Red Hat Enterprise Linux Job Trends in Kent

Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
South East > Kent

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Kent requiring Red Hat Enterprise Linux skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 82 - 62
Rank change year-on-year - - +52
Permanent jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 1 0 2
As % of all permanent jobs in Kent 0.10% - 0.38%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.97% - 1.55%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 - £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -15.38%
75th Percentile - - £57,500
90th Percentile - - -
South East median annual salary £52,500 £45,000 £46,000
% change year-on-year +16.67% -2.17% -10.02%

All Operating Systems
Kent

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 Kent.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 103 93 129
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Kent 10.44% 11.83% 24.25%
Number of salaries quoted 89 42 122
10th Percentile £26,750 £23,600 £21,250
25th Percentile £28,750 £30,500 £26,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,500 £40,000 £37,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.25% +6.67% -11.76%
75th Percentile £46,250 £55,000 £54,554
90th Percentile £53,750 £75,000 £58,750
South East median annual salary £40,500 £50,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -19.00% +11.11% -

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in Kent

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

Red Hat Enterprise Linux job vacancy trend in Kent

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Salary Trend in Kent

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Kent citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Kent citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Job Locations in Kent

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 Kent region over the 6 months to 14 December 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
Rochester - 1 £55,000 -
Red Hat Enterprise Linux
South East

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Kent 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 1 (100.00%) Confluence
1 1 (100.00%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle 11i
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (100.00%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) OCI
1 1 (100.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle Database
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle Database 12c
1 1 (100.00%) Power BI
1 1 (100.00%) RDBMS
1 1 (100.00%) Relational Database
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Bitbucket
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Administrator
1 1 (100.00%) IT Administrator
1 1 (100.00%) IT Systems Administrator
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior IT Administrator
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Systems Administrator
1 1 (100.00%) Systems Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) ERP
1 1 (100.00%) PLM
1 1 (100.00%) Service Management
1 1 (100.00%) Statistics
1 1 (100.00%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) BPSS Clearance
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Atlassian
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (100.00%) Siemens