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 25 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 462 501 418
Rank change year-on-year +39 -83 +54
Permanent jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 157 231 287
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.34% 0.38% 0.62%
As % of the Operating Systems category 3.28% 2.74% 3.49%
Number of salaries quoted 105 155 226
10th Percentile £46,250 £40,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £45,625 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,465 £63,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.93% +3.91% +5.00%
75th Percentile £87,500 £81,250 £85,000
90th Percentile £102,750 £95,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £68,000 £65,465 £62,750
% change year-on-year +3.87% +4.33% +4.58%

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 4,793 8,434 8,227
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.33% 14.02% 17.85%
Number of salaries quoted 3,647 4,909 6,759
10th Percentile £26,875 £28,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £36,250 £34,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,000 £68,250
90th Percentile £85,000 £86,250 £88,750
UK median annual salary £42,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -15.00% - -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 25 November 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 25 November 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 +71 91 £85,000 - 24
South East +29 30 £60,500 +34.44% 24
East of England +18 12 £43,000 -22.52% 2
North of England +30 10 £65,000 -0.71% 4
South West -1 7 £56,250 -25.00% 5
Midlands +47 6 £57,500 +43.75% 4
North West +50 5 £57,500 -12.17% 4
East Midlands +24 5 £57,500 +43.75%
Yorkshire +10 5 £65,000 -0.71%
West Midlands +50 1 £52,500 -19.80% 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 21 (13.38%) Tomcat
2 20 (12.74%) WebSphere
3 17 (10.83%) Microsoft Exchange
4 16 (10.19%) WebSphere Application Server
5 11 (7.01%) Apache
6 4 (2.55%) Confluence
6 4 (2.55%) IIS
7 3 (1.91%) JBoss
7 3 (1.91%) Skype for Business
8 2 (1.27%) Apache Spark
9 1 (0.64%) nginx
9 1 (0.64%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 61 (38.85%) AWS
2 28 (17.83%) Azure
3 17 (10.83%) GitHub
4 15 (9.55%) Microsoft 365
4 15 (9.55%) OpenShift
5 11 (7.01%) Cohesity
6 9 (5.73%) Amazon EKS
6 9 (5.73%) AWS Lambda
6 9 (5.73%) Serverless
7 8 (5.10%) Amazon EC2
7 8 (5.10%) Amazon S3
7 8 (5.10%) AWS CloudFormation
8 7 (4.46%) Route 53
8 7 (4.46%) SaaS
9 6 (3.82%) Amazon ECR
9 6 (3.82%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 5 (3.18%) GCP
11 4 (2.55%) Azure DevOps
12 2 (1.27%) AWS CodeDeploy
13 1 (0.64%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 23 (14.65%) Firewall
2 21 (13.38%) SAN
3 17 (10.83%) DNS
3 17 (10.83%) SSL
4 15 (9.55%) LAN
4 15 (9.55%) WAN
5 13 (8.28%) TCP/IP
6 10 (6.37%) DHCP
6 10 (6.37%) Fibre Channel
6 10 (6.37%) Multicast
7 8 (5.10%) iSCSI
7 8 (5.10%) Remote Desktop
8 7 (4.46%) VSAN
9 3 (1.91%) Intrusion Detection
9 3 (1.91%) Skype
10 2 (1.27%) AMQP
10 2 (1.27%) Cisco IOS
10 2 (1.27%) HTTP
10 2 (1.27%) VLAN
10 2 (1.27%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (16.56%) PostgreSQL
2 25 (15.92%) SQL Server
3 18 (11.46%) DB2
4 11 (7.01%) MySQL
5 7 (4.46%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (1.91%) Big Data
6 3 (1.91%) MongoDB
7 2 (1.27%) Cloudera CDH
7 2 (1.27%) Hadoop
7 2 (1.27%) Oracle Database
7 2 (1.27%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 27 (17.20%) Git
2 15 (9.55%) GitLab
3 8 (5.10%) Jenkins
4 7 (4.46%) JIRA
5 4 (2.55%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 4 (2.55%) Bitbucket
6 3 (1.91%) Ant
6 3 (1.91%) Artifactory
6 3 (1.91%) Maven
6 3 (1.91%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 53 (33.76%) Finance
2 39 (24.84%) Social Skills
3 22 (14.01%) Banking
4 12 (7.64%) Organisational Skills
5 10 (6.37%) Front Office
5 10 (6.37%) Investment Banking
6 4 (2.55%) Advertising
6 4 (2.55%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (1.91%) Aerospace
7 3 (1.91%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (1.27%) Electronics
8 2 (1.27%) Financial Institution
8 2 (1.27%) Military
8 2 (1.27%) Retail
8 2 (1.27%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.64%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 44 (28.03%) Linux Engineer
2 36 (22.93%) Administrator
3 29 (18.47%) Linux Support
4 23 (14.65%) Linux Administrator
5 19 (12.10%) Support Engineer
6 17 (10.83%) Applications Support
6 17 (10.83%) Systems Administrator
7 16 (10.19%) Linux Support Engineer
8 15 (9.55%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 15 (9.55%) Infrastructure Support
9 14 (8.92%) Cisco Engineer
9 14 (8.92%) Senior
10 13 (8.28%) DevOps Engineer
10 13 (8.28%) Unix Support
11 12 (7.64%) VMware Engineer
12 11 (7.01%) Linux DevOps Engineer
12 11 (7.01%) Linux/Unix DevOps
13 10 (6.37%) C++ Developer
13 10 (6.37%) Developer
13 10 (6.37%) Linux Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (10.83%) LDAP
2 16 (10.19%) LAPP Stack
2 16 (10.19%) WebSphere MQ
3 10 (6.37%) FIX Protocol
4 8 (5.10%) Kafka
4 8 (5.10%) Middleware
5 3 (1.91%) Elastic Stack
5 3 (1.91%) LAMP
6 2 (1.27%) AngularJS
6 2 (1.27%) gRPC
6 2 (1.27%) Material-UI
6 2 (1.27%) Node.js
6 2 (1.27%) OpenAPI
6 2 (1.27%) RabbitMQ
6 2 (1.27%) React
6 2 (1.27%) REST
6 2 (1.27%) Spring
6 2 (1.27%) Spring Boot
6 2 (1.27%) Swagger
7 1 (0.64%) Regular Expression
Miscellaneous
1 28 (17.83%) Management Information System
2 20 (12.74%) Linux Command Line
3 17 (10.83%) Hybrid Cloud
4 12 (7.64%) Cloud Native
5 10 (6.37%) Derivative
6 9 (5.73%) Data Centre
7 6 (3.82%) Clustering
7 6 (3.82%) Driving Licence
8 5 (3.18%) Virtual Team
9 4 (2.55%) Onboarding
9 4 (2.55%) Video on Demand
9 4 (2.55%) Video\Live Streaming
10 3 (1.91%) Blackberry
10 3 (1.91%) PKI
10 3 (1.91%) Replication
10 3 (1.91%) RSA SecurID
11 2 (1.27%) Enterprise Cloud
12 1 (0.64%) Distributed Systems
12 1 (0.64%) FPGA
12 1 (0.64%) Manufacturing Execution System
Operating Systems
1 157 (100.00%) Linux
2 66 (42.04%) Windows
3 36 (22.93%) Unix
4 32 (20.38%) CentOS
5 28 (17.83%) Windows Server
6 25 (15.92%) Windows Server 2019
7 14 (8.92%) Solaris
8 11 (7.01%) Debian
9 9 (5.73%) Ubuntu
10 8 (5.10%) Oracle Linux
11 7 (4.46%) Windows 10
11 7 (4.46%) Windows Server 2016
12 4 (2.55%) AIX
12 4 (2.55%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
12 4 (2.55%) Windows Server 2012
13 3 (1.91%) CoreOS
13 3 (1.91%) HPUX
14 2 (1.27%) VMS
15 1 (0.64%) OpenVMS
15 1 (0.64%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (32.48%) ITIL
2 41 (26.11%) DevOps
3 28 (17.83%) Root Cause Analysis
4 27 (17.20%) Containerisation
5 24 (15.29%) Change Management
6 23 (14.65%) Infrastructure as Code
7 20 (12.74%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 19 (12.10%) Low Latency
8 19 (12.10%) Release Management
9 17 (10.83%) Disaster Recovery
10 16 (10.19%) Incident Response
10 16 (10.19%) User Acceptance Testing
11 14 (8.92%) Problem-Solving
11 14 (8.92%) Time Management
12 13 (8.28%) Continuous Improvement
12 13 (8.28%) Cybersecurity
13 11 (7.01%) Collaborative Working
13 11 (7.01%) Incident Management
13 11 (7.01%) Infrastructure Automation
14 10 (6.37%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 72 (45.86%) Python
2 53 (33.76%) Bash
3 23 (14.65%) PowerShell
4 18 (11.46%) Korn
5 11 (7.01%) C++
6 8 (5.10%) Shell Script
7 7 (4.46%) Perl
7 7 (4.46%) PHP
8 6 (3.82%) Java
9 5 (3.18%) SQL
10 3 (1.91%) Groovy
11 2 (1.27%) JavaScript
12 1 (0.64%) C#
Qualifications
1 35 (22.29%) Degree
2 30 (19.11%) Security Cleared
3 25 (15.92%) AWS Certification
4 20 (12.74%) DV Cleared
5 19 (12.10%) ITIL Certification
6 14 (8.92%) SC Cleared
7 9 (5.73%) Microsoft Certification
8 7 (4.46%) MCSE
8 7 (4.46%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 6 (3.82%) CCNA
9 6 (3.82%) Cisco Certification
9 6 (3.82%) RHCE
10 5 (3.18%) Computer Science Degree
10 5 (3.18%) RHCSA
11 3 (1.91%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 3 (1.91%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
12 2 (1.27%) Dell Certification
12 2 (1.27%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 2 (1.27%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (18.47%) SLA
2 9 (5.73%) QA
3 2 (1.27%) Def Stans
4 1 (0.64%) ISO 20022
4 1 (0.64%) SEPA
System Software
1 44 (28.03%) VMware Infrastructure
2 29 (18.47%) Active Directory
3 19 (12.10%) vSphere
4 17 (10.83%) Docker
5 14 (8.92%) NFS
6 11 (7.01%) Hyper-V
7 8 (5.10%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 7 (4.46%) VMware ESXi
9 4 (2.55%) Virtual Machines
10 3 (1.91%) Veritas Cluster Server
11 2 (1.27%) Postfix
12 1 (0.64%) Apache ZooKeeper
12 1 (0.64%) Dovecot
12 1 (0.64%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 69 (43.95%) Ansible
2 42 (26.75%) Kubernetes
3 29 (18.47%) Terraform
4 13 (8.28%) Puppet
5 11 (7.01%) WSUS
6 8 (5.10%) Red Hat Satellite
6 8 (5.10%) SCOM
7 6 (3.82%) Progress Chef
7 6 (3.82%) SCCM
8 5 (3.18%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
8 5 (3.18%) Nagios
8 5 (3.18%) Podman
9 4 (2.55%) Grafana
10 3 (1.91%) McAfee ePO
10 3 (1.91%) SCVMM
11 2 (1.27%) EMC NetWorker
11 2 (1.27%) ZABBIX
12 1 (0.64%) Microsoft Intune
12 1 (0.64%) Red Hat Spacewalk
12 1 (0.64%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 94 (59.87%) Red Hat
2 65 (41.40%) VMware
3 31 (19.75%) Microsoft
4 28 (17.83%) Cisco
5 22 (14.01%) IBM
6 20 (12.74%) Oracle
7 19 (12.10%) Commvault
8 12 (7.64%) Dell
9 11 (7.01%) Pure Storage
9 11 (7.01%) ServiceNow
10 8 (5.10%) NetApp
10 8 (5.10%) Splunk
11 6 (3.82%) HP
12 4 (2.55%) Atlassian
13 3 (1.91%) McAfee
13 3 (1.91%) Symantec
14 2 (1.27%) EMC
14 2 (1.27%) Fujitsu
14 2 (1.27%) Google
14 2 (1.27%) Juniper