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 21 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 400 301 367
Rank change year-on-year -99 +66 -16
Permanent jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 55 83 96
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.22% 0.70% 0.50%
As % of the Operating Systems category 3.85% 5.67% 4.02%
Number of salaries quoted 40 55 71
10th Percentile £47,500 £52,500 £52,500
25th Percentile £59,688 £61,500 £69,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £80,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% -5.88% +6.25%
75th Percentile £106,250 £90,000 £103,750
90th Percentile £115,000 £102,750 £122,500
England median annual salary £72,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +11.54% +4.00% -3.85%

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 1,427 1,464 2,387
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 5.64% 12.36% 12.46%
Number of salaries quoted 960 1,085 1,545
10th Percentile £33,250 £31,250 £36,100
25th Percentile £43,688 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +1.17%
75th Percentile £90,000 £87,500 £86,000
90th Percentile £102,500 £105,000 £112,500
England median annual salary £45,000 £41,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +8.43% -17.00% -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 21 September 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 21 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
South London - 5 £50,000 - 2
West London -15 3 - - 3
Central London -10 1 £75,000 -3.23% 18
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 5 (9.09%) Confluence
2 2 (3.64%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (1.82%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 10 (18.18%) FLEXCUBE
Cloud Services
1 26 (47.27%) AWS
2 14 (25.45%) Azure
3 8 (14.55%) GitHub
4 6 (10.91%) Microsoft 365
5 5 (9.09%) Amazon EC2
5 5 (9.09%) Amazon S3
5 5 (9.09%) Nutanix
5 5 (9.09%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 4 (7.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 4 (7.27%) Datadog
7 3 (5.45%) AWS CloudFormation
7 3 (5.45%) CloudFront
7 3 (5.45%) Route 53
8 2 (3.64%) Amazon ECS
8 2 (3.64%) Amazon EKS
8 2 (3.64%) Amazon SQS
8 2 (3.64%) AWS CloudTrail
8 2 (3.64%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (3.64%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (3.64%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 7 (12.73%) LAN
2 6 (10.91%) DNS
2 6 (10.91%) SAN
3 5 (9.09%) Kerberos
3 5 (9.09%) TCP/IP
4 4 (7.27%) HTTP
5 3 (5.45%) VoIP
5 3 (5.45%) WAN
6 2 (3.64%) Firewall
6 2 (3.64%) iSCSI
6 2 (3.64%) SSL
7 1 (1.82%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (18.18%) Oracle Database
2 9 (16.36%) SQL Server
3 8 (14.55%) MongoDB
4 4 (7.27%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (7.27%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (3.64%) Hadoop
6 1 (1.82%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (1.82%) DynamoDB
6 1 (1.82%) MySQL
6 1 (1.82%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (1.82%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 10 (18.18%) Git
1 10 (18.18%) GitLab
1 10 (18.18%) Jenkins
2 8 (14.55%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 7 (12.73%) JIRA
4 2 (3.64%) Bitbucket
5 1 (1.82%) git-flow
5 1 (1.82%) Maven
5 1 (1.82%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 25 (45.45%) Social Skills
2 17 (30.91%) Finance
3 14 (25.45%) Banking
4 10 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (14.55%) Public Sector
6 5 (9.09%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (5.45%) Front Office
7 3 (5.45%) Military
7 3 (5.45%) Telecoms
8 2 (3.64%) Advertising
8 2 (3.64%) Mandarin Language
Job Titles
1 13 (23.64%) Senior
2 11 (20.00%) DBA
3 10 (18.18%) Oracle DBA
3 10 (18.18%) Senior DBA
3 10 (18.18%) Senior Oracle DBA
4 9 (16.36%) Administrator
4 9 (16.36%) DevOps Engineer
5 6 (10.91%) Principal DevOps Engineer
5 6 (10.91%) Principal Engineer
5 6 (10.91%) Systems Administrator
6 5 (9.09%) Lead
6 5 (9.09%) Linux Engineer
7 4 (7.27%) IT Engineer
7 4 (7.27%) Linux Administrator
7 4 (7.27%) Linux Systems Administrator
8 3 (5.45%) Consultant
8 3 (5.45%) Developer
8 3 (5.45%) IT Administrator
8 3 (5.45%) Java Developer
8 3 (5.45%) Senior Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (25.45%) Terraform
2 5 (9.09%) LDAP
3 4 (7.27%) WebSockets
4 2 (3.64%) Apache NiFi
4 2 (3.64%) Kafka
4 2 (3.64%) Middleware
4 2 (3.64%) web3js
5 1 (1.82%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 10 (18.18%) Data Centre
2 8 (14.55%) Cloud Native
3 5 (9.09%) Operational Technology
3 5 (9.09%) Security Posture
4 3 (5.45%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (5.45%) Enterprise Cloud
4 3 (5.45%) Fixed Income
4 3 (5.45%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 3 (5.45%) Management Information System
4 3 (5.45%) Replication
5 2 (3.64%) Blockchain
5 2 (3.64%) Web3
6 1 (1.82%) Clustering
6 1 (1.82%) Driving Licence
6 1 (1.82%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.82%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (1.82%) PKI
6 1 (1.82%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.82%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 55 (100.00%) Linux
2 18 (32.73%) Windows
2 18 (32.73%) Windows Server
3 14 (25.45%) CentOS
4 13 (23.64%) Unix
5 10 (18.18%) AIX
5 10 (18.18%) Oracle Linux
6 6 (10.91%) Rocky
7 5 (9.09%) Ubuntu
8 3 (5.45%) Windows Server 2019
9 2 (3.64%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (41.82%) DevOps
2 17 (30.91%) High Availability
2 17 (30.91%) Incident Response
2 17 (30.91%) ITIL
3 16 (29.09%) Cybersecurity
4 15 (27.27%) Disaster Recovery
4 15 (27.27%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 14 (25.45%) Configuration Management
6 13 (23.64%) CI/CD
7 12 (21.82%) Infrastructure as Code
7 12 (21.82%) Problem-Solving
8 11 (20.00%) Change Management
8 11 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
8 11 (20.00%) Runbook
9 10 (18.18%) Capacity Planning
10 9 (16.36%) Containerisation
10 9 (16.36%) Vulnerability Management
11 8 (14.55%) Platform Engineering
11 8 (14.55%) Roadmaps
11 8 (14.55%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 20 (36.36%) SQL
2 18 (32.73%) Bash
3 16 (29.09%) Python
4 13 (23.64%) Java
5 10 (18.18%) Korn
5 10 (18.18%) PL/SQL
5 10 (18.18%) Shell Script
6 8 (14.55%) PowerShell
7 2 (3.64%) JavaScript
8 1 (1.82%) Bicep
8 1 (1.82%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 20 (36.36%) Security Cleared
2 13 (23.64%) DV Cleared
2 13 (23.64%) SC Cleared
3 9 (16.36%) Degree
4 8 (14.55%) Cisco Certification
5 6 (10.91%) CISSP
5 6 (10.91%) Microsoft Certification
6 5 (9.09%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 5 (9.09%) CCSP
6 5 (9.09%) CISM
7 4 (7.27%) RHCSA
8 3 (5.45%) CCNA
8 3 (5.45%) Dell Certification
8 3 (5.45%) MCSA
8 3 (5.45%) MCSE
9 2 (3.64%) AWS Certification
9 2 (3.64%) Azure Certification
9 2 (3.64%) Postgraduate
10 1 (1.82%) APMP
10 1 (1.82%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (9.09%) GDPR
1 5 (9.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 5 (9.09%) NIST
1 5 (9.09%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 3 (5.45%) SLA
System Software
1 16 (29.09%) Docker
1 16 (29.09%) VMware Infrastructure
2 10 (18.18%) Oracle RAC
3 9 (16.36%) Active Directory
4 8 (14.55%) Hyper-V
5 6 (10.91%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (5.45%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (1.82%) NFS
7 1 (1.82%) Samba
Systems Management
1 16 (29.09%) Kubernetes
2 15 (27.27%) Nagios
3 13 (23.64%) Ansible
4 11 (20.00%) Data Guard
5 10 (18.18%) Oracle RMAN
6 6 (10.91%) Red Hat Satellite
7 3 (5.45%) WSUS
8 2 (3.64%) Argo
8 2 (3.64%) Grafana
8 2 (3.64%) Prometheus
9 1 (1.82%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 1 (1.82%) Progress Chef
9 1 (1.82%) Puppet
9 1 (1.82%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 30 (54.55%) Red Hat
2 17 (30.91%) VMware
3 16 (29.09%) Oracle
4 11 (20.00%) Microsoft
5 10 (18.18%) IBM
6 7 (12.73%) ServiceNow
6 7 (12.73%) Splunk
7 5 (9.09%) CyberArk
7 5 (9.09%) Ivanti
7 5 (9.09%) Qualys
7 5 (9.09%) Rapid7
7 5 (9.09%) SolarWinds
7 5 (9.09%) Tenable
7 5 (9.09%) Veracode
8 3 (5.45%) Cisco
8 3 (5.45%) Dell
8 3 (5.45%) Fujitsu
8 3 (5.45%) HP
8 3 (5.45%) Juniper
8 3 (5.45%) Veeam