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

6 months to
1 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 532 489 526
Rank change year-on-year -43 +37 +9
Permanent jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 154 151 330
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.18% 0.39% 0.37%
As % of the Operating Systems category 2.99% 2.42% 2.68%
Number of salaries quoted 130 116 245
10th Percentile £46,250 £52,500 £38,750
25th Percentile £51,250 £56,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +27.27% -15.38%
75th Percentile £72,500 £80,063 £77,500
90th Percentile £78,750 £96,250 £102,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £68,750 £55,000
% change year-on-year -5.45% +25.00% -14.82%

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 5,144 6,242 12,299
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 6.17% 15.95% 13.88%
Number of salaries quoted 3,929 3,887 9,814
10th Percentile £27,694 £27,000 £25,760
25th Percentile £31,250 £31,750 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £44,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.12% -1.11% -14.29%
75th Percentile £68,750 £65,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £82,751 £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 1 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 1 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 -27 65 £57,500 -25.81% 14
South East -2 49 £67,500 +11.57% 14
North of England -34 20 £51,250 -26.79% 10
North West +4 19 £47,500 -36.56% 4
South West -40 17 £75,000 +20.00% 15
East of England -29 2 £56,250 -21.05% 4
Yorkshire -62 1 £97,500 +39.29% 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 19 (12.34%) Microsoft Exchange
2 10 (6.49%) Apache
3 8 (5.19%) SharePoint
4 6 (3.90%) Confluence
5 5 (3.25%) Apache Spark
6 4 (2.60%) OpenStack
7 3 (1.95%) CMS
7 3 (1.95%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (0.65%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 6 (3.90%) FLEXCUBE
2 1 (0.65%) Oracle 11i
2 1 (0.65%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.65%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.65%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 42 (27.27%) AWS
2 32 (20.78%) Azure
3 13 (8.44%) Microsoft 365
4 10 (6.49%) AWS CloudFormation
5 8 (5.19%) SaaS
6 7 (4.55%) Amazon EKS
6 7 (4.55%) AWS Lambda
6 7 (4.55%) Serverless
7 6 (3.90%) Azure Stack
7 6 (3.90%) Datadog
7 6 (3.90%) GCP
7 6 (3.90%) OpenShift
8 5 (3.25%) GitHub
9 4 (2.60%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 4 (2.60%) Amazon EC2
9 4 (2.60%) Amazon S3
9 4 (2.60%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 3 (1.95%) CloudFront
10 3 (1.95%) GitHub Actions
10 3 (1.95%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 52 (33.77%) DNS
2 31 (20.13%) Firewall
3 29 (18.83%) SAN
4 19 (12.34%) LAN
5 17 (11.04%) HTTP
5 17 (11.04%) TCP/IP
6 10 (6.49%) iSCSI
6 10 (6.49%) WAN
7 9 (5.84%) NAS
8 8 (5.19%) NetScaler
8 8 (5.19%) Remote Desktop
8 8 (5.19%) Wireshark
9 5 (3.25%) AMQP
9 5 (3.25%) DHCP
10 4 (2.60%) VSAN
11 3 (1.95%) VoIP
11 3 (1.95%) VPN
12 2 (1.30%) Network Security
12 2 (1.30%) PBX
13 1 (0.65%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (8.44%) SQL Server
2 10 (6.49%) MySQL
2 10 (6.49%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (5.19%) Oracle Database
4 6 (3.90%) Hadoop
5 5 (3.25%) Big Data
5 5 (3.25%) Cloudera CDH
5 5 (3.25%) Elasticsearch
5 5 (3.25%) MongoDB
6 4 (2.60%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.65%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.65%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.65%) Oracle Database 12c
7 1 (0.65%) Power BI
7 1 (0.65%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.65%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.65%) SAP HANA
7 1 (0.65%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.65%) Sybase ASE
7 1 (0.65%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 22 (14.29%) Git
2 12 (7.79%) GitLab
3 10 (6.49%) JIRA
4 7 (4.55%) Jenkins
5 6 (3.90%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 3 (1.95%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.65%) git-flow
7 1 (0.65%) Maven
7 1 (0.65%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 51 (33.12%) Social Skills
2 33 (21.43%) Finance
3 20 (12.99%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (10.39%) Banking
5 12 (7.79%) Organisational Skills
6 9 (5.84%) Documentation Skills
7 8 (5.19%) Aerospace
8 5 (3.25%) Front Office
9 4 (2.60%) Mandarin Language
9 4 (2.60%) Public Sector
10 3 (1.95%) Military
11 2 (1.30%) Advertising
11 2 (1.30%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.65%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.65%) Retail
12 1 (0.65%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 30 (19.48%) Linux Engineer
2 28 (18.18%) Administrator
3 20 (12.99%) Senior
3 20 (12.99%) Systems Administrator
4 18 (11.69%) Applications Architect
4 18 (11.69%) Architect
5 15 (9.74%) Linux Administrator
5 15 (9.74%) Support Engineer
6 14 (9.09%) Linux Support
7 13 (8.44%) Linux Support Engineer
8 12 (7.79%) Security Architect
9 11 (7.14%) Linux Systems Administrator
10 10 (6.49%) Lead
11 9 (5.84%) Senior Linux Engineer
12 8 (5.19%) DBA
12 8 (5.19%) DevOps Engineer
13 7 (4.55%) 3rd Line Engineer
13 7 (4.55%) 3rd Line Support
13 7 (4.55%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
13 7 (4.55%) Oracle DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (11.69%) Regular Expression
2 15 (9.74%) LDAP
3 14 (9.09%) XMPP
4 9 (5.84%) WebSockets
5 6 (3.90%) ARM Templates
5 6 (3.90%) REST
6 5 (3.25%) AngularJS
6 5 (3.25%) gRPC
6 5 (3.25%) Material-UI
6 5 (3.25%) Middleware
6 5 (3.25%) Node.js
6 5 (3.25%) OpenAPI
6 5 (3.25%) RabbitMQ
6 5 (3.25%) React
6 5 (3.25%) Spring
6 5 (3.25%) Spring Boot
6 5 (3.25%) Swagger
7 4 (2.60%) JSON
7 4 (2.60%) JSON Schema
7 4 (2.60%) web3js
Miscellaneous
1 19 (12.34%) Cloud Native
1 19 (12.34%) Data Centre
2 15 (9.74%) PKI
3 14 (9.09%) Management Information System
4 6 (3.90%) Enterprise Storage
5 5 (3.25%) Hybrid Cloud
5 5 (3.25%) Operational Technology
5 5 (3.25%) Replication
5 5 (3.25%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (2.60%) Blockchain
6 4 (2.60%) Clustering
6 4 (2.60%) Onboarding
6 4 (2.60%) Web3
7 3 (1.95%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (1.95%) Fixed Income
7 3 (1.95%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 3 (1.95%) Security Posture
8 1 (0.65%) Derivative
8 1 (0.65%) Equities
8 1 (0.65%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 154 (100.00%) Linux
2 65 (42.21%) Windows
3 57 (37.01%) Windows Server
4 39 (25.32%) CentOS
5 22 (14.29%) Unix
6 20 (12.99%) Ubuntu
7 9 (5.84%) AIX
7 9 (5.84%) Debian
7 9 (5.84%) Windows Server 2019
8 6 (3.90%) Oracle Linux
9 4 (2.60%) CoreOS
9 4 (2.60%) Windows Server 2016
10 3 (1.95%) Solaris
10 3 (1.95%) VMS
11 2 (1.30%) Amazon Linux
11 2 (1.30%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (32.47%) DevOps
2 40 (25.97%) Problem-Solving
3 37 (24.03%) CI/CD
4 35 (22.73%) SIEM
5 27 (17.53%) High Availability
5 27 (17.53%) ITIL
6 26 (16.88%) Infrastructure as Code
7 23 (14.94%) Configuration Management
8 21 (13.64%) Platform Engineering
9 19 (12.34%) Disaster Recovery
10 18 (11.69%) Agile
10 18 (11.69%) Containerisation
11 17 (11.04%) Cybersecurity
11 17 (11.04%) Observability
12 15 (9.74%) Antivirus Management
12 15 (9.74%) Application Security
12 15 (9.74%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 15 (9.74%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 14 (9.09%) Pattern Matching
13 14 (9.09%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 49 (31.82%) Python
2 47 (30.52%) Bash
3 27 (17.53%) SQL
4 25 (16.23%) PowerShell
5 15 (9.74%) PHP
6 13 (8.44%) Korn
7 12 (7.79%) Shell Script
8 11 (7.14%) Java
9 9 (5.84%) Perl
10 6 (3.90%) JavaScript
10 6 (3.90%) PL/SQL
11 2 (1.30%) C
11 2 (1.30%) C++
12 1 (0.65%) Groovy
12 1 (0.65%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 57 (37.01%) Security Cleared
2 38 (24.68%) DV Cleared
3 17 (11.04%) Degree
4 15 (9.74%) SC Cleared
5 12 (7.79%) RHCSA
6 5 (3.25%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (2.60%) Cisco Certification
7 4 (2.60%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (2.60%) Postgraduate
7 4 (2.60%) RHCE
8 3 (1.95%) CCNA
8 3 (1.95%) MCSE
9 2 (1.30%) AWS Certification
9 2 (1.30%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.65%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 1 (0.65%) CISM
10 1 (0.65%) Computer Science Degree
10 1 (0.65%) Dell Certification
10 1 (0.65%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.65%) Linux+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.90%) SLA
2 2 (1.30%) NIST
3 1 (0.65%) GDPR
3 1 (0.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.65%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 44 (28.57%) Active Directory
2 35 (22.73%) Docker
2 35 (22.73%) VMware Infrastructure
3 33 (21.43%) vSphere
4 11 (7.14%) Hyper-V
5 8 (5.19%) Citrix Hypervisor
6 6 (3.90%) Oracle RAC
7 3 (1.95%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 3 (1.95%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (1.30%) Samba
9 1 (0.65%) KVM
9 1 (0.65%) Veritas Cluster Server
9 1 (0.65%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 46 (29.87%) Kubernetes
2 38 (24.68%) Ansible
2 38 (24.68%) Terraform
3 23 (14.94%) Nagios
4 20 (12.99%) Puppet
5 8 (5.19%) WSUS
6 7 (4.55%) Data Guard
6 7 (4.55%) Podman
7 6 (3.90%) Oracle RMAN
8 5 (3.25%) ZABBIX
9 4 (2.60%) Argo
9 4 (2.60%) Docker Swarm
9 4 (2.60%) Grafana
9 4 (2.60%) McAfee ePO
9 4 (2.60%) SCVMM
10 2 (1.30%) Prometheus
10 2 (1.30%) Red Hat Satellite
11 1 (0.65%) Packer
11 1 (0.65%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.65%) SCCM
Vendors
1 101 (65.58%) Red Hat
2 66 (42.86%) VMware
3 35 (22.73%) Microsoft
4 21 (13.64%) McAfee
5 11 (7.14%) Oracle
6 10 (6.49%) SolarWinds
7 9 (5.84%) Dell
8 8 (5.19%) Citrix
8 8 (5.19%) NetApp
8 8 (5.19%) Splunk
9 6 (3.90%) Google
9 6 (3.90%) IBM
10 5 (3.25%) SaltStack
11 3 (1.95%) Mirantis
11 3 (1.95%) Pure Storage
11 3 (1.95%) Veeam
12 2 (1.30%) D-Link
12 2 (1.30%) ServiceNow
13 1 (0.65%) CyberArk
13 1 (0.65%) Rapid7