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 13 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 472 466 429
Rank change year-on-year -6 -37 +131
Permanent jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 154 269 302
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.36% 0.42% 0.60%
As % of the Operating Systems category 2.71% 3.17% 3.48%
Number of salaries quoted 105 193 230
10th Percentile £46,250 £40,000 £42,400
25th Percentile £52,500 £42,500 £50,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £63,000
Median % change year-on-year - +3.17% +9.57%
75th Percentile £83,750 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £96,000 £104,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - +4.00% +8.70%

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 5,685 8,473 8,675
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 13.30% 13.24% 17.21%
Number of salaries quoted 3,763 4,955 7,084
10th Percentile £27,000 £28,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £36,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £41,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -18.00% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £63,750 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £88,750
UK median annual salary £41,428 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -17.15% -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 13 October 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 13 October 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 +43 82 £80,000 -5.88% 21
South East +14 34 £69,000 +53.33% 20
East of England +6 12 £43,000 -25.22% 1
North of England -2 10 £65,000 -0.71% 5
Midlands +49 9 £57,500 +43.75% 2
Yorkshire +13 7 £65,000 -0.71% 1
East Midlands +17 6 £57,500 +43.75% 1
South West +12 5 £56,250 -25.00% 11
West Midlands +30 3 £52,500 -19.80% 1
North West -5 2 £60,000 -8.35% 1
North East +18 1 £55,000 -15.98% 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 22 (14.29%) Microsoft Exchange
2 17 (11.04%) WebSphere
3 14 (9.09%) Apache
4 13 (8.44%) Tomcat
5 12 (7.79%) WebSphere Application Server
6 4 (2.60%) JBoss
7 3 (1.95%) Skype for Business
8 1 (0.65%) Confluence
8 1 (0.65%) Drupal
8 1 (0.65%) nginx
8 1 (0.65%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 60 (38.96%) AWS
2 29 (18.83%) Azure
3 21 (13.64%) GitHub
4 20 (12.99%) Microsoft 365
5 11 (7.14%) Cohesity
6 9 (5.84%) Amazon EC2
6 9 (5.84%) OpenShift
7 7 (4.55%) Amazon S3
8 6 (3.90%) Amazon EKS
8 6 (3.90%) AWS Lambda
8 6 (3.90%) Route 53
8 6 (3.90%) Serverless
9 5 (3.25%) Amazon ECR
9 5 (3.25%) AWS CloudFormation
9 5 (3.25%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 3 (1.95%) Azure DevOps
10 3 (1.95%) GCP
11 2 (1.30%) AWS CodeDeploy
11 2 (1.30%) Entra ID
11 2 (1.30%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 25 (16.23%) Firewall
2 21 (13.64%) SAN
3 18 (11.69%) TCP/IP
4 17 (11.04%) LAN
5 16 (10.39%) DNS
6 15 (9.74%) WAN
7 13 (8.44%) DHCP
7 13 (8.44%) SSL
8 12 (7.79%) Fibre Channel
9 10 (6.49%) Remote Desktop
10 9 (5.84%) iSCSI
11 7 (4.55%) Intrusion Detection
12 5 (3.25%) VSAN
13 4 (2.60%) Cisco IOS
13 4 (2.60%) VoIP
14 3 (1.95%) Skype
15 2 (1.30%) HTTP
16 1 (0.65%) Internet
16 1 (0.65%) Multicast
16 1 (0.65%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
2 21 (13.64%) SQL Server
3 14 (9.09%) DB2
4 11 (7.14%) MySQL
5 6 (3.90%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (1.30%) MongoDB
6 2 (1.30%) SAP HANA
7 1 (0.65%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 34 (22.08%) Git
2 11 (7.14%) GitLab
3 4 (2.60%) Ant
3 4 (2.60%) Artifactory
3 4 (2.60%) Jenkins
3 4 (2.60%) JIRA
3 4 (2.60%) Maven
3 4 (2.60%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (0.65%) MSI
General
1 47 (30.52%) Finance
2 46 (29.87%) Social Skills
3 24 (15.58%) Banking
4 13 (8.44%) Organisational Skills
5 9 (5.84%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (4.55%) Investment Banking
7 4 (2.60%) Electronics
7 4 (2.60%) Military
8 2 (1.30%) Advertising
8 2 (1.30%) Financial Institution
8 2 (1.30%) Law
8 2 (1.30%) Retail
8 2 (1.30%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.65%) Front Office
9 1 (0.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.65%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 44 (28.57%) Linux Engineer
2 36 (23.38%) Administrator
3 22 (14.29%) Linux Administrator
4 21 (13.64%) Linux Support
5 20 (12.99%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 19 (12.34%) Systems Administrator
7 18 (11.69%) DevOps Engineer
8 17 (11.04%) Cisco Engineer
8 17 (11.04%) Senior
9 14 (9.09%) Linux DevOps Engineer
9 14 (9.09%) Linux/Unix DevOps
10 13 (8.44%) Applications Support
10 13 (8.44%) Support Engineer
10 13 (8.44%) VMware Engineer
11 12 (7.79%) Linux Systems Administrator
12 11 (7.14%) Lead
12 11 (7.14%) Linux Support Engineer
13 10 (6.49%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
13 10 (6.49%) Linux Scripter
14 9 (5.84%) Infrastructure Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (7.79%) LAPP Stack
1 12 (7.79%) LDAP
1 12 (7.79%) WebSphere MQ
2 6 (3.90%) Elastic Stack
2 6 (3.90%) Middleware
3 4 (2.60%) Kafka
4 3 (1.95%) LAMP
5 2 (1.30%) Lambda Expressions
5 2 (1.30%) WebSockets
6 1 (0.65%) FIX Protocol
6 1 (0.65%) Laravel
6 1 (0.65%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 29 (18.83%) Management Information System
2 21 (13.64%) Hybrid Cloud
3 19 (12.34%) Linux Command Line
4 11 (7.14%) Cloud Native
5 9 (5.84%) Data Centre
5 9 (5.84%) Driving Licence
6 5 (3.25%) Virtual Team
7 3 (1.95%) Blackberry
7 3 (1.95%) Hedge funds
7 3 (1.95%) PKI
7 3 (1.95%) RSA SecurID
8 2 (1.30%) Clustering
8 2 (1.30%) Enterprise Cloud
8 2 (1.30%) Replication
9 1 (0.65%) Derivative
9 1 (0.65%) Enterprise Storage
9 1 (0.65%) Manufacturing Execution System
9 1 (0.65%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 154 (100.00%) Linux
2 70 (45.45%) Windows
3 32 (20.78%) CentOS
4 31 (20.13%) Unix
5 29 (18.83%) Windows Server
6 22 (14.29%) Windows Server 2019
7 15 (9.74%) Solaris
8 11 (7.14%) Debian
9 10 (6.49%) Windows 10
10 8 (5.19%) Oracle Linux
11 6 (3.90%) Ubuntu
12 5 (3.25%) HPUX
13 4 (2.60%) AIX
13 4 (2.60%) CoreOS
13 4 (2.60%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
14 2 (1.30%) VMS
14 2 (1.30%) Windows Server 2016
15 1 (0.65%) Amazon Linux
15 1 (0.65%) OpenVMS
15 1 (0.65%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (33.12%) DevOps
2 50 (32.47%) ITIL
3 31 (20.13%) Containerisation
3 31 (20.13%) Root Cause Analysis
4 22 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
4 22 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 18 (11.69%) Disaster Recovery
5 18 (11.69%) Incident Response
6 17 (11.04%) Change Management
7 16 (10.39%) Cybersecurity
7 16 (10.39%) Problem-Solving
7 16 (10.39%) Release Management
8 15 (9.74%) Time Management
9 14 (9.09%) Continuous Improvement
10 13 (8.44%) Incident Management
11 12 (7.79%) Mentoring
11 12 (7.79%) Performance Tuning
11 12 (7.79%) User Acceptance Testing
12 11 (7.14%) Low Latency
13 10 (6.49%) Problem Management
Programming Languages
1 59 (38.31%) Python
2 49 (31.82%) Bash
3 20 (12.99%) PowerShell
4 19 (12.34%) Korn
5 9 (5.84%) PHP
6 6 (3.90%) SQL
7 4 (2.60%) Groovy
7 4 (2.60%) Shell Script
8 3 (1.95%) Java
9 2 (1.30%) C++
9 2 (1.30%) Perl
10 1 (0.65%) C#
10 1 (0.65%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 34 (22.08%) Degree
1 34 (22.08%) Security Cleared
2 22 (14.29%) DV Cleared
3 20 (12.99%) AWS Certification
4 15 (9.74%) SC Cleared
5 12 (7.79%) ITIL Certification
5 12 (7.79%) Microsoft Certification
6 10 (6.49%) MCSE
7 9 (5.84%) CCNA
7 9 (5.84%) Cisco Certification
7 9 (5.84%) RHCSA
7 9 (5.84%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 7 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
9 6 (3.90%) RHCE
10 3 (1.95%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 3 (1.95%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
11 2 (1.30%) Dell Certification
11 2 (1.30%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 2 (1.30%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (14.29%) SLA
2 10 (6.49%) QA
3 4 (2.60%) Def Stans
4 3 (1.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.65%) ISO 20022
5 1 (0.65%) PMO
5 1 (0.65%) SEPA
System Software
1 42 (27.27%) VMware Infrastructure
2 26 (16.88%) Active Directory
3 23 (14.94%) vSphere
4 17 (11.04%) NFS
5 14 (9.09%) Docker
6 12 (7.79%) Hyper-V
7 9 (5.84%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 6 (3.90%) VMware ESXi
9 4 (2.60%) Virtual Machines
10 2 (1.30%) Postfix
11 1 (0.65%) Dovecot
Systems Management
1 73 (47.40%) Ansible
2 43 (27.92%) Kubernetes
3 34 (22.08%) Terraform
4 14 (9.09%) WSUS
5 13 (8.44%) Puppet
6 12 (7.79%) SCOM
7 9 (5.84%) Nagios
8 8 (5.19%) SCCM
9 7 (4.55%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
10 6 (3.90%) Grafana
10 6 (3.90%) Red Hat Satellite
11 5 (3.25%) Podman
12 4 (2.60%) Progress Chef
13 2 (1.30%) EMC NetWorker
13 2 (1.30%) McAfee ePO
13 2 (1.30%) Prometheus
13 2 (1.30%) SCVMM
13 2 (1.30%) ZABBIX
14 1 (0.65%) NetBackup
14 1 (0.65%) WMI
Vendors
1 83 (53.90%) Red Hat
2 67 (43.51%) VMware
3 41 (26.62%) Microsoft
4 37 (24.03%) Cisco
5 23 (14.94%) Commvault
6 19 (12.34%) IBM
7 18 (11.69%) Oracle
8 14 (9.09%) Pure Storage
9 13 (8.44%) Dell
10 11 (7.14%) Splunk
11 10 (6.49%) ServiceNow
12 8 (5.19%) NetApp
13 5 (3.25%) HP
13 5 (3.25%) SolarWinds
14 2 (1.30%) ArcSight
14 2 (1.30%) EMC
14 2 (1.30%) Juniper
14 2 (1.30%) SAP
14 2 (1.30%) Veeam
14 2 (1.30%) Zerto