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 25 August 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
25 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 349 274 310
Rank change year-on-year -75 +36 +24
Permanent jobs citing Red Hat 89 118 165
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.37% 0.98% 0.84%
As % of the Vendors category 1.24% 2.22% 2.17%
Number of salaries quoted 56 69 95
10th Percentile £51,250 £52,500 £53,500
25th Percentile £60,938 £61,500 £68,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £72,500 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +17.24% -14.71% +7.94%
75th Percentile £103,750 £85,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £125,000 £95,500 £111,500
England median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - +7.69% +3.07%

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 7,159 5,327 7,589
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 29.76% 44.21% 38.84%
Number of salaries quoted 4,740 3,402 4,708
10th Percentile £38,500 £36,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £49,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £69,692 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.03% -0.44% +3.70%
75th Percentile £93,750 £87,500 £91,250
90th Percentile £107,500 £107,500 £112,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.52% -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 25 August 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 25 August 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 +7 10 £90,000 +44.00% 2
South London +5 7 £50,000 -37.50%
West London -24 5 £85,000 +73.47% 47
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 11 (12.36%) Confluence
2 8 (8.99%) Apache
2 8 (8.99%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (7.87%) Apache Airflow
3 7 (7.87%) Apache Spark
4 3 (3.37%) nginx
5 2 (2.25%) Tomcat
6 1 (1.12%) IIS
6 1 (1.12%) JBoss
6 1 (1.12%) SharePoint
6 1 (1.12%) WebLogic
Applications
1 4 (4.49%) MS Visio
2 3 (3.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.12%) Chatbot
3 1 (1.12%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (1.12%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (6.74%) Fidessa
2 1 (1.12%) FLEXCUBE
Cloud Services
1 42 (47.19%) AWS
2 29 (32.58%) Azure
3 18 (20.22%) OpenShift
4 13 (14.61%) GCP
5 11 (12.36%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 11 (12.36%) Amazon ECS
6 10 (11.24%) Amazon ECR
6 10 (11.24%) Nutanix
7 9 (10.11%) Amazon S3
8 5 (5.62%) Microsoft 365
9 4 (4.49%) Entra ID
9 4 (4.49%) Snowflake
10 3 (3.37%) Datadog
11 2 (2.25%) Amazon EC2
11 2 (2.25%) AWS CloudTrail
11 2 (2.25%) AWS Lambda
11 2 (2.25%) GitHub
11 2 (2.25%) GitHub Actions
11 2 (2.25%) Serverless
11 2 (2.25%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 15 (16.85%) DNS
2 13 (14.61%) LAN
3 12 (13.48%) Firewall
3 12 (13.48%) TCP/IP
4 9 (10.11%) WAN
5 6 (6.74%) DHCP
5 6 (6.74%) FIX Connectivity
5 6 (6.74%) HTTP
5 6 (6.74%) SAN
6 5 (5.62%) Kerberos
7 4 (4.49%) IPv4
7 4 (4.49%) Software-Defined Networking
8 3 (3.37%) VoIP
8 3 (3.37%) WLAN
9 2 (2.25%) BGP
9 2 (2.25%) iSCSI
9 2 (2.25%) Multicast
9 2 (2.25%) SSL
9 2 (2.25%) VLAN
9 2 (2.25%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (15.73%) SQL Server
2 11 (12.36%) MySQL
3 9 (10.11%) Elasticsearch
4 7 (7.87%) Apache Hive
4 7 (7.87%) Impala
4 7 (7.87%) Oracle Database
4 7 (7.87%) Parquet
4 7 (7.87%) Spark SQL
4 7 (7.87%) Tableau
5 5 (5.62%) MongoDB
6 3 (3.37%) Oracle Reports
7 2 (2.25%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (1.12%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 27 (30.34%) Git
2 22 (24.72%) GitLab
3 12 (13.48%) JIRA
4 7 (7.87%) IBM UrbanCode
5 6 (6.74%) Jenkins
6 5 (5.62%) Bitbucket
7 1 (1.12%) Artifactory
7 1 (1.12%) git-flow
7 1 (1.12%) Maven
7 1 (1.12%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (1.12%) Subversion
General
1 37 (41.57%) Finance
2 32 (35.96%) Banking
3 20 (22.47%) Social Skills
4 19 (21.35%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (7.87%) Investment Banking
6 6 (6.74%) Influencing Skills
7 4 (4.49%) Aerospace
7 4 (4.49%) Automotive
7 4 (4.49%) Electronics
7 4 (4.49%) Manufacturing
8 3 (3.37%) Front Office
8 3 (3.37%) Legal
8 3 (3.37%) Military
8 3 (3.37%) Retail
8 3 (3.37%) Telecoms
9 2 (2.25%) Advertising
9 2 (2.25%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 27 (30.34%) Administrator
2 24 (26.97%) Systems Administrator
3 21 (23.60%) Linux Administrator
3 21 (23.60%) Linux Systems Administrator
4 16 (17.98%) Linux Engineer
5 11 (12.36%) Analyst
5 11 (12.36%) Linux Systems Engineer
6 10 (11.24%) Banking Analyst
6 10 (11.24%) DevOps Engineer
6 10 (11.24%) Lead
6 10 (11.24%) Linux/Unix DevOps
7 9 (10.11%) Cloud Engineer
7 9 (10.11%) DevOps Administrator
7 9 (10.11%) DevOps Systems Engineer
7 9 (10.11%) Linux DevOps Administrator
7 9 (10.11%) Linux DevOps Engineer
8 7 (7.87%) Cloud Administrator
8 7 (7.87%) Transformation Analyst
9 6 (6.74%) Developer
10 5 (5.62%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (26.97%) Terraform
2 7 (7.87%) PySpark
3 6 (6.74%) FIX Protocol
3 6 (6.74%) WebSockets
4 5 (5.62%) LDAP
5 4 (4.49%) Pandas
6 2 (2.25%) LEMP Stack
6 2 (2.25%) Node.js
7 1 (1.12%) AWS CDK
7 1 (1.12%) CSS
7 1 (1.12%) CSS3
7 1 (1.12%) HTML
7 1 (1.12%) HTML5
7 1 (1.12%) Keycloak
7 1 (1.12%) OAuth
7 1 (1.12%) OAuth2
7 1 (1.12%) OpenID
7 1 (1.12%) React
Miscellaneous
1 19 (21.35%) Data Centre
2 9 (10.11%) Hybrid Cloud
3 6 (6.74%) Eurex
4 5 (5.62%) Cloud Native
4 5 (5.62%) Operational Technology
4 5 (5.62%) Security Posture
5 4 (4.49%) Linux Command Line
5 4 (4.49%) Renewable Energy
6 3 (3.37%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (3.37%) Enterprise Cloud
6 3 (3.37%) Equity Derivative
6 3 (3.37%) Fixed Income
6 3 (3.37%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 3 (3.37%) Onboarding
6 3 (3.37%) Reference Data
7 2 (2.25%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (2.25%) Enterprise Storage
7 2 (2.25%) Management Information System
7 2 (2.25%) Replication
7 2 (2.25%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 70 (78.65%) Linux
2 34 (38.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 24 (26.97%) CentOS
4 21 (23.60%) Windows
5 18 (20.22%) Windows Server
6 14 (15.73%) Rocky
7 9 (10.11%) Ubuntu
8 8 (8.99%) Unix
9 3 (3.37%) Solaris
9 3 (3.37%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (32.58%) CI/CD
2 27 (30.34%) DevOps
3 21 (23.60%) Infrastructure as Code
4 18 (20.22%) Containerisation
5 17 (19.10%) Problem-Solving
6 15 (16.85%) Agile
6 15 (16.85%) ITIL
7 14 (15.73%) Continuous Improvement
7 14 (15.73%) Low Latency
8 12 (13.48%) Configuration Management
9 11 (12.36%) Capacity Planning
9 11 (12.36%) Cybersecurity
9 11 (12.36%) Scrum
10 10 (11.24%) Performance Monitoring
10 10 (11.24%) Software Engineering
11 9 (10.11%) Deployment Automation
11 9 (10.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 9 (10.11%) Mentoring
11 9 (10.11%) Root Cause Analysis
11 9 (10.11%) Virtual Environments
Programming Languages
1 44 (49.44%) Python
2 30 (33.71%) Bash
3 24 (26.97%) SQL
4 19 (21.35%) Java
5 15 (16.85%) PowerShell
6 9 (10.11%) JavaScript
7 6 (6.74%) Perl
7 6 (6.74%) Ruby
8 2 (2.25%) Shell Script
9 1 (1.12%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 20 (22.47%) Security Cleared
2 16 (17.98%) Cisco Certification
3 11 (12.36%) Microsoft Certification
3 11 (12.36%) RHCSA
4 10 (11.24%) Degree
5 7 (7.87%) CCNA
5 7 (7.87%) SC Cleared
6 6 (6.74%) CISM
6 6 (6.74%) CISSP
6 6 (6.74%) DV Cleared
6 6 (6.74%) RHCE
7 5 (5.62%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 5 (5.62%) AWS Certification
7 5 (5.62%) CCSP
8 4 (4.49%) ISTQB
8 4 (4.49%) OSCP
8 4 (4.49%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 3 (3.37%) Azure Certification
9 3 (3.37%) CCDA
9 3 (3.37%) Dell Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (12.36%) QA
2 9 (10.11%) GDPR
3 7 (7.87%) Data Quality
3 7 (7.87%) NIST
4 6 (6.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (5.62%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 3 (3.37%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 3 (3.37%) HIPAA
6 3 (3.37%) SLA
7 1 (1.12%) COBIT
7 1 (1.12%) NCSC
7 1 (1.12%) PMO
System Software
1 29 (32.58%) VMware Infrastructure
2 18 (20.22%) Docker
3 16 (17.98%) Active Directory
4 8 (8.99%) Hyper-V
5 6 (6.74%) vSphere
6 5 (5.62%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (4.49%) Squid
7 4 (4.49%) VMware NSX
8 3 (3.37%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (1.12%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 25 (28.09%) Ansible
2 21 (23.60%) Kubernetes
3 18 (20.22%) Nagios
4 9 (10.11%) Grafana
5 8 (8.99%) Red Hat Satellite
6 5 (5.62%) ZABBIX
7 4 (4.49%) Packer
8 3 (3.37%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (3.37%) WSUS
9 2 (2.25%) Proxmox
10 1 (1.12%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 1 (1.12%) Argo
10 1 (1.12%) Progress Chef
10 1 (1.12%) Puppet
10 1 (1.12%) SCCM
10 1 (1.12%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 36 (40.45%) VMware
2 27 (30.34%) Oracle
3 22 (24.72%) Microsoft
4 19 (21.35%) Splunk
5 14 (15.73%) Rapid7
6 9 (10.11%) SolarWinds
7 8 (8.99%) Cisco
8 7 (7.87%) Dell
9 6 (6.74%) Bloomberg
9 6 (6.74%) CQG
9 6 (6.74%) ION Trading
9 6 (6.74%) Patsystems
9 6 (6.74%) Reuters
9 6 (6.74%) ServiceNow
9 6 (6.74%) Trayport
9 6 (6.74%) Veeam
10 5 (5.62%) CyberArk
10 5 (5.62%) Ivanti
10 5 (5.62%) Qualys
10 5 (5.62%) Veracode