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 September 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 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 358 264 302
Rank change year-on-year -94 +38 +38
Permanent jobs citing Red Hat 82 125 160
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.34% 1.06% 0.84%
As % of the Vendors category 1.14% 2.39% 2.14%
Number of salaries quoted 54 74 89
10th Percentile £50,750 £54,125 £52,500
25th Percentile £63,125 £62,063 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £73,750 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.25% -13.24% +6.25%
75th Percentile £103,750 £87,500 £92,500
90th Percentile £125,000 £95,000 £113,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - +7.69% +4.00%

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 7,209 5,232 7,487
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 29.81% 44.37% 39.21%
Number of salaries quoted 4,831 3,339 4,493
10th Percentile £38,750 £36,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £50,000 £51,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.57% - +3.70%
75th Percentile £95,000 £88,750 £91,250
90th Percentile £107,500 £107,500 £112,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.52% -4.55% -4.35%

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 September 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 September 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 10 £90,000 +56.52% 17
South London +2 5 £50,000 -37.50% 1
West London -15 4 £85,000 - 42
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 11 (13.41%) Confluence
2 8 (9.76%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (2.44%) Apache
3 2 (2.44%) nginx
4 1 (1.22%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (1.22%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.22%) IIS
4 1 (1.22%) JBoss
4 1 (1.22%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.22%) Tomcat
4 1 (1.22%) WebLogic
Applications
1 3 (3.66%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.22%) Chatbot
2 1 (1.22%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.22%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 7 (8.54%) Fidessa
2 1 (1.22%) FLEXCUBE
Cloud Services
1 38 (46.34%) AWS
2 28 (34.15%) Azure
3 14 (17.07%) OpenShift
4 12 (14.63%) GCP
5 11 (13.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 11 (13.41%) Amazon ECS
6 10 (12.20%) Amazon ECR
7 7 (8.54%) Nutanix
7 7 (8.54%) Snowflake
8 5 (6.10%) Microsoft 365
9 4 (4.88%) Entra ID
10 3 (3.66%) Amazon S3
10 3 (3.66%) Datadog
11 2 (2.44%) Amazon EC2
11 2 (2.44%) AWS CloudTrail
11 2 (2.44%) AWS Lambda
11 2 (2.44%) GitHub
11 2 (2.44%) GitHub Actions
11 2 (2.44%) Serverless
11 2 (2.44%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 13 (15.85%) DNS
2 12 (14.63%) Firewall
3 11 (13.41%) TCP/IP
4 10 (12.20%) LAN
5 8 (9.76%) WAN
6 7 (8.54%) DHCP
6 7 (8.54%) FIX Connectivity
7 6 (7.32%) SAN
8 5 (6.10%) Kerberos
9 4 (4.88%) HTTP
9 4 (4.88%) IPv4
9 4 (4.88%) Software-Defined Networking
10 3 (3.66%) VoIP
10 3 (3.66%) WLAN
11 2 (2.44%) BGP
11 2 (2.44%) iSCSI
11 2 (2.44%) SSL
11 2 (2.44%) VPN
12 1 (1.22%) Network Security
12 1 (1.22%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (18.29%) SQL Server
2 10 (12.20%) MySQL
3 9 (10.98%) Elasticsearch
4 5 (6.10%) MongoDB
5 3 (3.66%) Oracle Reports
6 2 (2.44%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (1.22%) Apache Hive
7 1 (1.22%) DynamoDB
7 1 (1.22%) Impala
7 1 (1.22%) Oracle Database
7 1 (1.22%) Parquet
7 1 (1.22%) Spark SQL
7 1 (1.22%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 22 (26.83%) GitLab
2 17 (20.73%) Git
3 12 (14.63%) JIRA
4 6 (7.32%) Jenkins
5 5 (6.10%) Bitbucket
6 1 (1.22%) Artifactory
6 1 (1.22%) git-flow
6 1 (1.22%) IBM UrbanCode
6 1 (1.22%) Maven
6 1 (1.22%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (1.22%) Subversion
General
1 29 (35.37%) Finance
2 24 (29.27%) Banking
3 19 (23.17%) Social Skills
4 12 (14.63%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (7.32%) Influencing Skills
6 4 (4.88%) Aerospace
6 4 (4.88%) Automotive
6 4 (4.88%) Electronics
6 4 (4.88%) Manufacturing
7 3 (3.66%) Front Office
7 3 (3.66%) Military
7 3 (3.66%) Retail
7 3 (3.66%) Telecoms
8 2 (2.44%) Advertising
8 2 (2.44%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.22%) Investment Banking
9 1 (1.22%) Legal
Job Titles
1 24 (29.27%) Administrator
2 21 (25.61%) Systems Administrator
3 18 (21.95%) Linux Administrator
3 18 (21.95%) Linux Systems Administrator
4 16 (19.51%) Linux Engineer
5 11 (13.41%) Linux Systems Engineer
6 10 (12.20%) DevOps Engineer
7 9 (10.98%) Cloud Engineer
7 9 (10.98%) DevOps Administrator
7 9 (10.98%) DevOps Systems Engineer
7 9 (10.98%) Lead
7 9 (10.98%) Linux DevOps Administrator
7 9 (10.98%) Linux DevOps Engineer
7 9 (10.98%) Linux/Unix DevOps
8 8 (9.76%) Developer
9 7 (8.54%) Cloud Administrator
9 7 (8.54%) Java Developer
9 7 (8.54%) Senior
10 6 (7.32%) Analyst
10 6 (7.32%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (26.83%) Terraform
2 7 (8.54%) FIX Protocol
3 5 (6.10%) LDAP
4 4 (4.88%) WebSockets
5 1 (1.22%) AWS CDK
5 1 (1.22%) CSS
5 1 (1.22%) CSS3
5 1 (1.22%) HTML
5 1 (1.22%) HTML5
5 1 (1.22%) Keycloak
5 1 (1.22%) LEMP Stack
5 1 (1.22%) Node.js
5 1 (1.22%) OAuth
5 1 (1.22%) OAuth2
5 1 (1.22%) OpenID
5 1 (1.22%) PySpark
5 1 (1.22%) React
Miscellaneous
1 16 (19.51%) Data Centre
2 8 (9.76%) Hybrid Cloud
3 7 (8.54%) Cloud Native
3 7 (8.54%) Eurex
4 5 (6.10%) Operational Technology
4 5 (6.10%) Security Posture
5 4 (4.88%) Linux Command Line
5 4 (4.88%) Onboarding
5 4 (4.88%) Renewable Energy
6 3 (3.66%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (3.66%) Enterprise Cloud
6 3 (3.66%) Equity Derivative
6 3 (3.66%) Fixed Income
6 3 (3.66%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 3 (3.66%) Reference Data
7 2 (2.44%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (2.44%) Management Information System
7 2 (2.44%) Replication
7 2 (2.44%) Social Media
8 1 (1.22%) Enterprise Storage
Operating Systems
1 66 (80.49%) Linux
2 30 (36.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 24 (29.27%) CentOS
4 20 (24.39%) Windows
5 17 (20.73%) Windows Server
6 14 (17.07%) Rocky
7 10 (12.20%) Ubuntu
8 9 (10.98%) Unix
9 4 (4.88%) Solaris
10 3 (3.66%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (26.83%) DevOps
2 21 (25.61%) CI/CD
2 21 (25.61%) Infrastructure as Code
3 18 (21.95%) Containerisation
4 16 (19.51%) ITIL
5 14 (17.07%) Problem-Solving
6 13 (15.85%) Low Latency
7 12 (14.63%) Continuous Improvement
8 11 (13.41%) Configuration Management
8 11 (13.41%) Cybersecurity
9 10 (12.20%) Capacity Planning
9 10 (12.20%) Software Engineering
10 9 (10.98%) Architectural Design
10 9 (10.98%) Deployment Automation
10 9 (10.98%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 9 (10.98%) Mentoring
10 9 (10.98%) Roadmaps
10 9 (10.98%) Virtual Environments
11 8 (9.76%) Performance Monitoring
11 8 (9.76%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 36 (43.90%) Python
2 28 (34.15%) Bash
3 22 (26.83%) Java
4 16 (19.51%) SQL
5 15 (18.29%) PowerShell
6 9 (10.98%) JavaScript
7 7 (8.54%) Perl
7 7 (8.54%) Ruby
8 2 (2.44%) Shell Script
9 1 (1.22%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 18 (21.95%) Security Cleared
2 14 (17.07%) Cisco Certification
3 11 (13.41%) Microsoft Certification
4 9 (10.98%) RHCSA
5 8 (9.76%) Degree
6 7 (8.54%) CCNA
6 7 (8.54%) SC Cleared
7 6 (7.32%) CISM
7 6 (7.32%) CISSP
7 6 (7.32%) DV Cleared
7 6 (7.32%) RHCE
8 5 (6.10%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 5 (6.10%) AWS Certification
8 5 (6.10%) CCSP
9 4 (4.88%) ISTQB
9 4 (4.88%) OSCP
10 3 (3.66%) Azure Certification
10 3 (3.66%) Dell Certification
10 3 (3.66%) MCSA
10 3 (3.66%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (12.20%) QA
2 7 (8.54%) GDPR
2 7 (8.54%) NIST
3 6 (7.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (6.10%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 3 (3.66%) SLA
6 1 (1.22%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (1.22%) COBIT
6 1 (1.22%) Data Quality
6 1 (1.22%) HIPAA
6 1 (1.22%) NCSC
6 1 (1.22%) PMO
System Software
1 26 (31.71%) VMware Infrastructure
2 18 (21.95%) Docker
3 16 (19.51%) Active Directory
4 8 (9.76%) Hyper-V
5 5 (6.10%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (6.10%) vSphere
6 4 (4.88%) Squid
6 4 (4.88%) VMware NSX
7 3 (3.66%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (1.22%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 23 (28.05%) Ansible
2 19 (23.17%) Kubernetes
3 15 (18.29%) Nagios
4 9 (10.98%) Grafana
5 7 (8.54%) Red Hat Satellite
6 5 (6.10%) ZABBIX
7 4 (4.88%) Packer
8 3 (3.66%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (3.66%) WSUS
9 1 (1.22%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (1.22%) Argo
9 1 (1.22%) Progress Chef
9 1 (1.22%) Proxmox
9 1 (1.22%) Puppet
9 1 (1.22%) SCCM
9 1 (1.22%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 29 (35.37%) VMware
2 25 (30.49%) Microsoft
2 25 (30.49%) Oracle
3 19 (23.17%) Splunk
4 14 (17.07%) Rapid7
5 7 (8.54%) Bloomberg
5 7 (8.54%) CQG
5 7 (8.54%) ION Trading
5 7 (8.54%) OutSystems
5 7 (8.54%) Patsystems
5 7 (8.54%) Reuters
5 7 (8.54%) Trayport
6 6 (7.32%) Cisco
6 6 (7.32%) ServiceNow
6 6 (7.32%) SolarWinds
7 5 (6.10%) CyberArk
7 5 (6.10%) Ivanti
7 5 (6.10%) Tenable
7 5 (6.10%) Veeam
7 5 (6.10%) Veracode