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 9 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 296 350 339
Rank change year-on-year +54 -11 +223
Permanent jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 83 93 128
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.67% 0.54% 0.66%
As % of the Operating Systems category 5.93% 4.05% 4.20%
Number of salaries quoted 53 62 118
10th Percentile £61,250 £68,875 £57,500
25th Percentile £73,750 £75,625 £70,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £85,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year - +3.03% +6.45%
75th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £96,875
90th Percentile £121,000 £122,500 £110,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £65,465 £65,000
% change year-on-year +6.93% +0.71% +12.07%

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 1,400 2,296 3,051
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 11.37% 13.30% 15.68%
Number of salaries quoted 1,057 1,533 2,647
10th Percentile £31,000 £36,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £46,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% +4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £87,500 £87,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £115,000 £101,650
England median annual salary £42,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -16.00% - -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 9 November 2025.

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 9 November 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
Central London +50 11 £85,000 +17.24% 35
East London -8 6 £85,000 +3.03%
West London +1 2 - -
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 19 (22.89%) Tomcat
1 19 (22.89%) WebSphere
2 16 (19.28%) WebSphere Application Server
3 2 (2.41%) Apache
3 2 (2.41%) Confluence
3 2 (2.41%) IIS
3 2 (2.41%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 33 (39.76%) AWS
2 21 (25.30%) GitHub
3 19 (22.89%) Azure
4 7 (8.43%) Amazon EC2
4 7 (8.43%) Amazon EKS
4 7 (8.43%) Amazon S3
4 7 (8.43%) AWS Lambda
4 7 (8.43%) Route 53
4 7 (8.43%) Serverless
5 6 (7.23%) Amazon ECR
5 6 (7.23%) AWS CloudFormation
5 6 (7.23%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 4 (4.82%) OpenShift
7 2 (2.41%) AWS CodeDeploy
7 2 (2.41%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 17 (20.48%) SSL
2 15 (18.07%) Firewall
3 14 (16.87%) LAN
4 13 (15.66%) WAN
5 12 (14.46%) Fibre Channel
5 12 (14.46%) TCP/IP
6 6 (7.23%) Multicast
7 4 (4.82%) SAN
8 3 (3.61%) DNS
9 1 (1.20%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (21.69%) DB2
2 17 (20.48%) PostgreSQL
3 11 (13.25%) SQL Server
4 7 (8.43%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (2.41%) MongoDB
5 2 (2.41%) MySQL
6 1 (1.20%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 26 (31.33%) Git
2 9 (10.84%) GitLab
3 4 (4.82%) Jenkins
3 4 (4.82%) JIRA
4 2 (2.41%) Ant
4 2 (2.41%) Artifactory
4 2 (2.41%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 2 (2.41%) Bitbucket
4 2 (2.41%) Maven
4 2 (2.41%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 45 (54.22%) Finance
2 23 (27.71%) Banking
3 15 (18.07%) Social Skills
4 10 (12.05%) Investment Banking
5 6 (7.23%) Front Office
6 3 (3.61%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (2.41%) Financial Institution
7 2 (2.41%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (2.41%) Telecoms
8 1 (1.20%) Advertising
8 1 (1.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 22 (26.51%) Linux Engineer
2 17 (20.48%) Applications Support
2 17 (20.48%) Cisco Engineer
3 16 (19.28%) Administrator
3 16 (19.28%) Linux Support
4 14 (16.87%) DevOps Engineer
5 13 (15.66%) Linux Administrator
5 13 (15.66%) VMware Engineer
6 12 (14.46%) Infrastructure Support
6 12 (14.46%) Linux DevOps Engineer
6 12 (14.46%) Linux/Unix DevOps
7 11 (13.25%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 10 (12.05%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
8 10 (12.05%) Unix Support
9 9 (10.84%) Systems Administrator
10 8 (9.64%) Linux Scripter
10 8 (9.64%) Linux Systems Administrator
11 7 (8.43%) Kubernetes Engineer
12 6 (7.23%) Python Engineer
12 6 (7.23%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (19.28%) LAPP Stack
1 16 (19.28%) LDAP
1 16 (19.28%) WebSphere MQ
2 6 (7.23%) FIX Protocol
3 4 (4.82%) Kafka
3 4 (4.82%) Middleware
4 2 (2.41%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (2.41%) LAMP
5 1 (1.20%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 18 (21.69%) Management Information System
2 17 (20.48%) Hybrid Cloud
3 16 (19.28%) Linux Command Line
4 7 (8.43%) Data Centre
5 6 (7.23%) Derivative
6 5 (6.02%) Virtual Team
7 2 (2.41%) Clustering
7 2 (2.41%) Enterprise Cloud
7 2 (2.41%) Replication
8 1 (1.20%) Enterprise Storage
8 1 (1.20%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 83 (100.00%) Linux
2 36 (43.37%) Windows
3 23 (27.71%) Unix
4 13 (15.66%) CentOS
5 12 (14.46%) Windows Server
5 12 (14.46%) Windows Server 2019
6 7 (8.43%) Oracle Linux
6 7 (8.43%) Solaris
7 5 (6.02%) HPUX
7 5 (6.02%) Ubuntu
8 2 (2.41%) AIX
8 2 (2.41%) VMS
8 2 (2.41%) Windows Server 2012
8 2 (2.41%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (1.20%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (39.76%) DevOps
1 33 (39.76%) ITIL
2 24 (28.92%) Root Cause Analysis
3 21 (25.30%) Change Management
3 21 (25.30%) Containerisation
4 18 (21.69%) Infrastructure as Code
4 18 (21.69%) Release Management
5 17 (20.48%) Disaster Recovery
6 16 (19.28%) Incident Response
6 16 (19.28%) User Acceptance Testing
7 15 (18.07%) Low Latency
8 12 (14.46%) Incident Management
9 11 (13.25%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 10 (12.05%) Continuous Improvement
11 8 (9.64%) Infrastructure Automation
11 8 (9.64%) Performance Tuning
11 8 (9.64%) Problem-Solving
11 8 (9.64%) Resource Allocation
12 7 (8.43%) Collaborative Working
12 7 (8.43%) Security Hardening
Programming Languages
1 37 (44.58%) Python
2 16 (19.28%) Bash
3 7 (8.43%) C++
3 7 (8.43%) PowerShell
4 4 (4.82%) SQL
5 3 (3.61%) Java
6 2 (2.41%) Groovy
7 1 (1.20%) C#
7 1 (1.20%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 22 (26.51%) Degree
2 17 (20.48%) AWS Certification
3 16 (19.28%) ITIL Certification
4 8 (9.64%) Security Cleared
5 5 (6.02%) SC Cleared
6 4 (4.82%) RHCE
6 4 (4.82%) RHCSA
7 3 (3.61%) DV Cleared
8 2 (2.41%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (2.41%) Dell Certification
8 2 (2.41%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 2 (2.41%) MCSA
8 2 (2.41%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (19.28%) SLA
2 8 (9.64%) QA
3 1 (1.20%) ISO 20022
3 1 (1.20%) SEPA
System Software
1 29 (34.94%) VMware Infrastructure
2 17 (20.48%) NFS
3 11 (13.25%) vSphere
4 5 (6.02%) Active Directory
5 3 (3.61%) Docker
6 2 (2.41%) Hyper-V
6 2 (2.41%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (2.41%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (1.20%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 32 (38.55%) Ansible
2 26 (31.33%) Terraform
3 25 (30.12%) Kubernetes
4 6 (7.23%) Puppet
5 5 (6.02%) Nagios
6 4 (4.82%) Progress Chef
7 3 (3.61%) Podman
8 2 (2.41%) EMC NetWorker
8 2 (2.41%) Grafana
8 2 (2.41%) WSUS
9 1 (1.20%) NetBackup
9 1 (1.20%) Red Hat Satellite
9 1 (1.20%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 48 (57.83%) Red Hat
2 38 (45.78%) VMware
3 23 (27.71%) Cisco
3 23 (27.71%) Commvault
4 18 (21.69%) IBM
5 14 (16.87%) Pure Storage
6 12 (14.46%) Oracle
7 11 (13.25%) ServiceNow
8 9 (10.84%) Microsoft
9 2 (2.41%) Atlassian
9 2 (2.41%) Dell
9 2 (2.41%) EMC
9 2 (2.41%) Fujitsu
9 2 (2.41%) HP
9 2 (2.41%) Juniper
9 2 (2.41%) Zerto
10 1 (1.20%) SolarWinds
10 1 (1.20%) Veeam