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 3 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 222 233 242
Rank change year-on-year +11 +9 -35
Permanent jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 31 5 13
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 0.25% 0.097% 0.16%
As % of the Operating Systems category 5.21% 0.41% 1.55%
Number of salaries quoted 15 5 7
10th Percentile - £60,660 £47,100
25th Percentile £40,000 £72,899 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £74,870 £65,465
Median % change year-on-year -26.54% +14.37% +0.17%
75th Percentile £83,125 £76,840 £73,495
90th Percentile £101,250 - £84,389
England median annual salary £70,000 £67,750 £57,500
% change year-on-year +3.32% +17.83% -11.54%

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 595 1,219 839
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 4.86% 23.60% 10.30%
Number of salaries quoted 449 353 512
10th Percentile £28,000 £26,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £30,000 £31,750 £32,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £40,000 £42,786
Median % change year-on-year - -6.51% -18.50%
75th Percentile £55,000 £57,500 £57,500
90th Percentile £65,000 £67,250 £69,250
England median annual salary £45,000 £41,428 £50,000
% change year-on-year +8.62% -17.15% -4.76%

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 3 September 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 3 September 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 - 17 £40,000 - 2
Manchester -18 13 £81,250 +8.52% 10
Cheshire - 1 - - 4
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 (6.45%) Apache
1 2 (6.45%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 9 (29.03%) AWS
2 8 (25.81%) Azure
3 5 (16.13%) OpenShift
4 4 (12.90%) GitHub
5 2 (6.45%) Amazon EKS
5 2 (6.45%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (6.45%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (6.45%) GCP
5 2 (6.45%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (9.68%) DHCP
1 3 (9.68%) DNS
1 3 (9.68%) LAN
1 3 (9.68%) TCP/IP
1 3 (9.68%) VSAN
1 3 (9.68%) WAN
2 2 (6.45%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.45%) Big Data
1 2 (6.45%) Cloudera CDH
1 2 (6.45%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 7 (22.58%) Git
2 4 (12.90%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 4 (12.90%) GitLab
2 4 (12.90%) Jenkins
General
1 8 (25.81%) Social Skills
2 6 (19.35%) Aerospace
3 5 (16.13%) Finance
4 4 (12.90%) Public Sector
5 3 (9.68%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (3.23%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 10 (32.26%) Linux Engineer
2 8 (25.81%) Administrator
2 8 (25.81%) AIX Engineer
2 8 (25.81%) Systems Administrator
3 4 (12.90%) Analyst
3 4 (12.90%) Cybersecurity Analyst
3 4 (12.90%) DevOps Engineer
3 4 (12.90%) Principal DevOps Engineer
3 4 (12.90%) Principal Engineer
3 4 (12.90%) Security Analyst
4 3 (9.68%) Virtualisation Administrator
4 3 (9.68%) Wintel Administrator
4 3 (9.68%) Wintel Systems Administrator
5 2 (6.45%) Azure Engineer
5 2 (6.45%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (6.45%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
5 2 (6.45%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (6.45%) Software Engineer
6 1 (3.23%) IT Manager
6 1 (3.23%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (19.35%) Terraform
2 2 (6.45%) AngularJS
2 2 (6.45%) gRPC
2 2 (6.45%) Material-UI
2 2 (6.45%) Node.js
2 2 (6.45%) OpenAPI
2 2 (6.45%) RabbitMQ
2 2 (6.45%) React
2 2 (6.45%) REST
2 2 (6.45%) Spring
2 2 (6.45%) Spring Boot
2 2 (6.45%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 6 (19.35%) Cloud Native
2 5 (16.13%) Onboarding
3 3 (9.68%) Social Media
4 2 (6.45%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (3.23%) Life Science
5 1 (3.23%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 31 (100.00%) Linux
2 9 (29.03%) CentOS
3 8 (25.81%) AIX
3 8 (25.81%) Windows
4 4 (12.90%) Unix
4 4 (12.90%) Windows Server
5 3 (9.68%) CoreOS
5 3 (9.68%) Windows Server 2016
5 3 (9.68%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (6.45%) Debian
6 2 (6.45%) Solaris
6 2 (6.45%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (29.03%) SIEM
2 7 (22.58%) Infrastructure as Code
3 6 (19.35%) Microservices
4 5 (16.13%) Platform Engineering
4 5 (16.13%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 4 (12.90%) CI/CD
5 4 (12.90%) Cybersecurity
5 4 (12.90%) Data Collection
5 4 (12.90%) DevOps
5 4 (12.90%) ITIL
5 4 (12.90%) Roadmaps
5 4 (12.90%) SOAR
5 4 (12.90%) Technical Leadership
6 3 (9.68%) Customer Experience
6 3 (9.68%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 3 (9.68%) RBAC
6 3 (9.68%) Time Management
7 2 (6.45%) Collaborative Working
7 2 (6.45%) Containerisation
7 2 (6.45%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 14 (45.16%) Python
2 12 (38.71%) Bash
3 4 (12.90%) PowerShell
4 2 (6.45%) Java
4 2 (6.45%) JavaScript
4 2 (6.45%) Korn
4 2 (6.45%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 15 (48.39%) Security Cleared
2 7 (22.58%) SC Cleared
3 6 (19.35%) DV Cleared
4 4 (12.90%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (6.45%) IBM AIX Certification
5 2 (6.45%) RHCE
5 2 (6.45%) RHCSA
6 1 (3.23%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.23%) QA
System Software
1 8 (25.81%) Docker
2 4 (12.90%) Active Directory
3 3 (9.68%) Hyper-V
3 3 (9.68%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (3.23%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 10 (32.26%) Ansible
2 8 (25.81%) Kubernetes
3 4 (12.90%) Podman
3 4 (12.90%) Puppet
4 3 (9.68%) McAfee ePO
4 3 (9.68%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 25 (80.65%) Red Hat
2 3 (9.68%) McAfee
3 2 (6.45%) Google
3 2 (6.45%) IBM
3 2 (6.45%) Mirantis
3 2 (6.45%) SaltStack
3 2 (6.45%) VMware