Red Hat Enterprise Linux Job Trends in Scotland

Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Scotland 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 141 193 139
Rank change year-on-year +52 -54 +85
Permanent jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 11 21
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 0.24% 0.25% 0.78%
As % of the Operating Systems category 4.14% 2.28% 4.38%
Number of salaries quoted 1 4 6
10th Percentile - £82,875 £47,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £83,438 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £87,500 £62,675
Median % change year-on-year -51.43% +39.61% +2.33%
75th Percentile £43,750 £91,250 £67,070
90th Percentile - - -
UK median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +13.13%

All Operating Systems
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 145 482 479
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 5.78% 10.93% 17.76%
Number of salaries quoted 95 270 359
10th Percentile £29,500 £28,000 £27,250
25th Percentile £32,000 £38,750 £33,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% +5.26% -13.64%
75th Percentile £65,000 £60,000 £67,000
90th Percentile £71,250 £71,250 £77,715
UK median annual salary £42,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -16.00% -4.76% -

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Red Hat Enterprise Linux in Scotland

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Salary Trend in Scotland

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Job Locations in Scotland

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 Scotland 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
Glasgow +82 5 - - 1
Renfrewshire - 1 £42,500 -
Red Hat Enterprise Linux
UK

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 (16.67%) Apache
1 1 (16.67%) JBoss
1 1 (16.67%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 6 (100.00%) Azure
2 4 (66.67%) Azure AKS
2 4 (66.67%) Azure Monitor
3 2 (33.33%) AWS
4 1 (16.67%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (66.67%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 5 (83.33%) Git
1 5 (83.33%) Jenkins
2 1 (16.67%) Ant
2 1 (16.67%) Artifactory
2 1 (16.67%) JIRA
2 1 (16.67%) Maven
2 1 (16.67%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 5 (83.33%) Finance
2 4 (66.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 4 (66.67%) Law
2 4 (66.67%) Marketing
3 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (83.33%) Azure Engineer
2 4 (66.67%) Site Engineer
2 4 (66.67%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 2 (33.33%) Linux Engineer
4 1 (16.67%) AWS DevOps
4 1 (16.67%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 1 (16.67%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (16.67%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 1 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (16.67%) Linux DevOps Engineer
4 1 (16.67%) Linux Scripter
4 1 (16.67%) Linux/Unix DevOps
4 1 (16.67%) Windows DevOps Engineer
4 1 (16.67%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (66.67%) .NET
1 4 (66.67%) REST
2 1 (16.67%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (16.67%) Kafka
2 1 (16.67%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 6 (100.00%) Linux
2 5 (83.33%) Windows
3 4 (66.67%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) CI/CD
2 4 (66.67%) Black-Box Testing
2 4 (66.67%) Continuous Delivery
2 4 (66.67%) Continuous Integration
2 4 (66.67%) Observability
2 4 (66.67%) Service-Level Objective
2 4 (66.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 4 (66.67%) Software Engineering
3 2 (33.33%) Configuration Management
4 1 (16.67%) Containerisation
4 1 (16.67%) DevOps
4 1 (16.67%) Incident Management
4 1 (16.67%) ITIL
4 1 (16.67%) Load Balancing
4 1 (16.67%) Patch Management
4 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (16.67%) Release Management
4 1 (16.67%) Storage Management
4 1 (16.67%) Task Automation
4 1 (16.67%) Vulnerability Assessment
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) Python
2 4 (66.67%) Java
2 4 (66.67%) PowerShell
2 4 (66.67%) SQL
3 2 (33.33%) Bash
4 1 (16.67%) Groovy
4 1 (16.67%) Perl
Qualifications
1 4 (66.67%) Azure Certification
2 1 (16.67%) DV Cleared
2 1 (16.67%) RHCE
2 1 (16.67%) RHCSA
2 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 5 (83.33%) Docker
2 1 (16.67%) KVM
2 1 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 4 (66.67%) Grafana
2 4 (66.67%) Prometheus
2 4 (66.67%) Terraform
3 2 (33.33%) Ansible
3 2 (33.33%) Puppet
4 1 (16.67%) Podman
Vendors
1 5 (83.33%) Red Hat
2 4 (66.67%) Splunk
3 1 (16.67%) VMware