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 20 March 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
20 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 299 272 345
Rank change year-on-year -27 +73 +11
Permanent jobs citing Red Hat 101 127 148
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.59% 0.96% 0.68%
As % of the Vendors category 1.86% 2.39% 1.70%
Number of salaries quoted 63 89 109
10th Percentile £51,250 £48,050 £60,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £62,500 £70,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £76,500 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% -10.00% +21.43%
75th Percentile £103,750 £90,000 £102,500
90th Percentile £140,000 £110,250 £110,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £67,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -14.81% +12.50% -7.69%

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 5,432 5,312 8,713
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 31.62% 40.27% 39.80%
Number of salaries quoted 3,371 3,142 6,603
10th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £36,000
25th Percentile £47,617 £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 £52,500 £57,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -8.70% +15.00% -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 20 March 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 20 March 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 +4 14 £55,000 -28.10% 5
East London -11 12 £87,500 +27.27%
South London +31 4 - -
West London -21 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 (21.78%) Apache
2 18 (17.82%) Apache Airflow
3 17 (16.83%) Apache Spark
4 14 (13.86%) Tomcat
5 7 (6.93%) WebSphere
5 7 (6.93%) WebSphere Application Server
6 6 (5.94%) IIS
7 5 (4.95%) Confluence
7 5 (4.95%) nginx
8 3 (2.97%) CMS
8 3 (2.97%) Microsoft Exchange
8 3 (2.97%) WordPress
Applications
1 9 (8.91%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (1.98%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 47 (46.53%) AWS
2 26 (25.74%) OpenShift
3 20 (19.80%) Azure
4 18 (17.82%) Amazon S3
5 12 (11.88%) GCP
6 6 (5.94%) Amazon ECR
6 6 (5.94%) Nutanix
7 4 (3.96%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 4 (3.96%) Amazon ECS
8 3 (2.97%) Cloud Computing
8 3 (2.97%) GitHub
9 2 (1.98%) Amazon EC2
9 2 (1.98%) Amazon EKS
9 2 (1.98%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (1.98%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (1.98%) dbt
9 2 (1.98%) Power Platform
9 2 (1.98%) Route 53
9 2 (1.98%) Serverless
9 2 (1.98%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 17 (16.83%) DNS
2 16 (15.84%) TCP/IP
3 14 (13.86%) Multicast
4 13 (12.87%) LAN
5 8 (7.92%) Firewall
5 8 (7.92%) SSL
5 8 (7.92%) WAN
6 6 (5.94%) HTTP
7 4 (3.96%) DHCP
8 3 (2.97%) VLAN
9 2 (1.98%) FIX Connectivity
9 2 (1.98%) NAS
9 2 (1.98%) SAN
9 2 (1.98%) SNMP
10 1 (0.99%) Cisco ASA
10 1 (0.99%) HTTPS
10 1 (0.99%) Reverse Proxy
10 1 (0.99%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (16.83%) Oracle Database
1 17 (16.83%) Tableau
2 16 (15.84%) Apache Hive
2 16 (15.84%) Impala
2 16 (15.84%) Parquet
2 16 (15.84%) Spark SQL
3 11 (10.89%) PostgreSQL
4 10 (9.90%) SQL Server
5 8 (7.92%) MySQL
6 7 (6.93%) DB2
7 4 (3.96%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (1.98%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (1.98%) Power BI
8 2 (1.98%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.99%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.99%) Hadoop
9 1 (0.99%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.99%) SAP HANA
9 1 (0.99%) Sybase ASE
9 1 (0.99%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 31 (30.69%) Git
2 16 (15.84%) IBM UrbanCode
3 10 (9.90%) GitLab
4 6 (5.94%) Jenkins
5 5 (4.95%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 5 (4.95%) Bitbucket
5 5 (4.95%) JIRA
6 1 (0.99%) JUnit
General
1 60 (59.41%) Finance
2 36 (35.64%) Banking
3 20 (19.80%) Investment Banking
4 19 (18.81%) Social Skills
5 18 (17.82%) Analytical Skills
6 13 (12.87%) Front Office
7 7 (6.93%) Legal
7 7 (6.93%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (1.98%) Advertising
9 1 (0.99%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 25 (24.75%) Administrator
2 22 (21.78%) Linux Administrator
3 18 (17.82%) Analyst
4 15 (14.85%) Developer
5 14 (13.86%) Transformation Analyst
6 13 (12.87%) Banking Analyst
6 13 (12.87%) C++ Developer
6 13 (12.87%) Systems Administrator
7 12 (11.88%) Infrastructure Support
7 12 (11.88%) Unix Support
8 11 (10.89%) Linux Support
9 10 (9.90%) Linux Systems Administrator
10 9 (8.91%) Business Analyst
10 9 (8.91%) Linux Engineer
11 8 (7.92%) Data Business Analyst
12 7 (6.93%) Applications Support
12 7 (6.93%) Investment Banking Business Analyst
12 7 (6.93%) Linux/Unix DevOps
12 7 (6.93%) Platform Engineer
12 7 (6.93%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (15.84%) PySpark
2 14 (13.86%) FIX Protocol
3 9 (8.91%) LDAP
3 9 (8.91%) Pandas
4 7 (6.93%) LAPP Stack
4 7 (6.93%) Middleware
4 7 (6.93%) WebSphere MQ
5 5 (4.95%) Kafka
5 5 (4.95%) Node.js
5 5 (4.95%) WebSockets
6 3 (2.97%) AngularJS
6 3 (2.97%) CSS
6 3 (2.97%) HTML
6 3 (2.97%) React
6 3 (2.97%) Vue
7 2 (1.98%) LEMP Stack
7 2 (1.98%) Spring
8 1 (0.99%) .NET
8 1 (0.99%) MFC
8 1 (0.99%) STL
Miscellaneous
1 12 (11.88%) Data Centre
1 12 (11.88%) Derivative
2 11 (10.89%) Linux Command Line
3 8 (7.92%) Clustering
3 8 (7.92%) Management Information System
4 7 (6.93%) Enterprise Storage
4 7 (6.93%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (2.97%) Cloud Native
6 2 (1.98%) Eurex
6 2 (1.98%) FPGA
6 2 (1.98%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.99%) Blockchain
7 1 (0.99%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.99%) Equities
7 1 (0.99%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (0.99%) IoT
7 1 (0.99%) Low-Code
7 1 (0.99%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.99%) PKI
7 1 (0.99%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 77 (76.24%) Linux
2 59 (58.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 20 (19.80%) Windows
4 17 (16.83%) Unix
5 12 (11.88%) CentOS
5 12 (11.88%) Windows Server
6 7 (6.93%) Windows Server 2016
6 7 (6.93%) Windows Server 2019
7 6 (5.94%) Ubuntu
8 5 (4.95%) Windows Server 2012
9 3 (2.97%) Rocky
10 2 (1.98%) Oracle Linux
10 2 (1.98%) Solaris
11 1 (0.99%) CoreOS
11 1 (0.99%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (40.59%) CI/CD
2 33 (32.67%) DevOps
3 30 (29.70%) Agile
4 24 (23.76%) User Acceptance Testing
5 20 (19.80%) Data Pipeline
5 20 (19.80%) Infrastructure as Code
5 20 (19.80%) Problem-Solving
6 19 (18.81%) Low Latency
7 18 (17.82%) AI
7 18 (17.82%) Analytics
7 18 (17.82%) Scrum
8 16 (15.84%) Configuration Management
8 16 (15.84%) Data Governance
8 16 (15.84%) Data Transformation
8 16 (15.84%) ETL
8 16 (15.84%) ITIL
9 14 (13.86%) Performance Tuning
9 14 (13.86%) Root Cause Analysis
10 13 (12.87%) Change Management
11 12 (11.88%) SOA
Programming Languages
1 55 (54.46%) Python
2 26 (25.74%) SQL
3 25 (24.75%) Bash
4 13 (12.87%) C++
5 12 (11.88%) PowerShell
6 6 (5.94%) Java
7 5 (4.95%) JavaScript
8 4 (3.96%) Shell Script
9 3 (2.97%) Perl
9 3 (2.97%) PHP
9 3 (2.97%) Ruby
10 1 (0.99%) C#
10 1 (0.99%) Korn
10 1 (0.99%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.99%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 16 (15.84%) Degree
2 13 (12.87%) AWS Certification
2 13 (12.87%) Security Cleared
3 12 (11.88%) ITIL Certification
4 5 (4.95%) RHCSA
5 4 (3.96%) CCDA
5 4 (3.96%) Cisco Certification
5 4 (3.96%) DV Cleared
5 4 (3.96%) SC Cleared
5 4 (3.96%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 3 (2.97%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.99%) CISSP
7 1 (0.99%) MCDST
7 1 (0.99%) MCITP
7 1 (0.99%) MCSA
7 1 (0.99%) MCSE
7 1 (0.99%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.99%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 1 (0.99%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (15.84%) Data Quality
2 12 (11.88%) SLA
3 7 (6.93%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 7 (6.93%) GDPR
3 7 (6.93%) HIPAA
3 7 (6.93%) QA
System Software
1 30 (29.70%) VMware Infrastructure
2 12 (11.88%) Docker
3 8 (7.92%) Active Directory
4 5 (4.95%) Veritas Cluster Server
4 5 (4.95%) vSphere
5 2 (1.98%) KVM
6 1 (0.99%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.99%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.99%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 34 (33.66%) Ansible
2 23 (22.77%) Kubernetes
3 15 (14.85%) Terraform
4 11 (10.89%) Nagios
5 5 (4.95%) Grafana
5 5 (4.95%) Red Hat Satellite
6 4 (3.96%) Progress Chef
6 4 (3.96%) Puppet
7 3 (2.97%) Argo
8 2 (1.98%) Proxmox
8 2 (1.98%) Red Hat Spacewalk
9 1 (0.99%) McAfee ePO
9 1 (0.99%) SCVMM
9 1 (0.99%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 41 (40.59%) VMware
2 25 (24.75%) Oracle
3 7 (6.93%) IBM
3 7 (6.93%) SolarWinds
3 7 (6.93%) Symantec
4 6 (5.94%) Cisco
4 6 (5.94%) Dell
5 5 (4.95%) Atlassian
5 5 (4.95%) ServiceNow
5 5 (4.95%) Splunk
6 4 (3.96%) NetApp
6 4 (3.96%) Rapid7
7 3 (2.97%) Pure Storage
8 2 (1.98%) Bloomberg
8 2 (1.98%) CQG
8 2 (1.98%) HP
8 2 (1.98%) ION Trading
8 2 (1.98%) Microsoft
8 2 (1.98%) Reuters
8 2 (1.98%) Trayport