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

6 months to
27 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 572 478 465
Rank change year-on-year -94 -13 -37
Permanent jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 181 164 292
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.17% 0.38% 0.43%
As % of the Operating Systems category 3.00% 2.74% 3.28%
Number of salaries quoted 121 114 208
10th Percentile £47,500 £46,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £52,500 £41,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% +4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £92,500 £81,000 £80,313
90th Percentile £105,000 £94,375 £96,042
UK median annual salary £75,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +15.38% +4.00% -3.85%

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 6,040 5,985 8,899
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 5.84% 13.81% 13.15%
Number of salaries quoted 4,454 3,850 5,322
10th Percentile £28,000 £27,000 £28,000
25th Percentile £32,000 £31,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £41,428 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.62% -17.15% -4.76%
75th Percentile £67,500 £63,000 £67,968
90th Percentile £85,000 £82,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £45,000 £41,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +8.43% -17.00% -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 27 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 27 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 -87 53 £75,000 -6.25% 66
North of England -15 50 £97,500 +50.00% 20
South East -45 40 £67,500 +4.25% 29
North West +6 35 £55,000 -8.33% 17
South West -66 22 £75,000 +33.33% 23
Yorkshire -32 8 £97,500 +50.00% 2
Midlands -54 8 £75,000 +30.43% 11
East of England -39 7 £48,750 +12.07% 20
North East -58 7 £97,500 +77.27% 1
East Midlands -38 5 £75,000 +30.43% 1
West Midlands -42 3 - - 10
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 9 (4.97%) Apache
2 8 (4.42%) Confluence
2 8 (4.42%) OpenStack
3 7 (3.87%) Apache Spark
3 7 (3.87%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (1.10%) JBoss
4 2 (1.10%) nginx
5 1 (0.55%) IIS
5 1 (0.55%) Oracle HTTP Server
5 1 (0.55%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 10 (5.52%) FLEXCUBE
2 1 (0.55%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.55%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 69 (38.12%) AWS
2 39 (21.55%) Azure
3 27 (14.92%) GitHub
4 15 (8.29%) OpenShift
5 13 (7.18%) Microsoft 365
6 9 (4.97%) Amazon EKS
6 9 (4.97%) AWS CloudFormation
7 8 (4.42%) GCP
8 7 (3.87%) AWS Lambda
8 7 (3.87%) Serverless
9 5 (2.76%) Entra ID
10 4 (2.21%) Amazon EC2
10 4 (2.21%) Amazon S3
10 4 (2.21%) Azure DevOps
10 4 (2.21%) Azure Stack
10 4 (2.21%) IaaS
10 4 (2.21%) Nutanix
10 4 (2.21%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 3 (1.66%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 3 (1.66%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 31 (17.13%) DNS
2 26 (14.36%) Firewall
3 20 (11.05%) SAN
4 12 (6.63%) LAN
5 11 (6.08%) TCP/IP
6 8 (4.42%) Remote Desktop
6 8 (4.42%) WAN
7 7 (3.87%) AMQP
7 7 (3.87%) iSCSI
8 6 (3.31%) DHCP
8 6 (3.31%) HTTP
9 5 (2.76%) VSAN
10 4 (2.21%) Kerberos
10 4 (2.21%) NAS
10 4 (2.21%) NetScaler
10 4 (2.21%) Wireshark
11 3 (1.66%) SSL
11 3 (1.66%) VoIP
12 2 (1.10%) VPN
13 1 (0.55%) IPv4
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (7.73%) SQL Server
2 13 (7.18%) Oracle Database
3 9 (4.97%) Hadoop
4 8 (4.42%) Big Data
5 7 (3.87%) Cloudera CDH
5 7 (3.87%) MongoDB
5 7 (3.87%) MySQL
6 6 (3.31%) PostgreSQL
7 5 (2.76%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (1.10%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (1.10%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (1.10%) Power BI
9 1 (0.55%) GIS
9 1 (0.55%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 40 (22.10%) Git
2 36 (19.89%) GitLab
3 33 (18.23%) Jenkins
4 27 (14.92%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 11 (6.08%) JIRA
6 3 (1.66%) Bitbucket
7 2 (1.10%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.55%) Eclipse
8 1 (0.55%) Maven
8 1 (0.55%) Robot Framework
8 1 (0.55%) Selenium
8 1 (0.55%) TeamCity
General
1 68 (37.57%) Social Skills
2 33 (18.23%) Finance
3 29 (16.02%) Public Sector
4 23 (12.71%) Analytical Skills
5 17 (9.39%) Aerospace
6 14 (7.73%) Banking
7 8 (4.42%) Documentation Skills
7 8 (4.42%) Organisational Skills
8 6 (3.31%) Manufacturing
9 4 (2.21%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (2.21%) Military
10 3 (1.66%) Front Office
10 3 (1.66%) Telecoms
11 2 (1.10%) Mandarin Language
11 2 (1.10%) Retail
12 1 (0.55%) Law
12 1 (0.55%) Police
Job Titles
1 32 (17.68%) Senior
2 30 (16.57%) DevOps Engineer
3 25 (13.81%) Principal DevOps Engineer
3 25 (13.81%) Principal Engineer
4 24 (13.26%) Administrator
5 22 (12.15%) Linux Engineer
6 19 (10.50%) Systems Administrator
7 13 (7.18%) Architect
7 13 (7.18%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 12 (6.63%) Applications Architect
8 12 (6.63%) DBA
9 10 (5.52%) Lead
9 10 (5.52%) Oracle DBA
9 10 (5.52%) Senior DBA
9 10 (5.52%) Senior Oracle DBA
10 9 (4.97%) Security Architect
10 9 (4.97%) Software Engineer
11 8 (4.42%) AIX Engineer
11 8 (4.42%) Linux Administrator
12 7 (3.87%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (34.81%) Terraform
2 17 (9.39%) LDAP
3 16 (8.84%) Regular Expression
4 15 (8.29%) XMPP
5 8 (4.42%) RabbitMQ
5 8 (4.42%) React
6 7 (3.87%) AngularJS
6 7 (3.87%) gRPC
6 7 (3.87%) Material-UI
6 7 (3.87%) Node.js
6 7 (3.87%) OpenAPI
6 7 (3.87%) REST
6 7 (3.87%) Spring
6 7 (3.87%) Spring Boot
6 7 (3.87%) Swagger
7 5 (2.76%) ARM Templates
7 5 (2.76%) JSON
8 4 (2.21%) JSON Schema
8 4 (2.21%) WebSockets
8 4 (2.21%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 45 (24.86%) Cloud Native
2 13 (7.18%) Data Centre
3 10 (5.52%) PKI
4 8 (4.42%) Management Information System
5 7 (3.87%) Replication
5 7 (3.87%) Social Media
6 6 (3.31%) Onboarding
7 5 (2.76%) Manufacturing Execution System
7 5 (2.76%) Operational Technology
7 5 (2.76%) Security Posture
8 4 (2.21%) Clustering
8 4 (2.21%) Enterprise Cloud
8 4 (2.21%) Hybrid Cloud
9 3 (1.66%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (1.66%) Fixed Income
9 3 (1.66%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 3 (1.66%) Private Cloud
9 3 (1.66%) Public Cloud
10 2 (1.10%) Blockchain
10 2 (1.10%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 181 (100.00%) Linux
2 67 (37.02%) Windows
3 58 (32.04%) CentOS
4 57 (31.49%) Windows Server
5 25 (13.81%) Unix
6 20 (11.05%) AIX
6 20 (11.05%) Ubuntu
7 14 (7.73%) Debian
7 14 (7.73%) Rocky
8 12 (6.63%) Windows Server 2019
9 10 (5.52%) Oracle Linux
10 5 (2.76%) CoreOS
10 5 (2.76%) OpenVMS
10 5 (2.76%) Windows Server 2016
11 3 (1.66%) Solaris
12 2 (1.10%) Amazon Linux
13 1 (0.55%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
13 1 (0.55%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (37.57%) DevOps
2 58 (32.04%) CI/CD
3 49 (27.07%) Infrastructure as Code
4 40 (22.10%) ITIL
4 40 (22.10%) Platform Engineering
5 39 (21.55%) Technical Leadership
6 36 (19.89%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 32 (17.68%) Microservices
8 31 (17.13%) Configuration Management
9 30 (16.57%) High Availability
10 27 (14.92%) Continuous Improvement
10 27 (14.92%) Problem-Solving
11 26 (14.36%) Cybersecurity
11 26 (14.36%) SIEM
12 24 (13.26%) Agile
12 24 (13.26%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 24 (13.26%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 21 (11.60%) Containerisation
13 21 (11.60%) Roadmaps
14 17 (9.39%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 52 (28.73%) Bash
2 49 (27.07%) Python
3 29 (16.02%) PowerShell
4 23 (12.71%) SQL
5 21 (11.60%) Java
6 19 (10.50%) Shell Script
7 17 (9.39%) Korn
8 11 (6.08%) PL/SQL
9 10 (5.52%) JavaScript
10 4 (2.21%) PHP
11 3 (1.66%) Bicep
11 3 (1.66%) Perl
12 2 (1.10%) Go
13 1 (0.55%) C#
13 1 (0.55%) C++
Qualifications
1 91 (50.28%) Security Cleared
2 62 (34.25%) DV Cleared
3 47 (25.97%) SC Cleared
4 21 (11.60%) Degree
5 8 (4.42%) Cisco Certification
6 7 (3.87%) Microsoft Certification
7 6 (3.31%) CISSP
7 6 (3.31%) RHCSA
8 5 (2.76%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (2.21%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 4 (2.21%) Azure Certification
9 4 (2.21%) CCNA
9 4 (2.21%) CCSP
9 4 (2.21%) CISM
9 4 (2.21%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 3 (1.66%) Dell Certification
10 3 (1.66%) ITIL Certification
10 3 (1.66%) MCSA
10 3 (1.66%) MCSE
11 2 (1.10%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.21%) GDPR
1 4 (2.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (2.21%) NIST
1 4 (2.21%) Sarbanes-Oxley
1 4 (2.21%) SLA
2 1 (0.55%) Accessibility
2 1 (0.55%) QA
System Software
1 60 (33.15%) Docker
2 42 (23.20%) Active Directory
3 24 (13.26%) vSphere
4 23 (12.71%) VMware Infrastructure
5 13 (7.18%) Hyper-V
5 13 (7.18%) Virtual Machines
6 11 (6.08%) Oracle RAC
7 6 (3.31%) VMware ESXi
8 5 (2.76%) Citrix Hypervisor
9 3 (1.66%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 2 (1.10%) Xen
11 1 (0.55%) NFS
11 1 (0.55%) Samba
11 1 (0.55%) Virtual Desktop
11 1 (0.55%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 71 (39.23%) Ansible
2 67 (37.02%) Kubernetes
3 28 (15.47%) Puppet
4 21 (11.60%) Nagios
5 12 (6.63%) Data Guard
5 12 (6.63%) Oracle RMAN
6 9 (4.97%) Podman
7 8 (4.42%) ZABBIX
8 5 (2.76%) Grafana
8 5 (2.76%) McAfee ePO
8 5 (2.76%) NetBackup
8 5 (2.76%) Red Hat Satellite
8 5 (2.76%) SCVMM
9 4 (2.21%) Docker Swarm
9 4 (2.21%) Prometheus
10 3 (1.66%) Nessus
10 3 (1.66%) SCOM
10 3 (1.66%) vRealize
10 3 (1.66%) WSUS
11 2 (1.10%) Rancher
Vendors
1 107 (59.12%) Red Hat
2 44 (24.31%) VMware
3 36 (19.89%) Microsoft
4 20 (11.05%) Oracle
5 17 (9.39%) McAfee
6 12 (6.63%) IBM
6 12 (6.63%) NetApp
7 11 (6.08%) Splunk
8 8 (4.42%) Dell
8 8 (4.42%) Google
9 7 (3.87%) Citrix
9 7 (3.87%) SaltStack
9 7 (3.87%) Veeam
10 6 (3.31%) ServiceNow
10 6 (3.31%) SolarWinds
11 4 (2.21%) Cisco
11 4 (2.21%) CyberArk
11 4 (2.21%) Ivanti
11 4 (2.21%) Qualys
11 4 (2.21%) Rapid7