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

6 months to
9 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 314 352 395
Rank change year-on-year +38 +43 +96
Permanent jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 77 77 80
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.51% 0.51% 0.38%
As % of the Operating Systems category 5.56% 3.50% 2.59%
Number of salaries quoted 58 46 78
10th Percentile £51,250 £52,500 £51,750
25th Percentile £55,000 £65,000 £72,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £77,500 £83,750
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% -7.46% +3.08%
75th Percentile £88,750 £90,000 £102,500
90th Percentile £140,000 £122,500 £104,750
England median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £56,000
% change year-on-year -11.54% +16.07% -6.67%

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 1,386 2,201 3,091
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 9.15% 14.59% 14.52%
Number of salaries quoted 1,050 1,405 2,553
10th Percentile £31,250 £35,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £47,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,450
Median % change year-on-year - +7.53% -7.00%
75th Percentile £89,688 £90,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £111,250 £115,000 £101,250
England median annual salary £45,000 £52,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -13.46% +9.47% -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 9 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 9 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 +33 16 £55,000 -21.43% 5
East London -7 8 £86,250 +32.69%
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 18 (23.38%) Tomcat
2 13 (16.88%) WebSphere
3 12 (15.58%) WebSphere Application Server
4 5 (6.49%) Apache
4 5 (6.49%) IIS
4 5 (6.49%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (6.49%) SharePoint
5 4 (5.19%) Confluence
6 3 (3.90%) CMS
6 3 (3.90%) WordPress
7 2 (2.60%) nginx
Business Applications
1 2 (2.60%) FLEXCUBE
Cloud Services
1 24 (31.17%) AWS
2 5 (6.49%) Amazon EC2
2 5 (6.49%) Amazon EKS
2 5 (6.49%) Amazon S3
2 5 (6.49%) AWS Lambda
2 5 (6.49%) OpenShift
2 5 (6.49%) Route 53
2 5 (6.49%) Serverless
3 4 (5.19%) Amazon ECR
3 4 (5.19%) AWS CloudFormation
3 4 (5.19%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 2 (2.60%) Azure
4 2 (2.60%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 15 (19.48%) DNS
2 13 (16.88%) SSL
3 12 (15.58%) Multicast
4 9 (11.69%) LAN
4 9 (11.69%) TCP/IP
5 7 (9.09%) SAN
6 6 (7.79%) Firewall
6 6 (7.79%) WAN
7 3 (3.90%) DHCP
7 3 (3.90%) HTTP
8 2 (2.60%) Fibre Channel
8 2 (2.60%) NAS
8 2 (2.60%) SNMP
9 1 (1.30%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (18.18%) DB2
1 14 (18.18%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (15.58%) SQL Server
3 5 (6.49%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (5.19%) Oracle Database
5 2 (2.60%) MongoDB
5 2 (2.60%) MySQL
6 1 (1.30%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (1.30%) SAP HANA
6 1 (1.30%) Sybase ASE
6 1 (1.30%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 6 (7.79%) Git
1 6 (7.79%) GitLab
2 5 (6.49%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 5 (6.49%) Bitbucket
2 5 (6.49%) Jenkins
3 4 (5.19%) JIRA
General
1 43 (55.84%) Finance
2 20 (25.97%) Banking
3 13 (16.88%) Front Office
4 12 (15.58%) Social Skills
5 8 (10.39%) Investment Banking
6 5 (6.49%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (3.90%) Advertising
7 3 (3.90%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (2.60%) Financial Institution
8 2 (2.60%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.30%) Public Sector
9 1 (1.30%) Retail
Job Titles
1 24 (31.17%) Administrator
2 20 (25.97%) Linux Support
3 19 (24.68%) Linux Administrator
4 14 (18.18%) Infrastructure Support
5 13 (16.88%) Applications Support
5 13 (16.88%) C++ Developer
5 13 (16.88%) Developer
5 13 (16.88%) Linux Engineer
5 13 (16.88%) Unix Support
6 9 (11.69%) Support Engineer
7 8 (10.39%) Systems Administrator
8 7 (9.09%) Linux Support Engineer
8 7 (9.09%) Senior
9 5 (6.49%) 3rd Line Engineer
9 5 (6.49%) 3rd Line Support
9 5 (6.49%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
9 5 (6.49%) Platform Engineer
10 4 (5.19%) DBA
10 4 (5.19%) Infrastructure Specialist
10 4 (5.19%) Support Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (18.18%) LDAP
2 12 (15.58%) FIX Protocol
2 12 (15.58%) LAPP Stack
2 12 (15.58%) WebSphere MQ
3 7 (9.09%) Middleware
4 5 (6.49%) Kafka
5 3 (3.90%) WebSockets
6 1 (1.30%) LAMP
6 1 (1.30%) MFC
6 1 (1.30%) REST
6 1 (1.30%) STL
6 1 (1.30%) wxWidgets
Miscellaneous
1 12 (15.58%) Derivative
1 12 (15.58%) Linux Command Line
2 10 (12.99%) Management Information System
3 8 (10.39%) Data Centre
4 7 (9.09%) Clustering
5 5 (6.49%) PKI
6 2 (2.60%) FPGA
6 2 (2.60%) Replication
7 1 (1.30%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (1.30%) Equities
7 1 (1.30%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (1.30%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (1.30%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 1 (1.30%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 77 (100.00%) Linux
2 27 (35.06%) Windows
3 21 (27.27%) Unix
4 13 (16.88%) Windows Server
5 8 (10.39%) CentOS
6 6 (7.79%) Windows Server 2016
6 6 (7.79%) Windows Server 2019
7 5 (6.49%) Windows Server 2012
8 4 (5.19%) AIX
8 4 (5.19%) Oracle Linux
8 4 (5.19%) Ubuntu
9 1 (1.30%) CoreOS
9 1 (1.30%) Debian
9 1 (1.30%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (28.57%) ITIL
2 20 (25.97%) Change Management
3 14 (18.18%) Low Latency
4 13 (16.88%) Problem-Solving
4 13 (16.88%) User Acceptance Testing
5 12 (15.58%) Concurrent Programming
5 12 (15.58%) DevOps
5 12 (15.58%) Release Management
5 12 (15.58%) SOA
5 12 (15.58%) Systems Analysis
5 12 (15.58%) Unit Testing
6 8 (10.39%) Disaster Recovery
6 8 (10.39%) Infrastructure as Code
6 8 (10.39%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 7 (9.09%) Configuration Management
7 7 (9.09%) Performance Monitoring
8 6 (7.79%) Agile
8 6 (7.79%) Infrastructure Automation
9 5 (6.49%) Acceptance Criteria
9 5 (6.49%) Collaborative Working
Programming Languages
1 34 (44.16%) Python
2 21 (27.27%) Bash
3 14 (18.18%) C++
4 13 (16.88%) SQL
5 10 (12.99%) PowerShell
6 4 (5.19%) Shell Script
7 3 (3.90%) Java
7 3 (3.90%) Korn
7 3 (3.90%) Perl
7 3 (3.90%) PHP
8 2 (2.60%) PL/SQL
9 1 (1.30%) C#
Qualifications
1 18 (23.38%) AWS Certification
2 17 (22.08%) ITIL Certification
3 15 (19.48%) Degree
4 5 (6.49%) DV Cleared
4 5 (6.49%) RHCSA
4 5 (6.49%) Security Cleared
5 3 (3.90%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (22.08%) SLA
2 2 (2.60%) QA
3 1 (1.30%) ISO 20022
3 1 (1.30%) SEPA
System Software
1 25 (32.47%) VMware Infrastructure
2 12 (15.58%) Active Directory
3 7 (9.09%) vSphere
4 6 (7.79%) Docker
5 5 (6.49%) Veritas Cluster Server
6 2 (2.60%) NFS
6 2 (2.60%) Oracle RAC
7 1 (1.30%) Hyper-V
7 1 (1.30%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 23 (29.87%) Ansible
2 8 (10.39%) Kubernetes
3 6 (7.79%) Nagios
3 6 (7.79%) Progress Chef
3 6 (7.79%) Puppet
4 5 (6.49%) Terraform
4 5 (6.49%) WSUS
5 4 (5.19%) Red Hat Satellite
6 2 (2.60%) Data Guard
6 2 (2.60%) Oracle RMAN
6 2 (2.60%) Red Hat Spacewalk
7 1 (1.30%) Grafana
7 1 (1.30%) McAfee ePO
7 1 (1.30%) Podman
7 1 (1.30%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 62 (80.52%) Red Hat
2 29 (37.66%) VMware
3 15 (19.48%) IBM
4 12 (15.58%) Oracle
5 9 (11.69%) ServiceNow
6 6 (7.79%) McAfee
7 5 (6.49%) Symantec
8 4 (5.19%) Atlassian
9 3 (3.90%) Pure Storage
9 3 (3.90%) SolarWinds
10 2 (2.60%) Cisco
10 2 (2.60%) Commvault
10 2 (2.60%) Dell
10 2 (2.60%) HP
11 1 (1.30%) CyberArk
11 1 (1.30%) Intel
11 1 (1.30%) Microsoft
11 1 (1.30%) SAP
11 1 (1.30%) Splunk
11 1 (1.30%) Sybase