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 14 January 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
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 276 280 313
Rank change year-on-year +4 +33 +50
Permanent jobs citing Red Hat 98 153 131
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.69% 0.99% 0.72%
As % of the Vendors category 1.93% 2.45% 1.79%
Number of salaries quoted 67 96 114
10th Percentile £53,750 £53,750 £53,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £60,000 £65,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £76,500 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% -10.00% +17.24%
75th Percentile £90,000 £90,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £131,000 £122,500 £110,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% +8.33% -5.62%

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 5,084 6,244 7,300
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 36.05% 40.25% 40.10%
Number of salaries quoted 3,191 3,463 5,543
10th Percentile £34,000 £40,849 £37,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £52,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% +3.57% -
75th Percentile £87,500 £90,000 £88,750
90th Percentile £105,000 £110,000 £107,500
England median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.70% +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 14 January 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 14 January 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 +32 14 £55,000 -28.10% 5
East London -1 10 £85,000 +30.77%
West London -1 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 21 (21.43%) Tomcat
2 18 (18.37%) WebSphere
3 16 (16.33%) WebSphere Application Server
4 6 (6.12%) Apache
4 6 (6.12%) IIS
4 6 (6.12%) nginx
5 5 (5.10%) Confluence
6 2 (2.04%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (1.02%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 2 (2.04%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 42 (42.86%) AWS
2 12 (12.24%) Azure
3 10 (10.20%) OpenShift
4 9 (9.18%) GitHub
5 7 (7.14%) Amazon ECR
5 7 (7.14%) GCP
6 6 (6.12%) Amazon EC2
6 6 (6.12%) Amazon EKS
6 6 (6.12%) Amazon S3
6 6 (6.12%) AWS CloudFormation
6 6 (6.12%) AWS Lambda
6 6 (6.12%) Route 53
6 6 (6.12%) Serverless
6 6 (6.12%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 4 (4.08%) SaaS
8 3 (3.06%) Cloud Computing
8 3 (3.06%) Cloudflare
9 2 (2.04%) dbt
9 2 (2.04%) Power Platform
10 1 (1.02%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 22 (22.45%) SSL
2 15 (15.31%) TCP/IP
3 12 (12.24%) Firewall
3 12 (12.24%) Multicast
4 11 (11.22%) LAN
5 10 (10.20%) DNS
5 10 (10.20%) WAN
6 6 (6.12%) Fibre Channel
7 5 (5.10%) HTTP
8 4 (4.08%) HTTPS
8 4 (4.08%) Reverse Proxy
9 3 (3.06%) DHCP
9 3 (3.06%) SAN
10 2 (2.04%) FIX Connectivity
10 2 (2.04%) NAS
10 2 (2.04%) Network Security
10 2 (2.04%) SNMP
11 1 (1.02%) Cisco ASA
11 1 (1.02%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (22.45%) PostgreSQL
2 17 (17.35%) DB2
3 16 (16.33%) SQL Server
4 6 (6.12%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (3.06%) MySQL
5 3 (3.06%) Relational Database
6 2 (2.04%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (2.04%) MongoDB
6 2 (2.04%) Oracle Database
6 2 (2.04%) Power BI
7 1 (1.02%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (1.02%) SAP HANA
7 1 (1.02%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 10 (10.20%) Git
2 7 (7.14%) GitLab
3 6 (6.12%) Jenkins
4 5 (5.10%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 5 (5.10%) Bitbucket
4 5 (5.10%) JIRA
General
1 57 (58.16%) Finance
2 22 (22.45%) Banking
3 12 (12.24%) Front Office
3 12 (12.24%) Social Skills
4 11 (11.22%) Investment Banking
5 7 (7.14%) Presentation Skills
6 3 (3.06%) Advertising
6 3 (3.06%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (1.02%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.02%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.02%) Law
7 1 (1.02%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.02%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 26 (26.53%) Linux Engineer
2 20 (20.41%) Infrastructure Support
3 19 (19.39%) Applications Support
3 19 (19.39%) Linux Support
4 17 (17.35%) Unix Support
5 15 (15.31%) Administrator
5 15 (15.31%) Platform Engineer
6 14 (14.29%) Linux Administrator
7 13 (13.27%) Developer
8 12 (12.24%) C++ Developer
9 8 (8.16%) Automation Engineer
9 8 (8.16%) DevOps Engineer
9 8 (8.16%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 7 (7.14%) Applications Engineer
10 7 (7.14%) Applications Support Engineer
10 7 (7.14%) Support Engineer
11 6 (6.12%) Cisco Engineer
11 6 (6.12%) Linux DevOps Engineer
11 6 (6.12%) Linux/Unix DevOps
11 6 (6.12%) VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (18.37%) LDAP
2 16 (16.33%) LAPP Stack
2 16 (16.33%) WebSphere MQ
3 14 (14.29%) FIX Protocol
4 6 (6.12%) Kafka
5 4 (4.08%) Middleware
5 4 (4.08%) Node.js
5 4 (4.08%) OAuth
5 4 (4.08%) React
5 4 (4.08%) SAML
6 3 (3.06%) AngularJS
6 3 (3.06%) CSS
6 3 (3.06%) HTML
6 3 (3.06%) Vue
7 2 (2.04%) REST
8 1 (1.02%) .NET
8 1 (1.02%) LAMP
8 1 (1.02%) Ruby on Rails
8 1 (1.02%) Spring
8 1 (1.02%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 20 (20.41%) Linux Command Line
2 17 (17.35%) Management Information System
3 12 (12.24%) Derivative
4 8 (8.16%) Clustering
5 6 (6.12%) Data Centre
6 4 (4.08%) PKI
7 3 (3.06%) Cloud Native
8 2 (2.04%) Eurex
8 2 (2.04%) FPGA
8 2 (2.04%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (2.04%) Replication
8 2 (2.04%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (1.02%) Blockchain
9 1 (1.02%) Enterprise Cloud
9 1 (1.02%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 1 (1.02%) IoT
9 1 (1.02%) Low-Code
9 1 (1.02%) Onboarding
9 1 (1.02%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 94 (95.92%) Linux
2 64 (65.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 33 (33.67%) Unix
4 27 (27.55%) Windows
5 10 (10.20%) Windows Server
6 8 (8.16%) CentOS
7 7 (7.14%) Windows Server 2019
8 6 (6.12%) Windows Server 2016
9 5 (5.10%) Ubuntu
9 5 (5.10%) Windows Server 2012
10 4 (4.08%) Debian
10 4 (4.08%) Solaris
11 2 (2.04%) AIX
11 2 (2.04%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (34.69%) DevOps
2 27 (27.55%) ITIL
3 21 (21.43%) Change Management
3 21 (21.43%) CI/CD
4 19 (19.39%) Infrastructure as Code
5 17 (17.35%) User Acceptance Testing
6 16 (16.33%) Release Management
7 15 (15.31%) Platform Engineering
7 15 (15.31%) Problem-Solving
8 14 (14.29%) Agile
9 13 (13.27%) Containerisation
9 13 (13.27%) Low Latency
10 12 (12.24%) Concurrent Programming
10 12 (12.24%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 12 (12.24%) SOA
10 12 (12.24%) Systems Analysis
10 12 (12.24%) Unit Testing
11 11 (11.22%) Security Hardening
12 10 (10.20%) Disaster Recovery
13 9 (9.18%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 59 (60.20%) Python
2 28 (28.57%) Bash
3 12 (12.24%) C++
3 12 (12.24%) Perl
4 8 (8.16%) PowerShell
5 7 (7.14%) Java
5 7 (7.14%) SQL
6 5 (5.10%) Shell Script
7 3 (3.06%) JavaScript
7 3 (3.06%) Ruby
8 2 (2.04%) C#
8 2 (2.04%) TypeScript
9 1 (1.02%) Go
9 1 (1.02%) Korn
9 1 (1.02%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 26 (26.53%) Degree
2 24 (24.49%) AWS Certification
3 23 (23.47%) ITIL Certification
4 8 (8.16%) Security Cleared
5 6 (6.12%) RHCE
6 4 (4.08%) CISSP
6 4 (4.08%) DV Cleared
6 4 (4.08%) OSCP
6 4 (4.08%) SC Cleared
7 3 (3.06%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (3.06%) RHCSA
8 2 (2.04%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
8 2 (2.04%) MCSA
8 2 (2.04%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (1.02%) CCDA
9 1 (1.02%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (1.02%) Dell Certification
9 1 (1.02%) MCP
9 1 (1.02%) MCSE
9 1 (1.02%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (21.43%) SLA
2 9 (9.18%) GDPR
2 9 (9.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 2 (2.04%) QA
4 1 (1.02%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (1.02%) ISO 20022
4 1 (1.02%) SEPA
System Software
1 27 (27.55%) VMware Infrastructure
2 12 (12.24%) Docker
3 9 (9.18%) Active Directory
4 7 (7.14%) vSphere
5 6 (6.12%) NFS
6 5 (5.10%) Veritas Cluster Server
7 2 (2.04%) KVM
7 2 (2.04%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (1.02%) Hyper-V
8 1 (1.02%) Postfix
8 1 (1.02%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 44 (44.90%) Ansible
2 22 (22.45%) Terraform
3 19 (19.39%) Kubernetes
4 12 (12.24%) Red Hat Satellite
5 5 (5.10%) Progress Chef
5 5 (5.10%) Puppet
6 3 (3.06%) Argo
7 2 (2.04%) Grafana
7 2 (2.04%) Nagios
7 2 (2.04%) Red Hat Spacewalk
8 1 (1.02%) Docker Swarm
8 1 (1.02%) Podman
8 1 (1.02%) vCenter Server
8 1 (1.02%) WSUS
Vendors
1 32 (32.65%) VMware
2 18 (18.37%) IBM
3 11 (11.22%) Oracle
4 10 (10.20%) Cisco
4 10 (10.20%) ServiceNow
5 7 (7.14%) Pure Storage
5 7 (7.14%) Symantec
6 6 (6.12%) Commvault
7 5 (5.10%) Atlassian
8 4 (4.08%) Dell
8 4 (4.08%) Imperva
9 3 (3.06%) HP
9 3 (3.06%) Microsoft
10 2 (2.04%) Bloomberg
10 2 (2.04%) CQG
10 2 (2.04%) Google
10 2 (2.04%) ION Trading
10 2 (2.04%) Patsystems
10 2 (2.04%) Reuters
10 2 (2.04%) Trayport