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 14 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 531 505 515
Rank change year-on-year -26 +10 +18
Permanent jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 155 136 324
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.19% 0.35% 0.39%
As % of the Operating Systems category 3.17% 2.14% 2.66%
Number of salaries quoted 130 108 242
10th Percentile £46,250 £52,500 £38,750
25th Percentile £51,250 £55,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £70,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% +27.27% -15.38%
75th Percentile £72,500 £80,313 £71,000
90th Percentile £88,750 £96,250 £102,097
UK median annual salary £62,500 £67,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -7.41% +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 4,886 6,344 12,202
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 6.05% 16.33% 14.52%
Number of salaries quoted 3,668 4,007 9,847
10th Percentile £27,694 £27,000 £25,750
25th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -14.29%
75th Percentile £68,750 £65,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £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 14 May 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 14 May 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 -2 75 £57,500 -25.81% 20
South East +9 47 £67,500 +17.39% 16
North West +12 18 £55,000 -26.54% 5
North of England -28 18 £55,000 -21.43% 15
South West -38 13 £75,000 +4.18% 20
East of England -28 1 £70,000 +7.69% 3
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 (12.26%) Microsoft Exchange
2 11 (7.10%) Apache
3 8 (5.16%) SharePoint
4 6 (3.87%) Confluence
5 5 (3.23%) Apache Spark
6 4 (2.58%) OpenStack
7 3 (1.94%) CMS
7 3 (1.94%) WordPress
8 2 (1.29%) IIS
8 2 (1.29%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.65%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (0.65%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (2.58%) FLEXCUBE
2 1 (0.65%) Oracle 11i
2 1 (0.65%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.65%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.65%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 41 (26.45%) AWS
2 30 (19.35%) Azure
3 12 (7.74%) Microsoft 365
4 10 (6.45%) AWS CloudFormation
5 9 (5.81%) SaaS
6 7 (4.52%) Amazon EKS
6 7 (4.52%) AWS Lambda
6 7 (4.52%) GCP
6 7 (4.52%) OpenShift
6 7 (4.52%) Serverless
7 6 (3.87%) Datadog
8 5 (3.23%) Azure Stack
9 4 (2.58%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 4 (2.58%) Amazon EC2
9 4 (2.58%) Amazon S3
9 4 (2.58%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 3 (1.94%) CloudFront
10 3 (1.94%) GitHub
10 3 (1.94%) GitHub Actions
10 3 (1.94%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 50 (32.26%) DNS
2 30 (19.35%) Firewall
3 29 (18.71%) SAN
4 19 (12.26%) LAN
5 17 (10.97%) HTTP
5 17 (10.97%) TCP/IP
6 10 (6.45%) NAS
6 10 (6.45%) WAN
7 9 (5.81%) iSCSI
8 8 (5.16%) NetScaler
8 8 (5.16%) Remote Desktop
8 8 (5.16%) Wireshark
9 6 (3.87%) Multicast
10 5 (3.23%) AMQP
10 5 (3.23%) DHCP
11 3 (1.94%) VSAN
12 2 (1.29%) Network Security
12 2 (1.29%) PBX
12 2 (1.29%) SNMP
12 2 (1.29%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (9.68%) SQL Server
2 10 (6.45%) MySQL
2 10 (6.45%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (4.52%) Oracle Database
4 5 (3.23%) Big Data
4 5 (3.23%) Cloudera CDH
4 5 (3.23%) Hadoop
5 4 (2.58%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (2.58%) Elasticsearch
5 4 (2.58%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.65%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.65%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.65%) Oracle Database 12c
6 1 (0.65%) Power BI
6 1 (0.65%) RDBMS
6 1 (0.65%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.65%) SAP HANA
6 1 (0.65%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (0.65%) Sybase ASE
6 1 (0.65%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 17 (10.97%) Git
2 11 (7.10%) GitLab
3 9 (5.81%) JIRA
4 7 (4.52%) Jenkins
5 6 (3.87%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 5 (3.23%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.65%) git-flow
7 1 (0.65%) Maven
7 1 (0.65%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 47 (30.32%) Social Skills
2 39 (25.16%) Finance
3 19 (12.26%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (9.03%) Banking
5 11 (7.10%) Organisational Skills
6 8 (5.16%) Aerospace
6 8 (5.16%) Documentation Skills
6 8 (5.16%) Front Office
7 6 (3.87%) Presentation Skills
8 4 (2.58%) Mandarin Language
9 3 (1.94%) Military
10 2 (1.29%) Advertising
11 1 (0.65%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.65%) Public Sector
11 1 (0.65%) Retail
11 1 (0.65%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 31 (20.00%) Administrator
1 31 (20.00%) Linux Engineer
2 20 (12.90%) Linux Administrator
3 18 (11.61%) Linux Support
3 18 (11.61%) Senior
3 18 (11.61%) Systems Administrator
4 17 (10.97%) Support Engineer
5 16 (10.32%) Applications Architect
5 16 (10.32%) Architect
6 14 (9.03%) Linux Support Engineer
7 11 (7.10%) Linux Systems Administrator
8 10 (6.45%) Lead
8 10 (6.45%) Security Architect
8 10 (6.45%) Senior Linux Engineer
9 8 (5.16%) Developer
10 7 (4.52%) 3rd Line Engineer
10 7 (4.52%) 3rd Line Support
10 7 (4.52%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
10 7 (4.52%) C++ Developer
11 6 (3.87%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (10.32%) Regular Expression
2 14 (9.03%) LDAP
3 12 (7.74%) XMPP
4 9 (5.81%) WebSockets
5 6 (3.87%) FIX Protocol
5 6 (3.87%) Middleware
5 6 (3.87%) REST
6 5 (3.23%) AngularJS
6 5 (3.23%) ARM Templates
6 5 (3.23%) gRPC
6 5 (3.23%) Material-UI
6 5 (3.23%) Node.js
6 5 (3.23%) OpenAPI
6 5 (3.23%) RabbitMQ
6 5 (3.23%) React
6 5 (3.23%) Spring
6 5 (3.23%) Spring Boot
6 5 (3.23%) Swagger
7 4 (2.58%) JSON Schema
7 4 (2.58%) web3js
Miscellaneous
1 20 (12.90%) Data Centre
2 15 (9.68%) Cloud Native
2 15 (9.68%) PKI
3 14 (9.03%) Management Information System
4 8 (5.16%) Clustering
5 6 (3.87%) Derivative
5 6 (3.87%) Enterprise Storage
6 5 (3.23%) Hybrid Cloud
6 5 (3.23%) Onboarding
6 5 (3.23%) Operational Technology
6 5 (3.23%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (2.58%) Blockchain
7 4 (2.58%) Replication
7 4 (2.58%) Web3
8 3 (1.94%) Security Posture
9 2 (1.29%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 1 (0.65%) Data Protection Act
10 1 (0.65%) Fixed Income
10 1 (0.65%) Video on Demand
10 1 (0.65%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 155 (100.00%) Linux
2 61 (39.35%) Windows
3 54 (34.84%) Windows Server
4 38 (24.52%) CentOS
5 21 (13.55%) Unix
6 19 (12.26%) Ubuntu
7 9 (5.81%) Debian
7 9 (5.81%) Windows Server 2019
8 7 (4.52%) AIX
9 5 (3.23%) Oracle Linux
9 5 (3.23%) Windows Server 2016
10 4 (2.58%) Solaris
11 3 (1.94%) CoreOS
11 3 (1.94%) VMS
12 2 (1.29%) Amazon Linux
12 2 (1.29%) Rocky
12 2 (1.29%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (29.03%) DevOps
2 41 (26.45%) Problem-Solving
3 33 (21.29%) CI/CD
4 30 (19.35%) SIEM
5 27 (17.42%) ITIL
6 25 (16.13%) High Availability
6 25 (16.13%) Infrastructure as Code
7 23 (14.84%) Configuration Management
8 20 (12.90%) Platform Engineering
9 18 (11.61%) Agile
10 17 (10.97%) Containerisation
10 17 (10.97%) Disaster Recovery
11 16 (10.32%) Cybersecurity
12 14 (9.03%) Observability
13 13 (8.39%) Antivirus Management
13 13 (8.39%) Application Security
13 13 (8.39%) Roadmaps
14 12 (7.74%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 12 (7.74%) Pattern Matching
14 12 (7.74%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 51 (32.90%) Python
2 47 (30.32%) Bash
3 25 (16.13%) PowerShell
3 25 (16.13%) SQL
4 14 (9.03%) PHP
5 12 (7.74%) Perl
6 11 (7.10%) Korn
6 11 (7.10%) Shell Script
7 9 (5.81%) Java
8 7 (4.52%) C++
9 5 (3.23%) JavaScript
10 4 (2.58%) PL/SQL
11 2 (1.29%) C
12 1 (0.65%) Groovy
12 1 (0.65%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 51 (32.90%) Security Cleared
2 33 (21.29%) DV Cleared
3 16 (10.32%) Degree
4 14 (9.03%) SC Cleared
5 12 (7.74%) RHCSA
6 6 (3.87%) AWS Certification
7 5 (3.23%) BPSS Clearance
7 5 (3.23%) ITIL Certification
8 4 (2.58%) Postgraduate
8 4 (2.58%) RHCE
9 3 (1.94%) Cisco Certification
9 3 (1.94%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (1.29%) CCNA
10 2 (1.29%) MCSE
11 1 (0.65%) CCSP
11 1 (0.65%) CISM
11 1 (0.65%) CISSP
11 1 (0.65%) Dell Certification
11 1 (0.65%) Linux+ Certification
11 1 (0.65%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (5.81%) SLA
2 2 (1.29%) NIST
3 1 (0.65%) GDPR
3 1 (0.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.65%) QA
3 1 (0.65%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 43 (27.74%) Active Directory
2 40 (25.81%) VMware Infrastructure
3 34 (21.94%) Docker
4 31 (20.00%) vSphere
5 10 (6.45%) Hyper-V
6 8 (5.16%) Citrix Hypervisor
7 5 (3.23%) Veritas Cluster Server
8 4 (2.58%) Oracle RAC
9 3 (1.94%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 3 (1.94%) Virtual Machines
10 2 (1.29%) Samba
11 1 (0.65%) KVM
11 1 (0.65%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 43 (27.74%) Ansible
1 43 (27.74%) Kubernetes
2 33 (21.29%) Terraform
3 21 (13.55%) Nagios
4 18 (11.61%) Puppet
5 8 (5.16%) WSUS
6 7 (4.52%) Podman
7 5 (3.23%) Data Guard
7 5 (3.23%) Grafana
7 5 (3.23%) ZABBIX
8 4 (2.58%) Argo
8 4 (2.58%) Oracle RMAN
9 3 (1.94%) Docker Swarm
9 3 (1.94%) McAfee ePO
9 3 (1.94%) Red Hat Satellite
9 3 (1.94%) SCVMM
10 2 (1.29%) Progress Chef
10 2 (1.29%) Prometheus
11 1 (0.65%) Packer
11 1 (0.65%) Red Hat Spacewalk
Vendors
1 107 (69.03%) Red Hat
2 71 (45.81%) VMware
3 32 (20.65%) Microsoft
4 18 (11.61%) McAfee
5 12 (7.74%) Oracle
6 10 (6.45%) Dell
6 10 (6.45%) SolarWinds
7 8 (5.16%) Citrix
7 8 (5.16%) NetApp
8 7 (4.52%) Splunk
9 6 (3.87%) Google
10 5 (3.23%) SaltStack
10 5 (3.23%) Symantec
11 4 (2.58%) IBM
11 4 (2.58%) Mirantis
12 3 (1.94%) Pure Storage
13 2 (1.29%) Atlassian
13 2 (1.29%) CyberArk
13 2 (1.29%) D-Link
13 2 (1.29%) Veeam