Red Hat Job Trends in the Midlands

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England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 5 September 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
5 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 257 199 193
Rank change year-on-year -58 -6 +16
Permanent jobs citing Red Hat 16 35 92
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.11% 0.61% 0.90%
As % of the Vendors category 0.48% 1.41% 2.94%
Number of salaries quoted 13 11 12
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £70,000 £27,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £52,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +42.86% +10.53% -19.49%
75th Percentile £77,500 £58,750 £58,125
90th Percentile £80,000 - £60,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - +7.69% +4.00%

All Vendors
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 3,343 2,477 3,125
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 22.30% 43.48% 30.69%
Number of salaries quoted 2,081 1,377 1,720
10th Percentile £29,000 £27,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £31,250 £33,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £45,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £61,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £77,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.52% -4.55% -4.35%

Red Hat
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Red Hat job vacancy trend in the Midlands

Red Hat
Salary Trend in the Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Red Hat.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Red Hat

Red Hat
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Red Hat in the Midlands over the 6 months to 5 September 2026.

Salary histogram for Red Hat in the Midlands

Red Hat
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Red Hat within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 5 September 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
West Midlands -35 11 £70,000 +133.33% 49
East Midlands -53 5 £75,000 +30.43% 1
Red Hat
England

Red Hat
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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 1 (6.25%) nginx
1 1 (6.25%) Oracle HTTP Server
1 1 (6.25%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 10 (62.50%) AWS
2 8 (50.00%) OpenShift
3 5 (31.25%) Azure
3 5 (31.25%) Snowflake
4 1 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (6.25%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.25%) Firewall
1 1 (6.25%) HTTP
1 1 (6.25%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.25%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (6.25%) GIS
Development Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Git
1 1 (6.25%) Jenkins
General
1 6 (37.50%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (31.25%) Manufacturing
3 1 (6.25%) Aerospace
3 1 (6.25%) Law
3 1 (6.25%) Police
3 1 (6.25%) Public Sector
3 1 (6.25%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (50.00%) Consultant
2 5 (31.25%) Support Consultant
3 4 (25.00%) Subject Matter Expert
4 3 (18.75%) Cloud Consultant
5 1 (6.25%) Administrator
5 1 (6.25%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Azure Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Developer
5 1 (6.25%) DevOps Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Linux Administrator
5 1 (6.25%) Linux Systems Administrator
5 1 (6.25%) Mainframe Developer
5 1 (6.25%) OpenVMS Developer
5 1 (6.25%) Support Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Systems Administrator
5 1 (6.25%) Technical Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Technical Support
5 1 (6.25%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (31.25%) Terraform
2 1 (6.25%) Java SE
2 1 (6.25%) OpenLayers
Miscellaneous
1 5 (31.25%) Manufacturing Execution System
2 1 (6.25%) Legacy Applications
2 1 (6.25%) Mainframe
2 1 (6.25%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 8 (50.00%) Linux
2 7 (43.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (31.25%) OpenVMS
4 1 (6.25%) CentOS
4 1 (6.25%) Debian
4 1 (6.25%) Solaris
4 1 (6.25%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (43.75%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (37.50%) Continuous Improvement
3 5 (31.25%) Computer Science
3 5 (31.25%) ERP
3 5 (31.25%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 2 (12.50%) Containerisation
5 1 (6.25%) Change Management
5 1 (6.25%) CI/CD
5 1 (6.25%) Cost Optimisation
5 1 (6.25%) Disaster Recovery
5 1 (6.25%) High Availability
5 1 (6.25%) Infrastructure Automation
5 1 (6.25%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 1 (6.25%) Integration Testing
5 1 (6.25%) Knowledge Transfer
5 1 (6.25%) Migration
5 1 (6.25%) Operational Stability
5 1 (6.25%) Platform Engineering
5 1 (6.25%) Stakeholder Management
5 1 (6.25%) System Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (12.50%) Bash
2 1 (6.25%) Java
2 1 (6.25%) PL/SQL
2 1 (6.25%) Python
2 1 (6.25%) Shell Script
2 1 (6.25%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (31.25%) Degree
2 2 (12.50%) SC Cleared
2 2 (12.50%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (12.50%) Docker
2 1 (6.25%) Active Directory
2 1 (6.25%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (6.25%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (6.25%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (31.25%) Ansible
2 4 (25.00%) Kubernetes
3 1 (6.25%) Oracle RMAN
3 1 (6.25%) Progress Chef
3 1 (6.25%) Puppet
Vendors
1 6 (37.50%) Microsoft
1 6 (37.50%) Oracle
2 5 (31.25%) OutSystems
3 1 (6.25%) VMware