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 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
7 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 260 282 322
Rank change year-on-year +22 +40 +98
Permanent jobs citing Red Hat 115 169 136
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.87% 1.00% 0.74%
As % of the Vendors category 2.19% 2.54% 1.84%
Number of salaries quoted 79 103 126
10th Percentile £53,500 £60,000 £53,750
25th Percentile £66,250 £63,750 £65,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £77,500 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.23% -6.06% +14.58%
75th Percentile £94,000 £91,250 £96,875
90th Percentile £125,000 £122,500 £110,000
England median annual salary £71,250 £70,000 £63,750
% change year-on-year +1.79% +9.80% +6.25%

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 5,245 6,656 7,387
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 39.68% 39.38% 40.07%
Number of salaries quoted 3,315 3,931 5,784
10th Percentile £34,250 £40,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £52,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £71,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.41% +1.43% -
75th Percentile £87,500 £90,000 £88,750
90th Percentile £105,850 £110,556 £107,500
England median annual salary £51,375 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -10.65% +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 7 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 7 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 +40 14 £77,500 +1.31% 4
East London -6 9 £85,000 - 1
West London +1 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 (18.26%) Tomcat
2 18 (15.65%) WebSphere
3 16 (13.91%) WebSphere Application Server
4 8 (6.96%) Apache
4 8 (6.96%) nginx
5 6 (5.22%) Confluence
5 6 (5.22%) IIS
6 2 (1.74%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.87%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 2 (1.74%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 45 (39.13%) AWS
2 15 (13.04%) Azure
3 11 (9.57%) GitHub
3 11 (9.57%) OpenShift
4 8 (6.96%) GCP
4 8 (6.96%) SaaS
5 6 (5.22%) Amazon EC2
5 6 (5.22%) Amazon ECR
5 6 (5.22%) Amazon EKS
5 6 (5.22%) Amazon S3
5 6 (5.22%) AWS CloudFormation
5 6 (5.22%) AWS Lambda
5 6 (5.22%) Route 53
5 6 (5.22%) Serverless
5 6 (5.22%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 5 (4.35%) Cloudflare
7 2 (1.74%) AWS CodeDeploy
7 2 (1.74%) dbt
7 2 (1.74%) iPaaS
7 2 (1.74%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 24 (20.87%) SSL
2 15 (13.04%) TCP/IP
3 14 (12.17%) Firewall
4 12 (10.43%) LAN
4 12 (10.43%) WAN
5 11 (9.57%) Multicast
6 10 (8.70%) DNS
7 9 (7.83%) Fibre Channel
8 7 (6.09%) SAN
9 6 (5.22%) HTTP
9 6 (5.22%) HTTPS
9 6 (5.22%) Reverse Proxy
10 3 (2.61%) DHCP
10 3 (2.61%) NAS
11 2 (1.74%) FIX Connectivity
11 2 (1.74%) Network Security
11 2 (1.74%) SNMP
12 1 (0.87%) Cisco ASA
12 1 (0.87%) SSH
12 1 (0.87%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (18.26%) PostgreSQL
2 17 (14.78%) DB2
3 16 (13.91%) SQL Server
4 6 (5.22%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (2.61%) Relational Database
6 2 (1.74%) Oracle Database
6 2 (1.74%) Power BI
7 1 (0.87%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.87%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.87%) MySQL
7 1 (0.87%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 21 (18.26%) Git
2 8 (6.96%) GitLab
3 6 (5.22%) Jenkins
3 6 (5.22%) JIRA
4 5 (4.35%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 5 (4.35%) Bitbucket
General
1 63 (54.78%) Finance
2 24 (20.87%) Banking
3 17 (14.78%) Social Skills
4 11 (9.57%) Front Office
4 11 (9.57%) Investment Banking
5 5 (4.35%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (4.35%) Presentation Skills
6 3 (2.61%) Advertising
6 3 (2.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (2.61%) Public Sector
7 2 (1.74%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.87%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.87%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.87%) Law
8 1 (0.87%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 31 (26.96%) Linux Engineer
2 19 (16.52%) Applications Support
3 18 (15.65%) Infrastructure Support
3 18 (15.65%) Linux Support
3 18 (15.65%) Platform Engineer
4 15 (13.04%) Unix Support
5 14 (12.17%) Developer
6 13 (11.30%) DevOps Engineer
7 11 (9.57%) C++ Developer
8 10 (8.70%) Administrator
8 10 (8.70%) Automation Engineer
9 9 (7.83%) Cloud Engineer
9 9 (7.83%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 9 (7.83%) Linux Administrator
10 7 (6.09%) Applications Engineer
10 7 (6.09%) Applications Support Engineer
10 7 (6.09%) Cisco Engineer
10 7 (6.09%) Linux DevOps Engineer
10 7 (6.09%) Linux/Unix DevOps
10 7 (6.09%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (16.52%) LDAP
2 16 (13.91%) LAPP Stack
2 16 (13.91%) WebSphere MQ
3 13 (11.30%) FIX Protocol
4 8 (6.96%) Jinja
4 8 (6.96%) YAML
5 6 (5.22%) Kafka
5 6 (5.22%) OAuth
5 6 (5.22%) SAML
6 4 (3.48%) Middleware
6 4 (3.48%) Node.js
6 4 (3.48%) React
7 3 (2.61%) AngularJS
7 3 (2.61%) CSS
7 3 (2.61%) HTML
7 3 (2.61%) Vue
8 2 (1.74%) LAMP
9 1 (0.87%) .NET
9 1 (0.87%) REST
9 1 (0.87%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 20 (17.39%) Linux Command Line
2 17 (14.78%) Management Information System
3 11 (9.57%) Derivative
4 7 (6.09%) Data Centre
5 6 (5.22%) Clustering
5 6 (5.22%) Hybrid Cloud
5 6 (5.22%) PKI
6 3 (2.61%) Cloud Native
6 3 (2.61%) e-Learning
7 2 (1.74%) Enterprise Cloud
7 2 (1.74%) Eurex
7 2 (1.74%) FPGA
7 2 (1.74%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.74%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.87%) Enterprise Storage
8 1 (0.87%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 1 (0.87%) Low-Code
8 1 (0.87%) Replication
8 1 (0.87%) Security Posture
8 1 (0.87%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 106 (92.17%) Linux
2 64 (55.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 34 (29.57%) Unix
4 28 (24.35%) Windows
5 10 (8.70%) CentOS
5 10 (8.70%) Windows Server
6 9 (7.83%) Windows Server 2019
7 6 (5.22%) Ubuntu
7 6 (5.22%) Windows Server 2016
8 5 (4.35%) Oracle Linux
8 5 (4.35%) Solaris
8 5 (4.35%) Windows Server 2012
9 4 (3.48%) Debian
10 2 (1.74%) AIX
10 2 (1.74%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (44.35%) DevOps
2 32 (27.83%) CI/CD
3 30 (26.09%) ITIL
4 28 (24.35%) Infrastructure as Code
5 20 (17.39%) Change Management
6 19 (16.52%) Problem-Solving
7 17 (14.78%) Agile
7 17 (14.78%) Platform Engineering
8 16 (13.91%) Containerisation
8 16 (13.91%) Release Management
8 16 (13.91%) User Acceptance Testing
9 14 (12.17%) Infrastructure Automation
9 14 (12.17%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 13 (11.30%) Low Latency
10 13 (11.30%) Security Hardening
11 11 (9.57%) Concurrent Programming
11 11 (9.57%) Disaster Recovery
11 11 (9.57%) SOA
11 11 (9.57%) Systems Analysis
11 11 (9.57%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 71 (61.74%) Python
2 38 (33.04%) Bash
3 16 (13.91%) PowerShell
4 15 (13.04%) Perl
5 11 (9.57%) C++
6 10 (8.70%) Java
7 6 (5.22%) SQL
8 5 (4.35%) JavaScript
8 5 (4.35%) Shell Script
9 3 (2.61%) Ruby
10 2 (1.74%) C#
10 2 (1.74%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.87%) Bourne shell
11 1 (0.87%) C-shell
11 1 (0.87%) Go
11 1 (0.87%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 27 (23.48%) Degree
2 23 (20.00%) AWS Certification
3 22 (19.13%) ITIL Certification
4 8 (6.96%) RHCE
4 8 (6.96%) Security Cleared
5 6 (5.22%) CISSP
5 6 (5.22%) OSCP
6 5 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (4.35%) SC Cleared
7 4 (3.48%) DV Cleared
8 3 (2.61%) MCSA
8 3 (2.61%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (2.61%) RHCSA
9 2 (1.74%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
9 2 (1.74%) Dell Certification
9 2 (1.74%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 1 (0.87%) MCDST
10 1 (0.87%) MCITP
10 1 (0.87%) MCP
10 1 (0.87%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (18.26%) SLA
2 11 (9.57%) GDPR
2 11 (9.57%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (0.87%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (0.87%) ISO 20022
3 1 (0.87%) QA
3 1 (0.87%) SEPA
System Software
1 24 (20.87%) VMware Infrastructure
2 12 (10.43%) Docker
3 10 (8.70%) Active Directory
4 9 (7.83%) vSphere
5 7 (6.09%) NFS
6 4 (3.48%) Veritas Cluster Server
6 4 (3.48%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (2.61%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (1.74%) Hyper-V
8 2 (1.74%) KVM
9 1 (0.87%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 55 (47.83%) Ansible
2 29 (25.22%) Terraform
3 20 (17.39%) Kubernetes
4 14 (12.17%) Red Hat Satellite
5 5 (4.35%) Progress Chef
5 5 (4.35%) Puppet
6 3 (2.61%) Argo
6 3 (2.61%) Grafana
7 2 (1.74%) EMC NetWorker
7 2 (1.74%) Nagios
7 2 (1.74%) Red Hat Spacewalk
7 2 (1.74%) WSUS
8 1 (0.87%) Docker Swarm
8 1 (0.87%) Oracle ZFS
8 1 (0.87%) Podman
8 1 (0.87%) vCenter Server
8 1 (0.87%) VxRail
Vendors
1 30 (26.09%) VMware
2 21 (18.26%) IBM
3 13 (11.30%) Oracle
4 12 (10.43%) Cisco
5 10 (8.70%) Commvault
5 10 (8.70%) ServiceNow
6 8 (6.96%) Pure Storage
7 6 (5.22%) Atlassian
7 6 (5.22%) Imperva
8 5 (4.35%) HP
8 5 (4.35%) Symantec
9 4 (3.48%) Dell
10 3 (2.61%) EMC
10 3 (2.61%) Microsoft
11 2 (1.74%) Bloomberg
11 2 (1.74%) CQG
11 2 (1.74%) ION Trading
11 2 (1.74%) Juniper
11 2 (1.74%) Patsystems
11 2 (1.74%) Reuters