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 11 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 517 453 502
Rank change year-on-year -64 +49 -29
Permanent jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 123 159 291
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.19% 0.40% 0.39%
As % of the Operating Systems category 2.63% 2.59% 2.56%
Number of salaries quoted 93 110 217
10th Percentile £46,250 £52,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £59,063 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £70,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -17.86% +27.27% -15.38%
75th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £125,000 £100,000 £102,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £70,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -17.86% +27.27% -14.82%

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 4,675 6,140 11,361
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 7.24% 15.59% 15.39%
Number of salaries quoted 3,535 3,968 9,594
10th Percentile £27,000 £27,500 £25,760
25th Percentile £31,250 £35,000 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,000 £46,979
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +6.43% -10.52%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,313 £63,250
90th Percentile £85,000 £90,000 £81,250
UK median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £47,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% +6.38% -10.48%

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 11 March 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 11 March 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 +13 76 £75,000 -6.25% 11
South East -4 30 £50,000 -16.67% 22
South West -23 8 £57,500 -20.13% 5
North West -6 7 £55,000 -26.54% 3
North of England -41 7 £55,000 -21.43% 8
East of England -20 1 £70,000 +16.67%
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 14 (11.38%) Tomcat
2 12 (9.76%) Apache
3 10 (8.13%) Microsoft Exchange
4 9 (7.32%) WebSphere
5 8 (6.50%) SharePoint
5 8 (6.50%) WebSphere Application Server
6 6 (4.88%) Confluence
7 5 (4.07%) Apache Spark
7 5 (4.07%) IIS
8 3 (2.44%) CMS
8 3 (2.44%) WordPress
9 2 (1.63%) nginx
10 1 (0.81%) OpenStack
Business Applications
1 3 (2.44%) FLEXCUBE
2 1 (0.81%) Oracle 11i
2 1 (0.81%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.81%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.81%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 31 (25.20%) AWS
2 23 (18.70%) Azure
3 13 (10.57%) SaaS
4 12 (9.76%) OpenShift
5 8 (6.50%) Amazon EKS
5 8 (6.50%) AWS Lambda
5 8 (6.50%) Serverless
6 7 (5.69%) AWS CloudFormation
7 6 (4.88%) GCP
8 3 (2.44%) Amazon EC2
8 3 (2.44%) Amazon S3
8 3 (2.44%) Azure Stack
8 3 (2.44%) Microsoft 365
8 3 (2.44%) Route 53
9 2 (1.63%) Amazon ECR
9 2 (1.63%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (1.63%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 1 (0.81%) OCI
10 1 (0.81%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 38 (30.89%) DNS
2 17 (13.82%) SAN
3 16 (13.01%) Firewall
3 16 (13.01%) LAN
4 15 (12.20%) TCP/IP
5 14 (11.38%) HTTP
6 12 (9.76%) Multicast
7 11 (8.94%) WAN
8 9 (7.32%) SSL
9 7 (5.69%) DHCP
10 6 (4.88%) NAS
11 5 (4.07%) AMQP
11 5 (4.07%) VSAN
12 3 (2.44%) iSCSI
12 3 (2.44%) NetScaler
12 3 (2.44%) Remote Desktop
12 3 (2.44%) SNMP
12 3 (2.44%) VPN
12 3 (2.44%) Wireshark
13 2 (1.63%) PBX
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (12.20%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (10.57%) SQL Server
3 9 (7.32%) DB2
4 7 (5.69%) MySQL
4 7 (5.69%) Oracle Database
5 6 (4.88%) Big Data
6 5 (4.07%) Cloudera CDH
6 5 (4.07%) Hadoop
7 4 (3.25%) MongoDB
8 3 (2.44%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.81%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.81%) Oracle Database 12c
9 1 (0.81%) Power BI
9 1 (0.81%) RDBMS
9 1 (0.81%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.81%) SAP HANA
9 1 (0.81%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (0.81%) Sybase ASE
9 1 (0.81%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 15 (12.20%) Git
2 9 (7.32%) GitLab
3 8 (6.50%) JIRA
4 6 (4.88%) Bitbucket
4 6 (4.88%) Jenkins
5 5 (4.07%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 38 (30.89%) Finance
2 35 (28.46%) Social Skills
3 17 (13.82%) Banking
4 13 (10.57%) Front Office
5 12 (9.76%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (5.69%) Organisational Skills
7 6 (4.88%) Documentation Skills
7 6 (4.88%) Investment Banking
7 6 (4.88%) Presentation Skills
8 5 (4.07%) Aerospace
9 3 (2.44%) Advertising
10 2 (1.63%) Electronics
10 2 (1.63%) Military
11 1 (0.81%) Public Sector
11 1 (0.81%) Retail
Job Titles
1 31 (25.20%) Administrator
2 29 (23.58%) Linux Support
3 27 (21.95%) Linux Engineer
4 24 (19.51%) Linux Administrator
5 21 (17.07%) Support Engineer
6 18 (14.63%) Linux Support Engineer
7 13 (10.57%) C++ Developer
7 13 (10.57%) Developer
7 13 (10.57%) Senior
7 13 (10.57%) Systems Administrator
8 12 (9.76%) Infrastructure Support
9 11 (8.94%) Unix Support
10 9 (7.32%) Applications Support
10 9 (7.32%) Linux Systems Administrator
11 8 (6.50%) Linux Specialist
11 8 (6.50%) Support Specialist
12 7 (5.69%) 3rd Line Engineer
12 7 (5.69%) 3rd Line Support
12 7 (5.69%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
13 6 (4.88%) DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (10.57%) LDAP
2 12 (9.76%) FIX Protocol
3 8 (6.50%) LAPP Stack
3 8 (6.50%) WebSphere MQ
4 7 (5.69%) Middleware
5 6 (4.88%) Kafka
5 6 (4.88%) REST
6 5 (4.07%) AngularJS
6 5 (4.07%) gRPC
6 5 (4.07%) Material-UI
6 5 (4.07%) Node.js
6 5 (4.07%) OpenAPI
6 5 (4.07%) RabbitMQ
6 5 (4.07%) React
6 5 (4.07%) Spring
6 5 (4.07%) Spring Boot
6 5 (4.07%) Swagger
6 5 (4.07%) WebSockets
7 4 (3.25%) Regular Expression
8 3 (2.44%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 12 (9.76%) Derivative
2 11 (8.94%) Data Centre
2 11 (8.94%) Management Information System
3 10 (8.13%) Linux Command Line
3 10 (8.13%) PKI
4 9 (7.32%) Clustering
5 6 (4.88%) Cloud Native
5 6 (4.88%) Enterprise Storage
6 5 (4.07%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (3.25%) Hybrid Cloud
7 4 (3.25%) Onboarding
7 4 (3.25%) Replication
7 4 (3.25%) Video on Demand
7 4 (3.25%) Video\Live Streaming
8 2 (1.63%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (1.63%) FPGA
9 1 (0.81%) Equities
9 1 (0.81%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 1 (0.81%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 123 (100.00%) Linux
2 43 (34.96%) Windows
3 38 (30.89%) CentOS
4 32 (26.02%) Windows Server
5 20 (16.26%) Unix
6 15 (12.20%) Ubuntu
7 10 (8.13%) Windows Server 2019
8 9 (7.32%) Windows Server 2016
9 6 (4.88%) Debian
10 5 (4.07%) Oracle Linux
10 5 (4.07%) Windows Server 2012
11 3 (2.44%) AIX
11 3 (2.44%) CoreOS
12 2 (1.63%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (27.64%) Problem-Solving
2 25 (20.33%) DevOps
3 24 (19.51%) ITIL
4 20 (16.26%) Configuration Management
5 18 (14.63%) Infrastructure as Code
6 17 (13.82%) Agile
6 17 (13.82%) CI/CD
7 16 (13.01%) Change Management
8 14 (11.38%) SIEM
9 13 (10.57%) Disaster Recovery
9 13 (10.57%) Low Latency
10 12 (9.76%) Concurrent Programming
10 12 (9.76%) High Availability
10 12 (9.76%) SOA
10 12 (9.76%) Systems Analysis
10 12 (9.76%) Unit Testing
11 10 (8.13%) Containerisation
11 10 (8.13%) Migration
12 9 (7.32%) Collaborative Working
12 9 (7.32%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 59 (47.97%) Python
2 40 (32.52%) Bash
3 24 (19.51%) PowerShell
4 20 (16.26%) SQL
5 17 (13.82%) Perl
6 13 (10.57%) C++
6 13 (10.57%) PHP
7 12 (9.76%) Shell Script
8 7 (5.69%) Java
9 5 (4.07%) JavaScript
9 5 (4.07%) Korn
10 3 (2.44%) PL/SQL
11 2 (1.63%) C
12 1 (0.81%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 27 (21.95%) Security Cleared
2 22 (17.89%) DV Cleared
3 14 (11.38%) AWS Certification
3 14 (11.38%) Degree
4 13 (10.57%) ITIL Certification
5 8 (6.50%) RHCSA
6 6 (4.88%) SC Cleared
7 4 (3.25%) RHCE
8 3 (2.44%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.81%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.81%) Linux+ Certification
9 1 (0.81%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (12.20%) SLA
2 2 (1.63%) Def Stans
3 1 (0.81%) NIST
3 1 (0.81%) QA
System Software
1 33 (26.83%) VMware Infrastructure
2 28 (22.76%) Active Directory
3 18 (14.63%) vSphere
4 17 (13.82%) Docker
5 5 (4.07%) Hyper-V
5 5 (4.07%) Veritas Cluster Server
6 3 (2.44%) Citrix Hypervisor
6 3 (2.44%) Oracle RAC
7 2 (1.63%) Samba
8 1 (0.81%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 1 (0.81%) KVM
8 1 (0.81%) Postfix
8 1 (0.81%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.81%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.81%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 39 (31.71%) Ansible
2 29 (23.58%) Kubernetes
3 16 (13.01%) Terraform
4 15 (12.20%) Nagios
5 11 (8.94%) Puppet
6 7 (5.69%) WSUS
7 5 (4.07%) Data Guard
8 4 (3.25%) McAfee ePO
8 4 (3.25%) Progress Chef
8 4 (3.25%) Red Hat Satellite
8 4 (3.25%) SCVMM
9 3 (2.44%) Oracle RMAN
9 3 (2.44%) Podman
10 2 (1.63%) Grafana
10 2 (1.63%) Prometheus
10 2 (1.63%) Red Hat Spacewalk
11 1 (0.81%) Docker Swarm
11 1 (0.81%) SCCM
11 1 (0.81%) vCenter Server
11 1 (0.81%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 78 (63.41%) Red Hat
2 50 (40.65%) VMware
3 15 (12.20%) Oracle
4 12 (9.76%) IBM
5 11 (8.94%) McAfee
6 8 (6.50%) Microsoft
7 7 (5.69%) ServiceNow
8 5 (4.07%) Atlassian
8 5 (4.07%) Dell
8 5 (4.07%) Google
8 5 (4.07%) SaltStack
8 5 (4.07%) SolarWinds
8 5 (4.07%) Symantec
9 4 (3.25%) Splunk
10 3 (2.44%) Cisco
10 3 (2.44%) Citrix
10 3 (2.44%) NetApp
10 3 (2.44%) Pure Storage
11 2 (1.63%) D-Link
11 2 (1.63%) Mirantis