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 7 November 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
7 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 269 263 317
Rank change year-on-year -6 +54 +159
Permanent jobs citing Red Hat 118 183 147
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.96% 1.05% 0.76%
As % of the Vendors category 2.20% 2.77% 1.89%
Number of salaries quoted 68 113 129
10th Percentile £53,375 £60,000 £50,000
25th Percentile £68,750 £68,750 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £85,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.76% +3.03% +10.00%
75th Percentile £90,000 £92,500 £90,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £122,500 £110,000
England median annual salary £72,500 £70,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +3.57% +12.00% +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 5,354 6,606 7,787
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 43.54% 38.01% 40.23%
Number of salaries quoted 3,396 3,970 6,123
10th Percentile £34,125 £40,029 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £52,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% +7.41% -0.92%
75th Percentile £87,500 £90,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £112,500 £106,250
England median annual salary £50,000 £57,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -13.04% - +1.77%

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 7 November 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 7 November 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 +21 8 £85,000 +11.11% 27
East London - 6 £85,000 - 2
West London +4 2 - - 1
South London +32 1 £80,000 +23.08% 2
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 18 (15.25%) Tomcat
1 18 (15.25%) WebSphere
2 16 (13.56%) WebSphere Application Server
3 5 (4.24%) Apache
3 5 (4.24%) nginx
4 4 (3.39%) Confluence
5 3 (2.54%) IIS
6 1 (0.85%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 2 (1.69%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 47 (39.83%) AWS
2 22 (18.64%) Azure
3 12 (10.17%) GitHub
4 7 (5.93%) SaaS
5 6 (5.08%) Amazon EC2
5 6 (5.08%) Amazon ECR
5 6 (5.08%) Amazon EKS
5 6 (5.08%) Amazon S3
5 6 (5.08%) AWS CloudFormation
5 6 (5.08%) AWS Lambda
5 6 (5.08%) Route 53
5 6 (5.08%) Serverless
5 6 (5.08%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 5 (4.24%) Cloudflare
6 5 (4.24%) GCP
6 5 (4.24%) OpenShift
7 2 (1.69%) AWS CodeDeploy
7 2 (1.69%) iPaaS
8 1 (0.85%) Power Automate
8 1 (0.85%) Zapier
Communications & Networking
1 23 (19.49%) SSL
2 16 (13.56%) Firewall
3 15 (12.71%) TCP/IP
4 14 (11.86%) LAN
5 13 (11.02%) WAN
6 12 (10.17%) Fibre Channel
7 6 (5.08%) DNS
7 6 (5.08%) HTTP
8 5 (4.24%) HTTPS
8 5 (4.24%) Multicast
8 5 (4.24%) Reverse Proxy
8 5 (4.24%) SAN
9 2 (1.69%) FIX Connectivity
9 2 (1.69%) Network Security
10 1 (0.85%) Cisco ASA
10 1 (0.85%) DHCP
10 1 (0.85%) NAS
10 1 (0.85%) SSH
10 1 (0.85%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (24.58%) PostgreSQL
2 27 (22.88%) DB2
3 13 (11.02%) SQL Server
4 11 (9.32%) MongoDB
5 10 (8.47%) NoSQL
6 6 (5.08%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.85%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.85%) MySQL
7 1 (0.85%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.85%) Oracle Exadata
7 1 (0.85%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 25 (21.19%) Git
2 5 (4.24%) GitLab
3 4 (3.39%) JIRA
4 3 (2.54%) Jenkins
5 2 (1.69%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 2 (1.69%) Bitbucket
General
1 54 (45.76%) Finance
2 25 (21.19%) Banking
3 24 (20.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 24 (20.34%) Public Sector
4 12 (10.17%) Social Skills
5 11 (9.32%) Investment Banking
6 5 (4.24%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (4.24%) Front Office
7 2 (1.69%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.85%) Advertising
8 1 (0.85%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.85%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.85%) Law
8 1 (0.85%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 34 (28.81%) Linux Engineer
2 27 (22.88%) DevOps Engineer
3 20 (16.95%) Senior
4 19 (16.10%) Applications Support
5 16 (13.56%) AWS Engineer
5 16 (13.56%) Platform Engineer
6 15 (12.71%) Linux Support
7 14 (11.86%) AWS DevOps
7 14 (11.86%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 13 (11.02%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 13 (11.02%) Infrastructure Support
8 13 (11.02%) Senior AWS DevOps Engineer
8 13 (11.02%) Senior DevOps
8 13 (11.02%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 12 (10.17%) Automation Engineer
10 10 (8.47%) Azure Engineer
10 10 (8.47%) Cisco Engineer
10 10 (8.47%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 10 (8.47%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
10 10 (8.47%) Linux/Unix DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (14.41%) LDAP
2 16 (13.56%) LAPP Stack
2 16 (13.56%) WebSphere MQ
3 12 (10.17%) React
4 11 (9.32%) AngularJS
5 10 (8.47%) Backbone.js
5 10 (8.47%) Bootstrap
5 10 (8.47%) Ember.js
5 10 (8.47%) jQuery
6 8 (6.78%) Jinja
6 8 (6.78%) YAML
7 7 (5.93%) FIX Protocol
8 5 (4.24%) OAuth
8 5 (4.24%) SAML
9 3 (2.54%) Kafka
10 2 (1.69%) LAMP
10 2 (1.69%) Middleware
10 2 (1.69%) Node.js
11 1 (0.85%) CSS
11 1 (0.85%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 26 (22.03%) Hybrid Cloud
2 24 (20.34%) e-Learning
3 19 (16.10%) Linux Command Line
4 16 (13.56%) Management Information System
5 10 (8.47%) Algorithms
5 10 (8.47%) Data Structures
6 5 (4.24%) Derivative
6 5 (4.24%) PKI
7 4 (3.39%) Data Centre
8 2 (1.69%) Enterprise Cloud
8 2 (1.69%) Eurex
9 1 (0.85%) Blockchain
9 1 (0.85%) Cloud Native
9 1 (0.85%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 1 (0.85%) IoT
9 1 (0.85%) Low-Code
9 1 (0.85%) Onboarding
9 1 (0.85%) Public Cloud
9 1 (0.85%) Security Posture
9 1 (0.85%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 99 (83.90%) Linux
2 47 (39.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 38 (32.20%) Windows
4 30 (25.42%) Unix
5 10 (8.47%) Android
5 10 (8.47%) Apple iOS
6 9 (7.63%) CentOS
7 7 (5.93%) Solaris
7 7 (5.93%) Windows Server
8 6 (5.08%) Windows Server 2019
9 5 (4.24%) Ubuntu
10 4 (3.39%) Debian
11 3 (2.54%) Oracle Linux
11 3 (2.54%) Windows Server 2016
12 2 (1.69%) AIX
12 2 (1.69%) VMS
12 2 (1.69%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (52.54%) DevOps
2 28 (23.73%) CI/CD
2 28 (23.73%) Mentoring
3 26 (22.03%) AI
4 25 (21.19%) ITIL
5 24 (20.34%) Coaching
6 23 (19.49%) Infrastructure as Code
7 20 (16.95%) Agile
8 16 (13.56%) Change Management
8 16 (13.56%) Containerisation
8 16 (13.56%) Release Management
8 16 (13.56%) User Acceptance Testing
9 15 (12.71%) Platform Engineering
10 14 (11.86%) Security Hardening
11 13 (11.02%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 13 (11.02%) Problem-Solving
12 12 (10.17%) Data Security
13 11 (9.32%) Code Quality
13 11 (9.32%) Disaster Recovery
13 11 (9.32%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 62 (52.54%) Python
2 34 (28.81%) Bash
3 16 (13.56%) SQL
4 14 (11.86%) Perl
5 13 (11.02%) PowerShell
6 6 (5.08%) Java
7 5 (4.24%) C++
8 4 (3.39%) Shell Script
9 3 (2.54%) JavaScript
10 2 (1.69%) C#
10 2 (1.69%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.85%) Bourne shell
11 1 (0.85%) C-shell
11 1 (0.85%) Go
11 1 (0.85%) Ruby
11 1 (0.85%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 24 (20.34%) Degree
2 19 (16.10%) AWS Certification
3 18 (15.25%) ITIL Certification
4 10 (8.47%) RHCE
5 5 (4.24%) CISSP
5 5 (4.24%) OSCP
5 5 (4.24%) Security Cleared
6 4 (3.39%) RHCSA
7 3 (2.54%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (2.54%) DV Cleared
7 3 (2.54%) MCSA
7 3 (2.54%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (2.54%) SC Cleared
8 2 (1.69%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
8 2 (1.69%) Dell Certification
8 2 (1.69%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 1 (0.85%) MCDST
9 1 (0.85%) MCITP
9 1 (0.85%) MCP
9 1 (0.85%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (14.41%) SLA
2 13 (11.02%) GDPR
2 13 (11.02%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (0.85%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (0.85%) ISO 20022
3 1 (0.85%) SEPA
System Software
1 18 (15.25%) VMware Infrastructure
2 12 (10.17%) vSphere
3 10 (8.47%) NFS
4 7 (5.93%) Active Directory
4 7 (5.93%) Docker
5 4 (3.39%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (2.54%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (1.69%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.85%) KVM
8 1 (0.85%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 47 (39.83%) Ansible
2 30 (25.42%) Terraform
3 18 (15.25%) Kubernetes
4 13 (11.02%) Red Hat Satellite
5 3 (2.54%) Nagios
5 3 (2.54%) Progress Chef
5 3 (2.54%) Puppet
6 2 (1.69%) EMC NetWorker
6 2 (1.69%) Grafana
6 2 (1.69%) WSUS
7 1 (0.85%) Argo
7 1 (0.85%) Docker Swarm
7 1 (0.85%) Oracle ZFS
7 1 (0.85%) Podman
7 1 (0.85%) vCenter Server
7 1 (0.85%) VxRail
Vendors
1 42 (35.59%) IBM
2 23 (19.49%) VMware
3 16 (13.56%) Cisco
4 13 (11.02%) Commvault
5 11 (9.32%) Pure Storage
6 10 (8.47%) ServiceNow
7 8 (6.78%) Oracle
8 5 (4.24%) Imperva
9 4 (3.39%) Atlassian
10 3 (2.54%) EMC
10 3 (2.54%) HP
10 3 (2.54%) Microsoft
11 2 (1.69%) Bloomberg
11 2 (1.69%) CQG
11 2 (1.69%) Dell
11 2 (1.69%) Fujitsu
11 2 (1.69%) ION Trading
11 2 (1.69%) Juniper
11 2 (1.69%) Patsystems
11 2 (1.69%) Reuters