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 16 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 334 337 407
Rank change year-on-year +3 +70 +62
Permanent jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 71 67 92
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.37% 0.52% 0.40%
As % of the Operating Systems category 4.81% 3.72% 3.01%
Number of salaries quoted 58 49 75
10th Percentile £47,617 £50,250 £51,000
25th Percentile £53,750 £63,750 £66,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,750 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -26.56% - -
75th Percentile £88,750 £96,250 £102,500
90th Percentile £140,000 £128,000 £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 1,476 1,801 3,056
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 7.73% 13.96% 13.26%
Number of salaries quoted 1,065 1,342 2,410
10th Percentile £31,250 £33,638 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £90,000 £90,000 £83,450
90th Percentile £110,000 £115,000 £102,500
England median annual salary £45,000 £47,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% -14.29%

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 16 April 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 16 April 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 +1 13 £55,000 -33.33% 1
East London -13 4 £87,500 +34.62% 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 11 (15.49%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (9.86%) SharePoint
2 7 (9.86%) Tomcat
3 5 (7.04%) Apache
3 5 (7.04%) Confluence
3 5 (7.04%) IIS
4 3 (4.23%) CMS
4 3 (4.23%) WordPress
5 2 (2.82%) nginx
5 2 (2.82%) WebSphere
5 2 (2.82%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 1 (1.41%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (4.23%) FLEXCUBE
Cloud Services
1 15 (21.13%) AWS
2 9 (12.68%) Azure
3 6 (8.45%) Datadog
4 5 (7.04%) AWS CloudFormation
4 5 (7.04%) OpenShift
5 2 (2.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (2.82%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (2.82%) Amazon ECS
5 2 (2.82%) Amazon S3
5 2 (2.82%) AWS CloudTrail
5 2 (2.82%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (2.82%) GitHub
5 2 (2.82%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (2.82%) Serverless
5 2 (2.82%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 1 (1.41%) AWS CodePipeline
6 1 (1.41%) AWS Fargate
6 1 (1.41%) AWS KMS
6 1 (1.41%) Cloudflare
6 1 (1.41%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 20 (28.17%) DNS
2 13 (18.31%) LAN
3 12 (16.90%) TCP/IP
4 10 (14.08%) Multicast
4 10 (14.08%) SAN
5 8 (11.27%) WAN
6 5 (7.04%) Firewall
6 5 (7.04%) HTTP
7 4 (5.63%) DHCP
8 3 (4.23%) NAS
8 3 (4.23%) SSL
9 2 (2.82%) SNMP
10 1 (1.41%) Kerberos
10 1 (1.41%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (11.27%) SQL Server
2 4 (5.63%) Elasticsearch
2 4 (5.63%) Oracle Database
3 3 (4.23%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (2.82%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (2.82%) DB2
4 2 (2.82%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.41%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (1.41%) DynamoDB
5 1 (1.41%) MySQL
5 1 (1.41%) SAP HANA
5 1 (1.41%) Sybase ASE
5 1 (1.41%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 10 (14.08%) Git
2 9 (12.68%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 7 (9.86%) Jenkins
4 5 (7.04%) Bitbucket
4 5 (7.04%) GitLab
4 5 (7.04%) JIRA
5 1 (1.41%) git-flow
5 1 (1.41%) Maven
5 1 (1.41%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 31 (43.66%) Finance
2 18 (25.35%) Social Skills
3 12 (16.90%) Front Office
4 11 (15.49%) Banking
5 6 (8.45%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (7.04%) Presentation Skills
7 4 (5.63%) Advertising
7 4 (5.63%) Mandarin Language
8 2 (2.82%) Investment Banking
9 1 (1.41%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.41%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.41%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.41%) Public Sector
9 1 (1.41%) Retail
Job Titles
1 19 (26.76%) Administrator
2 16 (22.54%) Linux Administrator
3 12 (16.90%) Developer
4 11 (15.49%) C++ Developer
4 11 (15.49%) Linux Support
5 9 (12.68%) Systems Administrator
6 8 (11.27%) Senior
7 7 (9.86%) 3rd Line Engineer
7 7 (9.86%) 3rd Line Support
7 7 (9.86%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
7 7 (9.86%) Infrastructure Support
7 7 (9.86%) Linux Engineer
7 7 (9.86%) Support Engineer
7 7 (9.86%) Unix Support
8 6 (8.45%) Lead
8 6 (8.45%) Linux Systems Administrator
9 5 (7.04%) DevOps Engineer
9 5 (7.04%) Linux Support Engineer
9 5 (7.04%) Platform Engineer
10 4 (5.63%) Linux/Unix DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (14.08%) FIX Protocol
2 7 (9.86%) Middleware
3 5 (7.04%) Kafka
3 5 (7.04%) LDAP
3 5 (7.04%) WebSockets
4 4 (5.63%) web3js
5 2 (2.82%) LAPP Stack
5 2 (2.82%) WebSphere MQ
6 1 (1.41%) AWS CDK
6 1 (1.41%) MFC
6 1 (1.41%) REST
6 1 (1.41%) STL
6 1 (1.41%) wxWidgets
Miscellaneous
1 11 (15.49%) Data Centre
2 10 (14.08%) Derivative
3 8 (11.27%) Management Information System
4 7 (9.86%) PKI
5 6 (8.45%) Clustering
5 6 (8.45%) Enterprise Storage
6 4 (5.63%) Blockchain
6 4 (5.63%) Hybrid Cloud
6 4 (5.63%) Web3
7 3 (4.23%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (2.82%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 2 (2.82%) FPGA
9 1 (1.41%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (1.41%) Distributed Systems
9 1 (1.41%) Equities
9 1 (1.41%) Fixed Income
9 1 (1.41%) Replication
9 1 (1.41%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 71 (100.00%) Linux
2 24 (33.80%) Windows
3 21 (29.58%) Windows Server
4 10 (14.08%) Unix
5 8 (11.27%) CentOS
6 6 (8.45%) Windows Server 2016
6 6 (8.45%) Windows Server 2019
7 5 (7.04%) Oracle Linux
7 5 (7.04%) Ubuntu
7 5 (7.04%) Windows Server 2012
8 3 (4.23%) AIX
9 1 (1.41%) CoreOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (35.21%) DevOps
2 18 (25.35%) CI/CD
3 16 (22.54%) Configuration Management
4 15 (21.13%) Problem-Solving
5 14 (19.72%) Infrastructure as Code
6 12 (16.90%) Disaster Recovery
6 12 (16.90%) ITIL
6 12 (16.90%) Low Latency
7 10 (14.08%) Change Management
7 10 (14.08%) Concurrent Programming
7 10 (14.08%) SOA
7 10 (14.08%) Systems Analysis
7 10 (14.08%) Unit Testing
8 9 (12.68%) Performance Monitoring
9 8 (11.27%) Agile
9 8 (11.27%) High Availability
10 7 (9.86%) Containerisation
10 7 (9.86%) Cybersecurity
10 7 (9.86%) SIEM
11 6 (8.45%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 21 (29.58%) Python
2 19 (26.76%) Bash
3 17 (23.94%) SQL
4 12 (16.90%) PowerShell
5 11 (15.49%) C++
6 5 (7.04%) Shell Script
7 4 (5.63%) Java
7 4 (5.63%) Korn
8 3 (4.23%) Perl
8 3 (4.23%) PHP
8 3 (4.23%) PL/SQL
9 1 (1.41%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 9 (12.68%) Security Cleared
2 8 (11.27%) AWS Certification
2 8 (11.27%) Degree
3 7 (9.86%) DV Cleared
3 7 (9.86%) ITIL Certification
4 6 (8.45%) RHCSA
5 4 (5.63%) Postgraduate
6 2 (2.82%) RHCE
6 2 (2.82%) SC Cleared
7 1 (1.41%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 1 (1.41%) CCSP
7 1 (1.41%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (1.41%) CISM
7 1 (1.41%) CISSP
7 1 (1.41%) Linux+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (9.86%) SLA
2 1 (1.41%) GDPR
2 1 (1.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.41%) NIST
2 1 (1.41%) QA
2 1 (1.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 30 (42.25%) VMware Infrastructure
2 14 (19.72%) Active Directory
3 13 (18.31%) Docker
4 11 (15.49%) vSphere
5 5 (7.04%) Veritas Cluster Server
6 3 (4.23%) Oracle RAC
7 2 (2.82%) Hyper-V
8 1 (1.41%) KVM
8 1 (1.41%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 29 (40.85%) Ansible
2 19 (26.76%) Kubernetes
3 10 (14.08%) Terraform
4 9 (12.68%) Nagios
5 7 (9.86%) WSUS
6 5 (7.04%) Progress Chef
6 5 (7.04%) Puppet
6 5 (7.04%) Red Hat Satellite
7 4 (5.63%) Argo
8 3 (4.23%) Data Guard
8 3 (4.23%) Oracle RMAN
9 2 (2.82%) Red Hat Spacewalk
10 1 (1.41%) Grafana
10 1 (1.41%) McAfee ePO
10 1 (1.41%) Prometheus
10 1 (1.41%) SCVMM
10 1 (1.41%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 56 (78.87%) Red Hat
2 38 (53.52%) VMware
3 12 (16.90%) Oracle
4 8 (11.27%) McAfee
5 5 (7.04%) IBM
5 5 (7.04%) SolarWinds
5 5 (7.04%) Symantec
6 4 (5.63%) Atlassian
7 3 (4.23%) Pure Storage
7 3 (4.23%) ServiceNow
8 2 (2.82%) CyberArk
8 2 (2.82%) Dell
8 2 (2.82%) HP
8 2 (2.82%) Splunk
9 1 (1.41%) Intel
9 1 (1.41%) Ivanti
9 1 (1.41%) Microsoft
9 1 (1.41%) Qualys
9 1 (1.41%) SAP
9 1 (1.41%) Sybase