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 27 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 248 293 251
Rank change year-on-year +45 -42 +101
Permanent jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 11 24 21
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.12% 0.20% 0.29%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.46% 1.82% 1.66%
Number of salaries quoted 8 13 19
10th Percentile £52,500 £56,250 £47,800
25th Percentile £54,375 £58,938 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,465 £56,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.71% +16.90% +9.80%
75th Percentile £67,500 £71,991 £67,070
90th Percentile - - £68,156
England median annual salary £69,000 £65,465 £64,000
% change year-on-year +5.40% +2.29% +6.67%

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 756 1,317 1,262
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 7.99% 10.81% 17.35%
Number of salaries quoted 616 691 977
10th Percentile £26,250 £26,250 £26,250
25th Percentile £29,500 £32,500 £31,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £38,500 £42,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.41% -5.56% +3.62%
75th Percentile £52,813 £57,500 £63,000
90th Percentile £65,000 £71,991 £75,000
England median annual salary £42,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -15.00% - -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
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 27 November 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
North West +54 6 £60,000 -8.35% 1
Yorkshire -3 5 £65,000 -0.71%
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 (27.27%) Apache
2 2 (18.18%) Apache Spark
3 1 (9.09%) JBoss
3 1 (9.09%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 10 (90.91%) AWS
2 4 (36.36%) Azure
3 3 (27.27%) GCP
3 3 (27.27%) OpenShift
4 2 (18.18%) Amazon EKS
4 2 (18.18%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (18.18%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (18.18%) Serverless
5 1 (9.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (9.09%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (9.09%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 5 (45.45%) DHCP
1 5 (45.45%) DNS
2 2 (18.18%) AMQP
3 1 (9.09%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (18.18%) Big Data
1 2 (18.18%) Cloudera CDH
1 2 (18.18%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Ant
1 1 (9.09%) Artifactory
1 1 (9.09%) Git
1 1 (9.09%) Jenkins
1 1 (9.09%) JIRA
1 1 (9.09%) Maven
1 1 (9.09%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 2 (18.18%) Aerospace
1 2 (18.18%) Finance
2 1 (9.09%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (36.36%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Software Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Administrator
3 1 (9.09%) AWS DevOps
3 1 (9.09%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Azure DevOps Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) IT Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) IT Support
3 1 (9.09%) Lead
3 1 (9.09%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Linux DevOps Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Linux Scripter
3 1 (9.09%) Linux/Unix DevOps
3 1 (9.09%) Senior
3 1 (9.09%) Support Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Windows DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (18.18%) AngularJS
1 2 (18.18%) gRPC
1 2 (18.18%) Material-UI
1 2 (18.18%) Middleware
1 2 (18.18%) Node.js
1 2 (18.18%) OpenAPI
1 2 (18.18%) RabbitMQ
1 2 (18.18%) React
1 2 (18.18%) REST
1 2 (18.18%) Spring
1 2 (18.18%) Spring Boot
1 2 (18.18%) Swagger
2 1 (9.09%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (9.09%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 4 (36.36%) Cloud Native
2 2 (18.18%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (9.09%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 11 (100.00%) Linux
2 6 (54.55%) Windows
3 5 (45.45%) Windows Server
4 3 (27.27%) CentOS
5 2 (18.18%) Debian
5 2 (18.18%) Ubuntu
5 2 (18.18%) Unix
6 1 (9.09%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (72.73%) Containerisation
2 6 (54.55%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 3 (27.27%) Configuration Management
3 3 (27.27%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (27.27%) Technical Leadership
3 3 (27.27%) Vulnerability Remediation
4 2 (18.18%) Agile
4 2 (18.18%) API Development
4 2 (18.18%) Coaching
4 2 (18.18%) Collaborative Working
4 2 (18.18%) Kanban
4 2 (18.18%) Mentoring
4 2 (18.18%) Microservices
4 2 (18.18%) Open Source
4 2 (18.18%) People Management
4 2 (18.18%) Scaled Agile Framework
4 2 (18.18%) Scrum
4 2 (18.18%) Software Engineering
4 2 (18.18%) Storage Management
5 1 (9.09%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 9 (81.82%) Python
2 5 (45.45%) PowerShell
3 3 (27.27%) Bash
4 2 (18.18%) Java
4 2 (18.18%) JavaScript
5 1 (9.09%) Groovy
5 1 (9.09%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 5 (45.45%) AWS Certification
2 4 (36.36%) SC Cleared
2 4 (36.36%) Security Cleared
3 3 (27.27%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 3 (27.27%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
3 3 (27.27%) DV Cleared
4 1 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (9.09%) Degree
System Software
1 5 (45.45%) Active Directory
1 5 (45.45%) Hyper-V
2 2 (18.18%) Docker
3 1 (9.09%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 10 (90.91%) Ansible
2 8 (72.73%) Kubernetes
3 5 (45.45%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
3 5 (45.45%) SCCM
3 5 (45.45%) SCOM
3 5 (45.45%) WSUS
4 4 (36.36%) Terraform
5 3 (27.27%) Puppet
6 2 (18.18%) Podman
7 1 (9.09%) Grafana
7 1 (9.09%) Nagios
7 1 (9.09%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 10 (90.91%) Red Hat
2 5 (45.45%) Microsoft
2 5 (45.45%) Oracle
3 2 (18.18%) Google
3 2 (18.18%) SaltStack
3 2 (18.18%) VMware
4 1 (9.09%) Dell
4 1 (9.09%) Mirantis