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 28 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 310 288 317
Rank change year-on-year -22 +29 +17
Permanent jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 37 23 41
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.17% 0.24% 0.26%
As % of the Operating Systems category 3.35% 1.25% 2.33%
Number of salaries quoted 24 20 23
10th Percentile - £52,500 £28,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £62,500 £42,427
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 £76,840 £71,991
90th Percentile - - £74,398
England median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -3.57% +21.74% -8.73%

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 1,106 1,845 1,759
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 5.20% 19.40% 11.13%
Number of salaries quoted 863 830 1,289
10th Percentile £27,250 £26,000 £25,250
25th Percentile £30,000 £29,500 £29,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £37,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -11.76% -5.56%
75th Percentile £53,750 £50,930 £56,250
90th Percentile £74,985 £67,500 £67,968
England median annual salary £45,000 £42,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +7.14% -11.58% -9.52%

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 28 July 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 28 July 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 +21 27 £47,500 -36.56% 7
North East -43 5 £97,500 +77.27% 1
Yorkshire -45 5 £97,500 +50.00% 1
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 2 (5.41%) Apache
1 2 (5.41%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 18 (48.65%) AWS
2 13 (35.14%) GitHub
3 7 (18.92%) Azure
4 5 (13.51%) OpenShift
5 2 (5.41%) Amazon EKS
5 2 (5.41%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (5.41%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (5.41%) GCP
5 2 (5.41%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (8.11%) DHCP
1 3 (8.11%) DNS
1 3 (8.11%) LAN
1 3 (8.11%) TCP/IP
1 3 (8.11%) VSAN
1 3 (8.11%) WAN
2 2 (5.41%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.41%) Big Data
1 2 (5.41%) Cloudera CDH
1 2 (5.41%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 16 (43.24%) Git
2 13 (35.14%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 13 (35.14%) GitLab
2 13 (35.14%) Jenkins
General
1 15 (40.54%) Social Skills
2 13 (35.14%) Public Sector
3 6 (16.22%) Aerospace
4 4 (10.81%) Finance
5 3 (8.11%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 13 (35.14%) DevOps Engineer
1 13 (35.14%) Principal DevOps Engineer
1 13 (35.14%) Principal Engineer
2 8 (21.62%) Administrator
2 8 (21.62%) Linux Engineer
2 8 (21.62%) Systems Administrator
3 6 (16.22%) AIX Engineer
4 4 (10.81%) Analyst
4 4 (10.81%) Cybersecurity Analyst
4 4 (10.81%) Security Analyst
5 3 (8.11%) Virtualisation Administrator
5 3 (8.11%) Wintel Administrator
5 3 (8.11%) Wintel Systems Administrator
6 2 (5.41%) Azure Engineer
6 2 (5.41%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (5.41%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
6 2 (5.41%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (5.41%) Software Engineer
7 1 (2.70%) Linux Systems Engineer
7 1 (2.70%) Unix Linux Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.41%) AngularJS
1 2 (5.41%) gRPC
1 2 (5.41%) Material-UI
1 2 (5.41%) Node.js
1 2 (5.41%) OpenAPI
1 2 (5.41%) RabbitMQ
1 2 (5.41%) React
1 2 (5.41%) REST
1 2 (5.41%) Spring
1 2 (5.41%) Spring Boot
1 2 (5.41%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 15 (40.54%) Cloud Native
2 4 (10.81%) Onboarding
3 3 (8.11%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 37 (100.00%) Linux
2 18 (48.65%) CentOS
3 7 (18.92%) Windows
4 6 (16.22%) AIX
5 3 (8.11%) CoreOS
5 3 (8.11%) Windows Server
5 3 (8.11%) Windows Server 2016
5 3 (8.11%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (5.41%) Debian
6 2 (5.41%) Solaris
6 2 (5.41%) Ubuntu
6 2 (5.41%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (40.54%) Infrastructure as Code
1 15 (40.54%) Microservices
2 14 (37.84%) Platform Engineering
3 13 (35.14%) CI/CD
3 13 (35.14%) DevOps
3 13 (35.14%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 13 (35.14%) Technical Leadership
4 9 (24.32%) SIEM
5 4 (10.81%) Cybersecurity
5 4 (10.81%) Data Collection
5 4 (10.81%) Roadmaps
5 4 (10.81%) SOAR
6 3 (8.11%) Customer Experience
6 3 (8.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 3 (8.11%) ITIL
6 3 (8.11%) RBAC
6 3 (8.11%) Time Management
7 2 (5.41%) Agile
7 2 (5.41%) Configuration Management
7 2 (5.41%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 11 (29.73%) Python
2 9 (24.32%) Bash
3 3 (8.11%) PowerShell
4 2 (5.41%) Java
4 2 (5.41%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 22 (59.46%) Security Cleared
2 16 (43.24%) SC Cleared
3 15 (40.54%) DV Cleared
4 4 (10.81%) BPSS Clearance
System Software
1 15 (40.54%) Docker
2 3 (8.11%) Active Directory
2 3 (8.11%) Hyper-V
2 3 (8.11%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (2.70%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 17 (45.95%) Ansible
1 17 (45.95%) Kubernetes
2 15 (40.54%) Terraform
3 3 (8.11%) McAfee ePO
3 3 (8.11%) SCVMM
4 2 (5.41%) Podman
4 2 (5.41%) Puppet
Vendors
1 22 (59.46%) Red Hat
2 3 (8.11%) McAfee
3 2 (5.41%) Google
3 2 (5.41%) Mirantis
3 2 (5.41%) SaltStack
3 2 (5.41%) VMware