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 24 February 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
24 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 300 260 354
Rank change year-on-year -40 +94 +19
Permanent jobs citing Red Hat 92 162 130
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.58% 1.12% 0.61%
As % of the Vendors category 1.76% 2.73% 1.55%
Number of salaries quoted 63 109 108
10th Percentile £51,250 £48,700 £54,375
25th Percentile £55,000 £60,000 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £76,500 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% -10.00% +21.43%
75th Percentile £91,500 £90,000 £102,500
90th Percentile £140,000 £122,500 £108,250
England median annual salary £58,750 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.62% +8.33% -6.45%

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 5,222 5,932 8,375
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 32.96% 40.83% 39.43%
Number of salaries quoted 3,249 3,253 6,437
10th Percentile £33,750 £40,062 £35,750
25th Percentile £46,500 £52,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year - +3.70% -2.80%
75th Percentile £88,750 £90,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £110,000 £106,250
England median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £51,000
% change year-on-year -8.70% +12.75% -11.30%

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 24 February 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 24 February 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 +10 15 £55,000 -28.10% 7
East London -3 10 £86,250 +25.45% 1
South London +33 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 16 (17.39%) Tomcat
2 11 (11.96%) WebSphere
2 11 (11.96%) WebSphere Application Server
3 10 (10.87%) Apache
4 6 (6.52%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (6.52%) IIS
5 5 (5.43%) Apache Spark
5 5 (5.43%) Confluence
6 3 (3.26%) CMS
6 3 (3.26%) nginx
6 3 (3.26%) WordPress
7 1 (1.09%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 3 (3.26%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (2.17%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 40 (43.48%) AWS
2 16 (17.39%) Azure
3 14 (15.22%) OpenShift
4 8 (8.70%) Amazon S3
4 8 (8.70%) GCP
5 6 (6.52%) Amazon ECR
6 4 (4.35%) Amazon EC2
6 4 (4.35%) Amazon EKS
6 4 (4.35%) AWS CloudFormation
6 4 (4.35%) AWS Lambda
6 4 (4.35%) GitHub
6 4 (4.35%) Route 53
6 4 (4.35%) Serverless
6 4 (4.35%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 3 (3.26%) Cloud Computing
8 2 (2.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 2 (2.17%) Amazon ECS
8 2 (2.17%) dbt
8 2 (2.17%) Power Platform
9 1 (1.09%) Zapier
Communications & Networking
1 14 (15.22%) TCP/IP
2 13 (14.13%) DNS
3 12 (13.04%) Multicast
3 12 (13.04%) SSL
4 10 (10.87%) LAN
5 9 (9.78%) Firewall
6 7 (7.61%) WAN
7 4 (4.35%) DHCP
7 4 (4.35%) HTTP
8 2 (2.17%) FIX Connectivity
8 2 (2.17%) NAS
8 2 (2.17%) Network Security
8 2 (2.17%) SAN
8 2 (2.17%) SNMP
9 1 (1.09%) Cisco ASA
9 1 (1.09%) Fibre Channel
9 1 (1.09%) HTTPS
9 1 (1.09%) Reverse Proxy
9 1 (1.09%) VLAN
9 1 (1.09%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (16.30%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (13.04%) SQL Server
3 11 (11.96%) DB2
4 6 (6.52%) Oracle Database
5 5 (5.43%) MySQL
5 5 (5.43%) Tableau
6 4 (4.35%) Amazon RDS
6 4 (4.35%) Apache Hive
6 4 (4.35%) Impala
6 4 (4.35%) Parquet
6 4 (4.35%) Spark SQL
7 2 (2.17%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (2.17%) MongoDB
7 2 (2.17%) Power BI
7 2 (2.17%) Relational Database
8 1 (1.09%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (1.09%) Hadoop
8 1 (1.09%) SAP HANA
8 1 (1.09%) Sybase ASE
8 1 (1.09%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 13 (14.13%) Git
2 8 (8.70%) GitLab
3 6 (6.52%) Jenkins
4 5 (5.43%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 5 (5.43%) Bitbucket
4 5 (5.43%) JIRA
5 4 (4.35%) IBM UrbanCode
6 1 (1.09%) JUnit
General
1 48 (52.17%) Finance
2 22 (23.91%) Banking
3 16 (17.39%) Social Skills
4 13 (14.13%) Front Office
5 10 (10.87%) Investment Banking
6 8 (8.70%) Analytical Skills
7 7 (7.61%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (3.26%) Advertising
9 2 (2.17%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (1.09%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (1.09%) Legal
Job Titles
1 21 (22.83%) Administrator
2 17 (18.48%) Linux Administrator
2 17 (18.48%) Linux Engineer
3 15 (16.30%) Developer
3 15 (16.30%) Linux Support
4 14 (15.22%) Infrastructure Support
4 14 (15.22%) Unix Support
5 13 (14.13%) C++ Developer
6 11 (11.96%) Applications Support
7 10 (10.87%) Platform Engineer
8 8 (8.70%) Systems Administrator
9 6 (6.52%) Analyst
9 6 (6.52%) Senior
10 4 (4.35%) DevOps Engineer
10 4 (4.35%) Infrastructure Support Specialist
10 4 (4.35%) Linux Support Engineer
10 4 (4.35%) Linux/Unix DevOps
10 4 (4.35%) Support Engineer
10 4 (4.35%) Support Specialist
10 4 (4.35%) Unix Support Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (15.22%) FIX Protocol
2 13 (14.13%) LDAP
3 11 (11.96%) LAPP Stack
3 11 (11.96%) WebSphere MQ
4 7 (7.61%) Middleware
5 6 (6.52%) Kafka
6 4 (4.35%) PySpark
7 3 (3.26%) AngularJS
7 3 (3.26%) CSS
7 3 (3.26%) HTML
7 3 (3.26%) Node.js
7 3 (3.26%) Pandas
7 3 (3.26%) React
7 3 (3.26%) Vue
7 3 (3.26%) WebSockets
8 2 (2.17%) Spring
9 1 (1.09%) LAMP
9 1 (1.09%) Ruby on Rails
9 1 (1.09%) SAML
9 1 (1.09%) STL
Miscellaneous
1 15 (16.30%) Linux Command Line
2 12 (13.04%) Derivative
3 11 (11.96%) Management Information System
4 8 (8.70%) Clustering
4 8 (8.70%) Data Centre
5 6 (6.52%) Hybrid Cloud
6 4 (4.35%) Enterprise Storage
7 3 (3.26%) Cloud Native
8 2 (2.17%) Eurex
8 2 (2.17%) FPGA
8 2 (2.17%) Replication
8 2 (2.17%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (1.09%) Blockchain
9 1 (1.09%) Distributed Systems
9 1 (1.09%) Equities
9 1 (1.09%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 1 (1.09%) IoT
9 1 (1.09%) Low-Code
9 1 (1.09%) Onboarding
9 1 (1.09%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 83 (90.22%) Linux
2 63 (68.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 23 (25.00%) Windows
4 22 (23.91%) Unix
5 11 (11.96%) CentOS
5 11 (11.96%) Windows Server
6 7 (7.61%) Windows Server 2016
6 7 (7.61%) Windows Server 2019
7 6 (6.52%) Ubuntu
8 5 (5.43%) Windows Server 2012
9 4 (4.35%) Debian
10 3 (3.26%) Solaris
11 2 (2.17%) Oracle Linux
12 1 (1.09%) AIX
12 1 (1.09%) CoreOS
12 1 (1.09%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (30.43%) DevOps
2 26 (28.26%) CI/CD
3 21 (22.83%) ITIL
4 20 (21.74%) Infrastructure as Code
5 18 (19.57%) Problem-Solving
6 17 (18.48%) Agile
6 17 (18.48%) Change Management
7 16 (17.39%) User Acceptance Testing
8 15 (16.30%) Low Latency
9 12 (13.04%) Concurrent Programming
9 12 (13.04%) Configuration Management
9 12 (13.04%) SOA
9 12 (13.04%) Systems Analysis
9 12 (13.04%) Unit Testing
10 11 (11.96%) Disaster Recovery
10 11 (11.96%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 11 (11.96%) Release Management
11 10 (10.87%) Containerisation
11 10 (10.87%) Platform Engineering
12 9 (9.78%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 46 (50.00%) Python
2 26 (28.26%) Bash
3 13 (14.13%) C++
4 10 (10.87%) PowerShell
4 10 (10.87%) SQL
5 6 (6.52%) Java
5 6 (6.52%) Perl
5 6 (6.52%) Shell Script
6 3 (3.26%) JavaScript
6 3 (3.26%) PHP
6 3 (3.26%) Ruby
7 1 (1.09%) C#
7 1 (1.09%) Korn
7 1 (1.09%) TypeScript
7 1 (1.09%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 19 (20.65%) AWS Certification
2 18 (19.57%) Degree
3 16 (17.39%) ITIL Certification
4 10 (10.87%) Security Cleared
5 5 (5.43%) RHCE
5 5 (5.43%) RHCSA
6 4 (4.35%) DV Cleared
6 4 (4.35%) SC Cleared
7 3 (3.26%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (2.17%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
9 1 (1.09%) CCDA
9 1 (1.09%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (1.09%) CISSP
9 1 (1.09%) MCDST
9 1 (1.09%) MCITP
9 1 (1.09%) MCSA
9 1 (1.09%) MCSE
9 1 (1.09%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 1 (1.09%) OSCP
9 1 (1.09%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (17.39%) SLA
2 4 (4.35%) Data Quality
2 4 (4.35%) GDPR
3 3 (3.26%) QA
3 3 (3.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (1.09%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (1.09%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (1.09%) HIPAA
System Software
1 26 (28.26%) VMware Infrastructure
2 12 (13.04%) Docker
3 9 (9.78%) Active Directory
4 5 (5.43%) Veritas Cluster Server
5 4 (4.35%) vSphere
6 2 (2.17%) KVM
7 1 (1.09%) Hyper-V
7 1 (1.09%) NFS
7 1 (1.09%) Postfix
7 1 (1.09%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (1.09%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 34 (36.96%) Ansible
2 20 (21.74%) Kubernetes
3 16 (17.39%) Terraform
4 7 (7.61%) Red Hat Satellite
5 5 (5.43%) Nagios
5 5 (5.43%) Progress Chef
5 5 (5.43%) Puppet
6 3 (3.26%) Argo
6 3 (3.26%) Grafana
7 2 (2.17%) Red Hat Spacewalk
8 1 (1.09%) McAfee ePO
8 1 (1.09%) Podman
8 1 (1.09%) SCVMM
8 1 (1.09%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 33 (35.87%) VMware
2 14 (15.22%) Oracle
3 11 (11.96%) IBM
4 7 (7.61%) ServiceNow
4 7 (7.61%) Symantec
5 5 (5.43%) Atlassian
6 4 (4.35%) Cisco
7 3 (3.26%) Dell
7 3 (3.26%) Pure Storage
7 3 (3.26%) SolarWinds
7 3 (3.26%) Splunk
8 2 (2.17%) CQG
8 2 (2.17%) Google
8 2 (2.17%) HP
8 2 (2.17%) ION Trading
8 2 (2.17%) Microsoft
8 2 (2.17%) Patsystems
8 2 (2.17%) Rapid7
8 2 (2.17%) Reuters
8 2 (2.17%) Trayport