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

6 months to
10 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 577 469 461
Rank change year-on-year -108 -8 -20
Permanent jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 183 172 294
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.18% 0.40% 0.43%
As % of the Operating Systems category 3.04% 2.75% 3.33%
Number of salaries quoted 132 125 220
10th Percentile £47,192 £47,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £53,750 £40,827
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £67,500 £61,250
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% +10.20% -5.77%
75th Percentile £78,750 £81,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £101,250 £98,500 £95,347
UK median annual salary £70,000 £66,250 £62,500
% change year-on-year +5.66% +6.00% -3.85%

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 6,022 6,254 8,836
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 6.04% 14.38% 12.81%
Number of salaries quoted 4,533 4,078 5,648
10th Percentile £28,250 £27,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £32,000 £31,250 £35,750
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 £62,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £81,250 £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 September 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 September 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 -89 55 £75,000 -6.25% 42
South East -11 47 £67,500 +9.76% 19
North of England -26 46 £97,500 +50.00% 10
North West +16 34 £55,000 -26.54% 8
South West -65 21 £75,000 +25.00% 13
Midlands -48 7 £75,000 +30.43% 3
East of England -37 6 £48,750 +12.07% 21
Yorkshire -50 6 £97,500 +50.00% 1
North East -55 6 £97,500 +77.27% 1
East Midlands -25 5 £75,000 +30.43%
West Midlands -31 2 - - 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 10 (5.46%) OpenStack
2 9 (4.92%) Confluence
2 9 (4.92%) Microsoft Exchange
3 8 (4.37%) Apache
4 6 (3.28%) Apache Spark
5 2 (1.09%) JBoss
5 2 (1.09%) nginx
6 1 (0.55%) Oracle HTTP Server
6 1 (0.55%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (0.55%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 10 (5.46%) FLEXCUBE
2 1 (0.55%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.55%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 66 (36.07%) AWS
2 36 (19.67%) Azure
3 24 (13.11%) GitHub
4 13 (7.10%) Microsoft 365
4 13 (7.10%) OpenShift
5 11 (6.01%) AWS CloudFormation
6 8 (4.37%) Amazon EKS
6 8 (4.37%) AWS Lambda
6 8 (4.37%) Serverless
7 7 (3.83%) Datadog
7 7 (3.83%) GCP
8 5 (2.73%) Nutanix
9 4 (2.19%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 4 (2.19%) Amazon EC2
9 4 (2.19%) Amazon S3
9 4 (2.19%) Azure Stack
9 4 (2.19%) IaaS
9 4 (2.19%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 3 (1.64%) CloudFront
10 3 (1.64%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 35 (19.13%) DNS
2 29 (15.85%) Firewall
3 21 (11.48%) SAN
4 12 (6.56%) LAN
5 10 (5.46%) TCP/IP
6 8 (4.37%) Remote Desktop
6 8 (4.37%) WAN
7 7 (3.83%) iSCSI
8 6 (3.28%) AMQP
8 6 (3.28%) HTTP
8 6 (3.28%) NAS
8 6 (3.28%) NetScaler
8 6 (3.28%) Wireshark
9 5 (2.73%) DHCP
9 5 (2.73%) Kerberos
9 5 (2.73%) VSAN
10 3 (1.64%) SSL
10 3 (1.64%) VoIP
11 2 (1.09%) VPN
12 1 (0.55%) IPv4
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (8.20%) SQL Server
2 12 (6.56%) Oracle Database
3 8 (4.37%) Hadoop
3 8 (4.37%) MongoDB
4 7 (3.83%) Big Data
4 7 (3.83%) Elasticsearch
4 7 (3.83%) MySQL
5 6 (3.28%) Cloudera CDH
5 6 (3.28%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (2.19%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.55%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.55%) GIS
7 1 (0.55%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 37 (20.22%) Git
2 32 (17.49%) GitLab
3 31 (16.94%) Jenkins
4 25 (13.66%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 12 (6.56%) JIRA
6 3 (1.64%) Bitbucket
7 2 (1.09%) Artifactory
7 2 (1.09%) Maven
8 1 (0.55%) Eclipse
8 1 (0.55%) git-flow
8 1 (0.55%) Robot Framework
8 1 (0.55%) Selenium
8 1 (0.55%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.55%) TeamCity
General
1 67 (36.61%) Social Skills
2 31 (16.94%) Finance
3 24 (13.11%) Analytical Skills
3 24 (13.11%) Public Sector
4 14 (7.65%) Aerospace
4 14 (7.65%) Banking
5 9 (4.92%) Documentation Skills
6 8 (4.37%) Organisational Skills
7 6 (3.28%) Manufacturing
8 5 (2.73%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (2.19%) Mandarin Language
9 4 (2.19%) Military
10 3 (1.64%) Front Office
10 3 (1.64%) Telecoms
11 2 (1.09%) Advertising
11 2 (1.09%) Retail
12 1 (0.55%) Law
12 1 (0.55%) Police
Job Titles
1 29 (15.85%) DevOps Engineer
1 29 (15.85%) Senior
2 24 (13.11%) Administrator
2 24 (13.11%) Linux Engineer
3 21 (11.48%) Principal DevOps Engineer
3 21 (11.48%) Principal Engineer
4 19 (10.38%) Systems Administrator
5 18 (9.84%) Applications Architect
5 18 (9.84%) Architect
6 13 (7.10%) Lead
6 13 (7.10%) Security Architect
7 12 (6.56%) DBA
7 12 (6.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 10 (5.46%) Oracle DBA
8 10 (5.46%) Senior DBA
8 10 (5.46%) Senior Oracle DBA
9 8 (4.37%) AIX Engineer
9 8 (4.37%) Linux Administrator
9 8 (4.37%) Software Engineer
10 7 (3.83%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (31.69%) Terraform
2 22 (12.02%) LDAP
3 21 (11.48%) Regular Expression
4 19 (10.38%) XMPP
5 7 (3.83%) RabbitMQ
5 7 (3.83%) React
6 6 (3.28%) AngularJS
6 6 (3.28%) gRPC
6 6 (3.28%) JSON
6 6 (3.28%) Material-UI
6 6 (3.28%) Node.js
6 6 (3.28%) OpenAPI
6 6 (3.28%) REST
6 6 (3.28%) Spring
6 6 (3.28%) Spring Boot
6 6 (3.28%) Swagger
7 5 (2.73%) JSON Schema
7 5 (2.73%) XML
8 4 (2.19%) ARM Templates
8 4 (2.19%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 38 (20.77%) Cloud Native
2 15 (8.20%) Data Centre
3 10 (5.46%) Management Information System
3 10 (5.46%) PKI
4 7 (3.83%) Replication
4 7 (3.83%) Social Media
5 6 (3.28%) Onboarding
5 6 (3.28%) Security Posture
6 5 (2.73%) Manufacturing Execution System
6 5 (2.73%) Operational Technology
7 4 (2.19%) Blockchain
7 4 (2.19%) Clustering
7 4 (2.19%) Web3
8 3 (1.64%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (1.64%) Enterprise Cloud
8 3 (1.64%) Fixed Income
8 3 (1.64%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 3 (1.64%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (1.09%) Private Cloud
9 2 (1.09%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 183 (100.00%) Linux
2 70 (38.25%) Windows
3 62 (33.88%) Windows Server
4 58 (31.69%) CentOS
5 26 (14.21%) Unix
6 19 (10.38%) AIX
7 18 (9.84%) Ubuntu
8 15 (8.20%) Debian
9 14 (7.65%) Rocky
10 12 (6.56%) Windows Server 2019
11 10 (5.46%) Oracle Linux
12 5 (2.73%) CoreOS
12 5 (2.73%) OpenVMS
12 5 (2.73%) Windows Server 2016
13 3 (1.64%) Solaris
13 3 (1.64%) VMS
14 2 (1.09%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (37.16%) DevOps
2 60 (32.79%) CI/CD
3 43 (23.50%) Infrastructure as Code
4 42 (22.95%) ITIL
5 41 (22.40%) Platform Engineering
6 34 (18.58%) Technical Leadership
7 33 (18.03%) High Availability
7 33 (18.03%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 31 (16.94%) Configuration Management
8 31 (16.94%) SIEM
9 28 (15.30%) Continuous Improvement
9 28 (15.30%) Cybersecurity
9 28 (15.30%) Problem-Solving
10 27 (14.75%) Microservices
11 26 (14.21%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 24 (13.11%) Agile
12 24 (13.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 22 (12.02%) Roadmaps
14 21 (11.48%) Containerisation
15 19 (10.38%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 53 (28.96%) Bash
2 52 (28.42%) Python
3 28 (15.30%) PowerShell
4 21 (11.48%) Java
4 21 (11.48%) SQL
5 20 (10.93%) Shell Script
6 17 (9.29%) Korn
7 11 (6.01%) PL/SQL
8 9 (4.92%) JavaScript
9 5 (2.73%) PHP
10 4 (2.19%) Perl
11 2 (1.09%) Go
12 1 (0.55%) C#
12 1 (0.55%) C++
12 1 (0.55%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 92 (50.27%) Security Cleared
2 62 (33.88%) DV Cleared
3 44 (24.04%) SC Cleared
4 22 (12.02%) Degree
5 8 (4.37%) Cisco Certification
6 6 (3.28%) Microsoft Certification
6 6 (3.28%) RHCSA
7 5 (2.73%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 5 (2.73%) BPSS Clearance
7 5 (2.73%) CCSP
7 5 (2.73%) CISM
7 5 (2.73%) CISSP
8 4 (2.19%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 4 (2.19%) Postgraduate
9 3 (1.64%) Azure Certification
9 3 (1.64%) CCNA
9 3 (1.64%) ITIL Certification
9 3 (1.64%) MCSA
9 3 (1.64%) MCSE
9 3 (1.64%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (2.73%) GDPR
1 5 (2.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 5 (2.73%) NIST
1 5 (2.73%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 4 (2.19%) SLA
3 1 (0.55%) QA
System Software
1 60 (32.79%) Docker
2 45 (24.59%) Active Directory
3 28 (15.30%) vSphere
4 23 (12.57%) VMware Infrastructure
5 13 (7.10%) Hyper-V
6 11 (6.01%) Oracle RAC
6 11 (6.01%) Virtual Machines
7 6 (3.28%) VMware ESXi
8 5 (2.73%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 5 (2.73%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 2 (1.09%) Xen
10 1 (0.55%) NFS
10 1 (0.55%) Samba
10 1 (0.55%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 71 (38.80%) Ansible
2 62 (33.88%) Kubernetes
3 29 (15.85%) Puppet
4 20 (10.93%) Nagios
5 12 (6.56%) Data Guard
5 12 (6.56%) Oracle RMAN
6 10 (5.46%) Podman
6 10 (5.46%) ZABBIX
7 7 (3.83%) Grafana
8 6 (3.28%) Red Hat Satellite
9 5 (2.73%) McAfee ePO
9 5 (2.73%) SCVMM
10 4 (2.19%) Argo
10 4 (2.19%) Docker Swarm
10 4 (2.19%) NetBackup
10 4 (2.19%) Prometheus
11 3 (1.64%) Nessus
11 3 (1.64%) SCOM
11 3 (1.64%) vRealize
11 3 (1.64%) WSUS
Vendors
1 112 (61.20%) Red Hat
2 49 (26.78%) VMware
3 37 (20.22%) Microsoft
4 20 (10.93%) McAfee
4 20 (10.93%) Oracle
5 12 (6.56%) IBM
5 12 (6.56%) NetApp
5 12 (6.56%) Splunk
6 9 (4.92%) Citrix
7 8 (4.37%) Dell
8 7 (3.83%) Google
8 7 (3.83%) ServiceNow
8 7 (3.83%) Veeam
9 6 (3.28%) SaltStack
10 5 (2.73%) CyberArk
10 5 (2.73%) Ivanti
10 5 (2.73%) Qualys
10 5 (2.73%) Rapid7
10 5 (2.73%) SolarWinds
10 5 (2.73%) Veracode