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 30 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 522 480 513
Rank change year-on-year -42 +33 +32
Permanent jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 148 145 326
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.19% 0.38% 0.39%
As % of the Operating Systems category 3.05% 2.40% 2.64%
Number of salaries quoted 123 112 243
10th Percentile £46,250 £52,500 £38,750
25th Percentile £51,250 £56,250 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £70,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +27.27% -15.38%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £71,125
90th Percentile £88,750 £96,250 £102,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £70,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -14.29% +27.27% -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 4,856 6,050 12,332
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 6.08% 15.96% 14.80%
Number of salaries quoted 3,639 4,054 10,002
10th Percentile £27,600 £27,000 £25,750
25th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £46,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.17% +2.22% -14.29%
75th Percentile £67,500 £67,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £87,125 £80,000
UK median annual salary £45,000 £47,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% -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 30 April 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 30 April 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 +8 74 £57,500 -25.81% 19
South East -4 47 £67,500 +17.39% 12
North West -24 16 £56,000 -25.20% 1
North of England -73 16 £56,000 -20.00% 5
South West -49 9 £66,250 -7.97% 14
East of England -37 1 £70,000 +14.29% 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 (12.84%) Microsoft Exchange
2 12 (8.11%) Apache
3 8 (5.41%) SharePoint
4 6 (4.05%) Confluence
5 5 (3.38%) Apache Spark
6 4 (2.70%) IIS
6 4 (2.70%) OpenStack
6 4 (2.70%) Tomcat
7 3 (2.03%) CMS
7 3 (2.03%) WordPress
8 2 (1.35%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (0.68%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (2.03%) FLEXCUBE
2 1 (0.68%) Oracle 11i
2 1 (0.68%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.68%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.68%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 35 (23.65%) AWS
2 26 (17.57%) Azure
3 13 (8.78%) SaaS
4 10 (6.76%) AWS CloudFormation
4 10 (6.76%) Microsoft 365
5 9 (6.08%) OpenShift
6 7 (4.73%) AWS Lambda
6 7 (4.73%) GCP
6 7 (4.73%) Serverless
7 6 (4.05%) Amazon EKS
7 6 (4.05%) Datadog
8 3 (2.03%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 3 (2.03%) Amazon EC2
8 3 (2.03%) Amazon S3
8 3 (2.03%) Azure Stack
8 3 (2.03%) GitHub
8 3 (2.03%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (2.03%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 2 (1.35%) AWS CloudTrail
9 2 (1.35%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 50 (33.78%) DNS
2 28 (18.92%) Firewall
2 28 (18.92%) SAN
3 17 (11.49%) LAN
4 16 (10.81%) HTTP
5 15 (10.14%) TCP/IP
6 11 (7.43%) WAN
7 10 (6.76%) NAS
8 8 (5.41%) iSCSI
8 8 (5.41%) Multicast
8 8 (5.41%) Remote Desktop
9 7 (4.73%) NetScaler
9 7 (4.73%) Wireshark
10 6 (4.05%) DHCP
11 5 (3.38%) AMQP
12 3 (2.03%) SNMP
12 3 (2.03%) VSAN
13 2 (1.35%) Network Security
13 2 (1.35%) PBX
13 2 (1.35%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (11.49%) SQL Server
2 10 (6.76%) MySQL
2 10 (6.76%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (4.05%) Oracle Database
4 5 (3.38%) Big Data
4 5 (3.38%) Cloudera CDH
4 5 (3.38%) Hadoop
5 4 (2.70%) Elasticsearch
5 4 (2.70%) MongoDB
6 3 (2.03%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.68%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.68%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.68%) Oracle Database 12c
7 1 (0.68%) Power BI
7 1 (0.68%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.68%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.68%) SAP HANA
7 1 (0.68%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.68%) Sybase ASE
7 1 (0.68%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 15 (10.14%) Git
2 9 (6.08%) JIRA
3 8 (5.41%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 8 (5.41%) GitLab
3 8 (5.41%) Jenkins
4 6 (4.05%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.68%) git-flow
5 1 (0.68%) Maven
5 1 (0.68%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 49 (33.11%) Social Skills
2 35 (23.65%) Finance
3 14 (9.46%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (7.43%) Organisational Skills
5 10 (6.76%) Banking
5 10 (6.76%) Front Office
6 6 (4.05%) Aerospace
6 6 (4.05%) Documentation Skills
6 6 (4.05%) Presentation Skills
7 4 (2.70%) Advertising
7 4 (2.70%) Mandarin Language
8 1 (0.68%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.68%) Military
8 1 (0.68%) Public Sector
8 1 (0.68%) Retail
8 1 (0.68%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 34 (22.97%) Linux Engineer
2 29 (19.59%) Administrator
3 21 (14.19%) Linux Administrator
4 20 (13.51%) Linux Support
5 19 (12.84%) Support Engineer
6 18 (12.16%) Senior
7 16 (10.81%) Linux Support Engineer
7 16 (10.81%) Systems Administrator
8 14 (9.46%) Applications Architect
8 14 (9.46%) Architect
9 11 (7.43%) Senior Linux Engineer
10 10 (6.76%) Developer
10 10 (6.76%) Lead
10 10 (6.76%) Linux Systems Administrator
11 9 (6.08%) C++ Developer
11 9 (6.08%) Security Architect
12 7 (4.73%) 3rd Line Support
12 7 (4.73%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
12 7 (4.73%) Linux Specialist
12 7 (4.73%) Support Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (9.46%) LDAP
1 14 (9.46%) Regular Expression
2 10 (6.76%) XMPP
3 8 (5.41%) FIX Protocol
4 7 (4.73%) Middleware
5 6 (4.05%) REST
5 6 (4.05%) WebSockets
6 5 (3.38%) AngularJS
6 5 (3.38%) gRPC
6 5 (3.38%) Material-UI
6 5 (3.38%) Node.js
6 5 (3.38%) OpenAPI
6 5 (3.38%) RabbitMQ
6 5 (3.38%) React
6 5 (3.38%) Spring
6 5 (3.38%) Spring Boot
6 5 (3.38%) Swagger
7 4 (2.70%) JSON
7 4 (2.70%) web3js
7 4 (2.70%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 16 (10.81%) Data Centre
2 14 (9.46%) Management Information System
2 14 (9.46%) PKI
3 13 (8.78%) Cloud Native
4 8 (5.41%) Clustering
4 8 (5.41%) Derivative
5 6 (4.05%) Enterprise Storage
6 5 (3.38%) Hybrid Cloud
6 5 (3.38%) Onboarding
6 5 (3.38%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (2.70%) Blockchain
7 4 (2.70%) Web3
8 3 (2.03%) Operational Technology
8 3 (2.03%) Replication
8 3 (2.03%) Security Posture
8 3 (2.03%) Video on Demand
8 3 (2.03%) Video\Live Streaming
9 2 (1.35%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 2 (1.35%) FPGA
10 1 (0.68%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 148 (100.00%) Linux
2 54 (36.49%) Windows
3 49 (33.11%) Windows Server
4 40 (27.03%) CentOS
5 17 (11.49%) Unix
6 16 (10.81%) Ubuntu
7 9 (6.08%) Debian
7 9 (6.08%) Windows Server 2019
8 7 (4.73%) Windows Server 2016
9 6 (4.05%) AIX
10 5 (3.38%) Oracle Linux
11 4 (2.70%) Solaris
11 4 (2.70%) Windows Server 2012
12 3 (2.03%) CoreOS
12 3 (2.03%) VMS
13 1 (0.68%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (27.70%) Problem-Solving
2 38 (25.68%) DevOps
3 29 (19.59%) CI/CD
4 25 (16.89%) High Availability
4 25 (16.89%) ITIL
4 25 (16.89%) SIEM
5 24 (16.22%) Configuration Management
5 24 (16.22%) Infrastructure as Code
6 19 (12.84%) Platform Engineering
7 18 (12.16%) Agile
8 16 (10.81%) Containerisation
9 15 (10.14%) Disaster Recovery
10 13 (8.78%) Cybersecurity
10 13 (8.78%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 12 (8.11%) Application Security
11 12 (8.11%) Time Management
12 11 (7.43%) Antivirus Management
12 11 (7.43%) Migration
13 10 (6.76%) Observability
13 10 (6.76%) Pattern Matching
Programming Languages
1 52 (35.14%) Python
2 44 (29.73%) Bash
3 25 (16.89%) PowerShell
4 21 (14.19%) SQL
5 17 (11.49%) Perl
6 14 (9.46%) PHP
7 12 (8.11%) Shell Script
8 10 (6.76%) Java
8 10 (6.76%) Korn
9 9 (6.08%) C++
10 5 (3.38%) JavaScript
11 3 (2.03%) PL/SQL
12 2 (1.35%) C
13 1 (0.68%) Groovy
13 1 (0.68%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 45 (30.41%) Security Cleared
2 31 (20.95%) DV Cleared
3 15 (10.14%) Degree
4 12 (8.11%) SC Cleared
5 9 (6.08%) RHCSA
6 6 (4.05%) AWS Certification
7 5 (3.38%) ITIL Certification
8 4 (2.70%) Postgraduate
8 4 (2.70%) RHCE
9 3 (2.03%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (1.35%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (1.35%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.68%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 1 (0.68%) CCSP
11 1 (0.68%) CISM
11 1 (0.68%) Computer Science Degree
11 1 (0.68%) Dell Certification
11 1 (0.68%) Linux+ Certification
11 1 (0.68%) MCSA
11 1 (0.68%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (5.41%) SLA
2 2 (1.35%) NIST
3 1 (0.68%) GDPR
3 1 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.68%) QA
3 1 (0.68%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 43 (29.05%) Active Directory
2 37 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 33 (22.30%) Docker
4 29 (19.59%) vSphere
5 8 (5.41%) Citrix Hypervisor
5 8 (5.41%) Hyper-V
6 5 (3.38%) Veritas Cluster Server
7 3 (2.03%) Oracle RAC
7 3 (2.03%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 3 (2.03%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (1.35%) Samba
9 1 (0.68%) KVM
9 1 (0.68%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 46 (31.08%) Ansible
2 42 (28.38%) Kubernetes
3 27 (18.24%) Terraform
4 17 (11.49%) Puppet
5 15 (10.14%) Nagios
6 8 (5.41%) WSUS
7 5 (3.38%) Grafana
7 5 (3.38%) Podman
7 5 (3.38%) Red Hat Satellite
7 5 (3.38%) ZABBIX
8 4 (2.70%) Argo
8 4 (2.70%) Data Guard
8 4 (2.70%) Progress Chef
9 3 (2.03%) McAfee ePO
9 3 (2.03%) Oracle RMAN
9 3 (2.03%) SCVMM
10 2 (1.35%) Prometheus
10 2 (1.35%) Red Hat Spacewalk
11 1 (0.68%) Docker Swarm
11 1 (0.68%) Packer
Vendors
1 100 (67.57%) Red Hat
2 67 (45.27%) VMware
3 28 (18.92%) Microsoft
4 17 (11.49%) McAfee
5 14 (9.46%) Oracle
6 11 (7.43%) Dell
7 7 (4.73%) Citrix
7 7 (4.73%) NetApp
7 7 (4.73%) SolarWinds
8 6 (4.05%) Google
9 5 (3.38%) SaltStack
9 5 (3.38%) Splunk
9 5 (3.38%) Symantec
10 4 (2.70%) Atlassian
10 4 (2.70%) Mirantis
11 3 (2.03%) HP
11 3 (2.03%) IBM
11 3 (2.03%) Pure Storage
12 2 (1.35%) CyberArk
12 2 (1.35%) D-Link