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 permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 308 283 296
Rank change year-on-year -25 +13 +5
Permanent jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 47 15 33
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.20% 0.16% 0.23%
As % of the Operating Systems category 4.06% 0.88% 2.35%
Number of salaries quoted 27 13 19
10th Percentile £40,000 £52,500 £38,978
25th Percentile £46,250 £62,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £97,500 £65,000 £65,465
Median % change year-on-year +50.00% -0.71% +0.17%
75th Percentile £101,250 £67,500 £71,991
90th Percentile - £76,840 £75,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +7.69% +4.00% -3.85%

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 1,158 1,706 1,404
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 4.93% 18.17% 9.96%
Number of salaries quoted 908 706 828
10th Percentile £27,250 £26,000 £25,008
25th Percentile £30,000 £29,563 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £35,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -17.65% -9.57%
75th Percentile £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
90th Percentile £74,000 £65,000 £65,625
England median annual salary £45,000 £41,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +9.76% -18.00% -4.76%

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

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

Red Hat Enterprise Linux job vacancy trend 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 14 September 2026.

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 14 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
North West +13 34 £55,000 -26.54% 19
Yorkshire -31 7 £97,500 +50.00% 4
North East -57 6 £97,500 +77.27% 3
Red Hat Enterprise Linux
England

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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 3 (6.38%) Apache
1 3 (6.38%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 22 (46.81%) AWS
2 16 (34.04%) GitHub
3 9 (19.15%) Azure
4 6 (12.77%) OpenShift
5 3 (6.38%) Amazon EKS
5 3 (6.38%) AWS CloudFormation
5 3 (6.38%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (6.38%) GCP
5 3 (6.38%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (6.38%) AMQP
1 3 (6.38%) DHCP
1 3 (6.38%) DNS
1 3 (6.38%) LAN
1 3 (6.38%) TCP/IP
1 3 (6.38%) VSAN
1 3 (6.38%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.38%) Big Data
1 3 (6.38%) Cloudera CDH
1 3 (6.38%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 19 (40.43%) Git
2 16 (34.04%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 16 (34.04%) GitLab
2 16 (34.04%) Jenkins
General
1 21 (44.68%) Social Skills
2 16 (34.04%) Public Sector
3 10 (21.28%) Aerospace
4 5 (10.64%) Finance
5 3 (6.38%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (4.26%) Retail
7 1 (2.13%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 18 (38.30%) DevOps Engineer
2 16 (34.04%) Principal DevOps Engineer
2 16 (34.04%) Principal Engineer
3 10 (21.28%) Linux Engineer
4 8 (17.02%) Administrator
4 8 (17.02%) AIX Engineer
4 8 (17.02%) Systems Administrator
5 5 (10.64%) Software Engineer
6 4 (8.51%) Analyst
6 4 (8.51%) Cybersecurity Analyst
6 4 (8.51%) Security Analyst
7 3 (6.38%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
7 3 (6.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 3 (6.38%) Virtualisation Administrator
7 3 (6.38%) Wintel Administrator
7 3 (6.38%) Wintel Systems Administrator
8 2 (4.26%) Azure Engineer
8 2 (4.26%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
8 2 (4.26%) DevOps Systems Engineer
8 2 (4.26%) Operations Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (42.55%) Terraform
2 3 (6.38%) AngularJS
2 3 (6.38%) gRPC
2 3 (6.38%) Material-UI
2 3 (6.38%) Node.js
2 3 (6.38%) OpenAPI
2 3 (6.38%) RabbitMQ
2 3 (6.38%) React
2 3 (6.38%) REST
2 3 (6.38%) Spring
2 3 (6.38%) Spring Boot
2 3 (6.38%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 19 (40.43%) Cloud Native
2 5 (10.64%) Onboarding
3 3 (6.38%) Social Media
4 2 (4.26%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (2.13%) Enterprise Storage
5 1 (2.13%) Life Science
5 1 (2.13%) Private Cloud
5 1 (2.13%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 47 (100.00%) Linux
2 22 (46.81%) CentOS
3 8 (17.02%) AIX
3 8 (17.02%) Windows
4 4 (8.51%) Unix
4 4 (8.51%) Windows Server
5 3 (6.38%) CoreOS
5 3 (6.38%) Debian
5 3 (6.38%) Ubuntu
5 3 (6.38%) Windows Server 2016
5 3 (6.38%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (4.26%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (48.94%) Infrastructure as Code
2 19 (40.43%) DevOps
2 19 (40.43%) Microservices
3 18 (38.30%) CI/CD
4 17 (36.17%) Platform Engineering
4 17 (36.17%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 16 (34.04%) Technical Leadership
6 9 (19.15%) SIEM
7 6 (12.77%) Agile
7 6 (12.77%) Cybersecurity
8 5 (10.64%) Software Engineering
9 4 (8.51%) Configuration Management
9 4 (8.51%) Data Collection
9 4 (8.51%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 4 (8.51%) ITIL
9 4 (8.51%) Roadmaps
9 4 (8.51%) SOAR
10 3 (6.38%) Containerisation
10 3 (6.38%) Customer Experience
10 3 (6.38%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 17 (36.17%) Python
2 14 (29.79%) Bash
3 4 (8.51%) PowerShell
4 3 (6.38%) Java
4 3 (6.38%) JavaScript
5 2 (4.26%) Go
5 2 (4.26%) Korn
5 2 (4.26%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 30 (63.83%) Security Cleared
2 22 (46.81%) SC Cleared
3 19 (40.43%) DV Cleared
4 4 (8.51%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (4.26%) IBM AIX Certification
5 2 (4.26%) RHCE
5 2 (4.26%) RHCSA
6 1 (2.13%) Azure Certification
6 1 (2.13%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.13%) QA
System Software
1 22 (46.81%) Docker
2 4 (8.51%) Active Directory
3 3 (6.38%) Hyper-V
3 3 (6.38%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (4.26%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (2.13%) VMware NSX
5 1 (2.13%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 26 (55.32%) Ansible
2 21 (44.68%) Kubernetes
3 6 (12.77%) Podman
4 5 (10.64%) Puppet
5 3 (6.38%) McAfee ePO
5 3 (6.38%) SCVMM
6 1 (2.13%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 29 (61.70%) Red Hat
2 3 (6.38%) Google
2 3 (6.38%) McAfee
2 3 (6.38%) SaltStack
2 3 (6.38%) Thales
2 3 (6.38%) VMware
3 2 (4.26%) IBM
3 2 (4.26%) Mirantis
4 1 (2.13%) NetApp