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

6 months to
17 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 540 475 538
Rank change year-on-year -65 +63 -12
Permanent jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 162 158 327
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.19% 0.40% 0.34%
As % of the Operating Systems category 3.11% 2.55% 2.58%
Number of salaries quoted 136 125 244
10th Percentile £46,250 £52,500 £38,792
25th Percentile £51,250 £56,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +22.73% -15.38%
75th Percentile £72,813 £80,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £78,125 £96,250 £102,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,250 £55,000
% change year-on-year -1.89% +20.45% -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 5,214 6,186 12,698
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 6.27% 15.64% 13.39%
Number of salaries quoted 3,973 3,993 9,865
10th Percentile £27,705 £27,000 £25,925
25th Percentile £31,250 £31,750 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £42,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -5.56% -14.29%
75th Percentile £67,750 £65,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £81,250 £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 17 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 17 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 -39 67 £60,000 -22.58% 12
South East -1 52 £67,500 +11.57% 17
North of England -33 22 £43,750 -37.50% 7
North West +11 21 £40,000 -46.57% 5
South West -41 16 £75,000 +20.00% 14
East of England -21 2 £56,250 -8.16% 5
Midlands -27 2 £75,000 +30.43% 6
East Midlands -31 2 £75,000 +30.43% 4
Yorkshire -53 1 £97,500 +50.00% 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 19 (11.73%) Microsoft Exchange
2 11 (6.79%) Apache
3 7 (4.32%) Confluence
3 7 (4.32%) SharePoint
4 6 (3.70%) Apache Spark
5 4 (2.47%) OpenStack
6 3 (1.85%) CMS
6 3 (1.85%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (0.62%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 9 (5.56%) FLEXCUBE
Cloud Services
1 43 (26.54%) AWS
2 36 (22.22%) Azure
3 13 (8.02%) Microsoft 365
4 11 (6.79%) AWS CloudFormation
5 8 (4.94%) Amazon EKS
5 8 (4.94%) AWS Lambda
5 8 (4.94%) Serverless
6 7 (4.32%) Azure Stack
6 7 (4.32%) GCP
6 7 (4.32%) OpenShift
6 7 (4.32%) SaaS
7 6 (3.70%) Datadog
8 5 (3.09%) GitHub
9 4 (2.47%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 4 (2.47%) Amazon EC2
9 4 (2.47%) Amazon S3
9 4 (2.47%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 3 (1.85%) CloudFront
10 3 (1.85%) GitHub Actions
10 3 (1.85%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 54 (33.33%) DNS
2 35 (21.60%) Firewall
3 30 (18.52%) SAN
4 19 (11.73%) LAN
5 16 (9.88%) TCP/IP
6 15 (9.26%) HTTP
7 11 (6.79%) WAN
8 10 (6.17%) iSCSI
8 10 (6.17%) Remote Desktop
9 9 (5.56%) NAS
10 8 (4.94%) NetScaler
10 8 (4.94%) Wireshark
11 6 (3.70%) AMQP
12 5 (3.09%) DHCP
13 4 (2.47%) VSAN
14 3 (1.85%) VoIP
14 3 (1.85%) VPN
15 2 (1.23%) Kerberos
15 2 (1.23%) Network Security
15 2 (1.23%) PBX
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (8.64%) SQL Server
2 9 (5.56%) MySQL
2 9 (5.56%) Oracle Database
2 9 (5.56%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (4.94%) Hadoop
4 6 (3.70%) Big Data
4 6 (3.70%) Cloudera CDH
4 6 (3.70%) Elasticsearch
4 6 (3.70%) MongoDB
5 4 (2.47%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.62%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.62%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.62%) SAP HANA
6 1 (0.62%) Sybase ASE
6 1 (0.62%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 23 (14.20%) Git
2 13 (8.02%) GitLab
3 12 (7.41%) JIRA
4 7 (4.32%) Jenkins
5 6 (3.70%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 2 (1.23%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.62%) git-flow
7 1 (0.62%) Maven
7 1 (0.62%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 53 (32.72%) Social Skills
2 33 (20.37%) Finance
3 22 (13.58%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (11.11%) Banking
5 12 (7.41%) Organisational Skills
6 10 (6.17%) Documentation Skills
7 9 (5.56%) Aerospace
8 5 (3.09%) Public Sector
9 4 (2.47%) Front Office
9 4 (2.47%) Mandarin Language
10 3 (1.85%) Military
11 2 (1.23%) Advertising
11 2 (1.23%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (1.23%) Manufacturing
11 2 (1.23%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.62%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.62%) Retail
Job Titles
1 28 (17.28%) Linux Engineer
2 26 (16.05%) Administrator
3 25 (15.43%) Senior
4 20 (12.35%) Applications Architect
4 20 (12.35%) Architect
4 20 (12.35%) Systems Administrator
5 14 (8.64%) Security Architect
5 14 (8.64%) Support Engineer
6 13 (8.02%) Linux Administrator
7 12 (7.41%) Linux Support
7 12 (7.41%) Linux Support Engineer
8 11 (6.79%) Lead
9 10 (6.17%) DBA
9 10 (6.17%) Linux Systems Administrator
10 9 (5.56%) Oracle DBA
10 9 (5.56%) Senior DBA
10 9 (5.56%) Senior Linux Engineer
10 9 (5.56%) Senior Oracle DBA
11 8 (4.94%) DevOps Engineer
12 7 (4.32%) 3rd Line Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (13.58%) Regular Expression
2 20 (12.35%) LDAP
3 18 (11.11%) XMPP
4 8 (4.94%) WebSockets
5 7 (4.32%) ARM Templates
5 7 (4.32%) REST
6 6 (3.70%) AngularJS
6 6 (3.70%) gRPC
6 6 (3.70%) JSON
6 6 (3.70%) JSON Schema
6 6 (3.70%) Material-UI
6 6 (3.70%) Node.js
6 6 (3.70%) OpenAPI
6 6 (3.70%) RabbitMQ
6 6 (3.70%) React
6 6 (3.70%) Spring
6 6 (3.70%) Spring Boot
6 6 (3.70%) Swagger
6 6 (3.70%) XML
7 5 (3.09%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 20 (12.35%) Cloud Native
2 17 (10.49%) Data Centre
2 17 (10.49%) PKI
3 14 (8.64%) Management Information System
4 6 (3.70%) Enterprise Storage
5 5 (3.09%) Hybrid Cloud
5 5 (3.09%) Operational Technology
5 5 (3.09%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (2.47%) Blockchain
6 4 (2.47%) Onboarding
6 4 (2.47%) Security Posture
6 4 (2.47%) Web3
7 3 (1.85%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (1.85%) Fixed Income
7 3 (1.85%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 3 (1.85%) Replication
8 2 (1.23%) Clustering
8 2 (1.23%) Enterprise Cloud
8 2 (1.23%) Manufacturing Execution System
9 1 (0.62%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 162 (100.00%) Linux
2 70 (43.21%) Windows
3 62 (38.27%) Windows Server
4 40 (24.69%) CentOS
5 24 (14.81%) Unix
6 22 (13.58%) Ubuntu
7 12 (7.41%) AIX
8 11 (6.79%) Windows Server 2019
9 10 (6.17%) Debian
10 9 (5.56%) Oracle Linux
11 4 (2.47%) CoreOS
11 4 (2.47%) Windows Server 2016
12 3 (1.85%) VMS
13 2 (1.23%) Amazon Linux
13 2 (1.23%) OpenVMS
13 2 (1.23%) Rocky
13 2 (1.23%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (31.48%) DevOps
2 41 (25.31%) SIEM
3 40 (24.69%) Problem-Solving
4 38 (23.46%) CI/CD
5 30 (18.52%) High Availability
5 30 (18.52%) ITIL
6 27 (16.67%) Configuration Management
6 27 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
7 23 (14.20%) Platform Engineering
8 21 (12.96%) Agile
8 21 (12.96%) Cybersecurity
8 21 (12.96%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 20 (12.35%) Disaster Recovery
10 19 (11.73%) Containerisation
11 18 (11.11%) Observability
11 18 (11.11%) Validation
12 17 (10.49%) Antivirus Management
12 17 (10.49%) Application Security
13 16 (9.88%) Pattern Matching
13 16 (9.88%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 49 (30.25%) Bash
1 49 (30.25%) Python
2 30 (18.52%) SQL
3 27 (16.67%) PowerShell
4 17 (10.49%) Shell Script
5 16 (9.88%) Korn
6 15 (9.26%) Java
6 15 (9.26%) PHP
7 9 (5.56%) PL/SQL
8 8 (4.94%) JavaScript
8 8 (4.94%) Perl
9 2 (1.23%) C
10 1 (0.62%) C++
10 1 (0.62%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 63 (38.89%) Security Cleared
2 44 (27.16%) DV Cleared
3 20 (12.35%) Degree
4 15 (9.26%) SC Cleared
5 11 (6.79%) RHCSA
6 5 (3.09%) Cisco Certification
6 5 (3.09%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (2.47%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (2.47%) Postgraduate
7 4 (2.47%) RHCE
8 3 (1.85%) CCNA
8 3 (1.85%) MCSE
9 2 (1.23%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 2 (1.23%) Azure Certification
9 2 (1.23%) CCSP
9 2 (1.23%) CISM
9 2 (1.23%) CISSP
9 2 (1.23%) Dell Certification
9 2 (1.23%) MCSA
10 1 (0.62%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.09%) SLA
2 3 (1.85%) NIST
3 2 (1.23%) GDPR
3 2 (1.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 50 (30.86%) Active Directory
2 37 (22.84%) vSphere
3 35 (21.60%) Docker
4 34 (20.99%) VMware Infrastructure
5 12 (7.41%) Hyper-V
6 9 (5.56%) Oracle RAC
7 8 (4.94%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 4 (2.47%) Virtual Machines
9 3 (1.85%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 2 (1.23%) Samba
10 2 (1.23%) VMware ESXi
11 1 (0.62%) KVM
Systems Management
1 49 (30.25%) Kubernetes
2 40 (24.69%) Terraform
3 38 (23.46%) Ansible
4 25 (15.43%) Nagios
5 21 (12.96%) Puppet
6 9 (5.56%) Data Guard
6 9 (5.56%) Oracle RMAN
6 9 (5.56%) WSUS
7 7 (4.32%) Podman
8 5 (3.09%) Docker Swarm
8 5 (3.09%) Grafana
8 5 (3.09%) ZABBIX
9 4 (2.47%) Argo
9 4 (2.47%) McAfee ePO
9 4 (2.47%) SCVMM
10 3 (1.85%) Prometheus
10 3 (1.85%) Red Hat Satellite
11 1 (0.62%) Packer
11 1 (0.62%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.62%) SCCM
Vendors
1 106 (65.43%) Red Hat
2 67 (41.36%) VMware
3 38 (23.46%) Microsoft
4 25 (15.43%) McAfee
5 13 (8.02%) Oracle
6 11 (6.79%) Splunk
7 10 (6.17%) Dell
8 9 (5.56%) IBM
8 9 (5.56%) SolarWinds
9 8 (4.94%) Citrix
9 8 (4.94%) NetApp
10 7 (4.32%) Google
11 6 (3.70%) SaltStack
12 4 (2.47%) ServiceNow
13 3 (1.85%) Pure Storage
13 3 (1.85%) Veeam
14 2 (1.23%) Fujitsu
14 2 (1.23%) Ivanti
14 2 (1.23%) OpenText
14 2 (1.23%) Tenable