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

6 months to
23 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 327 325 399
Rank change year-on-year -2 +74 +65
Permanent jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 73 66 95
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.37% 0.51% 0.41%
As % of the Operating Systems category 4.97% 3.64% 3.07%
Number of salaries quoted 60 49 78
10th Percentile £47,606 £50,250 £50,000
25th Percentile £53,750 £62,500 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,750 £77,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -24.19% +3.33% -6.25%
75th Percentile £88,750 £96,250 £102,500
90th Percentile £140,000 £105,500 £106,500
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 1,470 1,814 3,094
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 7.51% 14.09% 13.32%
Number of salaries quoted 1,060 1,348 2,392
10th Percentile £31,250 £33,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £45,000 £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 £82,512
90th Percentile £110,000 £115,000 £102,500
England median annual salary £45,000 £47,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year -5.26% +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 23 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 23 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 0 12 £55,000 -27.87% 2
East London -17 4 £87,500 +34.62% 3
South London +17 1 £50,000 -23.08% 3
West London -28 1 - - 2
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 7 (9.59%) SharePoint
3 6 (8.22%) Tomcat
4 5 (6.85%) Apache
4 5 (6.85%) Confluence
4 5 (6.85%) IIS
5 3 (4.11%) CMS
5 3 (4.11%) WordPress
6 2 (2.74%) nginx
7 1 (1.37%) WebSphere
7 1 (1.37%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 1 (1.37%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (4.11%) FLEXCUBE
Cloud Services
1 16 (21.92%) AWS
2 11 (15.07%) Azure
3 6 (8.22%) Datadog
4 5 (6.85%) AWS CloudFormation
4 5 (6.85%) OpenShift
5 3 (4.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 3 (4.11%) Amazon EC2
5 3 (4.11%) Amazon S3
5 3 (4.11%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 2 (2.74%) Amazon ECS
6 2 (2.74%) AWS CloudTrail
6 2 (2.74%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (2.74%) CloudFront
6 2 (2.74%) GitHub
6 2 (2.74%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (2.74%) Route 53
6 2 (2.74%) Serverless
7 1 (1.37%) Amazon Bedrock
7 1 (1.37%) Amazon ECR
7 1 (1.37%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 21 (28.77%) DNS
2 15 (20.55%) LAN
3 13 (17.81%) TCP/IP
4 11 (15.07%) SAN
5 9 (12.33%) Multicast
5 9 (12.33%) WAN
6 6 (8.22%) HTTP
7 5 (6.85%) Firewall
8 4 (5.48%) DHCP
9 3 (4.11%) NAS
10 2 (2.74%) SNMP
10 2 (2.74%) SSL
11 1 (1.37%) Kerberos
11 1 (1.37%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (12.33%) SQL Server
2 4 (5.48%) Elasticsearch
2 4 (5.48%) Oracle Database
3 3 (4.11%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (2.74%) MongoDB
4 2 (2.74%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.37%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (1.37%) DB2
5 1 (1.37%) DynamoDB
5 1 (1.37%) MySQL
5 1 (1.37%) SAP HANA
5 1 (1.37%) Sybase ASE
5 1 (1.37%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 10 (13.70%) Git
2 9 (12.33%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 8 (10.96%) Jenkins
4 6 (8.22%) Bitbucket
4 6 (8.22%) GitLab
5 5 (6.85%) JIRA
6 1 (1.37%) git-flow
6 1 (1.37%) Maven
6 1 (1.37%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 31 (42.47%) Finance
2 19 (26.03%) Social Skills
3 11 (15.07%) Banking
3 11 (15.07%) Front Office
4 7 (9.59%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (6.85%) Presentation Skills
6 4 (5.48%) Advertising
6 4 (5.48%) Mandarin Language
7 1 (1.37%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.37%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.37%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.37%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.37%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.37%) Retail
7 1 (1.37%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 21 (28.77%) Administrator
2 17 (23.29%) Linux Administrator
3 11 (15.07%) Developer
3 11 (15.07%) Systems Administrator
4 10 (13.70%) C++ Developer
4 10 (13.70%) Linux Support
5 8 (10.96%) Senior
6 7 (9.59%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 7 (9.59%) 3rd Line Support
6 7 (9.59%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
6 7 (9.59%) Linux Engineer
6 7 (9.59%) Linux Systems Administrator
6 7 (9.59%) Support Engineer
7 6 (8.22%) Infrastructure Support
7 6 (8.22%) Lead
7 6 (8.22%) Unix Support
8 5 (6.85%) DevOps Engineer
8 5 (6.85%) Linux Support Engineer
8 5 (6.85%) Platform Engineer
9 4 (5.48%) Unix Support Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (12.33%) FIX Protocol
2 8 (10.96%) Middleware
3 6 (8.22%) WebSockets
4 5 (6.85%) Kafka
5 4 (5.48%) LDAP
5 4 (5.48%) web3js
6 1 (1.37%) AWS CDK
6 1 (1.37%) LAPP Stack
6 1 (1.37%) MFC
6 1 (1.37%) REST
6 1 (1.37%) STL
6 1 (1.37%) WebSphere MQ
6 1 (1.37%) wxWidgets
Miscellaneous
1 12 (16.44%) Data Centre
2 9 (12.33%) Derivative
3 7 (9.59%) Management Information System
3 7 (9.59%) PKI
4 6 (8.22%) Clustering
4 6 (8.22%) Enterprise Storage
5 4 (5.48%) Blockchain
5 4 (5.48%) Hybrid Cloud
5 4 (5.48%) Web3
6 2 (2.74%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 2 (2.74%) FPGA
6 2 (2.74%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (1.37%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.37%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (1.37%) Enterprise Cloud
7 1 (1.37%) Equities
7 1 (1.37%) Fixed Income
7 1 (1.37%) Operational Technology
7 1 (1.37%) Replication
7 1 (1.37%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 73 (100.00%) Linux
2 24 (32.88%) Windows
3 22 (30.14%) Windows Server
4 9 (12.33%) CentOS
4 9 (12.33%) Unix
5 7 (9.59%) Windows Server 2019
6 6 (8.22%) Ubuntu
6 6 (8.22%) Windows Server 2016
7 5 (6.85%) Oracle Linux
7 5 (6.85%) Windows Server 2012
8 3 (4.11%) AIX
9 1 (1.37%) Amazon Linux
9 1 (1.37%) CoreOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (36.99%) DevOps
2 19 (26.03%) CI/CD
3 16 (21.92%) Configuration Management
3 16 (21.92%) Problem-Solving
4 15 (20.55%) Infrastructure as Code
5 13 (17.81%) Disaster Recovery
6 12 (16.44%) ITIL
7 11 (15.07%) Low Latency
8 10 (13.70%) Performance Monitoring
9 9 (12.33%) Change Management
9 9 (12.33%) Concurrent Programming
9 9 (12.33%) Cybersecurity
9 9 (12.33%) High Availability
9 9 (12.33%) SOA
9 9 (12.33%) Systems Analysis
9 9 (12.33%) Unit Testing
10 8 (10.96%) Agile
10 8 (10.96%) Containerisation
11 7 (9.59%) SIEM
12 6 (8.22%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 22 (30.14%) Python
2 21 (28.77%) Bash
3 19 (26.03%) SQL
4 12 (16.44%) PowerShell
5 10 (13.70%) C++
6 5 (6.85%) Java
6 5 (6.85%) Shell Script
7 4 (5.48%) Korn
8 3 (4.11%) Perl
8 3 (4.11%) PHP
8 3 (4.11%) PL/SQL
9 1 (1.37%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 10 (13.70%) Security Cleared
2 8 (10.96%) Degree
3 7 (9.59%) AWS Certification
3 7 (9.59%) DV Cleared
3 7 (9.59%) RHCSA
4 6 (8.22%) ITIL Certification
5 4 (5.48%) Postgraduate
6 3 (4.11%) SC Cleared
7 2 (2.74%) RHCE
8 1 (1.37%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 1 (1.37%) CCSP
8 1 (1.37%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (1.37%) CISM
8 1 (1.37%) CISSP
8 1 (1.37%) Dell Certification
8 1 (1.37%) Linux+ Certification
8 1 (1.37%) MCSA
8 1 (1.37%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (8.22%) 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 32 (43.84%) VMware Infrastructure
2 15 (20.55%) Active Directory
3 14 (19.18%) Docker
4 11 (15.07%) vSphere
5 5 (6.85%) Veritas Cluster Server
6 4 (5.48%) Hyper-V
7 3 (4.11%) Oracle RAC
8 1 (1.37%) KVM
8 1 (1.37%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (1.37%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 29 (39.73%) Ansible
2 20 (27.40%) Kubernetes
3 11 (15.07%) Terraform
4 10 (13.70%) Nagios
5 8 (10.96%) 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 57 (78.08%) Red Hat
2 40 (54.79%) VMware
3 12 (16.44%) Oracle
4 8 (10.96%) McAfee
5 6 (8.22%) SolarWinds
6 5 (6.85%) Symantec
7 4 (5.48%) Atlassian
7 4 (5.48%) IBM
8 3 (4.11%) Dell
8 3 (4.11%) HP
8 3 (4.11%) Microsoft
8 3 (4.11%) Pure Storage
9 2 (2.74%) CyberArk
9 2 (2.74%) ServiceNow
9 2 (2.74%) Splunk
10 1 (1.37%) Cisco
10 1 (1.37%) Intel
10 1 (1.37%) Ivanti
10 1 (1.37%) Qualys
10 1 (1.37%) Rapid7