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

6 months to
29 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 348 314 371
Rank change year-on-year -34 +57 +27
Permanent jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 70 77 105
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.31% 0.63% 0.52%
As % of the Operating Systems category 4.89% 4.91% 4.46%
Number of salaries quoted 55 58 81
10th Percentile £47,500 £52,500 £52,500
25th Percentile £54,375 £62,813 £68,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £80,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.63% -5.88% +13.33%
75th Percentile £77,500 £99,063 £102,500
90th Percentile £110,000 £111,750 £110,000
England median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -3.57% +21.74% -8.73%

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 1,431 1,569 2,355
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 6.25% 12.80% 11.57%
Number of salaries quoted 995 1,178 1,758
10th Percentile £33,250 £31,500 £32,925
25th Percentile £43,387 £41,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £90,000 £85,750 £87,500
90th Percentile £103,750 £105,375 £105,000
England median annual salary £45,000 £42,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +7.14% -11.58% -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 29 July 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 29 July 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 +7 5 £50,000 -23.08% 1
West London -23 3 - - 1
Central London -21 1 £75,000 -9.09% 1
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 9 (12.86%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (7.14%) SharePoint
3 4 (5.71%) Confluence
4 1 (1.43%) Apache
4 1 (1.43%) CMS
4 1 (1.43%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (1.43%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 12 (17.14%) FLEXCUBE
Cloud Services
1 24 (34.29%) AWS
2 18 (25.71%) Azure
3 6 (8.57%) Datadog
3 6 (8.57%) GitHub
4 5 (7.14%) AWS CloudFormation
4 5 (7.14%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (5.71%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 4 (5.71%) Amazon EC2
5 4 (5.71%) Amazon S3
5 4 (5.71%) Nutanix
5 4 (5.71%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 3 (4.29%) CloudFront
6 3 (4.29%) Route 53
7 2 (2.86%) Amazon ECS
7 2 (2.86%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (2.86%) Amazon SQS
7 2 (2.86%) AWS CloudTrail
7 2 (2.86%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (2.86%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (2.86%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 15 (21.43%) LAN
2 14 (20.00%) DNS
3 12 (17.14%) SAN
4 11 (15.71%) TCP/IP
5 8 (11.43%) HTTP
6 7 (10.00%) WAN
7 5 (7.14%) Firewall
8 4 (5.71%) Kerberos
9 3 (4.29%) VoIP
10 2 (2.86%) iSCSI
11 1 (1.43%) DHCP
11 1 (1.43%) NAS
11 1 (1.43%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (17.14%) Oracle Database
2 8 (11.43%) SQL Server
3 7 (10.00%) MongoDB
4 6 (8.57%) Elasticsearch
5 4 (5.71%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (2.86%) Hadoop
7 1 (1.43%) DynamoDB
7 1 (1.43%) MySQL
7 1 (1.43%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 15 (21.43%) Git
2 8 (11.43%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 8 (11.43%) GitLab
2 8 (11.43%) Jenkins
3 6 (8.57%) JIRA
4 2 (2.86%) Bitbucket
5 1 (1.43%) git-flow
5 1 (1.43%) Maven
5 1 (1.43%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 30 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 22 (31.43%) Finance
3 20 (28.57%) Banking
4 13 (18.57%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (8.57%) Public Sector
6 4 (5.71%) Influencing Skills
6 4 (5.71%) Mandarin Language
7 3 (4.29%) Front Office
7 3 (4.29%) Military
7 3 (4.29%) Telecoms
8 2 (2.86%) Advertising
9 1 (1.43%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 15 (21.43%) Administrator
1 15 (21.43%) Senior
2 13 (18.57%) DBA
3 12 (17.14%) Oracle DBA
3 12 (17.14%) Senior DBA
3 12 (17.14%) Senior Oracle DBA
3 12 (17.14%) Systems Administrator
4 9 (12.86%) DevOps Engineer
4 9 (12.86%) Linux Administrator
4 9 (12.86%) Linux Systems Administrator
5 8 (11.43%) Lead
5 8 (11.43%) Linux Engineer
6 5 (7.14%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 5 (7.14%) 3rd Line Support
6 5 (7.14%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
6 5 (7.14%) Linux Support
6 5 (7.14%) Linux Support Engineer
6 5 (7.14%) Support Engineer
7 4 (5.71%) Azure Infrastructure Lead
7 4 (5.71%) Operations Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (11.43%) WebSockets
2 4 (5.71%) LDAP
2 4 (5.71%) web3js
3 3 (4.29%) Middleware
4 2 (2.86%) Apache NiFi
4 2 (2.86%) Kafka
5 1 (1.43%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 13 (18.57%) Data Centre
2 6 (8.57%) Enterprise Storage
2 6 (8.57%) Management Information System
3 5 (7.14%) Cloud Native
3 5 (7.14%) Hybrid Cloud
3 5 (7.14%) Operational Technology
3 5 (7.14%) PKI
4 4 (5.71%) Blockchain
4 4 (5.71%) Security Posture
4 4 (5.71%) Web3
5 3 (4.29%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (4.29%) Enterprise Cloud
5 3 (4.29%) Fixed Income
5 3 (4.29%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 3 (4.29%) Replication
6 1 (1.43%) Clustering
6 1 (1.43%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (1.43%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 70 (100.00%) Linux
2 24 (34.29%) Windows
2 24 (34.29%) Windows Server
3 15 (21.43%) Unix
4 13 (18.57%) CentOS
5 12 (17.14%) AIX
5 12 (17.14%) Oracle Linux
6 7 (10.00%) Ubuntu
7 4 (5.71%) Rocky
8 3 (4.29%) Windows Server 2019
9 2 (2.86%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (47.14%) DevOps
2 23 (32.86%) Disaster Recovery
3 21 (30.00%) Configuration Management
3 21 (30.00%) High Availability
4 20 (28.57%) CI/CD
5 19 (27.14%) Incident Response
5 19 (27.14%) ITIL
6 18 (25.71%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 17 (24.29%) Cybersecurity
8 15 (21.43%) Infrastructure as Code
8 15 (21.43%) Performance Tuning
8 15 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
9 14 (20.00%) Capacity Planning
9 14 (20.00%) Runbook
10 12 (17.14%) Change Management
11 10 (14.29%) Containerisation
12 8 (11.43%) Customer-Centricity
12 8 (11.43%) Performance Monitoring
12 8 (11.43%) Risk Management
12 8 (11.43%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 30 (42.86%) SQL
2 25 (35.71%) Bash
3 20 (28.57%) Python
4 13 (18.57%) Shell Script
5 12 (17.14%) Java
5 12 (17.14%) Korn
5 12 (17.14%) PL/SQL
6 10 (14.29%) PowerShell
7 2 (2.86%) JavaScript
8 1 (1.43%) Groovy
8 1 (1.43%) PHP
Qualifications
1 21 (30.00%) Security Cleared
2 14 (20.00%) DV Cleared
3 11 (15.71%) SC Cleared
4 10 (14.29%) Degree
5 9 (12.86%) RHCSA
6 7 (10.00%) Cisco Certification
7 6 (8.57%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (5.71%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 4 (5.71%) CCSP
8 4 (5.71%) CISM
8 4 (5.71%) CISSP
8 4 (5.71%) Postgraduate
9 3 (4.29%) CCNA
9 3 (4.29%) Dell Certification
9 3 (4.29%) MCSA
9 3 (4.29%) MCSE
10 2 (2.86%) Azure Certification
10 2 (2.86%) RHCE
11 1 (1.43%) AWS Certification
11 1 (1.43%) Linux+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.71%) GDPR
1 4 (5.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (5.71%) NIST
1 4 (5.71%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 3 (4.29%) SLA
System Software
1 27 (38.57%) VMware Infrastructure
2 16 (22.86%) Docker
3 12 (17.14%) Active Directory
3 12 (17.14%) Oracle RAC
4 9 (12.86%) Hyper-V
4 9 (12.86%) vSphere
5 4 (5.71%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (4.29%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (1.43%) KVM
Systems Management
1 23 (32.86%) Kubernetes
2 22 (31.43%) Nagios
3 18 (25.71%) Ansible
4 17 (24.29%) Terraform
5 13 (18.57%) Data Guard
6 12 (17.14%) Oracle RMAN
7 8 (11.43%) WSUS
8 5 (7.14%) Red Hat Satellite
9 4 (5.71%) Argo
10 3 (4.29%) Prometheus
11 2 (2.86%) Grafana
11 2 (2.86%) Puppet
11 2 (2.86%) ZABBIX
12 1 (1.43%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
12 1 (1.43%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 39 (55.71%) Red Hat
2 33 (47.14%) VMware
3 17 (24.29%) Oracle
4 12 (17.14%) IBM
5 9 (12.86%) Microsoft
5 9 (12.86%) SolarWinds
6 6 (8.57%) ServiceNow
6 6 (8.57%) Splunk
7 5 (7.14%) McAfee
8 4 (5.71%) CyberArk
8 4 (5.71%) Ivanti
8 4 (5.71%) Qualys
8 4 (5.71%) Rapid7
8 4 (5.71%) Tenable
8 4 (5.71%) Veracode
9 3 (4.29%) Dell
9 3 (4.29%) Fujitsu
9 3 (4.29%) HP
9 3 (4.29%) Juniper
9 3 (4.29%) Veeam