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

6 months to
7 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 532 493 530
Rank change year-on-year -39 +37 -30
Permanent jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 180 164 327
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.21% 0.39% 0.36%
As % of the Operating Systems category 3.24% 2.55% 2.64%
Number of salaries quoted 150 126 244
10th Percentile £46,250 £52,500 £39,223
25th Percentile £52,500 £56,250 £41,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £70,000 £56,750
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +23.35% -9.92%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £101,250 £98,125 £102,500
UK median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -3.57% +27.27% -12.00%

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 5,556 6,421 12,366
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 6.41% 15.13% 13.58%
Number of salaries quoted 4,233 4,254 9,628
10th Percentile £27,750 £27,000 £26,000
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 £67,500 £63,750 £62,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,175 £81,250
UK median annual salary £45,000 £42,500 £45,500
% change year-on-year +5.88% -6.59% -13.33%

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 7 July 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 7 July 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 -29 70 £62,500 -20.38% 17
South East -11 55 £67,500 +10.66% 13
North of England -38 29 £61,000 -6.15% 13
North West +12 24 £47,500 -36.56% 9
South West -51 16 £75,000 +20.00% 9
Midlands -25 6 £75,000 +30.43% 2
East Midlands -23 5 £75,000 +30.43% 1
East of England -21 4 £56,250 -2.17% 3
Yorkshire -36 3 £97,500 +50.00% 3
North East -47 2 £97,500 +77.27% 1
West Midlands -25 1 - - 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 19 (10.56%) Microsoft Exchange
2 11 (6.11%) Apache
3 8 (4.44%) Confluence
4 7 (3.89%) SharePoint
5 6 (3.33%) Apache Spark
6 5 (2.78%) OpenStack
7 3 (1.67%) CMS
7 3 (1.67%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (0.56%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 11 (6.11%) FLEXCUBE
Cloud Services
1 52 (28.89%) AWS
2 38 (21.11%) Azure
3 14 (7.78%) Microsoft 365
4 13 (7.22%) GitHub
5 11 (6.11%) AWS CloudFormation
6 8 (4.44%) Amazon EKS
6 8 (4.44%) AWS Lambda
6 8 (4.44%) Serverless
7 7 (3.89%) Azure Stack
7 7 (3.89%) GCP
7 7 (3.89%) OpenShift
7 7 (3.89%) SaaS
8 6 (3.33%) Datadog
9 4 (2.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 4 (2.22%) Amazon EC2
9 4 (2.22%) Amazon S3
9 4 (2.22%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 3 (1.67%) CloudFront
10 3 (1.67%) GitHub Actions
10 3 (1.67%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 55 (30.56%) DNS
2 37 (20.56%) Firewall
3 32 (17.78%) SAN
4 19 (10.56%) LAN
5 16 (8.89%) TCP/IP
6 15 (8.33%) HTTP
7 11 (6.11%) Remote Desktop
7 11 (6.11%) WAN
8 10 (5.56%) iSCSI
9 9 (5.00%) NAS
10 8 (4.44%) NetScaler
10 8 (4.44%) Wireshark
11 6 (3.33%) AMQP
12 5 (2.78%) DHCP
13 4 (2.22%) VSAN
14 3 (1.67%) Kerberos
14 3 (1.67%) VoIP
14 3 (1.67%) VPN
15 2 (1.11%) Network Security
15 2 (1.11%) PBX
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (8.33%) SQL Server
2 11 (6.11%) Oracle Database
3 9 (5.00%) MySQL
3 9 (5.00%) PostgreSQL
4 8 (4.44%) Hadoop
5 7 (3.89%) MongoDB
6 6 (3.33%) Big Data
6 6 (3.33%) Cloudera CDH
6 6 (3.33%) Elasticsearch
7 4 (2.22%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.56%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.56%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.56%) SAP HANA
8 1 (0.56%) Sybase ASE
8 1 (0.56%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 31 (17.22%) Git
2 21 (11.67%) GitLab
3 16 (8.89%) Jenkins
4 14 (7.78%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 13 (7.22%) JIRA
6 2 (1.11%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.56%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.56%) git-flow
7 1 (0.56%) Maven
7 1 (0.56%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 65 (36.11%) Social Skills
2 35 (19.44%) Finance
3 26 (14.44%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (11.11%) Banking
5 13 (7.22%) Public Sector
6 12 (6.67%) Documentation Skills
6 12 (6.67%) Organisational Skills
7 10 (5.56%) Aerospace
8 5 (2.78%) Manufacturing
9 4 (2.22%) Front Office
9 4 (2.22%) Mandarin Language
10 3 (1.67%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (1.67%) Military
11 2 (1.11%) Advertising
11 2 (1.11%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.56%) Law
12 1 (0.56%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.56%) Retail
Job Titles
1 29 (16.11%) Senior
2 28 (15.56%) Linux Engineer
3 23 (12.78%) Administrator
4 20 (11.11%) Applications Architect
4 20 (11.11%) Architect
5 19 (10.56%) Systems Administrator
6 15 (8.33%) DevOps Engineer
6 15 (8.33%) Support Engineer
7 14 (7.78%) Security Architect
8 13 (7.22%) Lead
9 12 (6.67%) DBA
9 12 (6.67%) Linux Support
9 12 (6.67%) Linux Support Engineer
10 11 (6.11%) Oracle DBA
10 11 (6.11%) Senior DBA
10 11 (6.11%) Senior Oracle DBA
11 10 (5.56%) Linux Administrator
11 10 (5.56%) Principal DevOps Engineer
11 10 (5.56%) Principal Engineer
12 9 (5.00%) Senior Linux Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (12.78%) Regular Expression
2 22 (12.22%) LDAP
3 19 (10.56%) XMPP
4 8 (4.44%) WebSockets
5 7 (3.89%) ARM Templates
5 7 (3.89%) JSON
5 7 (3.89%) JSON Schema
5 7 (3.89%) REST
5 7 (3.89%) XML
6 6 (3.33%) AngularJS
6 6 (3.33%) gRPC
6 6 (3.33%) Material-UI
6 6 (3.33%) Node.js
6 6 (3.33%) OpenAPI
6 6 (3.33%) RabbitMQ
6 6 (3.33%) React
6 6 (3.33%) Spring
6 6 (3.33%) Spring Boot
6 6 (3.33%) Swagger
7 5 (2.78%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 28 (15.56%) Cloud Native
2 18 (10.00%) PKI
3 17 (9.44%) Data Centre
4 14 (7.78%) Management Information System
5 6 (3.33%) Enterprise Storage
6 5 (2.78%) Hybrid Cloud
6 5 (2.78%) Manufacturing Execution System
6 5 (2.78%) Operational Technology
6 5 (2.78%) Replication
6 5 (2.78%) Security Posture
6 5 (2.78%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (2.22%) Blockchain
7 4 (2.22%) Onboarding
7 4 (2.22%) Web3
8 3 (1.67%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (1.67%) Fixed Income
8 3 (1.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 2 (1.11%) Clustering
9 2 (1.11%) Enterprise Cloud
10 1 (0.56%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 180 (100.00%) Linux
2 75 (41.67%) Windows
3 67 (37.22%) Windows Server
4 49 (27.22%) CentOS
5 25 (13.89%) Unix
6 22 (12.22%) Ubuntu
7 15 (8.33%) AIX
8 11 (6.11%) Debian
8 11 (6.11%) Oracle Linux
8 11 (6.11%) Windows Server 2019
9 5 (2.78%) OpenVMS
9 5 (2.78%) Rocky
10 4 (2.22%) CoreOS
10 4 (2.22%) Windows Server 2016
11 3 (1.67%) VMS
12 2 (1.11%) Amazon Linux
12 2 (1.11%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (33.33%) DevOps
2 48 (26.67%) CI/CD
3 44 (24.44%) Problem-Solving
4 42 (23.33%) SIEM
5 35 (19.44%) Infrastructure as Code
6 33 (18.33%) High Availability
6 33 (18.33%) ITIL
7 31 (17.22%) Platform Engineering
8 28 (15.56%) Configuration Management
9 27 (15.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 24 (13.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 23 (12.78%) Cybersecurity
11 23 (12.78%) Technical Leadership
12 22 (12.22%) Agile
12 22 (12.22%) Disaster Recovery
13 20 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
14 19 (10.56%) Containerisation
14 19 (10.56%) Observability
14 19 (10.56%) Validation
15 17 (9.44%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 52 (28.89%) Bash
2 51 (28.33%) Python
3 32 (17.78%) SQL
4 30 (16.67%) PowerShell
5 20 (11.11%) Shell Script
6 18 (10.00%) Korn
7 16 (8.89%) Java
8 15 (8.33%) PHP
9 11 (6.11%) PL/SQL
10 8 (4.44%) JavaScript
11 7 (3.89%) Perl
12 2 (1.11%) C
13 1 (0.56%) C++
13 1 (0.56%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 76 (42.22%) Security Cleared
2 53 (29.44%) DV Cleared
3 26 (14.44%) SC Cleared
4 22 (12.22%) Degree
5 11 (6.11%) RHCSA
6 6 (3.33%) Cisco Certification
7 5 (2.78%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (2.22%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (2.22%) Postgraduate
8 4 (2.22%) RHCE
9 3 (1.67%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 3 (1.67%) CCNA
9 3 (1.67%) CCSP
9 3 (1.67%) CISM
9 3 (1.67%) CISSP
9 3 (1.67%) MCSE
10 2 (1.11%) Azure Certification
10 2 (1.11%) Dell Certification
10 2 (1.11%) MCSA
11 1 (0.56%) Linux+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (2.78%) SLA
2 4 (2.22%) NIST
3 3 (1.67%) GDPR
3 3 (1.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (1.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 54 (30.00%) Active Directory
2 44 (24.44%) Docker
3 38 (21.11%) vSphere
4 33 (18.33%) VMware Infrastructure
5 12 (6.67%) Hyper-V
6 11 (6.11%) Oracle RAC
7 8 (4.44%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 4 (2.22%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 4 (2.22%) Virtual Machines
9 2 (1.11%) Samba
9 2 (1.11%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.56%) KVM
10 1 (0.56%) Xen
Systems Management
1 59 (32.78%) Kubernetes
2 48 (26.67%) Terraform
3 47 (26.11%) Ansible
4 27 (15.00%) Nagios
5 22 (12.22%) Puppet
6 11 (6.11%) Data Guard
6 11 (6.11%) Oracle RMAN
7 9 (5.00%) WSUS
8 7 (3.89%) Podman
8 7 (3.89%) ZABBIX
9 6 (3.33%) Grafana
10 5 (2.78%) Docker Swarm
11 4 (2.22%) Argo
11 4 (2.22%) McAfee ePO
11 4 (2.22%) Prometheus
11 4 (2.22%) Red Hat Satellite
11 4 (2.22%) SCVMM
12 2 (1.11%) NetBackup
13 1 (0.56%) Progress Chef
13 1 (0.56%) SCCM
Vendors
1 112 (62.22%) Red Hat
2 67 (37.22%) VMware
3 40 (22.22%) Microsoft
4 26 (14.44%) McAfee
5 16 (8.89%) Oracle
6 12 (6.67%) Splunk
7 11 (6.11%) IBM
7 11 (6.11%) NetApp
8 10 (5.56%) Dell
9 9 (5.00%) SolarWinds
10 8 (4.44%) Citrix
11 7 (3.89%) Google
12 6 (3.33%) SaltStack
13 5 (2.78%) ServiceNow
13 5 (2.78%) Veeam
14 3 (1.67%) CyberArk
14 3 (1.67%) Ivanti
14 3 (1.67%) Qualys
14 3 (1.67%) Rapid7
14 3 (1.67%) Veracode