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 3 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
3 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 298 311 336
Rank change year-on-year +13 +25 +23
Permanent jobs citing Red Hat 108 86 172
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.54% 0.68% 0.74%
As % of the Vendors category 1.86% 1.63% 1.83%
Number of salaries quoted 68 64 113
10th Percentile £49,285 £44,500 £49,040
25th Percentile £55,000 £56,250 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £71,250 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -16.18% +21.43%
75th Percentile £95,000 £85,313 £102,500
90th Percentile £120,250 £90,000 £107,500
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 5,813 5,288 9,422
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 28.87% 41.69% 40.30%
Number of salaries quoted 3,604 3,186 6,618
10th Percentile £35,750 £40,000 £35,750
25th Percentile £52,000 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.69% -3.70%
75th Percentile £90,000 £90,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £110,000 £105,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +10.00% -11.50%

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 3 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 3 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 +5 19 £55,000 -27.87% 5
East London -7 10 £87,500 +27.27% 2
South London +21 7 £50,000 -23.08% 4
West London -33 3 £85,000 +73.47% 3
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 22 (20.37%) Apache
2 18 (16.67%) Apache Airflow
3 17 (15.74%) Apache Spark
4 9 (8.33%) Confluence
5 6 (5.56%) Tomcat
6 5 (4.63%) IIS
6 5 (4.63%) nginx
7 3 (2.78%) CMS
7 3 (2.78%) Microsoft Exchange
7 3 (2.78%) WordPress
Applications
1 9 (8.33%) MS Visio
2 2 (1.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.93%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.93%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 47 (43.52%) AWS
2 24 (22.22%) Azure
3 23 (21.30%) OpenShift
4 18 (16.67%) Amazon S3
5 10 (9.26%) GCP
6 7 (6.48%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 7 (6.48%) Amazon ECS
6 7 (6.48%) Nutanix
7 6 (5.56%) Amazon ECR
8 4 (3.70%) Entra ID
8 4 (3.70%) GitHub
9 3 (2.78%) Microsoft 365
10 2 (1.85%) AWS CloudTrail
10 2 (1.85%) AWS Lambda
10 2 (1.85%) Datadog
10 2 (1.85%) dbt
10 2 (1.85%) GitHub Actions
10 2 (1.85%) Power Platform
10 2 (1.85%) Serverless
10 2 (1.85%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 19 (17.59%) LAN
2 18 (16.67%) DNS
3 17 (15.74%) TCP/IP
4 13 (12.04%) WAN
5 9 (8.33%) Firewall
5 9 (8.33%) Multicast
6 8 (7.41%) HTTP
7 4 (3.70%) DHCP
7 4 (3.70%) IPv4
7 4 (3.70%) SAN
7 4 (3.70%) Software-Defined Networking
8 3 (2.78%) WLAN
9 2 (1.85%) NAS
9 2 (1.85%) SNMP
9 2 (1.85%) SSL
9 2 (1.85%) VLAN
10 1 (0.93%) Cisco ASA
10 1 (0.93%) HTTPS
10 1 (0.93%) Kerberos
10 1 (0.93%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (15.74%) Oracle Database
1 17 (15.74%) Tableau
2 16 (14.81%) Apache Hive
2 16 (14.81%) Impala
2 16 (14.81%) Parquet
2 16 (14.81%) Spark SQL
3 9 (8.33%) MySQL
4 8 (7.41%) SQL Server
5 5 (4.63%) Elasticsearch
6 3 (2.78%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (1.85%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (1.85%) MongoDB
7 2 (1.85%) Power BI
7 2 (1.85%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.93%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.93%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.93%) Hadoop
8 1 (0.93%) SAP HANA
8 1 (0.93%) Sybase ASE
8 1 (0.93%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 36 (33.33%) Git
2 18 (16.67%) GitLab
3 16 (14.81%) IBM UrbanCode
4 10 (9.26%) Jenkins
5 9 (8.33%) JIRA
6 8 (7.41%) Bitbucket
7 4 (3.70%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.93%) git-flow
8 1 (0.93%) JUnit
8 1 (0.93%) Maven
8 1 (0.93%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 59 (54.63%) Finance
2 32 (29.63%) Banking
3 21 (19.44%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (18.52%) Social Skills
5 15 (13.89%) Investment Banking
6 9 (8.33%) Front Office
7 7 (6.48%) Legal
7 7 (6.48%) Presentation Skills
8 4 (3.70%) Advertising
8 4 (3.70%) Aerospace
8 4 (3.70%) Automotive
8 4 (3.70%) Electronics
8 4 (3.70%) Manufacturing
9 3 (2.78%) Retail
10 2 (1.85%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.93%) Military
11 1 (0.93%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.93%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 34 (31.48%) Administrator
2 28 (25.93%) Linux Administrator
3 22 (20.37%) Systems Administrator
4 17 (15.74%) Analyst
4 17 (15.74%) Linux Systems Administrator
5 14 (12.96%) Transformation Analyst
6 13 (12.04%) Banking Analyst
7 10 (9.26%) Developer
7 10 (9.26%) Lead
8 9 (8.33%) Business Analyst
9 8 (7.41%) C++ Developer
9 8 (7.41%) Data Business Analyst
9 8 (7.41%) Linux Engineer
9 8 (7.41%) Linux/Unix DevOps
10 7 (6.48%) Infrastructure Support
10 7 (6.48%) Investment Banking Business Analyst
10 7 (6.48%) Platform Engineer
10 7 (6.48%) Senior
10 7 (6.48%) Technical Analyst
10 7 (6.48%) Unix Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (14.81%) PySpark
2 9 (8.33%) Pandas
3 8 (7.41%) FIX Protocol
4 7 (6.48%) WebSockets
5 6 (5.56%) Middleware
6 4 (3.70%) Kafka
6 4 (3.70%) Node.js
7 3 (2.78%) LDAP
8 2 (1.85%) AngularJS
8 2 (1.85%) CSS
8 2 (1.85%) HTML
8 2 (1.85%) LEMP Stack
8 2 (1.85%) React
8 2 (1.85%) Vue
9 1 (0.93%) .NET
9 1 (0.93%) AWS CDK
9 1 (0.93%) MFC
9 1 (0.93%) SAML
9 1 (0.93%) Spring Boot
9 1 (0.93%) STL
Miscellaneous
1 18 (16.67%) Data Centre
2 12 (11.11%) Hybrid Cloud
3 8 (7.41%) Clustering
4 7 (6.48%) Derivative
4 7 (6.48%) Enterprise Storage
5 4 (3.70%) Renewable Energy
6 3 (2.78%) Cloud Native
6 3 (2.78%) Linux Command Line
6 3 (2.78%) Management Information System
6 3 (2.78%) Operational Technology
7 2 (1.85%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.85%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 2 (1.85%) FPGA
8 1 (0.93%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (0.93%) Enterprise Cloud
8 1 (0.93%) Eurex
8 1 (0.93%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.93%) Security Operations Centre
8 1 (0.93%) Security Posture
8 1 (0.93%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 85 (78.70%) Linux
2 58 (53.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 20 (18.52%) Windows
4 18 (16.67%) Windows Server
5 13 (12.04%) CentOS
6 10 (9.26%) Unix
7 7 (6.48%) Ubuntu
7 7 (6.48%) Windows Server 2019
8 6 (5.56%) Windows Server 2016
9 4 (3.70%) Rocky
9 4 (3.70%) Windows Server 2012
10 2 (1.85%) Oracle Linux
11 1 (0.93%) CoreOS
11 1 (0.93%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (41.67%) CI/CD
2 35 (32.41%) DevOps
3 33 (30.56%) Agile
4 26 (24.07%) Infrastructure as Code
5 23 (21.30%) Problem-Solving
6 22 (20.37%) Scrum
7 19 (17.59%) Data Pipeline
8 18 (16.67%) Analytics
9 17 (15.74%) AI
9 17 (15.74%) User Acceptance Testing
10 16 (14.81%) Configuration Management
10 16 (14.81%) Data Governance
10 16 (14.81%) Data Transformation
10 16 (14.81%) ETL
10 16 (14.81%) Low Latency
10 16 (14.81%) Root Cause Analysis
11 15 (13.89%) Containerisation
12 14 (12.96%) Performance Monitoring
12 14 (12.96%) Performance Tuning
13 13 (12.04%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 54 (50.00%) Python
2 30 (27.78%) Bash
3 29 (26.85%) SQL
4 16 (14.81%) PowerShell
5 12 (11.11%) Java
6 8 (7.41%) C++
7 4 (3.70%) JavaScript
8 3 (2.78%) Perl
8 3 (2.78%) PHP
8 3 (2.78%) Shell Script
9 2 (1.85%) Ruby
10 1 (0.93%) C#
10 1 (0.93%) Groovy
10 1 (0.93%) Korn
10 1 (0.93%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 19 (17.59%) Security Cleared
2 11 (10.19%) RHCSA
3 10 (9.26%) AWS Certification
3 10 (9.26%) Cisco Certification
3 10 (9.26%) Degree
4 8 (7.41%) Microsoft Certification
4 8 (7.41%) SC Cleared
5 5 (4.63%) CCNA
5 5 (4.63%) ITIL Certification
5 5 (4.63%) OSCP
5 5 (4.63%) RHCE
5 5 (4.63%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 4 (3.70%) CCDA
6 4 (3.70%) ISTQB
7 2 (1.85%) CISSP
7 2 (1.85%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.85%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.85%) MCSA
7 2 (1.85%) MCSE
8 1 (0.93%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (14.81%) Data Quality
2 9 (8.33%) GDPR
3 8 (7.41%) QA
4 7 (6.48%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 7 (6.48%) HIPAA
5 6 (5.56%) SLA
6 2 (1.85%) NIST
7 1 (0.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.93%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 39 (36.11%) VMware Infrastructure
2 18 (16.67%) Docker
3 16 (14.81%) Active Directory
4 9 (8.33%) vSphere
5 5 (4.63%) Hyper-V
5 5 (4.63%) Veritas Cluster Server
6 4 (3.70%) Squid
6 4 (3.70%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.93%) KVM
7 1 (0.93%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.93%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 42 (38.89%) Ansible
2 26 (24.07%) Kubernetes
3 24 (22.22%) Terraform
4 14 (12.96%) Nagios
5 7 (6.48%) Red Hat Satellite
6 6 (5.56%) Grafana
7 5 (4.63%) ZABBIX
8 4 (3.70%) Packer
8 4 (3.70%) Progress Chef
8 4 (3.70%) Puppet
9 2 (1.85%) Argo
9 2 (1.85%) Proxmox
9 2 (1.85%) Red Hat Spacewalk
9 2 (1.85%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.93%) McAfee ePO
10 1 (0.93%) SCCM
10 1 (0.93%) SCVMM
10 1 (0.93%) vCenter Server
10 1 (0.93%) WSUS
Vendors
1 53 (49.07%) VMware
2 28 (25.93%) Oracle
3 11 (10.19%) Splunk
4 10 (9.26%) Microsoft
4 10 (9.26%) SolarWinds
5 8 (7.41%) Dell
6 7 (6.48%) Symantec
7 6 (5.56%) Cisco
7 6 (5.56%) Rapid7
8 4 (3.70%) NetApp
8 4 (3.70%) Veeam
9 3 (2.78%) Atlassian
9 3 (2.78%) HP
9 3 (2.78%) Pure Storage
10 2 (1.85%) CyberArk
10 2 (1.85%) ServiceNow
10 2 (1.85%) Zscaler
11 1 (0.93%) Delphix
11 1 (0.93%) Tenable
11 1 (0.93%) Veracode