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 25 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 292 355 333
Rank change year-on-year +63 -22 +234
Permanent jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 83 93 135
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.70% 0.53% 0.67%
As % of the Operating Systems category 5.94% 4.10% 4.32%
Number of salaries quoted 52 62 120
10th Percentile £53,875 £67,625 £57,950
25th Percentile £72,500 £75,625 £70,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £85,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year - +3.03% +6.45%
75th Percentile £92,500 £115,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £104,875 £122,500 £111,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £65,465 £65,000
% change year-on-year +6.93% +0.71% +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 1,397 2,266 3,124
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 11.77% 12.93% 15.51%
Number of salaries quoted 1,041 1,510 2,727
10th Percentile £31,250 £36,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £46,250 £40,992
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% +4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £87,500 £86,250 £85,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £115,000 £100,000
England median annual salary £42,000 £50,000 £51,500
% change year-on-year -16.00% -2.91% -1.90%

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 25 October 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 25 October 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 +52 14 £85,000 +17.24% 7
East London -2 6 £85,000 +3.03%
West London +3 2 - - 1
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 19 (22.89%) WebSphere
2 16 (19.28%) Tomcat
3 15 (18.07%) WebSphere Application Server
4 3 (3.61%) Apache
4 3 (3.61%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 35 (42.17%) AWS
2 21 (25.30%) GitHub
3 20 (24.10%) Azure
4 8 (9.64%) Amazon EC2
5 7 (8.43%) Amazon EKS
5 7 (8.43%) Amazon S3
5 7 (8.43%) AWS Lambda
5 7 (8.43%) Route 53
5 7 (8.43%) Serverless
6 6 (7.23%) Amazon ECR
6 6 (7.23%) AWS CloudFormation
6 6 (7.23%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 4 (4.82%) OpenShift
8 2 (2.41%) AWS CodeDeploy
8 2 (2.41%) GCP
9 1 (1.20%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 16 (19.28%) SSL
2 15 (18.07%) Firewall
3 14 (16.87%) LAN
4 13 (15.66%) WAN
5 12 (14.46%) Fibre Channel
5 12 (14.46%) TCP/IP
6 4 (4.82%) Multicast
6 4 (4.82%) SAN
7 1 (1.20%) DNS
7 1 (1.20%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (20.48%) DB2
2 16 (19.28%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (10.84%) SQL Server
4 7 (8.43%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (2.41%) MongoDB
5 2 (2.41%) MySQL
6 1 (1.20%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 28 (33.73%) Git
2 7 (8.43%) GitLab
3 3 (3.61%) Ant
3 3 (3.61%) Artifactory
3 3 (3.61%) Jenkins
3 3 (3.61%) JIRA
3 3 (3.61%) Maven
3 3 (3.61%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 45 (54.22%) Finance
2 24 (28.92%) Banking
3 16 (19.28%) Social Skills
4 9 (10.84%) Investment Banking
5 4 (4.82%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (4.82%) Front Office
6 2 (2.41%) Financial Institution
6 2 (2.41%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (2.41%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.20%) Advertising
7 1 (1.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 24 (28.92%) Linux Engineer
2 19 (22.89%) Administrator
3 17 (20.48%) Cisco Engineer
4 16 (19.28%) Applications Support
4 16 (19.28%) Linux Administrator
4 16 (19.28%) Linux Support
5 15 (18.07%) DevOps Engineer
6 13 (15.66%) Linux DevOps Engineer
6 13 (15.66%) Linux/Unix DevOps
6 13 (15.66%) VMware Engineer
7 11 (13.25%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 11 (13.25%) Infrastructure Support
8 10 (12.05%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
8 10 (12.05%) Systems Administrator
9 9 (10.84%) Linux Scripter
9 9 (10.84%) Linux Systems Administrator
9 9 (10.84%) Unix Support
10 7 (8.43%) Kubernetes Engineer
11 6 (7.23%) Python Engineer
11 6 (7.23%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (18.07%) LAPP Stack
1 15 (18.07%) LDAP
1 15 (18.07%) WebSphere MQ
2 4 (4.82%) FIX Protocol
3 3 (3.61%) Elastic Stack
3 3 (3.61%) Kafka
3 3 (3.61%) Middleware
4 2 (2.41%) LAMP
5 1 (1.20%) Lambda Expressions
5 1 (1.20%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 18 (21.69%) Management Information System
2 17 (20.48%) Hybrid Cloud
3 16 (19.28%) Linux Command Line
4 7 (8.43%) Data Centre
5 5 (6.02%) Virtual Team
6 4 (4.82%) Derivative
7 2 (2.41%) Clustering
7 2 (2.41%) Enterprise Cloud
7 2 (2.41%) Replication
8 1 (1.20%) Enterprise Storage
8 1 (1.20%) Hedge funds
8 1 (1.20%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 83 (100.00%) Linux
2 34 (40.96%) Windows
3 22 (26.51%) Unix
4 16 (19.28%) CentOS
5 10 (12.05%) Windows Server
5 10 (12.05%) Windows Server 2019
6 7 (8.43%) Oracle Linux
6 7 (8.43%) Solaris
7 5 (6.02%) HPUX
7 5 (6.02%) Ubuntu
8 2 (2.41%) AIX
8 2 (2.41%) VMS
9 1 (1.20%) CoreOS
9 1 (1.20%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (39.76%) DevOps
1 33 (39.76%) ITIL
2 24 (28.92%) Root Cause Analysis
3 22 (26.51%) Containerisation
4 20 (24.10%) Change Management
5 19 (22.89%) Infrastructure as Code
6 18 (21.69%) Release Management
7 17 (20.48%) Disaster Recovery
8 16 (19.28%) Incident Response
9 15 (18.07%) User Acceptance Testing
10 13 (15.66%) Low Latency
11 12 (14.46%) Incident Management
12 11 (13.25%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 10 (12.05%) Continuous Improvement
13 10 (12.05%) Problem-Solving
14 8 (9.64%) Performance Tuning
14 8 (9.64%) Resource Allocation
15 7 (8.43%) Problem Management
15 7 (8.43%) Product Strategy
15 7 (8.43%) Security Hardening
Programming Languages
1 37 (44.58%) Python
2 17 (20.48%) Bash
3 5 (6.02%) C++
3 5 (6.02%) PowerShell
4 4 (4.82%) SQL
5 3 (3.61%) Groovy
5 3 (3.61%) Java
6 1 (1.20%) C#
6 1 (1.20%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 21 (25.30%) Degree
2 16 (19.28%) AWS Certification
3 15 (18.07%) ITIL Certification
4 8 (9.64%) Security Cleared
5 5 (6.02%) RHCSA
5 5 (6.02%) SC Cleared
6 4 (4.82%) RHCE
7 3 (3.61%) DV Cleared
8 2 (2.41%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (2.41%) Dell Certification
8 2 (2.41%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 2 (2.41%) MCSA
8 2 (2.41%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (18.07%) SLA
2 8 (9.64%) QA
3 1 (1.20%) ISO 20022
3 1 (1.20%) SEPA
System Software
1 27 (32.53%) VMware Infrastructure
2 17 (20.48%) NFS
3 11 (13.25%) vSphere
4 3 (3.61%) Active Directory
5 2 (2.41%) Hyper-V
5 2 (2.41%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (2.41%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (1.20%) Docker
6 1 (1.20%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 33 (39.76%) Ansible
2 26 (31.33%) Terraform
3 24 (28.92%) Kubernetes
4 7 (8.43%) Nagios
5 6 (7.23%) Puppet
6 4 (4.82%) Podman
7 3 (3.61%) Grafana
8 2 (2.41%) EMC NetWorker
8 2 (2.41%) Progress Chef
8 2 (2.41%) WSUS
9 1 (1.20%) NetBackup
9 1 (1.20%) Prometheus
9 1 (1.20%) Red Hat Satellite
9 1 (1.20%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 46 (55.42%) Red Hat
2 36 (43.37%) VMware
3 23 (27.71%) Cisco
3 23 (27.71%) Commvault
4 17 (20.48%) IBM
5 14 (16.87%) Pure Storage
6 10 (12.05%) Oracle
6 10 (12.05%) ServiceNow
7 9 (10.84%) Microsoft
8 2 (2.41%) Dell
8 2 (2.41%) EMC
8 2 (2.41%) Fujitsu
8 2 (2.41%) HP
8 2 (2.41%) Juniper
8 2 (2.41%) SolarWinds
8 2 (2.41%) Zerto
9 1 (1.20%) Veeam