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

6 months to
17 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 550 490 519
Rank change year-on-year -60 +29 -9
Permanent jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 183 164 334
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.21% 0.38% 0.39%
As % of the Operating Systems category 3.24% 2.52% 2.84%
Number of salaries quoted 154 125 252
10th Percentile £46,250 £51,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £53,750 £56,250 £42,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £70,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +21.74% -8.37%
75th Percentile £77,500 £81,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £101,250 £100,000 £102,097
UK median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -3.57% +21.74% -8.00%

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 5,650 6,506 11,747
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 6.44% 15.02% 13.69%
Number of salaries quoted 4,307 4,320 9,070
10th Percentile £28,000 £27,000 £26,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £31,500 £31,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £42,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -6.67% -14.29%
75th Percentile £67,500 £63,750 £62,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £81,250 £81,250
UK median annual salary £45,000 £42,500 £46,000
% change year-on-year +5.88% -7.61% -12.38%

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 17 July 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 17 July 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 -29 70 £65,000 -18.75% 8
South East -10 55 £67,500 +9.76% 9
North of England -19 32 £65,000 - 11
North West +10 24 £47,500 -36.56% 8
South West -41 15 £75,000 +20.00% 10
Midlands -34 6 £75,000 +30.43% 4
East of England -13 5 £55,000 -16.98% 2
East Midlands -14 5 £75,000 +30.43% 1
Yorkshire -44 4 £97,500 +50.00% 2
North East -55 4 £97,500 +77.27% 1
West Midlands -22 1 - - 3
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 (10.38%) Microsoft Exchange
2 9 (4.92%) Confluence
3 8 (4.37%) Apache
4 7 (3.83%) SharePoint
5 6 (3.28%) OpenStack
6 4 (2.19%) Apache Spark
7 2 (1.09%) CMS
7 2 (1.09%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (0.55%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 12 (6.56%) FLEXCUBE
Cloud Services
1 55 (30.05%) AWS
2 37 (20.22%) Azure
3 17 (9.29%) GitHub
4 15 (8.20%) Microsoft 365
5 9 (4.92%) AWS CloudFormation
6 7 (3.83%) Azure Stack
7 6 (3.28%) Amazon EKS
7 6 (3.28%) AWS Lambda
7 6 (3.28%) Datadog
7 6 (3.28%) Serverless
8 5 (2.73%) GCP
8 5 (2.73%) OpenShift
8 5 (2.73%) SaaS
9 4 (2.19%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 4 (2.19%) Amazon EC2
9 4 (2.19%) Amazon S3
9 4 (2.19%) Nutanix
9 4 (2.19%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 3 (1.64%) CloudFront
10 3 (1.64%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 53 (28.96%) DNS
2 38 (20.77%) Firewall
3 32 (17.49%) SAN
4 18 (9.84%) LAN
5 15 (8.20%) TCP/IP
6 13 (7.10%) HTTP
7 11 (6.01%) Remote Desktop
8 10 (5.46%) iSCSI
8 10 (5.46%) WAN
9 9 (4.92%) NAS
10 8 (4.37%) NetScaler
10 8 (4.37%) Wireshark
11 5 (2.73%) DHCP
12 4 (2.19%) AMQP
12 4 (2.19%) Kerberos
12 4 (2.19%) VSAN
13 3 (1.64%) VoIP
13 3 (1.64%) VPN
14 2 (1.09%) Network Security
14 2 (1.09%) PBX
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (8.20%) SQL Server
2 12 (6.56%) Oracle Database
3 8 (4.37%) MySQL
3 8 (4.37%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (3.83%) MongoDB
5 6 (3.28%) Elasticsearch
5 6 (3.28%) Hadoop
6 4 (2.19%) Amazon RDS
6 4 (2.19%) Big Data
6 4 (2.19%) Cloudera CDH
7 1 (0.55%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 35 (19.13%) Git
2 25 (13.66%) GitLab
3 21 (11.48%) Jenkins
4 18 (9.84%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 14 (7.65%) JIRA
6 2 (1.09%) Artifactory
6 2 (1.09%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.55%) git-flow
7 1 (0.55%) Maven
7 1 (0.55%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 68 (37.16%) Social Skills
2 35 (19.13%) Finance
3 27 (14.75%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (11.48%) Banking
5 17 (9.29%) Public Sector
6 12 (6.56%) Documentation Skills
6 12 (6.56%) Organisational Skills
7 10 (5.46%) Aerospace
8 5 (2.73%) Manufacturing
9 4 (2.19%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (2.19%) Mandarin Language
10 3 (1.64%) Front Office
10 3 (1.64%) Military
11 2 (1.09%) Advertising
11 2 (1.09%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.55%) Law
12 1 (0.55%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.55%) Retail
Job Titles
1 30 (16.39%) Senior
2 28 (15.30%) Linux Engineer
3 23 (12.57%) Administrator
4 20 (10.93%) Applications Architect
4 20 (10.93%) Architect
5 19 (10.38%) DevOps Engineer
5 19 (10.38%) Systems Administrator
6 14 (7.65%) Lead
6 14 (7.65%) Principal DevOps Engineer
6 14 (7.65%) Principal Engineer
6 14 (7.65%) Security Architect
7 13 (7.10%) Support Engineer
8 12 (6.56%) DBA
8 12 (6.56%) Oracle DBA
8 12 (6.56%) Senior DBA
8 12 (6.56%) Senior Oracle DBA
9 11 (6.01%) Linux Administrator
10 10 (5.46%) Linux Support
10 10 (5.46%) Linux Support Engineer
10 10 (5.46%) Linux Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (12.57%) LDAP
1 23 (12.57%) Regular Expression
2 19 (10.38%) XMPP
3 8 (4.37%) WebSockets
4 7 (3.83%) ARM Templates
4 7 (3.83%) JSON
4 7 (3.83%) JSON Schema
4 7 (3.83%) XML
5 4 (2.19%) gRPC
5 4 (2.19%) Material-UI
5 4 (2.19%) Middleware
5 4 (2.19%) Node.js
5 4 (2.19%) OpenAPI
5 4 (2.19%) RabbitMQ
5 4 (2.19%) React
5 4 (2.19%) REST
5 4 (2.19%) Spring
5 4 (2.19%) Spring Boot
5 4 (2.19%) Swagger
5 4 (2.19%) web3js
Miscellaneous
1 30 (16.39%) Cloud Native
2 18 (9.84%) PKI
3 17 (9.29%) Data Centre
4 14 (7.65%) Management Information System
5 6 (3.28%) Enterprise Storage
5 6 (3.28%) Security Posture
6 5 (2.73%) Hybrid Cloud
6 5 (2.73%) Manufacturing Execution System
6 5 (2.73%) Operational Technology
7 4 (2.19%) Blockchain
7 4 (2.19%) Onboarding
7 4 (2.19%) Replication
7 4 (2.19%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (2.19%) Web3
8 3 (1.64%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (1.64%) Fixed Income
8 3 (1.64%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 2 (1.09%) Enterprise Cloud
10 1 (0.55%) Linux Command Line
10 1 (0.55%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 183 (100.00%) Linux
2 75 (40.98%) Windows
3 68 (37.16%) Windows Server
4 50 (27.32%) CentOS
5 26 (14.21%) Unix
6 21 (11.48%) Ubuntu
7 17 (9.29%) AIX
8 12 (6.56%) Oracle Linux
9 11 (6.01%) Debian
9 11 (6.01%) Windows Server 2019
10 7 (3.83%) Rocky
11 5 (2.73%) OpenVMS
12 4 (2.19%) CoreOS
12 4 (2.19%) Windows Server 2016
13 3 (1.64%) VMS
14 2 (1.09%) Amazon Linux
14 2 (1.09%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (36.07%) DevOps
2 53 (28.96%) CI/CD
3 42 (22.95%) Problem-Solving
3 42 (22.95%) SIEM
4 37 (20.22%) Infrastructure as Code
5 36 (19.67%) ITIL
6 35 (19.13%) Platform Engineering
7 34 (18.58%) High Availability
8 30 (16.39%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 28 (15.30%) Configuration Management
9 28 (15.30%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 27 (14.75%) Technical Leadership
11 24 (13.11%) Cybersecurity
12 23 (12.57%) Continuous Improvement
13 22 (12.02%) Disaster Recovery
14 20 (10.93%) Agile
14 20 (10.93%) Observability
15 19 (10.38%) Incident Response
15 19 (10.38%) Validation
16 18 (9.84%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 53 (28.96%) Bash
2 49 (26.78%) Python
3 32 (17.49%) SQL
4 31 (16.94%) PowerShell
5 20 (10.93%) Shell Script
6 18 (9.84%) Korn
7 15 (8.20%) Java
8 12 (6.56%) PHP
8 12 (6.56%) PL/SQL
9 6 (3.28%) JavaScript
10 5 (2.73%) Perl
11 2 (1.09%) C
12 1 (0.55%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 82 (44.81%) Security Cleared
2 57 (31.15%) DV Cleared
3 30 (16.39%) SC Cleared
4 21 (11.48%) Degree
5 11 (6.01%) RHCSA
6 7 (3.83%) Cisco Certification
7 5 (2.73%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (2.19%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 4 (2.19%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (2.19%) CCSP
8 4 (2.19%) CISM
8 4 (2.19%) CISSP
8 4 (2.19%) Postgraduate
8 4 (2.19%) RHCE
9 3 (1.64%) CCNA
9 3 (1.64%) MCSE
10 2 (1.09%) Azure Certification
10 2 (1.09%) Dell Certification
10 2 (1.09%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 2 (1.09%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (2.73%) NIST
1 5 (2.73%) SLA
2 4 (2.19%) GDPR
2 4 (2.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (2.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 56 (30.60%) Active Directory
2 49 (26.78%) Docker
3 38 (20.77%) vSphere
4 33 (18.03%) VMware Infrastructure
5 12 (6.56%) Hyper-V
5 12 (6.56%) Oracle RAC
6 8 (4.37%) Citrix Hypervisor
7 5 (2.73%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 5 (2.73%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (1.09%) Samba
8 2 (1.09%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (1.09%) Xen
9 1 (0.55%) KVM
Systems Management
1 62 (33.88%) Kubernetes
2 51 (27.87%) Ansible
2 51 (27.87%) Terraform
3 28 (15.30%) Nagios
4 21 (11.48%) Puppet
5 12 (6.56%) Data Guard
5 12 (6.56%) Oracle RMAN
6 9 (4.92%) WSUS
6 9 (4.92%) ZABBIX
7 7 (3.83%) Grafana
7 7 (3.83%) Podman
8 5 (2.73%) Docker Swarm
8 5 (2.73%) Prometheus
8 5 (2.73%) Red Hat Satellite
9 4 (2.19%) Argo
9 4 (2.19%) McAfee ePO
9 4 (2.19%) SCVMM
10 2 (1.09%) FlexNet
10 2 (1.09%) NetBackup
10 2 (1.09%) Rancher
Vendors
1 111 (60.66%) Red Hat
2 67 (36.61%) VMware
3 40 (21.86%) Microsoft
4 26 (14.21%) McAfee
5 17 (9.29%) Oracle
6 13 (7.10%) Splunk
7 12 (6.56%) IBM
7 12 (6.56%) NetApp
8 10 (5.46%) Dell
9 9 (4.92%) SolarWinds
10 8 (4.37%) Citrix
11 6 (3.28%) ServiceNow
12 5 (2.73%) Google
12 5 (2.73%) Veeam
13 4 (2.19%) CyberArk
13 4 (2.19%) Ivanti
13 4 (2.19%) Qualys
13 4 (2.19%) Rapid7
13 4 (2.19%) SaltStack
13 4 (2.19%) Veracode