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 19 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 506 464 492
Rank change year-on-year -42 +28 -34
Permanent jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 117 184 271
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.19% 0.42% 0.41%
As % of the Operating Systems category 2.51% 2.71% 2.63%
Number of salaries quoted 86 111 210
10th Percentile £46,250 £46,250 £42,425
25th Percentile £51,250 £56,250 £46,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £69,000 £55,500
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +24.32% -7.50%
75th Percentile £87,500 £85,625 £77,500
90th Percentile £125,000 £100,000 £102,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £67,000 £56,750
% change year-on-year -14.18% +18.06% -5.42%

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 4,667 6,790 10,286
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 7.75% 15.43% 15.58%
Number of salaries quoted 3,526 3,864 8,707
10th Percentile £27,000 £28,250 £26,043
25th Percentile £31,250 £36,250 £31,526
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £52,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +10.53% -9.52%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £90,000 £82,500
UK median annual salary £45,000 £52,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year -14.29% +10.53% -9.52%

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 19 February 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 19 February 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 +29 79 £75,000 -9.09% 15
South East +1 18 £50,000 -13.04% 27
South West -19 10 £57,500 -20.13% 10
North West +1 8 £55,000 +18.92% 6
North of England -31 8 £55,000 - 11
East of England -7 1 £42,500 -26.09% 7
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 (15.38%) Tomcat
2 14 (11.97%) WebSphere
3 12 (10.26%) WebSphere Application Server
4 11 (9.40%) Apache
5 7 (5.98%) SharePoint
6 6 (5.13%) Confluence
6 6 (5.13%) Microsoft Exchange
7 5 (4.27%) Apache Spark
7 5 (4.27%) IIS
8 3 (2.56%) CMS
8 3 (2.56%) WordPress
9 2 (1.71%) nginx
10 1 (0.85%) JBoss
Business Applications
1 2 (1.71%) FLEXCUBE
2 1 (0.85%) Oracle 11i
2 1 (0.85%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.85%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.85%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 39 (33.33%) AWS
2 22 (18.80%) Azure
3 15 (12.82%) OpenShift
4 11 (9.40%) SaaS
5 10 (8.55%) Amazon EKS
5 10 (8.55%) AWS Lambda
5 10 (8.55%) Serverless
6 9 (7.69%) AWS CloudFormation
7 6 (5.13%) GCP
8 5 (4.27%) Amazon EC2
8 5 (4.27%) Amazon S3
8 5 (4.27%) Route 53
9 4 (3.42%) Amazon ECR
9 4 (3.42%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 2 (1.71%) Azure DevOps
10 2 (1.71%) Azure Stack
10 2 (1.71%) GitHub
11 1 (0.85%) Cohesity
11 1 (0.85%) OCI
11 1 (0.85%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 28 (23.93%) DNS
2 15 (12.82%) LAN
2 15 (12.82%) TCP/IP
3 13 (11.11%) SSL
4 12 (10.26%) Multicast
4 12 (10.26%) WAN
5 10 (8.55%) HTTP
6 9 (7.69%) Firewall
6 9 (7.69%) SAN
7 8 (6.84%) DHCP
8 7 (5.98%) VSAN
9 5 (4.27%) AMQP
10 2 (1.71%) Cisco IOS
10 2 (1.71%) Fibre Channel
10 2 (1.71%) NAS
10 2 (1.71%) SNMP
10 2 (1.71%) VoIP
11 1 (0.85%) VLAN
11 1 (0.85%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (13.68%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (11.11%) DB2
3 12 (10.26%) SQL Server
4 7 (5.98%) Oracle Database
5 6 (5.13%) Big Data
6 5 (4.27%) Amazon RDS
6 5 (4.27%) Cloudera CDH
6 5 (4.27%) Hadoop
6 5 (4.27%) MongoDB
7 4 (3.42%) MySQL
8 1 (0.85%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.85%) Oracle Database 12c
8 1 (0.85%) Power BI
8 1 (0.85%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.85%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.85%) SAP HANA
8 1 (0.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (0.85%) Sybase ASE
8 1 (0.85%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 14 (11.97%) Git
2 9 (7.69%) GitLab
3 8 (6.84%) JIRA
4 7 (5.98%) Jenkins
5 6 (5.13%) Bitbucket
6 5 (4.27%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (0.85%) Ant
7 1 (0.85%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.85%) Maven
7 1 (0.85%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 42 (35.90%) Finance
2 23 (19.66%) Social Skills
3 19 (16.24%) Banking
4 13 (11.11%) Front Office
5 8 (6.84%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (6.84%) Investment Banking
6 7 (5.98%) Organisational Skills
7 6 (5.13%) Presentation Skills
8 5 (4.27%) Aerospace
9 3 (2.56%) Advertising
10 2 (1.71%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (1.71%) Electronics
10 2 (1.71%) Military
11 1 (0.85%) Public Sector
11 1 (0.85%) Retail
Job Titles
1 32 (27.35%) Administrator
2 31 (26.50%) Linux Support
3 28 (23.93%) Linux Engineer
4 23 (19.66%) Linux Administrator
5 21 (17.95%) Support Engineer
6 18 (15.38%) Linux Support Engineer
7 14 (11.97%) Infrastructure Support
8 13 (11.11%) Applications Support
8 13 (11.11%) C++ Developer
8 13 (11.11%) Developer
8 13 (11.11%) Unix Support
9 12 (10.26%) Systems Administrator
10 8 (6.84%) Linux Specialist
10 8 (6.84%) Senior
10 8 (6.84%) Support Specialist
11 7 (5.98%) Linux Systems Administrator
12 6 (5.13%) 3rd Line Engineer
12 6 (5.13%) 3rd Line Support
12 6 (5.13%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
12 6 (5.13%) DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (11.97%) LDAP
2 12 (10.26%) FIX Protocol
2 12 (10.26%) LAPP Stack
2 12 (10.26%) WebSphere MQ
3 8 (6.84%) Middleware
4 7 (5.98%) Kafka
5 6 (5.13%) REST
6 5 (4.27%) AngularJS
6 5 (4.27%) gRPC
6 5 (4.27%) Material-UI
6 5 (4.27%) Node.js
6 5 (4.27%) OpenAPI
6 5 (4.27%) RabbitMQ
6 5 (4.27%) React
6 5 (4.27%) Spring
6 5 (4.27%) Spring Boot
6 5 (4.27%) Swagger
7 3 (2.56%) WebSockets
8 2 (1.71%) ARM Templates
8 2 (1.71%) LAMP
Miscellaneous
1 14 (11.97%) Linux Command Line
2 13 (11.11%) Management Information System
3 12 (10.26%) Derivative
4 9 (7.69%) Clustering
5 8 (6.84%) Data Centre
6 6 (5.13%) PKI
7 5 (4.27%) Cloud Native
7 5 (4.27%) Replication
8 4 (3.42%) Onboarding
8 4 (3.42%) Video on Demand
8 4 (3.42%) Video\Live Streaming
9 3 (2.56%) Enterprise Storage
9 3 (2.56%) Hybrid Cloud
10 2 (1.71%) Distributed Systems
10 2 (1.71%) FPGA
11 1 (0.85%) Equities
11 1 (0.85%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 1 (0.85%) Self-Motivation
11 1 (0.85%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 117 (100.00%) Linux
2 40 (34.19%) Windows
3 34 (29.06%) CentOS
4 26 (22.22%) Unix
5 24 (20.51%) Windows Server
6 13 (11.11%) Ubuntu
7 12 (10.26%) Windows Server 2019
8 11 (9.40%) Windows Server 2016
9 8 (6.84%) Debian
10 5 (4.27%) Windows Server 2012
11 4 (3.42%) CoreOS
11 4 (3.42%) Oracle Linux
11 4 (3.42%) Solaris
12 3 (2.56%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (26.50%) Problem-Solving
2 27 (23.08%) ITIL
3 21 (17.95%) DevOps
4 20 (17.09%) Change Management
5 19 (16.24%) Configuration Management
5 19 (16.24%) Infrastructure as Code
6 14 (11.97%) Agile
6 14 (11.97%) Low Latency
7 13 (11.11%) CI/CD
7 13 (11.11%) Disaster Recovery
7 13 (11.11%) Release Management
7 13 (11.11%) User Acceptance Testing
8 12 (10.26%) Concurrent Programming
8 12 (10.26%) SOA
8 12 (10.26%) Systems Analysis
8 12 (10.26%) Unit Testing
9 11 (9.40%) Containerisation
10 10 (8.55%) Collaborative Working
10 10 (8.55%) Root Cause Analysis
11 9 (7.69%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 64 (54.70%) Python
2 38 (32.48%) Bash
3 20 (17.09%) PowerShell
4 16 (13.68%) SQL
5 15 (12.82%) Perl
6 13 (11.11%) C++
7 11 (9.40%) PHP
8 8 (6.84%) Shell Script
9 7 (5.98%) Java
10 5 (4.27%) JavaScript
11 4 (3.42%) Korn
12 2 (1.71%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.85%) Groovy
13 1 (0.85%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 20 (17.09%) Security Cleared
2 18 (15.38%) AWS Certification
2 18 (15.38%) Degree
3 17 (14.53%) ITIL Certification
4 15 (12.82%) DV Cleared
5 6 (5.13%) SC Cleared
6 5 (4.27%) RHCSA
7 3 (2.56%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (2.56%) RHCE
8 1 (0.85%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.85%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (15.38%) SLA
2 2 (1.71%) Def Stans
2 2 (1.71%) QA
System Software
1 32 (27.35%) VMware Infrastructure
2 19 (16.24%) Active Directory
3 12 (10.26%) Docker
4 10 (8.55%) vSphere
5 6 (5.13%) Hyper-V
6 5 (4.27%) Veritas Cluster Server
7 2 (1.71%) NFS
7 2 (1.71%) Oracle RAC
8 1 (0.85%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 1 (0.85%) Postfix
8 1 (0.85%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.85%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.85%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 38 (32.48%) Ansible
2 22 (18.80%) Kubernetes
3 16 (13.68%) Terraform
4 11 (9.40%) Nagios
4 11 (9.40%) Puppet
5 6 (5.13%) McAfee ePO
5 6 (5.13%) SCVMM
5 6 (5.13%) WSUS
6 5 (4.27%) Podman
6 5 (4.27%) Progress Chef
7 4 (3.42%) Data Guard
7 4 (3.42%) Red Hat Satellite
8 2 (1.71%) Grafana
8 2 (1.71%) Oracle RMAN
8 2 (1.71%) Red Hat Spacewalk
9 1 (0.85%) Docker Swarm
9 1 (0.85%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.85%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 80 (68.38%) Red Hat
2 39 (33.33%) VMware
3 15 (12.82%) IBM
3 15 (12.82%) Oracle
4 12 (10.26%) McAfee
5 9 (7.69%) ServiceNow
6 5 (4.27%) Atlassian
6 5 (4.27%) Cisco
6 5 (4.27%) Google
6 5 (4.27%) SaltStack
6 5 (4.27%) Symantec
7 4 (3.42%) Pure Storage
8 3 (2.56%) SolarWinds
8 3 (2.56%) Splunk
9 2 (1.71%) Commvault
9 2 (1.71%) Dell
9 2 (1.71%) HP
9 2 (1.71%) Mirantis
10 1 (0.85%) Delphix
10 1 (0.85%) Palo Alto