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

6 months to
9 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 337 334 402
Rank change year-on-year -3 +68 +73
Permanent jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 73 67 91
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.39% 0.52% 0.40%
As % of the Operating Systems category 4.95% 3.68% 2.98%
Number of salaries quoted 60 48 74
10th Percentile £47,617 £57,625 £50,750
25th Percentile £53,750 £65,000 £68,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,250 £82,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -25.76% +3.13% -
75th Percentile £88,750 £96,250 £102,500
90th Percentile £140,000 £128,250 £110,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £70,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -14.29% +27.27% -15.38%

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 1,476 1,819 3,057
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 7.90% 14.14% 13.46%
Number of salaries quoted 1,074 1,358 2,429
10th Percentile £31,250 £34,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £90,000 £90,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £110,000 £115,000 £102,500
England median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% +11.11% -14.29%

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 April 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 April 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 +2 14 £55,000 -33.33% 5
East London -11 5 £87,500 +34.62%
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 11 (15.07%) Microsoft Exchange
2 9 (12.33%) Tomcat
3 7 (9.59%) SharePoint
4 5 (6.85%) Apache
4 5 (6.85%) Confluence
4 5 (6.85%) IIS
5 4 (5.48%) WebSphere
5 4 (5.48%) WebSphere Application Server
6 3 (4.11%) CMS
6 3 (4.11%) WordPress
7 2 (2.74%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (1.37%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (4.11%) FLEXCUBE
Cloud Services
1 17 (23.29%) AWS
2 9 (12.33%) Azure
3 6 (8.22%) AWS CloudFormation
3 6 (8.22%) Datadog
4 5 (6.85%) OpenShift
5 3 (4.11%) Amazon EC2
5 3 (4.11%) Amazon S3
5 3 (4.11%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (4.11%) Serverless
5 3 (4.11%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 2 (2.74%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 2 (2.74%) Amazon ECR
6 2 (2.74%) Amazon ECS
6 2 (2.74%) AWS CloudTrail
6 2 (2.74%) GitHub
6 2 (2.74%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (2.74%) Route 53
7 1 (1.37%) Amazon ELB
7 1 (1.37%) Apigee
7 1 (1.37%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 20 (27.40%) DNS
2 13 (17.81%) LAN
3 12 (16.44%) TCP/IP
4 11 (15.07%) Multicast
5 10 (13.70%) SAN
6 8 (10.96%) WAN
7 5 (6.85%) Firewall
7 5 (6.85%) HTTP
7 5 (6.85%) SSL
8 4 (5.48%) DHCP
9 3 (4.11%) NAS
10 2 (2.74%) SNMP
11 1 (1.37%) Kerberos
11 1 (1.37%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (12.33%) SQL Server
2 5 (6.85%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (5.48%) DB2
3 4 (5.48%) Elasticsearch
3 4 (5.48%) Oracle Database
4 3 (4.11%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (2.74%) MongoDB
6 1 (1.37%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (1.37%) DynamoDB
6 1 (1.37%) MySQL
6 1 (1.37%) SAP HANA
6 1 (1.37%) Sybase ASE
6 1 (1.37%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 10 (13.70%) Git
2 9 (12.33%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 7 (9.59%) Jenkins
4 5 (6.85%) Bitbucket
4 5 (6.85%) GitLab
4 5 (6.85%) JIRA
5 1 (1.37%) git-flow
5 1 (1.37%) Maven
5 1 (1.37%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 33 (45.21%) Finance
2 18 (24.66%) Social Skills
3 13 (17.81%) Banking
4 12 (16.44%) Front Office
5 6 (8.22%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (6.85%) Presentation Skills
7 4 (5.48%) Advertising
7 4 (5.48%) Mandarin Language
8 3 (4.11%) Investment Banking
9 1 (1.37%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.37%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.37%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.37%) Public Sector
9 1 (1.37%) Retail
Job Titles
1 19 (26.03%) Administrator
2 16 (21.92%) Linux Administrator
3 13 (17.81%) Linux Support
4 12 (16.44%) C++ Developer
4 12 (16.44%) Developer
5 9 (12.33%) Systems Administrator
6 8 (10.96%) Infrastructure Support
6 8 (10.96%) Linux Engineer
6 8 (10.96%) Senior
6 8 (10.96%) Support Engineer
6 8 (10.96%) Unix Support
7 7 (9.59%) 3rd Line Engineer
7 7 (9.59%) 3rd Line Support
7 7 (9.59%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
8 6 (8.22%) Lead
8 6 (8.22%) Linux Support Engineer
8 6 (8.22%) Linux Systems Administrator
9 5 (6.85%) DevOps Engineer
9 5 (6.85%) Platform Engineer
10 4 (5.48%) Operations Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (15.07%) FIX Protocol
2 7 (9.59%) LDAP
2 7 (9.59%) Middleware
3 5 (6.85%) Kafka
3 5 (6.85%) WebSockets
4 4 (5.48%) LAPP Stack
4 4 (5.48%) web3js
4 4 (5.48%) WebSphere MQ
5 1 (1.37%) AWS CDK
5 1 (1.37%) MFC
5 1 (1.37%) REST
5 1 (1.37%) STL
5 1 (1.37%) wxWidgets
Miscellaneous
1 11 (15.07%) Derivative
2 10 (13.70%) Data Centre
3 9 (12.33%) Management Information System
4 7 (9.59%) PKI
5 6 (8.22%) Clustering
5 6 (8.22%) Enterprise Storage
6 5 (6.85%) Linux Command Line
7 4 (5.48%) Blockchain
7 4 (5.48%) Hybrid Cloud
7 4 (5.48%) Web3
8 2 (2.74%) FPGA
9 1 (1.37%) Distributed Systems
9 1 (1.37%) Equities
9 1 (1.37%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 1 (1.37%) Replication
9 1 (1.37%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 73 (100.00%) Linux
2 26 (35.62%) Windows
3 21 (28.77%) Windows Server
4 12 (16.44%) Unix
5 8 (10.96%) CentOS
6 6 (8.22%) Windows Server 2016
6 6 (8.22%) Windows Server 2019
7 5 (6.85%) Oracle Linux
7 5 (6.85%) Ubuntu
7 5 (6.85%) Windows Server 2012
8 3 (4.11%) AIX
9 1 (1.37%) CoreOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (34.25%) DevOps
2 18 (24.66%) CI/CD
3 16 (21.92%) Configuration Management
4 15 (20.55%) Problem-Solving
5 14 (19.18%) Infrastructure as Code
5 14 (19.18%) ITIL
6 13 (17.81%) Disaster Recovery
7 12 (16.44%) Change Management
7 12 (16.44%) Low Latency
8 11 (15.07%) Concurrent Programming
8 11 (15.07%) SOA
8 11 (15.07%) Systems Analysis
8 11 (15.07%) Unit Testing
9 9 (12.33%) Performance Monitoring
10 8 (10.96%) Agile
10 8 (10.96%) High Availability
11 7 (9.59%) Cybersecurity
11 7 (9.59%) SIEM
12 6 (8.22%) Performance Tuning
12 6 (8.22%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 23 (31.51%) Python
2 19 (26.03%) Bash
3 17 (23.29%) SQL
4 12 (16.44%) C++
4 12 (16.44%) PowerShell
5 5 (6.85%) Shell Script
6 4 (5.48%) Korn
7 3 (4.11%) Java
7 3 (4.11%) Perl
7 3 (4.11%) PHP
7 3 (4.11%) PL/SQL
8 1 (1.37%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 10 (13.70%) AWS Certification
1 10 (13.70%) Degree
2 9 (12.33%) ITIL Certification
2 9 (12.33%) Security Cleared
3 7 (9.59%) DV Cleared
4 6 (8.22%) RHCSA
5 4 (5.48%) Postgraduate
6 2 (2.74%) RHCE
6 2 (2.74%) SC Cleared
7 1 (1.37%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 1 (1.37%) CCSP
7 1 (1.37%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (1.37%) CISM
7 1 (1.37%) CISSP
7 1 (1.37%) Linux+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (12.33%) SLA
2 1 (1.37%) GDPR
2 1 (1.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.37%) NIST
2 1 (1.37%) QA
2 1 (1.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 30 (41.10%) VMware Infrastructure
2 14 (19.18%) Active Directory
3 12 (16.44%) Docker
4 11 (15.07%) vSphere
5 5 (6.85%) Veritas Cluster Server
6 3 (4.11%) Oracle RAC
7 2 (2.74%) Hyper-V
8 1 (1.37%) KVM
8 1 (1.37%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 29 (39.73%) Ansible
2 18 (24.66%) Kubernetes
3 10 (13.70%) Terraform
4 9 (12.33%) Nagios
5 7 (9.59%) WSUS
6 5 (6.85%) Progress Chef
6 5 (6.85%) Puppet
6 5 (6.85%) Red Hat Satellite
7 4 (5.48%) Argo
8 3 (4.11%) Data Guard
8 3 (4.11%) Oracle RMAN
9 2 (2.74%) Red Hat Spacewalk
10 1 (1.37%) Grafana
10 1 (1.37%) McAfee ePO
10 1 (1.37%) Prometheus
10 1 (1.37%) SCVMM
10 1 (1.37%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 58 (79.45%) Red Hat
2 38 (52.05%) VMware
3 12 (16.44%) Oracle
4 8 (10.96%) McAfee
5 7 (9.59%) IBM
6 5 (6.85%) SolarWinds
6 5 (6.85%) Symantec
7 4 (5.48%) Atlassian
7 4 (5.48%) ServiceNow
8 3 (4.11%) Pure Storage
9 2 (2.74%) CyberArk
9 2 (2.74%) Dell
9 2 (2.74%) HP
9 2 (2.74%) Splunk
10 1 (1.37%) Intel
10 1 (1.37%) Microsoft
10 1 (1.37%) Rapid7
10 1 (1.37%) SAP
10 1 (1.37%) Sybase
10 1 (1.37%) Veracode