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

6 months to
31 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 304 350 388
Rank change year-on-year +46 +38 +117
Permanent jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 80 78 90
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.54% 0.51% 0.43%
As % of the Operating Systems category 5.69% 3.47% 2.94%
Number of salaries quoted 56 46 88
10th Percentile £51,250 £52,500 £55,275
25th Percentile £55,000 £65,000 £72,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £77,500 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.68% -8.82% +3.03%
75th Percentile £90,000 £90,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £140,000 £122,500 £104,750
England median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £58,000
% change year-on-year -11.54% +12.07% -3.33%

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 1,407 2,251 3,060
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 9.47% 14.62% 14.72%
Number of salaries quoted 1,063 1,427 2,539
10th Percentile £31,250 £35,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,625 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £89,125 £89,250 £83,750
90th Percentile £111,250 £115,000 £101,250
England median annual salary £45,000 £50,500 £48,500
% change year-on-year -10.89% +4.12% -7.62%

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 31 January 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 31 January 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 +29 16 £55,000 -18.52% 5
East London -5 10 £85,000 +30.77%
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 22 (27.50%) Tomcat
2 17 (21.25%) WebSphere
3 16 (20.00%) WebSphere Application Server
4 5 (6.25%) Apache
4 5 (6.25%) IIS
5 4 (5.00%) Confluence
6 3 (3.75%) CMS
6 3 (3.75%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (3.75%) SharePoint
6 3 (3.75%) WordPress
7 2 (2.50%) nginx
Business Applications
1 1 (1.25%) FLEXCUBE
Cloud Services
1 28 (35.00%) AWS
2 7 (8.75%) Amazon EC2
2 7 (8.75%) Amazon EKS
2 7 (8.75%) Amazon S3
2 7 (8.75%) AWS Lambda
2 7 (8.75%) Route 53
2 7 (8.75%) Serverless
3 6 (7.50%) Amazon ECR
3 6 (7.50%) AWS CloudFormation
3 6 (7.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 5 (6.25%) GitHub
4 5 (6.25%) OpenShift
5 3 (3.75%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 17 (21.25%) SSL
2 12 (15.00%) Multicast
3 11 (13.75%) DNS
4 9 (11.25%) LAN
4 9 (11.25%) TCP/IP
5 8 (10.00%) Firewall
5 8 (10.00%) WAN
6 5 (6.25%) SAN
7 4 (5.00%) Fibre Channel
8 3 (3.75%) DHCP
9 2 (2.50%) NAS
9 2 (2.50%) SNMP
10 1 (1.25%) HTTP
10 1 (1.25%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (22.50%) DB2
1 18 (22.50%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (17.50%) SQL Server
3 7 (8.75%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (3.75%) Oracle Database
5 2 (2.50%) MongoDB
5 2 (2.50%) MySQL
6 1 (1.25%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (1.25%) SAP HANA
6 1 (1.25%) Sybase ASE
6 1 (1.25%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 7 (8.75%) Git
1 7 (8.75%) GitLab
2 5 (6.25%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 5 (6.25%) Bitbucket
2 5 (6.25%) Jenkins
3 4 (5.00%) JIRA
General
1 45 (56.25%) Finance
2 22 (27.50%) Banking
3 13 (16.25%) Front Office
4 12 (15.00%) Social Skills
5 10 (12.50%) Investment Banking
6 5 (6.25%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (3.75%) Advertising
8 2 (2.50%) Financial Institution
8 2 (2.50%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.25%) Analytical Skills
9 1 (1.25%) Public Sector
9 1 (1.25%) Retail
Job Titles
1 23 (28.75%) Administrator
2 21 (26.25%) Linux Support
3 18 (22.50%) Linux Administrator
4 17 (21.25%) Applications Support
4 17 (21.25%) Infrastructure Support
5 15 (18.75%) Unix Support
6 14 (17.50%) Linux Engineer
7 13 (16.25%) C++ Developer
7 13 (16.25%) Developer
8 9 (11.25%) Support Engineer
9 7 (8.75%) Systems Administrator
10 6 (7.50%) Applications Engineer
10 6 (7.50%) Applications Support Engineer
10 6 (7.50%) Linux Support Engineer
10 6 (7.50%) Senior
11 5 (6.25%) Cisco Engineer
11 5 (6.25%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 5 (6.25%) Platform Engineer
11 5 (6.25%) VMware Engineer
12 4 (5.00%) Infrastructure Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (22.50%) LDAP
2 16 (20.00%) LAPP Stack
2 16 (20.00%) WebSphere MQ
3 12 (15.00%) FIX Protocol
4 7 (8.75%) Middleware
5 5 (6.25%) Kafka
6 1 (1.25%) LAMP
6 1 (1.25%) MFC
6 1 (1.25%) REST
6 1 (1.25%) STL
6 1 (1.25%) WebSockets
6 1 (1.25%) wxWidgets
Miscellaneous
1 16 (20.00%) Linux Command Line
2 14 (17.50%) Management Information System
3 12 (15.00%) Derivative
4 7 (8.75%) Clustering
5 6 (7.50%) Data Centre
6 3 (3.75%) Hybrid Cloud
6 3 (3.75%) PKI
7 2 (2.50%) FPGA
7 2 (2.50%) Replication
7 2 (2.50%) Virtual Team
8 1 (1.25%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (1.25%) Equities
8 1 (1.25%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 1 (1.25%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 80 (100.00%) Linux
2 30 (37.50%) Windows
3 24 (30.00%) Unix
4 12 (15.00%) Windows Server
5 8 (10.00%) CentOS
6 7 (8.75%) Windows Server 2019
7 6 (7.50%) Windows Server 2016
8 5 (6.25%) Windows Server 2012
9 4 (5.00%) Ubuntu
10 3 (3.75%) AIX
10 3 (3.75%) Oracle Linux
11 1 (1.25%) CoreOS
11 1 (1.25%) Debian
11 1 (1.25%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (32.50%) ITIL
2 24 (30.00%) Change Management
3 17 (21.25%) User Acceptance Testing
4 16 (20.00%) Release Management
5 15 (18.75%) Low Latency
6 14 (17.50%) DevOps
7 12 (15.00%) Concurrent Programming
7 12 (15.00%) SOA
7 12 (15.00%) Systems Analysis
7 12 (15.00%) Unit Testing
8 11 (13.75%) Infrastructure as Code
8 11 (13.75%) Problem-Solving
9 10 (12.50%) Disaster Recovery
9 10 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 9 (11.25%) Root Cause Analysis
11 7 (8.75%) Acceptance Criteria
11 7 (8.75%) Containerisation
12 6 (7.50%) Agile
12 6 (7.50%) Configuration Management
12 6 (7.50%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 38 (47.50%) Python
2 18 (22.50%) Bash
3 14 (17.50%) C++
4 10 (12.50%) PowerShell
5 8 (10.00%) SQL
6 3 (3.75%) Java
6 3 (3.75%) Perl
6 3 (3.75%) PHP
6 3 (3.75%) Shell Script
7 2 (2.50%) Korn
8 1 (1.25%) C#
8 1 (1.25%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 22 (27.50%) AWS Certification
2 21 (26.25%) ITIL Certification
3 19 (23.75%) Degree
4 3 (3.75%) DV Cleared
4 3 (3.75%) RHCE
4 3 (3.75%) RHCSA
4 3 (3.75%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (26.25%) SLA
2 3 (3.75%) QA
3 1 (1.25%) ISO 20022
3 1 (1.25%) SEPA
System Software
1 25 (31.25%) VMware Infrastructure
2 10 (12.50%) Active Directory
3 7 (8.75%) vSphere
4 6 (7.50%) Docker
5 5 (6.25%) NFS
5 5 (6.25%) Veritas Cluster Server
6 1 (1.25%) Hyper-V
6 1 (1.25%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (1.25%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 26 (32.50%) Ansible
2 11 (13.75%) Kubernetes
3 8 (10.00%) Terraform
4 6 (7.50%) Progress Chef
4 6 (7.50%) Puppet
5 4 (5.00%) Red Hat Satellite
6 3 (3.75%) Nagios
6 3 (3.75%) WSUS
7 2 (2.50%) Red Hat Spacewalk
8 1 (1.25%) Data Guard
8 1 (1.25%) Grafana
8 1 (1.25%) McAfee ePO
8 1 (1.25%) Oracle RMAN
8 1 (1.25%) Podman
8 1 (1.25%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 66 (82.50%) Red Hat
2 29 (36.25%) VMware
3 18 (22.50%) IBM
4 11 (13.75%) Oracle
4 11 (13.75%) ServiceNow
5 5 (6.25%) Cisco
5 5 (6.25%) Commvault
5 5 (6.25%) Pure Storage
5 5 (6.25%) Symantec
6 4 (5.00%) Atlassian
6 4 (5.00%) McAfee
7 2 (2.50%) Dell
7 2 (2.50%) HP
7 2 (2.50%) Microsoft
8 1 (1.25%) CyberArk
8 1 (1.25%) Intel
8 1 (1.25%) SAP
8 1 (1.25%) SolarWinds
8 1 (1.25%) Splunk
8 1 (1.25%) Sybase