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 28 January 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
28 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 285 272 342
Rank change year-on-year -13 +70 +33
Permanent jobs citing Red Hat 95 158 132
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.64% 1.02% 0.65%
As % of the Vendors category 1.84% 2.52% 1.64%
Number of salaries quoted 65 100 116
10th Percentile £51,250 £52,500 £53,750
25th Percentile £55,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,750 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.99% -10.88% +17.24%
75th Percentile £90,000 £90,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £140,000 £122,500 £108,750
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +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 5,160 6,268 8,050
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 34.93% 40.49% 39.48%
Number of salaries quoted 3,216 3,401 6,158
10th Percentile £33,750 £41,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £52,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £71,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.41% +5.19% -3.57%
75th Percentile £87,500 £90,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £106,250 £110,000 £107,500
England median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -8.70% +9.52% -8.70%

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 28 January 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 28 January 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 +23 15 £55,000 -28.10% 8
East London +1 10 £85,000 +30.77%
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 (22.11%) Tomcat
2 18 (18.95%) WebSphere
3 16 (16.84%) WebSphere Application Server
4 6 (6.32%) Apache
4 6 (6.32%) IIS
5 5 (5.26%) Confluence
6 4 (4.21%) nginx
7 2 (2.11%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (2.11%) CMS
7 2 (2.11%) WordPress
8 1 (1.05%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 2 (2.11%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 42 (44.21%) AWS
2 11 (11.58%) Azure
3 10 (10.53%) OpenShift
4 7 (7.37%) Amazon ECR
4 7 (7.37%) GCP
4 7 (7.37%) GitHub
5 6 (6.32%) Amazon EC2
5 6 (6.32%) Amazon EKS
5 6 (6.32%) Amazon S3
5 6 (6.32%) AWS CloudFormation
5 6 (6.32%) AWS Lambda
5 6 (6.32%) Route 53
5 6 (6.32%) Serverless
5 6 (6.32%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 3 (3.16%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (2.11%) dbt
7 2 (2.11%) Power Platform
7 2 (2.11%) SaaS
8 1 (1.05%) n8n
8 1 (1.05%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 20 (21.05%) SSL
2 14 (14.74%) TCP/IP
3 12 (12.63%) Multicast
4 11 (11.58%) DNS
5 10 (10.53%) Firewall
6 9 (9.47%) LAN
7 8 (8.42%) WAN
8 4 (4.21%) DHCP
8 4 (4.21%) Fibre Channel
9 3 (3.16%) HTTP
10 2 (2.11%) FIX Connectivity
10 2 (2.11%) HTTPS
10 2 (2.11%) NAS
10 2 (2.11%) Network Security
10 2 (2.11%) Reverse Proxy
10 2 (2.11%) SAN
10 2 (2.11%) SNMP
11 1 (1.05%) Cisco ASA
11 1 (1.05%) VLAN
11 1 (1.05%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (23.16%) PostgreSQL
2 17 (17.89%) DB2
3 15 (15.79%) SQL Server
4 6 (6.32%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (3.16%) MySQL
5 3 (3.16%) Relational Database
6 2 (2.11%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (2.11%) MongoDB
6 2 (2.11%) Oracle Database
6 2 (2.11%) Power BI
7 1 (1.05%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (1.05%) SAP HANA
7 1 (1.05%) Sybase ASE
7 1 (1.05%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 8 (8.42%) Git
2 7 (7.37%) GitLab
3 6 (6.32%) Jenkins
4 5 (5.26%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 5 (5.26%) Bitbucket
4 5 (5.26%) JIRA
General
1 53 (55.79%) Finance
2 21 (22.11%) Banking
3 14 (14.74%) Social Skills
4 13 (13.68%) Front Office
5 10 (10.53%) Investment Banking
6 7 (7.37%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (3.16%) Advertising
7 3 (3.16%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (2.11%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.05%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.05%) Financial Institution
9 1 (1.05%) Law
Job Titles
1 23 (24.21%) Linux Engineer
2 20 (21.05%) Infrastructure Support
3 19 (20.00%) Applications Support
3 19 (20.00%) Linux Support
4 17 (17.89%) Administrator
4 17 (17.89%) Unix Support
5 14 (14.74%) Developer
5 14 (14.74%) Linux Administrator
6 13 (13.68%) C++ Developer
6 13 (13.68%) Platform Engineer
7 7 (7.37%) Applications Engineer
7 7 (7.37%) Applications Support Engineer
7 7 (7.37%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 7 (7.37%) Support Engineer
8 6 (6.32%) Automation Engineer
8 6 (6.32%) DevOps Engineer
9 5 (5.26%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
9 5 (5.26%) Linux Support Engineer
9 5 (5.26%) Senior
9 5 (5.26%) Support Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (18.95%) LDAP
2 16 (16.84%) LAPP Stack
2 16 (16.84%) WebSphere MQ
3 14 (14.74%) FIX Protocol
4 6 (6.32%) Kafka
4 6 (6.32%) Middleware
5 4 (4.21%) Node.js
5 4 (4.21%) React
6 3 (3.16%) AngularJS
6 3 (3.16%) CSS
6 3 (3.16%) HTML
6 3 (3.16%) Vue
7 2 (2.11%) OAuth
7 2 (2.11%) SAML
8 1 (1.05%) .NET
8 1 (1.05%) MFC
8 1 (1.05%) REST
8 1 (1.05%) Ruby on Rails
8 1 (1.05%) WebSockets
8 1 (1.05%) wxWidgets
Miscellaneous
1 21 (22.11%) Linux Command Line
2 15 (15.79%) Management Information System
3 12 (12.63%) Derivative
4 8 (8.42%) Clustering
5 6 (6.32%) Data Centre
6 3 (3.16%) Cloud Native
6 3 (3.16%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (2.11%) Eurex
7 2 (2.11%) FPGA
7 2 (2.11%) PKI
7 2 (2.11%) Replication
7 2 (2.11%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (1.05%) Blockchain
8 1 (1.05%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (1.05%) Equities
8 1 (1.05%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 1 (1.05%) IoT
8 1 (1.05%) Low-Code
8 1 (1.05%) Onboarding
8 1 (1.05%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 91 (95.79%) Linux
2 65 (68.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 30 (31.58%) Unix
4 29 (30.53%) Windows
5 11 (11.58%) Windows Server
6 10 (10.53%) CentOS
7 7 (7.37%) Windows Server 2016
7 7 (7.37%) Windows Server 2019
8 6 (6.32%) Ubuntu
9 5 (5.26%) Windows Server 2012
10 4 (4.21%) Debian
11 3 (3.16%) Solaris
12 2 (2.11%) AIX
12 2 (2.11%) Oracle Linux
13 1 (1.05%) CoreOS
13 1 (1.05%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (29.47%) DevOps
2 27 (28.42%) ITIL
3 21 (22.11%) Change Management
4 19 (20.00%) CI/CD
4 19 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 17 (17.89%) Problem-Solving
5 17 (17.89%) User Acceptance Testing
6 16 (16.84%) Release Management
7 14 (14.74%) Low Latency
8 13 (13.68%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 13 (13.68%) Platform Engineering
9 12 (12.63%) Agile
9 12 (12.63%) Concurrent Programming
9 12 (12.63%) Containerisation
9 12 (12.63%) SOA
9 12 (12.63%) Systems Analysis
9 12 (12.63%) Unit Testing
10 10 (10.53%) Disaster Recovery
11 9 (9.47%) Configuration Management
11 9 (9.47%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 54 (56.84%) Python
2 27 (28.42%) Bash
3 13 (13.68%) C++
4 9 (9.47%) Perl
4 9 (9.47%) PowerShell
5 6 (6.32%) Java
5 6 (6.32%) Shell Script
5 6 (6.32%) SQL
6 3 (3.16%) JavaScript
6 3 (3.16%) Ruby
7 2 (2.11%) C#
7 2 (2.11%) PHP
7 2 (2.11%) TypeScript
8 1 (1.05%) Go
8 1 (1.05%) Korn
8 1 (1.05%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 25 (26.32%) Degree
2 24 (25.26%) AWS Certification
3 23 (24.21%) ITIL Certification
4 10 (10.53%) Security Cleared
5 5 (5.26%) DV Cleared
5 5 (5.26%) RHCE
6 4 (4.21%) SC Cleared
7 3 (3.16%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (3.16%) RHCSA
8 2 (2.11%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
8 2 (2.11%) CISSP
8 2 (2.11%) OSCP
9 1 (1.05%) CCDA
9 1 (1.05%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (1.05%) MCITP
9 1 (1.05%) MCP
9 1 (1.05%) MCSA
9 1 (1.05%) MCSE
9 1 (1.05%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (1.05%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (22.11%) SLA
2 6 (6.32%) GDPR
2 6 (6.32%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 2 (2.11%) QA
4 1 (1.05%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (1.05%) ISO 20022
4 1 (1.05%) SEPA
System Software
1 25 (26.32%) VMware Infrastructure
2 12 (12.63%) Docker
3 9 (9.47%) Active Directory
4 5 (5.26%) Veritas Cluster Server
4 5 (5.26%) vSphere
5 4 (4.21%) NFS
6 2 (2.11%) KVM
7 1 (1.05%) Hyper-V
7 1 (1.05%) Postfix
7 1 (1.05%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (1.05%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 38 (40.00%) Ansible
2 18 (18.95%) Kubernetes
3 17 (17.89%) Terraform
4 10 (10.53%) Red Hat Satellite
5 5 (5.26%) Progress Chef
5 5 (5.26%) Puppet
6 3 (3.16%) Argo
7 2 (2.11%) Grafana
7 2 (2.11%) Nagios
7 2 (2.11%) Red Hat Spacewalk
8 1 (1.05%) Docker Swarm
8 1 (1.05%) McAfee ePO
8 1 (1.05%) Podman
8 1 (1.05%) SCVMM
8 1 (1.05%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 30 (31.58%) VMware
2 18 (18.95%) IBM
3 11 (11.58%) Oracle
4 10 (10.53%) ServiceNow
5 7 (7.37%) Cisco
5 7 (7.37%) Symantec
6 5 (5.26%) Atlassian
6 5 (5.26%) Pure Storage
7 4 (4.21%) Commvault
8 3 (3.16%) Dell
9 2 (2.11%) Bloomberg
9 2 (2.11%) CQG
9 2 (2.11%) Google
9 2 (2.11%) HP
9 2 (2.11%) Imperva
9 2 (2.11%) ION Trading
9 2 (2.11%) Microsoft
9 2 (2.11%) Patsystems
9 2 (2.11%) Reuters
9 2 (2.11%) Trayport