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

6 months to
6 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 202 180 258
Rank change year-on-year -22 +78 +13
Permanent jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 12 8 16
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 0.13% 0.22% 0.18%
As % of the Operating Systems category 2.56% 1.71% 1.44%
Number of salaries quoted 7 7 4
10th Percentile £48,000 £64,240 £51,875
25th Percentile £52,500 £72,899 £60,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,000 £74,870 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -23.87% +6.96% +40.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £76,840 £75,000
90th Percentile - - -
England median annual salary £60,000 £70,996 £55,000
% change year-on-year -15.49% +29.08% -15.38%

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 468 468 1,109
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 5.08% 13.08% 12.75%
Number of salaries quoted 388 370 875
10th Percentile £27,000 £28,750 £25,000
25th Percentile £30,000 £37,500 £30,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £46,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +2.22% -
75th Percentile £57,500 £65,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £69,390 £77,500 £70,450
England median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% +11.11% -13.88%

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 6 April 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 6 April 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 -9 10 £58,500 -21.86% 8
Lancashire -14 1 - - 4
Cumbria - 1 £55,000 -
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 4 (33.33%) Apache
1 4 (33.33%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 8 (66.67%) Azure
2 6 (50.00%) AWS
3 5 (41.67%) GCP
4 4 (33.33%) Amazon EKS
4 4 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
4 4 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
4 4 (33.33%) OpenShift
4 4 (33.33%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (33.33%) AMQP
2 1 (8.33%) DHCP
2 1 (8.33%) DNS
2 1 (8.33%) Firewall
2 1 (8.33%) LAN
2 1 (8.33%) TCP/IP
2 1 (8.33%) VSAN
2 1 (8.33%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (33.33%) Big Data
1 4 (33.33%) Cloudera CDH
1 4 (33.33%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Git
General
1 4 (33.33%) Aerospace
2 2 (16.67%) Social Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (33.33%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
1 4 (33.33%) Software Engineer
2 3 (25.00%) Linux Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Azure Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Administrator
4 1 (8.33%) AIX Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) IT Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) IT Support
4 1 (8.33%) IT Support Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Linux Administrator
4 1 (8.33%) Linux Systems Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Support Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Systems Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Unix Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Unix Linux Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Virtualisation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (33.33%) AngularJS
1 4 (33.33%) gRPC
1 4 (33.33%) Material-UI
1 4 (33.33%) Node.js
1 4 (33.33%) OpenAPI
1 4 (33.33%) RabbitMQ
1 4 (33.33%) React
1 4 (33.33%) REST
1 4 (33.33%) Spring
1 4 (33.33%) Spring Boot
1 4 (33.33%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 4 (33.33%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 12 (100.00%) Linux
2 6 (50.00%) CentOS
3 4 (33.33%) Debian
3 4 (33.33%) Ubuntu
4 3 (25.00%) Solaris
4 3 (25.00%) Unix
5 1 (8.33%) AIX
5 1 (8.33%) CoreOS
5 1 (8.33%) Windows
5 1 (8.33%) Windows Server
5 1 (8.33%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (8.33%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (33.33%) Agile
1 4 (33.33%) API Development
1 4 (33.33%) Collaborative Working
1 4 (33.33%) Configuration Management
1 4 (33.33%) Containerisation
1 4 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
1 4 (33.33%) Kanban
1 4 (33.33%) Microservices
1 4 (33.33%) Open Source
1 4 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
1 4 (33.33%) Scaled Agile Framework
1 4 (33.33%) Scrum
1 4 (33.33%) Software Engineering
2 3 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 2 (16.67%) Platform Engineering
4 1 (8.33%) Business Continuity
4 1 (8.33%) Customer Service
4 1 (8.33%) Proactive Monitoring
4 1 (8.33%) RBAC
4 1 (8.33%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 8 (66.67%) Python
2 4 (33.33%) Bash
2 4 (33.33%) Java
2 4 (33.33%) JavaScript
3 1 (8.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 7 (58.33%) Security Cleared
2 6 (50.00%) SC Cleared
3 4 (33.33%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 4 (33.33%) Docker
2 2 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (8.33%) Active Directory
3 1 (8.33%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 8 (66.67%) Ansible
2 7 (58.33%) Kubernetes
3 5 (41.67%) Terraform
4 4 (33.33%) Puppet
5 3 (25.00%) Podman
6 1 (8.33%) Grafana
6 1 (8.33%) McAfee ePO
6 1 (8.33%) Nagios
6 1 (8.33%) Prometheus
6 1 (8.33%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 10 (83.33%) Red Hat
2 4 (33.33%) Google
2 4 (33.33%) SaltStack
2 4 (33.33%) VMware
3 3 (25.00%) Mirantis
4 1 (8.33%) McAfee