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 3 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 301 350 398
Rank change year-on-year +49 +48 +105
Permanent jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 79 75 86
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.53% 0.49% 0.40%
As % of the Operating Systems category 5.66% 3.37% 2.75%
Number of salaries quoted 57 45 84
10th Percentile £51,250 £51,250 £53,975
25th Percentile £55,000 £65,000 £72,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £77,500 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% -8.82% +3.03%
75th Percentile £90,000 £90,000 £100,625
90th Percentile £140,000 £122,500 £102,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -11.54% +13.04% -4.17%

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 1,395 2,224 3,122
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 9.36% 14.59% 14.65%
Number of salaries quoted 1,050 1,409 2,585
10th Percentile £31,000 £35,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £47,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,100 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -0.15% +4.16% -3.85%
75th Percentile £88,750 £90,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £111,250 £115,000 £101,250
England median annual salary £44,000 £51,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year -14.56% +8.42% -9.52%

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 3 February 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 3 February 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 +39 16 £55,000 -18.52% 5
East London -5 9 £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 20 (25.32%) Tomcat
2 15 (18.99%) WebSphere
3 14 (17.72%) WebSphere Application Server
4 5 (6.33%) Apache
4 5 (6.33%) IIS
5 4 (5.06%) Confluence
5 4 (5.06%) Microsoft Exchange
5 4 (5.06%) SharePoint
6 3 (3.80%) CMS
6 3 (3.80%) WordPress
7 2 (2.53%) nginx
Business Applications
1 2 (2.53%) FLEXCUBE
Cloud Services
1 26 (32.91%) AWS
2 6 (7.59%) Amazon EC2
2 6 (7.59%) Amazon EKS
2 6 (7.59%) Amazon S3
2 6 (7.59%) AWS Lambda
2 6 (7.59%) Route 53
2 6 (7.59%) Serverless
3 5 (6.33%) Amazon ECR
3 5 (6.33%) AWS CloudFormation
3 5 (6.33%) OpenShift
3 5 (6.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 4 (5.06%) GitHub
5 3 (3.80%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 15 (18.99%) SSL
2 12 (15.19%) DNS
2 12 (15.19%) Multicast
3 8 (10.13%) LAN
3 8 (10.13%) TCP/IP
4 7 (8.86%) Firewall
4 7 (8.86%) WAN
5 6 (7.59%) SAN
6 3 (3.80%) DHCP
6 3 (3.80%) Fibre Channel
7 2 (2.53%) NAS
7 2 (2.53%) SNMP
8 1 (1.27%) HTTP
8 1 (1.27%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (20.25%) DB2
1 16 (20.25%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (16.46%) SQL Server
3 6 (7.59%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (5.06%) Oracle Database
5 2 (2.53%) MongoDB
5 2 (2.53%) MySQL
6 1 (1.27%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (1.27%) SAP HANA
6 1 (1.27%) Sybase ASE
6 1 (1.27%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 7 (8.86%) GitLab
2 6 (7.59%) Git
3 5 (6.33%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 5 (6.33%) Bitbucket
3 5 (6.33%) Jenkins
4 4 (5.06%) JIRA
General
1 44 (55.70%) Finance
2 21 (26.58%) Banking
3 13 (16.46%) Front Office
3 13 (16.46%) Social Skills
4 9 (11.39%) Investment Banking
5 5 (6.33%) Presentation Skills
6 3 (3.80%) Advertising
7 2 (2.53%) Financial Institution
7 2 (2.53%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.27%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (1.27%) Public Sector
8 1 (1.27%) Retail
Job Titles
1 23 (29.11%) Administrator
2 21 (26.58%) Linux Support
3 18 (22.78%) Linux Administrator
4 15 (18.99%) Applications Support
4 15 (18.99%) Infrastructure Support
5 14 (17.72%) Linux Engineer
5 14 (17.72%) Unix Support
6 13 (16.46%) C++ Developer
6 13 (16.46%) Developer
7 9 (11.39%) Support Engineer
8 7 (8.86%) Linux Support Engineer
8 7 (8.86%) Senior
8 7 (8.86%) Systems Administrator
9 5 (6.33%) Applications Engineer
9 5 (6.33%) Applications Support Engineer
9 5 (6.33%) Platform Engineer
10 4 (5.06%) Cisco Engineer
10 4 (5.06%) Infrastructure Specialist
10 4 (5.06%) Linux Specialist
10 4 (5.06%) Unix Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (20.25%) LDAP
2 14 (17.72%) LAPP Stack
2 14 (17.72%) WebSphere MQ
3 12 (15.19%) FIX Protocol
4 7 (8.86%) 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 14 (17.72%) Linux Command Line
2 12 (15.19%) Derivative
2 12 (15.19%) Management Information System
3 7 (8.86%) Clustering
4 6 (7.59%) Data Centre
5 4 (5.06%) PKI
6 3 (3.80%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (2.53%) FPGA
7 2 (2.53%) Replication
7 2 (2.53%) Virtual Team
8 1 (1.27%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (1.27%) Equities
8 1 (1.27%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 1 (1.27%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 79 (100.00%) Linux
2 29 (36.71%) Windows
3 23 (29.11%) Unix
4 13 (16.46%) 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%) AIX
9 4 (5.06%) Oracle Linux
9 4 (5.06%) Ubuntu
10 1 (1.27%) CoreOS
10 1 (1.27%) Debian
10 1 (1.27%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (31.65%) ITIL
2 23 (29.11%) Change Management
3 15 (18.99%) Low Latency
3 15 (18.99%) User Acceptance Testing
4 14 (17.72%) Release Management
5 13 (16.46%) DevOps
6 12 (15.19%) Concurrent Programming
6 12 (15.19%) SOA
6 12 (15.19%) Systems Analysis
6 12 (15.19%) Unit Testing
7 11 (13.92%) Problem-Solving
8 10 (12.66%) Disaster Recovery
8 10 (12.66%) Infrastructure as Code
9 9 (11.39%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 8 (10.13%) Root Cause Analysis
11 7 (8.86%) Configuration Management
12 6 (7.59%) Acceptance Criteria
12 6 (7.59%) Agile
12 6 (7.59%) Containerisation
12 6 (7.59%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 35 (44.30%) Python
2 19 (24.05%) Bash
3 14 (17.72%) C++
4 10 (12.66%) PowerShell
4 10 (12.66%) SQL
5 4 (5.06%) Shell Script
6 3 (3.80%) Java
6 3 (3.80%) Korn
6 3 (3.80%) Perl
6 3 (3.80%) PHP
7 2 (2.53%) PL/SQL
8 1 (1.27%) C#
Qualifications
1 20 (25.32%) AWS Certification
2 19 (24.05%) ITIL Certification
3 17 (21.52%) Degree
4 4 (5.06%) DV Cleared
4 4 (5.06%) Security Cleared
5 3 (3.80%) RHCE
5 3 (3.80%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (24.05%) SLA
2 3 (3.80%) QA
3 1 (1.27%) ISO 20022
3 1 (1.27%) SEPA
System Software
1 25 (31.65%) VMware Infrastructure
2 11 (13.92%) Active Directory
3 7 (8.86%) vSphere
4 6 (7.59%) Docker
5 5 (6.33%) Veritas Cluster Server
6 4 (5.06%) NFS
7 2 (2.53%) Oracle RAC
8 1 (1.27%) Hyper-V
8 1 (1.27%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 25 (31.65%) Ansible
2 10 (12.66%) Kubernetes
3 7 (8.86%) Terraform
4 6 (7.59%) Progress Chef
4 6 (7.59%) Puppet
5 4 (5.06%) Nagios
5 4 (5.06%) Red Hat Satellite
5 4 (5.06%) WSUS
6 2 (2.53%) Data Guard
6 2 (2.53%) Oracle RMAN
6 2 (2.53%) Red Hat Spacewalk
7 1 (1.27%) Grafana
7 1 (1.27%) McAfee ePO
7 1 (1.27%) Podman
7 1 (1.27%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 63 (79.75%) Red Hat
2 29 (36.71%) VMware
3 17 (21.52%) IBM
4 12 (15.19%) Oracle
5 10 (12.66%) ServiceNow
6 5 (6.33%) McAfee
6 5 (6.33%) Symantec
7 4 (5.06%) Atlassian
7 4 (5.06%) Cisco
7 4 (5.06%) Commvault
7 4 (5.06%) Pure Storage
8 2 (2.53%) Dell
8 2 (2.53%) HP
8 2 (2.53%) Microsoft
9 1 (1.27%) CyberArk
9 1 (1.27%) Intel
9 1 (1.27%) SAP
9 1 (1.27%) SolarWinds
9 1 (1.27%) Splunk
9 1 (1.27%) Sybase