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

6 months to
3 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 234 234 228
Rank change year-on-year 0 -6 -28
Permanent jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 35 2 13
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 0.27% 0.038% 0.17%
As % of the Operating Systems category 5.79% 0.17% 1.62%
Number of salaries quoted 14 1 7
10th Percentile - - £47,100
25th Percentile £40,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £60,000 £65,465
Median % change year-on-year -20.83% -8.35% +0.17%
75th Percentile £101,250 £67,500 £73,495
90th Percentile - - £84,389
England median annual salary £75,000 £65,000 £63,500
% change year-on-year +15.38% +2.36% -2.31%

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 604 1,169 801
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 4.66% 22.36% 10.65%
Number of salaries quoted 444 305 414
10th Percentile £27,500 £26,250 £26,413
25th Percentile £30,000 £29,500 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £35,610 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +12.33% -16.21% -17.48%
75th Percentile £57,500 £55,000 £56,250
90th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £67,500
England median annual salary £45,000 £41,215 £50,000
% change year-on-year +9.18% -17.57% -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 October 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 October 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
Manchester -35 17 £97,500 +62.50% 12
Lancashire - 17 £40,000 - 4
Cheshire - 1 - - 2
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 3 (8.57%) Apache
1 3 (8.57%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.86%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 11 (31.43%) AWS
2 9 (25.71%) Azure
3 6 (17.14%) GitHub
3 6 (17.14%) OpenShift
4 3 (8.57%) Amazon EKS
4 3 (8.57%) AWS CloudFormation
4 3 (8.57%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (8.57%) GCP
4 3 (8.57%) Serverless
5 1 (2.86%) Azure AKS
5 1 (2.86%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (2.86%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 1 (2.86%) Azure Key Vault
5 1 (2.86%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (2.86%) Entra ID
5 1 (2.86%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 4 (11.43%) DHCP
1 4 (11.43%) DNS
2 3 (8.57%) AMQP
2 3 (8.57%) LAN
2 3 (8.57%) TCP/IP
2 3 (8.57%) VSAN
2 3 (8.57%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (8.57%) Big Data
1 3 (8.57%) Cloudera CDH
1 3 (8.57%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 8 (22.86%) Git
2 5 (14.29%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 5 (14.29%) GitLab
2 5 (14.29%) Jenkins
General
1 10 (28.57%) Aerospace
2 9 (25.71%) Social Skills
3 5 (14.29%) Finance
3 5 (14.29%) Public Sector
4 3 (8.57%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (8.57%) Retail
5 1 (2.86%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 9 (25.71%) Linux Engineer
2 8 (22.86%) Administrator
2 8 (22.86%) AIX Engineer
2 8 (22.86%) DevOps Engineer
2 8 (22.86%) Systems Administrator
3 6 (17.14%) Software Engineer
4 5 (14.29%) Principal DevOps Engineer
4 5 (14.29%) Principal Engineer
5 4 (11.43%) Analyst
5 4 (11.43%) Cybersecurity Analyst
5 4 (11.43%) Security Analyst
6 3 (8.57%) DevOps Systems Engineer
6 3 (8.57%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
6 3 (8.57%) Operations Engineer
6 3 (8.57%) Virtualisation Administrator
6 3 (8.57%) Wintel Administrator
6 3 (8.57%) Wintel Systems Administrator
7 2 (5.71%) Azure Engineer
8 1 (2.86%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
8 1 (2.86%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (25.71%) Terraform
2 3 (8.57%) AngularJS
2 3 (8.57%) gRPC
2 3 (8.57%) Material-UI
2 3 (8.57%) Node.js
2 3 (8.57%) OpenAPI
2 3 (8.57%) RabbitMQ
2 3 (8.57%) React
2 3 (8.57%) REST
2 3 (8.57%) Spring
2 3 (8.57%) Spring Boot
2 3 (8.57%) Swagger
3 1 (2.86%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 8 (22.86%) Cloud Native
2 5 (14.29%) Onboarding
3 3 (8.57%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (8.57%) Social Media
4 1 (2.86%) Life Science
4 1 (2.86%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 35 (100.00%) Linux
2 11 (31.43%) CentOS
3 9 (25.71%) Windows
4 8 (22.86%) AIX
5 5 (14.29%) Windows Server
6 4 (11.43%) Ubuntu
7 3 (8.57%) CoreOS
7 3 (8.57%) Debian
7 3 (8.57%) Unix
7 3 (8.57%) Windows Server 2016
7 3 (8.57%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (2.86%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (37.14%) Infrastructure as Code
2 9 (25.71%) DevOps
2 9 (25.71%) SIEM
3 8 (22.86%) CI/CD
3 8 (22.86%) Microservices
4 7 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
5 6 (17.14%) Agile
5 6 (17.14%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 6 (17.14%) Software Engineering
6 5 (14.29%) Platform Engineering
6 5 (14.29%) Technical Leadership
7 4 (11.43%) Configuration Management
7 4 (11.43%) Data Collection
7 4 (11.43%) ITIL
7 4 (11.43%) RBAC
7 4 (11.43%) Roadmaps
7 4 (11.43%) SOAR
8 3 (8.57%) API Development
8 3 (8.57%) Open Source
8 3 (8.57%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 18 (51.43%) Python
2 15 (42.86%) Bash
3 5 (14.29%) PowerShell
4 3 (8.57%) Go
4 3 (8.57%) Java
4 3 (8.57%) JavaScript
5 2 (5.71%) Korn
5 2 (5.71%) Shell Script
6 1 (2.86%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 19 (54.29%) Security Cleared
2 11 (31.43%) SC Cleared
3 8 (22.86%) DV Cleared
4 4 (11.43%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (5.71%) Azure Certification
5 2 (5.71%) IBM AIX Certification
5 2 (5.71%) RHCE
5 2 (5.71%) RHCSA
6 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.86%) QA
System Software
1 12 (34.29%) Docker
2 5 (14.29%) Active Directory
3 4 (11.43%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (8.57%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 15 (42.86%) Ansible
2 10 (28.57%) Kubernetes
3 6 (17.14%) Podman
4 5 (14.29%) Puppet
5 3 (8.57%) McAfee ePO
5 3 (8.57%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 28 (80.00%) Red Hat
2 3 (8.57%) Google
2 3 (8.57%) McAfee
2 3 (8.57%) SaltStack
2 3 (8.57%) Thales
3 2 (5.71%) IBM
4 1 (2.86%) Microsoft
4 1 (2.86%) Mirantis
4 1 (2.86%) VMware