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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 485 479 445
Rank change year-on-year -6 -34 +133
Permanent jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 166 294 323
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.38% 0.43% 0.58%
As % of the Operating Systems category 2.68% 3.31% 3.36%
Number of salaries quoted 119 218 233
10th Percentile £46,250 £40,000 £41,300
25th Percentile £52,500 £41,202 £49,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +18.18%
75th Percentile £80,750 £77,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £97,000 £99,681 £100,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +18.18%

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 6,190 8,881 9,619
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 14.27% 12.90% 17.16%
Number of salaries quoted 4,030 5,647 7,809
10th Percentile £27,000 £27,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £35,750 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £41,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -18.00% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £62,500 £67,500 £72,433
90th Percentile £81,250 £85,000 £90,000
UK median annual salary £41,500 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -17.00% -4.76% -

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 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 13 September 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 13 September 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 +48 82 £80,000 -5.88% 26
South East +10 35 £64,750 +43.89% 17
East of England +6 15 £43,500 -19.44% 4
North of England +5 15 £65,000 -0.71% 9
Midlands +55 10 £57,500 +43.75% 3
Yorkshire +23 8 £65,000 -0.71% 1
East Midlands +27 6 £57,500 +43.75% 2
South West +11 6 £60,000 - 14
North West 0 5 £74,870 +14.37% 3
West Midlands +31 4 £65,000 -0.71% 1
North East +17 2 £55,000 -15.98% 5
Red Hat Enterprise Linux
UK

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 22 (13.25%) Microsoft Exchange
2 16 (9.64%) Apache
3 12 (7.23%) WebSphere
4 8 (4.82%) Tomcat
4 8 (4.82%) WebSphere Application Server
5 4 (2.41%) JBoss
6 3 (1.81%) Skype for Business
7 2 (1.20%) Confluence
8 1 (0.60%) Drupal
8 1 (0.60%) nginx
8 1 (0.60%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.60%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 60 (36.14%) AWS
2 38 (22.89%) Azure
3 23 (13.86%) GitHub
4 20 (12.05%) Microsoft 365
5 13 (7.83%) OpenShift
6 11 (6.63%) Cohesity
7 8 (4.82%) Amazon EC2
8 6 (3.61%) Azure DevOps
8 6 (3.61%) Serverless
9 5 (3.01%) Amazon S3
9 5 (3.01%) AWS Lambda
10 4 (2.41%) Amazon ECR
10 4 (2.41%) Amazon EKS
10 4 (2.41%) AWS CloudFormation
10 4 (2.41%) Azure Monitor
10 4 (2.41%) GCP
10 4 (2.41%) PaaS
10 4 (2.41%) Route 53
10 4 (2.41%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 3 (1.81%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 23 (13.86%) Firewall
1 23 (13.86%) SAN
2 18 (10.84%) LAN
2 18 (10.84%) TCP/IP
3 16 (9.64%) DNS
3 16 (9.64%) WAN
4 13 (7.83%) DHCP
5 12 (7.23%) Fibre Channel
6 10 (6.02%) Remote Desktop
7 9 (5.42%) Intrusion Detection
7 9 (5.42%) iSCSI
8 8 (4.82%) SSL
9 5 (3.01%) VSAN
10 4 (2.41%) Cisco IOS
10 4 (2.41%) VoIP
11 3 (1.81%) Skype
12 2 (1.20%) HTTP
13 1 (0.60%) Internet
13 1 (0.60%) SMTP
13 1 (0.60%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (15.06%) SQL Server
2 17 (10.24%) PostgreSQL
3 11 (6.63%) MySQL
4 10 (6.02%) DB2
5 4 (2.41%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (1.81%) MongoDB
7 2 (1.20%) SAP HANA
8 1 (0.60%) NonStop SQL
8 1 (0.60%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 35 (21.08%) Git
2 13 (7.83%) GitLab
3 7 (4.22%) Jenkins
4 6 (3.61%) Artifactory
5 5 (3.01%) JIRA
5 5 (3.01%) Sonatype Nexus
6 4 (2.41%) Ant
6 4 (2.41%) Maven
7 1 (0.60%) MSI
7 1 (0.60%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 55 (33.13%) Social Skills
2 51 (30.72%) Finance
3 28 (16.87%) Banking
4 13 (7.83%) Organisational Skills
5 12 (7.23%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (3.61%) Investment Banking
7 4 (2.41%) Electronics
7 4 (2.41%) Military
8 3 (1.81%) Telecoms
9 2 (1.20%) Advertising
9 2 (1.20%) Financial Institution
9 2 (1.20%) Law
9 2 (1.20%) Retail
10 1 (0.60%) Front Office
10 1 (0.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.60%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.60%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.60%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 43 (25.90%) Linux Engineer
2 34 (20.48%) Administrator
3 21 (12.65%) Systems Administrator
4 20 (12.05%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 20 (12.05%) Linux Administrator
5 19 (11.45%) DevOps Engineer
5 19 (11.45%) Senior
6 18 (10.84%) Linux Support
7 17 (10.24%) Cisco Engineer
8 14 (8.43%) Linux DevOps Engineer
8 14 (8.43%) Linux Systems Administrator
8 14 (8.43%) Linux/Unix DevOps
8 14 (8.43%) VMware Engineer
9 12 (7.23%) Support Engineer
10 11 (6.63%) Cloud Engineer
10 11 (6.63%) Integration Engineer
10 11 (6.63%) Lead
11 10 (6.02%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
11 10 (6.02%) Linux Scripter
11 10 (6.02%) Linux Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (4.82%) LAPP Stack
1 8 (4.82%) LDAP
1 8 (4.82%) WebSphere MQ
2 7 (4.22%) Middleware
3 6 (3.61%) Elastic Stack
4 5 (3.01%) Kafka
5 3 (1.81%) Lambda Expressions
5 3 (1.81%) LAMP
6 2 (1.20%) ARM Templates
6 2 (1.20%) WebSockets
7 1 (0.60%) AngularJS
7 1 (0.60%) JSON
7 1 (0.60%) Laravel
7 1 (0.60%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 26 (15.66%) Management Information System
2 24 (14.46%) Hybrid Cloud
3 19 (11.45%) Linux Command Line
4 15 (9.04%) Cloud Native
5 10 (6.02%) Data Centre
6 9 (5.42%) Driving Licence
7 7 (4.22%) Hedge funds
8 5 (3.01%) Virtual Team
9 4 (2.41%) Public Cloud
10 3 (1.81%) Blackberry
10 3 (1.81%) Clustering
10 3 (1.81%) Enterprise Cloud
10 3 (1.81%) Enterprise Storage
10 3 (1.81%) PKI
10 3 (1.81%) Product Ownership
10 3 (1.81%) RSA SecurID
10 3 (1.81%) Security Posture
11 2 (1.20%) Distributed Systems
11 2 (1.20%) Replication
12 1 (0.60%) Manufacturing Execution System
Operating Systems
1 166 (100.00%) Linux
2 68 (40.96%) Windows
3 32 (19.28%) CentOS
4 31 (18.67%) Windows Server
5 26 (15.66%) Unix
6 23 (13.86%) Windows Server 2019
7 16 (9.64%) Solaris
8 11 (6.63%) Debian
9 10 (6.02%) Windows 10
10 9 (5.42%) Oracle Linux
11 5 (3.01%) HPUX
11 5 (3.01%) Ubuntu
12 4 (2.41%) AIX
12 4 (2.41%) CoreOS
12 4 (2.41%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
13 3 (1.81%) VMS
14 2 (1.20%) SUSE
14 2 (1.20%) Windows Server 2016
15 1 (0.60%) Amazon Linux
15 1 (0.60%) OpenVMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (39.76%) DevOps
2 46 (27.71%) ITIL
3 40 (24.10%) Containerisation
4 31 (18.67%) Root Cause Analysis
5 30 (18.07%) Infrastructure as Code
6 27 (16.27%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 21 (12.65%) Problem-Solving
8 18 (10.84%) Disaster Recovery
8 18 (10.84%) Incident Response
9 16 (9.64%) CI/CD
9 16 (9.64%) Cybersecurity
9 16 (9.64%) Incident Management
10 15 (9.04%) Performance Tuning
10 15 (9.04%) Time Management
11 14 (8.43%) Continuous Improvement
12 13 (7.83%) Change Management
13 12 (7.23%) Mentoring
13 12 (7.23%) Release Management
14 11 (6.63%) Batch Scripting
15 10 (6.02%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 59 (35.54%) Python
2 54 (32.53%) Bash
3 20 (12.05%) PowerShell
4 19 (11.45%) Korn
5 11 (6.63%) PHP
6 9 (5.42%) SQL
7 5 (3.01%) Java
8 4 (2.41%) Groovy
8 4 (2.41%) Perl
8 4 (2.41%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.60%) C#
9 1 (0.60%) C++
9 1 (0.60%) COBOL
9 1 (0.60%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 38 (22.89%) Security Cleared
2 35 (21.08%) Degree
3 24 (14.46%) DV Cleared
4 17 (10.24%) SC Cleared
5 16 (9.64%) AWS Certification
6 13 (7.83%) Microsoft Certification
7 11 (6.63%) RHCSA
8 10 (6.02%) MCSE
9 9 (5.42%) CCNA
9 9 (5.42%) Cisco Certification
9 9 (5.42%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 8 (4.82%) Computer Science Degree
10 8 (4.82%) ITIL Certification
11 6 (3.61%) RHCE
12 3 (1.81%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 3 (1.81%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
12 3 (1.81%) Azure Certification
12 3 (1.81%) Dell Certification
12 3 (1.81%) MCSA
13 2 (1.20%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (10.84%) SLA
2 10 (6.02%) QA
3 4 (2.41%) Def Stans
3 4 (2.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.81%) GDPR
5 2 (1.20%) HIPAA
5 2 (1.20%) ISO 20022
5 2 (1.20%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.60%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.60%) ISO 15022
6 1 (0.60%) NCSC
6 1 (0.60%) NIST
6 1 (0.60%) PMO
6 1 (0.60%) SEPA
System Software
1 44 (26.51%) VMware Infrastructure
2 28 (16.87%) Active Directory
3 25 (15.06%) vSphere
4 21 (12.65%) Docker
5 17 (10.24%) NFS
6 13 (7.83%) Hyper-V
7 10 (6.02%) Virtual Machines
8 9 (5.42%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 9 (5.42%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (1.20%) Postfix
10 1 (0.60%) Dovecot
10 1 (0.60%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 85 (51.20%) Ansible
2 52 (31.33%) Kubernetes
3 43 (25.90%) Terraform
4 15 (9.04%) WSUS
5 14 (8.43%) Puppet
6 12 (7.23%) SCOM
7 11 (6.63%) Nagios
8 8 (4.82%) Grafana
8 8 (4.82%) SCCM
9 7 (4.22%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
10 6 (3.61%) Red Hat Satellite
11 5 (3.01%) Podman
12 4 (2.41%) Progress Chef
12 4 (2.41%) Prometheus
13 2 (1.20%) EMC NetWorker
13 2 (1.20%) McAfee ePO
13 2 (1.20%) SCVMM
13 2 (1.20%) ZABBIX
14 1 (0.60%) NetBackup
14 1 (0.60%) WMI
Vendors
1 87 (52.41%) Red Hat
2 73 (43.98%) VMware
3 43 (25.90%) Microsoft
4 38 (22.89%) Cisco
5 23 (13.86%) Commvault
6 21 (12.65%) Oracle
7 16 (9.64%) IBM
8 14 (8.43%) Dell
8 14 (8.43%) Pure Storage
9 12 (7.23%) NetApp
10 11 (6.63%) Splunk
11 7 (4.22%) HP
11 7 (4.22%) SolarWinds
12 6 (3.61%) ServiceNow
13 3 (1.81%) Fujitsu
13 3 (1.81%) Juniper
14 2 (1.20%) ArcSight
14 2 (1.20%) Citrix
14 2 (1.20%) EMC
14 2 (1.20%) Veeam