Red Hat Job Trends in the North of England

Red Hat
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North of England requiring knowledge or experience of Red Hat products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Red Hat over the 6 months leading up to 18 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT labour market in general and are not representative of salaries within Red Hat, Inc.

6 months to
18 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 328 280 220
Rank change year-on-year -48 -60 +117
Permanent jobs citing Red Hat 23 22 168
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.11% 0.23% 0.95%
As % of the Vendors category 0.47% 0.54% 3.07%
Number of salaries quoted 12 16 23
10th Percentile - £46,625 £29,778
25th Percentile - £57,175 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £65,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -38.46% +23.81% +10.53%
75th Percentile £57,813 £67,500 £57,500
90th Percentile £60,325 £70,000 £74,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% +7.69% +8.33%

All Vendors
North of England

Red Hat falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in the North of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 4,912 4,100 5,469
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 23.52% 43.60% 31.07%
Number of salaries quoted 3,126 1,860 3,967
10th Percentile £28,500 £25,087 £26,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £28,750 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £42,000 £47,000
Median % change year-on-year +19.05% -10.64% -8.74%
75th Percentile £70,000 £62,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £77,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £57,239 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +4.07% +10.00% -13.04%

Red Hat
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Red Hat job vacancy trend in the North of England

Red Hat
Salary Trend in the North of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Red Hat.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Red Hat

Red Hat
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Red Hat in the North of England over the 6 months to 18 July 2026.

Salary histogram for Red Hat in the North of England

Red Hat
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 within the North of England region over the 6 months to 18 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 +16 22 £40,000 -20.00% 5
North East - 1 - - 1
Red Hat
England

Red Hat
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 (13.04%) Apache
2 2 (8.70%) Apache Spark
3 1 (4.35%) JBoss
3 1 (4.35%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 6 (26.09%) AWS
2 5 (21.74%) Azure
3 3 (13.04%) GCP
4 2 (8.70%) Amazon EKS
4 2 (8.70%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (8.70%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (8.70%) OpenShift
4 2 (8.70%) Serverless
5 1 (4.35%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.70%) AMQP
1 2 (8.70%) DHCP
1 2 (8.70%) DNS
1 2 (8.70%) TCP/IP
2 1 (4.35%) Firewall
2 1 (4.35%) LAN
2 1 (4.35%) SSL
2 1 (4.35%) VSAN
2 1 (4.35%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.70%) Big Data
1 2 (8.70%) Cloudera CDH
1 2 (8.70%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 2 (8.70%) Git
2 1 (4.35%) Bitbucket
2 1 (4.35%) Subversion
General
1 6 (26.09%) Aerospace
2 4 (17.39%) Finance
3 3 (13.04%) Social Skills
4 1 (4.35%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (4.35%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (4.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (4.35%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (39.13%) Linux Engineer
2 6 (26.09%) AIX Engineer
3 5 (21.74%) Administrator
3 5 (21.74%) Systems Administrator
4 4 (17.39%) Analyst
4 4 (17.39%) Cybersecurity Analyst
4 4 (17.39%) Security Analyst
5 2 (8.70%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
5 2 (8.70%) Software Engineer
5 2 (8.70%) Unix Engineer
5 2 (8.70%) Unix Linux Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Applications Developer
6 1 (4.35%) Cloud Developer
6 1 (4.35%) Developer
6 1 (4.35%) Linux Systems Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) PCI DSS Specialist
6 1 (4.35%) Systems Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Technical Specialist
6 1 (4.35%) Virtualisation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (13.04%) React
2 2 (8.70%) AngularJS
2 2 (8.70%) gRPC
2 2 (8.70%) Material-UI
2 2 (8.70%) Node.js
2 2 (8.70%) OpenAPI
2 2 (8.70%) RabbitMQ
2 2 (8.70%) REST
2 2 (8.70%) Spring
2 2 (8.70%) Spring Boot
2 2 (8.70%) Swagger
3 1 (4.35%) CSS
3 1 (4.35%) CSS3
3 1 (4.35%) HTML
3 1 (4.35%) HTML5
3 1 (4.35%) Keycloak
3 1 (4.35%) OAuth
3 1 (4.35%) OAuth2
3 1 (4.35%) OpenID
3 1 (4.35%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (17.39%) Onboarding
2 2 (8.70%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 22 (95.65%) Linux
2 20 (86.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 6 (26.09%) AIX
4 5 (21.74%) Windows
5 4 (17.39%) CentOS
6 3 (13.04%) Solaris
6 3 (13.04%) Ubuntu
6 3 (13.04%) Unix
7 2 (8.70%) Debian
8 1 (4.35%) CoreOS
8 1 (4.35%) Windows Server
8 1 (4.35%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (4.35%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (39.13%) SIEM
2 4 (17.39%) Cybersecurity
2 4 (17.39%) Data Collection
2 4 (17.39%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (17.39%) Roadmaps
2 4 (17.39%) SOAR
3 3 (13.04%) Agile
3 3 (13.04%) API Development
3 3 (13.04%) Configuration Management
4 2 (8.70%) Collaborative Working
4 2 (8.70%) Containerisation
4 2 (8.70%) High Availability
4 2 (8.70%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (8.70%) Kanban
4 2 (8.70%) Microservices
4 2 (8.70%) Open Source
4 2 (8.70%) Scaled Agile Framework
4 2 (8.70%) Scrum
4 2 (8.70%) Software Engineering
5 1 (4.35%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 12 (52.17%) Python
2 8 (34.78%) Bash
3 3 (13.04%) Java
3 3 (13.04%) JavaScript
4 1 (4.35%) PowerShell
4 1 (4.35%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 9 (39.13%) Security Cleared
2 4 (17.39%) BPSS Clearance
3 3 (13.04%) SC Cleared
4 2 (8.70%) DV Cleared
5 1 (4.35%) Linux+ Certification
5 1 (4.35%) RHCE
5 1 (4.35%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.35%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (8.70%) Docker
1 2 (8.70%) Hyper-V
1 2 (8.70%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (4.35%) Active Directory
2 1 (4.35%) KVM
2 1 (4.35%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 5 (21.74%) Ansible
2 3 (13.04%) Puppet
3 2 (8.70%) Kubernetes
3 2 (8.70%) Podman
3 2 (8.70%) Terraform
4 1 (4.35%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (4.35%) McAfee ePO
4 1 (4.35%) Nagios
4 1 (4.35%) SCVMM
4 1 (4.35%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 3 (13.04%) VMware
2 2 (8.70%) Google
2 2 (8.70%) Mirantis
2 2 (8.70%) SaltStack
3 1 (4.35%) Atlassian
3 1 (4.35%) McAfee
3 1 (4.35%) New Relic
3 1 (4.35%) Splunk