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 June 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 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 340 279 323
Rank change year-on-year -61 +44 +38
Permanent jobs citing Red Hat 90 111 194
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.41% 0.91% 0.79%
As % of the Vendors category 1.40% 2.09% 2.07%
Number of salaries quoted 52 67 127
10th Percentile £47,512 £48,500 £52,500
25th Percentile £54,688 £56,250 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% -14.71% +21.43%
75th Percentile £100,938 £80,625 £95,625
90th Percentile £118,375 £96,750 £110,000
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 6,451 5,322 9,374
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 29.69% 43.64% 38.23%
Number of salaries quoted 4,162 3,276 6,474
10th Percentile £37,500 £38,000 £35,631
25th Percentile £55,000 £50,000 £46,993
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £70,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.57% +3.70% +2.19%
75th Percentile £91,250 £88,975 £87,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £108,750 £107,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% +10.00% -13.04%

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 June 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 June 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 -11 14 £90,000 +28.57% 2
South London +20 9 £50,000 -35.48%
East London +2 6 - -
West London -15 4 £85,000 +73.47% 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 19 (21.11%) Apache
2 17 (18.89%) Apache Spark
3 16 (17.78%) Apache Airflow
4 9 (10.00%) Confluence
5 3 (3.33%) CMS
5 3 (3.33%) WordPress
6 2 (2.22%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (2.22%) nginx
6 2 (2.22%) Tomcat
Applications
1 9 (10.00%) MS Visio
2 2 (2.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.11%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 42 (46.67%) AWS
2 28 (31.11%) Azure
3 20 (22.22%) OpenShift
4 18 (20.00%) Amazon S3
5 10 (11.11%) GCP
6 8 (8.89%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 8 (8.89%) Amazon ECS
6 8 (8.89%) Nutanix
7 7 (7.78%) Amazon ECR
8 4 (4.44%) Entra ID
8 4 (4.44%) Microsoft 365
9 2 (2.22%) Amazon EC2
9 2 (2.22%) AWS CloudTrail
9 2 (2.22%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (2.22%) Datadog
9 2 (2.22%) GitHub
9 2 (2.22%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (2.22%) Serverless
9 2 (2.22%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 1 (1.11%) AWS Control Tower
Communications & Networking
1 19 (21.11%) LAN
2 13 (14.44%) WAN
3 12 (13.33%) DNS
3 12 (13.33%) TCP/IP
4 9 (10.00%) Firewall
5 8 (8.89%) HTTP
6 5 (5.56%) SAN
7 4 (4.44%) IPv4
7 4 (4.44%) Software-Defined Networking
8 3 (3.33%) Kerberos
8 3 (3.33%) VoIP
8 3 (3.33%) WLAN
9 2 (2.22%) BGP
9 2 (2.22%) iSCSI
9 2 (2.22%) Multicast
9 2 (2.22%) VLAN
9 2 (2.22%) VPN
10 1 (1.11%) MPLS
10 1 (1.11%) Network Security
10 1 (1.11%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (18.89%) Tableau
2 16 (17.78%) Apache Hive
2 16 (17.78%) Impala
2 16 (17.78%) Oracle Database
2 16 (17.78%) Parquet
2 16 (17.78%) Spark SQL
3 10 (11.11%) MySQL
4 6 (6.67%) Elasticsearch
4 6 (6.67%) SQL Server
5 4 (4.44%) MongoDB
6 2 (2.22%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (1.11%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (1.11%) DynamoDB
7 1 (1.11%) Hadoop
7 1 (1.11%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (1.11%) SAP HANA
7 1 (1.11%) Sybase ASE
7 1 (1.11%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 36 (40.00%) Git
2 18 (20.00%) GitLab
3 16 (17.78%) IBM UrbanCode
4 9 (10.00%) JIRA
5 6 (6.67%) Jenkins
6 4 (4.44%) Bitbucket
7 1 (1.11%) git-flow
7 1 (1.11%) JUnit
7 1 (1.11%) Maven
7 1 (1.11%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 40 (44.44%) Finance
2 33 (36.67%) Banking
3 23 (25.56%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (18.89%) Social Skills
5 15 (16.67%) Investment Banking
6 7 (7.78%) Legal
7 4 (4.44%) Aerospace
7 4 (4.44%) Automotive
7 4 (4.44%) Electronics
7 4 (4.44%) Front Office
7 4 (4.44%) Influencing Skills
7 4 (4.44%) Manufacturing
8 3 (3.33%) Military
8 3 (3.33%) Retail
9 2 (2.22%) Advertising
9 2 (2.22%) Telecoms
10 1 (1.11%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 32 (35.56%) Administrator
2 26 (28.89%) Systems Administrator
3 23 (25.56%) Linux Administrator
4 20 (22.22%) Linux Systems Administrator
5 16 (17.78%) Analyst
6 14 (15.56%) Transformation Analyst
7 13 (14.44%) Banking Analyst
8 12 (13.33%) Lead
9 10 (11.11%) Linux Engineer
9 10 (11.11%) Linux/Unix DevOps
10 9 (10.00%) Business Analyst
11 8 (8.89%) Data Business Analyst
11 8 (8.89%) Linux Systems Engineer
12 7 (7.78%) DevOps Engineer
12 7 (7.78%) Investment Banking Business Analyst
12 7 (7.78%) Technical Analyst
13 6 (6.67%) DevOps Administrator
13 6 (6.67%) DevOps Systems Engineer
13 6 (6.67%) Linux DevOps Administrator
13 6 (6.67%) Linux DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (17.78%) PySpark
2 9 (10.00%) Pandas
3 8 (8.89%) WebSockets
4 3 (3.33%) LDAP
4 3 (3.33%) Middleware
5 2 (2.22%) LEMP Stack
5 2 (2.22%) Node.js
6 1 (1.11%) AWS CDK
6 1 (1.11%) MFC
6 1 (1.11%) REST
6 1 (1.11%) Spring
6 1 (1.11%) Spring Boot
6 1 (1.11%) STL
6 1 (1.11%) wxWidgets
Miscellaneous
1 20 (22.22%) Data Centre
2 12 (13.33%) Hybrid Cloud
3 7 (7.78%) Enterprise Storage
4 5 (5.56%) Operational Technology
5 4 (4.44%) Linux Command Line
5 4 (4.44%) Renewable Energy
6 3 (3.33%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (3.33%) Fixed Income
6 3 (3.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 3 (3.33%) Replication
6 3 (3.33%) Security Posture
7 2 (2.22%) Cloud Native
7 2 (2.22%) Enterprise Cloud
7 2 (2.22%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (2.22%) Management Information System
8 1 (1.11%) Clustering
8 1 (1.11%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (1.11%) Fibre Optics
8 1 (1.11%) Public Cloud
8 1 (1.11%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 70 (77.78%) Linux
2 43 (47.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 22 (24.44%) Windows
4 19 (21.11%) Windows Server
5 12 (13.33%) CentOS
6 6 (6.67%) Ubuntu
7 5 (5.56%) Rocky
8 3 (3.33%) Windows Server 2019
9 2 (2.22%) Unix
10 1 (1.11%) CoreOS
10 1 (1.11%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (45.56%) CI/CD
2 28 (31.11%) DevOps
3 25 (27.78%) Agile
4 23 (25.56%) Infrastructure as Code
5 21 (23.33%) Scrum
6 20 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
7 17 (18.89%) AI
7 17 (18.89%) User Acceptance Testing
8 16 (17.78%) Analytics
8 16 (17.78%) Containerisation
8 16 (17.78%) Data Governance
8 16 (17.78%) Data Pipeline
8 16 (17.78%) Data Transformation
8 16 (17.78%) ETL
8 16 (17.78%) Root Cause Analysis
9 14 (15.56%) Performance Tuning
10 13 (14.44%) Continuous Improvement
11 12 (13.33%) Configuration Management
11 12 (13.33%) Low Latency
11 12 (13.33%) Performance Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 45 (50.00%) Python
2 29 (32.22%) SQL
3 26 (28.89%) Bash
4 14 (15.56%) PowerShell
5 13 (14.44%) Java
6 3 (3.33%) PHP
6 3 (3.33%) Shell Script
7 2 (2.22%) JavaScript
8 1 (1.11%) C++
8 1 (1.11%) Groovy
8 1 (1.11%) Korn
Qualifications
1 18 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 14 (15.56%) Cisco Certification
3 12 (13.33%) RHCSA
4 10 (11.11%) Microsoft Certification
5 9 (10.00%) Degree
6 8 (8.89%) SC Cleared
7 7 (7.78%) CCNA
8 5 (5.56%) AWS Certification
8 5 (5.56%) RHCE
9 4 (4.44%) ISTQB
9 4 (4.44%) OSCP
9 4 (4.44%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 3 (3.33%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 3 (3.33%) Azure Certification
10 3 (3.33%) CCDA
10 3 (3.33%) CCSP
10 3 (3.33%) CISM
10 3 (3.33%) CISSP
10 3 (3.33%) MCSE
11 2 (2.22%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (17.78%) Data Quality
2 11 (12.22%) GDPR
3 8 (8.89%) QA
4 7 (7.78%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 7 (7.78%) HIPAA
5 4 (4.44%) NIST
6 3 (3.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (3.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 3 (3.33%) SLA
System Software
1 33 (36.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 15 (16.67%) Docker
3 14 (15.56%) Active Directory
4 9 (10.00%) vSphere
5 8 (8.89%) Hyper-V
6 4 (4.44%) Squid
6 4 (4.44%) VMware NSX
7 3 (3.33%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (2.22%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 28 (31.11%) Ansible
2 24 (26.67%) Kubernetes
2 24 (26.67%) Terraform
3 16 (17.78%) Nagios
4 6 (6.67%) Grafana
4 6 (6.67%) Red Hat Satellite
5 5 (5.56%) ZABBIX
6 4 (4.44%) Packer
7 2 (2.22%) Proxmox
7 2 (2.22%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (2.22%) WSUS
8 1 (1.11%) McAfee ePO
8 1 (1.11%) Progress Chef
8 1 (1.11%) Puppet
8 1 (1.11%) SCCM
8 1 (1.11%) SCVMM
8 1 (1.11%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 43 (47.78%) VMware
2 24 (26.67%) Oracle
3 14 (15.56%) Microsoft
4 13 (14.44%) Splunk
5 11 (12.22%) SolarWinds
6 9 (10.00%) Rapid7
7 7 (7.78%) Cisco
8 6 (6.67%) Dell
8 6 (6.67%) Veeam
9 4 (4.44%) ServiceNow
10 3 (3.33%) CyberArk
10 3 (3.33%) Ivanti
10 3 (3.33%) Juniper
10 3 (3.33%) NetApp
10 3 (3.33%) Pure Storage
10 3 (3.33%) Qualys
10 3 (3.33%) Tenable
10 3 (3.33%) Veracode
11 2 (2.22%) HP
11 2 (2.22%) Zscaler