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 8 August 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
8 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 251 202 203
Rank change year-on-year -49 +1 +24
Permanent jobs citing Red Hat 14 35 94
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.098% 0.61% 0.88%
As % of the Vendors category 0.43% 1.39% 2.76%
Number of salaries quoted 10 12 14
10th Percentile £26,265 - £24,750
25th Percentile £33,449 £27,500 £27,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £50,000 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year +50.00% +25.00% -32.20%
75th Percentile £77,500 £58,750 £57,500
90th Percentile £80,000 - £60,000
England median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.57% +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 3,264 2,521 3,401
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 22.84% 43.94% 31.84%
Number of salaries quoted 1,970 1,459 2,104
10th Percentile £29,000 £27,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £31,250 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £46,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% +2.22% -14.29%
75th Percentile £65,000 £62,500 £62,275
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £76,250
England median annual salary £57,000 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +8.57% - -8.70%

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 8 August 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 8 August 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
East Midlands -38 8 £67,500 +17.39%
West Midlands -28 6 £80,000 +166.67% 10
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 (7.14%) nginx
1 1 (7.14%) Oracle HTTP Server
1 1 (7.14%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 5 (35.71%) AWS
1 5 (35.71%) Azure
2 2 (14.29%) GCP
2 2 (14.29%) OpenShift
3 1 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (14.29%) Firewall
1 2 (14.29%) Network Security
2 1 (7.14%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.14%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (7.14%) GIS
Development Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Git
1 1 (7.14%) Jenkins
General
1 7 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (35.71%) Manufacturing
3 1 (7.14%) Aerospace
3 1 (7.14%) Law
3 1 (7.14%) Police
3 1 (7.14%) Public Sector
3 1 (7.14%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (28.57%) Subject Matter Expert
1 4 (28.57%) Support Engineer
2 3 (21.43%) Graduate
2 3 (21.43%) Graduate Support Engineer
2 3 (21.43%) Graduate Systems Engineer
2 3 (21.43%) Linux Engineer
2 3 (21.43%) Linux Support
2 3 (21.43%) Linux Support Engineer
2 3 (21.43%) Linux Systems Engineer
2 3 (21.43%) Systems Engineer
2 3 (21.43%) Systems Support
2 3 (21.43%) Systems Support Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Administrator
3 2 (14.29%) Cloud Consultant
3 2 (14.29%) Consultant
3 2 (14.29%) Linux Administrator
3 2 (14.29%) Linux Systems Administrator
3 2 (14.29%) Systems Administrator
4 1 (7.14%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.14%) Java SE
1 1 (7.14%) OpenLayers
Miscellaneous
1 5 (35.71%) Manufacturing Execution System
2 3 (21.43%) Management Information System
3 1 (7.14%) Legacy Applications
3 1 (7.14%) Mainframe
3 1 (7.14%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 12 (85.71%) Linux
2 7 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (35.71%) CentOS
3 5 (35.71%) OpenVMS
3 5 (35.71%) Ubuntu
4 3 (21.43%) SUSE
5 2 (14.29%) Debian
6 1 (7.14%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (78.57%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (57.14%) Computer Science
3 6 (42.86%) Continuous Improvement
4 5 (35.71%) ERP
4 5 (35.71%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 3 (21.43%) Containerisation
5 3 (21.43%) Mathematics
5 3 (21.43%) Ticket Management
6 2 (14.29%) Change Management
6 2 (14.29%) Collaborative Working
6 2 (14.29%) Cost Optimisation
6 2 (14.29%) Disaster Recovery
6 2 (14.29%) High Availability
6 2 (14.29%) Incident Management
6 2 (14.29%) ITIL
6 2 (14.29%) Migration
6 2 (14.29%) Operational Stability
6 2 (14.29%) Patch Management
6 2 (14.29%) Runbook
6 2 (14.29%) Security Hardening
Programming Languages
1 3 (21.43%) Bash
2 2 (14.29%) Shell Script
3 1 (7.14%) Java
3 1 (7.14%) PL/SQL
3 1 (7.14%) Python
3 1 (7.14%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (35.71%) Degree
2 2 (14.29%) SC Cleared
2 2 (14.29%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (21.43%) Docker
2 1 (7.14%) Active Directory
2 1 (7.14%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (7.14%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (7.14%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (35.71%) Ansible
1 5 (35.71%) Terraform
2 4 (28.57%) Kubernetes
3 2 (14.29%) Progress Chef
3 2 (14.29%) Puppet
4 1 (7.14%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 1 (7.14%) Microsoft
1 1 (7.14%) Oracle
1 1 (7.14%) VMware