Red Hat Job Trends in Manchester

Red Hat
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Manchester 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 12 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
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 122 105 125
Rank change year-on-year -17 +20 +105
Permanent jobs citing Red Hat 8 47 22
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 0.28% 1.77% 0.86%
As % of the Vendors category 1.01% 4.61% 2.64%
Number of salaries quoted 5 1 11
10th Percentile £47,250 - -
25th Percentile £52,500 £67,500 £38,084
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £70,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +47.37% -20.83%
75th Percentile £67,500 £72,500 £69,000
90th Percentile - - £75,000
North West median annual salary £57,500 £58,603 £47,500
% change year-on-year -1.88% +23.37% -20.52%

All Vendors
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 791 1,019 832
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 27.54% 38.31% 32.67%
Number of salaries quoted 523 436 712
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,500 £29,050
25th Percentile £33,750 £41,250 £38,583
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,500 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.71% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £68,708 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £87,500
North West median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% - -

Red Hat
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Red Hat job vacancy trend in Manchester

Red Hat
Salary Trend in Manchester

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Red Hat.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Red Hat

Red Hat
Salary Histogram in Manchester

Salary distribution for jobs citing Red Hat in Manchester over the 6 months to 12 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Red Hat in Manchester

Red Hat
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 within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 12 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
Stockport 0 2 £53,750 - 2
Red Hat
North West

Red Hat
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 4 (50.00%) Apache
2 3 (37.50%) Apache Spark
3 1 (12.50%) JBoss
3 1 (12.50%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 6 (75.00%) AWS
2 5 (62.50%) Azure
3 4 (50.00%) GCP
4 3 (37.50%) Amazon EKS
4 3 (37.50%) AWS CloudFormation
4 3 (37.50%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (37.50%) OpenShift
4 3 (37.50%) Serverless
5 1 (12.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (12.50%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (12.50%) Amazon S3
5 1 (12.50%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 3 (37.50%) AMQP
2 2 (25.00%) Firewall
3 1 (12.50%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (37.50%) Big Data
1 3 (37.50%) Cloudera CDH
1 3 (37.50%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Bitbucket
1 1 (12.50%) Git
1 1 (12.50%) Subversion
General
1 3 (37.50%) Aerospace
2 1 (12.50%) Finance
2 1 (12.50%) Manufacturing
2 1 (12.50%) Organisational Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
1 3 (37.50%) Software Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Administrator
2 2 (25.00%) Linux Administrator
3 1 (12.50%) Applications Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Cloud Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Specialist
3 1 (12.50%) Linux Specialist
3 1 (12.50%) Linux Systems Administrator
3 1 (12.50%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (50.00%) React
2 3 (37.50%) AngularJS
2 3 (37.50%) gRPC
2 3 (37.50%) Material-UI
2 3 (37.50%) Node.js
2 3 (37.50%) OpenAPI
2 3 (37.50%) RabbitMQ
2 3 (37.50%) REST
2 3 (37.50%) Spring
2 3 (37.50%) Spring Boot
2 3 (37.50%) Swagger
3 1 (12.50%) CSS
3 1 (12.50%) CSS3
3 1 (12.50%) HTML
3 1 (12.50%) HTML5
3 1 (12.50%) Keycloak
3 1 (12.50%) Middleware
3 1 (12.50%) OAuth
3 1 (12.50%) OAuth2
3 1 (12.50%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 7 (87.50%) Linux
2 5 (62.50%) CentOS
2 5 (62.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (37.50%) Debian
3 3 (37.50%) Ubuntu
4 1 (12.50%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) API Development
1 4 (50.00%) Collaborative Working
1 4 (50.00%) Containerisation
1 4 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (37.50%) Agile
2 3 (37.50%) Configuration Management
2 3 (37.50%) Kanban
2 3 (37.50%) Microservices
2 3 (37.50%) Open Source
2 3 (37.50%) Scaled Agile Framework
2 3 (37.50%) Scrum
2 3 (37.50%) Software Engineering
3 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 1 (12.50%) API Integration
4 1 (12.50%) Computer Science
4 1 (12.50%) Platform Engineering
4 1 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (12.50%) Server Management
4 1 (12.50%) Storage Management
4 1 (12.50%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 4 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 4 (50.00%) Python
2 3 (37.50%) Java
3 1 (12.50%) Bash
3 1 (12.50%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 4 (50.00%) DV Cleared
1 4 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (12.50%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Docker
1 1 (12.50%) Virtual Desktop
1 1 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (62.50%) Kubernetes
1 5 (62.50%) Terraform
2 4 (50.00%) Ansible
3 3 (37.50%) Puppet
4 2 (25.00%) Nagios
5 1 (12.50%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (12.50%) Grafana
5 1 (12.50%) Prometheus
5 1 (12.50%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Google
1 3 (37.50%) SaltStack
1 3 (37.50%) VMware
2 1 (12.50%) Atlassian
2 1 (12.50%) Dell
2 1 (12.50%) New Relic
2 1 (12.50%) Rapid7
2 1 (12.50%) Splunk