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 10 March 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
10 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 298 269 336
Rank change year-on-year -29 +67 +26
Permanent jobs citing Red Hat 100 145 145
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.60% 1.06% 0.66%
As % of the Vendors category 1.90% 2.62% 1.67%
Number of salaries quoted 61 101 112
10th Percentile £51,250 £48,500 £57,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £76,500 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% -10.00% +21.43%
75th Percentile £100,000 £90,000 £102,500
90th Percentile £140,000 £122,500 £109,750
England median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.54% +8.33% -7.69%

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 5,269 5,537 8,689
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 31.80% 40.40% 39.68%
Number of salaries quoted 3,255 3,190 6,611
10th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £35,631
25th Percentile £47,500 £52,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.69% -3.70%
75th Percentile £88,750 £90,000 £86,250
90th Percentile £107,500 £110,000 £105,000
England median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -8.70% +15.00% -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 10 March 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 10 March 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 +2 14 £55,000 -28.10% 2
East London -6 12 £87,500 +27.27% 1
South London +36 4 - -
West London -17 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 22 (22.00%) Apache
2 18 (18.00%) Apache Airflow
3 17 (17.00%) Apache Spark
4 14 (14.00%) Tomcat
5 8 (8.00%) WebSphere
5 8 (8.00%) WebSphere Application Server
6 6 (6.00%) IIS
7 5 (5.00%) Confluence
8 4 (4.00%) nginx
9 3 (3.00%) CMS
9 3 (3.00%) WordPress
10 2 (2.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 9 (9.00%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (2.00%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 45 (45.00%) AWS
2 26 (26.00%) OpenShift
3 18 (18.00%) Amazon S3
3 18 (18.00%) Azure
4 9 (9.00%) GCP
5 4 (4.00%) Amazon ECR
5 4 (4.00%) Nutanix
6 3 (3.00%) Cloud Computing
6 3 (3.00%) GitHub
7 2 (2.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 2 (2.00%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (2.00%) Amazon ECS
7 2 (2.00%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (2.00%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (2.00%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (2.00%) dbt
7 2 (2.00%) Power Platform
7 2 (2.00%) Route 53
7 2 (2.00%) Serverless
7 2 (2.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 16 (16.00%) DNS
1 16 (16.00%) TCP/IP
2 13 (13.00%) LAN
2 13 (13.00%) Multicast
3 9 (9.00%) SSL
4 8 (8.00%) Firewall
4 8 (8.00%) WAN
5 6 (6.00%) HTTP
6 4 (4.00%) DHCP
7 2 (2.00%) FIX Connectivity
7 2 (2.00%) NAS
7 2 (2.00%) SAN
7 2 (2.00%) SNMP
7 2 (2.00%) VLAN
8 1 (1.00%) Cisco ASA
8 1 (1.00%) HTTPS
8 1 (1.00%) Reverse Proxy
8 1 (1.00%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (17.00%) Oracle Database
1 17 (17.00%) Tableau
2 16 (16.00%) Apache Hive
2 16 (16.00%) Impala
2 16 (16.00%) Parquet
2 16 (16.00%) Spark SQL
3 12 (12.00%) PostgreSQL
4 10 (10.00%) SQL Server
5 8 (8.00%) DB2
6 6 (6.00%) MySQL
7 2 (2.00%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (2.00%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (2.00%) Power BI
7 2 (2.00%) Relational Database
8 1 (1.00%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (1.00%) Hadoop
8 1 (1.00%) MongoDB
8 1 (1.00%) SAP HANA
8 1 (1.00%) Sybase ASE
8 1 (1.00%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 28 (28.00%) Git
2 16 (16.00%) IBM UrbanCode
3 8 (8.00%) GitLab
4 6 (6.00%) Jenkins
5 5 (5.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 5 (5.00%) Bitbucket
5 5 (5.00%) JIRA
6 1 (1.00%) JUnit
General
1 58 (58.00%) Finance
2 34 (34.00%) Banking
3 21 (21.00%) Investment Banking
4 17 (17.00%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (17.00%) Social Skills
5 13 (13.00%) Front Office
6 7 (7.00%) Legal
6 7 (7.00%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (3.00%) Advertising
8 1 (1.00%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 23 (23.00%) Administrator
2 20 (20.00%) Linux Administrator
3 18 (18.00%) Analyst
4 15 (15.00%) Developer
5 14 (14.00%) Transformation Analyst
6 13 (13.00%) Banking Analyst
6 13 (13.00%) C++ Developer
6 13 (13.00%) Infrastructure Support
6 13 (13.00%) Unix Support
7 12 (12.00%) Linux Support
8 10 (10.00%) Systems Administrator
9 9 (9.00%) Business Analyst
10 8 (8.00%) Applications Support
10 8 (8.00%) Data Business Analyst
10 8 (8.00%) Linux Engineer
10 8 (8.00%) Platform Engineer
11 7 (7.00%) Investment Banking Business Analyst
11 7 (7.00%) Linux Systems Administrator
11 7 (7.00%) Technical Analyst
12 6 (6.00%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (16.00%) PySpark
2 14 (14.00%) FIX Protocol
3 10 (10.00%) LDAP
4 9 (9.00%) Pandas
5 8 (8.00%) LAPP Stack
5 8 (8.00%) WebSphere MQ
6 7 (7.00%) Middleware
7 5 (5.00%) Kafka
7 5 (5.00%) WebSockets
8 4 (4.00%) Node.js
9 3 (3.00%) AngularJS
9 3 (3.00%) CSS
9 3 (3.00%) HTML
9 3 (3.00%) React
9 3 (3.00%) Vue
10 2 (2.00%) Spring
11 1 (1.00%) LAMP
11 1 (1.00%) Ruby on Rails
11 1 (1.00%) SAML
11 1 (1.00%) STL
Miscellaneous
1 12 (12.00%) Derivative
1 12 (12.00%) Linux Command Line
2 11 (11.00%) Data Centre
3 9 (9.00%) Management Information System
4 8 (8.00%) Clustering
5 7 (7.00%) Hybrid Cloud
6 6 (6.00%) Enterprise Storage
7 3 (3.00%) Cloud Native
8 2 (2.00%) Eurex
8 2 (2.00%) FPGA
8 2 (2.00%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (1.00%) Blockchain
9 1 (1.00%) Distributed Systems
9 1 (1.00%) Equities
9 1 (1.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 1 (1.00%) IoT
9 1 (1.00%) Low-Code
9 1 (1.00%) Onboarding
9 1 (1.00%) PKI
9 1 (1.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 77 (77.00%) Linux
2 61 (61.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 21 (21.00%) Windows
4 18 (18.00%) Unix
5 12 (12.00%) Windows Server
6 10 (10.00%) CentOS
7 7 (7.00%) Windows Server 2016
7 7 (7.00%) Windows Server 2019
8 6 (6.00%) Ubuntu
9 5 (5.00%) Windows Server 2012
10 2 (2.00%) Oracle Linux
10 2 (2.00%) Rocky
10 2 (2.00%) Solaris
11 1 (1.00%) CoreOS
11 1 (1.00%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (39.00%) CI/CD
2 31 (31.00%) DevOps
3 30 (30.00%) Agile
4 25 (25.00%) User Acceptance Testing
5 20 (20.00%) Data Pipeline
5 20 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
6 18 (18.00%) AI
6 18 (18.00%) Analytics
6 18 (18.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 18 (18.00%) Scrum
7 17 (17.00%) ITIL
8 16 (16.00%) Data Governance
8 16 (16.00%) Data Transformation
8 16 (16.00%) ETL
8 16 (16.00%) Low Latency
9 14 (14.00%) Change Management
9 14 (14.00%) Performance Tuning
9 14 (14.00%) Root Cause Analysis
10 13 (13.00%) Configuration Management
11 12 (12.00%) SOA
Programming Languages
1 55 (55.00%) Python
2 25 (25.00%) SQL
3 24 (24.00%) Bash
4 13 (13.00%) C++
5 12 (12.00%) PowerShell
6 6 (6.00%) Java
7 4 (4.00%) JavaScript
7 4 (4.00%) Perl
7 4 (4.00%) Shell Script
8 3 (3.00%) PHP
8 3 (3.00%) Ruby
9 1 (1.00%) C#
9 1 (1.00%) Korn
9 1 (1.00%) TypeScript
9 1 (1.00%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 16 (16.00%) Degree
2 14 (14.00%) AWS Certification
3 13 (13.00%) ITIL Certification
4 12 (12.00%) Security Cleared
5 5 (5.00%) RHCSA
6 4 (4.00%) DV Cleared
6 4 (4.00%) SC Cleared
7 3 (3.00%) CCDA
7 3 (3.00%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (3.00%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (3.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 1 (1.00%) CISSP
8 1 (1.00%) MCDST
8 1 (1.00%) MCITP
8 1 (1.00%) MCSA
8 1 (1.00%) MCSE
8 1 (1.00%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (1.00%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 1 (1.00%) OSCP
8 1 (1.00%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (16.00%) Data Quality
2 13 (13.00%) SLA
3 8 (8.00%) GDPR
4 7 (7.00%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 7 (7.00%) HIPAA
5 4 (4.00%) QA
6 1 (1.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 28 (28.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 10 (10.00%) Docker
3 9 (9.00%) Active Directory
4 5 (5.00%) Veritas Cluster Server
4 5 (5.00%) vSphere
5 2 (2.00%) KVM
6 1 (1.00%) Hyper-V
6 1 (1.00%) Postfix
6 1 (1.00%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (1.00%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 33 (33.00%) Ansible
2 21 (21.00%) Kubernetes
3 12 (12.00%) Terraform
4 8 (8.00%) Nagios
5 6 (6.00%) Red Hat Satellite
6 4 (4.00%) Progress Chef
6 4 (4.00%) Puppet
7 3 (3.00%) Argo
7 3 (3.00%) Grafana
8 2 (2.00%) Red Hat Spacewalk
9 1 (1.00%) McAfee ePO
9 1 (1.00%) Proxmox
9 1 (1.00%) SCVMM
9 1 (1.00%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 40 (40.00%) VMware
2 25 (25.00%) Oracle
3 8 (8.00%) IBM
4 7 (7.00%) Symantec
5 6 (6.00%) ServiceNow
5 6 (6.00%) SolarWinds
6 5 (5.00%) Atlassian
6 5 (5.00%) Cisco
6 5 (5.00%) Dell
7 3 (3.00%) NetApp
7 3 (3.00%) Pure Storage
7 3 (3.00%) Splunk
8 2 (2.00%) Bloomberg
8 2 (2.00%) CQG
8 2 (2.00%) Google
8 2 (2.00%) ION Trading
8 2 (2.00%) Patsystems
8 2 (2.00%) Rapid7
8 2 (2.00%) Reuters
8 2 (2.00%) Trayport