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

6 months to
10 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 588 482 486
Rank change year-on-year -106 +4 -57
Permanent jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 174 156 274
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.17% 0.36% 0.42%
As % of the Operating Systems category 2.88% 2.66% 3.19%
Number of salaries quoted 114 107 198
10th Percentile £47,500 £46,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £60,313 £52,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% - +3.17%
75th Percentile £101,250 £82,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £94,000 £102,500
UK median annual salary £75,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +15.38% - +3.59%

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 6,052 5,860 8,590
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 5.83% 13.60% 13.20%
Number of salaries quoted 4,433 3,762 5,062
10th Percentile £28,000 £27,000 £28,000
25th Percentile £32,250 £31,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £41,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.76% -18.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £67,500 £63,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £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 10 October 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 10 October 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 -80 52 £75,000 -6.25% 77
North of England -21 47 £97,500 +50.00% 23
South East -54 35 £67,500 -2.17% 29
North West +7 31 £40,000 -33.33% 15
South West -56 23 £75,000 +33.33% 23
Yorkshire -28 9 £97,500 +50.00% 6
East of England -40 8 £48,750 +13.37% 17
Midlands -42 8 £75,000 +30.43% 9
North East -65 7 £97,500 +77.27% 2
East Midlands -36 5 £75,000 +30.43% 2
West Midlands -46 3 - - 7
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 (5.17%) Apache
2 8 (4.60%) Confluence
3 7 (4.02%) Apache Spark
3 7 (4.02%) OpenStack
4 2 (1.15%) JBoss
4 2 (1.15%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (1.15%) nginx
5 1 (0.57%) IIS
5 1 (0.57%) Oracle HTTP Server
5 1 (0.57%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 10 (5.75%) FLEXCUBE
2 1 (0.57%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.57%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 65 (37.36%) AWS
2 37 (21.26%) Azure
3 27 (15.52%) GitHub
4 16 (9.20%) OpenShift
5 10 (5.75%) Microsoft 365
6 9 (5.17%) Amazon EKS
7 7 (4.02%) AWS CloudFormation
7 7 (4.02%) AWS Lambda
7 7 (4.02%) GCP
7 7 (4.02%) Serverless
8 5 (2.87%) Entra ID
9 4 (2.30%) Amazon EC2
9 4 (2.30%) Amazon S3
9 4 (2.30%) Azure DevOps
9 4 (2.30%) Azure Stack
9 4 (2.30%) IaaS
9 4 (2.30%) Nutanix
9 4 (2.30%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 3 (1.72%) Azure AKS
10 3 (1.72%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 29 (16.67%) DNS
2 21 (12.07%) Firewall
3 17 (9.77%) SAN
4 12 (6.90%) LAN
4 12 (6.90%) TCP/IP
5 8 (4.60%) WAN
6 7 (4.02%) AMQP
6 7 (4.02%) HTTP
7 6 (3.45%) DHCP
8 5 (2.87%) Remote Desktop
8 5 (2.87%) VSAN
9 4 (2.30%) iSCSI
9 4 (2.30%) Kerberos
9 4 (2.30%) NAS
9 4 (2.30%) NetScaler
9 4 (2.30%) SSL
9 4 (2.30%) Wireshark
10 3 (1.72%) VoIP
11 2 (1.15%) VPN
11 2 (1.15%) VRRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (7.47%) Oracle Database
2 11 (6.32%) SQL Server
3 10 (5.75%) Big Data
4 9 (5.17%) Hadoop
5 7 (4.02%) Cloudera CDH
5 7 (4.02%) MongoDB
6 4 (2.30%) MySQL
7 3 (1.72%) Elasticsearch
7 3 (1.72%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (1.15%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (1.15%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (1.15%) Power BI
9 1 (0.57%) GIS
9 1 (0.57%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 41 (23.56%) Git
2 37 (21.26%) GitLab
3 33 (18.97%) Jenkins
4 26 (14.94%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 10 (5.75%) JIRA
6 3 (1.72%) Bitbucket
7 2 (1.15%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.57%) Eclipse
8 1 (0.57%) Maven
8 1 (0.57%) Robot Framework
8 1 (0.57%) Selenium
8 1 (0.57%) TeamCity
General
1 63 (36.21%) Social Skills
2 33 (18.97%) Finance
3 30 (17.24%) Public Sector
4 23 (13.22%) Analytical Skills
5 19 (10.92%) Aerospace
6 14 (8.05%) Banking
7 8 (4.60%) Documentation Skills
8 6 (3.45%) Manufacturing
9 5 (2.87%) Organisational Skills
10 4 (2.30%) Influencing Skills
10 4 (2.30%) Military
11 3 (1.72%) Retail
11 3 (1.72%) Telecoms
12 2 (1.15%) Front Office
13 1 (0.57%) Law
13 1 (0.57%) Police
Job Titles
1 32 (18.39%) Senior
2 31 (17.82%) DevOps Engineer
3 27 (15.52%) Administrator
4 26 (14.94%) Principal DevOps Engineer
4 26 (14.94%) Principal Engineer
5 22 (12.64%) Systems Administrator
6 18 (10.34%) Linux Engineer
7 12 (6.90%) DBA
7 12 (6.90%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 11 (6.32%) Architect
8 11 (6.32%) Linux Administrator
9 10 (5.75%) Applications Architect
9 10 (5.75%) Linux Systems Administrator
9 10 (5.75%) Oracle DBA
9 10 (5.75%) Senior DBA
9 10 (5.75%) Senior Oracle DBA
9 10 (5.75%) Software Engineer
10 8 (4.60%) Consultant
10 8 (4.60%) Lead
10 8 (4.60%) Senior Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 62 (35.63%) Terraform
2 15 (8.62%) LDAP
3 14 (8.05%) Regular Expression
4 13 (7.47%) XMPP
5 8 (4.60%) RabbitMQ
5 8 (4.60%) React
6 7 (4.02%) AngularJS
6 7 (4.02%) gRPC
6 7 (4.02%) Material-UI
6 7 (4.02%) Node.js
6 7 (4.02%) OpenAPI
6 7 (4.02%) REST
6 7 (4.02%) Spring
6 7 (4.02%) Spring Boot
6 7 (4.02%) Swagger
7 5 (2.87%) ARM Templates
7 5 (2.87%) JSON
8 4 (2.30%) JSON Schema
8 4 (2.30%) WebSockets
8 4 (2.30%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 43 (24.71%) Cloud Native
2 11 (6.32%) Data Centre
3 10 (5.75%) PKI
4 7 (4.02%) Replication
4 7 (4.02%) Social Media
5 6 (3.45%) Onboarding
6 5 (2.87%) Manufacturing Execution System
6 5 (2.87%) Operational Technology
6 5 (2.87%) Security Posture
7 4 (2.30%) Clustering
7 4 (2.30%) Enterprise Cloud
7 4 (2.30%) Hybrid Cloud
8 3 (1.72%) Management Information System
8 3 (1.72%) Private Cloud
9 2 (1.15%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (1.15%) Enterprise Storage
9 2 (1.15%) Fixed Income
9 2 (1.15%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 2 (1.15%) Public Cloud
10 1 (0.57%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 174 (100.00%) Linux
2 66 (37.93%) Windows
3 58 (33.33%) CentOS
4 57 (32.76%) Windows Server
5 24 (13.79%) Unix
6 19 (10.92%) AIX
7 18 (10.34%) Ubuntu
8 17 (9.77%) Rocky
9 13 (7.47%) Debian
10 12 (6.90%) Windows Server 2019
11 10 (5.75%) Oracle Linux
12 5 (2.87%) CoreOS
12 5 (2.87%) OpenVMS
12 5 (2.87%) Windows Server 2016
13 2 (1.15%) Amazon Linux
13 2 (1.15%) Solaris
14 1 (0.57%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (39.66%) DevOps
2 58 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 49 (28.16%) Infrastructure as Code
4 40 (22.99%) Platform Engineering
4 40 (22.99%) Technical Leadership
5 37 (21.26%) ITIL
5 37 (21.26%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 33 (18.97%) Microservices
7 31 (17.82%) Configuration Management
8 27 (15.52%) Cybersecurity
9 25 (14.37%) Continuous Improvement
9 25 (14.37%) Problem-Solving
10 24 (13.79%) Agile
10 24 (13.79%) High Availability
10 24 (13.79%) SIEM
10 24 (13.79%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 23 (13.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 21 (12.07%) Roadmaps
13 19 (10.92%) Containerisation
14 17 (9.77%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 51 (29.31%) Bash
2 49 (28.16%) Python
3 25 (14.37%) PowerShell
4 23 (13.22%) SQL
5 22 (12.64%) Shell Script
6 20 (11.49%) Java
7 14 (8.05%) Korn
8 11 (6.32%) PL/SQL
9 10 (5.75%) JavaScript
10 4 (2.30%) PHP
11 3 (1.72%) Bicep
11 3 (1.72%) Go
11 3 (1.72%) Perl
12 1 (0.57%) C#
12 1 (0.57%) C++
Qualifications
1 94 (54.02%) Security Cleared
2 64 (36.78%) DV Cleared
3 49 (28.16%) SC Cleared
4 16 (9.20%) Degree
5 9 (5.17%) Cisco Certification
6 7 (4.02%) Microsoft Certification
7 6 (3.45%) CISSP
7 6 (3.45%) RHCSA
8 5 (2.87%) BPSS Clearance
8 5 (2.87%) CCNA
9 4 (2.30%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 4 (2.30%) Azure Certification
9 4 (2.30%) CCSP
9 4 (2.30%) CISM
9 4 (2.30%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 3 (1.72%) Dell Certification
10 3 (1.72%) ITIL Certification
10 3 (1.72%) MCSA
10 3 (1.72%) MCSE
11 2 (1.15%) IBM AIX Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.30%) GDPR
1 4 (2.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (2.30%) NIST
1 4 (2.30%) Sarbanes-Oxley
1 4 (2.30%) SLA
2 1 (0.57%) Accessibility
2 1 (0.57%) QA
System Software
1 54 (31.03%) Docker
2 38 (21.84%) Active Directory
3 26 (14.94%) VMware Infrastructure
3 26 (14.94%) vSphere
4 14 (8.05%) Virtual Machines
5 13 (7.47%) Hyper-V
6 11 (6.32%) Oracle RAC
7 8 (4.60%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (1.15%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 2 (1.15%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 2 (1.15%) Xen
9 1 (0.57%) NFS
9 1 (0.57%) Samba
9 1 (0.57%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.57%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 73 (41.95%) Ansible
2 60 (34.48%) Kubernetes
3 27 (15.52%) Puppet
4 22 (12.64%) Nagios
5 12 (6.90%) Data Guard
5 12 (6.90%) Oracle RMAN
6 9 (5.17%) Podman
7 7 (4.02%) ZABBIX
8 5 (2.87%) McAfee ePO
8 5 (2.87%) NetBackup
8 5 (2.87%) Red Hat Satellite
8 5 (2.87%) SCVMM
9 4 (2.30%) Docker Swarm
9 4 (2.30%) Grafana
9 4 (2.30%) Nessus
9 4 (2.30%) Prometheus
9 4 (2.30%) SCOM
9 4 (2.30%) vRealize
10 3 (1.72%) WSUS
11 2 (1.15%) Rancher
Vendors
1 100 (57.47%) Red Hat
2 45 (25.86%) VMware
3 31 (17.82%) Microsoft
4 20 (11.49%) Oracle
5 15 (8.62%) McAfee
6 12 (6.90%) IBM
6 12 (6.90%) NetApp
7 11 (6.32%) Splunk
8 8 (4.60%) Citrix
9 7 (4.02%) Google
9 7 (4.02%) SaltStack
9 7 (4.02%) SolarWinds
9 7 (4.02%) Veeam
10 6 (3.45%) ServiceNow
11 5 (2.87%) Cisco
11 5 (2.87%) Dell
12 4 (2.30%) HP
12 4 (2.30%) Ivanti
12 4 (2.30%) Qualys
12 4 (2.30%) Rapid7