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 18 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 279 284 286
Rank change year-on-year +5 +2 +77
Permanent jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 25 20
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.099% 0.20% 0.24%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.68% 1.99% 1.49%
Number of salaries quoted 8 14 18
10th Percentile £59,500 £38,923 £52,500
25th Percentile £62,500 £58,938 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,465 £55,500
Median % change year-on-year -0.71% +17.95% +11.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £71,991 £67,070
90th Percentile - £74,097 -
England median annual salary £67,750 £65,232 £65,000
% change year-on-year +3.86% +0.36% +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 1,332 1,255 1,340
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 14.60% 9.81% 16.21%
Number of salaries quoted 633 649 1,029
10th Percentile £26,000 £25,700 £26,250
25th Percentile £29,500 £31,250 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £42,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -17.65% -5.56% +5.88%
75th Percentile £50,000 £56,250 £63,000
90th Percentile £64,850 £67,500 £72,500
England median annual salary £41,355 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -17.29% -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
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 18 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
Yorkshire +9 7 £65,000 -0.71%
North West +11 2 £60,000 -8.35% 12
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 1 (11.11%) Apache
1 1 (11.11%) JBoss
1 1 (11.11%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 9 (100.00%) AWS
2 1 (11.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (11.11%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (11.11%) Amazon S3
2 1 (11.11%) Azure
2 1 (11.11%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 7 (77.78%) DHCP
1 7 (77.78%) DNS
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Ant
1 1 (11.11%) Artifactory
1 1 (11.11%) Git
1 1 (11.11%) Jenkins
1 1 (11.11%) JIRA
1 1 (11.11%) Maven
1 1 (11.11%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 2 (22.22%) Finance
2 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (55.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) AWS DevOps
2 1 (11.11%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Azure DevOps Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Specialist
2 1 (11.11%) Lead
2 1 (11.11%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Linux DevOps Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Linux Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Linux Scripter
2 1 (11.11%) Linux Specialist
2 1 (11.11%) Linux/Unix DevOps
2 1 (11.11%) Platform Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Senior
2 1 (11.11%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Windows DevOps Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (22.22%) Middleware
2 1 (11.11%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (11.11%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 4 (44.44%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (22.22%) Cloud Native
3 1 (11.11%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 9 (100.00%) Linux
2 8 (88.89%) Windows
3 7 (77.78%) Windows Server
4 1 (11.11%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (88.89%) Containerisation
1 8 (88.89%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 4 (44.44%) Vulnerability Remediation
3 3 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
4 2 (22.22%) Coaching
4 2 (22.22%) Mentoring
4 2 (22.22%) People Management
4 2 (22.22%) Storage Management
5 1 (11.11%) CI/CD
5 1 (11.11%) Computer Science
5 1 (11.11%) Configuration Management
5 1 (11.11%) DevOps
5 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure as Code
5 1 (11.11%) Load Balancing
5 1 (11.11%) Platform Engineering
5 1 (11.11%) Release Management
5 1 (11.11%) Server Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (88.89%) Python
2 7 (77.78%) PowerShell
3 2 (22.22%) Bash
4 1 (11.11%) Groovy
4 1 (11.11%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 7 (77.78%) AWS Certification
2 3 (33.33%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
2 3 (33.33%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
3 1 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (11.11%) Degree
3 1 (11.11%) DV Cleared
3 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared
3 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 7 (77.78%) Active Directory
1 7 (77.78%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 8 (88.89%) Ansible
2 7 (77.78%) Kubernetes
2 7 (77.78%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
2 7 (77.78%) SCCM
2 7 (77.78%) SCOM
2 7 (77.78%) WSUS
3 1 (11.11%) Podman
3 1 (11.11%) Puppet
3 1 (11.11%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (88.89%) Red Hat
2 7 (77.78%) Microsoft
2 7 (77.78%) Oracle
3 1 (11.11%) Dell