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

6 months to
24 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 480 493 408
Rank change year-on-year +13 -85 +38
Permanent jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 138 208 271
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.27% 0.41% 0.62%
As % of the Operating Systems category 2.97% 2.69% 3.58%
Number of salaries quoted 92 134 215
10th Percentile £43,088 £40,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £51,750 £49,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,465 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.93% +0.71% +8.33%
75th Percentile £88,750 £81,250 £85,000
90th Percentile £123,000 £90,000 £102,500
UK median annual salary £69,000 £65,465 £65,000
% change year-on-year +5.40% +0.71% +8.33%

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 4,640 7,746 7,567
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 8.92% 15.36% 17.37%
Number of salaries quoted 3,543 4,537 6,300
10th Percentile £27,000 £28,499 £27,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £36,250 £34,981
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.00% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £87,250 £88,000 £88,000
UK median annual salary £44,000 £50,242 £50,000
% change year-on-year -12.42% +0.48% -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 24 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 24 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 +68 87 £85,000 +1.49% 27
South East +12 20 £50,000 +11.11% 29
East of England +17 12 £43,000 -25.22% 13
North of England +6 8 £60,000 -8.35% 19
South West -13 8 £55,000 -23.60% 11
North West +33 7 £60,000 -8.35% 7
Midlands +5 1 - - 16
Yorkshire -16 1 £65,000 -0.71% 11
East Midlands -16 1 - - 8
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 (15.94%) Tomcat
2 20 (14.49%) WebSphere
3 16 (11.59%) WebSphere Application Server
4 10 (7.25%) Microsoft Exchange
5 8 (5.80%) Apache
6 5 (3.62%) Confluence
6 5 (3.62%) IIS
7 3 (2.17%) Apache Spark
7 3 (2.17%) JBoss
7 3 (2.17%) Skype for Business
8 2 (1.45%) nginx
8 2 (1.45%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.72%) Oracle 11i
1 1 (0.72%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.72%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (0.72%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 52 (37.68%) AWS
2 22 (15.94%) Azure
3 16 (11.59%) OpenShift
4 11 (7.97%) Cohesity
5 10 (7.25%) Amazon EKS
5 10 (7.25%) AWS Lambda
5 10 (7.25%) GitHub
5 10 (7.25%) Serverless
6 9 (6.52%) AWS CloudFormation
7 8 (5.80%) Amazon EC2
7 8 (5.80%) Amazon S3
7 8 (5.80%) Microsoft 365
7 8 (5.80%) SaaS
8 7 (5.07%) GCP
8 7 (5.07%) Route 53
9 6 (4.35%) Amazon ECR
9 6 (4.35%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 2 (1.45%) AWS CodeDeploy
10 2 (1.45%) Azure DevOps
11 1 (0.72%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 18 (13.04%) Firewall
2 17 (12.32%) SSL
3 16 (11.59%) DNS
3 16 (11.59%) SAN
4 15 (10.87%) LAN
5 14 (10.14%) WAN
6 13 (9.42%) TCP/IP
7 12 (8.70%) Multicast
8 7 (5.07%) DHCP
8 7 (5.07%) VSAN
9 6 (4.35%) Fibre Channel
10 4 (2.90%) HTTP
10 4 (2.90%) iSCSI
10 4 (2.90%) Remote Desktop
11 3 (2.17%) AMQP
11 3 (2.17%) Skype
12 2 (1.45%) Cisco IOS
12 2 (1.45%) NAS
12 2 (1.45%) SNMP
12 2 (1.45%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
1 23 (16.67%) SQL Server
2 18 (13.04%) DB2
3 8 (5.80%) MySQL
4 7 (5.07%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (3.62%) Oracle Database
6 4 (2.90%) Big Data
6 4 (2.90%) MongoDB
7 3 (2.17%) Cloudera CDH
7 3 (2.17%) Hadoop
8 1 (0.72%) Oracle Database 12c
8 1 (0.72%) Power BI
8 1 (0.72%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.72%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.72%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 20 (14.49%) Git
2 16 (11.59%) GitLab
3 9 (6.52%) Jenkins
4 8 (5.80%) JIRA
5 6 (4.35%) Bitbucket
6 5 (3.62%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 3 (2.17%) Ant
7 3 (2.17%) Artifactory
7 3 (2.17%) Maven
7 3 (2.17%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 58 (42.03%) Finance
2 33 (23.91%) Social Skills
3 23 (16.67%) Banking
4 12 (8.70%) Front Office
5 10 (7.25%) Investment Banking
6 8 (5.80%) Organisational Skills
7 5 (3.62%) Presentation Skills
8 4 (2.90%) Advertising
8 4 (2.90%) Aerospace
8 4 (2.90%) Analytical Skills
9 2 (1.45%) Electronics
9 2 (1.45%) Financial Institution
9 2 (1.45%) Military
9 2 (1.45%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.72%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 39 (28.26%) Linux Engineer
2 35 (25.36%) Administrator
3 32 (23.19%) Linux Support
4 25 (18.12%) Linux Administrator
5 20 (14.49%) Support Engineer
6 17 (12.32%) Applications Support
6 17 (12.32%) Infrastructure Support
6 17 (12.32%) Linux Support Engineer
7 16 (11.59%) Systems Administrator
8 15 (10.87%) Unix Support
9 12 (8.70%) C++ Developer
9 12 (8.70%) Developer
9 12 (8.70%) DevOps Engineer
9 12 (8.70%) Linux Systems Administrator
10 10 (7.25%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 10 (7.25%) Linux DevOps Engineer
10 10 (7.25%) Linux/Unix DevOps
11 9 (6.52%) Cisco Engineer
11 9 (6.52%) Linux Specialist
11 9 (6.52%) VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (13.04%) LDAP
2 16 (11.59%) LAPP Stack
2 16 (11.59%) WebSphere MQ
3 12 (8.70%) FIX Protocol
4 9 (6.52%) Kafka
5 8 (5.80%) Middleware
6 3 (2.17%) AngularJS
6 3 (2.17%) Elastic Stack
6 3 (2.17%) gRPC
6 3 (2.17%) Material-UI
6 3 (2.17%) Node.js
6 3 (2.17%) OpenAPI
6 3 (2.17%) RabbitMQ
6 3 (2.17%) React
6 3 (2.17%) REST
6 3 (2.17%) Spring
6 3 (2.17%) Spring Boot
6 3 (2.17%) Swagger
7 2 (1.45%) LAMP
8 1 (0.72%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 24 (17.39%) Management Information System
2 19 (13.77%) Linux Command Line
3 12 (8.70%) Derivative
4 10 (7.25%) Hybrid Cloud
5 9 (6.52%) Clustering
6 8 (5.80%) Cloud Native
7 7 (5.07%) Data Centre
8 5 (3.62%) Replication
8 5 (3.62%) Virtual Team
9 4 (2.90%) Onboarding
9 4 (2.90%) Video on Demand
9 4 (2.90%) Video\Live Streaming
10 3 (2.17%) Blackberry
10 3 (2.17%) Driving Licence
10 3 (2.17%) PKI
10 3 (2.17%) RSA SecurID
11 2 (1.45%) Enterprise Cloud
11 2 (1.45%) FPGA
12 1 (0.72%) Distributed Systems
12 1 (0.72%) Manufacturing Execution System
Operating Systems
1 138 (100.00%) Linux
2 52 (37.68%) Windows
3 37 (26.81%) Unix
4 26 (18.84%) CentOS
5 23 (16.67%) Windows Server
6 19 (13.77%) Windows Server 2019
7 13 (9.42%) Debian
8 12 (8.70%) Solaris
9 9 (6.52%) Ubuntu
10 8 (5.80%) Windows Server 2016
11 5 (3.62%) Windows Server 2012
12 4 (2.90%) Windows 10
13 2 (1.45%) AIX
13 2 (1.45%) CoreOS
13 2 (1.45%) Oracle Linux
14 1 (0.72%) OpenVMS
14 1 (0.72%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (28.26%) ITIL
2 30 (21.74%) DevOps
3 26 (18.84%) Change Management
4 21 (15.22%) Containerisation
4 21 (15.22%) Infrastructure as Code
4 21 (15.22%) Low Latency
4 21 (15.22%) Root Cause Analysis
5 19 (13.77%) Release Management
6 18 (13.04%) Problem-Solving
7 16 (11.59%) User Acceptance Testing
8 15 (10.87%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 14 (10.14%) Disaster Recovery
10 13 (9.42%) Configuration Management
10 13 (9.42%) Incident Response
11 12 (8.70%) Concurrent Programming
11 12 (8.70%) SOA
11 12 (8.70%) Systems Analysis
11 12 (8.70%) Unit Testing
12 11 (7.97%) Continuous Improvement
12 11 (7.97%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 74 (53.62%) Python
2 47 (34.06%) Bash
3 20 (14.49%) PowerShell
4 13 (9.42%) C++
5 12 (8.70%) Korn
6 11 (7.97%) Perl
7 8 (5.80%) Java
7 8 (5.80%) SQL
8 6 (4.35%) Shell Script
9 3 (2.17%) Groovy
9 3 (2.17%) JavaScript
9 3 (2.17%) PHP
10 1 (0.72%) C#
10 1 (0.72%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 30 (21.74%) Degree
2 26 (18.84%) Security Cleared
3 23 (16.67%) AWS Certification
4 21 (15.22%) ITIL Certification
5 18 (13.04%) DV Cleared
6 13 (9.42%) SC Cleared
7 6 (4.35%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (2.90%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (2.90%) MCSE
8 4 (2.90%) RHCE
8 4 (2.90%) RHCSA
8 4 (2.90%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 3 (2.17%) CCNA
9 3 (2.17%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (1.45%) Dell Certification
10 2 (1.45%) MCSA
11 1 (0.72%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (22.46%) SLA
2 10 (7.25%) QA
3 2 (1.45%) Def Stans
4 1 (0.72%) ISO 20022
4 1 (0.72%) SEPA
System Software
1 38 (27.54%) VMware Infrastructure
2 22 (15.94%) Active Directory
3 14 (10.14%) Docker
3 14 (10.14%) vSphere
4 9 (6.52%) NFS
5 7 (5.07%) Hyper-V
6 5 (3.62%) Veritas Cluster Server
7 4 (2.90%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 3 (2.17%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (1.45%) Postfix
10 1 (0.72%) Apache ZooKeeper
10 1 (0.72%) Dovecot
10 1 (0.72%) Virtual Machines
10 1 (0.72%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 57 (41.30%) Ansible
2 30 (21.74%) Kubernetes
3 23 (16.67%) Terraform
4 13 (9.42%) Puppet
5 7 (5.07%) WSUS
6 6 (4.35%) Nagios
6 6 (4.35%) Podman
6 6 (4.35%) Progress Chef
7 5 (3.62%) Red Hat Satellite
8 4 (2.90%) SCOM
9 3 (2.17%) McAfee ePO
9 3 (2.17%) SCVMM
10 2 (1.45%) Data Guard
10 2 (1.45%) Grafana
10 2 (1.45%) Red Hat Spacewalk
10 2 (1.45%) SCCM
11 1 (0.72%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
11 1 (0.72%) Microsoft Intune
11 1 (0.72%) Prometheus
11 1 (0.72%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 88 (63.77%) Red Hat
2 51 (36.96%) VMware
3 18 (13.04%) Cisco
3 18 (13.04%) IBM
4 17 (12.32%) Microsoft
5 13 (9.42%) Oracle
6 11 (7.97%) ServiceNow
7 10 (7.25%) Commvault
8 9 (6.52%) Dell
9 8 (5.80%) NetApp
10 7 (5.07%) HP
10 7 (5.07%) Pure Storage
11 5 (3.62%) Atlassian
11 5 (3.62%) Splunk
11 5 (3.62%) Symantec
12 3 (2.17%) Google
12 3 (2.17%) McAfee
12 3 (2.17%) SaltStack
13 2 (1.45%) Juniper
13 2 (1.45%) Mirantis