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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 231 231 205
Rank change year-on-year 0 -26 +87
Permanent jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 14 11
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 0.098% 0.18% 0.24%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.42% 1.74% 1.65%
Number of salaries quoted 4 7 9
10th Percentile £58,620 £47,100 £63,505
25th Percentile £67,799 £52,500 £63,631
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £74,870 £65,465 £65,351
Median % change year-on-year +14.37% +0.17% +30.70%
75th Percentile £76,840 £73,495 £67,070
90th Percentile - £84,389 £72,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +13.04%

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 1,178 804 667
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 23.11% 10.43% 14.35%
Number of salaries quoted 320 448 536
10th Percentile £26,250 £26,425 £27,000
25th Percentile £31,000 £32,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £42,500 £51,536
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% -17.53% +21.26%
75th Percentile £57,500 £56,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £65,000 £68,900 £77,500
England median annual salary £41,500 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -17.00% -4.76% -

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 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
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 15 September 2025. 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 +27 5 £74,870 -9.05% 3
Red Hat Enterprise Linux
England

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (20.00%) Apache
1 1 (20.00%) JBoss
1 1 (20.00%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) Azure
2 2 (40.00%) AWS
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon S3
3 1 (20.00%) OpenShift
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Ant
1 1 (20.00%) Artifactory
1 1 (20.00%) Git
1 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (20.00%) JIRA
1 1 (20.00%) Maven
1 1 (20.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 5 (100.00%) Finance
2 4 (80.00%) Social Skills
3 3 (60.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Cloud Engineer
1 3 (60.00%) Cloud Security Engineer
1 3 (60.00%) Security Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) AWS DevOps
2 1 (20.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Specialist
2 1 (20.00%) Linux DevOps Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Linux Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Linux Scripter
2 1 (20.00%) Linux Specialist
2 1 (20.00%) Linux/Unix DevOps
2 1 (20.00%) Windows DevOps Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) Middleware
2 1 (20.00%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (20.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Cloud Native
1 3 (60.00%) Product Ownership
1 3 (60.00%) Public Cloud
1 3 (60.00%) Security Posture
2 1 (20.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) Linux
2 1 (20.00%) Unix
2 1 (20.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) DevOps
1 4 (80.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 4 (80.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 3 (60.00%) Cloud Security
2 3 (60.00%) Roadmaps
3 2 (40.00%) Storage Management
4 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
4 1 (20.00%) Computer Science
4 1 (20.00%) Configuration Management
4 1 (20.00%) Containerisation
4 1 (20.00%) Load Balancing
4 1 (20.00%) Release Management
4 1 (20.00%) Server Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) Bash
2 1 (20.00%) Groovy
2 1 (20.00%) Python
2 1 (20.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (20.00%) Degree
1 1 (20.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (60.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (80.00%) Terraform
2 2 (40.00%) Kubernetes
3 1 (20.00%) Ansible
3 1 (20.00%) Podman
3 1 (20.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Dell
1 1 (20.00%) Red Hat