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

6 months to
18 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 525 468 497
Rank change year-on-year -57 +29 -9
Permanent jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 125 156 295
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.19% 0.41% 0.39%
As % of the Operating Systems category 2.62% 2.62% 2.58%
Number of salaries quoted 97 112 220
10th Percentile £46,250 £52,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £58,125 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £70,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +27.27% -15.38%
75th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £125,000 £99,625 £102,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £70,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -17.86% +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 4,770 5,951 11,434
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 7.20% 15.51% 15.30%
Number of salaries quoted 3,618 4,012 9,623
10th Percentile £27,000 £27,500 £25,759
25th Percentile £31,250 £35,000 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,000 £46,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +7.53% -11.43%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,063 £62,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £90,000 £81,250
UK median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £46,534
% change year-on-year -10.00% +7.45% -11.36%

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 18 March 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 18 March 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 0 74 £75,000 -6.25% 12
South East +4 34 £52,500 -12.50% 15
South West -30 8 £57,500 -20.13% 6
North West -15 7 £55,000 -26.54% 9
North of England -54 7 £55,000 -21.43% 21
East of England -33 1 £70,000 +16.67% 1
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 13 (10.40%) Tomcat
2 12 (9.60%) Apache
3 11 (8.80%) Microsoft Exchange
4 8 (6.40%) SharePoint
4 8 (6.40%) WebSphere
5 7 (5.60%) WebSphere Application Server
6 6 (4.80%) Confluence
7 5 (4.00%) Apache Spark
7 5 (4.00%) IIS
8 3 (2.40%) CMS
8 3 (2.40%) WordPress
9 2 (1.60%) nginx
9 2 (1.60%) OpenStack
Business Applications
1 3 (2.40%) FLEXCUBE
2 1 (0.80%) Oracle 11i
2 1 (0.80%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.80%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.80%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 31 (24.80%) AWS
2 23 (18.40%) Azure
3 14 (11.20%) SaaS
4 12 (9.60%) OpenShift
5 8 (6.40%) Amazon EKS
5 8 (6.40%) AWS CloudFormation
5 8 (6.40%) AWS Lambda
5 8 (6.40%) Serverless
6 6 (4.80%) GCP
7 3 (2.40%) Amazon EC2
7 3 (2.40%) Amazon S3
7 3 (2.40%) Azure Stack
7 3 (2.40%) Microsoft 365
7 3 (2.40%) Route 53
8 2 (1.60%) Amazon ECR
8 2 (1.60%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (1.60%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 1 (0.80%) Datadog
9 1 (0.80%) OCI
9 1 (0.80%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 42 (33.60%) DNS
2 18 (14.40%) Firewall
2 18 (14.40%) SAN
3 16 (12.80%) LAN
4 15 (12.00%) HTTP
4 15 (12.00%) TCP/IP
5 12 (9.60%) Multicast
6 11 (8.80%) WAN
7 8 (6.40%) SSL
8 7 (5.60%) DHCP
8 7 (5.60%) NAS
9 5 (4.00%) AMQP
9 5 (4.00%) VSAN
10 4 (3.20%) NetScaler
10 4 (3.20%) Wireshark
11 3 (2.40%) iSCSI
11 3 (2.40%) Remote Desktop
11 3 (2.40%) SNMP
11 3 (2.40%) VPN
12 2 (1.60%) PBX
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (11.20%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (10.40%) SQL Server
3 8 (6.40%) DB2
4 7 (5.60%) Oracle Database
5 6 (4.80%) Big Data
5 6 (4.80%) MySQL
6 5 (4.00%) Cloudera CDH
6 5 (4.00%) Hadoop
7 4 (3.20%) MongoDB
8 3 (2.40%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.80%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.80%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (0.80%) Oracle Database 12c
9 1 (0.80%) Power BI
9 1 (0.80%) RDBMS
9 1 (0.80%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.80%) SAP HANA
9 1 (0.80%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (0.80%) Sybase ASE
9 1 (0.80%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 15 (12.00%) Git
2 9 (7.20%) GitLab
3 8 (6.40%) JIRA
4 6 (4.80%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 6 (4.80%) Bitbucket
4 6 (4.80%) Jenkins
General
1 37 (29.60%) Finance
2 35 (28.00%) Social Skills
3 16 (12.80%) Banking
4 13 (10.40%) Front Office
5 12 (9.60%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (5.60%) Organisational Skills
7 6 (4.80%) Documentation Skills
7 6 (4.80%) Presentation Skills
8 5 (4.00%) Aerospace
8 5 (4.00%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.60%) Advertising
10 1 (0.80%) Electronics
10 1 (0.80%) Mandarin Language
10 1 (0.80%) Military
10 1 (0.80%) Public Sector
10 1 (0.80%) Retail
Job Titles
1 29 (23.20%) Administrator
1 29 (23.20%) Linux Support
2 28 (22.40%) Linux Engineer
3 22 (17.60%) Linux Administrator
3 22 (17.60%) Support Engineer
4 19 (15.20%) Linux Support Engineer
5 13 (10.40%) C++ Developer
5 13 (10.40%) Developer
5 13 (10.40%) Senior
5 13 (10.40%) Systems Administrator
6 11 (8.80%) Infrastructure Support
7 10 (8.00%) Unix Support
8 9 (7.20%) Linux Systems Administrator
9 8 (6.40%) Applications Support
9 8 (6.40%) Linux Specialist
9 8 (6.40%) Support Specialist
10 7 (5.60%) 3rd Line Support
10 7 (5.60%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
10 7 (5.60%) Applications Architect
10 7 (5.60%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (11.20%) LDAP
2 12 (9.60%) FIX Protocol
3 7 (5.60%) LAPP Stack
3 7 (5.60%) Middleware
3 7 (5.60%) Regular Expression
3 7 (5.60%) WebSphere MQ
4 6 (4.80%) Kafka
4 6 (4.80%) REST
5 5 (4.00%) AngularJS
5 5 (4.00%) gRPC
5 5 (4.00%) Material-UI
5 5 (4.00%) Node.js
5 5 (4.00%) OpenAPI
5 5 (4.00%) RabbitMQ
5 5 (4.00%) React
5 5 (4.00%) Spring
5 5 (4.00%) Spring Boot
5 5 (4.00%) Swagger
5 5 (4.00%) WebSockets
6 3 (2.40%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 12 (9.60%) Data Centre
1 12 (9.60%) Derivative
2 11 (8.80%) Management Information System
2 11 (8.80%) PKI
3 9 (7.20%) Clustering
4 8 (6.40%) Linux Command Line
5 6 (4.80%) Cloud Native
5 6 (4.80%) Enterprise Storage
6 5 (4.00%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (3.20%) Hybrid Cloud
7 4 (3.20%) Onboarding
7 4 (3.20%) Replication
7 4 (3.20%) Video on Demand
7 4 (3.20%) Video\Live Streaming
8 2 (1.60%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (1.60%) FPGA
9 1 (0.80%) Blockchain
9 1 (0.80%) Equities
9 1 (0.80%) Security Posture
9 1 (0.80%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 125 (100.00%) Linux
2 46 (36.80%) Windows
3 39 (31.20%) CentOS
4 36 (28.80%) Windows Server
5 19 (15.20%) Unix
6 15 (12.00%) Ubuntu
7 10 (8.00%) Windows Server 2019
8 9 (7.20%) Windows Server 2016
9 7 (5.60%) Debian
10 5 (4.00%) Oracle Linux
10 5 (4.00%) Windows Server 2012
11 3 (2.40%) AIX
11 3 (2.40%) CoreOS
12 2 (1.60%) Solaris
13 1 (0.80%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (28.00%) Problem-Solving
2 27 (21.60%) DevOps
3 24 (19.20%) ITIL
4 21 (16.80%) Configuration Management
5 19 (15.20%) CI/CD
5 19 (15.20%) Infrastructure as Code
6 18 (14.40%) Agile
7 16 (12.80%) SIEM
8 15 (12.00%) Change Management
9 14 (11.20%) Disaster Recovery
10 13 (10.40%) High Availability
10 13 (10.40%) Low Latency
11 12 (9.60%) Concurrent Programming
11 12 (9.60%) SOA
11 12 (9.60%) Systems Analysis
11 12 (9.60%) Unit Testing
12 11 (8.80%) Containerisation
12 11 (8.80%) Migration
12 11 (8.80%) Platform Engineering
13 9 (7.20%) Performance Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 57 (45.60%) Python
2 38 (30.40%) Bash
3 23 (18.40%) PowerShell
4 20 (16.00%) SQL
5 18 (14.40%) Perl
6 14 (11.20%) PHP
7 13 (10.40%) C++
8 12 (9.60%) Shell Script
9 7 (5.60%) Java
10 5 (4.00%) JavaScript
10 5 (4.00%) Korn
11 3 (2.40%) PL/SQL
12 2 (1.60%) C
13 1 (0.80%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 30 (24.00%) Security Cleared
2 25 (20.00%) DV Cleared
3 13 (10.40%) AWS Certification
3 13 (10.40%) Degree
4 12 (9.60%) ITIL Certification
5 8 (6.40%) RHCSA
6 6 (4.80%) SC Cleared
7 3 (2.40%) RHCE
8 2 (1.60%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.80%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.80%) Linux+ Certification
9 1 (0.80%) Postgraduate
9 1 (0.80%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (11.20%) SLA
2 1 (0.80%) Def Stans
2 1 (0.80%) NIST
2 1 (0.80%) QA
System Software
1 33 (26.40%) VMware Infrastructure
2 30 (24.00%) Active Directory
3 21 (16.80%) vSphere
4 19 (15.20%) Docker
5 5 (4.00%) Hyper-V
5 5 (4.00%) Veritas Cluster Server
6 3 (2.40%) Citrix Hypervisor
6 3 (2.40%) Oracle RAC
7 2 (1.60%) Samba
8 1 (0.80%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 1 (0.80%) KVM
8 1 (0.80%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.80%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.80%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.80%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 40 (32.00%) Ansible
2 31 (24.80%) Kubernetes
3 17 (13.60%) Terraform
4 15 (12.00%) Nagios
5 12 (9.60%) Puppet
6 7 (5.60%) WSUS
7 5 (4.00%) Data Guard
8 4 (3.20%) McAfee ePO
8 4 (3.20%) Progress Chef
8 4 (3.20%) SCVMM
9 3 (2.40%) Grafana
9 3 (2.40%) Oracle RMAN
9 3 (2.40%) Podman
9 3 (2.40%) Red Hat Satellite
10 2 (1.60%) Prometheus
10 2 (1.60%) Red Hat Spacewalk
10 2 (1.60%) ZABBIX
11 1 (0.80%) Argo
11 1 (0.80%) Docker Swarm
11 1 (0.80%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 79 (63.20%) Red Hat
2 52 (41.60%) VMware
3 15 (12.00%) Oracle
4 13 (10.40%) McAfee
5 11 (8.80%) IBM
5 11 (8.80%) Microsoft
6 6 (4.80%) ServiceNow
7 5 (4.00%) Atlassian
7 5 (4.00%) Dell
7 5 (4.00%) Google
7 5 (4.00%) SaltStack
7 5 (4.00%) SolarWinds
7 5 (4.00%) Symantec
8 4 (3.20%) Citrix
8 4 (3.20%) NetApp
8 4 (3.20%) Splunk
9 3 (2.40%) Pure Storage
10 2 (1.60%) D-Link
10 2 (1.60%) HP
10 2 (1.60%) Mirantis