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 1 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 347 320 401
Rank change year-on-year -27 +81 +38
Permanent jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 65 69 104
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.31% 0.57% 0.44%
As % of the Operating Systems category 4.43% 4.35% 3.53%
Number of salaries quoted 55 53 83
10th Percentile £47,500 £52,500 £52,500
25th Percentile £50,625 £62,500 £64,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £77,500 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year -25.81% -6.06% +6.45%
75th Percentile £77,500 £96,250 £102,500
90th Percentile £97,000 £122,000 £108,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% +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 1,466 1,588 2,944
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 6.99% 13.08% 12.34%
Number of salaries quoted 1,040 1,142 2,254
10th Percentile £32,500 £32,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,000 £42,500 £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 £85,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £103,875 £110,000 £102,500
England median annual salary £45,000 £44,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year +1.12% -1.11% -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 1 June 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 1 June 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 -15 7 £55,000 -29.03% 2
South London +8 5 £50,000 -23.08%
East London -11 1 £87,500 +34.62%
West London -20 1 - - 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 (16.92%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (10.77%) SharePoint
3 3 (4.62%) Apache
3 3 (4.62%) CMS
3 3 (4.62%) WordPress
4 1 (1.54%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (1.54%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 6 (9.23%) FLEXCUBE
Cloud Services
1 17 (26.15%) AWS
2 15 (23.08%) Azure
3 6 (9.23%) Datadog
4 5 (7.69%) AWS CloudFormation
4 5 (7.69%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (6.15%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 4 (6.15%) Amazon EC2
5 4 (6.15%) Amazon S3
5 4 (6.15%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 3 (4.62%) CloudFront
6 3 (4.62%) Route 53
7 2 (3.08%) Amazon ECS
7 2 (3.08%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (3.08%) Amazon SQS
7 2 (3.08%) AWS CloudTrail
7 2 (3.08%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (3.08%) GitHub
7 2 (3.08%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (3.08%) Serverless
8 1 (1.54%) Apigee
Communications & Networking
1 18 (27.69%) DNS
2 16 (24.62%) LAN
3 14 (21.54%) TCP/IP
4 12 (18.46%) SAN
5 9 (13.85%) HTTP
6 7 (10.77%) WAN
7 5 (7.69%) Firewall
8 3 (4.62%) VoIP
9 2 (3.08%) DHCP
9 2 (3.08%) iSCSI
10 1 (1.54%) Kerberos
10 1 (1.54%) Multicast
10 1 (1.54%) NAS
10 1 (1.54%) SSL
10 1 (1.54%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (9.23%) Oracle Database
2 5 (7.69%) Elasticsearch
3 4 (6.15%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (6.15%) SQL Server
4 3 (4.62%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.54%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (1.54%) DynamoDB
5 1 (1.54%) Hadoop
5 1 (1.54%) MySQL
5 1 (1.54%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.54%) SAP HANA
5 1 (1.54%) Sybase ASE
5 1 (1.54%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 11 (16.92%) Git
2 4 (6.15%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 4 (6.15%) GitLab
2 4 (6.15%) Jenkins
3 2 (3.08%) Bitbucket
3 2 (3.08%) JIRA
4 1 (1.54%) git-flow
4 1 (1.54%) Maven
4 1 (1.54%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 21 (32.31%) Social Skills
2 20 (30.77%) Finance
3 16 (24.62%) Banking
4 10 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (7.69%) Front Office
6 4 (6.15%) Mandarin Language
7 3 (4.62%) Military
8 2 (3.08%) Advertising
8 2 (3.08%) Public Sector
9 1 (1.54%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.54%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.54%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.54%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.54%) Retail
9 1 (1.54%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 22 (33.85%) Administrator
2 15 (23.08%) Systems Administrator
3 14 (21.54%) Linux Administrator
4 10 (15.38%) Linux Systems Administrator
4 10 (15.38%) Senior
5 7 (10.77%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 7 (10.77%) 3rd Line Support
5 7 (10.77%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
5 7 (10.77%) DBA
5 7 (10.77%) Support Engineer
6 6 (9.23%) Lead
6 6 (9.23%) Linux Engineer
6 6 (9.23%) Linux Support
6 6 (9.23%) Oracle DBA
6 6 (9.23%) Senior DBA
6 6 (9.23%) Senior Oracle DBA
7 5 (7.69%) Developer
7 5 (7.69%) DevOps Engineer
7 5 (7.69%) Linux Support Engineer
8 4 (6.15%) Azure Infrastructure Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (13.85%) WebSockets
2 5 (7.69%) Middleware
3 4 (6.15%) web3js
4 1 (1.54%) Apache NiFi
4 1 (1.54%) AWS CDK
4 1 (1.54%) FIX Protocol
4 1 (1.54%) Kafka
4 1 (1.54%) LDAP
4 1 (1.54%) MFC
4 1 (1.54%) REST
4 1 (1.54%) STL
4 1 (1.54%) wxWidgets
Miscellaneous
1 15 (23.08%) Data Centre
2 7 (10.77%) PKI
3 6 (9.23%) Enterprise Storage
3 6 (9.23%) Management Information System
4 5 (7.69%) Hybrid Cloud
4 5 (7.69%) Operational Technology
5 4 (6.15%) Blockchain
5 4 (6.15%) Web3
6 3 (4.62%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (4.62%) Fixed Income
6 3 (4.62%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 3 (4.62%) Replication
7 2 (3.08%) Clustering
8 1 (1.54%) Cloud Native
8 1 (1.54%) Derivative
8 1 (1.54%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (1.54%) Enterprise Cloud
8 1 (1.54%) Equities
8 1 (1.54%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (1.54%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 65 (100.00%) Linux
2 25 (38.46%) Windows
3 24 (36.92%) Windows Server
4 9 (13.85%) Unix
5 8 (12.31%) CentOS
6 7 (10.77%) Ubuntu
7 6 (9.23%) AIX
7 6 (9.23%) Oracle Linux
8 2 (3.08%) Amazon Linux
8 2 (3.08%) Rocky
8 2 (3.08%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (1.54%) CoreOS
9 1 (1.54%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (43.08%) DevOps
2 17 (26.15%) Disaster Recovery
3 16 (24.62%) CI/CD
4 15 (23.08%) High Availability
4 15 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
5 14 (21.54%) Configuration Management
6 13 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
6 13 (20.00%) ITIL
7 12 (18.46%) Infrastructure as Code
8 10 (15.38%) Containerisation
8 10 (15.38%) Incident Response
8 10 (15.38%) SIEM
9 9 (13.85%) Customer-Centricity
9 9 (13.85%) Performance Monitoring
9 9 (13.85%) Performance Tuning
9 9 (13.85%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 8 (12.31%) Capacity Planning
10 8 (12.31%) Runbook
11 7 (10.77%) Change Management
12 6 (9.23%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 25 (38.46%) SQL
2 21 (32.31%) Bash
3 17 (26.15%) Python
4 8 (12.31%) Shell Script
5 7 (10.77%) Korn
5 7 (10.77%) PowerShell
6 6 (9.23%) Java
6 6 (9.23%) PL/SQL
7 3 (4.62%) PHP
8 2 (3.08%) C++
9 1 (1.54%) Groovy
9 1 (1.54%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 15 (23.08%) Security Cleared
2 10 (15.38%) RHCSA
3 9 (13.85%) Degree
4 8 (12.31%) DV Cleared
5 7 (10.77%) SC Cleared
6 4 (6.15%) Cisco Certification
6 4 (6.15%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (6.15%) Postgraduate
7 3 (4.62%) CCNA
7 3 (4.62%) MCSE
8 2 (3.08%) AWS Certification
8 2 (3.08%) Azure Certification
8 2 (3.08%) RHCE
9 1 (1.54%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 1 (1.54%) CISM
9 1 (1.54%) CISSP
9 1 (1.54%) Dell Certification
9 1 (1.54%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (1.54%) Linux+ Certification
9 1 (1.54%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.15%) SLA
2 1 (1.54%) GDPR
2 1 (1.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.54%) NIST
2 1 (1.54%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 31 (47.69%) VMware Infrastructure
2 12 (18.46%) Docker
3 11 (16.92%) vSphere
4 10 (15.38%) Active Directory
5 8 (12.31%) Hyper-V
6 6 (9.23%) Oracle RAC
7 1 (1.54%) KVM
7 1 (1.54%) Veritas Cluster Server
7 1 (1.54%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (1.54%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 19 (29.23%) Kubernetes
2 17 (26.15%) Ansible
3 16 (24.62%) Nagios
4 13 (20.00%) Terraform
5 8 (12.31%) WSUS
6 6 (9.23%) Data Guard
6 6 (9.23%) Oracle RMAN
7 4 (6.15%) Argo
8 2 (3.08%) Prometheus
8 2 (3.08%) Puppet
8 2 (3.08%) Red Hat Satellite
8 2 (3.08%) ZABBIX
9 1 (1.54%) Grafana
9 1 (1.54%) McAfee ePO
9 1 (1.54%) Progress Chef
9 1 (1.54%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 44 (67.69%) Red Hat
2 38 (58.46%) VMware
3 10 (15.38%) SolarWinds
4 8 (12.31%) McAfee
4 8 (12.31%) Oracle
5 7 (10.77%) Microsoft
6 6 (9.23%) IBM
7 3 (4.62%) Pure Storage
7 3 (4.62%) Veeam
8 2 (3.08%) ServiceNow
8 2 (3.08%) Splunk
9 1 (1.54%) CyberArk
9 1 (1.54%) Dell
9 1 (1.54%) Delphix
9 1 (1.54%) HP
9 1 (1.54%) Intel
9 1 (1.54%) Juniper
9 1 (1.54%) Rapid7
9 1 (1.54%) Tenable
9 1 (1.54%) Veracode