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 17 May 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
17 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 310 279 336
Rank change year-on-year -31 +57 +22
Permanent jobs citing Red Hat 103 104 171
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.50% 0.84% 0.73%
As % of the Vendors category 1.73% 2.00% 1.82%
Number of salaries quoted 65 67 110
10th Percentile £47,617 £46,600 £48,720
25th Percentile £55,000 £55,625 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £81,250
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% -10.77% +16.07%
75th Percentile £95,000 £85,000 £96,250
90th Percentile £112,500 £90,000 £102,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +8.33% -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 5,953 5,196 9,404
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 28.92% 41.92% 40.13%
Number of salaries quoted 3,723 3,158 6,538
10th Percentile £36,550 £38,802 £35,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,121 £70,000 £65,250
Median % change year-on-year +1.60% +7.28% -3.33%
75th Percentile £90,000 £90,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £110,000 £105,000
England median annual salary £56,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +1.82% +10.00% -12.76%

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 17 May 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 17 May 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 16 £65,000 -11.86% 4
East London -5 10 £87,500 +27.27% 1
South London +18 9 £50,000 -33.33% 1
West London -18 3 £85,000 +73.47% 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 20 (19.42%) Apache
2 17 (16.50%) Apache Spark
3 16 (15.53%) Apache Airflow
4 8 (7.77%) Confluence
5 4 (3.88%) Tomcat
6 3 (2.91%) CMS
6 3 (2.91%) IIS
6 3 (2.91%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (2.91%) nginx
6 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 1 (0.97%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 47 (45.63%) AWS
2 24 (23.30%) Azure
3 20 (19.42%) OpenShift
4 18 (17.48%) Amazon S3
5 8 (7.77%) GCP
6 7 (6.80%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 7 (6.80%) Amazon ECS
6 7 (6.80%) Nutanix
7 6 (5.83%) Amazon ECR
8 5 (4.85%) Microsoft 365
9 4 (3.88%) Entra ID
10 2 (1.94%) Amazon EC2
10 2 (1.94%) AWS CloudTrail
10 2 (1.94%) AWS Lambda
10 2 (1.94%) Cloud Computing
10 2 (1.94%) Datadog
10 2 (1.94%) GitHub
10 2 (1.94%) GitHub Actions
10 2 (1.94%) Serverless
10 2 (1.94%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 20 (19.42%) LAN
2 17 (16.50%) TCP/IP
3 16 (15.53%) DNS
4 13 (12.62%) WAN
5 9 (8.74%) Firewall
5 9 (8.74%) HTTP
6 7 (6.80%) Multicast
7 5 (4.85%) SAN
8 4 (3.88%) IPv4
8 4 (3.88%) Software-Defined Networking
9 3 (2.91%) DHCP
9 3 (2.91%) VoIP
9 3 (2.91%) WLAN
10 2 (1.94%) iSCSI
10 2 (1.94%) VLAN
11 1 (0.97%) Cisco ASA
11 1 (0.97%) Kerberos
11 1 (0.97%) NAS
11 1 (0.97%) Network Security
11 1 (0.97%) SNMP
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 9 (8.74%) MySQL
4 6 (5.83%) SQL Server
5 5 (4.85%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (1.94%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (1.94%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.97%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.97%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.97%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.97%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.97%) SAP HANA
7 1 (0.97%) Sybase ASE
7 1 (0.97%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 36 (34.95%) Git
2 19 (18.45%) GitLab
3 16 (15.53%) IBM UrbanCode
4 8 (7.77%) Jenkins
4 8 (7.77%) JIRA
5 6 (5.83%) Bitbucket
6 2 (1.94%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (0.97%) git-flow
7 1 (0.97%) JUnit
7 1 (0.97%) Maven
7 1 (0.97%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 55 (53.40%) Finance
2 34 (33.01%) Banking
3 24 (23.30%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (17.48%) Social Skills
5 15 (14.56%) Investment Banking
6 7 (6.80%) Front Office
6 7 (6.80%) Legal
6 7 (6.80%) Presentation Skills
7 4 (3.88%) Aerospace
7 4 (3.88%) Automotive
7 4 (3.88%) Electronics
7 4 (3.88%) Manufacturing
8 3 (2.91%) Military
8 3 (2.91%) Retail
9 2 (1.94%) Advertising
9 2 (1.94%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.97%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.97%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 33 (32.04%) Administrator
2 25 (24.27%) Linux Administrator
3 24 (23.30%) Systems Administrator
4 19 (18.45%) Linux Systems Administrator
5 17 (16.50%) Analyst
6 14 (13.59%) Transformation Analyst
7 13 (12.62%) Banking Analyst
8 10 (9.71%) Lead
9 9 (8.74%) Business Analyst
9 9 (8.74%) Linux Engineer
10 8 (7.77%) Data Business Analyst
10 8 (7.77%) Developer
10 8 (7.77%) Linux/Unix DevOps
11 7 (6.80%) Infrastructure Support
11 7 (6.80%) Investment Banking Business Analyst
11 7 (6.80%) Technical Analyst
11 7 (6.80%) Unix Support
12 6 (5.83%) C++ Developer
12 6 (5.83%) DevOps Engineer
12 6 (5.83%) Linux Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (15.53%) PySpark
2 9 (8.74%) Pandas
2 9 (8.74%) WebSockets
3 6 (5.83%) FIX Protocol
4 4 (3.88%) Middleware
5 2 (1.94%) Kafka
5 2 (1.94%) LDAP
5 2 (1.94%) LEMP Stack
5 2 (1.94%) Node.js
6 1 (0.97%) .NET
6 1 (0.97%) AWS CDK
6 1 (0.97%) MFC
6 1 (0.97%) REST
6 1 (0.97%) Spring
6 1 (0.97%) Spring Boot
6 1 (0.97%) STL
6 1 (0.97%) wxWidgets
Miscellaneous
1 23 (22.33%) Data Centre
2 12 (11.65%) Hybrid Cloud
3 8 (7.77%) Clustering
4 7 (6.80%) Enterprise Storage
5 5 (4.85%) Derivative
5 5 (4.85%) Operational Technology
6 4 (3.88%) Renewable Energy
7 3 (2.91%) Linux Command Line
7 3 (2.91%) Replication
8 2 (1.94%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (1.94%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 2 (1.94%) Management Information System
9 1 (0.97%) Cloud Native
9 1 (0.97%) Distributed Systems
9 1 (0.97%) Enterprise Cloud
9 1 (0.97%) Eurex
9 1 (0.97%) Fixed Income
9 1 (0.97%) Onboarding
9 1 (0.97%) Security Operations Centre
9 1 (0.97%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 82 (79.61%) Linux
2 55 (53.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 22 (21.36%) Windows
4 20 (19.42%) Windows Server
5 12 (11.65%) CentOS
6 10 (9.71%) Unix
7 7 (6.80%) Ubuntu
8 5 (4.85%) Rocky
8 5 (4.85%) Windows Server 2019
9 4 (3.88%) Windows Server 2016
10 2 (1.94%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.97%) CoreOS
11 1 (0.97%) Oracle Linux
11 1 (0.97%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (40.78%) CI/CD
2 32 (31.07%) DevOps
3 28 (27.18%) Agile
4 24 (23.30%) Infrastructure as Code
5 21 (20.39%) Problem-Solving
5 21 (20.39%) Scrum
6 17 (16.50%) AI
6 17 (16.50%) Data Pipeline
6 17 (16.50%) User Acceptance Testing
7 16 (15.53%) Analytics
7 16 (15.53%) Data Governance
7 16 (15.53%) Data Transformation
7 16 (15.53%) ETL
7 16 (15.53%) Root Cause Analysis
8 15 (14.56%) ITIL
9 14 (13.59%) Low Latency
9 14 (13.59%) Performance Monitoring
9 14 (13.59%) Performance Tuning
10 13 (12.62%) Configuration Management
10 13 (12.62%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 49 (47.57%) Python
2 31 (30.10%) SQL
3 28 (27.18%) Bash
4 15 (14.56%) PowerShell
5 9 (8.74%) Java
6 6 (5.83%) C++
7 3 (2.91%) PHP
7 3 (2.91%) Shell Script
8 2 (1.94%) JavaScript
8 2 (1.94%) Perl
9 1 (0.97%) C#
9 1 (0.97%) Groovy
9 1 (0.97%) Korn
9 1 (0.97%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 19 (18.45%) Security Cleared
2 13 (12.62%) Cisco Certification
2 13 (12.62%) RHCSA
3 10 (9.71%) AWS Certification
3 10 (9.71%) Degree
3 10 (9.71%) Microsoft Certification
4 8 (7.77%) SC Cleared
5 7 (6.80%) CCNA
6 5 (4.85%) ITIL Certification
6 5 (4.85%) RHCE
6 5 (4.85%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 4 (3.88%) CCDA
7 4 (3.88%) ISTQB
7 4 (3.88%) MCSE
7 4 (3.88%) OSCP
8 3 (2.91%) Azure Certification
9 2 (1.94%) DV Cleared
9 2 (1.94%) MCSA
10 1 (0.97%) MCDST
10 1 (0.97%) MCITP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (15.53%) Data Quality
2 9 (8.74%) GDPR
3 8 (7.77%) QA
3 8 (7.77%) SLA
4 7 (6.80%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 7 (6.80%) HIPAA
5 2 (1.94%) NIST
6 1 (0.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.97%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 41 (39.81%) VMware Infrastructure
2 14 (13.59%) Active Directory
2 14 (13.59%) Docker
3 9 (8.74%) vSphere
4 7 (6.80%) Hyper-V
5 5 (4.85%) Veritas Cluster Server
6 4 (3.88%) Squid
6 4 (3.88%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.97%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.97%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 35 (33.98%) Ansible
2 23 (22.33%) Kubernetes
2 23 (22.33%) Terraform
3 16 (15.53%) Nagios
4 6 (5.83%) Grafana
5 5 (4.85%) Red Hat Satellite
5 5 (4.85%) ZABBIX
6 4 (3.88%) Packer
7 2 (1.94%) Progress Chef
7 2 (1.94%) Proxmox
7 2 (1.94%) Puppet
7 2 (1.94%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.97%) McAfee ePO
8 1 (0.97%) Red Hat Spacewalk
8 1 (0.97%) SCCM
8 1 (0.97%) SCVMM
8 1 (0.97%) vCenter Server
8 1 (0.97%) WSUS
Vendors
1 53 (51.46%) VMware
2 25 (24.27%) Oracle
3 12 (11.65%) Microsoft
3 12 (11.65%) SolarWinds
4 11 (10.68%) Splunk
5 7 (6.80%) Cisco
5 7 (6.80%) Dell
5 7 (6.80%) Symantec
6 6 (5.83%) Rapid7
6 6 (5.83%) Veeam
7 4 (3.88%) NetApp
8 3 (2.91%) Pure Storage
9 2 (1.94%) CyberArk
9 2 (1.94%) HP
9 2 (1.94%) ServiceNow
9 2 (1.94%) Zscaler
10 1 (0.97%) Citrix
10 1 (0.97%) EMC
10 1 (0.97%) Intel
10 1 (0.97%) Juniper