Red Hat Enterprise Linux Job Trends in the North of England

Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring Red Hat Enterprise Linux skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 270 308 298
Rank change year-on-year +38 -10 +56
Permanent jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 14 31 15
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 0.15% 0.22% 0.16%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.83% 2.20% 1.07%
Number of salaries quoted 12 18 12
10th Percentile £52,500 £38,967 £52,750
25th Percentile £60,000 £52,500 £61,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,465 £65,351
Median % change year-on-year -0.71% +0.17% +30.70%
75th Percentile £67,500 £71,991 £67,070
90th Percentile £75,906 £75,000 £71,957
England median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +13.04%

All Operating Systems
North of England

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 the North of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 1,683 1,408 1,402
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 18.01% 10.02% 15.38%
Number of salaries quoted 683 821 1,079
10th Percentile £26,000 £25,008 £26,250
25th Percentile £29,750 £31,250 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £42,500 £46,800
Median % change year-on-year -17.65% -9.19% +10.12%
75th Percentile £50,000 £55,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £65,000 £65,625 £76,250
England median annual salary £41,500 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -17.00% -4.76% -

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Red Hat Enterprise Linux in the North of England

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Salary Trend in the North of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux in the North of England over the 6 months to 16 September 2025.

Salary histogram for Red Hat Enterprise Linux in the North of England

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux within the North of England region over the 6 months to 16 September 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
Yorkshire +14 8 £65,000 -0.71% 1
North West -6 4 £74,870 +14.37% 3
North East +17 2 £55,000 -15.98% 5
Red Hat Enterprise Linux
England

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (7.14%) Apache
1 1 (7.14%) JBoss
1 1 (7.14%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 9 (64.29%) AWS
2 3 (21.43%) Azure
3 1 (7.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (7.14%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (7.14%) Amazon S3
3 1 (7.14%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 7 (50.00%) DHCP
1 7 (50.00%) DNS
2 2 (14.29%) Cisco IOS
2 2 (14.29%) VoIP
Development Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Ant
1 1 (7.14%) Artifactory
1 1 (7.14%) Git
1 1 (7.14%) Jenkins
1 1 (7.14%) JIRA
1 1 (7.14%) Maven
1 1 (7.14%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 5 (35.71%) Social Skills
2 4 (28.57%) Finance
3 2 (14.29%) Banking
3 2 (14.29%) Electronics
3 2 (14.29%) Military
Job Titles
1 5 (35.71%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) Cloud Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) Cloud Security Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) Security Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) Senior
2 2 (14.29%) Systems Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) AWS DevOps
3 1 (7.14%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Azure DevOps Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Lead
3 1 (7.14%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Linux Administrator
3 1 (7.14%) Linux DevOps Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Linux Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Linux Scripter
3 1 (7.14%) Linux Systems Administrator
3 1 (7.14%) Linux/Unix DevOps
3 1 (7.14%) Windows DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (14.29%) Middleware
2 1 (7.14%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (7.14%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 4 (28.57%) Cloud Native
1 4 (28.57%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (14.29%) Linux Command Line
2 2 (14.29%) Product Ownership
2 2 (14.29%) Public Cloud
2 2 (14.29%) Security Posture
3 1 (7.14%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 14 (100.00%) Linux
2 8 (57.14%) Windows
3 7 (50.00%) Windows Server
4 1 (7.14%) Oracle Linux
4 1 (7.14%) Solaris
4 1 (7.14%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (71.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 8 (57.14%) Containerisation
3 4 (28.57%) Vulnerability Remediation
4 3 (21.43%) Computer Science
4 3 (21.43%) DevOps
4 3 (21.43%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (21.43%) Roadmaps
4 3 (21.43%) Technical Leadership
5 2 (14.29%) Cloud Security
5 2 (14.29%) Coaching
5 2 (14.29%) Customer Requirements
5 2 (14.29%) Mentoring
5 2 (14.29%) People Management
5 2 (14.29%) Project Delivery
5 2 (14.29%) Requirements Engineering
5 2 (14.29%) Storage Management
6 1 (7.14%) CI/CD
6 1 (7.14%) Customer Service
6 1 (7.14%) Platform Engineering
6 1 (7.14%) Server Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (57.14%) Python
2 7 (50.00%) PowerShell
3 2 (14.29%) Bash
4 1 (7.14%) Groovy
4 1 (7.14%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 7 (50.00%) AWS Certification
2 3 (21.43%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
2 3 (21.43%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
2 3 (21.43%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (21.43%) Degree
3 1 (7.14%) DV Cleared
3 1 (7.14%) SC Cleared
3 1 (7.14%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (14.29%) Def Stans
System Software
1 7 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 7 (50.00%) Hyper-V
2 2 (14.29%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 9 (64.29%) Ansible
2 7 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 7 (50.00%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
2 7 (50.00%) SCCM
2 7 (50.00%) SCOM
2 7 (50.00%) WSUS
3 3 (21.43%) Terraform
4 2 (14.29%) Puppet
5 1 (7.14%) Podman
Vendors
1 9 (64.29%) Red Hat
2 8 (57.14%) Oracle
3 7 (50.00%) Microsoft
4 2 (14.29%) Cisco
5 1 (7.14%) Dell