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 8 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 463 473 405
Rank change year-on-year +10 -68 +87
Permanent jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 155 243 299
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.35% 0.40% 0.63%
As % of the Operating Systems category 2.93% 2.99% 3.54%
Number of salaries quoted 104 170 236
10th Percentile £46,250 £40,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £53,438 £45,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,465 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.93% +0.71% +12.07%
75th Percentile £85,625 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £65,465 £63,000
% change year-on-year +6.93% +3.91% +8.62%

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 5,282 8,120 8,438
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 11.93% 13.39% 17.66%
Number of salaries quoted 3,790 4,768 6,892
10th Percentile £26,875 £28,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £36,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,005 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.99% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £71,375 £68,750
90th Percentile £83,250 £86,250 £88,750
UK median annual salary £42,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -15.00% - -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 8 November 2025.

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 8 November 2025. 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 +63 83 £85,000 - 84
South East +24 37 £61,500 +36.67% 82
East of England +23 12 £43,000 -23.21% 6
North of England +3 8 £65,000 -0.71% 7
Midlands +61 7 £57,500 +43.75% 10
South West -10 7 £56,250 -25.00% 9
East Midlands +22 6 £57,500 +43.75% 1
Yorkshire +1 5 £65,000 -0.71%
North West +13 3 £60,000 -8.35% 5
West Midlands +39 1 £52,500 -19.80% 8
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 21 (13.55%) Microsoft Exchange
2 20 (12.90%) WebSphere
3 19 (12.26%) Tomcat
4 16 (10.32%) WebSphere Application Server
5 13 (8.39%) Apache
6 3 (1.94%) Confluence
6 3 (1.94%) JBoss
6 3 (1.94%) Skype for Business
7 2 (1.29%) IIS
8 1 (0.65%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.65%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 60 (38.71%) AWS
2 30 (19.35%) Azure
3 21 (13.55%) GitHub
4 19 (12.26%) Microsoft 365
5 12 (7.74%) OpenShift
6 11 (7.10%) Cohesity
7 8 (5.16%) Amazon EC2
7 8 (5.16%) Amazon EKS
7 8 (5.16%) Amazon S3
7 8 (5.16%) AWS Lambda
7 8 (5.16%) Serverless
8 7 (4.52%) AWS CloudFormation
8 7 (4.52%) Route 53
9 6 (3.87%) Amazon ECR
9 6 (3.87%) SaaS
9 6 (3.87%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 4 (2.58%) Azure DevOps
10 4 (2.58%) GCP
11 2 (1.29%) AWS CodeDeploy
11 2 (1.29%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 26 (16.77%) Firewall
2 21 (13.55%) SAN
3 17 (10.97%) LAN
3 17 (10.97%) SSL
4 16 (10.32%) DNS
4 16 (10.32%) TCP/IP
4 16 (10.32%) WAN
5 12 (7.74%) Fibre Channel
6 10 (6.45%) DHCP
6 10 (6.45%) Remote Desktop
7 9 (5.81%) iSCSI
8 7 (4.52%) Intrusion Detection
8 7 (4.52%) VSAN
9 6 (3.87%) Multicast
10 3 (1.94%) HTTP
10 3 (1.94%) Skype
11 2 (1.29%) Cisco IOS
11 2 (1.29%) VLAN
11 2 (1.29%) VoIP
12 1 (0.65%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (17.42%) PostgreSQL
2 24 (15.48%) SQL Server
3 18 (11.61%) DB2
4 12 (7.74%) MySQL
5 7 (4.52%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (1.94%) MongoDB
7 2 (1.29%) Big Data
7 2 (1.29%) Oracle Database
7 2 (1.29%) SAP HANA
8 1 (0.65%) Cloudera CDH
8 1 (0.65%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 32 (20.65%) Git
2 14 (9.03%) GitLab
3 6 (3.87%) Jenkins
4 5 (3.23%) JIRA
5 3 (1.94%) Ant
5 3 (1.94%) Artifactory
5 3 (1.94%) Maven
5 3 (1.94%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (1.29%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 2 (1.29%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.65%) MSI
General
1 47 (30.32%) Finance
2 40 (25.81%) Social Skills
3 23 (14.84%) Banking
4 14 (9.03%) Organisational Skills
5 10 (6.45%) Investment Banking
6 6 (3.87%) Front Office
7 5 (3.23%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (1.29%) Advertising
8 2 (1.29%) Aerospace
8 2 (1.29%) Electronics
8 2 (1.29%) Financial Institution
8 2 (1.29%) Military
8 2 (1.29%) Retail
8 2 (1.29%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.65%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 44 (28.39%) Linux Engineer
2 34 (21.94%) Administrator
3 25 (16.13%) Linux Support
4 19 (12.26%) Linux Administrator
5 18 (11.61%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 18 (11.61%) Systems Administrator
6 17 (10.97%) Applications Support
6 17 (10.97%) Cisco Engineer
7 16 (10.32%) Senior
7 16 (10.32%) Support Engineer
8 15 (9.68%) DevOps Engineer
9 14 (9.03%) Linux Support Engineer
10 13 (8.39%) Linux DevOps Engineer
10 13 (8.39%) Linux/Unix DevOps
10 13 (8.39%) VMware Engineer
11 12 (7.74%) Infrastructure Support
12 11 (7.10%) Linux Systems Administrator
13 10 (6.45%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
13 10 (6.45%) Unix Support
14 9 (5.81%) Linux Scripter
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (10.32%) LAPP Stack
1 16 (10.32%) LDAP
1 16 (10.32%) WebSphere MQ
2 6 (3.87%) FIX Protocol
2 6 (3.87%) Kafka
2 6 (3.87%) Middleware
3 3 (1.94%) Elastic Stack
3 3 (1.94%) LAMP
4 1 (0.65%) AngularJS
4 1 (0.65%) gRPC
4 1 (0.65%) Node.js
4 1 (0.65%) OpenAPI
4 1 (0.65%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (0.65%) React
4 1 (0.65%) Regular Expression
4 1 (0.65%) REST
4 1 (0.65%) Spring
4 1 (0.65%) Spring Boot
4 1 (0.65%) Swagger
4 1 (0.65%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 29 (18.71%) Management Information System
2 20 (12.90%) Linux Command Line
3 19 (12.26%) Hybrid Cloud
4 12 (7.74%) Cloud Native
5 8 (5.16%) Data Centre
5 8 (5.16%) Driving Licence
6 6 (3.87%) Derivative
7 5 (3.23%) Virtual Team
8 3 (1.94%) Blackberry
8 3 (1.94%) Clustering
8 3 (1.94%) PKI
8 3 (1.94%) Replication
8 3 (1.94%) RSA SecurID
9 2 (1.29%) Enterprise Cloud
9 2 (1.29%) Onboarding
9 2 (1.29%) Video on Demand
9 2 (1.29%) Video\Live Streaming
10 1 (0.65%) Distributed Systems
10 1 (0.65%) Enterprise Storage
10 1 (0.65%) Manufacturing Execution System
Operating Systems
1 155 (100.00%) Linux
2 73 (47.10%) Windows
3 35 (22.58%) CentOS
4 34 (21.94%) Unix
5 29 (18.71%) Windows Server
6 25 (16.13%) Windows Server 2019
7 15 (9.68%) Solaris
8 11 (7.10%) Debian
9 9 (5.81%) Windows 10
10 8 (5.16%) Oracle Linux
10 8 (5.16%) Ubuntu
11 5 (3.23%) HPUX
11 5 (3.23%) Windows Server 2016
12 4 (2.58%) AIX
12 4 (2.58%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
13 3 (1.94%) CoreOS
14 2 (1.29%) VMS
14 2 (1.29%) Windows Server 2012
15 1 (0.65%) OpenVMS
15 1 (0.65%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (32.90%) ITIL
2 48 (30.97%) DevOps
3 30 (19.35%) Root Cause Analysis
4 29 (18.71%) Containerisation
5 21 (13.55%) Change Management
5 21 (13.55%) Infrastructure as Code
6 20 (12.90%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 19 (12.26%) Release Management
8 18 (11.61%) Disaster Recovery
9 17 (10.97%) Incident Response
10 16 (10.32%) User Acceptance Testing
11 15 (9.68%) Low Latency
11 15 (9.68%) Time Management
12 13 (8.39%) Continuous Improvement
12 13 (8.39%) Cybersecurity
13 12 (7.74%) Incident Management
13 12 (7.74%) Problem-Solving
14 10 (6.45%) Infrastructure Automation
14 10 (6.45%) Mentoring
14 10 (6.45%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 64 (41.29%) Python
2 49 (31.61%) Bash
3 22 (14.19%) PowerShell
4 19 (12.26%) Korn
5 11 (7.10%) PHP
6 7 (4.52%) C++
7 6 (3.87%) Shell Script
7 6 (3.87%) SQL
8 4 (2.58%) Java
8 4 (2.58%) Perl
9 3 (1.94%) Groovy
10 1 (0.65%) C#
10 1 (0.65%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 36 (23.23%) Degree
2 34 (21.94%) Security Cleared
3 23 (14.84%) DV Cleared
4 22 (14.19%) AWS Certification
5 16 (10.32%) ITIL Certification
6 14 (9.03%) SC Cleared
7 11 (7.10%) Microsoft Certification
8 9 (5.81%) MCSE
8 9 (5.81%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 8 (5.16%) CCNA
9 8 (5.16%) Cisco Certification
10 6 (3.87%) RHCE
10 6 (3.87%) RHCSA
11 5 (3.23%) Computer Science Degree
12 3 (1.94%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 3 (1.94%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
13 2 (1.29%) Dell Certification
13 2 (1.29%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 2 (1.29%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (16.77%) SLA
2 9 (5.81%) QA
3 2 (1.29%) Def Stans
4 1 (0.65%) ISO 20022
4 1 (0.65%) SEPA
System Software
1 44 (28.39%) VMware Infrastructure
2 28 (18.06%) Active Directory
3 23 (14.84%) vSphere
4 17 (10.97%) NFS
5 15 (9.68%) Docker
6 11 (7.10%) Hyper-V
7 9 (5.81%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 7 (4.52%) VMware ESXi
9 4 (2.58%) Virtual Machines
10 2 (1.29%) Postfix
11 1 (0.65%) Apache ZooKeeper
11 1 (0.65%) Dovecot
11 1 (0.65%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 68 (43.87%) Ansible
2 44 (28.39%) Kubernetes
3 33 (21.29%) Terraform
4 12 (7.74%) WSUS
5 11 (7.10%) Puppet
6 8 (5.16%) SCOM
7 6 (3.87%) Nagios
7 6 (3.87%) Red Hat Satellite
7 6 (3.87%) SCCM
8 5 (3.23%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
9 4 (2.58%) Grafana
9 4 (2.58%) Podman
9 4 (2.58%) Progress Chef
10 3 (1.94%) McAfee ePO
10 3 (1.94%) SCVMM
11 2 (1.29%) EMC NetWorker
11 2 (1.29%) ZABBIX
12 1 (0.65%) Data Guard
12 1 (0.65%) Tivoli Storage Manager
12 1 (0.65%) WMI
Vendors
1 83 (53.55%) Red Hat
2 68 (43.87%) VMware
3 37 (23.87%) Microsoft
4 35 (22.58%) Cisco
5 23 (14.84%) Commvault
5 23 (14.84%) IBM
6 19 (12.26%) Oracle
7 14 (9.03%) Pure Storage
8 13 (8.39%) Dell
9 11 (7.10%) ServiceNow
10 9 (5.81%) Splunk
11 8 (5.16%) NetApp
12 5 (3.23%) HP
13 3 (1.94%) Atlassian
13 3 (1.94%) McAfee
14 2 (1.29%) Fortinet
14 2 (1.29%) Fujitsu
14 2 (1.29%) Juniper
14 2 (1.29%) SolarWinds
14 2 (1.29%) Veeam