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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 303 367 342
Rank change year-on-year +64 -25 +260
Permanent jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 84 92 151
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.70% 0.48% 0.68%
As % of the Operating Systems category 5.66% 3.86% 4.25%
Number of salaries quoted 56 67 125
10th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £57,700
25th Percentile £61,500 £69,375 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £85,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +6.25% +10.34%
75th Percentile £91,563 £102,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £103,750 £121,000 £126,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +13.04%

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 1,483 2,381 3,556
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 12.41% 12.35% 16.12%
Number of salaries quoted 1,099 1,544 3,126
10th Percentile £31,250 £36,250 £32,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £64,500
Median % change year-on-year - +0.78% -0.77%
75th Percentile £87,500 £86,000 £86,250
90th Percentile £105,000 £112,500 £107,500
England median annual salary £41,500 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -17.00% -4.76% -

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 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 19 September 2025.

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 19 September 2025. 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 +41 14 £77,500 +10.71% 4
East London -1 4 £85,000 +3.03%
West London - 3 - -
Red Hat Enterprise Linux
England

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 12 (14.29%) WebSphere
2 9 (10.71%) Tomcat
2 9 (10.71%) WebSphere Application Server
3 4 (4.76%) Apache
4 3 (3.57%) JBoss
5 1 (1.19%) Confluence
5 1 (1.19%) Drupal
5 1 (1.19%) nginx
5 1 (1.19%) Oracle SOA Suite
Cloud Services
1 32 (38.10%) AWS
2 25 (29.76%) Azure
3 23 (27.38%) GitHub
4 7 (8.33%) Amazon EC2
5 5 (5.95%) OpenShift
5 5 (5.95%) Serverless
6 4 (4.76%) Amazon ECR
6 4 (4.76%) Amazon EKS
6 4 (4.76%) Amazon S3
6 4 (4.76%) AWS CloudFormation
6 4 (4.76%) AWS Lambda
6 4 (4.76%) Route 53
6 4 (4.76%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 3 (3.57%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (3.57%) Azure Monitor
8 2 (2.38%) AWS CodeDeploy
8 2 (2.38%) GCP
8 2 (2.38%) PaaS
9 1 (1.19%) Cloudflare
9 1 (1.19%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 16 (19.05%) LAN
2 14 (16.67%) Firewall
2 14 (16.67%) WAN
3 13 (15.48%) TCP/IP
4 12 (14.29%) Fibre Channel
5 9 (10.71%) SSL
6 6 (7.14%) SAN
7 2 (2.38%) DNS
7 2 (2.38%) HTTP
8 1 (1.19%) NAS
8 1 (1.19%) Network Security
8 1 (1.19%) SSH
8 1 (1.19%) Structured Cabling
8 1 (1.19%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (13.10%) SQL Server
2 10 (11.90%) DB2
3 9 (10.71%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (4.76%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (2.38%) MongoDB
5 2 (2.38%) MySQL
6 1 (1.19%) NonStop SQL
6 1 (1.19%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 30 (35.71%) Git
2 8 (9.52%) GitLab
3 5 (5.95%) Jenkins
4 4 (4.76%) Artifactory
4 4 (4.76%) JIRA
5 3 (3.57%) Ant
5 3 (3.57%) Maven
5 3 (3.57%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (1.19%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 47 (55.95%) Finance
2 26 (30.95%) Banking
3 22 (26.19%) Social Skills
4 9 (10.71%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (8.33%) Investment Banking
6 3 (3.57%) Telecoms
7 2 (2.38%) Financial Institution
7 2 (2.38%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.19%) Advertising
8 1 (1.19%) Front Office
8 1 (1.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.19%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 23 (27.38%) Linux Engineer
2 19 (22.62%) Administrator
3 17 (20.24%) Cisco Engineer
4 16 (19.05%) DevOps Engineer
4 16 (19.05%) Linux Administrator
5 13 (15.48%) Linux DevOps Engineer
5 13 (15.48%) Linux/Unix DevOps
5 13 (15.48%) VMware Engineer
6 12 (14.29%) Linux Support
6 12 (14.29%) Systems Administrator
7 11 (13.10%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 11 (13.10%) Linux Systems Administrator
8 10 (11.90%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
9 9 (10.71%) Applications Support
9 9 (10.71%) Linux Scripter
10 7 (8.33%) Kubernetes Engineer
11 6 (7.14%) Azure Engineer
11 6 (7.14%) Infrastructure Support
11 6 (7.14%) Python Engineer
11 6 (7.14%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (10.71%) LAPP Stack
1 9 (10.71%) LDAP
1 9 (10.71%) WebSphere MQ
2 4 (4.76%) Kafka
2 4 (4.76%) Middleware
3 3 (3.57%) Elastic Stack
3 3 (3.57%) Lambda Expressions
4 2 (2.38%) ARM Templates
4 2 (2.38%) LAMP
4 2 (2.38%) WebSockets
5 1 (1.19%) AngularJS
5 1 (1.19%) JSON
5 1 (1.19%) Laravel
5 1 (1.19%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 19 (22.62%) Hybrid Cloud
2 14 (16.67%) Management Information System
3 12 (14.29%) Linux Command Line
4 9 (10.71%) Data Centre
5 7 (8.33%) Hedge funds
6 5 (5.95%) Virtual Team
7 3 (3.57%) Enterprise Cloud
8 2 (2.38%) Clustering
8 2 (2.38%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (2.38%) Replication
9 1 (1.19%) Enterprise Storage
9 1 (1.19%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (1.19%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (1.19%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 1 (1.19%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 84 (100.00%) Linux
2 30 (35.71%) Windows
3 16 (19.05%) CentOS
3 16 (19.05%) Unix
4 12 (14.29%) Windows Server
5 11 (13.10%) Windows Server 2019
6 7 (8.33%) Oracle Linux
6 7 (8.33%) Solaris
7 5 (5.95%) HPUX
8 3 (3.57%) Ubuntu
8 3 (3.57%) VMS
9 2 (2.38%) AIX
9 2 (2.38%) Debian
10 1 (1.19%) Amazon Linux
10 1 (1.19%) CoreOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (50.00%) DevOps
2 27 (32.14%) Containerisation
2 27 (32.14%) ITIL
3 24 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
3 24 (28.57%) Root Cause Analysis
4 17 (20.24%) Problem-Solving
5 16 (19.05%) Incident Response
6 15 (17.86%) Disaster Recovery
6 15 (17.86%) Incident Management
7 14 (16.67%) Change Management
8 12 (14.29%) Release Management
9 11 (13.10%) CI/CD
9 11 (13.10%) Continuous Improvement
9 11 (13.10%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 10 (11.90%) Low Latency
11 9 (10.71%) User Acceptance Testing
12 8 (9.52%) Infrastructure Automation
12 8 (9.52%) Performance Monitoring
12 8 (9.52%) Performance Tuning
12 8 (9.52%) Resource Allocation
Programming Languages
1 32 (38.10%) Python
2 20 (23.81%) Bash
3 8 (9.52%) SQL
4 5 (5.95%) Java
4 5 (5.95%) PowerShell
5 3 (3.57%) Groovy
6 1 (1.19%) C#
6 1 (1.19%) C++
6 1 (1.19%) COBOL
6 1 (1.19%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 19 (22.62%) Degree
2 9 (10.71%) AWS Certification
2 9 (10.71%) ITIL Certification
2 9 (10.71%) RHCSA
3 8 (9.52%) Security Cleared
4 5 (5.95%) SC Cleared
5 4 (4.76%) RHCE
6 3 (3.57%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (3.57%) Dell Certification
6 3 (3.57%) DV Cleared
6 3 (3.57%) MCSA
6 3 (3.57%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (2.38%) Azure Certification
7 2 (2.38%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (10.71%) QA
1 9 (10.71%) SLA
2 3 (3.57%) GDPR
3 2 (2.38%) HIPAA
3 2 (2.38%) ISO 20022
3 2 (2.38%) SOC 2
4 1 (1.19%) ISO 15022
4 1 (1.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.19%) PMO
4 1 (1.19%) SEPA
System Software
1 30 (35.71%) VMware Infrastructure
2 17 (20.24%) NFS
3 13 (15.48%) vSphere
4 5 (5.95%) Active Directory
4 5 (5.95%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (5.95%) VMware ESXi
5 4 (4.76%) Docker
6 3 (3.57%) Hyper-V
7 1 (1.19%) Postfix
7 1 (1.19%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 39 (46.43%) Ansible
2 31 (36.90%) Terraform
3 28 (33.33%) Kubernetes
4 11 (13.10%) Nagios
5 7 (8.33%) Puppet
6 6 (7.14%) Grafana
7 4 (4.76%) Podman
7 4 (4.76%) Prometheus
8 3 (3.57%) WSUS
9 2 (2.38%) EMC NetWorker
9 2 (2.38%) Progress Chef
10 1 (1.19%) Argo
10 1 (1.19%) NetBackup
10 1 (1.19%) Packer
10 1 (1.19%) Red Hat Satellite
10 1 (1.19%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 45 (53.57%) Red Hat
2 39 (46.43%) VMware
3 24 (28.57%) Cisco
4 23 (27.38%) Commvault
5 14 (16.67%) Pure Storage
6 11 (13.10%) IBM
6 11 (13.10%) Oracle
7 10 (11.90%) Microsoft
8 6 (7.14%) SolarWinds
9 5 (5.95%) ServiceNow
10 4 (4.76%) HP
11 3 (3.57%) Dell
11 3 (3.57%) Fujitsu
11 3 (3.57%) Juniper
12 2 (2.38%) EMC
12 2 (2.38%) NetApp
12 2 (2.38%) Zerto
13 1 (1.19%) Citrix
13 1 (1.19%) Palo Alto
13 1 (1.19%) Veeam