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

6 months to
18 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 320 320 403
Rank change year-on-year 0 +83 +84
Permanent jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 74 74 86
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.43% 0.56% 0.39%
As % of the Operating Systems category 5.12% 3.87% 2.87%
Number of salaries quoted 58 52 72
10th Percentile £51,250 £59,125 £52,550
25th Percentile £55,000 £65,000 £71,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £80,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% -3.03% +3.13%
75th Percentile £88,750 £96,250 £102,500
90th Percentile £140,000 £122,500 £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 1,444 1,913 2,992
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 8.45% 14.40% 13.67%
Number of salaries quoted 1,073 1,375 2,449
10th Percentile £31,250 £35,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,500
Median % change year-on-year - +7.44% -6.92%
75th Percentile £88,750 £90,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £111,000 £115,000 £102,500
England median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £46,500
% change year-on-year -10.00% +7.53% -11.43%

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 18 March 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 18 March 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 +12 15 £55,000 -33.33% 3
East London -14 6 £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 13 (17.57%) Tomcat
2 8 (10.81%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (10.81%) WebSphere
3 7 (9.46%) SharePoint
3 7 (9.46%) WebSphere Application Server
4 5 (6.76%) Apache
4 5 (6.76%) IIS
5 4 (5.41%) Confluence
6 3 (4.05%) CMS
6 3 (4.05%) WordPress
7 2 (2.70%) nginx
Business Applications
1 3 (4.05%) FLEXCUBE
Cloud Services
1 15 (20.27%) AWS
2 8 (10.81%) Azure
3 5 (6.76%) OpenShift
4 3 (4.05%) Amazon EC2
4 3 (4.05%) Amazon EKS
4 3 (4.05%) Amazon S3
4 3 (4.05%) AWS CloudFormation
4 3 (4.05%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (4.05%) Route 53
4 3 (4.05%) Serverless
5 2 (2.70%) Amazon ECR
5 2 (2.70%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 1 (1.35%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 20 (27.03%) DNS
2 13 (17.57%) LAN
3 12 (16.22%) Multicast
3 12 (16.22%) TCP/IP
4 10 (13.51%) SAN
5 8 (10.81%) SSL
5 8 (10.81%) WAN
6 7 (9.46%) Firewall
7 5 (6.76%) HTTP
8 4 (5.41%) DHCP
9 3 (4.05%) NAS
10 2 (2.70%) SNMP
11 1 (1.35%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (12.16%) PostgreSQL
1 9 (12.16%) SQL Server
2 8 (10.81%) DB2
3 4 (5.41%) Oracle Database
4 3 (4.05%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (1.35%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (1.35%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (1.35%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.35%) MySQL
5 1 (1.35%) SAP HANA
5 1 (1.35%) Sybase ASE
5 1 (1.35%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 9 (12.16%) Git
2 6 (8.11%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 5 (6.76%) Bitbucket
3 5 (6.76%) GitLab
3 5 (6.76%) Jenkins
4 4 (5.41%) JIRA
General
1 37 (50.00%) Finance
2 16 (21.62%) Banking
3 14 (18.92%) Social Skills
4 13 (17.57%) Front Office
5 5 (6.76%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (6.76%) Investment Banking
5 5 (6.76%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (2.70%) Advertising
7 1 (1.35%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.35%) Mandarin Language
7 1 (1.35%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.35%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.35%) Retail
Job Titles
1 21 (28.38%) Administrator
2 18 (24.32%) Linux Administrator
3 17 (22.97%) Linux Support
4 13 (17.57%) C++ Developer
4 13 (17.57%) Developer
5 11 (14.86%) Infrastructure Support
6 10 (13.51%) Unix Support
7 9 (12.16%) Linux Engineer
7 9 (12.16%) Support Engineer
7 9 (12.16%) Systems Administrator
8 8 (10.81%) Applications Support
8 8 (10.81%) Senior
9 7 (9.46%) 3rd Line Engineer
9 7 (9.46%) 3rd Line Support
9 7 (9.46%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
9 7 (9.46%) Linux Support Engineer
10 6 (8.11%) Linux Systems Administrator
11 5 (6.76%) Lead
11 5 (6.76%) Platform Engineer
12 4 (5.41%) Lead DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (16.22%) FIX Protocol
2 9 (12.16%) LDAP
3 7 (9.46%) LAPP Stack
3 7 (9.46%) Middleware
3 7 (9.46%) WebSphere MQ
4 5 (6.76%) Kafka
4 5 (6.76%) WebSockets
5 1 (1.35%) MFC
5 1 (1.35%) REST
5 1 (1.35%) STL
5 1 (1.35%) web3js
5 1 (1.35%) wxWidgets
Miscellaneous
1 12 (16.22%) Derivative
2 10 (13.51%) Data Centre
3 8 (10.81%) Management Information System
4 7 (9.46%) Linux Command Line
4 7 (9.46%) PKI
5 6 (8.11%) Clustering
5 6 (8.11%) Enterprise Storage
6 4 (5.41%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (2.70%) FPGA
8 1 (1.35%) Blockchain
8 1 (1.35%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (1.35%) Equities
8 1 (1.35%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 1 (1.35%) Replication
8 1 (1.35%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 74 (100.00%) Linux
2 25 (33.78%) Windows
3 17 (22.97%) Windows Server
4 16 (21.62%) Unix
5 7 (9.46%) CentOS
6 6 (8.11%) Windows Server 2016
6 6 (8.11%) Windows Server 2019
7 5 (6.76%) Oracle Linux
7 5 (6.76%) Windows Server 2012
8 4 (5.41%) Ubuntu
9 3 (4.05%) AIX
10 1 (1.35%) CoreOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (27.03%) DevOps
2 17 (22.97%) ITIL
3 15 (20.27%) Change Management
4 13 (17.57%) CI/CD
4 13 (17.57%) Low Latency
4 13 (17.57%) Problem-Solving
5 12 (16.22%) Concurrent Programming
5 12 (16.22%) Configuration Management
5 12 (16.22%) SOA
5 12 (16.22%) Systems Analysis
5 12 (16.22%) Unit Testing
6 11 (14.86%) Disaster Recovery
7 10 (13.51%) Infrastructure as Code
8 9 (12.16%) Performance Monitoring
9 8 (10.81%) Agile
9 8 (10.81%) User Acceptance Testing
10 7 (9.46%) Release Management
10 7 (9.46%) SIEM
11 6 (8.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 5 (6.76%) Customer-Centricity
Programming Languages
1 26 (35.14%) Python
2 20 (27.03%) Bash
3 17 (22.97%) SQL
4 13 (17.57%) C++
5 12 (16.22%) PowerShell
6 5 (6.76%) Shell Script
7 4 (5.41%) Korn
8 3 (4.05%) Perl
8 3 (4.05%) PHP
8 3 (4.05%) PL/SQL
9 2 (2.70%) Java
Qualifications
1 13 (17.57%) AWS Certification
2 12 (16.22%) ITIL Certification
3 10 (13.51%) Degree
4 7 (9.46%) DV Cleared
4 7 (9.46%) Security Cleared
5 6 (8.11%) RHCSA
6 1 (1.35%) Linux+ Certification
6 1 (1.35%) Postgraduate
6 1 (1.35%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (16.22%) SLA
2 1 (1.35%) QA
System Software
1 29 (39.19%) VMware Infrastructure
2 13 (17.57%) Active Directory
3 11 (14.86%) vSphere
4 7 (9.46%) Docker
5 5 (6.76%) Veritas Cluster Server
6 3 (4.05%) Oracle RAC
7 2 (2.70%) Hyper-V
8 1 (1.35%) KVM
Systems Management
1 24 (32.43%) Ansible
2 15 (20.27%) Kubernetes
3 9 (12.16%) Nagios
4 7 (9.46%) WSUS
5 5 (6.76%) Puppet
5 5 (6.76%) Terraform
6 4 (5.41%) Progress Chef
7 3 (4.05%) Data Guard
7 3 (4.05%) Oracle RMAN
7 3 (4.05%) Red Hat Satellite
8 2 (2.70%) Red Hat Spacewalk
9 1 (1.35%) Argo
9 1 (1.35%) Grafana
9 1 (1.35%) McAfee ePO
9 1 (1.35%) Prometheus
9 1 (1.35%) SCVMM
9 1 (1.35%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 59 (79.73%) Red Hat
2 37 (50.00%) VMware
3 11 (14.86%) IBM
3 11 (14.86%) Oracle
4 8 (10.81%) McAfee
5 6 (8.11%) ServiceNow
6 5 (6.76%) SolarWinds
6 5 (6.76%) Symantec
7 4 (5.41%) Atlassian
8 3 (4.05%) Pure Storage
9 2 (2.70%) Dell
9 2 (2.70%) HP
10 1 (1.35%) CyberArk
10 1 (1.35%) Delphix
10 1 (1.35%) Intel
10 1 (1.35%) Microsoft
10 1 (1.35%) SAP
10 1 (1.35%) Splunk
10 1 (1.35%) Sybase