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 14 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 530 478 534
Rank change year-on-year -52 +56 -23
Permanent jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 161 156 327
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.19% 0.40% 0.35%
As % of the Operating Systems category 3.11% 2.53% 2.58%
Number of salaries quoted 136 123 245
10th Percentile £46,250 £52,500 £38,750
25th Percentile £51,250 £56,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +22.73% -15.38%
75th Percentile £72,500 £80,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £78,125 £96,250 £102,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,250 £55,000
% change year-on-year -1.89% +20.45% -15.38%

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 5,185 6,175 12,680
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 6.27% 15.64% 13.46%
Number of salaries quoted 3,956 3,985 9,869
10th Percentile £27,694 £27,000 £26,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £31,750 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £42,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -5.56% -14.29%
75th Percentile £68,188 £65,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £81,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year - - -14.29%

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 14 June 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 14 June 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 -26 67 £57,500 -25.81% 10
South East -9 52 £67,500 +11.57% 17
North of England -42 22 £43,750 -37.50% 4
North West +2 21 £40,000 -46.57% 3
South West -39 15 £75,000 +20.00% 12
East Midlands -26 2 £75,000 +30.43% 3
Midlands -27 2 £75,000 +30.43% 3
East of England -29 2 £56,250 -8.16% 2
Yorkshire -56 1 £97,500 +50.00% 1
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 19 (11.80%) Microsoft Exchange
2 10 (6.21%) Apache
3 7 (4.35%) Confluence
3 7 (4.35%) SharePoint
4 5 (3.11%) Apache Spark
5 4 (2.48%) OpenStack
6 3 (1.86%) CMS
6 3 (1.86%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (0.62%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 8 (4.97%) FLEXCUBE
Cloud Services
1 42 (26.09%) AWS
2 35 (21.74%) Azure
3 13 (8.07%) Microsoft 365
4 10 (6.21%) AWS CloudFormation
5 7 (4.35%) Amazon EKS
5 7 (4.35%) AWS Lambda
5 7 (4.35%) Azure Stack
5 7 (4.35%) SaaS
5 7 (4.35%) Serverless
6 6 (3.73%) Datadog
6 6 (3.73%) GCP
6 6 (3.73%) OpenShift
7 5 (3.11%) GitHub
8 4 (2.48%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 4 (2.48%) Amazon EC2
8 4 (2.48%) Amazon S3
8 4 (2.48%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 3 (1.86%) CloudFront
9 3 (1.86%) GitHub Actions
9 3 (1.86%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 55 (34.16%) DNS
2 35 (21.74%) Firewall
3 30 (18.63%) SAN
4 20 (12.42%) LAN
5 17 (10.56%) TCP/IP
6 16 (9.94%) HTTP
7 11 (6.83%) WAN
8 10 (6.21%) iSCSI
8 10 (6.21%) Remote Desktop
9 9 (5.59%) NAS
10 8 (4.97%) NetScaler
10 8 (4.97%) Wireshark
11 5 (3.11%) AMQP
11 5 (3.11%) DHCP
12 4 (2.48%) VSAN
13 3 (1.86%) VoIP
13 3 (1.86%) VPN
14 2 (1.24%) Kerberos
14 2 (1.24%) Network Security
14 2 (1.24%) PBX
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (8.70%) SQL Server
2 9 (5.59%) MySQL
2 9 (5.59%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (4.97%) Oracle Database
4 7 (4.35%) Hadoop
5 6 (3.73%) Elasticsearch
5 6 (3.73%) MongoDB
6 5 (3.11%) Big Data
6 5 (3.11%) Cloudera CDH
7 4 (2.48%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.62%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.62%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.62%) SAP HANA
8 1 (0.62%) Sybase ASE
8 1 (0.62%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 24 (14.91%) Git
2 13 (8.07%) GitLab
3 12 (7.45%) JIRA
4 7 (4.35%) Jenkins
5 6 (3.73%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 2 (1.24%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.62%) git-flow
7 1 (0.62%) Maven
7 1 (0.62%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 52 (32.30%) Social Skills
2 33 (20.50%) Finance
3 23 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (11.18%) Banking
5 12 (7.45%) Organisational Skills
6 10 (6.21%) Documentation Skills
7 8 (4.97%) Aerospace
8 5 (3.11%) Public Sector
9 4 (2.48%) Front Office
9 4 (2.48%) Mandarin Language
10 3 (1.86%) Military
11 2 (1.24%) Advertising
11 2 (1.24%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (1.24%) Manufacturing
11 2 (1.24%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.62%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.62%) Retail
Job Titles
1 28 (17.39%) Linux Engineer
2 27 (16.77%) Administrator
3 24 (14.91%) Senior
4 21 (13.04%) Systems Administrator
5 20 (12.42%) Applications Architect
5 20 (12.42%) Architect
6 14 (8.70%) Linux Administrator
6 14 (8.70%) Security Architect
6 14 (8.70%) Support Engineer
7 12 (7.45%) Linux Support
7 12 (7.45%) Linux Support Engineer
8 11 (6.83%) Lead
8 11 (6.83%) Linux Systems Administrator
9 9 (5.59%) DBA
9 9 (5.59%) Senior Linux Engineer
10 8 (4.97%) DevOps Engineer
10 8 (4.97%) Oracle DBA
10 8 (4.97%) Senior DBA
10 8 (4.97%) Senior Oracle DBA
11 7 (4.35%) 3rd Line Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (13.66%) Regular Expression
2 20 (12.42%) LDAP
3 18 (11.18%) XMPP
4 9 (5.59%) WebSockets
5 7 (4.35%) ARM Templates
6 6 (3.73%) JSON
6 6 (3.73%) JSON Schema
6 6 (3.73%) REST
6 6 (3.73%) XML
7 5 (3.11%) AngularJS
7 5 (3.11%) gRPC
7 5 (3.11%) Material-UI
7 5 (3.11%) Middleware
7 5 (3.11%) Node.js
7 5 (3.11%) OpenAPI
7 5 (3.11%) RabbitMQ
7 5 (3.11%) React
7 5 (3.11%) Spring
7 5 (3.11%) Spring Boot
7 5 (3.11%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 19 (11.80%) Cloud Native
2 18 (11.18%) Data Centre
3 17 (10.56%) PKI
4 14 (8.70%) Management Information System
5 6 (3.73%) Enterprise Storage
6 5 (3.11%) Hybrid Cloud
6 5 (3.11%) Operational Technology
6 5 (3.11%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (2.48%) Blockchain
7 4 (2.48%) Onboarding
7 4 (2.48%) Security Posture
7 4 (2.48%) Web3
8 3 (1.86%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (1.86%) Fixed Income
8 3 (1.86%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 3 (1.86%) Replication
9 2 (1.24%) Clustering
9 2 (1.24%) Enterprise Cloud
9 2 (1.24%) Manufacturing Execution System
10 1 (0.62%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 161 (100.00%) Linux
2 70 (43.48%) Windows
3 62 (38.51%) Windows Server
4 39 (24.22%) CentOS
5 23 (14.29%) Unix
6 21 (13.04%) Ubuntu
7 11 (6.83%) AIX
7 11 (6.83%) Windows Server 2019
8 9 (5.59%) Debian
9 8 (4.97%) Oracle Linux
10 4 (2.48%) CoreOS
10 4 (2.48%) Windows Server 2016
11 3 (1.86%) VMS
12 2 (1.24%) Amazon Linux
12 2 (1.24%) OpenVMS
12 2 (1.24%) Rocky
12 2 (1.24%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (32.30%) DevOps
2 41 (25.47%) Problem-Solving
2 41 (25.47%) SIEM
3 38 (23.60%) CI/CD
4 29 (18.01%) High Availability
4 29 (18.01%) ITIL
5 26 (16.15%) Infrastructure as Code
6 25 (15.53%) Configuration Management
7 23 (14.29%) Platform Engineering
8 21 (13.04%) Cybersecurity
9 20 (12.42%) Agile
9 20 (12.42%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 19 (11.80%) Disaster Recovery
11 18 (11.18%) Containerisation
11 18 (11.18%) Observability
11 18 (11.18%) Validation
12 17 (10.56%) Antivirus Management
12 17 (10.56%) Application Security
13 16 (9.94%) Pattern Matching
13 16 (9.94%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 49 (30.43%) Bash
1 49 (30.43%) Python
2 30 (18.63%) SQL
3 27 (16.77%) PowerShell
4 16 (9.94%) Shell Script
5 15 (9.32%) Korn
5 15 (9.32%) PHP
6 14 (8.70%) Java
7 8 (4.97%) Perl
7 8 (4.97%) PL/SQL
8 7 (4.35%) JavaScript
9 2 (1.24%) C
10 1 (0.62%) C++
10 1 (0.62%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 62 (38.51%) Security Cleared
2 43 (26.71%) DV Cleared
3 20 (12.42%) Degree
4 14 (8.70%) SC Cleared
5 12 (7.45%) RHCSA
6 5 (3.11%) Cisco Certification
6 5 (3.11%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (2.48%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (2.48%) Postgraduate
7 4 (2.48%) RHCE
8 3 (1.86%) CCNA
8 3 (1.86%) MCSE
9 2 (1.24%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 2 (1.24%) Azure Certification
9 2 (1.24%) CCSP
9 2 (1.24%) CISM
9 2 (1.24%) CISSP
9 2 (1.24%) Dell Certification
9 2 (1.24%) MCSA
10 1 (0.62%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.11%) SLA
2 3 (1.86%) NIST
3 2 (1.24%) GDPR
3 2 (1.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 50 (31.06%) Active Directory
2 37 (22.98%) vSphere
3 35 (21.74%) Docker
3 35 (21.74%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (7.45%) Hyper-V
5 8 (4.97%) Citrix Hypervisor
5 8 (4.97%) Oracle RAC
6 4 (2.48%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (1.86%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 2 (1.24%) Samba
8 2 (1.24%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.62%) KVM
Systems Management
1 48 (29.81%) Kubernetes
2 39 (24.22%) Terraform
3 37 (22.98%) Ansible
4 25 (15.53%) Nagios
5 20 (12.42%) Puppet
6 9 (5.59%) WSUS
7 8 (4.97%) Data Guard
7 8 (4.97%) Oracle RMAN
8 7 (4.35%) Podman
9 5 (3.11%) Docker Swarm
9 5 (3.11%) Grafana
9 5 (3.11%) ZABBIX
10 4 (2.48%) Argo
10 4 (2.48%) McAfee ePO
10 4 (2.48%) SCVMM
11 3 (1.86%) Prometheus
11 3 (1.86%) Red Hat Satellite
12 1 (0.62%) Packer
12 1 (0.62%) Progress Chef
12 1 (0.62%) SCCM
Vendors
1 106 (65.84%) Red Hat
2 68 (42.24%) VMware
3 38 (23.60%) Microsoft
4 25 (15.53%) McAfee
5 12 (7.45%) Oracle
6 11 (6.83%) Splunk
7 10 (6.21%) Dell
7 10 (6.21%) SolarWinds
8 8 (4.97%) Citrix
8 8 (4.97%) IBM
8 8 (4.97%) NetApp
9 6 (3.73%) Google
10 5 (3.11%) SaltStack
11 4 (2.48%) ServiceNow
12 3 (1.86%) Pure Storage
12 3 (1.86%) Veeam
13 2 (1.24%) Fujitsu
13 2 (1.24%) HP
13 2 (1.24%) Ivanti
13 2 (1.24%) Qualys