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 2 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 558 471 465
Rank change year-on-year -87 -6 -23
Permanent jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 182 169 311
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.19% 0.39% 0.44%
As % of the Operating Systems category 3.07% 2.63% 3.36%
Number of salaries quoted 135 123 230
10th Percentile £46,613 £46,750 -
25th Percentile £60,000 £53,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £67,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% +17.39% -11.54%
75th Percentile £78,750 £80,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £101,250 £99,250 £95,347
UK median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +7.69% +13.04% -11.54%

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 5,925 6,422 9,247
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 6.09% 14.72% 12.96%
Number of salaries quoted 4,465 4,232 6,266
10th Percentile £28,250 £27,000 £26,750
25th Percentile £32,000 £31,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £41,355 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.81% -17.29% -4.76%
75th Percentile £67,500 £62,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £45,000 £42,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +7.14% -16.00% -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 2 September 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 2 September 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 -82 56 £75,000 -6.25% 83
South East -24 49 £67,500 +9.76% 21
North of England -27 43 £97,500 +50.00% 21
North West +11 31 £55,000 -26.54% 14
South West -55 20 £75,000 +20.00% 22
Midlands -44 7 £75,000 +30.43% 4
East of England -30 6 £48,750 +12.07% 9
Yorkshire -51 6 £97,500 +50.00% 4
North East -52 6 £97,500 +77.27% 3
East Midlands -29 5 £75,000 +30.43%
West Midlands -29 2 - - 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 11 (6.04%) OpenStack
2 9 (4.95%) Confluence
2 9 (4.95%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (3.85%) Apache
4 5 (2.75%) Apache Spark
5 2 (1.10%) JBoss
5 2 (1.10%) nginx
6 1 (0.55%) Oracle HTTP Server
6 1 (0.55%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (0.55%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 10 (5.49%) FLEXCUBE
2 1 (0.55%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.55%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 65 (35.71%) AWS
2 35 (19.23%) Azure
3 24 (13.19%) GitHub
4 13 (7.14%) Microsoft 365
5 12 (6.59%) OpenShift
6 10 (5.49%) AWS CloudFormation
7 7 (3.85%) Amazon EKS
7 7 (3.85%) AWS Lambda
7 7 (3.85%) Datadog
7 7 (3.85%) Serverless
8 6 (3.30%) GCP
9 5 (2.75%) Nutanix
10 4 (2.20%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 4 (2.20%) Amazon EC2
10 4 (2.20%) Amazon S3
10 4 (2.20%) Azure Stack
10 4 (2.20%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 3 (1.65%) CloudFront
11 3 (1.65%) IaaS
11 3 (1.65%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 37 (20.33%) DNS
2 29 (15.93%) Firewall
3 21 (11.54%) SAN
4 13 (7.14%) LAN
5 11 (6.04%) TCP/IP
6 8 (4.40%) HTTP
6 8 (4.40%) Remote Desktop
6 8 (4.40%) WAN
7 7 (3.85%) iSCSI
8 6 (3.30%) NAS
8 6 (3.30%) NetScaler
8 6 (3.30%) Wireshark
9 5 (2.75%) AMQP
9 5 (2.75%) DHCP
9 5 (2.75%) Kerberos
9 5 (2.75%) VSAN
10 3 (1.65%) SSL
10 3 (1.65%) VoIP
11 2 (1.10%) VPN
12 1 (0.55%) IPv4
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (8.24%) SQL Server
2 12 (6.59%) Oracle Database
3 8 (4.40%) MongoDB
4 7 (3.85%) Elasticsearch
4 7 (3.85%) Hadoop
4 7 (3.85%) MySQL
5 6 (3.30%) Big Data
5 6 (3.30%) PostgreSQL
6 5 (2.75%) Cloudera CDH
7 4 (2.20%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.55%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.55%) GIS
8 1 (0.55%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 38 (20.88%) Git
2 32 (17.58%) GitLab
3 31 (17.03%) Jenkins
4 25 (13.74%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 12 (6.59%) JIRA
6 3 (1.65%) Bitbucket
7 2 (1.10%) Artifactory
7 2 (1.10%) Maven
8 1 (0.55%) Eclipse
8 1 (0.55%) git-flow
8 1 (0.55%) Robot Framework
8 1 (0.55%) Selenium
8 1 (0.55%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.55%) TeamCity
General
1 68 (37.36%) Social Skills
2 32 (17.58%) Finance
3 25 (13.74%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (13.19%) Public Sector
5 15 (8.24%) Banking
6 11 (6.04%) Aerospace
7 9 (4.95%) Documentation Skills
8 8 (4.40%) Organisational Skills
9 6 (3.30%) Manufacturing
10 5 (2.75%) Influencing Skills
11 4 (2.20%) Mandarin Language
11 4 (2.20%) Military
12 3 (1.65%) Front Office
12 3 (1.65%) Telecoms
13 2 (1.10%) Advertising
14 1 (0.55%) Law
14 1 (0.55%) Police
Job Titles
1 29 (15.93%) Senior
2 27 (14.84%) DevOps Engineer
3 26 (14.29%) Linux Engineer
4 25 (13.74%) Administrator
5 21 (11.54%) Principal DevOps Engineer
5 21 (11.54%) Principal Engineer
6 20 (10.99%) Systems Administrator
7 18 (9.89%) Applications Architect
7 18 (9.89%) Architect
8 13 (7.14%) Lead
8 13 (7.14%) Security Architect
9 12 (6.59%) DBA
10 11 (6.04%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 10 (5.49%) Oracle DBA
11 10 (5.49%) Senior DBA
11 10 (5.49%) Senior Oracle DBA
12 9 (4.95%) Linux Administrator
13 8 (4.40%) AIX Engineer
13 8 (4.40%) Linux Systems Administrator
14 7 (3.85%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (31.87%) Terraform
2 22 (12.09%) LDAP
3 21 (11.54%) Regular Expression
4 19 (10.44%) XMPP
5 6 (3.30%) JSON
5 6 (3.30%) RabbitMQ
5 6 (3.30%) React
6 5 (2.75%) AngularJS
6 5 (2.75%) gRPC
6 5 (2.75%) JSON Schema
6 5 (2.75%) Material-UI
6 5 (2.75%) Node.js
6 5 (2.75%) OpenAPI
6 5 (2.75%) REST
6 5 (2.75%) Spring
6 5 (2.75%) Spring Boot
6 5 (2.75%) Swagger
6 5 (2.75%) WebSockets
6 5 (2.75%) XML
7 4 (2.20%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 37 (20.33%) Cloud Native
2 17 (9.34%) Data Centre
3 10 (5.49%) Management Information System
3 10 (5.49%) PKI
4 7 (3.85%) Replication
4 7 (3.85%) Social Media
5 6 (3.30%) Onboarding
5 6 (3.30%) Security Posture
6 5 (2.75%) Clustering
6 5 (2.75%) Manufacturing Execution System
6 5 (2.75%) Operational Technology
7 4 (2.20%) Blockchain
7 4 (2.20%) Web3
8 3 (1.65%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (1.65%) Enterprise Cloud
8 3 (1.65%) Fixed Income
8 3 (1.65%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 3 (1.65%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (1.10%) Private Cloud
9 2 (1.10%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 182 (100.00%) Linux
2 69 (37.91%) Windows
3 61 (33.52%) Windows Server
4 58 (31.87%) CentOS
5 26 (14.29%) Unix
6 19 (10.44%) AIX
7 18 (9.89%) Ubuntu
8 14 (7.69%) Debian
8 14 (7.69%) Rocky
9 12 (6.59%) Windows Server 2019
10 10 (5.49%) Oracle Linux
11 5 (2.75%) CoreOS
11 5 (2.75%) OpenVMS
11 5 (2.75%) Windows Server 2016
12 3 (1.65%) Solaris
12 3 (1.65%) VMS
13 2 (1.10%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (36.81%) DevOps
2 58 (31.87%) CI/CD
3 41 (22.53%) ITIL
3 41 (22.53%) Platform Engineering
4 40 (21.98%) Infrastructure as Code
5 34 (18.68%) Technical Leadership
6 33 (18.13%) High Availability
6 33 (18.13%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 31 (17.03%) SIEM
8 30 (16.48%) Problem-Solving
9 29 (15.93%) Configuration Management
10 28 (15.38%) Continuous Improvement
11 26 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
11 26 (14.29%) Microservices
11 26 (14.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 23 (12.64%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 22 (12.09%) Roadmaps
14 21 (11.54%) Agile
15 20 (10.99%) Containerisation
16 19 (10.44%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 53 (29.12%) Bash
2 52 (28.57%) Python
3 28 (15.38%) PowerShell
4 22 (12.09%) SQL
5 20 (10.99%) Java
5 20 (10.99%) Shell Script
6 17 (9.34%) Korn
7 11 (6.04%) PL/SQL
8 8 (4.40%) JavaScript
9 6 (3.30%) PHP
10 5 (2.75%) Perl
11 1 (0.55%) C#
11 1 (0.55%) C++
11 1 (0.55%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 88 (48.35%) Security Cleared
2 60 (32.97%) DV Cleared
3 41 (22.53%) SC Cleared
4 22 (12.09%) Degree
5 8 (4.40%) Cisco Certification
6 7 (3.85%) RHCSA
7 6 (3.30%) Microsoft Certification
8 5 (2.75%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 5 (2.75%) BPSS Clearance
8 5 (2.75%) CCSP
8 5 (2.75%) CISM
8 5 (2.75%) CISSP
9 4 (2.20%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 4 (2.20%) Postgraduate
10 3 (1.65%) Azure Certification
10 3 (1.65%) Dell Certification
10 3 (1.65%) ITIL Certification
10 3 (1.65%) MCSA
10 3 (1.65%) MCSE
10 3 (1.65%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (2.75%) GDPR
1 5 (2.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 5 (2.75%) NIST
1 5 (2.75%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 4 (2.20%) SLA
3 1 (0.55%) QA
System Software
1 59 (32.42%) Docker
2 45 (24.73%) Active Directory
3 27 (14.84%) vSphere
4 23 (12.64%) VMware Infrastructure
5 13 (7.14%) Hyper-V
6 11 (6.04%) Oracle RAC
6 11 (6.04%) Virtual Machines
7 6 (3.30%) VMware ESXi
8 5 (2.75%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 5 (2.75%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 2 (1.10%) Xen
10 1 (0.55%) NFS
10 1 (0.55%) Samba
10 1 (0.55%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 68 (37.36%) Ansible
2 62 (34.07%) Kubernetes
3 29 (15.93%) Puppet
4 21 (11.54%) Nagios
5 12 (6.59%) Data Guard
5 12 (6.59%) Oracle RMAN
6 10 (5.49%) ZABBIX
7 8 (4.40%) Podman
8 7 (3.85%) Grafana
9 6 (3.30%) Red Hat Satellite
10 5 (2.75%) McAfee ePO
10 5 (2.75%) SCVMM
11 4 (2.20%) Argo
11 4 (2.20%) Docker Swarm
11 4 (2.20%) NetBackup
11 4 (2.20%) Prometheus
12 3 (1.65%) WSUS
13 2 (1.10%) Nessus
13 2 (1.10%) Progress Chef
13 2 (1.10%) SCOM
Vendors
1 110 (60.44%) Red Hat
2 49 (26.92%) VMware
3 37 (20.33%) Microsoft
4 20 (10.99%) McAfee
4 20 (10.99%) Oracle
5 12 (6.59%) IBM
5 12 (6.59%) NetApp
5 12 (6.59%) Splunk
6 8 (4.40%) Citrix
6 8 (4.40%) Dell
7 7 (3.85%) ServiceNow
7 7 (3.85%) Veeam
8 6 (3.30%) Google
8 6 (3.30%) SolarWinds
9 5 (2.75%) CyberArk
9 5 (2.75%) Ivanti
9 5 (2.75%) Qualys
9 5 (2.75%) Rapid7
9 5 (2.75%) SaltStack
9 5 (2.75%) Veracode