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 12 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 302 264 345
Rank change year-on-year -38 +81 +35
Permanent jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 18 22 42
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.098% 0.29% 0.25%
As % of the Operating Systems category 2.04% 1.38% 1.92%
Number of salaries quoted 10 15 22
10th Percentile £40,000 £52,500 £28,639
25th Percentile £40,313 £59,375 £41,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £70,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% +40.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £63,875 £76,840 £65,313
90th Percentile £65,000 - £75,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £70,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -10.71% +27.27% -15.38%

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 881 1,592 2,191
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 4.78% 21.01% 12.98%
Number of salaries quoted 665 734 1,758
10th Percentile £26,425 £26,000 £25,000
25th Percentile £29,000 £30,000 £29,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £40,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year - -5.88% -
75th Percentile £52,500 £57,500 £56,250
90th Percentile £69,390 £73,886 £67,968
England median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year - - -14.29%

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 12 May 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 12 May 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 +5 18 £55,000 -26.54% 5
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 (16.67%) Apache
1 3 (16.67%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 7 (38.89%) Azure
2 5 (27.78%) AWS
3 4 (22.22%) GCP
4 3 (16.67%) Amazon EKS
4 3 (16.67%) AWS CloudFormation
4 3 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (16.67%) OpenShift
4 3 (16.67%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (16.67%) AMQP
2 1 (5.56%) DHCP
2 1 (5.56%) DNS
2 1 (5.56%) Firewall
2 1 (5.56%) LAN
2 1 (5.56%) TCP/IP
2 1 (5.56%) VSAN
2 1 (5.56%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (16.67%) Big Data
1 3 (16.67%) Cloudera CDH
1 3 (16.67%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Git
General
1 7 (38.89%) Aerospace
2 4 (22.22%) Finance
3 2 (11.11%) Social Skills
4 1 (5.56%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (27.78%) Linux Engineer
2 4 (22.22%) Analyst
2 4 (22.22%) Cybersecurity Analyst
2 4 (22.22%) Security Analyst
3 3 (16.67%) AIX Engineer
3 3 (16.67%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
3 3 (16.67%) Software Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Administrator
4 2 (11.11%) Azure Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) IT Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) IT Support
5 1 (5.56%) IT Support Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Linux Administrator
5 1 (5.56%) Linux Systems Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Systems Administrator
5 1 (5.56%) Unix Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Unix Linux Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Virtualisation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (16.67%) AngularJS
1 3 (16.67%) gRPC
1 3 (16.67%) Material-UI
1 3 (16.67%) Node.js
1 3 (16.67%) OpenAPI
1 3 (16.67%) RabbitMQ
1 3 (16.67%) React
1 3 (16.67%) REST
1 3 (16.67%) Spring
1 3 (16.67%) Spring Boot
1 3 (16.67%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 4 (22.22%) Onboarding
2 3 (16.67%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 18 (100.00%) Linux
2 5 (27.78%) CentOS
2 5 (27.78%) Windows
3 3 (16.67%) AIX
3 3 (16.67%) Debian
3 3 (16.67%) Solaris
3 3 (16.67%) Ubuntu
3 3 (16.67%) Unix
4 1 (5.56%) CoreOS
4 1 (5.56%) Windows Server
4 1 (5.56%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (5.56%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (27.78%) SIEM
2 4 (22.22%) Cybersecurity
2 4 (22.22%) Data Collection
2 4 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (22.22%) Roadmaps
2 4 (22.22%) SOAR
3 3 (16.67%) Agile
3 3 (16.67%) API Development
3 3 (16.67%) Collaborative Working
3 3 (16.67%) Configuration Management
3 3 (16.67%) Containerisation
3 3 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 3 (16.67%) Kanban
3 3 (16.67%) Microservices
3 3 (16.67%) Open Source
3 3 (16.67%) Scaled Agile Framework
3 3 (16.67%) Scrum
3 3 (16.67%) Software Engineering
4 2 (11.11%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 11 (61.11%) Python
2 8 (44.44%) Bash
3 3 (16.67%) Java
3 3 (16.67%) JavaScript
4 1 (5.56%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 8 (44.44%) Security Cleared
2 5 (27.78%) SC Cleared
3 4 (22.22%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (16.67%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 4 (22.22%) Docker
2 2 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (5.56%) Active Directory
3 1 (5.56%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 7 (38.89%) Ansible
2 6 (33.33%) Kubernetes
3 4 (22.22%) Terraform
4 3 (16.67%) Podman
4 3 (16.67%) Puppet
5 1 (5.56%) Grafana
5 1 (5.56%) McAfee ePO
5 1 (5.56%) Nagios
5 1 (5.56%) Prometheus
5 1 (5.56%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 16 (88.89%) Red Hat
2 4 (22.22%) VMware
3 3 (16.67%) Google
3 3 (16.67%) Mirantis
3 3 (16.67%) SaltStack
4 1 (5.56%) McAfee