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

6 months to
1 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 495 487 484
Rank change year-on-year -8 -3 -37
Permanent jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 119 186 279
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.21% 0.40% 0.44%
As % of the Operating Systems category 2.63% 2.58% 2.82%
Number of salaries quoted 85 107 223
10th Percentile £46,250 £45,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £56,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £58,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +12.07% -3.33%
75th Percentile £87,500 £83,125 £81,875
90th Percentile £125,000 £94,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £59,000
% change year-on-year -11.54% +10.17% -1.67%

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 4,523 7,208 9,894
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 8.05% 15.42% 15.69%
Number of salaries quoted 3,419 3,992 8,408
10th Percentile £27,000 £28,250 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £36,250 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £44,000 £50,750 £47,657
Median % change year-on-year -13.30% +6.49% -9.23%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £90,000 £83,750
UK median annual salary £45,000 £52,000 £48,000
% change year-on-year -13.46% +8.33% -8.57%

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 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 1 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 +54 78 £80,000 +3.23% 18
South East +17 15 £48,750 -15.22% 11
South West -15 10 £57,500 -20.13% 6
North West +29 8 £55,000 +18.92% 4
North of England -12 8 £55,000 - 6
East of England +7 7 £42,500 -26.09% 2
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 20 (16.81%) Tomcat
2 16 (13.45%) WebSphere
3 14 (11.76%) WebSphere Application Server
4 11 (9.24%) Apache
5 6 (5.04%) Microsoft Exchange
6 5 (4.20%) Apache Spark
6 5 (4.20%) Confluence
6 5 (4.20%) IIS
6 5 (4.20%) SharePoint
7 3 (2.52%) CMS
7 3 (2.52%) WordPress
8 2 (1.68%) nginx
8 2 (1.68%) Skype for Business
9 1 (0.84%) JBoss
Business Applications
1 1 (0.84%) FLEXCUBE
1 1 (0.84%) Oracle 11i
1 1 (0.84%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.84%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (0.84%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 42 (35.29%) AWS
2 17 (14.29%) Azure
3 16 (13.45%) OpenShift
4 11 (9.24%) Amazon EKS
4 11 (9.24%) AWS Lambda
4 11 (9.24%) Serverless
5 10 (8.40%) AWS CloudFormation
5 10 (8.40%) SaaS
6 7 (5.88%) Cohesity
7 6 (5.04%) Amazon EC2
7 6 (5.04%) Amazon S3
7 6 (5.04%) GCP
7 6 (5.04%) Route 53
8 5 (4.20%) Amazon ECR
8 5 (4.20%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 4 (3.36%) GitHub
10 2 (1.68%) Azure DevOps
11 1 (0.84%) OCI
11 1 (0.84%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 23 (19.33%) DNS
2 15 (12.61%) SSL
3 13 (10.92%) LAN
3 13 (10.92%) TCP/IP
4 12 (10.08%) Multicast
4 12 (10.08%) WAN
5 11 (9.24%) SAN
6 9 (7.56%) Firewall
6 9 (7.56%) VSAN
7 8 (6.72%) DHCP
8 7 (5.88%) HTTP
9 5 (4.20%) AMQP
10 3 (2.52%) Fibre Channel
11 2 (1.68%) Cisco IOS
11 2 (1.68%) NAS
11 2 (1.68%) Skype
11 2 (1.68%) SNMP
11 2 (1.68%) VoIP
12 1 (0.84%) VLAN
12 1 (0.84%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (15.13%) PostgreSQL
2 16 (13.45%) DB2
2 16 (13.45%) SQL Server
3 6 (5.04%) Amazon RDS
3 6 (5.04%) Big Data
3 6 (5.04%) Oracle Database
4 5 (4.20%) Cloudera CDH
4 5 (4.20%) Hadoop
5 4 (3.36%) MongoDB
5 4 (3.36%) MySQL
6 1 (0.84%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.84%) Oracle Database 12c
6 1 (0.84%) Power BI
6 1 (0.84%) RDBMS
6 1 (0.84%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.84%) SAP HANA
6 1 (0.84%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (0.84%) Sybase ASE
6 1 (0.84%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 13 (10.92%) Git
2 10 (8.40%) GitLab
3 7 (5.88%) Jenkins
4 6 (5.04%) Bitbucket
4 6 (5.04%) JIRA
5 5 (4.20%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (0.84%) Ant
6 1 (0.84%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.84%) Maven
6 1 (0.84%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 44 (36.97%) Finance
2 20 (16.81%) Banking
2 20 (16.81%) Social Skills
3 13 (10.92%) Front Office
4 9 (7.56%) Investment Banking
5 7 (5.88%) Organisational Skills
6 5 (4.20%) Aerospace
6 5 (4.20%) Presentation Skills
7 4 (3.36%) Advertising
8 3 (2.52%) Analytical Skills
9 2 (1.68%) Electronics
9 2 (1.68%) Financial Institution
9 2 (1.68%) Military
10 1 (0.84%) Public Sector
10 1 (0.84%) Retail
Job Titles
1 34 (28.57%) Linux Support
2 32 (26.89%) Administrator
3 31 (26.05%) Linux Engineer
4 23 (19.33%) Linux Administrator
4 23 (19.33%) Support Engineer
5 20 (16.81%) Linux Support Engineer
6 15 (12.61%) Applications Support
6 15 (12.61%) Infrastructure Support
7 14 (11.76%) Unix Support
8 13 (10.92%) C++ Developer
8 13 (10.92%) Developer
9 11 (9.24%) Systems Administrator
10 8 (6.72%) Linux Specialist
10 8 (6.72%) Support Specialist
11 7 (5.88%) Linux Systems Administrator
11 7 (5.88%) Senior
12 5 (4.20%) Applications Support Engineer
12 5 (4.20%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 5 (4.20%) Linux DevOps Engineer
12 5 (4.20%) Linux/Unix DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (13.45%) LDAP
2 14 (11.76%) LAPP Stack
2 14 (11.76%) WebSphere MQ
3 12 (10.08%) FIX Protocol
4 8 (6.72%) Middleware
5 7 (5.88%) Kafka
6 6 (5.04%) REST
7 5 (4.20%) AngularJS
7 5 (4.20%) gRPC
7 5 (4.20%) Material-UI
7 5 (4.20%) Node.js
7 5 (4.20%) OpenAPI
7 5 (4.20%) RabbitMQ
7 5 (4.20%) React
7 5 (4.20%) Spring
7 5 (4.20%) Spring Boot
7 5 (4.20%) Swagger
8 2 (1.68%) LAMP
9 1 (0.84%) MFC
9 1 (0.84%) STL
Miscellaneous
1 17 (14.29%) Linux Command Line
2 13 (10.92%) Management Information System
3 12 (10.08%) Derivative
4 9 (7.56%) Clustering
5 6 (5.04%) Data Centre
5 6 (5.04%) PKI
6 5 (4.20%) Cloud Native
6 5 (4.20%) Replication
7 4 (3.36%) Onboarding
7 4 (3.36%) Video on Demand
7 4 (3.36%) Video\Live Streaming
8 3 (2.52%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (1.68%) Blackberry
9 2 (1.68%) Distributed Systems
9 2 (1.68%) FPGA
9 2 (1.68%) RSA SecurID
9 2 (1.68%) Virtual Team
10 1 (0.84%) Equities
10 1 (0.84%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 1 (0.84%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 119 (100.00%) Linux
2 41 (34.45%) Windows
3 32 (26.89%) CentOS
3 32 (26.89%) Unix
4 23 (19.33%) Windows Server
5 12 (10.08%) Debian
5 12 (10.08%) Windows Server 2019
6 11 (9.24%) Ubuntu
6 11 (9.24%) Windows Server 2016
7 8 (6.72%) Solaris
8 5 (4.20%) CoreOS
8 5 (4.20%) Windows Server 2012
9 3 (2.52%) AIX
9 3 (2.52%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (25.21%) ITIL
2 25 (21.01%) Problem-Solving
3 22 (18.49%) Change Management
4 18 (15.13%) DevOps
5 16 (13.45%) Infrastructure as Code
6 15 (12.61%) Low Latency
6 15 (12.61%) Release Management
6 15 (12.61%) User Acceptance Testing
7 14 (11.76%) Configuration Management
8 13 (10.92%) Root Cause Analysis
9 12 (10.08%) Agile
9 12 (10.08%) Concurrent Programming
9 12 (10.08%) Containerisation
9 12 (10.08%) Disaster Recovery
9 12 (10.08%) SOA
9 12 (10.08%) Systems Analysis
9 12 (10.08%) Unit Testing
10 11 (9.24%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 10 (8.40%) Collaborative Working
12 8 (6.72%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 67 (56.30%) Python
2 38 (31.93%) Bash
3 19 (15.97%) PowerShell
4 14 (11.76%) C++
4 14 (11.76%) Perl
5 11 (9.24%) SQL
6 9 (7.56%) PHP
7 8 (6.72%) Java
8 7 (5.88%) Korn
8 7 (5.88%) Shell Script
9 5 (4.20%) JavaScript
10 1 (0.84%) C#
10 1 (0.84%) Groovy
10 1 (0.84%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.84%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 22 (18.49%) Security Cleared
2 20 (16.81%) AWS Certification
2 20 (16.81%) Degree
3 19 (15.97%) ITIL Certification
4 16 (13.45%) DV Cleared
5 10 (8.40%) SC Cleared
6 3 (2.52%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (2.52%) RHCE
6 3 (2.52%) RHCSA
7 1 (0.84%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.84%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (21.01%) SLA
2 3 (2.52%) QA
3 2 (1.68%) Def Stans
4 1 (0.84%) ISO 20022
4 1 (0.84%) SEPA
System Software
1 32 (26.89%) VMware Infrastructure
2 19 (15.97%) Active Directory
3 10 (8.40%) Docker
3 10 (8.40%) vSphere
4 6 (5.04%) Hyper-V
5 5 (4.20%) Veritas Cluster Server
6 4 (3.36%) NFS
7 1 (0.84%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 1 (0.84%) Oracle RAC
7 1 (0.84%) Postfix
7 1 (0.84%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.84%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.84%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 45 (37.82%) Ansible
2 19 (15.97%) Kubernetes
3 15 (12.61%) Terraform
4 13 (10.92%) Puppet
5 6 (5.04%) McAfee ePO
5 6 (5.04%) Nagios
5 6 (5.04%) Progress Chef
5 6 (5.04%) SCVMM
5 6 (5.04%) WSUS
6 4 (3.36%) Podman
6 4 (3.36%) Red Hat Satellite
7 3 (2.52%) Data Guard
8 2 (1.68%) Grafana
8 2 (1.68%) Red Hat Spacewalk
8 2 (1.68%) SCOM
9 1 (0.84%) Oracle RMAN
9 1 (0.84%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.84%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 81 (68.07%) Red Hat
2 40 (33.61%) VMware
3 16 (13.45%) IBM
4 14 (11.76%) Oracle
5 10 (8.40%) McAfee
5 10 (8.40%) ServiceNow
6 7 (5.88%) Cisco
7 5 (4.20%) Atlassian
7 5 (4.20%) Google
7 5 (4.20%) NetApp
7 5 (4.20%) SaltStack
7 5 (4.20%) Symantec
8 4 (3.36%) Commvault
8 4 (3.36%) HP
8 4 (3.36%) Microsoft
8 4 (3.36%) Pure Storage
9 2 (1.68%) Dell
9 2 (1.68%) Mirantis
10 1 (0.84%) CyberArk
10 1 (0.84%) Delphix