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

6 months to
20 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 477 494 442
Rank change year-on-year +17 -52 +13
Permanent jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 131 185 270
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.24% 0.39% 0.50%
As % of the Operating Systems category 2.92% 2.52% 3.23%
Number of salaries quoted 90 106 219
10th Percentile £42,750 £40,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £55,313 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,750 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.62% +8.33% -
75th Percentile £87,500 £84,063 £85,000
90th Percentile £125,000 £95,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £58,750 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.62% +8.33% -

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 4,480 7,352 8,353
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 8.32% 15.44% 15.54%
Number of salaries quoted 3,388 4,125 7,027
10th Percentile £27,000 £28,250 £26,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £36,250 £33,183
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £44,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £90,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £45,000 £50,048 £50,000
% change year-on-year -10.09% +0.10% -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 20 January 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 20 January 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 +62 84 £85,000 +3.03% 13
South East +12 15 £50,000 - 10
East of England +17 11 £43,500 -24.35% 1
South West -6 10 £57,500 -20.13% 6
North West +26 9 £57,500 +43.75% 2
North of England +1 9 £57,500 - 4
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 22 (16.79%) Tomcat
2 19 (14.50%) WebSphere
3 16 (12.21%) WebSphere Application Server
4 10 (7.63%) Apache
5 6 (4.58%) Microsoft Exchange
6 5 (3.82%) Apache Spark
6 5 (3.82%) Confluence
6 5 (3.82%) IIS
7 3 (2.29%) SharePoint
7 3 (2.29%) Skype for Business
8 2 (1.53%) JBoss
8 2 (1.53%) nginx
9 1 (0.76%) CMS
9 1 (0.76%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 1 (0.76%) Oracle 11i
1 1 (0.76%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.76%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (0.76%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 49 (37.40%) AWS
2 20 (15.27%) Azure
3 17 (12.98%) OpenShift
4 12 (9.16%) Amazon EKS
4 12 (9.16%) AWS Lambda
4 12 (9.16%) Serverless
5 11 (8.40%) AWS CloudFormation
5 11 (8.40%) Cohesity
6 10 (7.63%) SaaS
7 8 (6.11%) Amazon EC2
7 8 (6.11%) Amazon S3
8 7 (5.34%) GitHub
8 7 (5.34%) Route 53
9 6 (4.58%) Amazon ECR
9 6 (4.58%) GCP
9 6 (4.58%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 2 (1.53%) Azure DevOps
11 1 (0.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 1 (0.76%) OCI
11 1 (0.76%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 21 (16.03%) DNS
2 17 (12.98%) SSL
3 16 (12.21%) LAN
4 15 (11.45%) TCP/IP
4 15 (11.45%) WAN
5 14 (10.69%) SAN
6 12 (9.16%) Firewall
6 12 (9.16%) Multicast
7 10 (7.63%) VSAN
8 8 (6.11%) DHCP
9 6 (4.58%) HTTP
10 5 (3.82%) AMQP
10 5 (3.82%) Fibre Channel
11 3 (2.29%) Skype
12 2 (1.53%) Cisco IOS
12 2 (1.53%) NAS
12 2 (1.53%) SNMP
12 2 (1.53%) VoIP
13 1 (0.76%) SMTP
13 1 (0.76%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (16.03%) PostgreSQL
2 20 (15.27%) SQL Server
3 18 (13.74%) DB2
4 7 (5.34%) Amazon RDS
5 6 (4.58%) Big Data
5 6 (4.58%) MySQL
6 5 (3.82%) Cloudera CDH
6 5 (3.82%) Hadoop
6 5 (3.82%) MongoDB
6 5 (3.82%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.76%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.76%) Oracle Database 12c
7 1 (0.76%) Power BI
7 1 (0.76%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.76%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.76%) SAP HANA
7 1 (0.76%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.76%) Sybase ASE
7 1 (0.76%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 17 (12.98%) Git
2 12 (9.16%) GitLab
3 8 (6.11%) Jenkins
4 7 (5.34%) JIRA
5 6 (4.58%) Bitbucket
6 5 (3.82%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 2 (1.53%) Ant
7 2 (1.53%) Artifactory
7 2 (1.53%) Maven
7 2 (1.53%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 50 (38.17%) Finance
2 23 (17.56%) Social Skills
3 22 (16.79%) Banking
4 13 (9.92%) Front Office
5 10 (7.63%) Investment Banking
6 8 (6.11%) Organisational Skills
7 5 (3.82%) Aerospace
7 5 (3.82%) Presentation Skills
8 4 (3.05%) Advertising
9 3 (2.29%) Analytical Skills
10 2 (1.53%) Electronics
10 2 (1.53%) Financial Institution
10 2 (1.53%) Military
11 1 (0.76%) Public Sector
11 1 (0.76%) Retail
11 1 (0.76%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 36 (27.48%) Linux Engineer
2 34 (25.95%) Linux Support
3 33 (25.19%) Administrator
4 25 (19.08%) Linux Administrator
5 23 (17.56%) Support Engineer
6 19 (14.50%) Linux Support Engineer
7 17 (12.98%) Applications Support
7 17 (12.98%) Infrastructure Support
8 15 (11.45%) Unix Support
9 13 (9.92%) C++ Developer
9 13 (9.92%) Developer
10 11 (8.40%) Systems Administrator
11 9 (6.87%) Linux Specialist
11 9 (6.87%) Linux Systems Administrator
12 8 (6.11%) DevOps Engineer
12 8 (6.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 8 (6.11%) Linux DevOps Engineer
12 8 (6.11%) Linux/Unix DevOps
12 8 (6.11%) Support Specialist
13 7 (5.34%) Linux Scripter
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (13.74%) LDAP
2 16 (12.21%) LAPP Stack
2 16 (12.21%) WebSphere MQ
3 12 (9.16%) FIX Protocol
4 8 (6.11%) Kafka
4 8 (6.11%) Middleware
5 6 (4.58%) REST
6 5 (3.82%) AngularJS
6 5 (3.82%) gRPC
6 5 (3.82%) Material-UI
6 5 (3.82%) Node.js
6 5 (3.82%) OpenAPI
6 5 (3.82%) RabbitMQ
6 5 (3.82%) React
6 5 (3.82%) Spring
6 5 (3.82%) Spring Boot
6 5 (3.82%) Swagger
7 2 (1.53%) Elastic Stack
7 2 (1.53%) LAMP
8 1 (0.76%) MFC
Miscellaneous
1 19 (14.50%) Linux Command Line
2 18 (13.74%) Management Information System
3 12 (9.16%) Derivative
4 10 (7.63%) Clustering
5 6 (4.58%) Cloud Native
5 6 (4.58%) Data Centre
5 6 (4.58%) Replication
6 5 (3.82%) Hybrid Cloud
6 5 (3.82%) PKI
7 4 (3.05%) Onboarding
7 4 (3.05%) Video on Demand
7 4 (3.05%) Video\Live Streaming
8 3 (2.29%) Blackberry
8 3 (2.29%) RSA SecurID
8 3 (2.29%) Virtual Team
9 2 (1.53%) Distributed Systems
9 2 (1.53%) FPGA
10 1 (0.76%) Enterprise Cloud
10 1 (0.76%) Self-Motivation
10 1 (0.76%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 131 (100.00%) Linux
2 47 (35.88%) Windows
3 37 (28.24%) Unix
4 31 (23.66%) CentOS
5 24 (18.32%) Windows Server
6 15 (11.45%) Debian
6 15 (11.45%) Windows Server 2019
7 12 (9.16%) Solaris
8 11 (8.40%) Ubuntu
8 11 (8.40%) Windows Server 2016
9 5 (3.82%) CoreOS
9 5 (3.82%) Windows Server 2012
10 2 (1.53%) AIX
10 2 (1.53%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (25.95%) ITIL
2 25 (19.08%) Problem-Solving
3 24 (18.32%) Change Management
4 23 (17.56%) DevOps
5 20 (15.27%) Infrastructure as Code
6 18 (13.74%) Release Management
7 17 (12.98%) Root Cause Analysis
7 17 (12.98%) User Acceptance Testing
8 16 (12.21%) Containerisation
8 16 (12.21%) Low Latency
9 14 (10.69%) Configuration Management
9 14 (10.69%) Disaster Recovery
10 13 (9.92%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 12 (9.16%) Agile
11 12 (9.16%) Concurrent Programming
11 12 (9.16%) SOA
11 12 (9.16%) Systems Analysis
11 12 (9.16%) Unit Testing
12 11 (8.40%) Collaborative Working
12 11 (8.40%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 75 (57.25%) Python
2 45 (34.35%) Bash
3 21 (16.03%) PowerShell
4 14 (10.69%) C++
5 13 (9.92%) Perl
6 10 (7.63%) Korn
7 9 (6.87%) Java
7 9 (6.87%) SQL
8 7 (5.34%) Shell Script
9 6 (4.58%) PHP
10 5 (3.82%) JavaScript
11 2 (1.53%) Groovy
12 1 (0.76%) C#
12 1 (0.76%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 28 (21.37%) Security Cleared
2 26 (19.85%) Degree
3 22 (16.79%) AWS Certification
4 21 (16.03%) ITIL Certification
5 20 (15.27%) DV Cleared
6 14 (10.69%) SC Cleared
7 4 (3.05%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (2.29%) RHCE
8 3 (2.29%) RHCSA
9 1 (0.76%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.76%) Dell Certification
9 1 (0.76%) MCSA
9 1 (0.76%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.76%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (23.66%) SLA
2 4 (3.05%) QA
3 2 (1.53%) Def Stans
4 1 (0.76%) ISO 20022
4 1 (0.76%) SEPA
System Software
1 38 (29.01%) VMware Infrastructure
2 20 (15.27%) Active Directory
3 11 (8.40%) Docker
3 11 (8.40%) vSphere
4 7 (5.34%) Hyper-V
4 7 (5.34%) NFS
5 5 (3.82%) Veritas Cluster Server
6 2 (1.53%) Postfix
6 2 (1.53%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.76%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 1 (0.76%) Citrix Hypervisor
7 1 (0.76%) Dovecot
7 1 (0.76%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.76%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 54 (41.22%) Ansible
2 25 (19.08%) Kubernetes
3 19 (14.50%) Terraform
4 14 (10.69%) Puppet
5 6 (4.58%) McAfee ePO
5 6 (4.58%) Nagios
5 6 (4.58%) Progress Chef
5 6 (4.58%) SCVMM
5 6 (4.58%) WSUS
6 5 (3.82%) Podman
7 4 (3.05%) Red Hat Satellite
8 3 (2.29%) SCOM
9 2 (1.53%) Data Guard
9 2 (1.53%) Grafana
9 2 (1.53%) Red Hat Spacewalk
10 1 (0.76%) NetBackup
10 1 (0.76%) Prometheus
10 1 (0.76%) Tivoli Storage Manager
10 1 (0.76%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 88 (67.18%) Red Hat
2 47 (35.88%) VMware
3 18 (13.74%) IBM
4 13 (9.92%) Oracle
5 11 (8.40%) Cisco
5 11 (8.40%) ServiceNow
6 8 (6.11%) McAfee
6 8 (6.11%) Microsoft
6 8 (6.11%) NetApp
7 7 (5.34%) Commvault
8 6 (4.58%) HP
8 6 (4.58%) Pure Storage
9 5 (3.82%) Atlassian
9 5 (3.82%) Dell
9 5 (3.82%) Google
9 5 (3.82%) SaltStack
9 5 (3.82%) Symantec
10 2 (1.53%) Mirantis
10 2 (1.53%) Splunk
11 1 (0.76%) Delphix