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 21 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 380 305 359
Rank change year-on-year -75 +54 +31
Permanent jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 63 80 101
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.26% 0.66% 0.52%
As % of the Operating Systems category 4.39% 5.14% 4.41%
Number of salaries quoted 47 54 77
10th Percentile £47,500 £52,500 £58,750
25th Percentile £55,625 £62,500 £70,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £80,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% -5.88% +6.25%
75th Percentile £96,250 £96,250 £102,500
90th Percentile £113,500 £103,750 £117,000
England median annual salary £67,500 £67,500 £59,250
% change year-on-year - +13.92% -8.85%

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 1,436 1,556 2,290
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 6.00% 12.86% 11.74%
Number of salaries quoted 988 1,161 1,635
10th Percentile £33,750 £31,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £43,750 £40,312 £44,619
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £90,000 £85,000 £86,875
90th Percentile £102,500 £105,000 £107,500
England median annual salary £45,000 £41,500 £48,500
% change year-on-year +8.43% -14.43% -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 21 August 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 21 August 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
South London +8 5 £50,000 -23.08% 1
West London -20 3 - -
Central London -8 1 £75,000 -3.23%
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 5 (7.94%) Confluence
1 5 (7.94%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.59%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.59%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 10 (15.87%) FLEXCUBE
Cloud Services
1 26 (41.27%) AWS
2 16 (25.40%) Azure
3 7 (11.11%) GitHub
4 6 (9.52%) Datadog
4 6 (9.52%) Microsoft 365
5 5 (7.94%) AWS CloudFormation
5 5 (7.94%) Nutanix
6 4 (6.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 4 (6.35%) Amazon EC2
6 4 (6.35%) Amazon S3
6 4 (6.35%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 3 (4.76%) CloudFront
7 3 (4.76%) Route 53
8 2 (3.17%) Amazon ECS
8 2 (3.17%) Amazon EKS
8 2 (3.17%) Amazon SQS
8 2 (3.17%) AWS CloudTrail
8 2 (3.17%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (3.17%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (3.17%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 12 (19.05%) LAN
2 9 (14.29%) DNS
2 9 (14.29%) TCP/IP
3 8 (12.70%) SAN
4 6 (9.52%) HTTP
4 6 (9.52%) WAN
5 5 (7.94%) Firewall
5 5 (7.94%) Kerberos
6 3 (4.76%) VoIP
7 2 (3.17%) iSCSI
7 2 (3.17%) SSL
8 1 (1.59%) DHCP
8 1 (1.59%) NAS
8 1 (1.59%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (15.87%) Oracle Database
2 9 (14.29%) SQL Server
3 8 (12.70%) MongoDB
4 6 (9.52%) Elasticsearch
5 4 (6.35%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (3.17%) Hadoop
7 1 (1.59%) DynamoDB
7 1 (1.59%) MySQL
7 1 (1.59%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 14 (22.22%) Git
2 9 (14.29%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 9 (14.29%) GitLab
2 9 (14.29%) Jenkins
3 7 (11.11%) JIRA
4 2 (3.17%) Bitbucket
5 1 (1.59%) git-flow
5 1 (1.59%) Maven
5 1 (1.59%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 28 (44.44%) Social Skills
2 18 (28.57%) Finance
3 16 (25.40%) Banking
4 12 (19.05%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (11.11%) Public Sector
6 5 (7.94%) Influencing Skills
7 4 (6.35%) Mandarin Language
8 3 (4.76%) Front Office
8 3 (4.76%) Military
8 3 (4.76%) Telecoms
9 2 (3.17%) Advertising
10 1 (1.59%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 12 (19.05%) Administrator
1 12 (19.05%) Senior
2 11 (17.46%) DBA
3 10 (15.87%) DevOps Engineer
3 10 (15.87%) Oracle DBA
3 10 (15.87%) Senior DBA
3 10 (15.87%) Senior Oracle DBA
4 9 (14.29%) Systems Administrator
5 7 (11.11%) Lead
5 7 (11.11%) Linux Administrator
5 7 (11.11%) Linux Systems Administrator
6 6 (9.52%) Linux Engineer
7 5 (7.94%) Principal DevOps Engineer
7 5 (7.94%) Principal Engineer
8 4 (6.35%) IT Engineer
8 4 (6.35%) Operations Engineer
9 3 (4.76%) Developer
9 3 (4.76%) IT Administrator
9 3 (4.76%) Java Developer
10 2 (3.17%) Senior Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (26.98%) Terraform
2 6 (9.52%) WebSockets
3 5 (7.94%) LDAP
4 4 (6.35%) web3js
5 2 (3.17%) Apache NiFi
5 2 (3.17%) Kafka
5 2 (3.17%) Middleware
6 1 (1.59%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 12 (19.05%) Data Centre
2 6 (9.52%) Cloud Native
3 5 (7.94%) Management Information System
3 5 (7.94%) Operational Technology
3 5 (7.94%) Security Posture
4 4 (6.35%) Blockchain
4 4 (6.35%) Web3
5 3 (4.76%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (4.76%) Enterprise Cloud
5 3 (4.76%) Enterprise Storage
5 3 (4.76%) Fixed Income
5 3 (4.76%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 3 (4.76%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (4.76%) Replication
6 1 (1.59%) Clustering
6 1 (1.59%) Driving Licence
6 1 (1.59%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (1.59%) PKI
6 1 (1.59%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 63 (100.00%) Linux
2 22 (34.92%) Windows
2 22 (34.92%) Windows Server
3 16 (25.40%) CentOS
4 13 (20.63%) Unix
5 10 (15.87%) AIX
5 10 (15.87%) Oracle Linux
6 7 (11.11%) Ubuntu
7 6 (9.52%) Rocky
8 3 (4.76%) Windows Server 2019
9 2 (3.17%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (49.21%) DevOps
2 19 (30.16%) Disaster Recovery
2 19 (30.16%) High Availability
3 18 (28.57%) CI/CD
3 18 (28.57%) Cybersecurity
3 18 (28.57%) Incident Response
4 17 (26.98%) Configuration Management
4 17 (26.98%) ITIL
5 15 (23.81%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 14 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
7 13 (20.63%) Infrastructure as Code
8 12 (19.05%) Performance Tuning
8 12 (19.05%) Runbook
9 11 (17.46%) Capacity Planning
9 11 (17.46%) Change Management
10 10 (15.87%) Containerisation
11 9 (14.29%) Vulnerability Management
12 8 (12.70%) Risk Management
12 8 (12.70%) Roadmaps
13 7 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 22 (34.92%) SQL
2 21 (33.33%) Bash
3 19 (30.16%) Python
4 13 (20.63%) Java
5 11 (17.46%) Shell Script
6 10 (15.87%) Korn
6 10 (15.87%) PL/SQL
6 10 (15.87%) PowerShell
7 2 (3.17%) JavaScript
8 1 (1.59%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 21 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 14 (22.22%) DV Cleared
3 12 (19.05%) SC Cleared
4 11 (17.46%) Degree
5 8 (12.70%) Cisco Certification
6 7 (11.11%) RHCSA
7 6 (9.52%) Microsoft Certification
8 5 (7.94%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 5 (7.94%) CCSP
8 5 (7.94%) CISM
8 5 (7.94%) CISSP
9 4 (6.35%) Postgraduate
10 3 (4.76%) CCNA
10 3 (4.76%) Dell Certification
10 3 (4.76%) MCSA
10 3 (4.76%) MCSE
11 2 (3.17%) Azure Certification
11 2 (3.17%) RHCE
12 1 (1.59%) APMP
12 1 (1.59%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (7.94%) GDPR
1 5 (7.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 5 (7.94%) NIST
1 5 (7.94%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 3 (4.76%) SLA
System Software
1 20 (31.75%) VMware Infrastructure
2 17 (26.98%) Docker
3 10 (15.87%) Oracle RAC
4 9 (14.29%) Active Directory
4 9 (14.29%) Hyper-V
5 5 (7.94%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (6.35%) vSphere
7 3 (4.76%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (1.59%) KVM
8 1 (1.59%) NFS
8 1 (1.59%) Samba
Systems Management
1 21 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 18 (28.57%) Ansible
2 18 (28.57%) Nagios
3 11 (17.46%) Data Guard
4 10 (15.87%) Oracle RMAN
5 6 (9.52%) Red Hat Satellite
6 4 (6.35%) Argo
6 4 (6.35%) WSUS
7 3 (4.76%) Prometheus
8 2 (3.17%) Grafana
8 2 (3.17%) Puppet
8 2 (3.17%) ZABBIX
9 1 (1.59%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 1 (1.59%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 36 (57.14%) Red Hat
2 25 (39.68%) VMware
3 16 (25.40%) Oracle
4 10 (15.87%) IBM
4 10 (15.87%) Microsoft
5 7 (11.11%) ServiceNow
5 7 (11.11%) SolarWinds
5 7 (11.11%) Splunk
6 5 (7.94%) CyberArk
6 5 (7.94%) Ivanti
6 5 (7.94%) Qualys
6 5 (7.94%) Rapid7
6 5 (7.94%) Tenable
6 5 (7.94%) Veracode
7 3 (4.76%) Cisco
7 3 (4.76%) Dell
7 3 (4.76%) Fujitsu
7 3 (4.76%) HP
7 3 (4.76%) Juniper
7 3 (4.76%) Veeam