Red Hat Enterprise Linux Job Trends in Manchester

Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring Red Hat Enterprise Linux skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 131 173 137
Rank change year-on-year +42 -36 +109
Permanent jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 4 12
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 0.21% 0.11% 0.53%
As % of the Operating Systems category 2.60% 0.81% 3.00%
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 10
10th Percentile £52,750 - £61,600
25th Percentile £53,125 - £63,631
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 - £65,351
Median % change year-on-year - - -11.06%
75th Percentile £66,875 - £67,070
90th Percentile £67,250 - £72,750
North West median annual salary £60,000 £65,465 £65,351
% change year-on-year -8.35% +0.17% -5.25%

All Operating Systems
Manchester

Red Hat Enterprise Linux falls under the Operating Systems category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring operating system skills in Manchester.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 192 493 400
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 8.09% 13.62% 17.58%
Number of salaries quoted 174 250 303
10th Percentile £27,000 £27,450 £27,300
25th Percentile £31,000 £35,750 £35,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% -9.09% +13.40%
75th Percentile £59,688 £65,000 £67,938
90th Percentile £71,250 £77,500 £80,000
North West median annual salary £40,500 £44,637 £47,500
% change year-on-year -9.27% -6.03% +10.47%

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux job vacancy trend in Manchester

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Salary Trend in Manchester

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 27 November 2025. 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
Stockport - 1 £60,000 -
Red Hat Enterprise Linux
North West

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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 3 (60.00%) Apache
2 2 (40.00%) Apache Spark
3 1 (20.00%) JBoss
3 1 (20.00%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) AWS
2 4 (80.00%) Azure
3 3 (60.00%) GCP
3 3 (60.00%) OpenShift
4 2 (40.00%) Amazon EKS
4 2 (40.00%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (40.00%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (40.00%) Serverless
5 1 (20.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (20.00%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (20.00%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) AMQP
2 1 (20.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) Big Data
1 2 (40.00%) Cloudera CDH
1 2 (40.00%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Ant
1 1 (20.00%) Artifactory
1 1 (20.00%) Git
1 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (20.00%) JIRA
1 1 (20.00%) Maven
1 1 (20.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 2 (40.00%) Aerospace
1 2 (40.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Software Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Administrator
2 1 (20.00%) AWS DevOps
2 1 (20.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Specialist
2 1 (20.00%) Linux Administrator
2 1 (20.00%) Linux DevOps Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Linux Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Linux Scripter
2 1 (20.00%) Linux Specialist
2 1 (20.00%) Linux/Unix DevOps
2 1 (20.00%) Windows DevOps Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) AngularJS
1 2 (40.00%) gRPC
1 2 (40.00%) Material-UI
1 2 (40.00%) Middleware
1 2 (40.00%) Node.js
1 2 (40.00%) OpenAPI
1 2 (40.00%) RabbitMQ
1 2 (40.00%) React
1 2 (40.00%) REST
1 2 (40.00%) Spring
1 2 (40.00%) Spring Boot
1 2 (40.00%) Swagger
2 1 (20.00%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (20.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (20.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) Linux
2 3 (60.00%) CentOS
3 2 (40.00%) Debian
3 2 (40.00%) Ubuntu
4 1 (20.00%) Unix
4 1 (20.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Configuration Management
1 3 (60.00%) Containerisation
1 3 (60.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (40.00%) Agile
2 2 (40.00%) API Development
2 2 (40.00%) Collaborative Working
2 2 (40.00%) Kanban
2 2 (40.00%) Microservices
2 2 (40.00%) Open Source
2 2 (40.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
2 2 (40.00%) Scrum
2 2 (40.00%) Software Engineering
2 2 (40.00%) Storage Management
3 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (20.00%) DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (20.00%) Load Balancing
3 1 (20.00%) Platform Engineering
3 1 (20.00%) Server Management
3 1 (20.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) Python
2 2 (40.00%) Bash
2 2 (40.00%) Java
2 2 (40.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (20.00%) Groovy
3 1 (20.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) DV Cleared
1 3 (60.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (60.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (20.00%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Docker
1 1 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 4 (80.00%) Ansible
2 4 (80.00%) Terraform
3 3 (60.00%) Puppet
4 1 (20.00%) Grafana
4 1 (20.00%) Nagios
4 1 (20.00%) Podman
4 1 (20.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Red Hat
2 2 (40.00%) Google
2 2 (40.00%) SaltStack
3 1 (20.00%) Dell
3 1 (20.00%) VMware