Red Hat Enterprise Linux Job Trends in London

Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in London requiring Red Hat Enterprise Linux skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 307 360 357
Rank change year-on-year +53 -3 +145
Permanent jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 79 77 93
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.54% 0.50% 0.46%
As % of the Operating Systems category 5.59% 3.38% 3.14%
Number of salaries quoted 54 45 92
10th Percentile £51,250 £60,250 £56,425
25th Percentile £55,000 £65,000 £72,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £77,500 £83,750
Median % change year-on-year +9.68% -7.46% +1.52%
75th Percentile £97,500 £90,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £140,000 £122,500 £102,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -15.38% +8.33% -

All Operating Systems
London

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 London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 1,413 2,279 2,966
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 9.65% 14.66% 14.83%
Number of salaries quoted 1,070 1,456 2,460
10th Percentile £31,000 £36,250 £31,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £47,260 £41,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £88,750 £90,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £111,250 £115,000 £101,350
England median annual salary £44,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% - -4.76%

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Red Hat Enterprise Linux job vacancy trend in London

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Salary Trend in London

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

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

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux in London over the 6 months to 24 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Red Hat Enterprise Linux in London

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 24 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
Central London +32 16 £55,000 -21.43% 3
East London 0 10 £85,000 +30.77%
Red Hat Enterprise Linux
England

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 (27.85%) Tomcat
2 17 (21.52%) WebSphere
3 16 (20.25%) WebSphere Application Server
4 5 (6.33%) IIS
5 4 (5.06%) Apache
5 4 (5.06%) Confluence
6 2 (2.53%) CMS
6 2 (2.53%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (2.53%) nginx
6 2 (2.53%) SharePoint
6 2 (2.53%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 28 (35.44%) AWS
2 7 (8.86%) Amazon EC2
2 7 (8.86%) Amazon EKS
2 7 (8.86%) Amazon S3
2 7 (8.86%) AWS Lambda
2 7 (8.86%) Route 53
2 7 (8.86%) Serverless
3 6 (7.59%) Amazon ECR
3 6 (7.59%) AWS CloudFormation
3 6 (7.59%) GitHub
3 6 (7.59%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 5 (6.33%) OpenShift
5 3 (3.80%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 17 (21.52%) SSL
2 12 (15.19%) Multicast
3 10 (12.66%) DNS
3 10 (12.66%) LAN
3 10 (12.66%) TCP/IP
4 9 (11.39%) Firewall
4 9 (11.39%) WAN
5 5 (6.33%) Fibre Channel
6 4 (5.06%) SAN
7 3 (3.80%) DHCP
8 2 (2.53%) NAS
8 2 (2.53%) SNMP
9 1 (1.27%) HTTP
9 1 (1.27%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (22.78%) DB2
1 18 (22.78%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (17.72%) SQL Server
3 7 (8.86%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (2.53%) MongoDB
4 2 (2.53%) MySQL
4 2 (2.53%) Oracle Database
5 1 (1.27%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (1.27%) SAP HANA
5 1 (1.27%) Sybase ASE
5 1 (1.27%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 8 (10.13%) Git
1 8 (10.13%) GitLab
2 5 (6.33%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 5 (6.33%) Bitbucket
2 5 (6.33%) Jenkins
3 4 (5.06%) JIRA
General
1 46 (58.23%) Finance
2 22 (27.85%) Banking
3 13 (16.46%) Front Office
4 11 (13.92%) Social Skills
5 10 (12.66%) Investment Banking
6 5 (6.33%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (3.80%) Advertising
8 2 (2.53%) Financial Institution
8 2 (2.53%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.27%) Analytical Skills
9 1 (1.27%) Public Sector
9 1 (1.27%) Retail
Job Titles
1 23 (29.11%) Administrator
2 20 (25.32%) Linux Support
3 19 (24.05%) Linux Administrator
4 17 (21.52%) Applications Support
4 17 (21.52%) Infrastructure Support
5 15 (18.99%) Unix Support
6 14 (17.72%) Linux Engineer
7 13 (16.46%) C++ Developer
7 13 (16.46%) Developer
8 8 (10.13%) Support Engineer
9 7 (8.86%) Systems Administrator
10 6 (7.59%) Applications Engineer
10 6 (7.59%) Applications Support Engineer
10 6 (7.59%) Cisco Engineer
10 6 (7.59%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 6 (7.59%) VMware Engineer
11 5 (6.33%) Linux Scripter
11 5 (6.33%) Linux Support Engineer
11 5 (6.33%) Linux/Unix DevOps
11 5 (6.33%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (22.78%) LDAP
2 16 (20.25%) LAPP Stack
2 16 (20.25%) WebSphere MQ
3 12 (15.19%) FIX Protocol
4 6 (7.59%) Middleware
5 5 (6.33%) Kafka
6 1 (1.27%) LAMP
6 1 (1.27%) MFC
6 1 (1.27%) REST
6 1 (1.27%) STL
6 1 (1.27%) WebSockets
6 1 (1.27%) wxWidgets
Miscellaneous
1 16 (20.25%) Linux Command Line
2 15 (18.99%) Management Information System
3 12 (15.19%) Derivative
4 7 (8.86%) Clustering
5 6 (7.59%) Data Centre
6 4 (5.06%) Hybrid Cloud
7 3 (3.80%) Virtual Team
8 2 (2.53%) FPGA
8 2 (2.53%) PKI
8 2 (2.53%) Replication
9 1 (1.27%) Distributed Systems
9 1 (1.27%) Equities
9 1 (1.27%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 1 (1.27%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 79 (100.00%) Linux
2 29 (36.71%) Windows
3 23 (29.11%) Unix
4 11 (13.92%) Windows Server
5 8 (10.13%) CentOS
6 7 (8.86%) Windows Server 2019
7 6 (7.59%) Windows Server 2016
8 5 (6.33%) Windows Server 2012
9 4 (5.06%) Ubuntu
10 2 (2.53%) AIX
10 2 (2.53%) Oracle Linux
11 1 (1.27%) CoreOS
11 1 (1.27%) Debian
11 1 (1.27%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (31.65%) ITIL
2 24 (30.38%) Change Management
3 17 (21.52%) User Acceptance Testing
4 16 (20.25%) DevOps
4 16 (20.25%) Low Latency
4 16 (20.25%) Release Management
5 12 (15.19%) Concurrent Programming
5 12 (15.19%) Infrastructure as Code
5 12 (15.19%) SOA
5 12 (15.19%) Systems Analysis
5 12 (15.19%) Unit Testing
6 11 (13.92%) Problem-Solving
6 11 (13.92%) Root Cause Analysis
7 10 (12.66%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 9 (11.39%) Containerisation
8 9 (11.39%) Disaster Recovery
9 7 (8.86%) Acceptance Criteria
10 6 (7.59%) Agile
10 6 (7.59%) Infrastructure Automation
10 6 (7.59%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 39 (49.37%) Python
2 17 (21.52%) Bash
3 14 (17.72%) C++
4 10 (12.66%) PowerShell
5 6 (7.59%) SQL
6 3 (3.80%) Java
6 3 (3.80%) Perl
7 2 (2.53%) PHP
7 2 (2.53%) Shell Script
8 1 (1.27%) C#
8 1 (1.27%) Korn
Qualifications
1 22 (27.85%) AWS Certification
2 21 (26.58%) ITIL Certification
3 19 (24.05%) Degree
4 3 (3.80%) RHCE
4 3 (3.80%) RHCSA
5 2 (2.53%) DV Cleared
5 2 (2.53%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (26.58%) SLA
2 4 (5.06%) QA
3 1 (1.27%) ISO 20022
3 1 (1.27%) SEPA
System Software
1 26 (32.91%) VMware Infrastructure
2 9 (11.39%) Active Directory
3 7 (8.86%) vSphere
4 6 (7.59%) Docker
4 6 (7.59%) NFS
5 5 (6.33%) Veritas Cluster Server
6 1 (1.27%) Hyper-V
6 1 (1.27%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 27 (34.18%) Ansible
2 12 (15.19%) Kubernetes
3 9 (11.39%) Terraform
4 6 (7.59%) Progress Chef
4 6 (7.59%) Puppet
5 4 (5.06%) Red Hat Satellite
6 2 (2.53%) Nagios
6 2 (2.53%) Red Hat Spacewalk
6 2 (2.53%) WSUS
7 1 (1.27%) Grafana
7 1 (1.27%) McAfee ePO
7 1 (1.27%) Podman
7 1 (1.27%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 66 (83.54%) Red Hat
2 30 (37.97%) VMware
3 17 (21.52%) IBM
4 11 (13.92%) ServiceNow
5 10 (12.66%) Oracle
6 6 (7.59%) Cisco
6 6 (7.59%) Commvault
6 6 (7.59%) Pure Storage
7 5 (6.33%) Symantec
8 4 (5.06%) Atlassian
9 3 (3.80%) McAfee
10 2 (2.53%) Dell
10 2 (2.53%) HP
10 2 (2.53%) Microsoft
11 1 (1.27%) CyberArk
11 1 (1.27%) Delphix
11 1 (1.27%) Intel
11 1 (1.27%) SAP
11 1 (1.27%) SolarWinds
11 1 (1.27%) Sybase