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 29 December 2025, 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
29 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 274 273 315
Rank change year-on-year -1 +42 +93
Permanent jobs citing Red Hat 108 154 134
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.79% 0.97% 0.75%
As % of the Vendors category 2.11% 2.43% 1.87%
Number of salaries quoted 76 96 120
10th Percentile £53,750 £53,750 £54,750
25th Percentile £63,750 £60,000 £65,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £81,250 £76,500 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.21% -7.27% +17.86%
75th Percentile £90,750 £90,000 £98,125
90th Percentile £125,000 £122,500 £110,000
England median annual salary £72,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +11.54% +4.00% +4.17%

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 5,124 6,342 7,160
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 37.38% 40.11% 40.24%
Number of salaries quoted 3,230 3,633 5,457
10th Percentile £33,750 £40,500 £36,800
25th Percentile £46,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £71,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.10% +2.14% -
75th Percentile £87,500 £90,000 £88,750
90th Percentile £105,000 £110,000 £107,500
England median annual salary £51,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -10.43% +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 29 December 2025.

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 29 December 2025. 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 +36 14 £71,250 -6.86% 20
East London -5 10 £85,000 +13.33%
West London -3 2 - - 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 21 (19.44%) Tomcat
2 18 (16.67%) WebSphere
3 16 (14.81%) WebSphere Application Server
4 8 (7.41%) Apache
4 8 (7.41%) nginx
5 7 (6.48%) IIS
6 6 (5.56%) Confluence
7 2 (1.85%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (1.85%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 3 (2.78%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 46 (42.59%) AWS
2 17 (15.74%) Azure
3 10 (9.26%) GitHub
3 10 (9.26%) OpenShift
4 9 (8.33%) GCP
5 7 (6.48%) Amazon ECR
5 7 (6.48%) SaaS
6 6 (5.56%) Amazon EC2
6 6 (5.56%) Amazon EKS
6 6 (5.56%) Amazon S3
6 6 (5.56%) AWS CloudFormation
6 6 (5.56%) AWS Lambda
6 6 (5.56%) Route 53
6 6 (5.56%) Serverless
6 6 (5.56%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 5 (4.63%) Cloudflare
8 3 (2.78%) Cloud Computing
9 2 (1.85%) Google Workspace
9 2 (1.85%) Microsoft 365
9 2 (1.85%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 24 (22.22%) SSL
2 17 (15.74%) TCP/IP
3 14 (12.96%) Firewall
4 12 (11.11%) DNS
4 12 (11.11%) LAN
4 12 (11.11%) Multicast
5 11 (10.19%) WAN
6 7 (6.48%) HTTP
7 6 (5.56%) Fibre Channel
7 6 (5.56%) HTTPS
7 6 (5.56%) Reverse Proxy
8 4 (3.70%) DHCP
8 4 (3.70%) SAN
9 3 (2.78%) FIX Connectivity
10 2 (1.85%) Cisco ASA
10 2 (1.85%) NAS
10 2 (1.85%) Network Security
10 2 (1.85%) SNMP
11 1 (0.93%) SSH
11 1 (0.93%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (19.44%) PostgreSQL
2 17 (15.74%) DB2
2 17 (15.74%) SQL Server
3 6 (5.56%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (2.78%) Relational Database
5 2 (1.85%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (1.85%) MySQL
5 2 (1.85%) Oracle Database
5 2 (1.85%) Power BI
6 1 (0.93%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.93%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 16 (14.81%) Git
2 9 (8.33%) GitLab
3 6 (5.56%) Jenkins
3 6 (5.56%) JIRA
4 5 (4.63%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 5 (4.63%) Bitbucket
General
1 64 (59.26%) Finance
2 24 (22.22%) Banking
3 15 (13.89%) Social Skills
4 12 (11.11%) Front Office
5 11 (10.19%) Investment Banking
6 7 (6.48%) Presentation Skills
7 4 (3.70%) Analytical Skills
8 3 (2.78%) Advertising
9 2 (1.85%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.93%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.93%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.93%) Law
10 1 (0.93%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 27 (25.00%) Linux Engineer
2 20 (18.52%) Infrastructure Support
3 19 (17.59%) Applications Support
3 19 (17.59%) Linux Support
4 17 (15.74%) Platform Engineer
4 17 (15.74%) Unix Support
5 14 (12.96%) Developer
6 13 (12.04%) Administrator
7 12 (11.11%) C++ Developer
7 12 (11.11%) Linux Administrator
8 10 (9.26%) DevOps Engineer
9 9 (8.33%) Automation Engineer
10 8 (7.41%) Cloud Engineer
10 8 (7.41%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 7 (6.48%) Applications Engineer
11 7 (6.48%) Applications Support Engineer
11 7 (6.48%) Support Engineer
12 6 (5.56%) Cisco Engineer
12 6 (5.56%) Linux DevOps Engineer
12 6 (5.56%) VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (17.59%) LDAP
2 16 (14.81%) LAPP Stack
2 16 (14.81%) WebSphere MQ
3 15 (13.89%) FIX Protocol
4 6 (5.56%) Kafka
4 6 (5.56%) OAuth
4 6 (5.56%) SAML
5 4 (3.70%) Middleware
5 4 (3.70%) Node.js
5 4 (3.70%) React
6 3 (2.78%) AngularJS
6 3 (2.78%) CSS
6 3 (2.78%) HTML
6 3 (2.78%) Vue
7 2 (1.85%) .NET
7 2 (1.85%) Jinja
7 2 (1.85%) YAML
8 1 (0.93%) Elastic Stack
8 1 (0.93%) REST
8 1 (0.93%) Ruby on Rails
Miscellaneous
1 20 (18.52%) Linux Command Line
2 17 (15.74%) Management Information System
3 12 (11.11%) Derivative
4 8 (7.41%) Clustering
5 6 (5.56%) Data Centre
5 6 (5.56%) PKI
6 3 (2.78%) Cloud Native
6 3 (2.78%) Eurex
6 3 (2.78%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (1.85%) Enterprise Cloud
7 2 (1.85%) FPGA
7 2 (1.85%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.85%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.93%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 1 (0.93%) Enterprise Storage
8 1 (0.93%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 1 (0.93%) Low-Code
8 1 (0.93%) Replication
8 1 (0.93%) Security Posture
8 1 (0.93%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 103 (95.37%) Linux
2 65 (60.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 37 (34.26%) Unix
4 28 (25.93%) Windows
5 11 (10.19%) Windows Server
6 10 (9.26%) CentOS
6 10 (9.26%) Windows Server 2019
7 7 (6.48%) Windows Server 2016
8 6 (5.56%) Solaris
8 6 (5.56%) Ubuntu
9 5 (4.63%) Windows Server 2012
10 4 (3.70%) Debian
11 2 (1.85%) AIX
11 2 (1.85%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (38.89%) DevOps
2 30 (27.78%) ITIL
3 26 (24.07%) CI/CD
4 24 (22.22%) Infrastructure as Code
5 21 (19.44%) Change Management
6 16 (14.81%) Agile
6 16 (14.81%) Containerisation
6 16 (14.81%) Platform Engineering
6 16 (14.81%) Problem-Solving
6 16 (14.81%) Release Management
6 16 (14.81%) User Acceptance Testing
7 15 (13.89%) Low Latency
8 13 (12.04%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 12 (11.11%) Concurrent Programming
9 12 (11.11%) Security Hardening
9 12 (11.11%) SOA
9 12 (11.11%) Systems Analysis
9 12 (11.11%) Unit Testing
10 10 (9.26%) Infrastructure Automation
11 9 (8.33%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 68 (62.96%) Python
2 33 (30.56%) Bash
3 14 (12.96%) Perl
4 12 (11.11%) C++
5 11 (10.19%) PowerShell
6 9 (8.33%) Java
7 8 (7.41%) SQL
8 5 (4.63%) Shell Script
9 4 (3.70%) JavaScript
10 3 (2.78%) C#
10 3 (2.78%) Ruby
11 2 (1.85%) TypeScript
11 2 (1.85%) VB.NET
12 1 (0.93%) Bourne shell
12 1 (0.93%) C-shell
12 1 (0.93%) Go
Qualifications
1 26 (24.07%) Degree
2 24 (22.22%) AWS Certification
3 23 (21.30%) ITIL Certification
4 8 (7.41%) Security Cleared
5 7 (6.48%) RHCE
6 6 (5.56%) CISSP
6 6 (5.56%) OSCP
7 4 (3.70%) DV Cleared
7 4 (3.70%) MCSA
7 4 (3.70%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (3.70%) SC Cleared
8 3 (2.78%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (2.78%) RHCSA
9 2 (1.85%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
9 2 (1.85%) Dell Certification
9 2 (1.85%) MCDST
9 2 (1.85%) MCITP
9 2 (1.85%) MCP
9 2 (1.85%) MCSE
10 1 (0.93%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (20.37%) SLA
2 10 (9.26%) GDPR
2 10 (9.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 2 (1.85%) QA
4 1 (0.93%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (0.93%) ISO 20022
4 1 (0.93%) SEPA
System Software
1 27 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 12 (11.11%) Docker
3 11 (10.19%) Active Directory
4 8 (7.41%) vSphere
5 6 (5.56%) NFS
6 5 (4.63%) Veritas Cluster Server
7 3 (2.78%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (1.85%) Hyper-V
8 2 (1.85%) KVM
8 2 (1.85%) Virtual Machines
9 1 (0.93%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 51 (47.22%) Ansible
2 29 (26.85%) Terraform
3 19 (17.59%) Kubernetes
4 13 (12.04%) Red Hat Satellite
5 5 (4.63%) Progress Chef
5 5 (4.63%) Puppet
6 3 (2.78%) Argo
7 2 (1.85%) Grafana
7 2 (1.85%) Nagios
7 2 (1.85%) Red Hat Spacewalk
7 2 (1.85%) WSUS
8 1 (0.93%) Docker Swarm
8 1 (0.93%) Oracle ZFS
8 1 (0.93%) Podman
8 1 (0.93%) vCenter Server
8 1 (0.93%) VxRail
Vendors
1 33 (30.56%) VMware
2 18 (16.67%) IBM
3 13 (12.04%) Cisco
4 10 (9.26%) Oracle
4 10 (9.26%) ServiceNow
5 7 (6.48%) Commvault
5 7 (6.48%) Pure Storage
5 7 (6.48%) Symantec
6 6 (5.56%) Atlassian
6 6 (5.56%) Imperva
7 5 (4.63%) Dell
7 5 (4.63%) HP
8 3 (2.78%) Bloomberg
8 3 (2.78%) CQG
8 3 (2.78%) Google
8 3 (2.78%) ION Trading
8 3 (2.78%) Microsoft
8 3 (2.78%) Patsystems
8 3 (2.78%) Reuters
8 3 (2.78%) Trayport