle RAC
8 1 (0.86%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 1 (0.86%) Postfix
8 1 (0.86%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.86%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.86%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 39 (33.62%) Ansible
2 19 (16.38%) Kubernetes
3 15 (12.93%) Terraform
4 12 (10.34%) Puppet
5 11 (9.48%) Nagios
6 6 (5.17%) McAfee ePO
6 6 (5.17%) Progress Chef
6 6 (5.17%) SCVMM
6 6 (5.17%) WSUS
7 5 (4.31%) Podman
8 4 (3.45%) Data Guard
8 4 (3.45%) Red Hat Satellite
9 2 (1.72%) Grafana
9 2 (1.72%) Oracle RMAN
9 2 (1.72%) Red Hat Spacewalk
10 1 (0.86%) Docker Swarm
10 1 (0.86%) Prometheus
10 1 (0.86%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 78 (67.24%) Red Hat
2 37 (31.90%) VMware
3 16 (13.79%) Oracle
4 15 (12.93%) IBM
5 12 (10.34%) McAfee
6 9 (7.76%) ServiceNow
7 5 (4.31%) Atlassian
7 5 (4.31%) Cisco
7 5 (4.31%) Google
7 5 (4.31%) SaltStack
7 5 (4.31%) Symantec
8 3 (2.59%) Pure Storage
8 3 (2.59%) SolarWinds
8 3 (2.59%) Splunk
9 2 (1.72%) Commvault
9 2 (1.72%) Dell
9 2 (1.72%) HP
9 2 (1.72%) Mirantis
9 2 (1.72%) NetApp
10 1 (0.86%) Delphix