Red Hat Enterprise Linux Job Trends in the North West

Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North West requiring Red Hat Enterprise Linux skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 224 238 245
Rank change year-on-year +14 +7 -16
Permanent jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 28 8 17
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 0.24% 0.15% 0.20%
As % of the Operating Systems category 4.95% 0.63% 1.88%
Number of salaries quoted 14 7 7
10th Percentile - £64,740 £50,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £72,899 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £74,870 £65,465
Median % change year-on-year -36.56% +14.37% +0.17%
75th Percentile £65,000 £76,840 £73,495
90th Percentile £101,250 - £84,389
England median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £58,500
% change year-on-year -3.57% +19.66% -10.00%

All Operating Systems
North West

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 West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 566 1,262 904
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 4.87% 24.41% 10.74%
Number of salaries quoted 432 386 602
10th Percentile £27,500 £26,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £30,000 £31,840 £31,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £39,500 £42,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.06% -5.56% -11.76%
75th Percentile £52,813 £57,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £67,250 £72,500 £70,000
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 West

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 West.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux job vacancy trend in the North West

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Salary Trend in the North West

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux in the North West over the 6 months to 4 August 2026.

Salary histogram for Red Hat Enterprise Linux in the North West

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 4 August 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
Lancashire - 16 £40,000 - 2
Manchester -16 12 £65,000 -13.18% 8
Red Hat Enterprise Linux
England

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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 (7.14%) Apache
1 2 (7.14%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 8 (28.57%) AWS
2 7 (25.00%) Azure
3 5 (17.86%) OpenShift
4 3 (10.71%) GitHub
5 2 (7.14%) Amazon EKS
5 2 (7.14%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (7.14%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (7.14%) GCP
5 2 (7.14%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (10.71%) DHCP
1 3 (10.71%) DNS
1 3 (10.71%) LAN
1 3 (10.71%) TCP/IP
1 3 (10.71%) VSAN
1 3 (10.71%) WAN
2 2 (7.14%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (7.14%) Big Data
1 2 (7.14%) Cloudera CDH
1 2 (7.14%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 6 (21.43%) Git
2 3 (10.71%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 3 (10.71%) GitLab
2 3 (10.71%) Jenkins
General
1 6 (21.43%) Aerospace
1 6 (21.43%) Social Skills
2 4 (14.29%) Finance
3 3 (10.71%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (10.71%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 9 (32.14%) Linux Engineer
2 8 (28.57%) Administrator
2 8 (28.57%) Systems Administrator
3 7 (25.00%) AIX Engineer
4 4 (14.29%) Analyst
4 4 (14.29%) Cybersecurity Analyst
4 4 (14.29%) Security Analyst
5 3 (10.71%) DevOps Engineer
5 3 (10.71%) Principal DevOps Engineer
5 3 (10.71%) Principal Engineer
5 3 (10.71%) Virtualisation Administrator
5 3 (10.71%) Wintel Administrator
5 3 (10.71%) Wintel Systems Administrator
6 2 (7.14%) Azure Engineer
6 2 (7.14%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (7.14%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
6 2 (7.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (7.14%) Software Engineer
7 1 (3.57%) Linux Systems Engineer
7 1 (3.57%) Unix Linux Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (7.14%) AngularJS
1 2 (7.14%) gRPC
1 2 (7.14%) Material-UI
1 2 (7.14%) Node.js
1 2 (7.14%) OpenAPI
1 2 (7.14%) RabbitMQ
1 2 (7.14%) React
1 2 (7.14%) REST
1 2 (7.14%) Spring
1 2 (7.14%) Spring Boot
1 2 (7.14%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 5 (17.86%) Cloud Native
2 4 (14.29%) Onboarding
3 3 (10.71%) Social Media
4 1 (3.57%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 28 (100.00%) Linux
2 8 (28.57%) CentOS
3 7 (25.00%) AIX
3 7 (25.00%) Windows
4 3 (10.71%) CoreOS
4 3 (10.71%) Unix
4 3 (10.71%) Windows Server
4 3 (10.71%) Windows Server 2016
4 3 (10.71%) Windows Server 2019
5 2 (7.14%) Debian
5 2 (7.14%) Solaris
5 2 (7.14%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (32.14%) SIEM
2 5 (17.86%) Infrastructure as Code
2 5 (17.86%) Microservices
3 4 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
3 4 (14.29%) Data Collection
3 4 (14.29%) Platform Engineering
3 4 (14.29%) Roadmaps
3 4 (14.29%) SOAR
4 3 (10.71%) CI/CD
4 3 (10.71%) Customer Experience
4 3 (10.71%) DevOps
4 3 (10.71%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 3 (10.71%) ITIL
4 3 (10.71%) RBAC
4 3 (10.71%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 3 (10.71%) Technical Leadership
4 3 (10.71%) Time Management
5 2 (7.14%) Configuration Management
5 2 (7.14%) Kanban
5 2 (7.14%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 12 (42.86%) Python
2 10 (35.71%) Bash
3 3 (10.71%) PowerShell
4 2 (7.14%) Java
4 2 (7.14%) JavaScript
5 1 (3.57%) Korn
5 1 (3.57%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 13 (46.43%) Security Cleared
2 6 (21.43%) SC Cleared
3 5 (17.86%) DV Cleared
4 4 (14.29%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (3.57%) IBM AIX Certification
5 1 (3.57%) RHCE
5 1 (3.57%) RHCSA
System Software
1 6 (21.43%) Docker
2 3 (10.71%) Active Directory
2 3 (10.71%) Hyper-V
2 3 (10.71%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (3.57%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (28.57%) Ansible
2 7 (25.00%) Kubernetes
3 5 (17.86%) Terraform
4 3 (10.71%) McAfee ePO
4 3 (10.71%) Podman
4 3 (10.71%) Puppet
4 3 (10.71%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 23 (82.14%) Red Hat
2 3 (10.71%) McAfee
3 2 (7.14%) Google
3 2 (7.14%) Mirantis
3 2 (7.14%) SaltStack
3 2 (7.14%) VMware
4 1 (3.57%) IBM