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 23 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 527 474 516
Rank change year-on-year -53 +42 +1
Permanent jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 145 148 326
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.19% 0.40% 0.39%
As % of the Operating Systems category 2.96% 2.42% 2.64%
Number of salaries quoted 117 115 244
10th Percentile £46,250 £52,500 £38,750
25th Percentile £51,250 £56,250 £43,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £70,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +27.27% -15.38%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £71,563
90th Percentile £95,500 £96,250 £102,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £69,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -13.67% +26.36% -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 4,901 6,108 12,333
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 6.27% 16.31% 14.92%
Number of salaries quoted 3,682 4,114 10,042
10th Percentile £27,500 £27,250 £25,750
25th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £47,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% -14.29%
75th Percentile £67,500 £67,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £45,000 £48,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year -7.22% +7.78% -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 23 April 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 23 April 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 73 £58,750 -24.19% 22
South East -11 46 £67,500 +17.39% 16
North West -18 16 £56,000 -25.20% 2
North of England -67 16 £56,000 -20.00% 5
South West -50 8 £57,500 -20.13% 22
East of England -50 1 £70,000 +14.29% 4
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 (12.41%) Microsoft Exchange
2 12 (8.28%) Apache
3 8 (5.52%) SharePoint
4 7 (4.83%) Confluence
5 6 (4.14%) Tomcat
6 5 (3.45%) Apache Spark
6 5 (3.45%) IIS
7 4 (2.76%) OpenStack
8 3 (2.07%) CMS
8 3 (2.07%) WordPress
9 2 (1.38%) nginx
10 1 (0.69%) WebSphere
10 1 (0.69%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 1 (0.69%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (2.07%) FLEXCUBE
2 1 (0.69%) Oracle 11i
2 1 (0.69%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.69%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.69%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 34 (23.45%) AWS
2 26 (17.93%) Azure
3 14 (9.66%) SaaS
4 10 (6.90%) AWS CloudFormation
4 10 (6.90%) OpenShift
5 8 (5.52%) Microsoft 365
6 7 (4.83%) AWS Lambda
6 7 (4.83%) GCP
6 7 (4.83%) Serverless
7 6 (4.14%) Amazon EKS
7 6 (4.14%) Datadog
8 3 (2.07%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 3 (2.07%) Amazon EC2
8 3 (2.07%) Amazon S3
8 3 (2.07%) Azure Stack
8 3 (2.07%) GitHub
8 3 (2.07%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (2.07%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 2 (1.38%) Amazon ECS
9 2 (1.38%) CloudFront
Communications & Networking
1 49 (33.79%) DNS
2 25 (17.24%) Firewall
2 25 (17.24%) SAN
3 17 (11.72%) LAN
4 16 (11.03%) HTTP
5 15 (10.34%) TCP/IP
6 11 (7.59%) WAN
7 9 (6.21%) Multicast
7 9 (6.21%) NAS
8 7 (4.83%) iSCSI
8 7 (4.83%) Remote Desktop
9 6 (4.14%) DHCP
9 6 (4.14%) NetScaler
9 6 (4.14%) Wireshark
10 5 (3.45%) AMQP
11 3 (2.07%) SNMP
11 3 (2.07%) VSAN
12 2 (1.38%) PBX
12 2 (1.38%) SSL
12 2 (1.38%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (11.72%) SQL Server
2 11 (7.59%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (6.90%) MySQL
4 7 (4.83%) Oracle Database
5 6 (4.14%) Big Data
6 5 (3.45%) Cloudera CDH
6 5 (3.45%) Hadoop
6 5 (3.45%) MongoDB
7 4 (2.76%) Elasticsearch
8 3 (2.07%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.69%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.69%) DB2
9 1 (0.69%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.69%) Oracle Database 12c
9 1 (0.69%) Power BI
9 1 (0.69%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.69%) SAP HANA
9 1 (0.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (0.69%) Sybase ASE
9 1 (0.69%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 15 (10.34%) Git
2 10 (6.90%) JIRA
3 9 (6.21%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 9 (6.21%) GitLab
3 9 (6.21%) Jenkins
4 7 (4.83%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.69%) git-flow
5 1 (0.69%) Maven
5 1 (0.69%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 48 (33.10%) Social Skills
2 34 (23.45%) Finance
3 15 (10.34%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (7.59%) Banking
4 11 (7.59%) Front Office
5 10 (6.90%) Organisational Skills
6 7 (4.83%) Aerospace
7 6 (4.14%) Documentation Skills
7 6 (4.14%) Presentation Skills
8 4 (2.76%) Advertising
8 4 (2.76%) Mandarin Language
9 1 (0.69%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.69%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.69%) Public Sector
9 1 (0.69%) Retail
9 1 (0.69%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 34 (23.45%) Linux Engineer
2 28 (19.31%) Administrator
3 22 (15.17%) Linux Support
4 21 (14.48%) Linux Administrator
5 20 (13.79%) Support Engineer
6 17 (11.72%) Linux Support Engineer
6 17 (11.72%) Senior
7 15 (10.34%) Systems Administrator
8 12 (8.28%) Applications Architect
8 12 (8.28%) Architect
9 11 (7.59%) Developer
10 10 (6.90%) C++ Developer
10 10 (6.90%) Lead
10 10 (6.90%) Linux Systems Administrator
10 10 (6.90%) Senior Linux Engineer
11 8 (5.52%) Linux Specialist
11 8 (5.52%) Security Architect
11 8 (5.52%) Support Specialist
12 7 (4.83%) 3rd Line Support
12 7 (4.83%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (9.66%) LDAP
2 13 (8.97%) Regular Expression
3 9 (6.21%) FIX Protocol
4 8 (5.52%) Middleware
4 8 (5.52%) XMPP
5 6 (4.14%) Kafka
5 6 (4.14%) REST
5 6 (4.14%) WebSockets
6 5 (3.45%) AngularJS
6 5 (3.45%) gRPC
6 5 (3.45%) Material-UI
6 5 (3.45%) Node.js
6 5 (3.45%) OpenAPI
6 5 (3.45%) RabbitMQ
6 5 (3.45%) React
6 5 (3.45%) Spring
6 5 (3.45%) Spring Boot
6 5 (3.45%) Swagger
7 4 (2.76%) JSON
7 4 (2.76%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 16 (11.03%) Data Centre
2 14 (9.66%) Management Information System
3 13 (8.97%) PKI
4 10 (6.90%) Cloud Native
5 9 (6.21%) Clustering
5 9 (6.21%) Derivative
6 6 (4.14%) Enterprise Storage
6 6 (4.14%) Onboarding
7 5 (3.45%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (2.76%) Blockchain
8 4 (2.76%) Hybrid Cloud
8 4 (2.76%) Replication
8 4 (2.76%) Video on Demand
8 4 (2.76%) Video\Live Streaming
8 4 (2.76%) Web3
9 3 (2.07%) Security Posture
10 2 (1.38%) Distributed Systems
10 2 (1.38%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 2 (1.38%) FPGA
10 2 (1.38%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 145 (100.00%) Linux
2 53 (36.55%) Windows
3 46 (31.72%) Windows Server
4 41 (28.28%) CentOS
5 16 (11.03%) Ubuntu
6 15 (10.34%) Unix
7 10 (6.90%) Windows Server 2019
8 9 (6.21%) Debian
9 8 (5.52%) Windows Server 2016
10 6 (4.14%) AIX
11 5 (3.45%) Oracle Linux
11 5 (3.45%) Windows Server 2012
12 4 (2.76%) Solaris
13 3 (2.07%) CoreOS
13 3 (2.07%) VMS
14 1 (0.69%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (28.97%) Problem-Solving
2 37 (25.52%) DevOps
3 27 (18.62%) CI/CD
4 25 (17.24%) Configuration Management
5 24 (16.55%) High Availability
5 24 (16.55%) Infrastructure as Code
5 24 (16.55%) ITIL
5 24 (16.55%) SIEM
6 20 (13.79%) Agile
7 18 (12.41%) Platform Engineering
8 16 (11.03%) Containerisation
8 16 (11.03%) Disaster Recovery
9 12 (8.28%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 11 (7.59%) Application Security
10 11 (7.59%) Cybersecurity
10 11 (7.59%) Low Latency
10 11 (7.59%) Migration
10 11 (7.59%) Time Management
11 10 (6.90%) Performance Monitoring
12 9 (6.21%) Concurrent Programming
Programming Languages
1 56 (38.62%) Python
2 46 (31.72%) Bash
3 26 (17.93%) PowerShell
4 22 (15.17%) SQL
5 18 (12.41%) Perl
6 14 (9.66%) PHP
7 13 (8.97%) Shell Script
8 10 (6.90%) C++
8 10 (6.90%) Java
9 9 (6.21%) Korn
10 5 (3.45%) JavaScript
11 3 (2.07%) PL/SQL
12 2 (1.38%) C
13 1 (0.69%) Groovy
13 1 (0.69%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 42 (28.97%) Security Cleared
2 30 (20.69%) DV Cleared
3 14 (9.66%) Degree
4 10 (6.90%) SC Cleared
5 9 (6.21%) RHCSA
6 7 (4.83%) AWS Certification
7 6 (4.14%) ITIL Certification
8 4 (2.76%) Postgraduate
8 4 (2.76%) RHCE
9 3 (2.07%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.69%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 1 (0.69%) CCSP
10 1 (0.69%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.69%) CISM
10 1 (0.69%) CISSP
10 1 (0.69%) Computer Science Degree
10 1 (0.69%) Dell Certification
10 1 (0.69%) Linux+ Certification
10 1 (0.69%) MCSA
10 1 (0.69%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (5.52%) SLA
2 2 (1.38%) NIST
3 1 (0.69%) GDPR
3 1 (0.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.69%) QA
3 1 (0.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 41 (28.28%) Active Directory
2 36 (24.83%) VMware Infrastructure
3 33 (22.76%) Docker
4 27 (18.62%) vSphere
5 7 (4.83%) Citrix Hypervisor
6 6 (4.14%) Hyper-V
7 5 (3.45%) Veritas Cluster Server
8 3 (2.07%) Oracle RAC
8 3 (2.07%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 3 (2.07%) Virtual Machines
9 2 (1.38%) Samba
10 1 (0.69%) Apache ZooKeeper
10 1 (0.69%) KVM
10 1 (0.69%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 48 (33.10%) Ansible
2 43 (29.66%) Kubernetes
3 24 (16.55%) Terraform
4 16 (11.03%) Nagios
5 15 (10.34%) Puppet
6 8 (5.52%) WSUS
7 5 (3.45%) Data Guard
7 5 (3.45%) Grafana
7 5 (3.45%) Podman
7 5 (3.45%) Progress Chef
7 5 (3.45%) Red Hat Satellite
8 4 (2.76%) Argo
8 4 (2.76%) ZABBIX
9 3 (2.07%) McAfee ePO
9 3 (2.07%) Oracle RMAN
9 3 (2.07%) SCVMM
10 2 (1.38%) Prometheus
10 2 (1.38%) Red Hat Spacewalk
11 1 (0.69%) Docker Swarm
11 1 (0.69%) Packer
Vendors
1 94 (64.83%) Red Hat
2 63 (43.45%) VMware
3 24 (16.55%) Microsoft
4 16 (11.03%) McAfee
4 16 (11.03%) Oracle
5 10 (6.90%) Dell
6 6 (4.14%) Citrix
6 6 (4.14%) Google
6 6 (4.14%) NetApp
6 6 (4.14%) SolarWinds
7 5 (3.45%) Atlassian
7 5 (3.45%) SaltStack
7 5 (3.45%) Splunk
7 5 (3.45%) Symantec
8 4 (2.76%) IBM
8 4 (2.76%) Mirantis
9 3 (2.07%) HP
9 3 (2.07%) Pure Storage
10 2 (1.38%) CyberArk
10 2 (1.38%) D-Link