Red Hat Job Trends in England

Red Hat
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England requiring knowledge or experience of Red Hat products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Red Hat over the 6 months leading up to 13 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT labour market in general and are not representative of salaries within Red Hat, Inc.

6 months to
13 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 497 359 267
Rank change year-on-year -138 -92 +135
Permanent jobs citing Red Hat 259 315 706
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.26% 0.73% 1.03%
As % of the Vendors category 1.06% 1.71% 3.11%
Number of salaries quoted 158 139 195
10th Percentile £47,750 £51,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £62,500 £56,250 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £101,125 £90,000 £102,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - +7.69% +4.00%

All Vendors
England

Red Hat falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 24,339 18,438 22,725
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 24.31% 42.50% 33.00%
Number of salaries quoted 15,784 10,130 12,527
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,250 £31,000
25th Percentile £39,773 £34,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £78,312 £72,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £90,000 £93,750
UK median annual salary £57,500 £51,125 £55,000
% change year-on-year +12.47% -7.05% -4.35%

Red Hat
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Red Hat relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

Red Hat job vacancy trend in England

Red Hat
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Red Hat.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Red Hat

Red Hat
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Red Hat in England over the 6 months to 13 September 2026.

Salary histogram for Red Hat in England

Red Hat
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 within the England region over the 6 months to 13 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 -85 85 £85,000 +13.33% 159
South East -44 64 £67,500 -3.57% 22
South West -76 44 £75,000 +20.00% 52
North of England -26 40 £40,000 -38.46% 26
North West +16 33 £40,000 -20.00% 11
Midlands -75 17 £72,500 +38.10% 22
West Midlands -37 12 £70,000 +133.33% 20
East of England -29 7 £75,000 +36.36% 10
East Midlands -54 5 £75,000 +30.43% 2
North East - 4 - - 14
Yorkshire -49 3 - - 1
Red Hat
UK

Red Hat
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 18 (6.95%) Confluence
2 14 (5.41%) Microsoft Exchange
3 12 (4.63%) Apache
4 11 (4.25%) OpenStack
5 9 (3.47%) nginx
6 7 (2.70%) Apache Spark
7 5 (1.93%) JBoss
8 2 (0.77%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.39%) IIS
9 1 (0.39%) Oracle HTTP Server
9 1 (0.39%) SharePoint
9 1 (0.39%) WebLogic
Applications
1 3 (1.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.39%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 8 (3.09%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.39%) FLEXCUBE
2 1 (0.39%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 113 (43.63%) AWS
2 77 (29.73%) Azure
2 77 (29.73%) OpenShift
3 22 (8.49%) GCP
4 21 (8.11%) SaaS
5 18 (6.95%) Azure DevOps
5 18 (6.95%) Microsoft 365
6 16 (6.18%) Snowflake
7 15 (5.79%) AWS Lambda
7 15 (5.79%) Serverless
8 13 (5.02%) AWS CloudFormation
9 12 (4.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 12 (4.63%) Amazon ECS
10 11 (4.25%) Amazon ECR
11 10 (3.86%) Amazon EKS
11 10 (3.86%) Entra ID
11 10 (3.86%) GitHub
11 10 (3.86%) GitHub Actions
12 8 (3.09%) Amazon EC2
12 8 (3.09%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 43 (16.60%) DNS
2 41 (15.83%) Firewall
3 21 (8.11%) TCP/IP
4 17 (6.56%) DHCP
4 17 (6.56%) LAN
5 15 (5.79%) SAN
5 15 (5.79%) WAN
6 9 (3.47%) IPv4
7 8 (3.09%) FIX Connectivity
7 8 (3.09%) Remote Desktop
7 8 (3.09%) Software-Defined Networking
8 7 (2.70%) iSCSI
9 6 (2.32%) AMQP
9 6 (2.32%) SSL
10 5 (1.93%) HTTP
10 5 (1.93%) Kerberos
10 5 (1.93%) VSAN
11 4 (1.54%) NAS
11 4 (1.54%) VPN
11 4 (1.54%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (8.11%) SQL Server
2 18 (6.95%) MySQL
3 13 (5.02%) PostgreSQL
4 9 (3.47%) Elasticsearch
4 9 (3.47%) InfluxDB
5 7 (2.70%) Hadoop
6 6 (2.32%) Big Data
6 6 (2.32%) Cloudera CDH
7 5 (1.93%) MongoDB
8 4 (1.54%) Amazon RDS
8 4 (1.54%) Data Warehouse
8 4 (1.54%) Power BI
9 3 (1.16%) Oracle Reports
9 3 (1.16%) ZAP BI
10 1 (0.39%) DynamoDB
10 1 (0.39%) Flink
10 1 (0.39%) GIS
10 1 (0.39%) Looker
10 1 (0.39%) MariaDB
10 1 (0.39%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 45 (17.37%) Git
2 38 (14.67%) GitLab
3 29 (11.20%) Jenkins
4 20 (7.72%) JIRA
5 15 (5.79%) Bitbucket
6 10 (3.86%) Selenium
7 9 (3.47%) Cypress.io
7 9 (3.47%) Robot Framework
8 8 (3.09%) TestRail
9 4 (1.54%) Subversion
10 3 (1.16%) Artifactory
10 3 (1.16%) git-flow
10 3 (1.16%) JUnit
10 3 (1.16%) NUnit
10 3 (1.16%) Postman
10 3 (1.16%) Snyk
10 3 (1.16%) SonarQube
11 2 (0.77%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 1 (0.39%) ERwin
12 1 (0.39%) Maven
General
1 48 (18.53%) Social Skills
2 45 (17.37%) Finance
3 31 (11.97%) Analytical Skills
4 26 (10.04%) Aerospace
5 24 (9.27%) Banking
6 12 (4.63%) Organisational Skills
7 10 (3.86%) Manufacturing
8 7 (2.70%) Military
9 6 (2.32%) Influencing Skills
10 5 (1.93%) Retail
11 4 (1.54%) Automotive
11 4 (1.54%) Electronics
12 3 (1.16%) Front Office
12 3 (1.16%) Law
12 3 (1.16%) Telecoms
13 2 (0.77%) Advertising
13 2 (0.77%) Public Sector
14 1 (0.39%) Documentation Skills
14 1 (0.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 1 (0.39%) Police
Job Titles
1 47 (18.15%) Administrator
2 45 (17.37%) Linux Engineer
3 43 (16.60%) Systems Administrator
4 33 (12.74%) DevOps Engineer
5 25 (9.65%) Architect
5 25 (9.65%) Linux Administrator
6 24 (9.27%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 24 (9.27%) Linux Systems Administrator
7 20 (7.72%) Linux Systems Engineer
8 19 (7.34%) DevOps Systems Engineer
9 18 (6.95%) Senior
10 17 (6.56%) Developer
10 17 (6.56%) Linux DevOps Engineer
10 17 (6.56%) Linux/Unix DevOps
11 16 (6.18%) Applications Architect
12 15 (5.79%) Consultant
13 14 (5.41%) Systems Engineer
14 12 (4.63%) Lead
14 12 (4.63%) Security Architect
15 11 (4.25%) Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 90 (34.75%) Terraform
2 20 (7.72%) LDAP
3 19 (7.34%) Regular Expression
3 19 (7.34%) XMPP
4 16 (6.18%) Elastic Stack
5 14 (5.41%) React
6 10 (3.86%) Node.js
7 9 (3.47%) AngularJS
7 9 (3.47%) pytest
8 8 (3.09%) FIX Protocol
8 8 (3.09%) Keycloak
9 7 (2.70%) Loki
9 7 (2.70%) RabbitMQ
10 6 (2.32%) .NET
10 6 (2.32%) OAuth
10 6 (2.32%) Playwright
10 6 (2.32%) REST
10 6 (2.32%) Spring
10 6 (2.32%) Spring Boot
10 6 (2.32%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 39 (15.06%) Cloud Native
2 20 (7.72%) Data Centre
3 17 (6.56%) Social Media
4 16 (6.18%) Hybrid Cloud
5 15 (5.79%) Onboarding
6 9 (3.47%) Management Information System
7 8 (3.09%) Eurex
8 7 (2.70%) PKI
9 6 (2.32%) Private Cloud
9 6 (2.32%) Product Ownership
10 5 (1.93%) Linux Command Line
10 5 (1.93%) Manufacturing Execution System
10 5 (1.93%) Operational Technology
10 5 (1.93%) Public Cloud
10 5 (1.93%) Renewable Energy
10 5 (1.93%) Security Posture
11 3 (1.16%) Data Protection Act
11 3 (1.16%) Enterprise Cloud
11 3 (1.16%) Equity Derivative
11 3 (1.16%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 205 (79.15%) Linux
2 114 (44.02%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 78 (30.12%) Windows
4 56 (21.62%) Windows Server
5 54 (20.85%) CentOS
6 45 (17.37%) Ubuntu
7 25 (9.65%) Unix
8 19 (7.34%) Rocky
9 11 (4.25%) Windows Server 2016
10 9 (3.47%) Debian
10 9 (3.47%) Solaris
11 8 (3.09%) AIX
11 8 (3.09%) Windows Server 2019
12 5 (1.93%) CoreOS
12 5 (1.93%) OpenVMS
13 1 (0.39%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (28.96%) Infrastructure as Code
2 73 (28.19%) CI/CD
3 72 (27.80%) DevOps
4 57 (22.01%) Agile
5 51 (19.69%) Containerisation
6 43 (16.60%) ITIL
7 40 (15.44%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 39 (15.06%) Continuous Improvement
9 32 (12.36%) Problem-Solving
10 28 (10.81%) Platform Engineering
11 27 (10.42%) Configuration Management
11 27 (10.42%) Observability
11 27 (10.42%) SIEM
12 23 (8.88%) Validation
13 22 (8.49%) High Availability
13 22 (8.49%) Time Management
14 21 (8.11%) Cybersecurity
14 21 (8.11%) Mentoring
15 20 (7.72%) Architectural Design
15 20 (7.72%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 97 (37.45%) Bash
2 93 (35.91%) Python
3 50 (19.31%) PowerShell
4 42 (16.22%) Java
5 29 (11.20%) JavaScript
6 17 (6.56%) SQL
7 11 (4.25%) Perl
8 9 (3.47%) Shell Script
9 8 (3.09%) Ruby
10 7 (2.70%) Korn
11 5 (1.93%) Go
12 1 (0.39%) Groovy
12 1 (0.39%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 94 (36.29%) Security Cleared
2 43 (16.60%) DV Cleared
3 40 (15.44%) SC Cleared
4 22 (8.49%) Degree
5 17 (6.56%) Cisco Certification
6 16 (6.18%) RHCSA
7 15 (5.79%) Microsoft Certification
8 14 (5.41%) RHCE
9 12 (4.63%) AWS Certification
10 11 (4.25%) CCNA
11 8 (3.09%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 8 (3.09%) ISTQB
11 8 (3.09%) OSCP
12 6 (2.32%) BPSS Clearance
12 6 (2.32%) CISM
12 6 (2.32%) CISSP
13 5 (1.93%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 5 (1.93%) CCSP
13 5 (1.93%) OCP
13 5 (1.93%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (3.86%) NIST
1 10 (3.86%) QA
2 7 (2.70%) GDPR
3 6 (2.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (1.93%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 3 (1.16%) SLA
6 1 (0.39%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.39%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.39%) COBIT
6 1 (0.39%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.39%) NCSC
6 1 (0.39%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.39%) PMO
System Software
1 62 (23.94%) Docker
2 58 (22.39%) Active Directory
3 49 (18.92%) VMware Infrastructure
4 35 (13.51%) vSphere
5 16 (6.18%) Virtual Machines
6 15 (5.79%) Hyper-V
7 9 (3.47%) VMware NSX
8 8 (3.09%) Squid
9 7 (2.70%) Ceph
10 6 (2.32%) Citrix Hypervisor
11 5 (1.93%) Virtual Desktop
12 4 (1.54%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 4 (1.54%) VMware ESXi
13 3 (1.16%) Xen
14 2 (0.77%) KVM
15 1 (0.39%) Firmware
15 1 (0.39%) GPFS
15 1 (0.39%) Lustre
15 1 (0.39%) Oracle RAC
15 1 (0.39%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 92 (35.52%) Ansible
2 84 (32.43%) Kubernetes
3 29 (11.20%) Grafana
4 28 (10.81%) Puppet
5 20 (7.72%) Prometheus
6 18 (6.95%) Nagios
7 15 (5.79%) Argo
8 13 (5.02%) Istio
8 13 (5.02%) Podman
8 13 (5.02%) Single Sign-On
8 13 (5.02%) vCenter Server
9 11 (4.25%) ZABBIX
10 9 (3.47%) Packer
11 8 (3.09%) Red Hat Satellite
12 7 (2.70%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 7 (2.70%) Check_MK
12 7 (2.70%) Kustomize
13 6 (2.32%) Kibana
13 6 (2.32%) logstash
13 6 (2.32%) Nessus
Vendors
1 74 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 72 (27.80%) VMware
3 43 (16.60%) Oracle
4 34 (13.13%) Splunk
5 20 (7.72%) McAfee
6 17 (6.56%) Dell
7 16 (6.18%) OutSystems
8 14 (5.41%) Atlassian
9 13 (5.02%) Rapid7
10 8 (3.09%) Bloomberg
10 8 (3.09%) CQG
10 8 (3.09%) ION Trading
10 8 (3.09%) Patsystems
10 8 (3.09%) Reuters
10 8 (3.09%) Trayport
11 7 (2.70%) Cisco
11 7 (2.70%) Google
11 7 (2.70%) NetApp
12 6 (2.32%) ServiceNow
12 6 (2.32%) SolarWinds