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

6 months to
10 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 335 321 401
Rank change year-on-year -14 +80 +39
Permanent jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 67 70 106
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.32% 0.57% 0.43%
As % of the Operating Systems category 4.64% 4.46% 3.59%
Number of salaries quoted 55 54 85
10th Percentile £47,500 £52,500 £52,500
25th Percentile £50,625 £62,500 £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £76,250 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -24.59% -10.29% +13.33%
75th Percentile £77,500 £95,938 £102,500
90th Percentile £92,500 £119,250 £110,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% +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 1,445 1,568 2,956
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 6.85% 12.84% 12.12%
Number of salaries quoted 1,015 1,137 2,253
10th Percentile £32,500 £32,400 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,000 £42,500 £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 £83,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £103,750 £110,000 £105,000
England median annual salary £45,000 £42,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year +5.88% -5.56% -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 10 June 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 10 June 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 -17 7 £55,000 -29.03% 5
South London +21 5 £50,000 -23.08% 1
West London -11 2 - - 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 11 (16.42%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (10.45%) SharePoint
3 3 (4.48%) Apache
3 3 (4.48%) CMS
3 3 (4.48%) WordPress
4 1 (1.49%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (1.49%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 8 (11.94%) FLEXCUBE
Cloud Services
1 17 (25.37%) AWS
2 16 (23.88%) Azure
3 6 (8.96%) Datadog
4 5 (7.46%) AWS CloudFormation
4 5 (7.46%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (5.97%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 4 (5.97%) Amazon EC2
5 4 (5.97%) Amazon S3
5 4 (5.97%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 3 (4.48%) CloudFront
6 3 (4.48%) Route 53
7 2 (2.99%) Amazon ECS
7 2 (2.99%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (2.99%) Amazon SQS
7 2 (2.99%) AWS CloudTrail
7 2 (2.99%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (2.99%) GitHub
7 2 (2.99%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (2.99%) Serverless
8 1 (1.49%) AWS Fargate
Communications & Networking
1 18 (26.87%) DNS
2 17 (25.37%) LAN
3 14 (20.90%) TCP/IP
4 13 (19.40%) SAN
5 9 (13.43%) HTTP
6 8 (11.94%) WAN
7 5 (7.46%) Firewall
8 3 (4.48%) VoIP
9 2 (2.99%) DHCP
9 2 (2.99%) iSCSI
10 1 (1.49%) Kerberos
10 1 (1.49%) NAS
10 1 (1.49%) SSL
10 1 (1.49%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (11.94%) Oracle Database
2 6 (8.96%) Elasticsearch
3 5 (7.46%) SQL Server
4 4 (5.97%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (5.97%) MongoDB
5 2 (2.99%) Hadoop
6 1 (1.49%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (1.49%) DynamoDB
6 1 (1.49%) MySQL
6 1 (1.49%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (1.49%) SAP HANA
6 1 (1.49%) Sybase ASE
6 1 (1.49%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 12 (17.91%) Git
2 4 (5.97%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 4 (5.97%) GitLab
2 4 (5.97%) Jenkins
3 3 (4.48%) JIRA
4 2 (2.99%) Bitbucket
5 1 (1.49%) git-flow
5 1 (1.49%) Maven
5 1 (1.49%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 23 (34.33%) Social Skills
2 20 (29.85%) Finance
3 18 (26.87%) Banking
4 10 (14.93%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (5.97%) Front Office
5 4 (5.97%) Mandarin Language
6 3 (4.48%) Military
6 3 (4.48%) Public Sector
7 2 (2.99%) Advertising
7 2 (2.99%) Telecoms
8 1 (1.49%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.49%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.49%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.49%) Retail
Job Titles
1 22 (32.84%) Administrator
2 15 (22.39%) Systems Administrator
3 14 (20.90%) Linux Administrator
4 13 (19.40%) Senior
5 10 (14.93%) Linux Systems Administrator
6 9 (13.43%) DBA
7 8 (11.94%) Oracle DBA
7 8 (11.94%) Senior DBA
7 8 (11.94%) Senior Oracle DBA
8 7 (10.45%) 3rd Line Engineer
8 7 (10.45%) 3rd Line Support
8 7 (10.45%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
8 7 (10.45%) Support Engineer
9 6 (8.96%) Lead
9 6 (8.96%) Linux Engineer
10 5 (7.46%) DevOps Engineer
10 5 (7.46%) Linux Support
10 5 (7.46%) Linux Support Engineer
11 4 (5.97%) Azure Infrastructure Lead
11 4 (5.97%) Linux/Unix DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (13.43%) WebSockets
2 5 (7.46%) Middleware
3 4 (5.97%) web3js
4 2 (2.99%) Apache NiFi
4 2 (2.99%) Kafka
5 1 (1.49%) AWS CDK
5 1 (1.49%) LDAP
5 1 (1.49%) MFC
5 1 (1.49%) REST
5 1 (1.49%) STL
5 1 (1.49%) wxWidgets
Miscellaneous
1 14 (20.90%) Data Centre
2 7 (10.45%) PKI
3 6 (8.96%) Enterprise Storage
3 6 (8.96%) Management Information System
4 5 (7.46%) Hybrid Cloud
4 5 (7.46%) Operational Technology
5 4 (5.97%) Blockchain
5 4 (5.97%) Web3
6 3 (4.48%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (4.48%) Fixed Income
6 3 (4.48%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 3 (4.48%) Replication
7 2 (2.99%) Enterprise Cloud
8 1 (1.49%) Cloud Native
8 1 (1.49%) Clustering
8 1 (1.49%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (1.49%) Equities
8 1 (1.49%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (1.49%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 67 (100.00%) Linux
2 25 (37.31%) Windows
3 24 (35.82%) Windows Server
4 11 (16.42%) Unix
5 8 (11.94%) AIX
5 8 (11.94%) CentOS
5 8 (11.94%) Oracle Linux
6 7 (10.45%) Ubuntu
7 3 (4.48%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (2.99%) Amazon Linux
8 2 (2.99%) Rocky
9 1 (1.49%) CoreOS
9 1 (1.49%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (43.28%) DevOps
2 19 (28.36%) Disaster Recovery
3 17 (25.37%) High Availability
4 16 (23.88%) CI/CD
4 16 (23.88%) Configuration Management
5 15 (22.39%) ITIL
5 15 (22.39%) Problem-Solving
6 14 (20.90%) Cybersecurity
7 12 (17.91%) Incident Response
7 12 (17.91%) Infrastructure as Code
8 11 (16.42%) Performance Tuning
8 11 (16.42%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 10 (14.93%) Capacity Planning
9 10 (14.93%) Containerisation
9 10 (14.93%) Runbook
9 10 (14.93%) SIEM
10 9 (13.43%) Customer-Centricity
10 9 (13.43%) Performance Monitoring
11 8 (11.94%) Change Management
12 6 (8.96%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 29 (43.28%) SQL
2 23 (34.33%) Bash
3 18 (26.87%) Python
4 10 (14.93%) Shell Script
5 9 (13.43%) Korn
6 8 (11.94%) Java
6 8 (11.94%) PL/SQL
7 7 (10.45%) PowerShell
8 3 (4.48%) PHP
9 2 (2.99%) JavaScript
10 1 (1.49%) C++
10 1 (1.49%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 16 (23.88%) Security Cleared
2 10 (14.93%) Degree
2 10 (14.93%) RHCSA
3 9 (13.43%) DV Cleared
4 7 (10.45%) SC Cleared
5 5 (7.46%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (5.97%) Cisco Certification
6 4 (5.97%) Postgraduate
7 3 (4.48%) CCNA
7 3 (4.48%) MCSE
8 2 (2.99%) Azure Certification
8 2 (2.99%) Dell Certification
8 2 (2.99%) MCSA
8 2 (2.99%) RHCE
9 1 (1.49%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 1 (1.49%) AWS Certification
9 1 (1.49%) CCSP
9 1 (1.49%) CISM
9 1 (1.49%) CISSP
9 1 (1.49%) Linux+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.48%) SLA
2 1 (1.49%) GDPR
2 1 (1.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.49%) NIST
2 1 (1.49%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 30 (44.78%) VMware Infrastructure
2 12 (17.91%) Docker
3 11 (16.42%) Active Directory
3 11 (16.42%) vSphere
4 9 (13.43%) Hyper-V
5 8 (11.94%) Oracle RAC
6 2 (2.99%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (1.49%) KVM
7 1 (1.49%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 20 (29.85%) Kubernetes
2 18 (26.87%) Nagios
3 17 (25.37%) Ansible
4 13 (19.40%) Terraform
5 9 (13.43%) WSUS
6 8 (11.94%) Data Guard
6 8 (11.94%) Oracle RMAN
7 4 (5.97%) Argo
8 3 (4.48%) Prometheus
9 2 (2.99%) Grafana
9 2 (2.99%) Puppet
9 2 (2.99%) Red Hat Satellite
9 2 (2.99%) ZABBIX
10 1 (1.49%) McAfee ePO
10 1 (1.49%) Progress Chef
10 1 (1.49%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 43 (64.18%) Red Hat
2 37 (55.22%) VMware
3 10 (14.93%) Oracle
3 10 (14.93%) SolarWinds
4 8 (11.94%) IBM
4 8 (11.94%) McAfee
4 8 (11.94%) Microsoft
5 3 (4.48%) Pure Storage
5 3 (4.48%) ServiceNow
5 3 (4.48%) Splunk
5 3 (4.48%) Veeam
6 2 (2.99%) CheckPoint
6 2 (2.99%) Cisco
6 2 (2.99%) Dell
6 2 (2.99%) Fujitsu
6 2 (2.99%) HP
6 2 (2.99%) Juniper
6 2 (2.99%) OpenText
7 1 (1.49%) Ivanti
7 1 (1.49%) Sophos