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

6 months to
4 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 290 366 349
Rank change year-on-year +76 -17 +148
Permanent jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 83 68 100
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.60% 0.44% 0.56%
As % of the Operating Systems category 6.01% 2.98% 3.67%
Number of salaries quoted 54 40 99
10th Percentile £54,125 £57,500 £57,650
25th Percentile £61,250 £68,750 £72,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £82,500 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.03% - +3.13%
75th Percentile £100,000 £96,250 £100,000
90th Percentile £140,000 £123,250 £104,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% - +8.33%

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 1,380 2,285 2,723
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 10.04% 14.66% 15.26%
Number of salaries quoted 1,063 1,471 2,281
10th Percentile £31,250 £36,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,236 £47,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% +4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £88,750 £89,250 £84,056
90th Percentile £111,250 £115,000 £101,250
England median annual salary £44,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% - -4.76%

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 4 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 4 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 +44 14 £56,250 -19.64% 6
East London -4 10 £85,000 +15.25% 1
West London -2 1 - - 3
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 (26.51%) Tomcat
2 18 (21.69%) WebSphere
3 16 (19.28%) WebSphere Application Server
4 5 (6.02%) IIS
5 4 (4.82%) Confluence
6 3 (3.61%) Apache
7 2 (2.41%) nginx
8 1 (1.20%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 31 (37.35%) AWS
2 10 (12.05%) GitHub
3 7 (8.43%) Amazon EC2
3 7 (8.43%) Amazon EKS
3 7 (8.43%) Amazon S3
3 7 (8.43%) AWS Lambda
3 7 (8.43%) Azure
3 7 (8.43%) Route 53
3 7 (8.43%) Serverless
4 6 (7.23%) Amazon ECR
4 6 (7.23%) AWS CloudFormation
4 6 (7.23%) OpenShift
4 6 (7.23%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 1 (1.20%) AWS CodeDeploy
5 1 (1.20%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 17 (20.48%) SSL
2 12 (14.46%) Multicast
3 11 (13.25%) Firewall
3 11 (13.25%) LAN
4 10 (12.05%) TCP/IP
4 10 (12.05%) WAN
5 7 (8.43%) DNS
6 6 (7.23%) Fibre Channel
7 3 (3.61%) SAN
8 2 (2.41%) DHCP
8 2 (2.41%) NAS
8 2 (2.41%) SNMP
9 1 (1.20%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (21.69%) DB2
2 17 (20.48%) PostgreSQL
3 13 (15.66%) SQL Server
4 7 (8.43%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (2.41%) MongoDB
5 2 (2.41%) MySQL
5 2 (2.41%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 13 (15.66%) Git
2 10 (12.05%) GitLab
3 6 (7.23%) Jenkins
4 5 (6.02%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 5 (6.02%) Bitbucket
4 5 (6.02%) JIRA
5 1 (1.20%) Ant
5 1 (1.20%) Artifactory
5 1 (1.20%) Maven
5 1 (1.20%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 51 (61.45%) Finance
2 22 (26.51%) Banking
3 13 (15.66%) Social Skills
4 12 (14.46%) Front Office
5 10 (12.05%) Investment Banking
6 5 (6.02%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (3.61%) Advertising
8 2 (2.41%) Financial Institution
9 1 (1.20%) Analytical Skills
9 1 (1.20%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.20%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 23 (27.71%) Administrator
2 20 (24.10%) Linux Administrator
2 20 (24.10%) Linux Support
3 17 (20.48%) Applications Support
3 17 (20.48%) Infrastructure Support
3 17 (20.48%) Linux Engineer
4 15 (18.07%) Unix Support
5 12 (14.46%) C++ Developer
5 12 (14.46%) Developer
6 9 (10.84%) Cisco Engineer
6 9 (10.84%) VMware Engineer
7 8 (9.64%) DevOps Engineer
8 7 (8.43%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 7 (8.43%) Linux DevOps Engineer
8 7 (8.43%) Linux Scripter
8 7 (8.43%) Linux/Unix DevOps
8 7 (8.43%) Systems Administrator
9 6 (7.23%) Applications Support Engineer
9 6 (7.23%) Linux Systems Administrator
9 6 (7.23%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (21.69%) LDAP
2 16 (19.28%) LAPP Stack
2 16 (19.28%) WebSphere MQ
3 12 (14.46%) FIX Protocol
4 6 (7.23%) Kafka
5 5 (6.02%) Middleware
6 1 (1.20%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (1.20%) LAMP
6 1 (1.20%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 17 (20.48%) Management Information System
2 16 (19.28%) Linux Command Line
3 12 (14.46%) Derivative
4 8 (9.64%) Hybrid Cloud
5 7 (8.43%) Clustering
6 6 (7.23%) Data Centre
7 4 (4.82%) Virtual Team
8 2 (2.41%) FPGA
8 2 (2.41%) Replication
9 1 (1.20%) Enterprise Cloud
9 1 (1.20%) Enterprise Storage
9 1 (1.20%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 1 (1.20%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 83 (100.00%) Linux
2 30 (36.14%) Windows
3 23 (27.71%) Unix
4 11 (13.25%) Windows Server
5 10 (12.05%) Windows Server 2019
6 8 (9.64%) CentOS
7 5 (6.02%) Windows Server 2012
7 5 (6.02%) Windows Server 2016
8 4 (4.82%) Ubuntu
9 2 (2.41%) AIX
9 2 (2.41%) Oracle Linux
9 2 (2.41%) Solaris
10 1 (1.20%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (33.73%) ITIL
2 25 (30.12%) Change Management
3 22 (26.51%) DevOps
4 18 (21.69%) Low Latency
5 17 (20.48%) Release Management
6 16 (19.28%) Infrastructure as Code
6 16 (19.28%) User Acceptance Testing
7 15 (18.07%) Root Cause Analysis
8 13 (15.66%) Containerisation
9 12 (14.46%) Concurrent Programming
9 12 (14.46%) SOA
9 12 (14.46%) Systems Analysis
9 12 (14.46%) Unit Testing
10 11 (13.25%) Disaster Recovery
10 11 (13.25%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 9 (10.84%) Incident Response
11 9 (10.84%) Problem-Solving
12 7 (8.43%) Acceptance Criteria
12 7 (8.43%) CI/CD
12 7 (8.43%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 42 (50.60%) Python
2 19 (22.89%) Bash
3 13 (15.66%) C++
4 10 (12.05%) PowerShell
5 4 (4.82%) Java
5 4 (4.82%) SQL
6 3 (3.61%) Perl
7 1 (1.20%) C#
7 1 (1.20%) Groovy
7 1 (1.20%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 22 (26.51%) AWS Certification
2 21 (25.30%) ITIL Certification
3 20 (24.10%) Degree
4 3 (3.61%) DV Cleared
4 3 (3.61%) RHCE
4 3 (3.61%) RHCSA
4 3 (3.61%) Security Cleared
5 1 (1.20%) Dell Certification
5 1 (1.20%) MCSA
5 1 (1.20%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (25.30%) SLA
2 6 (7.23%) QA
3 1 (1.20%) ISO 20022
3 1 (1.20%) SEPA
System Software
1 27 (32.53%) VMware Infrastructure
2 9 (10.84%) NFS
3 7 (8.43%) Active Directory
3 7 (8.43%) vSphere
4 6 (7.23%) Docker
5 5 (6.02%) Veritas Cluster Server
6 1 (1.20%) Hyper-V
6 1 (1.20%) Postfix
6 1 (1.20%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 33 (39.76%) Ansible
2 16 (19.28%) Kubernetes
3 14 (16.87%) Terraform
4 7 (8.43%) Puppet
5 6 (7.23%) Progress Chef
6 4 (4.82%) Red Hat Satellite
7 3 (3.61%) Nagios
8 2 (2.41%) Podman
8 2 (2.41%) Red Hat Spacewalk
9 1 (1.20%) Grafana
9 1 (1.20%) NetBackup
9 1 (1.20%) Tivoli Storage Manager
9 1 (1.20%) WSUS
Vendors
1 64 (77.11%) Red Hat
2 32 (38.55%) VMware
3 18 (21.69%) IBM
4 11 (13.25%) Cisco
4 11 (13.25%) ServiceNow
5 10 (12.05%) Commvault
6 9 (10.84%) Oracle
7 7 (8.43%) Pure Storage
8 5 (6.02%) Symantec
9 4 (4.82%) Atlassian
9 4 (4.82%) Microsoft
10 3 (3.61%) Dell
10 3 (3.61%) HP
11 1 (1.20%) CyberArk
11 1 (1.20%) Fujitsu
11 1 (1.20%) Juniper
11 1 (1.20%) SolarWinds
11 1 (1.20%) Splunk
11 1 (1.20%) Veeam