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 4 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 174 161 214
Rank change year-on-year -13 +53 -18
Permanent jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 7 15
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 0.16% 0.29% 0.26%
As % of the Operating Systems category 3.77% 1.55% 2.07%
Number of salaries quoted 7 6 3
10th Percentile £48,000 - £50,000
25th Percentile £53,000 £72,899 £55,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £74,870 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.18% +6.96% +9.38%
75th Percentile £83,125 £76,840 £86,737
90th Percentile £101,250 - £93,779
North West median annual salary £43,750 £74,870 £55,000
% change year-on-year -41.56% +36.13% +10.00%

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 265 453 723
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 4.21% 18.75% 12.64%
Number of salaries quoted 193 262 512
10th Percentile £28,500 £28,000 £26,750
25th Percentile £32,500 £33,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,500 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% -10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £58,750 £61,250 £61,250
90th Percentile £72,250 £76,125 £71,250
North West median annual salary £37,500 £42,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year -11.76% -5.56% -5.26%

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
Salary Histogram in Manchester

Salary distribution for jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux in Manchester over the 6 months to 4 July 2026.

Salary histogram for Red Hat Enterprise Linux in Manchester

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 (30.00%) Apache
1 3 (30.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 6 (60.00%) AWS
1 6 (60.00%) Azure
2 3 (30.00%) Amazon EKS
2 3 (30.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 3 (30.00%) AWS Lambda
2 3 (30.00%) GCP
2 3 (30.00%) OpenShift
2 3 (30.00%) Serverless
3 2 (20.00%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 3 (30.00%) AMQP
2 1 (10.00%) DHCP
2 1 (10.00%) DNS
2 1 (10.00%) LAN
2 1 (10.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (10.00%) VSAN
2 1 (10.00%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (30.00%) Big Data
1 3 (30.00%) Cloudera CDH
1 3 (30.00%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 3 (30.00%) Git
2 2 (20.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 2 (20.00%) GitLab
2 2 (20.00%) Jenkins
General
1 4 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (30.00%) Aerospace
3 2 (20.00%) Public Sector
4 1 (10.00%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (30.00%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
1 3 (30.00%) Software Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Azure Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Linux Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Principal DevOps Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Principal Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Linux Systems Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Systems Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Unix Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Unix Linux Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Virtualisation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (30.00%) AngularJS
1 3 (30.00%) gRPC
1 3 (30.00%) Material-UI
1 3 (30.00%) Node.js
1 3 (30.00%) OpenAPI
1 3 (30.00%) RabbitMQ
1 3 (30.00%) React
1 3 (30.00%) REST
1 3 (30.00%) Spring
1 3 (30.00%) Spring Boot
1 3 (30.00%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 5 (50.00%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 10 (100.00%) Linux
2 6 (60.00%) CentOS
3 3 (30.00%) Debian
3 3 (30.00%) Ubuntu
4 2 (20.00%) Solaris
4 2 (20.00%) Unix
5 1 (10.00%) CoreOS
5 1 (10.00%) Windows
5 1 (10.00%) Windows Server
5 1 (10.00%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (10.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 5 (50.00%) Microservices
2 3 (30.00%) Agile
2 3 (30.00%) API Development
2 3 (30.00%) Collaborative Working
2 3 (30.00%) Configuration Management
2 3 (30.00%) Containerisation
2 3 (30.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 3 (30.00%) Kanban
2 3 (30.00%) Open Source
2 3 (30.00%) Platform Engineering
2 3 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (30.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
2 3 (30.00%) Scrum
2 3 (30.00%) Software Engineering
3 2 (20.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (20.00%) DevOps
3 2 (20.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 2 (20.00%) Technical Leadership
4 1 (10.00%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 6 (60.00%) Python
2 3 (30.00%) Bash
2 3 (30.00%) Java
2 3 (30.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (10.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 6 (60.00%) SC Cleared
1 6 (60.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (50.00%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 4 (40.00%) Docker
2 1 (10.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (10.00%) Hyper-V
2 1 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (70.00%) Ansible
1 7 (70.00%) Kubernetes
2 5 (50.00%) Terraform
3 3 (30.00%) Puppet
4 2 (20.00%) Podman
5 1 (10.00%) McAfee ePO
5 1 (10.00%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 6 (60.00%) Red Hat
2 3 (30.00%) Google
2 3 (30.00%) SaltStack
3 2 (20.00%) Mirantis
3 2 (20.00%) VMware
4 1 (10.00%) McAfee