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 10 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 544 478 539
Rank change year-on-year -66 +61 -24
Permanent jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 161 149 330
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.20% 0.38% 0.35%
As % of the Operating Systems category 3.14% 2.43% 2.62%
Number of salaries quoted 136 116 248
10th Percentile £46,250 £52,500 £38,750
25th Percentile £51,250 £56,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +27.27% -15.38%
75th Percentile £72,500 £80,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £96,250 £102,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -3.70% +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 5,131 6,128 12,578
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 6.28% 15.61% 13.52%
Number of salaries quoted 3,898 3,936 9,859
10th Percentile £27,750 £27,000 £26,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £31,750 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £42,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -5.56% -14.29%
75th Percentile £67,688 £65,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £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 10 June 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 10 June 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 -14 67 £57,500 -24.59% 11
South East 0 52 £67,500 +11.57% 10
North of England -32 22 £43,750 -37.50% 4
North West +17 21 £40,000 -46.57% 2
South West -40 15 £75,000 +20.00% 8
East of England -20 2 £56,250 -8.16% 2
Midlands -20 2 £75,000 +22.45% 2
East Midlands -22 2 £75,000 +57.89% 2
Yorkshire -54 1 £97,500 +44.44% 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 (11.80%) Microsoft Exchange
2 10 (6.21%) Apache
3 8 (4.97%) SharePoint
4 7 (4.35%) Confluence
5 5 (3.11%) Apache Spark
6 4 (2.48%) OpenStack
7 3 (1.86%) CMS
7 3 (1.86%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (0.62%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 8 (4.97%) FLEXCUBE
2 1 (0.62%) Oracle 11i
2 1 (0.62%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.62%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.62%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 41 (25.47%) AWS
2 34 (21.12%) Azure
3 13 (8.07%) Microsoft 365
4 10 (6.21%) AWS CloudFormation
5 7 (4.35%) Amazon EKS
5 7 (4.35%) AWS Lambda
5 7 (4.35%) Azure Stack
5 7 (4.35%) SaaS
5 7 (4.35%) Serverless
6 6 (3.73%) Datadog
6 6 (3.73%) GCP
6 6 (3.73%) OpenShift
7 5 (3.11%) GitHub
8 4 (2.48%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 4 (2.48%) Amazon EC2
8 4 (2.48%) Amazon S3
8 4 (2.48%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 3 (1.86%) CloudFront
9 3 (1.86%) GitHub Actions
9 3 (1.86%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 54 (33.54%) DNS
2 34 (21.12%) Firewall
3 30 (18.63%) SAN
4 20 (12.42%) LAN
5 17 (10.56%) TCP/IP
6 16 (9.94%) HTTP
7 11 (6.83%) WAN
8 10 (6.21%) iSCSI
9 9 (5.59%) NAS
9 9 (5.59%) Remote Desktop
10 8 (4.97%) NetScaler
10 8 (4.97%) Wireshark
11 5 (3.11%) AMQP
11 5 (3.11%) DHCP
12 4 (2.48%) VSAN
13 3 (1.86%) VoIP
13 3 (1.86%) VPN
14 2 (1.24%) Network Security
14 2 (1.24%) PBX
15 1 (0.62%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (8.70%) SQL Server
2 9 (5.59%) MySQL
2 9 (5.59%) Oracle Database
2 9 (5.59%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (4.35%) Hadoop
4 6 (3.73%) Elasticsearch
5 5 (3.11%) Big Data
5 5 (3.11%) Cloudera CDH
5 5 (3.11%) MongoDB
6 4 (2.48%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.62%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.62%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.62%) Oracle Database 12c
7 1 (0.62%) Power BI
7 1 (0.62%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.62%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.62%) SAP HANA
7 1 (0.62%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.62%) Sybase ASE
7 1 (0.62%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 24 (14.91%) Git
2 13 (8.07%) GitLab
3 12 (7.45%) JIRA
4 7 (4.35%) Jenkins
5 6 (3.73%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 3 (1.86%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.62%) git-flow
7 1 (0.62%) Maven
7 1 (0.62%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 52 (32.30%) Social Skills
2 33 (20.50%) Finance
3 22 (13.66%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (11.18%) Banking
5 12 (7.45%) Organisational Skills
6 10 (6.21%) Documentation Skills
7 8 (4.97%) Aerospace
8 5 (3.11%) Public Sector
9 4 (2.48%) Front Office
9 4 (2.48%) Mandarin Language
10 3 (1.86%) Military
11 2 (1.24%) Advertising
11 2 (1.24%) Manufacturing
11 2 (1.24%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.62%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.62%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.62%) Retail
Job Titles
1 29 (18.01%) Administrator
2 28 (17.39%) Linux Engineer
3 24 (14.91%) Senior
4 22 (13.66%) Systems Administrator
5 20 (12.42%) Applications Architect
5 20 (12.42%) Architect
6 15 (9.32%) Linux Administrator
7 14 (8.70%) Security Architect
7 14 (8.70%) Support Engineer
8 12 (7.45%) Linux Support
8 12 (7.45%) Linux Support Engineer
9 11 (6.83%) Linux Systems Administrator
10 10 (6.21%) Lead
11 9 (5.59%) DBA
11 9 (5.59%) Senior Linux Engineer
12 8 (4.97%) DevOps Engineer
12 8 (4.97%) Oracle DBA
12 8 (4.97%) Senior DBA
12 8 (4.97%) Senior Oracle DBA
13 7 (4.35%) 3rd Line Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (13.04%) Regular Expression
2 18 (11.18%) LDAP
3 17 (10.56%) XMPP
4 9 (5.59%) WebSockets
5 7 (4.35%) ARM Templates
6 6 (3.73%) REST
7 5 (3.11%) AngularJS
7 5 (3.11%) gRPC
7 5 (3.11%) JSON
7 5 (3.11%) JSON Schema
7 5 (3.11%) Material-UI
7 5 (3.11%) Middleware
7 5 (3.11%) Node.js
7 5 (3.11%) OpenAPI
7 5 (3.11%) RabbitMQ
7 5 (3.11%) React
7 5 (3.11%) Spring
7 5 (3.11%) Spring Boot
7 5 (3.11%) Swagger
7 5 (3.11%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 19 (11.80%) Cloud Native
2 18 (11.18%) Data Centre
3 16 (9.94%) PKI
4 14 (8.70%) Management Information System
5 6 (3.73%) Enterprise Storage
6 5 (3.11%) Hybrid Cloud
6 5 (3.11%) Operational Technology
6 5 (3.11%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (2.48%) Blockchain
7 4 (2.48%) Onboarding
7 4 (2.48%) Replication
7 4 (2.48%) Web3
8 3 (1.86%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (1.86%) Fixed Income
8 3 (1.86%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 3 (1.86%) Security Posture
9 2 (1.24%) Clustering
9 2 (1.24%) Enterprise Cloud
9 2 (1.24%) Manufacturing Execution System
10 1 (0.62%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 161 (100.00%) Linux
2 68 (42.24%) Windows
3 60 (37.27%) Windows Server
4 39 (24.22%) CentOS
5 23 (14.29%) Unix
6 21 (13.04%) Ubuntu
7 11 (6.83%) AIX
7 11 (6.83%) Windows Server 2019
8 9 (5.59%) Debian
9 8 (4.97%) Oracle Linux
10 4 (2.48%) CoreOS
10 4 (2.48%) Windows Server 2016
11 3 (1.86%) VMS
12 2 (1.24%) Amazon Linux
12 2 (1.24%) OpenVMS
12 2 (1.24%) Rocky
12 2 (1.24%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (32.30%) DevOps
2 40 (24.84%) Problem-Solving
2 40 (24.84%) SIEM
3 38 (23.60%) CI/CD
4 29 (18.01%) High Availability
4 29 (18.01%) ITIL
5 27 (16.77%) Infrastructure as Code
6 25 (15.53%) Configuration Management
7 23 (14.29%) Platform Engineering
8 20 (12.42%) Agile
8 20 (12.42%) Disaster Recovery
9 19 (11.80%) Cybersecurity
9 19 (11.80%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 18 (11.18%) Containerisation
10 18 (11.18%) Observability
11 17 (10.56%) Antivirus Management
11 17 (10.56%) Application Security
11 17 (10.56%) Validation
12 16 (9.94%) Pattern Matching
12 16 (9.94%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 49 (30.43%) Bash
2 48 (29.81%) Python
3 31 (19.25%) SQL
4 26 (16.15%) PowerShell
5 15 (9.32%) Korn
5 15 (9.32%) PHP
5 15 (9.32%) Shell Script
6 13 (8.07%) Java
7 8 (4.97%) Perl
7 8 (4.97%) PL/SQL
8 7 (4.35%) JavaScript
9 2 (1.24%) C
10 1 (0.62%) C++
10 1 (0.62%) Groovy
10 1 (0.62%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 61 (37.89%) Security Cleared
2 42 (26.09%) DV Cleared
3 20 (12.42%) Degree
4 14 (8.70%) SC Cleared
5 12 (7.45%) RHCSA
6 5 (3.11%) BPSS Clearance
6 5 (3.11%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (2.48%) Cisco Certification
7 4 (2.48%) Postgraduate
7 4 (2.48%) RHCE
8 3 (1.86%) CCNA
8 3 (1.86%) MCSE
9 2 (1.24%) Azure Certification
9 2 (1.24%) Dell Certification
9 2 (1.24%) MCSA
10 1 (0.62%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 1 (0.62%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.62%) CCSP
10 1 (0.62%) CISSP
10 1 (0.62%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.11%) SLA
2 2 (1.24%) NIST
3 1 (0.62%) GDPR
3 1 (0.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.62%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 48 (29.81%) Active Directory
2 36 (22.36%) vSphere
3 35 (21.74%) Docker
4 34 (21.12%) VMware Infrastructure
5 12 (7.45%) Hyper-V
6 8 (4.97%) Citrix Hypervisor
6 8 (4.97%) Oracle RAC
7 3 (1.86%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 3 (1.86%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (1.24%) Samba
8 2 (1.24%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.62%) KVM
Systems Management
1 48 (29.81%) Kubernetes
2 39 (24.22%) Terraform
3 38 (23.60%) Ansible
4 25 (15.53%) Nagios
5 20 (12.42%) Puppet
6 9 (5.59%) WSUS
7 8 (4.97%) Data Guard
7 8 (4.97%) Oracle RMAN
8 7 (4.35%) Podman
9 5 (3.11%) Docker Swarm
9 5 (3.11%) Grafana
9 5 (3.11%) ZABBIX
10 4 (2.48%) Argo
10 4 (2.48%) McAfee ePO
10 4 (2.48%) SCVMM
11 3 (1.86%) Prometheus
12 2 (1.24%) Red Hat Satellite
13 1 (0.62%) Packer
13 1 (0.62%) Progress Chef
13 1 (0.62%) SCCM
Vendors
1 106 (65.84%) Red Hat
2 67 (41.61%) VMware
3 38 (23.60%) Microsoft
4 24 (14.91%) McAfee
5 12 (7.45%) Oracle
6 10 (6.21%) Dell
6 10 (6.21%) SolarWinds
6 10 (6.21%) Splunk
7 8 (4.97%) Citrix
7 8 (4.97%) IBM
7 8 (4.97%) NetApp
8 6 (3.73%) Google
9 5 (3.11%) SaltStack
10 3 (1.86%) Pure Storage
10 3 (1.86%) ServiceNow
10 3 (1.86%) Veeam
11 2 (1.24%) CheckPoint
11 2 (1.24%) Cisco
11 2 (1.24%) Fujitsu
11 2 (1.24%) Juniper