Red Hat Job Trends in London

Red Hat
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in London requiring knowledge or experience of Red Hat products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Red Hat over the 6 months leading up to 4 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT labour market in general and are not representative of salaries within Red Hat, Inc.

6 months to
4 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 299 284 343
Rank change year-on-year -15 +59 +11
Permanent jobs citing Red Hat 103 108 155
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.56% 0.84% 0.69%
As % of the Vendors category 1.83% 2.07% 1.72%
Number of salaries quoted 67 73 110
10th Percentile £51,250 £45,250 £52,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £60,500 £65,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -14.71% +21.43%
75th Percentile £103,750 £88,750 £102,500
90th Percentile £140,000 £100,000 £110,000
England median annual salary £61,250 £65,000 £58,500
% change year-on-year -5.77% +11.11% -9.57%

All Vendors
London

Red Hat falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 5,616 5,229 8,992
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 30.74% 40.53% 39.91%
Number of salaries quoted 3,495 3,162 6,638
10th Percentile £35,000 £40,500 £35,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £52,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.69% -3.70%
75th Percentile £90,000 £90,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £110,000 £105,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £56,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -2.65% +13.00% -13.04%

Red Hat
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Red Hat relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in London.

Red Hat job vacancy trend in London

Red Hat
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Red Hat.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Red Hat

Red Hat
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Red Hat in London over the 6 months to 4 April 2026.

Salary histogram for Red Hat in London

Red Hat
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 within the London region over the 6 months to 4 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 +7 17 £55,000 -33.33% 10
East London -10 11 £87,500 +27.27%
South London +30 4 - - 1
West London -26 1 - - 1
Red Hat
England

Red Hat
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 22 (21.36%) Apache
2 18 (17.48%) Apache Airflow
3 17 (16.50%) Apache Spark
4 11 (10.68%) Tomcat
5 6 (5.83%) Confluence
5 6 (5.83%) IIS
6 5 (4.85%) nginx
7 4 (3.88%) WebSphere
7 4 (3.88%) WebSphere Application Server
8 3 (2.91%) CMS
8 3 (2.91%) Microsoft Exchange
8 3 (2.91%) WordPress
Applications
1 9 (8.74%) MS Visio
2 2 (1.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.97%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (1.94%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 46 (44.66%) AWS
2 25 (24.27%) OpenShift
3 22 (21.36%) Azure
4 19 (18.45%) Amazon S3
5 11 (10.68%) GCP
6 7 (6.80%) Nutanix
7 6 (5.83%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 6 (5.83%) Amazon ECR
7 6 (5.83%) Amazon ECS
8 4 (3.88%) GitHub
9 3 (2.91%) Amazon EC2
9 3 (2.91%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (2.91%) Cloud Computing
9 3 (2.91%) Serverless
9 3 (2.91%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 2 (1.94%) AWS CloudFormation
10 2 (1.94%) Datadog
10 2 (1.94%) Entra ID
10 2 (1.94%) Power Platform
10 2 (1.94%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 17 (16.50%) DNS
2 16 (15.53%) TCP/IP
3 15 (14.56%) LAN
4 14 (13.59%) Multicast
5 10 (9.71%) Firewall
5 10 (9.71%) WAN
6 6 (5.83%) HTTP
6 6 (5.83%) SSL
7 4 (3.88%) DHCP
8 3 (2.91%) VLAN
9 2 (1.94%) FIX Connectivity
9 2 (1.94%) NAS
9 2 (1.94%) SAN
9 2 (1.94%) SNMP
9 2 (1.94%) WLAN
10 1 (0.97%) Cisco ASA
10 1 (0.97%) HTTPS
10 1 (0.97%) Kerberos
10 1 (0.97%) Reverse Proxy
10 1 (0.97%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (16.50%) Oracle Database
1 17 (16.50%) Tableau
2 16 (15.53%) Apache Hive
2 16 (15.53%) Impala
2 16 (15.53%) Parquet
2 16 (15.53%) Spark SQL
3 10 (9.71%) SQL Server
4 8 (7.77%) MySQL
5 7 (6.80%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (3.88%) DB2
6 4 (3.88%) Elasticsearch
7 3 (2.91%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (1.94%) MongoDB
8 2 (1.94%) Power BI
8 2 (1.94%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.97%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.97%) Hadoop
9 1 (0.97%) SAP HANA
9 1 (0.97%) Sybase ASE
9 1 (0.97%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 31 (30.10%) Git
2 16 (15.53%) IBM UrbanCode
3 12 (11.65%) GitLab
4 8 (7.77%) Jenkins
5 6 (5.83%) JIRA
6 5 (4.85%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 5 (4.85%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.97%) git-flow
7 1 (0.97%) JUnit
7 1 (0.97%) Maven
7 1 (0.97%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 61 (59.22%) Finance
2 33 (32.04%) Banking
3 19 (18.45%) Analytical Skills
3 19 (18.45%) Social Skills
4 18 (17.48%) Investment Banking
5 13 (12.62%) Front Office
6 7 (6.80%) Legal
6 7 (6.80%) Presentation Skills
7 4 (3.88%) Advertising
8 2 (1.94%) Retail
9 1 (0.97%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.97%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 26 (25.24%) Administrator
2 23 (22.33%) Linux Administrator
3 18 (17.48%) Analyst
4 14 (13.59%) Developer
4 14 (13.59%) Systems Administrator
4 14 (13.59%) Transformation Analyst
5 13 (12.62%) Banking Analyst
5 13 (12.62%) C++ Developer
6 11 (10.68%) Linux Systems Administrator
7 10 (9.71%) Infrastructure Support
7 10 (9.71%) Unix Support
8 9 (8.74%) Business Analyst
8 9 (8.74%) Platform Engineer
9 8 (7.77%) Data Business Analyst
9 8 (7.77%) Linux Engineer
9 8 (7.77%) Linux Support
10 7 (6.80%) Investment Banking Business Analyst
10 7 (6.80%) Linux/Unix DevOps
10 7 (6.80%) Senior
10 7 (6.80%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (15.53%) PySpark
2 14 (13.59%) FIX Protocol
3 9 (8.74%) Pandas
4 7 (6.80%) LDAP
4 7 (6.80%) Middleware
5 5 (4.85%) Kafka
5 5 (4.85%) WebSockets
6 4 (3.88%) LAPP Stack
6 4 (3.88%) Node.js
6 4 (3.88%) WebSphere MQ
7 2 (1.94%) AngularJS
7 2 (1.94%) CSS
7 2 (1.94%) HTML
7 2 (1.94%) LEMP Stack
7 2 (1.94%) React
7 2 (1.94%) Vue
8 1 (0.97%) .NET
8 1 (0.97%) MFC
8 1 (0.97%) Spring
8 1 (0.97%) STL
Miscellaneous
1 14 (13.59%) Data Centre
2 12 (11.65%) Derivative
3 9 (8.74%) Linux Command Line
4 8 (7.77%) Clustering
5 7 (6.80%) Enterprise Storage
5 7 (6.80%) Hybrid Cloud
6 6 (5.83%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.94%) Cloud Native
7 2 (1.94%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.94%) Eurex
7 2 (1.94%) FPGA
7 2 (1.94%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.97%) Blockchain
8 1 (0.97%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (0.97%) Equities
8 1 (0.97%) IoT
8 1 (0.97%) Low-Code
8 1 (0.97%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.97%) PKI
8 1 (0.97%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 80 (77.67%) Linux
2 59 (57.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 18 (17.48%) Windows
4 14 (13.59%) Unix
5 13 (12.62%) Windows Server
6 12 (11.65%) CentOS
7 8 (7.77%) Ubuntu
8 7 (6.80%) Windows Server 2016
8 7 (6.80%) Windows Server 2019
9 5 (4.85%) Windows Server 2012
10 3 (2.91%) Rocky
11 2 (1.94%) Oracle Linux
11 2 (1.94%) Solaris
12 1 (0.97%) CoreOS
12 1 (0.97%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (40.78%) CI/CD
2 34 (33.01%) DevOps
3 29 (28.16%) Agile
4 23 (22.33%) Infrastructure as Code
5 21 (20.39%) Problem-Solving
5 21 (20.39%) User Acceptance Testing
6 20 (19.42%) Data Pipeline
7 19 (18.45%) AI
7 19 (18.45%) Low Latency
8 18 (17.48%) Analytics
8 18 (17.48%) Scrum
9 17 (16.50%) Configuration Management
10 16 (15.53%) Data Governance
10 16 (15.53%) Data Transformation
10 16 (15.53%) ETL
10 16 (15.53%) Root Cause Analysis
11 15 (14.56%) Performance Tuning
12 14 (13.59%) ITIL
13 12 (11.65%) Concurrent Programming
13 12 (11.65%) SOA
Programming Languages
1 54 (52.43%) Python
2 26 (25.24%) Bash
2 26 (25.24%) SQL
3 14 (13.59%) PowerShell
4 13 (12.62%) C++
5 6 (5.83%) Java
6 4 (3.88%) JavaScript
6 4 (3.88%) Shell Script
7 3 (2.91%) Perl
7 3 (2.91%) PHP
8 2 (1.94%) Ruby
9 1 (0.97%) C#
9 1 (0.97%) Groovy
9 1 (0.97%) Korn
9 1 (0.97%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 14 (13.59%) Security Cleared
2 12 (11.65%) Degree
3 11 (10.68%) AWS Certification
4 9 (8.74%) ITIL Certification
5 5 (4.85%) Cisco Certification
5 5 (4.85%) RHCSA
5 5 (4.85%) SC Cleared
6 4 (3.88%) CCDA
6 4 (3.88%) DV Cleared
6 4 (3.88%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 2 (1.94%) CISSP
7 2 (1.94%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.97%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 1 (0.97%) CISM
8 1 (0.97%) MCDST
8 1 (0.97%) MCITP
8 1 (0.97%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.97%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 1 (0.97%) OSCP
8 1 (0.97%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (15.53%) Data Quality
2 9 (8.74%) SLA
3 8 (7.77%) GDPR
4 7 (6.80%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 7 (6.80%) HIPAA
4 7 (6.80%) QA
5 1 (0.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.97%) NIST
5 1 (0.97%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 31 (30.10%) VMware Infrastructure
2 13 (12.62%) Docker
3 11 (10.68%) Active Directory
4 5 (4.85%) Veritas Cluster Server
4 5 (4.85%) vSphere
5 2 (1.94%) KVM
5 2 (1.94%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.97%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.97%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 38 (36.89%) Ansible
2 22 (21.36%) Kubernetes
3 19 (18.45%) Terraform
4 11 (10.68%) Nagios
5 7 (6.80%) Red Hat Satellite
6 5 (4.85%) Grafana
6 5 (4.85%) Progress Chef
7 4 (3.88%) Puppet
8 2 (1.94%) Argo
8 2 (1.94%) Proxmox
8 2 (1.94%) Red Hat Spacewalk
8 2 (1.94%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.97%) McAfee ePO
9 1 (0.97%) SCVMM
9 1 (0.97%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 44 (42.72%) VMware
2 26 (25.24%) Oracle
3 7 (6.80%) SolarWinds
3 7 (6.80%) Symantec
4 6 (5.83%) Cisco
4 6 (5.83%) Dell
4 6 (5.83%) Splunk
5 5 (4.85%) Atlassian
5 5 (4.85%) Rapid7
6 4 (3.88%) IBM
6 4 (3.88%) Microsoft
6 4 (3.88%) NetApp
6 4 (3.88%) ServiceNow
7 3 (2.91%) Pure Storage
8 2 (1.94%) Bloomberg
8 2 (1.94%) CQG
8 2 (1.94%) HP
8 2 (1.94%) ION Trading
8 2 (1.94%) Patsystems
8 2 (1.94%) Reuters