Red Hat Job Trends in the North West

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England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North West requiring knowledge or experience of Red Hat products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Red Hat over the 6 months leading up to 1 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT labour market in general and are not representative of salaries within Red Hat, Inc.

 6 months to
1 Jan 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 171 137 168
Rank change year-on-year -34 +31 +102
Permanent jobs citing Red Hat 8 68 23
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 0.13% 1.31% 0.59%
As % of the Vendors category 0.48% 3.64% 1.75%
Number of salaries quoted 5 5 13
10th Percentile £47,250 £40,400 -
25th Percentile £52,500 £42,500 £38,084
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +15.79% -20.20%
75th Percentile £67,500 £64,010 £63,000
90th Percentile - £69,104 £75,000
England median annual salary £72,500 £65,000 £63,750
% change year-on-year +11.54% +1.96% +2.00%

All Vendors
North West

Red Hat falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in the North West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 1,674 1,870 1,316
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 27.16% 35.96% 33.87%
Number of salaries quoted 1,039 926 1,103
10th Percentile £25,087 £31,250 £26,250
25th Percentile £30,000 £40,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - -
75th Percentile £62,500 £60,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £85,000
England median annual salary £51,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -10.43% +4.55% -4.35%

Red Hat
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Red Hat relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Red Hat job vacancy trend in the North West

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Salary Trend in the North West

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

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

Red Hat
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Red Hat in the North West over the 6 months to 1 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Red Hat in the North West

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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 within the North West region over the 6 months to 1 January 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 -27 7 £60,000 +4.35% 5
Cumbria - 1 £55,000 -
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England

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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 (50.00%) Apache
2 3 (37.50%) Apache Spark
3 1 (12.50%) JBoss
3 1 (12.50%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 6 (75.00%) AWS
2 5 (62.50%) Azure
3 4 (50.00%) GCP
4 3 (37.50%) Amazon EKS
4 3 (37.50%) AWS CloudFormation
4 3 (37.50%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (37.50%) OpenShift
4 3 (37.50%) Serverless
5 1 (12.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (12.50%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (12.50%) Amazon S3
5 1 (12.50%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 3 (37.50%) AMQP
2 2 (25.00%) Firewall
3 1 (12.50%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (37.50%) Big Data
1 3 (37.50%) Cloudera CDH
1 3 (37.50%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Bitbucket
1 1 (12.50%) Git
1 1 (12.50%) Subversion
General
1 3 (37.50%) Aerospace
2 1 (12.50%) Finance
2 1 (12.50%) Manufacturing
2 1 (12.50%) Organisational Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
1 3 (37.50%) Software Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Administrator
2 1 (12.50%) Applications Developer
2 1 (12.50%) Cloud Developer
2 1 (12.50%) Developer
2 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Specialist
2 1 (12.50%) IT Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) IT Support
2 1 (12.50%) IT Support Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Linux Administrator
2 1 (12.50%) Linux Specialist
2 1 (12.50%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (50.00%) React
2 3 (37.50%) AngularJS
2 3 (37.50%) gRPC
2 3 (37.50%) Material-UI
2 3 (37.50%) Node.js
2 3 (37.50%) OpenAPI
2 3 (37.50%) RabbitMQ
2 3 (37.50%) REST
2 3 (37.50%) Spring
2 3 (37.50%) Spring Boot
2 3 (37.50%) Swagger
3 1 (12.50%) CSS
3 1 (12.50%) CSS3
3 1 (12.50%) HTML
3 1 (12.50%) HTML5
3 1 (12.50%) Keycloak
3 1 (12.50%) Middleware
3 1 (12.50%) OAuth
3 1 (12.50%) OAuth2
3 1 (12.50%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 7 (87.50%) Linux
2 6 (75.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (62.50%) CentOS
4 3 (37.50%) Debian
4 3 (37.50%) Ubuntu
5 2 (25.00%) Unix
6 1 (12.50%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) API Development
1 4 (50.00%) Collaborative Working
1 4 (50.00%) Containerisation
1 4 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (37.50%) Agile
2 3 (37.50%) Configuration Management
2 3 (37.50%) Kanban
2 3 (37.50%) Microservices
2 3 (37.50%) Open Source
2 3 (37.50%) Scaled Agile Framework
2 3 (37.50%) Scrum
2 3 (37.50%) Software Engineering
3 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 2 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (12.50%) Customer Service
4 1 (12.50%) DevOps
4 1 (12.50%) Platform Engineering
4 1 (12.50%) Server Management
4 1 (12.50%) Storage Management
4 1 (12.50%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 5 (62.50%) Python
2 4 (50.00%) JavaScript
3 3 (37.50%) Java
4 2 (25.00%) Bash
5 1 (12.50%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 5 (62.50%) SC Cleared
1 5 (62.50%) Security Cleared
2 4 (50.00%) DV Cleared
3 1 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (12.50%) Degree
System Software
1 2 (25.00%) Docker
2 1 (12.50%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (62.50%) Ansible
1 5 (62.50%) Kubernetes
1 5 (62.50%) Terraform
2 3 (37.50%) Puppet
3 2 (25.00%) Nagios
4 1 (12.50%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (12.50%) Grafana
4 1 (12.50%) Podman
4 1 (12.50%) Prometheus
4 1 (12.50%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Google
1 3 (37.50%) SaltStack
1 3 (37.50%) VMware
2 1 (12.50%) Atlassian
2 1 (12.50%) Dell
2 1 (12.50%) Mirantis
2 1 (12.50%) New Relic
2 1 (12.50%) Rapid7
2 1 (12.50%) Splunk
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