Red Hat Job Trends in the Midlands

Red Hat
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 25 October 2025, 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
25 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 199 237 211
Rank change year-on-year +38 -26 +15
Permanent jobs citing Red Hat 27 30 15
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.49% 0.34% 0.28%
As % of the Vendors category 1.14% 1.05% 0.62%
Number of salaries quoted 6 10 11
10th Percentile £48,750 - £41,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £37,500 £48,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £47,500 £59,000
Median % change year-on-year +21.05% -19.49% +7.27%
75th Percentile £58,750 £58,250 £75,625
90th Percentile - £60,000 £93,750
England median annual salary £71,250 £70,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +1.79% +12.00% +4.17%

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 2,373 2,865 2,419
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 42.84% 32.00% 45.70%
Number of salaries quoted 1,229 1,219 1,938
10th Percentile £27,000 £28,822 £26,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £35,835 £33,685
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - +2.04%
75th Percentile £62,500 £65,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £78,750 £75,000
England median annual salary £51,000 £57,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -11.30% - +1.94%

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
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 25 October 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
East Midlands +11 24 £57,500 +43.75% 2
West Midlands +46 3 £52,500 -12.50% 3
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 10 (37.04%) Microsoft Exchange
2 9 (33.33%) SharePoint
2 9 (33.33%) Skype for Business
Cloud Services
1 11 (40.74%) AWS
1 11 (40.74%) Azure
2 9 (33.33%) Azure Sentinel
2 9 (33.33%) GCP
2 9 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (7.41%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (3.70%) Entra ID
4 1 (3.70%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 9 (33.33%) Skype
2 1 (3.70%) DHCP
2 1 (3.70%) DNS
2 1 (3.70%) Remote Desktop
2 1 (3.70%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (33.33%) DTS
2 2 (7.41%) SAP HANA
General
1 11 (40.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 11 (40.74%) Public Sector
1 11 (40.74%) Retail
2 10 (37.04%) Manufacturing
3 1 (3.70%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (3.70%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (40.74%) Consultant
1 11 (40.74%) Integration Consultant
1 11 (40.74%) Oracle Consultant
1 11 (40.74%) Oracle Technical Consultant
1 11 (40.74%) Technical Consultant
2 10 (37.04%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 9 (33.33%) Infrastructure Support
3 9 (33.33%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
3 9 (33.33%) Support Engineer
4 4 (14.81%) Administrator
5 2 (7.41%) Linux Administrator
5 2 (7.41%) Systems Administrator
5 2 (7.41%) VMWare Administrator
6 1 (3.70%) Architect
6 1 (3.70%) IT Engineer
6 1 (3.70%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (3.70%) Linux Engineer
6 1 (3.70%) Systems Architect
6 1 (3.70%) Systems Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.70%) LAMP
Miscellaneous
1 11 (40.74%) e-Learning
1 11 (40.74%) Hybrid Cloud
2 9 (33.33%) CMDB
2 9 (33.33%) Onboarding
2 9 (33.33%) Video Conferencing
3 1 (3.70%) Data Centre
3 1 (3.70%) Management Information System
3 1 (3.70%) Manufacturing Execution System
Operating Systems
1 10 (37.04%) Windows
1 10 (37.04%) Windows Server
2 9 (33.33%) Windows Server 2008
3 7 (25.93%) Linux
3 7 (25.93%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (14.81%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
5 2 (7.41%) AIX
6 1 (3.70%) CentOS
6 1 (3.70%) OpenVMS
6 1 (3.70%) Oracle Linux
6 1 (3.70%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (44.44%) AI
1 12 (44.44%) Continuous Improvement
2 11 (40.74%) API Management
2 11 (40.74%) Coaching
2 11 (40.74%) Mentoring
2 11 (40.74%) Root Cause Analysis
3 10 (37.04%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 10 (37.04%) Server Management
4 9 (33.33%) Customer Service
4 9 (33.33%) Infrastructure Management
4 9 (33.33%) Problem Management
5 4 (14.81%) Tech Ops
6 2 (7.41%) Agile
6 2 (7.41%) Capacity Planning
6 2 (7.41%) DevOps
6 2 (7.41%) High Availability
6 2 (7.41%) ITIL
6 2 (7.41%) Performance Tuning
6 2 (7.41%) PRINCE2
6 2 (7.41%) Scaled Agile Framework
Programming Languages
1 9 (33.33%) PowerShell
2 4 (14.81%) Bash
3 2 (7.41%) Korn
3 2 (7.41%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (7.41%) Degree
2 1 (3.70%) RHCE
2 1 (3.70%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.70%) QA
System Software
1 13 (48.15%) VMware Infrastructure
2 9 (33.33%) Active Directory
2 9 (33.33%) Virtual Desktop
3 4 (14.81%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (7.41%) Docker
4 2 (7.41%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 11 (40.74%) ZABBIX
2 9 (33.33%) Nagios
3 4 (14.81%) Red Hat Satellite
4 3 (11.11%) Ansible
5 2 (7.41%) Grafana
5 2 (7.41%) Kubernetes
5 2 (7.41%) Terraform
6 1 (3.70%) WSUS
Vendors
1 15 (55.56%) IBM
1 15 (55.56%) VMware
2 12 (44.44%) Oracle
3 9 (33.33%) BMC
3 9 (33.33%) Citrix
3 9 (33.33%) Darktrace
3 9 (33.33%) Google
3 9 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 9 (33.33%) Proofpoint
3 9 (33.33%) SolarWinds
3 9 (33.33%) Tanium
3 9 (33.33%) Trend Micro
4 2 (7.41%) SAP